#straight up lies

[xtrablak674]

Reprimand: First Warning

May 18, 1996

Mr. Trevor Brown

BY HAND DELIVERY

Dear Trevor

I am distressed to learn of your encounter at the hotel with our Company Manager Julie Crosby on Friday, May 17 1996. On Thursday evening you were given verbal instructions by Julie not to post the schedule in the lobby. On both occasions you completely disregarded these instructions, this time in writing, not to post the schedule in the lobby. On both occasions you completely disregarded them, you called Julie in her room at the hotel. You argued extensively with Julie and eventually hung up on her, went to her room, and threatened her physically.

Trevor, there is a marked difference between yelling on the phone and going late at night to the Company Manager's room and yelling through a closed door "Girl, now its on. Get out here." at her, and continuing with such demands and taunts in a very threatening manner. Such behavior is both unacceptable and utterly inappropriate.

Please consider this your first and final warning that such behavior will not be tolerated in the future.

Trevor, you are expected to comply with the directions of your supervisors and to execute such instructions in a professional manner at all times. It is my experience and understanding that you have not been doing this.

In addition to your disregard for our Company Manager, and among other things, you failed to meet the musicians and the Divas at the airport, and you neglected to insure Bunny and Olivette were were on the bus after rehearsal one evening. We all realize that mistakes happen, however, we trust that you will be more assiduous in consulting with your supervisors in a respectful manner and that you will stop handling matters however you please, regardless of instructions to the contrary.

We have a wonderful, harmonious company and wish-as we believe you do-to keep it that way. We trust that there will be no reason to discuss these matters now or in the future.

Sincerely,

Mel Howard

cc: Norman Rothstein

My blood boils and my neck gets stiff with not only anger but rage as I sit and retype this letter for this issue. It just makes me want to scream the way someone can take something you've done and twist it and make it out into what they want to. It really makes you begin to feel really hopeless, about anybody being left on the planet with any kindness or honesty.

Mel that lying frog took everything I did and twisted it to meet his sick perceptions, the line that made me just want to pack up my shit was at the end of the first paragraph, "...went to her room and threatened her physically."

For all of you that read my side of the story last issue [Betrayed Vol 3, issue 3, Number 8] know this is not how it happened and thats the way I feel about the whole tour, the management would be so untruthful and dishonest, which is something diametrically opposed to who I am and as Julie goes on to say in the next letter. I would protest the decisions that management would try to implement. Well Julie I have never been a good house niggah, and after our first encounter, knowing that you physically felt threatened by me a machination of your own insecurities being played out by a young brilliantly intelligent spiritually and morally centered brother of African descent, whose work was of the highest caliber unlike your own, made you feel very insecure about not only yourself but your eternal son. Call your therapist Julie, I think you have some issus to work out. Or maybe your local spiritual organization and work out those issues of the soul or soulessness. Well Julie got the final word ten days before the tour was to end, or did she?

Reprimand: Final Warning

July 17, 1996

Dear Trevor,

You were hired by TCA International Productions Corporation to be a part of the management team of BLACK AND BLUE. As you certainly are aware, you have had continuous difficulty adapting [Lying and being dishonest] to the demands of this team management effort. You have received a written letter regarding your behavior on May 18, 1996, and you were warned verbally about your behavior and actions a number of times, most recently meeting with me, Norman Rothstein, and Philipple Mongay on June 29th. During the past several weeks, you have become more and more uncooperative. You protest the very management decisions and policies that you should be helping implement. You agitate the very company that you should be helping to calm. In short, you have not been a help to management but a constant hinderance.

For these reasons, we have decided to terminate our agreement and send you home tomorrow, Thursday, July 18th.

Additionally, you are being paid in full for your services though the end of your contract term. I am enclosing your paychecks for both week-endings July 21 and July 28. Both of these checks include the local per diem monies you would have been paid in cash on this Friday and next.

Trevor I wish you better success in your future endeavors and all good happiness in the things to come. [I really believe in you, Julie]

Sincerely,

Julie Crosby

Company Manager

CC: Norman Rothstein

Mel Howard

I was free at last from the plantation mentality that was playing out on this Black show with all white management. Julie would like to say that it wasn't a Black and white thing but it is. When she accused a young Black man of attempting to assault her, she played a race card. If I wasn't gay would she have said next that I tried to rape her?

Its something that made me fear for my life while I was in Europe, this eighty-five pound, five foot two inch white woman says a six foot, one-hundred eighty pound Black man attempted to assault her. Who do you think they're believing. You made it Black or white Ms. Crosby, you showed your White Privilege Card and said "Get yo uppity niggah ass down where you belong." Oh god what did I do to be so Black and Blue?

Afterwords: None, I said all that needed to be said in my record of this account back in ninety-six.

[Photo by Brown Estate]

[keepin-it-on-the-d-l]

Two generations of dumbassery

[tmntxthings]

> this < is the defamatory post that wolf made about afreakingdork, my dearest friend. It has already gotten 13 reblogs. It irks my nerves so badly that someone can be so childish as to post a false narrative online just to hurt someone else’s reputation.

I would like to kindly ask if you have the time to please report the post! That way the slander will not spread any further!!

Yeah, I'm not taking this sitting down. Man, I really am not trying to have beef out here, but I refuse to have my good fucking name tarnished. To make a public post about me? Yeah, I'm going to share my side. The facts are as such:

I approached wolf on 12/20/23 about a NSFW commission inspired by one of their works. It would feature my sona and an aged up Donnie. As they mentioned, our initial conversation was good. We went back and forth during the sketch phase and I requested quite a lot of edits. I asked if I could pay them for these corrections.

it was right after this that wolf asked about Donnie's battle shell since it wasn't illustrated.

After this message, I did not hear back from wolf after 2/9/24 until I sent them a follow-up message 3/27/24

I did not hear back from wolf until today 5/6/24.

Now I cannot share the images of the art I received because it is NSFW, but I can tell you that the grey from my sona's body appeared to be missing. The ears of my sona were grey, but the body only looked yellow. Donnie was missing his purple arm marks, and his knee pads were still the same only now they were colored in black along with his mask. From here I will just send the conversation in its entirety.

For reference, this was the reference sheet they had.

I was then sent two pieces where the grey on my sona was very obvious and Donnie's markings were now present with the following text.

Now again, I wish I could show you the pieces, but I can't. I was offered a 50% refund for my troubles, but I was not interested in taking it because wolf had already done all the work.

I will say that I was extremely frustrated with the whole affair so the next part I will admit was a bit salty because while corrections had been made, I wasn't able to give any input so there were still mistakes in my sona's colors (specifically the underside of the tail was yellow instead of white and my grey arm had one side yellow) and Donnie's mask was still black. The following is our last correspondence on my blog.

This would have been the end of it for me. Except, I did not get the email. I waited in hopes it would come in, but none did. Since I was blocked I was forced to reach out from one of my side blogs @thisgoesouttoyoubaby which feel free to check. it's my reblog sideblog that I use to send my bestie memes. It dates back YEARS and is not used for spam.

As you can see I was blocked here.

Now I have been refreshing my email feed waiting. I know emails can take time, but I have no way to confirm if I'm getting my work because I was immediately blocked on thisgoesouttoyou with no response.

So I used another sideblog, this time @plowingon which you can again, freely search, its not a spam blog, but a blog I once made to record the live of my old german shepherd I had years ago when he was getting older.

And wouldn't you know it, I got my first email from wolf at

Coincidentally, only after I sent my last message to them.

Now I'm not interested in hurting wolf's reputation. I think you should still commission them if you'd like. I still am a fan of their art. I have no ill will, but fuck if I will stand by as someone tells me that I won't pay an artist. I never even said i wouldn't pay. I was just frustrated because they wouldn't follow their own three correction rule. They allowed me no recourse, and then they were petty before I could even confirm that I received the email.

Could I have been nicer?

Of course.

Could I have been more clear?

Absolutely.

But there is no world in which I tried to gaslight anyone. I pride myself on my honesty. I was not shy when paying them. I sent payment before we even began. I offered to pay them more and acknowledged I was a needy customer halfway through. So I apologize for this long post, but I wanted to make sure all of this was visible because how dare you call me a scammer, wolf.

You disappoint me.

[egophiliac]

I love the idea of teenage Malleus hating his new baby brother Silver but slowly falling for him

words cannot express how much I adore that Mal's reaction to seeing a human baby for the first time was "the fuck is this. why does it look like that. gross." (then he immediately got stuck on babysitting duty and the rest is history)

I am SUCH a sucker for that trope of "non-humans being fascinated by normal human behavior", so between that and all the delicious angst going on I was eating VERY well. >:) Malleus being so impressed that two-year-old Silver can walk, because it took him twenty years to stand on two legs! Lilia barging in on the Zigvolts at 2 AM being like "he won't stop crying what do I do"! Lilia trying to feed Silver rats and Malleus being like "...please just stick with what the books say to feed it"! it is all so. chef's kiss.

[shenzhiheng]

Snowfall + whatever the hell is going on between these two

[m4rs-ex3]

he says this and then the one and only time we see him holding a sword the first thing he does is drop it

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

Okay, I know I'm a fandom art blog, but would anyone be interested in seeing my welds?

[legallybrunettedotcom]

"as an x profession blah blah blah" ok buddy, that's cool. i got a bachelors degree too.

[figonas]

I’m sorry but you all aren’t listening, lyctorhood itself is not the “indelible sin” and you can pry this theory from my cold dead hands, honestly, maybe not even then. TazMuir herself could not dissuade me until she explicitly tells me otherwise. My proof for this you ask? Pyrrha’s conversation with Varun in NtN chapter 9.

But let’s backtrack for a second. John has stated that the resurrection beasts are after him and the lyctors for committing the indelible sin of lyctorhood, and as such the lyctors can never return to the Dominican System for fear of drawing the RBs back to the Nine Houses. I’ve never believed this was true given the fact that John is always the greatest common denominator when it comes to the presence of an RB and there’s no mention of an RB going after a lone lyctor. Sure, lyctors have been killed fighting resurrection beasts but there’s a huge difference between being caught in the crossfire and starting a firefight. For me, Nona the Ninth only reinforced that what we’ve been told is the “indelible sin” is either John misunderstanding the RBs (doubtful) or lying for his own purposes (more likely).

In chapter 9 of NtN, Nona recounts the story of her disastrous beach trip and towards the end of this recitation Nona says that Pyrrha;

“…crossed to the taped-up window, bottle and glass in hand. To Nona’s awe, she twitched the blackout curtains aside—stood bathed in the hyper-blue light from the sky as Nona held her breath—and she said to the window, “Here’s to Camilla Hect, yet another of devotion’s casualties,” and knocked back the glass. Then she said to the light, quite gently, “No, I don’t blame you, man … He was always looking for things to throw himself on.”

Pyrrha stands in front of Nona, bathed in the light of Varun the Eater, and proceeds to have a conversation with it. We only get one side but based on the context of the last line, “No, I don’t blame you, man … He was always looking for things to throw himself on.” Varun seemingly apologizes to Pyrrha for killing G1deon. It’s proven later on in the book that Varun can speak to Nona, and while it could be argued that since G1deon is dead and his soul is gone the “indelible sin” has been undone this still begs the question; why would the punisher apologize to the sinner?

If Varun and the other RBs are hunting the lyctors to dole out justice for their sins why would they apologize for doing the very thing they sought to do unless that wasn’t their true intent. The “indelible sin” is not the consumption of another soul, it is the consumption of a specific soul. It is John taking Alecto into himself, not being able to house all of her and instead making an exchange. Housing a piece of her in him, and a piece of him in her. Splintering the soul of a great and terrible force into manageable parts. Which explains Varun’s ominous presence hanging over the planet in the first place.

If RBs are hunting Lyctors there are no lyctors on this planet. Palamedes has not consumed Camilla’s soul, G1deon is gone, Harrow is in the River, Gideon is thumbtacked to her dead body, the only soul of any significance to Varun is Nona. Later on in chapter 13 Varun, by way of Judith, says to Nona;

“…what they did to you and what they wrung from you and what shape they made you fill—we see you still—we seek you still—we murdered—we who murder—you inadvertent tool—you misused green thing—come back to us—take vengeance for us—we saw you—we see you—I see you.”

And in chapter 27,

“….what did he do to you, to make you this way.”

What did HE do to you!!! what did HE do to YOU!! To give John credit he doesn’t deserve he may not realize it himself but the RBs have been looking for Alecto this whole time. They don’t want the lyctors, they want what John stole, they want the piece of Alecto inside of him. Want to make her whole again, their misused green thing. She’s almost there. She has her piece back from harrow’s body, united with the piece of her hidden in the locked tomb. She only has 1 piece left to collect. And god knows what will happen when the green and breathing thing is whole once again.

[moiraineswife]

Moiraine Reflecting

Season 2, Episode 4

[jewishbarbies]

wow it’s almost like Putin is friends with arab leaders and actively funds terrorist organizations in the middle east with the explicit desire to kill every jew in the region.

if you’re getting your info from hamas, you’re getting your info from russia. that’s why pro palestine leftists are falling for so much pro russia propaganda. it’s literally being fed to them on a platter. use your brains, people. hmmm I wonder why ukraine and israel are the “bad guys” in this revolutionary leftist wet dream putin shat out. hmmmm. HMMM.

[meirimerens]

curiouses your brothers. (“e Bugs” voice) e Jenny.

[motianz]

I was gonna make fun of Buzzcuts He tian trauma (he's literally shaking every time Ht comes close to him) but like

He low-key has good reason to be 💀

Especially now, with the rumors of She li transferring schools right after Ht said he wanted him gone

[solcarow]

seafood trio portraits !

+ some alts. with spoilers !

[prommytheus]

thanks mr sholmes. youve been a real help

[miguxadraws]

more rat

i will try to control myself now i swear

sillies belong to @spitinsideme