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| WNBA Star Cameron Brink Grabs Everyones Attention With See-Through Shirt |
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21 @ 00:00:33 PDT (0 reads) | |
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Cameron brink doesnt need to be active for the los angeles sparks in order to make headlines on game day.
brink, the no. 2 overall pick from the 2024 wnba draft, has been quite busy this month. Just last week, her rookie photoshoot with sports illustrated swimsuit was officially unveiled. She was photographed in boca raton, florida.
joining the lineup for the 2025 si swimsuit issue is cameron brink, one of the most captivating athletes of her generation, si swimsuit wrote. Known for her undeniable skill and towering presence on the court, the 22-year-old brings her fierce energy to her si swimsuit debut. From her impressive college career at stanford to her rookie year in the wnba with the los angeles sparks, brink is not only dominating the court but also redefining the intersection of fashion and sports with her sleek, standout pre-game tunnel looks.
a few days after brinks photoshoot with si swimsuit went public, she went viral at the sparks home opener against the minnesota lynx.
brink wore a sheer yellow shirt that grabbed everyones attention. In case fans missed her pregame outfit, she showed it off on instagram.
tunnel fits are back babyy, brink wrote for her caption.
wnba fans were legitimately in awe of brinks pregame look. Unsurprisingly, this isnt the first time that has happened.
theres currently no timetable for brinks return to the hardwood. However, the sparks are pleased with her progress.
she looks great and i’m incredibly proud of how hard she is working, sparks coach lynne roberts said.
brink averaged 7.5 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per game for the sparks during her rookie season. Wnba fans cant wait to see her back on the court later this year.
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| PODCAST: A Photographic Life, Episode 367: See/Saw with Fiona Hayes Power and Gl |
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21 @ 00:00:33 PDT (3 reads) | |
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In this monthly conversation series grant scott speaks with art director, lecturer and creative director fiona hayes. In an informal conversation each month grant and fiona comment on the photographic environment as they see it through the exhibitions, magazines, talks and events that fiona has seen over the previous weeks.
image: gabriel moses
mentioned in this episode:
the power and the glory
https://www.Newportstreetgallery.Com/exhibition/current/
gabriel moses, selah
https://www.180studios.Com/selah
photo london
https://photolondon.Org/
fiona hayes
fiona hayes is an art director, designer, consultant and lecturer with over 30 years’ experience in publishing, fashion and the art world. She has been a magazine art director ten times: on punch, company, eve, the british and russian editions of cosmopolitan, house & garden,gq india (based in mumbai), myselfgermany (in munich), and russian vogue (twice). Between 2013 and 2019, as art director of new markets and brand development for condé nast international, based in london and paris, she oversaw all the company’s launches – 14 magazines, including seven editions of vogue. She still consults as design director at large for vogue hong kong. In 2002 she founded independent photography magazine dayfour, publishing it continuously until 2012. She is co-author and art director of the fashion yearbook, and creative director of books for south african media consultancy legacy creates. Outside the publishing world, she has been art director of contemporary art auction house phillips de pury in london and new york, and consultant art director of russian luxury retail group mercury/tsum. (Fiona would like to point out she is not russian: she is proudly irish and studied visual communication and history of art and design at ncad dublin.) She currently divides her time between design consultancy for commercial clients, and lecturing at oxford brookes university, the condé nast college of fashion and design, london, nottingham trent university, ravensbourne university, and leeds university. She lives in west london.
@theartdictator
dr.Grant scott
after fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as elle and tatler, scott began to work zas a photographer for a number of advertising and editorial clients in 2000. Alongside his photographic career scott has art directed numerous advertising campaigns, worked as a creative director at sotheby’s, art directed foto8magazine, founded his own photographic gallery, edited professional photographer magazine and launched his own title for photographers and filmmakers hungry eye. He founded the united nations of photography in 2012, and is now a senior lecturer and subject co-ordinator: photography at oxford brookes university, oxford, and a bbc radio contributor. Scott is the author of professional photography: the new global landscape explained (routledge 2014), the essential student guide to professional photography (routledge 2015), new ways of seeing: the democratic language of photography (routledge 2019), and what does photography mean to you? (Bluecoat press 2020). His photography has been published in at home with the makers of style (thames & hudson 2006) and crash happy: a night at the bangers (cafe royal books 2012). His film do not bend: the photographic life of bill jay was premiered in 2018.
scott’s next book is inside vogue house: one building, seven magazines, sixty years of stories, orphans publishing, is on sale now.
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| Feats of fantasy: This software engineer codes self-twirling and illuminating go |
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21 @ 00:00:33 PDT (0 reads) | |
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Chicago cnn — when christina ernst dreamed up the concept for a self-twirling dress, she made it and then programmed its robotic arms to lift the hem of a romantic pink smock gown and to spin it left and right. She turned fantasy into reality with a flickering, faux candle-lined corset top, too, as well as a cathedral gown with stained-glass-like panels that could be illuminated like windows seen at night.
over the past year, the 28-year-old has attracted hundreds of thousands of followers for her whimsical fashion projects that incorporate coding and circuitry. Based in chicago, when ernst isn’t working as a software engineer at google’s west loop office, she’s home experimenting with what she calls “fashioneering” projects, then documenting each one for her online audience. Through her tutorial website and social media accounts she builds robots , she hopes to encourage more young women to enter stem fields.
“when i was growing up, i would have loved to see some sort of tech representation (for) my own interests in fashion, art and drawing,” she told cnn during an interview at chicago public library’s maker lab, where ernst had a 12-week residency, demonstrating how some of her designs worked. “I loved all of these things, but never thought that they had any compatibility with the tech world…it’s really important to me to center (my tutorials) on the interests that a lot of teen girls already have, to meet them where they are.”
ernst often goes for feats of fantasy, with her first viral videos documenting her medusa dress adorned with several undulating robotic serpents, including one programmed to make eye contact using ai facial recognition. But the “stupidest” thing she’s made with her computer engineering degree — as she declared in her most-watched video — was for one of her halloween costumes.
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in it, she shows a small, motorized 3d-printed replica of a familiar foodie rat affixed to a headband, pulling two small handfuls of her hair up and down in its paws as she slices up an onion in the kitchen. To test her version of remy from “ratatouille,” she gave the rodent yarn first so it wouldn’t yank her hair out. After seeing the reaction online, with nearly 45 million views to date across instagram and tiktok, she took some commenters’ advice to upgrade him further.
“the first version i made just had his arms going up and down. I coded them to move randomly,” she explained. “And a bunch of people in my comments had a wonderful idea to sync it up to my movements, and i just happened to have (an) accelerometer laying around. It’s a pretty common circuitry piece, so i spent the weekend wiring it up.”
@shebuildsrobots remy is back with more tech #3dprinting #robotics #engineering #coding #arduino #halloween #ratatouille #cosplay
? Carmen habanera, classical opera(1283412) - perfectpanda ‘magical’ technology ernst says she usually has multiple ambitious ideas ticking away in her mind, sometimes for months at a time. Her projects are not meant to represent the future of tech or fashion, though, as she emphasizes, but are instead a conversation-starter for young makers and designers to see technology presented in a different way.
“technology really is magical to me… when i say i make robotic dresses, i never want it to look like how people picture it,” she said. “The wonder and the whimsy is very important to me. All of my designs really introduce that aspect to (engage) people who might not traditionally be interested in engineering.”
ernst at chicago public librarys maker lab, where she offered courses to the public for free through the librarys residency program. Cnn though ernst isn’t planning a more formal entry into fashion, robotics on the runway have led to some of the industry’s most memorable moments. In 1998, alexander mcqueen staged a frenetic moment of performance art when two robots spray-painted a dress worn by model shalom harlow. Two years ago, coperni partnered with boston dynamics in paris to send out the company’s robot canines to interact with models, including lila moss, to take off their coats and tote around handbags.
the wonder-evoking combination is one that ernst discovered early on, through the first fashion project she made in college: a bluetooth-controlled color-changing led dress she created during a hackathon at the university of illinois urbana-champaign.
the number of girls who approached her exhibition booth asking for instructions on how to recreate the dress was a “lightbulb moment”, she explained, as she realized that fashion projects could be a gateway into stem studies. In high school, she was a mathlete who loved reworking her clothes, but felt that when it came time to apply for universities, she had to choose between the two fields.
“a lot of people think that fashion is completely divorced from the sciences, but that is not true at all. The history of the computer is actually textile history,” ernst said. The punch-card jacquard loom, invented in the early 19th-century for weaving, is considered a precursor to modern computing because its use of binary code inspired early computer design. “That history is very interwoven.”
one of ernsts beginner tutorials is an embroidered big dipper constellation that can be coded through a small, sewn-in chip to flicker like the stars. Cnn embracing failure in her own practice, ernst combines a range of disciplines and techniques, from 3d modeling and laser cutting to hand dyeing and knitting, she explained. Because of that, she often prototypes her projects in simpler materials such as cardboard “before dropping into high-tech tools.”
since college, ernst has explored various ways to design curriculum for students. She received a small grant in 2017 for her hackathon project to create introductory circuit projects with art and fashion in mind and provide them online for free. She also provided educational kits to five public schools in chicago from 2022 to 2023.
and this past year, she was a maker-in-residence at chicago public library, teaching free classes at the harold washington library branch while growing her online audience. There, she taught people from all walks of life, from young students to parents to retirees. In one case, a girl scout leader who attended and learned to program a motor said she would teach the new skills to her troop, ernst recalled, and offer a new electronics badge that members could earn.
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during her residency, ernst created a new design for the library’s display window , a gold and blush phoenix gown with feathers that rise and fall, activated by passersby who place their hands up to a panel on the window. The garment is a tribute to the garden of the phoenix, which was built in jackson park for the 1893 chicago fair as a symbol of us-japanese friendship; the park was set on fire in the wake of world war ii but was later reconstructed.
though at first, ernst had hoped to trigger the dress using motion sensors, then through viewers’ phones, she eventually (and quickly) had to rig up a more simple solution using light-sensitive photoresistors that activate when covered.
“so much of it is trial and error, and i think my computer engineering background and my software job really builds those skills of persistence, of debugging, of experimentation, and i’m able to bring that over into my experimental fashion, where i’ll often go through 6, 7, or 8 prototypes before i get close to something that works,” she said.
she’s learned that showing or explaining the unsuccessful versions of her projects to her followers have sometimes become just as interesting to them.
“i was surprised by how many people have commented that they like seeing the failures. They like seeing the prototypes that don’t work,” she said. “It helps them see that it is ok to fail and ok to iterate — nobody inherently knows how to do these things.” |
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| Just Starfished His Way Through: People Who Called Off Their Wedding, Break Down |
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21 @ 00:00:33 PDT (0 reads) | |
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Deciding to marry someone is one of the biggest choices we ever make. It’s full of excitement, hope, and sometimes, unexpected realizations. Because, while saying “yes” can feel magical, there are moments when something shifts, and that “yes” turns into a very firm “no.”
that’s exactly what sparked an online thread where someone asked, “people who called off their weddings, why?” The responses came pouring in, revealing everything from sudden red flags to heartbreaking betrayals. In this collection, people share the real, raw, and sometimes even hilarious reasons they pulled the plug before walking down the aisle. Whether youre curious, cautious, or just love a good escape story, these moments are full of emotion, self-awareness, and a surprising amount of relief.
#1
my friends fiancé turned out to be a flat-earther. Guess that was the tip of the iceberg. Weddings off, sanitys intact.
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#2
caught her cheating 3 months before.
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#3
i had two of my own very young children. I told him while we were dating i wasnt sure i wanted more children so if it was what he was looking for we should split. About 8 months later, he asked me to marry him. The more arrangements we made he kept talking about growing the family. I agreed when my youngest was in school i would have one more so he could have a bio child. He kept talking about having 5 more.
i kept telling him it wasnt too late to call off but i wasnt having five more. He insisted he loved me and didnt care if we had any more but he always dreamt of a big family. A week out from the wedding i heard him talking to a buddy that planned on forcing me into creating his family.
four days from the wedding, i canceled and ended our relationship.
27 years later, he is married w/6 kids and one on the way.
i am married w/ my 2 adult kids in their 30s and my nephew in his early 20s.
we were out thousands of dollars but it saved us both from being unhappy.
if you are asking because you are considering it. Do it.
trust yourself and do not worry what everyone else will think.
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when a fairytale wedding on screen suddenly takes a dramatic turn, doesn’t your heart skip a beat? While it might seem like that level of chaos is reserved for rom-coms or soap operas, real-life wedding drama can be just as intense and even more unpredictable. This thread is proof that sometimes, the aisle turns into a runway... Straight out the door.
from betrayals to buried secrets, there are plenty of reasons someone might cancel a wedding at the last minute. Cheating, lies, or even realizing they’re not ready—some red flags just can’t be ignored. And when those deal-breakers surface right before “i do,” calling it off can be the hardest, yet bravest, decision of all.
#4
not me but my older cousin. She was engaged to a man who had previously had a drinking problem. She refused to get engaged to him until he got sober. He did, so they got engaged and planned their wedding.
nine days before the wedding she found out he started drinking again. She instantly cancelled the wedding.
i remember being a very young teenager at the dinner table where all my aunts, my mother, great aunt, and my grandmother were gossiping about it. And by gossiping i mean they were all heavily praising my cousin for sticking to her guns and knowing when to leave. They all agreed it was so much better to leave before the wedding.
it was a formative moment for me.
here were all these older women, who were country club members and old fashioned and had already spent all this money to fly in, and they were all absolutely on my cousins side from the jump. This wasn’t a cheap wedding. These weren’t “new age” women. And since it had been hidden so well, they all had no idea about the drinking problem and had actually loved the soon-to-be-groom. He’d had total family approval.
it made me so much more comfortable than my peers leaving relationships that just weren’t working. I knew my family wouldn’t judge me even if he seemed nice and it would be a hassle for them if i decided “no”. So i didn’t stick around bad relationships and never felt pressure to keep up appearances that everything was perfect around my family.
i’m so grateful to my cousin for having the courage to cancel that wedding. And i’m so happy for her she’s in a rock solid marriage now with wonderful children she’s raising to know they’re loved and supported.
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#5
had a cousin that called off his wedding a month before. He found out she had already been married before and had 2 young kids that she left back in her home country.
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#6
two months before the wedding, police showed up at the house stating they had a warrant for his arrest.
for robbing a gas station of kratom. (Otc d**g?)
dude had a raging a*******n and i realized this was not the life i wanted to live. Dumped him and the house like a sack of rocks.
few years later i rekindled with my highschool sweetheart and we now have a beautiful baby, hold out until you find what you really deserve and never, ever settle for less
edit: no more wedding police
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the emotional toll of a canceled wedding is heavy, not just for the couple, but for everyone around them. There’s heartbreak, embarrassment, and lots of unanswered questions. But let’s not forget the financial blow. With venues, vendors, travel, and attire involved, it’s not just feelings that get crushed, it’s wallets, too.
to better understand the financial impact of wedding cancellations, bored panda spoke with raghubir singh, the founder of bmp weddings. With years of experience and a reputation for pulling off elegant, large-scale events, singh has seen it all. He generously offered insight into what happens behind the scenes when things don’t go as planned. There’s more to it than just a postponed celebration, he said. “It affects everyone who was a part of building the big day.” And the ripple effect is often bigger than most people imagine.
#7
her best friend crashed the wedding, she spilled something that utterly shattered me, she had s*x with her ex the night before our wedding, i’m glad cause i would have ended up in a paternity court to determine which child is mine and i bet i won’t be the father of them all.
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#8
she turned out to be an antivaxxer.
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#9
she got pregnant and i do not have a p***s to facilitate that.
it ended up being the best thing for me in the long run! I moved cross country and have a better than i could’ve ever imagined having with her!
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“we put our souls into every wedding,” singh shared. “From custom decor to intricate planning, everything is tailored to the couple.” The goal is always to create an unforgettable experience. But when a wedding is called off, all that preparation often goes to waste. While the emotional toll is high for the couple, singh reminds us the work doesnt disappear. The effort from dozens of professionals often vanishes without recognition.
#10
even though the bride wasnt a practicing jehovahs witness she still wanted the atheist groom to convert to please her very religious family who werent coming to the wedding and hadnt spoken a word to him during the three years they had been dating.
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#11
two weeks out i walked into her on top of my (now ex) friend on valentines day. Thatll do it.
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#12
1st one: he came out as gay.
2nd one: he used me for a green card.
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“we always try to be empathetic,” he added. “It’s a heartbreaking decision for the couple.” But even with understanding, the practical side remains. “There are caterers, decorators, lighting teams, florists: we all put in days of effort.” When a wedding is canceled suddenly, these professionals are left with expenses and lost opportunities. “That’s the part people rarely think about,” he said.
singh noted that large [venues](https://www.Ranchodelaspalmas.Com/05/common-mistakes-when-booking-a-wedding-venue/) usually demand significant deposits that are often much more than 10%. “It’s money we pay upfront to lock the date and space,” he said. If a wedding is canceled close to the date, that money is typically gone. “Most venues don’t offer refunds for last-minute cancellations,” he explained. In some cases, a penalty is added on top of the loss.
#13
she went to a party, found someone better and called it off about 2,5 months before the wedding. 10 yrs together, 2 kids.
that’s 2 years ago, i’m not doing well.
image credits: [whackles](https://www.Reddit.Com/r/askreddit/comments/1kowax7/people_who_called_off_their_weddings_why/msx07mv/)
#14
we hadnt sent the invites yet but had booked the venue. They started talking about starting a family right away. They had known i was child free for the duration of our relationship. I guess they just thought that i was trapped and would change my mind? I did, about marrying them.
im so grateful to younger me for sticking to my guns.
image credits: [margray](https://www.Reddit.Com/r/askreddit/comments/1kowax7/people_who_called_off_their_weddings_why/msuuz9r/)
#15
a coworker called off her wedding because her fiance did none of the planning with her. He just starfish’ed his way through. The final straw was when she pulled up a catering meal plan she tried to plan with him *for six months*, and he lost it on her because “she should’ve known his father hated cottage cheese.”
broke up with him there, reimbursed him for the measly “half” he paid for everything…which was like only 25%.
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[catering costs](https://www.Chefscater.Com/blog/what-are-the-dos-and-donts-of-wedding-catering) are another major concern. “Most caterers ask for full payment before the event,” singh said. “They need time to source high-quality ingredients, especially for custom menus.” He explained that many indian weddings require imported or specialty items. “Once that food is prepped, we can’t just return it,” he added. “We let the staff take some, and the rest is donated to avoid waste.”
florists also take a hit when weddings are canceled last minute. “Indian weddings use an enormous amount of [fresh flowers](https://www.Theknot.Com/content/wedding-flower-florist-tips),” singh explained. “Garlands, backdrops, table settings, it adds up.” These flowers are ordered in bulk and often customized. “They’re perishable, and we can’t repurpose them for another client.” That’s a lot of cost that can’t be recovered.
#16
i had a medical crisis requiring multiple surgeries, and his reaction was to yell at me for faking illnesses to get out of housework and breaking my things to “motivate” me to get out of bed. He seemed so relieved when i ended it, that i’m pretty sure that was exactly what he wanted without looking like the bad guy.
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#17
he said, if i knew you had a chronic illness, i never would have dated you.
while beating him to arrange all the refunds, i found out…
1. He was on parole for a cyber fraud crime
2. He was trying to pull a dodgy on our home loan application during settlement which placed all the risk against my parents home.
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#18
few months before the wedding found evidence that he’d been cheating with my (married) ex best friend and bridesmaid. They were both total gaslighting ahs after i found out and made sure to get everyone we knew to think i was crazy. Fun times….
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“we also pay the [dj](https://www.Brides.Com/story/what-to-tell-your-wedding-dj) in advance,” singh added. “That locks in their time so they don’t take other gigs.” If a cancellation happens, the payment is non-refundable. “They’ve reserved the day for us, and that’s income lost if we cancel.” For live performers and specialty artists, the same rules usually apply. “It’s a professional courtesy and part of the cost.”
other service providers might not require advance payment, but that doesn’t mean there’s no financial hit. “Hair stylists, makeup artists, transport vendors, some we pay after the event,” he said. “But even they often charge a cancellation fee.” Singh said that it’s standard in the industry. “You can’t pull out last-minute and expect zero loss,” he added.
#19
my sister called hers off. A girl she didnt know came up to her and told her she was pregnant. Guess who the daddy was?
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#20
best friends since middle school. They were all set and about a month out when he went out with us (me +6 of our close friends) and saw her with some woman none of knew at a bar we were just stopping in for a 12 bar 12 beers pub crawl. She pretended she didnt recognize him. Told bar security that he was a stalker. After a bit of arguing we were able to convince them he was her fiance. It went back and forth, security asked everyone to leave. Turns out the woman she was with is her girlfriend and his fiance was gay and hadnt told anyone. She was just with him as cover. He called off the wedding. He was at least nice enough to not out her to her family (very devout muslims, she wast practicing though). She did eventually marry that woman 2 years later.
my friend found someone else and theyre expecting thir first kid in a few months.
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#21
found out he had been cheating online for the entire duration of our relationship and called things off 6 months before the big day.
image credits: [shadowontheground](https://www.Reddit.Com/r/askreddit/comments/1kowax7/people_who_called_off_their_weddings_why/mstp9lf/)
“and then, of course, we pay our own staff,” singh continued. “From planners to assistants, everyone works long hours.” The preparations for a wedding often start weeks in advance. “Even if the event doesn’t happen, their time and effort deserve compensation.” That payroll doesn’t stop just because a party didn’t happen. “We still have a team to support.”
#22
he became violent during our engagement, finally choking me until i was unconscious. I visited my parents a few days later. I assume my dad saw the bruises, because for the first time i can remember he had a sit-down, emotional conversation to ask if this was the life i really wanted, where i saw myself in 5 years. I realized my now-ex was probably going to k**l me, and indeed he did point a gun at me when i broke up with him. I had to get a restraining order and actually ended up studying abroad that summer in an attempt to get away from him. He moved schools and later married (then divorced) my step-cousin.
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#23
we moved in together after the engagement. Her armenian parents threw a $20k engagement party at a yacht club and invited something like 50 people. I invited my family and like 6 friends. There was a priest who said something in armenian. It was essentially a wedding without the vows.
anyway, we moved in together on a 6 month lease and it became very apparent that she did not know how to function in life. Didn’t pay her own bills or credit cards yet thought i was financially irresponsible because i had student loans and credit card debt from college.
she was so spoiled and out of touch that when we looked for houses her requirements were, “at least 2,000 sq ft and a pool.” Maybe her dad would have given us the down payment, but i wasn’t sticking around to find out.
ninja edit: mind you, this was in 2008 right before the crash. Homes like she wanted were $800k+ and large numbers of them would soon be foreclosed on after they drop by half
back to original:
she wanted me to get rid of my cats. She got pissed off and jealous when i went to my sister’s baby shower a day early to help saying, “i’m way more important than some baby.” She didn’t like me spending time with anyone but her and she didn’t want to spend time with my family. She wanted to stop having s*x until we were married because her aunt told her it was in the bible. I made it clear that any one of those things was a dealbreaker for me.
she got sick, threw up all over the apartment and didn’t clean it up, expecting me to do it, which i did when i got home out of caring for her but 8 hours of vomit on carpet left a stain. The second time she got sick and threw up all over the bathroom and i told her she can do it or leave the bathroom door shut. It took a week.
then came the baby trap. I saw it, side stepped it, and made plans to go. Got a new job, moved back to my home town, and got my happiness back. That was all in 4 months of the 6 month lease. I realized most of the way through that that not only did i not love her, i didn’t even like her. I dodged a huge bullet. Several, actually.
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#24
his mother. It felt like she was planning her own wedding. I had no say in anything. She uninvited my best friend and cousins from my bridal party behind my back because they were single and instead invited a niece of hers i never met and the groomsmen gfs who i barely knew. She booked a hall and picked the menu without consulting us even though she wasnt contributing a cent. Whenever i brought up all this to my now ex, he took his mothers side. That to me was massive red flag and knew she was always going to be butting in and he would always take her side so i called it all off.
his now wife is a mini version of his mother. She used to be cute but now has same karen haircut and colour as his mother and even dressed the same as her. Glad i walked out of that mess while i could.
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singh emphasized that planners do everything they can to minimize the damage. “We renegotiate with vendors, try to reuse materials, even push back delivery dates,” he said. “We do our best to cushion the blow.” Most couples are understanding and cooperative. “They usually help us cover unavoidable costs,” he noted. “But not every situation is that smooth.”
“we’ve had couples or more often, families, who become difficult,” singh admitted. “They refuse to pay or argue about terms after canceling.” That puts planners in a tough spot, balancing professionalism with damage control. “It adds extra stress to an already sensitive situation.” Still, singh says they try to handle everything with grace. “Because ultimately, someone’s heart is broken.”
#25
he had cheated on me earlier in the relationship and i had stayed. He was very controlling of our finances and i fell out of love with him. I realized we barely had anything in common aside from our jobs. We were set to marry and then covid hit. Our wedding got postponed and i took my chance then to leave. My mom and sister helped me pack up my belongings and i left all my furniture i had bought. I am now married to my best friend and we have a baby on the way.
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#26
i had some friends who did this. They loved each other but the would-be bride was kind of a mess and her partner put up with too much. She was constantly dealing with an eating disorder and s******l tendencies and was confused about her gender identity, but the real nail in the coffin was that she wanted to be poly and he didnt.
he ended up sort of letting her pursue other guys even though he hated the idea. He had been caretaking her for years and didnt think she could survive without him, but i think he snapped when she started seeing someone else and finally realized how lopsided their relationship was and that she was never going to give him what he needed and wanted.
they had a dog they both loved, she took it because she was unstable and needed it more.
she has since transitioned to living as a man, and i dont know what the ex partner is doing but i hope hes happy. He was an incredibly sweet person.
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#27
i was engaged and one night my fiancée was leaving my place and went to say bye to my two young kids. My son said “bye, i love you!” My fiancée didn’t say it back, looked like he saw a ghost. I gave it a few days before saying, “you know we need to talk about the other night, right?” And he said, “i don’t know what happened, all i could think was i need to get out of here now”. That was it, i called it off. In hindsight i shouldn’t have ever accepted his proposal before he told my kids he loved them.
that said, he was a wonderful boyfriend and i’m thankful for the fun times we had. He just wasn’t ready to be a step dad at all.
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#28
he punched me in the face.
i was going to type the story but its not interesting or important. We got into a fight and he was an emotional troglodyte who reacted accordingly.
i called the cops and took half the money out of our checking account. We were living paycheck to paycheck so everything bounced. I laughed about it to his bestie when he called to tell me to give it back.
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“it’s always a tricky situation,” singh concluded. “We want to support the couple, even if the wedding doesn’t happen.” Weddings are about love, joy, and celebration. But when they don’t go as planned, they leave a trail of emotional and financial weight. Have you ever attended a wedding that got canceled last-minute? Was it emotional, dramatic or a bit of both? Tell us your story.
#29
we fell apart after a miscarriage and he drew farther away from me, to the point i wasnt recognizing the person i was with. We never fought, and then we were fighting about the most minor things almost every day, and he refused to apologize when he hurt me, always hurting me more and more.
one day i walked 40 minutes in the sun to meet him after work at his house and he picked a fight because i wanted to hear one (seriously, one) fleetwood mac song to relax after a very stressful day. He was such a d**k that i chose to go back to my home walking after that (another 40 minutes walking) and he just sent me a message to ask how i was the other day. No apologies, no nothing. All this time we started planning the wedding and while i just wanted to set a date and make it as intimate as possible, he wanted a big shindig with all the bells and whistles, the mere thought of it scared me.
then he started saying he wanted to explore his bisexuality (were both bi, he never lived it, i did) and a little later he asked to open the relationship. I didnt want to, but did it, and it unfolded as the classic tale of reluctant open relationships: he got out with so many people the first weeks (men and women) and asked me to give it a try. Even helped me install tinder. I started going out with people, then realized i was having so much fun and being treated so much better by strangers than in my almost five year engagement. And i got so many dates. Meanwhile, he realized he wanted to be only with me after all and started having jealousy fits. I realized i didnt want that for my life anymore. I broke up with him and when i did, he became again the person i longed for all this time and tried to win me over again, but i just didnt love him like that anymore, although i still had a lot of appreciation for him.
we tried again three times, which of course didnt work, took some needed time apart and now we can call each other friends again and mean it (its not all black and white--example: he saved me from s*****e after i was drugged and r***d a year later). Ill be a bridesmaid at his wedding this year and hell be a groomsmen at mine. We both had a say in approving our current significant others, cause we know each other upside down and know if someone wouldnt be good for each other. He apologized a lot for his actions in the past and redeemed himself. In summary, we realized we were better as friends than romantic partners, and found people were way more compatible with (and im pleased to say my now partner sings fleetwood mac at the top of his lungs with me).
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#30
“i won’t be ready to marry you until after we do therapy”
one week later:
asks me to marry him on a ship in the middle of the ocean surrounded by 30 of his friends and family and family, thousands of others, with a full camera crew.
i said yes. Later, said “we can only get married after we go through therapy” a few months, a million excuses, and several cycles of emotional manipulation later ????????????
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#31
my fiancé kept trying to plan, but rejected me and freaked out any time i tried to contribute. We started having weird prolonged “talks” about our relationship, he was basically trying to get me to break up with him so he wasn’t the bad guy. Eventually i gave him the ring back, and 2 months later he posted a youtube video coming out.
#32
my ex was mentally and verbally abused by his parents. As time went on, he thought it was okay to treat me the way his dad treated his mom, and control me. I saw him pushing a baby stroller about six months later; he was cheating and had a child with his now wife.
#33
called off the wedding a month before the date.
came down to a variety of factors but the biggest one is that i just wasn’t happy. Relationships should have an element of compromise but it felt very one sided for me.
i don’t regret the decision.
#34
he turned violent.
#35
i discovered she had been cheating on me months before our engagement. The outcome? Anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem that have stuck with me since 2019, f**k her!
#36
not proud of this, but someone i always had very strong feelings for reentered my life at a time where i was really vulnerable. Limerence took over, my engagement blew up. And no, it didnt work out with him either.
#37
found photos of my best friend naked on his phone (i was 19 and stupid and looked through his phone, would never do that ever again) she hadn’t sent them to him, she’d uploaded them onto what she thought was a private tumblr and he somehow found them without her knowing. Gave absolute creep vibes immediately. Worth mentioning he’d broken his phone a week earlier and i bought him the new one, and found he had emailed himself the photos to transfer to the new device. He to this day 8 years later tells anyone that will listen that we broke up cause i cheated on him.
#38
found recent selfie style photos of him in bed with another girl. This was in the 90s so these were printed photos he hid in a drawer. Too bad i did alllll the laundry and found them barely concealed while putting away his underwear.
#39
i was being pushed into it by her italian family. Luckily i pulled out at the last moment but it was close. All the arrangements were made. Best decision i ever made.
#40
i called off my wedding about 2 weeks before. He was emotionally and verbally a*****e throughout our relationship but it only got worse the closer we got to the wedding. I knew if we got married i would be divorced within a year. Best decision of my life!
#41
she hit me.
#42
my two college friends had been dating since sophomore year. They planned their wedding for the fall after graduation. He called it off the day before. I love her, but she was very controlling in their relationship. He never really tried to push back. He was also realizing that she may have a drinking problem. He didn’t want to deal with that forever.
it was a mess. They lived together. They had all mutual friends. Ultimately, it was the right choice. He should have figured it out earlier. They both eventually married other people. She got sober about 10 years later.
#43
i wanted a very small ceremony and he demanded something extravagant. I wanted to be married but i hate weddings. I think theyre a waste of money.
#44
i was 19 and about to marry a loser but i was “in love”. My best friend said she wouldn’t be my maid of honour if i went through with it. She was not a bossy woman, nor was she comfortable saying it. I walked away and am extremely thankful i did.
#45
simply put, i loved him but was not in love with him. My family adored him, his family adored mine. We went to school together and we had the same tight friend group.
we were the only two from our group to attend the same college. He was very bright and helped tutor me where i fell short. I thought we were casually dating… until he proposed in front of all our family, friends, several high school teachers and an entire restaurant.
after that our moms really pushed the planning. Before i knew it i had a dress, a venue and was sitting down for our tasting. That’s where i lost it. I just couldn’t see myself or him being happy a decade down the road.
i called it off the next day, lost most of my friends and my mom stopped speaking to me for few months. A year, to the weekend, he got married to our marriage counselors niece. So i feel he recovered quickly.
when it’s not ment to be, it sucks, but it will all work out for the best.
#46
a good friend of mine called off her wedding a couple months before the big date because she and her fiancé realized they weren’t in love anymore.
she ended up having a big party on the original date instead and even danced in her wedding dress as part of it to celebrate her commitment to *herself*.
#47
one friend of mine realized she was more in love with the idea of being married than the actual guy.
#48
she told me that she was settling for me and had viewed our relationship as transactional for some time.
i wanted a spouse not a roommate.
#49
not me but a friend. He called it off just about a week before after she called his son, who has autism and is a nice kid, a r****d. .
#50
i fought with her... On a ballpark average... 45m-3 hrs at least once a week, sometimes up to 3x a week, for 7 years... None of my friends liked her much and i thought i had a normal relationship... I remember when i proposed to her, we fought every night that week for like 3 hours. Despite having the perfect cliff side plan and proposal, she blew a gasket on me about causing bad omens because i remarked on the dark clouds moving in from the shore... I took the ring back and did a second proposal later in the week of equal thought... She had a way of pushing every button i had. If i wanted to talk it out, she wanted to discuss it tomorrow. If i wanted to discuss it tomorrow, she had to talk it out all night.
i had been a long time smoker, on/off, actively quitting, you know... Anyhow, i had been smoking when she wasnt around and finally stopped caring about being caught. I came out one morning on my porch after fighting with her the night before. She walked out and said, youre smoking again? With a condescending tone, like the kind of eat s**t, im so much better than you tone you get off someone whos about to run down a list of how much they love you but how inconsiderate you are. My next response was, im done. Were done. Followed by her stammering through disbelief and then trying to tell me that im destroying her daughters (not mine) future and current home (my home). Best $35k loss ever.
my life was immediately better without her and im married to a woman who in 5 years i have had 5 arguments with. Most of those arguments came from me working with her to undo the defensive/offensive mechanisms i built up to prevent being hurt. I also quit smoking (actually). Amazing what you can do when you arent stressed to the limit.
we talked on/off over the years. Mostly when she was down/out/depressed and alone from one failed relationship or another. Most recently, she ended up arrested for domestic a*****t. He hired a lawyer in secret and pi to follow her around for a divorce case hed been building up. So, yeah, apparently i wasnt the only dude who felt trapped by crazy and wanted out.
#51
i called off my first engagement about 2 months before the wedding: i was quite young and he was a good bit older and previously married. I gradually came to a realization that i had different views, wanted to continue my education, see the world etc. I was rationalizing to myself that we could probably have a few good years but had zero expectation that we would stay married. After i called it off, my family and friends universally told me i had done the right thing. In retrospect, he was jealous and controlling and it was kind of a terrible relationship. But guess what? I went to graduate school, travelled the world and have been married to my true love for 31 years.
#52
have you heard of the taxi cab theory ? My (ex) fiancée’s father had passed away unexpectedly and he really lamented the fact that he (fiancée) wasn’t in a more responsible/respectable place at the time of his father’s passing. He had a job in the service industry and very quickly made arrangements to transition into medical sales and also, shortly thereafter, proposed. I think he thought the next logical, adult step in his life was marriage and we just happened to be dating.
he was about 5 years older than me and i still felt very young to be getting married (24). I suggested a two year engagement to ease that feeling, which also meant we were together three years total at the time of the wedding.
weeks before the wedding, i was waking up every day sick to my stomach and just couldn’t fathom having to work so hard to be happy for the rest of my life. It’s nothing against him at all, i loved him and his family—i just don’t think it was the right fit and i think we wanted different things.
i called off the wedding a little less than 3 weeks before. It was a destination wedding and it gave everyone just enough time before the 2 week cutoff to cancel for a refund, if they chose.
i definitely think it was the right decision. Very shortly after we broke up, he started dating a girl he worked with and they married and have two kids. This was over 10 years ago and i have gotten to do everything i ever wanted in my life and more. I think we’re both happier for it.
#53
he came after me and tried to choke me. Just before he was saying i didn’t respect him and he was upset i had gotten a wedding card and not him. It was the culmination of bizarre behaviors that increased closer to the wedding. I legitimately think he had a tbi and i just didn’t see the effects until it was there. I cancelled the wedding 1.5 weeks before the date.
i was lucky to get to my parents. His mother took our wedding gifts. I was pretty shocked about that and still am 15 years later. He sold everything in the apartment, then disappeared into montana afterward and last i heard he was living unhoused in hawaii.
#54
because she cheated. So i immediately broke it off and walked away. No coming back from that.
#55
his mom started taking over the wedding planning. When we tried to put our foot down, she would literally take him out to ice cream and tell him why he needed to do x,y, and z. She said that my family’s only purpose in life was to cause problems for her (my sister pushed me to make sure the wedding was what i wanted). She said the wedding was not “our wedding, but it was the family’s wedding.” After we broke up, she spent time calling my family members to tell them i’m a rotten person and calling me to tell me that i was unloveable. She blocked not just me, but my entire family on facebook (including people she wasn’t friends with nor had she ever met in real life). 18 months later he was engaged again. I sometimes think about that poor woman and hope that narcissist learned her lesson.
#56
my brothers wedding was called off because it was found out that he was a severe alcoholic who refused help or even the concept of help.
her family mailed out apology/cancelation letters 3 days after the invitations.
#57
all of a sudden he wanted to move out of state, to a very specific place that he had ties to with an organization he volunteered with. 3 months before our wedding date he still didn’t have his tux and when i asked him if he was going to get it he looked me dead in eyes and said “i’m not even excited for a wedding”. I will never forget how i felt in that moment. I was crushed. To this day i don’t know why he wanted to leave so bad. He wouldn’t even wait for me to figure out a place we could both be happy going to. He asked me to go with him but it didn’t feel genuine. This was almost exactly one year ago and i am still heartbroken and haven’t been able to fully move on.
#58
realized we wanted totally different lives.
#59
he barely showed a interest in having kids and mentioned not wanting any. That was it for me. I always wanted kids. Now im married with 3 of my own.
#60
this isn’t my experience, but my brother was engaged to his ex of six years. She was extremely controlling, emotionally manipulative, and obsessed with having everything her way. At the time, she was graduating college the same summer they were supposed to get married while my brother was already three years into a successful career, making great money. She wanted to move to a small town to be a teacher making 4x’s less than he did and expected him to walk away from everything he had built. When he said no, she became furious and became physically aggressive towards him. He ended the engagement a month before the wedding.
after calling off the wedding, the ex stole the $10k honeymoon trip to europe that my brother had paid for. Her aunt, who was the travel agent that booked everything, went back and quietly transferred all the reservations into his ex’s name, even though the credit card used was my brother’s. The ex ended up going on the honeymoon with her equally unhinged mom. And honestly, her mom had already hijacked the wedding planning anyway, she misspelled my brother’s name on the invitations and refused to correct the error. Between the two of them, it was clear they loved his bank account way more than they ever respected him. My brother didn’t even bother fighting them for the trip. He told us, “money is replaceable, but my sanity isn’t.”
three months later, his ex got engaged to a guy she had previously introduced to my brother as her “lab partner.” It’s been four years, and let’s just say, she hasn’t aged well and seems pretty miserable. It was a complete disaster, but honestly, i’m just thankful she never became my sister-in-law.
#61
i called off my wedding two months out. We loved the idea of marriage more than each other. Counseling exposed big differences — kids, careers — that we hadn’t faced. It felt wrong, so i ended it. Heartbreaking, but i’m relieved now.
#62
the wedding was a stressor that ultimately ended in him canceling and breaking up with me 6 months out.
i was so fixated on everything being perfect and becoming the perfect wife to be for him and it just ended up being what neither of us wanted. Our honeymoon was booked and paid for and we couldnt refund it. We managed to get a minor amount of money back for the wedding things wed booked but did lose money overall.
we did not argue or get angry with each other, i was heartbroken and he was beside himself. We took time away from each other.
now literally 1 week away from what would have been our wedding day we are giving the relationship another go and going on the honeymoon as a holiday. Our first together in nearly 8 years.
well see what happens.
#63
the woman i was engaged to really changed once the ring hit her finger. I started paying closer attention to things and how she’d act or what she’d say. The longer things went on it became extremely clear all she was interested in was my money and her never having to work again, essentially a gold digger. Sorry, i’m not going to provide for someone that wants to take, take, take and eventually bring nothing to the table after i’ve worked hard to provide for myself.
#64
he slept with my friend and her husband while i was out of town.
#65
got engaged, tried to plan the wedding but he kept dodging and dodging. Finally it turns out he signed a contract behind my back to be an embassy guard, which enabled him from getting married (marine). He didnt want to break up with me and be the bad guy (his words).
so i gladly became the bad guy. He was also just so emotionally draining and horrible. Glad i called it off.
#66
his mother. I couldnt see spending the rest of my life with her in it.
also his jealousy. Every time i talked about anyone- a coworker, a friend etc hed ask me how long id been sleeping with them. I never cheated, but he did- a lot.
#67
a friend of mine had her fiancé suddenly call it off *days* before the wedding. His excuse was that he wasnt ready. Hed cleared all his things out within a week, and went off to basic training not long after.
she was *devastated*. I remember getting the call with her in hysterics and having to take some of the wedding decor out so she wouldnt have to look at it.
shes long since gotten married, with three kids, and seems pretty blissfully happy for it. I thought they got together a bit too fast after what happened, but her husband is genuinely still over the moon about her a good 13 years since the wedding.
#68
my ex fiancee actually broke up with me 5 months to our wedding day. Likely super unhappy and she gave me an ultimatum to propose to her which was likely the nail in the coffin anyway. She actually did me a service by doing that. I lived the next 7-8 years single while she had 4 kids with her new husband. We both got what we wanted.
#69
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They really thought we wouldn’t notice, huh? It’s been almost a month since shedeur sanders got drafted—yeah, slid all the way to the fifth round like he stole somebody’s scholarship—and just when you thought the cleveland browns couldn’t play it any grimier, they did shedeur dirty all over again. His draft drop was already a slap. But the browns? Oh, they loaded that hand up, pulled it back, and disrespected this man’s brand right to his face. And now, we got video proof of deion sanders jr trying not to break down at the rookie premiere reveal. No lie—man looked like he was seconds from tearing up, and it wasn’t just pride.
earlier this month, the browns, in true browns fashion, gave the no. 2 jersey to checks notes deandre carter. A journeyman wideout who’s been on 6 teams and never once rocked the no. 2. Not in high school. Not in pop warner. Not even in madden. But now suddenly he’s mr. 2? Meanwhile, shedeur—who literally built his whole identity around it—gets handed no. 12 like it’s some random practice squad drip. Boog, shedeur’s unofficial mouthpiece, wasn’t having it. Called it “disrespectful.” And honestly? He wasn’t wrong.
fast forward to may 20th. The rookie premiere event in l.A. Goes down, and fanatics plus nflpa unveil the official rookie jerseys. Deion sanders jr pulls up with the cam, recording for well off media. He’s all smiles seeing travis hunter’s jaguars jersey and even checks out dillon gabriel’s browns kit… but when he gets to shedeur’s?
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boom—there it is. That #12 hits like a punch in the gut. Deion jr. Stops, stares, voice cracking: “there it is. That’s a beautiful thing, man. This made me wanna cry, bro, i ain’t gon’ lie to you, man. Beautiful thing, man.” Man was caught in that weird space between heartbreak and proud big bro energy. ‘Cause yeah, shedeur made the league. But they did his image dirty.
let’s talk facts before feelings. Shedeur sanders is the brand. He’s “2legendary.” That number isn’t random—he made #2 iconic during his colorado run. And while folks doubted him on the field, off the field, man was clocking major nil dollars, pushing merch like supreme in its prime. Nike, google, mercedes-benz, kfc—yup, that kfc—lined up to do business with a 23-year-old college qb who knew how to market himself. Shedeur sanders ran a podcast, dropped exclusive gear, and had $5.1 million in endorsement deals before ever taking an nfl snap.
still, shedeur isn’t folding.
what’s your perspective on:
did the browns disrespect shedeur sanders by giving his iconic no. 2 jersey to a journeyman?
have an interesting take?
he’s already flipping this #12 thing into motivation. On a school visit recently, he told some kids: “my goal is to bring a super bowl to cleveland.” That’s a heavy statement. Especially for a team that’s been allergic to confetti since the eisenhower era. But shedeur got that dog in him. The jersey might’ve changed, but the mission remains the same. Superbowl.
shedeur sanders keeps it real about dillon gabriel—jealousy in the locker room?
now, just when you thought the jersey saga was the only drama in cleveland, cue the qb room tension. The browns went and drafted two rookie quarterbacks—dillon gabriel in the third round and shedeur sanders in the fifth. That’s not a depth move. That’s a full-on battle royale with clipboards. The browns already had joe flacco, kenny pickett, and a mystery man named deshaun watson on the books. So drafting two more gunslingers? Somebody’s getting cut. And while the media’s trying to stir up some “locker room beef” headlines, shedeur isn’t playing into it.
“everything’s been cool,” shedeur told sportscasting.Com. “He’s a cool person. I like how he handles situations, especially just the negative media that’s coming his way.” Respectfully, that’s a diplomatic answer from a man who knows the game. But you can’t ignore what happened at rookie minicamp. Browns beat guy zac jackson said it loud on the ultimate cleveland sports show: “it’s just throwing the ball, and it’s not close: it’s shedeur sanders.” He repeated it just to make sure we heard it. “It’s not close.” Yeah, we heard it loud and clear.
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still, some insiders weren’t ready to crown shedeur just yet. Tony grossi, another browns insider, said he liked what he saw from gabriel: “i thought both days dillon gabriel looked a little bit better. He throws a tight spiral. He throws a beautiful ball…he’s very assertive…knows the pocket.” Translation? It’s a real duel going down behind the scenes.
but here’s where it gets even more spicy—shedeur’s already inked a 4-year, $4.6 million deal. Gabriel? Still unsigned. So while dillon’s ball might be prettier, shedeur’s already got the bag secured. That’s leverage. That’s favor.
yet despite the heat, shedeur’s keeping it chill. “We’re truly cool,” he said about gabriel. And honestly, maybe that’s the most dangerous version of shedeur—calm, focused, and feeling like he’s got something to prove. ‘Cause if we’re being real? The man shouldn’t have slipped to the fifth. He shouldn’t have lost no. 2. And he shouldn’t be battling for a depth spot like he’s some random mac school backup.
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so while the media tries to stir up jealousy angles, don’t get it twisted. Shedeur isn’t in his feelings—he’s in his bag. But somebody gotta go from that qb room by august.
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Many such cases.
the number of people who think it’s “dehumanizing” to be desired romantically is rather incredible.
ah, well. Another generation and the dysfunctional breeds will have died out.
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the number of people who think it’s “dehumanizing” to be desired romantically is rather incredible.
ah, well. Another generation and the dysfunctional breeds will have died out.
i’d argue that such ideologies are parasitic. By spreading to more impressionable people they will be maintained for another generation. Meanwhile the actual work of continuing society will fall to the normal people, especially re. Immigrants.
i have the sneaking suspicion that the misunderstanding is her fault, somehow. She seems like precisely that sort of self-unaware person.
also, she does realize people are supposed to have mutual interests and hobbies with romantic partners, right? It’s not wrong to feel them out.
i wouldn’t be surprised if some of the men were cool with just being friends, but she broke it off and left that part out.
tagging because this reminds me of @morlock-holmes
i think my favourite thing is how neatly this dances around the issue of what behaviours or qualities are actually attractive in a partner,
because then he might be forced to turn around with a shrug and say iunno, you figure it out.
and then it dances even more neatly around the fact that women, by his own admission, dont do any of this basic human decency stuff with men, only with other women. Which, at that point you might be talking about something other than basic human decency.
i mean, if they did all this stuff with men all the time as a normal thing, imagine the possibilities! Men might even give up the idea that a woman so much as giving them the time of day was an unprecedented display of affection, and surely signalling romantic interest!
in that case, heres some in-depth explanations for things he skims over in the video. Its a lot, so its your choice as to whether or not you bother reading it all (i dont know you and dont care either way):
just like men, women will have their own varied qualifications for what they find is attractive, simple as that. These behaviors and qualities will vary massively based on upbringing, cultural trends, individual life experiences, etc., Because, again -- women are each their own individual person. Some prefer geniuses, some prefer idiots. Submissive or dominant, shy or confident, predictable or mysterious, sensitive or stoic, masculine or feminine, scrawny/lean/toned/fit/jacked/dad-bod/thick/pillowy -- just like men, we all have our own (transient) opinions on whats best. Some prefer conventionally attractive (in terms of white american culture) faces, while others prefer unusual facial features that stand out. Some are quickly drawn towards those with facial features that are prevalent within their own ethnic (minority) group(s) because of the unconscious assumption of shared experiences and perspective, while others can be easily attracted to whoever most resembles their favorite characters or celebrities.
tl/dr; sometimes it will just be entirely impossible to make oneself attractive in the eyes of the person one is attracted to, and that is a possibility that must be plainly accepted from the very beginning. Women tend to be more readily comfortable with this idea, due to our society expecting men to do the propositioning (make the first move) which requires more courage and personal investment early on than merely waiting to be asked out. That being said, compassion, clear skin, being well-dressed (either equally or just slightly dressier than those around you, and preferably having something unique like an unusual style/pattern/color/accessory), and being more open about your interests/hobbies/aspirations are probably good places to start. They wont guarantee any one particular womans love, but the first step to being attractive is being noticeable, on account of humans being very visually judgy creatures. Uniqueness draws attention, attention draws gaze, gaze leads to wandering thoughts and rumination, which lead to considering possibilities (be they romantic, platonic, etc.). And, sure, being conventionally sexy can be a fantastic shortcut to losing your virginity in a brief fling of lust if you so desire it, but it means almost nothing in terms of finding a fulfilling long-term relationship.
as for your last two paragraphs... The reasoning is a bit circular and youre on the right track, but youre putting the initial cause in the wrong place. We do try to do that basic human decency thing (you mean mutual friendship??) With men, but the majority of us lose hope (and stop trying) after so many of these attempts at friendship end in us being suddenly asked out and then being ghosted/blocked after we reject their romantic advances. I have lost count of how many seemingly chill dudes i have bonded with over completely innocuous shared interests like our favorite indie games or anime/tv/movies or school clubs or college classes or work, only for them to ask me out and then throw away the entire platonic relationship by never messaging me again after i politely(!!!) Turned them down, even when i tried to continue the friendship afterwards!
if you have not personally experienced this series of events with any women, its likely because the men they met before you failed them in this exact way, creating this vicious cycle of men who have no emotional supports (and dont know how to reach out) and women who are tired of being a different mans only source of therapy every other week/month/year (and therefore decide to stop wasting their own emotional energy on what will likely turn into dead-end friendships).
additionally, a lot of women are just straight-up scared of approaching dudes altogether because there are men who commit heinous acts of violence in response to being rejected. So, for safetys sake, many women feel like they need to do everything they can to avoid giving men the wrong idea, just in case, because there are horrible dudes out there who can and will murder us if we say no. Its obviously not all men and not even close to being most men, but its enough to easily instill visceral fear when youre constantly hearing about wolves in sheeps clothing hurting women -- women who had no way of knowing, women who were just going about their days, women who spoke to said men only once or sometimes even not at all, women who messed up by merely existing near limerent men... Kind of like the fear of shark attacks after jaws came out. The chances of harm are very low but still very real, especially if you push your luck too many times. Of course women can be awful violent cruel people too, but consider how 95% of men have a stronger grip strength than 90% of women, and how women die every single day because theyre often physically incapable of fighting back.
personally, the only two single straight male friends i still have (that arent my coworkers) both stick around because they value me as a conversationalist for our shared specific interests more than they value me as a possible fill-in for the empty girlfriend role in their lives. There will always be more fish in the sea, but you dont have to immediately throw them all back just because youre searching for the one! Actively try to get to know some of the others along the way (even ones with whom youre not interested in in that way), and itll make finding and connecting with the one a lot easier!
for what its worth, i really appreciate you trying to have an honest conversation about this, but ive had a very bad day, and im feeling rather cynical.
my cynical interpretation is, we are not having an honest conversation. The original tiktok comes across to me less as a genuine attempt to give men advice about their courtship habits, and more as an attempt to flex on lonely single men, that he is good at the dating and the people he is addressing are not. He is winning, and we only have ourselves to blame for losing.
if he was attempting to actually understand and relate to lonely, single men who are categorically unable to form a meaningful romantic relationship with someone, he might actually have to express some vulnerability himself, instead of chastising his audience for assumed wrongs. He might have to admit that more than half of the reason that he is better at this than us is down to sheer luck, that there are so many things beyond his control that need to go right in order for his relationships to work out! Timing, future plans, meeting the person in the first place—that these things line up at all is often just a coincidence! If youre going to give men dating advice, from the perspective of someone who is successful at it, you have to admit how wildly lucky you were!
or he might have to admit that theres a huge societal expectation on men to find a partner which perpetuates a negative feedback loop in unsuccessful men. In fact, correct me if im wrong, but having a partner one of the criteria women tend to use when judging whether a man is safe to be around. And the absence of that, the implicit association of singleness with potential creepiness, is crushing. I hate being thought of as unsafe to be around just because im lonely and single, but that is something i do have to contend with, regardless of how nice i actually am.
i very much hear what youre saying, and i wish there was some easy way to resolve this, but i can only give you my perspective from the other side of the fence.
i knew exactly where the video was going a minute in.
i love the part where being kind is not behavior, it’s being kind with the right motive, which does not involve actually feeling unsatisfied with just friendship. If you develop feelings for a female friend, you should just suck it up and deal, apparently.
the number of people who think it’s “dehumanizing” to be desired romantically is rather incredible.
ah, well. Another generation and the dysfunctional breeds will have died out.
i feel like some men are taught to use their hobbies/interests as a way to start talking to people they are romantically interested in and to find romantic interests in that fashion. I mean. With how much mockery women give men for approaching them with just a “hey” or “hello” in public or online of course men are going to try and go into this direction for finding partners. Also. What about men that don’t know what they are doing and don’t fully understand romance and friendships? Or maybe. What about men that are pushed hard to not be single and so those men try for romantic relationships with women whether they are attracted to them or not and maybe without realizing that maybe they would be happier with a friendship instead? From my limited experience in the dating world, the amount of pressure placed on people to date is insane. And. It can confuse the heck out of you if you aren’t sure what you want and also can confuse you if you don’t know that friendship is even an option. I think that that’s a big thing, that lots of people don’t realize that friendship could be an option and that friendship could even be better than a romantic relationship.
you might be overthinking it a bit. And op missed the point by a mile.
being desired romantically isn’t the dehumanizing part, being ghosted the second a guy realizes you’re not available is.
thinking someone is being a friend only to get a cold shoulder when you’re not useful to them hurts.
being desired romantically isn’t the dehumanizing part, being ghosted the second a guy realizes you’re not available is.
my explicit contention is that if you desire a romantic relationship, but the other person does not, you do not owe them friendship and parting ways is appropriate.
trying to require people to maintain relationships that are not the kind they want is actually abusive.
excuse me but how the fuck are men supposed to look for relationships when every time they try it gets labeled as abusive?
sometimes people aren’t looking for friends. Sometimes they’re looking for a romantic relationship instead.
yes, you don’t owe anyone friendship but maybe don’t be an asshole and abandon them like they never existed in your life? Idk is it… hard for you to do that simple thing? You can walk away from a friendship any time you want but if your reason is “she is dead to me now, even though i pretended to want a deep friendship with her, because she romantically rejected me in a civil manner” try learning how to be a better person.
if you stick around for months in a friendship and then shocked it is… a friendship on her part, then that’s your problem. People should communicate their interest from the start and set boundaries. If you failed to do so, then the damage isn’t the woman’s responsibility.
“every time they try it gets labelled as abusive” the hyperboly, my god! Please go outside and meet people. You can’t seriously tell me that women call you an abuser when you ask them “excuse me, hi, you are very pretty! Can i get you a drink/coffee?” And “would you like to dance?“I’ve never heard a woman complain about a guy simply asking her if she was interested to do something with him. Women get scared only when they politely decline but the guy continues to pressure them and doesn’t leave them alone until they say yes. I don’t know if you need it spelled out but as long as you are polite and respectful it’ll be fine.
after all, if you hope to get involved romantically with a woman in the future, you can’t simultaneously hold the view that women are paranoid and call every guy who approaches them a predator. If you think the majority of women are like that, then you might as well never flirt again.
that being said, in case different women have labelled you as abusive again and again when you approached them, you need to reconsider your approach.
“you don’t owe anyone friendship, but you totally owe them friendship.”
>women get scared only when they politely decline but the guy continues to pressure them and doesn’t leave them alone until they say yes
i guess i must’ve hallucinated all those feminist women who say that the idea of a man asking makes them nervous. The ones who use those pressuring and (rarely) violent men to go “see? This is why we can’t just say no to men!”
the number of people who think it’s “dehumanizing” to be desired romantically is rather incredible.
ah, well. Another generation and the dysfunctional breeds will have died out.
i’d argue that such ideologies are parasitic. By spreading to more impressionable people they will be maintained for another generation. Meanwhile the actual work of continuing society will fall to the normal people, especially re. Immigrants.
i have the sneaking suspicion that the misunderstanding is her fault, somehow. She seems like precisely that sort of self-unaware person.
also, she does realize people are supposed to have mutual interests and hobbies with romantic partners, right? It’s not wrong to feel them out.
i wouldn’t be surprised if some of the men were cool with just being friends, but she broke it off and left that part out.
hmmm
i guarantee you she used her looks and body language to get shit out of men then was undoubtedly cruel when they expressed their feelings for her. I’ve seen this bitch in a thousand faces across the entire globe and they leave broken friendships and shattered groups in their wake because they think it’s funny or they just didn’t care as long as they got what they wanted.
it’s amazing how everyone here knows her entire personality and all those situations based on one tweet.
i know we’re burned out from people making mountains out of molehills, but that doesn’t mean stuff like this *never* happens.
hell i’ve been living in my car for the last five weeks because a man who i told over and over i wasn’t gonna date just up and decided to screw me over. Believe it or not there are actually really and truly people out there that are genuine jerks.
some woman: sometimes men i want to be friends with expected more and left as soon as they couldn’t get it and that isn’t a fun feeling.
weird people on tumblr.Com: you sound like a seductress and a bitch and a liar and i hate you personally now.
nobody’s saying that they dont want to be desired romantically, theyre saying that setting boundaries is causing what they thought was a good friendship to end. There are plenty of guys who move on after being rejected but they still stay as friends. But theres still a lot of dudes who are only looking for something romantic and when they dont find it, they leave.
get the stick outta yer ass and realize how shitty a feeling it would be to have a close friend tell you that they only wanted to fuck or date you and that if you didnt reciprocate the feelings theyd leave and act like they didnt know you.
some people here assume the miscommunication is automatically the woman’s fault but we all know men who don’t tell women they like them romantically and just stick around pretending to be “friends” and care, for a looong time. If a man doesn’t communicate he likes a woman romantically, she won’t know it because she is not a mind reader.
thus, she invests in a friendship. But then, the guy finds out he can’t fuck her and leaves just like that, throwing in the trash deep conversations and common experiences. The woman is sex-zoned without even noticing. (Because she wasn’t interested in him romantically and he never told her he was). Of course some men keep in touch after the rejection because at least they honor the emotional bond, but lots of them just leave like they have never interacted with the woman on an emotional level. They only saw worth in fucking her but never told her until they walked out of her life - but she had already bonded emotionally to a person she thought as a friend. If that’s not an asshole move and outright cruel on behalf of the dude i don’t know what is.
you want to make assumptions? Then stop pretending the world isn’t full of these guys. You keep blabbering about how women hold access to sex, then start also saying that men hold access to emotional relationships (and marriage) and can outright mentally harm a woman when they cut ties with her like that. Or you can stop talking about who’s giving access to what, and view women as humans with feelings. Most women are not bitches who are out to get you and i am sorry for the guys who had only those experiences.
i like how you say people shouldn’t assume the problem is on the woman’s end, but should assume it’s on the man’s end, and clearly don’t give a fig about what’s best for the man.
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| COMMENCEMENT 2025 - Meet Anastasia (Nastya) Kornyukhina - U Asia Campus |
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21 @ 00:00:33 PDT (0 reads) | |
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* this is a repost from humans of the u: anastasia kornyukhina – @theu
“when i graduated from busan foreign school in 2021, the world still felt like it was putting itself back together after covid. Honestly, the idea of packing up and flying halfway across the world for college just didn’t sit right with me. So when a friend told me about the university of utah asia campus—a u.S. Degree right here in korea—i thought, ‘well, why not?’
the very next morning after my high school graduation, i got my acceptance letter. It felt like the universe giving me a high-five.
i’ve always had a thing for storytelling—not the once-upon-a-time kind, but the kind you feel through color, light and silence. That’s why i chose film and media arts. Before college, i spent my summers taking film courses and getting lost in the magic of visual storytelling. There’s something incredible about moving people without even saying a word.
if i had to sum up my college experience in three words, they’d be knowledge, friendship, and confidence. And honestly, i earned all three the old-fashioned way—through late-night projects, trial and error and the occasional caffeine-fueled existential crisis. I built real friendships here, not just with classmates but with professors who actually believed in me before i believed in myself.
out of everything i’ve done over the past four years, being a design ta and production assistant for the film and media arts program meant the most. Designing event posters, banners, and tickets—and then seeing them splashed all over campus—was a surreal experience. I realized that what i loved doing could actually be a career, not just a hobby i squeezed into weekends.
but if you ask me about the single class that changed my life? Public speaking, hands down. I used to freeze up at the thought of talking in front of a crowd. Now, i host film lectures, pitch creative ideas and make new connections without breaking into a cold sweat. Confidence isn’t something that magically appears—you build it, one terrifying presentation at a time.
as for what’s next—well, that’s the great adventure. I’m staying in korea for now, brushing up on my language skills, and building my personal blog about post-grad life—all the weird, wonderful, ‘what now?’ Moments no one warns you about. I’m also diving into freelance design work, hoping to carve out my own little corner in the creative world.
if there’s one thing i’d tell future u asia campus students, it’s this: try everything that scares you just a little bit. You might just stumble into the best version of yourself.”
—anastasia kornyukhina, class of 2025, b.A. In film and media arts, university of utah asia campus, from busan, south korea |
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| When the Flame Fades: Falling Out of Love With Your Sport |
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21 @ 00:00:33 PDT (0 reads) | |
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This article is written by a student writer from the her campus at ucla chapter. “If she does a sport, she’ll be hungry and want to eat” – my dear parents as they looked at their 5-year-old refusing to eat
they didn’t expect to sign up for 9 years of competitive swimming. After countless swim meets, hours of practices, and hundreds of miles traveling, they had a daughter whose whole identity centered around the sport. A daughter whose discipline, work ethic, and attitude would be constructed and rooted from the sport. A daughter whose first love was swimming.
“love”, defined by oxford languages, is an intense feeling of deep affection. Swimming was my first love. Every part of my existence revolved around my performances. My endurance, stamina, all the way down to my metabolism was connected to my relationship with the sport. I refused to walk out of a practice feeling unsatisfied with my efforts or feel as though i neglected my responsibility of pushing myself past the limit.
i had dreamed of becoming an olympian from the age of 9. Yet, no matter how hard i tried, the dream felt farther and farther away the older i grew. If i had the effort, passion, love, dedication, and discipline, what happened?
“sparky” i was never naturally talented at the sport. In fact, after moving from korea, i started from the slowest lane: lane 16. It took 4 years for me to work my way up to the top 3 lanes and establish myself as someone. Eventually, i earned a nickname for myself: “sparky.” As someone whose name has always been difficult to come up with a nickname for, it felt like i had gained a new identity. An identity that was purely my own, created from my own doings. The change in treatment from different coaches and teammates was expected. I craved the extra attention, time, and validation from those around me. I wanted to feel like i was an investment they were betting on.
but for 7 out of the 9 years of my career, it was rare if i was the one chosen. From the outside, it seemed like i was one of the favorites. In reality, i felt like i was treated like a checkpoint. With friends constantly pitted against me to being told that i could never get close to my goals purely because of my physical build, it was disheartening.
as a result, my constant need to perform dominated my actions. As a little girl, there was no greater priority than improving every time i entered a pool. The cycle of pushing myself, seeing results, and the adrenaline rush i would experience whenever i gained recognition for my efforts was addictive. I chased the high of reaching new personal records and accomplishing time cuts. I relished in the excitement of going beyond what was expected from me.
however, like with any flame or spark, it eventually goes out. Whether it is snuffed or flickered away on its own, some identities and personas are meant to end. By the time it was my junior year of high school, i knew i wouldn’t go the route of continuing in college. I had to choose between recruitment or going forward with the traditional route of applying as another student. And at that point, there was no spark in the sport. My spark had moved on.
swimmer to swammer the transition from swimmer to swammer (a general term swimmers will refer to people who have moved on from the sport) was one marked with intense emotional turmoil but also closure. In all my years, there was one time standard or one time cut i pined after the most. A sectional cut. Ever since i witnessed a girl with a similar height as me accomplish one, i knew it was the one thing preventing me from retiring. I owed it to myself to give it my best shot one last time. Despite being burnt out, it would’ve been a betrayal to myself if i walked away without attempting another try.
i will be frank when i say there were times when i contemplated if it was all worth it. But i would look at my mom, the woman who always chose me. She was always rooting for me. From her meticulously preparing meals, to driving and attending every single swim meet, she invested in me. She believed i could achieve the cut, and in times when i doubted myself, she believed. Even if my love for swimming was dissipating, hers was enough for the both of us. It proved to be enough.
in true dramatic fashion, at the very last chance, i managed to achieve it. Effectively marking my goodbye, i will never forget hugging my mom afterwards. It was the ending we both deserved.
it felt relieving and assuring that despite my love being gone, the girl that was molded by the sport was still there. The girl that grew to be mentally and physically tough was able to accomplish the ending her younger self worked incredibly hard for. It was enough, it was satisfying, and it was the right way for the story to end.
the final lap in a way, i was disappointed for the way i let the little girl’s dreams go. I accomplished enough to make her proud, but my need to always impress and perform made it difficult for me to come to terms with the end of my journey. I knew i had made the right decision, but a part of me would still wonder what would have happened if i continued through college.
it almost felt like i was mourning my past self. But in reality, she is still here. She’s present whenever i give my 110% toward any task i am thoroughly passionate about. She has simply outgrown what once shaped her and is moving forward to pursue her next interest.
i am grateful for the experiences, memories, and moments swimming gave me. I was privileged enough to experience them and was given the opportunity to create something memorable. It was my sole purpose for an era of my life that i look back fondly to. It has shaped me to be the person i am and i will be forever indebted to the sport for that.
despite the water running cold at the end, it was filled with love, joy, and warmth for younger me. I hope to continue to make her proud no matter what i do. |
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| Southfield Mayor Gives Actress Selma Blair Key to the City |
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21 @ 00:00:33 PDT (0 reads) | |
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Southfield mayor gives actress selma blair key to the city
(city of southfield, may 20, 2025)
southfield, mi – southfield mayor dr. Kenson siver presented the key to the city to former resident, iconic actress, fashion figure and multiple sclerosis advocate selma blair on may 16 at a ms fundraiser luncheon at the westin southfield-detroit. Ms. Blair also served as special celebrity host of the art & vintage fashion show and fundraiser sponsored by the friends of the southfield public arts that evening at the former skyline club.
“when i was a little girl growing up in southfield, i didn’t know about community programs—i often wished for them. My parents worked hard, and though i didn’t have access to those things, southfield gave me something else: imagination,” commented selma blair. “I remember hearing softball games behind my house on coventry woods lane, dreaming i had a team and a uniform. But it was in the nearby woods, with my mom and sister, that i found my brigadoon—a hidden world where i sketched, dressed in old gowns, and let my dreams come alive on film. It moves me deeply to see southfield growing into a home for creative dreamers and performers. So many incredible people have come from here—there really must be something in the water, or the woods, or the skyline that inspires greatness.”
about selma blair
selma james blair is an iconic on-screen personality, fashion figure, and activist whose remarkable career spans several decades. She is known for her roles in legally blonde, cruel intentions, the sweetest thing, and the hellboy franchise.
born in southfield, michigan, she was raised in a politically engaged household—both of her parents were practicing attorneys and politically involved. Blair studied photography at kalamazoo college, relocated to new york to immerse herself in the art world, and ultimately graduated magna cum laude from the university of michigan. Blair’s impact on social change has been further solidified by her recognition as one of time magazine’s 2017 people of the year.
in 2018, blair announced she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (ms), a central nervous system condition that damages nerves and affects brain signals. In 2021, blair starred in introducing, selma blair , a documentary about her life since being diagnosed with ms. Published by knopf in 2022, her debut memoir mean baby: a memoir of growing up, immediately became a new york times bestseller. Her talent and versatility have garnered widespread recognition—from her participation on season 31 of dancing with the stars, where she earned the title of competition contestant of 2022 at the people’s choice awards, the same year that the state of california honored her by naming her woman of the year . In 2023, glamour honored her with the prestigious women of the year award for her fearless dedication to challenging societal norms, and in 2024, british vogue celebrated her as one of its 40 “megastars” with in an iconic steven meisel cover shoot.
blair currently partners with skincare line esk, serves as the face of brooks brothers’ icon campaign, collaborates with mersea on a curated travel-essentials collection, serves on the executive committee of the academy of motion picture arts and sciences, and is a collaborator with emd serono. She’s also slated to appear in four upcoming feature films—including her first leading role opposite ron perlman of the hellboy series—and is exploring a new podcast venture.
about the southfield public arts commission
the southfield public arts commission consists of eleven members, six appointed by the city council and five by the mayor, serving staggered three-year terms. It meets monthly and advocates for, promotes, and helps install public artwork in southfield, with city council approval, to benefit the public through the arts. |
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| Reid sets state assist mark & also shows scoring prowess in Jefferson victory - |
| Posted on Wednesday, May 21 @ 00:00:33 PDT (0 reads) | |
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If ever there was a significant lacrosse record specifically designed to suit chubb reid’s unselfish nature, according to his dad, it would be the one he shattered tuesday night.
on the same day as his mom’s birthday and his older brother’s college graduation.
so, before we put too much stock in scott reid’s proclamation that chubb is “just the most unselfish kid i have ever been around, perhaps we should poll kim and peyton reid on the subject after their son and kid brother so boldly upstaged their own big days.
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chubb reid not only became officially the most generous offensive player in new jersey history with four assists, but he proved it in super-dramatic fashion.
the stockton university commit fed fellow senior teammate aidan fitzsimmons for a game-tying goal midway in the fourth quarter for his 262nd career assist and he scored a goal and assisted on another in the last 4:45 to rally jefferson to a 10-8 victory over randolph in an njill waterman division clash in oak ridge.
reid scored a season-high four goals and closed with four assists to break the former career assist record of 261 set by 2003 graduate kevin nolan.
those eight points also vault reid past another former johnson star, rob tyra, for a tie with 2010 north brunswick grad mike curran and 2015 middle township grad jack denis for 16th place on the all-tome points list with 372.
at 373 are jefferson’s all-time points leader adam koontz (2008) and livingston’s tommy heller (2015).
i can’t even wrap my head around it,“ reid said. ”And especially to do it with my dad and with my brother and everything. It’s amazing.
the aforementioned scott reid is jefferson’s head coach and the architect of the entire lacrosse program in town. Twin brother jamison is the falcons’ goalie with several marks of distinction in his own right.
jamison made eight saves to raise his career total to 544 and secure his 55th victory in goal.
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