#andrea skinner

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[warningsine]

The youngest daughter of acclaimed Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro has said that her step-father sexually assaulted her as a child, and that her mother stayed with him even after learning of the abuse.

In an essay published in the Toronto Star on Sunday, Andrea Robin Skinner described how her step-father began assaulting her in the summer of 1976 when she was nine years old and he was in his 50s.

One evening, when Munro was away, he "climbed into the bed where I was sleeping and sexually assaulted me", Ms Skinner said.

Munro, who learned of the abuse years later, remained with him until his death in 2013.

The author, who died in May at the age of 92, is one of the most celebrated short-story writers in Canadian history.

Her collections often focused on life in small-town Ontario where she was raised, earning praise for their nuanced portrayals of women and girls.

In the weekend essay, Ms Skinner and her siblings said they believed this dark family story must also be part of Munro's legacy.

"I never wanted to see another interview, biography or event that didn’t wrestle with the reality of what had happened to me, and with the fact that my mother, confronted with the truth of what had happened, chose to stay with, and protect, my abuser," she said.

In her piece, Ms Skinner said she was first assaulted during a summer visit to her mother and step-father, Gerald Fremlin, in their home in Clinton, Ontario.

She later told her step-mother, who then told her father, Jim Munro, who decided not to confront Alice Munro at the time.

Ms Skinner returned to her mother's home the next year.

The step-mother, Carole Sabiston, is quoted by The Star in a separate news story as saying: "I told her she didn't have to go. But she wanted to spend time with her mother."

Ms Sabiston confirmed the events as described by Ms Skinner to the BBC.

Ms Skinner was initially relieved her father kept the family secret, she said, because of fears over how her mother would react.

"She had told me that Fremlin liked me better than her, and I thought she would blame me if she ever found out," she wrote.

Over the next several years, during visits, the abuse continued.

Fremlin exposed himself to her during car rides, propositioned her for sex, and “told me about the little girls in the neighbourhood he liked".

He lost interest when she became a teenager, Ms Skinner told The Star.

She said kept quiet about the abuse but in early adulthood found herself struggling at university and with her physical and mental health.

A few years later, in 1992, she revealed the abuse in a letter to her mother. She says Munro reacted as she had feared - "as if she had learned of an infidelity".

Fremlin, meanwhile, wrote his own letters at the time to the family - excerpts of which were published by The Star - in which he admitted the abuse but blamed Ms Skinner.

"Andrea invaded my bedroom for sexual adventure," Fremlin wrote.

“If the worst comes to worst I intend to go public. I will make available for publication a number of photographs, notably some taken at my cabin near Ottawa which are extremely eloquent … one of Andrea in my underwear shorts," he said.

Amid the fallout, Alice Munro left Fremlin, staying at a flat she owned in British Columbia. But she returned to her husband after a few months and stayed with him for the rest of his life.

She said "that our misogynistic culture was to blame if I expected her to deny her own needs, sacrifice for her children, and make up for the failings of men", Ms Skinner wrote.

In 2005, Ms Skinner reported the abuse to Ontario police, presenting the letters written by Fremlin.

Police charged him with indecent assault. He pleaded guilty, but "the silence continued", Ms Skinner wrote, because of Munro's fame.

In a statement, Munro Books, founded by Alice and Jim Munro and now independently owned, said that it "unequivocally supports" Ms Skinner's decision to tell her story publicly.

In a separate statement released by the Canadian bookstore, the Munro siblings said that the store's decision to acknowledge "Andrea’s truth, and being very clear about their wish to end the legacy of silence, the current store owners have become part of our family’s healing".

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To my non-superbike people of motogpblr, I hope this showcases the significance of the TDOL photo

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[broadwaydivastournament]

Broadway Divas Tournament Bracket: Round 1B

Round 1B will commence tonight, March 9th at 6:00 p.m. EST. Send me your propaganda for any of the Divas on our list, but especially those about to make their entrance.

Round 1B: Lea Salonga vs. Christine Baranski Emily Skinner vs. Judy Kuhn Susan Blackwell vs. Harriet Harris Carmen Cusack vs. Vanessa Williams Beth Leavel vs. Donna Murphy Andrea Burns vs. Mary Beth Peil Judith Light vs. Tonya Pinkins Karen Ziemba vs. Marin Mazzie

Rules and Guidelines

Round 1A Winners

[vague-humanoid]

The daughter of renowned Canadian author Alice Munro has revealed that she suffered sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather and that her mother, a Nobel Prize winner, turned a blind eye to it.

In an op-ed published Sunday in the Toronto Star, Andrea Skinner wrote that Munro’s husband at the time, Gerald Fremlin, started abusing her in 1976 when she was 9 years old.

She wrote that she was visiting her mother that summer at her home in Clinton, Ontario, when, while Munro was away, Fremlin “climbed into the bed where I was sleeping and sexually assaulted me.”

Munro died earlier this summer at the age of 92. The author was best known for her short stories, often placing her characters in rural Ontario — where Munro grew up. She was called the "master of the contemporary short story" by the Swedish Academy that awarded her the Nobel in 2013.

[xiaq]

Okay so... I am once again rereading your books and I love them all so much and I need to draw them and I need your help - this will be a long ass question and if you decide to reply you'll have my eternal gratitude and I ... yeah please help me out.

What I would need are descriptions/how you see them/fancasts for:

1) Jeff & Jo

2) Kuzy

3) Olly & Kaner

4) Cody (he's optional lol, I have an idea here) & James

That's it for now lol, ofc if you have fancasts for Matts, Syd, Alex, Eli, Damien and Rome feel free to include these as well, but with them i have all the descriptions highlighted and the book covers to help me out so these are really me asking for more than I should 🙈

Given the essay like question - please dont hate me and help me out, I promise to draw them as nice as I can 🩵

Answering publicly to include a couple asks in one:

Ok! So for Jeff think Jeff Skinner. Maybe a little less baby-faced. Jo is like a young Blake Lively. Kuzy is like a young Evgeni Malkin.

Kaner is, ok, I picture her as the main character Andy/Andrea from the Disney Channel original movie Motocrossed and Olly as Andy’s love interest from that movie, Dean, but with darker brown hair and a tanner complexion. Yes, I realize that’s weirdly specific. It was also my hyperfixation movie from early middle school until well into high school, so. There you go. This is them:

Cody I picture as Colton Haynes and James is…honestly I’m not sure. He’s just “big serious Russian goalie” in my head. Maybe like Andrew Vasilevskiy.

As always, though. I fully prescribe to death of the author so go crazy with it and feel free to disregard all of the above.

[coochiequeens]

It's never too late to expose the damage created by abusers and those who did nothing to stop abuse.

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan review – a lacerating exposé

The journalist’s sickening account of how generations of Kennedys casually abused the women around them with impunity is a timely reminder of the dangers posed by damaged men who crave power

Peter Conrad Mon 8 Jul 2024

“Ask not,” said President Kennedy as he rallied young Americans to volunteer for national service in his inaugural address, “what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” Kennedy had a stricter rule for the women in his life, as journalist Maureen Callahan reveals in her lacerating exposé: asking nothing in return, they were expected to do what their commander-in-chief required, which meant supplying him with sex whenever and wherever he fancied.

As a senator, JFK tried out his priapic power by impregnating a 15-year-old babysitter and positioning an aide beneath his desk to fellate him while he multitasked in his office. As president, he ushered White House secretaries upstairs after work for brief, brusque sessions of copulation and rewarded them with a post-coital snack of cheese puffs; at one lunchtime frolic in the basement swimming pool he instructed a young woman to orally relieve the tensions of a male crony and looked on in approval as she obeyed. His wife, Jackie, whom he infected with a smattering of venereal ailments, lamented that his assassination deprived her of the chance to vent her rage at him. Nevertheless, she embraced his naked body before it was placed in a casket at the Dallas hospital, bestowing a final, perhaps frosty kiss on his penis.

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By Sian Cainun 7 Jul 2024 23.38 EDTShare

The daughter of Nobel prize winner Alice Munro, Andrea Robin Skinner, has alleged that her stepfather sexually abused her as a child, and that her mother stayed with him even after he admitted to the abuse.

Skinner revealed the allegations in an essay and a news article in Canada’s Toronto Star on the weekend, writing about how her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, began sexually assaulting her in 1976 when she was nine years old and he was in his 50s.

She alleged that Fremlin got into a bed where she was sleeping at her mother’s home in Clinton, Ontario, and sexually assaulted her. Skinner told her father, James Munro, whom she says did not tell Munro.

Over the following years, Skinner says Fremlin propositioned her, exposed himself to her, and “told me about the little girls in the neighbourhood he liked”. Skinner said he stopped assaulting her when she became a teenager, but she developed bulimia, insomnia and migraines, which she attributed to the abuse.

In 2005, Skinner went to the police. Fremlin, then 80, was charged with indecent assault against Skinner and pleaded guilty. He received a suspended sentence and two years’ probation. Munro stayed with Fremlin until he died in 2013.

Munro, who was regarded as one of the greatest short-story writers of all time and won the Nobel prize for literature in 2013, died last month at the age of 92.

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I'd like to know more about 2, 4, 6 and 8 please if you don't mind. For the WIP asks game. Thank you!!

Hi!! 💝 I don't mind at all - 🥰🥰

2. Little TK fic - This is my regression fic - where TK is a classified Little but after moving to Austin tries hard to stomp down this side of him; but he is who he is! This is from an upcoming chapter where Owen drops TK off at Mateo's for a playdate....

"TK! TK!" Mateo exclaimed at the top of his lungs, bursting in when he saw his friend and his dad in the kitchen. "I got a new bed!"

"We can jump on it!" TK cheered, his eyes bright. Owen was never more grateful he had dressed TK in overalls that morning when he made a quick grab for the back.

"Daddy". TK whined, trying and failing to run away. "Let go! Wanna play!"

"And you will," Owen said, scooping his squirming son up in his arms. "But we have to talk first".

4. He'll Talk when He's Ready - This came from thinking a lot about Carlos and TK as babies and how different they would have been. Carlos is more shy naturally and the baby of the family and I saw him walking late, and TK is the only child of talkers; that boy came out practically ready to run I feel!

“Put both hands on the cup, Carlitos,” Andrea said as she balanced Carlos in her lap. “That’s it, amor. Such a big boy”. She kissed the top of his head. Carlos always felt better when she did that. “Andrea, is he talking at all yet?” her sister, Veronica asked. “No, not yet,” Andrea shook her head. “But that’s okay. He’ll talk when he’s ready. He’s a good listener”. Carlos hugged his cup while he listened to his mama talk. He didn’t know what she was saying; she and her sister and her mama switched between Spanish and English. Carlos knew he was supposed to know both, but that was scary. Talking in one language seemed scary.

6. Hazing fic- aka why am I so mean to our sweet TK fic -

If TK hadn't been a probie at his dad's firehouse in New York, and was in one where they know he's a legacy and they gleefully, sadistically practice hazing (I have this headcanon that Owen doesn't allow the probies in his house to be hazed and enforces it) but before TK goes there he doesn't have a good probie experience (also I wanted to make this its own fic because for my in depth look at TK's growing up years, he will go right from academy to his dad's house due to stuff that happens when he's in academy)

“Looks like the probies are chatting up a storm today,” Upson observed. “But how do we know they’re getting work done if they’re just talking?” “I wondered that too, my friend,” Skinner said, clapping him on the shoulder. “After all, we need this floor clean. They’re not going to get anywhere if they keep gabbing like they’re in a hair salon”. “We did clean the floor,” Adam said, pointing. “It’s good”. TK winced; he knew Adam wasn’t getting the special attention that TK was, but he felt that was a rule of being a probie; don't ever tell your superior the job is done. TK wasn’t even surprised when Skinner reached out, filled a mug with coffee, and then turned the mug upside down and dumped the coffee on the floor. TK moved back a little so it didn’t splash him in the face. “Probie Schwartz,” Skinner said, “there appears to be coffee all over this floor. Does this floor look clean?” Adam mutely shook his head. “I’m looking for an answer,” Skinner said, louder. “Probie Schwartz. Does this floor look clean to you?” “No, sir!” Adam practically shouted empathetically. “Well, me neither”. Skinner said. “Get to work. But we’re going to help you two be less… distracted”. He looked at Upson. “Care to lend Schwartz here your socks?”

8. Tarlos kitty fic -

Seeing how inconsolable TK is after Lou II passes away (he makes it to 14 though - which is good for a beardie!!) and Carlos sees a story on the news of a hoarder's nest in town where the owner of the home passed away and the city was trying to find homes for her 27 cats, Carlos takes TK down to see if he wants a new friend. TK takes to one, but Carlos soon learns... cats select their favorite people themselves!

"She's so cute," TK said, getting down on the floor to pet the black cat. "What's her name?"

"Cinnamon Toast Crunch," Jacob, Mrs. Hofstadter's nephew, replied.

"For real?" Carlos asked, his eyebrows crinkled in confusion. "Wouldn't that be a better name for a cat... who doesn't have black fur?"

"Maybe". Jacob yawned. "My aunt has the whole General Mills line up. There's Apple Jacks, Chex, Cookie Crisp, Frosted Flakes... most of them go by nicknames".

TK looked up. He was giving this cereal-named cat scritches under her furry little chinny-chin-chin. "Can we call her Toast? Would she respond to that?"

"As much as she responds to anyone addressing her," Jacob said with a shrug. "Cats aren't like dogs. They really only respond if they feel like it".

Carlos had seen those heart eyes before. And, this was his idea.

And that cat was bigger than an alligator lizard.

"So," he said, kneeling down next to his husband, "have you made your pick, sir?"

TK smiled; one of the few genuine smiles Carlos had seen on his husband in the ten weeks since Lou passed. Carlos had really missed it.

Thank you for the asks!! 🫶

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Jonathan Groff, Ruthie Ann Miles, Brian Stokes Mitchell, More Join Stars in the House Election Day Vote-a-Thon

Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley Jackson will host the six-hour event supporting the Entertainment Community Fund.

Stars in the House, the award-winning streaming variety show co-hosted by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley Jackson, will return for its second Election Day Vote-a-Thon November 5 beginning at noon ET.

Joining hosts Rudetsky and Jackson for the six-hour event—supporting the Entertainment Community Fund—will be the newly announced Matthew Broderick, Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka, Rachel Bloom, Jonathan Groff, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ruthie Ann Miles, Josh Groban, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Adrianna Hicks, Skylar Astin, Robin de Jesús, Bellamy Young, Linda Lavin, Donna Murphy, Victoria Clark, Jackie Hoffman, Iain Armitage, Jelani Remy, Julie Benko, Christine Pedi, Pearl Sun, Ta’Nika Gibson, and Luis Salgado's R.Evolución Latina.

These artists join the previously reported Lin-Manuel Miranda, Martin Short, Rosie Perez, Wayne Brady, Jessie Mueller, Shoshana Bean, Judy Kuhn, J. Harrison Ghee, Anika Larsen, Emily Skinner, Andrea Martin, Will Swenson, Brad Oscar, Javier Muñoz, Peri Gilpin, Merle Dandridge, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Rachel Bay Jones, Nina West, Lauren Patten, Kevin Chamberlin, Ali Ewoldt, Sam Gravitte, stars from the original Broadway cast of Hairspray (Marissa Jaret Winokur, Laura Bell Bundy, Kerry Butler, and composer/co-lyricist Marc Shaiman), members of the cast of Glee (Amber Riley, Kevin McHale, Jenna Ushkowitz, Heather Morris, and more), improv group Broadway’s Next Hit Musical, and Chicago stars Charlotte d’Amboise and Brenda Braxton.

The guests will discuss their voting experiences and deliver musical performances.

Stars in the House airs on its YouTube channel and StarsintheHouse.com.

[droughtofapathy]

The DroughtofApathy Theatre Awards Nominations:

Best Ensemble Stereophonic Jaja's African Hair Braiding Merrily We Roll Along Illinoise

Best New Song "Evanesce," Days of Wine and Roses (Adam Guettel) "Masquerade," Stereophonic (Will Butler) "East of Eden," Stereophonic (Will Butler)

Bad Accent Eddie Redmayne's Muppet Voice Whatever the fuck Jeremy Jordan was doing Colton Ryan's Muppet Voice from last season, I'm still not over it

Diva Performance of the Year Jennifer Simard, Once Upon a One More Time Jessica Lange, Mother Play Emily Skinner, Suffs

Most Incredible Scene Transition The I Need That home cleanup transition Opening up Jaja's African Hair Braiding shop Mary Jane's apartment set lifting up to reveal the hospital set Doubt revolving set Appropriate house falling into shambles with a tree and everything De-renovating the Broadway Theatre after Here Lies Love flopped

Most Beautiful Woman On Stage Bebe Neuwirth, Cabaret Kelli O'Hara, Days of Wine and Roses (bonus points for The Hours) Jessica Lange, Mother Play Anika Noni Rose, Uncle Vanya

Moment So Horrifyingly Bad I Physically Recoiled Eddie Redmayne as the Emcee singing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" BEFORE the party Everything Gayle Rankin did on that stage "My name is Ponyboy//I'm the youngest of the three," lyric from The Outsiders The Hell's Kitchen book being allowed on Broadway at all

Most Hated Sound Designer Gareth Owen, The Who's Tommy Jon Weston, The Wiz Gareth Owen, Hell's Kitchen (hey, a doubly-bad showing) Brian Ronan, The Great Gatsby, but specifically those gunshots

Floppiest Flop Show How to Dance in Ohio Lempicka Here Lies Love Grey House Once Upon a One More Time

Weirdest Marketing/Publicity/Social/Design Decision How to Dance in Ohio only emphasizing "AUTISM REP" over everything that might have drawn in any kind of crowd at all.

The Lempicka social media team just straight-up lying with their pull-quotes and then doubling down and getting snide.

Broadway producer Greg Nobile's twitter discourse.

The Cabaret social media brand refusing to acknowledge Bebe Neuwirth exists and is the only thing holding that show together.

Who did the Days of Wine and Roses cast album design and like...why?

Can You Spell Miscast? Eddie Redmayne, Cabaret Gayle Rankin, Cabaret Eden Espinosa, Lempicka Basically all of The Wiz Doubly so for The Great Gatsby

Star-in-the-Making Sarah Pidgeon, Stereophonic The Grey House kids Hannah Cruz, Suffs Amber Iman, Lempicka Anna Zavelson, Encores! The Light in the Piazza (not Broadway, but I said what I said)

Criminally Underutilized Older Character Actress Jayne Houdyshell, Uncle Vanya Emily Skinner, Suffs Andrea Burns, The Notebook Beth Leavel, Lempicka Mia Katigbak, Uncle Vanya Bebe Neuwirth, Cabaret

Worst Audience Behavior The couple who stayed on their phones the whole time at The Wiz.

The guy who started screaming and fighting at the top of act two at Hell's Kitchen.

The drunk women at Melissa Etheridge who were singing and flailing the whole show.

Shrieking girls at Bad Gatsby whenever the leading man did anything.

Family in front of me at Heart of Rock and Roll.

Guy behind me at Cabaret crunching wine chips through all of act two.

Iconic Merch Item Rosie the Elephant, Water for Elephants: she's so soft and well-made and perfect and I love her and need her. Great American Bitch clothing, Suffs Mother Hat, Mother Play Tissue box, The Notebook

Moment that Had Me in Tears When *spoiler* off-stage, Jaja is taken in by ICE and her daughter can't find her and may face deportation herself.

Merrily We Roll Along overture.

Mary Jane breakdown over the music therapist.

All of Maryann Plunkett's masterful performance in The Notebook.

Me going home to sob over how they butchered Cabaret.

Kimberly Akimbo final performance, it might've opened last season, but fight me

Reading an article on the opening of the Bad Gatsby where a car hit a pedestrian right next to where all the celebrities were getting their photos taken and no one noticed. (tears of laughter-pedestrian was not hurt badly)

Single Best Costume Emily Skinner's Dorothy Louden coat Jennifer Simard, titties up and out as the Stepmother Sara Gettlefinger's fun jumpsuit and headscarf combo Anika Noni Rose entrance blue gown with the plunging neckline and deep v back Bebe Neuwirth's little pink nightie and phenomenal shawl Kate Baldwin's off-the-shoulder outfits in the regional production of A Little Night Music

Best Playbill Design Stereophonic - 10/10 no notes Suffs - Like the art style Illinoise - I really like the colors and art style Here Lies Love - I like the colors

Worst Playbill Design Cabaret - you should be ashamed of yourself. Not even the title Doubt - I know there was a last-minute replacement, but c'mon Lempicka - whoever did this should be taken out back and shot Spamalot - it's just the same damn design as the original, but brighter and worse

Tony Snub Laurie Metcalf, Grey House Jennifer Simard, Once Upon a One More Time Chip Zien, Harmony Days of Wine and Roses, Best Musical Grey House, Best Scenic Design of a Play

Cars on Broadway The Bad Gatsby cars that actually drive The Lempicka silver car that isn't green and doesn't drive The Illinoise concept car made out of props and actor's bodies The Back to the Future car that files and spins and shit

[with-six-pines]

grhrhg. guards. guards. GUARDS.

the things i think of that man. DESPICABLE

truthfully, rivaan isn't a horny guy. bro too sad and busy for allat, PLUS i ain't got nobody to pair him w/, HOWEVER there has been an idea cooking in my noodle.........

i had this idea that rivaan gets jumpscared by the SEX FLOWER GRAHHH boom get inflicted with sex pollen idiot!!!!! like his horse bucks him off into a bed of them or smthn 😭😭😭 POMF you're horny now😼

"FUCK. my boner.......................i gotta do smthn abt this"

so he drops everything to return to camp, and nobody is gonna fuck w/ him when he comes home visibly antsy because that's just asking for death 💀 and rivaan takes advantage of that fact, spending most of the day in his hut jorking it (to no avail because sex pollen doesn't work that way)

he gives up eventually, "okay this isn't working I'LL WAIT IT OUT it can't last forever", but man is it miserableeeee he cannot sit still, in his attempts to sleep it off he can't stop softly humping his pillows, he's far too hot and NOTICEABLY FUCKED UP to go outside, his body acheess from how tense he's been— bro is not thriving 🙏🙏

eventually one of his goons (gooning foreshadowing) comes in to check on him (it's andrea) and she's like "boy where have you been..." cuz it's the evening and rivaan arrived in the morning 💀 he hasn't been seen outside his hut, she's gonna have some concerns!!!

and bro is DOWNBAD falling to her feet grabbing her loincloth like "PLEASEEE MISS YOU GOTTA HELP MEEEE ive had a boner for like 4 hours straight i fear i will actually combust if i do not get fucked. i don't care how you have me just TAKE MEE"

"😥" < (has never seen him this desperate before)

and let me remind you IN SKINNER CULTURE sex is HEAVILY DISCOURAGED, it's not that their gods don't approve of it or anything, it's just skinners believe if two people fuck they could become a "marriage" (aka a mutant)— so this comes outta NOWHERE 😭 but hey. andrea isn't gonna pass up on a good time, it's hard NOT to let your resolve crumble when your leader is on his knees for someone as lowly as a servant

he tugs down the hem of his pants and spreads himself for andrea, panting, begging, "please, see how desperately i need you, ma'am?" he mewls (as if there was any room for doubt). there's an air of urgency to his actions, a fierce yearning that knows it'll soon be quenched,, the mighty rivaan—a great conqueror, a barbarian, a godking—writhing in pleasure, IT GOES STRAIGHT TO HER HEAD okay she wastes no time stripping herself

the heat of their bodies mixed with the intoxicating scent of sex pollen is irresistible, desire taking hold, one hand finding rivaan's hip while the other tangles in his coily hair. he's hotter than fire, and when his pants are finally clawed up, his inner thighs are coatedd with his excitement (and droplets of blood thanks to andrea's claws)

her tongue flickers over the tiny cuts, traveling further up, until rivaan is given that much needed relief ❤️ eating him out until he is WEEPINGG and his legs have given out on him,, it's an illicit act, but there is no shame here, only primal lust

absolutely FILTHY what's goin on in ther okay the craziest bloodiest sex you will ever overhear

even after cumming multiple times from her tongue alone, the heat has yet to subside, in fact, it's fiercer than ever— and he knows what it demands

rivaan asks for andrea to lay on her back, straddles her, and sinks down on her cock. it's so, so, so incredibly warm, much moreso than andrea expected, and she digs her vicious claws into his hips to steady herself—drawing blood GGHRGRHRHG

"you feel so tight around me..." her voice drops to a husky whisper. "and these hips... are made for being ridden like this..."

"such filth, shieldmaiden...! if i weren't so pent, it'd be off with your head,"

"you wouldn't dare, you need me far too much, my lord, you need me more than your crown..."

and it's TRUEEEEE, even far after this, he'll be dreaming about her cock while he's sat at his throne writing out decrees, all he can think about is being fucked by her again, as blasphemous as it is

[broadwaydivastournament]

Will She Get a Tony Nomination?

Tony nominations are out tomorrow morning, and how am I coping, you ask? Like Madeline Kahn's (Not) Getting Married Today.

This season, eleven of our beloved Divas have opened a show on Broadway. In a remarkably overcrowded season for musicals, the competition is stiffer than ever, especially for our women of a certain age. Statistically, women over fifty (or even forty-five) are less likely to be nominated and/or win a Tony. I have done the math, I’ve crunched the numbers, I have a stupidly detailed spreadsheet, and the mean age for both nominations and wins of Leading Actress in a Musical is under 40. This is largely because the parts for older women just aren’t there in the same quantity as younger women. Since the Tonys began in 1947, only twelve women ov 50 have won for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. And two of them were Chita Rivera, so like… eleven, technically.*

*I have thoughts on why Bette Midler (oldest winner) should not have won but that’s a separate post…

That being said, let’s talk Tony likelihood. But wait, you say, what makes me (@droughtofapathy) remotely qualified to predict anything? Well, nothing. I’m just some stranger on Tumblr who doesn’t do theatre professionally. However. As of today, I have seen 209 Broadway shows, and by the time the Tonys roll around in June, I will have seen every new show eligible.

Also. I read the Tony Award Rules & Regulations handbook (all 26 pages) because why not?

Unlikely:

Andrea Burns (Featured Actress in a Musical: The Notebook)

Andréa Burns has never been nominated for a Tony before, and is unlikely to do so in a fiendishly overcrowded musical season this year. I love her dearly, and she always steals the show, but she would be entering as Featured Actress in a Musical, and it is rough out there, let me tell you. There’s probably over fifty featured roles for women, if not more (though most would not be serious contenders), and only maybe fifteen even considerable. Andréa Burns alas, falls short. She does basically nothing.

Emily Skinner (Featured Actress in a Musical: Suffs)

Oh, I love me a broad, but Emily Skinner is kind of your definition of a working actress who’s generally pretty well-employed, but not your top-line star, or even your go-to featured. I adore her, she’s wildly talented. And she plays bit parts on Broadway. Her roles in Suffs, an ensemble show at its core, are small and offer just a few opportunities to ham it up, but are not going to nab her a nomination. She’ll be one of almost twenty women on stage, with at least half a dozen meatier parts. Still. I am deeply obsessed with her whole performance and I need her carnally.

Jennifer Simard (Featured Actress in a Musical: Once Upon a One More Time)

Darlings, if you asked me this in the fall, I’d say she had a great shot. Was the show good? Nope. But was it fun? Yeah, it was pretty entertaining. Was Jennifer Simard the singular best thing about it? Oh, fuck yeah. She had audiences screaming and crying with laughter as Cinderella’s Stepmother (one of three Stepmothers in three separate shows on Broadway in 2023, and probably the one with the best part). Her “Toxic” is on youtube right now, and you need to see it. The vocals will blow you out of your seat. But it’s crowded, and that show did not last at all. Recency bias is against her. I don’t see it happening, but it’s the one in this category I would be most ecstatic about.

Long-Shot:

Uh, disclaimer, I will be seeing Uncle Vanya one day after nominations come out, so I'm just guessing here and don't quote me on any of this...

Lea Salonga (Featured Actress and Producer: Here Lies Love)

For the record, while I do think Lea Salonga realistically has less of a shot than Jennifer Simard for Featured Actress, I still put her here instead because she’s a beloved Broadway Diva who starred in a creatively innovative and novel show (that I hated it is, again, a separate post). I also don’t think the role itself is nearly large enough to garner a nomination, nor is it the sort of one-scene showstopping wonder that Katie Finneran was in Promises, Promises. So, unlikely, but hey, I’d love a win for Asians. She's also one of the show's many producers, which is more likely to net her a nomination. (Note: Lea Salonga getting a producer nomination for Here Lies Love is a likely for me, so move that down.)

Laurie Metcalf (Lead Actress in a Play: Grey House):

There are, I believe, eight leading actresses eligible for the Tonys, making this probably a four-person category, maybe five if they don’t hate women like they always do. And it is with great devastation that I report the four leading contenders are all white, blonde, screen actresses and I hate it. I hate everything about it. But I digress. Laurie Metcalf deserves to be nominated. Her performance was harrowing, unsettling, and so fucking weird. Grey House was an experimental horror play that didn’t open at the right time (mid-summer instead of Halloween? What the fuck?) and didn’t find its audience. But she had me in tears. If the world is good, and I doubt it, she'll get that fourth nomination. She's a Tony darling, so maybe?

Beth Leavel (Featured Actress in a Musical: Lempicka)

Almost no shot given the small part she has. The Baroness doesn't get much more than one heartwrenching 11 o'clock number at the end of the show, and little other chance to sing or shine. The book also doesn't lend her any opportunities to do much with the awkward and inelegant dialogue. But she's also a beloved industry favorite, so perhaps some miracle will happen? I doubt it. Especially given how the show's been received...

Jayne Houdyshell (Featured Actress in a Play: Uncle Vanya)

Jayne Houdyshell was a solid maybe/likely for me. Career vet with a great performance. I thought she'd get in. She got in for Music Man in 2022 and who the fuck saw that one coming? Yeah, she was good, but like…seriously? I mean, I know it was our first year back and all, but-- Actually, strike all that. I’m looking at the season list here and yeah, no, she deserved it. That tracks. I mean, I’d have put Luba Mason (heartbreaking) or Samantha Williams (a fucking delight) over her, but it makes sense. It was not a time in the world for downer stories. We needed levity and light and hilarity and that was Jayne Houdyshell. But apparently her part has been reduced in this production, so I'm amending my statement. Less likely than I thought. Sad times.

Anika Noni Rose (Featured Actress in a Play: Uncle Vanya)

Anika Noni Rose was our last hope of saving the Leading Actress category from the fucking white ladies with their A-list Hollywood names. But per the final eligibility ruling, she's featured. So there goes everything. Featured is just so damn stacked this year (and every year) that I don't know. But I swear, if I see the nominations for Leading Actress and it’s just a four-person box of white blonde Hollywood women, I will burn the American Theatre Wing to the ground.

Likely:

LaChanze (Producer: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Here Lies Love, The Outsiders)

What a career transition this has been for LaChanze. From being nominated for Best Leading Actress in a Play in 2022 to winning TWO Tony Awards for producing in 2023 (Kimberly Akimbo for Best Musical and Topdog/Underdog for Play Revival), she’s on cloud nine. And now she’s back again with three more contenders. I think/hope Jaja gets a Best Play nomination. Out of the ten new plays, four are hard nos, but the other six are strong. Jaja's was fantastic. I loved this play. Strong and smart and well-received. It’s a decent, but not guaranteed, candidate. As for Here Lies Love, well… maybe. It was an ambition and creatively novel endeavor. I personally hated it for political reasons, but maybe it gets a nod? It’s a bloodthirsty year, but this show is shaping up to be one of the best-reviewed of the season. The most likely candidate would have to be The Outsiders, which may also be a moderate contender for Best Musical overall. However, having seen it, I hate it.

If She Doesn’t, I’ll Eat My Sondheim Hatbox:

Something something parallels, doomed relationships, exquisite performances, chemistry...

Kelli O’Hara (Leading Actress in a Musical: Days of Wine and Roses)

I know I’ve been saying it’s a crowded year for musicals, but this one was already locked in from day one. It is unfathomable to me that Kelli O’Hara would not be nominated for an eighth time. She has been nominated for every single role she’s had on Broadway since 2005. She is the darling of Broadway, beloved by all, genuinely kind, unproblematic, hardworking. If you’re going to love a (living) white blonde lady, this is the one. Aside from that, she’s going to be nominated because her performance was exquisite. Heartbreaking, ugly, excruciating, gorgeous. Her voice in this show was as close to an aural sexual experience as you will ever get. Statistically, she probably won’t win. Leading Actress in a musical has not gone to a closed show since Angela Lansbury in 1975. But she’ll be recognized.

Bebe Neuwirth (Featured Actress in a Musical: Cabaret)

Bebe Neuwirth back on Broadway in a beloved classic role of a beloved classic show. It is a match made in paradise. Fraulein Schneider is a wonderful, understated, deeply moving role. It’s been nominated four times for every Broadway iteration there ever has been. Thrice in featured, and was even considered a leading role in the original 1967 Broadway production (hello, Lotte Lenya). If the streak breaks with Bebe, I’ll riot. The circumstances, crowded or not, are favorable. Bebe is a veteran stage actress. Voters and audiences think of her fondly. It’s a Kander and Ebb. She got the biggest rave reviews I've ever seen, even as the show itself got panned. Right now, I would say there are three sure-fire nominees, and she’s one of them. I want her to win. I need her to win. I need her to be one of only three nominations this goddamn production gets. (Her, Skybell, and maybe scenic design, even though I'm mad about that too.)

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characters im considering for the hunger games simulator, got any more?

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Tarot Books List - part one

1-2-3 Tarot: Answers in an Instant Donald Tyson 101 Tarot Spreads Sheilaa Hite 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card Mary K. Greer 22 Paths of Inperfection Matt Laws 360 Degrees of Wisdom Lynda Hill 365 Tarot Activities Deanna Anderson 78 Degrees of Wisdom Rachel Pollack 90 Days to Learning the Tarot Lorri Gifford A Guide To Mystic Faerie Tarot Barbara Moore A Guide to Tarot and Relationships Dolores Fitchie & Andrea K. Molina A Guide to the Nomadic Oracle Jon Mallek A Keeper of Words Anna-Marie Ferguson A Sephirothic Odyssey Harry Wendrich & Nicola Wendrich A Wicked Pack of Cards Michael Dummett & Ronald Decker & Thierry Depaulis A Year in the Wildwood Alison Cross Absolute Beginner's Guide to Tarot Mark McElroy Alchemy and the Tarot Robert M. Place All Love Goes Before Me Stewart S. Warren An Introduction to Transformative Tarot Counseling Katrina Wynne Ancient Mysteries Tarot: Keys To Divination And Initiation Roger Calverley Angel Readings for Beginners Elizabeth Foley Animals Divine Companion Lisa Hunt Best Tarot Practices Marcia Masino Beyond the Celtic Cross Paul Hughes-Barlow & Catherine Chapman Book of Thoth Aleister Crowley Brotherhood Tarot Companion Patric Stillman aka Pipa Phalange Buddha Tarot Companion Robert M. Place Chakra Wisdom Oracle Toolkit Tori Hartman Choice Centered Relating and the Tarot Gail Fairfield Chrysalis Tarot Holly Sierra & Toney Brooks Complete Guide to Tarot Illuminati Kim Huggens Confessions of a Tarot Reader Jane Stern Conscious Channeling From the Akashic Rozàlia Horvàth Balàzsi Creator's Tarot Nicole Richardson Daily Spread Tarot & Oracle Journal Alyssa Montalbano Dark Goddess Tarot Companion Ellen Lorenzi-Prince Designing Your Own Tarot Spreads Teresa Michelsen Destiny's Portal Barbara Moore Deviant Moon Tarot Patrick Valenza Discovering Runes Bob Oswald Discovering Your Self Through the Tarot Rose Gwain Easy Tarot Ciro Marchetti & Josephine Ellershaw Easy Tarot Guide Marcia Masino Easy Tarot Reading Josephine Ellershaw Encyclopedia of Tarot Volume IV Stuart Kaplan & Jean Huets Enochian Tarot Betty Schueler & Sally Ann Glassman & Gerald Schueler Essence of the Tarot: Modern Reflections on Ancient Wisdom Megan Skinner Explaining the Tarot Thierry Depaulis & Ross Caldwell & Marco Ponzi Explore the Major Arcana Judyth Sult & Gordana Curgus Exploring the Tarot Carl Japikse Fortune Stellar Christiana Gaudet Fortune's Lover: A Book of Tarot Poems Rachel Pollack Going Beyond the Little White Book Liz Worth Good Cat Spell Book Gillian Kemp Guide to the Sacred Rose Tarot Johanna Gargiulo-Sherman Heart of Tarot Amber K Hieros Gamos: Benediction of the Tarot Stewart S. Warren Holistic Tarot Benebell Wen Integral Tarot: Decoding the Essence Suzanne Wagner It's All in the Cards: Tarot Reading Made Easy John Mangiapane Jung and Tarot Sallie Nichols Kabbalistic Tarot Dovid Krafchow Kaleidoscope Tarot Leisa ReFalo Karmic Tarot William C. Lammey Learning Tarot Reversals Joan Bunning Learning the Tarot Joan Bunning Light-Of-Day: Tarot & Dream Work - A Practical Guide Gigi Miner Magic Words: A Dictionary Craig Conley Meditations on the Tarot Anonymous Messages from the Archetypes Toni Gilbert, RN, MA, HNC Mirror of the Free Nicholas Swift My Tarot Journal Katrina de Witt Mystical Origins of the Tarot: From Ancient Roots to Modern Usage

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Author and Nobel Laureate Alice Munro chose her husband over the daughter he sexually abused. Munro knew about and believed the abuse had happened. But she chose to stay with and protect the abuser.

This is not an essay about how to be a good mother or one that insists that mothers subsume and sacrifice their lives for their children. It is an essay on how easily women become footsoldiers of the patriarchy, fame and wealth notwithstanding.

Alice Munro was famous and wealthy and chose to stay with a sexual predator. In so many narratives of abuse, including child sexual abuse, we know that mothers stay with an abuser not out of choice but because they cannot afford to leave or because they are coerced to stay. 

Some mothers simply do not believe their children when they disclose they’ve been sexually abused by an adult, be it the mother’s husband or partner, a brother or another male relative. It is more often than not a male abuser. 

Alice Munro was famous and wealthy and believed that her husband, Gerald Fremlin, had sexually abused her daughter, Andrea Skinner, and still chose to stay with him.