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#bookish things #aesthetic

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#batbros #batfamily #dick grayson #tim drake #damian wayne #jason todd #cool fanart

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happy valentines day and femslash february!!

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#rege-jean page #fandom racism #bridgerton #sigh

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All 13 full moons of 2023 | by Ivana Fanti, @moonwise8

#full moon #moon phases #space

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"Bruno left us because of you"

I think the biggest (maybe the only one) surprise of the movie for me was learning Bruno actually wasn't disowned or kicked out, but that he willingly went away to protect Mirabel. Sure, he felt he needed to go because people always thought the worse of him and his visions, but still he wasn't literally chased away like we were brought to believe by the spoilers and songs.

The accusation of Alma was rich, but it even means imho she was honestly upset Bruno was gone, and now she finally had someone else to blame for that. Even the fact everybody (beside Camilo) were happy to see him when he show up, I think the family maybe found more easy to be angry with him than to fret about where he was gone and why. We know from Luisa the adults suspected he saw something terrible in the future before to go away, so they maybe just thought Bruno panicked and ran away, leaving the in the dark. That was actually a better reason to be angry than a wedding... more so they actually lived together for years and years after that particular fiasco, (Bruno went away when Maribel was 5 years old, a lot of time after Pepa's wedding) and I doubt they could live together if Pepa was actually thundering every time she saw his brother at lunch. LOL.

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The Simpsons' friends remembered the couple as being so much fun, frequently hosting parties, including annual Easter dinners and Fourth of July bashes where everyone's kids swam and ate and had a blast. They remained very close to Nicole's parents and they and her sisters were usually at all the family-friendly parties, too.

"The truth is, no one really knew her during her marriage," a friend who said she had known Nicole since their early 20s told the LA Times after she was killed. "She was never free to be herself or have friends. She wasn't available for that kind of intimacy." Nicole was also prone to abruptly canceling plans or not showing up when both she and O.J. were expected somewhere, the friend added, recalling that O.J. would regularly claim that his wife was in bed with menstrual cramps.

"She was the type of person who would not say to me what her problems were," added Maria Bauer, who told the Times she often heard the couple loudly fighting in Simpson's home office. "She wouldn't talk."

In 1988, Nicole turned up driving a new Ferrari, which she would say was O.J.'s version of an "I'm sorry."

The word on O.J. and Nicole's marriage and the almost seven years that they lived together beforehand was that it was explosive, that they looked blissfully happy at times but would also have intense fights. Seemingly everyone they knew socially was well aware of the volatility. Only in hindsight, after Nicole was killed, did it click into place.

Friends of Nicole would say that she fought back with words when she could. "He'd cheat. She'd find out. She'd get angry. She'd confront him," one told the Times. "She's a strong girl and she'd confront him. And they would fight."

Mark Fuhrman, the LAPD detective who played a pivotal role in O.J.'s defense strategy at the murder trial, wrote in a 1989 memo (during an internal look at how many times Nicole had called the cops on O.J.) that he responded to a call at the Rockingham house in the fall/winter of 1985. He arrived to find a woman crying and a Mercedes-Benz with the windshield smashed in; she told Fuhrman that Simpson had smashed it with a bat.

Denise Brown testified that, while out to dinner one night with her sister and brother-in-law in 1987, "O.J. grabbed Nicole's crotch and said, 'This is where babies come from and this belongs to me.' And Nicole just sort of wrote it off as if it was nothing, like - you know, like she was used to that kind of treatment and he was like - I thought it was really humiliating, if you ask me."

Also on the stand, Denise recalled telling O.J. sometime in the mid-80's that he was taking Nicole for granted, after which he flew into a rage.

"He ran upstairs, got clothes, started flying down the stairs and grabbed Nicole, told her to get out of his house, wanted us all out of his house, picked her up, threw her against the wall, picked her up, threw her out of the house," Denise said tearfully. "She ended up on her - she ended up falling. She ended up on her elbows and on her butt...we were all sitting there screaming and crying, and then he grabbed me and threw me out of the house."

Nicole would go home to her parents occasionally after such blowups, but O.J. would always call and emotionally apologize, and she would go back.

Nicole confided in friend Kris Jenner that O.J. was cheating and that he would get physically rough during fights, but that "she never came out and said, 'I'm being abused by O.J.' I wished I would have asked her for specifics. But I didn't want to cross a line if she didn't want to talk about something, which would become one of my biggest regrets. All she told me was, 'I want to leave him and I do not know how. I don't know if I can stay. He's really hard to live with.'"

A close-up photo of her bruised face was found after her death in a safety-deposit box.

"She said she wanted to show me some things and talk about what was in her safe," Kris said. "And so now unfortunately it all makes sense that that's probably what she wanted to reveal to me that next day, which broke my heart because I will always feel horrible that I didn't pay enough attention."

"I only attended junior college for a very short time, because [Simpson] wanted me to be available to travel with him whenever his career required him to go to a new location, even if it was for a short period of time," Nicole would later state in an affidavit petitioning for spousal and child support during their 1992 divorce proceedings. "I have no other college education, and I hold no degrees...I am not currently employed and spend my time caring for my two young children."

When Nicole filed for divorce, O.J. was by then dating model Paula Barbieri. O.J. and Nicole settled their divorce in 1992 with O.J. agreeing to pay Nicole a lump sum of $433,750, plus $10,000 a month in child support. Nicole also retained the deed on a rental property in San Francisco. All told, Nicole relished being a full-time mom. She even reconnected with her friends.

"She became Nicole Brown, her own person," Cora Fischman, a friend and neighbor from Rockingham, told the LA Times. "She started all over again."

A call, played in court less than two years later, was 13 1/2 minutes long. Simpson could be heard vaguely in the background, but at one point came through clearly, when Nicole told him the kids were sleeping. He said, "You didn't give a s*** about the kids when you were sucking his d**k in the living room. They were here. Didn't care about the kids then."

Nicole told the dispatcher her ex was referring to something that happened "a long time ago." (Simpson had seen her through the front window having a sexual encounter with a boyfriend in 1992).

A couple who were her next-door neighbors on Gretna Green also testified that they would sometimes see O.J. standing outside her house, looking at it from the sidewalk.

On the morning of June 13, 1994, the children, Sydney and Justin, who were then 8 and 5, were ushered out of the house through a back door by police with no idea what had happened. Sydney called the house phone from the police station, leaving a message asking her mom why she and Justin were there. "Mommy, please call me back. I want to know what happened last night...Please answer, Mommy!"

Nicole's funeral would be two days later.

Meanwhile, O.J. bombed a lie detector test.

During the his murder trial, Italian shoemaker Bruno Magli got some free publicity when a bloody print at the murder scene was matched to a size-12 Bruno Magli Lorenzo boot.

O.J. denied owning a pair and said later in a deposition for the civil trial that he'd never wear "those ugly ass shoes," but photos were dug up much later showing him wearing the brand on two separate occasions.

For the murder trial, defense attorney Carl Douglas told Dateline that his team switched up some of the decor in O.J.'s Rockingham Avenue home before the jury toured it to make it seem as if the tarnished football hero, who famously stated, "I'm not black, I'm O.J." was more in touch with his cultural roots than he really was. Out went a half-naked picture of girlfriend Paula Barbieri, and in came African art.

While Marcia Clark, a part of the L.A. County District Attorney's Office's special trials unit since 1989, was trying to prosecute O.J. for murder, she was also constantly put on the defensive. Her style was criticized, so she got a new hairdo and was criticized for that. Her ex-husband sued her for primary custody of their two sons during the trial, alleging she was working too much to properly take care of them. The National Enquirer published old topless photos of her taken on a vacation with her then-husband. Even a potential juror, a woman, when asked if there was anything she might hold against the prosecution, told Clark, "I think your skirts are too short, how about that?"

She was dismissed. But not before Judge Ito cracked, "I was wondering when someone was going to mention that."

But the families of the victims she was trying to get justice for had the utmost confidence in her heading into the trial.

"She seems always to be concerned with our family, how we're doing, and at the same time there's never a doubt in my mind she's working 25 hours a day, 10 days a week, on this case," Fred Goldman, Ron's father, told the New York Times. "On a scale from 1 to 100, she easily gets 110."

#fuck oj simpson #misogny #nicole simpson brown #tw domestic violence

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I'm writing a book. And it starts with reading a thesis about K-pop stans and identity construction. This is uncharted territory because with most of the fandoms, I've been studying, I have some familiarity with the fave's work, but with K-pop I'm pretty much flying blind.

#ty reads stuff #parasocial relationships #stan cultures

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PAOLO MONTALBAN as PRINCE CHRISTOPHER in RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA (1997)

#rodgers and hammerstein's cinderella #brandy cinderella

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Addams Family Dollhouse

#the addams family #cool art #dollhouses

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Swifties have found ANOTHER female co-star of Joe’s to harass

I know, I know, I said I was taking a break. I AM going to be significantly less active in the next month-ish because of exams. So if you tag me or message me and I don’t respond, don’t be shocked by that. Also, I don’t see myself being active when the Whinging Narcissist Department drops because I just need to protect my mental health bc you know the swifties (and their cult leader) make me genuinely angry with the way they act.

BUT, I also need to do a little dump of posts because UNFORTUNATELY, swifties do not ever take a break from being HORRIBLE little fuckshits. And I saw this so I have to talk about it.

So here are swifties attacking Alison Oliver, Joe’s CWF co-star, calling her a demon and a whore, quoting Taylor’s slutshaming Better Than Revenge lyrics at her. All because of a rumor that THEY FUCKING MADE UP.

They did the same shit to Emma Laird last year, because s posted a photo dump of all her co stars (including Joe) and now they’ve made up rumors about Alison being Joe’s “mistress” to justify attacking her.

They even used a clip of a sex scene as PROOF that Joe was cheating on Taylor, because apparently he “moaned her name”. 1) He said “ah shit” but swifties twisted things as they always do. 2) Having a sex scene, with an intimacy coordinator and camera crew, IS NOT THE SAME AS CHEATING. And 3) even if Joe accidentally moaned Alison’s name how the fuck would that be HER fault? If he actually moaned the wrong name they would have to reshoot the scene, but that would be HIS mess up, not Alison’s.

Anyway… idk if it’s because Alison and Joe recently reunited and took a picture, and that made swifties feel INSECURE on Taylor’s behalf, because they’re extremely parasocial about her and see her exes as THEIR exes. So I’m wondering if seeing Joe next to a pretty woman triggered them, and poor Alison who has committed the crime of BREATHING too close to Joe has become the new target of their wrath.

All of this is once again, why I keep saying, that swifties are one of the most misogynistic fandoms, CERTAINLY the most misogynistic popstar fandom, that I have ever come across. Swifties aww always pulling the misogyny card anytime Taylor gets criticism for ANYTHING but then they will go and be misogynistic towards any woman who isn’t Taylor.

#just gonna leave this here #parasocial relationships #stan culture #joe alwyn #and she herself has a couple songs about cheating #just call it life and move on

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#cool art #bookish things

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#lgbtq #homophobia

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#good for them #kids

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"Penelope just wrote what everyone else was saying!"

A lot of you really don't know much about journalism and it shows. If there wasn't an ethical or legal problem with printing rumors as fact tabloids would be sued into oblivion.

#sigh #anti penelope featherington #bridgerton

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Without a shred of irony, I've seen Penelope stans say what Eloise did aka hanging out with Cressida is worse than what Penelope did to her. And Cressida is worse than Penelope because she was mean to Penelope for years. Neither form of bullying is great, but I feel like bullying people in your burn book by calling them spinsters and whores for a large audience is worse actually.

#anti penelope featherington #eloise bridgerton #cressida cowper #bridgerton