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Jenna Ortegaâs fame: a blessing or a curse?
Jenna Ortega, the bright young star of Hollywood, already has a cult of her own - crazy fandom that can make Selena Gomes and Taylor Swift jealous. And tarnish all her great achievements. How did that happen?
About a year ago Netflix released âWednesdayâ, which immediately has become one of the most popular series of the platform and a real cultural phenomenon. Wednesday's dance went viral, prompting the teens all over the world to cosplay the goth girl and of course, Ortega, who played the main role in the beloved series, turned from a promising actress into a superstar.
But could we say that fame is a blessing for her? Along with unprecedented popularity, Ortega has acquired numerous aggressive, obsessive fans, most of whom are teenagers living more online than in real life. The behavior of these fans have already turned into a serious problem. Every new project involving Jenna Ortega is dragged into a scandal by the efforts of her own fans that throw absolutely every accusation in the book at her co-stars.
It all started in January, when Percy Hynes White, who played a part in love triangle with her in âWednesdayâ, was accused in anonymous tweets of sexual assault, racism etc. The actor denied all the accusations and no legal proceedings followed. Ortega's fans meanwhile organized the massive campaign against White, justifying it with concerns about their idolâs life, both work related and personal. Ortega and White have repeatedly stated that they became best friends during the filming and although the status of their relationship is now unclear, many fans of Ortega continue to campaign against the actor, inciting to harass him on social media. Whiteâs participation in s2 of âWednesdayâ is still uncertain.
Martin Freeman was the next to come under fire from Ortega's fans. Freeman is her co-star in the upcoming "Miller's girl" film, where his character, a teacher, has an illicit relationship with his own student, played by Ortega. The first trailer was released recently and immediately caused to resurface the accusation of racism, child abuse etc Freeman has. In less than a day the viral tweet gained more than 13 million views and Ortega's fans actively participate in spreading accusations and inciting the harassment of the actor. And the movie hasn't been released yet! There is every reason to believe that with the release, the hate snowball will turn into an avalanche and Freeman will become the next victim of the cancel culture.
The most ambiguous situation happened around another co-star of Ortega, Toby Wallace, who played her love interest in the recently released Paramount film "Finestkind''. Although Wallace wasnât involved in anything controversial, did not actively promote the film together with Ortega and even skipped the red carpet premiere of the film, he was bombarded with hateful comments on his Instagram by Ortega's fans, who wished him dead (smt in portuguese), among other things.
Perhaps the situation began to bother Ortega's PR team, because several big fan pages simultaneously called for an end of harassment of this actor, thereby only fueling the interest of others in the issue.
Thus, almost everyone who plays a love interest of Jenna Ortega in the movies finds themselves under attack from the actress' numerous and very active fans. Their actions create quite an unhealthy atmosphere of scandal around the young star, negatively affecting her reputation in the industry, because everyone of her colleagues risks getting bullied and canceled.
Miss Ortega didnât comment on any of this and fans may see it as full approval, continuing to harass her co-stars on the Internet. Who is next? The release of a new film featuring Ortega and the Weeknd is to be announced soon, and the prospects for the Weeknd, already suffering harsh criticism for his Idol series involvement, are not very sunny.
In the upcoming film Ortega plays a stalker obsessed with the Weekndâs character, a very controversial role in itself. Letâs just wait and see if he would be the new target for the Ortegaâs stan cult.
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A Useless gift
Summary:
âWe have a useless gift, you and Iâ
His body stops before his brain really even registers her words, halting mid-step with a hand raised towards the heavy handles.
He turns, slowly. âWhat?â
He watches her mouth open, then close. Trembling lips sealed tight against her pain, the vulnerability of it.
He tries to make it easier for her, he always does. Crossing the aisle in a few large strides and sitting on the step below her like a devotee.
Xavier doesnât dare to speak; he doesnât dare to breathe. Her words come slow and careful, like sheâs afraid theyâre going to shatter in her mouth, sink in her cheeks, cut out her tongue. âAll those visions, all that research, all that pain to try to control thisâŚthisâŚâ She struggles to say gift, she wants to say curse, she ends up saying nothing at all.
He watches her swallow, hard. Wednesday hesitates only a few moments, composing herself. Then âWhat was it all for, if those who we care for, who care for us still end up six feet under?â
Or:
The beginning of the new semester begins with the late headmistress funeral. Overcome with grief, Wednesday struggles to accept her powers and the weight of her actions
Enjoy!!
Weems's funeral is a small affair.
Nevermoreâs by no means a big school. Between those who never quite discover their capabilities, those who decide to ignore them in favor of living among the normies, and the unfortunate ones who get hunted down and killed, itâs not many that actually manage to arrive at the small safe haven for outcasts.
Still, Xavier thinks they make up a pretty decent crowd. All of them standing like soldiers in their purple uniforms. Some keep their faces downturned in grief, others simply in discomfort against the midday sun, glaring vindictive and stubborn in spite of the impending Fall.
Summer decays in the air, it leaves a corpse made of heat and beaded sweat, of the uncomfortable pull of the tie against his neck.
Still, they all endure.
All except for one.
Wednesdayâs wearing her favorite mourning dress, the delicate fabric fit for the warm weather, all soft skirts blowing in the gentle September breeze and lace neckline brushing against moonlight-pale collarbones. Her hair is styled away from her face in two Dutch braids so tight they must hurt, purple lace ribbons braided in each of them, the exact color of a three-day-old bruise.
Sheâs standing right above the tombstone, looking through the freshly dug earth as if she could will the casket back to the surface, their headmistress back to life. With her back straight and impeccable posture, sheâs more elegant and refined than any of them could hope to be in this situation. Her own way of paying respect, he supposes.
Itâs the first time heâs seen her since they parted ways last semester, and it feels inappropriate and cruel to find her beautiful even now, void-eyed and godless, clutching her parasol with fingers picked raw.
Loss and grief loom over them like vultures, the dead wait for them under their own feet. The choir of the cicadas, the few who dare to keep singing after the death of summer, fades into the background as the priestâs sermon comes to an end.
Xavier doesnât think he imagines his eyes narrowing and his tone growing colder as he recites:â But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burnâ
*
Itâs always cold inside the chapel.
A relief, a welcome change from the dying summer thatâs waiting for him outside these walls.
Xavier wipes the sweat from his brow with the back of his hand, sleeves pushed messily past his elbows as he looks around the pews.
He finds Wednesday perched on the last step before the altar, dainty ankles crossed next to her now-closed parasol and bleeding fingers in her lap, looking like a lamb ready for slaughter and the executioner all at the same time.
His mouth opens without his permission, spitting whatever nonsense he can think of to try and lighten up the mood.
âA bit nostalgic, isnât it?â
An unsure smile spreads across his face as he approaches. If she hears him, she doesnât bother with an answer.
He clears his throat, then tries again. âYou havenât answered any of my texts during the break'
Her empty gaze remains fixed on the painted droplets of blood carved at the bottom of the crucifix. The evening light shining through the stained-glass windows encloses her in a fiery hue, and if he didnât know her face like the back of his own hand, if he hadnât spent countless hours trying to replicate it on canvas, he thinks he would have mistaken her for a statue of a martyr, another crying Madonna in a god-forsaken small-town church.
And just like a statue, she remains silent.
Xavier looks around, finding himself at a loss. He feels helpless and defeated. Not knowing what to do, he turns back towards the wooden doors with a frustrated sigh.
âWe have a useless gift, you and Iâ
His body stops before his brain really even registers her words, halting mid-step with a hand raised towards the heavy handles.
He turns, slowly. âWhat?â
He watches her mouth open, then close. Trembling lips sealed tight against her pain, the vulnerability of it.
He tries to make it easier for her, he always does. Crossing the aisle in a few large strides and sitting on the step below her like a devotee.
Xavier doesnât dare to speak; he doesnât dare to breathe. Her words come slow and careful, like sheâs afraid theyâre going to shatter in her mouth, sink in her cheeks, cut out her tongue. âAll those visions, all that research, all that pain to try to control thisâŚthisâŚâ She struggles to say gift, she wants to say curse, she ends up saying nothing at all.
He watches her swallow, hard. Wednesday hesitates only a few moments, composing herself. Then âWhat was it all for, if those who we care for, who care for us still end up six feet under?â
The confession of her doubt hurts too much, she plants her nails at the tip of her fingers, where the nailbed meets skin thatâs soft and fragile, and drags.
Xavier, in a move he wouldnât have the courage to make under any other circumstances, dares to take one of her hands between his own, grateful for having pulled up his sleeves as crimson droplets start falling over his palms, his wrists, and takes a moment to just look at her. Really look at her.
The memory of the little girl he met as a child overlaps with the girl whoâs been torturing him for months now. Same wide, vacant eyes and blank expression, cracked by the burning loss theyâve all been subjected to. The butterflies in his stomach, all the pain and anger from last semester, his own fingers around the pencils, itâs all hers now. Heâs not yet a man and already heâs possessed, inhabited by a girl whoâs more nightmare than flesh.
She feels like the dark corners in his childhood rooms, like the dried flowers his mother liked to place in her books, the thrill of disobedience, the trembling breath after taken after weeping. A horrifying kind of relief.
He contemplates for a wild, monstrous moment what it would be like to lose her. To have to watch her lying in a coffin rimmed with black lace, to curl around her lifeless form like heâd done with his godmother, to burn with her one last time. The prettiest girl in the morgue.
Xavier shakes his head, willing that image out of his mind as he tightens his grip around her fingers.
âItâs not uselessâ her gaze bores into him with frightening intensity, he prays to a god he doesnât believe in that she doesnât notice the red rim around his eyes âNot the visions, not the pain, none of itâ His voice is booming and too loud in the ever-quiet church, he canât help it, he needs her to understand. âIt wasnât useless when I saved you from Rowan, it wasnât useless when you saved Eugene-â
âThe Hyde almost killed himâ itâs the most emotion heâs ever heard from her, raw and loud and so very devoid of her usual control.
âBut it didnât. And he would have bled out if it werenât for you. For your visionsâ
Xavier hasnât even realized heâs holding her hand against his heart until he feels her knuckles brush against his chest, heavy pants leaving him feeling hollower than ever.
âSometimes things happen that are out of our control, but your visions arenât useless, nor are youâ Xavier knows heâs going to regret this. âI donât think Iâd like the world as much, without you in itâ
Heâs counting the seconds as they pass inside his head, sure that any moment now Wednesday is gonna go back to beingâŚwell, Wednesday. Rip her hand from his and slap him with it, smearing her blood all over his cheek, maybe push him down the steps and watch his skull crack open, drag him up the altar and sacrifice him as an offering.
But Wednesday leaves her hand right where it is, lets her bloodied fingers smear the fabric over his heart as her inquisitive eyes keep looking into his, for what he might never know.
Finally, a huff leaves her lips, and with it all the tension in her spine. âYou probably would have found an idiotic way to annihilate yourself by now if it werenât for my assistanceâ
His laugh is a traitorous thing, it takes him by surprise so much he canât help the ugly snort that precedes it.
But his joy is short-lived. A shadow takes over her face once more, different this time. Thereâs no anguish, just a sort of quiet resignation.
âMaybe this was the price all along.â Says Wednesday with a glance behind them at the large pipes of the organ. âI saved you from the flames so many years ago, and in turn, they caught up with us. Fire will rain, burn for burnâ
Xavier doesnât wanna believe it, and heâs not sure what compels him to ask questions heâs not sure he wants the answer to.
âWas it a fair trade?â
And itâs so selfish, to compare his life to the tragedy that was last year. The hikers, the policemen, The mayor- a boy left fatherless, Rowan, Mrs Weems. So much death and heartbreak compared to a boy who wouldnât have been missed by anyone at all.
Wednesday takes a breath, doesnât answer. She died too, last year. Even if she was healed, even if Goodie brought her back, it doesnât erase the memory of bleeding out in a crypt, chained and forgotten.
She shakes her head softly at him, long braids swaying softly at her sides. Instead of answering, she echoes his words. âI donât think Iâd like the world as much without you in it, eitherâ
And before he has a chance to process any of it, she stands up in a fluid, graceful motion, with enough strength behind it to drag him up with her.
Wednesday lets go of his hand and descends the steps quickly, leaving him vaguely disoriented and the tiniest bit disappointed their moment ended so abruptly.
Then, when sheâs already halfway across the aisle, she turns back to him. Her brow arched high and a playful glint in her eyes, mouth twisted in the meanest smile heâs ever seen.
âXavier, want to play hide and seek?â
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