#Megan was not on trial for

[cyarskj1899]

It makes it that much more awful imo. Bc even if her friend was w him first w.e ok so that’s bw her & her friend. She didn’t do a thing to him (& it wouldn’t make it ok even if she did). He couldn’t have hit her feet if he tried meaning he shot at random. Lucky she’s alive fr.

Also fuck Gayle king cause why are you asking Megan if she fucked Tory. WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE SHOOTING??? That tells me she didn't care about Megs situation she was just looking for a drama.

[longingquiet]

❛ BUT, DANIEL... YOU ALREADY KNOW WHO YOU'LL BE. ❜

LUKE BRANDON FIELD as Daniel Molloy - Interview with the Vampire, AMC

[mathitas]

All I can think about is Apollo playing the ukulele singing “the only thing I ever groomed was my two persian cats. Not a groomer, just a loser” after liking minors

[inafieldofdaisies]

Grotesquerie (2024—) | Season 1, Episode 10 "I think I'm dead" | Micaela Diamond as Chief of Police Megan Duval

[supermoongirl9]

So far, Chiron in Aries gave us :

- the Epstein scandal

- the rise of Andrew Tate and the incels community

- the pandemic and lockdowns (dangerous for abusive relationships)

- the Amber vs Johnny trial and all the misogyny everyone felt free to express

It has been rough af.

I also think that's why when Megan was shot it was received in such a bad way - like, seriously how can people still question it and not be on her side ??? Misogyny is the go-to with that transit (adding to that misogynoir is her case), it's sad af.

You can also see how last week people has been criticizing and questioning Cassie's story of abuse and her accepting a financial settlement. It seems like having basic empathy/compassion for women is harder than usual for everyone - let's hope it will change once Chiron moves.

I feel like sisterhood is more important than ever then : support women, believe them when they tell you about anything abusive happening to them - even if you don't like them as a person, it doesn't matter. We need to do better than that.

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 2A, MATCH 6 OUT OF 8!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Queen Cinderella Charming:

She's kind, she's funny, she learns to use a sword, and she's related to Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Red Riding Hood. She helps the protagonists any chance she gets and even hosts their mother and step-father's wedding. She never gives up and  never lets her fear stop her. Absolute queen (literally) <3

While she isn't hugely relevant in the story itself, she is always down to help out the protagonists where she can. When they need one of her slippers, she sneaks it into their bag without them noticing. She calls them family. She loves her daughter too, and is a badass mom.

When the main characters need her glass slipper for a spell, she snuggled it into their bag, and she has a daughter named Hope <3

I think she’s a minor character in the first book, but she’d really nice and stuff!

Because I LOVE HER!! also she has a daughter called Hope who got kidnapped by rumplestiltskin at one point but that is besides the point. She is a strong independent woman and we love those she was NOT about to sit around doing nothing and i love her for that

Vote Land of Stories Cinderella because she's the best!!!

Elegance "Ella" Coach:

Ella fights for labor reform! I just reread the book intentionally so I could make propaganda for her but now my head is empty only LOVE FOR ELLA. She has two (gay) fairy godfathers, she worked in a sweatshop where her mother died, she has a well-developed with her prince, Dash Charming. The glass slippers are a very important motif even though she doesn’t actually get a pair herself because she was a secret fairy godparent case because the fairy godparent organization had become corrupt and wasn’t helping needy children, only the rich. It’s a sequel to Grounded which is a Rapunzel story, but Disenchanted stands alone in the same world and it’s my most favorite of the two!! She’s so kind and helps institute kingdom wide labor reform and ahhhhhhhh

Former child laborer who wants to use her family's newfound privilege to fight for workers' rights. Brave, smart, and compassionate, although she can also be reckless, because she's just a kid and she deserves BETTER. Actually has a good relationship to her step-family, who are badass and Black like her, and there's this really touching moment at the end that recontextualizes things a lot and it's very sweet and cool worldbuilding. Her fairy godmother is two gay contractors who overthrow their boss for being complicit in a corporate espionage/coup scheme. She has a nice and believable relationship with her prince, who is a fucking dork that learns to be less of a privileged idiot and would absolutely put his ass on the line for her in return. She's just so GOOD and Disenchanted is UNDERRATED, everyone go read it.

Her goal is to improve workers rights, directly inspired by the 19th century textile industry, right down to child labor and workers getting locked in factories. Her mother died working in a sweatshop. She struggles with her working class upbringing and her new upper class status after her father's invention made them rich. Not afraid of breaking the law. She's so cool and her book is so good.

[105nt]

There is a huge appeal ... to black and white thinking. It's the easiest place to be and in many ways it's the safest place to be. If you take an all or nothing position on anything, you will definitely find comrades, you will easily find a community ...

I feel very strongly we should mistrust ourselves most when we are certain, and we should question ourselves most when we receive a rush of adrenaline by doing or saying something. Many people mistake that rush of adrenaline for the voice of conscience ... in my world view, conscience speaks in a small and inconvenient voice and it's normally saying ... "Think again."

JK Rowling to Megan Phelps-Roper, The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, Episode 2.

[alwaysanovice]

First Tyme fanart I've posted in a long time; my favorite faires!

[kanerallels]

Top 6 Reasons You Should Read the Tyme trilogy by Megan Morrison

Reread a fantasy series I love and appreciate, so now it's time for you guys to love and appreciate it too

It's a fairy tale retelling series. Which is always an endorsement in my mind, but here are some more reasons that's great in this series. The takes on the fairy tales are so cool and refreshing, and well executed-- Cinderella fighting for the working class, the Frog Prince going through a redemption arc where he becomes a better person, and the absolutely shaped storyline that Rapunzel has. And most of them (particularly books one and three) combine multiple fairy tales in such a smooth, natural way.

The world building is INCREDIBLE. The tiny details and the way the different countries are introduced are so cool!! And they really go into smaller details, like the main exports that keep the country going, or the traditions of each country when it comes to dealing with loss. The magic systems are SO COOL, too!!

The characters are all really well done-- they're beautifully developed, both as characters and their relationships with each other. Syrah (main character of book three) has one of the best redemption styles arcs I've ever seen where he goes from unlikeable jerk to a caring, kind individual. Even the villains have well thought out motivations and in depth backstories

The romances in each of the three books are PERFECT because you have a slow burn, a couple that get together in the same book but help each other grow in powerful ways, and a book where the main character doesn't get the girl. The trope breaking! The following of the tropes but in just the perfect way! The level to which I am obsessed with Jack and Rapunzel! It's INSANE

All of the books and their stories are deeply intwined. There are cameos and small details in each book that lead you back to the other three, details that pop out and blow your mind at a reread or even the first time around!

It's really funny and charming and delightful writing. And There are these fascinating implications of other stuff going on in the world you're reading about-- stuff that we'll probably never find out about, since the last book was released in 2019 and there's no sign of another, which is really sad

Anyways, this is a super good series, you won't regret it if you read it! Oh my stars and I didn't even mention SERGE MY BELOVED FAVORITE CHARACTER FOR SURE THE FAIRY GODFATHER LEGEND HIMSELF listen just. read this series. Good talk

[ladyelainehilfur]

[b0om-butterfly3ffect]

Little Hope

Menacing Megan

Into the fire

Depressing Andrew

The Curator

Observing

We survived

All alone Anthony

What a night

Despite the backlash on the ending of Little Hope, I rather liked it. I wish the best for Anthony (:

[meganlynnhostetler]

I played (and lost) Squid Game yesterday.

📸 Instagram: @meganlynnhostetler

📍 Los Angeles, California

[ausetkmt]

Tory Lanez's motion for a new trial in the Megan Thee Stallion shooting case has been denied.

On Tuesday (May 9), Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David J. Herriford made a final decision in the Tory Lanez prison time saga. Judge Herriford decided Tory Lanez does not have the right to a new trial and the Court will be moving forward with the sentencing process, according to Los Angeles Times journalist James Queally.

Queally shared this afternoon via Twitter, "Tory Lanez motion for a new trial has been denied. We don’t have a sentencing date yet. Attorney Jose Baez and the Lanez team did file a motion disqualify Judge Herriford — I don’t know on what grounds we don’t have copies yet — but Herriford still issued his ruling. That matter will likely be heard outside the county at some point (and that’s also a very high bar.) There will be more in the afternoon: defense wanted to ask Herriford to confirm he’s denying their due process claims (not relevant at present) and a sentencing date could be set."

On Dec. 23, 2022, Tory Lanez was found guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion on July 12, 2020 and convicted of one felony count of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm in a grossly negligent manner to cause bodily injury. He was initially slated to be sentenced on Jan. 27. However, he was able to get the date pushed back after acquiring a new legal team in an attempt to secure an appeal.

On March 29, Tory officially filed for an appeal of the verdict in court, citing an unfair trial and arguing some evidence should not have been admitted. On April 6, the prosecution in the case submitted a 16-page document countering Tory's attorneys' claims.

"The evidence presented at trial was properly admitted, and the defendant's claims of errors and violations of his constitutional rights are without merit," the statement read in part. "The verdict reached by the jury was based on credible evidence and was supported by the law."

In an update on April 25, the lawyer handling Tory Lanez's appeal, Jose Baez, announced that in the then-coming days, Tory and his team would bring forth new information regarding the DNA evidence that was used against the "Broke In A Minute" artist in the trial. Baez claims the original DNA information presented was "false and misleading" to the members of the jury.

From there, an incarcerated Tory Lanez hit up Instagram with an audio message calling out his prosecutors and accusing them of "manipulating" the original DNA results in the case.

"I’ve been incarcerated for almost half a year over a gun that the D.A.s lied and said I shot," Tory began in the jail recording on April 25. "In 2021, they demanded I take a DNA test. I took that test without no pushback, delay or question. Not only because I knew I never shot the gun. But mainly because I was 100 percent positive that I never even touched this gun. In my trial the verdict of innocent or guilty depended heavily on my DNA results."

He continued: "With the help of L.A. Crime Labs DNA expert Randy Zepeda, D.A. Kathy Ta, and Alex Bott completely manipulated my DNA results, and lied to the world, the media, and most importantly my jury, by stating that my DNA on the gun was inconclusive. That was an absolute lie."

Tory Lanez faces up to 22 years in prison when he is sentenced.

XXL has reached out to Tory Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion's attorneys, and the L.A. County District Attorneys Office for comment.

[misespinas]

There's a female mutual of mine on insta that posts Chris Brown constantly and defends Tory Lanez. People have been so focused on Amber Heard and Johnny Depp and it's consequences as if this hasn't been embedded in our society going back decades and still going on today.

People treat Amber Heard and Johnny Depp as the trial of our lifetime, as if the abuse of black women has not been occurring. It makes headlines, but what has happened since? People still support and defend Chris Brown despite assaulting Rihanna, people are still calling Megan Thee Stallion a liar because Tory Lanez is going to jail. I don't think it's a coincidence that the victims not focused on as deeply as Amber Heard are black women.

But I can't post this without saying I'm disappointed in Rihanna for including Johnny Depp in her Savage x Fenty show, but I don't know who actually came up with and approved of that idea (LVMH could have had an influence on it).

[papirouge]

I've already said several times how intersectionality was a scam and how ultimately Whitefem don't really like that about other demographics, but ngl.... I'm pretty impressed by how defensive & supportive they are with their faves.

Whitfem will NEVER shut up about Taylor Swift or Amber Heard. They will support them until their last breath and tbh big props to them for defending their own.

I wish Black women had the same fellowship. I am sick of seeing them pull out petition to release criminals out of jail (Tory Lanez) or shitting on other Black women to appeal to male (dunking in darkskin women or nappy hair again: it's a black woman who made a petition to "comb" Blue Ivy's hair when she was still a toddler.....)

Of course you'll never see "interesectional" White feminist care or speak up about those issues bc their intersectionality is a facade and they only care abt White women's struggle, but I wish they could at least be consistent and stop harassing ANY women not supportive enough of their White queens. No Ashley, I'm not going to keep tabs on whoever liked Johnny Deep post and be pissed at anyone who clowned Amber Heard....like you don't care abt men making racist or colorist comments about Black women..🙄 Cope and leave us alone. Your guilt trip will never work on us.

[fairytale-poll]

LOSER'S BRACKET, ROUND 1A! MATCH 8 OUT OF 8!

Loser's Bracket Propaganda Under the Cut:

Elegance "Ella" Herringbone Coach:

She’s a union gal.

As a reminder: she's a former child laborer who wants to use her family's newfound privilege to fight for workers' rights. She's brave, smart, and compassionate, although she can also be reckless, because she's just a kid trying to do her best and she deserves BETTER. She actually develops a good relationship with her step-family, who are badass and Black like her, and there's this really touching moment at the end that recontextualizes things a lot and it's very sweet and cool worldbuilding. Her fairy godmother is two gay contractors who overthrow their boss for being complicit in a corporate espionage/coup scheme. She has a nice and believable relationship with her prince, who is a fucking dork that learns to be less of a privileged idiot and would put his ass on the line for her in return. She's just so GOOD and Disenchanted is UNDERRATED, everyone go and read it.

Hoshizora Miyuki / "Cure Happy":

Because I love her and I think we need magical girl representation