#a bunch of allegations

[averagegorewriter101]

There is a lot of things I didn’t expect when going to community college, one of them was a leaked photo of a well known homophobic guy who calls himself “gods gift” wearing a cheerleader outfit

#not to mention a lot of Christian clubs trying to recruit #bibles were handed out and shit #I had to like pretend to ignore them or when they got too pushy I just outright said I was a satanist #que me arguing 20 minutes before making an excuse of going to tutoring #then there is the abortion fight #bonnie shipped with our school mascot #a bunch of allegations #a guy having a temper tantrum in the study room #and other shit I can’t fucking remember atm #my fucking gay ass is not surving in sociology #not because it’s hard but there’s oddly a lot of homophobic and transphobic people #not the teacher tho at least I love her she’s fucking cool #me eating an entire wrap in one sitting at my desk #almost spilling Diet Coke over my desk #sleeping while studying #learning a shit tone of anatomy

[moonsprings]

maybe it's because i've been through it these last two years with a shit ton of personal shit that happened (family deaths, friend with illness) that everything feels a lot more... more but this news of lee sun kyun's death has been shocking. it feels odd because i'm a lot more sad about it than i expected to be, just from a human perspective of not wanting other people to feel the kind of despair necessary to take your own life. i wasn't a die hard fan but a casual fan nonetheless (cue self callout about liking middle aged men with nice voices... lol.) and while admittedly i've been more of a fan of lee sun kyun's wife (actress jeon hye jin, who is famous in her own right) in recent years, he was undoubtedly an actor i watched growing up. coffee prince was the hit drama when i was in grade school, back when my family used to watch korean cable/broadcast tv at home. then pasta, then my mister which i consider his representative work, more so than parasite. it's a horrible thing that's happened.

there's a lot of context that's missing on the western side of the news, mostly to do with the whole hostess/escort blackmail situation that had been unfolding on korean news in the last 2-3 months which likely compounded the entire scandal and his decision to do this sadly. imo this entire thing has far less to do about drugs than people actually think though it's still a significant factor. lee sunkyun has always had a 'family man' image on kor tv and the revelations about him and the alleged hostess/escort who had been blackmailing him who supplied and took drugs with was a madame/hostess from a VIP (basically rich people only) room salon/hostess bar he appears to have been having an affair with for a while which irreparably damaged his image and reputation and likely his marriage and family. rumors had been circulating that his in-laws were urging jeon hyejin to divorce him, they supposedly sent their kids to an overseas boarding school because they were getting bullied in korea over lsk's scandal, and he was facing millions in won in contract violations penalty fees from cancelled CFs/advertisements and tv and film work that was delayed because of the scandal (also fucking hell, just saw the news report saying he left a message to his company's rep apologizing for the penalty fees right before his death). the same penalty fee situation happened to actor yoo ahin after he was convicted of drug charges and is now reportedly millions in debt. that is an incredible amount of pressure, even if part of it was the consequence of his actions. and to be clear, these were stupid choices he made but the reaction was so wildly disproportionate to what he's been accused of.

i feel like if it had "just" been drugs, or "just" been the hostess scandal, he could have made a come back after a few years as many other korean celebrities have (way more than people think, and he has more leeway as a critically celebrated, middle aged male actor who is not an idol), but it's the combination of the drugs, the 'room salon'/hostess club situation that just exploded, and the corrupt police placing this level of constant pressure and publicity on him that caused this imo. his private phone calls and messages he made with the hostess were leaked yesterday from a known r/ight wing kor youtuber before his suic-de. having seen it reported in the kor news, it's difficult to describe the contents of it other than being very personal and frankly, embarrassing (and i mean this as neutrally as possible. think adam levine-esque) in a country as conservative as korea when he's telling a s-x worker he 'really likes [her]' in the sense that he has feelings for her. and again, his wife is a prominent actress and their public images are tied together. given the timing, it likely wasn't just about the drugs. and i know the whole room salon/hostess bar thing is incredibly common in korea, in older stats some say something like 70% of korean men have frequented one (though it's increasingly becoming less acceptable and therefore less common, which is why the public reaction been harsh) and i really don't approve of the cultural aspects that have allowed this to be permissible (as a korean-american) but i feel like that's a personal issue that should have been handled by him and his family. if it was one or the other he could have made a return but i think the pressure of it being this public and detailed due to police likely being the ones intentionally leaking information from the investigation was just too much for him to handle. it feels like the police purposefully went out of their way to humiliate lee sun kyun in the press and public to try and get him to admit to the drug charges because g-dragon, the other celebrity that was implicated, proved his innocence rather conclusively and the police didn't have anyone else to use to get some high profile publicity.

...so we started the year with a suic-de and ended it with a suic-de. it's telling, i think. obviously i don't know any of them, they're 'just' celebrities who literally don't know i exist (as it should be) but honestly my chest feels heavy watching dark coats and emotionless faces walk into the university hospitals, the smiling portrait pictures atop the bed of flowers at the ceremonial funeral rooms, the whole lot - i don't know how many more times people can see this and not feel like anything's wrong. image is everything and the pressure to perform, be perfect, be successful is too much. i'm not even half as talented as any of them and i still felt it, a sea away, in a watered down version from immigrant korean parents and an immigrant community. everyone is way too damn casual about admitting their suic-dal thoughts but not really offering any real solutions and it's just so common. i've heard far too many interviews from kor celebrities who had scandals (and when i say scandals i mean in the asian sense again, dating, secret marriages, divorces or drugs or whatever shit that would barely even qualify as a line in the news in the west most of the time and not more serious crimes) who admitted years after the fact that they were considering suic-de because of the public reaction. or more mundane shit like 'i felt suicidal in school because of academic pressure' stuff i've heard a million times from korean friends, classmates. a lot of it gets dismissed as 'puberty' or 'everyone feels that way'. and again i ask why it's so normalized.

then even those celebrities that have died from suic-de are treated like virtual boogeymen afterwards, their names never mentioned even in places where it should be. the eggshells, the sidestepping because it could be considered 'sensitive' and thus they're erased because the only context their lives can be in is in position to their suic-des. other people who knew them, friends, acquaintances, coworkers they had - past the initial condolence messages, it's like they never existed because everyone is scared of controversy from saying the wrong thing, or not being serious enough, or whatever the hell people want to nitpick that week. people have literally been criticized before for being too sad or not being sad enough when a death from a suic-de has happened so i'm not surprised this was the end result, that literally no one talks about the deceased now outside of a very select few. if they are talked about, it's more so alluded to in an extremely vague manner usually not mentioning them by name, and they rarely, if ever say the actual word suic-de. they usually say that it was an "안타까운 사건" ('an unfortunate incident') even in official news reports, including of LSK's death, and it just bothers me that it's this taboo, everything from making stupid decisions and stupid mistakes (bullying, drugs, cheating, whatever the fuck) or just plain having mental illness, to ending their lives because of it, to having their friends and family not speak about them publicly because it's 'shameful' and they'll get judged.

i don't know what the point is, just that i'm really increasingly frustrated with the state of things. the police shouldn't have pushed him to the brink. this entire situation straight up should not have happened at all.

#tw suicide #sorry. i know i don't talk about shit only to vomit an entire essay but just this situation #i've been thinking about it all day #this has gotten an unprecedented amount of attention internationally because he was 'the parasite dad' compared to other sk celeb suicides #& i'm seeing some very uninformed takes but that's not entirely their fault because this was 'celebrity gossip' prior to LSK's death #so why would anyone translate a bunch of drug and cheating allegations when that's literally nothing in the west scandal wise #at any rate i hope he's at peace. this was a shit situation and while he did some wrongs it shouldn't have come to this #lee sunkyun #lee sun kyun

[sweetpeapoppy]

#not beating the allegations #properly fun bunch #andre lotterer #jean eric vergne #jeandre

[unpretty]

can I ask where you saw bankston was complaining that reynal had been ignoring his emails? I'm very interested.

i recall it coming up previously in the trial on livestream, but i don't know if it got saved anywhere (i don't think they save the whole stream so stuff that happens in recess or whatever can get lost, which is annoying bc i've seen some claims about stuff that got caught on hot mics that i CANNOT corroborate and it's infuriating)

it's why i prefaced everything with the iirc, it's fully off my own memory of extensively rubbernecking this trial

i'm hoping bankston goes into more detail on another formulaic objections episode of knowledge fight, because it seems like something he'd mention if i'm remembering correctly and not just constructing a narrative in retrospect

#original #there are allegations that someone mentioned texts with a senator and THAT is a clip i want to see #but i haven't so far #i missed a whole bunch of the stream today #i want to relisten to all of formulaic objections like a crazy person #it would be just like me if he actually talked about it there already #overall this case has been a lot of lawyers pretending not to know they were supposed to do something in a timely manner #if you haven't listened to knowledge fight in general and the formulaic objections eps in particular #they are a great way to get a feel for what's been going on with this case #knowledge fight

[medilies]

Sometimes I remember that Callahan means 'bright-headed' and smile cause that really couldn't have been more perfect

#okay to be fair he does have SOME decent-ish lines #like #why's he gotta kick the door? #the chief and her have screwed before huh? #now was this before or after you changed out of your clothes? #a bunch of vigilantes are out *hunting kids* and you want me to stay calm?! #but he's never escaping the clueless allegations #it's just his whole demeanor #byler #officer callahan

[wishesofeternity]

“Throughout Henry’s exile, Margaret (Beaufort) seems to have been a faithful correspondent, keeping her son abreast of affairs in England. Though none of their letters from this period have survived, it is highly probable that they contained sentiments similar to those she expressed in her later letters to him: she often gave him her blessing, and on one occasion, in a reflection of her affection towards him, she assured Henry that ‘I trust you shall well perceive I shall deal towards you as a kind, loving mother’. At this time, however, Margaret was clearly considering the possibility of bringing about his return, though she also recognised that this would take time. As her standing with Edward IV improved, so too did her confidence to effect a reconciliation. If she could continue to win the king’s trust, Henry’s foreign exile could potentially be brought to an end.

By the beginning of June 1482, her efforts appear to have produced some results when Edward agreed that Henry could receive a share of his grandmother the dowager Duchess of Somerset’s lands to the value of £400 (£276,500) if he were to return ‘to be in the grace and favour of the king’s highness’. Edward signed the agreement on 3 June, attaching his official seal. A draft still survives and can be found among Margaret’s papers. The groundwork for Henry to return home had been laid. Edward’s grip on the reins of power was unchallenged, and with two surviving sons, his dynasty appeared to be assured—Margaret’s son was no longer a threat. Thus it was that, on an unknown date, Edward—curiously, using the same piece of paper on which Margaret’s second husband had been created Earl of Richmond—drafted a pardon for her son. Margaret began to hope that she and Henry would soon be reunited.”  

- Nicola Tallis, “The Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch”

#historicwomendaily #history #margaret beaufort #henry vii #edward iv #kinda #this is SO interesting - I wish more people knew of it because it really changed my perception of Margaret AND henry AND edward #at the end of his reign #also since I'm quoting from her book I just wanted to point out: Nicola Tallis was beyond horrendous towards Elizabeth Woodville #and uncritically repeated a bunch of misogynistic tudor propaganda against margaret of york #AND was very weird about elizabeth of york's alleged 'feelings' for the uncle who bastardized her and murdered her brothers #even claiming that elizabeth felt 'spurned' by him (lmao) #i know that lots of historians have major issues writing about historical women who aren't their Special Favs #and that every historian is guilty of it to some extent #but to write about THREE women like this in 2019? that definitely takes things to a whole new shitty level lol

[hybrid-battle]

Who's gonna tell them?

#if you don't know what I'm talking about #in round 2 Luo Binghe was up against the 1/2 Human 1/2 Genie Shantae #on day 3 or so Shantae gained a head start #until suddenly 5 minutes before the poll ended a bunch of votes Binghe were cast putting him in the lead literally last minute #thus resulting in voter fraud allegations

[god-u]

Losing it that Derek’s stash somehow made him look more butch sdfgjshajna

HELPPPSKSKA

#he’s never beating these allegations i’m in tears #asks #anonymous #📩 #i seriously am gonna compile a bunch of the asks n replies like this i get in relation to derek soon lmaooo #fave #be ready cause it’s coming

[maiteo]

genuinely sick behavior lmaooo

#idk how someone calling out your fave (a stranger you know nothing about personally btw!!) #is enough grounds to start writing articles on abuse allegations & the ppl who can easily ignore them #idk it should genuinely bother you that everyone is presented with THE SAME knowledge & actively choose ignorance #or choose to be ‘neutral’ or passive like…how can you not see the problem with that #running thru hoops just to expose yourself & your fucked up way of thinking is insane like all this over an athlete? really? #all this bc you created some weird parasocial & take anything negative said about your fave to heart? wow. #im done rambling ppl are just sooooo gross & rlly show their asses & ignorance when it comes to real issues #‘atp players should speak out & shouldn’t be cozy w an abuser’ the brainless bunch: ‘so you hate women & think we should die?’ LIKE??

[crowlore]

rewatched alien covenant for the first time since it came out today and it’s craaaaazy 1. how much of this movie i repressed lol and 2. how many ideas and concepts that i love love love were introduced in the alien prequels that the films (as released) seemed wholly uninterested in actually engaging with

#i watched some of the cut scenes afterwards and like?? biggest complaint was how the crew felt like noncharacters #and these scenes would have helped soooo much. esp wrt daniels and walter #the movie would outright tell things about them but wouldn’t show and it was so frustrating that things would be brought up out of nowhere #also. sorry. i know this is gonna piss some people off but.. #david saying he loved shaw made me laugh bc that was Not properly worked up across these two movies #i can do the heavy lifting on my own time and understand how he could have loved her in his own way #but the movies did not do that. i did. lol! so the parallel to walter’s alleged love for daniels was weird #bc again. they cut a bunch of scenes of the two interacting aboard the covenant that would have made that make sense #whatever. i enjoyed it anyway

[horrorknife]

i need to see a movie that scares me so bad dude. any other bitches desensitized to most horror that can recommend me something that might actually be scary

#i keep watching a bunch of movies that ppl allege are Scary And Fucked Up #and while most are good and i enjoy them…theyre only dialinf that shit up to 5 or 6 #and while unnerving and unsettling at moments i always expect so much more #like i put off watching the poughkeepsie tapes for a while cuz i heard it was really fucked up #like it felt pretty real and was a tough watch at times but wasnt nearly as bad as it was hyped to be #blahhhh. #jonah.txt

[nyxi-pixie]

i know other people have pointed out the whole 'everyone else fighting demons and mikes fighting the gay thoughts' thing but seriously

every other plot is like fighting the creepy demon thing from a different dimension, fighting the other creepy demon thing from a different dimension plus russians!!, confronting past trauma in order to regain superpowers!!!

and the cali gang is just. weed and homosexuality. and that is very special to me

like obviously theyre trying to find el but idk it doesnt even feel important like the emphasis of their storyline is the fruitiness😭😭😭

#byler #stranger things spoilers #stranger things season 4 #just??? Lets have a bunch of different subplots!! #the characters are split up and struggling for their lives #but despite the split its still connected sorta to the main upside down story #except these 4 mfers theyre doing their own thing actually #mike really does have to battle the gay allegations #and im gonna be honest #my man is losing #lemme just do a triple take at my bestoe over this corpse we are burying together bc i noticed him looking at me and got flustered!! #okay michael. u. u figure that shit out at some point okay bestie?? #just checked my tags it says bestoe at some point this is so embarrassing for me but i cba to change it pretend i spelt it right pls guys

[otterloops-old]

Barely more than two months ago, my husband and I started the homebuying process, found a perfect little house that checked nearly every box we could ask for, and it was in close proximity to my work. We closed in the middle of October, and that same day I found out about upcoming job cuts. We moved in on the 21st of October, and I was laid off the following Wednesday.

However, I'm not letting this cloud how I feel about our new place. It truly is a beautiful little home, and we're so excited to make it even more our own. I wanted to commemorate it with some art, even though it's been a total shitshow both good and bad the past couple of months.

(And it's my golden birthday today! New decade!!! 🥳)

#we're all good and don't need any direct help or anything #also me and a bunch of other people who were laid off are planning... retaliation efforts #because it was honestly pretty fucked up how it all went down and there may corruption allegations I'm not aware of yet (above my paygrade) #so................ in retrospect I feel like I'm kinda dodging a bullet #it was up until mid october a dream job and I really don't wanna job hunt again LMAO

[piningprecussionist]

Kim why do you just have a random picture of Ramona on your phone?

… how many of those do you have?!

*Kim's eyes widen and she flushes a little, crossing her arms and curling inward a bit.*

I- it's completely normal to have photos of your friends!

*She narrows her eyes a bit, blushing a little harder as she looks away.*

And I don't have to answer that! Not to you, at least. Besides, she sent me some of these...

But, seriously, I take all sorts of photos! I've got some of Scott, for instance. Usually really dumb ones... I've also got a bunch of Lisa and I, from when she was visiting- and a couple of Hollie that she asked me to take and I never deleted...

I don't know, I just don't like deleting a good photo I guess. Or potential "blackmail material," in the case of some of these.

#(ooc: sorry kim not letting you beat the allegations with this one) #(ooc: she does have photos of stephen and neil and even Knives- although that one was taken by Knives [it was part of my original answer- + #+Knives took Kim's phone during band practice and snapped a sort of selfie/group photo of the band. it was Very Blurry and Very Bad but + #+Kim didn't delete it]) #(ooc: kim takes really good candids i think) #pine.txt #asks #anon #rp #kim pine #sp comic #spvtwtg #spto #spvtw #not in standard continuity #? #ramona flowers #(ooc: to tag kimona or not tag kimona... ahhh such a battle... if i tag this one for implied kimona I'd have to tag a bunch of others for + #+ this one...) #(ooc: also. this is one of those asks that make me wish roxie and kim interacting in the comics was Real shxdhcjjfdh) #(ooc: spto kim would have really stupid photos of her I feel. same brand as the scott photos for the most part but then a couple of + #+ really actually good ones that if roxie knew kim had she would tease her for)

[meringuejellyfish]

this location within the spiral, the spirit realm itself, stands out to me as a very memorable area. design wise i just really enjoy it, very fond of the stylization and simplicity of it - and specifically one of my favorite elements from each world in this 2008 wizard game was the fun skyboxes, and i find the ones drawn for the spirit world to be particularity striking. this area ultimately just is very different from everything you’ve seen up to this point, even when compared to nightside and such. it serves as an arena for only two battles - if im not mistaken - and thats also a reason why i enjoy it so much and leads to so much of the memorability to me.

the other delightful thing about this area, and what most people remember it for, is the strange sight found if you stand and peek over the edge, you might be greeted by what seems to be a ghostly blue face of some sort, staring back

this is just. here. it disappears and reappears maybe every 20-40 seconds or so, and to add onto it, all music would stop playing when standing at the edge, and you are only left with ambience and this oddly misplaced asset - however, while this asset has remained here for 14~ years, the effect of only ambience seems to have been patched out? and for a moment i almost believed the “face” was missing aswell, until of course it reappeared to greet me

something interesting that i noticed recently - what ive never seen anybody bring up about this odd weird little freak, this alleged “creepy face in mooshu” is the fact that its actually the asset utilized in the wraith spell

theres not really much else to say about this connection, i just find it interesting. and when it comes to the actual asset itself you could still ask ... what is it? id say its a skull, but it really does just look like a face. who knows. maybe it truly was misplaced in this void, or some cheeky developer thought it would be funny to place down there. its one of those “creepy mystery/phenomenon in an old video game” things that i just really love, and i hold the few bits of “creepy” wiz trivia very dear to me xP

#wizard101 #wizzy #i take fun creepy game mysteries like this very seriously and care about them so much. you'll have to forgive me for writing so much about a #single asset #i also just wanted to gush about old low polygon environment design #yipppiii yahooo #i miss this kinda stuff so bad. nothing beats a bunch of wizard kids going crazy over this one weird asset or arguing over whether or not #the ghost girl in the pyramid of the lost horizon was real or the alleged voices in the lava #i also just miss straight up playground rumors. you dont really get that anymore. mew under the truck. that time that somebody just made up #an evil animal crossing villager named brutus. and of course things like herobrine #everyone knows too much about whats in the files and what isnt. i wasnt even a kid who fell for things like herobrine but it was still fun #to think about #(nowdays we got deltarune which is like all those creepy internet/playground rumors but real. and its so fascinating #god bless

[fagexe]

Equality #pride

#okthen #allegations confirmed #hashtag equality hashtag pride. you're so obviously a bunch of middle-aged dads I love it so much #happy pride babyboys<3 #ls dunes #you must felix your heart