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Dua Lipa at the Golden Globes 2024

Wearing a Schiaparelli dress and a vintage Tiffany & Co. necklace from 1962, in gold and platinum with yellow beryl, topaz quartz, and diamonds. It originally retailed at $12,000.

Images via Stellene Volandes on IG

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get to know the members of @gay! ↳ favourite canon character by aish ⋆ greta gill "god, we're all fucking fruit!"

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vintage dragon’s breath necklace

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Pink sapphire and ruby necklace, mid 1800s.

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Alice in Wonderland (1951) dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske

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Jenna Ortega’s fame: a blessing or a curse?

Jenna Ortega, the bright young star of Hollywood, already has a cult of her own - crazy fandom that can make Selena Gomes and Taylor Swift jealous. And tarnish all her great achievements. How did that happen?

About a year ago Netflix released “Wednesday”, which immediately has become one of the most popular series of the platform and a real cultural phenomenon. Wednesday's dance went viral, prompting the teens all over the world to cosplay the goth girl and of course, Ortega, who played the main role in the beloved series, turned from a promising actress into a superstar.

But could we say that fame is a blessing for her? Along with unprecedented popularity, Ortega has acquired numerous aggressive, obsessive fans, most of whom are teenagers living more online than in real life. The behavior of these fans have already turned into a serious problem. Every new project involving Jenna Ortega is dragged into a scandal by the efforts of her own fans that throw absolutely every accusation in the book at her co-stars.

It all started in January, when Percy Hynes White, who played a part in love triangle with her in “Wednesday”, was accused in anonymous tweets of sexual assault, racism etc. The actor denied all the accusations and no legal proceedings followed. Ortega's fans meanwhile organized the massive campaign against White, justifying it with concerns about their idol’s life, both work related and personal. Ortega and White have repeatedly stated that they became best friends during the filming and although the status of their relationship is now unclear, many fans of Ortega continue to campaign against the actor, inciting to harass him on social media. White’s participation in s2 of “Wednesday” is still uncertain.

Martin Freeman was the next to come under fire from Ortega's fans. Freeman is her co-star in the upcoming "Miller's girl" film, where his character, a teacher, has an illicit relationship with his own student, played by Ortega. The first trailer was released recently and immediately caused to resurface the accusation of racism, child abuse etc Freeman has. In less than a day the viral tweet gained more than 13 million views and Ortega's fans actively participate in spreading accusations and inciting the harassment of the actor. And the movie hasn't been released yet! There is every reason to believe that with the release, the hate snowball will turn into an avalanche and Freeman will become the next victim of the cancel culture.

The most ambiguous situation happened around another co-star of Ortega, Toby Wallace, who played her love interest in the recently released Paramount film "Finestkind''. Although Wallace wasn’t involved in anything controversial, did not actively promote the film together with Ortega and even skipped the red carpet premiere of the film, he was bombarded with hateful comments on his Instagram by Ortega's fans, who wished him dead (smt in portuguese), among other things.

Perhaps the situation began to bother Ortega's PR team, because several big fan pages simultaneously called for an end of harassment of this actor, thereby only fueling the interest of others in the issue.

Thus, almost everyone who plays a love interest of Jenna Ortega in the movies finds themselves under attack from the actress' numerous and very active fans. Their actions create quite an unhealthy atmosphere of scandal around the young star, negatively affecting her reputation in the industry, because everyone of her colleagues risks getting bullied and canceled.

Miss Ortega didn’t comment on any of this and fans may see it as full approval, continuing to harass her co-stars on the Internet. Who is next? The release of a new film featuring Ortega and the Weeknd is to be announced soon, and the prospects for the Weeknd, already suffering harsh criticism for his Idol series involvement, are not very sunny.

In the upcoming film Ortega plays a stalker obsessed with the Weeknd’s character, a very controversial role in itself. Let’s just wait and see if he would be the new target for the Ortega’s stan cult.

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Fifteen government departments have been monitoring the social media activity of potential critics and compiling “secret files” in order to block them from speaking at public events, the Observer can reveal. Under the guidelines issued in each department, including the departments of health, culture, media and sport, and environment, food and rural affairs, officials are advised to check experts’ Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn accounts. They are also told to conduct Google searches on those individuals, using specific terms such as “criticism of government or prime minister”. The guidelines are designed to prevent anyone who has criticised the government in the previous three to five years from speaking at government-organised conferences and other events.

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These hidden checks are unlawful, running contrary to data protection laws and potentially breaching equality and human rights legislation. Dan Kaszeta, a chemical weapons expert, was disinvited in April from giving a keynote speech at a UK defence conference after officials found social media posts criticising Tory ministers and government immigration policy. He told the Observer this weekend that he knows of 12 others who have uncovered evidence of similar government blacklisting, most of whom are frightened of speaking out. But he said far more will be unaware they ever failed secret vetting. He said: “The full extent of this is shocking and probably not fully known. I was lucky enough to be given clearcut, obvious evidence. It’s truly awful.”

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Today is my birthday 🎂 🥳

So wish me happy birthday ok? lol jk jk

I'm celebrating with some delishus RocketX Juno art as i get ready to go SHUT IT DOWN!

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I’m a SAG-AFTRA strike captain and a member of fandom since forever. And if you’re a fan or consumer who wants to help (and I know many of you already have) it looks like this is the week especially if you are in NYC or LA.

Right now, it’s Sunday November 5, 2023 in the afternoon and SAG-AFTRA’s negotiating committee are still reviewing what AMPTP have claimed is their “last, best, and final” offer. They gave WGA three different offers with this phrasing (the third one was actually the great deal the union agreed to), so we know it’s not last or final, and we don’t yet know if it’s best.

But as we wait for official word from the negotiating committee, we must be prepared for our response if this is not the deal we need.

At this point, it sure looks like pickets are going to need to happen tomorrow, Monday, November 6, 2023. And if they are, those pickets may be the most important of the entire strike. They’ll send a message to the AMPTP, to the media, to our negotiating committee, and to our membership, industry, and union siblings.

If you are in NYC or LA, we need you to find five minutes (or more) of your day and come out an join us tomorrow. If you are a fan or a consumer who has been eager for a way to help, this is gonna be the day. If you can get to a picket line, please come.

Picketing is hard work, but joining a picket for whatever time you have to give us is easy.

The rest of this post is entirely about demystifying what to expect for our allies that haven’t been on the line yet.

When you show up at a picket location (there’s a link to find picket locations attached to this post), you’ll see a SAG-AFTRA tent. You should go there and check in.

If you’re in the union, they’ll ask for your membership card. If you’re not, they’ll either have a book for you to enter your info in by hand or a QR code for you to scan to fill out a brief online form.

They’ll hand you a sign, offer you shirts/hats/pins/stickers (all free and all dependent on what got sent to that site that day), and point out other free stuff they have that you might need — like water, snacks, and ear plugs (it gets loud).

After that, you’ll join us on the line. You can chant if you want. You can also bring noisemakers if you want. Sometimes we have dance breaks. At my site we also pause for historical facts about labor history, and have a union song singalong with live music most days.

Take a rest when you need to rest. Stay as long or as short as you want. When you leave, just turn in your sign and take off. No explanations needed.

No one is gonna quiz you on your time commitment, your actorly history, or anything else. Sometimes people are chatty, sometimes people are focused on the task. Both are okay.

Full disclosure: Accessibility has been learn-as-we-go and imperfect. That said, we regularly have wheelchair and other mobility aid users and blind and low-vision people at our pickets. We also have ASL interpreters available at least some of the time. You are welcome, and we will make it work.

If you wanna bring your kids, bring your kids. If you wanna bring you dog/cat/bird/lizard — totally chill if appropriately leashed/contained and we will put SAG shirts on your pet if your your pet wants a shirt and we have appropriate sizes.

Picket schedule and locations for week of November 6 available at this link: https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/picket-schedule-locations (Los Angeles and New York always have stuff scheduled. Other locations are less frequent).

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my partner & i recently transitioned to being best friend platonic partners and romantically separated (due to some simple romantic incompatibilities) - we're both very happy with and excited about this change and most importantly we think it is VERY funny and gay to continue doing everything together and living together as exes

(she wrote the first comic!)

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Looking good so far Love to see her :) <3

I still have to fix some things, but for now I like how my new drawing of Rocket and Blue is turning out, I think it's the first time I've tried to draw in its original form.

My oc is called Blue. She is a 19 year old human girl but thanks to a bracelet she made she has the power to be any animal she wants. When she met Rocket and then became his girlfriend, she decided to be a raccoon instead of a human. His fur color is a silvery gray and his raccoon form's eyes are yellow. She is shy, insecure but she is also funny, kind, loving and loyal and strong. She would give his life to save the people he loves. She and Rocket are parents of seven children 💖🦝✨

Taglist 💕: @aliasrocket @evolvingchaoswitch @rxin3akamallory @raccoonfallsharder

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i would bark on command for this man

My guy Rocket in endgame is like

"Aww it's like a puppy. You wanna go to space, puppy? I'll take you to space."

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chip anon here again

i do not have chips this time, tragedy. heartbreaking. but all is resolved, i would just like to inform you it is my birthday in 14 days. i hope i get chips as a birthday gift 🕺🏼💃

happy birthday my adorable crispy lil chip. i hope you have the loveliest day you’ve had so far, and i hope it is the start of the loveliest year you’ve had so far, and i hope every year after this just keeps getting better. I’m so glad you were born and i hope you didn’t think i forgot because i didn’t.

(rocket is another story. he says he didn’t forget but i am skeptical. when i mentioned it was your birthday today he was very upset about having not “had time” to plan you an intergalactic scavenger hunt. however i told him about your hope of receiving chips as a gift and he did ask me to give you this half-eaten bag he’d been actively snacking on)