#by vivienne miller

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CRITICISM: Question Patriarchal Ideals with the All-Woman Utopian Narrative (in 6 easy steps!) from “A Retrospeculative Dive into Herland,” Maze and Miller, 2021

As my portfolio no doubt reflects, Charlotte Perkins Gilman inspires a great deal of thought and art out of me. The zine I publish here is a retrospeculative project with a fantastic author and co-conspirator I completed regarding the novel. The questioning facilitated here, in this specific post, by Vivienne Miller and Simone de Beauvoir features none of my writing, but I take sharing it as an…

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#by vivienne miller #Charlotte Perkins Gilman #herland #in conversation #multimedia #vivienne miller #writing

[thebroadwaybi]

Just checked the official Hazbin Hotel Insta and??????

HELLO????

THIS CAST KEEPS GETTING MORE AND MORE WILD

Jessica Vosk????

Darren Criss???

JEREMY FUCKING JORDAN?????

#I AM SO EXCITED FOR JANUARY GET THE FUCK OUTTA MY FACE #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel cast #jessica vosk #jeremy jordan #darren criss #daphne rubin vega #patina miller #vivziepop #vivienne medrano

[simstryingtheirbestok]

"--just as I always do. I always measure twice. So what I can't understand is how the heck it went wrong!"

"Had you ever done a Snowglobe Enchantment before, Mom?" Aunt Wendalyn said.

"Well, no," my grandmother said, "but I don't think it matters. It's considered fairly trivial to work. Children can do it. It's a simple illusion, meant to dazzle your Snowflake Day guests on their way out, by helping them step into a sparkling, magical, winter wonderl--"

"Out there it is summer, Grandma," I said crossly. "People are swimming. Everyone is in tank tops and shorts and sandals."

"I have heard they do things different in the Nordics--" Violet began.

"Shut UP, Violet. God!" I threw up my hands in frustration.

"Grandma," I said, "if it's a winter scene you wanted, wouldn't it have been a billion times simpler just to make it snow? Look! Everyone has their lights--okay. Backtrack--everyone in Elmira City had their lights up. Maybe they still do. I mean, I'm assuming this enchantment didn't nuke the city from orbit or anything, right?

Nods from everyone but Violet, who suddenly looked frantic. I shouldn't even suggest possibilities like that around her.

"Plus! PLUS, we were out in the suburbs with no lack of trees, right, and it was cold enough that I super regretted wearing a halter dress, although I'm much happier about that choice now because, like I said, it's fucking summer. But come on! The weather stone was just--"

My aunt interrupted me.

"We can only do Reviving Sprinkle at the Weather Stone, Velma. Sorry. No snow."

"Is that the one with the rainbow?" asked Violet.

No one answered her right away, so I jumped back in before anyone could.

"Are you seriously trying to tell me that you're both fairies--one of you is even Queen of all of you--and you can't just make it snow whenever you want? How is that possible? Even witches have Ice Blast!"

My grandmother's turn to throw up her hands.

"I don't understand any more of this than you do, Velma--"

"Then you shouldn't have been playing around with such things, Mother," I heard my own mother say.

I stared at her as though she were an alien in our midst. She might as well have been! My mother...? talking that way to her mother...? Since fucking when?!

Aunt Wendalyn sighed.

"I have to agree with Wilona, Mom. This was... this wasn't your best-ever idea."

"It was a TERRIBLE idea," I said. "I love you, Auntie W, but let's not euphemize it. It was an absolutely batshit awful idea and now--I mean, look at Violet. She's terrified something has happened to her family. --Oh, you are too, Violet, and I don't even blame you, okay? Like for once your reaction is exactly normal."

I caught my breath and continued.

"And what about Devon? Devon teaches school now, Grandma, did you know that? He has class in the morning! Those children depend on him, and now you've fucked it up for a... for a... for a spectacle," I said.

I wasn't even sure that was the word I wanted, but Vivienne nodded at me. "Yes. A spectacle. Almost Situationist, so I applaud it in that sense, but... these are our lives, Grandma, and, um, they're severely messed up right now."

"And we know you meant well, Grandma, but please," said Violet, plainly near tears, "please find some way to fix it."

My grandmother looked dazedly around the room. Seeming uncertain which of us to address, she finally raised a hand at the television and directed her question to it:

"How?"

#ts3 #ts3 legacy #sims 3 #sims 3 legacy #the sims 3 legacy #planetary legacy #generation mercury #enya padrino #velma jeffrey #wendalyn padrino #vivienne vaneault #violet crandall #wilona jeffrey #devon miller #enya can be so maddening #ask me how i know

[genevieveetguy]

The toothed vagina appears in the mythology of many and diverse cultures all over the world. In these myths, the story is always the same. The hero must do battle with the woman. The toothed creature can break her power.

Teeth, Mitchell Lichtenstein (2007)

#Mitchell Lichtenstein #Jess Weixler #John Hensley #Josh Pais #Hale Appleman #Lenny von Dohlen #Vivienne Benesch #Ashley Springer #Laila Liliana Garro #Nicole Swahn #Adam Wagner #Wolfgang Held #Robert Miller #Joe Landauer #2007

[guess-my-next-obsession]

The Stable Girl: Chapter Eight

pairing: joel miller x f!reader (Sunshine)

chapter rating: E (face sitting, ass eating, unprotected anal sex, double penetration, squirting, talks of Sarah’s death, joel crying, baby stuff, breastfeeding, all in all these two just being obsessed with each other)

word count: 5.2k

authors note: this is mostly just a soft filler chapter with literally the most filthy smut i’ve written for these two. super self indulgent and fluffy bc i just wanna give these two happiness 😭

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“Could you grab another blanket, baby? I think Luna’s getting cold.” You were sat out in the backyard around a bonfire, Luna fast asleep in your arms while Lucas laid in Maria’s.

“Sure thing, darlin.” Joel kissed your head as he stood up from his spot beside you and walked inside.

The twins had just reached the four-month mark, their distinct personalities now making it easy to tell the two apart though they looked so similar.

Luna was a lovebug, always needing to be held and spoiled with kisses. She rarely cried and was a big fan of the sound of laughter, her own giggles beginning to sound more human than the incoherent crackles from before. She loved to eat and loved to sleep even more. She was the easy baby.

And then there was Lucas. A Miller boy through and through. He rarely slept, loved a good tantrum, but when you got him in the right mood, he was the softest and most cuddly baby boy in the world. His eyes were just like his fathers, and whenever you looked into them, you swore you saw the same kind of soul inside that you saw when you looked into Joel’s—soft and sensitive, good and honest.

Around you at the fire sat Tommy, Maria, their now seven-year old daughter Vivienne, Ellie, and Ellie’s “kind of special, I guess” friend (as Ellie dubbed her), Cat. Joel had managed to hunt a rare Bison, giving most of the meat to the town’s butcher but reserving enough for a little barbecue.

As someone who lost their parents very young, you felt a swelling amount of joy and belonging in your heart on nights like these. You’d lost a father, a mother, and most recently cut all ties with your brother, but by some miracle found a new group of people to call your family—a home in the midst of desolation.

“Here, lemme take her for a while,” Joel returned holding a fleece blanket, scooping the sleeping baby girl out of your arms and into his.

It was nights like these that your adoration for the man beside you became almost unbearable, your entire body longing to climb on his lap and hug him so tightly that you merged into one being.

He was so attentive with your children, so helpful and patient, so sweet with you, and on top of all the emotional needs he was meeting, he also looked criminally handsome. He outdid himself tonight, wearing your favorite flannel, leaving the top few buttons open to show off the chest you so dearly wished to pepper with kisses.

It was impossible not to be absolutely head over heels in love with him, and now with one year of feeling this way under your belt, you were sure that the feeling would never fade no matter how many years passed.

“Hey, I heard we’re gonna have to build another stable with all the horses you’ve been wranglin’ from outside,” Tommy called over the fire to you, your eyes unwilling to turn away from Joel. He was leaning down, head tilted, smile wide and dimpled, mumbling to your baby girl and making her giggle. Tommy whistled at you and your head finally turned, a smile still on your face from watching your partner. “You hear me?”

“Yeah,” you nodded, shrugging. “It’s no big deal.”

“No big deal? You went from not bein’ able to even hold a gun to bein’ out there able to hold your own. We’re proud of you.” Maria interjected with a smile, a soft chuckle leaving your lips at the praise. You never were very good at receiving a compliment.

“Well, thank you guys. I like it out there now…in very small doses.” Joel chuckled at your response, your eyes meeting his. He reached over and tapped your knee with a half-grin.

“I’m proud of you, sweetheart.” You just smiled down at your lap, too consumed with your cutesy feelings for him to look him in the eye anymore. Joel must’ve sensed something was up because not a minute later he was scooting his chair closer to yours until your thighs were flush together, his hand reaching to rub at your back mindlessly as he carried on conversation with his family. “Tommy, I was an angel growin’ up. You were the bad one. Remember that time you skipped class and then I got grounded for it?”

“Oh, hell, this shit again,” Tommy chuckled and shook his head. “It wasn’t my fault.”

“No, but you coulda said somethin!” You chuckled at his enthusiasm, rarely seeing him in such a social mood.

“What happened?” You asked softly, nudging his side with your shoulder. Joel turned to look at you with a chuckle, eyes flickering to your lips before speaking.

“Tommy was a freshman and I was a junior, and I’m at school because I wasn’t bad like him. I actually enjoyed learnin—“

“Alright, Einstein,” Tommy interrupted with a chuckle.

“Anyways, I guess Tommy ditched class to go hang out at the mall or smoke cigarettes or somethin, I don’t know. But they call up our parents and tell ‘em that their son had skipped school, and my parents thought that Tommy was a saint, so they automatically assumed it was me,” Joel chuckled and pointed his finger at Tommy. “And Tommy didn’t say shit! He got home at the same time I did, and he listened to them nail into me and ground me for a god damn month and let me take the fall.”

“I wasn’t about to get grounded and ruin my perfect reputation with mom and dad.” Tommy shrugged and took a sip of his beer.

“Unbelievable,” Joel chuckled and turned his head to look at you, your eyes batting from exhaustion and some dreamy sort of affection for him that was always present but extra apparent at the moment. He leaned in to your ear and whispered to you. “You tired, baby?”

“A little,” you looked at him, hoping that he’d see the longing in your eyes for him so that you wouldn’t have to say the words. “I’m gonna go put the babies down and take a bath.”

“Alright,” he smiled at you as you took Luna into your arms before walking around to grab Lucas with the other, both babies fussing a bit at being woken up but quickly going back to sleep.

•••

“Y’all have a good night,” Joel said goodbye to his brother and his family, seeing them out through the back gate before going over to the fire to put it out, Ellie and Cat still sitting there talking. “Sorry, girls. Gotta put this out before I get too lazy to do it later.”

“No problem, we’re headed inside anyways.” Ellie stood up and grabbed Cat’s hand, Joel smiling to himself at her affectionate side making a rare appearance.

“Have a good night, kids.” He called out to them and Ellie waved at him from over her shoulder as they disappeared into her garage-turned-bedroom.

With the fire now out, Joel could head inside, desperate to get his hands on Sunshine like he’d been itching to do all night long.

He wasn’t sure if she was even aware of it, but she was wearing the same knit dress that she wore the night they first slept together, and it was driving him wild. He wanted to recreate that night, him on the couch, her riding him with their clothes still on because they were too desperate to wait. Every time she looked over at him with that innocent smile, cradling his babies one at a time, he felt consumed with a almost maddening kind of love for her. He’d do anything she asked of him, good or bad, right or wrong, it didn’t matter.

She was in the bathroom when he finally found her, wrapped in a towel and brushing her teeth. Joel smiled at her through the mirror, leaning against the doorframe and crossing his arms. She giggled and tipped her chin up at him through the mirror, as though to ask “what’s up?”.

“Just enjoyin’ the view,” he was tired, his voice huskier and deeper than normal, and he knew the effect it would have on her. Sunshine grinned as she spit out her toothpaste, swishing her mouth with a homemade mouthwash she concocted before turning around to smile at him.

“I’ve been enjoying the view all night. It’s a nice view.” She pulled him in by his belt loops, Joel breathing in the delicate scent of her soap as he ran his hands up and down her arms.

“Have you?” He sounded truly surprised by her confession, not having caught a single hint that she must’ve tried throwing his way.

“You didn’t know?” She asked with equal shock, Joel shaking his head.

“No, why didn’t you say somethin’? I woulda kicked ‘em all out hours ago.” He trailed his fingertips over the edge of the towel around her chest, slowly undoing the fold she’d created there to keep it on. Sunshine held it on her body, just allowing the front to fall open. Joel sucked in a sharp inhale at the sight of her body, her breasts still larger than normal from the breastfeeding but the rest of it returning to the state it was in when he met her aside from a few new stretch marks that he’d become well acquainted with over the past few months, showering them with kisses. “Look at you, baby. I’ll never get enough of this.”

“You flatter me, Joel Miller,” she smiled at him the way she did when she was trying her best to accept a compliment, her mouth twisting a little and the apples of her cheeks becoming more prominent. He traced over her cheekbone with his thumb, trailing it down to her bottom lip before pinching her chin.

“I love you so damn much, you know that?” His sincerity seemed to come as a shock to her, that bashful smile fading to a look of awe. “I’m so glad you picked me. Can’t imagine my life without you in it.”

“Joel,” she chuckled, her shy smile returning again. “You’re going to make me cry, you know my hormones are still all over the place.”

He laughed, nodding at her before softening his eyes. “I can’t help it. I’m so in love with you.”

She stood up off the counter, letting her towel fall to the floor as she walked him back against the opposite wall, her hand holding his jaw as she pulled him down for a kiss. Joel groaned into it, his hands gripping her hips and tugging her tight to his frame. Sunshine was kissing him breathless, his brows furrowing as he tried his best to show her how much he loved her through such a small physical act.

“I need you,” she whispered against his lips, Joel nodding as he kissed her again, backing her out of the bathroom and down the hall to his bedroom, the couple making sure to be quiet as to not disturb the sleeping infants in the next room.

“Fuck, I love you, baby,” he breathed out as he shut the door with his foot, his hands now palming her ass.

“I want…wanna try something tonight,” she pulled away from him, her smile bashful as she looked up into his eyes. “But I don’t know if you’ll want to do it.”

“I’ll do anything for you.” It was sincere. It didn’t matter what she asked of him—it was hers.

“I wanna…have all of you tonight. As much as I can get.” She unbuttoned his flannel as she spoke, Joel’s eyes locked on her fingertips and his breathing shallow. “I want you…to fuck me in the ass—“

“Jesus fucking Christ,” Joel breathed out in a barely audible whisper, his cock going from a half-chub to painfully hard in a second.

“And while you do that, I want your fingers inside my pus—“

Joel didn’t need another word to leave her lips, his mouth crashing against hers as he picked her up, ignoring her giggled squeal as he walked her to the bed and laid her down, his body covering hers like a shield.

“You’re so fuckin’ perfect, darlin’…do you feel how hard you got me?” He pressed himself against her bare center, Sunshine’s eyes rolling back in her head as the seam of his jeans rubbed her clit just right. “You want all of me tonight, baby?”

Sunshine said nothing, simply nodding her head adamantly and ripping his shirt open, the buttons flying across the room.

“I’ll fix it tomorrow,” she breathed out as her lips latched onto his neck, his hips still grinding against her as she fumbled with his belt buckle. “Use the belt on me.”

“What?” He asked in a chuckle, lifting his head to look at her.

“Tie my hands behind my back when you fuck me.” Joel couldn’t help the moan that slipped out at her request, his cock having already been aching for her when she was simply wearing a dress and cradling his children. Now here she was asking the most filthy, sensual requests from him, and he was barely hanging on.

“Fuckin’ hell, baby,” he quickly forced his jeans and underwear off his body, stepping out of them before flipping her over onto her knees, her ass arched in the air in the middle of the bed. Joel used his belt to bind her wrists together, slipping the leather through the slats in his headboard. “Like this?”

“Yes, fuck me,” she moaned out, Joel’s eyes lowering to her dripping pussy. He let out a growl as he lowered his mouth to her slit, spreading her arousal around to her tighter hole with his tongue. He could feel her pussy fluttering as he swirled his tongue around her tight ring of muscle, his fingers joining the party and slipping inside of her pussy to target that special spot inside. “Oh my god, Joel…I need it so bad.”

“I know, sweetheart, but I gotta work you open first. Don’t wanna hurt you,” he placed a kiss to the round swell of her ass, her walls twitching around his fingers as he continued to fuck her with them. He pulled them out once he was well drenched in her slick, rubbing the two fingertips over her tight ring, adding pressure as he went. “You ever done this before?”

“What do you think?” She quipped playfully.

“No?” He asked with a chuckle, Sunshine nodding. “Me neither, so…you gotta tell me what hurts and what feels good.”

“I will, baby.” Her soft and shy reassurance melted his heart a bit more than he expected, his lips pressing against the bottom of her spine.

Joel finally breached her entrance with one finger, taking it slow as he loosened her up, his other hand reaching down to rub at her clit the way he’d learned got her off best. Sunshine tugged at the restraints around her wrist as she let out a soft moan, their sex life not affected by the newborns aside from the volume in which they could fuck at now.

“Stay just like that,” he ordered, Sunshine nodding in compliance. Joel laid on his back between her open thighs, smiling at the view of her pussy right above his face. “Looks so damn good, darlin. Why don’t you sit down and give me a taste?”

Sunshine obliged, her pussy resting against his waiting mouth and grinding against it. Joel hummed at her taste, one hand holding her hip to keep her down against his mouth, the other reaching around to continue working her open while she rode his face.

“Fuck, you’re so tight,” his finger was now all the way inside of her tight hole so he added another, surprised that the new digit triggered her orgasm, her pussy gushing on his tongue. Sunshine was breathless from holding in her moans, her thighs shaking around his head. “So sweet.”

“I’m ready, Joel. Please, fuck me in the ass,” Joel groaned against her inner thigh as he peppered it with kisses before sliding out from underneath her. He expertly flipped her onto her back, the belt twisting as she remained restrained to it. Smiling at her genuinely, the couple allowed themselves to laugh together for a moment, both so worked up that it was comical. “Mm, I love that I can laugh with you.”

Her words touched him in a way he hadn’t been prepared for, his smile turning into a loving frown.

“I love you, Sunshine.” He stroked her burning cheeks with his knuckles, his cock prodding at her entrance and sinking in out of instinct. Both of them gasped at the slick vacuum of her pussy around him, his thrusts deep and grinding before he was pulling out of her and repositioning himself at her other hole. “Are you sure about this?”

“Completely.” He leaned forward to kiss her as his cock slipped past the tight ring of muscle with little resistance from the slickness of her orgasm. Joel gasped at the tightness around the head of his girth, Sunshine’s face contorting into a look of pain.

“Are you okay, darlin? Is it too much?” She shook her head violently, a deep, animalistic moan falling from her lips as she pulled on her restraints to try and pull him down. Joel leaned forward, kissing her and cradling her face as he inched his length in little by little until he was fully seated inside of her. “So fuckin’ tight, baby. You ready for me to move?”

“Yes, yes, please,” she panted, Joel’s hands on either side of her body keeping him upright as he slid out before pushing all the way back in, her eyes rolling back in her head. “Jesus, you’re so fucking big, Joel. Feels so good.”

“You feel amazin’, honey…so good for me. Takin’ it all. You want more?” Joel rasped as he tried not to finish at the mere sight of her body beneath his, open and all for him.

“Yes, fuck, want your fingers,” she begged, opening her eyes. Joel softened his pleasured scowl, smiling down at her as he lowered his fingers to her dripping pussy, sliding them in while never once breaking eye contact. When he curled them up to rub against her spot at the same time as his cock thrusted into her, she shuddered with pleasure, her walls fluttering around him. “So good, it’s so fucking g-good, Joel.”

“I know, I know…so fuckin’ good. Makes you wanna cry, don’t it?” He purred into the air, his hips snapping into her while his fingers targeted her g-spot, thumb rubbing circles against her clit.

“I love you so much, Joel,” her eyes opened and she looked up at him like he hung the stars up in the sky, all restraint leaving him as he pounded into her furiously, his fingers cramping but unrelenting in their attack. “G-gonna make me cum, feels…too good…please cum with me, baby. Cum for me.”

“Fuck,” he closed his eyes for the first time, so close to the edge that he could tip over at anytime, but he wanted to do this together. Lowering his lips to hers, he felt her start to gush around his fingers, a wicked smile growing on his face. “You gonna squirt for me, Sunshine? Gonna make a mess?”

“Yes, yes, yes! I’m—oh!” He pulled his fingers out and watched as she wet his lower stomach, his hand now rubbing at her clit to work her through he pulsing orgasm that sucked his cock deeper into her tighter hole until he was pulling out and laying his cock on her stomach, white ropes of his release pooling there as he came so hard he nearly passed out. Joel was still moaning a full minute after his release hit him, the aftershocks of his bliss almost violent. “That was so good, baby.”

“Yeah, it was,” he agreed with a chuckle, leaning forward to undo the restraints on her wrists, frowning at the red marks left on her skin. “Did I hurt you?”

“No.” He tilted her head at her as though to ask the question again. “Only the good kind of hurt, I promise.”

“Next time I’ll find somethin’ softer to tie you up with,” he lowered his mouth to hers for a soft kiss, their breathing still labored and hearts still pounding. “We made a mess.”

“Yeah, we did.” She grinned at him, running her hands through his hair.

“Let’s hop in the shower,” he stood up and held his hand out for her to take, her legs weak, thighs trembling, and body covered in the mixture of their releases, but she stood up anyways, letting him carry most of her weight as they crept over to the bathroom with quiet giggles.

Their shower quickly turned into another bath once they washed off the mess of their romp, Sunshine’s back pressed against Joel’s chest in the hot water. Joel’s fingers trailed up and down her arm and shoulder, his lips kissing any bit of skin he could find as he hummed a song for her at her request.

“I wanna tell you about somethin’ I’ve been sorta holdin’ off on,” Joel’s voice was thick with exhaustion, but neither of them were quite ready to give up this time alone yet, their days consumed with taking care of their twins, going to work, and watching over Ellie. Sunshine tilted her head a bit to look at him better, his finger tracing the curve of her jawline.

“Okay,” she nodded, eyes searching his with concern.

“It ain’t nothin’ to worry about, just…I know I haven’t told you about the night Sarah passed, and…I don’t know. I guess it’s just taken me this long to finally be able to talk about it, so I wanna talk about it.” She nodded again, her hand rubbing his thigh beneath the water. “It was my birthday. She, uh, I was home late—always home late back then—and I remember feeling so damn tired. My start-up was just a damn weight around my neck, and I was a single dad—anyways. I just wanted to sleep, but she wasn’t havin’ that, not without makin’ sure I felt special on my birthday…my sweet baby girl.”

Joel smiled at the memory, Sarah holding out the small box, his hands opening it to see a watch—the watch that was now sitting on the bathroom counter.

“She gave me that watch over there. I don’t know how she did it or where she got the money—she said she was selling ‘hardcore drugs’.” Sunshine chuckled, her eyes locked on his as he told the story. “Anyways, I put her to bed one minute, and the next I was bein’ woken up by this commotion outside. I turned on the news and saw…chaos. I don’t know how to explain it, but it just felt like one bad, bad dream.”

“I remember,” she nodded, Joel’s eyes turning to hers. He kissed her forehead and hummed.

“I found her awake, in my office. Had to grab my gun and kill one of our neighbors who’d already been infected right in front of my little girl. It was awful.” He nuzzled his cheek against her head, hugging her body close. “And then Tommy came and picked us up. Left all our shit behind. It was chaos, everyone tryin’ to get out but nobody able to.”

He took a beat before continuing, the next part the hardest to retell.

“Everything was happenin’ so fast. I hardly remember it all. Just bits and pieces. Me and Sarah runnin’ through the town on fire, seein’ shit neither of us ever should’ve had to see…and then I thought we’d made it. Thought we were in the clear. But…the military had already occupied the town, and there was one guard out in the field we’d ran into.” He sighed, closing his eyes and squeezing them shut for a minute as the scene played over in his head, a tear falling down his cheeks at the memory he’d kept locked away for so long now finally being brought back to the surface. “I didn’t know he had a gun until it was too late. I tried…tried to reason with him. Tell him we weren’t sick. None of it mattered. He got the order to shoot, and he did.”

“Oh, baby.” She turned around in his hold, hugging him close in the water, her face nuzzled into his neck.

“I tried to dodge it, and I thought I did a good job. Thought I protected her—the only person I needed to protect. But…I didn’t.” He cleared his throat, taking in a deep breath. “She was shot in the stomach. Too much blood lost. Tommy and I stayed there for as long as we could, holdin’ her…tellin’ her I was sorry.”

Joel was fully crying now, held together only by the loving embrace of the woman in his arms. She squeezed him so tightly that in any other circumstance it might have hurt, but at that moment it just made him feel like he wouldn’t shatter. That he might make it out of retelling this story in one piece.

“We buried her that night—or Tommy did, I should say. I couldn’t…wasn’t of any use for a long time.” He wiped away his tears with the palm of his hand. “The watch got broken in the crossfire, and I left it like that for a long time. Didn’t want to touch it. Didn’t want to look at it. But, Ellie brought it to me when you were givin’ birth, repaired. She said she wanted me to have it so it could feel like Sarah was there with me, and…it did. I haven’t taken it off since except to shower. It just…makes me feel like I still have a part of her around. I think she’d love the twins. Think she’d love you.”

“I am so sorry, Joel. So sorry.” She lifted her head to look into his eyes, a small smile growing on his face.

“It’s okay,” he assured, kissing her forehead. “I’ve made my peace with it, or…I’m trying to at least.”

“I’m so proud of you.” Her words were sincere, thick with affection and pride. “None of that was your fault. I need you to know that. You didn’t fail her, didn’t hurt her, you were just trying to get her to safety and someone else came along and took her from you. None of it was your fault.”

“I love you,” he wouldn’t disagree with her like he wanted to, so he chose to say the second thing that popped into his mind. “You have given me so much. Helped me through so much. I…never thought I’d get to this point. And I owe it all to you, Ellie, and those twins that I think I can hear squawkin’ right now.”

“Thought I was hallucinating it,” she chuckled and he let out a small huff of amusement, kissing her forehead again. “Come on, let’s go deal with them and then get some rest. You look exhausted, my cowboy.”

“I am exhausted,” he nodded. Sunshine kissed his lips sweetly before standing up and stepping out of the tub, wrapping her body in a towel and holding one open for Joel as he joined her in the cold autumn air of the un-heated home.

They both shivered a bit as they dried off in the bedroom, changing into their pajamas before Joel headed in to the twins room while Sunshine changed the sheets.

Luna and Lucas were both up, the latter screaming his head off while his sister just stared with tired eyes at her father. Joel reached in to grab his baby boy first, bouncing him a bit in his arms and kissing the side of his head as he walked them back into their bedroom.

“Oh, he’s in a fussy mood,” Sunshine frowned as she took the baby into her arms, rocking him and humming as she kissed his forehead. Just like his father, Lucas was always immediately calmed by his mother’s presence, his screams turning into soft cries that turned into sniffles until he was nearly fast asleep again.

“Gonna bring in the other one,” he kissed the top of her head and left again, this time grabbing his baby girl with one arm and their respective blankets with the other.

When he walked into the room, Sunshine was laying in bed half-asleep, Lucas in her arms as he was breastfed. Joel stopped in the doorway to watch for minute, swept away by affection for her. She’d been working so hard lately, not only as a mother but also for the town. He could tell she was exhausted, and while he did everything he could to help carry the load, he still felt desperate to take away all the weight on her shoulders for a while.

So, after laying Luna down on the bed in between where her parents slept, Joel carefully plucked Lucas from her chest and walked him downstairs to make him a bottle.

“You need to take it easy on your mama, boy,” Joel playfully scolded his son as he drank his bottle, his eyes blinking up at his father. “I got a crush on her, you know? Don’t like seein’ her so tired all the time. And I know it ain’t your fault, us Miller boys have always been trouble—“

“Joel, baby,” Sunshine’s chuckles caused his head to whip around, Luna cradled in her arms. “What are you doing down here? Come up to bed.”

“I was just tryin’ to give you a break,” he walked over to her, his free arm wrapping around her shoulders to pull her into his side.

“I don’t need a break, I just need you in bed with me,” she assured, resting her head on his shoulders as they stood in the middle of their kitchen, looking down at their babies. “I think Luna’s good to go back to bed, she wasn’t hungry.”

“I’ll stay up with Lucas until he’s asleep,” he kissed her temple but she shook her head.

“So I gotta compete with my baby boy to get you in bed with me? I’ll start throwing tantrums if I have to,” she joked, Joel chuckling as he walked them upstairs.

“I promise I’ll be in bed in just a few minutes, baby.” The parents set their children down in their cribs, Lucas surprisingly going right to sleep now that his belly was full. Joel turned to a very sleepy and grumpy looking Sunshine, pointing at his son. “I think my talk with him is already startin’ to work.”

“Come here,” she pulled him in, wrapping her arms around his waist and hugging him close, her head on his chest. Joel hugged her back, kissing the top of her head as he swayed her. “You make me so needy for you. If I wasn’t so sleepy I’d ask you to fuck me again.”

“I can make a pot of coffee,” he joked, Sunshine chuckling against his chest.

“I can wait until morning,” she assured, letting go of him and taking his hand in hers as she led him back to their bedroom and into bed. She clung to him underneath the blankets, for warmth or sheer need for contact, he couldn’t be sure. “You’re my home, Joel. Never had one before I found you.”

“Sweet girl,” he kissed her for the millionth time that night, whispering sweet nothings to her until they were both fast asleep in each other’s arms.

Everything in his past led him here, every right, every wrong, everything that haunted him—it was all a stepping stone to her. He no longer could think about any of that, any of his demons, because in loving her, that everything had faded to nothing. Now, his everything belonged to one person, one beautiful soul that never seemed to get tired of him the way so many had before.

He wished more than anything that Sarah could be here with them, to see her father in love and happy, to be under his roof or under her own with her own family, it didn’t matter. But he knew deep down that she was in a better place, and that one day he’d be there with her again, and until then, he’d learn to feel content with her memory, the faintest sense of her presence whenever he wore his watch.

•••

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[d-criss-news]

Jeremy Jordan, Daphne Rubin-Vega & More Join HAZBIN HOTEL Musical Series

In the continued spirit of Thanksgiving, Prime Video is showing its appreciation to Hazbin Hotel fans by revealing the premiere date for Season One of the highly anticipated adult animated musical comedy.

Episodes will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video beginning January 19, 2024, in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Guest stars include Broadway veterans Darren Criss (Saint Peter), Jeremy Jordan (Lucifer Morningstar), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Carmilla Carmine), Patina Miller (Sera), and Jessica Vosk (Lute). They will join the stacked lineup of previously announced main cast including Erika Henningsen, Stephanie Beatriz, Alex Brightman, Keith David, Kimiko Glenn, Blake Roman, Amir Talai, Christian Borle, and Joel Perez. The series will feature original music and lyrics from platinum-certified artist Sam Haft and Emmy-nominated Andrew Underberg. In true Broadway fashion, Prime Video will be announcing the new guest stars via the marquee at the iconic Pantages Theatre in Hollywood today from 8am - 6pm PT. Assets will be serviced to you directly. Fans can continue to visit here to pre-order special packages that include exclusive Season One merchandise, digital access to the first two episodes before they release on Prime Video, and a virtual Q&A event with Vivienne Medrano and special guests. Early access episodes will be available to stream for a limited time on the A24 App.

—

About Hazbin Hotel Hazbin Hotel follows Charlie, the princess of Hell, as she pursues her seemingly impossible goal of rehabilitating demons to peacefully reduce overpopulation in her kingdom. After a yearly extermination imposed by angels, she opens a hotel in the hopes that patrons will be "checking out" into Heaven. While most of Hell mocks her goal, her devoted partner Vaggie, and their first test subject, adult-film star Angel Dust, stick by her side. When a powerful entity known as the "Radio Demon" reaches out to assist Charlie in her endeavors, her crazy dream is given a chance to become a reality.

#darren criss #broadway world #hazbin hotel #press #nov 2023

[tranquil-slaughterhouse]

Darren Criss is Saint Peter

Jeremy Jordan is Lucifer Morningstar

Daphne Rubin-Vega is Carmilla Carmine

Patina Miller is Sera

and Jessica Vosk is Lute

#hazbin hotel #darren criss #jeremy jordan #daphne rubin vega #patina miller #jessica vosk

[softiedancers]

P21 Intensive

Ale Mancillas Dance Studio

Ruby Salinas (junior)

Balbina Cueva Toussaint (teen/senior)

Loreto Perez Robles (teen/senior)

Paloma Wise Hernandez (teen/senior)

Allegro Performing Arts Academy

Arina Bryzgunova (mini)

Art & Soul Dance Company

Domenica Mauti (junior, 12)

Base Dance Studios

Kit Swaddling (teen/senior)

Bella Dance Academy

Ava Fryer (teen/senior)

CA School of Classical Ballet

Aliya Yen (mini, 10)

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio

Stella Brinkerhoff (mini, 9)

Brooklyn Ward (mini, 11)

Ruby Taylor (junior, 11)

Vivienne Mitchell (teen/senior, 14)

Class Act Dance and Performing Arts

Jaklyn Woodland (teen/senior, 15)

Club Dance Studio

Finley Nielson (mini, 9)

Navy Forrest (mini, 9)

Brooklyn Besch (junior, 11)

Kendyl Miller (junior, 11)

Danceology

Soleil Lynch (mini, 9)

Ella Nani Knight (junior)

Dance Concept

Jacilynn Mar (junior)

Dance Dimensions Performing Arts Center

Victoria Safahi (mini, 10)

Sophia Hasson (junior)

Dance Expressions Dance Studio

Kiersten Mcbride (teen/senior)

Dance Nation

Jaelynn Walls (mini, 9)

Summer Schilling (mini, 9)

Dance Precisions

Brooklyn Ladia (teen/senior, 13)

Jasmine Sison (teen/senior, 15)

Dance Star Academy of Performing Arts

Bella Salcedo (mini, 9)

Evoke Dance Movement

Tayah Klimuck (junior, 12)

Evolve Dance Studio

Sienna Hoover (mini, 10)

FootNotes Dance & Acrobatics

Alexis Ratliff (teen/senior)

Fusion Dance Force

Abby Rodriguez (mini, 10)

Sophia Bianco (junior, 11)

Ava Rodriguez (teen/senior)

Hudson Dance Academy

Lauren Piepel (teen/senior, 17)

Imagine Dance Academy

Maria Moreno (mini)

JDI Dance Company

Adelynn Muesse (mini, 10)

Just For Kicks School of Dance

Cooper Makowski (teen/senior)

K2 Studios

Jessica Sutton (mini, 9)

Eva Wright (mini, 10)

Leilani Lawlor (junior)

Larkin Dance Studio

Evie Mccune Barrett (mini, 9)

L.A. Dance Arizona

Kate Summers (teen/senior)

Main Street Dance Company

Jaklyn Woodland (teen/senior)

Momentum By Dellos

Rozene Edino (junior)

Motion State Studios

Harley Gross (junior, 11)

Murrieta Dance Project

Khloe Cabrera (mini)

Nadines Dance Company

Angel Imani Wood (teen/senior)

Lily Straughan (teen/senior, 15)

Nor Cal Dance Arts

Mika Takase (mini, 11)

North Alabama Dance Center

Lana Hinchman (junior)

N10 Dance Studios

Carissa Hsu (teen/senior)

Claire Kingston (teen/senior, 14)

Oddity Dance College

Elizabeth Lara (junior)

Ivanna Canob (junior)

Julieta Marroquin (junior, 12)

Katherine Carranza (junior, 12)

Orange County Preforming Arts Academy

Olive O'Connell (junior, 12)

Pave School of the Arts

Addyson Paul (mini, 11)

Premier Ballet Conservatory

Graisyn Clare (junior)

Premiere Dance Center

Avery Dowling (mini, 10)

Project 21

Cece Chung (mini, 9)

Hadley Schulz (mini, 10)

Madelyn Nasu (junior, 11)

Madison Ng (junior, 11)

Olivia Armstrong (junior, 11)

Berkeley Scifres (junior, 12)

Bristyn Scifres (junior, 12)

Chloe Mirabal (junior, 12)

Ellie Anbardan (junior, 12)

Jilly Mahan (junior, 12)

Regan Gerena (junior, 12)

Sara Von Rotz (junior, 12)

Savanna Musman (junior, 12)

Airi Dela Cruz (teen/senior, 13)

Cali Cassidy (teen/senior, 13)

Makeila Bartlett (teen/senior, 13)

Leighton Werner (teen/senior, 14)

Lilly Baraja (teen/senior, 14)

Brielle Lieberman (teen/senior, 15)

Brooklyn Lieberman (teen/senior, 15)

Mady Kim (teen/senior, 15)

Richie Granese (teen/senior, 15)

Rylee Young (teen/senior, 15)

Stella Eberts (teen/senior, 15)

Kami Couch (teen/senior, 16)

Katie Couch (teen/senior, 16)

Lexi Blanchard (teen/senior, 16)

Kenz Couch (teen/senior, 17)

Loila Rhee (teen/senior, 17)

Sammi Chung (teen/senior, 17)

Sienna Carlston (teen/senior, 17)

Jojo Jessen (teen/senior, 18)

Project 520 Dance Studio

Adelynn McLeod (mini)

Pulse Dance Centre

Olivia Toneguzzo (junior)

Renner Dance

Tinsley Wallace (mini, 10)

Stars Dance Studio

Hannah Burak (teen/senior)

Starstruck Performing Arts Center

Remi Hilson (mini, 9)

Studio X

Tate Bisono (junior, 12)

Summer's DanceWorks

Lyla Sitrin (junior)

The Academy

Francesca Jen (junior, 12)

Kinsley Oykhman (teen/senior, 13)

The Base Dance Center

Roxie Onellion (junior, 12)

The Company Space

Piper Perusse (junior, 12)

The Space TV

Nevaeh Chanel (teen/senior, 17)

To The Pointe Dance Centre

Caitlyn Paik (junior, 11)

Triple Threat Performing Arts

Daniella Usa (teen/senior, 16)

Varient Movement

Mila Vishnevski (mini)

Yaya Dance Academy

Renee Liu (junior)

Yorba Linda Academy of Ballet

Emma Walters (mini, 8)

Mayyah Barajas (mini, 8)

300 Dance Studio

Filippa Kavalic (teen/senior)

Mini

Arina Bryzgunova (Allegro Performing Arts Academy)

Aliya Yen (CA School of Classical Ballet, 10)

Stella Brinkerhoff (Center Stage Performing Arts Studio, 9)

Brooklyn Ward (Center Stage Performing Arts Studio, 11)

Finley Nielson (Club Dance Studio, 9)

Navy Forrest (Club Dance Studio, 9)

Soleil Lynch (Danceology, 9)

Victoria Safahi (Dance Dimensions Performing Arts Center, 10)

Jaelynn Walls (Dance Nation, 9)

Summer Schilling (Dance Nation, 9)

Bella Salcedo (Dance Star Academy of Performing Arts, 9)

Sienna Hoover (Evolve Dance Center, 10)

Abby Rodriguez (Fusion Dance Force, 10)

Maria Moreno (Imagine Dance Academy)

Adelynn Muesse (JDI Dance Company, 10)

Jessica Sutton (K2 Studios, 9)

Eva Wright (K2 Studios, 10)

Evie Mccune Barrett (Larkin Dance Studio, 9)

Khloe Cabrera (Murrieta Dance Project)

Mika Takase (Nor Cal Dance Arts, 11)

Avery Dowling (Premiere Dance Center, 10)

Cece Chung (Project 21, 9)

Hadley Schulz (Project 21, 10)

Adelynn McLeod (Project 520 Dance Studio)

Tinsley Wallace (Renner Dance, 10)

Remi Hilson (Starstruck Performing Arts Center, 9)

Mila Vishnevski (Varient Movement)

Emma Walters (Yorba Linda Academy of Ballet, 8)

Mayyah Barajas (Yorba Linda Academy of Ballet, 8)

Junior

Ruby Salinas (Ale Mancillas Dance Studio)

Domenica Mauti (Art & Soul Dance Company, 12)

Ruby Taylor (Center Stage Performing Arts Studio, 11)

Brooklyn Besch (Club Dance Studio, 11)

Kendyl Miller (Club Dance Studio, 11)

Ella Nani Knight (Danceology)

Jacilynn Mar (Dance Concept)

Sophia Hasson (Dance Dimensions Performing Arts Center)

Aryanna Lafontaine Cooper (Dance FX, 11)

Tayah Klimuck (Evoke Dance Movement, 12)

London Davi (Evolve Dance Company of Fresno, 11)

Sophia Bianco (Fusion Dance Force, 11)

Leilani Lawlor (K2 Studios, 11)

Rozene Edino (Momentum By Dellos)

Harley Gross (Motion State Studios, 11)

Lana Hinchman (North Alabama Dance Center)

Elizabeth Lara (Oddity Dance College)

Ivanna Canob (Oddity Dance College)

Julieta Marroquin (Oddity Dance College, 12)

Katherine Carranza (Oddity Dance College, 12)

Olive O'Connell (Orange County Preforming Arts Academy, 12)

Graisyn Clare (Premier Ballet Conservatory)

Madelyn Nasu (Project 21, 11)

Madison Ng (Project 21, 11)

Olivia Armstrong (Project 21, 11)

Berkeley Scifres (Project 21, 12)

Bristyn Scifres (Project 21, 12)

Chloe Mirabal (Project 21, 12)

Ellie Anbardan (Project 21, 12)

Jilly Mahan (Project 21, 12)

Regan Gerena (Project 21, 12)

Sara Von Rotz (Project 21, 12)

Savanna Musman (Project 21, 12)

Olivia Toneguzzo (Pulse Dance Centre)

Tate Bisono (Studio X, 12)

Lyla Sitrin (Summer's DanceWorks)

Francesca Jen (The Academy, 12)

Roxie Onellion (The Base Dance Center, 12)

Piper Perusse (The Company Space, 12)

Caitlyn Paik (To The Pointe Dance Centre, 11)

Renee Liu (Yaya Dance Academy)

Teen/Senior

Balbina Cueva Toussaint (Ale Mancillas Dance Studio)

Loreto Perez Robles (Ale Mancillas Dance Studio)

Paloma Wise Hernandez (Ale Mancillas Dance Studio)

Kit Swaddling (Base Dance Studios)

Ava Fryer (Bella Dance Academy)

Vivienne Mitchell (Center Stage Performing Arts Studio, 14)

Jaklyn Woodland (Class Act Dance and Performing Arts, 15)

Kiersten Mcbride (Dance Expressions Dance Studio)

Brooklyn Ladia (Dance Precisions, 13)

Jasmine Sison (Dance Precisions, 15)

Alexis Ratliff (FootNotes Dance & Acrobatics)

Ava Rodriguez (Fusion Dance Force)

Lauren Piepel (Hudson Dance Academy, 17)

Cooper Makowski (Just For Kicks School of Dance)

Kate Summers (L.A. Dance Arizona)

Jaklyn Woodland (Main Street Dance Company)

Angel Imani Wood (Nadines Dance Company)

Lily Straughan (Nadines Dance Company, 15)

Carissa Hsu (N10 Dance Studios)

Claire Kingston (N10 Dance Studios, 14)

Airi Dela Cruz (Project 21, 13)

Cali Cassidy (Project 21, 13)

Makeila Bartlett (Project 21, 13)

Leighton Werner (Project 21, 14)

Lilly Baraja (Project 21, 14)

Brielle Lieberman (Project 21, 15)

Brooklyn Lieberman (Project 21, 15)

Mady Kim (Project 21, 15)

Richie Granese (Project 21, 15)

Stella Eberts (Project 21, 15)

Rylee Young (Project 21, 15)

Kami Couch (Project 21, 16)

Katie Couch (Project 21, 16)

Lexi Blanchard (Project 21, 16)

Kenz Couch (Project 21, 17)

Loila Rhee (Project 21, 17)

Sammi Chung (Project 21, 17)

Sienna Carlston (Project 21, 17)

Jojo Jessen (Project 21, 18)

Hannah Burak (Stars Dance Studio)

Kinsley Oykhman (The Academy, 13)

Nevaeh Chanel (The Space TV, 17)

Daniella Usa (Triple Threat Performing Arts, 16)

Filippa Kavalic (300 Dance Studio)

#adding more as time goes on

[most-hated-blorbo-bracket]

Update on how many unique characters you’ve received?

As usual, super long list, so here we go!

These characters have two+ (2+) submissions, and are likely to be included.

Vriska Serkat

Eridan Ampora

Shiver

Kokichi Ouma

Haiji Towa

Minoru Mineta

Simon

Boston

Bill Cipher

John Gaius

Regal Farseer

Ayin

Kylo Ren

Mal

Jurgen Leitner

Merlin

Darkstalker

Kyubey 

Ty Betteridge

Sasuke Uchiha

Dazai Osamu

Glenn Quagmire

Rose Quartz

Makima

c!Dream

Izzy Hands

Akio Ohtori

Katsuki Bakugo

Bramblestar

Michael

Don Quixote Doflamingo

Elias Bouchard/Jonah Magnus

Ansem the Wise

Kusaka Masato

Azula 

The Metatron

Evan Hansen

Stella Goetia

Pierce Hawthorne

Le’garde

Lance Dubois

Santa Claus

Meenah Peixes / Her Imperious Condescension 

Greg Heffley

Tony Stark

Donald Trump

Jace Herondale / Wayland / Lightwood / Morgenstern

Teddy / Kuma

Mr. Bungee

Julia Mazzone

Sentinel Prime

William Afton

Cullen Rutherford

Shou Tucker

Junko Enoshima

Ardyn Izunia

Sosuke Aizen

Happosai 

Simon Laurent

Caillou 

Ōchi Fukuchi

Jin Guanyao

Micah Bell

Cici

These characters have been submitted only once, and have a lower chance of being accepted.

Michael Scott

Detective Saracusa

Paul Von Oberstein

JJ

Box

Damian Wayne

Cersei Iannister

Shredder

Splinter

John ‘Jack’ Seward

Akane 

Abyss Sibling

House

Nickel

Julie-Sue

Tim Drake

Xisuma

Dr. John ‘Jack’ Seward

Hisoka 

Gra’ha Tia

Elias Ainsworth

Trishna 

Erlina and Brugaves

Five Pebbles

The Entirety Of Homestuck

Willy Stampler

Miguel O’Hara

Medusa Gorgon

Gamzee Makara

Rohan Kishibe

Teruhashi Makoto

Gordon Blackwall

Rebecca Costwolds

Dio 

Anakin Skywalker

Sigma Kilm

Caesar Clown

Shiki Tohno/Nanaya

Mori Ougai

Asuka 

Marlon

Pencil

Touichiro Suzuki

Alexander Hamilton

Georg Weissmann 

Dean Winchester

The Operator

Kromer

Scrappy Doo

Foreman Oyun

The Eleventh Doctor

Any Character From Welcome to Nightvale

Will Shuester

Marie

Silver Spoon

Jayne Cobb

Byakuya Togami

Prince Louis 

Coco

Princess Daisy

Light Yagami

The Pale King

Yoshiharu Hisomu

Himiko Toga

Sebastian Mechaelias

Mystery Hunter (Jeremiah Hartley)

Muzan Kibutsuji

Clara Oswald

Ranpo Edogawa (Beast)

Heath cliff

Inspector Tobias Greyson

Roland

Huey Emmerich

Tom Wambsgans

Yuri Briar

Jacopo Bearzatti

Quiche

Alastor

Meredith Rodney McKay

Every Single Country In 1993

Cicero

Val Velocity

Jiren 

Noor Pradesh

Blackbeard 

Kristoph Gavin

Morris 

Dan Moroboshi

Muu Kusunoki

Julia

Shen Jiu

April O’Neil (2012)

Johnny

Adam

Ronaldo

Makoto Itou

Ianthe Tridentarius

Disembodied Voice

Viren

Spamton

George Wickham

Floch

The New Ninja

Sakazuki Akainu 

Petyr Baelish / Littlefinger

Childe 

Wen Chao

Stormcaller

Chibiusa

Ashfur 

Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd 

James T. Kirk

Billy

Mikan Tsumuki

Teruteru

Orochi

Millions Knives

The Mage

Lotor

Otto Apocalypse 

Sanji

Woodes Rogers

Zeke Jaeger

Dean Venture

Absalom 

Aloise Trancey

Cynte

Akito Sohma

Pierre

Monokubs (Except Monodam)

Edelgard 

Chrollo Lucifer

Chloe Bourgeois 

Zhou Zishu

Wanderer/Scaramouche 

Elon Musk

Il Dottore

Goeffry St. John

Nikola Tesla

Louie

Ogai Mori

Astarion 

Mary Keay

Dr. Henry Miller

Booker

Voice In The Calm Ad On Spotify

Akechi Goro

Victor Frankenstein

Five

Riley Finn

Anyone From The Locked Tomb

Elias Ainsworth

Nefera DeNile

Angel Dust

Blitzo Buckzo

The Once-Ler

Moash

Zenos Galvus

Marvin Falsettos

Solf J. Kimblee 

Father / Dwarf In The Glass

Henry the Eighth 

Aranea Serkat

Bro-Strider

Caliborn / Lord English

Feferi Peixes

Skizzleman

Black Pete

Narumi 

Cozy Glow

Holly Blue Agate

Every Genshin Impact Character Ever

Drew

Dio (Zero Escape)

Matou Shinji

Chris McClain

Thistleclaw 

Rumpelstiltskin

Ruruka Ando

Sheldon Cooper

Buck Cluck

Valens Van Varro

Verstael Besithia

Kevin

France (Hetalia)

Tumblr Staff

Slayer 

Volgin 

Yumichika Ayasegawa

Roshi 

Chibiusa

Akio Himemiya

Ali Lectric

Rafe Cameron

Raven Queen

Duke

Sandy

Everyone In Romeo And Juliet

Bella Swan

Haiji Senri

Tsumugi Aoba

Vivienne Medranno’s Impsona

Buzz McCallister 

Eugene Coli

Live Action Buggy

Aizen Sosuke

Kyouichi Saionji

Ibara Saegusa

Yu Ziyuan

Mahiru Koizumi

The Little Palace Mistress

Eichi Tenshouin

The Old Palace Master

Rafal 

Jonah Magnus

Queen Scarlet

Nanami Kiryuu 

Hiyoko Saionji

God

Roger

Judo

Ken

Steven Universe

JD

#mod speaks #not a poll #most hated blorbo bracket #ask answered #I would cry #trying to tag all these characters

[carmodance]

TDA Las Vegas 2023 Predictions

I know this is more than 20 in each lol but I really couldn’t narrow it down! I always want everyone to do so well!

MINI TOP 3: Elsie Sandall, Brooklyn Ward, Lilly Anderson

TOP 10: Mila Ayshford, Tatum Self, Bella Charnstrom, Kendyl Miller, Mika Takase, Mya Lanigan, Lucia Piedrahita, Emery Duffin, Stevie Menne, Malia Scott, Melina Biltz, Harper Anderson, 

TOP 20: Madisyn Amos, Neala Murphy, Tillie Kuhl, Alivia Hughes, Addyson Paul, Stella Brinkerhoff, Ruby Taylor, Tabitha Nan, Savannah Jackson, Ruby Kramer

JUNIOR TOP 3: Kiera Sun, Kelsie Jacobson, Savannah Manzel

TOP 10: Kinsley Oykhman, Kate Baldwin, Roxie Onellion, Aria Du, Kate Jarboe, Ingrid Wirtz, Fiona Wu, Keelyn Jones, Channing Embry

TOP 20: Aurora Andreski, Avery Maycunich, Harper Ducale, Tiara Sherman, Sasha Milstein, Esprit Frank, Alexis Alvarez, Tessa Ohran, Karyna Majeroni, Lyric Okrusch, Piper Perusse

TEEN TOP 3: Crystal Huang, Izzy Howard, Isabella Lynch, Keira Redpath

TOP 10: Kortlynn Rosenbaugh, Claire Monge, Makaia Roux, Leila Winker, Tori Chun, Madison Ronquillo, Kylie Kaminksy, Brooke Toro, Mya Tuaileva, Kamri Peterson, Kira Chan, Maliah Howard, Laci Bloss

TOP 20: Amaya Weeks, Tiffany Robinson, Sofia Andrus, Sophia Sands, Victoria Johnson, Alexis Mayer, Vivienne Mitchell, Jenna Jarboe, Natalie Breen, Ceilidh McSeveney, Lily Allen, Dilyn Bray, Stella Condie, Addison Middelton

SENIOR TOP 3: Carley Thinfen, Ava Wagner, Emma Donnelly

TOP 10: Hailey Meyers, Emma Hellenkamp, Rylee Arnold, Kaitlyn Tom, Courtney Chiu, Ayla Rodriguez, Isabella Jarvis, Gianna Mojonnier, Brooklin Cooley, Avery Lau, Kennedy Barry

TOP 20: Emily Haas, Gigi Van Den Bosch, Cayla Bennish, Addison Leitch, Mia Ibach, Phoebe Campbell, Michelle Cheng, Natalie Bowen, Sami Sonder, Mia Larkin

#again I suck at these #but they can be fun to do! #teen im most up in the air about

[merrock]

INTEREST CHECK & ACTIVITY CHANGES!

Don't worry, we haven't forgotten activity checks! Lindsey and I have been working behind the scenes at ironing out some changes to how we do activity checks, to give you guys a little more leniency while allowing us to stay on top of things with less stress / guilt.

Starting on Monday, May 8th, our activity requirements will be changing. Any account inactive for two weeks will be automatically unfollowed. Accounts that are inactive for one week, display inconsistent activity and/or are not replying to open starters will be warned. Checks will be done twice a month -- once at the beginning/end, and once in the middle. That should give people plenty of time in between and also a little more structure. I will have a more detailed post on this on Monday, as well as adjusting our rules then, so if you have any questions, please ask!

Another thing that we are introducing at this point in time is our 'extended reserve for future use' section, in which players can now reserve one face that they plan on developing a character around. Only one, however! We don't want to encourage face hogging, and if a significant amount of time passes, we will reach out to check and see if you're still moving forward with said character. We know (from our own current experiences!) that it can sometimes take much, much longer than one week to properly research and develop a character, and want to extend that courtesy to our writers.

So! To get everyone on the same page and with a fresh, clean start, we are giving everyone this weekend to contact us and interact with this post. If you are good to go, just like it, we'll cross you off the list and your roles are yours. If you need to drop or swap, or pause anyone, or make any changes, let us know! Happy to help.

PLEASE LIKE THIS POST TO ACKNOWLEDGE YOU'VE READ IT AND WOULD LIKE TO KEEP YOUR ROLES!

Anna -- Sylvia Cuenco-Burke, Reyna Delgadillo, Jayla Hopkins, Alec Jacobs, Wesley James, Corrine Khang, Cathy Pacheco, Esperanza Tamayo.

Bri - Cordelia Browning, Eliza Edelman, Fallon Harris, Spencer Lawrence, Emeline Newman, Marquis Owusu, Vivienne Quinn, Ramsey Salazar.

Chayya -- Marlow Newman.

Emily -- Veila Madison. -- @veilamadison

Erin -- Lara Marie Caruso, Miranda Hartman, Bryan Lawrence, Jamie Mariadaga-Evans, Vincent Matthews, Mekelah Reddy, Joella Suh, Alice Zhao.

Frankie -- Deacon Newman.

Janessa -- Mateo Fuentes, Zoey Lawrence, Chloe Nwokobia, Yesenia Rivera, Elizabeth Stewart, Alexander Stone, Jennifer Suh.

Jen -- Thomas Browning.

Katie -- Owen Anderson, Rafael Bardales, Estelle Carter, Nari Gim, Olivia Hartman, Joshua Lane, Cage Newman, Darrius Powell.

Lindsey -- Aleja Alverez, Chetan Gupta, Greyson McVey, Kellan Newman, Elise Quinn, Trey Wright, Iris Xanthe, Amina Zaidi.

Mags -- Cassidy Miller.

Maria -- Vitus Aydin.

Myr -- Amanda Howard.

Nikki -- September Grant. @sxpt-xmbxr

Steph -- Katherine Evans, Thalia Williams.

MOD NOTE: I will cross names off of this list as they like the post and/or reach out to us. Those on hiatus automatically get a pass for now, and have been exempted. If you have not responded by Friday morning, we will tag you, just to give you a little notice. Unfollows for those who have not interacted with and/or messaged us will be done on Monday.

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Best dancer predictions (Las Vegas)

Hi

Here are my predictions. Please keep in mind that i don't know all of the dancers which are competing and just because I am not including a dancer doesn't mean I don't think they are good. I made these just for fun.

Mini female best dancer:

Winner: Lilly Anderson (larkin)

1st runner up: Elsie Sandall (club)

2nd runner up: Harper Anderson (Larkin)

3rd runner up: Lucia Piedrahita (Danceplex)

Top 10:

Bella Charnstrom (Larkin)

Malia Scott (Larkin)

Emery Duffin (DC2)

Madisyn Amos (Club)

Kendyl Miller (Club)

Brooklyn Ward (CSPAS)

Mya Lanigan (Evolve)

Alivia Hughes (DC2)

Melina Biltz (The rock)

Mika Takase (Nor cal)

Top 20:

Ruby Taylor (CSPAS)

Stella Brinkerhoff (CSPAS)

Bella Linman (Club)

Tatum Self (Club)

Navy Forrest (Club)

Harper Schwalb (Club)

Tillie Kuhl (Larkin)

Kendall Brown (South Tulsa)

Mini male best dancer:

Winner: Tristan Jones (Gotta Dance)

Junior female best dancer:

Winner: Savannah Manzel (Larkin)

1st runner up: Kiera Sun (Westside)

2nd runner up: Kelsie Jacobson (Larkin)

3rd runner up: Kinsley Oykhman (The space)

Top 10:

Tahari Conrad (Larkin)

Roxie Onellion (The base)

Keelyn Jones (Danceology)

Ava Ding (Yoko's)

Isabella Tjoe (Yoko's)

Fiona Wu (Yoko's)

Sasha Milstein (The rock)

Tiara Sherman (The rock)

Tessa Ohran (CSPAS)

Top 20:

Daphnie Braun (Larkin)

Ingrid Wirtz (Larkin)

Aria Du (Yoko's)

Annabella Atkinson (The rock)

Karyna Majeroni (The rock)

Alexis Alvarez (Club)

Kate Jarboe (Expressenz)

Kylie Lawrence (CSPAS)

Madison Machado (DC2)

Avery Maycunich (The Difference Dance Company )

Junior male best dancer:

Winner: Aiden Ecenbarger (Next step)

Teen female best dancer

Winner: Izzy Howard (Westside)

1st runner up: Crystal Huang (The rock)

2nd runner up: Keira Redpath (Larkin)

3rd runner up: Isabella Lynch (Danceology)

Top 10:

Madison Ronquillo (Nor cal)

Maliah Howard (Michelle L)

Ellie Duffin (DC2)

Claire Monge (Larkin)

Makaia Roux (Danceology)

Victoria Johnson (The rock)

Carissa Hsu (N10)

Stella Condie (CSPAS)

Kamri Peterson (CSPAS)

Kira Chan (Elements)

Top 20:

Lilly Allen (Kim Massay)

Kylie Kaminsky (Danceology)

Brooke Toro (Danceology)

Alexis Mayer (The rock)

Amaya Weeks (Club)

Kortlynn Rosenbaugh (Club)

Addyson Smith (Elite)

Vivienne Mitchell (CSPAS)

Mya Tuaileva (CSPAS)

Teen male best dancer:

Winner: Hudson Pletcher (Prodigy)

1st runner up: Patricio López (Flashdance)

2nd runner up: Cooper Macalalad (The base)

Senior female best dancer:

Winner: Ava Wagner (Larkin)

1st runner up: : Emma Donnelly (Danceology)

2nd runner up: Avery Lau (South Tulsa)

3rd runner up: Addison Leitch (Dmitri's)

Top 10:

Isabella Jarvis (Larkin)

Carley Thinfen (Nor cal)

Kaitlyn Tom (Nor cal)

Kennedy Barry (Danceology)

Hailey Meyers (Danceology)

Clara Gough (South Tulsa)

Adare Haas (Expressenz)

Brooklin Cooley (Club)

Zoe Ridge (CSPAS)

Mia Ibach (The rock)

Top 20:

Brielle McCoy (Kim Massay)

Mini Preston (Larkin)

Mercedes Lorentz (Larkin)

Emma Hellenkamp (Danceology)

Rylee Arnold (CSPAS)

Bryten Belka (CSPAS)

Courtney Chiu (Studio Fusion)

Michelle Cheng (Studio Fusion)

Senior male best dancer:

Winner: Garris Munoz (South Tulsa)

1st runner up: Isaiah Villegas (DC2)

2nd runner up: Drew Rosen (Danceology)

3rd runner up: Skai Llorente (Encore Performing Arts Center)

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The 20-odd minutes of heated discussion that followed my grandmother's question are some we'd probably all rather forget.

#ts3 #ts3 legacy #sims 3 #sims 3 legacy #the sims 3 legacy #planetary legacy #generation mercury #wendalyn padrino #velma jeffrey #violet crandall #wilona jeffrey #devon miller #vivienne vaneault #enya padrino #wilona's rage face terrifies me frankly

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Hello Cat 🐱 & Mouse 🐭!! Hope you’re both having a nice weekend! May I please ask for some female black faceclaims between 23-40 that have strong and alluring vibes, please? Thank you so much for all your amazing help towards the roleplay community!! <3 :)

T'Nia Miller (1980) Afro-Jamaican - is a lesbian.

Angelica Ross (1980) African-American - is trans.

Meagan Good (1981) African-American, Afro-Barbadian, Puerto Rican, Cherokee, Creole, and Jewish.

Lupita Nyong'o (1983) Luo Kenyan.

DeWanda Wise (1984) African-American.

Vivienne Acheampong (1984) Ghanaian.

Amber Riley (1986) African-American.

Jurnee Smollett (1986) African-American, possibly other / Ashkenazi Jewish.

Jodie Turner-Smith (!986) Afro Jamaican.

Michaela Coel (1987) Ghanaian - is aromantic.

Lauren “Lolo” Spencer (1987) African-American - has ALS.

Javicia Leslie (1987) Black German.

Anna Diop (1988) Senegalese.

Amiyah Scott (1988) African-American - is trans.

Anita-Joy Uwajeh (1989) Nigerian.

Kota Eberhardt (1989) Lakota Sioux and African-American.

Danielle Brooks (1989) African-American - hasn’t labelled her sexuality but has openly dated a woman.

Damaris Lewis (1990) Kittian.

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (1991) African-American, one quarter Puerto Rican - is trans.

Azie Tesfai (1992) Eritrean.

Khadijha Red Thunder (1994) Chippewa Cree, African-American, Spanish - is pansexual.

Ryan Destiny (1995) African-American 1/4 Irish.

Kahara Hodges (1995) Navajo, African American, Mexican, and English.

Megan Thee Stallion (1995) African-American - is bisexual.

Eva Reign (1995) African-American - is trans.

Zaria Simone (1996) African-American.

Zendaya (1996) African-American / German, Irish, English, Scottish.

Tati Gabrielle (1996) African-American / Korean.

Arisce Wanzer (1996) African-American - is trans.

Joy Sunday (1996) Nigerian.

Alyah Chanelle Scott (1997) African-American.

Sydney Park (1997) African-American / Korean.

Coco Jones (1998) African-American.

Here you go!

#fc help #rph #rpc #black fc

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Erin Frost Analysis

With Erin Frost coming back into the spotlight with new, questionable, evidence I’ve decided to go through what she has provided and make sense of the situation

Back in June 21, 2021 Erin dropped a complaint about how working at Spindlehorse had seriously messed with her mental health to the point of not being able to work on animation. She then clarified - in the post I’m linking below - more details of the work environment of Spindlehorse such as terrible work conditions, abusive employees particularly a Sam Miller, and frustrations with production.

Erin’s Frost talks About Spindlehorse

Back when this first appeared, while I was skeptical of some parts such as making fun of the Villainous crossover and complaining about Dana Terrace - as Vivienne not liking to work with her is not of my concern - and suspected that Erin might have bit off more than she could chew given she was already working 30-40 hours in retail/food service, I was willing to give benefit of the doubt that Erin Frost had experienced bullying and terrible work conditions.

While I do not know Vivienne in any capacity I largely trust one close friend for insight to her character, since they were around when Hazbin was just a concept. Mainly because while they disagree with most if not all of the controversies regarding Vivienne, they could see her not being a good boss and creating the kind of environment Erin described even unintentionally.

However with the recent reappearance of Erin Frost with new evidence including screenshots, that benefit of doubt has all but evaporated into skepticism. As such I’ve decided to go over all the current evidence provided and look through it, mainly for my own piece of mind as I try to understand the situation.

Let’s start with this:

Erin claims that Jane is exposing her medical history with the intent to defame her character. Now it needs to be stated clearly that I don’t agree with Jane Walker sharing this info as it was clearly meant to be kept between her and Erin. However I would disagree with intent to defame, as this would imply Jane is making up or exaggerating information in order to make Erin look bad and/or hinder her work, and using her medical history is just one way to do so.

While Erin helpfully enhanced the section regarding her medical history, she also cut out a small bit of it of what Jane was talking about and left the rest of the conversation faded out.

In case this is hard to see, I’ve pulled up both.

Transcript, Jan. 15 2021

[Erin: Hi I wanted to move this into private but I was recently diagnosed with ADHD. I’m still working with a psychiatrist on a treatment that works. I know this is kind of extra of me, but I struggle with auditory processing at times. My brain will literally skip words and I think part of why the confusion happened was because of that. I know I already mentioned it but in the future I’d like to have things written out at clearly as possible. We can still discuss things but I don’t trust my brain not to screw me like it did last time u_u

Jane: It’s all good Erin! I’ve had brain struggles in the past too. I will be itemizing tasks from now on. Are you good for the four tasks I assigned due by Feb 1st? Again I’m more than happy to move tasks around if that’s too much, I just need to know ahead of time.

Erin: I got kinda upset the other night because]

Transcript, date unclear:

[Presumably Jane:  -deadline missing thing, though if you can’t hit deadlines I can’t assign things to you.

Erin: Noted. I’d like you to take into account that I work a day job on top of freelancing so having assignments as far ahead of the deadline as possible would be appreciated.

Jane: I did ask on multiple occasions if you felt you were able to take on the work load and that I was more than willing to move things around to accommodate, so I do appreciate honesty in communication going forward

Erin: I think it’s best I pass off the Feb 1st assignments. I have a habit of miscalculating how much time I’ll need to complete an assignment. I also regularly overbook myself because I’m bad at saying no to people. I’d rather had off those assignments and spend the rest of January clearing off my plate [then?] making tenuous promises]

Given what we now see in full, Jane’s conversation with this third party doesn’t seem with the intent to defame but with intent to complain, more than likely about Erin’s inability to make deadlines and what appears to possibly be oversharing after Jane asked if she would be able to make the deadlines for February 1st. Which Erin passed on all four, wanting to instead focus on whatever assignments she has left for January

This would, understandably, frustrate anybody to have all of the assignments dumped rather than just a couple meaning now those assignments have to go to somebody else who hopefully doesn’t already have too much. Understandably Erin has her own life and was working at Starbucks, 30-40 hours, but deadlines are important to meet and your inability to do so will reflect heavily on you whether you like it or not. Add this to the fact that Erin largely keeps painting herself in a bad light - inability to say no leading to overbooking, habitually miscalculating time management, needing more time to work on projects that from the sounds of it should have been done to let her work on those for February 1st - paints Erin as an unreliable employee.

Still, despite Jane clearly not being happy about it in the conversation with the third party, she still appears professional and agrees to move things around and adjust to what Erin needs. Jane Walker’s feelings towards Erin, positive or negative, have no meaning to me, all I am focused on is whether she was trying to make Erin look bad and can only come to the conclusion that she was letting off steam to what she believed to be a trusted member. While I don’t think it’s wise to complain to other employee’s and/or co-workers particularly if you’re in charge, and especially don’t agree with sharing private convo’s like Erin’s ADHD history, I also cannot personally fault Jane Walker for the simple act of complaining as that would make me a hypocrite. We’ve all complained about co-workers after all.

Erin then claims that Sam Miller is using her authority to bully her, starting with this conversation with Jane Walker - February 18, 2021 - that then leads to talking with Sam Miller.

Having gone over this this conversation, it follows the same problems I noted in the previous evidence. Erin opens this conversation fretting over the workload as, again, she appears to have overestimated herself and miscalculated how much she can handle in the time frame. After going over everything that the task requires Erin tells Jane that getting them fully colored by the 22nd, which is four days away, is a stretch. There’s also the implication that something like this has happened before with “trying to be better about establishing my limits so we don’t have a repeat of last time.”

Jane Walker tells Erin that that Sam’s team will handle the chairs so that Erin doesn’t have to worry about it, which she doesn’t fight against, asking if Jane is sure and if she will need references.

February 20, 2021 - two days after the chairs assignment had been passed on - Erin Frost goes to Sam Miller to ask if there are any assignments she can do specifically with backgrounds.

Now I will say that Sam Miller does not come off as particularly nice. However Erin Frost claims that Sam is using her authority to bully her here in this screenshot and I am genuinely unsure what about it could be considered bullying.

There’s the off hand remark on the chairs being passed, but as much as I can read that as passive aggressive I can also just read that as just a simple “oh and there’s this, but that’s it.”

Erin tells Sam that she didn’t ask to pass them on, which to be fair is true, and that it was Jane who made that decision. Sam corrects her that actually she was the one who made the decision to take on the chairs assignment as Jane told her Erin couldn’t do it. Erin explains that she was only asking for clarification, but Sam points out that Erin had been unsure if she was going to meet the deadline in four days.

What becomes clear with these two screenshots lined up is that during her talk with Erin, Jane Walker must have also gotten in contact with Sam Miller about Erin being unable to meet the deadline. Which is why Jane tells Erin that Sam’s department will handle the assignment so she doesn’t have to worry about it. So it checks out that it was Sam who made the decision to take on the assignment.

It’s also true what Sam says, because Erin said “I can do them, I just think getting them in fully colored by the 22nd could be a stretch.” While Erin does express being able to do the assignment, she isn’t sure she can finish it altogether before the 22nd meaning it would be half-way done. If they’re trying to meet a deadline, this would not be a good thing which is why Sam takes it to her department.

Erin says she feels like she’s being penalized for a situation that wasn’t her fault, when previously she had no problem letting the assignment pass on to another department. There’s also the fact this isn’t entirely true as Erin admits in the talk with Jane that “-but it’s looking like a lot more than I originally thought.” This is also after Erin has expressed “ trying to be better about establishing my limits” once she allows the assignment to be handed over, and in the previous evidence where she admits to “not knowing how to say no to people, miscalculates how much time she needs, and overbooks herself.”

While Erin Frost may feel it was unfair and a punishment for the assignment to be taken from her - which again she had no problem with initially until this moment with Sam - I do think this is the right move on Sam Miller’s part.

Erin Frost expressed that she isn’t sure she can meet the deadline with a finished product, so Sam decided it was best for her department to handle it themselves as Sam said clearly “I cannot express how important this deadline needed to be hit” meaning this isn’t something they would be interested in waiting around for. The chair assignment was also clearly reaching Erin’s limits, being just a bit too much to handle, which is another reason that Sam decided to take the assignment.

We also have no indication that Sam Miller or Jane Walker are withholding assignments from Erin Frost, and given that both have appeared professional in their discussions with Erin - bar one line from Sam that I’ll get to - I find it unlikely that they wouldn’t inform her. However, it also needs to be pointed out that Jane has already told Erin that “if she can’t meet deadlines then [Jane] can’t assign anything to you.” Erin also has expressed needing a very specific window of time to do assignments but even then she has painted herself as largely unreliable in not understanding her own limits and taking on more than she can handle which we see first hand with these screenshots. If Sam and Jane had more work that needed to be done based just on these snippets from Erin I would be skeptical about giving them to her.

The only instance in Sam’s dialogue that makes me consider her rude is the line “Why would I have you do a job my artists could do and hit the deadline on time no problem?” which no matter what Sam may have been intending, does come off as passive aggressive. However, I can not consider this straight up bullying but a higher up being a bit of an ass, who should try to be more aware of her tone and what words she uses when talking with employees. If it wasn’t intended to be passive aggressive, then it’s a miscommunication which is significantly easier to do through text where tone is harder to figure out.

Altogether though I cannot consider this bullying, much less Erin Frost being punished when she was reaching her limit and unsure about if she could meet the deadline. The only other option aside from Sam not taking on the assignment would be to let Erin complete the assignment and then possibly be behind on the deadline, as there’s nothing to point to Erin being able to make it in time nor do any of the previous screenshots paint Erin in a positive light. It is not a punishment for an assignment you were unable to complete to be passed on to a larger group that can split the workload and get it done in the required amount of time, it’s a good move to not get behind on deadlines even if it feels unfair.

Erin Frost follows up with this afterwards:

We have no solid proof that Vivienne knows about any this, nor that she condones or encourages it. As for Sam and Jane getting the jobs due to being her best friends, this isn’t anything to be held against Vivienne given that she is running an indie project and close friends would be the most willing to jump into that kind of project. So long as Jane Walker and Sam Miller show that they can do the job and that they aren’t there just because they’re friends with Vivienne I don’t see this as a fault.

Moving on, Erin Frost then claims that Sam Miller and Jane Walker were trying to cover up her leaving using these two screenshots. Particularly that Sam had intentionally “gone after” another employee

I will say clearly that having read over these screenshots I’m not sure I can agree or disagree on the notion of a coverup.

Employees should always have a right to discuss why a co-worker left, especially in cases of have a toxic workplace environment. So Sam Miller saying “...no?” and then expressing to another it’s nobody’s business, and Jane Walker going “it feels like instigating” are definitely questionable. However neither of them explicitly tell people not to talk about Erin’s resignation, nor do they come off as forceful, just that it’s nobodies business.

In Sam’s case it sounded like it just happened and then she’s getting asked immediately afterwards about it when Erin’s resignation wasn’t made public. As such, I can understand Sam expressing that it’s nobodies business why Erin Frost resigned and then trying to figure out how people suddenly knew about it. Which Sam then leaves at “okay cool! I was just very confused” and then the conversation is over. If Sam had asked this third party to not mention Erin’s resignation at all, then that would be much more questionable.

There’s also the fact that, even if Erin had expressed her reasons for leaving was due to a toxic work environment, I don’t know why Sam or Jane would tell a random employee or any employee this. Not with the intent of cover up but largely because it can be a mood killer and that kind of information is something you would want to handle with other management and bosses.

As far as I can tell, Jane and Sam only want people not to ask them about Erin’s resignation as they feel it’s nobodies business. Questionable or not, it’s not enough to prove a cover up if they aren’t themselves enforcing it as a rule.

While I didn’t believe absolutely everything Erin talked about in her first post I was still wiling to believe that she had undergone some form of abuse while working with Spindlehorse as I have no in depth knowledge of what is going on behind the scenes and think it’s important to at least consider the possibility especially given we didn’t have proof at the time.

While the recent evidence has made me far more skeptical there is something else that has made me unable to fully trust Erin Frost. When she first came out with her claims, she also said this...

Erin Frost explicitly says she doesn’t blame anybody for wanting to just stay out of it and not jeopardize their livelihood. However after three months this stance has changed completely to Erin exposing Ashley Nichols as being one of her main supporters, and actively encouraging the fandom to go demand answers for why she didn’t speak up on the subject when it first appeared. Erin’s full Twitter Thread as of Oct. 26 2022

This is something I will always consider a dick move. No matter what comes after this post, what other evidence comes out, even if Ashley Nichols herself comes forward with the evidence Erin needs, I will never respect Erin Frost for this decision. Ashley Nichols does not have the incredible power like other people on the social platform, she isn’t small time from what I know, but she isn’t nearly on say Markiplier or Dreams level. The idea that Ashley, working on her own indie project that has yet to come out as of this moment, has this huge enough following and this incredible position of power that she can just risk everything to get into scandals and can sway the minds of the people does not make any logical sense.

It also, whether Erin Frost likes it or not, means that she can’t be trusted. Ex-employee’s that did go to her will now have to wait and wonder if eventually Erin decides she’s tired of waiting for them to come forward and will just expose them herself. We don’t even know if she has permission to use the screenshots from the ex-employee’s in this latest callout. Everything about this is a huge red flag that brings Erin’s character into serious question as all I can see is someone who is incredibly two-faced, claiming to be understanding but then throwing you under the bus as soon as she gets tired of playing nice and you meet her criteria as a perfect sacrifice for the mob of folks that want to know whats going on.

In the end, I feel like Erin’s evidence of workplace abuse is too weak and that her character is very questionable, and I hope that anybody who does come forward will do so because they want to and not because they feel like they have no choice.

Thank you for coming to my Shadow Talk.

#helluva boss #vivienne medrano #vivziepop #long post #you have been warned

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