#recording those statements and posting it like it’s just another day???

[invisiblequeen]

Andr*w Sch*lz.

Have you lost your mind.

[marsprincess889]

Astrology rant

I hope astro blogs and astro lovers read this

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Hi guys I hope you're doing well🤍

These months(17 of them?) of running an astro blog have made me see a variety of opinions regarding a lot of things, mainly_ astrology.

I want to say that this is obviously social media and it's barely a solid, reliable place for sharing or getting info, but on the other side of this, the freedom of internet and, at least relative anonimity can produce truly remarkable insights/statements that you won't see anywhere else. You can never know how true or untrue someone can be unless you really read what they've written(or listen to what they've recorded) and take it in.

But it is still so rare for me to find a blog that shares most of my views. I mean, anyone with an access to internet can start an astrology blog. It's so easy to copy and paste articles on the internet and put them here. They can get thousands of notes and people will believe them and share that unverified info that's been distorted through copying and repetition, to others(which is a whole another, very sad story).

And on most days I just mind my business and work on myself, not wanting to even go close to that energy. I might politely comment on posts that seem false to me, just expressing my suspicions or opinions and asking for theirs in return, but to be very honest, I am tired of seeing the same faulty takes and overall approach. So here are some things that, to me, are just ???? so questionable to say the least(with added reasons):

1. Mixing Vedic and Western

In many ways.

Outer planets that are only used in Western? Sure, here are descriptions and "observations" of them in Vedic nakshatras.

Asteroids that Vedic does not look at? Here are explanations of them in nakshatras too. (But there's an exception that I talk about later)

Western composite and synastry aspects? Yeah here is their analysis based on Vedic charts.

And so many more.

It's not a question of whether their "formulas" mix or not, but a question of integrity and of what you follow.

2. Nakshatras in D9(navamsa) and other divisional charts (!)

Whyyyyyy. Just tell me why.

I don't think anyone who uses nakshatras in any divisional chart has really thought about it.

And before they make say to me something like "you should be open minded" or "people resonate with it"(people are complex and can resonate to many things but nakshatras in divisional charts are not the explanation behind that), they should just read my post on my pinned masterlist about that.

Like I'm this 🤏 close to launching an inquisition to just call out every blog who does this, because it's alarming how many people can defend an illogical point with such unwillingness to see the opposite take.

I feel strongly about this one and I kinda judge people who go with it.

There are no nakshatrs in D9 cause divisional signs are hypothetical, nakshatras are actual stars in the sky. Case closed.

3. Asteroid obsession

Look guys, I love asteroids as much as the next person, if not more. And it makes sense for astrology lovers to be really into asteroids, since astrology is mythological already and asteroids open up a whole variety of different mythological associations and, with them, the potential of embodying them.

But here's where most people can reach error: asteroids cannot be holding the same influence/power as other planets.

There are so many posts with lengthy descriptions of asteroid placements in signs, houses or them aspecting planets with sextiles, trines(those aspects don't matter in most cases when it comes to asteroids).

I think asteroids only ever really hold power if they are closely(4 degrees at most) conjunct or opposite big three or other important planets, and important planets/points are unique to each chart. Asteroid interpretation requires realness with yourself and others and, more importantly, common sense. And yeah, you can interpret them in nakshatras ONLY IF they are tightly conjunct an important planet and you have some examples.

I've seen a lot of obsession with asteroids such as Lilith, Aphrodite, Sirene, Groom, Briede.

Yeah online astrology can generate the need to compare yourself to others, which is silly, cause all charts are unique and have a unique beauty, and there's no such things as "more" or "less" unique anything.

4. Making stuff up

Ok here I'm talking about takes that are barely backed by valid examples.

Like when a blog attributes a theme or a pattern to a placement that has not a lot in common with its original association and/or is backed by examples that are not really viable.

Like when someone says: "Ashwini is associated with .......(insert some specific scenario/trope). Examples: *this actor*_ mars in Ashwini, *this actress*_ D9 ketu in Ashwini(are you for real...), *this person*_ their D393747838 Mercury in Ashwini, time unspecified so might be Bharani."

I know this sounds exaggerated(the last example obviously is) but I've really seen blogs where mars or venus or mercury(jupiter and saturn too) are used as exmaples for a nakshatra. And I've seen a whole blog that focuses on D60 ketu nakshatras a lot.

Now, I think that stems from a desire to associate specific feelings/vibes and themes that they are into with placements that they most likely have, in a way that feels original. But you can't just take vague feelings/suspicions and present them as logical observations or facts, it doesn't work like that😭

A lot of "vibes" or feelings that I had about nakshatras did turn out to be true, but I had to wait to find proof myself, and sometimes the observations can change a little after discovering solid examples and it makes it all clear.

5. Shallow Stereotyping

I know, astrology is built on "strerotypes", but to me they're more archetypes.

A lot of narrow stereotyping can come from more influential astrologers.

This is especially common in Vedic astrology and with people who follow Claire Nakti.

For example, with her, I love how she uses art and real life people as examples but she too can make mistakes. And she has, and if she discovers them, she adds them as disclaimers in her descriptions.

I think sometimes she can be narrow with her observations, which isn't necessarily bad, but when people see those as undisputably true and more important than their own or other astrologers' observations, then it is.

For example, she made 3 videos about Bharani but I still think she missed some important themes because she was stuck on providing more and more detail for the same point😭

Trusting influential astrologers blindly and quoting/paraphrasing them to prove their own points is a real epidemic.

Just fyi, crediting them while proving their point with your own examples is not the same.

So, anyone can make mistakes, and everyone should be open to changing their mind, but never without real examples and proof.

6. Style over substance

Possibly the biggest problem that is the root of most of other problems in this "community".

The reason why astrology became pop is because of simplifications and, more importantly, flashy images and words.

I've already made a post about how harmful I think the irresponsibility of sharing faulty astrological info is. I'm disturbed by all that manic energy around a thing that should be low-pressure but valid and educational.

I don't think astrology is meant to help you make desicions in a direct way, or to be used as the ultimate filter to judge others and look at the world. It's not the end-all be-all truth at all, not at all. But it is something that a lot of people take seriously and I just have little to no respect for blogs that use AI or don't care for logic or facts.

People here can argue and defend AI in astrology😭 they can irresponsibly make contradictory statements, have no verified observations of their own whatsoever and still act like the expert while interacting or posting.

That's all I wanna say about this right now.

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Comment, reblog, message me, like even, whatever. I want to know what others think about any of this.

[kingkatsuki]

Chubby!reader who goes to one of those hero dinners with Bakugo. He picked out a matching dress with fhe help if his mother, think you look gorgeous and thanks to the dress you were 20 minutes late because you couldn't help bending you over the sofa before you left. But then, someone makes a comment as you pick up the canapés and all hellll breaks loose.

"Should you be eating that?"

And you stop. You're used to this, he was a fit and muscled pro-hero, you were just you. And even though he loved your soft body, the lush thighs and the way your body felt in his hands, he hated shit like this.

"Huh? The hell did you just say?"

Shellz this has been in my ask box for far too long, but oh my god Bakugou would lose his utter shit.

There would be news articles and tweet after tweet about how Dynamight kicked another Pro-Heroes ass at the gala— literally post after post of people unsurprised that the number two hero got into another fight. Saying that he should be cancelled and that a villainous Pro-Hero like him shouldn’t even have a career or a platform to begin with.

And his PR team are losing their shit, frantically trying to draft up a scripted apology for him to read out on the Hero Channel live the next day— trying to give him a bullshit statement about how he’s just been stressed lately. And Bakugou is like “I ain’t readin’ this shit, asshole deserves to be in hospital after what he said.”

And you feel so guilty that even though it’s not your fault, he still got himself into this because of you. So you decide to set the record straight, and you tweet your side out to your small following so people can understand why Dynamight acted that way.

And the outpouring of love and support from the Internet is insane, anything from people happy that Dynamight is celebrating body positivity to calling him a chubby chaser😂😭 and people calling the other Pro a fucking idiot because it’s obvious how hot you are?

But of course you already know that, because Bakugou had your ankles above your shoulders immediately after the gala to show you just how much he loves your perfect body.

“Better not fuckin’ change because of one shitty comment, sweetheart. You’re perfect.”

[archivedblog16]

I don't talk about/avoid talking about proshippers on here because if I do, and even I make sure to tag any proship post using the anti tags, proshippers will find a way to try to harass me, and I don't want my mental health to suffer all thanks to these sick fuckers (as my mental health is already suffering thanks to my job and other offline stuff).

But I want to get this off of my chest in terms of my chest. As an antishipper, I'm concerned about minors entering these kinds of spaces and consuming content that has proship themes (including Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss). The fact that there's a trend of minors watching Hazbin and Helluva Boss is concerning. Despite the shows having some sort of content warning at the beginning of each episode (and minor, of course easily ignoring that), Vivziepop has yet to make a statement regarding minors watching her stuff. And the fact that she has yet to address that issue, it seems like she doesn't care about her minors supporting her since it's just another way to gain income so she could use that money towards paying those A list celebs she hired while paying her animators pennies. And it's bad enough that she hasn't addressed the issue about the one child that asked Angel Dust's VA about how he felt recorded scenes involving very sexual themes.

I feel like, as a result of Vivziepop ignoring the issues of minors supporting her work, interacting with fans, and cosplaying as characters that they shouldn't be cosplaying, there's going to be a lot of grooming accusations coming forward about adults grooming child fans. Vivziepop, as a creator, especially as a creator of an animated series targeted towards adults, has full responsibility as to who should or shouldn't be consuming her work. And knowing she's not going to come out with a statement anytime soon, people are going to use that as an excuse to prey on the children in the fandom as her remaining silent on the matter is going to make people think that she's okay with minors supporting her (basically the whole "silence = acceptance" thing).

I'm also concerned that it will go beyond adult fans grooming minors to people who work closely to Vivziepop grooming minors. As of right now (but please correct me if I'm wrong), I haven't heard about anyone who works under her being groomers, but I'm worried that it will eventually lead up to that all because Vivziepop doesn't want to take a minute out of her day to tell minors not to watch HB and HH.

And it's not just Vivziepop that should be held accountable. The parents of these children who are supporting her need to be held accountable, too. These parents need to look into what their children are watching both online and on TV. A lot of (if not all) adult media contains content that children shouldn't be consuming. And what doesn't help is that there are parents who don't care if their kids watch this kind of stuff, including porn.

I highly doubt that Vivziepop will do the right thing by issuing a statement about minors consuming her work. From what I've witnessed, it's clear that she's putting profit over minor safety. As long as these kids are giving her their money, she doesn't give a shit if adult fans are acting predatory towards minors. And she'll do everything she could to sweep things under the rug if anyone who works for her are grooming on those minor fans.

Fair concern. Minors in the Helluvaverse community have always been a problem ironically despite Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss being for mature audiences. The closest thing Vivziepop has done from what I’ve seen so far is liking tweets that parent shouldn’t bring their children into adult panels.

Then Vivziepop said this:

I don’t know if things changed now with their booths/panels but both booths and panels ideally should be strictly 18+ (ID included too obviously), so they avoid situations like how a 9-10 year old asked Blake Roman inappropriate questions or any other uncomfortable situations. For Helluva Boss, Vivziepop could actually age restrict but if she does that she would lose more viewers.

Adult fans grooming minors have definitely happened. For example, an Anon mentioned their concerns regarding adult fans encouraging minors to ship ValAngel and how it happened to them. Luckily their friends got them out of that situation.

Right now at the moment there haven’t been any allegations of any Spindlehorse employees being groomers. I’ve only heard of drawing incest and rape fetishization. But only time will tell. Either way, Anon hope you are doing better.

[abubblingcandle]

I would love to hear more about your thoughts on Jamie’s loan being terminated

You do not know the box you have opened my friend. I've been talking about this a lot today as fic may be coming but the one word summary is that it is all about the ✨optics✨

Because if we step outside of the AFC Richmond bubble and just look at the sequence of events that goes on, it looks so bad for our boy.

He fights with his teammate on the pitch over his treatment of another teammate. They are both booked for this fight. Jamie is then yanked in the first half of the game very close to half time. This looks like disciplinary action. It looks like the blame is being placed at Jamie's feet and he is being pulled off the pitch as 'punishment'. Because if it is a tactical change, if it is a problem with the play on the pitch then you wait until half time so it can be a more thought out decision. And looking at the quality of Jamie's play during the match, he's not playing badly so it can't be because of that. So it must be disciplinary.

Then, in the press conference post match Ted makes the comment "Jamie knows what he needs to do". Which is just so Ted but I'm not going to get into the Jamie side of that now because that's not relavent to this argument. SO from a press POV, that sounds an awful lot like this being a recurring problem, internal disciplinary action had been threatened and Jamie continued with this behaviour and so it would be taken further. It also places the blame for problems squarely on Jamie's shoulders.

Next couple of days, Dani Rojas. Dani would be plastered all over social media about his return. Running around training, scoring goals, being hugged by his teammates. And who's missing from these scenes ... Jamie Tartt. The striker brought in when Dani got injured who has been walking a fine line. Whispers will start proper now, where is Tartt? He wasn't injured at the game, Kent didn't even touch him. Is this disciplinary as in being barred from training in which case that is ten times worse than anyone thought or is he choosing to miss training in which case that shows a major break down and potential breach of contract. Bad news.

Then ... Jamie's loan is terminated. Now from all the vagueness about Ted not being told, no one knowing if it was City that called him back or Richmond that terminated it that likely means there was a vague as fuck statement likely just saying "Jamie Tartt's loan has been terminated, all of us at Richmond wish him well". Which screams (say it with me now) disciplinary issues. The rumour mill would be going a mile a minute but what conclusions do we expect them to draw with that being the image that was painted in the lead up.

Jamie then barely plays for City the rest of the season which doesn't fill anyone with confidence that Jamie has been 'forgiven' for his transgressions.

SO - the point being, if any other team looks at Jamie during the summer loan/transfer window after S1, his record screams DISCIPLINARY ISSUES which for basically every team out there is a deal killer. Why would you want to spend premier league salary and transfer fees for a player that might come into your team and be hostile, refuse to train, fight within the team ... you just wouldn't.

Being returned from a loan for disciplinary issues is a career killer and it adds so much to beginning of S2 Jamie because what if he had looked for a footballing way out of Manchester but no one wanted anything to do with him for the money that Man City were asking and so ... what else was he to do? But then in running away to LCA ... he just proved all of those issues right and gave Man City a real opportunity to void his contract

... for ... disciplinary issues

[antimatterz]

how they take selfies with you

dan heng, jing yuan, seele, gepard, march, sampo, kafka, blade, tingyun (separately) x gn!reader

honkai version. i posted the same thing on my genshin writing blog so if it seems familiar, that's why. might do this again if more characters are released. there's a bit of possessiveness in blade's but that's about all.

content under the cut | masterlist

dan heng

he's surpringly easy when it comes to convincing him to take selfies with you. as someone who's often found in the archive room, he also likes to keep his own little "archive" of all that you experienced together, no matter how big or small the moment might've been. however, to get him to actually lose his stoic demeanor in said pictures is a little harder. he often looks super serious in pictures but you manage to make him smile sometimes. and oh, when he smiles in pictures you just spontanously combust because his smile is <333

jing yuan

jing yuan is known to have a very soft spot for you and it shows in the pictures the two of you take together. gentle smile, an arm over your shoulder as you lean against him. as a general of the cloud knights, he is often busy. to make up for the times you're unable to see each other, a lot of selfies exist (and he looks at them whenever he misses you or has a rough day on the job). he likes to show you off a little, and he is more than happy to talk about you when someone asks him about the person he poses with on his phone wallpaper. told ya, he has a massive soft spot for you.

seele

this girl appears super tough, but i can totally see her loosening up around you! still a girlboss ofcourse but with a massive soft spot for you that brings out her fun side. though a lot of pictures are very dark due to her living in belobog's underworld, that doesn't stop the joy from radiating off them. she isn't a big fan of taking selfies but makes an exception when you join in. honestly i can see her trying to appear all cool with a peace sign but in reality she just looks super cute with your arm around her waist. oh, and just wait until she discovers the existence of filters. she will beg you to try them all out together!

gepard landau

especially in the beginning, selfies together are kind of a rarity because he's simply too awkward lol. you might have to use your puppy eyes often if you want to snap a picture with him. but don't worry, later on he'll let loose a little and maybe even take the initiative to take pictures together. at first he looks in the camera with a blush, rather stiffly. but after a while he gets more comfy with the whole ordeal. it all begins with a simple hand on your shoulder, but at some point he will find his favorite pose; gepard likes holding you against his chest as you take pictures together, which is the cutest thing ever.

march 7th

this girl absolutely loves taking selfies with you. the time you two spend together is basically a vlog, as she records all the things you do. "y/n, smile!" she exclaims somewhere around five times per minute, as you are faced with her phone and a smiling march who leans her head onto your shoulder and snaps a photo. she finds it adorable how you sometimes look a little confused as she surprises you with another selfie. she always looks super cheerful in your pictures together as she adores spending time with you, and it's contagious! your photos radiate joy.

sampo koski

he's probably a little hesitant about taking pictures together (he's scared he might end up finding them on those wanted posters, you know) but at some point he gives in and oh, it will result in the most extra selfies to exist. he isn't afraid of funny poses and silly faces and goofy filters and you two just have a lot of fun as you take picture together. however, as he is still sampo koski, they will eventually leak and end up on a poster so yeah, there's that. as you find a picture of the two of you together plastered on a building (with a statement that emphasizes that it regards the blue-haired male) you can't help but laugh, tearing it from the wall as a keepsake.

kafka

pictures might leak, which may expose her whereabouts, but this woman couldn't care less. she knows she looks stunning in pictures and when you join her to take a selfie? that's the prettiest picture to ever exist in her eyes (and i agree). they appear very casual but she's totally showing you off! she wears a coy smile, fingers curling over your shoulder as she holds you close, to let everyone know you're taken. her goal is probably to take a selfie with you with a stellaron in the background, basically her favorite things together in one picture.

blade

this guy likes to show you off, believe me. he wants everyone to know that you're his, and he always holds you close when you take pictures together. he barely looks into the camera, having his eyes on you most of the time. only when he places a kiss on your cheek he gazes into the camera slyly, as if to say "they're mine, back off." he knows very well how good the two of you look together and not only that, he secretly just loves to have many pictures of you. fun fact, he carries a polaroid of you together with him and gets blushy when the other stellaron hunters tease him with it.

tingyun

she adores you, and it shows! every picture you take together is so so cute and pretty and it's just goals. she always wears the sweetest smile on your photos and you're lying if you say that her smile doesn't make your heart flutter! your pictures together just look very comfy and loving, with the most adorable poses (cheeks against each other, finishing each other's heart, and so on). her ears perk up every time you open your camera and ask her to join. sometimes, she gets a little shy when you wrap your arms around her before snapping a picture, and her ears would droop a little which is also very cuuute. but the cutest thing? the joy in her pretty eyes hehe.

[gracefullou]

This is the most important part from that article and like I said wbk lol

When Harry Styles's black limousine arrived at the church (in typical sensible Harry style, he was the first to get there), onlookers expected to see the other members of One Direction climb out alongside him.

After all, in their heyday they would refer to one another as 'brothers'. Only those five boys could ever comprehend the magnitude of their overnight fame and how it upended their lives entirely.

However, Harry wasn't with his bandmates Niall Horan, Zayn Malik or Louis Tomlinson. Instead he was flanked by actor turned chat show host James Corden and their television producer friend Ben Winston.

The trio are very close. Harry lived in Winston's loft while his house in Hampstead was being renovated in 2013, spending a significant amount of their free time with Corden.

Arriving at Liam's funeral separately was an illustration of just how far apart the bandmates have grown since their reign as the world's most successful boyband, when they presented themselves very much as 'besties'.

After Harry, Niall was the next to arrive with his girlfriend Amelia Woolley, then Zayn and then Louis. Outside the church, only Zayn and Louis were seen sharing a moment together before Zayn left alone shortly afterwards.

'Of course, they all wanted to be there, they shared so much with Liam,' said one insider. 'But that doesn't mean they are best friends any more. They haven't worked together for almost ten years – they have grown apart.

In fact, the last time they all met up, it was because Simon Cowell insisted they did after Louis's mum died, and that was eight years ago.

'But it was just so telling to see Harry arrive with his super-famous friend James rather than the other band members. It kind of told you what you needed to know about how the boys have drifted apart.'

I'm told there is very little contact between Harry and the others, and that it's a similar story for Niall, though he was the last of the band members to see Liam before he died.

Indeed, Liam was in Buenos Aires to see the Irish heart-throb in concert, and afterwards had what I'm told was a 'quick and fleeting' meeting with him.

It is surely agonising to all involved that one of the first times the band had reunited in years was in the hours after Liam died on October 16 – to agree on the most poignant words to pay tribute to him.

In a statement signed 'Louis, Zayn, Niall and Harry', they wrote: 'We're completely devastated by the news of Liam's passing.

'In time, and when everyone is able to, there will be more to say. But for now, we will take some time to grieve and process the loss of our brother, who we loved dearly. The memories we shared with him will be treasured for ever. For now, our thoughts are with his family, his friends, and the fans who loved him alongside us. We will miss him terribly. We love you Liam.'

To the outside world, it appeared little had changed since their days travelling the globe as the biggest boyband since the Beatles.

In fact, those closest to Liam at the end were Louis and Zayn, who have both had their own troubles in recent years.

Louis struggled following the deaths of his mother Johannah Deakin in 2016, and his little sister Felicite – who accidentally overdosed on cocaine, an anxiety drug and painkillers aged just 18 – four years later. Meanwhile, Zayn was reportedly axed by his record label RCA due to his alleged cannabis use in 2021.

Dailymail being the low of the low, posting articles about this at a time like this 😬. But it is kind of ironic that #those people said they weren't seen together as a whole bc they didn't want the attention when as usual that brought even more attention (mainly by fans) and tbh all the media would run with the "1D memebers reunited at their lost brother's funeral" (and they did) whether there where pics of them together or not, just them being there is enough to generate these articles. What's even more telling is that there were only pics of Harry and Niall together, which was already established that they get along well enough, no other pictures of the other members together (not talking about Louis and Zayn bc it's obvious they just met at the entry and ofc they would be civil to one another at a time like this, which also kind of confirms that they didn't even coordinate their arrivals to not be seen together, bc if that was the case why would Zayn and Louis arrive almost at the same time, they had a public fall out them interacting would take away the "attention" no?)

[justenjoythegossip]

CHRIS’ LATEST PUBLICITY STUNT, ANOTHER HINT AT HIS BROKEN BRAND

The timing of it 

The release of that picture was interesting to say the least because it coincided with the release of the Red One trailer. We could wonder if that content was meant to help promote the movie but since Chris just shared his costar’s post without any word on his part of any kind, it seems like he is rather reluctant to promote the movie his costar produced. So the reason for it should be looked elsewhere. Some think it might have been to deflect from the bad reactions the trailer got and it’s possible but I don’t believe this was the main objective here.

The suspicious source and very curated content

Anytime we look at a content, a piece of information or a statement, the question of the source is absolute key. So let’s look at who posted this picture. The Insta account named Beard of success is a car service company. 

I will state the obvious, there is NO WAY a professional would post a pic of Chris and a video footage of him to promote their company WITHOUT his consent. Obviously, this company would destroy their business if they violated their customer’s privacy because a client expects basic discretion on top of the transportation and other services they are providing. 

Also they would risk facing legal action. If you have any doubt about this, look at Scarlett Johansson’s current lawsuit against a company that used her voice without her consent. 

By the way as a sidenote, you can observe that one person is taking the picture of Chris and the driver, while another is recording the video at the same time.

Another obvious observation is that this content is so very similar to the pics Chris took with various chefs in Lisbon. If you know what purpose those pics served, you will get a clearer sense of the meaning of this one…

So again, this content is extremely curated and obviously served as a publicity stunt for both parties involved as there was a clear quid pro quo. But for what? 

A necessary flashback regarding the PR stunt during the shooting of The Materialists

I haven’t covered this unheard and unseen barrage of content we were fed during the shooting of the Materialists that likely served as damage control for Chris’ signing of the inert object that got him a lot of backlash and the absolute disastrous PR response to it. 

I will focus on two important aspects: the reaction of many fans to the content and the PR response to it. The pictures of Chris received a very mixed reaction from fans, to say the least. Some people were actually worried as they believed he initially looked very down, depressed, angry or sour on the first pap pics that came out. He was said to look very skinny, gaunt and unwell. Some were quick to point out that his looks were fading while others even speculated he was abusing substances etc. 

I am not discussing the merits of those comments because that’s beside the point, I am merely reporting on what was said and discussed. 

What’s very interesting is the PR response that resulted. First of all, we saw many ARRANGED pictures of Chris with “fans” and more importantly we got pics of Chris, on his last day, in a very tight blue shirt that showed him with a much more fit and buff physique that did much more justice to his alter ego Captain America. 

However, people would be smart to question the veracity of those pictures as we got video footage to go with it. 

Where you can find the video footage of Chris on the set of The Materialists

You can find those videos all over Instagram on fan accounts and likely on some “Middle Voices” blogs as well. You know? These blogs that promote Chris so heavily and ridiculously.  Blogs that are paid enough not to mind that they look like overly obsessive psychotic fans who remember everything about this man, who keep a daily journal about him, his entourage, his kinda wife and her entourage. Blogs that post every day all kinds of memorabilia including past tweets of his to keep his former persona very much alive for the most nostalgic and gullible fans. Those are very sneaky “mean plants”, right? LOL

The style of the video footage and its likely purpose

The style of the videos that were fed to the fandom is particularly interesting because it’s oh so very singular. Also all those videos seem to use the exact same style, not coincidentally I should add. 

Those videos combine the use of Dutch angle (oblique) and very shaky filming. For those who are interested in filmmaking, the most famous classic film that shows the use of Dutch angles is the classic film noir The Third Man with Orson Welles.

I should specify that this style combining those 2 techniques makes 0 sense in this context since those videos are obviously not artsy and more importantly the person who is filming is not moving AT ALL. So clearly, that style was used on purpose so the question is: what purposes did those techniques serve? 

Shaky filming gives the illusion here that people are looking at “stolen content”, which could not be further from the truth by the way as it is so very heavily curated. And Dutch angles are often used to mess with people’s perceptions, to disorient the audience. 

So the question is: why did they need to do that? Was the objective to make the audience believe in the veracity of the pictures of a very fit Chris in the tight blue shirt?

So now, let’s go back to that picture with the driver. 

What purpose did that picture with the driver serve?

The answer to that question is pretty straightforward. All we need to do to get an answer is to look at the reaction of fans after seeing this photo, or to see what narratives Team blogs have been pushing and shoving down our throats. 

Look at that! His fans are thirsting after him again. Even a notoriously vicious Team PR blog who has said horrible things about Chris claimed it was the first time in 2 years he looked healthy. According to them he was in withdrawal during the shooting of the movie and since then (less than 3 weeks) he got cleaned, got super healthy and bulked like crazy.

Oh no, wait! It was not an ordeal at all to get there because they had a nutritionist/coach anon who attested to it and confirmed their claims. Isn’t it amazing how diverse a group of followers they have after blocking almost everyone? A CAA former anon, a sports PR, an immigration lawyer, and now a nutritionist and coach. Aren’t they lucky? I am waiting for their nuclear physicist anon to contribute. 

Then we have the video footage of that moment with the weird angle that gives the illusion of stolen content so that Chris can appear totally innocent when it is more than clear that this is a Publicity stunt. And more importantly, that video gives credibility to that pic whether it is altered or not to make him appear much more fit than he actually is. 

Why is that little stunt a sign of his damaged brand and his team’s desperation? 

The little paragraph posted by Beard of Success under the pic with Chris is very informational in that regard. There is understandingly an advertising pamphlet for his company and a few words about Chris with 3 key ones “today” and “Captain America”. And if it was too subtle for you, he posted a story of Chris as Captain America to make sure you did not miss the point. 

This little stunt was meant to show Chris in all his Captain America glory (fit and buff) so that his fans could still lust after him TODAY after so many seemed disappointed by the way he looked recently. Also the fact they still need to connect Chris to his more famous alter ego shows how badly his team has failed at rebranding him. This PR shitshow has been a total and utter failure. And clearly, his team has no idea how to market Chris outside of this hunk persona, which won’t be sustainable forever. That is very concerning for Chris and he would be well advised to look for representation elsewhere (if he can or when he can) in order to get some new and fresh ideas. 

Sidenote: what is the purpose of breadcrumbing content (a pic, then later a video for ex) ?  

I have been asked this question several times. Why do they release the same content over time? For example, do people remember the pictures of Chris and Alba kissing so very privately in front of the glass doors for their little papwalk after their alleged dinner with Robert Pattinson, Suki, Adrien and Harvey Weinstein’s former wife? We then got a video. And now again, we were fed a picture and then later the video of that very moment. 

My guess is that the purpose is simply to keep Chris in the news cycle for a longer period of time, to keep people interested for as long as possible. 

[mbta-unofficial]

If your city is a Brand, it’s already too late

Long post time. What is it that drives gentrification? Also, what is gentrification? Is it when a city gets blue hair and pronouns? No, it probably already had those.

Gentrification is the result of concentration of wealth in the hands of business owners, including landlords, over and above the hands of residents.

Let’s start with rent. Rent, like any good, is priced according to the laws of supply and demand. Supply of available rental housing is primarily determined by construction costs and estimated return on investment for new construction, and property management costs and estimated return on investment for existing units.

Breaking that down a bit, the higher construction costs get the higher the rent needs to be to break even on new construction. Construction costs include labor (which can always go down but you want it high for moral and practical reasons), materials (highly variable depending on the project) and bureaucratic costs. A bureaucratic cost is a cost that is based on how projects fit into the legal and practical environment, and are usually non-negotiable. Dig Safe, a program which requires three days of surveying local records before breaking ground, is an example where the function is to prevent crews from flattening a neighborhood by puncturing a gas main. Environmental Impact Statements, Fire Codes, Habitability Guidelines, and other regulations increase costs to projects. These programs are good and need to exist, but do stop smaller projects from happening at all because the capital investment required just to actually break ground on a new house might cost as much as the land and materials put together at which point you might as well build another 120$/sqft luxury midrise.

Property management costs for existing units are largely dependent on age and wear. A unit with no occupant is going to depreciate little, and may also appreciate in value. Depreciation and appreciation here are sort of unintuitive because they can happen at the same time. Imagine an old luxury sports car with a high resale price. Driving depreciates the value because it’s literal condition is poorer, even as the resale value goes up over time. The appreciation needs to beat both inflation and the value of depreciation for it to go up in real value. For companies with large capital holdings however, losses such as through the upkeep of empty apartment buildings are useful to a point because they reduce these organizations’s tax burdens. A company that makes a killing on the stock market only has to pay taxes if they keep it: if they buy houses they then don’t rent, they can claim they “lost” their stock market earnings with “bad investments�� and then pay no tax while saving the real estate to rent later. Again, this favors the largest possible projects and the largest possible operators because small companies can be killed by an unprofitable quarter or 4 while large ones explicitly benefit from unprofitability in reducing their tax burden.

Expected ROI is the final piece of this, which affects both new and existing units. Every private developer and landlord wants to make as much money as they can, unless they are explicitly are renting as a service. An example of renting as a service would be families, who will rent to each other at favorable rates or for free, privileging people with large and/or wealthy families that are friendly with each other. Now, ROI is also subject to supply and demand. Everyone wants to build 120$/sqft luxury apartments but once everybody does nobody can sell/rent for those prices without setting a price floor and waiting for buyers to catch up. If you are a small developer, you can’t afford to do this. Your expenses will eat you alive. If you are a big developer, though, those expenses are offsetting the gains you make and serving to reduce you tax bill. Units at prices nobody can pay are effectively furloughed, meaning off the market, and, so long as they remain cheap to maintain, will remain that way, artificially restricting supply. It doesn’t matter if it’s for sale or not when it’s at a price you can’t afford. (Sidebar, anyone who tells you that the minimum wage depresses hiring because it artificially restricts demand is lying to you. It’s not strictly false, but like the above it’s a multi-variable equation and blanket statements about cost of labor are aimed at killing wages.)

What this alludes to also is a need for greater income equality. In order for rental to be a competitive option with furlough, not only does the price of furlough have to be increased, the real value of wages have to be increased in order to create opportunities for people to splurge. This is a twofold strategy, of both increasing the rewards of putting units on the market and increasing the costs of keeping them off. If real wages barely cover cost of living, or don’t cover cost of living, nobody can realistically spend more real wages on rent regardless of the percentage of their income it is. (Real wages here refers to the political power implied by dollar wages. A dollar is really worth whatever it can be exchanged for, whether that is a candy bar or a square inch of a 144$/sqft condo) The real value of everything except time and land are also constantly going down because of constant improvements in manufacturing. The cost in acres of land and hours of labor of a pound of beef, a bolt of cloth, or a pint of beer have dropped dramatically in the last century. Unfortunately, land is one of the few things that remains in marxist terms uncommodifiable, because it cannot be fully abstracted from the physical properties that make it valuable and we can’t make more of it just by making a better machine. This means that as the real value of things goes down because of supply and demand, the value of land only goes up because the supply is hard capped. If the value of everything under capitalism must go down because of increased production, while the value of capitalist assets must go up, or the system collapses, it makes sense that land would become a fixed point in that equation, the marxist speed of light observable from all reference points. The best approximation of land as commodity is, what else, apartments, which make available as living space the empty air above us. Because production never stops, the value of everything but land must go down. Therefore, as time passes, the price of land, and hence the price of housing, must tend upwards. Therefore, in order for housing to remain affordable, real wages must grow. This is the opposite of what is currently happening, as real wages have gone down for decades.

This income inequality which is one facet of capitalism is not new. For as long as people have lived in urban areas there have been issues between the abject class, the working class, the ruling class, and the professional class, a four part distinction I will seriously argue for in opposition to a lot of marxist theorists. The ruling and working classes ought to be familiar, or at least self explanatory. However, the other two classes I identify, the professionals and the abject, are useful to this analysis because they fill both a racial gap in the primarily marxist analysis I put forward and identify the two most likely groups to rent, which is to say the worker who works to produce but owns without governing and the professional who works to govern but does not own. The ruling class both governs and owns, but its court is full of courtiers who are there to push various agendas from within the rule of law without per se producing. Likewise, the working class pensioner exists in opposition to the abject who is denied the opportunity or the resources to be productive explicitly as a means to manufacture a threat against which inter-class solidarity between the workers and the rulers is developed. The textbook nazi conspiracy theory about “elites” doing a great racial replacement picks out perfectly what I mean by both the racial character of the professional and the abject and their utilization to foster solidarity between your plumber uncle and Elon Musk. This is relevant to both the broad theme of gentrification and the narrow theme of rent because gentrification is a wedge issue that divides the working class and the professional class far more than its impact on any other. The working class’ disidentification with doctors, lawyers, PMCs and other yuppie types, as well as the professional class’ disidentification with union politics, illegalism, and radicalism in general is brought to firecrackers in virtually any conversation about gentrification which seems in passing to be more about tapas bars than about real politics. Likewise, these groups shared distrust of and disdain for the abject, who are explicitly labeled by the state as constitutionally guilty, is the basis for the very broken windows policing strategy that empties neighborhoods of minorities regardless of class. The Rent is Too Damn High, and excluding homeless people from the “working” working class is a big part of how we got here specifically because the interests of small time owners and small time government functionaries, carried to their conclusions, are necessarily self defeating. These two groups eliminate the presence of the abject from their spaces at their own financial peril.

In addition to class, there is also a specific historical movement that is crucial to the understanding of gentrification as it exists, which is the movement of factories in search of cheap labor. The United States is not a good place to find cheap urban labor. You build a factory and suddenly everyone complains about air quality and labor violations and you can’t just kill them because everyone has lawyers. You kill one (us citizen) organizer and the NLRB is trying to get you in court for intimidation. What’s the country come to? But a shipping container costs a quarter cent per mile and the goods aren’t perishable so you go to Guangzhou or Cape Town where you can kill union bosses in peace. But for the American city, that’s a loss of what once made land prime real estate. What jobs can replace the insatiable demand for labor that a 24 hour paper mill once produced? Service labor, which crucially is site specific and therefore not outsourceable, is what the US has predominantly turned to. (and arms manufacturing which is not outsourced for very different reasons) However, service labor is only in demand if there is already a stable population that can be served, which requires a constant influx of capital holders in demand of service. This is why Airbnb exists and is hollowing out rental availability, why Boston as a college town is the way it is, and why there are in fact so many damn tapas bars. Fred Salveucci talked about being able to go north of the expressway in the 70s and being able to get a plate of mac and beans for half a buck. I went looking for a 5$ slice of pizza on my lunch break today around Government Center and found two places that were boarded up and ended up spending 20$ at Chilacates. Cities are being slowly turned into Cancun, complete with the fences to keep out the homeless.

What can be done about this? Obviously the factors we’ve discussed that favor consolidation of housing are mostly either contained within a gordion’s knot of tax policy or intrinsic to capitalism/goods as commodities. But, given that we narrow our objectives to making the rent lower, some obvious weaknesses jump out: increasing the cost of vacancy forces units out of furlough, because companies are no longer able to justify the losses, and increasing real wages increases the availability of capital for workers to spend on rent. These are the prongs I talked about earlier.

Legal means to pursue each prong exist. Both a minimum wage and a maximum wage, depending on their implementation, can potentially increase real wages, and vacancy taxes directly increase the costs of vacancy. The government can also ignore the market and directly mandate maximum rents within certain parameters. This tends to decrease the long term supply of housing for the reasons discussed at the outset, given that if the revenues from house building don’t cover the costs of building, less gets built. However, any political movement that exists exclusively within the white lines of the law fails to genuinely threaten change. Landlords, like bosses, break the law constantly with the impunity that a lawyer provides them against consequence. This is why a healthy dose of illegalism is an important part of any effective political movement. The most direct action one can take is property occupation, or squatting. Squatter’s rights are nearly non-existent in the United States. The most leeway that any state grants to any unknown persons occupying a dwelling is 60 days notice to vacate the property, and there are states that allow no notice evictions or lack statutes governing squatting at all. Every single state regards the occupation of owned property as trespassing, meaning most kinds of squatting are prosecutable offenses. However, squatting, even temporarily in ways that don’t expose the squatter to liability provided they don’t get caught, can seriously impact the value of properties. You have heard of rent lowering gunshots. This is the serious version of that. At the same time, illegal action needs legal defense, both in terms of non-compliance with police to protect those willing to take illegal actions from arrest and in terms of legal, 1st amendment protected disruption to keep focus on the issue. The most effective movements have a radical wing and a institutionalist wing who do not acknowledge each other but share the same tactics and objectives.

If you are housed, you need to be willing to protect and support homeless people because they are your front line. Start or join an Occupy movement, where they are your peers in occupying a public space illegally in a way that is too public to prosecute. Give to people on the street, and smash anti-homeless architecture if nobody is watching. Be willing to distract cops if you see someone doing something dodgy so they can get away. Remember that following the law is a tactic, and so is breaking it.

The case for this being on my transit blog is arguably weak, but I felt compelled after a particularly hateful experience looking at facebook memes about homeless people on the T. You should want those people there. You should want those people breaking down the doors of luxury apartments and setting up shop. You should want them keeping your city safe because the cops you hire to separate you from them will train their guns on you next.

And for gods sake, don’t let your city become a brand. Branding is marketing. Branding is clean, and bloodless, and a gloved hand around your throat that leaves no fingerprints.

[shizucheese]

So full disclosure, I actually listened to episode 7 on Saturday, but this episode had so damn much to it and I got a bit side tracked by a theory that I'm still working on but I really want to get this out before episode 8 comes out.

As usual, if you want to see the continuously updated and reblogged version of my red string board, you can find it here.

Today is Tuesday, 2/27/24. Episode 7 came out 5 days ago on 2/22/24.

“Talkers”

Norris (Voice: Martin?/ Alex)

Episode 1: “Reanimation (Partial) -/- Regret [Email]”. The Stranger? The End? The Dark? The Lonely? The Flesh? Arthur (Nolan?).

Episode 3: "Infection (full body" -/- Arboreal [Journal entry]". The Spiral? (Paranoia? Auditory, visual and olfactory hallucinations) The Lonely? The Corruption. The Flesh? (Callbacks to the Flesh Garden from S5)

Common Themes: Hearing the voice of a dead/ missing loved one?

Chester (Voice: John?/ Jonny)

Episode 1: “Transformation (eyes) -/- Tresspass [chat log]”. Magnus Institute, The Eye. (Involves a forum; the Web?).

Episode 5: "Disappearance (undetermined) -/- Invitation [Internet blog]". The Eye (Movies. Movie name: "Voyeur" "Must be seen to be believed"...). The Web? (Another website?). (Very reminiscent of Mag 110: Creature Feature.) The "poor old guy" at the theater is totally an Eye avatar, right? Kinda gives me "Simon Fairchild when he was first introduced" vibes.

Episode 7: "Agglomeration (miscellany) -/- congregation [email]". The Stranger. The Burried. The Desolation. Possibly all of them if my theory about the items the Volunteers brought in is correct...

Unsure if this is Eye related like the other statements were. This is also the first "Chester" statement where the source material wasn't from a website or blog, which don't have the same expectation of privacy that the sources of the other statements do. Email, though, so still internet related, and this seems to be an open letter rather than personal correspondence, so it still might align with the theme.

Agustus: (rare?)

Episode 4: “Collection (blood) -/- musical [letter]” The End. The Lonely? The Slaughter.

Letter writer thinks passing on his violin might allow a part of himself to live on in his nephew. Very Jonah Magnus of him.

Music teacher hears “faraway music”, then goes crazy and throws himself out of the carriage and dies. Reminiscent of Mag7 and the Piper? The merchant’s wares include dice (Mag 29?). Got the violin from him (took his blood?). Effect of the violin reminiscent to Grifter’s Bone (Mag 42).

(Oliver Bardwell lol very funny guys)

Non-Talkers (?)

Episode 2: "Transformation (full) -/- dysmorphic [video call]". The Spiral? The Flesh. The Stranger. Ink 5oul (avatar/ entity?)

Episode 6: "Injury (needles) -/- intimidation [999 call] "Corruption? The Spiral? The Flesh? The End?

"Needles" reminds me of Michael!Distortion.

Notes and Thoughts:

"It's not like we're dealing with Tape Recorders..." I'm side eying you real hard, Celia. And what's with all of the questions? The "looking for patterns" question is 100% fair but those examples are AWEFULLY SPECIFIC. I wasn't entirely sure I bought the idea that Celia was the same Celia from TMA, but no this is totally her for sure. "DO YOU KNOW WHO JOHN" IS EXCUSE ME? WHAT REAL STUFF?

HILLTOP CENTER BRANCH?!!! 0 managerial or other support from HR; very reminiscent of the weird circumstances surrounding the house on Hilltop Road. Bear skin rug very reminiscent of the Gorilla Skin in TMA S3. The Volunteers remind me of the medical students from Mag34. The email is about events from 2015. This was the same year Gertrude died and John became the Head Archivist in TMA. Why am I not seeing anyone else talk about this?

I have a theory that I was originally going to put in this post but detangling that giant ball of red string entirely is taking too long so I'm just going to put the TL'DR here and maybe make a proper list later if I can ever finish pulling the string on that particular red sweater. Between the items the Volunteers bring in, and the events of the incident itself, what if every single Entity is represented? The gunshots that were heard were the Slaughter. The fire was the Desolation. The person who wrote the email being crushed by all of the items was the Buried. There are a number of artifacts that get listed off that could represent at least one if not multiple Entities (which might be their purpose; considering how many times the fact that the categorization was imperfect got brought up in TMA, it's probably more helpful to view them as a spectrum more than anything else), including some that are very reminiscent of things from specific TMA statements (The bear skin rug -> The Gorilla skin, Old medical equipment -> the syringe in mag 45? The telescope -> Maxwell Rayner was originally Edmond Halley, the Astronomer, etc. etc). So...okay, hear me out: what if this was all part of a ritual, and that's what the "good cause" was? A ritual that involved all of the fears being represented? Sound familiar? Except instead of it being a ritual to start an apocalypse or reshape the world in the image of one or more of the fears, what if it was a ritual to summon something that was associated with all of the fears? Or, rather, what if it was a ritual to summon someone who had been touched by all of the fears? And that's also why so many of the items seem to be analogous to things from statements and events from TMA? Like....maybe I'm wrong entirely. Or maybe I'm right about this being about summoning someone, or something, (maybe someone from TMA? Maybe Celia?), but wrong about it being John who was being summoned. But, again, this incident took place in 2015, which was the same year Gertrude died and John became head Archivist, and I feel like this means something.

[kanmom51]

Me being a broken record

With everything that went down the past few days, I kind of feel the need to play this on repeat, so I'm going at this from another angle.

JK is not the person people are trying to paint him out to be.

This callous macho sex fiend, that at the moment, even though people keep screaming "well, he might be bi", they are actually only talking about him screwing women. And lots of them. In different places, at different times. He's a fuckboy par excellence.

And those that take that one step further also have him cheating on JM, breakup stories, make up stories, full on fanfics in the making.

I have addressed much of this here:

He also addressed some of this in last night's Stationhead.

And did the whole TikTok post and delete thingy.

I get it.

Well, part of it.

3D kind of shook some people.

It was the very obvious meaning of the song, JK singing on repeat girl, and I think the big big thing here was Jack Harlow's lyrics. I think for many the initial knee jerk reaction was to those lyrics. And I will admit, I had that same knee jerk reaction (to JH's lyrics).

I still don't like them. Whichever way you look at them, they are problematic.

But I came to live with the song, cause it's JK, cause when you listen to it on repeat you just can't get rid of it (🤣), cause I like his performance (yes, including the certain very sexual moves. Hey, I'm no prude), and cause I just tend to listen to the alternative version and when I have the clip running on YT phase out from the rap (cause I just don't like it).

But for many, as I got to discover after this whole shitshow blew up, JK singing girl in a song for which he did not even write the lyrics is all it took to throw away everything people saw and knew about Jikook and JK in behaviour and interactions over the past 10 years. For that.

Forget the y/ns. All they needed and were waiting for was that kind of confirmation. They didn't need anything more than JK saying that one word. The choreo being sexual added, of course. It being sexual either way making no difference. Either way meaning every single move that was considered sexual can be applied to either male or female!!!

Oh, and there was this:

But you see, this is what actually happened:

By the by, big deal. Big deal JK does the thrusts in the choreo. Big deal JK did that flicking of the hand. Even if he did it only not to leave Brian hanging, literally. He is an adult, and do I remind that JM did the same in the recording of their Idol MV? Him doing all of this doesn't make him into what people are trying to paint him to be.

So, we were at this point where people that were supposed to have JK's back, in the sense that even if they had doubt the least they could have done was not to continue to spread it, and with every tweet or post add a little more conjecture and assumption, none of it based in facts, didn't. Have his back in the sense of perhaps stepping back for a second and waiting to see where the stones fall, didn't. See if there is a statement, if JK says something, they didn't. There was a clear intent in the timing of these clips and pics. Posting them just after the release of the song and during Chuseok, so it takes time for whoever it is that needs or wants to take action. So it gives time for it to spread. And it did. Not with Karmy. Cause they had JK's back. Not with Chinese army, cause they were fighting the claims for authenticity of the clips, fighting the claims of harassment that were also raised against him. This was a coordinated targeted attack. And instead of having his back, I-army just went with it. Spreading it. Defending the authenticity of it. Yes, there were cries for breach of privacy. All while continuing to spread the clip over sm.

We don't know these young men fully. We also don't know what they do with their time. We get maybe a 0.01% of it now. Before we got more. The early years we got a shit ton. Not everything. But enough to see who they are as human beings. The good and the bad. And NOTHING that we got over the years, and even more so through the maybe somewhat tainted Jikook glasses indicates JK to be that person that he was painted out to be in the past few days.

The man that talked about being with that one person for life. The man that believes in destiny. The man that arranged and paid for a trip for JM to Japan knowing he was struggling at that time, going on that trip with him, doing what JM wanted to do, even when it wasn't necessarily what he would have chosen to have done (remember RM and Jhope's conversation about JM dragging JK around Malta?). The man that made that HUGE statement at RB. We all focus on the ear sucking, but this was way more than that. JK enveloping JM, whispering something in his ear. Kissing his ear. Then sucking it, kissing it again and then comforting him, helping him up and just being by his side. This is the man that fucking tattooed JM's name on his hand for all to see. That tattooed a moon on his shoulder. That tattooed an eclipse on his arm. This is the man that during a LV concert looking at JM, talking to JM, said "I LOVE YOU", out loud, for all of us to hear. And if, by any chance, he wasn't aware the mic was still on for all of us to hear, wouldn't that have been even WAY louder? No realising we are hearing him saying it to JM, that it was meant for his ears only. This is a man that has dedicated almost full lives to JM. Listening to and singing his songs, watching JM content adoringly.

All that and so so much more.

Enter a grainy clip with faces literally white washed, a couple of more either badly edited clips and pics and all is forgotten. JK is the ultimate playboy. Multiple girlfriends (what name wasn't attached to him?).

And when JK denies having a gf then it's: "but the clip is old" or "doesn't mean he doesn't sleep around".

Instead of listening to him.

You think he doesn't know when this is supposed to be from? The clip. For god's sake, the dog being there was what everyone latched onto. So he knows. And he said I don't have a gf but was talking about THAT clip. You expected him to say "yes I saw the clip, I didn't have a gf then"? No. This is what he could do. And again, instead of listening to him, what he's trying to tell us: NO GF, NO NEED FOR ONE, people are about trying to see why the clip could still be legitimate, authentic, and/or why it doesn't mean he isn't sleeping around.

Perhaps that's why he felt the need to comeback with his ever so loud TikTok post and delete.

Anyway, me ranting again.

[hausofanya]

͏ ͏͏ ͏ ͏⏝ི ✿ ͏ ͏͏ ͏ ͏͏ ͏ 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐫&𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒂, the redebut

after almost two years without hearing her voice, cléo would debut as a soloist underneath the independent label nine vision records on february fifteenth, twenty twenty - three with two songs. the ep, called ‘sugar&drama’ consists two tracks with its respective names.

𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐫 performed by cléo written by cléo produced by cléo & bang chan

the song ‘sugar’ by newly refined soloist cléo is a warm statement of self-love and confidence after a long two years out of the public eye. the lyrics are bold in its rejection of ‘sugarcoating’ herself to appear more appealing to her audience. with her smooth vocals and a nostalgic instrumental, paired with the natural grit of a vlog-styled music video, the context of this song symbolizes the beginning of her journey finding her true sound and turning away pressure to conform to standards previously placed onto her. and the synths are so pleasing to the ear. i’m honestly just glad to hear her voice again—definitely would have been a shame if she no longer wished to sing.

  › roslynn m., starshoot magazine. 2023

𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒂 performed by cléo written by cléo produced by cléo & XAV

‘try to fit in, change my drama, it’s my second day’ oh cléo you are so loved… when i finished listening to this song, i had real and genuine tears in my eyes. not only is it unassuming because it’s a slower song in comparison to the upbeat and in-your-face fashion of ‘sugar’, its lyrics are so open and honest. and i love the beat. i love the beat. always knew cléo’s voice was more suited for the rnb genre and i love being right all the time. i enjoy being factual. if this is just the solo work… then the collabs are about to be so good. just take all my money already, i’m dead serious.

  › lunarcleo, the bias list. 2023

netizen reaction to the ep was overwhelmingly positive, save for the fans who were upset she didn’t release more songs. it also confirmed and cemented her official separation from stray kids in the eyes public. despite the small damper on the realization settling in on those who were in hopeful denial, all love between the soloist and her former group would still remain close as credits for the song began to circulate into public awareness.

stays were thrilled to see that bang chan and cléo were still close despite her departure, hailed as one of the closest pairings in between the nine. cléo would share a picture of the two of them in the studio to commemorate the release of sugar&drama, thanking the older for supporting her and being her pillar of strength over the past two years. to follow, chan would listen to both songs on his online segment chan’s room, expressing his appreciation and gratitude towards her—and even getting a bit emotional.

‘it’s hard sometimes, still thinking she’s here with us. not like i’m acting like she died or anything. just once you get used to having someone around all the time, you take the time you spend together for granted. i’m just grateful she asked me to help her with the song. she’s one of my favorite people in the whole world. i wish her nothing but the best. truly. go listen to the songs. she’ll always have our support.’

on a lighter note, fans were even more curious about the second claim for producer credits on drama. not much was known about xav, who we’ve come to know now as xavier kent, in-house talent underneath nine vision records. it was again to the public’s surprise that the soloist and producer are linked, sharing a childhood friendship. in another shared post, cléo would reveal their cute friendship to the world—prompting others to begin to suspect the true extent of their connection with each other.

sugar was a hit performance-wise, and with more room to spare, more people began to notice how much she not only loved to sing, but dance as well. her genuine joy in performing made nearly all her stages skyrocket in views, leaving many to question her choice in choosing to focus on her vocal ability. drama was promoted a bit less, but due to its easier choreography, was a challenge success on social media platforms. regardless, her hard work and fun performances paid off by sugar hitting and staying in the top five on the melon and gaon circle charts for two months, peaking at number two for two consecutive weeks respectively. additionally, sugar would win 5 music show awards while drama would bring 2 despite peaking a bit lower than its companion.

[gorgeouspoet]

Last kiss

cw: angst, like super angst

notes: my first post on here kinda nervous! been wanting to get into writing on here for awhile, I'm new at this so bare with me

Everything reminds you of him.

You remember the first time he told you he loved you. The moonlight shined on his face, he looked gorgeous like this. You looked at the clock on the wall, 1:58am. You and him had stayed up the whole night, talking about random things that popped up in your mind. He was staring at you, you finally looked up and looked confused "What? do i have something on my face?". He laughed back at you "I love you".

So why did you go away?

Another memory flashed in your head, you had just come back from a business trip. The rain was heavy, the smell conforting, you spotted him as you ran off the plane. Hair starting to get soaked, but you hugged him, he was home. You teased him for how strong his heart was beating. He held you in his arms for a good minute, even though the rain had fully soaked you two. You can still feel his arms if you think hard enough.

So now you sit, here on the cold floor, your body swallowed by the huge shirt you stole from him. He teased you about it but never asked for it back. You bring the fabric to your nose, it still smells like him. God how do you be something he misses?

You never thought you'd have your last kiss with him. Just the night before he broke your heart. You two just laid in your bed, just staring at eachother. Your limbs intertwined as you looked at his face, studying all his features like it was the last time you'd see him, funny isn't it? You rested your hand on his cheek, rubbing loving circles into it, you were so in love. Looking back, was he? You pressed your lips agaisnt his, a sweet loving kiss that you never wanted to end. You'd never thought that that would be your last kiss.

You'd never thought it would end like this. You standing in your living room as you watch him, "I can't do this anymore, I'm sorry". You blinked in confusion, laughing awkwardly at his statement. You asked what he meant, but he never elaborated. You watched him walk out the door, your heart shattering into a million pieces. You felt like you couldn't breathe, tears spilling down your face at all the possible reasons he might've ended it with you.

He was the life of the party, at least at home. Music played from the record player as he held out his hand. You rolled your eyes and took it. You were never much for dancing, but for him? You did. He would spin you around your small apartment living room, slow dancing with you as the song played. You'd giggle at his actions, the sound bringing a smile to his face.

You loved the way he shook your father's hand. It made butterflies swirl in your stomach every time. You love how he'd walk with his hands in his pockets, just showing off how confident he was. You love how when you had arguments, he would kiss you while you were in the middle of saying saying something. Sure it pissed you off in the moment, but now? There's not a day you don't miss those rude interruptions.

So you watch his life through pictures, smiling sadly at how happy he looked. Meanwhile you were still broken in a million pieces, how does one move on so fast? You remember how you'd wake up in the middle of the night, you couldn't sleep so you just looked at him. You watched as his chest moved up in down, signaling his breathing. Now you keep up with your old friends, just to ask them how he is. You hope it's nice where he is.

You hope the sun shines, winter fading away. You hope it's a beautiful day, maybe he sees something that reminds him of you. Maybe he wishes he stayed. You can plan for a change in the weather in time, maybe things would be different. You though? You never planned on him changing his mind. You never thought you'd have your last kiss, but he's forever the name on your lips.

forever the name on your lips

©gorgeouspoet 2025

[justsomeectoplasm]

This is the last post I will make before going on Hiatus and I feel I need to spread awareness to as much people as I can because this is the most disgusting, vile and downright pathetic behavior I have ever seen in my entire life and it needs to get more attention outside of the fandom because it's trying to be buried and forgotten.

tw: Grooming and manipulation.

Yandere dev groomed a minor.

For those who don't know who this fucking creep is (bless your soul btw), Yanderedev Aka Alex Mahan is a game developer and creator of Yandere simulator. You probably know him from "the chalice" meme that's spread around twitter and discord for sone time.

This developer was already a sketchy developer. He mistreated volunteers that helped him work on the game, acted unprofessionally towards a person with DID, having a pedophile moderate his discord and admitting his claim that "every character in Yandere simulator is 18" is bs, which if you know the sexual undertones of the game, is fucking disgusting. And finally he made suicide threats to another developer that was making a fangame that was basically doing everything he did better. (I got all of this info on the r/Osana subreddit. They have a megathread explaining this much better and the comments on said megathread gave us even more "arcs")

But the drama has since died down from what I was told and he was still being criticized but not getting as much attention as he did a few years back.

However

Back in July a youtube creator named AllyMcC was contacted by a minor named "Jane" who claimed to be groomed and sexually abused by Yanderedev/Alex Mahan on the internet. The minor provided some damming evidence that clearly showed inappropriate behavior from Alex. Much of these conversations were taking place on snapchat, with Alex demanding that the setting for messages to be deleted upon viewing be turned on. However, when Jane realized she was being groomed, she started recording the conversations they both had as well as voice calls. Of course, AllyMcC acted (albeit incredibly slowly. July?? And you published the video now?? Why....) and made a whole video detailing the allegations as well as providing the evidence. The video spread like wildfire.

However, Jane retracted her statement of Alex being a predator, claiming he is just "lonely". It is suspected that Jane was manipulated by Alex to retract her statement, as this is common behavior from grooming victims. As of now, Alex still has contact with Jane and AllyMcC states that she thinks that he is still manipulating Jane to retract more of her statement. However, more victims of Alex grooming has come forward and begged AllyMcC to keep the video up.

Alex has made a public statement in the form of a blogpost but tbh it doesn't clear anything up and it paints him as the victim in all of this. He deletes any comments on his blogpost that are negative and it's filled with a lot of victim blaming.

After Alex made that public statement, many VA's, volunteers and youtubers are jumping ship and basically disowning Alex and the project.

A few days ago, the video AllyMcC has made about the allegations was copyright striked and removed, under Jane's real name. It was later revealed that Jane herself did not file that strike, so it is suspected that Alex essentially doxxed the victim and filed a copyright strike on the video.

Luckily, the video is being mirrored and reuploaded everywhere on youtube, but it looks like Alex wants to bury the truth.

So why am I making this post? Well, There is now a petition to ban Yanderedev from patreon, essentially cutting off his only financial support for the project. We are so close to the goal but it's not enough. Please sign it and if you can please donate to the petition to help get this freak's patreon abolished and the game canceled.

https://www.change.org/p/ban-yandere-dev-from-patreon?source_location=topic_page

I also ask of you to not blame Jane for retracting her statement. Also the discord of Yandere simulator is full of Alex defenders and disgusting victim blamers, so don't try to stir up shit in that place. Let them leave of their own volition. Reblog this post with this link as much as you can.

[leon-on-the-froggy-chair]

this is just a leon on the froggy chair lore post. not a vent at all, just a silly story i felt like sharing. feel free to ignore.

cw: mentions of homophobia/transphobia, that kinda stuff

So lemme set the stage, i was still in school and it was the start of the 2nd semester. And we come out of the school to old men with megaphones in our faces screaming at us calling us homphobic and transphobic slurs. Parading signs littered with radicalist religious propaganda. Essentially shaming those with mental health issues, disabilities, anyone LGBTQ+, women, non white people, "good people"??? (Idk it was on their sign that said BEWARE HELL AWAITS), and anyone not Christian. Quickly figured out they were literal cultists and their main guy was some ugly ass old man with a megaphone.

Law enforcement show up as with school security and school officials. Guess what they do? Thats right. Nothing. See technically it was public property and law permitted these people to yell in the face of minors, condemn them for their identity and threaten them with Hell. And they did nothing and anyone making attempts to counteract them was quickly shut down.

Now this just sounds awful. Because it frankly was. And what could I do about it?

Let me preface with saying this behavior was incredibly stupid esp since i live in a conservative area and I am visibly queer and bROWN. And I wouldn't encourage it. I was not in the best place mentally and frankly didnt give a shit LMAO.

So.

Naturally. With security in my face telling me off for what I was doing and a multitude of white men screaming bigoted rhetoric at me and my friends. I made a sign out of stapled papers in my bag. With a huuuuuuge PP on it. I made several small ones for those who saw and wished to accompany my effort. And I set up right across from them. Because the law that protected them technically protected me.

And see, thanks to my theater kid background, i have MAAAAD vocal projection. And law prohibits ceetain volumes on megaphones. So I preached very loudly, over the megaphone, about how I would clap their God's cheeks so hard they'd hear it through the thunderclaps. And then proceeded to go on about what I would commit upon their holy saints in great explicit detail for an hour. The absurdity of my behavior interrupted their script and they could not get their message out whatsoever. And I know this because when outlets and other students tried to report on what propaganda they were yelling about, no one knew. This routine proceeded for the next week. And quickly their main guy started specifically targetting me. Naturally. My response is to flame him on his clothing choices every time he tries to shame me and shout the lyrics to the big time rush theme. Until I was eventually pulled away because he showed signs of aggression to my statements but yeah. Over the course of 2 weeks and persistent trolling I had discouraged them rather noticeably. Their faces of visible annoyance upon seeing me set up right across from them with my infamous penis sign was truly a treat. And the time they spent in front of the school got shorter and shorter each time they showed up.

Was it annoying? Yeah.

Was it funny as fuck?

Yeah.

This of course. Reached the mayor. And this brings me to why I'm even typing this up. I came back across this video of my local mayor talking shit about me and remarking upon my behavior as crude LMAO. Stating: "back in my day i wasnt even a good kid but i wouldve never talked to an adult that way." In reference to police recording of me being "highly disrespectful" to the main guy when he got in my face. However our mayor made no statement of concern about his aggression or about the cultists being there in general. Only complaint about the behavior of the "kids". Or in other words. Me.

I however was not discouraged and continued until the school finally stepped in under order of the guidance counselor (whomst i was close with from another protest at our school i was involved in. Lore for another time).

I didnt know this would be the last day they showed up. But after days of figuring out the timing to the song. I got in the car with my dAd (who was quite unaware of everything) and blasted 4 big guys. Timing it so they would be subjected to the beat drop and first verse.

But yeah. Funny shit. Most memorable moment of my highschool career. Havent seen em since.

Eventually after things cleared up, a smaller christian community group made their own protest that was supportive of lgbtq+ kids and gave out free hot chocolate. So the community is not all bad.

[tanglepelt]

Run ghost run 7

Ao3 prev next

The last week has just been one mystery after another. More to dig into, more to investigate. Static in the ears, secret government, missing persons cases, radio silence, being grounded and a cruel and unusual punishment no more coffee. Who cares if he’s been analyzing videos or waiting for blood results for the last three days. Tim just wanted to know just as much as anyone else why he glowed green.

Sleep was for the weak.

Forcing him on house arrest was not going to get answers. Forcing him to sleep was going to get anyone anywhere. Just a waste of time. Going out and investigating could. But here he was stuck in the Batcave with the demon child. Cause of course it was the two of them out of everyone.

Not to mention the sudden lack of communication from the batgirls. Barbra couldn’t trace them neither could he. Following their trail via camera went dead quick. They just had to infiltrate that base in the middle of nowhere Illinois. There were no public cameras or even privately owned ones they could get into. Just farmland. Corns, soybeans, and 27 million acres of farmland.

Their comms and trackers were just standing still. They just stopped communicating three days ago. Barbara tried sending signals to try and get them to unfreeze. She wasn’t successful neither were his attempts.

Bruce went missing child hunting.

Then the mystery kid showing up just to vanish.

Duke had been waiting for him to leave the library. It should have been child play to track Danny and see where he went. Duke lost him to a shadow blob monster thing. No clear image was available. It was more corrupt than the picture of the kid.

While Dick and Duke were out looking for him, Tim was in the Batcave investigating. Barbara was stalking cameras assisting Bruce. Who knows where Damian was. Not his problem.

Danny’s search history went from concerning to this is bad to why. A town that didn’t exist. So-called Fenton’s only exist at a college event. More specifically for an event three people ran. Jack, Maddie, and Vlad masters. For some ghost portal prototype. The first two had no online records, no driver license, not even any bank account. In all but college they don’t exist.

Looking into masters would be in order. Masters had always liked to brag. Tim can recall Vlad talking about a college reunion. He had been bragging about how he was going to host it. That was roughly 6 months ago. If the three had been acquainted those two were likely at the reunion. Vlad would have posted about it somewhere.

For the last four months Vlad’s accounts had been inactive. This could have been just after the reunion. Was he now involved?

Buried away there was a single article. By one Harriet Chin. It was only due to a deep dive that he found it. It cited the reunion. It had Vlad Masters name. This article got her discredited from her original job. It’s now posted solely on some sketchy websites. She claimed these “ghosts” possessed a Jack Fenton. Then that he manages to unposses himself. She had interviews in the article from Jack, Fenton, Maddie Fenton, and Danny Fenton.

This article was posted five months ago. Harriet’s socials have also been inactive for the last four months. Those associated with the Fenton’s just seemed to be disappearing.

Whatever Fenton Works was. It didn’t exist digitally.

The entire ant-ecto acts. Which is a pure act against the meta protection Acts. Provided no proof of their findings. The single politician who had these acts written out was kicked out of office. He hadn’t even lasted a term. The day after the bill went through, he was relieved of his position. There was nothing on the guy after he was kicked out. Another mystery to solve. For a later date.

The pages available were obviously biased with no real facts. Just saying their dead must mean they're pretending. Multiple statements even contradict themselves. Citing that some entity destroyed the entire town to bring back the forest. If they were non-sentient, why did the entity only act when the town was supposedly chopping down trees?

It directly brought a reason why it acted. It didn’t just come out of nowhere and attack. It targeted a single town, not named in the acts, only after an event happened.

The unnamed town had to be this, Amity Parks. In every regard, it no longer existed. He had looked at the same sites as the so-called Danny “Cosmos”. Nothing new there. Tim did use Internet Archive to look at previous versions of websites. Amity Park used to be in government records, roughly 10 years ago. Which isn’t shocking, the proof it existed had already been found. The fact It had been removed from everything official was a piece of resistance.

Someone had to have erased it. Any previous records are gone. Records of any politician or mayor is gone. Looking at past renditions of websites he could find them. This wasn’t a town going ghost. It was a town being wiped out of existence.

It had to be a two-way information block. This Danny was likely Danny Fenton had clearly no knowledge of heroes at all. Barbara said he had seemed confused all while doing his research. He had searched What are metahumans? That’s common knowledge. Then looking up are heroes real? really sealed the deal. Even searching how did anti-ecto acts pass? to find no results. Anti-Ecto Acts? also with no results.

It’s a cover-up. Bernard did tell him there was a secret government agency plotting to destroy the meta-protection acts.

It was the only thing that made sense right now. A hidden law and a hidden town. People disappearing history being wiped out. This was prime conspiracy evidence.

The acts shouldn’t have passed. Playing off as an environmental bill and forcing the vote in the same session. Red flags right there. The league has people who are supposed to watch for this. Even when it passed, they should have been informed.

This wasn’t just a law against humans. It specially targeted a group of non-humans not in their jurisdiction. Whatever these beings where it wasn’t a ghost. Ghosts don’t act how these acts describe these entities. They are essential acts of war. Allowing the United States government to exterminate and experiment on them at their discretion. It mentions ecto-contaminated as well. That implies these beings can infect another. If a normal human was infected this could allow the government to experiment on anyone. They had a whole ghost investigation ward to handle this. This whole mess could lead to the loss of rights for any individual.

Why didn’t this get flagged?

Tim was happy he wasn’t going to have to tell the league about this.

Now all they had to do was get Danny somewhere safe. The fact he had no idea who any of them were was going to help oh so much. His searches for them gave him so much joy. Is Batman a demon? Why is batman a cryptid? Does Batman work with the government? Who is red robin? Why did red robin name himself after a restaurant? Why does a child have swords? Does Robin stab people?

This was going to be a headache.

Those rope burns didn’t come from nowhere. Not to mention on top of them were marks from cuffs. It’s very possible he’s considered ecto-contaminated. The way he nervously looked around, the way he reached for his throat, the look of panic, and the search history all added up. Unfortunately, the case presumably the government caught him and did experiments on him.

He was stumped by the last thing he looked up. Do birds and bats get along? Where do birds and bats co-live? Where do starlings and noctules live?

Somehow the starlings and noctules fit in. He wasn’t sure how yet. Tim would figure it out.

It was only when the kid vanished they regained connection with the batgirls.

The two fed them small amounts of information. The two were in a lab in Amity Park. Releasing a boy from the lab. Somehow got frozen in time. It was all connected. They needed to find Danny.

Bruce was heading their way now. Stephanie had a drive with all the data from the lab. Once it got here, they’d have to organize the data.

Bruce had already contacted the league.

The three would be back at the cave tomorrow night at the latest. They wanted to look scout the town. Get a better picture.

A beep on his phone alerted him to the time. While doing his research and finding all the connections the night was nearly up. It was right around 4 am.

Nightwing: Spotted the kid. Choose to nap on the roof of an abandoned building.

Good. That means the answers are almost at hand. Just a matter of convincing the kid to let them help. Considering Danny was looking up if Batman was a demon, their vigilantes’ personas could be useless. Civilian forms trying to help may work the best.

Red Robin: looking at his search history I wouldn’t be surprised if he ran the minute he spots you.

5 minutes had passed before the response.

Nightwing: He jumped… off the roof. With a peace sign

Nightwing: then just vanished.

Nightwing: no splat

Tim just didn’t know how to respond to that. Maybe he could find more info on the ghost ward. Nothing popped up the two times he’s searched. Maybe the third time is the charm.

Before he could begin his search, he was promptly getting kicked out of the Batcave. Tim’s said it once hell say it again. Sleep is for the weak. He took like a 20-minute power nap yesterday. He was fine.

All he needed was some coffee. He was over the house arrest. If going out the window is what it takes. It’s what it takes.

**

Danny expected to wake up to the sun. Not a ghostly chill going through him. His ghost sense? This was even smaller than the incident yesterday. Just a simple chill no blue breath coming out.

Looking around he couldn’t quite spot him, more felt. He knew there was at least one entity watching him. Grabbing his backpack and slinging it across hi back he started to walk towards the door. The plan was simple. Get into the building away from prying eyes.

He was prepared this time. Fully expecting something to jump out at him.

Danny did not fall on his dairy-air this time when a child dressed as a traffic light landed in front of him. Not just any child but Robin. The sword wielder, who has probably stabbed people. He was not dealing with this.

Robin had to have been the one who set him off. He could feel lingering death and some mix of ectoplasma. It wasn’t quite right.

Danny was fairly positive he heard someone in the distance cursing.

He really wasn’t paying attention to Robin as he spoke. More concerned with the impending danger. His heart was beating, he could feel the blood rushing to his head.

At some point Nightwing got in front of him. Now both him and Robin were in front of the door. It looked like the blue one was scolding the traffic light. Maybe he heard something about being grounded. Stuff about staying point and not going off on his own. Maybe something about the color green.

All he knew was he was trapped.

Looking at the edge of the roof and back towards the blocked door his decision was made. Ignoring the way blues hands went up.

This certainly wouldn’t be the first roof he’s jumped off. The first while injured and powers on the fritz. But it was better than being trapped. He is not too sure how he got to the edge of the roof. He knows they tried to stop him.

Just looking at them he flashed the peace sign as he jumped.