#new balls

I always find it incredible sexy when Jannik is showing new balls.

This:

[Source: S's IG stories - posted October 4, 2025]

Look at Those Two, cozily sitting BTS and flipping you guys the bird.

Roger that, SC. 5/5.

The idea is pretty clear and yes, that flipping bird does apply to the entire Dickens-meets-Cartland fanfic which is peddled around, lately. The New/Old Script and the New/Old Girl - not Irish: I think this is something C would not stomach.

If anything, C's IG follow, destined to make the entire situation casually believable, rather makes her look like a control freak. The follow occuring on her birthday is entirely calibrated: she knew, oh she knew very well, that pretty much everyone will track her movements today. She did it with a bang, not a fizzle. But see, this is the problem: this bang is too loud to be organic. #disbitch comes to mind: a wonderful gif I do not have, because I only keep archives of my own findings.

Review this summer's waypoints (LOL) and you will see why she is here and now and why trolls push this narrative hard enough. I also see the idea of children being exposed has not been deemed alarming. This is a mistake.

I always told you that things will drag along, painfully, endlessly, until at least after Season 8 airs. I am now making a somewhat risky bet and tell you: by the end of Season 8, hysteria will be at a peak, in this fandom. A real peak challenge, so to speak.

I might be wrong. I often was. But in order to make omelette, you have to break at least a couple of eggs, right?

My attention has been very recently drawn to this very telling non-announcement:

[Source: https://hq.rostr.cc/insider/news/the-fratellis-sign-wtth-toura-toura; announcement published on February 24, 2025]

And surely enough, this was quietly confirmed by Toura Toura on the company's socials. It would also seem they have been collaborating for a while, now, even before the info was disclosed:

[Source: https://www.instagram.com/ltdtouratoura/]

[Source: https://www.facebook.com/touratourahq/]

It is even on the Booking Agent Info professional database:

[Source: https://bookingagentinfo.com/celebrity/the-fratellis/]

To quote: 'The Fratellis' managers used to be Anthony McGill' (..)'. Operative concept - 'used to'. Past tense. The three of them managers seem to have vanished into thin air. Oh my, what on Earth could have happened?

According to Companies' House, UK Government company register, Kevin Fitzgerald is the sole owner of two companies. The first company is Toura Toura Ltd, which nature of business is  'sound recording and music publishing activities':

[Source: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11826082]

... and Toura Toura Festivals Ltd, which nature of business is 'performing arts' and which is doing just slightly better - its paperwork is ok, for the time being:

[Source: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12502492]

The accounts' analysis is interesting, in a way, for there seems to have been very little (if any) turnover/profit in both companies for the last three years, with very mediocre balance sheet reports to boot:

... and...

Anyways, I am rather tempted to follow-up and report if anything new pops in, which might happen rather shortly, with last year's report overdue for the first company and due in about two weeks for the second one.

You might be forgiven of superficially thinking this entrepreneurial profile looks like another person's (ahem). It doesn't: his net assets are positive, despite the reporting negligence as far as Toura Toura Ltd is concerned. And the COVID pandemic might explain those financials, at least partially. For instance, in May 2023, Toura Toura Festivals landed in hot water, when the Wolverhampton Council completely let them down, canceling for the third year in a row the city's Creation Day Festival:

[Source and more details, here: https://accessaa.co.uk/toura-toura-festivals-seeking-legal-advice-after-creation-day-postponed-for-third-year-running/]

The man seems to have a good reputation in the business. I found this pre-COVID interview (February 2020) for a specialized blog very honest and quite endearing - excerpts follow:

[Source: https://vanadianavenue.co.uk/2020/02/12/indieterria-meets-kevin-fitzgerald-of-toura-toura/ ]

And then look who's on The Fratellis' following Instagram roster...?

[Source: https://www.instagram.com/thefratellis/following/]

Alan McGee, Fitzgerald's providential first client! Yes. Connections are always important, irrespective of the industry, but perhaps even more in that particular industry.

I strongly suggest you'd give five minutes to Mr. Fitzgerald's story of a single dad who has been through loss and found the power to reinvent himself. Clearly a very hands-on, proactive work ethic and perhaps the reason The Fratellis signed with him, after all?

So you see, I think there is a difference between 'working in the shadows' and being non-existent/not giving a flying fuck. I even surprised myself feeling glad for a perfectly unknown person's apparent comeback.

You might also think McGill's got other clients?

Chances are he doesn't, plus his profile isn't even claimed - now, why would that be?

[Source: https://bookingagentinfo.com/managers/anthony-mcgill/]

For comparison purposes: the profile is checked by Fitzgerald himself and the clients are there. I didn't bother to look further - it's crystal clear.

[Source: https://bookingagentinfo.com/managers/kevin-fitzgerald/]

You knew this will immediately follow, right?

You're welcome.

Dear OL fiction Anon,

I have read better OL/RPF fics than this one. Especially the last one I recommended, simply because it has none of the usual cheesy bells and whistles. It dares to venture far and cut deep into some very twisted narrative fabric and takes an unpopular first POV.

She is not currently divorced. She is a widow (anyone else gets Du Maurier's Rebecca vibes here? ugh, I detest that book with a passion). But before being a widow, she was a divorcée. Her timelines - or rather the ones this fandom assigns to her - are odd, at any rate.

While many expect Flukenzie Floozy v.2.0 here, I will venture another bet:

The more we will see this young woman loitering around, and the less favorable to S the Macbeth critics will be.

In other words: if his Macbeth smashes it, there might be little innuendo and few to zero sightings -> less deterrents from success. If his Macbeth flounders, that little side game is likely to be inflated accordingly -> extra deflection from failure.

At any rate, this narrative stint will probably rely more on innuendo than measurable facts, judging from the last similar episodes and the way it was brought to our attention.

Dear Emotionally Available Anon,

It took you about 25 lines and a lot of self-investment to write something that can be summed up in very few words:

There is nothing organic about a #silly, completely manufactured thing, that almost instantly backfired.

The only crowd that is apparently reinforced by this crap is the Gay Brigade. For this is where all those Antis that are not buying the currently touted Old/New Story will go.

Plus you lost me at 'let's assume she's actually happily married to another man', Anon.

LOL

Dear LOL Anon,

Oh, sweet summer child... these people never leave, for their memory is forever etched in our hearts...

On a less light tone, may I remind you she did not exactly say so. She simply said she 'lost the joy' of following stalking 'the actor' and therefore, she will presumably post less about him and more of other things she usually enjoys. After Macbeth, and that is only normal: I expect her to be there, too. Exactly like in one of David Lodge's campus novels, where all the side players eventually do congregate in a randomly assigned focal point.

I am suddenly more interested in those other things she usually enjoys, Anon. For a change.

And in the fact the usual trolls suddenly seem to take a bow, just months before the show will finally (fi-nal-ly!) end.