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“The Girl Who Killed the Puppet Master… and walked out wearing her skin.”

🎭 THE CASE IN QUESTION:

Gypsy was medically abused and psychologically tortured by her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, for over 20 years.

Dee Dee shaved her head, lied about dozens of medical conditions, and convinced doctors Gypsy was mentally disabled.

In 2015, Gypsy plotted her mother's murder with Nicholas Godejohn, a mentally impaired man she met online.

Nick stabbed Dee Dee 17 times while Gypsy hid in the bathroom and shaved her pubic hair to prepare for sex.

Then they went to Denny’s.

Then they posted “That BITCH is dead” on Facebook.

Gypsy pled guilty to second-degree murder and served just over 7 years.

Today, she is married, free, TikTok famous, and a mother.

Her daughter’s name? Aurora. The same name she used during murder-fantasy roleplay with Nick.

🧠 THE PSYCHOLOGY: She Was Abused — But She Was Also Trained

Let’s be clear:

Yes, Gypsy was abused. Yes, she deserved protection. **But she wasn’t just a victim — she was a student. And Dee Dee taught her too well.

🚨 She Was Taught That:

Sympathy is a resource.

Lies are survival.

Doctors are props.

Emotions are tools.

Sickness is safety.

Vulnerability is power.

She was programmed to perform. And then she wrote her own script. And cast Nick — a socially impaired man with violent delusions — as her knight.

This wasn’t a crime of desperation. This was fantasy.

A murder-play. With a Disney ending. And she walked offstage into real freedom.

🧠 She Wasn’t Just Conditioned to Submit

She was conditioned to deceive.

And when you raise a child in a house where reality is fake? They don’t grow into heroes. They grow into unreliable narrators.

Her abuse didn’t erase her agency — it mutated it.

She didn’t just escape the villain. She became the author. And she kept the story going.

📍 Let’s Talk Aurora

During the planning of her mother’s murder, Gypsy invented a fantasy daughter: Aurora. She talked to Nick about giving her to him at 13. She named her. Wrote about her. Roleplayed her existence.

And now? Her real daughter is named Aurora.

That’s not healing. That’s ritual. That’s permanent fantasy immersion.

Gypsy didn’t bury the script. She cast a baby in it.

💬 She Said: “I feel freer in prison than I ever did at home.”

That wasn’t trauma speaking. That was relief. She knew she’d won.

She got away with it. In her head? If she was caught? She’d still be the main character. And that’s exactly what happened.

🧨 So Let’s Compare Her “Redemption” to Everyone Else's Prison Sentence

These are real survivors of abuse. These are girls who fought back. Who made split-second decisions to live. Not to fantasize.

Let’s say their names:

🥀 Cyntoia Brown

Killed her trafficker at 16.

Got 51 years to life.

Served 15.

Only released by clemency.

No baby. No Netflix deal.

🔥 Chrystul Kizer

Trafficked at 16. Killed her abuser.

Police were already investigating him.

Took a plea deal in 2024.

11 years in prison.

Still serving.

⚰️ Sara Kruzan

Trafficked at 13.

Killed her abuser at 16.

Life without parole.

Served two decades.

Released only after two sentence commutations.

🕯️ Bresha Meadows. 14. Killed her father after years of threats, beatings, and fear.

Juvenile detention. Suicide watch.

Family had to pay for her confinement.

She never got a microphone. Just trauma therapy bills.

🔐 Alexis Martin

Trafficked at 15.

Convicted of felony murder for a death she didn’t commit.

Tried as an adult.

Spent 11 years behind bars.

Released only after a constitutional violation was proven.

She didn’t get a documentary deal. She got forgotten.

💬 Let’s Be Blunt:

They got cinder blocks and suicide watch. Gypsy got a haircut, a baby, and Crumbl Cookies.

They fought to survive. Gypsy choreographed.

They acted in fear. She acted in fantasy.

They got life. She got a fan base.

🧩 Final Thought:

Gypsy didn’t break the cycle. She studied it. Absorbed it. And perfected it.

She learned how to make pain profitable. She rewrote the ending. And now she’s framing the sequel. Starring a baby. With the same name.

This isn’t justice. This is theater. And the rest of us? We’re just the audience. And some of us still remember how the first act ended.

⚖️ Side Note (Because I Never Post Stuff Like This)

I usually don’t post about real people.

This blog’s mostly fiction.

Lore. Media. Characters. Worlds that know they’re stories.

But this?

This Gypsy Rose saga has been rotting in my head like a haunted script I can’t stop re-reading.

And now with the old videos leaking and the Aurora name thing and the baby?

Yeah.

It’s not just unsettling.

(via Chasing the Northern Lights in Edmonton - MasterMaq's Blog)

The Aurora Borealis photographed last night from...........guess where?

You could certainly be forgiven for thinking it was a photo from Norway or Greenland or somewhere like that.....but it was in fact taken at Lindisfarne in Northumberland, Northeast England.

The Northern Lights are rarely so bright this far south, but the sun is currently in the active phase of its (approximate) 11 year cycle and last week unleashed the most powerful solar storm in years.

The source of all this solar and geomagnetic activity is a rather large sunspot on the sun's surface.  Measuring more than 150,000 km from end to end, this is an immense area of disturbance that grows and moves around the surface of the sun before eventually fading away.

Sunspots are linked to Coronal Mass Ejections, phenomena that erupt similarly huge amounts of matter and radiation outwards in whatever direction the sunspot is facing at the time.  If that is towards us then we can experience disturbances in satellite communications and electrical transmission lines, but we can also actually see the disturbance in the form of the Northern and the Southern Lights.....as happened last night.

This particular sunspot is visible even without a solar telescope, as photographed by Fabiano Belisário Diniz in last night's sunset from Curitiba, Brazil.  It's the streak in the centre of the disc:

There is considerable concern about what a more active sun could mean for our modern society.  The largest solar flare ever recorded was the Carrington Event in 1859, where telegraph transmitters heated up when their wires caught the wave of solar energy, bursting some of them into flames.  The shock actually injured telegraph operators and paralysed communication in Europe and North America.  The Northern Lights were seen over the Caribbean, and were so bright in the Rockies they reputedly woke people up during the night.

A similar storm in 1989 disrupted electrical power transmission from a Hydro plant in Québec, blacking out most of the province and plunging six million people into darkness for nine hours.  Power transformers were also melted by solar storm-induced power surges in New Jersey.

1989 isn't that long ago, but even then there just wasn't the reliance we now have upon satellites, which are particularly vulnerable to solar storms.  They can be shut down by large storms......which would mean any or all of the following would be affected: GPS systems, aviation & marine navigation, credit card transactions, telecommunications, mobile phones, television networks, military defence & intelligence and god knows what else.

You can read more about the likely effects of a massive solar flare on modern society at National Geographic.

If you're in the UK and don't want to miss the next Northern Lights event, you can sign up for free email notifications from AuroraWatch UK, who will email you whenever an aurora is in progress, so that you don't miss it.....erm.....assuming there's no cloud of course, which annoyingly there was last night here in Fife :-( 

Photograph: Reed Ingram Weir

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