#michael boghosian

[distracted-milkshake]

Okay guys help me here please

Oscar Isaac fandom get in on this c’mon reblog

[distracted-milkshake]

I got Michael Boghosian!

Omfg yes. Yes. Yes. Mmn.

[shewolfofficial]

[virtie333]

I haven't done a poll in a while...

[my-secret-shame-but-fanfiction]

Hello!! I’m going down the rabbit hole of Oscar and his characters thanks to moon knight and I was wondering what other movies/tv shows would you recommend to watch because I’m absolutely in love with that man rn

PLEASE COME AND DESCEND INTO THE MADNESS WITH ME!

So, I'll be completely honest, I have a problem where I just watch everything an actor is in once I have got a bit obsessed with looking at their face. Due to this, please enjoy this list based off of how much of Oscar's Face is in it.

There will also be some spoilers if he dies or not.

I will not be going into detail if I think the film is good or not, just about how much he is in it. (I hope that makes sense ^^)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Miguel O'Hara / Spider-Man 2099 - voice

I know this is voice, but he sounds great. Not in every scene.

Big Gold Brick - Anselm Vogelweide

Hardly in it. DO NOT watch this film just for him. Watch the clips of his scenes instead. [Warning: dies]

Dune - Duke Leto Atreides

He's pretty consistently in the first third. [Warning: dies]

The Addams Family 1 & 2 - Gomez Addams - voice

Again, just voice, but he sounds wonderful. Also I recommend watching some of the behind the scenes recording on youtube.

The Card Counter - William Tell

MAIN CHARACTER BAAABYYYY!!! SO MUCH OF HIS FACE 99.9% OF THE TIME.

The Letter Room - Richard Muñoz

ANOTHER MAIN CHARACTER BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK AT HIS BEAUTIFUL FACE!

The Star Wars Sequels - Poe Dameron

MAIN CHARACTER! A LOT OF HIS FACE! Not so much in The Force Awakens, but still.

Triple Frontier - Santiago "Pope" Garcia

MAIN CHARACTER! AHHHH!!!!!!!! YESSSSS!!!!

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - Miguel O'Hara / Spider-Man 2099 - voice

Just in the end credit scene.

Life Itself - Will Dempsey

3rdish of the film? [Warning: dies] Honestly, another warning, this film is hmmmmmm.

Operation Finale - Peter Malkin

MAIN CHARACTER BABBAAAYYY!!!!

Annihilation - Kane

Not much face time here. BUT he touches guts. [Warning: dies and comes back different]

Suburbicon - Bud Cooper

DO NOT watch this film for his face. NO. Watch the less than 10 min clips of his scenes on youtube. [Warning: dies]

Lightningface - Basil Stitt

ONLY HIS FACE!!!

The Promise - Mikael Boghosian

MAIN CHARACTER BABY!

X-Men: Apocalypse - En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse

They hide his face in so much latex. [Warning: dies]

Mojave - John "Jack" Jackson

MAIN CHARACTER BABY!!!! [Warning: dies] Another warning. This film my god.

Ex Machina - Nathan Bateman

MAIN CHARACTER BABY!!!!!!!!! [Warning: dies MAYBE. But also I'm in denial.)

A Most Violent Year - Abel Morales

MAAAAAIINNN CHARACTER!!!!!!!!

Ticky Tacky - Lucien

MAIN CHARACTER!!!

The Two Faces of January - Rydal Keener

MAIN CHARACTER!!

In Secret - Laurent LeClaire

WE GOT ANOTHER MAIN CHARACTER!! [Warning: dies]

Inside Llewyn Davis - Llewyn Davis

MAIN CHARACTER!! AND SINGING!!!!

Won't Back Down - Michael Perry

Minor character, needs more screen time.

The Bourne Legacy - Outcome No. 3

Just watch his scenes on youtube. [Warning: implied death]

Revenge for Jolly! - Cecil Dennis

MAAAAIIINNN CHARACTER!!!!

Drive - Standard Gabriel

Minor character. Just watch his scenes. [Warning: dies]

W.E. Evgeni

HE NEEDED MORE SCREEN TIME.

Sucker Punch - Blue Jones

I want to say he's in it about 50%-70% but I could also be massively overestimating because he's so fun to watch. Please also watch Love is a Drug on youtube, because it's the best part of the film that is cut out and put at the end of the main release for some reason.

Robin Hood - John, King of England

Needed 80% more screen time to be dramatic.

Balibo - José Ramos-Horta

Needed more screen time. [Warning: dies]

Agora- Orestes

I saw this once, waaay back, so my memory is hazy. But I remember a fair amount of his face.

Body of Lies - Bassam

Needed more screen time. [Warning: dies]

Che - Interpreter/Narrator

10 seconds of screentime.

The Life Before Her Eyes - Marcus

Not in it enough.

The Nativity Story - Saint Joseph

Lots of his face.

Pu-239 - Shiv

In it quite a bit, but also I wanted more. [Warning: dies]

Lenny the Wonder Dog - Detective Fartman

Just watch his scenes, do not put yourself through this.

All About the Benjamins - Frank

30 seconds of screen time.

Illtown - Pool Boy

5 seconds of screen time.

Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Robbie Paulson

A fair amount for a guest character - just watch his clips

Show Me a Hero - Nick Wasicsko

MAIN CHARACTER BABY!

Scenes from a Marriage - Jonathan Levy

MAIN CHARACTER BABY!

Saturday Night Live - Himself (host)

HOST! HOST! HOST!

Case 63 - Case 63/Peter Roiter - voice

Just sit back and listen.

[marshmallow--3]

Okay fuck it, I'm doing an Oscar Isaac bucket list

Movies

Illtown - Pool Boy

All About the Benjamins - Frank - rent on Prime for £3.49

✅️ Lenny the Wonder Dog - Detective Fartman

Pu-239 - Shiv - totally legal website

✅️ The Nativity Story - Joseph

The Life Before Her Eyes - Marcus - eBay

Che - Narrator - DVD

✅️ Body of Lies - Bassam

Agora - Orestes

✅️ Balibo - José Ramos-Horta

✅️ Robin Hood - John, King of England

✅️ Sucker Punch - Blue Jones

✅️ W.E. - Evgeni

✅️ 10 Years - Reeves

✅️ Drive - Standard Gabriel

For Greater Glory - Victoriano "El Catorce" Ramírez

✅️ Revenge for Jolly! - Cecil Dennis

✅️ The Bourne Legacy - Outcome No. 3

Won't Back Down - Michael Perry

✅️ Inside Llewyn Davis - Llewyn Davis

In Secret - Laurent LeClaire - rent on Prime for £3.49

✅️ The Two Faces of January - Rydal Keener

Ticky Tacky - Lucien

✅️ A Most Violent Year - Abel Morales

✅️ Ex Machina - Nathan Bateman

✅️ Mojave - John "Jack" Jackson

✅️ Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Poe Dameron

✅️ X-Men: Apocalypse - Apocalypse

The Promise - Mikael Boghosian - rent on Prime for £3.49

✅️ Lightningface - Basil Stitt

✅️ Suburbicon - Bud Cooper

✅️ Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Poe Dameron

✅️ Annihilation - Kane

✅️ Operation Finale - Peter Malkin

✅️ At Eternity's Gate - Paul Gauguin

✅️ Life Itself - Will Dempsey

✅️ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - Miguel O'Hara

✅️ Triple Frontier - Santiago "Pope" Garcia

✅️ The Addams Family - Gomez Addams

✅️ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Poe Dameron

The Letter Room - Richard Muñoz

The Card Counter - William Tell - rent on Prime for £3.49

✅️ The Addams Family 2 - Gomez Addams

Dune - Duke Leto Atreides - CEX £4

Big Gold Brick - Anselm Vogelweide - rent on Prime for £3.49

✅️ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Miguel O'Hara

The King of Kings - Jesus - cinema

Frankenstein - Dr. Victor Frankenstein - unreleased

In the Hand of Dante - Dante Alighieri - unreleased

Stowaway - unreleased

TV series

Show Me a Hero - Nick Wasicsko - Now TV

Star Wars Resistance - Poe Dameron - WCO

Scenes from a Marriage - Jonathan Levy - Now TV

✅️ Moon Knight - The Moon Boys

Cameos

✅️ Law and Order: Criminal Intent - Robbie Paulson

✅️ What If...? - Marc Spector

Misc

✅️ Saturday Night Live

✅️ Beirut

[aellynera]

Itsy Bitsy Spiders (HCs)

OKAY LOOK GUYS. This is not my fault. This is all because of @rosemarysbaby13​ and a running conversation we’ve had about spiders and how we need Llewyn to come deal with them, because he would totally be about getting rid of spiders for you. Aaaaaaand then it became 2am and I don’t know but I just had to write some HCs about how our Oscars would handle dealing with spiders (both if you asked them to deal with it for you, and just spiders in general) and...

Warnings: There is (a very little) bit of language under the cut, but that’s it. Oh, and spiders.

Llewyn Davis would 100% deal with the spider for you. The spider clearly didn’t care that much about its existence if it had the audacity to invade your personal space without asking permission, and Llewyn is not okay with that. He just wants to cuddle with you and that spider is curbing his flow. Now if the spider dared to crawl on him, he has no problem begging you to get it off him and throw it out the window. That spider can take its chances on the damn fire escape, that piece of shit.

Nathan Bateman sees the spider as a literal bug, even though he knows they are not actually bugs. They are arthropods (class Araneae) but they are eight-legged hellions that could potentially actually be dangerous to not only him but also to his laboratory so he gets immense satisfaction from smashing the hell out of them. They are errors in the code.

Mikael Boghosian would catch and release the spider. He took an oath to do no harm, and that extends to the non-human world as well. In fact, this is an issue often enough that he has a small glass and piece of cardboard specifically set aside in order to trap the invaders and set them free (never mind that he’s likely caught and released the same spider on your behalf at least twenty times; he will do whatever you need or ask of him.)

Michael Perry would get rid of the spider out of necessity, because they’re kinda gross and he doesn’t really like things with so many legs (two human legs or four canine or feline legs are just fine) but would also feel bad if one got smooshed under his cowboy boots. It’s not his fault, they should know better than to challenge the Texas Tush Push.

Orestes would begrudgingly handle spider disposal. It’s not that he likes them (not really) but he doesn’t particularly dislike them either (they are a part of the natural world, after all.) But if they bothered you that much, he would deal with it. And he would do it while telling you all about how important they are to how the world connects and works together. Who knows the effect that killing a spider in Alexandria could have on the farthest reaches of the empire?

Cecil doesn’t actually care one way or the other about the spider, but he does have an issue if it touches his skin and especially if it crawls anywhere near his neck. And all bets are off if the fucker comes near his beer and climbs onto the bottle. He’s fairly certain he could hit the bottle with a shot from halfway across the room with pinpoint accuracy, and he will apologize profusely to you if he misses and has to buy you a new dining room table. And he’d still feel bad about killing the spider.

Poe Dameron finds this to be a complicated question/request. How big is the spider? How many legs does it have? It’s alien, after all…some spiders are definitely more terrifying than others and you screaming “KILL IT” at him just isn’t specific enough. So he quickly snaps a holo of it and then asks BB-8 to run an analysis. Once the actual make and model of this alien invader has been determined, Poe considers asking you to handle it yourself - he knows you’re totally capable of dealing with alien spiders. But in the end, of course he would take care of it for you. By asking BB-8 to burn it with his lighter.

Reeves would either get rid of the spider, or catch it and throw it outside, whichever. Whatever you wanted, really. It’s just a spider, they never bothered him, so he doesn’t mind either way really. He does find it incredibly cute that you end up shrieking and jumping up on one of the kitchen chairs, laughing as he points out that it’s just a little spider, not a mouse. Then he writes a song about it.

Santiago Garcia is too busy running around the jungles of Colombia and trying to not get eaten by spiders of his own. But if he were home, he would absolutely take care of that spider for you. This is not even a question. Spider survival is a mission.

Bud Cooper would definitely get rid of the spider, but he would take it outside first before dealing with it. It was not invited into the house, it is not a welcome guest, and smashing it wherever it was found could potentially ruin the furniture or possibly hurt you, if it was crawling on you. So out it goes, and then it dies. And the next day when he gets to the office, he starts researching instances of spider infestations in your neighborhood and nearby parcels of land on the off-chance that this could radically affect your property values.

Blue Jones would catch the spider and then keep it as a pet. You don’t even know what to say to him other than...you really don’t know what to say. He tells you that he just feels like it suits him, and the next thing you know he’s named it “Baby” (because that’s not weird or anything) and is making a home for it on the corner of his desk. Vera is in the corner of the office, pinching the bridge of her nose as you shout at him that it’s not a tarantula and not something you keep as a pet and he just shrugs and continues on his merry way. From that day forward, none of the other girls understand why you call him Brown Recluse (and you’re certainly not going to explain it) but at least he got the damn thing off you. Maybe if you’re lucky, it will bite him. Karma is a bitch.

Lucien despises spiders. Not to the point that he won’t handle them himself if he has to, but it’s much more preferable if Gabriel is available to deal with such matters. And anyway, if he has to do it himself, he had an extra pair of gloves and he has somewhat accidentally discovered the best lure for most spiders is a jelly donut. And he’s fairly sure he’s doused most of them in the gasoline anyway.

Basil Stitt doesn’t even know how the spider got into his apartment in the first place. That must be one crafty little fucker to get past his set of defenses. Oh, shit, maybe it was when he had the pizzas delivered. Oh well. Whatever, it’s here now, and he’s definitely going to make it go away. He decided to call it Jason (there was no way that thing was also going to be called Basil, why did everything want to use his name anyway?) And Jason is going down. Just as soon as he manages to pry that big ass kitchen knife out of his desk.

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Il materiale di origine: Survival Pictures, behindthename.com, thenamemeaning.com

Recently, I’ve had several people ask me what Oscar’s correct character name is in “The Promise.” They have seen it printed several ways - I have, too. According to documents issued directly by Survival Pictures, the character’s last name is “Boghosian,” so I’m definitely using that spelling.

Regarding the first name - Survival Pictures is using the “Americanized” version (“Michael”) of the Armenian name, “Mikayel,” in their written material for the U.S. market. However, the American pronunciation is not used in the film. In articles I’ve seen online, the only non-American spelling used in regards to the film’s character has been “Mikael,” not “Mikayel,” which is odd because “Mikael” is actually of Hebrew/Scandinavian origin. Nonetheless, I’ve noticed that several Armenian articles have used “Mikael”, so maybe they also use that in addition to the more traditional spelling. I have never seen Oscar’s character described as “Mikayel,” so I’m using “Mikael Boghosian” for now until I hear otherwise. How many of you are thoroughly confused now? 🤔😂 @oscar-isaacs-eyelashes

[ladywynne]

He's being too sweet for any of them. Maybe Mikael Boghosian, Michael Perry, or Evgeni?

Thank you, Elvira 🥰

[ladywynne]

So I spent summer 2022 watching Oscar Isaac. Here are my very subjective favorites!

Annihilation - I love Kane. That southern drawl. Plus I teach biology and I am a believer. I get Kane and Lena's dynamic. It is fascinating, and I am glad they still love each other. I want to read the book now.

The Promise - Mikael Boghosian is such a sweetheart, so gentle. The beginning when he is at Constantinople is beautiful and so is the way he cares for Maral.

Star Wars sequel trilogy - Everyone's favorite flyboy, Poe Dameron! I was pretty biased for The Force Awakens even before this Oscar Isaac kick. It is so much fun, and I remember how I was a kid again the minute I heard the theme in the theater and saw those scrolling words. Poe has so much joy in this movie too.The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker are good too.

Moon Knight - The reason I'm here! Loved this. He is brilliant as MarcSpector/StevenGrant/JakeLockley. The series is so well done on every level. You can see the thought and effort that went into it.

Dune - I can't wait to see more of these movies. I like how different it is. I've started the first book now too. Duke Leto stands out as a father.

The Card Counter - William "Bill" Tell - Listen, give me a remorseful, messed-up, lonely man trying to do his best for a lonely messed-up kid any day. The poker background was cool and the performance was absolutely top-notch. Pretty much next level imo. Flashbacks were extremely hard to watch. I loved the quote on his tattoo, "I trust my life to Providence, I trust my soul to Grace."

The Nativity Story - This telling of the Christmas story is the first I've seen that really shows Joseph's contributions. Mary needed his support and he gave it. Can't wait to watch it again in December.

Life Itself - This one almost didn't make the cut because it gutted me. Like Titanic-level crying. One reviewer called it "exploitative" and I can kinda understand that. When Will is happy he is very very happy. When Will is not there is trauma.

Won't Back Down - So Michael Perry is the cutest grade school teacher ever with his ukulele. There are adorable moments that I wish lasted longer.

Honorable Mentions:

The Two Faces of January - Rydal Keener - Love the beauty of Greece, but lost interest after what happened to the lady. To be fair Oscar Isaac has some of his best scenes after that though.

W.E. - Lots to love here and lots I didn't, but Evgeni Kolpakov is so great. Hint: I couldn't find the movie when searching until I put the periods in the title.

Finally, I don't have access to The Letter Room. Bummer.

Thanks for reading! I'd love to chat so feel free. : )

[distracted-milkshake]

Are you ever going to write anything for Mikael from the Promise? Love your works btw! Especially your more niche ones

I don’t have an exact answer for this, it’s sort of muddy

First off, it would take a lot of research and time to write for the time period and during an active genocide, since I would never write just brushing that aside and I wouldn’t want to get all my information about it from the movie as just one source, like with Bassam I have two dozen tabs on Iraq and Arab culture and am digging through loads of literal miles of ‘anti terror’ and Islamophobic propaganda to find actual stuff about what it’s like to live in Samara and the surrounding area, and while I love doing it, I’m not keen to add a whole nother culture and time period to that and all the other stuff I’m researching for fics

Mikael, like Abel Morales, Rydal Keener, a couple of others, their stories were more about just that, the story, as opposed to the characters, and I just didn’t have any ideas or feel the need to add or fix or change anything about them through fanfiction. Their stories are complete or their characters were just not as compelling personally to me to write with as some others. The Promise has some big problems as a movie and as a portrayal of events that I’m not really going to get into here but they’re broader and more integral than a one or two shot could fix, and I’m already two billion one shots and four or five long fics deep in all this and related fandoms, so

Maybe I’ll read some other stuff and get some ideas and have a little something at some point, no promises (lmao), because I do really love Mikael he’s like my top five Oscar Isaac characters, and I think his mannerisms and personality would be very fun to write for, but for now, I don’t have any ideas and have got other stuff I’m working on

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Annoucement

I now write for the following along with the rest of my fandoms!

Gears of war

Anya Stroud

Marcus Fenix

Samantha Byrne

Augustus Cole

Elizabeth Carmine

Dom Santiago

Alexandra Brand

JD Fenix

Sofia Hendrik

Anthony Carmine

Alicia Valera

New/Current Oscar Isaac charaters

New

Abel Morales

Jonathan Levy

Jose Ramos Horta

Cecil

Peter Malkin

Nick Wasicsko

Michael Perry

Jack

Nathan Bateman

Current

Santiago "Pope" Garcia

Poe Dameron

Steven Grant

William Tell

Llewyn Davis

Mikael Boghosian

Duke Leto Atreides

Marc Specter

Kane Double

New/Current Pedro Pascal Characters

New

Joel Miller

Pero Tovar

Dave York

Marcus Pike

Ezra

Pietro Alvarez

Nathan Landry

Current

Mandalorian/Din Djarin

Javi Gutierrez

Frankie Morales

Marcus Moreno

Jack "Whiskey" Daniels

Dieter Bravo

Zach Wellington

New/Current Garrett Hedlund Characters

New

Luther Fox

Don Billingsley

Murtagh Morzansson

Beau Hutton

Thomas

Mike Burden

Johnny Five

Perry Montroy

Dean Moriarty

Current

Jack Mercer

Mitch Keller

Benny Miller

Rami Malek Characters

Elliot Alderson

Akmenrah

Jim Baxter

Louis Dega

Merriell "Snafu" Shelton

Nate

New/Current Yellowstone characters

New

Kacey Dutton

John Dutton

Jamie Dutton

Jimmy Hurdstram

Colby Mayfield

Current

Teonna Rainwater

Monica Long Dutton

Rip Wheeler

Beth Dutton

Teeter

Misconsellous

Neil Tenet

Mia Toretto

Joey Coalter

Rachel

Pierre Dulaine

Echo

Bobby Hicks

Kimberly Hart

Lorenzo Do Lamberti

Trini Kwan

David Abbott

Tory Nichols

Luigi Mario

Anna Morales

Miguel Diaz

Princess daisy

Peter Joshua

Lin Mi Sheng

Dash McMahon

Evelyn O'connell

Leonhard Seppala

Polly Shelby

Hector Villanueva

Tris Prior

John Kelly

Laurel Pride

Scott Barringer

Elsa Dutton

Matt Flamhaff

Jessie Eden

Baker Dill

Julianne Potter

Perry MacKendrick

Celine Naville

Eli Moskowitz

Laura Burney/Sara Waters

Rick O'connell

Gail Perkins

Sean Anderson

Ares (John Wick)

Tobias "Four" Eaton

Akima

Robert Lewis

Mason "Mace" Brown

Sam Munroe

[eroticandawkward]

LGBTQ headcanons for Oscar Isaac characters bc it's Pride Month and I'm an queer🏳️‍🌈

I skipped some characters because I either had no opinion on them or because they were/are a real person (excluding El Catorce bc if the movie can take that many creative liberties then so can I). Also this is all in good fun; if you don't agree with my headcanons that's perfectly fine

Abel Morales: cishet😔

Basil Stitt: Questioning

Blue Jones: heteroflexible menace

Cecil Dennis: polyamorous polysexual polygender 🙏

Frank (from All About The Benjamins): that's a nonbinary gay man my dudes

Jack Jackson: Unlabeled because "man should not be constrained by imperfect constructions and ideologies, brother"

Jake Lockely: I'm sorry ladies but Jake is a Homosexual 🤷‍♂️

Johnathan Levy: yeah that's a straight man

Kane (from Annihilation): bisexual, does drag occasionally

Laurent: aggressively heterosexual

Leto Atreides: pansexual

Llewyn Davis: has sex with women but identifies as gay

Lucien (from Ticky Tacky): aromantic heterosexual

Marc Spector: he/they bisexual disaster

Marcus (from The Life Before Her Eyes): cishet (degratotary)

Michael Perry: heterosexual trans man

Mikael Boghosian: cishet but a #Ally

Nathan Bateman: thinks he would be ~open enough~ to have partners of a variety of genders but is actually Thee Most Cishet Man.

Outcome #3: gaaaay

Poe Dameron: trans gay trans gay trans gay-

Reeves: cishet (affectionate)

Rydal Keener: Vintage Bisexual TM

Robbie Paulson: genderqueer grayace

Santiago Garcia: bisexual, Kinky

Steven Grant: demisexual, into women and nonbinary people

Victoriano "El Catorce" Ramirez: gay because I think it'd be funny since the real Victoriano Ramirez was known to have many lady friends in addition to his wife

Will Dempsey: Cishet TM

William Tell: has had sex with men but identifies as straight

[shewolfofficial]

the bathroom victims 💔

[leiakenobi]

main masterlist | AO3

By Character

✨ Abel Morales (A Most Violent Year) ✨

✨ Blue Jones (Sucker Punch) ✨

✨ Bud Cooper (Suburbicon) ✨

✨ Jonathan (Scenes from a Marriage) ✨

✨ Leto Atreides (Dune) ✨

✨ Llewyn Davis (Inside Llewyn Davis) ✨

✨ Lucien (Ticky Tacky) ✨

✨ Michael Perry (Won’t Back Down) ✨

✨ Mikael Boghosian (The Promise) ✨

✨ Moon Knight Alters (Marvel) ✨

✨ Nathan Bateman (Ex Machina) ✨

✨ Orestes (Agora) ✨

✨ Poe Dameron (Star Wars) ✨

✨ Rydal Keener (The Two Faces of January) ✨

✨ Santiago “Pope” Garcia (Triple Frontier) ✨

✨ William Tell (The Card Counter) ✨

By event

✨ Kinktober 2021 ✨

[legalrichieflood]

Instagram whistleblowers reveal California College Republican hate speech in chatroom

Screenshots from a Discord server attributed to a statewide California College Republicans (CCR) chat exposed misogynistic, racist, antisemitic comments and threats of violence from various CCR members, including members from Cal Poly Pomona’s chapter.

A fallout within California’s collegiate Republican Party due to differing opinions caused CCR chapters to de-charter and form a new organization in 2019, the California Federation of College Republicans (CFCR). The split came after CCR published a 10-page platform that attacked university funding of birth control and abortion, the legitimizing of transgender people, and institutional support of Mexican and Muslim student organizations. The extremist platform claimed that members of the LGBT+ community were “murderous and degenerate.”

This bled into CPP’s own College Republicans and in Spring 2020, Aaron Santana Ruiz, president of CPP’s College Republicans switched the campus’ charter from the CFCR to CCR.

Instagram user, “abusiveccr,” who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, reached out to The Poly Post on Feb. 4 with screenshots of messages including two accounts alleged to belong to Santana-Ruiz and fourth-year chemical engineering student, Baron Boghosian.

Many of the user “Boghosian’s” posts include selfies of Baron Boghosian.

The same account, under a revised name “Big Gorilla”, also posted a video with the accompanying comment, “watch this you Jews” to the Discord server.

The video shows Baron Boghosian and others driving around during Halloween 2020, including on the empty CPP campus, shouting statements supportive of former President Donald Trump and ending with the group eating pizza.

On Nov. 6, 2020, the same account, posted numerous comments inciting violence.

According to the CPP Republicans code of conduct, “Grounds for removal and/or suspension of an organization member(s) are appropriate if and only if student behavior is not consistent with the California Polytechnic University of Pomona student conduct and discipline code.”

When asked why more reports had not been made, user “disenchantedccrmember” said, “I don’t think anything through CCR would happen just because most of these guys are in their minds, at least, all on the same side. They all share similar beliefs. They don’t like Jews. They don’t like people of color. They think women need to just be at home in the kitchen, so I think if any sort of action was to come, it would come through the schools. Probably through a mission of conduct at the very least…People who have brought up concerns have either been kicked out or they’re blacklisted, and they basically cannot climb up the ladders.”

User “abusiveccr” responded similarly.

“I do want to have a career in politics, and they wouldn’t like this … a lot of the people have connections with all the offices so that could spread.”

Instagram user “_alxlcastilo” commented under every photo “abusiveccr” posted.

Alex Castillo, CPP student and alleged user of “_alxlcastilo”, did not respond to requests for comment.

CCR member, Stephen Miller, had multiple screenshots leaked with his name attached. Because of this, he reached out to user “abusiveccr”.

According to Miller, he was invited to join CCR by Loyola CCR president and CCR state chair, William Donahue.

Miller said that many of the screenshots are old and, at his request, the individuals were “purged from the chat” by William Donahue. He added that even though the messages were his, the photos of the chats are “taken out of context.”

“I know that a lot of things were recently deleted on our discord because a lot of people were scared that their comments were getting leaked out,” Miller said. “People started talking about it, and then other people started running to delete certain messages that they were afraid could be construed the wrong way. Some of them, I wouldn’t blame them. They had no context and they were 100% wrong.”

According to Miller, CCR holds individuals accountable and that a decision to remove someone from the Discord server depends “on the severity of the comments they made.”

“We try to be nonconfrontational and not hostile about it,” Miller said. “Often times you can tell when someone is joking about something. They wouldn’t joke about something that was serious, obviously.”

According to “abusiveccr”, on Nov. 10, the user “Boghosian” was removed from the server after disrespectful comments toward Arielle Spotswood, a student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and current co-chair of CCR.

Spotswood did not respond to The Poly Post request for comment.

When asked for comment, Boghosian said he has “no connection with CCR at all,” and claimed to vote for the Democratic Party. He added that he never had a Discord account and the profile depicting his name, along with the chats, are “completely false and fraudulent.”

Additionally, sources say the account named “Chancellor Santana”, allegedly that of Santana Ruiz, frequently posted in Discord endorsing Nick Fuentes, a 22-year-old far-right podcaster known for pushing white nationalist and anti-Semitic views onto younger listeners. Followers of Fuentes and Patrick Casey, the leader of the United States neo-Nazi group American Identity Movement, are called “Groypers.”

In January 2019, Fuentes compared the Holocaust to a “cookie baking operation.” According to Instagram user “disenchantedccrmember”, the icon next to Santana’s name is in reference to these statements. When reprimanded for the action, Santana Ruiz changed the image to a pizza.

User “disenchatedccrmember” added that they felt the need to create the whistleblower account to shed light on the controversy.

“We’ve reported them to even their advisor. We’ve reported to Michael Donahue … who is their advisor at Cal Poly Pomona and he said nothing, he’s done nothing,” said “disenchantedccrmember.”

Initially, Michael Donahue agreed to meet with The Poly Post, but on Feb. 10 rescinded the interview in an emailed statement.

“Due to your inquiry, I have investigated this matter with the concerned Cal Poly students and state organization. I have spoken with the Cal Poly Pomona College Republicans President, Aaron, and Baron, (who is in my senior design class at Cal Poly). As it stands, both Baron and Aaron have categorically denied these allegations. Furthermore, Baron is not a member of CPP College Republicans, nor is he a member of CCR,” Donahue stated, “I have found no evidence to support the claims that you have purported. As you know, anyone can change their name and picture on Discord. Anyone can create a new account or server with any name associated to it. Due to this design, as I understand it, there is no way to determine the identity of the person(s) who authored these posts.”

In a Feb. 8 emailed statement to the Poly Post, Santana Ruiz wrote, “While I do have an Instagram, I do not have a Discord. When I looked into these supposed chats that were ‘leaked’ it appears that they come from some social media application called Discord. I have never used Discord and the account is obviously fraudulent. The images registered to the account are not me and it’s frustrating that someone would use my name and an image of a cookie to slander me. (I’m not sure if that’s an attack on me for being mixed race).”

According to Kyle Shulz, former president of CPP Republicans, during the end of his term and under the administration of Santana Ruiz, a mass email subject, “College Republicans at Cal Poly Pomona: Hangout Meeting (Fri. 1/29/21 @ 6-9PM)” was sent to all members with links to both a private CPP Republicans Discord as well as the CCR Discord.

The CPP Republican Bylaws’ article H states that the president, “Shall be the official representative of this organization at all club involved events and activities.” The bylaws have since been removed from CPP Republican’s MyBar, but can be found here.

The server violates Discord community guidelines. The comments may also violate the student code of conduct policy at CPP under item 7, “Conduct that threatens or endangers the health or safety of any person within or related to the University community, including physical abuse, threats, intimidation, harassment, or sexual misconduct.”

In an emailed statement to The Poly Post on Feb. 9, CCR’s communication team wrote, “On behalf of the organization and alleged affected members, we can unequivocally say that these alleged Discord leaks are either doctored, edited, or manipulated. No records of these conversations or members exist, and there is no evidence they belong to CCR or any chapter. The alleged names/nicknames are not even in our Discord, and there is no evidence they ever existed. This is simply the nature of Discord.”

Before Feb. 9, the Discord’s link could be found publicly on the CCR web page masthead and included the lobby of members active within the attached server.

The link was pulled off its website on Feb. 8 for a short period of time, and then again permanently by the morning of Feb. 9.

Beginning as early as Feb. 5, the Discord server was purged of chats by moderators, until on Feb. 7 when the server was completely wiped clean. Members within the server were not informed and questioned the removed messages and chatrooms. While it is unclear who is the official moderator, both William Donahue and Dylan Martin, communications director, responded to their complaints.

The CCR Discord server contained student members from universities across all of California and there is no record of action to regulate, prevent or discipline comments that could escalate to threats of violence like user “Boghosian’s” had.

Shortly after Santana Ruiz’s email to The Poly Post, the account “Chancellor Santana” changed its name to “Mad World Mad World” and left the CCR Discord server and used the same meme that the account claimed to use when its chapter departed from the CFCR charter.

New University, University of California, Irvine’s campus newspaper reported on similar allegations on Jan. 12.

Additionally, this is not the first time CPP Republicans have been accused of hate speech and discrimination. In fall 2020, popular Instagram account CPP Confessions, an account where the CPP community can anonymously submit community news, reposted several controversial CPP Republican posts for its followers to see.

“This chat is an echo chamber for these people to have these vile, sick beliefs and they hype each other up,” “disenchantedccrmember” added. “One of my biggest concerns is that if they hype each other up enough that they will actually go out and commit acts of violence.”

As of this report, both “disenchatedccrmember” and “abusiveccr” accounts have been terminated. “I plan to continue until the end of the Unity election,” disenchatedccrmember said.

This unity election between CCR and CFCR was dated for Feb. 20, but the results have not been announced nor any news on the election been disclosed. More can be found at https://www.americafirstcr.com. William Donahue is running for chairman.

User “abusiveccr” cited that they would continue the account “as long as it takes… for all of this to hopefully end soon.”

Additional screen grabs with corresponding documents can be found here.

If students are facing harassment, they can reach out to the Office of Equity and Compliance. For reports on threats of violence contact the University Police Department. If students need to report a breach of student conduct, the Office of Student Conduct and Integrity can be found at https://www.cpp.edu/studentconduct/staff.shtml.

Edit 4/6, 7 p.m.: The names of individuals within the screenshots that The Poly Post did not reach out to have been redacted for privacy.