Legend:PeptoBismolishPeach™ for Meg (y’know, trooping outfit, the Nurse Ratched penchant for colour schemes) and BabyBlue™ for Kate (‘cause girl sure likes her blue).
About: Number of times they’ve mentioned SpecificShit™.
Notes: Please to note that Meg’s Foreword™ consists of roughly 17 paragraphs and 5 pointless bullet points spread over 3 pages. Kate’s was a total of 1 page and 4 paragraphs. So… with that in mind…
What Gert’s did is standard operating procedure for royal engagements. They always mention that other royals also visited and supported. Heck, sometimes they go back to the Diana years or even young HM’s visits to show a constant stream of support. When Meghan and Harry went to the Mandela exhibit, they mentioned Charles’ visit with Mandela.
That’s the point of the royal family. It’s a team, or at least it used to be. I guess now that Meghan’s here it’s different.
I’ll play nice. I may have missed one or two because I did everything in my power not to read that. Her word salad is like watching spongebob, it kills brain cells literally.
After consulting dozens of authors, critics, and voracious readers, Vulture has come up with A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Canon, aka a list of the 100 most important books of the 21st century (so far).
Any project like this is arbitrary, and ours is no exception. But the time frame is not quite as random as it may seem. The aughts and teens represent a fairly coherent cultural period, stretching from the eerie decadence of pre-9/11 America to the presidency of Donald Trump. This mini-era packed in the political, social, and cultural shifts of the average century, while following the arc of an epic narrative (perhaps a tragedy, though we pray for a happier sequel).
Just to compare & contrast, for those who wondered.
Notice how she connects personally, but doesn’t go overboard. Total of 4 lines mentioning her, but does so in relation to the choice and the work she has been and is doing. It’s fairly professional tbh.
I know! We haven’t seen mudslinging like this since the War of the Wales. People are comparing the brf to Scientology!
I see the Meg fans are working themselves into a froth over Kate’s (admittedly modest) patronage track record. They seem to think this is still a competition. That’s adorable.
Yes, there was a chance Meghan would be able to bury the nude pics, sex scenes, ditched boyfriends, etc… under a stellar charity record, but, thanks to her family and her own crap decisions this summer, that is no longer the case. For some bizarre reason she decided to counter her family’s attack with tons of couture fashion ops with the royal family instead of focusing on her charity work. Now she’s going on another huge fashion show down under.
Even if she went on a huge charity spree, she still wouldn’t be able to make up for the huge family drama, million-dollar wardrobe, and lack of UK brands. And, let’s face it, there is no huge charity spree coming up. She could have (and SHOULD HAVE) done that this month, but decided to hype up her tour fashion instead. The only events where she has looked happy have been the ones with royals or celebs. Her trademark look during charity visits is “wtf am I doing here.”
Meghan isn’t interested in the charity part. She built enough of a resume to bamboozle people into giving her this position and now she’s done with it. She’s interested in fashion and celebs and that will be her focus from now on. Yes, she’ll do enough work to meet the minimum requirements, but that’s it. This is what she has done in every single job she has had. That’s why the blog was so freaking half-assed.
She’ll probably step up the charity stuff in a year or so, when she starts getting antsy and looking for an exit.
Because when something happens, she’s the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.
I’ve been looking out a window for eighteen years, dreaming about what it might feel like when those lights rise in the sky. What if it’s not everything I dreamed it would be?
My only love sprung from my only hate. Too early seen unknown, and known too late. Prodigious birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy. —Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Oh, I think your’re right, but at the time I was completely taken in by his pr.
If you look at my early posts, I was completely convinced that there had to be some blackmail/fauxmance arrangement going on. I simply could not picture a royal willingly doing such obvious Soho House/NBC/etc… merching. Suits was using the relationship as promo! Meghan was pap-walking two, sometimes THREE, times a week! She was selling “Harry” necklaces and rings! She was doing DM “date” articles for her blog sponsors!
I still can’t believe he did it. This was Instagram model level stuff. Have some pride, dude!
Re: Brad getting sued. I genuinely think that Brad actually really cared about the cause in New Orleans, but again, as someone who was a nonprofit professional for years before going corporate is that nonprofit work is WORK. It’s so hard to get right. People don’t expect that they can step in as an investment banker or doctor for a day, but somehow ladling soup for 4 hours automatically makes you a poverty expert. (Which is why I side eye 98% of celeb charity work!) People get get Masters and PhD degrees to go into jobs that will likely never pay them more like 70k. The celebrities that do the best are ppl who just donate and advocate with their own passionate stories to bring public awareness, not make it about THEM or their “ideas” but gracefully let the experts do their thing. I am sure Brad thought his idea to combine his passion for fancy sustainable green architecture built by star architects in Nola was great, but in his excitement and hubris forgot that the point of the aid he was giving the community is not about him or his architecture boner. His project should have never involved piloting concepts for sustainable housing when the goal was to provide those who had lost property with functional, cost efficient, solidly constructed houses quickly. Now we have this mess with all that money wasted. Contrast that with Mariska Haritgay’s incredible work for sexual assault victims through Joyful Heart Foundation. As the public face of it, she tells a compelling story of how deeply she connects to the issue and routinely advocates for it. But look at who she leaves the nonprofit’s operations to – serious hardcore educated professionals who have deep experience in sexual assault trauma: http://www.joyfulheartfoundation.org/about-us/staff
Another great example of this is Christy Turlington, who almost died in childbirth then went and got a master’s degree at Columbia to devote her efforts to reducing maternal mortality internationally.
Anyway, to bring this back to this whole mess… what I’m saying is that even with the best intentions and true passion like Brad, usually celebs who don’t know their role as a public figurehead and try to get into programming without knowledge run into trouble. It’s incredibly difficult to do charity right. While it remains to be seen how impactful Kate is, what I do appreciate about her is how involved she is in the things that have always defined her life – art, children. She doesn’t overstate her importance and while that might be seen as lazy or not splashy, I appreciate that she defers to others and her personal involvement and level of activity seems to come from a genuine place. MM’s challenge is to come up with a cause she’s truly devoted to and can speak well to, but with so many facades who knows who she really is?
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Yes, exactly. I really think that the fact that Kate brings in experts and defers to them is fantastic. So many people come in with the best of intentions and end up with something completely unworkable and sometimes even downright harmful.
But this is why people are skeptical of his military record, no matter how many glowing “he was the best pilot and the best soldier and a true leader of men” testimonies the military puts out. No one who took the job seriously would have spoken the way he did.
Remember, a Jedi’s strength flows from the Force. But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) dir. Richard Marquand
No idea. Every time I think I know what stupid thing is going to happen next, I learn there’s more stuff. I thought her sex tape and more nudes were going to come out and cause trouble this summer, and instead it was her father.
I’m also not sure that we’ll find out publicly. Perhaps it’s just Harry and the royal family who finds this thing out, and it’s not published at the time…?
I think it’s technically his non-profit, Make It Right, that is getting sued. I’m not sure how much liability Brad actually has with that since it’s a separate organization. The public relations, however, regarding it definitely aren’t great.
Meh. The alleged, college first marriage wouldn’t change anything at this point.
Megs isn’t older than she claims that one is old news from 8-9 months ago when people would freak out about her 8th grade graduation photos because they didn’t realize that some schools in the US do 8th grade graduations. Her birth certificate with her birth time was verified by astrologers. Megs hasn’t lied about her age. Get over it. Sounds like stupid, conspiracy theories by people who don’t understand how birth certificates work in the USA.
Harry’s not a hostage. Just dumb, lonely, and desperate to get married and start a family. Plenty of other men and women around the planet have made similar mistakes in marrying people they shouldn’t have.
Harry’s mistake is just more public than everyone else’s.
I’m probably forgetting some. I’d say the stupidest (and most revealing, retrospect) was the one about hating the Apaches. They’d spent tons of money and pr on him and he destroyed it all in one second. They were honestly upset with him too, because the heli program was a concession to the fact that he insisted on going back to the front. It’s very telling, however, in restropect. I think he always felt that they were trying to make him into something he wasn’t.
Yes, a chart can be read with the Moon as the ascendant. Or if you really want, you can pay someone to do a chart rectification to figure out the birth time based on life events.
If it’s just a specific question that you want answered, they can do a chart based on the time of the question also. (Horary astrology/prasna)
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