#ed roman hive

[blixabargelds]

roman the only one where they showed a scale in the bathroom 

#roman roy #succession #kieran culkin #ed roman hive #so real

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2024 Grammy Awards: Complete Winner List

The complete winner list of the 2024 Grammy Awards can be found below. Album of the Year: Jon Batiste – World Music Radio boygenius – the record Miley Cyrus – Endless Summer Vacation Lana Del Rey – Did you know there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd Janelle Monáe – The Age of Pleasure Olivia Rodrigo – GUTS Taylor Swift – Midnights SZA – SOS Song of the Year: Lana Del Rey – “A&W” Taylor Swift – “Anti-Hero” Jon Batiste – “Butterfly” Dua Lipa – “Dance the Night” Miley Cyrus – “Flowers” SZA – “Kill Bill” Olivia Rodrigo – “Vampire” Billie Eilish – “What Was I Made For?” Record of the Year: Jon Batiste – “Worship” boygenius – “Not Strong Enough” Miley Cyrus – “Flowers” Billie Eilish – “What Was I Made For?” Victoria Monet – “On My Mama” Olivia Rodrigo – “Vampire” Taylor Swift – “Anti-Hero” SZA – “Kill Bill” Best New Artist: Gracie Abrams Fred Again.. Ice Spice Jelly Roll Coco Jones Noah Kahan Victoria Monét The War and Treaty Best Alternative Music Album: Arctic Monkeys – The Car boygenius – The Record Lana Del Rey – Did you know there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd Gorillaz – Cracker Island PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying Best Alternative Music Performance: Alvvays – “Belinda Says” Arctic Monkeys – “Body Paint” boygenius – “Cool About It” Lana Del Rey – “A&W” Paramore – “This Is Why” Best Rock Performance: Arctic Monkeys – “Sculptures of Anything Goes” Black Pumas – “More Than a Love Song” boygenius – “Not Strong Enough” Foo Fighters – “Rescued” Metallica – “Lux Æterna” Best Rock Song: The Rolling Stones – “Angry” Olivia Rodrigo – “Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl” Queens of the Stone Age – “Emotion Sickness” boygenius – “Not Strong Enough” Foo Fighters – “Rescued” Best Rock Album: Foo Fighters – But Here We Are Greta Van Fleet – Starcatcher Metallica – 72 Seasons Paramore – This Is Why Queens of the Stone Age – …In Times New Roman Best Metal Performance: Disturbed – “Bad Man” Ghost – “Phantom of the Opera” Metallica – “72 Seasons” Slipknot – “Hive Mind” Spiritbox – “Jaded” Best Solo Pop Performance: Miley Cyrus – “Flowers” Doja Cat – “Paint the Town Red” Billie Eilish – “What Was I Made For?” Olivia Rodrigo – “Vampire” Taylor Swift – “Anti-Hero” Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Miley Cyrus ft. Brandi Carlile – “Thousand Miles” Lana Del Rey ft. Jon Batiste – “Candy Necklace” Labrinth ft. Billie Eilish – “Never Felt So Alone” Taylor Swift ft. Ice Spice – “Karma” SZA ft. Phoebe Bridgers – “Ghost in the Machine” Best Pop Vocal Album: Kelly Clarkson – Chemistry Miley Cyrus – Endless Summer Vacation Olivia Rodrigo – GUTS Ed Sheeran – – (Subtract) Taylor Swift – Midnights Best Dance/Electronic Recording: Aphex Twin – “Blackbox Life Recorder 21F” James Blake – “Loading” Disclosure – “Higher Than Ever Before” Romy & Fred again.. – “Strong” Skrillex, Fred again.. & Flowdan – “Rumble” Best Dance/Electronic Album: James Blake – Playing Robots Into Heaven The Chemical Brothers – For That Beautiful Feeling Fred again.. – Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022) Kx5 – Kx5 Skrillex – Quest for Fire Best Rap Album: Drake & 21 Savage – Her Loss Killer Mike – Michael Metro Boomin – Heroes & Villains Nas – King’s Disease III Travis Scott – Utopia Best Rap Song: Doja Cat – “Attention” Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice ft. Aqua – “Barbie World” Lil Uzi Vert – “Just Wanna Rock” Drake & 21 Savage – “Rich Flex” Killer Mike ft. André 3000, Future, and Eryn Allen Kane – “Scientists & Engineers” Best Rap Performance: Baby Keem ft. Kendrick Lamar – “The Hillbillies” Black Thought – “Love Letter” Coi Leray – “Players” Drake & 21 Savage – “Rich Flex” Killer Mike ft. André 3000, Future, and Eryn Allen Kane – “Scientists & Engineers” Best Melodic Rap Performance: Burna Boy ft. 21 Savage – “Sittin’ on Top of the World” Doja Cat – “Attention” Drake & 21 Savage – “Spin Bout U” Lil Durk ft. J. Cole – “All My Life” SZA – “LOW” Best Country Album: Kelsea Ballerini – Rolling Up the Welcome Mat Brothers Osborne – Brothers Osborne Zach Bryan – Zach… https://chorus.fm/news/2024-grammy-awards-complete-winner-list/

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Quick question: Which villain/hero is which character? I've just started to read your AU (It's flipping amazing BTW), but sometimes I keep forgetting who is who 'cause of the secret identities and all. 😅

I’m glad you like it pal, and no problem: (real name; super power)

Tell me if I forgot anybody. Other villains and heroes will be added if they appear in the story. Sorry this is so long,

Things to note: Jack and Mark are Jackieboy Man and Silver Shepherd because it seemed weird to not make them superheroes. All the Sides used to be Thomas before he was broken apart. I want to add in Lixian, Gabe, and Mika but don’t know how to yet and I don’t want to throw them in haphazardly because they deserve better than that.

*Heroes: (aka the Coalition of Heroes which include some of the Iplier’s, most of the Septics, and half of the Sides)

-The Silver Shepherd (it’s Mark Fischbach; super strength, flight, invulnerability)

-Jackieboy Man (Seán McLoughlin; super speed, X-ray vision, keen hearing, super agility)

-Detective Abe Lauer (Detective Abe; unwillingly and occasionally displaced in time, unable to die)

-Dr. Edward Iplier and Dr. Henrik von Schneeplestein (the don’t have a secret identity; cynicism, medical knowledge)

-Marvin the Magnificent (this is his secret identity because he doesn’t go by his real name; magic, alchemist)

-Bro Average (Chase Brody, immaculate accuracy)

-J.J (Jameson Jackson; time manipulation)

-Gatling (Bob Muyskens; summons impenetrable barriers)

-The Drowned Man (Wade Barnes; hydrokinesis)

-UFO (Amy Nelson; flight)

-Blank (Ethan Nestor; aura dampening, invisibility)

-Robbie the Zombie (Robert Gravesly; zombie, super strength, undead)

-Captain Morality (Patton Sanders; emotional manipulation)

-Logic (Logan Sanders; super intelligence)

-Prince Creativity (Roman Sanders; object summoning, powers based in creativity)

-Anxiety (Virgil Sanders; fear manipulation, manifestation of fears)

-Nate (Nathan Sharp; bard, he strengths and deplores people with music, turning reality into a music video)

-Bing (doesn’t use a secret identity; AI unit, super intelligence, nanites)

-Oliver (Google Yellow; AI unit, super intelligence, nanites, humanity)

-The Host (formerly Arthur Isaacs, the Author; realty manipulation through narration)

-King of the Squirrels (Kaylor Kingston; animal telepathy)

-Explosion Boy (Eric Derekson; explosions from his fingertips)

-Yellow Tape (Randall Voorhees)

-Captain Magnum (doesn’t use a secret identify; he’s a 10ft tall pirate)

*Allies:

-Mayor Damien Mood (Dark, yes he finds their trust hilarious)

-Yancy Times (doesn’t use a secret identity, doesn’t want to be a bad guy; manipulating people when he sings)

-the Jims (RJ, CJ, all of them work for both sides; crazy hive mind)

-The DA (Y/N; is the viewer)

*Villains:

-Dark (Damien and Celine Doom, the Entity; void aura, magic, undying)

-Wilford Warfstache (William J. Barnum, other identities; manipulation of the meta, void manipulation, plot armor)

-Anti (glitch demon; dominion over electronics, void manipulation)

-Mare (music demon; sound manipulation)

-Google (doesn’t use an alias; AI unit, super intelligence, nanites)

-Deceit (Janus Sanders; illusions, magic, living lie detector)

-The Duke (Remus Sanders; object summoning, powers based in creativity)

-Orange (too lazy to use an alias; tbd when Thomas announces him)

-Ed Edgar (does not use a real alias; no known superpowers)

-Bim Trimmer (does not use alias; slight void aura, slight inhuman strength, cannibal)

-Yandere (Yan Ayano; summons weaponry from hammer space)

-Illinois Jones (does not use an alias; uncanny luck, luck and probability manipulation)

#superhero au #asks #i probably forgot someone

[disbander-of-armies]

I feel like the people who hate Athenian men seem to forget that they were a product of their time (and place) and most likely loved the important women in their lives and wanted them to have good reputations to find a good husband or at least not be ridiculed. Mothers,sisters,daughters,and wives have influence even if it is discouraged or behind doors. If the wives have large doweries,that helps too :P

Dear anon,

you are right that Athenian men were a product of their time. It doesn’t absolve them of everything (I mean, the only reason we have achieved things such as women’s rights is because people questioned and critized their culture’s values). But yeah, the culture you are born into obviously has a huge impact on your values and the way you view the world. That’s why, even though I disagree with many of the Athenians’ values, I don’t want to be all judgemental about it.

And as I’ve said before, Sparta wasn’t a paradise for women either.

So, I actually wanted to quote from a recent English translation of Xenophon’s Oeconomicus but for some reason, the university library is still closed today, which means I have to steal one from the internet. Anyways… Xenophon’s Oeconomicus is from the 4th century BCE and teaches how to properly lead a household. It also explores the role of the wife and it shows that her role was deemed very important, like in this quote:

“I think that the wife who is a good partner in the household contributes just as much as her husband to its good; because the incomings for the most part are the result of the husband’s exertions, but the outgoings are controlled mostly by the wife’s dispensation. If both do their part well, the estate is increased; if they act incompetently, it is diminished.” (Xen. Ec. III 15, transl. by William Heinemann)

She is further compared to a queen bee who watches over her “hive” and it also shows that women had to have an understanding of economics themselves:

“Your duty will be to remain indoors and send out those servants whose work is outside, and superintend those who are to work indoors, and to receive the incomings,and distribute so much of them as must be spent, and watch over so much as is to be kept in store, and take care that the sum laid by for a year be not spent in a month.” (Xen. Ec. VII 35-36)

This obviously represents an ideal case (as with her “duty to remain indoors”) and doesn’t always represent reality. But nontheless, women seemed to actually have had a lot of influence. To quote from Cheryl A. Cox:

“The husbandcould be a vociferous defender of his wife’s claims to her father’s estate, should shebe an heiress, or to her brother’s estate, should he die without heirs (Demosthenes43.3, 63; Isaeus 3.22, 5.9, 7.3, 8.41–42, 10.18–20, 11.41–42; Hunter (1993)103). Furthermore, a wife could influence her husband either to adopt one of herkinsmen (Demosthenes 41.3; Isaeus 2.7) or to send one of their sons or daughtersinto her brother’s estate as its heir (Isaeus 11.41–42, 49)”.*

On a final note: I personally find it quite probematic when people claim that women from Athens (or other places) were treated as slaves and had no say in anything. Yes, it is true that women were treated as inferior and we must never forget that. But claiming they were nothing more than slaves makes it look as if they were just passive subjects who never did anything. And that is just wrong. Athenian women had limited power but they sure knew how to use it.

*Cheryl A. Cox, Marriage in Ancient Athens, in: A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds, ed. by Beryl Rawson, Blackwell 2011, p. 234.

#ask #greek asks #anon #sorry again for being late

[sunstar121]

I have this strange crackship of Logan X Googleplier if you want to try it?

:) I call this ship Spellcheck, or Microsoft Office.________________________________When something bugged Logan, he would try and figure it out.Coffee machine broken? Turns out someone spilled water on its wires, and it short circuited.  Patton looking upset? He broke a bowl, and is feeling bad about it.So when he couldn't figure out how he was teleported to the Iplier mansion that one time, it drove him crazy.He deduced that the Mind Palace must be connected in some form to the manor, and the only place that could be connected (logically) was Romans room.So, early one morning he snuck into the creative sides room, stumbling a bit at the bright lighting.  In this room, if you could imagine something, it would happen, so he started thinking.He imagined a square-ish portal gaping before him, and soon he felt the whoosh of reality warping.  He opened his eyes to a swirling black and gray mass, and with a quick intake if breath, he stepped through.~~~G~~~️“B-blue’s log number four: I've gotten used to the others calling me Blue and Prime.  We call Green Chrome now. Re-ed is still Red, as Mail is a strange name. Ollie is, well, Ollie.“I have been experiencing strange feelings and thoughts as of late.  My chest feels fluttery, and m-y stomach feels as though I've swallowed a bee hive.  My head gets fuzzy and my cheeks warm up. T-they all occur slightly after I think about Logan Sanders.  After doing s-some searches, all i have come up with is the diagnosis of being in love. Unrealistic, as my brain is robotic.  I c-annot feel- !”Google was interrupted by a loud crash, and some familiar groans.  He whipped around, eyes glowing red and ready to fight, only to be met with Logan himself.“Ah, salutations, Google.  It seems that my experiment is successful.”  The logical side brushed himself off, looking slightly distressed from his crash landing.“Experiment?”  Google echoed, forcing his systems to convert back to neutral.  No need to zap his….. crush into another plane of existence, “H-ave you figured out how to tr-avel between M-Mind Palace and the manor, perhaps?”Logan looked pleased, and nodded enthusiastically.  It made Google's circuits heat up, and he willed his fans to go faster.  God forbid he started blushing like a human.“I hope that I didn't interrupt anything.  You seemed to be talking as I appeared, saying something about love?” Logan questioned.  Google froze, his mind coming up blank. A warning sign flashed across his vision, notifying him that he was overheating, and his emotional processors were acting funky.“Are you alright, Google?”  Through his haze of dizziness, he felt Logan's hand on his shoulder, and he knew his cheeks were quite pink.“N-no, Log-an, I a-am not alri-ight.”  He glitched out, his voice modulator taking a hit as well.He backed up so his backside was pressed against his desk, and he stared anywhere except for directly at his crush.“Oh,” came the others response, “Well, if you tell me what exactly is wrong, then I'm quite sure I can help with your problem.”No, no you can't help, Google thought, I cannot allow you to help.  Damn, why am I falling for a human?After fighting with himself for several minutes of awkward silence, he finally manned up with the help of Ollie.  It really did help that all the Google's were connected, and could message each other at any time. He really did appreciate the yellow android.“The-ere isn't anything inherently wrong with me.  I mean, my sensors are ha-aving a freak ou-ut, and my fans are working double time, but other than that, not-thing is wrong with my body.”“Alright then,” Logan said, taking to a softer tone that sent Google wild, “Is there anything wrong mentally? Or, with the other egos?  What's bothering you?”“W-What's bothering me is that my programming allowed me to fa-all in love like a human!” Google blurted out, and he recoiled when he heard his voice come out desperate and cracked, “What's b-othering me is-s that I thi-ink I love you, L-ogan!”Logan seemed taken aback, and he took a step forward.  “Me? You have a crush on…. Me?”“Y-Yes, okay? I have a-a crush on you. Is that w-hat you wanted t-o hear?” Google snapped, immediately feeling guilty, “I'm s-sorry, you did not d-deserve to be sna-apped at.”It was quiet for a second.  Then, he felt himself being hugged.  He wrapped his arms around Logan, watching as his sensors gradually calmed down.Logan stepped back, letting go, and put his hands behind his back.  “Even though it might not sound like it, as I am stuck in this informative tone, I would like to say that I, too, have developed romantic feelings for you.”Google felt a wave of relief wash over him, and he swore some coolant almost leaked from his eyes.  “I hope you d-do not mi-ind dating a garb-bage androi-id.”“Patton always tells me to pick up garbage.  Would two days from now at six be alright?” Logan smoothly suggested, and Google could feel his system heating up once more.“Y-yes, Logan.  I'd say t-that is more than alright.”

[zainhashmi18]

Over the last few weeks (and arguably further back), Jimmy Kimmel has acted as America’s moral arbiter, declaring the thoughts and prayers of Republicans “insufficient” following the devastating mass shooting in Las Vegas, as if he were the personal email filter for Providence. His weepy, Schumer-sourced monologues have redefined the tone of attack for Leftist icons, branding anyone who disagrees with them as hateful, heartless and immoral.

Are we really supposed to take this seriously coming from Hollywood of all places?

Long-known “news” of Harvey Weinstein’s filth has surfaced following allegations of sexual harassment and assault from several actresses and models of varying levels of fame. I don’t understand why everyone is acting so surprised.

Hollywood has always been, to quote from a Hollywood blockbuster, a “wretched hive of scum and villainy.” But society chooses to ignore it until it’s right in our faces and we’re shamed into acknowledging it.

The Hollywood and political elite have clamored to denounce Weinstein following intense pressure to do so, but we know that most of these reactions are hollow.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama can feign disgust all they want, but they were close to this man. He was the first person they’d greet in a room, and they accepted his donations.

Meryl Streep can pretend she knew nothing of Weinstein’s habits, but even if that were true, she gave convicted sexual offender Roman Polanski a standing ovation — the entire Academy did.

Matt Damon and Russell Crowe apparently killed a previous exposé on Weinstein yet pleaded ignorant of his evils, and when Ben Affleck announced his shock, Rose McGowan (one of Weinstein’s accusers) called out the Batman for allegedly responding, “I told him not to do that anymore!” following news of another Weinstein assault. Not only that, but Affleck later apologized for his behavior toward an aspiring actress on MTV’s “TRL.”

And when late-night hosts Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon finally addressed the story, they immediately pivoted to whataboutisms, citing the egregious “Hollywood Access” tape and a series of Fox News settlements, respectively. Certainly, the latter examples are also inexcusable, but the fact that left-leaning cultural leaders can’t acknowledge the impropriety they’ve ignored for years without tagging a “but Trump” at the end is telling. That so many will discount either while condemning the other is disgusting.

Moreover, Hollywood knew. We know they knew. Quips about Weinstein’s reputation were featured on “30 Rock” and at the Emmy’s, not to mention the general depravity of Hollywood with its infamous casting couches.

The most shocking news here is sadly not the horrid stories of Weinstein’s alleged harassment and assault of vulnerable newcomers or even that Hollywood is attempting to brush it off — Weinstein has long been gross; Hollywood has long known about it. We’ve always dismissed the debauchery coming from our cultural la la land. The real shocker is that we still allow Hollywood to define our morality and immortalize its elites as bastions of wisdom and progress.

Shame on Weinstein and all those who stand with him, even if they denounce him with their lips. But most of all, shame on us for placing so much moral gravitas on a brazenly vile industry that, in only a few weeks, we will return to idolizing just as loyally as we did before.

Shame on all of us.

Richie Angel is a co-editor in chief of The New Guards and a contributor for NOQ Report.

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[blixabargelds]

hi! can I ask why some many people think that Roman has an ed? not a criticism, just genuinely curious cause I never noticed any signs!

i first started thinking it from day one for no reason other than i hc lots of my faves with eds because i love angst and have suffered with eating disorders therefore i like to project/ find it easy to write etc haha but over the course of the show there’s been lots of things tbh.

very early on in the show we see him bodychecking pinching his stomach etc he looks unhappy with his body. he’s very rarely seen eating anything other than fruit, frequently at tables he’s the only one not eating. this gifset is a really good show of that.

the roy’s in general all seem to have poor relationships with food, which has been confirmed in the recently released script books (“the summer of competitive eating disorders”), but roman especially has several fraught memories relating to food (being forced to eat chocolate cake (dog food?), getting beaten for ordering lobster, “if you wanted roast chicken and i wanted steak we always had chicken, i would fucking tantrum because i never had steak, i never won.”)

i think kieran did irreparable damage with this interview (he’s so smart, this was also over a year ago, before the scripts released anything canon).

roman’s relationship to his body is consistently distant and negative (he’s not a real person). he was, as far as we know, the only one who got hit by logan. he’s the shortest, he was sent away to military school which is notoriously regimented and harsh on the body, he was shoved into a cage, he was beaten, and depending on your reading into it there’s also plenty of hints that he might have been sexually abused in some way. he’s seen as the weak dog. he’s constantly treated as such.

i think having control over food is a way he could take control over a body that’s never felt like his, that no one else has ever respected so why should he? i don’t think it’s all about being thin, although we definitely see signs of him being obsessed with his image. he was never going to be the biggest, the manliest, but he could be in control. an eating disorder could be his private thing, the thing he could do well at, no one knows how strong he’s actually being by denying what his body needs. that’s impressive, okay? that counts for something, surely.

he seeks comfort in harm, he doesn’t know what his dad means when he asks if he even made contact, he’d already forgotten, promise. he asks to be degraded, he jumps into a mob asking to be hurt, he needs it, he’s been taking beatings his whole life, he speaks this language. he’s got the gift of the gab when it comes to destroying himself. he’s hurt and he’s hurting but he chose it, he’s got control. he has.

#roman roy #succession #ed roman hive #this got away from me sorry #kieran culkin #alternative answer because it’s fun ha ha [sweating] #show us your russell’s signs roman! #frankiefic

[blixabargelds]

this mess we're in on ao3, 4/4

“You know I don’t do all the responsible shit, that’s why you keep coming back. I let you call me up every time you go off the deep end, and you use me as a fucking hurt mattress. You know I’m not gonna force you to eat.”

“I like that about you.”

fin xxx

#succession #succession fanfic #frankiefic #romestewy #roman x stewy #roman roy #stewy hosseini #ed roman hive #it is over it is done thank u god bless goodnight #tmwi tag

[blixabargelds]

this mess we're in on ao3, 3/4

“Don’t turn this into that,” Stewy says. “I’m not fucking hurting you.”

“You are, though,” Roman says with a smile, his hand coming up to hold the one Stewy has in his hair. 

“Let go,” Stewy says, commanding, and something in Roman’s chest halts. He lets go. Stewy loosens his grip. Keeps it there enough to twinge, but the pain is gone, and Roman instantly feels the panic again. “Let it feel good. Come on, I got you.”

um yeah. chapter 3 of 3 is now 3 of 4 because it got so fucking long. enjoy

#succesion #succession fanfic #frankiefic #roman roy #stewy hosseini #roman x stewy #romestewy #ed roman hive #tmwi tag

[blixabargelds]

this mess we’re in on ao3, 2/3

“This is so beyond what I can deal with,” Stewy says, looking at Roman. He looks tired. Roman knows how he feels.

“Yep,” Roman says, and his voice breaks.

chapter 2 yup. heed the new tags x

#succession #succession fanfic #frankiefic #roman roy #stewy hosseini #romestewy #roman x stewy #ed roman hive #tmwi tag

[blixabargelds]

this mess we’re in on ao3, 1/3

It becomes this heavy thing between them, this reluctant shared secret born from inconvenience. It goes in cycles. Stewy swears he’s done being an emotional rent boy for the Roys. He’s clawed his way back to his comfort zone; nothing that cuts too deep, or feels too close. Then Roman’s voice comes through the phone, drags him back in. Shaking with nervous laughter, over something that’s never been funny. “I think- fuck, man, I’m sorry. But like, my chest- my chest fuckin’ hurts.”

romestewy break from my usual romencken madness, i just wanted to go wild on roman’s eating disorder so like. cws are anything you can think of involving that x

#succession #succession fanfic #roman roy #stewy hosseini #roman x stewy #romestewy #roman ed hive #thats all this is #it's just gratuitous ed stuff #and some thigh fucking #so far #spoiler the summary quote isn't even from this chapter #it gets so much worse #frankiefic #tmwi tag

[blixabargelds]

OP your mind!! what an incredible romencken fic. it was so in character i thought "did they write for succession? maybe? we'll never know". are you planning more romencken? or perhaps something with the swede?

if i wrote for succession we would have seen kieran’s hog full frontal but thank you so much anon <3333

i am currently cooking 🧑‍🍳 a pretty evil romencken fic which is gna be an art swap w one of my oomfs so i’m super excited about that. i’m also writing a romestewy for the ED roman hive 👀. both of them include 15 year old roro tho so ik that won’t be everyone’s cup of tea lolol but the romestewy is fairly innocuous

idk when they’ll be up tho sadly real life is getting in the way but i am cooking

[zainhashmi18]

Over the last few weeks (and arguably further back), Jimmy Kimmel has acted as America’s moral arbiter, declaring the thoughts and prayers of Republicans “insufficient” following the devastating mass shooting in Las Vegas, as if he were the personal email filter for Providence. His weepy, Schumer-sourced monologues have redefined the tone of attack for Leftist icons, branding anyone who disagrees with them as hateful, heartless and immoral.

Are we really supposed to take this seriously coming from Hollywood of all places?

Long-known “news” of Harvey Weinstein’s filth has surfaced following allegations of sexual harassment and assault from several actresses and models of varying levels of fame. I don’t understand why everyone is acting so surprised.

Hollywood has always been, to quote from a Hollywood blockbuster, a “wretched hive of scum and villainy.” But society chooses to ignore it until it’s right in our faces and we’re shamed into acknowledging it.

The Hollywood and political elite have clamored to denounce Weinstein following intense pressure to do so, but we know that most of these reactions are hollow.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama can feign disgust all they want, but they were close to this man. He was the first person they’d greet in a room, and they accepted his donations.

Meryl Streep can pretend she knew nothing of Weinstein’s habits, but even if that were true, she gave convicted sexual offender Roman Polanski a standing ovation — the entire Academy did.

Matt Damon and Russell Crowe apparently killed a previous exposé on Weinstein yet pleaded ignorant of his evils, and when Ben Affleck announced his shock, Rose McGowan (one of Weinstein’s accusers) called out the Batman for allegedly responding, “I told him not to do that anymore!” following news of another Weinstein assault. Not only that, but Affleck later apologized for his behavior toward an aspiring actress on MTV’s “TRL.”

And when late-night hosts Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon finally addressed the story, they immediately pivoted to whataboutisms, citing the egregious “Hollywood Access” tape and a series of Fox News settlements, respectively. Certainly, the latter examples are also inexcusable, but the fact that left-leaning cultural leaders can’t acknowledge the impropriety they’ve ignored for years without tagging a “but Trump” at the end is telling. That so many will discount either while condemning the other is disgusting.

Moreover, Hollywood knew. We know they knew. Quips about Weinstein’s reputation were featured on “30 Rock” and at the Emmy’s, not to mention the general depravity of Hollywood with its infamous casting couches.

The most shocking news here is sadly not the horrid stories of Weinstein’s alleged harassment and assault of vulnerable newcomers or even that Hollywood is attempting to brush it off — Weinstein has long been gross; Hollywood has long known about it. We’ve always dismissed the debauchery coming from our cultural la la land. The real shocker is that we still allow Hollywood to define our morality and immortalize its elites as bastions of wisdom and progress.

Shame on Weinstein and all those who stand with him, even if they denounce him with their lips. But most of all, shame on us for placing so much moral gravitas on a brazenly vile industry that, in only a few weeks, we will return to idolizing just as loyally as we did before.

Shame on all of us.

Richie Angel is a co-editor in chief of The New Guards and a contributor for NOQ Report.

from Opinion News | Deseret News http://ift.tt/2yLPTb0

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