#liam and lauren

[mechadria]

im honestly still just as wary about the next season of the witcher even after the table read -

because it was never about liam's acting skills.

do i think henry cavill was a spectacular match for geralt?

yeah. but not only because of his looks or his acting: he GOT geralt and the witcher in general. he's a massive nerd who knows the franchise like he wrote it himself and was a big reason (not the sole, but a big one) that the show kept on track and was even somewhat faithful to the original material.

but i don't believe cavill did a regé jean-page and like. left to seek stardom or whatever. this was a passion project too for him, you could tell.

no, I'm wary of the future of witcher because of the higher ups involved.

so what DID the people who disagreed so hard with him he quit the project do? well, they needed a 7000 word letter from joey batey and the fanbase pleading just to allow jaskier to be queer like he (pretty much) canonically is. didn't need incentive from anyone to create fake gay motives for the worse villain of the story, though. didn't need incentive to completely ruin one of the most beloved characters of the franchise, or let his actor get harassed on socials after the swap without ever saying shit.

i do not trust that these people, who have proven callous, arrogant and ignorant about both the source material and the opinions of the fanbase (and have made some choices nearing bigotry) and who disagreed so heavily with the actor who knew the source material best are capable of producing a good season 4. liam or no liam. am i hoping he's a good geralt? yes, the series and other actors don't deserve to have their performance harmed by him. can it be as good as the seasons cavill was in? for the reasons cited above: fuck no.

[white-cat-of-doom]

Opening night for the International Tour in China is here! Congratulations to the entire cast in Shenzhen!

Fierce Kitties!

Emma Johnson as Cassandra.

Emma as Cassandra with Liam Mower as Mistoffelees and Charles Croysdill as Carbucketty.

Hazel Baldwin as Jennyanydots moves from one show to another.

A professional debut (and what a show to do it!) for Lauren Bronwyn-Wood as Rumpleteazer.

Deja Linton as Tantomile and twin Bailey Johnson as Coricopat.

Daniel Timoney as Alonzo brings some attitude.

Reece Darlington-Delaire as Bill Bailey and Marco Venturini as Admetus.

Black and white photos of Gavin Eden as Skimbleshanks and Issy Moore getting as Victoria with Swing David McIntosh.

A whole bunch of photos from Jesse Chidera as Rum Tum Tugger.

With Sam Brown as Munkustrap, Hal Fowler as Asparagus, Marcus May as Mungojerrie, Lucy May Barker as Grizabella, and Associate Director and Choreographer (and CATS universal constant) Chrissie Cartwright.

Katie Hutton, Rumpleteazer in the recent Asia Tour, sent best wishes to the returning alumni.

Great job, Kitties!

11 October 2024.

[ateepmelfart]

august 2024

[mientus-com]

Tom Ford underwear bei mientus

[justinspoliticalcorner]

DOJ Indicts Russian Nationals in $10 Million Scheme to Spread Covert Propaganda to U.S. Audiences

Brett Meiselas at MeidasTouch:

The Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment charging two Russian nationals, Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, with conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and money laundering in a scheme to covertly influence U.S. audiences. Both Kalashnikov and Afanasyeva remain at large, according to the DOJ’s announcement today. The indictment reveals that Kalashnikov, 31, and Afanasyeva, 27, who were employees of Russia's state-controlled media outlet RT, played pivotal roles in funneling nearly $10 million to a Tennessee-based online content creation company, referred to in court documents as U.S. Company-1. The content company, unbeknownst to its viewers, was funded and directed by RT to produce pro-Russian videos aimed at American social media users. This company is believed to be TENET Media, who touts right-wing hosts Lauren Southern, Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, and others, as part of their roster.

[...] Since its launch in November 2023, U.S. Company-1, believed to be TENET Media, has posted nearly 2,000 videos across platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and X, garnering over 16 million views on YouTube alone. The DOJ notes that while the content appeared to offer commentary on domestic issues, it was aligned with the Russian government's goal of weakening U.S. opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The defendants are also accused of deceiving two U.S.-based online commentators with large followings into producing content for U.S. Company-1 without disclosing RT’s involvement. The DOJ alleges that RT used a fictional persona named “Eduard Grigoriann” to conceal its role as the company’s true financial backer. Within the indictment lies a troubling sequence involving directives from Elena Afanasyeva, alias "Helena Shudra," to manipulate content creation at U.S. Company-1, aiming to tailor videos to specific agendas. Notably, in early 2024, Afanasyeva orchestrated the creation of tailored content that included a video featuring a "well-known U.S. political commentator," who MeidasTouch can identify as Tucker Carlson, during an bizarre visit to a Russian grocery store in which Carlson said he was "radicalized" by how low the prices were in Moscow.

The DOJ handed down indictments to two Russian nationals Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva for violating FARA.

The two helped funnel nearly $10M into creating a right-wing pro-Russia propaganda outfit called TENET Media founded by Lauren Chen and Liam Donovan. TENET Media has right-wing pundits Lauren Southern, Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, and Benny Johnson in their stable.

See Also:

The Guardian: Russia accused of trying to influence US voters through online campaign

Nashville Banner: Nashville Media Company Appears in U.S. Indictment of Russian Propaganda Efforts

Mother Jones: New Indictment Alleges Conservative Media Company Took Millions of Kremlin Cash

[littlemixbums]

Groups don’t group like they used to

[cryptidvoidwritings]

source

[liamhsource]

New. Liam at the Ralph Lauren Marquee at the 2025 Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia.

[beacarrot]

moms🤍

[dailyshameless]

You're never gonna screw over women, are you? FIONA & LIAM 9.09 ― "BOOOOOOOOOOOONE!"

[isupportzaynxliamxziam]

Monday, 29 January 2018 / part I

Liam's having a photoshoot in the streets of New York City with American jeweler Greg Yuna and South African-American hip hop artists and record producer Da L.E.S. for Amurri Lauren with Divad as creative director

credits: liampayne's Tumblr

credits: owner of the photos

credits: Greg Yuna's Instagram

[kelly-clarksons]

kellyclarksonshow: JAM-packed show today with lauradern and @ liamhemsworth, @ gloriaestefan, and a special Kellyoke duet with @ jellyroll615!

[white-cat-of-doom]

Jesse Chidera's goodbye to the International Tour in China and his time as Rum Tum Tugger.

With Liam Mower as Mistoffelees, Meghan Peploe-Williams covering Cassandra, and Isabel Moore as Victoria.

With Bailey Johnson as Coricopat, Deja Linton as Tantomile, Marcus May as Mungojerrie, Lauren Bronwyn-Wood as Rumpleteazer, Gabrielle Parker as Jemima, and Reece Darlington-Delaire as Bill Bailey.

With Nikki Biddington covering Grizabella, from the last matinee.

Backstage before the last matinee.

A cover run group from November, with Jesse covering Old Deuteronomy.

Happy Trails, Jesse!

[ateepmelfart]

september 2024

[scilessweetheart]

teen wolf characters as my favorite @thesewordsareallihavetogive quotes

stiles stilinski: “lamoo??? am i a french cow?? what the fuck ?”

scott mccall: *holds up a box of dots candy* “here is my lunch.” *drops one* “guess she’s for the streets.”

lydia martin: “it’s actually very cruel that i can’t have a fun little boozy drink. something that’ll tranquilize a horse. something 9000% proof.”

allison argent: “i vin diesel-ed this bitch.”

derek hale: “do i endorse cocaine? no. but the vibes are there !!”

malia tate: “i feel like a human ketchup bottle”

liam dunbar: “it was the turd icing on my shit cake”

hayden romero: "by the grace of god and the ghost of whitney houston..."

isaac lahey: “one of the lessons i’ve learned over the past few years - know your place”

kira yukimura: “wait i have a tumblr post for this”

mama mccall: “limp dick meds??? oh my god viagra is only the tip (hehe) of the ice berg !”

peter hale: “it will—and i cannot emphasize this enough—rip my soul straight out from my asshole”

sheriff stilinski: “that isn’t very mitch mcconnell red state of them”

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Prominent right-wing influencers Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson and Tim Pool have huge followings on YouTube and a fondness for the Trumpist talking point that allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election on the former president’s behalf are a “hoax.” That’s not all they have in common: They also reportedly enjoyed lucrative deals with a content creation company that was a front for Russian propagandists. The Justice Department indicted two employees of the Russian propaganda outlet RT on Wednesday, charging them with laundering almost $10 million through foreign shell companies and violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The DOJ alleges this was done “to covertly fund and direct” a media company that produced videos whose content and subject matter were “often consistent with the Government of Russia’s interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions in order to weaken U.S. opposition to core Government of Russia interests.” The company’s description matches that of Tenet Media, a Tennessee-based firm co-founded by Lauren Chen, a creator for Glenn Beck’s Blaze TV (which fired Chen on Thursday) and a contributor to Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. Tenet Media publishes content by Rubin, Johnson, Pool and other less-prominent influencers. According to the indictment, the production companies of three unnamed commentators were paid $8.7 million through the scheme. The indictment states two of the commentators were deceived about the source of the funding; the trio all described themselves as unwitting “victims” of the operation in separate statements on social media. But the Tenet Media saga demonstrates once again that Russian election interference is not, as these commentators and their allies have insisted, a “hoax.” It is a fact, a deliberate and ongoing operation by the Kremlin to sway U.S. politics. And the Trumpist right’s yearslong quest to rebut that reality have ended up ensuring that their entire information ecosystem is honeycombed with Russian propaganda. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 final report conclusively documented the Russian government’s systematic effort to influence the 2016 presidential election in order to help Trump and the many ways Trump’s associates participated in that endeavor. This was an inconvenient finding for Trump and his political and media allies, who had spent years fabricating a complex alternate reality in which claims of Russian election interference or corrupt ties between Russia and Trump and his associates were “deep state” lies. They responded by falsely claiming Mueller’s report had found “no collusion” between Trump and Russia, and used that lie to brand the entirety of the probe as a “hoax.” [...] No one on the right has done more to push pro-Russia talking points than former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a longtime defender of Russian president Vladimir Putin and opponent of U.S. support for Ukraine. Russian propaganda channels sought to gin up Western support for its 2022 invasion by highlighting Carlson’s nightly screeds against U.S. aid to Ukraine, and in turn served as a source for Carlson’s program. A Russian state TV host even suggested on-air that Carlson take a job at his network after Fox dropped him the following year. [...] But Russia-friendly narratives about the country’s invasion of Ukraine ultimately spread far beyond Carlson. It became widely accepted orthodoxy on the MAGA right that sending military aid to Ukraine is a waste of money, that the United States is responsible for Russia’s invasion, and that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the real villain of the conflict. [...] Russian interests and Kremlin-connected sources also fueled the right’s obsession with Hunter Biden’s business interests and the absurd related allegation that Joe Biden accepted a bribe from a Ukrainian oligarch — both of which right-wing media and politicians treated as major stories, with House Republicans making it the heart of their impeachment case against the president..

MMFA's Matt Gertz for MSNBC.com on MAGA media pundits being on the Kremlin payroll via TENET Media (09.06.2024).

Matt Gertz wrote in MSNBC’s opinion section that MAGA influencers such as Tim Pool and Benny Johnson have only themselves to blame for the TENET Media debacle in which they pumped out pro-Russia propaganda.

See Also:

MMFA: How MAGA pundits who mocked the Russia “hoax” ended up the Kremlin’s payroll

Public Notice: Russia's useful idiots