#same shit different fandom

I feel like I went back in time reading this. This is the exact kind of shit we got with Cumberbatch and Hiddleston when they had their first child. You could replace Alba's name with Sophie or Zawe and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Chris and Alba are under no obligation to share wedding or baby pictures with the public. I don't know why it's so fucking hard for the Delulus to understand that. Wanting to keep your privacy doesn't mean their marriage and daughter are fake. It only means they want to keep their private life private.

Hi there! I've been debating whether to address this publicly, but I received numerous DMs about this last night and have been made well aware of the blog in question.

For context: Over the last few days, the person behind the mock blog has used their main account to make their presence known on my blog, having reblogged one of my posts just to add a nasty comment to it, replying to another one of my posts and attacking my followers, and sending me a hateful Ask, all in escalating succession. This culminated in the creation of the new account last night, which had a name that was an almost identical dupe of my blog name.

To be clear, I have no intention of linking to this blog publicly, as this person's goal and aim seems to be for me to engage with them--someone I do not know, and to whom I have never spoken or responded in any capacity. It also seems that the URL of the blog has changed from being a copy of my blog name to something else, and given that I had a lot of people DMing me indicating that they reported the blog to Tumblr, my guess is that the name change is the result of that.

The only other thing that I will say regarding this is that I'm obviously not thrilled that someone created a blog for the purpose of harassing me (while ironically accusing me of harassing Georgia and AL, despite me repeatedly stating that I do not follow either of them on social media and am strongly against anyone leaving harassing comments on any of their accounts). At the same time, however, I have been subject to far worse in my previous fandom--most notably, one vile incident where someone falsely accused me of distributing pornographic material to a minor, and another incident where the same person contacted my employer in an attempt to get me fired in the middle of lockdown in 2020. So all things considered, this blog is relatively mild in comparison.

And while I'm enormously grateful for the support that I have received from so many kind folks, I would urge you to not engage with this blog on any level, and please especially do not send this person threats of any kind on my behalf. I've said many times on my blog that people are welcome to disagree with me, and that I'm happy to hear the opinions of others who do not share my views as long as they are civil and respectful. What this person is doing is neither of those things, and they've made it clear that engaging with them would be a fruitless endeavor, but that still does not make it okay to send anyone hate. And if the desired outcome here is attention, then the best course of action would be to not provide it.

People are just as free to not ship a couple as they are to ship them, but I find it highly interesting the amount of vehement protesting this pairing is getting. It's borderline aggressive. It's like people forgot how shipping works. People are going to ship. It's the nature of any fandom. But like any other show with a Black female lead (or even a supporting character, lbr), it's unsurprising and quite on brand. It's also just as exhausting. 😒

Those of us who were Meriadoc Brandybuck fans back in 2001:

Ah yes, the old "he's cheating on his wife" BS. I've seen this in so many fandoms, I've lost count.

If you can't find said documents, it's not because they don't exist, it's either because you're not legally allowed to order a copy or simply do not have the info necessary to get a copy.

In the US: both marriage and birth certificates are confidential. They cannot be shared without the couple or parents' permission. There's a reason why TMZ took the Baptista-Evans certificates down.

In the UK: you can only obtain the certificates if you have the pertinent info. Like date and place of birth. If you don't have that info, you won't be able to order a copy.