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bleedingichorhearts · 6 months ago

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𝕮𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗 XVII

𝕬𝖚𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖗: This is the ending chapter of this story. I hope I made this an enjoyable read for those who were willing to read this confusing yet… silly creation I have made with my brain cells. It has been fun to write and to see people love my characters. I thank you for your encouragement to write more and improve my skills.

𝕿𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖊𝖉: @kit-williams, @egrets-not-regrets, @bispecsual, @gallifreyianrosearkytiorsusan, @sleepyfan-blog.

TW // Angst, Death, Violence, Body Horror.

Screeching upon metal wakes up my foggy filled brain. A groan leaving my lips as I move slowly around on the makeshift bed. Filling too weak still to actually make any bigger moves myself. The ache on my neck throbbing painfully like I was infected with a sickness or something similar.

Dragging my hand up through the fabric of the makeshift bed, I carefully placed my hand on my aching neck. Feeling a burning bump there, a sealed wound. What the hell did Dacre do to me? Did Dark Angels have some weird poison in their fangs?

With a low whine, I slowly shuffled on the bed. My muscles burning the moment I sat myself up on the bed. An exhausted huff leaving me at the effort to keep myself steady on top of the bed. My brain, far too woozy to do anything bigger than just trying to right myself on the bed.

Lightly rubbing my forehead with my fingers. Touching my skin felt like fire, like I was boiling my brain from the inside. My forehead burning up, my body shaking like I have a severe case of the flu. It felt like I was leaning left and right to keep myself steady.

A quiet chuff has me quickly looking around me dizzily. My body occasionally failing on me as I try to keep myself up right on the bed. My dizzy eyes looking all around the dark corners of the room for the rumbling sound. Hoping that it wasn’t Dacre returning from whatever he does when he is gone. I didn’t want to encounter him after his… bite.

A glint of silver shines in the dark for a split second. My eyes trying to focus on this appearance. Was this Dacre? Hiding in the shadows, just watching me? No, his armor didn’t have any silver in it. Was this some object I didn’t know of before in this room then?

The object glints again before coming forward, another chuff coming out from the armor, my eyes widening in the realization of the armor color and insignia of the Gray Knight.

The same Gray Knight that killed Clyde, cut him right in half.

I shuffle back on the makeshift bed when the Knight takes another step forward, a low whine-like sound coming from him. His bright blue visor never moving away from my panicking figure. His steps unnaturally quiet for someone so bulked up in heavy looking armor. Yet I notice his steps to be more slower from the first time I saw him, like he was trying to show he wasn’t a threat.

That had to be a trick. No Gray Knight were ever to be so… “kind.” This one only wanted to get my guard down so he can quite literally stab me in the back. To feel me struggle in his arms—

A hiss of his helmet disconnecting from his armor disrupts my thoughts. His hands lifting up the helmet from his head, a strong and chiseled jawline appearing before his pure white eyes glowed from behind his helmet, staring back at me. Long, untouched, white hair falling out from his helmet, making it look staticky.

Just like Salems.

“Where is Salem?” I couldn't help but immediately ask the Knight, looking away from his enticing eyes and at a random wall. His presence commanding: authoritative. This was a trick, this was a trick, this was a trick—

“Our son? He is with the Alpha Legionnaires, little maiden.” The Knight spoke, his voice deep, dominate sounding. His gauntlet placing his helmet on the edge of the makeshift bed.

“Our son?” I question, my eyebrows scrunching together in confusion, looking back up at him. How in the hell could I have a child with him? He was way bigger than me!

“Throne, what did they do to you?” He questions back, gently taking my jawline in the palm of his gauntlet. His form leaning down a bit to my level. My heart beating quickly at his sudden closeness.

“What do you mean?” I respond quietly.

“They took you from me. They took you from us.” The Knight growls lowly, his eyes roaming over my face, almost like he was calculating me. “Four years, I never stopped looking for you.”

Four years? I don’t remember anything then. Is this what they were hiding from me? That I was somehow connected to a Gray Knight out of all the Astartes possible? Apparently Alpha Legionnaires as well?

“They kept moving you away from me.” He reveals, his hand lightly thumbing at my cheek, making my bottom lip bounce every time he traced over it. His eyes tracing over every detail he could. “From my son.”

“I could sense our son’s birth and your demise then.” He continues, his hand gently moving down to my stomach making me shiver as he wraps his gauntlet around it and thumbs at it. His lips very close to my own. “It- it pained me when I couldn’t feel you anymore. I lashed out at one of the Legionnaires in response, just nicking their armor.”

“Throne, I wanted to do so much more.” He hisses through his teeth. “Yet, I knew they were yours just as you are mine. You would never forgive me if I did.”

“…Throne, I miss you.” He suddenly admits with a barely audible whine, placing his lips on mine, a little confused sound escaping me as my chest constricts at his words. His lips kissing down my face, his nose nuzzling into my skin as he inhales. “I miss you so much.”

I whine quietly when he tips my head gently back, attacking my neck with ever growing impatience. Leaving not an inch of exposed skin untouched. Then, he suddenly stops and growls. His tongue swirling in his mouth before he laps it over the bite wound skin on my neck as I wince in his hold. Feeling the ungrateful stinging of the wound as the Knight coated it in his saliva. Purring when he seemed satisfied with his work.

I wanted to whine out his name after such a declaration, but I didn’t know his name. It’s like I have it on the tip of my tongue, but nothing ever pops into mind. My mind going blank with any outcomes.

Though, I remember his name, just… from where?

The Knight quickly lifts his head up and growls at a dark corner of the room. His sound echoing through the room before the knight is body slammed. Armor sparking off armor as the two Astartes snarl and fight one another. Growling things in their gothic I never truly understood.

I sat there on the bed for a moment; stunned at the sudden brawl. Never have seen such a thing happen before. Gauntlets sparking at armor, sounding like they were shattering bones. Inhuman sounds coming from their throats while they both try and get the higher advantage. Their hits growing ever harsher the more they circle one another.

In an attempt to get away from the growing aggression. I slipped out of the bed despite my protesting muscles. The Dark Angel bite having a lot more effect to it than what I had thought it did. I had nearly fell over my own to legs, shaking with each step, my eyes getting dizzy.

I yelped when I felt a hand take me by the hair and shoved me into the ground. My hands reacting quickly to save myself a broken nose on the concrete before my hair was gripped at again, pulling my head back up to meet the unreadable white gaze of the Gray Knight.

“Such a sweet little thing.” Dacre purred; English I didn’t know he had spilling from behind his helmet. My hands struggling with his tightening gauntlet in my hair.

“Dark Angel.” The Knight warns, shifting in his place.

“She tasted sweet too.” Dacre continues, rumbling at the memory. “Had me fuck her while you were unavailable for four years! I thought Gray Knights were better than that?”

“…This ancient Terra is... different to navigate.” He growls lowly, his eyes flickering from me to Dacre.

“Is that so?” Dacre taunts, gripping my hair back as I clench my teeth at the burning pain of it being pulled. “Well, if you were ever more late, I would have fucked her again myself. Provided her with another son; another bond, since you killed my other one.”

I whine at the pain of his grip on my hair and the admission of his unholy plan he wanted to do with me. How could he do such a thing to me? I known him to be kind and gentle, not this… psycho! Perhaps it was all a ruse from him?

“Let her go and I might spare your own life, Dark Angel.” The Knight threatens, his gauntlet twitching. His aura turning cold around him. I would have shrunk away from him if I was able to.

“You killed my bonded! What makes you think I’ll keep yours alive?” Dacre snarls, tugging at my hair. Staining my neck as I cry out. Fuck, do I want to cry right now.

“…You can always get another.” The knight counters.

“Oh, but it isn’t the same.” Dacre huffs. “Perhaps you can find another?”

I choke while an sicking crack fills my ears. My body feeling weirdly weightless. Void of any nerve to feel as I watched myself drop to the ground. Unable to feel the pain of feeling the concrete underneath me. It didn’t feel cold or warm, just… nothing but ringing roars and Salem calling out my name.

“Mother!” I could hear him yell. “Mother! Mother!”

Oh, he sounds happy, giggling in delight. Such a little cheery child of mine. Always running around with a smile on his face. Always there to help me out. Oh, my sweet little one.

Salem is there, crying on his mother shoulder begging his mother to awaken. Please be awake. You’re not really dead, are you? You’re just playing right? You’re just playing! But not matter how many times he begs; she never wakes up.

Not matter how many times Solor had sliced away at the Dark Angel. No matter how many times Solor had flattened the Dark Angels armor beneath him with his gauntlets. The body blood and body matter splatting against his armor as he roars out in anguish.

The only ones that were keeping it together were the Alpha Legionnaires. Asclepius carefully going to work to pull their son away from their little serpent. His own heart weeping at the sight of their unmoving serpent as Salem snuggles into his armor. His breath stuttering while Asclepius himself tries to purr out to their little son. Watching as Hydra gently picks up the limp body of their little serpent in his arms. Hydra’s helmet giving her a little nudge on her cheek and a saddened coo he has never heard from his brother.

Leviathan was tasked to pull Solor out of his rage for just a moment, being the bigger and stronger one out of the other two. He successfully gets Solor to behave he mentions their son as Leviathan suggests cleaning himself off first before reuniting with their son. Not wanting to terrorize their little one any further.

Once remotely in a better position, a few days pass as the four of them take turns properly raising their little son while they try to find somewhere, someone to resurrect their little serpent. Their hearts still clenching, weeping at the death of their little serpent, their little maiden. Yet, they find nothing so far.

So, in the meantime they place her body into a coffin, crafted beautifully by a Blood Angel. Silky flowers lining inside of her coffin. Handpicked by their son and them. Ranging between rose's, camellias, blue iris's, daffodil's, gladiolus, and hyacinths. All perfectly surrounding her body like she was laying in a field of flowers herself.

They let her body rest in that coffin, occasionally revisiting while they search for someone to resurrect their little maiden as Salem is taught the ways of the Gray Knights, being far too similar of being one besides his eyes being off his mother. His height way bigger than an average human. His strength and durability different as well as they hunt down every last remaining human and Astartes associated with her death.

They will have their little bonded and mother once more.

ℙ𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕠𝕦𝕤 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣: 𝕮𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗 XVI

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕃𝕚𝕤𝕥: “𝕮𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗” 𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝕷𝖎𝖘𝖙

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penaltyboxboxbox · 3 months ago

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Us nascarblr warriors are so happy to see u get into nascar🙏🙏🙏 would u perhaps be interested in more ships

thank you thank you i spare you guys here most of my insanity im literally thinking about clyde blaney and bubba like 12 hours a day and spamming oomfs dms with them....but hopefully ill put together more cohesive thoughts and art in the future to share 🫡

im still like sussing out how i feel about the rest of the field........so its hard to get into ships when im not like into all the guys and their lore WITH each other yet.... i do have some opinions though...... joey L makes me feel like the bikers at the salty spittoon and hes dorky little spongebob and im asking him what hes smiling at. whats so funny bud. wipe that look off your face kid. i think denny is a diva and kind of mother hes the only driver whos brat sorry..hes a mean girl bad girl break your boyfriends heart girl. ummmm i remember being viscerally disturbed finding out cbell is a 30 year old man i thought there was no way he was over 20. he reminds me of a plush toy. kyle larson is my enemy. william byron feels almost engineered in a lab to be uncool...and not even in a charming way like clyde just like. so so uncool 😭😭😭 dale jr is an eternal presence and i cant help but love him i did come from an earnhardt household. martin truex jrs name sounds itself like a sponsor and also hes a dilf so ill support it. chastains eyes are looking two different directions and he scares me a little. tyler reddick i adore i hold in my pocket i carry him around like a calico critter.

#ask #girl not the rambling..

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grapebritain · 7 months ago

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what specific flavor of willry is your favorite? as in dynamic? me personally i love the "william is bonkers and henry is unhealthily into it to the point of ignoring his crimes and maybe even helping cover them up"

bonnie and clyde basically

HI TYSM FOR GIVING ME AN EXCUSE TO TALK ABOUT WILLRY BTW and i shall answer happily :D

MV of them are my fav dynamic of them , which is very similar to ur fav with a slight difference.

Henry loves Will an awful lot despite not wanting to due to how bad the treatment was for queer ppl to be around in the 60s too 80s. He knows something is up with William as the years go on , and Will spirals deeper into a state on insanity, but more wants to be there for him and look after him in this time. He still loves him very much, and in return , Will does become rather obsessive over him too. Their relationship is pretty intense for a while, that is until Henry finds out about the murders Wills committed and is DEVISTATED.

Will obviously tries to justify himself when Henry finds out but, He doesn't take any of it at all , and is so upset and mad with him he might actually kill him just from pure heartbreak of the one guy he trusted and cared for so dearly, just taking advantage of him by killing his daughter in cold blooded murder.

Despite being shattered by what Will has done, he hates that some part of him still loves and cares about him , yet can't seem to fully shut it off. No matter how much he tries, he's can't ever bring himself to hate him entirely despite his horrific actions.

If you want i can talk for years about mv versions of them bc i love them so much, i might just explode.

#willry #grape britain #helliam

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kathryndaily · 10 months ago

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Cole Sprouse and Kathryn Newton Are the Screen Duo We've Been Waiting For (via WhoWhatWear)

Full interview under the cut.

When I click into my Zoom meeting with Cole Sprouse and Kathryn Newton, they're already debriefing about the SAG Awards Season Celebration party they attended the night prior with their Hollywood peers, dishing on who left when and how the night ended up. In that moment, I wished I could toss out the questions I'd prepared for them and just be a fly on the wall listening to their banter. If I didn't know any better, I'd assume the two have been working alongside each other for years based on the inside jokes and heartfelt compliments being tossed back and forth. In reality, the forthcoming comedy horror flick Lisa Frankenstein (in theaters February 9) marks the first time the actors are sharing the screen, and it's a duo so good it hopefully won't be the last.

The two have had parallel paths in the industry, something they admit to bonding over on set. Both came up in Hollywood as child actors, Sprouse from age 1 and Newton from age 4. They're each well-versed in the YA genre: Sprouse, of course, is a Disney Channel alum who starred in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody before graduating to a high schooler in the hit CW series Riverdale and featuring in rom-coms Moonshot and Five Feet Apart. For her part, Newton played the lead in Amazon's The Map of Tiny Perfect Things and a teen in Netflix's The Society. Whether because of or despite their career longevity, both have noteworthy side hustles outside of acting—Sprouse's esteemed photography portfolio and Newton's successful golf career. The commonalities run deep, yet in many ways, the two are opposites. Sprouse is cerebral and loquacious, while Newton strikes me as bouncy and lighthearted. Newton is perched in a pink sweat set with bow-adorned Ugg boots, her three poodles tip-tapping lightly in the background. Sprouse wears backless New Balance sneakers that he refers to as "dad mode" and admits to playing the video game Rogue Trader at his desk before our call. Despite these differences, their chemistry as co-workers and friends is palpable both on and off the screen.

This immediately became apparent a few scenes into Lisa Frankenstein, which has all the makings of the next cult horror flick. Set in the '80s, the classic coming-of-age story follows an angsty teen (Newton) and her love interest (Sprouse), who just so happens to be a corpse from the Victorian era. The film was written by Diablo Cody, the mastermind behind iconic camp titles such as Jennifer's Body and Juno, and directed by Zelda Williams (her dad is Robin Williams—maybe you've heard of him?) in her directorial debut. Lisa Frankenstein is 120 minutes of belly-laughing, jaw-dropping ridiculousness—a guaranteed wild ride from start to finish.

When they weren't dressed in '80s prom and Victorian-era attire respectively, I got caught up with Newton and Sprouse fresh off the set of our January cover shoot and on the precipice of a booming post-strike award season. The mid-20s actress and early-30s actor collectively have more TV and movie credits under their belts than some career actors double their age but none of the pretentiousness. They were eager to discuss their longevity in the industry and express gratitude toward the high school–aged roles that got them to where they are now. Whether it's '80s fashion, careers outside of acting, or getting to work with your best friends, it's impossible not to get excited by Sprouse and Newton when they're geeking out about what they love.

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First of all, I'm so excited about the whole vision of this cover shoot with the retro car, the trunk luggage, and the Bonnie and Clyde references. How do you think the shoot went?

Kathryn Newton: First of all, Cole is the consummate professional because he's always just down to play. He doesn't say no to anything. [He does] the "yes, and…" thing. So together, like you see in the movie, we really go there. We just had a lot of fun. We leaned into the clothes, the sets, and the creative direction. Cole and I were just fully in Bonnie and Clyde mode, looking over our shoulders and pretending to be in love.

Cole Sprouse: I always geek out when I get to work with photographers [I admire], too, because we just sit and chat about cameras and whatnot. It's easy when you're working with someone like Kathryn, who's also just capable of pulling out the character stuff immediately. I think being an actor on that side of the camera is always a lot of play. It's always a collaboration between the people that are being shot and the photographer—the subjects have to push themselves a little bit if the shots are really going to turn out well. It's easy when you already have a rapport with the person you're being shot with, to just push it a little.

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Cole, you've also built a photography career for yourself, so being that you're often the one behind the camera on fashion shoots, has that altered your experience of being the subject when it comes to promoting your own projects?

CS: I'm a big believer in every department just doing what they're trained and good at. I find the more that you try to be hands-on if your role is a bit more passive, the worse the shots turn out. If you're in front of the camera, just play and go. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and the photographer will know almost immediately. For me, it doesn't really feel weird. It's just the difference between if I want to be in a more passive or a more active role.

KN: I was wondering if being a photographer helps you create a shot. With some of these pictures, if the composition is right, the way you're posing is right, and the angle is better, it makes the image better. I feel like there are no guys who know their angles. You know how to make a shot a photograph. It was cinematic. There's an energy there. You're telling a lot of a story in the pictures with me but also in the solo ones I saw of you, like the one of you running. I love that one.

CS: Look, I don't hold back anything for the photo. It was hot out that day, and they put me in some shorts, which is a rare occasion. It's very rare to see Cole Sprouse in some shorts.

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See that, people? You're getting an exclusive on Cole Sprouse's knees! Well, I'm excited to dive into Lisa Frankenstein because the movie had me laughing out loud. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. How did you both get involved with the project to begin with? What were your initial thoughts?

KN: I had a Zoom with our director, Zelda Williams, and I remember being really inspired after getting off the phone with her. She sounded like she was a risk-taker. She was encouraging me because one of my biggest fears of the movie is the fact that my amazing co-star Cole Sprouse doesn't speak. I was like, "What are we supposed to do here? How are we going to make a movie?" Then it was pretty much a no-brainer after reading screenwriter Diablo Cody's script. She can do no wrong, and it was just so exciting and delicious and fun. It was nothing like what I thought the movie was going to be, nor was it anything like what we shot, so I was pleasantly blown away.

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What would you say surprised you the most?

KN: I would say it was about how big my character became. I thought my character was the quiet one and soon realized you can't be the quiet one since Cole's character doesn't speak. It changed everything. I watched She-Devil and Death Becomes Her to get some inspiration and learn to take up space. But I wouldn't have been able to do it without Cole. It felt like we were all one—Zelda, Cole, and I. We were all on the same page.

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Cole, you basically have zero lines in the movie save for a few animated grunts. In fact, your character isn't even granted a name. You're only referred to as "Creature" when the credits roll. You've known director Zelda Williams for a while, and with this being her directorial debut, what were some of those early conversations like?

CS: Those [grunts] weren't even part of the original [script]! Those were [improvised] on the day of. For me personally, I was excited to shut the hell up. I was like, "Damn, I've done a lot, a lot of talking over the last five, six years. What would happen if I didn't do any of that?" The script presented the challenge of needing a really strong female lead and a strong female lead that had a solid sense of humor. Kathryn came up because I had known Kathryn for a couple of years. Zelda and I put our heads together and were like, "Alright, are we going to beg? What are we going to do here to try and secure the Kathryn bag?" When she got on board, we knew that this was really going to work. Diablo's writing is like bubble gum. It's really big, but it requires delivery that is authentic and genuine in order to work, so you need someone that has a sense of timing and a sense of humor. Kathryn immediately brought the life that we needed with it.

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Had you been a fan of Diablo Cody's work for a while?

KN: Jennifer's Body was the first horror film I ever saw. It blew my mind. It's still one of my favorite horror films. I've seen it a million times, and the soundtrack is on my phone. I was really nervous to meet Diablo because she's the mastermind behind it, and I didn't want to let her down. But she really handed it off and gave us the freedom. Even though Cole doesn't speak, the way he had created this character, no one could have done it the way he did with such care and grace. It's a really big honor to be a part of her Diablo universe.

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Was there anything that you both had to do specifically to prepare for your respective roles? For you, Cole, it seems to be a lot of body language. For you, Kathryn, it feels a lot more about hitting the right tone with the lines and bringing that lightheartedness into it.

CS: I worked with a movement coach for three months. He was a mime, which I thought was a fun way to play with [my character's] voicelessness. He is a great dude. He drives a car that has a license plate that just says speechless, which I thought was really hilarious. We built on a lot of Buster Keaton, the old silent-movie stars. The groaning came later when we were on set. That felt like a character that was really desperately trying to speak.

So the grunting was something you just improvised?

CS: Yeah, after many years of smoking cigarettes, I can croak. Gravelly voice? I was like, "Alright, cigarettes are gonna make you some money. Silver lining. Let's go."

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I know that you two had worked with each other prior to Lisa Frankenstein when Cole shot you, Kathryn, for a spread that ended up in Interview magazine in 2020. Was that the first time you two met?

KN: I actually met Zack and Cody ages ago. I was probably 8, and they must have been, I don't know, 12. I was at Bob's Big Boy, and they were in their booth, and I got a picture with them. [As for the shoot,] it was actually just a shoot we did in my house. That's when we made magic. We got couture gowns from Valentino. My amazing hairstylist Renato brought all these wigs. I really think it was a precursor to Lisa Frankenstein because it was a very camp shoot. I had all these ideas about how the character was a woman who kills all her husbands, and she's really wealthy now with all her poodles. The photos are some of my favorite photos ever taken of me. It was just [Cole] and his camera—really low-key.

CS: When Kathryn went, "I have three poodles," I thought, "I can go with this."

KN: He didn't ask for my dogs' availability call. You can't afford them, but they would have done it for free.

CS: Next time I need three poodles, I'll let you know.

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In general, you're both used to playing these younger characters who are often in high school. What is it about these kinds of roles that draws you in? Do you feel nostalgic for your own high school experience? Do you feel like you get to go back and rewrite the script a bit?

KN: I think that there is an element of rewriting the script to do things you wouldn't have done in your real life. For me, though, the young audience is the most important one because they're going to continue to grow with me, and I want to continue to grow with them. I do projects because I feel like no one else can do them. I just hope that the audience does like [Lisa Frankenstein]. It's a coming-of-age story, but something that we haven't seen in a while. This one, in particular, gave me a lot of nostalgia for the movies I grew up with that are colorful and bright—[the movies where] you lean in and you don't ask too many questions. You just go on a wild ride and are entertained.

CS: I think I've just aged. For a while, yeah, for sure. But at 31 and playing a teen? It's just not as believable as it once was. I would be so lucky, though. I would be so lucky to play high school my whole life!

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I think that's a good point to bring up. Cole, you just wrapped seven seasons of Riverdale, where you were on location in Canada for many months on end and many seasons on end. Do you feel ready to "grow up" as far as your next characters are concerned?

CS: I get this question a lot. To be honest, I don't think about it too much. I think there are really compelling parts all over the age map. The more that you build an idea and aim for it professionally, the less it comes true. The one thing I will say is that I would love to shoot in California. Yeah, that's the manifestation I'm trying to put out. Right down the street at the studio complexes. Come home for lunch to my own house.

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Do you hear that, universe? Manifesting it for you, Cole. Well, I'm curious. Age aside, what are the things about the projects you take on that you're like, "Oh my gosh, yes." Is it something in particular or more of a gut feeling? I feel like for you, Kathryn, you've had such a great breadth of projects, from critically acclaimed titles like Three Billboards and Big Little Lies to Marvel movies. Is there anything that stands out in the process of choosing the roles?

KN: The thing that stands out to me is, What am I going to get to bring to this role? Who are the people I'm going to surround myself with? What kind of conversations are we going to have on set to make this story? My process for roles hasn't really changed much. It's always been, What can I do for this movie? The second thing is, Who am I gonna get to hang out with every day?

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I want to get into the fashion in the movie because I feel like it's so good. Your looks really capture the '80s perfectly, but I also feel like you are so comfortable in this aesthetic. What were some of the references that you brought forth? Do you create a mood board before a project like this?

KN: [The costume designer Meagan McLaughlin] brought along actual vintage from her own closet, but then to supplement, we went to Hot Topic, obviously. I like a fit-and-flare on camera. I find silhouettes beautiful from old movies like Bringing Up Baby and Breakfast at Tiffany's, so I wanted that kind of silhouette because I thought that was very camp to have me always in a shirt and a skirt cinched at the waist. We see her character progress from wearing big gaucho pants to leaning into her powerful femininity. … When she becomes the most monstrous is when she's in her cutest outfit, in my opinion.

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Both of you have these amazing creative outlets that you've cultivated outside of your acting. Kathryn, you are an avid golfer working with the LPGA and R&A, and you're competing and crushing it, which is so amazing. Cole, your photography, I would say, seems to be your biggest focus outside of acting. I see that a bit more with you two than with other actors in your peer group. Are these passions as necessary to your creative life as acting is?

KN: In life, you're always told you can only be one thing. I'm a golfer who acts, and sometimes, I'm an actor who golfs. If I'm not working, I go play golf with my dad on the weekend. … I just did a movie in Ireland, and one of the producers was a big golfer, so every other weekend, I got to go to these beautiful places in the country and play these incredible golf courses. I'm trying to create a space in this golf world for more accessibility for young people not to just start playing but to continue to be golfers their whole lives because it's been such a gift [for me]. It's given me a lot of confidence.

CS: You're talking to actors that were also kid actors, right? I think that comes along with a perspective on acting that is understanding it's a job. It's a financial pursuit alongside a kind of artistic pursuit. For me, the photography thing was one area where I could flex my own creative control in a much more active way alongside an acting career that you can't predict the future of and one where there's not a lot of security. I need to do something outside of this other arena if I'm going to have a healthy relationship to work. I'm a huge proponent of actors having another career alongside acting.

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To your point, you've both been acting from such a young age. Cole, you've been vocal about the fact that it wasn't always a choice. It was often out of financial necessity. Kathryn, you've likewise been in the industry since you were 4. How does that influence your current approach?

CS: When a lot of people talk about acting, they talk about the beauty and the passion of acting, and they forget that it's also a job. The healthiest relationship is somewhere in the middle, where you can go, "Alright, I ideally want to do one for me and one for the coffers."

KN: We found a lot of common ground, and we had some amazing discussions about it on [the set of] Lisa Frankenstein. I felt like I was so similar in my approach, where we take it seriously, but we don't identify with it. I've been an actress since I was 4. Every experience I had has been like candy. It's just been fun. I went to real school my whole life, so there was this experience of "Is school real, or is the job that I'm on set for real?" Neither one of them felt like reality. I was class president, and I did the commencement speech and everything. I loved school and being a kid who was super uncool and then going to set and shooting 15-hour days and then going back to school and having to take five tests. These are the things that have made me who I am, and I wouldn't change anything.

I can't help but think that this mindset is really unique to folks like you who have been doing this job for so many years. It's essentially the defining experience of your life. Did you ever look back and maybe feel any type of resentment or regret about the way that the industry made you grow up quicker and faster than kids your own age?

CS: Great question. I don't hold resentment. It comes with an incredible amount of privilege, and also, you do kind of know what you're signing up for. I might not have had as much agency over career decisions as a kid, but it made complete and logical sense at the time as to why we were doing the thing that we were doing.

KN: What's funny is I feel like I'm just getting started all the time. Every time I finish a project, I feel like I'm never going to work again. To piggyback on what Cole is saying, the longer you do it, the less you need to do your job. I don't need anything to do my scene. I don't need a coffee. I don't need five minutes to get ready. If you say "action," I'm ready. [Cole is similar to me in that way.] I wonder if it's because we did grow up as child actors. The roles have required more of me as I've matured simply with age and material. Now, the material just asks more of you. I feel like I'm just getting started because now I'm at a new level.

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I want to pivot a little to the topic of your relationship to the fashion world. You're both regulars at fashion week—Kathryn, I know you're a Ralph Lauren girl, and Cole, you attended your fair share of spring/summer 2024 shows during Paris Fashion Week as well. Is this a world that you are actively trying to further yourself in?

KN: I'm just constantly inspired. Cole is someone who I think has an amazing personal style. He says something with his looks. I don't think any of it is on accident.

What are some of the brands that you would say you have the best relationships with and that are the ones you keep coming back to in terms of your personal style?

CS: I like brands that are … unabashedly moving in a very particular direction. I think Versace leans into decadence and opulence in a really cool way unashamedly. I think Demna with Balenciaga is doing something really fun by not taking itself too seriously and creating a self-awareness that can be self-deprecating, which is so on-brand for me.

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I am so excited to see what you both will pull out for the press tours for this movie. What are some of the conversations and themes that are being thrown around? Are either of you working with a stylist for your press outings?

KN: I know Zelda and I are contemplating if we all wear the same suit to the premiere or whether I should dress up as Lisa or if we should both dress up as Lisa and wear the wigs. I have a lot of vintage archival pieces that are from either the Versace 1997 collection or Chanel 1984. I'm in constant flux of whether I should just be myself and wear my own stuff or wear what's new. But I think vintage for this movie is where my heart's at. I think it's time to pull out the big pieces.

CS: I don't normally [work with a stylist], no. That's the first time on a press tour that I'm not working with a stylist. I actually feel way more confident when I'm just going into my own personal closet and throwing on what I wear.

Wait, I'm honestly shocked by that. I was expecting both of you to say that you work with a stylist—if not in an everyday capacity, then at least for red carpet outings.

CS: The beauty of the relationships that I think Kathryn and I both have to these certain brands now is that we can go, "Hey, I have this thing coming up."

KN: When I was 14 for the Bad Teacher premiere, I used all my money and bought a Valentino dress. I didn't know the rules that you can ask a brand for an outfit, right? So the person I bought the dress from was like, "You need to know [publicist] Katie Goodwin." So then, Katie met me, and she invited me to the Valentino show, where [Creative Director] Pierpaolo [Piccioli] knew the dress. I wore it again to my prom. It paid off so much that I just liked fashion and Valentino. Well, you've seen my looks. Valentino has been a huge part of my fashion story.

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What a full-circle moment. I love how genuinely that relationship started for you. Clearly, you have such a good eye. Well, as much as I could keep chatting with you two for another several hours, I realize I've kept you way over our allotted time, and you've let me!

CS: You have some really great questions. I feel bad for you because you're gonna have to find a way to condense all of this.

#kathryn newton #cole sprouse #lisa frankenstein #news #interview

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fandoms-my-fandoms · 2 years ago

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Here is a list of 50 of my current all time theatre dream roles (musicals and non-musicals) because I am a female acting major who is having trouble in believing my dreams for my future are attainable at this current moment:

1. Christine Daaé - Phantom of the Opera

2. Emily Webb - Our Town

3. Belle - Beauty and the Beast

4. Katherine Plumber - Newsies the Musical

5. Elizabeth Bennet - Pride and Prejudice

6. Veronica Sawyer - Heathers the Musical

7. Maria - The Sound of Music/or/West Side Story

8. Hodel - Fiddler on the Roof

9. Zazzalil - Firebringer

10. Eliza - Hamilton

11. Laurie Williams - Oklahoma

12. Cinderella - Into the Woods/or/Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella

13. Narrator - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat

14. Princess Anna - Frozen the Musical

15. Hermia - A Midsummer Nights Dream

16. Elphaba - Wicked

17. Glinda - Wicked

18. Éponine - Les Misérables

19. Winnifred the Woebegone - Once Upon A Mattress

20. Miss Honey - Matilda the Musical

21. Ariel Moore - Footloose the Musical

22. Dorothy Gale - The Wizard of Oz

23. Lucy van Pelt - You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown

24. Princess Fiona - Shrek the Musical

25. Viola - Twelve Night

26. Hermione Granger - A Very Potter Musical Trilogy

27. Ginny Weasley - A Very Potter Musical

28. Eliza Doolittle - My Fair Lady

29. Leading Player - Pippin

30. Natalie Haller - All Shook Up

31. Miss Saundra - All Shook Up

32. Cosette - Les Misérables

33. Princess Ariel - The Little Mermaid the Musical

34. Eva Peron - Evita

35. Maureen Johnson - RENT

36. Mary - It’s A Wonderful Life

37. Sue Snell - Carrie the Musical

38. Truly Scrumptious - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

39. Johanna Barker - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

40. Molly Aster - Peter and the Starcatcher

41. Gertrude Fail - Failure: A Love Story

42. Brooke Ashton - Noises Off

43. Megara - Hercules the Musical

44. Mary Poppins - Mary Poppins

45. Nora Helmer - A Dolls House

46. Queen Elsa - Frozen the Musical

47. Charity Hope Valentine - Sweet Charity

48. Fanny Brice - Funny Girl

49. Anya - Anastasia

50. Jane - Tarzan

There’s probably even some that I forgot to put on this list that should probably be in the place of some of these other roles, but I did want to incorporate roles from non-musicals as well. I do acknowledge that this list is still very much mostly musicals, but I fear I have not read many straight plays. Also, most of the work I’ve already done is musical theatre. Which is why I’m an acting major. I want to be exposed to more pieces of theatre that don’t have singing and dancing. There are a bunch of shows that I would love to be in, but don’t necessarily have dream roles solely because they are either ensemble heavy productions or they would just be really fun projects to work on. For example, my school, Illinois State University, just did Bonnie and Clyde the Musical. That shit was GUT WRENCHING. I would have loved to be apart of that project. I don’t exactly have a dream role in that show because every role in Bonnie and Clyde is so essential to telling that story. I am however, working on my first MainStage production here at ISU. I am playing the Nurse in Equus. Again, not a show that I had any dream role going into being cast in this project. But, this story is very heavy and unique. I have never worked on a show as different and dramatic as this one. I am really excited to be part of this cast, and I will be happy to post information about this show in the weeks to come, or you can message me and ask for more details! Thanks for reading my extra long blog post for today! :)

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The story of how Bonnie helped smuggle a gun to Clyde inside the Waco jail: March 1930.

"One of the boys in jail with Clyde was named William Turner, and his home was in Waco. He had a gun concealed at his house, but didn't dare ask his sister or mother to bring it to him. He didn't hesitate to use Bonnie for the purpose, if she was game. With the man she loved behind bars, Bonnie was game for anything. Turner drew a map of his house, where the key was to be found, the place where the gun was hidden, the place where the ammunition would be. Bonnie was to get the weapon, but that was only half the job. She had to get it to Clyde in the jail without arousing suspicion and without getting caught. All of this was unknown to me at the time. I hadn't the least idea what we were getting into. I knew Bonnie was going after something for the Turner boy, possibly some article of clothing. She ran errands for Clyde and his friends all the time, anyhow. It wasn't till we got out there and I found nobody was home, that I began to worry. After Bonnie located the key and walked in, she cooly informed me that she was after a gun so Clyde could make a jailbreak!

I never was so scared in my whole life. My feet were like ice and my knees like water. I just knew policemen were all around the house, waiting to pounce on us when we came out. I begged Bonnie to leave, but she said, no sir, she wasn't budging till she found the gun. When I saw that she was determined, I started to help her hunt, for it seemed the quickest way to get away from there. The gun wasn't where Turner said it would be. We turned that house topsy-turvy before we found it on the window seat, and the place was in such an unholy mess that there was a big story in the papers the next day about it being ransacked. By the time we got the gun, I was simply shivering with fright. I felt that everybody we passed knew we had a gun and were going to stage a jailbreak. Bonnie wasn't scared, though. She put on 2 belts, one under her dress to hold her slip tight to her body, and another on top. She slipped the gun between her breasts in the pocket the 2 belts made.

We drove back to the jail, and Bonnie asked to see Clyde. The jailer said Bonnie already been up to see him once that day, and if she went up again, she must not stay long. Bonnie, backing off all the time, so that he wouldn't touch her and feel the gun, promised him if she could see Clyde for a minute she wouldn't bother the jailer for a long time—and believe me, she meant that. The jailer let her go up and I sat perspiring. Finally Bonnie came back. We left as quickly as we could. We drove home and went inside the house, locked the doors, pulled down the shades, and just sat there. We were both frightened now. Scared they'd shoot Clyde down. We didn't sleep all night and at daybreak, Bonnie asked me to get a paper. There it was—the whole story. Clyde Barrow, Emory Abernathy, and William Turner had walked out of jail to parts unknown. — Bonnie's cousin, Mary.

#bonnie parker #bonnie and clyde #waco jailbreak

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hillbillyhippiemusicreview · 20 days ago

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THE HAYFIELD OF DREAMS: NORTH SPRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL

***DISCLAIMER: This is a rather long article recapping NSMF. Our apologies on the length, but there was so much goodness to report on. Scroll to the end for a TL:DR as well as a YouTube playlist of videos from the festival.***

Much like Kevin Costner’s character in the classic movie Field of Dreams heard a voice say “if you build it, he will come” while standing in the middle of a cornfield, I imagine music promoter Dustin Kennedy once heard a voice which prophesied to him that “if you build it, they will come” whilst standing amongst the hay filling the unassuming pastures that have been in his family for generations down in Tennessee. That phrase has been Kennedy’s mantra for the last five years as he’s worked tirelessly to build the little festival that could, the one in what is becoming known as the "magic" hayfield: North Springs Music Festival.

Throughout its short life, the festival has begun to gain major traction within music circles across America to the point that this year alone it welcomed people from twenty-three states and two countries to its mountain home, growing from a previously one day event to a now three night/two day festival packed slap full of some of the country's best singer-songwriters, country music acts, and rock and roll bands. Almost as quickly, it has seemingly become one of the "must play" festivals on artists' hopeful tour schedules as word-of-mouth spreads like wildfire about the allure down in the tiny unincorporated community of North Springs, by way of Whitleyville, Tennessee. Perhaps the name of the town is all you need to imagine the magic, maybe the ghost of Keith Whitley is visiting that hayfield to send good luck Kennedy's way, or maybe it's all just due to good ol' fashioned hard work. After finally having my chance to witness it this year, I like to believe it's a bit of both—there is a magical musical hayfield in those mountains, but there’s also a zealous promoter with big dreams destined to bring one of the nation's top homegrown grassroots music festivals to the very people who crave it the most: the fans.

North Springs Music Festival is something special, and I'm positive almost every person who sets foot in the field will tell you the same, if not all of them. What is better than a big, laid-back & family-friendly farm party with hundreds of your closest friends, bonfires, camping, beautiful scenery, and of course some of the best tunes out there, all in a place that somehow feels like home? Not much, if anything at all! Of course, the picturesque setting of the mountains and the natural acoustics that reverb perfectly within the hills make it noteworthy enough, but it's even more than that. As Kennedy said in a social media post made after the event, "People come to North Springs reliant on GPS knowing they'll be in a hayfield with no service for 2-3 days because they love music and they love each other. You know how many acts tell me people sing their songs back louder to them in North Springs? That's the magic right there." We'd be inclined to agree that the magic is certainly in those moments, and there were more magical moments than we could count. Read more about them below in our NSMF 2024 recap: ------------------------------------------------------------

Kickoff Party

The festival began with a kickoff party on Thursday, October 10th, at the Bull & Thistle Pub, spearheaded by both Kennedy and the Mountain View Talent group. Unfortunately, HHMR was unable to make it, but we heard from many attendees that it was quite the night. With appearances by Rye & Brandy Davis, Braden Mitchell Wall, Cody Lee Moomey, Jim Bachmann, Justin Clyde Williams, and Clint Park, with a stellar headliner in Dallas Moore, there's no doubt in my mind that it was the perfect prequel to the weekend to come. I heard they brought the sold-out house down, and with all that good music already, how could it get any better?! Well, you may not think it could….but I’m here to tell you: it did.

Dallas Moore on stage at the NSMF Kickoff Party—photo by Mary Suminski who came all the way from Alaska

Day 1

HHMR rolled into North Springs after a beautiful drive through the fall-tipped mountains in the early afternoon on Friday, with just enough time to set up camp, take in the picturesque surroundings, and mingle for a bit before running to the stage to catch the beginning acts. It was a bit toasty, but the openers in the beginning of the day kept us cool with their melodic tunes and exemplary storytelling. However, as night began to fall, the evening's artists heated it back up as they laid everything they had on the stage. Music began with local singer-songwriter Cherokee Hope and her band while attendees continued to arrive. As her songbird voice warbled through the hills between her heartfelt originals and a fantastic Loretta Lynn cover (who her essence was very reminiscent of), we knew the caliber of talent set for that stage over the course of the weekend couldn't be matched. I believe she was the perfect opener and can't wait to hear more from her. Following Hope, Sam Lowe had the crowd enthused over his acoustic set with an accompanying harp—his rendition of "Long Haired Country Boy" was especially enjoyable. With stellar stage presence and crowd interaction on top of his bona fide country vocals, he often had the crowd chuckling…even once admitting to drinking water on stage so that he "didn't run 'nekkid' through a cow field," which would have undoubtedly broken NSMF's #1 rule: Act Like You've Been in Public Before. Thankfully, Lowe and everyone else managed to follow that rule all weekend and the positive vibes flowing couldn't have been beat.

Next up, to our pleasant surprise, we got to see Wes Shipp not only perform for the first time, but also perform with a full band and lemme tell ya'll—he's one to watch if you dig the quintessential outlaw country sound. Around the time Shipp took the stage, most attendees had settled in and began to make their way to the stage to hear his songs and stories of writing with artists like Billy Don Burns, Creed Fisher, and Jared Hill, as well as an impressive ode to Keith Whitley where he put his own spin on one of Whitley's classics. One thing we love about Shipp is his openness and authenticity, so readers, listen to me—if you don't know his story, it's definitely one to learn...it makes his music all the more powerful. After Shipp came one of the underground Americana & roots scene's favorite songwriters, Ritch Henderson. Accompanied by Daniel Harbinson on acoustic guitar and harmonies, the duo had concertgoers entranced with the words they sang from Henderson's critically acclaimed debut record. At HHMR, we are pro-original music and that's what we prefer to hear when we set out to a show, but we also believe covers serve a purpose in a set, as they can often bring memorable moments, such as when Wes Shipp requested a popular cover of Henderson's, "Red Rag Top" by Tim McGraw. As Henderson began to strum the chords to the song, Shipp kneeled side-stage, with head, arms, and beer rested on the stage, never once breaking his gaze set on Henderson as he sang. It was one of the coolest moments of the event to witness, because one thing we champion entirely is comradery and artists truly supporting other artists—and at NSMF, that is all you see. The community and family feel is a beautiful thing to experience. With artists milling around and mixing in with fans during others' sets—I rarely witnessed an artist stay backstage for a long period of time—and joyfully interacting with the very people who help keep their tires burning down the highway, as well as making sure to fully immerse themselves in their fellow musicians' sets, NSMF is a unique festival experience that we feel cannot be easily replicated.

Attendees gather to watch Day 1 openers

HHMR videographer Linda captures a video of Wes Shipp performing

Wes Shipp watches as Ritch Henderson performs "Red Rag Top"

Kentucky's own Hunter Flynn took the stage next as an acoustic act with only himself and his passionate vocals juxtaposed with his guitar. His songwriting is top notch and his vocals unique, and we were highly impressed with his set, especially after he told the story of how long he had been playing music—since early 2022! Knowing that, the defining moment of his set was when his mic went out mid-song as he sang his single "Can't Never Could" (written by another phenomenal Appalachian artist, Cody Lee Meece) and he stepped up to the edge of the stage and began belting out the remainder of the song to the spellbound crowd that had gathered in front of him. Chills, absolute chills! After we had to wipe away a few tears from Flynn's set—"F***ed Up Brain" and "Granny's Song" are two that will get you right in the heart—Rye Davis and his band took the stage and began to rowdy the melancholy out of the crowd by getting them dancing along to his tunes. Now, it's not his impeccable Willie and Waylon impersonation and humor during his hilarious version of "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," that makes him a dynamic performer, crowd favorite, and yearly NSMF performer, it's that Davis is the whole package. His stage presence, uncanny wit & humor, the interplay between him and the crowd, and everything else he lays out on the stage when he performs, as well as his heartfelt songwriting, make him someone your mama'n'em ought to know about. Another of the most memorable moments of NSMF 2024 was when Davis took a break from jamming his brand of entertainment and country music to play one of his nostalgic ballads, "Monsters." The FL Tribe, a group of NSMF fans and friends that travel from Florida to North Springs yearly for the festival, planned a surprise to throw paper airplanes on stage when Davis sang the chorus that reminisces on childhood treasures. Luckily for us, we were given a heads-up for the surprise, and I was able to catch it on video, (which can be seen by clicking here). Davis expressed that it was "one of the coolest things that had ever happened to him on stage," and I think that speaks volumes for not only the performers but also the attendees of this festival—every single moment means something to them, and they find ways to create some of the most special.

After Rye Davis proverbially burnt the stage down, a new-to-us artist from Oklahoma took the stage to stoke the flames a little more. Blaine Bailey brought his brand of mellow, red-dirt country rock to North Springs and undoubtedly left with many new fans. His music is a tribute to where he comes from and his Keetowah (Native American) heritage, and the tunes are as smooth as his vocals, with idyllic storytelling to boot. I tend to have to see an act live before I reserve my judgements on them, and I have to say I was extremely impressed with his set and will be taking a deep dive into his catalogue. With what was left of the at that point stage, The Comancheros played distinct brand of rock and roll and left metaphorical embers to stand on. If you've never witnessed a Comancheros show, I can assure you will equally be left with your face melted and wondering if what you just saw was real life--aside from being gifted musicians, the members of this band are exhibit extremely good showmanship; they truly know how to keep a crowd entertained with their unique songs and stage antics. Despite the cold, the crowd was hanging in there having the time of their lives rocking out. To tie night one up into an awesome musical package, headliner Whey Jennings took the stage last and gave it all to his fans. Unfortunately, HHMR did not get to see his set due to having to go back to camp, but what we could hear was phenomenal. Fan and NSMF repeat attendee Sherry Mullins shared her thoughts on Jennings' performance with us: "There were moments that if I closed my eyes, it was like I was hearing Waylon! I think it's awesome that he is using his spotlight to share his faith in God, and how it has helped him overcome his struggles with alcohol & drug abuse and achieve sobriety. Using his platform in this way gives people hope and inspiration to do better!" I believe her statement accurately sums up not only Jennings, but his counterparts on day 1 of NSMF—they all used their music in some way to bring something healing to others, whether it was in fun or inspiration.

Hunter Flynn belts out "Can't Never Could" after mic goes out

Rye Davis and his band performing to an enthusiastic crowd

Blaine Bailey captivated the audience with his blend of red-dirt country rock

The Comancheros set the stage ablaze during their set (proverbially, of course)

Friday night headliner Whey Jennings interacts with the crowd—photo by Kristen Drum

Day 2

After the first day of North Springs Music Festival, it was almost impossible to think that Day 2 could bring anything better--but boy, did it. If waking up to coffee and breakfast with friends both new and old at camp amidst a gorgeous day in the hills and hollers of Tennessee with the sounds of music in the air wasn't special enough, what Dustin Kennedy had planned out for Day 2 sure was. As campers were coming alive again, warming up frozen bones to get ready for the absolutely scorching musical day to come, and other concertgoers were beginning to fill in, around 11:30 we heard Kennedy announce that the day was about to begin. What stood out to me in that moment was not that he was encouraging people to show up for his festival, but that he was encouraging folks to head to the stage for the opening acts because he believed they deserved as much attention as the headliners, and he was right on the money! In a social media post summing up the experience, he said "I take pride in the acts who take this stage, more so every year. . .if you see them on our stage, it's because I believe in them or someone close to me that I trust believes in them. Since the start I've told musicians that if you take a chance on our festival in the middle of nowhere, you won't regret it. Matter of fact, these people will become some of the most loyal fans you'll ever have. People don't wait for next year; they go see these acts all over the place. The people treat these acts like family." Treating each and every act on the lineup like family is certainly what Kennedy expected and was definitely what fans delivered.

At HHMR we believe that often times some of the best music is found within the smaller font on festival lineups, and we believe in always going to the show to hear the opener. The caliber of talent Kennedy put in the opening slots is prime evidence of his attention to detail and wise curation of music trends. Bayker Blakenship, a young, albeit rapidly-rising star from Tennessee, brought a score of fans up to the stage already as he played an acoustic set full of originals from his April 2024 EP release, Lost Time, which highlighted his talent in the modern country world quite well. He was not only talented, but truly and courteously appreciative of the listeners. Coming all the way from Michigan, another young country crooner in the making, Waylon Hanel, took the stage next. As if he was emulating his namesake, Hanel's star shone bright as the crowd ate up his 90s country and outlaw/honkytonk fusion: his latest release, "Keith Whitley Blue," ought to be an earworm for lovers of that throwback sound. Not to mention, the young man is just as kind and humble as they come—we really enjoyed speaking with him. It spoke volumes when he asked to do “just one more” and fired into a rousing rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” simply to honor veterans in attendance. The first two acts of Day 2 proved that age is just a number, and years of experience do not necessarily beget talent. Also ushering in fresh faces and exuberant youth, as well as a newfangled take on classic rock and roll, was act three of the day, Parker Barrow. Hailing from Alabama, the band led by frontwoman Megan Kane has not only southern rock in its blood, but blues covered in some funk deep in its soul. I could easily write a 1,000 word essay about this band and it's standout performance, but I can best sum it up with the fact that they rocked so hard that a transformer was blown, knocking power out to not only the stage, but the whole festival—and even a week later, people are still talking about it! It was as if we all entered a teleportation device and were taken back to 1972 as they jammed out...and a blown transformer was all that could have brought us back to present day.

Bayker Blankenship delivers a performance of one of his fan-favorite songs

Waylon Hanel plays to a legion of well-earned new fans

Megan Kane and Dylan Turner of Parker Barrow in their groove

When the power was knocked out, the tension could momentarily be felt from all in attendance, because the rest of the evening was inevitably left up in the air. NSMF organizer Kennedy was undoubtedly feeling the pressure, but he didn't let it show for long, if at all as he handled it with a calm grace I'm not sure I could have mustered. Quick thinking had someone from the power company coming to check it out and try to get the show back up and running as soon as possible, but a true heart for music is truly what set it in motion as Bill Taylor and the Appalachian Heatherns offered to take the stage and play a fully unplugged, acoustic set to keep the ball rolling. Kennedy utilized a bullhorn to encourage the crowd to move closer to the stage in order to hear and give the band their due attention. Emotions were high as all this took place, and for good reason. As Taylor and his band moved as close to the edge of the stage as possible and he began to belt out their first song, the way his voice echoed in the hearts and minds of the crowd, as well as the mountains, made it nearly impossible to even know that they were unplugged. Almost instantly, what had been a rambunctious rock-and-roll show turned into an intimate listening room, in the middle of nowhere in a hayfield capable of producing magical moments like this. We talk a lot at HHMR about the "power of music" and I'd like to believe this was a moment of divine intervention that aimed to put the true power of music on display to all in attendance and those who would hear about it later—it was an undeniably unforgettable moment.

At some point during their set, and rather quickly considering, power was re-established to the hayfield and the sound techs offered to plug everything in for the Heatherns; however, Taylor left the decision up to the crowd—and they wanted more of what they were already hearing, so Taylor and his band wound up doing their entire set entirely unplugged. Magic has been the theme of this festival, and moments like this are what we're all raving about. It was an unprecedented event, as power had never been lost in the history of NSMF, but it wound up being one of the most important--and spellbinding—moments of the entire weekend. Following the end of the Heatherns performance, there was no better way to celebrate being powered up adn plugged in again than to have the Low Water Bridge Band take the stage with their insanely talented musicians—the pedal steel was BEYOND heavenly—alongside the trill of frontman Logan Moore's mountainous vocals. The band played several songs off their albums and began to loosen the crowd back up as the impending evening chill began to set in. It was during their set that I began to ramble around the grounds, people watching, and I have to say: I loved what I saw. What I saw was joy, happiness, friendship, community, and history being made in action. Mark my words: If Dustin Kennedy continues to build North Springs Music Festival, they will continue to come—and this festival will one day go down as one of the best in the world. The heart and soul that is put into this thing from everyone involved beats anything I've ever seen. I'm not just blowing smoke, either...all the bands did enough of that each time they got on stage just to burn it down again. 🔥

Bill Taylor & the Appalachian Heatherns play an entirely unplugged set

Low Water Bridge Band entertains the crowd

Before the mind-blowing electricity of the evening acts began to light up the stage and after a very short intermission, a much-loved veteran NSMF performer played his set acoustically...but by the looks of the crowd you would have never known he was up there playing a singer-songwriter set versus a full band one. Addison Johnson is a well-known name to the NSMF community, and for good reason: he's one hell of an artist and an even better soul. Aside from the enthusiastic sing along to his hit "Out of Control" by his fans while he was on stage, it was a joy to witness how he made time for each and every one off stage. Something I loved seeing at this festival was how long the artists stayed at their merch booths to interact with concertgoers, and I observed Johnson at his nearly all day long, well before his set and after. He's the true meaning of a road-worn troubadour, and his talent and humbleness speak for themselves.

As the crowd was getting their boogie shoes warmed back up for the night to come, Tony Logue & the 184 began to rock it out. It was during their set that I foolishly decided to make a mad-dash back to camp to change into warmer clothes before nightfall, and I kicked myself the entire time because they sounded so damn good. When I was trying to slip away during the first song, a fan tapped me on the back and stopped me, warning me not to miss Logue and his band because they were about to "turn it up." Man….he was right on the money! I was all the way on the other side of the hayfield and so enamored with what I was hearing that I lost my phone and notepad, just to finally find them and make a mad dash back to the stage area to not miss a moment more. I could feel the heat from what felt like five miles away—so learn from my mistake, just bring 100 layers with you to your seat for the hormonal October weather and never leave; inevitably you'll miss something amazing at North Springs! Thankfully, HHMR videographer Linda caught a bit of the set I missed and all I gotta say is if ya'll haven't tuned into the music coming out of every part of Kentucky—not just Appalachia—it's well past time you acquainted yourself with Louge's brand of "Southern Rock & Roll." Next up, by way of Alabama & Kentucky, a "Son of Appalachia" through and through, artist Tim Goodin brought his brand of Appalachian music to NSMF alongside his band the Blue Gems, wowing the crowd with his soul stirring songwriting and beautiful melodies to match. His passion for music shone through his songs, and that's one defining word that fans can take away from not only his set, but NSMF as a whole: passion. Passion can be found in every single piece of this festival.

Addison Johnson had the fans hanging on his every word

Tony Logue and the 184 playing their brand of "Southern Rock & Roll"

When Goodin finished his set, if it didn't occur to Kennedy with the twenty-four previous acts that he ought to have the fire department on standby—in addition to the power company—t was a definite need when Taylor Hunnicutt and her band set foot on that stage and rocked it like it owed them rent money because it was plumb burnt to smithereens. Having rolled in after a long day on the road from playing Peacemaker Fest the night before, they had to of been road-weary and past exhausted, but fans would have never known after the action-packed show they put on—there was not a single bit of half-assery involved. The crowd was hungry and eager to hear what the band had to say, and after performing "All or Nothin,'" Hunnicutt became a bit teary-eyed and shared that the moment was the loudest any crowd had ever sang her songs back to her…and it was louder than an already impressively loud sound system that sonically was bumpin' so loud they probably heard these bands play up in Alaska! All jokes aside, seriously—the fans were that loud and it was a magical moment. There's that MAGIC again—it was everywhere at NSMF. One of my favorite moments was witnessing a young boy who was sat on the edge of the stage during Hunnicutt's set: he had picked up her dropped tambourine and began to play along with the band, eyes on the bourgeoning superstar in front of him the entire time. No doubt that moment will be a core memory for him as much as it was for the band and people around him.

Speaking of core memories, when Them Dirty Roses (TDR) came on stage, it definitely created one for everyone there, new fans and old! I heard last year's festival attendees demanded to have them back, and for good reason: they rock, and they rock hard. TDR sings in their opening song, "Every bad girl loves the smell of a rose," and I'd imagine that's true...but I think the way the crowd showed up and showed out for their set proves that everybody simply loves Them Dirty Roses—man, woman, child, animal (Hunnicutt's road-dawg Trudy was a little star struck, too). It was cold as ice as they sang fan favorites from their first EP released years ago to hits from their 2023 album, Lost in the Valley of Hate and Love, Vol. 1, yet a cold night was suddenly that much hotter…because what proverbial embers were left from the stage at that point were once again set ablaze! Having befriended the Roses after finding their music almost a decade ago, I've spent many a mile on the road singing my heart out to their songs in various states—but this time I spent most of my time watching the crowd and my music-lovin' heart couldn't help but get a bit weepy from what I saw, especially the looks on the children's faces and drummer Frank Ford's toddler....absolutely magical, and the kids being involved is so meaningful. I imagine some were watching their new heroes in action! I always say the magic of music is like none other, and there's so much magic being made in the "hayfield of dreams" that is NSMF and the community of fans were going absolutely nuts over what they were seeing and hearing all day and night long. I imagine twenty years from now attendees will be looking back thinking warm thoughts about the country and rock-and-roll legends they saw on that small, rented stage…well, what was left of it anyways. 🤣

The Queen of Alabama, Taylor Hunnicutt, and her band earned their status as crowd-favorite with their raucous performance

Them Dirty Roses had the fans in a rock-fueled tizzy

There wasn't a doubt in anybody's mind that Saturday night headliner Ward Davis had some tough acts to follow, yet he did it well and with the expertise and skill of someone who has spent more than "15 Years in a 10 Year Town" writing his songs and singing his dues. Davis is a verifiable legend in his own right, and the scores of fans that came to NSMF to see him headline the entire event was astounding. It was the perfect way to wind up three nights of incredible music--and Davis played well past midnight to adoring fans hanging on his every word. Sure, the late-late night set was ultimately due to the power incident, but I'd imagine that even if Davis had kept playing until the wee hours of the morning that the enthusiastic crowd—who was like putty in his hands—would have gladly hung around to listen to the last enigmatic performer to grace the stage. The personal highlight of his set and the entire festival for me was witnessing him play his tune "I'm Not the Devil" live, as it was a song that saved my soul years ago when I stumbled into making a major life change and began to chase my dreams involving music…the same dreams that led me to the pure magic of North Springs Music Festival. It was a full circle moment for me, and I'd imagine there were multiple of the same sort of moments for many others who stood next to me in that hayfield of dreams. In such a dreamy setting, how could there not be?

Ward Davis closing out the festival to adoring fans

Overall, the entire festival exceeded my expectations—and they were already high from all the impressive murmurs I've heard about North Springs Music Festival over the last few years. I'd love to see ways to get music and activity in the hands of the many children rambling around the festival grounds because they are the future of music, but I do not have a single complaint come to mind about the event at all. From the delicious food trucks to the myriad of vendors, to many other small but important details, it was well and thoughtfully executed—and I gotta say, it was impressive to witness how Dustin Kennedy was involved in every second of the festival from planning to promoting but also from set-up to tear-down...he's all in! Not to mention how in the event of the unexpected, Kennedy, his family & festival staff, musicians, and the fans also epitomized the saying "the show must go on," and go on, it did! I can't speak for anyone other than Hillbilly Hippie Music Review, but it truly went on down as one of the best festivals we've ever witnessed. If you don't know where the heck North Springs is or why that's even a question, I suggest you plan to find out next October and join us for some hayfield honkytonkin’!

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Head on over to Facebook to check out the auction for the *ORIGINAL* 2024 NSMF handpainted poster by one of the vendors, Issac Denton Art.

Read our interview with NSMF founder Dustin Kennedy at the following link:

TL:DR—NSMF is a fantastic smaller-sized music festival that is absolutely worth your time and money to see in person. All 27 acts that played in 2024 are deserving of a listen. Check them out and join us next year on the farm for some hayfield honky-tonkin’!

Check out our playlist of videos from several NSMF 2024 performers below:

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May 1, 2005

Like woah. I totally just got a copy of the story of ferdinand on dvd, I'm gonna burn it and try to put it online so you're pretty little eyes can see all about "from under the cork tree". Its so amazing.

Turn me on like a switch and off like a faucet. We had fun at bamboozled but we were definitely pissed off about all of the kids that weren't allowed in while we were playing. That's all on the fire marshall and staff their. We definitely told them things had to be different next year if we were gonna play.

Me and william from academy are probably gonna do this project next year, watch out for it.

Lately on the internet all I have been reading is how we're either gonna be the next big thing and save this kind of music or how we ruined it and our record is terrible. I personally think we fall somewhere in between. Its a lot of pressure either way and all we hope is that you check out the record for yourself and decide on your own.

We got a big tour were planning for the fall.

Staylovely

May 3, 2005

come on, get FUCT!

no we're not being mean or saying get laid... go out and grab our new record "from under the cork tree", it's out rigggght now.

what about when cartman has the tea party with: artemis clyde frog, polly prissy pants, and peter panda. pretty hilarious.

new jersey gave me some awesome closet secrets but it's new york that i'm just this in love with.

news about some stuff in the next day or so.

May 3, 2005

i love the way you type...

didn't you think it would be about time where it got to the point where people hated us just for the sake of it? i have so much to say about it but i am keeping it in. it's just not worth addressing every internet claim or review. no offense to your standards but i don't think you got the point of what we were doing. THE LYRICS and SONGS are a commentary on YOU. you are what is ruining music and what we love... we aren't writing summer songs and we aren't writing progressive music- we're calling you out- so when we're reading your IMs, we're laughing cause you didn't even get it. everything you read about us isn't true. i'm not saying everyone should love our record or us, that would be ridiculous. music is a very subjective thing. i understand that but your condescending bullshit and unnecessary harshness doesn't go unnoticed. we remember you and the way you can't ever say anything to our faces. what are you in it for? the music or the misery? thanks to the people who have stuck by us through thick and thin... you are our heart.

what would they say if they could see us now?

keep l i / o ving

- petey

May 4, 2005

thank you nyc for coming out to our first record release. we have our second in chicago. we are so excited. we have many things we are planning to make your pretty head spin.

what about jay-z and beyonce rocking out to fob? totally one of the few times i have ever felt super starstruck at one of our shows. crazy shit like that only happens in new york…

i lost my cellphone yesterday- send the waaaaahmbulance as soon as possible.

Xxoo

05/04/05 Q&A

question

does patrick want to only sing? because my husband is an amazing guitarist……..

answer

my husband (patrick) is an amazing guitarist too.

05/05/05

question

pete. being in love with your best friend: in or out in 2005?

answer

same sex, definitely in. opposite sex was like so 90’s.

May 11, 2005

a day in the life of the new york trip:

woken up today at 9 am by patrick and our publicist to do an interview for rollingstone. my throat is fucking wrecked. couldn't really talk in the interview.

joe and hurley go to get haircuts at some fancypants spot. patrick and i on the other had are content with looking like we haven't showered in a month.

pick up my sister and go over to NBC studios.

soundcheck and realize that no back ups will be going on tonight. i can barely sing regularly and mostly suck but can't even really talk.

soundcheck goes pretty badly. go back and hope that it goes alright.

run into matt dillon backstage. definitely comment on the movie "over thedge", dunno if he appreciated it. he said "punkrock huh? you sound like the pistols" i had to pee so i said "yeah kind of" and went to the bathroom.

change and our publicist tapes the hole in the crotch of my pants and says i will ruin the entire show if they rip. but i think a blur on conan would be pretty funny.

i gotta say this is one of the only times i have been nervous about performing. mostly because it was so unnatural. its not like a show at all, so that felt awkward. the rest went alright. i'm glad you guys make us feel so comfortable and all, its the only thing that makes it worth keeping on doing this.

home soon.

sorry for the lack of updates. got a writers block attatched to a chain around my neck.

truelove

05/11/05

question

Why did patrick suck balls on FUSE?

answer

that kid is my bestfriend, i don’t care if you’re a girl i’d still punch you in the mouth if you said that to my face. have a nice day.

05/14/05

question

hey peter!! if u or william ever need help getting those hott girls pants or tight shirts off im here.

answer

thanks, but i handle his shirts and he handles my pants. then we switch.

question

Pete, it seems as though you always go for the rude/aggressive/not-so-nice girls. Or that is how it seems to me. Forgive me if I am wrong. Why is that? Why dont you go for a girl that is nice and sweet, but can be aggressive when she needs to be?

answer

haha. woah. it seems like you’ve been looking through the keyhole in at my life. i go for girls that my heart/hips like.

question

just how much of your songs is based in fact and how much in fiction? are they all about things that actually happened?

answer

we don’t write fiction.

question

Hey Pete, Well I gotta be honest, i just recently became a Fall Out Boy fan, but better late than never i guess. Anywho, i live in wilmette like 3 houses down from you and our dads play golf together every sunday. What was your favorite thing to do as a kid growing up in this town?

answer

i liked fireworks and skateboarding.

question

lets just be honest here — how completely jealous are you that i just came home from seeing mars black, the faint, and BRIGHT EYES at the riviera???? gasp!! it was beyond fabulous!

answer

nope. im going tonight.

question

where, and who to did the guys lose their virginty?

answer

hahahahahahahaha. jesus.

question

one of my guy friends (which is ugly and fat) asked me out but i told him i was going out with one of my other guy friends, so i had to ask my guy friend to fake going out with me even though we arent. now my fat ugly guy friend hates me and all my friends that like my fake boyfriend hate me too. was this as wrong as i think it is?

answer

yes. honestly, the best bet is always honesty on this type of stuff. everyone is always one step away from being ugly and fat themselves so think about that before you completely crush someone else.

question

the song with no sexual lyric: nobody puts baby in the corner.

answer

yes. honestly, the best bet is always honesty on this type of stuff. everyone is always one step away from being ugly and fat themselves so think about that before you completely crush someone else.

question

the song with no sexual lyric: nobody puts baby in the corner.

answer

judges? “nothing comes as easy as you”- “can i lay in your bed all day”

question

i was watching the “saturday” video and i noticed that all of you were wearing red armbands. i was wondering of there was any significane to it?

answer

viva le revolucion. message two. more to follow.

question

Best piece of literature youve ever read? and… tell patrick he fucking rocks. he doesnt get enough positive attention on here for getting the kickass guy he is.

answer

the best piece of literature i ever read was this torn up zine about 3 years ago- its called “go on, get left at an altar”- absolutely amazing. trust me patrick gets alot of positive attention. we make a trophy for him every night at a show and then we sing “you are the champion of the world” when he walks onto the bus.

question

Push-up bras: in or out in 2005?

answer

out. work with what you got.

question

I think I found the innuendo free song. “Sophomore Slump Or Comeback Of The Year”, am I right?

answer

patrick says “or are we just going down” is technically sexual.

question

im confused. who has the bad twin pancho or bedussey? will pancho make a creepy yet awe inspiring cameo in the sequel?

answer

pancho is dead or gone, we’re not sure. he will not be in Bad Twin

05/15/05

question

Is the song without a sexual reference Ive Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth?

answer

“kisses on the necks of just friends” kinda sexy dont you think. like if my friend was say william beckett that would be really sexy.

question

my brother just ate all my funyons.. do i pound on him or let it slide?

answer

funyons are gross. he did you a favor, high five him.

question

Get busy living or get busy dying - Is the innuendo free song. But then theres - Ive got a dark alley and a bad idea.. but the just friends part can be seen as an innuendo, so I go with my first answer. Is it right or am i wrong twice?

answer

“tell me you like boys like me better in the dark lying on top of you” “im falling apart to songs about HIPS and hearts”

question

im also in a band from the suburbs of chicago….whats the secret to your success?

answer

never really considered us successful. we’re always a step from falling apart. i guess success is just a matter of perspective. get in the van, its your best bet.

question

its my birthday today and to be honest i miss the feeling of being excited about birthdays like when i was younger. my question is: whats the thing you miss most about being a “kid”.

answer

being carefree. not knowing what regret was.

question

do you think that your rising fame will result in you guys no longer playing intimate shows (Metro, HOB, etc) and not hanging out with us before/after shows or at other local shows like the KOC here at home in Chicago? PS: you guys should try to play at the KOC again (like The Academy Is… did in March) sometime - that show would be insane.

answer

its harder to play smaller shows now because they aren’t safe and because alot of people don’t get in- keep a look out though. we’ll be playing shows around chicago in small venues all next year under secret names.

question

Hey Peterpants. How come every time my bestest friend Anna puts you on our team in Oregon Trail, you die? Last time you drowned while we were trying to ford the river. It makes us very very sad. We cried like, ten times. Do you any suggestions for how we can keep you alive?

answer

we had to do like a simulated version of oregon trail called wagons west when i was in fourth grade with mr. kemp- and everyone in the class got married and had a family except me and andrew corcoran had to be cousins and he kept trying to give me hugs. we died in the winter anyway, i can’t say anything about it though. andrew kind of made me want to be dead.

question

so are you just trying to make us go crazy by saying theres a song with no sexual innuendo? cause you know we are all trying to figure out which one it is, but you know that there really isnt one.

answer

i think there are two

question

Is the song without a sexual reference Ive Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth?

answer

that rules. i agree.

May 16, 2005

you wake up but not really. in the bedroom you grew up in. it's the only place on this entire planet that is yours- the only place on the planet that understands you. it understands the way your nerves flare every time you think about talking to anyone- scared into shyness at the thought of opening your mouth but the way you are the best hypocrite around when you're in front of a microphone. it knows what turns that switch on and off and back on again. it understands the way when you don't have a smile on your face everyone only spits: "whats wrong"s and "you look tired"s. so the way you keep it on your face just wide enough to avoid questions. it understands how neurotic you have become, the way you treat your flaws like old friends. the way you look in the mirror and think of yourself as "mr. misery"....

alot has been going on and not going on all at once. i went to the bright eyes show the other night expecting a near religious experience- possibly some connection. but i came away empty handed. i must say i winced when i realized that there wasn't an acoustic guitar in sight- though i was secretly hoping he'd play something off of "im wide awake", he stuck to his guns and played "digital ash" start to close. i then bought chuck's new book "haunted" and had a similiar experience- it felt watered down, kind of like reading stephen king rehashed over and over again. it scared me for a second, that maybe our new record feels like this to someone. more than anything i don't want to let you down. more than anything i hope that we are remembered for our sincerity, or not remembered at all.... there are big things in the air but i can't spill about them until i know for sure.

its funny the way i sit outside my house and there are seagulls overhead, but this far from the coast. it doesn't seem right. she said she would watch my troubles and worry so i wouldn't have to pack them and take them everywhere with me. and there's not a day that i don't think about dropping out and moving to the middle of nowhere cause sometimes it's just not fun anymore. and only YOU make it at all worth it. all clubs and contests aside i lie awake nervous as hell waiting for the dream to end. and sometimes i spill all the pills out on the tiled floor and sit there and think about the sweat dripping the makeup off of your faces and thats all there is. always. i know this probably isn't making sense but this is how i spend most of my days, far from the person i am supposed to be. in between all of the hooks and the screams- the right clothes and our eyes darkened just to the right shade- there is a boy who just doesn't fit in. but if it weren't for this place we have made, i don't know where i would be. i just wanted you to know you have our hearts.

xxoo

May 17, 2005

i recieved this email a couple of days ago and have been being asked everyday since:

“There are flyers all over…and posted on MySpace sites…promoting a benefit show at Bethel Church in Palatine, hosted by Stereo Therapy Records. ( www.stereotherapyrecords.com)

Listed as playing…

American Homecoming

Breaking Back

Dear Me, Dear You

Just Left

Marty McFly

Second Star

Lost On 53

Mystery Guest

Then at the bottom are pictures of all the bands…including Fall Out Boy.

Then a kid in one of those bands asked me if you could sell out the place.

It holds 400.

Then another kid in one of the bands playing is telling people that you guys confirmed several days ago.

So are you playing it?

If not, they have definitely been using your image to promote the show on flyers and on their website, hinting that you will be playing.

April 25, 2005

"Hey stellas and stellers, I hope your week has been treating you well. I miss you all. The May 28th show at the Bethel Lutheran Church in Palatine has been confirmed. Go to the events for more information. We will have a special guest closing the show, and trust me, you will not want to miss it.”“

we are NOT playing this show, we will be out of town. we will not begin playing secret shows until after the fall next year and they will all be benefit shows…. we are all for supporting the local scene but at the same time do not want you to be suprised when we do not show up. please support local bands because they deserve it.

May 23, 2005

i just saw the most amazing sunset. it came in second to my eyes only behind the new starwars. there is simply nothing better than jedis. working in the lab.

had halloween in florida this year. so decided i'm gonna do my birthday there. come by and give me a highfive at the hardrock show.

May 24, 2005

hey. things havebeen kind of hectic lately.

i just wanted to let you guys know my opinion on whats going on with FOB and all.

"we're the kids you used to love, then we grew old"

first of all, with us being on TRL and all. i have loved bands growing up- there are so many bands that i kept in my back pocket and began hating them when they grew up and got bigger. at first i told everyone i knew "i cant believe you havent heard of savestheday/lifetime/quicksand" then when i started seeing kids wearing the shirts and other kids at my school (that i didnt think were as cool as me) started talking about them- they stopped being cool to me, they stopped being my secret. being a part of this band has changed everything for me. when i was younger and i saw axl rose walk off the bus in the "welcome to the jungle video" i was like holy fuck- i want to be him. you have to believe me when i tell you this band was never supposed to get where it has- those who were there in the beginning know that- we were terrible, it was just something fun for us to do (if you dont believe me go try and find our demo and listen to it). but before we are in a band- WE ARE FANS OF MUSIC. most of the music out there on trl or the radio is complete shit to me- thats why when bands like: blink, new found, thursday, or taking back sunday get played or are on TRL- i loved it. id rather see a tbs or nfg video than a little jon or mariah carrey one any day of the week, and hopefully a couple of you feel that way about "sugar we're going down". they represent sincere music to me. it was like they were the flag that represented our scene and what we were doing- and everything we believed in. it made me smile to see- i have met and or am friends with all of those bands and they are doing it for the right reasons.

that being said, we want to be out there at the forefront of it- representing our scene, representing the people who have always believed in us. i understand that growing pains suck and sometimes it's hard to deal with. but we will always be the same boring kids from the suburbs of chicago. we have NEVER played their game. we do what we want. when they tried to get us to shoot a video with "a swimming pool party, with hot girls and punk oriented kids dancing" we said FUCK NO, that was not fob. When they asked us to do a mall tour we said FUCK NO that is not fob. We've been asked out by countless bands that we don't respect (for how they treat their fans or how they portray themselves) and we've turned it down, even if it would have made us much bigger. We've been offered sponsorships by companies that we do not agree with and we've turned them down even though they offered us alot of money. this is what we believe in. we (you and us) own these songs and we wont let them be cheapened by shit like that. the only reason MTV is interested in playing a video as weird as antler boy is because you guys bought the hell out of the record the first week. that is all real. i sometimes pinch myself, cause it's so unbelievable. bands always say "we're not gonna change"- but the proof is in the pudding, come and find me on warped tour- we're ready to prove the wrong.

no matter what happens fob has always been blood,sweat,gas,tears,fights and love. it is our rushmore. it is what we want to be remembered for. thank you so much for what you give us. if it means half that much for you help us out and vote on trl (on the news page). if it doesn't at least maybe this will explain our thinking. who would have ever thought you would be able to see an FOB video on tv?

as ive gotten older ive realized that noone is born cool- everyone has some deep dark secret- a band that got them into it all- for me those bands are like defleppard and metallica- for others i am sure they are bands that people would call cheesy or whatever- but hopefully these bands open the door for you to check out other bands that you might not have heard of otherwise. so when i go on our messageboard and see someone asking a question and see an og fob fan say "why dont you fucking know that" or "check the fucking thread below" or "shut up" or whatever it makes me feel like shit. imagine if we treated newbie bands like that, some of you never would have heard of the academy is or gym class heroes (even though both of these bands are so great they would have gotten there eventually)... so please try and be understanding- we love our oldest fans, you mean so much- and we'll always have cool stuff like the secret order of fob and secret shows, so don't worry.

anyway. i'm rambling and this probably doesnt make much sense. but ive been there before and just kinda wanted to explain some of my/our thoughts.

last night i saw my world explode.

May 26, 2005

Its not me, its you

The (after)life(r) of the party

Blow out the candles

And try to forget another year of favors (and how long its gonna take to repay them)

And sleeping in between cities

Im up to the hips with dreams

We’re green and gold racing towards 6 am

Who was me last night?

“slow down pretty boy”

but youre just not keeping up

and I never told you the way I love how you sleep in your make up

its not romance but itll have to do

would it be forward of me to say im the best youll (n)ever have

and dollface dreams are just something that get in the way of giving in

broken down not broken out

im only good for a couple of hours on your couch,

hand down the front of your pants or maybe for a story or two

im a stitch away from making it

and a scar away from falling apart

full moon pills got me out on the streets at night

watch me transform in the moonlight

I watch you work the room

Knowing that its their smiles and clinking drinks at cocktail hour

But its always me at this time of night

Hips pressed close to mine – true blue

The way they talk about you aint even close

Envelopes postmarked to nowhere

Vacant baby

Im checking out

failure never looked so pretty

Line em up, flashes across the room in red

Kiss me electric

Leave my best days in memories

And my bestlines closed tight in books

Keep the lights off so I cant see your tears

She said “we should move somewhere deep in the middle of july”

And I replied “dream me up something better than me and you”

- petey

05/26/05 Q&A

question

Someone on a fall out boy group on Myspace is saying patrick has a myspace profile.But everyone is saying its fake becuse you dont even have one and you would be the first one to have one.So is it true that Patrick has one or is the profile just dead fake.

answer

patrick does not have a myspace profile. he thinks the internet is the name of a taking back sunday song.

05/29/05

question

patrick has amazing lips…can i kiss them?

answer

they look amazing but they are poisonous, how did you think i got too sick to make it to europe?

question

Do you ever wish that you were as drop dead sexy as Patrick is!?

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no he is so sexy that i bet it burns him alittle bit on the inside. that scares me.

#fall out boy #pete wentz #livejournal #pete wentz livejournal

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dewdropsonpluto · 1 year ago

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This is not a poem, but I feel the need to share.

I just got home from my family reunion, specifically the 35th Clyde and Louise Williams Family Reunion held every year. It's one of my favorite times during the year. Three days camping in Grandma's two and a half acres of backyard (they've owned the land since the 1960s) Three days hanging out with family, extended, close, sassy trash talkers, loving each other, helpful, competitive, and most of all just being family. We all do different things, have made mistakes and have made different choices, have different personalities and interests, but we love each other.

Anyway, during our reunion we do plenty of crafts, bingo, a talent show, Grandma rents the town pool for two hours on Saturday, a fishing pond for kids under 18, and the two most exciting activities are the cribbage tournament (winner gets a custom made cribbage board by my uncle, who funnily enough won the board he made this year) and the raffle. Tickets are $0.25 apiece and proceeds go to paying for the reunion, mainly the food and the outhouses we rent. I spend about $40, I have some family who spend about $100. 95% of the items in the raffle are handmade. My uncle Leon does woodworking things, mainly board games or stuff with my Grandpa's brand on them, my aunt Carol makes coin purses and hand bags. Aunt Pam makes things with her cricket. Cousin Trisha prints on shirts. My Aunt Sandra and my mom usually make a quilt each (those are usually the bigger items), and many other things are put in the raffle. This is the first year I've put something in though.

I painted a horse portrait, which is out of my comfort zone. Portraits are not easy for me and I haven't painted seriously in about 3 years. I'm pretty proud of myself for actually putting my painting out there to my family, even though it's not perfect, I've made progress.

My Grandma won it. It was the only item she one that she didn't ask a redraw for (sometimes adults will put tickets in and ask for a redraw or pick a kid who hasn't won anything yet). Later, she told my mom she's going to hang it up in Grandpa's room at the memory care facility.

You see, my Grandpa has had serious dementia for about 5 years now, and has been in the memory care facility for about 2 years. He doesn't remember much. He does recognize my Grandma a bit. He's excited when she's there, will hold her hand, she's the only one he'll kiss on the lips, and always wants to put his shoes on when she starts to leave (which always heartbreaking), (my uncle Tim visits him about 3-4 times a week, make sure he's doing good. Aunt Sam every few weeks. Grandma visits every other week since she can't drive anymore and everyone else goes when we're there). The staff are incredibly friendly there and it's a good place, which is lucky. But my Grandpa loves animals, particularly horses and dogs. He lights up a bit when someone gives him a picture or a card with one of those animals on it. I had talked to my mom about printing off a copy of the picture and giving it to him.

So it means the world to me, that one of the people who always encouraged my artwork, always told me to keep trying and would give me old calendars or horses or of artwork for me to practice with, who know has no idea who I am when I kiss him on the cheek, is getting a painting of a horse from me even those he has no recollection of Rachel A. Haney.

I just wanted to say that... I consider myself lucky to have the family that I do. And, for those of you who don't have the family that you deserve, that's okay. Family isn't perfect or an important thing for everyone. Sometimes you have to choose your family, and that's okay. Surrounding yourself with people who love and support you is important. My family is anything but perfect. But I know they love me, and I hope they know how much I love them.

#not a poem #artwork #painting #family #families #family reunion #Grandma #Grandpa #Grandparents #dementia #love #life

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calicosjinx · 2 years ago

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Huxloween Day 12: Vampires (A Love Story) @huxloween

Techie was moonbathing when a hunter appeared armed with a stake and holy water! He demanded to know where his cousin was but Techie had no idea WHO his cousin was! The hunter called him a liar and attacked!

The hunter underestimated Techie! He easily got the upper hand. “You’re pretty. I like you.” Techie declared before taking a bite!

When Matt opened his eyes again he was surrounded by arguing vampires!

“I’m keeping him Armie.”

“Absolutely not, William. Blondes taste horrible.”

“We’re not eating him and that’s not fair! Why does Stensland get to keep Clyde and I can’t keep my new mate?!”

“HA! Trick question, Techie. We all love Clyde.”

“…That’s true. Clyde is amazing…”

“Okay then why do you get to keep KYLO REN?! He’s an actual slayer that’s almost killed you plenty of times.”

“Because he’s a barbaric idiot. I’m doing the world a service keeping him here.”

“UNCUFF ME AND SAY THAT TO MY FACE YOU COWARD.”

Hearing that name Matt jumped up and hastily ran to his cousin’s aid.

“Kylo you’re okay! I’ve been looking and hunting everywhere for you! Don’t worry I’ll get you out of these cuffs immediately!”

Kylo actually… shrugged at Matt. “Nah I’m good. Don’t worry.”

Matt is confused.

He doesn’t have time think before Techie cheers. “You found him Mattie!”

“…Mattie?” Matt blushed.

“Yes and I’m Techie. Welcome to the family.”

“Huh?”

“YAY MORE FAMILY!”

Hux wants to die. Matt has no idea what happened but Clyde tells him it’s best not to think about it.

It took some time…but once Matt got to know Techie they fell deeply in love. Their start was very unconventional but they wouldn’t have had it any other way. It’s a love that’ll last for centuries.

💛🦇Fin🦇💛💛

Bonus:

“Can you believe the nerve of William?! The out right audacity to go against my clan rules! After all I’ve-“

“Hux I get it. I do but… I’ve been waiting all night. Are you going to feed and then are we going to fuck or not?”

“…I hate you Ren.”

“I hate you too Hux.” 💕

#kylux #techienician #clydeland #kylo ren #general hux #kylux adjacents #huxloween 2022 #vampire Kylux #my dolls #kelleyxmarie #calicosjinx

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enigmaticxbee · 2 years ago

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✖️✖️✖️ 11x04 The Lost Art of the Forehead Sweat

The one where... Reggie Something was erased from the X-Files. Maybe.

Best: Scully: I want to remember how it was. I want to remember how it all was. I wish we could just end things here, with Mulder and Scully smiling at each other on the couch of their Unremarkable House over a Sasquatch footprint shaped Goop-O ABC 🥰

Worst: The Trump era-ness of this episode is a LOT. I really enjoyed parts of it, but I had to just tune out other parts to avoid anxiety inducing truthiness flashbacks.

✔️ Flashlights

❌ Woods/Desert

❌ Slideshow

❌ Autopsy

✔️ Evidence Disappears

❌ Scully Misses It

❌ Mulder Ditch

✔️ Sunflower Seeds

✔️ Voiceover (Scully, Reggie narration)

❌ Catch Phrase

❌ Scully is a Medical Doctor

❌ Mulder is Spooky

❌ Scuuullllaaaaayy! Muullllderrrr!

❌ Fox/Dana

✔️ Inappropriate Touching (that I am here for)

✔️ Casual Scully (date night!)

✔️ Casual Mulder (Squatchin suit)

✔️ Trench Coats

❌ Bad Tie Watch

❌ Glasses Watch

✔️ Taking! It! Personally!: Mulder

50 States: DC x108 (44/50)

Investigate: Together & Apart

Solve Rate: 70%

❌ Bechdel Test: Unless you count Mrs Peacock screaming in the flashback there were no other women who spoke in this episode. C’mon Darin Morgan!

MSR: 🐝🐝🐝🐝

Goriness: 👽👽

Creepiness: 👽

Humor: 👽👽👽👽👽

Rewatch Thoughts:

William check-in: No mention

Break-up check-in: I guess they’re officially dating again!

Scully’s been calling him all day - maybe to confirm that dinner date?

Squatchin! Love that for him. And that Scully’s like sure, do your thing Mulder.

That moment when someone starts telling you a story for the millionth time and all your “oh yeah, I remember”s and “yeah, yeah you told me”s won’t stop that story train.

Scully just wants to go on her dinner date! Her casual date night outfit is cute too

Also Mulder in his piles of tapes perfectly captures that feeling when you know you put the thing you’re looking for away in a perfectly logical safe place and you can’t find it anywhere and you tear your home apart in search of it

Mulder’s head and voice on his little boy body in this flashback cracks me up

Scullz 😂

Scully chilling with her feet up on Mulder’s desk 😍

Scully poking fun at Mulder’s super secret rendezvous signal

Mulder waggling his eyes at Scully about a stakeout date. Scully: Well this is romantic. Mulder: Isn’t it! I think he’s sincere, hanging out with her, investigating X-Files, what could be better!

There are some great vintage posters and things in the background in the memorabilia shop.

It’s not parallel universes!

Mulder: Who is “they”?

The a-cappella theme song! The flashbacks inserting Reggie into scenes from the original run - Unusual Suspects! The Pilot! Tooms! Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose! Teso Dos Bichos 😂 Home! Small Potatoes - so fun.

Mulder: I’m Fox freaking Mulder, you punks!

Mulder: The world has become too crazy for even my conspiratorial powers. Scully: Maybe you’ve just lost your taste for it, especially after all this “birther” stuff. Seriously, conspiracy theories used to be fun. Now they’re everywhere, with real world consequences, it’s depressing.

The sculpture park is cool looking but I can’t with gobbledygooky-ness of the monologuing - but who knows that’s probably part of the point!

Foxy 🥰

It’s a Darin Morgan episode so Scully is the voice of reason and figures it all out.

The cubicle farm of government agencies montage 😂

Spotnitz Sanatorium

Their final case together, so silly, so good. Especially Mulder flinging himself to the ground in a hissy fit in disappointment over getting All the Answers.

Reggie: But maybe the point wasn’t to find the truth, but to find each other. And no matter where we go in our lives, we will always have the memories of our time together, and no one can take those away or alter them in such a way to make us doubt that they actually happened.

Mulder finally finds his lost episode! I don’t know that I’ve had a real Mandela Effect experience (although I too would have said it was the Berenstein Bears rather the Berenstain Bears) but there is a movie my sister and I loved when we were little that we can’t remember the name of and no one else has ever heard of and it sounds like a fever dream when I try describe the plot 😅

Scully’s little grin of anticipation at her spoonful of Goop-O ABC.

Let’s just leave them here in this nostalgic moment shall we.

#xf rewatch #xf fanart #msr #the lost art of the forehead sweat #the x files #the xfiles #thexfiles #xf #txf #xf motw #i want to believe #truth is out there #xf review #11x04 #revival

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dog-violet · 2 years ago

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HAI OKSO

the basic gist of the story is that bonnie and clyde (the demolition lovers) died in a gunfight together, but bonnie was still alive. since they were heavily wanted criminals clyde was sent straight to hell where he met the devil and the devil told him bonnie was alive and well in the living world. clyde essentially begged the devil for a chance to go back and see her, and the devil agreed but only under the condition that clyde killed a thousand evil men, and then handed him a gun.

ironically, the order of the songs follows the story exactly. helena was written between gee and mikey specifically for their grandma but it also fits for bonnies funeral - when she "died". "like a blade you'll stain" refers to the lives she and clyde affected, as well as her effect on clyde himself. "give 'em hell kid" is referencing the deal he made with the devil, and also "you know what they do to guys like us in prison" the opening line "in the middle of a gunfight" is directly referencing clydes death but also the title is talking about the time clyde and bonnie WOULD have served together if they were seriously caught. instead the police just shot them to death*

more notes because i have too many thoughts to analyze them all in one go. i will tho if u ask me to

to the end is about bonnie and clydes relationship with each other, as well as how they were inseparable and died TOGETHER, even when bonnie could have chosen to not devote herself to a life of crime (although this song is also heavily based on a rose for emily by william faulkner. to stick with the story "send my resignation to the bride and the groom" could be talking about the relationship between the two and how they. died lol. resignation = no wedding. also "carry me to the end" YHEM DYING TOGETHER HELLOOOOO)

its not a fashion statement its a fucking deathwish. i think the lyric "im coming back from the dead and ill take you with me / im taking back the life you stole" says enough - not in reference to bonnie but the police officers that killed clyde**

cemetery drive:

"in that dress your husband hates" this might be a stretch but the real bonnie sexually assaulted clyde - as well as multiple guys in jail, so possibly the dress is referencing a dress she mightve worn when that happened? im not entirely sure

"staring down a loaded gun" gunfight ^__^

the actual song is about a lover that killed herself after a dramatic event she experienced with the protag of the album. since this entire thing is about bonnie and clyde i. dont actually have anything to say about them for this one! some songs dont fit that much, and this is one of them, but i still love it alot

*the fact that clyde has to kill a thousand evil men may be a way to get his revenge against their killers, but also mcrs anarchy theme throughout some songs

**same as above lol

ty ty i love hearing anything and everything about three cheers. i actually forgot about them being bonnie and clyde cause 99% percent of the time i just see them referred to as the demolition lovers and i don’t see ppl refer to them with names

but wait you left out one of my favorite parts where after killing so many men he realizes the final man he has to kill is himself right??

#asks #max is speaking

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kenzie-ann27 · 1 year ago

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@gerrycarla you got it

(added a break cause I feel like this will get pretty lengthy)

I don't have a lot of backstory for these kids since the only canon fact is that there are eight of them, but once I had gotten them sketched out I had given them names to at least make them distinct in my head.

so! going left to right, starting with the top row: william, philip, anastasia, gerry, and rory (I knew I wanted to name one of them after gerry's actor, so I figured I'd go with the one I imagine gerry got along with best); then on the bottom row it'd be arthur, richard (named and designed after you! or at least from the few pictures I've seen, what I imagine a little richard would look like, plus that's why I made his shirt yellow), then clyde, and catherine.

I'm unsure on the parents' names, though I imagine the oldest boy would be named after their father. I do like the name alice for their mother though, since lewis carroll was the author of alice's adventures in wonderland.

I also still like the idea of gerry being his middle name ever since you introduced the name patrick into the mix, I just think it's funny that he'd have such a fuddy adult name so he'd go by his middle name.

I took a lot of these names from my family, though a few of the guys' names are free to be changed around since they are a bit generic, but I'm very adamant on catherine and anastasia. my aunt catherine is my last great-aunt and I love her very much, and the stories I've heard about aunt stacie make me wish I had met her, she was a very fun individual. I decided to make the two younger ones twins since there was a set of twins with my aunt donna (my absolute favorite aunt, she adored me very much) and uncle donald, so I wanted to give some respect there. plus, with that many kids, twins are gonna happen at some point.

the carroll kids, circa 1962

now in both black and white and color!

#shoutout to aunt stacie. she went dancing every weekend and wore wigs and heavy ass fur coats #she was straight pimpin in the 60s #mind you my grandmother was born in 1922 so my old relatives are crazy old #she was FORTY SEVEN when she gave birth to my mom. she was insane #there's some mackenzie lore though #i wanted to put gerry somewhere in the middle since i think it makes sense for him? i don't see him as the oldest or youngest #hope these are okay though 🙏

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ashley-slashley · 2 years ago

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margaret, why the fuck are you so obsessed with me? i know i've made weird/creepy/sexual statements in my past, but i've deleted a vast majority of them in the mass post editor, so no one can use that to blackmail me. unlike you, i've grown since then. yes, i have said weird statements about paul mccartney, roger waters, keith moon, harlan ellison, john densmore, and other men that exist/existed in reality. i regret the disgusting and sexual statements i have made about said men, i am embarrassed by it, but i know i made those actions, and i accept them. you, however, still make very sexually charged and explicit posts about john belushi and expect people to be cool with that. you have recently brought up that i reblog posts about my own sexual fantasies regarding fictional men, and you have the audacity to shame me for having sexual thoughts about men that can not exist because they are fictional. the difference between me having sexual thoughts and desires about ash williams, steve harrington, eddie munson, and other fictional men is that they are all fictional. if i was anything like the vile little shithead like you, i would be making explicit posts regarding bruce campbell, joe keery, and joseph quinn. but i do not since i know the characters they play are not them at all. i can actually separate fiction from reality, unlike you who gives off the impression that she believes john belushi actually is bluto or jake blues - fictional men. i got rid of the evidence long ago because i did not fathom i would have to deal with your pathetic bullshit again, but i did have screenshots of how you want to perform oral sex on john belushi, as well as performing sexual acts on john belushi. also, i vaguely remember you somewhat hating judy belushi, john belushi's widow, solely because she actually got to know john belushi as a person and actually spent time with the man. i do know you did make sexual posts about the characters he played, but, unlike me, you never put any tags on them to mark they're sexual or nsfw. i obviously never knew belushi or any of his colleagues or loved ones, but i would think they would all be appalled by your constant, vile, lusting for him.

about my chris chan comment, you are acting exactly like he was in the golden age of chris chan. you get pissed off over the smallest, most minuscule bullshit that mildly inconveniences you, you try to get sympathy from people with the "freudian bullshit: tragic upbringing" card (you brought up how you were bullied growing up or how your crush dumped you at prom - i'll get back to this). one of my friends gave me the intel that you’re receiving death threats. I do not believe that, I believe you are making puppet accounts and sending yourself death threats to fuel your own fantasy where you are the victim and did nothing wrong in your life - exactly like chris chan. margaret, you yourself are so pathetic and a horrible excuse for a woman in her 30s, that literally nobody would want to send you death threats. you seem to believe there are heroes and villains in your life, exactly like chris chan. you believe i am clyde cash, you believe the world is out to get you, you believe everybody hates you. if you keep acting like you’re a pathetic, scrawny, miserable, pile of shit, people will loathe your existence and ignore your cries for help when you’re being “harassed”. i too am a survivor of bullying, but unlike you, i have matured and learned that not everybody is out to get me, and that some people say shit solely to piss me off.

another thing about your actions. literally every single time you go on a self hatred parade and beat yourself up, we have tried to help you and, at least i, have suggested healthy coping mechanisms to vent your frustrations (e.g. writing in a journal), but no, you choose to wallow in your own filth and suffering like a demented pig.

i have absolutely no idea why you’re so obsessed with me. am i a surrogate for judy belushi? what did I do to you to genuinely hate me, margaret? i tried to help you get out of your pity party cesspit and show you that the world is not out to get you. but no, you’re too wrapped up in your victim complex fantasies that you neglect to have the self awareness that you are the one who is pushing people away. you are the one who scared away your high school crush. i understand why your crush did not take you to prom - you are a sick, perverted, friendless, creep that nobody wants to be around. you are exactly like the perverted and vile fangirls of rock who sent musicians their stained panties for attention. i am fully aware of the sexually explicit statements i have made on my blog for years, but at least i tag that shit or i’ve wiped it from my archive since i am embarrassed by it. i am not the fangirls who send their nudes to celebrities, i am the fangirl who has fantasies about fictional men - and i actually tag that content since I know there are people who do not want to read that shit. in my pinned post, i make it loud and clear that i have a tag for nsfw/sexual content. you, last time i checked, do not. you blatantly make explicitly sexual posts about john belushi and the characters he played. i do not have any evidence since I do not want to go onto your disgusting cesspit of a blog and rake through all of the nonstop sexually graphic content of your posts. you have no tagging system. you make sexually explicit posts about actual people. you do not have break ups of your sexual posts with non-sexual posts. we are not the same. i fail to see why you paint me as a nymphomaniac who thinks of absolutely nothing but sex and only wants to be passed around fictional men as their crew slut, when i make shitposts, i reblog cats, i reblog others’ artwork, i reblog things that i find amusing. my blog is not an explicit issue of playgirl, i am a circus with a freak show and clowns. We are not the same, Margaret. Please, do not try to contact me again, seek therapy, and delete all social media.

Have a lovely day,

Audrey

#the belushi stalker

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