#i stand with evan rachel wood

[rowinablx]

Blake, Johnny and Evan are not perfect victims nor does that make the abuse they suffered invalid

Fuck it, Timothy Heller too!

[theivesbustamate]

Evan Rachel Wood and Darren Criss for The Hollywood Reporter.

📸: Emilio Madrid

[icemftmm]

After nearly 4 years of persistent search for the slightest bit of evidence to coroborate the false allegations of a bunch of washed-up Hollywood starlets, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman practically admitted that Esme Bianci, Evan Rachel Wood and the other flying monkeys from their gang ARE FULL OF SHIT!

CONGRATULATIONS TO MARILYN MANSON!

[squirm-in-our-bellies]

So, about Manson dropping and settling his lawsuit with ERW. I know it may seem disappointing that he isn't going to get the chance to prove his innocence in court anymore like Johnny Depp got to, but honestly he wasn't going to get a fair trial in California, and perhaps it's better this way. As his attorney said, he's ready to move on with this chapter of his life, and I think that's what's most important. Besides, ERW's plan to destroy him and his career basically failed, as he has a new album out and sold out shows while her career is still as small and stagnant as it was before she falsely accused him. Hopefully karma catches up to her eventually, but right now the most important thing is to support Manson in any way you can, and ignore her bs.

[houseofpinkboombox]

Imagine seeing this and thinking Manson isn't a rapist.

Like if you don't know what Salo is.....

Also homie has 13 fucking count them 13 accusers.

Not a Nazi? Bestie.

Like? He was sued over it.....

He doesn't have to be a serial killer do not deserve knee caps and you're a fucking Simp for somebody that looks like this.

Like peep that fucking hair line 😂 peep that double chin. This is your dude and you call me cringe?

In what world.

Anyways fuck Manson and his little fans 😂

Folks are really out here dying on hills for their mall goth phase crush, uh? Fucking peek cringe bitch.

Rapists don't need supporters or knee caps. And they have both this world is awful.

[anthroxlove]

"In the last year, Amber Heard, Angelina Jolie, Megan Thee Stallion, and Wood have all accused past celebrity partners of abuse or violence — only to have armies of fans accuse them of lying, misrepresent their legal proceedings, and encourage misogynistic rhetoric against them."

[until-i-devour-you]

marilyn manson is innocent. can't wait for the hoax to be exposed. erw and her gf are ruining it for the lgbtq community, now people will hate us even more.

Me and you think alike.

I know a bisexual woman who was abused by her husband and called the cops on him. She has evidence of the abuse, she still had cuts and bruises when she vented to me and my mom.

And yet my mother, who barely knows who ERW is, told me that this woman's acting like "the girl ruining your favorite musician's Life, after all they both can't decide if they like men or women".

That's the kind of influence she's having. ERW is making everything worse.

[90sdiablo]

Jesus. Christ.

I went to the Phoenix Act website just for sh*ts and giggles but I found that they're using crypto now. NOT a good look.

f*ck ERW and f*ck her con artist ways.

[akajustmerry]

the way hardly any of these celebrities or institutions standing up for Blake Lively said anything about Amber Heard (or Evan Rachel Wood) when she was being smeared is so suss to me honestly! SAG-AFTRA having a whole statement supporting Blake Lively, condemning unsafe workplaces, and inappropriate behaviour of members - when people like Johnny Depp, Casey Affleck, Bill Murray, and Brad Pitt are still card carrying SAG-AFTRA members is..... Interesting. Don't get me wrong, Baldoni is a fucking freak who deserves consequences for his harrassment and harm. But!!! it's interesting who the industry stands behind and when they stand behind them, isn't it? I guess Hollywood is more willing to dispense consequences when the perpetrator is a B list name they're happy to dispose of. and are more willing to support a victim/survivor when that survivor is well-connected to the likes of, oh idk say, Taylor Swift and Ryan Reynolds.

[rowinablx]

"And don't openly say you support Johnny Depp because apparently that means you're not allowed to support women like Evan Rachel Wood and Blake Lively"

[theivesbustamate]

Evan Rachel Wood attends on March 11th, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.

She talks about the theater play Little Shop of Horrors, where she plays Audrey and performed a Version of Flowers by Miley Cyrus.

[mariacallous]

Draw near, allies, for these are dark days for “kink-shaming”. At best, this is one of the whiniest, most pathetic and least helpful phrases to have entered the parlance of modern times – and at worst, it’s just another guy’s excuse for sexual abuse. It’s confusing. You try to be modern and post-conventional, and you end up enabling the most old-fashioned and conventional nastinesses of all.

Still, thank heavens for the parade of embattled famous men fighting kink-shaming’s corner. I have just one thing to say to all the lady authors, lady pop stars and lady actors out there. And that is: if you haven’t had an eye-wateringly expensive lawyer draft a statement about how consensual your sex with a tormented junior was, then are you really properly creative at all?

Fighting out of a Brooklyn detention centre, we have the rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is on remand facing sex trafficking charges and about 120 lawsuits alleging drugging and sexual abuse, including of teenagers and minors. He denies the charges, some of which relate to his so-called freak-off parties. This week, Diddy’s lawyer’s take on the multiple federal charges was that the US government was trying “to police non-conforming sexual activity”. “The prosecution of Mr Combs is both sexist,” this lawyer hazarded, “and puritanical.” Righto.

Elsewhere, we have actor and oil scion Armie Hammer, #MeTooed back in the day over a number of sexual abuse and coercion allegations, plus a little light cannibalism talk – which he says was like being “left standing there naked in front of the world with all of your proclivities or kinks being judged by the world”. Despite police reports, no charges were brought, and Armie now observes of his downfall that “people were my bags of dope with skin on it”. Ah, ye olde sex addict, hoovering up his chosen substance – women – that just happens to have “skin on it”.

Meanwhile, Channel 4 is currently showing a documentary on the rock star Marilyn Manson, who has successfully ridden out years of grim abuse allegations, including by his much younger former partner, Evan Rachel Wood. The documentary contains some previously unaired interview footage, in which Manson declares: “I’m not into rape whatsoever … I prefer to break a woman down to the point where they have no choice but to submit to me. Rape is for cowards, for lazy people.” Certainly for other people.

But arguably the newsiest one this week concerns the author Neil Gaiman, subject of what might have been last summer’s dam-breaking Tortoise podcast, Master. Except, there are some dams that people – and fandoms – are hugely invested in keeping intact. It has taken till now for the follow-up, courtesy of New York Magazine, in the form of an investigation entitled There Is No Safe Word, which features eight young women alleging sexual assault, coercion and misconduct by Gaiman, six of them on the record.

Gaiman denies anything was non-consensual, and says that the claims contain “descriptions of things that happened sitting beside things that emphatically did not happen”. He has remained largely hidden behind lawyers since the allegations surfaced last year, with one of these legal eagles telling Tortoise that “sexual degradation, bondage, domination, sadism, and masochism may not be to everyone’s taste, but between consenting adults, BDSM is lawful”. Was boundaried BDSM what was going on? The alleged victims say no, and they say it at complex length in the New York investigation.

Take the story told by Scarlett Pavlovich. Even unconventional people end up needing conventional things such as childcare, which Gaiman and his ex-wife Amanda Palmer seem to have decided was best obtained by asking women who were also fans. Aged 24, Pavlovich has arrived for her first day of work at Gaiman’s – he is 61 – to discover the child is in fact on a playdate. She has only known the author for a couple of hours when he suggests she takes a bath in his outdoor tub while he’s on a work call. Minutes after, he appears naked, and joins her, swiftly beginning to stroke her feet. According to the New York Magazine report, she tells him “she was gay, she’d never had sex, she had been sexually abused by a 45-year-old man when she was 15. Gaiman continued to press.” Indeed, he does so to the point of anal penetration. “Then he asked if he could come on my face, and I said ‘no’ but he did anyway. He said, ‘Call me “master”, and I’ll come.’ He said, ‘Be a good girl. You’re a good little girl.’” She goes home to Google #MeToo and Neil Gaiman. Yet in time, she also goes back to Gaiman and Palmer’s houses. And months later, a vulnerable young adult without a home and estranged from her own family, she is still stuck in this toxic cycle. And has still never been paid for all thechildcare.

In our era, people have righteously debunked the myth of the perfect victim – but less so the myth of the perfect perpetrator. The perfect perpetrator is an evil stranger – yet sexual abuse is overwhelmingly likely to be carried out by someone you know, who you may be related to or in a relationship with, and who is pretty nice to you some of the time. These are complex and inconvenient truths, but they are truths.

Furthermore, there are perfect perpetrators in the public imagination. Harvey Weinstein, once he was exposed, was the perfect perpetrator. Physically repulsive – hey, it is what it is – and not actually famous in the world outside his professional community, he was the kind of 2D scumbag no civilian could possibly be invested in. People in the normal world will always be incalculably more relaxed about the exposure of a movie producer, a job they instinctively regard as commoditised, than they will be about losing any kind of artist, a job whose works have affected them over the course of many years. Perhaps this is why many fans of the master storyteller Neil Gaiman are refusing to listen to the less appealing, less magical accounts of those women who allege he took advantage of them.

As for Neil himself, I see Gaiman still can’t let go of the allyship argot, which frequently feels performative and knackered, but in the circumstances of this case comes off as actively ludicrous. Finally breaking the silence on Thursday, Gaiman said that he hadn’t commented thus far on the multiple, months-long stream of allegations, some of which he had allegedly sought to silence via NDAs, “out of respect for the people that were sharing their stories”.

Sharing their stories, if you please! Neil: some of them have “shared their stories” with Auckland and Devon and Cornwall police. Are you attempting to be an “ally” to your own alleged victims? Either way, great to find you holding space/checking your privilege for them. You’ll note that people like Neil even react to sexual abuse allegations in a superior way. Honestly, I’m feeling somewhat lesser, here. I’ve literally never given $60,000 or $275,000 to people I haven’t sexually assaulted so that I can – hang on, let me get my reading glasses on – help them get therapy/“make up some of the damage”. Having said that, I have always paid my nanny via PAYE, and have never attempted to have sex with her. I recommend it.

[frequentrandomboners]

Rant about Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood Situation

IDK if this is the right place for this but I don't have anyone to talk with about it, and no one understands. AND my regular communities are in denial, and very hostile towards anyone calling them out on their double standards or hypocrisy.

Marilyn Manson decided to drop his defamation law suit against Evan Rachel Wood. I was a big fan of MM when I was in my early teens. But then he put out the heart shaped glasses music video. That's when me and my teenage circle started to dig deeper. We talked with other fans. We did what research we could with what magazines and websites and news was available back then. It became very clear that WE ALL KNEW and most of us were just in denial about everything that was going on.

That's when I stopped being a fan. I couldn't relate to MM anymore. I couldn't relate to his fan base anymore.

And to this day, you can't speak up about it. Not without MM fans turning on you and trying to sabotage you if not, explicitly, threaten your well being.

The same is true for ICP communities. I remember having to deal with ICP kids at the skate park when I was a kid. I love ICP music. It's their fans I can't stand. Any time an abuser who was "cool" and popular abused someone, or cheated on his girl, he was seen as a hero and the victim was the villain. If someone spoke up, they got "taken down" in one form or another.

That was through out the 90s and 2000s when I was a kid. I'm sure it was even worse before my existence. I can't imagine things being much better today except now we all have smart phones.

MM dropped his defamation law suit and is required to pay ERW's attorney fees. That should be a win for ERW but the internet, especially music news forums, and MM forums, see this as a total win for MM and a perfect excuse to vilify and demonize ERW.

The older I get, the harder it becomes to appreciate my own community, the metal music community, while on one hand welcomes amazing female musicians/bands like Crypta, Nervosa, SpiritBox, Poppy, etc. WHILE ALSO supporting Tim Lambesis, Ronnie Radke, and Marilyn Manson.

What even is going on here?

It's like you cannot stand up for victims, cannot speak out against violence against women, or misogyny, without being relentlessly harassed by (predominantly male owned accounts).

The red pill, "manosphere", continues to get stronger and stronger. Misogynist comments are allowed because there's just so many of them online. While anyone trying to speak up against it gets taken down because they're a minority seemingly by default.

The world just feels completely backwards. Idk what to do. I feel so helpless. I'm going outside to touch grass

[icemftmm]

ON WHY THE INVESTIGATION OF MARILYN MANSON WAS DROPPED AFTER NEARLY 4 YEARS OF STATE REPRESSIONS ON HIM AND CHARGES WERE NEVER RAISED AGAINST HIM

First of all, as per unofficially leaked to TMZ information, charges were never raised because of "credibility issues with the victims"

Second of all, the LADA officially admitted that "the facts and evidence in this matter" necessitated the dropping of the legal persecution of and repression on Marilyn Manson

Third of all, hours after publishing it LADA redacted its statement by deleting the phrase "decision necessitated by the facts and evidence in this matter" just because it would allow Rachel Wood, Esma Bianco and their minions who, as it had already became pretty clear for the investigators, had organized a true crime group to take down Marilyn Manson, and it would give them the opportunity to come relatively clean and continue hissing in the social media with statements like these:

[kaliforniahigh]

Before I start posting asks, I'd like to make it clear - without mentioning any names, 'cause if you know, you know - that my blog is a safe space for everyone.

I'll never support an artist who's friends with an abuser (and likes to raise the women support women flag at the same time) and who has made so many shitty things in the past. I'll stand by my word until the day that I die. I don't condone any kind of prejudice and I don't like people who can look past something like sexual abuse.

I'm sorry, just can't watch Evan Rachel Wood's documentary and find it ok that a person can still hang out with this kind of human being.

If anyone wants to know, this is my take on it. I'm speaking up because I don't want to be silent and seem complicit with this kind of thing.

[d-criss-news]

Video: Little Shop of Horrors' Darren Criss on How Howard Ashman Is His 'Roman Empire'

Following his first week of performances as Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors Off-Broadway, Darren Criss (sporting perfectly thematic lime green nail polish) took the time to chat with Playbill about his endless enthusiasm about the role—plus, his musings on the brilliance of the academic undertones of the show's story being set to a timelessly catchy score. 

"I'm just pleased as punch to be part of the legacy that is this show, not just this production, but the legacy that everybody [has] known since the 1980s," Criss shared in his interview with Playbill. 

Prior to his breakout role on the musical television series Glee, Criss was known by his fans not only for his part in pioneering the viral theatre company StarKid Productions, but his YouTube covers of Alan Menken-Howard Ashman standards. For nearly two decades, Criss' deep admiration for the Ashman-Menken theatrical canon has been evident. "It's a very special show because of Howard Ashman. His fingerprint is such a huge part of my own relationship to creativity and he's been a north star in my life for as long as I can remember. As the kids say, he's my Roman Empire," Criss says, referring to a viral TikTok trend where users share the historical event they contemplate at least once a day. And now Criss is singing Menken and Ashman's songs eight times a week at the Westside Theatre, opposite longtime friend Evan Rachel Wood as Audrey.

While the Emmy winner, in some ways, admits that this long-awaited opportunity feels surreal, he is also confident in his ability to handle the material. "As a lover and ravenous consumer of the Ashman-Menken legacy, I have put in the hours of absolutely loving and being invigorated by this stuff stuff that it stands to reason that I could be here. It is surreal, but it also makes perfect sense," he shares.

With such a long-established and beloved role, countless performers have had the opportunity to leave their mark on the role of Seymour, and each interpretation offers infinite possibilities within the larger mold of the character. For Criss, his take on the character is rooted in theatre history.

"In the past few years—I don't know if it's a coincidence, and I don't know what it says about me—I seem to have played a lot of guys that are willing to do anything for greatness," muses Criss. "This is an ancient tale. I think people forget that Little Shop, for all its fun and catchiness, is a Faustian tale. All that very academic stuff is baked into this cake and I think that's why Howard Ashman was a genius. He could really toe that line between academia and accessibility...It is very smart, as fun as it is."

To see Criss' full interview with Playbill's Jeffrey Vizcaíno, watch the video above.

Criss joined the hit Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors at the Westside Theatre January 30. Wood and Criss succeeds Constance Wu and Corbin Bleu, who played their final performances in the long-running revival January 28.

Criss came to global fame on the Ryan Murphy musical television series Glee, and since appeared on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and most recently, American Buffalo. He is an Emmy winner and Golden Globe winner for portraying murderer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.