#Catie Osborn

[yourdailyqueer]

Catieosaurus (Catie Osborn)

Gender: Non binary (she/they/mx)

Sexuality: Bisexual, demi / greysexual

DOB: 9 January 1988  

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Influencer, actor, podcaster, sex educator, adult actor, activist

Note: Has ADHD, has myoclonic dystonia and is polyamourous 

[rank-sentimentalist]

Dungeons & Dragons content creators are fighting to protect their livelihoods

More than 54,000 fans signed an open letter in protest of a new game license

Amanda Silberling@asilbwrites / 11:17 AM EST•January 12, 2023

Once a game on the periphery for the nerdiest of nerds, Dungeons & Dragons has exploded into the mainstream. Much of this success is owed to the podcasters, Twitch streamers and writers who have embraced the fantasy framework to tell collaborative stories at the whims of their dice rolls, inspiring massive renewed interest in the game.

“I think we’re in a really interesting moment in D&D,” Catie Osborn, a Dungeons & Dragons content creator with over 1.6 million TikTok followers, told TechCrunch. “You have [a new edition of the game] that’s about to come out, and you have also at the same time, all of these third-party writers, and people writing modules, and all of the different stuff that they’re adding into the community.”

Though Dungeons & Dragons was first published in 1974, a new generation of fans has found an entry point through independent “actual play” shows like Dropout’s “Dimension 20” or the McElroy brothers’ “The Adventure Zone.” In 2021, a Twitch leak revealed that the platform’s highest-paid channel was “Critical Role,” a highly produced stream in which a crew of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons live. The show made over $9.6 million that year.

These hugely popular shows are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Dungeons & Dragons fan community. Thanks to the longstanding Open Gaming License (OGL), which has been in effect since 2000, a slew of internet creators are making a modest living off of the game, whether they’re performing on livestreams, writing original spell books or coding online platforms for remote gameplay.

Now, proposed changes to the OGL threaten an entire cohort of Dungeons & Dragons content creators.

Wizards of the Coast (WoTC), the Hasbro-owned publisher of the game, plans to update the OGL for the first time in over 22 years, releasing a new licensing system that the company is calling OGL 1.1. Some creators who received copies of OGL 1.1 have leaked it across the internet, sparking an outcry of resistance from fans and content creators alike.

More than 54,000 people have signed an open letter against these changes as part of a movement called #OpenDND, organized by Mage Hand Press editor-in-chief Mike Holik.

“If this new license gains wide adoption, the tabletop landscape will fracture and lose its biggest onboarding mechanisms, shuttering the small businesses that populate your local cons and putting a stop to their creations,” the open letter says. “Innovation in the gaming industry will evaporate; your favorite games will be trapped in the past, instead of being allowed to migrate to your phone, virtual reality, and beyond. Diversity in the industry will shrink away, as projects from marginalized creators are effectively written out of the future.”

As a franchise, Dungeons & Dragons is not really one canonical story. Each time a new group plays the game, they create their own characters and plot lines that guide their improvisational roleplaying experience. Though WoTC will publish its own books of lore that players can choose to incorporate, the core of the game is pretty malleable and unspecific.

To play the game, players sculpt original fantasy characters from classes like sorcerers, druids and fighters, and the rules of Dungeons & Dragons provide skills, spells and ability stats that make up the game system. But as actual play shows and fan-made companion publications become more popular, Hasbro and WoTC executives have said that they want to turn the “undermonetized” Dungeons & Dragons property into a full-blown media franchise.

“The D&D strategy is a broad four-quadrant strategy, where we have this powerful brand that has similar awareness, say like ‘Lord of the Rings’ or ‘Harry Potter,’” said Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks on a December investor call. “And we’re going to imbue it with blockbuster entertainment.” The company is producing a Dungeons & Dragons TV show and movie, which is slated for release in March.

The problem, though, is that Dungeons & Dragons is merely a framework through which people create their own fantasy-inspired stories and games — there are no core characters or plot that unifies the interest of the whole community. The game’s playbooks feature some fan-favorite characters like Drizzt Do’Urden, a drow hero who resists his dark nature, or Count Strahd von Zarovich, an evil vampire villain. But it’s very possible for fans to dive deep into Dungeons & Dragons without ever even encountering these characters, since they are not essential to the game. It’s impossible to imagine a “Star Wars” fan who has never heard of Yoda, but you can play Dungeons & Dragons for years without ever knowing that Drizzt or Strahd exist.

“There is no main character of D&D, or I think another way of saying it is, you are the main character of D&D,” said Osborn, who is known online as Catieosaurus. “I think it could be fun to watch a movie about these adventures or whatever, but the appeal of D&D is that it’s about us — it’s about the stories that we tell together at a table.”

Hasbro did not respond to multiple requests for comment on its plans for OGL 1.1. A creator who received a copy of the updated license told TechCrunch that the new terms give WoTC ownership of any fan-made IP — so, if a creator writes an adventure for players to incorporate into their own Dungeons & Dragons campaign, WoTC has the right to reprint the creator’s work as their own without payment. It also endangers the existence of virtual tabletop software, which maked remote play possible.

Under the new license, as proposed, any creator who makes over $50,000 will have to report their income to WoTC, and those who make over $750,000 will have to pay a 25% royalty to the company on every dollar above that threshold. Though these dollar values may seem high, this applies to gross revenue, not profit.

“When you are creating content, you’re working on small margins. You’re hiring your own ecosystem of creators, designers, artists, everything,” said Noah Downs, a partner at Premack Rogers and Dungeons & Dragons livestreamer who has seen the OGL 1.1 document. “And a 25% royalty, even if it’s above a certain threshold, can absolutely destroy your margin, and in many cases, it can make it untenable to continue to produce.”

At Mage Hand Press, one of Holik’s Kickstarter campaigns for a Dungeons & Dragons expansion earned $704,467 from 7,710 backers. But he sees the royalty clause as a way for WoTC to make it harder for independent publishers to compete.

“A Kickstarter involves many small products, so your profit margins actually go down, because really, you’re going to offer people some dice, and some adventures, and a box set, and all of those individual things end up cutting into your profit margins pretty significantly,” Holik said. “Kickstarters don’t walk away with 80% of their money and profit. None of that is legitimate. I don’t know where they’re getting that 25% number beyond … they’re trying to squish competition completely.”

Not only would OGL 1.1 make it more difficult for Holik to turn a profit, but Downs says it would also grant WoTC the ability to publish independent creators’ work as its own.

“If you accept OGL 1.1, you’re granting Wizards of the Coast a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free sublicense,” Downs told TechCrunch. “That means they have the forever right, that you cannot revoke, to use your work without additional royalty … That section of the license is more detrimental to creators than the monetary part of the license.”

For those making actual play videos or podcasts, the new OGL has less of a direct effect.

“The OGL affects third-party creators of game materials. Podcasters are covered by the fan content policy,” said Eric Silver, game master of the TTRPG podcast “Join the Party.” But he is still concerned about how changes at WoTC could trickle down. “The fan policy contains a clause that says Wizards can shut down individual projects or creators that they deem harmful to Wizards’ brand. That makes me wonder if criticism of the company counts in their eyes as harmful, and if they’re counting on that fear to stifle pushback to policy changes. And they have demonstrated that they can and will change policies whenever it serves them with little warning.”

Currently, the fan-content policy allows creators to use WoTC’s IP so long as it’s free. Creators are allowed to earn income through sponsorships, ad revenue and donations, but they cannot paywall any content.

WoTC has remained eerily silent in light of the backlash against the leak of OGL 1.1. It’s not clear how, when, or if this change will go into effect, but the company said last year that it would make these changes in the beginning of 2023.

“The OGL literally changed my life,” said Osborn. “It’s why I’m able to do what I do. It’s how I make my income. And so it’s just kind of scary.”

Holik says that if OGL 1.1 goes into effect, he will have to restructure his entire business.

“I’d have to cancel two Kickstarters and take my Patreon down overnight,” said Holik. Through Patreon alone, Holik’s company makes almost $2,000 per month.

According to Osborn, the silver lining is that there are more games out there like Dungeons & Dragons. Though it’s inarguably the most popular TTRPG, fans have also gravitated to game systems like Monster of the Week, Fate, Blades in the Dark and Kids on Bikes. On websites like itch.io, an indie games marketplace, TTRPG players can find anything from a game about cheeky, party-crashing goats to a “Friday Night Lights”-inspired story about high school football.

“I don’t want to say it’s a good thing, but I think it has put the community in an incredible position. Like, if you look on Twitter, right now there’s so many conversations starting about what are other options? What are other games I can play?” Osborn said. “I think people are going to start seeing the wide variety of incredible games that have been made by small indie creators.”

[motionsickishreader]

Dear America: Standing in the Light Review

Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan 

Mary Pope Osborne 

Catharine Carey Logan has spent her life living the simple ways of a Quaker in the Delaware Valley during the colonial period. Her life is turned upside down when she and her younger brother, Thomas, are captured and taken in by members of the Lenape tribe. Osborne does an excellent job at creating a story that truly captures the colonial period and the conflict between the Delaware Valley Quakers and the Lenape tribe. Through her diary entries, the reader is able to experience Caty’s life over the course of the year in an easily digestible and quick to read format. Caty seems to have reasonable character growth over the course of the story, initially being resistant to the ways of the Lenape and eventually embracing the lifestyle as she got to know the people she was living alongside. Caty’s story teaches the importance of walking in someone else’s shoes and learning to respect the culture and values of other people. While the lifestyle of the Lenape may not be the truth of her and the Quakers she grew up alongside, the Lenape and their truths are not much different than her own, and as such she needs to respect their way of life. While at points it seems as if Caty is able to change her ways overnight, due to the nature of the diary format it makes sense that the reader would be missing more subtle changes in her life as she chooses to only document the most important events of that day or week. While Caty is not a real person, her life and experiences are based on real events that took place between the Quakers and Lenape tribe from fall 1763 to fall 1764. Osborne clearly did her research, effectively capturing the culture of both the Quakers and Lenape throughout the course of the story. Traditions from both societies are equally treated with respect and are never truly looked down upon after Caty’s growth as a character. The end of the book also features various pictures and historical documents from the time period to further educate readers about colonial America and the real life events that serve as the historical background to this story. Overall, this book is an excellent story about the life of a Quaker girl living in the colonial period that middle grade readers are sure to enjoy.

BIBLIO: 1998, Scholastic Inc., Ages 9 to 13, $9.95. 

REVIEWER: Jessica Hummel 

FORMAT: Middle Reader 

ISBN: 0-590-13462-0

[dearamericaroyaldiaries]

Is There a Posting Schedule? No. Come to Terms With That Fact.

Standing in the Light- 1763-1764, Catharine Carey Logan

(This edition is the best edition. There’s a reprint with yellow on the cover instead of green and the newest edition after the re-brand isn’t as good. None of them are.)

Protagonist Age: 12/13

Started- 1/4/2022

Finished- 2/21/2022

Summary: (I figure this might be a good idea to provide context for the #ReadingThoughts)

Quaker girl is terrified of Native American raids (which are retaliatory and fair [as much as any violence is] in context but terrifying for our protagonist). She gets ‘napped along with her little brother, resists integrating, and writes as a way of coping emotionally. After a few weeks/months she comes to see the Lenape as people and is further traumatized when her potential intended (another white person taken by the Lenape as a child and fully integrated into the society) and the rest of her adopted family are potentially murdered as she is “rescued.” Once reunited with her Quaker family she struggles to reintegrate because she is thoroughly traumatized.

#ReadingThoughts

I should figure out when to use thee vs thou vs thy vs thine. Today is not that day.

Catharine has a cute little crush on Jess Owens. (Spoiler alert: it doesn’t last.)

How stressful to live in fear of constant attack. (Pointedly ignoring the general ongoing state of the world.)

Did I miss that they got knocked out when they were taken? I’m not understanding why she’s lost track of time already.

Not loving the pervasive racism so far but I know (spoiler alert 2) that she grows out of these views. I also understand why she feels that way but I don’t have to like it.

“Why do feel better? Surely not because of the medical aid provided. That was clearly torture.” Kid, you’ve got some trauma blinders on.

THAT’S RIGHT, CATHATINE! He speaks English! (That’s what I thought but it’s been 20 years since I read this book. Cut me some slack.)

How does she know the baby is a boy?

What's a trout lily? Why is it called that? (They're pretty. I did not find why.)

I’m surprised Caty hasn’t had more to say about the baby’s father.

Welp. That escalated quickly. “Oh, I don’t know. Do I feel anything for him?” Ten minutes later: “I love him!”

Why do I see Caty as Amy March from Little Women? Kirsten Dunst Amy, not Florence Pugh Amy. It might be the portrait on the cover.

Well. These poor kids have been through too much.

Papa is trying. He’s trying to let them say what they need to say and process their experiences. This series stans dads so far.

Thoughts on the Afterward

The epilogue gave some closure but I want my full sweeping romances. I’m holding out hope that my favorites hold up and there are minimal Yikes moments when re-reading two decades later. Of the four I’m thinking of off the top of my head, I’m pretty sure two have questionable age differences, one has a marriage of a side character at a potentially questionable age without a questionable age gap, and the last one starts out with a questionable age difference BUT it ends with a much less questionable age gap. We’ll see if I remember correctly.

BUT I DIGRESS

Overall Thoughts After Reading

I love me some Mary Pope Osborne. She's a good writer. I don’t know if I’d feel okay reading this book aloud due to the ... problematic way Amer-Indians are discussed. Caty goes on a journey and learns her worldview was skewed, but some of the language used is NOT okay to use today.

This is one of the oldies and a goody. I want a mini-series about her experience where everyone lives, she marries Snow Hunter, they get her dad’s approval after the fact, and everyone has closure and is happy. Is that so much to ask? Gosh!

(Really, I wouldn’t mind an impeccably researched and produced series exploring each of these books.) 

(Also, there might be a fun extra that goes with this book. Standby to see if I do anything with it.)

Rating Scale

7/10 traumatic experiences

Other possible contenders: Strawberries (I don’t remember why I wrote this down,) Winter/Bird Themed Names, Faith Crises.

Photo Credit:

Cover: Me again!

Trout Lily:  tinyurl.com/2p84j2b9

[ricksbowen]

simply, utterly | pt. 4

IN WHICH: ricky makes your homecoming a whole lot better than you’d like to admit.

INSPIRATION: fair-weather friend — bruno major, prom queen — catie turner

A/N: i really suggest listening to fair-weather friend while reading this. i’m casting harrison osterfield as the harrison in my story because i love him, thanks

pt. 1, pt. 2, pt. 3, pt. 4, pt. 5, pt. 6, pt. 7

“So that’s it?”

“Apparently,” Ricky groaned, hugging his pillow as he explained his situation to Big Red for what felt like the 5th time. He had explained everything, from the moment the both of you shared while singing to your words after both of you kissed. The redhead’s brows were furrowed in thought and his eyes were staring into blank space. He was thinking; that was never good. “Big Red?”

Big Red shushed him, murmuring, “I’m thinking.” A few more seconds of silence followed until the trance Big Red was in broke. “Yeah, I got nothing. You’re fucked, man.”

“I know!” Ricky stuffed his face into his pillow, letting out a muffled scream while Big Red patted his back. “Why do I like her?”

“That’s what I was thinking about. I thought you hated her, Ricky.”

“I thought so too!” Ricky yelled, his voice quieted by the pillow in his face. Big Red patted his back sympathetically, shaking his head to himself until an idea popped into his head. Immediately, he started hitting Ricky, a smile growing on his face while Ricky only winced at his hits.

“Hey— Red!” Ricky groaned, rubbing the area where Big Red hit him while Big Red ignored his complaints.

“Dude. Homecoming is coming up,” Big red exclaimed, eyes looking at Ricky expectedly. He expected a reaction to come out of him, a sudden realization at what Big Red was trying to imply, only to find nothing.

“Okay. So what?”

“So, you idiot,” Big Red drawled out, rolling his eyes at how oblivious Ricky could be. Did he really have to explain his genius plan? “You take her! Ask her out!” The encouraging grin on his face grew with each word he spoke.

“You’re aware that she wants nothing to do with me,” Ricky deadpanned, raising a brow at Big Red.

Big Red waved his worries away with his hand, blowing a small raspberry as he did. “Just ask her out! What do you have to lose?” Big Red asked, raising his eyebrows at Ricky as if he was challenging him to answer. Ricky already had an answer.

“My dignity.”

—

“Hey, Y/N.”

You turned to look over your locker, the cold look you had kept on throughout that day softening at the sight of Harrison, one of your classmates. You had him in your chemistry class in your sophomore year, when he nearly blew up your lab station because he added too much of one chemical. While Harrison began freaking out, you were practically crying from laughing— who would’ve thought that one of the jocks would react so badly?

“Sorry— I thought you were someone else,” you said apologetically, turning back to the things in your locker. Ever since the day you and Ricky made out, you had been avoiding him like the plague. While you usually went out of your way to mess up his hair or make fun of him, you found yourself making various turns in the halls just to try and avoid Ricky. You saw him try and reach you every time he saw you, yet you always got away.

You didn’t want to speak about feelings— especially when it came to Ricky. In a way, it terrified you to think of him in that way despite your want to think of him as anything other than an enemy. But you didn’t want to make things complicated; the deal was to return to your normal relationship after the musical. Nothing more, nothing less.

Life had been getting in your way too. Ej’s break up with Nini was unexpected, to say the least, and you found yourself sneaking into his room at night to comfort him and allow him to rant to you ( while you subtly called him stupid since you were the more honest sibling ). You had to be there for him.

You looked at Harrison from the corner of your eye, seeing the evident nerves that were coursing through his veins. Grabbing your things and slamming your locker shut, you looked at the boy up and down before speaking. “You’re nervous,” you stated blatantly, watching his eyes widen at your honesty. “What happened?”

“I wanted to ask you a question,” Harrison said, shoving his hands in the pockets of his ( cliche ) letterman jacket.

From across the hall, Big Red patted Ricky on the back and shook him gently. “All you gotta do is ask her to homecoming. It’s simple, alright?” Big Red clapped him on the shoulder, trying to get him hyped up and less nervous. “Nothing to lose other than your dignity, buddy. I believe in you.”

“I can’t go right now,” Ricky protested, turning his head to look at Big Red. “She’s talking to someone— Is that Harrison Dupont?”

“The dude that looked like he fell out of a bad high school movie? The blonde one?” Big Red squinted at you and Adrien, eyebrows raising when he saw you nod and smile brightly at the jock. “Since when did she know him? I swear he’s always reminded me of Harry Osborn,” Big Red muttered to himself, watching as you laughed at a joke ( that probably wasn’t funny— Ricky was funnier ) he told you. You then leaned up on your tip-toes and kissed the blonde on the cheek, a subtle smirk making its way onto your lips. “Oh, shit.”

Hopefully Ricky didn’t see that.

Ricky definitely did.

He felt his heart sink when he saw the action, any small chance he had with you going down to the negatives as his shoulders slumped. Of course, you were serious about what you said after you kissed— you had always been the no-bullshit type. But some childish part of Ricky thought that you were joking, that you realized that you wanted him in the same way he wanted you.

He had to stop watching so many rom-coms.

“It’s okay, man,” Big Red mumbled, patting Ricky’s shoulder while Ricky nodded his head.

“You know what? You’re right. It’s fine,” Ricky said, as if he was convincing himself that it was okay when it reality it wasn’t. How could he think that he even had any chance with you? “I’ll just bring you to homecoming. It is your first dance.” Ricky forced a grin, bumping Big Red gently and ignoring the protests he tried to utter.

You had been enemies from the start— he shouldn’t be feeling like this. Might as well take his mind off of you.

—

“You’re going with Gina? Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Says the person who said that she’s going with Harrison Dupont,” Ej deadpanned, fixing his tie in the mirror. He stood next to where you sat, your makeup strewn all over your table as you tried to put your makeup on. “You know that he’s a total di—“

His words were interrupted by Ashlyn, who was supposed to help you with your makeup ( until she gave up ). “Isn’t he that one jock? The guy that’s kinda like Harry Osborn?” Ashlyn asked from your bed, not looking up from her phone as she tried to find your homecoming date on Instagram. It only took her a few minutes, and for his page was the first that popped up. “No way do you know him,” she stated, glancing at you with raised brows.

“Is it really that hard to believe?” you asked, turning to look between Ashlyn and Ej. Both of them gave you nods in response, making you groan and turn back to your mirror.

Your hair was held up with a few white clips, a simple hairstyle that fit your dress: a rose red, a-line, spaghetti strapped dress that went above your knees. Your make up was simple, yet pulled your whole look together with rose red lipstick. Frankly, you thought you looked hot ( and you did ).

“All we’re saying is that it’s a surprise. You can barely exist next to most of the guys on my team without telling them to ‘fuck off.’” Ej gave you a pointed look through the mirror, his face softening when the sudden realization that you were growing hitting him at that moment. He felt like such an older brother as he watched you get yourself ready; you grew up so fast.

“You’re not one to talk; you’re going with Gina!” Ashlyn said, giving Ej a look. “Since when did that happen?”

“Just— Outta nowhere,” Ej mumbled, avoiding Ashlyn’s eyes as he looked at himself in the mirror. He had to be hiding something - he was avoiding the questions you and Ashlyn were throwing at him. “Can you do my tie? It’s just,” Ej sighed, his tie coming loose in his hands as he tried to fix it. “Not working.”

You tutted him teasingly, standing up to fix his tie. “East High’s own senior class treasurer can’t even tie a tie,” you tsked, grinning at him and laughing when he rolled his eyes. “I’ll add that onto the list of things I know that you don’t.”

“Must be a short list.”

“Oh, fuck off,” you laughed, Ashlyn and Ej letting out their own laughs at your words. You walked to your window, picking up the purse you planned to bring ( you really had nothing in it other than chapstick and mints ). Your eyes trailed up to the view from your window, immediately landing on Ricky’s dark window. Maybe he wasn’t going to homecoming. You didn’t know whether you felt relieved or disappointed.

But it didn’t matter. You weren’t going to homecoming with Ricky.

—

Ricky saw you walk in.

You were behind Gina Porter and your brother, and while you were usually the epitome of bluntness and independence, you almost looked shy walking into homecoming. Your eyes were searching for someone — Harrison, most likely — but instead of finding the tall jock, your eyes met his.

Of course, he had to sit at a table close to the entrance.

You played it off, rose-colored lips tilting up into a smirk that Ricky didn’t respond to. He was gaping at you, not-so-subtly admiring you to the point where Big Red nudged him.

“You’re drooling,” Big Red muttered, a teasing tone behind his voice while Ricky quickly averted his eyes from you. He saw you walk away from the corner of his eye, the breath he didn’t know he was holding escaping him. Ricky put his head in his hands, trying not to let out a yell. 

“She’s trying to kill me, I swear.”

The night went on. You sat alone, eyes on your phone as you tried to ignore the nagging feeling in your stomach.

“You too?” The familiar voice made you look up from your phone, a tight-lipped smile appearing on your face at the sight of an obviously heartbroken Carlos. You knew how he was feeling.

“Yeah. Where’s Seb?” you asked, watching as Carlos shrugged and picked at his nails. You knew they were going to homecoming together ( you called it from the start ), but seeing Carlos without Seb was odd. Seb wouldn’t stand up Carlos, would he?

“Not sure. I texted and called him.” Carlos sighed, the hurt evident in his face. He leaned forward in his chair, shifting his attention onto you. “How about you, Y/N? I can’t really imagine anyone wanting to stand you up.”

“Harrison Dupont,” you grumbled, listening to Carlos suck in a breath. Now you know why people reacted that way when you told them your date. Your eyes looked back at the entrance for what seemed like the hundredth time, the little amount of hope you had that Harrison would show up replaced with hope for someone else. “Carlos,” you said, a smile on your face as you nodded at Seb, standing at the entrance.

Without a word, Carlos stood up from his spot, walking to Seb and exchanging a few heartfelt words with him. You saw a smile creep up onto Carlos’ face, and you sighed in relief when they made their way to the dance floor ( of course ).

You wanted what they had, but Harrison wasn’t here. You continued to watch the crowd, a chuckle rumbling in your chest at Ricky and Big Red’s slow dancing and a hint of a smile tugging at the side of your lips at the sight of Ej and Gina dancing. But as your eyes wandered, it led you to an image that you didn’t want to see.

Harrison Dupont kissing another girl, his arms wrapped around her as they danced to the music.

You wanted to throw up.

You listened to the song end, sending a quick text to Ej about walking home as you grabbed your purse. You stood up from your chair, ignoring the stupid lump forming in your throat as you made your way to the entrance as quickly as you could.

“See? I told you it wasn’t that bad. The next dance you need to go to—“

“Ricky.” Big Red interrupted him, nodding in your direction as you made your way outside. He had just finished slow dancing with Ricky, ignoring the stares from the others around them. Ricky had nearly made him fall over his own feet while they danced, and Big Red almost body-slammed him into 5 couples when he twirled him. They were a mess, but it was fun.

Ricky shook his head stubbornly, shoving off the want to go follow you as he looked at Big Red. “No. I promised you a good time—“

“And you gave me one. Check up on her, man, I’ll be fine.” Big Red smiled encouragingly, motioning with his hands towards the direction you had gone.

With a grin that screamed, ‘thank you,’ Ricky ran out, head turning to look for you.

He didn’t find you until he saw you on one of the courtyard benches. Hanging lights were wrapped around the few trees, yet no one was around to see just how pretty it was. But you were there, head in your hands as you tried to get the image of your date and another girl out of your mind. You were shaking, and it didn’t take much to know that you were crying.

You never cried.

You were either going to punch him or say a comment to dodge his questions.

You felt someone sit next to you, and you immediately wiped the tears from your cheeks as you looked at who was sitting next to you. There he was: Ricky Bowen, pretending it was a coincidence that he found you outside and sat next to you on the same bench.

You sniffed. “If you’re here to throw me a pity party,” you said, voice hoarse from your crying. “Just go back inside.” Your voice cracked at the end of your sentence, more tears rolling down your face. You avoided looking at him, your eyes set on the concrete ground.

“I just thought you needed some company,” Ricky replied, listening to you scoff.

“I don’t need company. Especially from you,” you grumbled, wiping underneath your eyes and sniffing. You didn’t want him to see you like this; the oh-so-strong Caswell sibling, crying over a jock as if she had fallen out of a high school movie.

Ricky ignored the hurt your words brought him, simply choosing to nod his head. “You don’t have to talk to me,” he offered, looking up at the hanging lights. “We can just.. sit here. You can cry, I can just look at the lights.”

You raised your head from your hands, placing your chin on the palms of your hands as you let out heavy breaths. Silence followed Ricky’s words, the only sound being your sniffles and the faint bass from the dance.

“He was with someone else. He was kissing and dancing with her,” you spat, spite and hurt hidden deep within your words.

The sudden want to confess everything that had happened to him was too strong, your emotions controlling you as you stared blankly ahead of you. “I should’ve expected it,” you wiped the mascara from under your eyes. You chuckled humorlessly to yourself, shaking your head. “You probably think I’m stupid.”

“There’s nothing stupid in believing in someone,” Ricky murmured in response.

“I thought for sure that you’d come out here to make fun of me,” you murmured. “Especially since.. you know..” you trailed off, hoping that he knew that you were talking about the kiss the both of you shared.

“I don’t hate you as much as you think I do, Y/N,” Ricky said softly, his tone sincere as he looked at you. Your eyes were downcast, a useless way of avoiding his eyes like the plague. You felt guilty for pushing him out, for being too caught up in thinking about what you felt that you didn’t think about what you were doing to him. A small part of you wanted to go back to how they once were: arguing in classes and pissing each other off.

A huge part of you wanted to have your hands intertwined with his.

You looked at him with eyes glassy with tears, the faintest of smiles on your face. You had to have looked like a mess with your messy makeup and smudged mascara. But to Ricky, he had never seen you look so pretty.

“Do you want to dance?” Ricky asked, the idea leaving his mouth before he could catch it. He gauged your reaction, watching as you cocked a brow at him as if to silently ask, ‘are you serious?’ “It’s homecoming,” Ricky explained blatantly, shrugging his shoulders. “You deserve to have at least one dance.”

“What if someone sees us?” you asked hesitantly, watching Ricky stand up and take out his phone. He scrolled for a few seconds before choosing a song. ‘Fair-Weather Friend’ by Bruno Major began to play, and he offered his hand out to you.

“Then let them,” he said, and a smile lit up your face at his response. You took his hand, standing up and placing your arms around his neck.

You felt his hands hold your waist, his touch gentle as you both began to sway to the music. “I don’t know how to slow dance,” you confessed quietly, making sure you didn’t step on his toes as you both danced to the beat.

“Just follow my lead.” The chorus came around, and Ricky twirled you, your dress floating up at the move before settling back down. He pulled you flush to his chest, humming the song softly to you as you followed his movements.

Once the chorus came once again, a laugh left your lips as you tried to twirl him around. “Nice moves, Bowen,” you remarked, your comment lighthearted and making him laugh.

“I try.”

You both danced as if you had known each other for forever ( in a way, it was true ). Each small step and each small sway was performed as if you had been dancing with each other for years rather than playing a teasing game of cat and mouse.

You could tell the song was coming to an end. Your head was on his chest, your sadness gone and replaced with content. Quietly, and almost shyly, you mumbled, “Thank you for making this night so much better.”

Ricky could feel his heart pick up. He knew he was in too deep.

“Anytime, Y/N.”

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Lessons from a New Kinkster with Erik Gude & Catie Osborn - Ep 163

Ep 163 of American Sex podcast is jampacked with so many practical tips and insights for new & experienced kinksters alike! When Erik got into kink less than a year ago, he didn’t realize how profoundly it would change his life both inside and outside the bedroom. Joined by his partner & mentor Catie, Erik walks us through his transformative journey of self-discovery. We discuss strategies for negotiating your first scene when you don’t know how kink tools feel or what experiencing a scene is like. Erik tells us about his unexpected feeling of mourning and how to handle expectations that don’t match up with reality, how Erik & Catie dealt with the common phenomenon known as frenzy, navigating kink with ADHD, and how it can help align your body and mind. We also get into switching and the similarities and differences between subspace, domspace, and their respective drops. This is a must-listen for those curious about or into kink.   

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Standing in the Light, by Mary Pope Osborne. Caty seemed more relatable to me than the last time I read this book. I also thought that the stages of grief were played out realistically, as they can overlap and are not always in the same order. Once Caty reached acceptance I did feel like things progressed a bit quickly. She’d feel one way in one entry and completely change her mind in the next. Though I appreciated how her grief was revisited in the last few entries.

Goodreads star rating: 4/5

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2021 CMT Music Awards

So today on the MSR (Midnight Star Review), I will be talking about the latest award in the world of Country Music. This time, we will dive into the 2021 CMT (Country Music Television) Music Awards. This show original air date was on CMT (Channel 327 on Directv) and was on Wednesday June 9th, 2021. This show was co-hosted by Kelsea Ballerini, & Kane Brown. So let's see what happened on the show next. We will start with the Performances first.

Performances.

Lady A with The Shindellas, Catie Offerman, Carly Pearce, & Lindsay Ell - Like a lady.

Chris Stapleton - Arkansas.

Hailey Whitters - Fillin' my cup.

Luke Combs - Cold as you.

Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, & Jon Randall - Tequila does.

Dylan Scott - Nobody.

Brothers Osborne featuring Dierks Bentley - Lighten up

Thomas Rhett - Country again.

Kelsea Ballerini & Paul Klein of LANY - I quit drinking.

Tenille Arts - Somebody like that.

Ingrid Andress - Lady like.

Ingrid Andress & JP Saxe - Like that.

Breland featuring Mickey Guyton - Cross Country.

Gladys Knight, Mickey Guyton, & Breland - Friendship train.

Blanco Brown - Nobody's more Country.

Lauren Alaina featuring Jon Pardi - Getting over him.

Lainey Wilson - Things a man oughta know.

H.E.R. & Chris Stapleton - Hold on.

NEEDTOBREATHE featuring Carrie Underwood - I wanna remember.

Niko Moon - GOOD TIME.

Luke Bryan - Down to one.

Chris Young & Kane Brown - Famous friends.

And that's a wrap for the performances on this night. Next we will go and see who won what on this night. And also we will look into who should have won according to my weekly list.

Awards. (Who won and who should have won.)

Group/Duo video of the year goes to Little Big Town - Wine, beer, whiskey. I voted for Parmalee with Blanco Brown - Just the way.

CMT Equal Play Award goes to Linda Martell.

CMT Performance of the Year goes to Kelsea Ballerini with Halsey - The other girl. I voted for Dan + Shay - I should probably go to bed.

CMT Collaborative Video of the Year goes to Chris Young & Kane Brown - Famous friends. The one I voted for actually won.

Breakthrough Video of the Year goes to Dylan Scott - Nobody. I am not upset over this choice but I did vote for Niko Moon - GOOD TIME.

Male Video of the Year goes to Kane Brown - Worship you. I do like this song but maybe it should have gone to one of the Lukes.

Female Video of the Year goes to Gabby Barrett - The good ones. I voted for this one. It did deserve to win, and as of right now it is currently the song of the year.

Video of the Year goes to Carrie Underwood & John Legend - Hallelujah. When there was 14 videos up for this, I voted for Sam Hunt - Breaking up was easy in the 90's. Then when it got down to 6 choices, I voted for Keith Urban with P!nk - One too many. I do like this song, But it didn't deserve to win when it is only considered a Christmas song?

Family Feature Video of the Year goes to Taylor Swift - The best day (Taylor's Version). Should have gone to Luke Combs - Forever after all.

And that's a wrap for the MSR (Midnight Star Review), I would give this show a 3.5 out of 5 stars. Performance of the night, I would say goes to Brothers Osborne featuring Dierks Bentley - Lighten up. But maybe in my opinion, the show could have been rushed trying to get it back on schedule. But I do enjoy still watching the award shows. Thanks for taking the time to read this review. See ya all next time.

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Ships of the Northern Fleet: 5 Best Episodes from the TikTok “TV Series”

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This Ships of the Northern Fleet article contains spoilers.

Ships of the Northern Fleet, the steampunk sky pirate TV show from the naughts, has seen a recent fandom resurgence on social media platform TikTok and in other corners of the internet. Adapted from a book series of the same name, SotNF ran for six seasons before taking its final bow in 2013 and sailing off into the sunset… until the inevitable reboot or revival.

In honor of the epic, pre-Game of Thrones fantasy series that launched a thousand queer ships, we’re listing up our five favorite episodes. So put on a playlist of your favorite sky shanties and let’s get started, Fleeters. Updraft!

“Clouded Tides” (Season 1, Episode 22)

It took Ships of the Northern Fleet an uneven first season to find its tailwind, but we get our first real glimpse at what this series would become in the Season 1 finale, when the show really starts to build out its mythology. “Clouded Tides” is the first time we hear the phrase “Four Fleets,” and when TV show viewers who haven’t read the books begin to understand that this world is so much bigger than the ongoing feud between the True Winds and the Necronauts. Captain Barnabas (Christopher Lee) and the Ropeswingers may have been our entry point into this world, but, by the end of Season 1, we know that Captain Hellman (Nathan Fillion) is the least of the Rosemary‘s concerns. The Apparatus is growing, and it doesn’t care which of the Four Fleets anyone belongs to.

“The Daggers” (Season 3, Episode 4)

While many viewers were unable to ever forgive The Daggers for setting into motion the events that led to Captain Montgomery’s death, the SotNF writers did their damnedest to give these “pirates amongst pirates” a redemption arc in the form of Season 3, Episode 4, which retells the events of Season 2 from the perspective of a random member of the Blade Admiral’s crew. Whether or not the ambition succeeds is up to each individual viewer, but if you tell me that you didn’t shed a tear when Duchess Mildred sings “Soon May the Wellerman Come,” I won’t believe you. That this episode also heavily features Blake (David Tennant) doesn’t hurt either.

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“I Was Never Alone” (Season 4, Episode 17)

“She’s buttoned up, Cap. Let’s fly.” The episode that sees the death of bespectacled badass and fan favorite character Annie (Catie Osborn) may be a controversial one to put on this list, but it’s hard to argue with just how much this episode raised the emotional stakes of the SotNF world. Annie dies not in an epic battle, but in a double-cross gone wrong—a plot twist that is a change from the source material and shocked book readers. It’s a bold choice for the show, and one that implies any one of these characters could die at any time. (Hey, at least she saves the dog!)

It’s worth mentioning that Annie’s death is considered by many as yet another unfortunate example of the “Bury Your Gays” trope (Annie is explicitly depicted as being “pansexual” in the show, even though she never uses that word to describe herself), though queer audiences tend to be forgiving of the show’s choice as the series includes so many canonically queer characters.

“With Lambent Voice” (Season 5, Episode 16)

It’s honestly surprising that this show took so long to do a musical episode, given how integral sky shanties are shown to be to this world and its characters from the very first episode, but if we had to wait five seasons to get this television masterpiece, then it was worth it. Originally pitched in the writers’ room as a cross between Battlestar Galactica‘s “33” and Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s “Once More With Feeling,” “With Lambent Voice” sees the crew drawn in by a siren during a routine mission through the Marish Abyss.

The fact that it all ends with Lady Ava deciding to leave the ship for good to live happily with her siren bae for the rest of her days is not only a clever and unexpected subversion of siren mythology but was a landmark moment in the depiction of queer characters on TV.

“We Need to Talk About Glurp” (Season 6, Episode 9)

It’s no secret that Ships of the Northern Fleet‘s final season was, um, not good. But, amid the mess that was Season 6, we got a few truly stellar episodes, including this midseason standalone, which sees the crew trying to decide what to do with Glurp (Patrick Loller) after he uses The Gravity Invalidator to take down The Singing Crone, leading to the deaths of dozens of siren mutants.

For SotNF to take a much-maligned character like Glurp, who was originally created in a misguided attempt to draw in a kid audience, and use them to tell a tale about community accountability that challenges most of contemporary TV’s use of the “redemption arc” is inspired and inspiring. All I can say to that is: “Swiggity swaggity, let’s blow up gravity.”

What was your favorite episode of Ships of the Northern Fleet? Let us know in the comments below…

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So Caty and I saw the five animated shorts nominated at the Oscars this year. I’m ranking them.

01. Piper / dir. Alan Barillaro  Piper is low on plot but high on virtually everything else. Absurdly beautiful to look at, and boasting the cutest protagonist of 2016, it ends up being a brisk, delightful, truly joyful experience. Easily my pick of the animated short nominees of the year. 4.5 / 5

02. Borrowed Time / dir. Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj A gentle, moving elegy set against the decaying Wild West. Some of the logistics threw me off (the clock working again? the clock being in the same place decades later?), but it’s GORGEOUS and the major death came as a genuine shock to me. And that Stagecoach visual reference was A+. 4 / 5

03. Blind Vaysha / dir. Theodore Ushev  I’m just not entirely sure what to make of this one. The art style is stunning, truly, and used to great effect. The narration is effective as well, and it highlights a fascinating premise. However, the way the film progresses makes it feel a bit like a chore. And the ending is, to put it mildly, unsatisfying. 3.5 / 5

04. Pearl / dir. Patrick Osborne  Apparently Google makes movies now. One step closer to world domination. As it turns out, the movie theater is not the ideal venue for a 360° virtual reality experience, but even with that limitation, I just found the story and animation lacking. I didn’t really care about the central father/daughter relationship and the music after a while became a bit grating. But it’s still an excellent attempt and definitely something brand-new in the world of animation, and that alone is quite exciting. 3 / 5

05. Pear Cider and Cigarettes / dir. Robert Valley So this is fucking garbage. Nauseatingly dudebro-y, completely nonsensical, and overlong even at 35 minutes, this abomination gets the one star because the animation was interesting sometimes, even if it looked like it was lifted from Grand Theft Auto. And what the fuck was that ending that copied The Big Lebowski?? Heinous. 1 / 5

The screening included several other shorts that weren’t nominated, including The Head Vanishes, which looks at dementia in a gorgeous, devastating, and clever way. I loved it. (If I were involved with that and then saw Pear Cider, I’d be fucking livid.)

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Campus Notes: Florida State Faculty Luncheon Series kicks off this week

The Westcott Building at FSU. (Photo: Democrat file)

Florida State Faculty Luncheon Series schedule released

The Florida State University Faculty Luncheon Series has announced its lecture schedule for Spring 2019.

Established in 1981, the series encourages the FSU and Tallahassee communities to learn about the research and creative activities at the university.

The spring schedule features the following speakers:

Tuesday: “Building Student Resilience: FSU’s New Online Toolkit," Karen Oehme, Director, Institute for Family Violence Studies, College of Social Work.

Tuesday, Feb. 12: “Performing History in Times of Crisis: The Reshaping of American Life,” Beth Osborne, associate professor of theatre studies

Tuesday, March 5: “Dietary Protein for Muscle Mass and Weight Loss," Michael J. Ormsbee, Associate Professor of Nutrition, Food, and Exercise Sciences; Associate Director, Institute of Sports Sciences & Medicine

Tuesday, April 9: “Interior Environment Design: Exploring the Potential to Ease the Homeless Shelter Experience," Jill Pable, professor interior architecture and design

The series takes place at UKirk Tallahassee, formerly the Presbyterian University Center or Westminster House, at 548 W. Park Ave. Luncheons begin at 12:15 p.m., and the programs follow at 12:45 p.m.

For more information, please visit http://facultyluncheon.cci.fsu.edu/ or like the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/fsuflspuc/.

FSU Oceanography professor earns Early Career Award

Florida State University Associate Professor of Oceanography Robert Spencer has received the Yentsch-Schindler Early Career Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography for his contributions to our understanding of global biogeochemical processes.

The annual award, initiated by ASLO in 2012, honors early career aquatic scientists who have made outstanding contributions to research, science training and broader issues such as resource management, conservation, policy and public education.

Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship appointment

Entrepreneur and marketing professor Shane Smith has joined the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship as director of Central Florida operations.

Smith has more than 15 years of marketing and entrepreneurial experience, primarily as the founder and president of SaleFish — a consulting firm focused on helping small-to-medium-sized businesses increase their revenues using online courses and other entrepreneurial training.

Smith earned a doctorate in marketing from the University of South Carolina, a master’s degree in international marketing from the University of South Florida and a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Auburn University.

Tallahassee Community College’s Wakulla Center to host career fair

TCC’s Wakulla Center has teamed up with CareerSource Capital Region to offer a Discovery Fair focused on high-demand jobs.

Wakulla County residents are invited to attend the free event to find out more about in-demand employment opportunities that include educational funding by CareerSource.

The fair, which is free and open to the public, will be held at TCC’s Wakulla Center from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. The Center is located at 2932 Crawfordville Highway.

Representatives will also be at the event to answer any questions for anyone needing to start the process of obtaining General Educational Development credentials.

For information, contact Wakulla Center Manager Desiree Gorman at (850) 558-3525 or gormand@tcc.fl.edu.

Scholarship Fair planned at Tallahassee Community College

Tallahassee Community College will host a Scholarship Fair from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, in the TCC Fine and Performing Arts Center.

Current and prospective students can learn more about scholarship opportunities offered by the college at the free event.

For information, contact Angie Isaac, TCC scholarship coordinator, at (850) 201-8411 or isaaca@tcc.fl.edu.

The TCC Scholarship application is available online at www.tcc.fl.edu/scholarships. The application deadline is Feb. 15.

Tallahassee Community College seeks career help from employers

The Tallahassee Community College Career Center is seeking employers to host a TCC student for a day-long job shadow experience at their place of business on Thursday, Feb. 28.

Employers from the business, nonprofit and public service sectors are all invited to participate. Career Center staff are available to assist employers in planning their job shadow experience.

Employers may visit TCC.fl.edu/EagleShadowHost to learn more. For information, contact Catie Goodman at (850) 201-9970 or goodmanc@tcc.fl.edu.

The TCC Wakulla Center receives business honors

The TCC Wakulla Center has recently been recognized with two awards for business excellence and best practices.

The Center received the 2018 Business Excellence Award in the service category from the Wakulla County Chamber of Commerce and the Best Practices Award from the Florida Career Pathways Network.

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Coffee Cup

We were asked to choose an inner monologue to perform i chose an original piece called Things my father left me (coffee cup)  by Catie Obsorne. I was able to draw upon my emotional memory for this effectively and felt i gave a heartfelt performance. It was a strange process, first having to record my voice then being filmed in utter silence with a close up drinking coffee on my own staring out the window. Conjuring up the emotion that different parts of the text bring was challenging without performing the dialogue so the best thing for me to do was recite it in my mind and react as if i’d spoken it aloud.

Osborn, C. (2010). [Blog] Things my father left me (Coffee Cup). Available at: https://catieosborn.com/2010/10/25/things-my-father-left-me-the-coffee-cup-monologue/