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San Francisco Ballet principal Vanessa Zahorian rehearsing Romeo and Juliet (x)

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 Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève: Pontus Lidburg’s Giselle (x)

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Since the Most Important Day of the Year is this upcoming week, I suggest we shift this year’s Seasonal Meme from Baby Grinch to Chewbacca’s son, Lumpy, from the 1978 classic, The Star Wars Holiday Special.

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mamamoo released the design for their new lightsticks and theyre fuckignf radishes

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Maddox & Angelina by Annie Leibovitz, 2005 and 2015.

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Religious scholar Reza Aslan answers CNN’s question, “Does Islam promote violence?”

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Beirut: Two suicide bombings have killed 41+ people. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34805466

Japan: A tsunami warning has been issued for parts of Japan after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off its south-western coast. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34816292

Paris: Dozens dead, 3 explosions, and 60+ hostage situation. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34814203

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yeah so i got my hair done today

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when ducks are having a better summer than you

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So, in case you haven’t seen what Tokyo Disney is doing for halloween

Here’s the basics. The big villains of the disney movies have invited mickey and the crew to join them for halloween. Meanwhile, the villains have sent out ‘recruiters’ to get the guests to join the villain’s side!

Here are the recruiters, because they’re amazing and already are amassing a fanbase (plus I want to draw them). I’ve only got a few of their names, so I wrote the ones I knew. Eight Foot Joe (Ursula): 

Apple Poison (Evil Queen): 

Jack of Hearts (Queen of Hearts):

(Cruella DeVille):

Malefi (Maleficent):

Veil (Frollo):

(Hades):

(Captain Hook): 

(Scar):

(Jafar):

If y’all know any of the names I don’t, please put them!

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*every high school student when the teacher doesn’t show up after 2 minutes* “you know there’s a rule where if the teacher’s not here after 15 minutes we can just leave”

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This is so sad. Women are already discouraged from pursuing science. Treating us like criminals for experimenting isn’t helping.

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Pretty much..

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the experience with bts, tgm entertainment, and bighit might have been good for some people, and we’re all really happy that it was. but that doesn’t detract from the level of disgust we should all feel that many many ARMYs didn’t get as good of an experience. tgm is wholly at fault here, not bts or bighit, and they need to experience the consequences. please don’t overrule any shitty encounters with “well but my experience was amazing so it couldn’t have been that bad”

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Because of this giant BTS American Tour cluster fuck I kept seeing a name come up: “Nadia”. So I did a little research and here are the several red flags I’ve found.

SHE’S TOO YOUNG.

Her Facebook profile states she’s 26, born 1989, and is the Managing Director at TGM Entertainment and CEO/Founder of TGM Events. 

So you had a 26 year old in charge of throwing fan events for one of the biggest K-Pop acts out there? And not even for one city but spread out ALL across the nation?

Unless she grew up under the tutelage of an event organizer all of her life, coming out of college at like 22, 4 years is NOT enough experience to be the LEADER of an event like this. But after doing some digging via FB her FIRST production was in Nov 2013 under KPOP United. In May 2014 she started TGM EVENTS. So only half a year since her first production she started her own company? So not even 4 years of experience after college…it’s less than 2 years of actual hands on experience.

Apparently the organization was fucked up, the sound was fucked up, and this isn’t the first concert they messed up, and in fact the past two concerts that they SOLD TICKETS FOR, still have not refunded people’s money and only a few people have seen returns after threatening to involve the police. 

SHE ASKED PEOPLE FOR MONEY.

What kind of an event company asks its possible future attendees for fucking seed money via crowd funding? She asked for a WHOPPING $300k and only got a few hundred dollars short of $17k. WHAT? They say that they’re only looking to raise “half of what they need” but…NO? Why is AN EVENT COMPANY ASKING ITS ATTENDEES FOR THAT MONEY. It means this company doesn’t have the money to throw these events because they have not made A) revenue or profit as a company B) do not have investors or C) got in way over their heads and started a company with no money.

That’s fucking ridiculous. If you can’t fucking find the seed money to run a company to DO what it’s supposed to do, throw a professional event, why the FUCK did you start this company in the first place? Why the fuck are you claiming you can throw events all across the United States and also Canada and parts of Southeast Asia (I read somewhere they’re blacklisted now in one of the countries because of ANOTHER event fuck up).

WHAT DOES THIS COMPANY ACTUALLY DO?

This is their website. It’s a very basic and simple web design, like even half a day on Squarespace could produce better results. But is this even a real company?

Nowhere on the site can you find out what they actually do, proof/highlights of their previous work and previous events, and a general professional aura about them. Their Facebook offers this description: “TGM Events is a global concert production house headquartered in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia and Los Angeles, CA. The team behind this production house is as diverse as their locations with an international team that hails from Dallas, Texas to Manila, Philippines. The focus of TGM Events is to revolutionize the concert-going experience by providing top-notch quality productions that is centered around growing the K-Pop community.” Pretty words but vague and don’t actually offer insight into what they actually do besides being a “concert production house”.

And if you look at any available media, from 2015 all you see are photoshopped posters. From 2014 you see a few photos of fans positing with their group and then a bunch of cellphone camera photos. Really? You couldn’t hire a photographer? A friend with a DSLR? Like what kind of a poor marketing is this? If it was me, I would have high quality images of all the events but not just HQ but also WELL TAKEN photos, and then a videographer as well to cut a sizzle reel to advertise your fucking company instead of digital flyers and cellphone images.

And Nadia claims to be the CEO of TGM Events but a Managing Director of TGM Entertainment. So there’s a distinction? Is Events a branch off of Entertainment? Then again, what the fuck does TGM Entertainment actually even fucking do? How do they make a fucking profit?

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But this is all I’ve dug up on my own. I’m not a BTS fan but I don’t like people getting ripped off or people getting in way over their heads and fucking people over. I don’t think this girl Nadia is a bad person or is purposefully trying to scam people or give them a terrible experience, but she DOESN’T KNOW WHAT SHE’S DOING. 

I don’t think fans should be organizing to sue someone so young with a whole life ahead of them but…what other option is there if they’re not refunded their money? And even if they are refunded, this is not even the first or third time that TGM Events has fucked fans. How will this company ever learn and stop taking away the contracts from an event company who can actually throw a proper event?

Just please look into all of this. It’s just all a bunch of giant red flags doomed to fail from launch. She’s too young, this isn’t a legitimate company…

Shit, it’s another fucking Dashcon.

Basically posting because I don’t want SEVENTEEN or any other K-Pop group to ever fucking go through this and for any other fan to endure this shit from TGM Events.

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sept 15 - oct 15 | national hispanic/latinx appreciation month (click here for part one)