If I can recommend you do 1 low-effort thing for the love of God it is this:
Keep 5 cards in your pocket. One will say “yes”, the second will say “no.”
If you lose your voice, or lose speech, or want to make a dramatic embellishment at the right time, it is an elegant and efficient solution that is right there at hand.
But what if people question you from there? “Why do you have that card? Why would you do this? How long have you had that in your pocket?” For this, or whatever else they say, the third card: “I don’t have a card for that.”
“What the fuck,” they ask. They laugh. They are bemused. You bring the energy back down with the fourth card: “I have laryngitis. I’ve lost speech. My throat hurts”. Whatever you expect to occur.
The joke is over. Rule of threes. Now they are curious. YThey wonder about logistics. “How did you know I would say that? Is everyone so predictable?”
As a three-part bit, nobody ever sees the fifth card coming.
“I have powerful wizard magics.”
Gets them every time
On it boss!!
[id: a set of 5 UNO cards upon which has been written, “Yes”, “no”, “I don’t have a card for that”, “can’t talk right now 😢”, and “I have powerful wizard magics 🙂”. End id]
The whole “common era” (BCE-CE) has to be the stupidest thing ever and I say that as a Christian who thinks we should indeed have a secular calendar.
“Oh no we can’t use "Before Christ” and “After Christ”, that’s so Eurocentric. We’ll change it to something else, like “common era”, that’s more neutral.“
"Oh okay, and what’s gonna be year 0 then?”
“Oh, the year of the birth of Christ of course”
As far as I’m concerned we live in the year 62 A.G. of the Space Age (After Gagarin), like in a proper sci-fi novel.
my senior year of high school i worked in the referral office and a girl came in one day and was like ‘uhh i got a referral’ so i had to ask her what for and she told me it was for her necklace and i told her if she’d let me take a picture wearing it i would throw the referral away and yeah
Guys we gotta up our game the Georgians said fuck more than us
Having looked through historic googlebooks many a time and been frustrated by how difficult it is to search in this time period, this chart is most certainly due to the algorithm not properly picking up the “Long S” which was an f-like character used in place of an s especially in 17th and 18th century printing.
The rules of when the short and long s’s are used are somewhat complicated to modern people, but they are almost always at the beginning of words, never at the end, and if there is a double s sometimes they are combined and sometimes not:
99% of the time the word actually being used is “suck” or “sucking.” It actually shows up a lot as a word used to describe babies who were still nursing. In texts from this period the word “suck” will almost always read as “fuck.” This makes some of these auto-transcriptions absolutely brilliant in hindsight:
If you search for the word “fuck” in googlebooks within this time frame, you get hundreds of pages of entries like this. For example, this Shakespeare anthology:
This is not to say that people in the 18th century didn’t find this hilarious, I’m sure they did, but f-bombs were not being dropped in classic literature at the time. If they do show up, like in this 1785 slang dictionary: it is almost always bleeped out:
The other 1% of the fucks in 18th century books are, of course, not bleeped out because they are in Ye Olde Porn, of which there is a surprising amount on googlebooks.
I should also note if it wasn’t clear that the immense dropoff just after 1800 is when the long s stopped being used in print, and the reemergence was in the mid-late 20th century when people DID start dropping f-bombs in literature
first traditionally published novel CAMP DAMASCUS out today with @torbooks. thanks to all you buckaroos for proving that sometimes if you stand proud of your unique way you wont bend to the timeline, the timeline bends to you. we did this. LOVE IS REAL. out now buds bit.ly/CampDamascus
I’m just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they’d finished their collection of games for it back in April.
Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they’ve got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is… considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they’ve only gotten manuals for three games. So if you’ve got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual’s still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!
Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm’s Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.
The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.
“Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they’re 15” this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit
To wit:
I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.
In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:
“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.
“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”
Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.
Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕
I would say that most people will never be able to say they may or may not have been the intended target of a murder plot by a former anime voice actor, and I hope I at least live long enough to write an autobiography about how stupid the entire thing is.
I’m gonna need some context here
All right, cool, let’s give some backstory here.
Anybody following me likely already knows what the last four-plus years have been like for me. In January 2019, there’d already been a big discussion amongst people within the anime and anime convention community about actually talking about the people in our community that we quietly already knew were dangerous but haven’t done anything serious about them to protect each other. The first of those people discussed was a guy who went by the username of Hazukari who was known to sexually prey on people in the convention circuit. This story isn’t really about him, but it’s important to understand that that’s where the community was at when everything blew up.
The next thing that sort of unintentionally blew up was a much bigger conversation about an extremely popular voice actor, Vic Mignogna. It had already been well known for 15 years through whisper networks that he wasn’t to be trusted with his female fans, both adult and underage. Stories were everywhere, even here on Tumblr. It wasn’t hard to find people telling stories about their encounters with him across even some of the oldest of social media. Forums and blogs, everywhere. I understand that people really thought, “Oh, it’s all just talk,” but unless you were there from about the year 2005 on up, you really don’t know just how pervasive the knowledge was. I myself had watched behavior from him out of him in 2007 that made me believe it. It was weird to know a guy would hold church service panels on Sundays at anime conventions, but then I would watch him get handsy with a young woman and take her back to his hotel room. It might not have been illegal, but it set off alarm bells in my head.
Now, I wasn’t the person who started off the firestorm. Another person entirely who went under the Twitter handle of “hanleia” (and who no longer uses that handle) had made a tweet asking when we were finally gonna hold Vic accountable for his behavior. And although she didn’t really intend it, her tweet absolutely blew up. Thousands of likes and retweets. And along with it came hundreds of stories from individuals telling their personal experiences. I took screenshots of well over 100 different people at that time telling their stories of how he was weird or a creep or made them uncomfortable, or in some cases some people talked about their experiences being volunteer convention staff members who had been treated like shit by him. And at the time, that’s all it was. It was kinda a repeat of stories, some old some new, that I’d been hearing for 15 years. Where I came in was well after the firehose had already been opened all the way up, and suggested a hashtag to just keep track of all the stories, which I’d called #KickVic. That’s all it was intended to do, and it came much later after the whole movement had already kicked off. Unfortunately, as time would go on, it wouldn’t matter that I didn’t actually accuse him of doing anything to me, or that I wasn’t the person who started the movement. Culture war assholes (and seemingly Vic himself) would decide I was the face of the entire movement based solely on the hashtag alone.
As the movement went on, it got WAY worse than I think any of us really knew it was. Like, we knew he was kinda a handsy asshole, but not to what extent. Suddenly, a bunch of members of the industry–voice actors and sound engineers–were liking people’s tweets, and even telling their own stories. They were telling their own stories about how he had been handsy with them and pressuring them for sex. As you can imagine, assholes would ask why they waited so long to speak up. But I guess you can’t imagine how difficult it is to speak up against another powerful dude in your industry that everybody likes unless it happens to you. But if multiple people in the industry were now saying it was true, that’s when I knew for certain this shit was real, and it could possibly be way worse than anyone really knew. If these were just the people willing to speak up, how many more were out there that have never said anything at all, too scared to tell?
By February Vic had lost his working contracts with anime dubbing studios and was quickly being dropped by reputable anime conventions. He was starting to bleed money. Which is probably why he was motivated to, rather than seeking the help and reformation he initially promised he would seek, instead then began suing people for talking about the things he did. Among those he sued were Funimation (the company that ended their contract with him and then tweeted about it), Jamie Marchi and Monica Rial (who were two voice actors who claimed to have had uncomfortable interactions with him), and Monica’s fiancé Ron Toye (who had also spoken up in Monica’s defense).
2019 was a pretty big shit show, and the legal stuff was a huge mess. It would be difficult to cover the whole thing competently without a whole documentary on how stupid it was. The shortest version I can tell you is that alt-right reactionary YouTuber pieces of shit decided Vic needed a GoFundMe to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars so that he could sue the very women he assaulted for defamation. And his legal team was awful from the beginning. His lawyer, Ty Beard, didn’t even practice defamation law. He was an estate lawyer. It’d be like calling AT&T Internet tech support to fix the motherboard in your computer that you physically broke in half. What I’m saying is, you’re calling up somebody who’s only BARELY tangentially related to the job you need done, and there’s no way they have the ability to actually help you.
And basically by the end of the year, that’s exactly how that all went down. Even if he’d ever had any hope of winning that lawsuit, there was absolutely no saving him with the disastrous legal team he had on his side. Just an absolute moron running his case for him, fumbling the entire thing. It didn’t help that the lawsuit ended up spitting out way more information about Vic’s behavior than we ever would have known had he not sued. Now, thanks to that, we know he was hiring prostitutes behind his fiancée’s back, having relationships with multiple people on his Star Trek Continues fan film, tried to have sex with twin women at the same time, learned that his reputation was so bad that Funimation had to install locks inside the building to prevent actors from interacting with staff that were colloquially called “Vic Locks”–I mean, the list of fucked up shit we learned went on and on and on. It would have been infinitely better for this man had he not sued, but then I guess we wouldn’t have ever known how truly bad everything really was.
If I try to tell every single little step of this story from 2019 on, we’re gonna be here forever, so we need to speedrun the next, like, three years here. But believe me when I say, if you were ever either a victim of Vic’s or an ally of his victims, you knew no peace. The constant harassment day in and day out was insane. It was to levels you wouldn’t believe. I definitely wasn’t the only person who got it, but just to give you my own experiences, some examples of things that happened were: I was doxxed, my extended family was doxxed, I was harassed across all social media, sent death threats, my family and my pets were threatened with death, when my cat died I was mercilessly mocked for that painful loss, my marriage certificate was posted online, people (unsuccessfully) tried to mail things to my house and send pizzas, my E-mail was hacked, and it just goes on and on and on. It was especially bad throughout that first year. And although as time goes on there have been lulls in those waves of harassment, they never totally go away. At some point, someone will always decide to make some alt account or make some new YouTube video that will whip up the hate all over again. It comes in waves, but never totally goes away.
But you came here to read about a possible murder plot. So, okay, here we go.
It’s 2023.
Vic still goes to some shady conventions from time to time. He hosts livestreams on Twitch every Wednesday. He whips his followers up into a frenzy all the time, even when nobody’s talking about him. But then he hides behind the idea of, “Oh, I didn’t TELL anybody to hurt ANYONE.” Some real stochastic terrorism kinda shit. We can all tell he’s very okay with the idea that his detractors get harmed, so long as he stands back far away enough to be able to say he didn’t have anything to do with it.
It’s April 2023. Out of seemingly thin air, a person I do not know in any capacity or have ever even heard of starts picking fights with me. She goes by the name Farah Fatherless (a porn name–she does amateur porn and has an OnlyFans, etc.). I already have her blocked. I have a lot of people blocked–over 2 million people, in fact. But she’s tagged me, super pissed that I have her blocked. Initially, I don’t even see it, for that reason. But somebody else replied to her asking, “Why would she block you? You’re so cool!” And THAT person, I did not have blocked, so I ended up seeing the conversation. This happens a lot, so I quote-tweeted Farah and ask something to the effect of, “Why do people who don’t even like me or even want to talk to me want to have access to me in the first place?” I’ve done that a few times before. Under most circumstances, it just becomes a big joke we all laugh off.
BUT NOT THIS TIME I GUESS.
After this, Farah is on a war path. It had genuinely been four years since I had seen anybody be so unceasingly abusive and aggressive. She attacked anybody and everybody trying to get her to calm down. She just started making shit up, doxxing friends, and she would go on and on for days at a time, even when nobody was talking to her. Eventually she got herself a week-long Twitter ban after using some slurs. So we thought that was the end of it for a while.
NOPE. While she couldn’t attack me on Twitter, she made up a Change.org petition with the slogan of “#kickmarsgurl” (she couldn’t even spell my username correctly). Kick me from what, I’m not really sure. But it was full of all kinds of wholly untrue things, like claiming I’d been physically removed from anime conventions before (I haven’t) or that I had been calling anime conventions to get actors removed from their events (I haven’t, and you CAN’T call anime conventions, because anime conventions don’t have phone numbers). And you could just tell it was her because it was written incredibly poorly. Just awful spelling and awful grammar, which we’ve learned happens because she uses talk-to-text to write almost everything she writes on the Internet. Thankfully, we figured out this incredibly stupid ruse very quickly, so that flopped. She was back on Twitter for a while doing a really bad job claiming it wasn’t her. Then she got another week-long Twitter ban. So we thought, okay, surely THAT’S over.
NOPE. Next thing that came up was a fake news article! It was written supposedly by “CNN-Anime” (a division of CNN that absolutely does not exist), and not only that, but it was published on Medium.com–a blogging web site that literally anybody can write on for any reason. The article suggested I was at some party (I don’t tend to go to parties) and that I had been drinking (I don’t tend to drink) and that a young boy was there (I don’t tend to hang out with children) and that I had been inappropriate with that child. Despite how plainly and obviously fake it was based solely on the fact that it was published by “CNN-Anime”–a division that does not exist–and published on a blog web site that isn’t even CNN, it was still being spread around by utter morons that absolutely wished it WAS true. But even all the lawyers I’ve come to know over the last four years said, “Wow, it’s clear these guys never learned what real defamation is, because here they are doing real defamation and meeting actual malice right now.” Farah came back to Twitter again. Denied the article was her. Eventually got herself yet another week-long Twitter ban. At this point, we knew this couldn’t be the end of the onslaught.
YEP. The next thing I knew, I was starting to receive an onslaught of bot followers, first on Instagram, then on Twitter. Just an absolute barrage of bot accounts following me, maybe two every minute, until before I knew it I’d received something like 12,000 new followers on Instagram. These were followers I didn’t want. And it made me mad because I knew the only way to combat this was to take my account private to stop them from being able to follow. I’ve never had a reason to keep my accounts private before. I’ve prided myself in staying public and not being beaten back at any point during the onslaught of harassment. But this finally made me go private while I slowly and painfully removed 12,000 bot followers on Instagram. And it wasn’t long before whoever was doing this (let’s be real, it was Farah) had moved on to sending those follower bots to my Twitter account, too.
In the middle of being followed by bots, probably intended to either shut me up or make my account dirty enough to be reported for bot activity, I am contacted by a stranger–somebody I’ve never talked to before. They tell me that they actually have more information about Farah that they only just realized they were aware of. They forward me something like 48 screenshots of Farah’s Discord server, where she and multiple other people talk about cosplay and meet-ups and who knows what else. In these screenshots from December 2022, Farah is in her Discord describing how she JUST BROKE UP WITH VIC MIGNOGNA.
WELL.
It’s weird, it’s gross, and they had been dating for about 7 months by that point after meeting at a convention that was local to her. She had lots of screenshots of texts between herself and Vic, proving they were in fact an item. And she found out that Vic had “gone back” to his ex-girlfriend. See, but she doesn’t know all the information I already was aware of, that Vic had been dating another person semi-publicly since at least late-2021, and as far as I had been aware, they’d never broken up in the first place. So this other person wasn’t an “ex”. They were there the whole time, and Vic was cheating on both of them.
SO! Now I had new information. Farah was doing this, FOR SOME REASON, in Vic’s honor. Why, I couldn’t be sure. Was she trying to get him back? Was she already back with him and just trying to help him now? Hard to say yet.
But I knew that, if somebody was out here trying to attack my Twitter account and get it potentially removed so that I no longer had my voice, then I needed to at least get this information out before my account disappeared. So I spent one evening with my Twitter account protected, removed a bunch of bot followers, then came back out and posted a thread about everything I had learned, up to and including information on the OTHER girlfriend that I knew was still in his life.
And, boy, both Farah and the other girlfriend were having a TIME. After a day of it being public information, Farah started publicly posting on Instagram again, seemingly that this had just been a whirlwind situation, that she and Vic had gotten back together not long after that Discord conversation, that they were together all the way up until this point (May 2023), that she realized now that she’d been lied to and manipulated. Though she still didn’t seem to understand that the other woman was not an “ex”, and was still mad at her for existing. The other woman meanwhile (Haileigh) was posting on Twitter that none of this was true and that Farah was just crazy and that she was mad at Vic for being somewhat untruthful but that didn’t matter because she was going to stay in Vic’s life no matter what. Okay, you do you. I can’t make you leave, and really, that wasn’t the point. The point was just to get Farah to fuckin’ stop attacking me for nearly a month straight. But eventually, Haileigh nuked her Twitter account. Bummer.
There were still several days where Farah publicly flip-flopped about how she was feeling. One minute she would be pissed at Vic for doing this to her. The next she would be pissed at me for revealing any of this information at all, threatening to sue me. And finally after several days, she nuked all of her presence off of the Internet entirely. Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, all of it, just gone. Is it possible this was all over?
NOPE!!!
I tell this part now only because Farah has basically said this publicly herself, but at the time she wanted it kept just between us. But basically, a few days after she deleted her internet presence, she started sending me E-mails. This was the start of the most unbelievable 180 I’ve ever seen in my life, and was one I was very hesitant about, but have slowly been warming up to over time. Long story short, she realized Vic really was just as manipulative as he seemed, was a huge liar, and that there were even worse things that she thought I should know about. But she was hesitant to tell me more until she felt like she could trust me. And if I had to be honest, I wasn’t yet sure I could trust that she wasn’t just gonna report our communications right back to Vic, either. So we came to a truce, and I would just sort of play things by ear. I promised I wouldn’t take screenshots of our E-mails or post about them online.
The E-mails I got back after that were pretty concerning. Everything she had been doing for the past month, attacking me on Twitter and writing fake articles and even buying bots, she’d been doing them for Vic. Not only that, but Vic was aware she’d been doing it and was very grateful for it. He didn’t expressly tell her to do it, but she was doing it because she genuinely believed I specifically was hurting him and she wanted to do something to help the person she loved. And for that, Vic was very happy. They had talked about this over a dinner date before she got started doing it. Apparently their conversation was something like him saying, “Thank you for doing that. You don’t know to what extents I’ve considered going to make this all stop.” Her response was something like, “Like what? Have you considered having her killed?” And apparently his response was, “I have considered it, yes.”
So, this apparently was not the only time this topic of conversation came up. After I had leaked the screenshots from Farah’s server, Vic apparently pressured her to try and sue me herself. Not only that, but he started putting pressure on moving forward with putting on SOME kind of physical harm towards me. He started asking Farah whether or not she was aware if I was attending Anime Expo this year. She told him that she believed I was. (Spoiler alert: initially, no, I wasn’t, because I wasn’t even going to be in California that week, as I literally was already a guest at Delta H Con in Houston, Texas that exact same weekend.) Regardless, Vic started asking if she knew what hotel I was going to be staying at for Anime Expo. She told him she didn’t know, and she couldn’t just go around calling hotels to find out. But she did promise him that if she saw me there, she could at the very least follow me to my car and take a photo of my license plate for him to use later. Obviously, none of this ended up happening, especially because she realized he was using her goodwill and love towards him to get her to do things that nobody should ever do for anybody else.
Now, there are A LOT OF DECISIONS HERE that she was making that, even if it was for somebody I loved, I would have never offered to do. But if she was actually genuinely seriously regretful about how things went down, and she was realizing that the actual bad guy in this situation was Vic, then I was willing to hear her out and give her a chance. The last thing I E-mailed her was asking her whether she had any text proof of any of these conversations happening. More than a week passed. I heard nothing back.
It is now late June, 2023. For some reason, Vic is suddenly on his weekly Wednesday Twitch livestream. And guess what? He’s talking about Farah! Well… sort of. Nobody has been talking about this man’s weird relationships publicly for a while, so it was not yet clear to my why it was that he was talking about this. But it basically boiled down to, “Don’t bother the people in my life. Don’t bother Farah! She’s been a good friend.” And my first thought is, “Friend? That’s what you wanna call her, after we have proof that you were more? Friend?”
And that did it! That SET. FARAH. OFF. Apparently, she had asked him to go on his livestream and clear everything up about their relationship. And all he could muster was calling her a “friend”, so that he could still sneakily keep multiple relationships going at the same time.
Farah suddenly reactivates all her accounts! Twitter! Instagram! TikTok! Everything is back, and she’s LIVID! She promises she’s gonna tell the world everything she knows about him and drop a bunch of receipts!
And lo and behold, she actually does it! Screenshots of texts! Recordings of phone conversations! She makes huge public apologies! She apologizes to me! To Jamie! To Monica! To anybody she picked fights with!
And then she drops what she was telling me in her E-mails. She tells EVERYBODY that, yes, Vic had had conversations with her about having me killed. Well, holy shit! From this much alone, I’m told that if we used just her testimony, I could probably have enough to have a restraining order created.
But the question is, does more proof of all of this exist?
So, well, here’s the unfortunate thing. In all of Farah’s initial hurt and pain, she deleted large chunks of her conversations with Vic, never wanting to see them or interact with him ever again. However, it seems that she did have some clarity of thought afterward, realizing that, YES, apparently they did talk about some of this “murder plot” via text. But that chat log is deleted now. But she’s hoping AT&T has record of these texts. Farah has contacted AT&T. She’s physically gone into their stores, asking for that backlog. Apparently, AT&T won’t hand it over without legal intervention. So! Now she’s talking to lawyers, trying to get the phone records subpoenaed. She has made it more than abundantly clear to me (at least, this is how she is making it sound) that she is willing to put herself in harm’s way (legally speaking) to prove that, yes, she and Vic discussed physically harming someone over text messages.
For right now, this is all we know. We’re waiting to see if she can successfully get her own damn text messages subpoenaed from AT&T. It can be hard to want to put a little trust or faith in someone who tried so hard to hurt you for a month straight, but the amount of receipts that she has already shown publicly so far has been proof enough that there is at least some reason to believe she means well. Also, when she WAS lying about things while trying to attack me, she was VERY bad at it. You sometimes have to read between the lines when she talks about things. Because I often believe she’s telling me the truth as of late, but sometimes her version of the “truth” is just what Vic was telling her, so it might not always be true, but she definitely BELIEVES it’s true.
I’m sure this is a story that is going to continue to develop. But for anybody who was curious, this is what it’s been like for me.
tl;dr: A 60-year-old man who got kicked out of the American anime voice acting industry hates me so much that he VERY LIKELY had multiple conversations with a woman he was romantically stringing along about developing plans to have me murdered. Cool!
Wanted to add, I get that if you haven’t been following me on Twitter, you don’t know how true any of this is. But I’d posted all associated screenshots there, as well as retweets from Farah herself, who even as recently as today is STILL pouring out more receipts and pictures from her relationship with Vic. I’m not at home right this second, but when I am, I will add another reblog to the bottom of this with a huge catalog of screenshots and videos to go along with the story.
Here’s the receipts part!
I will likely have to break this up into multiple reblogs, since I can only add up to 30 images at a time.
The most important parts of the story have already been said above, so this reblog is to add screenshots and video links. I’ll try to put screenshots behind cuts that you can open up at your leisure. Also, adding in tags. Forgive me, I’ve been away from tumblr for quite some time and didn’t really think people would be paying that much attention, so that shows how much I know about anything.
First, the screenshots from Farah’s Discord that had been sent my way by somebody who wanted to remain anonymous back in May. Some unrelated screenshots talking about irrelevant information are left out of this post to prevent going over the 30-image limit. A reminder that these screenshots were from Farah’s Discord back in December 2022, and as I mentioned above, I had already made a Twitter thread with these screenshots.
Sorry if adding to the receipts part is kinda slow-going. There’s a lot, and I feel like I don’t need to add every single last possible little thing, so I’m trying to parse what’s most important to add to this.
ALSO, HOLY SHIT, I JUST WROTE THE WHOLE BLOG AND DIDN’T GET A CHANCE TO SAVE A DRAFT AND NOW I HAVE TO WRITE IT ALL OVER AGAIN AND I’M PRETTY MAD.
So, uh, let’s see, what else is good to add, uh…
Well, it looks like the other woman in the relationship, Haileigh, reactivated her Twitter account, so just to prove I didn’t just make up the part where Vic was cheating on two different women, here’s Haileigh’s tweets from after this all came to light. They’re still not deleted, if you wanna go look at them yourself. In fact, there’s even more that I don’t have screenshotted here in the replies. These are just the ones that she’s putting out in front that aren’t a reply to anybody.
Here’s screenshots Farah had of a text conversation between herself and Vic, showing he was very grateful for the harassment campaign and for this woman doing everything she could to protect him. There are more like these out there somewhere.
In case you thought somehow there was a misunderstanding of whether or not Farah and Vic had even met or known each other, Farah has posted photos of herself in Vic’s car kissing him on the cheek after he picked her up from the airport in Dallas.
Even immediately after Farah started putting Vic on blast publicly online, Vic didn’t stop trying to gaslight her into believing he just fucked up that one time but he still cared about her and he totally doesn’t understand why she would want to destroy him at all. REALLY weird text messages.
Farah dropped her video on TikTok telling the short version of the murder plot story. Here’s her direct link to it on TikTok.
For the time being, I think these should be enough. And I REALLY don’t want to risk having to write this whole post all over again. She’s got a lot more receipts (including weird gross pictures of him in bed that don’t really count as revenge porn but are still super uncomfortable to look at as he’s trying to be sexy for the camera). For the time being, go ahead and look at her Twitter account yourself. I’m sure you’ll find more there.
All we can do now is wait and see if those text messages ever get subpoenaed from AT&T or not. I GUESS WE’LL SEE!
Ah, damn! One other thing I neglected to add after being forced to rewrite that whole last reblog.
Farah had recorded a conversation between herself and Vic, then put all that video on YouTube. Content warning: Vic uses ablest slurs to refer to other people (including his own fans), and also there’s conversation about Farah committing a felony and mailing Vic some edibles from California to Texas (a state where marijuana is still illegal).
If you guys see the reblog floating around with just the longpost and not the additional screenshots and videos, and see people adding on either with their own reblogs or tags saying, “Not sure if this is real/haven’t fact-checked this,” do me a favor and link them back to the reblogs I’ve added after the longpost, because I think most of you are missing the proof that these interactions actually happened.
As you like it: you’ll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version
Coriolanus: Here’s a college play, here’s the 1984 telefilm, here’s the 2014 one with tom hiddleston
Hamlet: The Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. THe 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. And the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation. Have the 2018 Almeida version here.
Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here’s part 1 of a corwall school version.
Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.
Julius Caesar: here’s the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one.
King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny’s 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here.
Macbeth: here’s the 1961 one with Sean Connery. Here’s the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. Here’s the 1948 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljZrf_0_CcQ“>here. The 1988 BBC onee with portugese subtitles and here the 2001 one). The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here and the 1966 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny’s 2008 version is here.
The Merchant of Venice: here’s a stage version, here’s the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here’s the 2004 movie.
The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version.
Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here’s the 1984 version.
Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you’ve got the BBC version here and there.
Richard III: here’s the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier, and here’s the 1995 one with Ian McKellen. (the 1995 one is in english subtitled in spanish. the 1955 one has no subtitles and might have ads since it’s on youtube)
The Taming of the Shrew: the 1988 BBC version here, the 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one.
Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,
Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.
(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)
Oh, I have additions!
A Misdummer Night Dream: Here’s the 2013 globe production (the one with The Kiss, you know it)
Romeo and Juliet: Here’s the one that was going to be a stage show and then lockdown happened so they filmed it! Stars Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley
Okay, I’m collating everything from the comments because I love this so much!
This drive has 4 Globe productions Midsummer 2013 and Tempest 2013 (Both above), and then As You Like It 2009, and Love’s Labour’s Lost 2010
From maa-pix:
Twelfth Night: the 1998 version, “Live From Lincoln Center” on PBS, directed by Nicholas Hytner, with Helen Hunt, Paul Rudd, and Kyra Sedgwick. Part One, Intermission interview with Nicholas Hytner, and Part Two. Also here. (Absolutely fantastic version, best I’ve ever seen.)
They are also all Globe productions: MacBeth 2020, Romeo and Juliet 2009, Romeo and Juliet 2019, The Merry Wives of Windsor 2019, and The Winter’s Tale 2018.
And then finally MIT has this super cool repository of performances from around the world and some of them have videos https://globalshakespeares.mit.edu/
Also, if anyone has a version of the lockdown Romeo and Juliet mentioned above or the Olivier or McKellan Richard IIIs, the current links are broken and the productions sound very cool!
I might kiss you my friend for that work. I awoke from my slumber to find that the post had become popular again and there was way too much notes attached to it for me to read them all.
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