#what's he involved in? scientology?

[theteablogger]

So, I found out about this whole drama through Strange Aeons and her video. But I have one nagging question and there is likely no answer but I'll pose it anyway. What is Andrew Blake/Thanfiction's ultimate end goal? Does he went to enter the friendship circle of celebrities he's a fan of? Does we want to start a Scientology-esque cult? Or is this just an effect of whatever ticks in his head where he can't go about anything without a lot of drama/complexity? What is the rationalization if any?

The only time I've suspected that Andy was trying to get close to celebrities for his own sake was when he was trying to get Molly to introduce him to the cast of Critical Role in 2018--he was extremely fixated on Taliesin Jaffe. Of course, Megan and friends of Andy's are/were fans of Critical Role, too, so I can't be sure that it didn't have something to do with them. Generally, when Andy does things involving celebrities, it's in order to make himself look important and connected, to draw other people closer to him, not because he's actually interested in the celebrity.

I don't see a Scientology-esque cult in Andy's future, both because that would be too much work and because Scientology is ultimately all about money. He doesn't care about money beyond what he needs to pay the bills and keep food on the table.

I think what Andy wants, more than anything, is control over people. He likes to have a core group who will do anything for him, believe whatever he tells them, submit to "trust tests" and the like without questioning him (i.e., when he changes stories to see if anyone will call him on it). He wants people to see him (and praise him) as a super-resourceful, wacky, creative, non-problematic, compassionate genius who knows a little something about everything and is The Most Fun. He'll take that however he can get it.

#andythanfiction #thanfiction #andrew blake #andy blake

[oliverreedmasterass]

Starcatchers 1x3 - Meeting the Master

Synopsis: After an incident involving Jake's amp, he's determined to win the cash to buy a replacement. Meanwhile, Josh and Danny choreograph a dance for a music video and Sam's clumsiness makes him see red.

Words: 5.9k

Warnings: violence against amps and nice video cameras, groin injury, Satan

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Jake, Josh, Sam, and Danny are sitting on the couch in Sam’s living room. Josh has the remote and is scrolling through the options on Netflix so fast, there’s no way he’s registering what he’s passing on. Beside him, Jake, Danny, and Sam are staring at him with growing frustration. 

SAM: Are you gonna choose anything this century or would I be better off walking in circles in the backyard for the evening? 

JOSH: Just, hold on, I haven’t seen anything that stands out yet. 

DANNY: You literally skipped Happy Gilmore. What’s wrong with you? 

JOSH: (under his breath) That’s not cinema. 

JAKE: If you don’t choose something in the next ten seconds, I’m putting on Pirates of the Caribbean. 

JOSH: (scrolling more frantically) No! 

Josh panics and selects Saturday Night Fever.

SAM: (incredulously) The disco movie?! 

JOSH: It’s got a good soundtrack? 

Jake huffs and leaves the room as the movie starts. After the opening credits are done, he comes back with his guitar and a comically large amp. While Josh is trying to get into the movie, Danny and Sam watch Jake struggle to plug his guitar in, and then settle back into his seat. Jake begins playing the Buddy Holly riff over every line of dialogue. While Sam finds this to be hilarious, Danny is into the film alongside Josh, and glares at Jake. 

DANNY: That’s not funny. 

Jake looks at Danny for a long pause, not blinking, and then responds with the Buddy Holly riff. 

From an exterior shot of Sam’s house, Jake’s amp is thrown through the window. 

Starcatchers Theme/Opening Titles

[acoustic theme song with a harmonica] 

From the fires we emerged anew, 

Singing, playing rock and roll, 

Reviving a genre just for you. 

Across the globe we traveled far

Recruiting an army of peace, 

Enchanting crowds with our guitar. 

A battle ensued at the Gardens Gate

And we preserved the gift of nature, 

Standing up against a culture of hate.  

We are the Starcatchers, reaching for the sky, 

Discovering words of wisdom to live by. 

We deliver a message from the heavens above:

Live your legend through the intelligence of love. 

[end theme] 

Jake, Danny, Josh, and Sam are driving to the set of their upcoming music video for Meeting the Master. 

JAKE: (to Danny) You owe me a new amp. 

DANNY: You owe John Travolta an apology. 

JAKE: I don’t owe that scientology freak anything. 

DANNY: I could hardly watch the movie, you were complaining so much. 

JAKE: I think I had the right to complain after you threw my best amp out the window. 

Danny tsks and shakes his head like he can’t believe Jake would even offer that as a rebuttal. Josh tries to step in to smooth things over. 

JOSH: Even if you didn’t catch most of the dialogue, at least you saw the sick dancing, right? 

DANNY: Oh, absolutely. I’ve actually been thinking about it a lot since last night. 

JOSH and DANNY: (at the same time) We should have a dance number in our music video. 

Josh and Danny gape at each other. 

JOSH and DANNY: Jinx! 

SAM: Absolutely not. 

JAKE: I’d rather you chuck me out the window with my poor, broken amp. 

JOSH: Just picture it though, we build up the dramatic tension and then, once the song crescendos, we tell the story with our bodies in front of a massive bonfire. It’s exactly what the music is begging us to do. 

DANNY: I do think that adding a dance would enhance the message of our song. 

SAM: I think you just want to see if you can move like Tony Manero. 

DANNY: So what if I do? 

JOSH: (starting to eagerly plan) We’ll work on the choreog once we get there. 

DANNY: Choreog? 

JOSH: Yeah, you know, the dance routine and all. 

DANNY: Choreography? 

JOSH: I think choreog sounds cool. 

DANNY: It really doesn’t. 

JAKE: You guys have fun with that. Since Danny is refusing to pay me back for my private property that he decided to destroy, I’m determined to earn the money back to buy a replacement amp. 

DANNY: You have enough money in your bank account to just go out and get a new one, Jake. 

JAKE: It’s about the principle, Daniel. I’m not paying for something that wasn’t my fault out of pocket.

SAM: I would argue that it was your fault. 

JAKE: (growling to Sam) Watch it. (to the rest of the car) I’m gonna win a radio show contest. 

JOSH: There’s got to be a better way.

JAKE: Nope. This is the only way. I know for a fact that I’m gonna be caller ten somewhere. 

DANNY: Do radio shows even have the money to do contests like that anymore? 

Jake reaches over and turns up the volume on the radio. A super cheesy DJ voice comes on. 

DJ: Hey Miss Independent, you wanna Breakaway? In honor of the queen, Kelly Clarkson’s birthday, we’re giving out a big old bucket of presidents to our tenth caller! Ring me up [phone], tell me your favorite Kelly Clarkson song, and the money’s yours. 

Jake fumbles with his phone. 

JAKE: Drats! What was the number again? 

SAM: 867-5309

Jake starts to type the number in and then stops. 

JAKE: (to Sam) [expletive censored with the Buddy Holly riff]. 

JOSH: You don’t even like Kelly Clarkson, Jake. 

Jake goes to the radio show’s website, finds the phone number, and eventually manages to call it. The rest of the car is fixated on him. Jake starts making clacking noises with his tongue while he waits for someone to pick up. 

JAKE: (excited) Hello? Wha- oh. 

DANNY: What happened? 

JAKE: They hung up on me. 

Sam turns the volume back up on the car stereo from his steering wheel. 

DJ: Congratulations to our tenth caller! What’s your name, and what’s your favorite Kelly Clarkson song? 

CALLER: Uh, my name is Dave. I don’t actually know who Kelly Clarkson is, I just need the money to flee the country. I’ve been on the run from the IRS since 2007. 

DJ: (cutting the caller off) Okay, buddy! Good on ya! 

JAKE: (throwing his hands up) Unbelievable! This is rigged! How was I not the tenth caller? Who calls into these things anyways? 

SAM: You and Dave. 

Jake groans loudly. Sam pulls into the parking lot of the Tennessee State National Park and kills the engine. While they unbuckle their seatbelts, Jake holds his hand out to everyone in the car. 

JAKE: Give me your phones. 

DANNY: No. 

JAKE: (to Danny) You especially. 

JOSH: Just, give it to him, Danny. This isn’t a battle you want to fight. 

JAKE: (nodding his head) I’ll hide in your walls if you don’t. 

DANNY: Are you gonna do anything else, or are you just gonna hang out there? 

Jake doesn’t know how to respond to this, but he doesn’t have to since Danny gives in and hands him his phone. Sam and Josh follow suit. 

JAKE: Now I just need six more cell phones and I can hack this thing. 

Jake takes off for the trailers where they’re supposed to get their hair and makeup done. Sam sighs and shakes his head, following behind Jake, leaving Danny and Josh. 

DANNY: We have about forty-five minutes until we have to get dressed. 

JOSH: That’s plenty of time to get our choreog worked out. 

DANNY: I really wish you would stop calling it that. 

JOSH: Would chor-ee be better? 

Danny sighs and shakes his head. 

On the set of their music video, Sam wanders around the large cameras and lighting equipment. He has his own personal film camera around his neck and starts taking photos of the cameras. 

SAM: (chuckling to himself) Heh. Camera-ception. 

Sam leans in close to a gigantic camera and attempts to take a selfie of it with his film camera. The flash goes off, temporarily blinding Sam, and he stumbles around, knocking into the camera. He watches in horror as the camera topples over in slow motion and shatters on the ground. How a camera managed to get that damaged in grass is a mystery, but it unfortunately happened. 

SAM: Oh [expletive censored with the Buddy Holly riff]!  

Sam snaps his head around in a panic and notes that no one was around to see his accident. He takes a few deep breaths to calm himself, and then spots a large branch a few yards away. He grabs it and places it over the broken camera to make it seem like the branch was what caused the damage, even though there are no trees anywhere close by. Once he’s satisfied with his work, he sprints away, waving his hands up in the air in a silent panic, back towards the trailers. 

Jake is sitting in the trailer, surrounded by about twenty five cell phones. Sam can be seen running with his arms flailing around in the background through the window of the trailer. Jake listens intently to a handheld radio that’s set on the table in front of him as a different DJ talks. 

DJ: On this two for Tuesday, I’m giving out two Ks to the 22nd lucky caller! 

Jake hovers over his phone, waiting for the phone number. 

DJ: I’ll be waiting at [phone]. 

Jake dials the number at the speed of light, his pupils dilated to the point where he looks like he could be possessed by a demon. He holds his phone up to his ear with his shoulder and begins dialing the same number into every other phone around him, putting each of them on speaker phone. While a symphony of phones ring, Jake waits. The DJ speaks over the phones. 

DJ: And we have our winner! Congratulations, what’s your name? 

CALLER: Jennifer. 

DJ: You get a buttload of money that you can use to pay for anything you want, like a new amp to replace your broken one! 

CALLER: Woohoo! 

JAKE: YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!! 

Jake’s shouts ring through the park. They can still be heard in the distance from the parking lot, where Josh and Danny are covered in sweat. Danny is doing a pelvic thrust move while Josh busts out a two step that would make Fred Astaire cry. 

JOSH: I think I’ve got it! 

Danny stops his subpar dancing to watch Josh’s feet shuffling. 

DANNY: You look like you could be a part of LMFAO. 

JOSH: That was not what I was going for. 

DANNY: Thank god. 

JOSH: What do we have so far? 

DANNY: Well, at the line, “And I’m taken, by the madness,” we do a spin and a half with our arms held in tight and then do some hand waving in front of our face. 

Josh mimes what Danny just described while humming the tune to himself. Danny watches him go and looks to be thinking hard. 

JOSH: Like that? 

DANNY: I hate it. 

JOSH: (growing frustrated) Most of that was your idea! 

DANNY: It’s just missing something, I don’t know. 

JOSH: More hip thrusts? 

DANNY: Yeah, maybe. 

Josh starts to sing the line, “And I’m taken, by the madness” again while Danny embodies Tony Manero’s hypnotizing disco hip thrusts. With joy, Josh starts to join Danny. It looks like they’ve finally singled in on something right. 

JOSH: Oh yeah! 

Sam rushes into Jake’s trailer to find Jake holding his head in his hands following his second failure at winning a radio contest. 

SAM: Oh no, oh no no no no. 

Jake peeks through his hands up at Sam. 

JAKE: (mumbling) I’ll be okay, I’m just feeling a little bit dejected right now. 

SAM: No, oh no as in I just completely obliterated one of the nice cameras on set. 

JAKE: (still into his hands) How did you manage to pull that off? 

SAM: The world is against me. 

Jake nods like he understands where Sam is coming from. 

SAM: (continuing) I planted a tree branch over the wreckage so it looks like I didn’t do it. But, Jake, I feel so bad. 

Jake doesn’t say anything. It’s unclear if he simply doesn’t care, or if he doesn't know what to say in return. Sam looks around the trailer and then lets out a short gasp. Standing in the corner of the trailer, checking out the mini fridge is a man in all red who can only be assumed to be Satan. Satan turns around at the sound of Sam’s gasp, holding onto a carton of 66% milk and takes a long chug. He then wipes his mouth and gives Sam a toothy grin. 

SATAN: Been naughty lately, Samuel? 

SAM: Psh? What? No. 

JAKE: (looking around) Who are you talking to? 

SATAN: (continuing) You really think you can hide from what you did? 

SAM: (to Satan) The tree branch did it, not me. 

JAKE: You’re starting to freak me out, Sam. 

SATAN: We both know that’s an awful cover up. Your fingerprints are all over that broken camera. 

SAM: (realizing Satan is right) Oh [expletive censored with the Buddy Holly riff]! 

Sam books it out of the trailer, determined to cover his tracks before someone finds the camera. Jake watches him go with a frown. 

JAKE: I should probably tell Josh that Sam is talking to the shadow people again. 

Jake looks like he might actually leave his trailer and fleet of phones behind to find Josh, but the DJ’s voice on the radio reminds him of his ultimate mission. 

DJ: You thought I was done handing out free cash that may or may not be super taxed after you get it? No way! Be the sixty-ninth caller, and I’ll send you a check that will make you piss your pants! 

Jake goes back to dialing on all the phones. 

JAKE: (to himself) C’mon, baby. 

The phones ring and beep in an upbeat tempo. The sounds transform into a disco version of Meeting the Master which plays in the parking lot where Josh and Danny are practicing. Josh and Danny have somehow acquired bell bottoms and tight button up tops with impressive collars. The parking lot pavement lights up around them like a disco dancefloor as they practice their routine. Although it isn’t entirely coordinated yet, Josh and Danny dance like their lives depend on it, pointing in all directions with an added flair and wiggling their hips around. They even bust out the lawn mower and sprinkler. 

The song fades out and Josh and Danny try to catch their breaths. 

DANNY: (wiping sweat from his brow) That was magic. 

Josh guzzles an entire yellow Gatorade, attempts to smash the plastic bottle against his forehead, gives up, and walks to a recycling can to toss it. He returns back to Danny’s side. 

JOSH: I’m telling you, it all lives in the pelvis. 

DANNY: Do you think Jake and Sam are gonna get behind our routine? 

Josh has to stand on his tip toes, but he places his hand on Danny’s shoulder. 

JOSH: Trust me, once they see how cool we look, they’ll be begging to give it their all in front of the big and fancy cameras. 

Back on set, Sam stops running towards the broken camera when he realizes the director has discovered the carnage. 

DIRECTOR: The big and fancy camera! 

Sam curses to himself and tries to slowly walk backwards towards the trailers. The director spots him and motions for Sam to join his side. Sam looks like he wants to book it. 

SAM: (thinking aloud) If I run, that will make me look pretty guilty. But I might be able to run fast enough to the airport that I can catch a flight to Argentina without anyone stopping me. But I don’t know Spanish well enough to ask people what their vegan options are at restaurants. I don’t want to be that guy who goes into a country not knowing the language. Talk about embarrassing. 

DIRECTOR: (breaking Sam out of his head) Sam! Someone absolutely obliterated this camera! 

Sam starts to scream but then stops himself. Despite his panic, he pretends to act shocked. He’s a terrible actor. 

SAM: Oh, man! That’s devastating! Are you sure someone did it? I mean, there’s a big branch on it. 

DIRECTOR: There’s not a tree in sight. Unless the branch fell from the sky, I doubt it. 

SAM: (changing his game plan) Well, then whoever did that is an absolute monster. I hope they rot. 

The director stares at Sam oddly. Satan appears behind the director’s back and shakes his head at Sam

SATAN: You’re gonna be the one to rot, Samuel Francis Kiszka. 

Sam chokes on another scream. Satan does a pirouette with a loud cackle and then disappears into a dramatic puff of smoke. Sam shakes his head and widens his eyes. He just had another hallucination. 

DIRECTOR: Boy, you’re taking this harder than I am. 

SAM: I just can’t help but think that whoever did that to your camera isn’t quite right in the head. 

Sam has a large frown on his face. 

You know who else has a large frown on his face? Jake. The poor guy hovers over his handheld radio, staring daggers into it with his phone ready in his hand. The camera zooms out to show that, with the exception of the director, Jake has squished every single crew member into the trailer to help him. 

BOOM OPERATOR: How are we gonna know when to dial the number? 

The Boom Operator holds the mic in front of Jake’s face, whacking him a few times. Jake sputters from the microphone and pushes it away before thinking twice and grabbing it back so he can speak directly into it. 

JAKE: I’ll give you the sign. 

PA: And what’s the sign? 

JAKE: Trust me, you’ll know. 

The radio starts to play sounds that are reminiscent of a Vegas slot machine. This immediately piques Jake’s interest and he shushes everyone so he can listen. 

DJ: Have I got a treat for you today. Sitting right in front of me on my desk, I’ve got - 

Jake is typing furiously away on his computer, searching for the radio show’s phone number. He finds it, lets out an excited cackle, and dials the phone number, hovering his thumb over the “call” button. Everyone else in the trailer is waiting, watching him with intensity while holding their own phones out. 

DJ: Gimme a call at [phone]. 

JAKE: (shrill) AWWWOOOOOGA! 

PA: What? 

JAKE: (more shrill, motioning at the phones) AWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOGA! 

PA: Huh? 

JAKE: Call the number, numbnuts! 

Everyone dials in and waits. The Assistant Director’s face brightens and she motions at her phone and gives Jake a big thumbs up. Jake crosses his arms over his chest and gives a satisfied smirk. He’s finally won. 

Josh maintains a similar position in the parking lot as he watches Danny finalize their dance routine. Danny moves with a stunning grace as he goes through the motions, doing dazzling spins, foot work, and jumps. You can kind of get a sense of the story that he’s trying to tell with his body, and boy is it beautiful. Danny finishes and wipes some sweat from his brow while Josh showers him in applause. 

JOSH: Absolutely stunning work, Daniel. 

DANNY: (gasping) You think? 

JOSH: Just one note. 

DANNY: Of course. 

JOSH: I think we need to do this move at some point. 

Josh stands with his legs concerningly far apart and his knees bent, locks his fingers together and wiggles his arms in front of him, like a wave. Danny watches him with a blank face. 

JOSH: (explaining while he’s still dancing) It symbolizes the tide turning. 

DANNY: I’ll, uh, try to see where I can fit that one in. 

JOSH: Preferably after Jake’s solo when he does the worm. 

DANNY: I don’t remember agreeing to that part of the routine. 

JOSH: When you see him do it, you’ll thank me. 

DANNY: Uhhhh….

Sam makes similar grunting sounds to Danny, sitting on a log on set and staring blankly at the camera that the director is collecting from the ground and moving into a beautiful coffin. The director sniffs back tears and dabs at his eyes with a hankie. Sam looks to his left and sees Satan sitting next to him, cleaning under his long fingernails with a part of the broken camera. 

SAM: Can you please leave me alone? The guilt is bad enough, I don’t need you around too. 

SATAN: On the contrary. I think you need me around to remind you what an awful person you are. I mean, who takes a selfie with a camera? 

SAM: What else are you gonna take a selfie with? 

Satan does not look amused. Sam nervously chuckles. 

SAM: So maybe you have a point. It wasn’t my finest moment, but it can’t be that bad, right? 

SATAN: The owner of that camera sold his dead father’s car to buy it. It was the only way he could make it in this industry.

Sam clutches at his face and moans in despair. 

SATAN: He kept that camera locked in a vault in his basement to make sure no one got their grimy hands on it. But the one time he left it for a second, you went and destroyed it. 

SAM: You know, I am kinda surprised he’s not here with the director, doing whatever that is. 

Sam motions at the director, who is playing a funeral song on a set of bagpipes over the coffin containing the camera parts. 

Jump cut to the cameraman in Jake’s trailer, texting the director “I’ll be back on set in a sec to get the cameras set up. Guitarist dude for the band just won a radio contest - who does that anymore???”

Jake is clutching arms with the Assistant Director, jumping up and down and shouting with glee. The Assistant Director quickly stops jumping and holds a finger up to Jake, pointing at the phone. Jake immediately stops and watches the Assistant Director, soaking in his glory. 

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: (on the phone) No way, that’s incredible! (to Jake) I’m gonna be on the radio in a second, turn it up. 

Jake turns up the volume on the radio so everyone can listen. 

DJ: Congratulations to our lucky caller! Who am I speaking with? 

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Seymour. 

DJ: Well, Seymour - 

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: (cutting the DJ off) Seymour Buttz. 

DJ: Okay, Seymour Buttz, you’ve got yourself one hell of a prize! 

JAKE: (leaning over the AD to call into the phone) What’s the prize? 

The DJ laughs for an uncomfortably long amount of time on the other end of the line. Jake’s eye twitches. 

Sam’s eye twitches as well as he sits with Satan on the log. 

SAM: (thinking aloud) I need to get money pooled together to buy the poor guy a new camera, don’t I? I can’t run away from this for the rest of my life. 

SATAN: You could steal the money. 

SAM: I could steal the money. From Jake. He’s trying to win a radio contest. 

Satan looks confused. Does anyone participate in radio contests anymore?? Sam ignores his look and hustles towards Jake’s trailer. On his way over, he runs into Josh and Danny, who are slurping down Gatorades to get their electrolytes. 

JOSH: Oh, Sam! Just the person we wanted to see! We gotta teach you the choreog for the music video! I think Daniel and I have come up with something really special. 

DANNY: It’s so good, we might even get invited to join Dancing With the Stars as guest judges. 

SAM: You’re gonna have to put that on hold, I have something really important I need to work out with Jake. It’s literally a matter of life or death. 

Danny snaps out of his euphoria from dancing. 

DANNY: Wait. Sam, what did you do? 

Sam is already gone. Danny grabs Josh and they hurry behind him. The three friends tear into Jake’s trailer to find him on the phone, the entire crew watching him as if they’re in a Renaissance painting. 

JAKE: (into the phone) WHAT’S THE PRIZE, DJ BIG BREEZY?! LEGALLY YOU HAVE TO TELL ME WHAT I WON! 

DJ BIG BREEZY: Man, I think you’ve got a stick shoved up somewhere where the sun don’t shine. Maybe I’ll pass this off to the forty-third caller. You’re kinda stressing me out. 

Jake sucks in a deep breath, holds it in his mouth with his cheeks puffed out, and then exhales. He looks a smidge calmer. 

JAKE: Sorry, DJ Big Breezy. I’m just really excited. So, how many K’s are we talking here? 

DJ BIG BREEZY: No K’s kid. 

Jake’s face brightens. 

JAKE: Mil? 

DJ BIG BREEZY: Nil. You won two tickets to catch a special screening of Saturday Night Fever at the downtown AMC! 

Jake hangs up the phone. His face progressively turns more red, to the point where he resembles Satan. Sam gapes at Jake with a look of distress on his face as well. He has nothing to steal from this poor man. Josh watches Jake with concern. Jake is going to blow at any second. Danny can’t help but let out a large laugh. 

DANNY: Hah! Serves you right! 

Jake glares at Danny, his face still red. 

JAKE: This is the worst thing that has ever happened to me. 

JOSH: Even worse than the time when you had to be Willy Wonka in the school play because I got sick? 

JAKE: Way, way worse than that. 

Josh whistles. 

JAKE: How am I ever going to pay for a new amp? You know what? Tour’s canceled. 

DANNY: Oh, come on, Jake. Get over yourself. 

JAKE: Amp killer! 

DANNY: Hey, let’s not go around carelessly throwing accusations around like that. I could serve time. 

JAKE: (jutting his finger into Danny’s shoulder) You should go to jail. 

SAM: (realizing behind Jake and Danny) I’m gonna go to jail. 

JOSH: (raising an eyebrow at Sam) Why are you gonna go to jail? 

SAM: (the dam has broken) I wrecked a fancy camera on set! I didn’t mean to, I just wanted to take a picture with it, but then I knocked into it and it just kinda went, well, kersplat. 

CAMERAMAN: Woah, wait, what happened to my camera? 

SAM: I was gonna get the money for you to cover the damages. It’s just that Jake is an idiot and screwed everything up with the radio contest. 

JAKE: Wait, what do I have to do with any of this?

SAM: I was gonna snag your winnings to cover my behind. 

JAKE: Sam! 

SAM: It was the easiest way to fix this. 

JAKE: Robbing me??

DANNY: (pinching at the bridge of his nose) What I can’t wrap my head around here is why neither of you are willing to dig into your own stinking pockets. I mean, you both have money for crying out loud. 

Satan appears next to Sam’s shoulder. 

SATAN: I say you punch the curly haired guy in the kneecaps for questioning your plan. 

Sam looks like he’s considering it. 

CAMERAMAN: Dude, there’s literally nothing to worry about. I mean, yeah, it would be nice to have the camera today to do the shoot, but it’s no sweat. I’ve got the thing insured. 

SAM: Insured? 

CAMERAMAN: Yeah, I don’t have to pay out of pocket to fix it. 

Sam looks to be having a hard time grasping this concept. 

JOSH: (softly, to Sam) Do you not know what insurance is? 

Sam shakes his head, embarrassed. 

JOSH: Huh. I thought you did since you really didn’t get too upset about Danny breaking your window last night. 

DANNY: Yeah, that’s mostly why I did it. I knew State Farm would be a good neighbor. 

SAM: I wasn’t worried about the window because I kinda like the draft it makes. It helps air out the place, especially after Rosie rips her massive farts. Boy, can that dog make a stink. 

No one knows what to do with this information. 

JAKE: Let me get this straight, you were going to keep your front window broken like that through the winter? 

SAM: I dunno, maybe? I didn’t really think about it too much. 

DANNY: Oh, Sam. 

SAM: You learn something new every day? 

Satan is back in the room, pinching at the bridge of his nose and shaking his head. 

SATAN: This is way too far out of my pay grade. 

Satan vanishes. Sam waves goodbye to him. To Jake, Josh, Danny, and the rest of the trailer, it looks like he’s waving goodbye to an empty corner in the room. Jake makes a noise like he remembered something. 

JAKE: (to Josh) He’s been talking to the shadow people again. 

JOSH: Aw [expletive censored with the Buddy Holly riff]. 

Danny cautiously approaches Jake and tucks his arm around his shoulders. Jake looks like he wants to slither out of Danny’s grasp, but Danny holds him tight. 

DANNY: I want to strike a deal with you. 

JAKE: I want to strike you in the kneecaps. 

Sam looks at Jake in shock. Is he Satan?!

DANNY: (ignoring Jake) I’ll pay for your replacement amp if you agree to go to the screening of Saturday Night Fever with me. 

Jake opens his mouth to protest. 

DANNY: (continuing) And you have to do the worm on camera during your guitar solo for our music video. 

JAKE: Huh? 

JOSH: This vision, Jake, it’s enough to blow your underwear into the stratosphere. Just picture it: your guitar solo starts, you drop down in the grass, and do the most impressive worm the world has ever seen in slow motion while a fire rages in the background. 

JAKE: I can’t do the worm. 

JOSH: Not with that attitude. 

JAKE: (to Danny) Can I bring in my lawyer to negotiate the terms? 

DANNY: We both know you don’t have a lawyer. 

JAKE: Do too. 

DANNY: Josiah Cockerell is not a real person. You just throw out his name when you want to scare people with a fake lawsuit. 

JAKE: Shoot, I spend too much time with you. 

DANNY: So, are you gonna take me up on this or waste the rest of your life away trying to win cheesy radio contests? 

The camera zooms in on Jake’s face as he tries to make a decision. We see that the perspective is coming from Sam - he’s got his film camera back out and is standing about three feet away from Jake, zooming in so far that the lens nearly presses against Jake’s nose. Jake pushes Sam’s camera out of the way and huffs. 

JAKE: Fine. 

DANNY: Shake on it. 

Jake and Danny spit into their hands, wipe their spitty hands across each other’s faces, play a quick round of patty cake, do a spin, bump their hips together, and then shake. 

DANNY: It’s been nice doing business with you. 

JAKE: Can I at least watch a couple of tutorials on how to do the worm before I go out there? 

JOSH: I think it would be a lot more powerful if you winged it. 

JAKE: You hate me, don’t you? 

SAM: I don’t want to dance. 

DANNY: You can be in the middle. 

SAM: Deal! 

JOSH: Come on, guys. We’ll show you how it’s done. 

Transition to Meeting the Master playing overhead. Josh, Danny, Jake, and Sam are back in the parking lot, dressed in their Meeting the Master music video outfits. Josh and Danny are dancing along to the music while Jake and Sam try to follow along behind them. They’re pulling every dance move out of their pockets - at times it looks like they're copying TikTok dances, at other points they could be on Broadway. They jump, they twirl, they point around, they wiggle their hips, they bust out moves that you would see on the dancefloor at a Father-Daughter dance. It’s a routine for the ages. When the guitar solo starts, Josh and Danny start screaming at Jake. 

DANNY and JOSH: GO JAKE, GO! GET DOWN AND DIRTY! GO, WORM BOY! WIGGLE BOY, WIGGLE! 

Jake chokes in terror and flops onto the ground. His worm looks more like he’s doing reverse crunches, continually planting his face into the grass. When his head retracts, he spits out clumps of grass. Even though his interpretation of the worm is a disgrace to the dance move, Danny, Josh, and Sam cheer him on like he’s killing it. When Jake picks himself back up from the ground, his white suit is covered with grass stains. Their stylist is going to murder him. 

At the end of the song, Josh is really feeling it. He pushes in front of Sam, who was dancing in the middle, jumps up high in the air, and lands with a loud crack in the splits. Danny, Sam, and Jake immediately stop dancing and gape at him. 

DANNY: Josh, that wasn’t a part of the choreog! 

JOSH: (choking from the ground) I wanted to add a little shish boom pow at the end. 

JAKE: The only shish boom pow you did was to your groin. God, I could hear that crack from space. 

JOSH: (still on the ground) I can’t move. 

SAM: No need to worry, you’re insured, right? 

JAKE: You’re kind of getting the hang of it, Sam. 

Danny approaches Josh’s side and lifts him from the ground with a grunt. Josh looks to be permanently stuck in the splits - as Danny lifts him up, his legs are still sticking out in opposite directions. Danny looks to Jake and Sam for help. Jake and Sam both nod: they know what they need to do. 

JOSH: Hey, uh, let’s not get too ahead of ourselves here. I actually feel fine. I love having my legs out like this. 

Danny, Sam, and Jake ignore him. Danny holds Josh up even higher while he babbles. Jake grabs a hold of his leg in the front and Sam grabs his leg in the back. They both kick up their feet, trying to swing on his legs. Josh hollers as his legs snap back into place. 

JOSH: [expletive censored with the Buddy Holly riff]!

DANNY: (as he puts Josh down) Better? 

JOSH: (brushing himself off) Hardly. I feel awful. 

DANNY: But, Josh, we have to dance! This music video is nothing without our bodies telling a story, just like Tony Manero did in Saturday Night Fever. 

JOSH: I flew too close to the sun, Danny Boy. It’s time for me to strip off the wings before I hurt myself more. I have a yoga class that I can’t miss on Thursday. 

Danny hangs his head. Jake watches him and feels a pang of guilt. He approaches Danny and puts a hand on his shoulder. 

JAKE: Hey, I’ll still do the worm. 

Danny looks at Jake in surprise. 

DANNY: Really? 

JAKE: Yeah. I mean, we made a deal, didn’t we? It won’t be the full dance, but at least you can get a bit of your messaging on screen. 

DANNY: We can work with that. 

JOSH: I told you he would see the light! 

The episode ends with the director, cameraman, and assistant director watching a cut of the Meeting the Master music video. During Jake’s guitar solo, they watch footage of Jake doing his kind-of worm in slow motion in front of a bonfire. There are multiple different angles of him doing this and, with the music, it’s a truly bizarre sight. The crew members gape at the footage and then the director shuts it off. 

DIRECTOR: Well…

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Oh god. 

CAMERAMAN: We’re not keeping that, are we? 

DIRECTOR: Absolutely not. That was the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life. 

The Cameraman and Assistant Director breathe out in relief. 

DIRECTOR: (continuing) It’s so bad, I want to throw myself out a window. 

END OF EPISODE.

Notes: EVERYONE GIVE ALEX (@jmkho) SO MUCH LOVE FOR THE TITLE AND ADDISON (@starcatcherkiszka) FOR THE ORIGINAL IDEA!!! 🫶🫶🫶

#greta van fleet #gvf #jake kisza #josh kiszka #danny wagner #sam kiszka #starcatchers #greta van fleet fanfiction #greta van fleet fanfic #greta van fleet fic #gvf fanfiction #gvf fanfic #gvf fic #josh gvf #jake gvf #sam gvf #danny gvf #gvf tv show #episode 3 baby #meeting the master

[majortomwaits]

i saw your tags under the scooby doo vs sandman poll. i was wondering, do you actually hate Neil Gaiman or was it a joke? what did he do if you were serious? (i'm genuinely asking, i don't know about any drama involving Gaiman. maybe apart from him being a scientologist, but that turned out to be not true. he said that that is not his personal belief, just a religion/belief in his family)

Well, the scientology part is iffy at best, he still donates to the church despite not being an active part of it.

I have many issues with Gaiman, but just to microfocus on The Sandman specifically, it has the grossest case of fatphobia I've ever seen (just look up Despair and how her character's general look came to be, that alone made me lose so much respect for the guy and drop the graphic novel altogether). And in general his work is meh at best, and I've read many of his books.

But even if we go beyond that, never forget that during the very first lockdown, he left New Zealand to 'escape' from his, I guess now former wife, Amanda Palmer, (who is a story for herself when it comes to horrible people) and flew halfway across to world to Skye, thus breaking lockdown rules, just to be 11,000 miles away from his wife (and his toddler??), risked infecting the whole island, but got out of it with some shitty apology.

Generally, I simply find him to be overrated and overbloated when it comes to the quality of his work (which is better in adaptation by someone else than in writing, just to name an example, I'll never forget Stardust, which is a perfect fairytale movie but the worst book I've ever read, I can go on and on about how much it sucks).

Find better fantasy writers, please, he's not an alpha and omega of the genre.

edit: Was just informed in the replies that he's also a zionist, so.

#anon #Thank you

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

The real reasons Hollywood and the western media hate Vladimir Putin

banned LGBTQ propaganda, made homosexual 'non-traditional sexual relations' illegal.

protected Russian children from LGBTQ+ | Trans indoctrination at school. Banned gender reassignment mutilation surgeries on minors.

banned cults like Scientology, Jehovah's Witnesses and missionary work by the LDS (Mormons). Tons of Hollywood elites are scientologists, Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.

exposed the Ukrainian government's involvement in international money laundering (where a lot of western politicians 'clean' their dirty money, "cough cough" the Bidens) and child sex trafficking (why can't we see Ghislaine Maxwell's Secret Client List?).

Proudly and unashamedly proclaimed Russia to be a Christian nation. No matter how you feel about the Russian Orthodox Church, it takes courage to call yourself a Christian in today's world.

And the sad thing is, is after two years of the media pushing Covid lockdowns, lying through their teeth about the unvaxxed and social media unjustly attacking those of us who saw through the lies, a lot of you believe the media about Russia and Putin. I feel like Paul when he asked the Galatians, "What happened? Who bewitched you?"

Oh yeah…

He had a good working relationship with this guy.

[spurgie-cousin]

I’ve been on Scientology tik tok and just went through a rabbit hole. I’m already following a few content creators and I saw a live moments ago and boy was it something. So, one of the creators noticed that two cars were following her from the night before and tonight she noticed the same two cars again and when the cars were confronted they fled. Then another creator got into it with one of the Scientology recruiters because the Scientologist brought up the creators son that was murdered, he said he was a bad father because his son got murdered. I don’t know how these scientistogist think this is a good luck for them, it just makes them look so bad. They claim they’re a church but on the pamplet that they were handing out, on the back in very small print it says they’re not a church and nowhere in that pamplet does it say it’s the church of Scientology. I think that church is one of the craziest things I’ve learned and one of the most scary religions out there because wow.

(Death cw)

The recruitment tactics seem wild but they are very intentional. Like all good cults, Scientology has very specific types of people they are trying to recruit and they've been around long enough to know what works for the kinds of people they want and what repels the kind of people they don't.

To use the second video you mentioned as an example: when a parent loses a child in a particularly violent way, the likelihood that they are going to hold onto some guilt about that death is pretty high. Part of the "auditing" process in Scientology involves "clearing" an individual of subconscious traumas through extreme and uncomfortable questioning sessions called audits. It sounds like this Scientologist is kind of emulating that process by trying to evoke the parent's guilt or any other uncomfortable feelings the parent has surrounding that event.

The "right" person for the recruiters would respond to that accusation with some level of agreement because they already subconsciously believe there *was* something they could've done to stop their child's death. More likely than not, the Scientologist making that accusation is also telling that parent that they can clear that trauma and guilt from the parent with Scientology, which can sound incredibly tempting to someone who has been carrying around those heavy feelings for however long.

The crazy-sounding recruitment tactics are used to weed out the people who aren't looking for the things Scientology is trying to sell them if that makes sense. The vulnerable people who are susceptible to those tactics are more likely to be better cult members in the long run because they invest more into the group initially and therefore have more to lose if they eventually leave.

Edit: oh and I agree they're definitely scary. There's not many tricks they won't pull to get people in their doors

#cults #scientology

[eva-knits12]

Quiet On The Set Documentary Series.

Trigger Warning: mentions of SA involving children, Scientology.

PSA: This has nothing to do with Chris Evans! Some people find a way to make everything circle back to him. He had nothing, and I mean nothing, to do with what happened to the kids on Quiet on the Set. His "marriage" (which is pr and fake, but if you believe it's real, then fine, I have nothing against you if you believe that, I disagree) has nothing to do with this. If you find a way to make this circle back to him, what does that say about you and your character? That tells me that you're so obsessed with him and what goes on in his personal life that you make everything revolve around him! Remember, this about what happened behind the scenes of one our childhood icons, Nickelodeon.

PSA: The church of Scientology is mentioned. I mention that because Scientology will always find a way to cover up crimes while crimes are being committed. I really think that they should be held liable in this.

Here's my take on the documentary series, Quiet on the Set.

Dan Schneider is a predator and a child molester.

Everyone from parents of the child actors to Nickelodeon executives knew exactly what was going on.

Flag, aka Scientology headquarters, is located in Clearwater, Florida. I'm not surprised that there were several Scientologists at Nickelodeon. They covered up Danny Masterson's crimes-and Danny Masterson got sentenced to 30 years in prison in the end. Dan Schneider will hopefully have the same fate. Scientology may have had more of a deeper role in Dan Schneider's crimes against children than we know about. Nickelodeon was headquartered in Orlando, FL at that time.

Nickelodeon shows were also being filmed in Los Angeles. Los Angeles is the West Coast headquarters of Scientology. So, since there were shows for Nickelodeon that were being filmed out there, so it's no surprise that they were covering up what was going on out there.

The majority of those child actors were the family breadwinners. Since a parent had to be on set with them at all times, it's no surprise that they were told by their parents and by Nickelodeon executives to keep quiet and do their job. Basically, they were expected to be mini-adults. The kids couldn't go to the executives or to the police.

Speaking of which, there's several reasons why the kids and the parents didn't go to the authorities. One of them being is that nobody would believe them. The other being is that the executives at Nickelodeon may have connections in that department. Jimmy Saville was eventually caught for his crimes against children, but was never prosecuted. He had connections at the BBC, and he had connections in the criminal justice field and legal field. So, I'm not surprise that Dan Schneider and several executives at Nickelodeon had connections in the criminal justice and legal fields that looked the other way, possibly with the help of the church of Scientology.

It's scary to even think what these kids were going through at the time.

Those kids need justice, not just a monetary value. They need to see that actual justice is served, not just a slap on the wrist. We're talking a life sentence for Dan Schneider.

I hope these kids aren't hurting other people. Hurt people hurt people. Drake Bell is a prime example of this.

These kids lives have now been destroyed at the hands of a known predator.

#ted talk #quiet on set #nickelodeon #dan schneider #scientology

[thatseventiesbitch]

The Danny Masterson Trial and That ‘70s Show: An Overview

Below the cut, you’ll find information about Danny Masterson’s recent court case and how it relates to That ‘70s Show. Please be advised that much of the material is sensitive, and involves references to sexual assault.

I have been following a reporter on twitter for the last few months, Tony Ortega (@TonyOrtega94), who is doing a fantastic job of reporting on the Danny Masterson court proceedings. The trial is not public or streamed anywhere because of the sensitive nature of the crime, and to try to protect the victim’s identities. Various news outlets have released the women’s names, but Tony has always referred to them as Jane Doe 1, Jane Doe 2, and Jane Doe 3 and I will as well out of respect for their privacy.

Tony has been in the courtroom every day from the very beginning, and he transcribes everything that goes on each day of the trial. I’ve followed along and read each day of testimony via Tony’s transcription, and there were some details that came up relating to That ‘70s Show. That’s, of course, where my main interest lies. This post attempts to summarize the mentions of That ‘70s Show and/or its cast that came out during testimony, for posterity and others who might be interested in the information.

First, just a smidge of background.

WHAT is he accused of? Danny Masterson is accused of forcibly raping three different women. 

WHEN did the alleged assaults take place? The assaults took place in the early 2000′s. When Danny was working on T70S.

WHY is a 20-year-old SA case only now being brought to trial? Each of the three victims testified that they were members of the Church of Scientology at the time of their assault - Danny was also a member, and still is today. Each of the three victims testified that the Church of Scientology was the main reason they did not report the assault at the time, or why they didn’t process it as assault at the time. They reported the assault to members of the Church, and were dissuaded from going to the authorities because they feared being ex-communicated from their community for reporting a fellow Scientologist of a violent crime. Several of the women also testified to being told that what they experienced wasn’t rape or sexual assault by an authority figure in the Church. Each of the 3 women have left Scientology and no longer consider themselves Scientologists today. There were very strict limits on how much Scientology could be mentioned during the court case.

Onto the That ‘70s Show content from the testimony.

The first relevant tidbit came during Jane Doe 1′s testimony. JD1 states that a few days after her assault, Danny called her. He said he “fell off a raft and hit his butt on a rock on a trip with Ashton Kutcher, and he was sitting on a donut so now he knew what it felt like so we’re good now, right?”

The next incident is from Jane Doe 3′s testimony. She’s explaining that their relationship ended after she processed his assaults and some other concerning/abusive behavior in their relationship, but that she did have some contact with him after their break-up. One example was when, in the winter of 2002, she heard about a plane incident involving Masterson and other people on his show. She says she was concerned about him. DM said he wanted to see her, so JD3 says she went over to his house of her own accord.

Here is the word-for-word transcription from Tony: “He had called me and said he had almost died in a plane crash. They were with Ashton Kutcher and Wilmer Valderrama filming some Girls Gone Wild thing and something went wrong and there was no oxygen in the cabin. I was very upset and I went over to see him and I noticed he had gotten a jacuzzi.”

Next. During Jane Doe 3′s cross-examination, she was asked if in 2001 she appeared in the show DM was on, and she says yes. [Now, like I said, the identity of these women has been made public by some publications and so I was able to find the episode she appeared in. It is S4xE4 “Hyde Gets The Girl.” Jane Doe 3 plays one of the women who is invited to the party by Hyde’s friends, as a potential girlfriend for Hyde.]

The final mention of That ‘70s Show and/or its cast that I remember from testimony is from Jane Doe 2. She describes her assault, and then says that afterwards she and Danny had some conversation. Here’s the relevant bit, from the transcription: “He just said, you're a very passionate person. And I was like, he also said I was neurotic. And both of those things are true. He said you're very passionate, and I said, so are you, look you work so hard and look at this beautiful home and these things. No, not like you, he said, you're a very passionate person I'm not like that. On the bed he also mentioned Mila Kunis.”

She was asked a follow-up question about that, but the defense raised an objection that the information was irrelevant and the judge agreed, so the objection was sustained.

How did the trial end?

Danny Masterson’s trial ended in a mistrial, declared by Judge Olmedo on November 30, 2022. The jury informed her that after deliberating for days, they were deadlocked on all three counts and did not think that more time or more information could help them reach a verdict. The splits were as follows:

Count 1 (Jane Doe 1): 2 for guilty, 10 for not guilty

Count 2 (Jane Doe 2): 4 for guilty, 8 for not guilty

Count 3 (Jane Doe 3): 5 for guilty, 7 for not guilty

A mistrial in this instance means that Danny is considered neither innocent, nor guilty. The jury could not decide.

A mistrial in this instance also means Danny can be tried again for the same crimes if the judge and the prosecutor think a different jury could reach a verdict - double jeopardy does not apply. Judge Olmedo has already set a tentative date for the retrial, which is March 27.

My commentary

First and foremost, sexual assault cases are very triggering for many people for many different reasons, and my heart goes out to anyone who feels that way. My heart goes out to anyone who wasn’t believed. My heart also goes out to the 4 Jane Does (an additional woman testified to being raped by Danny, but was not named as a plaintiff on the case) who bravely shared their stories with the court and the world, and are grappling with this non-verdict. If the case is brought again in March I will follow along once again, hoping for justice for these brave women.

Learning that one of the Jane Does was actually on

That ‘70s Show

is... I don’t know if I’ve fully processed how I feel about that yet, but it’s not good.

I think the mentions of the That ‘70s Show cast just confirm how close of friends they were with Danny - specifically Ashton and Wilmer. How close of friends they remain today is anyone’s guess. For what it’s worth, Ashton (and Debra Jo, Kurtwood, and Laura) currently follows Danny on twitter but Wilmer does not and neither does Mila (although she does not have twitter) or Topher. Mila and Ashton were still spending time with Danny in 2019, when photos of them together at a friend’s wedding were leaked (the allegations around this case became public in 2017). Who knows what any of that necessarily means today.

I have heard about the plane incident with Ashton, Wilmer, and Danny before. Something about, their cabin lost cabin pressure and Ashton actually performed CPR on Danny because he passed out and his oxygen mask was on wrong. Here’s a blurb about it from IMDb.

In terms of the outcome of the trial itself, I feel frustrated. I understand that real life is not like a TV show, and that real law is often confusing and sometimes kind of nuts. The jurors had to follow their jury instructions. They did the best they could. It’s still very frustrating.

Tony Ortega (@TonyOrtega94) did a wonderful job covering the trial every step of the way, and literally transcribing every word along the way. If the state decides to bring the case again in March, I know Tony will be covering it again just as thoroughly, and I will be following along too.

#That 70s Show #That '70s Show #T70S #Danny Masterson #Danny Masterson trial #Scientology #Ashton Kutcher #Wilmer Valderrama #Mila Kunis #trigger warning #my essays

[badgerhuan]

"You're opinion isn't always the best, or corrrect!" That! Listen, the truth is that unless a celebrity does something blatantly despicable aka Kanye, there's just too many variables for us to make an assessment of their characters. What happens with TC is that he is associated with Scientology and its position as a terrible cult. But, there's barely any thought put into how he got there, how he was involved and what tatics they used to get him in the first place (+)

And although we know a lot about how cults operate, we don't know nearly as much about the human brain and how it'd react to certain neurolinguistical inputs (the most common tactic in cult formation). The mind is extremely malleable as it is, you can convince someone of something fairly easily, especially if they're young. Did he make mistakes? Sure. Some might think that joining Scientology would be unforgivable, but it isn't that simple. (+)

We have this tendency to simplify complex people and things so that it becomes easier to deal with them and forget to assess it by its particularities. If anything, I believe someone's actions speak louder than what they believe/used to believe in (which we don't know what the case is for TC). When he made a mistake, he apologized to the person directly, and since then he hasn't said anything questionable and boy did he have opportunities do so. The man has a decades old career ffs.

hey anon, sorry for the late reply! i wanted to wait until i'm on my computer to answer this. but yes, 100% all of this. we just don't know enough! and Tom's actions speak way louder, and he's loved and respected by everyone who's worked with him. even the few times he came across as short and frustrating, the other person knows that it wasn't malicious.

and i think people are just so quick to judge him for anything. twice this year actors who are friends with him shared an anecdote in interviews about a joke Tom made on set between them and him, and both times people took the jokes way too literally and assumed the worst of him, and BOTH TIMES the actor who shared the anecdote responded to defend him! like. god forbid that Tom has friends that he can joke around with, even in a working environment. jesus.

#roch answers #anonymous #tom cruise

[msclaritea]

I hate to have to say this, because I loved that show as a kid. It was black comedy. At last! Too bad it was always tainted. The Cult of Scientology were very likely behind the In Living Colour Show, just like their connections to That 70s Show.

Nearly every member has now been used in some sort of toxic propaganda.:

Jennifer Lopez, 2nd generation COS, marrying whathisface

Marlon Wayans, joining other celebrities, in using his children to promote the Trans ideology

Jim Carrey, a Sexi pest and creep, who now keeps trying to start his own cult, when not stalking college girls

David Alan Grier, this Magical Negro crap

Other connections, are one of the producers, Angel Lopez of Pulse Music. He's worked with Kanye West, who has arguably been subjected to brainwashing. He's worked with Sam Smith. No need to say a thing about his behavior, lately and how drastically he changed. Lopez has Also worked with Coldplay. Chris Martin of Coldplay was married to Gwyneth Paltrow, who is involved with Honeypot operations, now. There's more. Ex-employees of Chris Martin started the charity, Choose Love, which has been accused by Corporate Watch, of abuse of its employees and a lot of irregularities around how they operate. The phrase, Choose Love is a reference to a quote by Satanist, Aleister Crowley, who Ron L Hubbard worshipped.

The Cult of Scientology and their partners at the BBC are engaging in spraying harmful portrayals of black people, women and yes, even LGB, in our faces. What they're doing is psychologically harmful, socially devastating and CRIMINAL.

#MagicalNegro #universalstudios #FocusFeatures #BlackOps #scientology

#The American Society of The Magical Negro #It all started with In Living Color #Jennifer Lopez #Marlon Wayans #Jim Carrey #David Alan Grier #A Sick Cult of Scientology Project #Angel Lopez #Kanye West #Sam Smith #Gwyneth Paltrow #Coldplay #Choose Love #Aleister Crowley #Universal Pictures and Focus Features #BLACK OPS

[finestoftheflavors]

Scientology

I’m watching Leah Remini‘s Scientology: The Aftermath documentary (on Netflix at the moment) and enjoying it. I’ve seen about ten episodes of it so far. Have a few thoughts.

There’s very little focus on weird beliefs like Thetans, Xenu, etc. The content of the beliefs, and what fraction of Scientologists actually believe that stuff, it doesn’t matter. What matters is what people do. What matters is the broken families and the dishonesty and the emotionally abusive fundraising. This series is agnostic to any religious beliefs, you could believe in Thetans and Xenu and still agree with the conclusion that the organization of Scientology is bad to the core.

Everybody on this show is an ex-Scientologist. All of the complaints about the cult are coming from people who were in the cult themselves. Interesting dynamic. This is very much a forgiveness-and-redemption story for everyone involved. “I supported Scientology and fought on its behalf, then I realized I had wasted decades of time and effort” is the norm. There’s a very real “hate the sin, love the sinner” attitude here because the show’s protagonists want their former friends, those who are still in Scientology, to get out, they’re waiting and hoping for a happy reunion someday.

Mike Rinder in particular, as the second protagonist, confesses that he personally worked in the part of Scientology that harassed people trying to leave. At one point he says that he’s sorry for what he did to other people who were trying to leave Scientology, but that none of them point a finger at him to say “you personally screwed me over”. I guess the theme is that all the people who participate in Scientology are doing something to hold up the system of dysfunction. First and foremost everybody involved is harming themselves.

David Miscavige is apparently a real-life nineties movie villain asshole-in-a-business-suit type of guy. There’s room for somebody to say, “Miscavige is bad, but Scientology is good, Miscavige is just leading it in the wrong direction.” There’s room to say LRH wasn’t bad like Miscavige is bad. The descriptions we hear of LRH indicate that he was kinda bad, though. LRH set up all the abusive practices that Miscavige builds on. I mean, LRH was the guy who set up an organization on a ship, the most isolated environment available, and encouraged parents to give their children to him so he could have an organization made up of people who don’t know anything else, and raised them in an environment that openly endorsed physical and emotional abuse. Was he as bad as Miscavige? Did he have redeeming qualities that Miscavige lacks? I don’t know. When the ex-Scientologists talk about LRH, some of them seem to have a nostalgia for the guy.

The descriptions of the cult environment sound very similar to descriptions I’ve read of abusive relationship patterns... so much that it makes me suspect a cult and an abusive relationship might be the same thing somehow? The same thing on a different scale. David Miscavige is like an abusive stepfather to everyone in the Sea Org. The fact that LRH set up Scientology to encourage people to hand over their kids to be raised by Scientology just makes it very on-the-nose. But even apart from that, the organization of Scientology is like a system for Miscavige to apply relationship abuse tactics to everyone around him, and for a other people in the organization to form sort of a pyramid scheme of abusing and being abused, it’s like some sort of lasagna layering of victimization.

#religion #Scientology

[calkale]

I honestly think Cruise will be the next celeb we lose to cancel culture, because of all the unproven random ass gossip that goes around him. As well as his link to Scientology. It will be sad as his friends and colleagues describe him as a sweet and generous person. He has done a lot of good things in his life for charity, saving people's lives etc.. as well.

Most of these rumours are just way out of context or have been shown not to be true, but this would be boring for the media to comment on. Unfortunately this is the world we live in.

I don’t think tom can be cancelled. Theres been too many opportunities and too many things to actually cancel him for and it just hasn’t worked or hasn’t stuck. Obviously a lot of it happened before cancel culture was a thing but cancel culture is all about digging up dirt on people and bringing it up again.

I think if he was gonna be cancelled it would’ve happened already, probably when tgm came out since everyone was praising him and people did try (i think?) but it just wasn’t enough. He doesn’t have a lot in common with most other people who have been cancelled. Usually people don’t have a lot of nice things to say even if its something that happened a long time ago, most of those people don’t change, yes they may change for the public eye but personally not really. Tom on the other hand did change and people who’ve met him can’t stop saying nice things about him. I think the internets learned that headlines aren’t usually true and they go off of what people who know them say (or thats what id like to believe anyway 😐). Usually when someone has something bad to say about tom its just about scientology, thats all we’ve got on him and i don’t even think thats a good argument anymore since he’s not really involved or doesn’t seem to be involved with the church at all anymore. I don’t think he’ll ever be able to leave if he hasn’t already, i don’t think someone like tom can just leave the church without a lot of shit going down but hes definitely distanced himself as much as he can, at least from the publics point of view but he’s also always on a movie set so i don’t think he even has time, not to say he isn’t still giving them money he probably is but he also probably has to if he’s a part of the church still so??

I don’t think the media will ever stop talking about him, i don’t think they can. He’s the it girl of movies, he’s ms. hollywood we cant get rid of him. I think what he’s doing by ignoring it is the best he can do really, denying things just make every situation worse and he seems like one of those people who just truly doesn’t care or doesn’t even know. If people did cancel him i don’t think it’d work either, you cant have movies without him especially now, people can’t deny that tgm saved movies and thats mostly because of tom. We lose him, we lose movies.

I’m just going off of what i know i haven’t looked into anything I’ve said so if im wrong whatever ill look stupid on the internet thats part of the fun of being on the internet

#7am big chunk of text you know the drill #i know tom personally all of this is factual #tom discourse in the inbox love to see it #calkaleasks

[alexi-01]

thank you!! i can’t fucking stand tom cruise. people just forget he’s very high up in the hierarchy of scientology, which he benefits greatly from. anyone that says he’s a victim is fucking insane. not to mention the time he was involved in TRAFFICKING a woman. it pissed me off so much when top gun came out and i had to see that man’s disgusting face fucking everywhere.

sorry this is a bit personal to me, my mother grew up near one of scientology’s main headquarters and has had friends fall victim to it her whole life

scientology is straight up a cult and people forget that because he’s such a big actor

scientology promotes abuse (physical, mental and sexual), doesn’t believe in mental health and has literally trafficked multiple people

i recommend that everyone should watch leah remini’s documentary on how she escaped scientology and what happens when you are apart of the church

i’m sorry for your mum’s friends, i live near two churches of scientology and one of them is quite a big one, tom cruise himself has been seen there multiple times

#ask response #anti tom cruise #anti scientology

[bcofl0ve]

Sorry to see the mess happening in the Presley family after LMP’s death, especially the fight brewing between Priscilla and Riley. We’ll have to guess which one of them is the family source blabbing to tmz, but from the nature of the stories it’s Priscilla. It’s not bs either- CNN now has the will contesting documents in hand. I don’t have enough info to take sides, but what I can say is that any family involved in Scientology is doomed. Scientology is a CULT, an extremely dangerous one- many don’t speak up bc the CoS bullies & threatens unless whistleblowers keep quiet. It’s very sad that all of them (Priscilla, Lisa, Riley) are or were Scientologists. Sadly, it seems LMP was under the influence of the CoS again at the time of her death- her ex & Riley’s father Danny Keough is a higher-up in the CoS & was w her at the time of her death. To bring it back to Austin, I’m sad for his grief about LMP but happy that he’s almost done w his Elvis era- this is a mess that will be unraveling for years to come. Best for him to have some distance & focus on his very bright future.

( i don't fully agree with everything said in this anon, and am largely posting it because of the very last part, which i do agree with. )

i was just telling someone today that one of the really sad and tough aspects of all this is that the whole 'elvis thing' has prob gone from something that austin was still enjoying to something he just wants to be done with, at least as much as he can be. the new tmz article today had a “family source” that flat out said lisa would be alive if it wasn't for the golden globes/stress from the movie and i...really hope that whoever that is isn't someone austin has to interact with when interacting with the family. i'm sure him and baz were already blaming themselves in some small self depreciating capacity, but there's that and there's a "family source" publicly suggesting the death of your friend is partly on your shoulders.

i know some people get kinda feisty when ppl mention austin in this vein because lisa's direct family members are obv the people hurting the most. but i really do feel bad for him as well. it's all such a sad tragic mess that i fear is going to make 'leaving elvis behind' after awards season significantly harder than it would've been before all this. you can't shove grief in a box under your bed, much as i wish we all could.

#lisa marie presley #austin butler

[larrythefloridaman]

Been rewatching bits and pieces of cpuk season one for fun and taking notes of funny stuff we dont talk about much in the discord and thinking abt it in the context of later seasons/information and its very fun. This is stuff from 1-5 (will likely update as i get further in this partial rewatch, under readmore for spoilers of later parts of the series and keeping the post short)

Hamhel and dadondorf apparently taught jimbo 'butt/butts' is a swear word but 'fuck' isnt. Jimbo is really interested in music as we know but also distinctly very bad at it. Jimbo's biological parents are dead, but left him a LOT of money and as a result spending too much money on shit he doesn't need became his favorite coping mechanism and, following the divorce, he used up all of his inheritance money and started dipping into the family funds, which is when Dadon and him start having Problems. Jimbo is extremely hamhel's kid neither of them should be trusted with any kind of power. Jimbo, i know you've been through a lot and the dad that was demonstrably better at connecting with you is being Fucked Up And Evil Right Now but honey, the shopping addiction is not gonna make your life any stabler. listen to zzzzzzoey. go to therapy. 'Jimbo tried to summon satan to kill his dad' is a thing thats said. Which. gestures in crimson's general direction. funny. Jimbo is peak 'remember when you were 15 and convinced you were evil and irredeemable but really you were just 15' except at this point hes like, 13 max im pretty sure and also hes Really stupid (affectionate.) (CPUK1)

Dadondorf is personal friends with Cranky Kong. Hamhel claims he threw a match in winners finals against Dad to give him a fighting chance and I think he's full of shit as ever <3 Dadondorf to Jimbo: "I'm sorry, It's just- I know you miss your other dad, but we'll get through this together." bro dont talk to me about to wring hamhel's dumbass neck, you dumb son of a bitch meat man abandoning your family for demonic power to recapture your glory days im gonna KILL Y- hes better now its fine im fine theyre fine. man imagining what the winners finals and championship match between dadon and hamhel at the end of cpuk1 would be like with season 2-3 style voiceacted storytelling has me fucked up. itd kill me i think .

Zzzzzoey's apparently like. 18 years old in cpuk1????? If thats still canonical shes in her fuckin. early 20s now. what the Fuck. more like a cool big sister to Jimbo convincing him to go to therapy and helping him reconcile with his dad like that than a peer. (CPUK1)

Patchman apparently worships some kind of obscure scarecrow harvest god called Scarny, and either his ratspeak was kind of rusty or he genuinely briefly forgot what science was because when he called Zapmouse the work of the devil and Zapmouse corrected him by saying he was a product of science he said he didnt believe in scientology. Zapmouse is explicitly an atheist. Zapmouse also likes to use elaborate threats to get his point across. Zapmouse ended a friendship and threatened to rip out a person's teeth for patronizing him by calling him their pet to explain why they were talking to a rat. (CPUK2)

Grundy, the Grunk's brother, has a confirmed skin, he's represented by the green bowser when they talk about him during the Grunk's intro! He and the Grunk lived in Tennessee, and he's a famous and respected restauranteur specialized in Southern Comfort Food whose critical opinion is so highly respected a bad yelp review from him can tank businesses. He, and I quote, 'sucks.' they talk about grundy so much in the grunk's debut episode it's kinda funny that he's never shown up. They even raise the idea of introducing him as a fighter at some point. although considering his brother died being part of kerfuffle and then he kept doing it and let his son participate too, i dont blame him for not wanting to get involved. People apparently start beef with the Grunk sometimes just for being related to Grundy, considering sauceboss. maybe they just don't. talk anymore. (CPUK4)

Home MD really likes fish and cares about the ocean as an environment, Alfred even throwing out the idea that he wears black in grim remembrance of the Mozilla Oil Spill. i wonder if this interest was present before the time loop or if it developed during. What im asking is what came first hackshifter aquarium dates or home md getting just like really into maintaining his doctors office fish tank as a coping mechanism. Did Larry frequently get into physical altercations with litterers at the beach growing up or is that new. They say Home MD saw Finding Dory and cried. they also, unrelated, say Home is so old he canonically uses internet explorer. Fucking mean to him!!! he's like 25ish at this point in the loop! I know he has the exhaustion in his eyes of a man twice that age but leave him alone!!!!!!! (CPUK4) (Sidenote its so fucking funny to me that even during the home timeloop larry was picking fights with hamhel. He wants to kick that old mans ass so bad but it'll never happen. I think larry greets hamhel every time they meet by trying to put him in a headlock and casually failing. Their weird frenemy relationship is so funny to me)

Firefox is a Mega-Corporation that has its fingers in lots of things, the browser's just the main thing they do. So in the kerfuffleverse mozilla as a company is kinda like google as a company is in the real world. Mozillas dead as hell and Nightly hates his ass and has understandably complicated feelings about family but it's unclear in my memory if he's still like, involved with the company or the rest of his family in any way. Is nightly a disowned out of touch ex-richboy or what (CPUK4)

it is funny that the lowkey bloodlust has been whats stuck about Corn most into the present from her debut. Alfred: "corn really just put a knife to this man's (home md) neck and said 'i'm here to take your blood.'" She craves violence and always has and i respect it (CPUK4)

ICEE was a huge superfan of ICEE who got sponsored as a result of him promoting the brand through his very public love of it abd as such has some amount of unofficial pull with the company. Spriteman is not sponsored. The coca cola company does not want to be associated with Spriteman in any way, shape, or form. his sheer violent feverish devotion to that citrus soft drink is completely fucking unmarketable to them. If cpu kerfuffle wasn't distinctly unaffected by the law he'd probably be getting sued for so aggressively stanning their product in such an intensely unflattering way on a public platform. Also christ in a clown car he was stuck perfect for SO LONG he went perfect between cpuk3 and cpuk4, and didn't recover until cpuk20. This man was in a feral state and not fully in control of himself for a bit under 2 years i think? he is So rusty at being a human. In the first episode he was 'Perfect,' he seemed fairly lucid, which is. Upsetting. because it implies that he slowly lost that lucidity until he was the 's-sprite' stammering beast he was by the time g2 rolled in. 

Yung Papaya's snake exorcist dad was described as being half demon before becoming a snake, and his name is actually Rod. These are some of the only things the snake priest dad remembers from his life before being transformed into a snake aside from his work as an exorcist. I have no additional commentary on this i just think its funny (CPUK5)

The Light Void is, apparently, a void of pure light and an entity that instead of consuming or encompassing things as one might imagine the maw of the void to do, allows things to take of it whatevers needed that it can give. a sort of metaphysical wellspring hammerspace of potential, it sounds like. One of the many odd, complex and multifaceted world-crafting forms of Spectrum's divinity, perhaps? its emissary, corrupted into the cbt demon, is described as having little sentience/autonomy to begin with, so it's tricky to exorcise because it lacks much of a will of its own to free, and doesn't have the capacity to desire to be freed, as it exists to serve whatever purpose its needed for. It can only speak occasionally, and it's very direct and lacks personality. (CPUK5)

In CPUK5's intros, ryan says dan is a geeksquad employee that was Sent Into The Game. Like A Normal Guy From Real Life Literally Sent Into The Video Game. Its compared repeatedly to scooby doo cyberchase. nccts stuff clarifies this is arguably pretty normal for the fighters origins but Dan was literally intentionally isekai'd here from Normal Actual Real Life to help try to deal with hamburger helper. Every Dan Is Explicitly From Another World. Also he seemed like he was having so much genuine fun fighting Al compared to his whole Comedically Tired Cosmically Tormented Everyman thing hes got going on now and also for like the whole rest of his time in even this tournament. Also apparently he fixed icee's ipod once and returned it and all the music was gone except 15 copies of ice ice baby with one under pressure. blows kiss love u dan <3

Alfred: "Alabaster Uppercut has been fighting for 27 years, and dedicated the other two to teaching children how to do the uppercut just like him" oh my god was Al already like 29 when cpuk5 happened. Is Al in his early thirties now. Also he says Al was already very respected and well-known in his home village and he was once ideologically pacifist and only signed up for cpuk because a group of other competitors viciously defamed him and his village and called him a pussy on social media and one of the village kids started getting bullied over it and that's what crossed a line with him, which is interesting. Ya boy loves the fight for the sake of the fun of the fight now but he supposedly used to Very Much Not Like Fighting Pointlessly At All? Originally more of a 'practices a martial art as a meditation and preservation of heritage' kind of guy before discovering The Joys Of Consensual Sportsman's Violence

[renee00124]

https://www.maxhertzberg.co.uk/background/politics/stasi-tactics/ *TARGETED COMMUNITY REPORT* Facebook post by Devin Keymer is with Jamie Walls TI and 94 others, May 14 at 9:32 AM He writes: · "Gaslighting is at the heart of all gangstalking. Once you know you're being gaslighted the spell is broken. Once you know it's the CIA, FBI, NSA (deep state) watchlist it's over. Most people don't know they're targeted by intelligence agencies. Do an awareness campaign and educate the public about the watchlist, Zersetzung, gaslighting, doppelgangers, narcissist, smear campaigns, and flying monkeys. There's two parts to Government Gangstalking (GG). Sattelite Squadron (SS) electronic harassment and Spineless Stalkers (SS) organized stalking. It's not a Good Game (GG) like in chess - it's pathetic. They're putting innocent people on the watchlist and using reaction abuse and all entraping you with the police. Intelligence agencies carefully plan operations with Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance (PPPPP). Everyone writes reports with Who, What, When, Where, Why (WWWWW). The gangstalking motto is Disrupt, Discredit, Divide, Distract, Destroy (DDDDD). Stay Cool, Calm, Collected (CCC) to their reaction abuse. Reaction abuse causes false flags." I document in "Remote Brain Targeting, Book One, the Scientology connection. And, from personal experience the military is heavily involved (this is military technology they are using) from military bases across our nation on heinous high-tech training missions which includes mind invasive technologies, as well as the FBI's Infragard mobilizing of business in communities, and corrupt law enforcement slander in Neighborhood Watch, etc., etc., etc. I thought I was the only one they are using a doppelganger to discredit. Twice I have been told that there is a lookalike around town, who also drove at that time the exact same vehicle as I did. I think they may be using her to pretend that I am a woman of ill repute. I also think that possibly images confirming this are on the tracking app they provide mobilized "Community Volunteers".   At first I wanted to pay someone to let me see what they are saying and images on the app that ding on many phones when I am around. I then thought, whatever. It comes with the territory. In reality, you can't blame them for desperately trying to cover-up MONSTROUS high-tech assassinations and beyond belief horrific human experimentation on men, women and children.   What a national heinous, inhumane DISGRACE!

[eva-knits12]

My take on Danny Masterson's sentence.

Trigger warning: rape and sexual assault.

I try to avoid celebrity gossip and the drama that surrounds it, but sometimes, you just can't avoid it. The Danny Masterson sentence is one of these things that we just can't avoid, and what happened, and the celebrities and the church of Scientology defending his actions is just wrong on so many levels, I don't know where to begin.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you heard that actor Danny Masterson was recently sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting women. Now, we don't always know 100% of the details. We may even write this off as that there are two sides to every story. We may even give these people a pass because "it was a one time thing," "he or she made a mistake", "if you don't vocally consent, then it's not rape," etc. We've all heard these excuses, and they are enough to piss me off.

Now, I have experienced sexual harassment in my teens, but I will not go into detail about that. It was wrong, but I was in my teens. As an adult, I recognize that it was wrong on so many levels, but my parents and I did what we felt was right, and reported it to school authorities, who just swept it under the rug. If this happened to me today, I would be getting the legal system involved.

With Danny Masterson's victims, how much do we really know? I'm pretty sure that there was a lot more that happened privately that was eventually made public. If I'm not mistaken, some of these victims may have been under the age of legal consent, which is 16 in most states.

One of his victims was an ex-girlfriend who reported it to the Church of Scientology. What did they do? They made her look like the bad guy, while he got away with raping her scot-free. She didn't go to the police because with that cult, you NEVER go to law enforcement. The sick part was a lawyer for the church said that it wasn't rape since they were in a relationship, and she had consented. Danny had violated her bodily autonomy and he may have possibly used a roofie, or some other drug. I say possibly because as I have already stated, we don't know 100% of the details. Only two people know what really happened, and there was a good chance that she was drugged.

For a while, all of these victims were either intimidated into silence, or bullied into silence by the church of Scientology. When they finally worked up the courage to go to the authorities and report it, it may have been too late. I'm not sure what the law regarding rape and sexual assault is in California, because I sure don't live there. I live in suburban Detroit, where the laws regarding rape and sexual assault are way different. By the time the victims finally reported Danny Masterson to the authorities, they had left the Church of Scientology, so when they left, the statute of limitations had already run out.

The first victim held Danny accountable. The sick part? His wife, Bijou Phillips stood by him blindly! If I were in that position, my first thought would be to take my child or children and run for the hills, then file for divorce! They also have a child, a daughter I think, and what lesson does that teach her? Does she think what Daddy did to these women is normal? Does she think that it's normal for Mommy to be defending this sick man? Does she have any stronger male and female role models in her young life who can model what true strength is and give her that much needed discussion about consent?

When more victims spoke out, and well after the authorities were involved, Danny was finally arrested. The victims feel vindicated, more so now that he is in jail. Finally, he is being punished by law for his actions. The sick part? The Church of Scientology still defends his actions.

His friends who are not in Scientology or even associated with the cult, are defending him. I'm not sure if they're being paid off by his team, and they are just as sick as he is for defending him. Some of those defending him are women, which just makes this situation even sicker!

My personal take is that Danny Masterson is a rapist and a predator. Cut and dry. I hope his victims are seeking therapy because they are going to need it in order to move forward and move on with their lives.

Everyone was shocked when he was fired from his Netflix show when all of these allegations came out, and I wouldn't be surprised if he is now blacklisted from Hollywood. We all know of Bill Cosby, who had the exact same fate as Danny Masterson. I mentioned that Danny Masterson is a Scientologist, and that the church defended his actions.

We all watched That '70's Show. We all related to those characters because we all knew those characters and were one of those characters. I related to Eric, and we all knew an Eric, a Donna, a Jackie, a Kelso, a Hyde, a Fez, a Laurie, a Rhett, a Kitty, a Midge, and a Bob in high school. I admit that I watched That '70's Show, and I kept watching it. It was a quirky, funny teen show, and it was much different than Dawson's Creek.

Danny Masterson and the cult he is in are NOT above the law. Nobody is above the law.

#danny masterson #rapeawareness #predator