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dukeofriven · 6 years

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Wither Tinkerbell? Part 2: Ridi, Goofy, sul tuo amore infranto! (KH liveblog)

There is no link to Part 1 because adding links breaks Tumblr apparently fuck this broken shit website. Before we continue, I need to share with you this image that Google Image Search shared with me:

Never give up on your dreams, kids. You’re welcome! Where were we? Oh, right: What does this have to do with Kingdom Hearts, you might ask? It’s this: Goofy, for all that he can be, y’know, a bit wearying, is not a character who intrinsically incapable of being sympathetic, of having pathos and humanity, of an emotional and narrative arc. Fifteen+ hours into Kingdom Hearts, Goofy is a non-entity in the story. Donald Duck is only slightly less of a non-entity, but he and Goofy nevertheless could have disappeared the moment they handed Sora the keys to the gummy ship and it would have had no bearing on anything that has happened since. Writing them out of the story would be comically easy, since their only function has been to give Sora his ride: they’ve had no bearing on anything that happened, and if you muted their dialogue in cutscenes it often would have no noticeable effect because nobody reacts to their presence anyways. If you told me they were ghosts that only Sora could see and interact with I don’t think I’d be able to argue otherwise. They’re the Jacob Taylor of Kingdom Hearts. Kingdom Hearts is a game that coasts on its own back catalogue of characters - it presupposes that you have already watched all the Disney movies and played all the Final Fantasy games, and that therefore it doesn’t need to do any of the hard and important work of giving the characters character. It assumes you’ve seen Goof Troop, so why should it do anything to make you care about Goofy when you presumably you already do? Let’s go back to the inciting incident of this whole mess, a thousand words and a long scroll up ago: Tinkerbell. This is a real photo of my actual desk, taken right this moment:

Yeah, Tinkerbell and Periwinkle have been watching me watch this the whole time. What? ... WHAT? I... I just really like The Secret of the Wings, okay? I’m an only child andI like stories where someone discovers they’ve got a rad twin sibling and it’s got my best follower Grey DeLisle in it - and Kari Wahlgren, and John DiMaggio and Dee Bradley Baker and also Anjelica Huston, Lucy Liu and Timothy Dalton in it so SCREW YOU I JUST REALLY LIKE THIS MOVIE OKAY! SOMETIMES A GUY CAN DREAM HE HAS A COOL SPUNKY TWIN SIBLING OUT THERE WHO GETS HIM ITS NOT A BIG FUCKING DEAL STOP SHAMING GUS FOR LIKING GIRLY THINGS YOU’RE JUST PERPETUATING TOXIC MASCULINITY Jerks. Where was I? Oh, right: I like Tinkerbell. She’s pretty great. I mean I could go off on Disney’s perennial Thin Princess problem but I won’t because despite what Tumblr thinks not every thing is relevant to every bit of discourse. My point is that I like and care about Tinkerbell, I carry a lot of good will for her - but that doesn’t make Kingdom Heart’s lazy, indifferent story writing okay, because I didn’t know or care about KH Tinkerbell.

Really let it sit with you for a bit: Sora never watched Peter Pan. He’s never watched any Disney film - Tinkerbell is a small blond thing whose done nothing but ignore him in the all of forty five seconds he’s been in her presence - but this is his reaction to her imprisonment:

Of note: off to the left there you can see Kingdom HEart’s doing it’s thing again by never spending time animating faces if it doesn’t feel the need to, which is why the Trio wander through most of this game with the same stupid expression on their faces regardless if they’re waiting in line to buy a gummy part on watching somebody die.) Sora’s reaction is... is... it’s just not grounded in anything. Ursula turned into an enormous godzilla monster and Sora didn’t blink - didn’t even see fit to make a comment. This is a kid who is frustratingly unreactive to shit that happens around him - not so much passivity as disturbingly disconnected from the emotional ontology he lives in. The few minutes of passion stand out for being all the weirder because of it - its always related to Kairi. Except here, for Tinkerbell, a character he knows nothing about. You could make the argument that he’s merely a hero from the Finn the Human school of heroism - he doesn’t have to know Tinkerbell to want to save her, he’s just A Good Good Virtue Boy. But again, this is a character who only musters emotion when its personal, and Captain Jameson Bellerophon Hook, Master & Commander SS Jolly Roger treats this as personal - your ‘pixie friend’ he says, and he gets a reaction. I mean, Sora willing chooses to walk the plank and die rather than let Tinkerbell... stay captured? Wait, what? No, back up, we need to go through this again. Captain Hook: Quite a codfish, that Riku—running off with that girl without even saying goodbye. Sora: Run off where? Tell me, where did he go? Captain Hook: To the ruins of Hollow Bastion, where Maleficent resides. But you won’t be going there. [Holds up Tink] Unless you intend to leave your little pixie friend behind? Hand over the Keyblade and I’ll spare your lives. Be glad I’m merciful, unlike the Heartless. So, which will it be? The Keyblade, or the plank? Can we just... sit with this for a moment? Here are the options Captain Jimmothy Heliogabalus Hook presents Sora: A) He can depart for Hollow Bastion, but in doing so he will leave Tinkerbell in captivity. B) He can surrender the Keyblade, at which point Hook won’t kill him. (Will he let Tink go? Unclear) C) Sora can walk the plank and die. Sora... chooses death, because he can’t relinquish the keyblade, but nor can he suffer the pain of Tink’s captivity. So - time to die. ... what? WHAT? (CONTINUED IN PART 3)

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theconservativebrief · 6 years

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Elon Musk personifies the modern cult-of-personality CEO style. His social media posts are unfiltered, he gets into public scuffles with his critics, and he has a loyal band of followers that defend his every move, often attacking Musk’s detractors. But Musk has nothing on Brandon Truaxe, the founder and CEO — though he likes to say his official title is “worker” — of Deciem, one of the buzziest skin care companies on the planet right now.

The unconventional beauty brand founder’s exploits have been followed rabidly by those both interested in incredibly affordable skin care and those who just love messy gossip. As Deciem’s sub-brand The Ordinary gains popularity for its $9 acids, its founder gains notoriety for his incendiary and even offensive Instagram presence. He’s used the platform to insult fans, cancel partnerships, and even posted a photo of an impoverished-looking New Yorker in front of one of the brand’s stores.

In a video on Deciem’s Instagram on Monday, Truaxe said: “This is the final post of Deciem. … We will shut down all operations until further notice, which will be about two months. Please take me seriously.” The location of the video was tagged as the White House. He went on to say, “Almost everyone at Deciem has been involved in major criminal activity, which includes financial crimes.”

The largely incoherent message was paired with a long, rambling caption in which he called out many in the company’s inner circle, then went on to name hotels, restaurants, other cosmetic companies, “so many porn ‘studios,’” Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tom Ford, Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Richard Branson, Tim Cooke, and Leonard Lauder, the patriarch of the Estée Lauder company.

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Without filters. A revolution is coming. Every one of you who has been laughing aT me will with certainty face criminal prosecution. Estée Lauder Companies Inc. has been the biggest stock promotion. Richard Duntas, Bernard Ass (LVMH), Marica “Tracy” (Bliss, Remedè, Soaper Due Per Shoe), Hyatt (Grand Hyatt, Andaz, er al), Marriott (St. Regis, W, Marriot, et al), So many porn “studios”, nearly all @deciem employees, most of “Hollywood”, Gill Sinclair, India Knight, Caroline Hirons, India Knight, RBC, BMO, Boots, KKR, most of the Lauder family, Estée Lauder Companies Inc., Karim Kanji, Antonio Tadrisi, DF Mc, LVMH, Dia Fooley, Michael Davidson, Hanif, Zark Fatah, Inditex (Zara, Massimo Dutti, etc), H&M, $100 monkey, Too Faced (founders too), TSG, Alshaya, Amanresorts, Erwin Zecha, Oliver Zecha, Steven R Riddle, the Coc and Corcky managers, PRIDE organizers, IT Cosmetics, Nicola L ReadingTons, all of Dishoom, All of Delaunay, David Yurman, Tom Ford, Tim Cooke. McKesson, Rexall, Jamin Asaria, David Jackson, York Heritage and others — sentencing doesn’t begin with any point but sentences like this one do. Ben Affleck, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Michael Less, Stephen Spellberg e.T., AON are also included with certainty. ARGO stood for “Ali Roshan GO”. You idiots. Father, please please be safe if you can for the next few hours. I love you all. -Brandon (RIYADH, please be EXTREMELY CAREFUL in the next few hours). Aurora (TSX) : you are finished. Michael Basler, Gordon Wilde, David Trinder, Eric Jacobs, Allan Gerlings, Dalton Pharma SS, Michael OH CON ELLE, Charm IS T A 007, Robert Jones, Cascade, Prince Al Walid, The White Company, Obagi (brand and doctor), Freedom Health, ESHO-isT, Alexandru Serban and baggage, Apotex: Goodbye also. Peace is coming. . It’s clear now. @esteelaudercompanies @richardbranson @realdonaldtrump @gowlingwlg_ca @zuck @musicianjessecook, et. al.

A post shared by THE ABNORMAL BEAUTY COMPANY (@deciem) on Oct 8, 2018 at 5:41am PDT

This post has been covered and analyzed everywhere from Allure to Buzzfeed, but it’s par for the course for Truaxe, who has given fans reasons to worry about his emotional state before. He posts on the brand’s official Instagram page himself — the rest of the social media team consists of one employee who responds to product usage questions — and has a history of posting confusing and sometimes concerning messages.

Truaxe has not hesitated to attack commenters who question him on the brand’s page. This behavior has led fans and critics to question his mental health and the health of the company, as well as speculate that the social media theatrics are actually just savvy marketing. But what is really going on?

Before we get into the events of this week, here’s a primer: Truaxe founded Deciem in 2013 and launched 10 sub-brands simultaneously — including hair care, supplements, and a men’s grooming line — which is pretty much unheard of in the beauty industry. His company, based in Toronto, also makes its own products, instead of contracting outside manufacturers, which is how most beauty brands work. Deciem employs about 800 people and has more than two dozen stores worldwide. Tagline: “The Abnormal Beauty Company.”

Truaxe is a computer programmer by trade, but he co-founded a high-end line of skincare called Euoko in 2008. One product cost $700, according to an article published in W magazine at the time. He then exited that brand and founded Indeed Labs, another Canadian beauty company. He left that under “angry” conditions and with a non-compete agreement, according to an interview in 2016 with Cosmetics Business. “A combination of passion for bringing credibility to the functional beauty business and the revenge overly due to Indeed Labs led to the formation of Deciem,” he told the publication.

Deciem really took off after the company launched skin care brand the Ordinary in 2016. The line features exceptionally affordable skin care featuring well-studied ingredients that have been used in skin care for decades, like vitamin C, retinol, hyaluronic acid, and others. Most are in simple dropper bottles, and the formulas aren’t fancy; they often smell weird or have gritty textures. But the line took off because the price is cheaper than anything on the market, including products you can find at a drugstore.

A simple glycolic face acid costs less than $9; an equivalent at Sephora or Ulta can cost upward of $20. The Ordinary launched at a time when people were getting interested in and purchasing skin care in a way we haven’t seen in years. The Ordinary’s accessibility contributed to a democratization of sorts. Really effective skin care had previously been in the purview of those who could afford pricey products.

According to Truaxe, the brand has done about $300 million in sales. Beauty conglomerate Estée Lauder has a 28 percent minority share in the company, an association that has given the indie brand credibility but invited scrutiny. Truaxe has always been described as quirky in early interviews, but things started to get weirder at the beginning of 2018 when he started posting very personal and even bizarre messages on the brand’s official Instagram account.

In January, Truaxe officially announced he was taking over the brand’s Instagram page. His first order of business was to pick a fight with another indie brand, Drunk Elephant, by suggesting its marula oil was too expensive. He apologized. After that came a series of pictures of garbage and increasingly more personal posts. He also appeared to be communicating with his team via Instagram. Redditors then discovered Glassdoor reviews suggesting that the company was not a great place to work.

In February, Truaxe took to Instagram to broadcast that the company would no longer be producing Esho, a brand of lip products made in collaboration with a UK plastic surgeon, Dr. Tijion Esho. Truaxe unceremoniously announced this on Instagram, allegedly without alerting Esho himself that it would be happening. (Esho is tagged in this week’s Instagram post as well.) It led to an almost year-long legal battle between the two.

Esho told Vox that he secured trademark and other rights to the Esho brand, as well as payment he was owed, with the help of Deciem’s Nicola Kilner.

Kilner is an important part of the brand story. She joined Deciem early from UK drugstore brand Boots and had been integral to its growth; at one point her title was “co-CEO.” She was largely seen as the calm and moderating force in the company. But Truaxe fired her in February after a confusing string of events that culminated in Truaxe questioning her loyalty to him.

An experienced CFO, Stephen Kaplan, who had only been there about six months, quit around the same time in protest. Kilner was given two years of severance pay. She gave an interview to Elle magazine a few months after her firing, in which she seemed reluctant to say anything negative about Truaxe or Deciem. “Talking to Kilner is a bit like talking to someone rescued from a cult against her will,” wrote Carrie Battan in the article. This summer, Kilner was rehired at the company. (She has not responded to Vox’s request for comment.)

Following the ESHO posts, a Racked investigation, prompted in part by the negative Glassdoor reviews, revealed allegations by several employees of verbal abuse and other misconduct by Truaxe and others in management positions. It was generally acknowledged, including by those working at the company, that the leadership was disorganized, with people changing roles and job titles frequently.

But the brand was growing, opening a rash of new stores (including the one in which the indigent person camped out in front or prompting Truaxe to say, “This person is disrespectful to the beauty of the library; he is disrespectful to the beauty of Fifth Avenue”). During this period, the brand got picked up by Sephora and even got a shout out from Kim Kardashian, who was apparently a fan.

Since these flare ups, Truaxe has been likened to Donald Trump by fans. He picked a fight with Cosmetics Business when it reported on these comparisons. He’s angrily lashed out at fans on social media who have questioned his methods, expressed concern about his increasingly incoherent posts, or called him out for his sometimes brash communication style. He would often highlight retorts to them in Instagram Stories on the brand’s official page, which occasionally led to fans attacking those critics on social media.

“Anyone who insults me, I’ll insult back. Look, if someone drops a bomb on my house I will at least knock and maybe pee on theirs,” he told me in the summer in a previously unpublished conversation, when I asked him about angering his followers by insulting them.

Some of these events seem to have affected his relationship with retailers. Sephora carried The Ordinary for a short time online, then it disappeared. Truaxe had suggested that Ulta was going to carry the line, but that has not materialized. Victoria Health, a UK based site (and one of the first to carry The Ordinary) dropped it recently and started stocking a competitor brand, Garden of Wisdom; Truaxe took to Deciem’s Instagram to post unflattering photos of the site’s founder. He publicly announced, via a shared email on the platform, that he would no longer be supplying product to indie beauty e-commerce site Beautylish. (German retailer Douglas recently started stocking Deciem, and the company has over a dozen freestanding stores in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, Europe, and South Korea.)

Truaxe has also publicly called out his minority investor, Estée Lauder, a large and powerful company that has always controlled its image very tightly. He’s published emails from Leonard Lauder and other Lauder executives, airing dirty laundry like the fact that the company supposedly wouldn’t allow an artisan who tiles its stores to post her work on social media. (The woman’s family ultimately was upset at Truaxe for that post.) The company is mentioned in this week’s Instagram post as well. In a statement to Vox, a representative for the company wrote: “The Estée Lauder Companies is a minority investor in Deciem, and, as such, we do not control the company’s operations, social media or personnel decisions.”

(There’s so much more. You can read more of my old reporting here, and Elle also has a helpful timeline of events.)

Now we are back to the “financial crimes” Truaxe mentioned this week on Instagram. In the video, he announced that the company would close down. For a while, Deciem’s homepage was a black screen with a small green pi symbol in the center. Individual brand pages, such as for The Ordinary, could still be accessed. As of publication time, the site is up and running.

According to an email leaked to Cosmopolitan UK, Truaxe ordered all the London stores except one to be closed until February 2019, accompanied by a warning that those not following instructions would be “terminated tomorrow.” No one answered phones at any of the London stores, the Miami store, or the Seoul store. (Truaxe and multiple others in the company did not respond to a request for comment.)

At the Amsterdam store, an apologetic woman who spoke English answered and said her boss told her to close the branch for two weeks, “but I don’t know why.” The Nolita store in New York City was open, but others in the city did not answer the phone. Communication obtained by a source close to Deciem suggested that there was confusion behind the scenes and that more of the New York City locations would eventually be opened. The Toronto stores were closed yesterday, per social media reports, but it was Canadian Thanksgiving. The Canadian stores did not answer their phones today.

All over social media and in the Deciem Facebook chat room, customers have reported placing online orders successfully.

This is not the first time Truaxe has alluded to financial wrongdoings at the company. He’s posted increasingly disturbing videos, including one now-deleted post from a hotel in the UK in which he asked for his followers to call the police because he was worried for his safety. He once sent an email to all his employees stating he was “done” with Deciem.

During the summer, I spoke to Truaxe both on the phone and in person in previously unpublished interviews about some of these incidents, especially the insinuations that there were financial “crimes” at the company. He was vague, saying “authorities” were involved. He also suggested that he was served a lawsuit by his former Euoko partner and current Deciem minority stakeholder Pasquale Cusano, who did not respond to calls and emails. Truaxe sounded lucid during the in-person conversation, though he tends to speak quickly and occasionally rambles.

“I found things I don’t like in my company,” Truaxe said at the time. He would not offer more details when pressed. “Unless things are cleaned up, I won’t stay.”

Truaxe’s suggestion on Instagram this week that the company may shut down led to a bit of panic among customers and fans, as it has done on multiple other occasions when his behavior on Instagram has seemed erratic. The CBC, which ran a report on the company in July, spoke to a marketing expert who suggested that it might be a purposeful tactic to get customers to buy products in bulk. If it was premeditated, it’s working, if social media is any indication — though some are calling it a stunt:

this whole Deciem thing must be a next level PR activation stunt. ppl will go mad for the products and sell out the entire stock

— (@thelonelyldnr) October 9, 2018

Truaxe truly seems to run his company by the seat of his pants, and doesn’t really seem to be concerned about who he angers or worries along the way. A blog post about Truaxe’s drama as a CEO on Strategy + Business in July noted, “Chaos is not a business strategy.” But it seems to be working fine for Deciem so far. The company has opened two new factories and several new stores, as well as launched a variety of new products over the last six months. But shutting down stores, which he sporadically seems to have done this week, will cost the company revenue and also possibly cost employees their pay.

The parallels between Brandon Truaxe and Elon Musk are there. Musk’s problematic tweets have opened him up to federal probes and caused him to step down as chairman of Tesla. But the sheer force of his personality and perceived genius are allowing him to stay on as CEO. So far, Deciem is telling a similar story.

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stellacarrierscriptstories · 7 years

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Stella Carrier Script Stories Law of Attraction Edition Script 53

Stella Carrier law of attraction script stories 53September 22, 2017Stella Carrier Script Stories Law of Attraction Edition Script 53 start time of scripts and all of the stories 1245 pmcompletion conclusion point 106 pm January 2, 2018I Stella Carrier am happy to report that both my husband Rusty Ridler and I continue to grow spiritually closer and more loving in our divinely blessed marriage. Both my husband Rusty Ridler and myself Stella Carrier have experienced success beyond our wildest dreams at our University of Maryland College Park jobs with a multiple number of satisfied coworkers, customers etc. Additionally, I Stella Carrier succeeded in saving over 1800 dollars after taxes by December 23 2017. This has helped me become a more powerful and spiritual magnet to greater prosperity.November 25, 2024I Stella Carrier am happy to report that I now have a completely paid off mazda 3 car that I succeeded in manifesting by November 8 2021. Additionally, I Stella Carrier now make over 3300 dollars a month or more after taxes and I am in a stronger financial position to give my amazing husband Rusty at least 200 to 300 dollars a month or more after taxes. Additionally, I Stella Carrier am happy to report that I now also have two years of living expenses saved in addition to be current on my student loan payments. It is a great feeling to have over 44,000 dollars after taxes saved in my Bank of America and Sun Trust accounts. Memoirs of A Heaven Afterlife Communication Part 21 November 8, 2091Dear Stella Carrier this communication comes from your future higher self who is standing inside a celestial purple, orange, and yellow building that is organizing a party for writers in the celestial realm that I am currently visiting in which is a celestial hybrid of less than 5 miles where you currently work (University of Maryland College Park). I have a few messages that was written for you in a pink and blue book given to me by your main male spirit guide who wants me to pass on these messages for you to process within the next 23 hours or less some of the info was already given to you but I have been asked to repeat for you for further assimilation by tomorrow;Celestial Intuitive InsightsGoal; aim for 6 miles per day and writing 5 times a week time limit one hour and 30 minutes, resource gathering 15 minutes max- one hour and 45 minutes max minimum half hour and minimum 2 minute resource blogging, eat first and then write, writing twice a week away from blog, public blog writing at least 4 times a week and maximum of 7 times a week Schedule them persistence is imaginative and intuitive keyOther things for me to keep in mindEat first thing in the morning ideally at homeMale playlist-akon beautifulCarry pictures of my body inspirations aroundUsing the career process book my friend gave meYear 2024 or laterClassroom party settingAllow delay or writing today but create tomorrow the following writingsWhat I did do rightIntuitive insightsSleeptime inspired/waking life storytelling ideasAs your future higher self, I have also been asked by one of your celestial prosperity advisers/helpers to advise you to work on saving at least 25 percent after taxes or more this weekend as important seed money, an amount to be factored into the amount you are going to set aside to get 2 new pairs of eyeglasses from your eyewear provider of choice aligned with your budget. 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I am magnetic to my higher good and it is magnetic to me.Celestial Intuitive InsightsGoal; aim for 6 miles per day and writing 5 times a week time limit one hour and 30 minutes, resource gathering 15 minutes max- one hour and 45 minutes max minimum half hour and minimum 2 minute resource blogging, eat first and then write, writing twice a week away from blog, public blog writing at least 4 times a week and maximum of 7 times a week Schedule them persistence is imaginative and intuitive keyOther things for me to keep in mindEat first thing in the morning ideally at homeMale playlist-akon beautifulCarry pictures of my body inspirations aroundUsing the career process book my friend gave meYear 2024 or laterClassroom party settingAllow delay or writing today but create tomorrow the following writingsWhat I did do rightIntuitive insightsSleeptime inspired/waking life storytelling ideashttps://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/20th-century-english-names.phpProfilefantasy name generatorhttps://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/20th-century-english-names.php 5 Scripting4 Aimee gates3 A day in the life of-5 profiles8 times higher self-future afterlife a monthVital Intuitive InsightDivide into travel to future heaven worlds for career guidance and future earthCurrent earth life-relocation/travel edition plus communication with celestial spirit ally teamSleeptime dream entry career diary, future higher self in already created script entries and new ones on my off days at least once a week aim to do daily, Weight loss richer life edition career life before and career life afterwards,Montgomery County Agricultural Fair Gaithersburg Marylandhttp://mcagfair.com/Neptune Festival Virginia Beach Virginiahttps://www.neptunefestival.com/save at least 25 percent

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shesthespinstersimmer · 4 years

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Twinsies (PT3): Logan gives sisterly advice to Quinn about his latest crush, and Dalton stops by Logan’s to discover there’s even more to her than he knows

#shesthespinstersimmer #storyteller #sims 4 story #ss beings season 2 #ss logan’s story #ss dalton’s story #ss quinn’s story #ss windenburg

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spinstersimmer · 4 years

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Dalton checks up on Kane, as they haven’t seen much of each other since he and Keisha got engaged.

(Shout out to @kikovanitysimmer @s-e-l-e-n-g @thisisthem @melissasims4me & more for helping me to bring these beings to life 🖤🤘🏾)

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Kia Optima Review.

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HottyToddy.com provides readers a roundup of the commentary and information about the Ole Miss Rebels from various publications around the Web.

Readers can check out the latest information in a single post each day throughout the year. Here at HottyToddy.com, we are doing all the leg work to find the information that people want about Ole Miss sports.

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Bortles And Rolison Earn SEC Honors

Colby Bortles. Steven Gagliano

Two Rebels earned SEC Baseball accolades when the league office released their all-conference lists Monday afternoon. Third baseman Colby Bortles was named second team All-SEC, while left-handed pitcher Ryan Rolison found a spot on the Freshman All-SEC team.

Bortles was a preseason second team All-SEC honoree, and the senior lived up to those expectations in his final season as a Rebel. Along with manning the hot corner, he leads the Rebels with 10 home runs and 42 RBI. A .270 hitter, Bortles also paces the team in multi-RBI games (12) over 54 starts. He’s hitting even better in SEC play with a .275 batting average. The Oviedo, Florida, native is the conference leader in sacrifice flies (7), which ranks 16th in the country. Playing in 212 games throughout his Ole Miss career, Bortles ranks 10th in program history with 153 RBI.

A highly-touted All-American out of high school, Rolison began the season in the bullpen before emerging as a key piece to the Ole Miss rotation. The Jackson, Tennessee, native is 6-3 on the 2017 campaign with a 3.06 ERA over 61.2 innings. Among qualified pitchers, the southpaw has allowed the fifth-fewest runs (23) in the SEC. Out of 18 appearances, Rolison has started nine games. His best outing of the year was against Missouri (April 22), tossing 6.0 scoreless innings and allowing only one hit. Adding a career-high nine strikeouts in the start against the Tigers, Rolison earned SEC Freshman of the Week honors.

Bortles, Rolison and the rest of the Rebels will begin SEC Tournament play tomorrow afternoon, facing No. 20 Auburn for the fourth consecutive game. The winner will earn a spot into the double elimination portion of the tournament. First pitch from the Hoover Met in Hoover, Alabama is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. CT on SEC Network.

For the latest news and updates involving Ole Miss Baseball, follow the Rebels on Twitter at @OleMissBSB, on Facebook at Ole Miss Baseball and on Instagram at olemissbsb.

2017 SEC Baseball Awards Player of the Year: Brent Rooker, Mississippi State Pitcher of the Year: Sean Hjelle, Kentucky Freshman of the Year: Braden Shewmake, Texas A&M Coach of the Year: Nick Mingione, Kentucky Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Zach Logue, Kentucky

First-Team All-SEC C: Grant Koch, Arkansas 1B: Brent Rooker, Mississippi State 2B: Braden Shewmake, Texas A&M 3B: Jordan Rodgers, Tennessee SS: Ryan Gridley, Mississippi State OF: Greg Deichmann, LSU OF: Tristan Pompey, Kentucky OF: Jeren Kendall, Vanderbilt DH/UT: Michael Curry, Georgia SP: Kyle Wright, Vanderbilt *SP: Sean Hjelle, Kentucky *SP: Alex Lange, LSU RP: Logan Salow, Kentucky

Second-Team All-SEC Team C: Troy Squires, Kentucky 1B: Evan White, Kentucky 2B: Riley Mahan, Kentucky 3B: Colby Bortles, Ole Miss *SS: Kramer Robertson, LSU *SS: Jax Biggers, Arkansas OF: Jonah Todd, Auburn OF: Jake Mangum, Mississippi State OF: Chandler Taylor, Alabama DH/UT: JJ Schwarz, Florida SP: Alex Faedo, Florida SP: Brady Singer, Florida RP: Michael Byrne, Florida

Freshman All-SEC Team C: Hunter Coleman, Texas A&M 1B: Andre Lipcius, Tennessee 2B: Braden Shewmake, Texas A&M 3B: Josh Smith, LSU SS: Cam Shepherd, Georgia OF: Carlos Cortes, South Carolina OF: Zach Watson, LSU OF: Dominic Fletcher, Arkansas DH/UT: Logan Foster, Texas A&M SP: Ryan Rolison, Ole Miss SP: Eric Walker, LSU RP: T.J. Sikkema, Missouri

SEC All-Defensive Team C: Michael Papierski, LSU 1B: Evan White, Kentucky 2B: Deacon Liput, Florida 3B: Josh Smith, LSU SS: Dalton Guthrie, Florida OF: Jeren Kendall, Vanderbilt OF: Jonah Todd, Auburn OF: Jake Mangum, Mississippi State P: Brigham Hill, Texas A&M

* – Denotes a tie in voting. Ties are not broken.

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Ole Miss’ Rawlings Named To Rimington Trophy Watch List

Ole Miss Football vs Mississippi State on November 26th, 2016 at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, MS. Photos by Petre Thomas/Ole Miss Athletics Twitter: @OleMissPix Sean Rawlings, (50), OL, Sophomore, Madison, Miss.

Ole Miss junior Sean Rawlings has been named to the spring watch list for the 2017 Rimington Trophy, which honors the top center in Division I FBS college football.

Announced by the Rimington Trophy Committee on Monday, the watch list has 63 centers, including at least one from every FBS conference.

Rawlings, from Madison, Mississippi, has played in 21 games with 15 starts over the first two seasons of his Ole Miss career. He started seven games at right tackle and one at center a year ago and is a favorite to be the team’s full-time center entering his junior campaign. He was an SEC All-Freshman pick by Gridironnow.com in 2015 when he started seven games at right tackle and helped the Rebels return to the Sugar Bowl for the first time since 1970.

Other SEC centers Joining Rawlings on the Rimington watch list are Alabama’s Bradley Bozeman, Arkansas’ Frank Ragnow, Auburn’s Austin Golson, Florida’s T.J. McCoy, LSU’s Will Clapp, South Carolina’s Alan Knoff and Texas A&M’s Colton Prater.

While more than a dozen All-America teams are selected annually, the Rimington Trophy committee used these three prestigious teams to determine a winner:

Walter Camp Foundation Sporting News Football Writers Association of America Because the selectors of these three All-America teams can place centers in a “mix” of offensive linemen that includes guards and tackles, their 11-man first teams can often have two centers. The Rimington Trophy committee’s policy is to count all players that play primarily the center position for their respective teams as centers, even though they may be listed as guards or tackles on the All-America teams.

The center with the most first-team votes will be determined the winner. If there is a tie with first-team votes, then the center with the most second-team votes will win. If there is still a tie, the winner will be determined by a majority vote from the Rimington Trophy committee. The winner will be recognized at the Rimington Trophy Presentation at the Rococo Theatre in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Saturday, January 13, 2018.

About the Rimington Trophy

The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the Most Outstanding Center in NCAA Division I FBS College Football. Since its inception, the Rimington Trophy has raised over $2.9 million for the cystic fibrosis community. The award is overseen by the Boomer Esiason Foundation, which is committed to finding a cure for cystic fibrosis and has raised over $130 million for the fight against cystic fibrosis. Dave Rimington, the award’s namesake, was a consensus first team All-American center at the University of Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the Outland Trophy’s only double winner as the nation’s finest college interior lineman.

For more on the Rimington Trophy and a list of past recipients, visit http://ift.tt/10ltSoz.

About the NCFAA

The Rimington Trophy is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA), which encompasses the most prestigious awards in college football. The 23 awards boast 765 years of tradition-selection excellence. Visit www.NCFAA.org to learn more.

Follow Ole Miss Football on Twitter (@OleMissFB), Facebook and Instagram. For more information, visit http://ift.tt/16ouVLF.

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New SEC Storied Documentary “The Rebel” to Premiere on SEC Network May 30

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The next installment in ESPN Films’ SEC Storied series, “The Rebel,” will premiere on Tuesday, May 30, at 9 p.m. ET on SEC Network. The film looks at former Ole Miss basketball sensation Johnny Neumann and the decisions he made that shaped his life and career forever.

Johnny Neumann took the Ole Miss nickname seriously. A 6’6″ prodigy from Memphis often compared to LSU superstar Pete Maravich, Neumann led the nation in scoring in 1971 as a sophomore in his only seaon in Oxford.

In the SEC Storied film “The Rebel,” director Paul Carruthers looks back on those days when Neumann electrified the Memphis basketball scene playing for Overton High before moving on to the University of Mississippi. The film also reveals a now older and wiser man who returned to Oxford in 2013 to begin working on the college degree he once spurned. In the years in between, Neumann bounced from team to team and country to country.

The film includes exclusive interviews from Paul Finebaum, Woody Paige, and Hubie Brown. Advance digital screeners are available upon request.

About SEC Storied ESPN Films launched the SEC Storied documentary series in September 2011, presenting fans the opportunity to explore the rich athletic history of the Southeastern Conference. From extraordinary athletes and coaches to defining games and moments, the series has featured films that focus on the SEC’s recent and more distant past, including one of the most-viewed documentaries in ESPN history, “The Book of Manning.” In 2015 SEC Storied received its first two Sports Emmy nominations for both “Outstanding Sports Documentary” and “Outstanding Music Composition/Direction/Lyrics” with the film “It’s Time: The Story of Brad Gaines and Chucky Mullins.”

SEC Network The Southeastern Conference and ESPN launched SEC Network on August 14, 2014. The network televises over 45 SEC football games, 100 men’s basketball games, 60 women’s basketball games, 75 baseball games, and other events from across the SEC’s 21 sports annually. Programming includes in-depth analysis and storytelling in studio shows such as SEC Nation, daily news and information with SEC Now, original content such as SEC Storied and SEC Inside, and more. Hundreds of additional live events are available for streaming exclusively on SEC Network’s digital companion, SEC Network+, via WatchESPN and SECNetwork.com. The network has 70 million subscribers in the US and is also available in more than 50 countries throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa via ESPN Player, ESPN’s sports streaming service in the region.

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NC State takes series over Clemson, but not without drama

Can I open my eyes now?

If Thursday’s game was the Joe Dunand game, Friday’s was shaping up to be the Evan Mendoza game. Then things got weird. More on that later…

Mendoza’s three-run bomb to straightaway centerfield broke a 1-1 tie early in the contest, and the Pack third baseman later went sprawling into the Clemson dugout to catch a popup in a Jeter-esque effort. And State needed a big game from Mendoza with Dunand not starting the contest due to a sore hand.

So Mendoza was the hero and State cruised to…well no. Things got weird. The weirdest of them all was Will Wilson’s inside-the-park grand slam as part of a seven-run eighth that saw State put the game away. Oops, no again. You see, I have the power of internet jinxing. It’s really more of a curse than a power.

Again, I’m so so so sorry about St. Louis. And TCU. You think I’d have learned. Alas, after Clemson’s centerfielder crashed into the wall in a failed attempt to corral Wilson’s blast, I slipped on in to last night’s game story and made a seemingly innocuous comment about how I hoped he, and Clemson’s program (losers of eight ACC games in a row coming in to tonight) would be okay. Did I triumphantly and in ALL CAPS type BALLGAME? No. But it was enough to rouse the baseball gods.

And then came the ninth. Joe O’Donnell, inexplicably left in the game after State had batted for about an hour in the previous inning, came out cold and walked like a million guys in a row in what was a 12-2 game. Then a couple of other relievers added some suck, culminating in Clemson’s own granny, this of the traditional over-the-fence variety, and before you know it the score is 12-10 and y’all are out there burning shit in my yard again.

Enter Sean Adler. Former weekend starter turned improbable closer. Adler notched his second save in as many days, ending the game with a disgusting slider strikeout. I take back all the negative things I said about you, Sean, when Google informed me you had been jettisoned from USC-West for filming your buddy getting it on with his girlfriend without her knowledge. As far as I’m concerned, we all grew up a little bit tonight.

So, normally I write these journalistic recaps, but that ninth inning, an inning that saw Clemson plate eight runs, perhaps resulted in this here clownblogger hitting the tequila firehose a little too hard. So you’ve got whatever that was above.

Let us throw out some facts and whatnot:

· Clemson has lost nine straight ACC games despite my best effort to jinx things.

· NC State has won eight straight ACC games (and 13 of 14 overall).

· The above turn of events has the two teams tied in the ACC standings, so Saturday’s season finale is rather important for ACC tournament seeding purposes.

· If State can complete the sweep tomorrow, and Virginia loses, I’m pretty sure we finish 4th in the ACC but doing math and figuring out tiebreakers is challenging at the moment.

· Hello there, two seed in the NCAAs (or one seed after we win the conference tournament).

· Mendoza finished with two hits and three RBI. Wilson had two hits, two runs scored, and drove in four. Brad Debo had three hits, scored a run, and drove in one.

· Dunand came on as a pinch hitter and stayed in to play SS, so it looks like he’s just fine. He had a hit and a walk after entering the game.

· Brian Brown was really good, allowing just one earned run in six innings, striking out six. He allowed an unearned run in the first thanks to some ugly defense.

· Dalton Feeney and Kent Klyman combined for a scoreless seventh.

· After it took three State pitchers to get one out (while allowing eight runs) in the ninth, Adler fanned both batters he faced.

The Pack’s regular season finale is slated for 1 p.m. tomorrow, and you can stream it on the ACC Network Extra if you have a strong heart.

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