#taylor guo

[excellentfishtacos]

introducing the Deaton family!! thru their family photos + a pic of the baby bc i can't take any on the tripod LMFAOOOO. also Ricky II's portrait is outdated but fuck it

sims will be introduced from left to right. all their relationships are in relation to the head of the household!

Ricky Deaton II, Husband (Gen 6): The son of Ricky Jr. and Elizabeth Braun, he is related to one of the oldest lineages in my save. His mother encouraged hard work and taking risks, giving Ricky the strength and perseverance he needed to master piano and violin. Ricky II became a renowned musician and jazz pianist, known for hits such as "Aili's Song" and "Let's Get Squinky." Now retired, he prefers to spend his time with his family and raise them into musical prodigies.

Aili Deaton, Head of Household (Gen 8): Aili is the daughter of Daria and Wendy Szimmer. She was raised by artists and started painting as soon as her little hands could hold a brush. Her parents had humble jobs and the family seemed to be flying forward-- until her mother Daria died in a freak weather machine accident when she was just a Teen. She hit a rebellious streak after that, and started taking underground work doing forgeries and frauds for art heists. She is a master in her field and is currently teaching her daughter Messina the way of the brush.

Ricky Deaton III, Son (Gen 9): Ricky III could never decide what he wanted to do in his life. Should he follow his father's footsteps? Should he learn to paint and join the family business? Maybe he should do neither, and try to be an actor in Hollywood! It's going slow, but surely he will grow to be as famous as his great-great-great-grandmother. Maybe. Hopefully? While he tries to figure that out, he spends most of his time banging multiple women in town and accidentally having children with them because I forgot to turn that off in Neighborhood Stories.

Eliza Deaton, Heiress (Gen 9): Eliza is the very definition of a Daddy's Girl. She spent her whole life next to him on the piano bench, learning how to Jazz the Place Up and Concerto. Unknown to her family, however, she had a hidden hobby: DJ-ing! She would stay up in all hours of the night mixing songs on her DJ station. Eventually, she started sneaking out and DJ-ing at the Blue Velvet Nightclub. Nowadays, she works overtime as an onstage musician, a talented pianist dancing in the footsteps of her father. On her nights off, she still hits the stage as DJ Cool Cat, but all the work is taking her away from her duty as the heir. She needs to figure out what she's more passionate about before the household is solely in her hands.

Messina Deaton, Daughter (Gen 9): Messina Deaton is a lil miss smarty pants who graduated early and has recently been taken under her mother's wing as a fraudulent painter. However, she wants to be just a normal painter. Fraudulent painter is your dream, mom!

Wendy Deaton, Daughter (Gen 9): Wendy is a karaoke pop star and Jokester. She is destined for a life in Business so I can get the career achievement.

Maddison Deaton, Granddaughter & Next-in-Line (Gen 10): Maddison is Ricky III's daughter, her mother is the supermodel Brandy Saunders. However, Brandy's death made her incapable of being a mother, so Maddison came to stay with her father's family. The oldest of Gen 10, she is expected to take over and continue the household when she gets older.

Taylor Guo, Grandson (Gen 10): Taylor Guo is Ricky III's son and lives with his mother's family. He spends the week at the Deatons occasionally.

Ricky Deaton IV, Grandson (Gen 10): The son of Eliza Deaton! Who knows what the world has in store for him.

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Fourth MLM Ship Bracket Propaganda Submissions

Below you will find all of the submitted and approved ships for the Fourth MLM Ship Bracket Tournament along with the form to submit further propaganda at the bottom

This is another opportunity to submit propaganda for your favorite ships. Wether you were unable to submit propaganda for them in the initial form or you spot your favorite ship who has no propaganda submitted. Ships with a strikethrough have propaganda submitted, I will continue to update this post as propaganda is submitted. I will accept further propaganda for ships with already submitted propaganda but please prioritize those with out.

The goal is to have propaganda for all ships but I understand that may not be possible. Therefore I will be leaving the form open for a few weeks to see if we receive propaganda for at least half the ships.

Note: Please reach out to me if you spot any mistakes in character or fandom names, even if it is only formatting or spelling issues.

Monkey D. Luffy/Roronoa Zoro (One Piece)

Kyojuro Rengoku/Akaza (Demon Slayer)

Mikhail”Misha” [Heavy]/Dr. Ludwig [Medic] (Team Fortress 2)

Dave Strider/Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)

Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng (Guardian, 2018)

Oliver Marks/James Farrow (If We Were Villains)

David Starsky/Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson (Starsky & Hutch)

Tinn/Gun (My School President)

Loki Odinson/Mobius M. Mobius (Loki)

Jaime Reyes/Bart Allen (DC Comics)

Levi Schmitt/Nico Kim (Grey's Anatomy)

Ren Amamiya or Akira Kurusu/Goro Akechi (Persona 5)

Wallace Price/ Hugo Freeman (Under the Whispering Door)

Daffy Duck/Bugs Bunny (Looney Toons)

Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan (Guardian, 2018)

Isak Valtersen/Even Bech Næsheim (SKAM)

Henry "Monty" Montague/Percy Newton (Montague Siblings)

Nico di Angelo/Will Solace (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles)

Argos/Mr. Plant (The World of Mr. Plant)

Richard St Vier/Alec Campion (Swordspoint Universe)

Klaus Hargreeves/Dave Katz (The Umbrella Academy)

Woody/Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story)

Victor Lawson/Hap (In the Lives of Puppets

Charlie/Babe (Pit Babe The Series)

Fred/Shaggy (Scooby-Doo)

Simon Snow/Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Grimm-Pitch (Carry On)

Gaius Octavius/Jedediah Smith (Night at the Museum)

Sound/Win (My School President)

Pat/Pran (Bad Buddy)

Mike Wazowski/James "Sulley" P. Sullivan (Monsters, Inc.)

Nicholas “Nick” Bell/ Seth Gray (The Extraordinaries)

Evan 'Buck' Buckley/Edmundo 'Eddie' Diaz (9-1-1)

Sean/White (Not Me: The Series)

Vegas Theerapanyakun/Pete Saengtham (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Runaan/Ethari (The Dragon Prince)

Larry Daley/Ahkmenrah (Night at the Museum)

Tintin/Captain Archibald Haddock (Tintin comics)

Bai Lang/Jin Xun An (My Tooth Your Love)

Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin (The Man from U.N.C.L.E)

Wario/Waluigi (Mario franchise)

Peter Parker/Miguel O'Hará (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)

Steve Rogers/Anthony "Tony" Stark (Marvel Comics)

Dave Miller/Jack "Old sport" Kennedy (Dayshift at Freddy's)

Boston/Nick (Only Friends)

Kinn Theerapanyakun/Porsche Kittisawasd (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Satoru Gojo/Suguru Geto (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Craig Cuttlefish/Octavio Takowasa (Splatoon)

Tulio/Miguel (The Road to El Dorado)

Sun Wukong/Neptune Vasilias (RWBY)

Zachary Ezra Rawlins/Dorian (The Starless Sea)

Fox Mulder/Alex Krycek (The X-Files)

Thomas/Newt (The Maze Runner)

Fulgrim/Ferrus Manus (Warhammer 40k)

Kim Theerapanyakun/Porchay Kittisawasd (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Alec Lightwood/Magnus Bane (The Mortal Instruments)

Tan/Bun (Manner of Death)

Qrow Branwen/Clover Ebi (RWBY)

Rhy Maresh/Alucard Emery (Shades of Magic)

Yashiro Isana/Kuroh Yatogami (K Project)

Jaskier/Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)

Dustfinger/Mortimer "Mo" Folchart (Inkworld series)

Brandon/Sky (Winx Club)

Phineas Taylor “P. T.” Barnum/Phillip Carlyle (The Greatest Showman)

Alfred Hillinghead/Henry Ashe (Bodies TV Show)

Baal/Inanna (The Wicked + the Divine)

Timothy "Tim" Drake/Bernard Dowd (DC Comics)

Vash the Stampede/Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun Stampede)

Anthony Lockwood/Quill Kipps (Lockwood and Co)

Henry Winter/Francis Abernathy (The Secret History)

Crowley/Aziraphale (Good Omens)

Dainix/Falst (Aurora Comic)

Prince Rupert/Prince Amir (The Two Princes)

Finn/Poe Dameron (Star Wars)

Jean Luc Picard/Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Will Stronghold/Warren Peace (Sky High)

Heart/Li Ming (Moonlight Chicken)

Wallace Wells/Todd Ingram (Scott Pilgrim Takes Off)

Sunai/Veyadi Lut (The Archive Undying)

Linus Baker/Arthur Parnassus (The House in the Cerulean Sea)

Aaron Slaughter/Jace Boucher (House of Slaughter)

Hercule Poirot/Captain Arthur Hastings (Hercule Poirot)

Phaya/Tharn (The Sign)

Hercules/Iolaus (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys)

Todd/Black (Not Me: The Series)

Julio "Rictor" Esteban Richter/Shatterstar (Marvel Comics)

Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu (Word of Honor)

Siffrin/Isabeau (In Stars and time)

Kendall Knight/Logan Mitchell (Big Time Rush TV Show)

Yuichiro Hiyakuya/Mikaela Hyakuya (Owari no Seraph/Seraph of the End)

Palm/Nuengdiao (Never Let Me Go)

Khatha/Dome (Midnight Museum)

Asterix/Obelix (Asterix Comics)

Bowser/Luigi (Mario Franchise)

Lucien "Luc" O'Donnell/Oliver Blackwood (London Calling)

Kazuki Kurusu/Rei Suwa (Buddy Daddies)

Benjamin “Ben” Tennyson/Kevin Ethan Levin (Ben 10: Alien Force)

Lumière/Cogsworth (Beauty and the Beast)

Damian Wayne/Jon Kent (DC Comics)

Spy/Dell Conagher [Engineer] (Team Fortress 2)

Shanks/Buggy (One Piece)

Jesper Fahey/Wylan Van Ecks (Six of Crows)

Harold Finch/John Reese (Person of Interest)

Ulrich Stern/Odd Della Robbia (Code Lyoko)

Vincent Freeman/Jerome Morrow (Gattaca)

Eustass Kid/Killer (One Piece)

Christopher Hitchcock/Jalil Sherman (Everworld)

Frodo Baggins/Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)

Edgin Darvis/Xenk Yendar (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves)

[oswlld]

oswlld's monthly wrap up: february

note: i am trying something a bit different this year, so bear with me as i figure out how i want to format this. i wanted to spend more time sharing what i consume, beyond what i rb, and put my thoughts in one place. these posts are okay to rb

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid [started 02/04, finished 02/13] I recall an article calling out TJR as one of many authors that are pro-israel and haven’t seen anything that disputes the claim. I don’t have much to contribute to the conversation anyways, so I’ll pass on leaving a review. — After Dark, Haruki Murakami [started 02/06, finished 02/21] What I admire about what Murakami accomplished with After Dark was achieving the right level of simplicity to bring out the tense undertones in the magical realism. I also really enjoyed being invited to float with the story, almost breaking a fourth wall and interacting with the spaces. 4⭐️ in storygraph. — When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut [started 02/24, still in prog] I am only about 50 pages in and I am already ill. Too early to form an opinion, thus I’ll offer a snippet of the book description: “A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction.” Feels very timely reading this at the same time as watching Three-Body and then Oppenheimer in the next week or so.

High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America, Netflix [started: 02/02, finished 02/07] WOW!! Wowowowowow. Wow. This needs to be a mandatory watch, even though we are at the end of Black History Month. It’s a well curated journey through the slave era to present day, from shores of Africa to all areas of the US. It’s so empowering and inspiring. Don’t wait until June or next year, please educate yourselves and open your heart to this show. — African Folktales Reimagined, Netflix [started 02/02, finished 02/08] I heard about this show through an article posted on Short of the Week last year and immediately put it on my watchlist. What a wonderful choice of directors for this series. Such strong visionaries and visuals. My favorites out of the six stories were Enmity Djinn and MaMlambo. MaMlambo still has a chokehold on me. MAJOR trigger warnings for this series is under the cut. — Three-Body, Viki (also avail on YT) [started 02/19, paused on 02/26] Trigger warnings for this series is also under the cut. With that said, I have a very personal connection with Three-Body Problem, both the novel and the physics problem, so taking this show on has been my entire world. When it comes to tackling my watchlist, shows that have a substantial number of eps/seasons gets split into chunks, so that I can tackle them over a number of months. For this series, I divided the 30-epsiode series into three ten-episode parts that will take me from February to June. I’ll post an official review when I finish over the summer, but for now I will say I very much enjoy having my brain turn into goo after every ep. What an explosive first outing. I will be resuming this show in April for eps 11-20, where I’ll be reunited with my beloved war criminal.

Over the Moon, Netflix [watched on 2/10, DNF] So unfortunate that I started this and could not finish. I hope to get back into it in May, so I can talk about how beautiful it is. Gotta do it for Glen Keane. — Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang, Netflix [watched on 2/11] I…. I think I am going to let this quote from the film speak for me: “In the 60’s, when American astronauts landed on the moon, that was really good news, even in China. But I was sad because I thought I would never make it to space myself. But later on, I realized that art could be my space-time tunnel connecting me to the universe. If there was an opportunity, I would like to make a ladder into the clouds. But the purpose of this ladder wouldn’t be for me to go to space, it would be to encourage a back-and-forth, a dialogue.” I MEANN!!!! Yes, I did go into this film already aware of some of his works but I didn’t really know a lot about him. What I admired most was his joy and child-like wonder when he’s interacting with his art. I loved witnessing him act like he’s 7 yrs old again, especially in that air balloon scene. There’s also a moment when he’s become complacent in his projects, settling on the bare minimum to get a job done. When the art of creating is stripped of the art, what is left of Cai is very clear to the viewer: he is frustrated, he feels suffocated, he’s used. Alternately, towards the end of the film, he brings it back with “Yes, a lot of artists do things that are too commercial. It lacks some compulsive and sincere emotion that should exist in all art. Collaborating with [unknown artists] will always remind me of the pleasure I felt and my original purpose for doing art.” (Fascinating to compare his turmoil with the govt whilst working with Netflix.) All in all, this film did a great job telling a story about the magic in enduring passion projects over time. In this case, his Sky Ladder being a fourth attempt at a impossibly large scale dream project. I feel like my thoughts are all over the place with this film, but I’m still finding new things that really speak to me as an artist. — Your Name Engraved Herein, Netflix [watched on 2/18] I thought I had this gifset on my blog but it turns out I may have just DM’d @forcebook about this and didn’t rb, but anyways I saw this and thought hey this has the potential to ruin me lemme put it on my watchlist. And now over a year later, I finally got around to it. Well… it’s exactly what I ordered, it definitely ruined me. I mean, when they come at me with “Maybe more people would understand me in hell. Make it easy for me and help me go to hell,” what else am I supposed to be but ruined. I want a sequel, I need their reset.

There are more to add to the movies category, due to Oscar season, but I’ll save them for a separate post, with all my thoughts on the films/shorts I was able to catch, for Oscar weekend.

Ella Sings Gershwin, Ella Fitzgerald with Ellis Larkins at the piano [first time listening] One hobby I picked up during the pandemic was growing my vinyl collection. I found this vinyl in 2022 with the intention of finding more from this era/genre. Not much movement since then, since vinyl purchases only happens once or twice a year. Suffice to say, I am so happy that the quality is still in tact and it makes me want to get back into vinyls soon. Current top 3: My One and Only (What Am I Gonna Do), But Not For Me, and Soon — Wicked [relistening] One thing you need to understand about me is that Wicked was my first musical hyperfixation. I used to spend summers on the train to the city to catch the raffle drawings and when my name was picked, it would be the best $25 well spent to be seated front row. And when I was not in the city, the CD would be on repeat in the car on my long drives going to and from home and college. My introduction to YT was watching all of the bootleg clips of every casting. All the Eden Espenozas and Stephanie J Blocks and Kerry Ellis’. All the Kendra Kassenbaums, Megan Hiltys, and Annaleigh Ashfords. And yes, all the Aaron Tveits don’t look at me. I’ve seen almost all facets of this show enough times to start frankenstein-ing together my version of Wicked. All this to say that my love for this show remained dormant for over a decade, until the movie trailer for part one came out. And then *SPLASH* I immediately jump in head first into a slime tutorial just like that. Long ago, I watched Kara Lindsay’s broadway vlogs without having seen her Galinda and now I can say I have seen the light, she’s just as immaculate as I imagined she’d be.

Welcome to Night Vale [recurring/catching up] I typically catch up on this podcast seasonally, since I find that this show is more enjoyable when I binge it. This time around, I have fallen more behind and needed to catch up on 11 episodes. My favorite eps: A Car Crash on Buellton Avenue (Ep 232), Sister Cities: Vermillion Falls (Ep 239), and He is Holding a Knife (Ep 240). I will admit that there was a period of time, maybe four or five years ago, when I dropped the show for reasons I cannot recall now but I am glad that I stuck around.

And now here are some tw to keep in mind:

AFRICAN FOLKTALES trigger warnings: domestic violence/abuse, child abuse, attempt(s) of suicide, drowning, and miscarriage.

THREE-BODY trigger warnings: The plot centers around solving the mystery behind scientists committing suicide on an international scale. Scenes ranging from allusions, thoughts of suicide, to moderate depictions of suicide.

[atotaltaitaitale]

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Paris La Défense Arena for Para Swimming.

I originally wanted to go to Paris La Defense Arena because it is not a swimming pool but an arena often used for concerts (last one being the 4 concerts for Taylor Swift) so quite a transformation.

I’ve said it before and I will say it again, all the athletes at the Games are super humans but the Paralympic athletes are a cut above. They always had my admiration but attending even more events this time than the Beijing2008 games I’m in total awe of their abilities beyond their disabilities. And then you get to go witness para swimming and when you thought you couldn’t appreciate Paralympic sports more you realized that’s even more beyond belief.

We were there when Chinese Guo Jinsheng won his gold medal. If you haven’t seen the clips of his swimming style on social media take a look (one example). We also got to see Chinese Flying Fish’ Jiang Yuyan secures one of her 7 Para swimming gold medal. Unfortunately Brazilian sensation Gabriel Araujo wasn’t on the rooster that day. But what a day at the La Defense Arena.

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 27, 2023

Experience-driven recalibration of learning from surprising events. Bakst, L., & McGuire, J. T. (2023). Cognition, 232, 105343.

Undermatching Is a Consequence of Policy Compression. Bari, B. A., & Gershman, S. J. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(3), 447–457.

Topographic representation of current and future threats in the mouse nociceptive amygdala. Bowen, A. J., Huang, Y. W., Chen, J. Y., Pauli, J. L., Campos, C. A., & Palmiter, R. D. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 196.

Differential processing of decision information in subregions of rodent medial prefrontal cortex. Diehl, G. W., & Redish, A. D. (2023). eLife, 12, e82833.

Synaptic gradients transform object location to action. Dombrovski, M., Peek, M. Y., Park, J.-Y., Vaccari, A., Sumathipala, M., Morrow, C., … Card, G. M. (2023). Nature, 613(7944), 534–542.

An emergent temporal basis set robustly supports cerebellar time-series learning. Gilmer, J. I., Farries, M. A., Kilpatrick, Z., Delis, I., Cohen, J. D., & Person, A. L. (2023). Journal of Neurophysiology, 129(1), 159–176.

The human motor cortex contributes to gravity compensation to maintain posture and during reaching. Hardesty, R. L., Ellaway, P. H., & Gritsenko, V. (2023). Journal of Neurophysiology, 129(1), 83–101.

Position representations of moving objects align with real-time position in the early visual response. Johnson, P. A., Blom, T., van Gaal, S., Feuerriegel, D., Bode, S., & Hogendoorn, H. (2023). eLife, 12, e82424.

Learned value modulates the access to visual awareness during continuous flash suppression. Lunghi, C., & Pooresmaeili, A. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 756.

Coupled Dynamics of Stimulus-Evoked Gustatory Cortical and Basolateral Amygdalar Activity. Mahmood, A., Steindler, J., Germaine, H., Miller, P., & Katz, D. B. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(3), 386–404.

Reward-Mediated, Model-Free Reinforcement-Learning Mechanisms in Pavlovian and Instrumental Tasks Are Related. Moin Afshar, N., Cinotti, F., Martin, D., Khamassi, M., Calu, D. J., Taylor, J. R., & Groman, S. M. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(3), 458–471.

Structured cerebellar connectivity supports resilient pattern separation. Nguyen, T. M., Thomas, L. A., Rhoades, J. L., Ricchi, I., Yuan, X. C., Sheridan, A., … Lee, W.-C. A. (2023). Nature, 613(7944), 543–549.

Efficient sensory encoding predicts robust averaging. Ni, L., & Stocker, A. A. (2023). Cognition, 232, 105334.

The Stroop effect involves an excitatory–inhibitory fronto-cerebellar loop. Okayasu, M., Inukai, T., Tanaka, D., Tsumura, K., Shintaki, R., Takeda, M., … Jimura, K. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 27.

Distributed context-dependent choice information in mouse posterior cortex. Orlandi, J. G., Abdolrahmani, M., Aoki, R., Lyamzin, D. R., & Benucci, A. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 192.

Early understanding of ownership helps infants efficiently organize objects in memory. Stahl, A. E., Pareja, D., & Feigenson, L. (2023). Cognitive Development, 65, 101274.

Updating perceptual expectations as certainty diminishes. Thomas, E. R., Rittershofer, K., & Press, C. (2023). Cognition, 232, 105356.

Updating memories of unwanted emotions during human sleep. Xia, T., Yao, Z., Guo, X., Liu, J., Chen, D., Liu, Q., … Hu, X. (2023). Current Biology, 33(2), 309-320.e5.

Modulating the Activity of the Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Alters Altruism in Situations of Advantageous Inequity. Zhang, H., Dong, Z., Cai, S., Wu, S., & Zhao, J. (2023). Neuroscience, 509, 36–42.

Inferring visual space from ultra-fine extra-retinal knowledge of gaze position. Zhao, Z., Ahissar, E., Victor, J. D., & Rucci, M. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 269.

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24 SEVEN ANAHEIM RESULTS 2023

TEEN SOLOS:

1st Izzy Howard - WESTSIDE STC!

2nd Alyssa Park - WESTSIDE STC!

2nd Amy Guo - DKCBA STC!

2nd Kylie Kaminsky - DANCEOLOGY STC!

2nd Carissa Hsu - N10 STC!

3rd Gracyn French - P21 STC!

3rd Annabel Kohn - WESTSIDE STC!

3rd Piper Ruff - WESTSIDE STC!

3rd Brooklyn Covington - STUDIO 1 STC!

3rd Avery Reyes - P21 STC!

3rd Brooke Toro - DANCEOLOGY STC!

3rd Ellen Wang - XINGJUAN STC!

4th Kendyl Fay - P21 STC!

4th Maya Loureiro - P21 STC!

4th Gabriel Kleeman - PAS DE DEUZ HAWAII STC!

4th Lyla Lee - DANCEOLOGY STC!

4th Ashley Guo - WESTSIDE STC!

5th Rylee Young - P21 STC!

5th Lyla Briggs - WESTSIDE STC!

5th Malcolm Takumi - WESTSIDE STC!

5th Evee Lee - WESTSIDE STC!

5th Anya Inger - P21 STC!

5th Sloane Adams - N10 STC!

5th Katie Couch - P21 STC!

6th Miracle Antonio - PAS DE DEUX HAWAII STC!

6th Lexi Blanchard - P21 STC!

6th Richie Granese - P21 STC!

6th Sophia Luu - REVOLUTION STC!

7th Jizel Cruz - ELITE DANCE STC!

7th Charlotte Huang - WESTSIDE STC!

7th Claire Avonne Kingston - THE ACADEMY STC!

7th Abigail Taylor - CSPAS STC!

7th Kaitlyn Meaney - STUDIO 1 STC!

7th Lucy Cavender - BOBBIE’S STC!

8th Claire Colbert - REVOLUTION

8th Elle Sanders - WESTSIDE

8th Estee Brooks - THE COMPANY

8th Tanner Shih - STUDIO 1

8th Isabel Zorrilla - DANCEOLOGY

8th Lexi Pang - REVOLUTION

8th Taylor Smith - JDI

9th Emma Slotnick - ELITE DANCE

9th Dempsey Foxson - THE COMPANY

9th Austyn Sparks - ARTISTRY IN MOTION

9th Rose DiMaggio - MOTION STATE

9th Sienna Stanley - ENDEAVOR

10th Lauren Lee - WESTSIDE

10th Jayden Small - ELITE DANCE

10th Roxi Diehl - OHANA DANCE

10th Ariela Ephraim - THE COMPANY

10th Claire Pittatsis - GOTTA DANCE

10th Sara Rice - ELITE DANCE

10th Gia Lopez - STUDIO FUSION

10th Alexa Rosenberg - THE HYPE

TEEN DUO/TRIOS:

1st The Feud - REVOLUTION STC!

2nd Split - P21 STC!

3rd Stay - STUDIO 1 STC!

[midnightraine131]

Hi! for the ask game!

What inspired Hiding in Plain Sight?

Fav Food?

First OTP and fandom??

Thanks for the ask, Anon. ❤️

What inspired Hiding in Plain Sight?

Honestly, I started writing HIPS when I was too hyped and too drunk on Taylor Swift's song 'Hits Different,' fueled by my obsession with crime documentaries (e.g., the Black Dahlia, Gladbeck, and Tanjong Pagar car incident). As the story progresses, I am slowly adding some scenarios that really happened in real life to me or people around me just to make the story relatable to readers too. You will see this in the coming chapters. In short, I am just dying to imagine Aruani as millennials pressured to succeed by this cruel world, just like the rest of us.

Fav Food?

My cravings for Mala Xiang Guo are still unbeatable. But, of course, when I'm overseas or at buffets in hotels, I indulge in seafoods like crabs, lobsters, oysters, salmon, abalone, and scallops (these things are hella exp in SG soo..) I also love steaks, Filipino food, and Thai cuisine.

First OTP and Fandom??

My first OTP was Hyuuga Neji and Tenten. I used to love these two with a burning passion when I was twelve, lol. My first fandom was Naruto, back in 2008, and it was quickly followed by Katekyoshi Hitman Reborn. I never really got involved in any fandom until Tokyo Ghoul and Bungo Stray Dogs in 2017-18, which was my best year in fandom.

[shredmytapestry]

DORIAN ROMERO ( HE/HIM ) is a CIS MALE, FORTY-TWO year old ACTOR/AUTHOR who has been living in Moorbrooke for TWO MONTHS. They were born on JULY 23 and right now, they are currently residing in ELMSETT GREEN. It has been said that they look suspiciously like OSCAR ISAAC and if they had to choose a song to describe themselves, they would choose THE LUCKY ONE by TAYLOR SWIFT.

cw: racism mention, cheating

stats.

full name: dorian romero nicknames: romeo age: forty-two faceclaim: oscar isaac birthday: july 23, 1980 zodiac: leo gender: cis male pronouns: he/him sexual orientation: bisexual   birthplace: guatemala city, guatemala occupation: actor, author, film maker location: elmsett green, moorbrooke

biography.

dorian romero was always enamoured with hollywood. growing up in moorbrooke, he was far away from it but he spent a lot of time watching tv and writing his own shows. he wrote and acted in his own plays. his family was always excited to see what the great romero would be cast in next! all he knew was that he wanted to be an actor, and that he’d be a really good one.

by the time he got to middle school, he began to audition for local commercials and department store modelling gigs. sadly he didn’t have much luck, he never understood why. his parents just told him to focus on school instead but never made him feel like less than just because the white kids were getting cast and he wasn’t. because of this he was a little sheltered, of course he wasn’t clueless about racist remarks but he it wasn’t until a school bully made an off hand comment of how cheerios would never cast a brown kid. the comment sent dorian off the edge, he acted out violently and got suspended for the week.

that week changed his life. all the time he stayed home he rewatched all those shows he loved and he finally saw that no one looked like him. everyone was white in hollywood and he made a vow to change that. this situation did crush his spirit and he stopped going to auditions, and instead just focused on his writing. it never really took off either, but he never stopped writing.

by the time he graduated with an acting degree from moorbrooke uni, hollywood was already starting to be a little more diverse. his career was still slow, he acted as the funny best friends, the sidekicks, the villains and never the main character. dorian was devoted to his craft, though. he wanted to be a great actor one day, he wanted to have his name in lights. he continued to act, published short stories and just kept working.

he moved around a lot, even tried la but ended up putting his roots in new york.

by the time he reached his late 20s and still hadn’t landed a permanent role, he thought maybe he needed to change his game. in university there was this one man who had caught dorian’s attention, but he was taken. dorian never acted on his feelings, he never said anything. he only watched from a distance and admired and he wrote. he still that notebook, filled with ideas about his fleeting muse. he started working on that story, he even got an agent and it was in the work of getting released.

he worked on that book for a whole year. he worked on it the night he turned 30 and that afternoon, on his birthday.. he got his big break. his book was up for several awards and was seen as a queer beacon in the community. his book was up for movie rights and thus changed dorian’s life.

the movie was an success. overnight the world knew who dorian romero was. he wrote and acted in the movie alongside, santiago. his name was on everyone’s tongue and it wasn’t long until he landed a tv show. it was a family drama that was on tv for 10 years. dorian’s every dream came true, he was finally a famous actor. his name was up in lights for years. he was finally satisfied.

unfortunately for him, the marriage agreement turned actual marriage with diana guo was now in shambled. he was busy, he was neglectful and she was cheating with his childhood friend. they divorced when dorian was 38. dorian stayed in new york until his show ended four years later. now he’s 42 and back in the sweet town he once called home.

he is satisfied with his career, and maybe even looking for love at this point. he’s in no rush. he wants to focus more on writing and catch his breath from the whirlwind that’s been his life.

connections.

childhood friends! he was in moorbrooke until the end of his degree ( 22 ) - silas ward

exes - anyone, either in nyc or in mb

dates - he’s been a part of the dating scene a little so i reckon he’s gone on a few dates, maybe some have even been more than one

more to come

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'VIEWS FROM THE EDGE' - w/c 3rd July 2023

I, Doris ‘HRT’

The Gonads ‘Full English’

David Bowie ‘Ziggy Stardust’

R.E.M. ‘Radio Free Europe’

APB ‘Power Crisis’

Stonedfox ‘Rabies’

Noemia ‘Resign’

Rugby Stars ‘Advance Australia Fair’

Cream ‘Anyone For Tennis’

Taraneh ‘Traditional Iranian Music’

Altered Sky ‘Beauty Is The Beast’

David Bowie ‘Beauty & The Beast’

David Bowie ‘Let’s Dance (Club Bolly Mix)’

The Snake Charmer ‘Frantic Feathers (Toss The Feathers)’

Candi Staton ‘You Got The Love’

Lizzo ‘Juice’

Pretenders ‘Turf Accountant Daddy’

Joanne Shaw Taylor ‘Fade Away feat. Tina Guo’

Working Week ‘Stella Marina (Full Rap)’

Helefonix ‘Here We Go (Too Soon)’

Palais Ideal ‘The Ghosts Are Here Again’

Deltasound ‘Here And Waiting’

Kala Chng ‘Waiting’

Flamin’ Groovies ’Teenage Head’

Amy Winehouse ‘Stronger Than Me’

No Parking For Caravans ‘Stars Still Shine’

Barrington Levy ‘Shine Eye Girl’

John Holt ‘Riding For A Fall’

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Inside the Glamorous World of the Met Gala, History of the Met Gala

Get ready to step inside one of the most exclusive and glamorous events in the fashion world - the Met Gala! this is mohammad Gholami and In this video, I'll take you on a journey through the history of this iconic event, from its humble beginnings to its current status as a star-studded affair. You'll learn about the themes, designers, and celebrities that make the Met Gala one of the most talked-about events of the year.

Every year, the Met Gala brings together the biggest names in fashion, music, and entertainment for a night of glamor and extravagance. but what is the Met Gala, and how did it become one of the most anticipated events in the fashion calendar?

The Met Gala, also known as the Costume Institute Benefit or simply the Met Ball, is an annual fundraising event for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York City. It was first held in 1948 as a midnight supper and costume party hosted by fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert.

In its early years, the Met Gala was a relatively low-key affair attended by socialites and members of New York's high society. However, it gradually evolved into a major fashion event thanks to the efforts of legendary Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland.

Vreeland became a consultant to the Costume Institute in 1972 and used her influence to turn its annual exhibitions into blockbuster shows that attracted international attention. She also helped transform the Met Gala into a star-studded affair by inviting celebrities like Cher, Elizabeth Taylor, and Mick Jagger.

Over time, the Met Gala has become known for its over-the-top themes and avant-garde fashion choices. Some of its most memorable moments include Rihanna's yellow Guo Pei gown in 2015, Lady Gaga's four outfit changes in 2019, and Billy Porter's Egyptian-inspired entrance on a litter in 2019.

Today, the Met Gala is one of the most exclusive events in the fashion industry, with tickets costing up to $30,000 and a strict guest list curated by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Each year's theme is tied to the Costume Institute's exhibition, which showcases the history and evolution of fashion.

Whether you love it or hate it, there's no denying that the Met Gala has become an iconic cultural event that celebrates creativity, individuality, and the power of fashion to inspire and captivate us all.

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Annotated Bibliography

Andrew Taylor , Ertu Unver & Graham Worth (2003) Innovative potential of 3D software applications in fashion and textile design, Digital Creativity, 14:4, 211-218 This paper examines in detail experimentation in 3D fabric and physical dynamic simulation. The author demonstrated the potential of 3D digital tools to simulate fashion and textile design, by applying Reactor Plug-in and software such as 3DS MAX and Poser 4. The author's experiment has provided a solid foundation with cutting edge technology at the time, which offers valuable reference to today’s digital fashion tools such as Clo3D or Marvellous Designer. I particularly like the experimental plug-in feature the author mentioned in the paper. It provides a very good insight into the future exploration of realistic fabric simulation development. Read Article

Ge Lei, Xiaohui Li, (2022) A new approach to 3D pattern-making for the apparel industry: Graphic coding-based localization,Computers in Industry Volume 136, 2022, 103587 This research explored a new experimental way to create digital patterns for the fashion apparel industry, the researchers used Artificial Neural Network and computer coding to digitalise 3D patterns to improve the efficiency in pattern adjustment and 3D fitting for product development process. I enjoy reading this research as this new method proposed in the research shows a great potential in different areas: it’s much less dependent on specialised 2D pattern drafting knowledge and software such as Gerber, allows us to adjust and modify the garment in real-time and get the corresponding pattern at the same time. Read Article

Istook, C.L. and Hwang, S.J. (2001) 3D body scanning systems with application to the apparel industry, Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal 5(2), pp. 120–132. This study discussed the current 3D body scanning technology for a comprehensive and accurate set of measurements through different types of technologies and scanning systems, such as White light Scanning systems, Light emitting diodes, Laser-based systems and more. The study provided sets of data to explain the fundamental logic on how each system works and pros and cons of each system. I particularly like when the author mentions capturing accurate human body data for virtual try-on, integration between captured data and apparel CAD systems, in today’s development, this study sets the foundation to digitalise human body forms for the Metaverse. Read Article

Farahi, B. (2017) Material behaviours in 3D-printed fashion items,” Architectural Design 87(6), pp. 84–91. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.2242. 

This study featured 5 unique fashion projects that used 3D printing technology, from creating a combination of soft and rigid materials with a 3D printer, to linking 3D material with a Neuro control system and interactive lighting under the material.  The authors showcased how we can bridge fashion, art, technology and design to embrace our body and be aware of our environment and surroundings. I particularly like when the author takes 3D printing technology to open new approaches to design fields, the possibility of dynamic systems and experimenting with different material properties from a micro (16-micron resolution) to a macro perspective. Read Article

Guo, S., Sun, X. and Lam, H.K. (2022) “Applications of blockchain technology in Sustainable Fashion Supply Chains: Operational Transparency and environmental efforts,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management pp. 1–17. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/tem.2020.3034216. 

This research is one of the first to conduct a deep investigation on how the application disclosure plays over the environmental efforts in the fashion industry, with the rise of popularity of environmentally friendly fashion products in the market, from raw material to final product, consumers expecting a transparent and sustainable supply chain within a fashion brand. This newly developed research indicates how blockchain technology can be implied in the Fashion apparel supply chain from raw material sourcing, production and retailers- with a sustainable, transparent and easily accessible Blockchain data.  Read Article

Gustafsson, E., Jonsson, P. and Holmström, J. (2021) “Reducing retail supply chain costs of product returns using digital product fitting,” International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 51(8), pp. 877–896. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1108/ijpdlm-10-2020-0334. This paper shows how fit uncertainty impacts product return costs in online retailing and how pre-sale digital product fitting technology can reduce fit uncertainty in order to reduce the return rate for fashion ecommerce. This study researched specifically on fashion footwear, the data gathered is valuable in current days on how AI digital try-on can change consumer pre-sale behaviours and have opportunities to reduce carbon footprint from retailer to consumer. 

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Silvestri, B. (2022) “How virtual and augmented reality are reshaping the fashion industry during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Intelligent Systems Reference Library, pp. 39–54. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91394-6_3. This paper analysed the digital technology influence after Covid-19, from AR, VR and AI perspective. The author discussed how fashion brands can adapt digital technology from Design, production supply chain, and fashion presentation in a completely new approach. The paper mentioned using AI, artificial intelligence and big data to analyse and predict trends. It sets a foundation for our practice to consider adapting digital technology when we create, promote, market and showcase fashion product in the post-pandemic era. 

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Cho, M., Yun, H. and Ko, E. (2022) “Contactless marketing management of fashion brands in the Digital age,” European Management Journal [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2022.12.005. This research detailed reviewed contactless marketing methods for fashion brands after the impact of Covid-19, from entertainment, interaction, trendiness and customization point of view. In the new era of social distancing, digital technologies created a flood of opportunities for fashion brands to engage, elevate customer experience services without physically interacting with them in person. To imply the theories in my practice, it’s important to think about adapting AR, VR technology, to create a meaningful, engaging contents for marketing purposes. Read Article Luce, L. (2019) Artificial Intelligence for fashion: How AI is revolutionizing the fashion industry. New York: Apress Media.

This book is a guide book on AI’s impact in fashion industry, it detailed explained how AI works, the basics of Artificial intelligence, and explored Machine learning in different fields of fashion, including shopping and product discovery, sales, designing and supply chain. The author’s offered basic knowledge of adapting AI within fashion industry, also predicted future on democratisation and impacts of AI. This book has helped me understood AI in fashion and provided me with ideas for me on going study and practice. Read Article Vicini, D., Speierer, S. and Jakob, W. (2022) “Differentiable signed distance function rendering,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, 41(4), pp. 1–18. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3528223.3530139.  This paper developed a new method of AI machine learning model to generative 3D object. With this new AI model, it allows us to input a basic 3D object (a sphere ball ) and reference images to generate extremely high detailed 3D object mesh and texture mapping by differentiable rendering to jointly optimise a signed distance representation of geometry and texture. This method will improve the workflow for digitising real life objects for metaverse, shorten the time of modelling by hand, eliminate errors of previous methods which will only be able to generate basic shapes and lack of details.

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[jenoutof10]

thanks 4 the tag rosie!!!!!! :DDD 🎉🎉🎉

rules: tag 10 or more people you want to get to know better

relationship status: 🙂

favorite color: pink (i like warmer pinks but all pinks are good pinks), honorable mentions are cool greens and lavender blue

song currently stuck in my head: WHERE OUR BLUE SPRING IS - TATSUYA KITANI!!!

favorite food: mala xiang guo

last song listened to: exile by taylor swift and bon iver

dream trip: OKAY... i really wanna go see the northern lights and a clear night sky, because i like the thought of us being such a small part of the universe and i wanna see stars (i rarely go outside, esp at night, and i cant remember the last time i actually saw stars, its been years). this is like, legit my dream, i could die happy knowing ive seen an actual night sky.

when i become rich, i wanna go on a spiritual history journey, like nepal/india (since that's where Buddha Gautama was born lol) + china (i wanna go to henan specifically for the longmen grottoes lol) but also like korea and japan

last thing googled: "(the university im applying for) visual communication design test" lol i applied for a scholarship test this sunday and have not studied at all 🙏 pray

i would tag people but. i literally do not know who has not been tagged uhm... this is an open invitation to anyone who HAS NOT been tagged yet thanks

tagged by @red-dyed-sarumane thamk u thamk u (:ᘌꇤ⁐ꃳ

Rules: Tag 10 or more people you want to get to know better

Relationship status: singular, one ri, and i want it to remain that way

Favorite color: pimk... teal/turquoise whichever one leans towards blue, also rlly like this kind of blue-purple (#8A86D1), and super dark blues for drawing

Song currently stuck in head: soto 🏡 deta 🚶 shunkan ⏰ owatta 😩wa 🥹

Favorite food: i have a lot so it's always changing, but my current one is TTEOKBOKKI WITH A SHITTON OF CHEES

Last song listened to: i mean it's kyoufuu allback bc i went to search for it but the real answer is.........jungkook's seven............bc yt generated playlist said so......... i can't take this song seriously, no one should be fcking that much if i did this earlier and didn't listen to anything it would've been magens' remix of ph damnit

Dream trip: i dunno, japan for gachapon i dont like going out so i dont think abt it that much, i'd like to visit friends tho

Last thing googled: astesia arknights, i was showing a friend her skins 🥺

uhhhhh gonna tag @bachirasbodyguard @alienjack @kruinka @pegpeepaw @gingaroku but u dont have to do this

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chengwu guo photographed by taylor-ferne morris

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Scott Ian, Corey Taylor, Lzzy Hale, Dave Lombardo & Tina Guo - Thunder Force (2021)

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TWC 37: FANDOM HISTORIES [SPECIAL ISSUE]

Editorial

Fandom Histories

Theory

E. Charlotte Stevens and Nick Webber, The fan-historian

Edmond Ernest dit Alban, I also eat the straights

Taylore Nicole Woodhouse, Digital archives, fandom histories, and the reproduction of the hegemony of play

Chris Comerford and Natalie Krikowa, Archive-lensing of fan franchise histories

Praxis

Lauren Chalk, Representing reggaeton through fans' online community archives

Katriina Heljakka, Fans, play knowledge, and playful history management

Ellie Jane Turker-Kilburn, Reimagining queer female histories through fandom

Kimberly Kennedy, Fan binding as a method of preserving fan fiction

Shire Belen Buchsbaum, Binding fan fiction and reexamining book production models

Kameron Dunn, Furry fandom, aesthetics, and the potential in new objects of fannish interest

Symposium

Emily Coccia, Femslash fandom and the cultivation of white queer genealogies

Qiuyan Guo, Historical poaching within celebrity fandom practices

Kyle Meikle, Time for the theme park ride-through video

Andre Magpantay, Fandom.com and fan-made histories

Tosha R. Taylor, Historicizing the fan archive of Talia al Ghul

TWC Editors, What is an anti? Exploring a key term and contemporary debates

FanLIS

Ludi Price, Lyn Robinson, Building bridges: Papers from the FanLIS 2021 symposium

Paul Thomas, How Adventure Time fans understand the 'true' producer: A close analysis of two encyclopedic fan texts

J. Nicole Miller, Information-seeking behaviors of young adult readers of fiction and fan fiction

Argyrios Emmanouloudis, Twitch (still) plays Pokémon: When spectators become archivists

Eleonora Benecchi, Colin Porlezza, Laura Pranteddu, Filling the gap: An exploration into the theories and methods used in fan studies Eleonora Benecchi, Colin Porlezza, Laura Pranteddu

Nele Noppe, Ludi Price, Kimberley Chiu, J. Nicole Miller, Erika Ningxin Wang, Serena M. Vaswani, Sarah Kate Merry, D. E. Pollock, Suzanne R. Black, Rhiannon Hartwell, Naomi Jacobs, Paul Anthony Thomas, Argyrios Emmanouloudis, Erica Hellman, Amy Spitz, What if academic publishing worked like fan publishing? Imagining the Fantasy Research Archive of Our Own

Book review

Suzanne R. Black, "The republic of games: Textual culture between old books and new media," by Elyse Graham

Judith May Fathallah, "Loving fanfiction: Exploring the role of emotion in online fandoms," by Brit Kelley

John Francis, "Manga cultures and the female gaze," by Kathryn Hemmann

Kristine Michelle Santos, "Otaku and the struggle for imagination in Japan," by Patrick W. Galbraith

Ross Hagen, "Emo: How fans defined a subculture," by Judith May Fathallah

[duncankinnie]

hello lgbtd community. everyone has their hcs for the names of every contestant but here are mine. almost every name has a meaning or reason, see if u can figure them all out (under the cut bc long)

Alejandro Burromuerto Amelia "Amy" & Samantha "Sammy" Baines Anne Maria Campana B Thompson James "Beardo" Davis Elizabeth "Beth" Young Mildred "Blaineley" O'Halloran Brick McArthur Bridgette Warren Brody Valiente Cameron Wilkins Carissa "Carrie" Deering Chet Ramsey Cody Anderson Courtney Rosales-Ortiz Rachel "Crimson" Aston Dakota Milton David "Dave" Mishra Dawn Lennox Devin Phan Devon Joseph "DJ" Daniels Jacob Duncan (known by his last name) Dwayne Tate Sr. & Dwayne Tate Jr. (known as Junior) Eleanor "Ella" Yukimura Ellody Joshi Emma & Katherine "Kitty" Guo Rhys "Ennui" Harlan Eva Kovalenko Ezekiel Durand Geoff Whitney Gerald "Gerry" Lister Gwendolyn "Gwen" Sawyer Harold McGrady V Heather Arashi Isabella "Izzy" Barrett Jacques Duchamps Jasmine Irving Jason "Jay" & Michael "Mickey" Kemp Jennifer "Jen" Prescott Joanne "Jo" Farran Josee Gagnon Justin Keawe Katrina "Katie" Ibarra Kelly Cochrane-Frost (maiden name is Cochrane) & Taylor Frost Laurie Everett Leonard Alvey Leshawna Harris Rudolph "Lightning" Jackson Lindsay Pearce Lorenzo Milano Valentina "MacArthur" Escobar Mary Spurling Maximillian "Max" Clemens Michael "Mike" Guerra, Chester Confortola, Svetlana Lebedev, Vito Valentini, Manitoba Smith, & Malatesta "Mal" Scordato Miles Sharpe Noah Mudaliar Owen Foster Diego "Pete" Montero Jonas "Rock" Carlson Rodney Turnbull Ryan Robinson Sarah "Sadie" Im Samuel "Sam" Rosenberg Imani Sanders Scarlett Flannery Scott Yates Shawn Alamilla Sierra Klossner Sky Sun Dustin "Spud" Belcher Staci Mallory Stephanie Jefferson Sugar Boyle Tamara "Tammy" Blythe Tom McConnell Christopher "Topher" Townsend Trent Hedley Tyler Anderson Zoey Hope