#lindsay's anon asks

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Have you seen that video of Austin training for Dune 2 ? Because as someone that does martial arts he moves so well, I was kind of shocked by how elegant his movements are normally actors are very straight in their movement they will do one hit then do the other but he was moving like a dancers very fluid and quick. Like he had previous experience. I have also seen him at the shooting range listen I am no expert but I was taught how to shot by my ex who was in the army and he is really good, really quick (I am sure he practiced in his room for hours how to take the guns out of the holster as quickly as possible) bc he was very quick. Basically, just wanted to say that I have a feeling that he will do an action movie kind of John Wick/Heat type of action (he was also seen with Chad Stahelski), he seems to be enjoying everything that he is learning so who knows. also these new pictures of him he looks a lot bigger maybe he is training for something.

Yes I have, he's incredible! I could watch those videos for hours. He has said that growing up he did martial arts, and he did used to go to shooting ranges sometimes when he dated vanessa. so he has done both before. the time he spent with tarantactical on the shooting range, they said that was over the span of 2 days training and he was a natural. i really do believe that stunt coordinator that said austin could have totally been a stuntman lol he is so agile with cat-like reflexes (he is a leo after all).

there could be a spinoff john wick movie in the future, im not sure! but the fact that chad stahelski went with austin to the shooting range and put him onto tarantactical, there is smoke to that fire i think. we shall have to see what comes of it

#lindsay's anon asks

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What is odd to me in this new Kaia interview is, that she doesn't seem shy at all. I don't know why she keeps trying to make herself into this shy theatre kid, but it seems to me based on all the pics and stuff she's enjoying all this attention.

because she isn't. she's trying to give off the air that she's this quirky, shy girl that always wanted to act. it's just a means of marketing herself and clearly as we can see with the way she handled the paps when she left Fallon and other examples, she is not. it's just a way for her to seem more relatable. which is funny because she could not be further from relatable to the average 22 year old american girl...

#lindsay's anon asks

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I love Austin to bits, but I think that him going to her premiere on one night and then not going to the MOTA finale event on the next night looked really bad to the public and to industry professionals. Even if Austin had to fly to NM the night of her premiere or the next morning, pointlessly showing up to her premiere the night before the major MOTA event and being the only one of the main actors to not show up looks really bad. It's an actively bad PR move. I adore Austin and find him to be an incredible human and a tremendous actor, but attending her premiere and not the MOTA finale the next night was a terrible PR move.

I am a little confused because I just thought that there was only the one MOTA event which was from friday, but if im not mistaken there was one on thursday too right? the same day as the palm royale thing. i understand totally the sentiment of being annoyed that he went to the palm royal thing that night and skipped out on the finale event for MOTA 100%, considering all he did was sit by himself in the corner of the room trying hard to not be photographed or seen by anybody. wherein he could have been to his own event and seen his friends. clearly the PR swung in kaia's favor and i think that was on purpose...her entire family went and seemingly it looked like austin didn't have much of a choice here. his reasoning for not attending the one on friday could be because he could have been tired or he might have headed over to NM for filming. idk and whatever his reason im sure it was a good one, where friday is concerned. but my thoughts is that austin didn't have much of a say in the palm royale event. it's the PR gerber machine by design.

#lindsay's anon asks

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is it me or Kaia Gerber is being irrelevant these days when there’s new candids of her with no Austin by her side?

for a hot minute there i forgot she even existed tbh

#lindsay's anon asks

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I used to live in LA and I back up your friend saying paparazzi aren’t waiting for people, even in Malibu. I’ve literally never seen paparazzi but I’ve seen famous people. Like, REALLY famous people- who have been famous for decades and even in one instance was in the middle of a HUGE legal scandal. No paparazzi (and the legal scandal one was in 2019 so still very recent therefore regarding the same climate as how this stuff works now).

I don’t want to dislike Kaia (it doesn’t really feel good to dislike people, or at least it isn’t productive) but the more I realized the UK Daily Mail has been covering her or at least her family from birth, the more I realized she really isn’t anything special and just had PR this whole time. So many people still don’t know who or what a Kaia Gerber even is because not everyone loves fashion, we don’t live in a monoculture anymore where everyone is consuming the same content, and she’s hasn’t even done a lot in Hollywood besides being an obvious nepo baby by being so bad at acting and yet…she gets “caught” by the paps getting her damn green drinks and going to the gym? Make it make sense. That’s totally orchestrated. I can’t trust anything out of Kaia Gerber’s mouth once I put that all together. I know a lot of stars do this, but most actually have talent and we all know that she lol…doesn’t exactly have talent!

It’s all also a play from the Kris Jenner bible ( her and Cindy are friends…) by creating publicity and forcing relevance. Nothing is real or organic ( not even her social media…8 or 9 million last time I checked and yet most ppl I know in real life have never heard of her… #ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmmmm). Side note: has anyone ever investigated her social media stats on social blade (blaze?) or does nobody care enough about her to look into it?

When people wonder why Austin and Kaia are hiding…it’s because they can easily hide. Maybe Deux Moi spotting or fans on cell phones sometimes, but again, we’re not in a monoculture so not everyone knows who they are enough to care if they saw them (and I say this as an Austin fan who’s glad he’s getting his flowers; however he only recently made it in a major mainstream way and not everyone saw Elvis/are now learning more about him via MOTA and Dune. All due respect to him but he’s still being cemented into culture in real time and isn’t say, Matt Damon yet…but hey probably one day!). Also regarding both LA and New York, as your friend said, celebrities are around so we largely don’t care and do not take pics when we see them. It’s soooo easy to hide as a celebrity. It’s ridiculous when people act like the paps invade a celebrity’s privacy or that Austin (or anyone else for that matter) must be “hiding” and can’t be living a normal life. HA.

Final thought: even though I said Austin is just getting warmed up, let’s be real and admit he’s more respected than Kaia and likely more liked/known regarding household name recognition. And yet KAIA is papped more than her bf who was nominated for an Oscar?!? And people think that’s just an organic occurrence? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 People need to do some critical thinking and realize what’s happening here!

holy shit i love coming back home from dinner and seeing this beauty in my inbox

you said everything so flawlessly that we have been thinking and saying for a long time, and it's great that you put it in these terms. nothing is ever real or organic about kaia, and kaia with austin together. there are a lot of people her age with talent that i can respect, but she has zero talent and only gets what she does through her parents and by dating austin. it's simple as that. her dating austin was just another PR maneuver to keep her relevant.

#lindsay's anon asks

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hiii (happy international women's day btw💗)

i was just wondering if you had some intel on or where you think austin has gone? is he in LA? Paris? the UK? i have no clue how he manages to avoid the paps if and when he goes out of his home/hotel when he's not working tbh.

unless he's at the airport or fans spot him somewhere(or with she who shall not be named🤫) it's like he's invisible or a ninja around the paps,lol!

hi! happy women's day babe <3

i think he's back in LA. he doesn't have press to do until bikeriders around may time, and he doesn't have any events coming up where he'd need to be in another country or state. so i think he is just chilling out at his home, getting some much needed R&R.

#lindsay's anon asks

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I feel like it’s a PR relationship 100% kaia is using his fame for her own career. Like she did for Jacob elordi when they just so happened to be dating when season 2 of euphoria got released. Same thing when she dated Pete Davidson right when he was blowing up on snl. She needs to stick to modeling truly. I hope it’s just like a two year contract and we will here that they’ve “split up” by January. I’m sure he’s getting paid for it. It’s also so suspicious to me how she apparently started dating Austin not even a month after her split with Jacob when there 1 year anniversary was the month before. I also don’t fully blame her and I’m sure her parents have something to do with it wanting to get her name out there like she isn’t Cindy Crawfords daughter and couldn’t get any role she wanted without dating a man who was trending at the time. I just want Austin to be happy. I also hope she realizes that Austin’s not gonna want to get married for like 2-3 years minimum. He’s gonna wanna work on his career. Doesn’t mean he won’t actually date but he’s not gonna settle down anytime soon. I just want their relationship to be over. I don’t want to hate on Kaia but it’s just so frustrating when she is a literal model because of her mom, she’s an “actress” because of her mom. It’s not for her being her. Like all nepo babies nowadays are successful because of their parents.

First of all thank you for your commentary, anon. You're not alone in how you feel. There are plenty of us that think the same exact way, some just don't always vocalize it, so cheers for being one of them that speaks up on it.

I had quite a nice day today so I'm in a good mood to go a little in depth with my answer right now. And then go back into my little cancer crab shell lol

What's crazy to me is she looked so much more suited and happier with Jacob Elordi. They were always snuggled up to each other and he looks more her speed. If they were PR then they did a very convincing job because he actually looked happy to be loved up on her and to be seen with her, unlike someone we know lol. And she looked happy to be with him. Plus, she actually posted him to her socials and they talked about one another all the time in the papers. So. It's wild the 360 there between Elordi and Austin.

And yes I do remember that she was broken up with him and then 1 month later she was seen with Austin. That's buckwild, and the fact we still do not know at all how they got together in the first place is very strange

But yes to everything you express here. Also the thing with Austin, I feel like he's still focused on his career that i think 2-3 years isn't long enough of a gap to be honest. He was with V for 9 and he never popped the question. This man is dead set serious on his career first. And conveniently so he also uses that as his excellent and genuine excuse to not allow engagement rumors to flame with K, seeing as that died in less than half an hour with a quickness on social.

Let's just be fucking real here, K is not his forever girl. I feel like whenever Austin meets his one true love that he'll marry then he'll be all about it. People are getting married AND having children at older ages now, and while he's only gonna be 32 this year that is still young to where he could wait until mid/late 30s to get hitched. Who knows. The man has plenty of time, he's in no rush clearly. She however is only 21 and she's still a child and she needs more time to mature and grow as an adult with life experience. As a near 30 year old woman I remember how I thought i was tough shit and knew everything at her age and thought i was soooo grown up. But hell no, you're still a kid.

When someone is dying to get married, you have to question the reason why. There could be deep seated insecurities where by a certain age one feels like their clock is ticking and they need to settle down with the next available person immediately. Or maybe it's for security financially, etc. It could also just be desperation in order to feel like you're wanted. I'm looking at V here because she moved on with that Cole guy so quick and got engaged so quick and throws shade to Austin all the time. Still bitter about not being Vanessa Butler lol. But rushing down the isle is a big mistake. Austin's background dictates that he knows 100% the seriousness of a commitment and he will not just marry any woman when he knows divorce could maybe be in his future.

aaaaaand end rant lol. I pray Austin finds the Pam to his Jim one day!

#lindsay's anon asks

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curiosity- at what point do you accept a PR relationship involves the PR teams of both people? where does austin and his team/kate factor in? you do a lot of talking about kaia and her team being sinister mastermind plotters but seem hesitant to be critical of your stake in it in regards to austin and his team. i can personally see the argument for it being set up for PR, but not in the sense that he’s “trapped” which seems to be the main narrative on here. they’re too much net benefit on his end for that to be the case: the business connections he now has access to through rande, even more so bc rande seems to love him and is probably “grooming” him for casamigos involvement. connections through cindy and kaia such as laura dern, the general privilege of being plus-oned into a million, probably billion dollar dynasty family when while i’m sure he’s well off, he doesn’t come from money. more paparazzi opportunities that give him just as much PR as they do her. and to be a bit crass, a young, thin (not saying to be fatphobic and hoping you know what i mean), pretty model to get him off at the end of the day. he hasn’t exactly gotten nothing but pain out of this deal.

you got pretty close with all the ‘they’s in the part of your post calling *them* hypocritical for how they talk about privacy. but i’m curious for your brutally honest take on austin and his team’s involvement. understandable that you might be wary to upset other fans, but i think being critical of your faves is healthier than constantly falling on the sword for them. 

slow your roll, cowboy. this needs to be addressed and then we move on.

i have never not said that PR relationships DON'T involve both PR teams. It seems like you are maybe new here to my blog. I have said so much over the span of probably a year discussing all of this ad nauseum. i call out her team predominately because her team has done most of the heavy lifting. his team only seems to step in when the record needs to be corrected.

so with that being said, do you hear yourself? what planet are you living on where you truly think rande is grooming austin to take over casamigos? also, a billion dollar dynasty family? what is this, Downton Abbey? sanity has left the chat.

austin has made connections, money, and fantastic career choices without the Gerbers throughout his entire career spanning a decade and he will continue to do so without them. while he was working the field going to auditions and working on critically acclaimed shows, she was playing hopscotch with her friends in a malibu elementary school. he does not need their help, he has done it by himself very well and is managing his new level of fame in his own way.

you wanna talk about grooming? kaia has been groomed since she was little by her own family in the ways of Hollywood and how to move through it via the nepotism she has. you think that they don't give their daughter the hardest hitting PR team in LA? they play this Hollywood game for breakfast. there are two people in this situationship...one comes from humble beginnings living with his divorced parents in their family's garage, and the other one was bred into hollywood culture since birth. we are not even on the same galaxy, let alone the same planet when it comes to these two and how they move through life and their values.

we can be critical, but austin has not done anything to warrant us as fans being critical of him in regards to his PR. he doesn't care about externals like money or the glitz of hollywood. he is clearly not tempted by that shit. yes he didn't come from money, but it's shitty of you to presume that just because he has been with the Gerber's that he is this changed guy who all of a sudden cares about materialistic bullshit.. do you see this guy driving an Escalade drinking boxed water and going out to parties and rubbing elbows with the elites every weekend? no. and do you see this guy calling the paps on himself and enjoying the paps attention? no. are you blind? did you sleep through all of the last Cabo vacation and literally every single time he is papped with her? incredible selective memory.

being with kaia has made him worse off and he has not gained any benefit from this situationship. austin is not this Machiavellian schemer that rubs his hands together and plots "how can i use the gerbers to benefit my career?" like you think he does. and it's sad that you do.

in conclusion, im not here to be well liked and play to people's feelings. i don't give a damn. i am here to support austin and his career, period.

#lindsay's anon asks

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Dua Lipa is inspiring me to go red. This is maybe a bad idea (I'm a VERY light-skinned natural brunette), but I may just say fuck it, she is so pretty she makes me want to be a redhead. ❤️

red is a pretty universally flattering color to pull off on any complexion. you would just have to tailor it to what undertone and saturation would look best on you. depending on if you're cool, neutral, warm, or olive undertone choose the corresponding red undertone :) as someone who is also a pale brunette girl, when i dyed my hair red i went for a blue-toned red that wasn't too vivid. because while highly saturated colors are gorgeous, i think it personally overwhelms my pale skin and dark features. so you might be the same. like these examples

#lindsay's anon asks

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I am the anon who sent you the long message, I am also a dude , Im of a rare breed in the fanbase , dont seem like there is alot of us here and thats ok lol I have sent you something before actually about how when men know we know. And I will say that over and over again. Seems like alot of the anons you get seem to be from people who are losing faith in that and think whatever Miss Gerber has with Austin is real. A man knows when he found his wife, not to get all preachy and sound like a religious crazy person but there is legit a whole bible verse in the book of Proverbs about it. I am 31, still young but old enough to know , especially as a married man myself when a guy has found his wife, he isnt hiding that shit. When i proposed to my wife we were on vacation and I legit facetimed my friends when she was in the shower and told them the news, up there squealing like a woman excited as hell LMAO. Austin is someone who wears his heart on his sleeve, if he saw that life with Kaia we would know it will show. So all that privacy BS is exactly that.....BS....like he dodges questions about her all the time and Kaia does the same, i personally have never seen celebs go that far to do that, even the ones who wanna be private. They still talk about each other. I think these shippers as I stated see themselves in Kaia,so when things are said about their relationship and lacking chemistry they take it as you saying about them and Austin...anyways I will stop ranting here but i wanted this to known and to give your blog a guy perspective

aaah welcome back in! nice to have you here. the fandom truly needs bit more guys in the fandom to balance out lol. and i think there are, but us women are a lot more vocal about it i'd say lol. and to each their own, it's so cool to have you here.

but i thank you once again for brining in the much needed male perspective on this situation. and coming from a man that is married and is Austin's age, that seriously should be everything that we need to heed your words.

i think a lot this discourse stems from the fact that the super young girls in this fandom closer to kaia's age clearly are showing that they haven't been in a serious relationship, or they don't have a lot of life experience. because a man should love his woman entirely and not be afraid to show it or talk about it. if a man hides his girl in any way then he's not happy with her. austin moves with kaia like a man that is not taking her serious. plus he knows she is too young for anything serious anyway. and when a guy TRULY thinks he has found his future wife, he won't waste time. i know this from personal family and friend experiences. i come from a parental background where my mom and dad got engaged after only 6 months of dating and they are still together 30+ years later. i know someone else where after only a week their man proposed and they are still together. like...it is what it is. a man can be just as emotional, clingy, and lovey-dovey to his woman than the woman is to him. ladies reading...if your guy doesn't act like the sun doesn't rise and set with you then he is not the one and he won't ever be. and that's okay. go find yourself a person that leaves no question as to their feelings for you. if you have to guess or question then, as the famous movie goes, he's just not that into you.

and you mentioned a verse in proverbs. i'm not necessarily a religious fanatic, however i am spiritual and i won't turn my nose up at acknowledging that stuff. . so if you would like to share the verse then go for it.

but once again, thank you so much for your insightful input!!

#lindsay's anon asks

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What is your all time favorite Austin interview? Asking for a friend

that is so hard because i have so many. but if i had to choose just one it would probably be this one. it's his first Fallon interview and he's so sweet, clearly nervous, but he looks beautiful and he's funny with the game they did at the end. it just gives me a nice, warm fuzzy feeling whenever i need a pick me up

#lindsay's anon asks

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I've been attempting to like K but there isn't much to her. She doesn't engage with her audience despite having a book club and actively telling ppl to join. Speaking of that book club, it doesn't read(no pun intended) as genuine. There are posts on the official book club account that are about her modeling rather than books. Obviously, she's also a model but that's not her main account, I don't even think she runs the book club account. I've come to the conclusion that the book club is nothing more than a way to make her look like she has any sense of personality and like she's relatable/down to earth(even though buying a shit on of books and having the time to read most of them is privileged af if you really think about). It's all about image and exposure with her. No work, no lessons, no earning it. I think a while back I remember watching some cast interviews from "Bottoms" bc I'm Bi and love comedy, anyway, they were individual quick interviews(looked like they were onset in the gym) and I get to her interview. *deep sigh* She mostly talked about how funny Rachel and Ayo are and how much they improvised but something that stuck out to me was that she said she was excited hearing about the movie being made that she sent in a video of herself for the role without ever waiting for auditions to come around and do it the proper way. Which disappointed me back then and pisses me off now that I've seen "Bottoms". The movie itself was kinda boring and every time she opened her mouth I was unimpressed with her attempt. Her character is meant to be flat and monotone, I think? But I'm pretty sure the character comes off like that bc they had to mold it to her lack of acting abilities. Which could have been avoided if they had auditioned for the role. Anyway, the rant is long but I had to get it out! I wish I could just tolerate her at least, but nepobabies make me want to rip my hair out. "Kaia Gerber swears she's a small town girl at heart"...well if she stepped foot in my town she'd run back to the hills out of sheer boredom and to get away from the bigoted folks, lmao. Ah well, I'm done bitching; Have a great day, Lindsay! ^_^

You are not wrong about the bookclub stuff, and everything else you said. It is very common for a lot of actresses to have bookclubs. Literally everywhere you look you see another book club made by a celebrity. And my understanding is that the reason why some of these bookclubs exist is that the rights to the books mentioned in the club are in part shared with the celeb hosting the book club...and therefore if a book featured on the club gets made into a movie that they can either star in the movie or just have the rights to it. it's not always as simple as an author talks about their book. most of the celeb book clubs are the ones where the rights to said book are shared with the celebrity. they basically get dibs on starring in the adaptation. and library science is definitely run by somebody else, not by her.

and yes, she takes up so much space in the industry. other actresses that need their break or need a job could have taken her place and actually helped a lot of these projects. having kaia on cheapens them.

#lindsay's anon asks

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I know it's none of my business, but since everyone else seems to be sharing their thoughts on A&K today, I have to say: the way they communicate about their relationship is weird and makes me roll my eyes a little. This isn't shade, but they've adopted a strategy of 'loud privacy', if that makes sense, and it's not great. People know they're together. They attend events together. But they talk about each other in weird doublespeak in interviews, make vague references to each other without mentioning each other directly, and use intermediaries like friends, family, and even businesses to post on social media about them being together. It's kind of annoying (not that anyone asked me), because I guarantee that people don't really care that much either way. I think it comes from one of two things. Either one of them legit wants to be private and the other doesn't, and this is the compromise they've come up with, or someone is advising them that this is a good strategy for whatever reason. I don't think it works, because not only is the doublespeak and posting through other people obvious, it makes it odd. I know that they have the right to communicate their relationship however they want, and a random person's opinion doesn't matter. But I do find their choice to be so coy about each other weird, because...what's the point? If they actually do want to be private, it's a terrible strategy, because not talking about each other in such an obvious way creates a void that people pour speculation, rumors, gossip and theories into. Like the 'will-they, won't-they' about the other person anytime one of them has an event. Whatever the reason, my two cents (or two dollars, because this got long), is that it isn't a great strategy no matter what they're trying to accomplish.

First of all thank you for providing your two dollars to the conversation lol. They were two dollars well spent! But secondly, I think you're so right with the whole loud privacy thing. You can't be loud about your relationship in some aspects while also having privacy. The two directly oppose each other. You're either loud and proud or you are 100% quiet and hush hush. Being private inherently means you keep your cards close to the vest...is that the phrase? Basically, nothing gets let out and you are dead set on it. But the way that we only see these two is in planned pap pictures, media headlines, her family posting things...it is so weird. All i know is that whatever the hell dynamic that they've got going on, it ain't working and the shoe needs to drop eventually. Because they both can be in more fulfilling relationships where their needs are met. The private one can be private, and the loud one can be with someone equally loud.

The strategy here, or lack thereof, is drifting through the wind like a plastic bag à la Katy Perry

#lindsay's anon asks

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I can't handle being on X rn. That Mollie girl keeps shoving the PR bs in so many of her posts. Basically telling new fans to care and obsess about the relationship as if Austin and Kaia haven't both said they like it to he private which means we should probably not care and especially not obsess over it. I love making friends with new fans but if it means they're gonna be conditioned into posting about the situationship, I don't think I will enjoy it any longer. I could understand if they were a real couple who showed real affection and care toward one another outside of red carpet events and staged pap-walk advertisements. But it's too fishy of a situation for me to believe it's 100% and not in some part just for PR. It is very frustrating for me and I'm about to become part of the fandom that leaves bc of it, which I don't want to do but I can support Austin without chatting online about him.

wow we love forced indoctrination. we love when power hungry, desperate cockroaches enforce rules upon people and don't allow others to think freely for themselves. we love "it's my way or the highway" mentality. it's giving Manson Family. it's giving kool-aid. it's giving when Regina George printed out the burn book and turned the whole school into literal chaos just to gain control when she realized her world was turning upside down.

so now we're forcing people at gunpoint to be a shipper or else you get exiled? or else you get bullied into silence? or else you're not a real fan? what kind of fandom are these fucking morons trying to create here? all of this for a hollywood relationship between a 22 year old girl and a 32 year old man? if they wanna look like delusional assholes and fall on the sword for them then by all means, let them roam the pasture. what they don't seem to understand is that their behavior is what's causing everyone to leave the fandom and give Austin's fans a bad name.

this behavior is not okay and it needs to be called out. don't let them silence you. i'm damned if i do comment and damned if i don't comment so, whatever. they're doing too fucking much.

#lindsay's anon asks

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Tbh I expected Kaia to have a bigger role in Palm Royale. She's in only a few scenes in the first 3 episodes. I know they couldn't risk putting her in there more, cause the lack of talent would be noticeable, but with the way the media made it seem, I thought she was one of the main characters. The show is not getting great reviews, I have yet to see anyone mention Kaia besides that she's in the cast. I have no idea how Austin is not embarrassed to be with this girl. He is the polar opposite of what she represents in Hollywood.

no babe, that's how they fool you. she was barely promoted in the show. kristen and ricky seem to be the main leads. kaia is just a side side character. it's a shame because someone more talented than her, a young actress looking for more opportunities, could have taken that role but instead the Hollywood game strikes again. and im sure he is. he is the kind of guy that values true talent and hard work of which she lacks both. the disparaging difference between someone like austin who was born a normal guy in the suburbs who scraped the barrel to support his family is a stark difference to her life. and that is something that they can never understand about eachother, which imo is a detriment because you learn fundamental life lessons from how you grew up, it marks who you are as an adult. compatibility is having those similar backgrounds so you can relate. if you can't relate then you'll never truly understand each other.

#lindsay's anon asks #thats also why him and vanessa had true compatibility because she was not born famous. she had a normal background like him

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Previous anon: yes, I meant from the public perspective! Sorry if that wasn't clear. I saw a couple of tweets about the Palm Royale premiere saying how nice it was that he 'took a backseat and let her shine' or something to that effect. That idea has always rubbed me the wrong way, that in order to be a good or supportive partner one party has to basically sit down and shut up. It's something a lot of people seem to think, and I've just never agreed.

No you're good! I agree with you 100% that the shippers thinking him being by himself in a corner while she does her thing is romantic or supportive or whatever. Those opinions come from young girls who have clearly not had a lot of dating experience. Contextualize that statement of them saying this, basically, "austin taking a backseat and letting kaia shine is nice" and let's break that down. Essentially... someone who is subservient to their partner and shrinks themselves down to microscopic level in order to either appease their partner or make themselves invisible is what they're praising. Nobody should ever have to make themselves smaller and be scarce in order to be deemed as a good person for not getting in the way of their partner.

A healthy relationship consists of two people who mutually respects one another and they will show up for you, and proudly do it. I don't want my partner to feel like they have to show up to my work function but yet widdle themselves down to ant size because they think it'll take the spotlight off of me. A partner that is proud to support you and be vocal about it and be present within it is romantic. And everyone else in the room watching on is not thinking "oh wow, this person is being too annoying with their love for this person, how rude and inconsiderate".

Let's even take it this direction. You have a big event at school and your parents come to support you, but instead of sitting in with the families in audience that are clapping and cheering on their kids they are instead sitting in the dark corner in the back of the auditorium silently observing as to not be seen. You'd feel pretty shitty about yourself in that situation. At that point there is no reason to show up if you're afraid to show your love like any normal person.

The fact that these shippers think it's seemingly normal for Austin to shrink himself down to nothing, make himself scarce, and dim his light because he "doesn't want to outshine kaia"...what is there to outshine kaia about? Being a supportive boyfriend is outshining her? Taking pictures with her is outshining her? A relationship is taking away from her work? There is no such thing. The two can be parallel and they don't have to override the other. You can be in a loving relationship and support your partner anywhere at anytime. If you have a partner that doesn't show up for you publicly and wants to hide away then you have a problem.

I've made my case. Those shippers will one day understand what a healthy relationship looks like when it eventually gets modeled to them.

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