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The Troublemaker
When we arrived at camp, we were told that we were the only ones who could see the truth around us. The instructors of the camp were satyrs and centaurs. That was not the craziest thing I had seen. Being in the actual world was a real nightmare. I had seen a minotaur in 5th grade. They sorted the campers into groups of which Greek or Roman god they might follow. I was put into Poseidon’s follower's cabin. I thought Athena and Artemis were the best Greek goddesses or gods. My cabin mates were all the boys who loved to go surfing and play beach volleyball and the girls were the ones who would always post on Instagram about their everyday life. I was the complete opposite. Books are my whole life. I could spend all day in a library. I tried to tell the camp directors they put me into the wrong cabin, but they insisted they don’t make mistakes. The boys from my camp are currently in the lake being total dorks. The girls are sitting on the beach trying to look pretty and whatnot. I'm surprised they aren’t in the cabin for Aphrodite’s followers. I am in a tree that is hanging over the water, reading all about the Greek gods and goddesses of course. If my calculations are correct and nobody spotted me climbing up here, the camp directors will notice I am gone in about 10 minutes. The chaos will give me enough time to figure out a way to break the forcefield keeping us in here. That is if the Artemis kid and Athena kid weren’t put on duty to track me, again. I do this once a week so I don’t exhaust all my hiding places Otherwise I’m sure I would have exhausted them all without knowing everything I know about that shield. Every night the satyrs do a musical number that reinforces the shield. If I was to go and destroy all the magical flutes the satyrs use, the shield will go down. I flipped to the area of the book I have bookmarked. I had cut out 20-50 pages of the book so I could hide my notebook in it. It really hurt to do that to my favourite book but, it had to be done to keep my notebook a secret.
“How could you have done that to such a precious book!”
I jump with a startle and look upwards to where the voice came from. I relax when I see the fear-stricken face of the Athena kid, Shaylan. To his left, I hear someone burst out in laughter. It was the Artemis kid, Makya.
“You have to admit Shaylan, it is a smart way to hide notebooks that would get you into a lot of trouble,” Makya pointed out after a few slaps from Shaylan for laughing. “ Besides Deyanira, we will give you a 10-second head start before we try to take that notebook away.”
“ You guys are so annoying,” I rolled my eyes at them before jumping down into the water with my book and notebook in hand. I can hear Shaylan’s terrified shrieks even this far underwater. when my head broke the surface I could hear the Poseidon boys cheering me on. I look up to see Makya jumping into the water after me, leaving the terrified Shaylan in the tree. Swimming to shore was my only option since the forcefield was right next to me. The only problem was avoiding Makya. He is a great swimmer, or at least way better than me. I don’t stand a chance in the water. His body hit the water and created the biggest splash everyone had seen all summer. I have to start swimming away. Now! I stop treading water and head straight for the shore. I had my books in my left hand, making my right arm do all the work. I have gone maybe 10 feet from where I first hit the water. I look behind me and Makya is nowhere to be seen. I go to start swimming again when I felt something grab my left leg.
“ Hey, don-” I am cut off by my whole body being dragged under. Makya has a firm grip on my leg and is dragging me farther down. I can’t kick his arm to loosen his grip, my right leg doesn’t reach. I can’t bend down to use my hand to free myself, I will get kicked. I can kick him in the stomach. He might drown if I do that. That would be a very low chance though. I have to act fast, I don’t know how much longer I can hold my breath and I'm running very low on oxygen. I’m kicking him. My right foot hit his stomach quite hard. I didn’t mean to kick him that hard. I will say sorry after he says sorry for trying to drown me. I resurface after about what felt like 10 seconds of swimming upward. I stayed there just breathing for 3 seconds before I feel him grab my right wrist.
“What? you can’t hold your breath that long?” Makya taunted the moment he surfaced.
“ Of course not!” Is he really asking if I can hold my breath like a whale? “We are humans! We don’t have that kind of lung capacity.” I can not believe this kid.
“ Well sure but, wouldn’t a follower of Poseidon have some kind of,” he paused to try and find the right words. I know this cause he isn’t the brightest kid out there. “Well, you know privilege in water?” There is no way he said that.
“You are dead after that statement.” I can feel myself shooting daggers with my eyes narrowed. I am being pulled below the surface once again before I could have lunged at him. He stopped dragging me about 10 feet below the surface. He lunges for my books. I have to swim to the right to dodge him. He whipped around and grabbed my favourite book before swimming towards the shore. He clearly didn’t notice that I took my notebook out of that book. That is why Makya and Shaylan stick together. Makya is the brawns and Shaylan is the brains. Come to think of it, Makya probably carried Shaylan up the tree. I laugh at the thought and make my way toward the shore. It takes me 12 minutes to get to the shore. Half the time of Makya. The tallest Poseidon boy handed me a baby blue towel from the Poseidon cabin. His name is Long if I remember correctly. I think i'm done going in the water this summer.
#greek mythology#poseidon#artemis#athena#greek gods#roman gods#centaur#satyr#Shaylan#Deyanira#Makya#aphrodite#oc
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New Positivity Based Business Reality Show Premieres on the BLKGTV App
New Positivity Based Business Reality Show Premieres on the BLKGTV App
Season 1 Cast-Top row (L to R) Camille Brown. Desiree Paulk, Katrina Spagnoletti, Kimberlee Cousin, Vashti Gary, Dorniesha Crockett Second Row: Shirley Ibe, Shaylan Pittard, Athena Vassell, Kinyatta Gray, Stephanie Hoyte and Lakinya Francis
I’m the Entrepreneurs Social Connect Creator- Camille Brown (L) and Co-Creator Maureen Washington (R)
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puppets & puppets s/s 2020, p1
featuring from top - bottom BRANDON SHARP @ click, AMANDA, HUNTER CHUNG @ wilhelmina, JAH JAH, SOPHIE, BO, JOE @ new pandemics, SHAYLAN @ red, and MALIK
styling STELLA GREENSPAN
make up MARCELO GUTIERREZ
hair BLAKE BURKHOLDER
casting BRENT CHUA
music DORIT CHRYSLER
pr services GIA KUAN
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Model - Shaylan Renee
Nationality - American
Height - 5'9
Agencies - Red (NY) Milk (London)
Notable Work - TOME SS 2019 Runway
#shaylan renee#american#model#fashion#editorial#magazine#lovefoundmodelslost#lovelostfashionfound#designer#runway#moc#fashion model#red#milk#tome#tome runway
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Thinking bout this kid i used to know who would taunt me in the school hallways by saying "macarons" and i would argue its "macaroons." We were friends
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🍼 🏡 ❔- Bash ❔ - Bastard
@irenefondorn ohhoho getting an early start on planning our monolith aren’t we? xD Buckle up this is gonna be a long one
🍼 Does your OC have any children or want children? What names would they pick? Are they good with kids or a complete disaster?
I mean he has Ellia of course in the way that we’ve all wholesale adopted her as our daughter despite literally any alternative probably having been a better plan. xD Honestly, though, before Ellia Bash didn’t have much experience with young children and thought he was the kind of person who didn’t want children/to be around children much but now he’s not as sure. He loves Ellia to pieces and, while he doubts he’d particularly wants kids of his own, wouldn’t be opposed to being around kids more in the future. With Ellia as his only measure I honestly couldn’t say but I think he’d be okay with most kids though not great, Bash’s default is sarcasm and silence which doesn’t always work out great with kids.
🏡 Describe your OCs ideal house! Give us a tour around! What’s their garden like? Their bedroom? Kitchen? Where is it and how many people live there?
Ohhh never thought about it tbh I’ve never pictured Bash settled down in one place for long. I think something fairly small and cozy, near a decent sized town but still a little removed with as nice a kitchen as he can manage and a small garden just outside split between cooking and medicinal plants. A small shed-like building a bit separated to be used as a workspace for creating poultices/other mundane remedies as well as doubling as a kind of medic station if people come needing healing. The smallest room in the house would be his bedroom, comfortable but fairly barren - only really used to sleep - but every spare surface around the house would be filled with books.
And, of course, there would be enough room set aside to host all of the Silver Tongues if they came by. Or lived there.
❓ A random fact or short drabble! Or make up your own question to ask the OC!
“Why did I even wake up this morning?”
With a groan that was as much annoyance as it was pain Bash rolled over onto his back, dislodging a veritable avalanche of dust and pebbles from his clothes, and assessed his situation. A glance up at the steep side of the ravine – from which he’d oh so gracefully plummeted – made him think he was lucky he hadn’t broken anything. Bruised to the abyss and back, sure, but a quick stretch confirmed he gotten nothing worse than a few scratches from the fall.
A blessing given he now had to find a way back out of the ravine and to the Enclave before Leal realized he was missing.
This groan was entirely annoyance but there was nothing to do for it but get up and get moving.
Back on his feet he shook his hair out of his eyes – the leather band he’d tied the chin length strands back with must of come off in the fall. He looked around hoping to spot it amongst the scree but his attention was instead diverted by a hint of movement near a small boulder a dozen feet away.
He froze in place – there were a lot of things more dangerous than a gangly teenage half-orc in these mountains after all – but when nothing appeared howling for his blood after a long moment he cautiously made his way closer rather than away, his curiosity beating out common sense.
‘What else was new,’ a dark part of his mind whispered. He batted it away like an annoying fly.
At the base of the boulder, mostly hidden in its shadow, was a half-grown lynx laid out limply with dark red blood matted into the fur of its back where sizable talons had raked across in search of a meal. Only the sporadic twitch of its tail gave lie to the appearance of death the creature exuded.
Of course that too would still before long, the lynx wouldn’t survive the night if Bash had to guess.
The smart thing to do would be to ignore the cat and get started on finding a way out of this hole he’d found himself in, if he moved quickly he might even make it back before dinner, but almost without intending to he found himself instead kneeling next to it.
He sighed at himself, trying to ignore the thought of damnably patient gray eyes that had prodded him forward.
“This isn’t even going to work.” He grumbled, not that there was anyone here to hear him besides the pain-dazed animal. Still he gently laid his hand on the least damaged bit of cat he could find, closed his eyes, and tried to focus like Leal always instructed him to. ‘Focus on Mishakal, reach out to her and ask that she grant you the power you need. Let her grace flow through you, see it knitting the flesh back together-’
He recited the lesson in his mind, eyes scrunched shut and reaching with everything he had.
Nothing.
He opened his eyes, jaw clenched as he pulled his hand back from the still-dying cat. He’d failed, just another failure in a long line of them – a lifetime of them – but this time there was no one there to fix what was broken.
His eyes burned and he angrily blinked back the tears.
‘This is stupid of course I couldn’t do it. I don’t know why Leal would even think I cou-’ His breath caught as a flash of unnatural warmth flared in his chest, a faint tingling of magic he’d only even been on the receiving end of.
He looked down in shock at his hands as faint sparks of blue light danced over his fingers and, before he could think his way into messing this up, pressed his hands back to the lynx’s side.
The blue magic slid from his fingers to the lynx, sinking into its skin. Almost immediately the gouges stopped bleeding and slowly began to close, new skin blooming over wounds like they’d been healing for weeks.
Finally the magic died away again, the flesh under his hands now whole, leaving him kneeling – tired but strangely light – next to the cat.
“I did it?” He whispered disbelievingly to himself, thoughtlessly scooping the lynx up for a better look. “I did i- ow!”
A shock of pain sliced down the left side of his face and he instinctively dropped the cat who’d clawed him. Luckily she seemed more interested in getting away from him then doing more damage, jumping out of reach with a threatening hiss.
“You’re welcome.” He grumbled under his breath, pressing his sleeve up against the gashes across his eyebrow to staunch the bleeding as the lynx gave a displeased twitch of her tail and started to scramble up the rock face with a dignity he could never hope to duplicate.
Still, despite the fresh blood streaming down his cheek, Bash felt his lips twitch up in the first genuine smile he’d felt in a long time.
Maybe today hadn’t been so bad after all.
❓ A random fact or short drabble! Or make up your own question to ask the OC!
Lathander, despite being a bit of a stone cold bastard, really loves his mother. After his piece of shit dad died and he started getting more caught up in some of the more illegal dealings of his hometown, he’d saved up a decent bit of money and used it to buy his mom a place in a small town a ways away from the city where she could safely retire without getting caught up in dangerous dealings but also where she would have the security of knowing she would never be kicked back out onto the streets, something neither of them had ever had before.
#silver tongues#dnd#asks#hooooo boy that is way too long sorry about that#shaylan 'why write one word when you could write eighty instead' strikes again#xD
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Shaylan Simon at Pony x Harbin, Fall 2019
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Also I’m making a user tag it’ll be #usershaylan pls tag me in all your edits like not even star wars ones because I have a million sideblogs and it’ll belong on one of them I promise
#captains log#and yes my full name is shaylan but i hardly use it and a few other people use the usershay tag
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Shaylan Reneè Simon | African American
Represented by RED (NYC)
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Sexy Sex Ed Inc.’s Ability to Make Waves Among American Conservatives
March 10, 2022
James Parker
Fringe News Network (Dallas, TX)
The nonprofit’s official name is Sexy Sex Ed Inc. The entity was setup on October 16, 2020[1]. Three people have officer’s status with the organization: Tanya Turner, Shaylan Clark and Emily Baldridge[2].
The address tied to the nonprofits website and the State comptrollers website is 420 East Main St. Hazard, Kentucky 41701. The owner of this building is the Foundation For Appalachian Kentucky, Inc. The chairman for this organization is Joel Brashear. The vice chairman is Kathy Atkins. The secretary is Alison F. Davis. The following people are directors for the nonprofit: Danny Maggard, Keith Gabbard, Maria Braman, Josh Howard, Janet Smith, Crissy Fiscus, Ellen Williams and Sandi Curd. The foundational articles for Hazaard-Perry County Community Ministries Endowment, Inc, which became Foundation For Appalachian Kentucky, Inc., point this organization in a much different direction then where it finds itself today. The foundational articles for Hazaard-Perry County Community Ministries Endowment, Inc, which became Foundation For Appalachian Kentucky, Inc.
The Facebook account tied to Sexy Sex Ed Inc. is very liberal and open-minded. Shaylan Clark can be seen holding a sign stating Bans Off Our Bodies. Additionally, pro abortion is openly accepted by the masses that support the nonprofit’s core value. [3] Tanya Turner poses on the Facebook account with a horse whip in her hand and a book titled “Pleasure Activism” in the other.[4] Concerns with the age threshold of teaching minors about BDSM, masturbation and other sex while using drugs is raising a lot of eyes.
Tanya Turner - Tanya is a femme, fat, queer, magical pleasure worker, educator, & artist. She was raised in rural Kentucky by a host of witchy women alongside sisters and cousins. A coven-like mountain matriarchy, if you will, on Stoney Fork. Her craft tools are candles, crystals, oils, plants, music, sex toys, tarot, the moon, and instincts of a triple water sign (Cancer Sun - Scorpio Moon & Rising). In 2012, Tanya started this Appalachian sex ed collect called Sexy Sex Ed and co-founded the party podcast known as Trillbillies in 2017. With over a decade of rural organizing practice toward healing, abolition, & liberation, she fantasizes about a whole other world. Tanya lives high on a Kentucky mountaintop with lots of plants, a steamy hot tub, and several furry familiars You can join her coven at patreon.com/HaintT.[5]
Many questions are rising regarding the need to introduce the topic of masturbation to toddlers. In the video Turner explains that when her nephews were able to talk, she starting to talk with them about masturbation.[6] She does state that the ability to explore one’s body does need to be in a consensual way. Some are asking if this is a self admission to grooming.
Caitlin Cummings – Caitlin Cummings is a 23 year old radical queer mountain woman that grew up in the hollers of Vicco, KY. She grew up always hearing about the injustices of the world and wanting to do things to help. She is currently working on a degree in Human Services where she plans to expand her sex ed work to help people understand the with proper sex ed and body love, you can heal in a lot of different ways, as she has herself. She’s worked with All Access EKY through Appalshop making media to raise awareness about reproductive Healthcare issues in Appalachia. Caitlin has volunteered with different organizations through her college life including WMMT’s Girls Rock Camp in Whitesburg, KY which is a camp made to empower girls, gender non-conforming, and trans youth with music, self-expression, and self-love, as well as The Cottage, a child abuse advocacy center that handles cases of child abuse in ages one to seventeen years old. She’s also volunteered with The New Opportunity School for Women which is a program out of Berea, KY that helps women in Appalachia with educational, financial and personal circumstance in their life. Caitlin loves her plants, social justice and good food.[7]
Larah Helayne – Larah Helayne is an eighteen year old musician, songwriter, and activist, based in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Growing up in the Appalachian foothills, Larah’s life and work have been greatly impacted by the magnificence of the mountains. Their songs and activism reflect both the beauty and struggles of living in Eastern Kentucky, while weaving in the story of her own wild and wonderful life. Larah places great value and focus on the rich musical heritage of her home, especially in regards to banjo, dance calling, and protest songs. As a young, nonbinary queer in Appalachia, Larah strives to use their songs, voice, and life to fight for human rights and systematic change in the region, through music, community, organizing, and nonprofit work. Larah founded their school’s first Gender Sexuality Alliance, “Open Light,” which now has over 45 members. They are proud alumni and intern of Girls Rock Whitesburg, and a member of the Family Folk Week Steering committee at Hindman Settlement School. Larah is a sex educator with Sexy Sex Ed, and spends time co-facilitating sex education workshops for fellow Appalachian youth.[8]
Kirstyn Ooten – Kirstyn is a young, fat, differently-abled, queer community organizer and college student from southern West Virginia. She works as a VISTA in Charleston, and works with kids! She has always dreamt of a space where fat folks are appreciated, normalized, and safe, so she created it. Kirstyn led West Virginia’s first Body Positive Party in 2019, and that has led her into a world of fighting for inclusivity for people like her. She has also worked with Planned Parenthood to secure period products for students across southern WV. Although Kirstyn has take a step back in the last 6 months to focus on health, she is back and better than ever! She uses the same techniques from the Sexy Sex Ed platform in her daily job, and is very passionate about sexuality education. Kirstyn loves all things plants and body love![9]
The next steps for this group are yet to be determined. Will conservatives rise enough questions regarding the group to cause an investigation to take place? These are just a few of the questions that are going through the minds of many people who are asking their selves if Sexy Sex Ed Inc. crossed the line.
[1] https://web.sos.ky.gov/corpscans/02/1117102-09-99999-20201016-ART-8163908-PU.PDF
[2] https://web.sos.ky.gov/corpscans/02/1117102-09-99999-20210818-ARP-8528391-PU.pdf
[3] https://www.facebook.com/Sexy-Sex-Ed-100848237978317/photos/pcb.729287775134357/729287695134365
[4] https://www.facebook.com/Sexy-Sex-Ed-100848237978317/photos/175846160478524
[5] https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1501225322401787904/photo/1
[6] https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1501238851360096258
[7] https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1501225322401787904/photo/2
[8] https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1501225322401787904/photo/3
[9] https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1501225322401787904/photo/4
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👌 and 🌈? (i already sent an ask but i was looking thru the list again and was curious to know about these as well sfsbgjkl)
Sfggbfng no worries anon, I gotch you
Basically everybody just calls me Shay, but my full name is Shaylan (pronounced like Shay-Lin)
And I thiiiiink I'm bi! I don't have enough experiance to say for sure, though-
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Photo: Stella & Dot Independent Stylist: Shaylan Spurway
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