Here's part 1 if you haven't read it https://www.reddit.com/survivocomments/1czwua6/when_each_winner_should_have_been_voted_off_part_1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button . Now here’s part 2.
This is my list of all the wasted opportunities to take out a season’s winner. By wasted opportunity, I mean times where a castaway could have voted out the eventual winner and doing so was the optimal move (or at least would be a valid move) but decided not to for one reason or another.
I am only counting times where the winner was spared by a player who should’ve cut them. I am not counting times where the winner saved themselves with immunity (unless another player could’ve prevented them from being immune) or was saved by luck (a twist, a medevac, etc).
I am only counting times where a player had a direct shot to take out the winner specifically, not times where they could weaken the winner by taking out their ally.
This is not meant to disparage players for not taking these opportunities. While there have been times where voting out the winner was obviously the best move, there are also times where I’ll be relying on hindsight and/or where it’s ambiguous what the best move was, and I’ll be acknowledging when that’s the case.
This is not a way of discerning which winners are better than which. If there were few or none opportunities to vote out a winner, that can speak to how well positioned they were. If there were a ton of opportunities to take out a winner, that can speak to how good they were at manipulating their tribe.
Kim
What I said about Rob also applies to Kim. Almost everyone would be better off if she were plucked from the game at any point, yet it’s difficult to find moments where enough people want Kim out to make that happen.
First we have the merge, where the men should have stuck together instead of going after each other. Though even if they did, they don’t have a clear majority and will have to either get a woman to flip to them or force a rock draw. Even then, targeting Kim immediately would be risky since she has an idol that needs to be played around.
Next is F10, where Troyzan might be able to take out Kim if he plays his idol on Jay instead of himself and gets Jay and Leif to join him in voting Kim. This move is a long shot since playing your idol on someone else is very risky, especially since Kim would probably play her own idol in response, taking out Troyzan in a 2-0 vote.
The next potential chance was at F9. The women were splitting votes between Leif and Tarzan, so the remaining men could pull off a plurality blindside if they stuck together and then pulled in one of the women. This was when Kim was at her most comfortable, so this was the best chance to vote her out with the idol in her pocket. The one problem is that, while I think all the women would benefit from this move, I don’t think the men would be able to talk any of the women into it.
The most straightforward chance was at F6. This was the last time Kim didn’t have immunity and we actually see Alicia consider turning on her. While this was nipped in the bud by Kim pretty easily, it would have helped everyone if she pulled it off. Alicia, Christina, and Tarzan increase their chances of making FTC, while Sabrina and Chelsea knock out their biggest jury threat. The biggest problems are that they’d have to hide it really well to stop Kim from playing her idol, and Sabrina and Chelsea risk being the next to go. Though either of them can make it to the end and win if she stays over the other at F5 and wins immunity at F4.
Denise
The first time voting out Denise would least make sense was after Matsing got dissolved and Denise was absorbed into Kalabaw. Being the sole new member of an otherwise intact tribe made Denise an easy vote. Though I wouldn’t say voting out Denise was the best move here, since she was more useful in challenges than Dawson and Katie, and keeping her made it easier to work with Malcolm in the merge.
The most optimal time to vote out Denise was at F5. She and Malcolm were the two biggest jury threats, this was the last chance to make sure neither of them make FTC, and Malcolm had immunity, meaning Denise had to go here for any Tandang member to have a shot at winning. The reason she was voted out here was because Skupin hated Abi and somehow thought he was the biggest jury threat.
Cochran
The first shot to take out Cochran was at F10 when the Three Amigos all had immunity. While I think they made the right choice in making Phillip their main target, they could have fractured the majority alliance by splitting their votes between three people, and Cochran would have been a good candidate to get one of those votes.
The next chance was at F8. Reynold and Eddie were less of a threat without Malcolm and the tribe was splitting votes between them, meaning any two of players (let’s say Brenda and Erik) could join them to pull off a plurality blindside. This would leave them in a vulnerable position afterwards, but it could work out if they’re good enough at damage control.
The final chance was at F7, where Brenda and Andrea would have been better off working together instead of targeting each other, and they’d be able to form a new majority with Eddie and Erik.
Tyson
The first opportunity to take out Tyson was at the merge. Aras and Tina tried to turn everyone against Laura, but they would have been better off trying to pick her up as a number, as they were the last three returnees to still have their loved ones, and could have formed a six person majority to target Tyson and pick off the remaining singles. Though this move relies on the knowledge that Tyson was coming after Aras, which he didn’t have.
Besides that, we have F8 and F7, where the new players should have stuck together to target Tyson. At F8, this would have been a great way for Hayden to pull in Ciera since he’d be giving her a way to save her mom, and F7 was the last time the new players had the numbers to pull the move off.
Tony (Cagayan)
The first chance to take out Tony was at the tribe swap, where Cliff and Lindsey could have tried to beat Tony to the punch by getting the Beauties on their side before he could. Though this move relies on the knowledge that Tony was gonna flip, which Cliff didn’t have.
The next opportunity was at F9, where LJ was in the same situation. He could have saved himself by flipping to Aparri and targeting Tony before Tony could do the same to him, but I am again relying on hindsight to say he should have made this move.
The final and most obvious opportunity was at F3, when Woo had the sole vote and would have won the game if he voted out Tony, but Tony talked Woo into keeping him, which is arguably the best feat in Tony’s Survivor career.
Natalie Anderson
First there’s the F10, where the tribe arguably should have targeted her over Jeremy. Though this is based on hindsight of how well Natalie played after this point. Plus the fact that Jeremy won a season later suggests that he’d also be dangerous to keep around.
F8 was the last round where John and Jaclyn had enough influence to target Natalie. Though to do this, they’d either need to get Missy and Baylor on board, which would be difficult, or flip to Reed’s alliance, which would be risky.
Next is F5 where, by playing her idol on Jaclyn, Natalie made herself vulnerable to receive votes. Missy and Baylor could have protected themselves by putting their votes on Natalie, or Jaclyn could have massively boosted her win equity by voting for Natalie. Though both of these moves rely on knowing what Natalie would do with her idol, which none of them did.
The final and clearest chance was at F4, where Jaclyn and Missy were in a lose/lose situation, and voting out Natalie or Keith were equally valid moves.
Mike
The first opportunity to get Mike out was at the merge, where Jenn played her idol correctly, meaning the No Collars could’ve taken out anyone they wanted. I think voting Kelly was the best move, since she was the only Blue Collar that all the other Blue Collar’s got along with, but Mike also would’ve been a good choice, since he was acting as the glue between Dan and Sierra.
Next is F10. This was the last round where Mike didn’t have some form of immunity, meaning Rodney should have targeted him here instead of waiting a round. Though I’m only saying this with the hindsight of Mike’s immunity run. I think Rodney theoretically had perfect timing targeting Mike at F9, and if he voted him out at F10, he risks Joe going on the same run.
Jeremy
The clearest opportunity to take out Jeremy was at F12. Wentworth played her idol correctly, meaning that the Witches’ Coven had full control over who leaves, and voting out Jeremy would have done the most to fracture the majority alliance, since he was the one playing peacekeeper and talking players out of turning on each other.
Spencer was a swing vote at both F9 and F7. While Jeremy’s name wasn’t brought up either round, Spencer could have shifted the target to him either time. Doing this would hurt his chances of making FTC, but it would improve his chances of winning if he can rebuild his positioning and find a way to take Tasha and Abi (or maybe Kimmi) to the end.
Michele
Michele can be narrowed down pretty easily, as she only attended tribal council six times and only went four times without immunity: F10, F9, F8, and F6. Jason and Scot had the superidol, making them a higher priority from F10 to F8. This leaves F6 as the one time Michele should have been targeted. Jason was still in the game, but his threat level was diffused due to no longer having an idol, meaning Cydney and Aubrey could afford to cut one of their own numbers.
Adam
The prime time to take Adam out was at F12 or F11, as this was when he was made a pariah due to Taylor revealing he both knew where the food was hidden and had and a steal-a-reward advantage. This doesn’t necessarily make voting him out anyone’s optimal move (besides Jay and Taylor), but it does make voting him out an easy decision
Sarah
First at F7, Cirie would probably be better off not trying to use the Steal-A-Vote, pulling in Aubrey and Michaela, and voting for Sarah like she told Tai she would. This would mean she doesn’t lose her closest ally, builds trust with Tai, and may even survive advantageddon, depending on what happens with the Legacy advantage. This move relies on knowledge that she couldn’t use Sarah’s advantage, which she could have known if she read it carefully, but I don’t blame her for just assuming she could use it.
The next and most straightforward chance was at F4, where Brad should have voted out Sarah, but instead voted out Tai due to a personal grudge. At the reunion, the jurors held a mock vote showing Brad would’ve beaten Tai. Though I don’t fully trust how someone says they’d hypothetically vote months after the fact, so it’s possible Brad loses either way.
Ben
The first and clearest chance to take Ben out was at the tribe swap, where Cole, Jessica, and Mike should have thrown one or two challenges to vote out Ben and/or Lauren and protect their fellow Healers.
There’s also F9, where Chrissy, Ryan, and JP could have tried to work with the Healers to target Ben and maintain control of the game. This relies on the knowledge of the move Lauren was making to take control. You could argue this means she should be targeted over Ben, but I think Ben is the better choice, since his “King Aurthur” branding makes it easier to get the Healers on board targeting him.
Wendell
I actually found more opportunities to take out Wendell than I expected. The problem is that he was working with Domenick. This not only means there was another threat who was as high of a priority to get rid of, but it makes targeting either of them twice as risky, as even if you successfully vote one out, you leave the other in the game to take back control and target you.
The first and clearest chance was at the swap where Malolo weakened Wendell by voting out Morgan, but could have targeted either him or Domenick. This move is understandable, as Domenick claimed to have an idol, making it best to target Morgan as a safe vote.
Next is F12, where Michael voted for Wendell and successfully played an idol, meaning any group of three could have gotten Wendell out by voting for him. Jenna, Libby, Desiree, Chelsea, and Kellyn would all arguably be better off being one of those three votes.
Next is the split tribal, where Kellyn could put both of her votes on Wendell and taken him out in a 3-2-1.
Then there’s F8, which was the point where Laurel and Donathan should have jumped ship and made a move against Wendell and Domenick.
Finally, there’s F4, where Domenick did try to get rid of Wendell, but might have had a better chance had he made fire against him himself.
Nick
With hindsight, the Goliaths would have been better off voting for Nick at F12. This would not only play around Davie’s idol, but it would get rid of the guy who brought the David’s together to take out Dan next round.
After that, the Goliaths should have made Nick the backup vote instead of Gabby on F8. This was the last time Nick didn’t have some sort of immunity, and Kara and Alison would especially benefit from taking him out here, as it would force Mike and Angelina to stay loyal to the Goliaths
Chris Underwood
Chris was already voted out on the season he won, so I’ll look at times he should have been voted out after returning. It seems like there was no time, since he was immune throughout the endgame. However, two of the times he had immunity could have been prevented.
First there’s F6, where Lauren played her idol on Chris, which backfired, since Chris voted her out in the next round. Lauren would’ve made it to F4 if she kept the idol, and Victoria would’ve made it to F5 if she voted for Chris.
At F5, basically the same thing happens. Chris has a half idol that he can only use if Rick gives back the other half, and he does, only for Chris to knock him out next round. If Rick just holds onto his half idol, he significantly increases his chances of winning immunity or at least fire making.
Tommy
First there’s the swap where Lairo had the majority and could have weakened Vokai by taking out Tommy or Lauren instead of Jason. Though I understand keeping him since he was a potential shield and had enough influence to give them extra options in the merge if they stay on his good side.
The next and clearest chance was at the split tribal, where Elaine overestimated how close she was with Tommy, and should have worked with Missy to take him out.
Next is F9, where Karishma should have pulled in at least one person when playing her idol, and would have done more damage targeting Tommy than Janet.
Next is F8, where Dean probably should have stuck with Lairo and not spoiled Noura’s plan by telling Tommy at the last minute. This would’ve given Dean a good shot of making the end with Noura and Karishma, which greatly improves his chances of winning.
Tony (Winners at War)
First, there’s the swap, where Denise negated every vote and could take out whoever she wanted. Voting out Sandra seemed like the best move at the time, but looking back, voting Tony also could have been a good move.
Next, Sophie could’ve been in a better spot if she managed to take Tony out at F12 or F11. Though this is much easier said than done, as there was a big overlap in who Sophie and Tony were aligned with, which is part of why Tony taking her out was so impressive.
Next is F7, where Jeremy, Michele, and Nick would’ve all been better off if they took out Tony in a 3-2-2.
Finally, there’s F4, where Natalie did try to take Tony out, but should have picked herself to make fire against him.
Erika
The first and clearest time Erika should have been voted out was F8, when Deshawn and Danny had the choice between joining a split vote plan against Shan or joining Shan to pull a plurality vote on Erika. They did the former and put themselves in the minority for the rest of the season, so they’d probably have been better off doing the latter and taking out Shan next round.
The next chance was at F6, when the votes were being split between Deshawn and Danny, and Richard could’ve joined them to take out Erika in a 3-2-1. This would have helped Ricard, since Erika took him out next round by being the one to beat him in immunity. Though I’m relying on hindsight to say this, and it could have just as easily been Xander or Danny who beat him in immunity.
Finally, there’s F4, where Erika was the biggest jury threat left and should have been picked to make fire. Though it didn’t really matter since Xander was the one making the choice and he loses no matter what at this point.
Maryanne
Omar was the player with the most clear shots to get rid of Maryanne. First he had the option between voting for her or Marya in the premerge, and she would’ve gone in mergatory had Omar went with the flow and not shifted the target to Lydia. With hindsight, Omar should have let Maryanne go at one of these points, but I see why he thought protecting her was good for him at the time.
Going outside of Omar’s perspective, Mike and Hai arguably should have stood their ground at mergatory and pushed for Maryanne to go over Lydia, and Romeo should’ve picked her to make fire at F4.
Gabler
The clearest chance to take out Gabler was at the first tribal council when he volunteered to leave. Sami and Owen benefited in the short term by keeping him, but would have been better off cutting him in the long term, since he put Baka on the bottom by going after Ellie at the merge feast.
Besides that, Jesse may have benefited from getting Gabler out, since Gabler was the one to beat him in firemaking. The best times to do this were either at F7, where he could have cut Gabler over Sami, or F5, where Jesse and Karla would’ve both benefited from targeting Gabler if they could just work together.
Yam Yam
The clearest chances to take Yam Yam out were at F13 and F12, where Yam Yam was viewed as the easy vote and narrowly survived over Josh and Matt. I think it was the right choice to keep him, since Tika went on to be the perpetual swing votes of the season, and sparing Yam Yam kept everyone on Tika’s good side.
After that, Soka and Ratu should have come together to pick off Tika’s numbers at any point from F9 to F6. If they did, Carson was the player who should have been targeted first. Since Carson won immunity at F8, this was the point where targeting Yam Yam made the most sense.
Dee
There were two main opportunities to take out Dee.
The first was at F7 where both Emily and Drew would’ve been better off putting their votes on Dee as a backup against Julie’s idol. If they both vote Dee, she goes in a 2-1. If just one of them votes for her, they could at least force a revote where Jake and Katurah presumably side with them.
The next was at F5, where Jake and Katurah did try to vote Dee out, but weren’t able to get on the same page.
Kenzie
This might just be because the season is so new, but I don’t think there was any point where taking out Kenzie was the optimal move. Jalinski, Jess, and Bhanu all made themselves liabilities that needed to be voted out, Kenzie was immune at mergatory and the split tribal, Tevin, Hunter, Tiffany, and Q all needed to be voted out when they were, and Kenzie was immune again at F5.
Q and Tiffany could have cut her at the Jess vote, but I think keeping her was the right move, as she stayed loyal to them until Q asked to be voted out at F10.
Charlie may have been better off cutting Kenzie over Venus at F7, as this would leave him without any jury threats once Maria was gone. Though it was still reasonable to want Venus out as she made herself untrustworthy by kind of/kind of not telling him about her idol. Voting out Kenzie could also result in Maria winning the F5 immunity, which would have its own risks to Charlie.
Finally, while Ben did have Kenzie make fire, he would have been better off putting her against Charlie, as that ensures a jury threat goes either way, and Charlie may have been more likely to beat her. Though this isn’t guaranteed, and Ben loses the season no matter what he does from this point.

Apologies for my absence! Please add anything I missed!

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Standup Comedy:

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Cultural and Theater:

FRIDAY & SATURDAY - 05/24 - 05/25 - ‘Evergreen’ Musical @ Wyly Studio Theatre This dazzling musical experience is performed through a non-traditional concert setting which raises awareness about climate change using elements of Caroline Shaw’s ‘The Evergreen.’
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DAILY - ‘Rebecca Manson: Barbecue’ Exhibition @ The Modern NEW - Manson’s first solo museum presentation defies viewers’ expectations of clay as an art material as her monumental work evokes tension and stillness as two dualities of daily life.
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First off, big thanks to the dozen or so users who sent me this book through PDF files or Google document links. Seriously, I got maybe a dozen messages, so thanks!
Written in 2002 with the help of journalists Kristie McLellan, this is a truly wild book that is honestly a mess to read. It's structure was fucked up, it jumped around with no focus and just featured Diana shading literally everyone.
As always, I kept this as much in chronological order as possible, hope y'all enjoy.
In the first paragraph of the book, she says Davey Boy Smith was doping her drinks so he could r*pe her every night. She said she never should have married him.
Diana had a massive crush on Dynamite Kid when he first came to Calgary, but describes him as a sadistic masochistic psychopath who did so much steroids that he developed gross boils all over his body. She remembers that he would literally cut the boils off with a razor blade, saying how he hates to squeeze them but also hated to look at them.
"Smith is quite warped, but he's not a pervert." This is the first thing Diana says about her oldest brother Smith.
Diana says that Smith once ran over a bird and, not wanting to "waste anything," he took the creature home, cooked it, and served it to his family for dinner. Everyone put their forks down when Owen Hart told them where their meal came from and Diana says that Smith was hurt that no one wanted to eat his road kill.
Diana talks about Smith knocking up someone named Marla that their dad would refer to as an "arena tramp." Smith hid the pregnancy from his parents until they spotted Smith with the 8 month pregnant girl. Diana says that because the mother Marla was known to sleep around, Stu refused to acknowledge the baby girl as a Hart. Diana says the girl grew up nice enough but the Hart's really have nothing to do with her.
Diana doesn't expand much on the mother, but Bret did say in his book that the first person Smith knocked up was an ex girlfriend of Bret's. This would be the first of many times in this book where Diana casually mentions an adult knocking up a teenage girl.
Diana says Smith would have a couple more children out of wedlock. Bret says the number of kids Smith truly had is a mystery. One of the girls he knocked up was a 15 year old who later became a prostitute and gave the child up for adoption. The girl would later die, wether it was suicide or overdose is anyone's guess.
Diana says that Stu made it clear that she and Owen were his favorite children. Good grief. All the Hart kids suffer from this "Stu loved me more than the rest" ideology.
Diana describes how a 14 year old Bret would fight with his 15 year old sister, leaving bruises on them that they would later show Stu. Diana says Bret is the only Hart boy who had to be routinely told not to hit girls.
Diana remembers how Bret would routinely hide from Stu, who would track him down and cuff him hard upside the head. Diana praises her dad's "cuffing ability" because it would hurt, make a loud noise, but not do any damage. So she claims.
Diana casually mentions someone called "Bob Johnson" as a wrestling fan who moved into the Hart House in 1989 to help with their mom's office work, but Diana says he stayed there for nearly a decade. She describes him as a pretty gross individual who left his child pornograohy lying around. She doesn't go into more detail on who he is or why he was there for over 8 years but it's just a big "What the fuck" moment while reading her book.
Diana describes how all the kids had to show up for Sunday dinner, regardless of who you were angry at or what was going on. Diana says by the time all the kids got married, these weekly dinners would be super hostile get together full of fights and catty remarks.
Diana makes a point of saying "on the rare occasion that Owen's wife Martha came to one of these dinners, she would just contradict everything anyone says." Diana paints Martha in a pretty bad light in this book.
Diana says that if these dinners got the slightest big chaotic, Owen and Martha would always just immediately leave. She says the family would always react poorly to this and accuse Martha of pulling Owen away from his own family. Diana suspects Owen just had enough fighting and didn't want to subject his wife and kids to it. Smart man.
She doesn't talk much about her brother Ross, but in a chapter dedicated to Dean, she points out the differences between the two, despite sharing the same birth date, five years apart. She calls Dean open and honest, and describes him with love and affection, while describing Ross as the opposite, and even randomly saying, "He still harbors big secrets." Ross is one of those Hart's who I have literally never heard a negative thing about tbh, him and Wayne are always regarded well. So it's weird to hear someone speak badly about Ross.
Diana says one time in Hawaii visiting Dean who was loving there, Dean got her to help him move some boxes. The boxes were owned by a guy named Ronnie Ching, who once spent time in jail for murder. In the boxes was ammunition and other criminal paraphernalia and Diana says she and Dean got their fingerprints all over the boxes that day. Dean was storing the boxes at his apartment for this Ronnie Ching fellow.
A Honolulu city prosecutor named Charles Marsland was convinced that Ronnie Ching had murdered his son, but couldn't prove it, but he was absolutely out to get Ronnie. Diana says the police chief actually warned wrestler King Curtis Ikea to get ahold of Dean and get him back home asap, because this prosecutor Charles "isn't taking prisoners."
Charles Marsland eventually got ahold of the boxes and brought Dean in for questioning based off his fingerprints. Dean didn't say anything and after he was released, fled back home on King Curtis's advice. The boxes were eventually linked to Ronnie Ching, and he got indicated on 11 counts. The boxes were filled with guns and ammunition. Ronnie, mistakenly believed that Dean flipped on him and years later, after Dean thought things had cooled down, actually went back to Hawaii where Ronnie tracked him down and along with several other men, beat Dean near to death. Most think that Ronnie (or whomever attacked Dean) thought they had legitimately killed Dean that night. He was fucked up and most people think this is when his kidneys really got fucked up. It's impossible to say though since Dean rarely went to a doctor about it and never followed their advice.
This was all from Diana's POV but it's honestly the most in depth account that I've heard when it comes to how Dean was nearly beaten to death.
Diana talks about how fucked up Dean was afterwords with his kidneys failing. She said he would sit in front of the oven, open it up and crank it to 500 as he ate shaved ice. His kidneys couldn't even process water so Dean couldn't eat or drink, he just chewed on shaved ice as he deteriorated further and further.
Diana talks about something that I have always had an issue with, Dean just needed a basic kidney transplant and had 13 viable doners right there who all just watched him die. Don't get wrong, he wasn't following doctors advice so there is a chance the donation would have been wasted, but it's still shocking that no one stepped up. Bret talked about this in his book, and spoke in shame about how he didn't want to derail his career before it got going in the late 80s when Dean needed the transplant.
Diana says no one talked about a potential transplant too much and no doctors ever really pushed them to do it. They didn't know how fast Dean was dying and didn't realize the timetable he had. Diana spoke earlier in the book about how Stu hated being sick and trained his kids to think they were immune to illness. No one took Dean's kidney failure as seriously as they should have because they all thought the Hart's were indestructible at the time. How times change.
The last time Diana saw Dean, she asked him, "how are you doing?" To which Dean replied, "Barely functioning." They had a laugh and Diana didn't think much of it, but two days later, Diana says Allison's daughter Brooke found Dean dead, naked and laying on the bathroom floor.
Diana was at Bret Hart's house when Dean died. She says she was trying to bury the hatchet with Bret's wife Julie after Diana alledgedly said that Bret only married her because she got knocked up. Diana doesn't deny saying this, but does comment that she thinks Bret and Julie would have gotten married with or without a kid, so it sounds like she did say that. Diana says Julie refused to return her calls for over a year.
While visiting together, Diana remembers Julie answering the phone and Diana remembers seeing Julie's face fall and darken before she quickly hung up. Julie just told Diana to call home, where her sister Allison told her that Dean had died. She and everyone else in the family was blindsided by this, and I think it's because of how Stu raised them all to think they were above being sick.
Owen was wrestling in Germany when Dean died and Diana thinks his wife Martha convinced him not to come home for the funeral because Martha was with him in Germany. Martha's sister and mother attended the funeral and read a card that Owen had written. Diana makes fun of the way Martha's mom pronounced her name like "Marta."
Diana says Martha's sister was very nice but didn't understand why she was so nice to Martha, who Diana said was "always a bitch to her."
Diana says that Martha's mom got super drunk at Dean's funeral and "pushed drinks" on Diana's mom Helen.
Diana says after they scattered Dean's ashes, everyone but Bruce's wife joined hands as her brother Wayne sang "Hallelujah." Bruce's wife is a young girl named Andrea, who will eventually leave Bruce for Diana's husband Davey Boy.
Diana talks a bit about Wayne (no one ever does so I wanted to hear anything on the guy) and describes him as a bit of a hippie who got a long much better with his mom than his dad. Stu never liked his long hair or his smoking, she says Stu attributed that type of stuff to peer pressure and felt his kids were above any sort of society type pressures.
Diana remembers how Stu would be backstage before a Stampede show and trying to get the guys to cut out the weapons and over the top angles, but right after he left, Bruce would stand up and say, "Fuck him, he's senile. I'm the one who calls the shots around here."
Truly horrifying tale incoming. Dynamite Kid's manager was John Foley, an old school shooter from Europe who helped train Billy Robinson. By the time John Foley got to Calgary he became a drunk, and used the death of his son as the excuse for his drinking. John had a daughter who was in a minor car accident when she was 20 years old. John thought he had a big settlement payday coming, but was disappointed when the xrays showed his daughter was fine. This is the fucked up and truly sickening part. John took his daughter to Dynamite Kid and asked Dynamite to break his daughters legs so they will have a a chance at a settlement. They did it. They gagged her mouth with a towel and held her down as Dynamite Kid smacked her knees with a mallet until both of them were broken. The insurance company awarded them 20 grand but the poor girl's legs never recovered and she never walked normally again. Last Diana heard, she was very heavy with completely useless knees. This story didn't come out until Dynamite Kid went back home and his terrified wife Michelle was able to tell someone. Dynamite alledgedly beat her all the time and poor Michelle was too afraid to tell anyone.
Diana says Michelle would often call her and Davey Boy up in the middle of the night, panicked and crying, saying how Dynamite is threatening her with a loaded gun. Dynamite would often pull the trigger of an empty gun pointed at Michelle and menacingly tell her how one day it may be loaded.
Another horrifying tale here, Diana claims that Michelle once confided to her how one time while partying with Wayne's girlfriend Sandra, Dynamite Kid spiked their drinks and r*ped them both.
Chapter 15 is titled "Bruce and Andrea" and I was wondering how much Diana would talk about her creepy 33 year old brother knocking up his 17 year old student.
Good lord, while Ive read that Bruce was 33 and Andrea was 17 when they met, Diana says here that Bruce was actually 37 and Andrea was only 14.
Diana calls Andrea a "ring rat" who would hang around the wrestling shows looking to hook up with guys.
Diana says Bruce was heartbroken over some former girlfriend (who was also younger than him and also a high school student) when he met Andrea, and soon enough, Andrea was tagging along in the van with Bruce to shows. Diana even claims that the two would have sex in the van while the other guys had to awkwardly not look or pay attention because Bruce was technically their boss.
When Andrea was 15, she told Bruce she was pregnant, despite saying she was on birth control. Diana suspects Andrea was never on birth control and her plan all along was to get knocked up by one of Stu's kids. Andrea's mom Bunny, confronted Stu shortly after Andrea got knocked up and said if Bruce doesn't marry her and take care of Andrea, then they would go to the papers with a story about Stu Hart's 38 year old son knocking up his 15 year old student.
Diana calls this Bunny woman the stupidest person she ever met and legitimately insane. Diana says that Bunny later confided to the Hart's that she ordered Andrea to get knocked up by Bruce. What the fuck am I reading?
After Bruce and Andrea got married, Diana claims Andrea would throw a ton of parties while Bruce was on the road, and that she was having sex with multiple men each night, with her baby in the next room.
Diana says Andrea lied about having a miscarriage in late 1990, saying she instead got breat enhancement surgery that Stu and Helen Hart paid for.
Diana was very angry that her mom was giving Andrea $800 per week as just spending money, meanwhile Diana claims that Stampede Wrestling couldn't afford to pay Davey Boy for some shows he worked. Diana is also upset that Bruce was making $1000 per week to run Stampede Wrestling in its sorry state on its last legs. The amount of money I hear about Stu Hart wasting, always shocks me.
Diana says her mom would routinely threatening to kill herself over financial struggles.
Diana talks about how her and Davey were struggling financially and that Davey would let Allison Hart's piece of shit husband, Ben Bassarab and Hermesh Austin park all their sketchy stolen cars on their property in exchange for a loan to cover their mortgage. Diana says she isnt sure how involved Davey Boy got with Hermesh's criminal activities and she genuinely doesn't want to know.
Diana talks about about this Hermish person and says he is the one who got Davey hooked on coke and how this Hermish guy would brag about slitting a guys throat in Germany. Hermish Erach Austin would later be convicted to life in prison after he tortured and murdered some poor fellow, incorrectly believing he stole $10,000 from him. Austin crushed the man's hands in a vice, his ears cut off with scissors and the soles of his feet burned with a blow torch, all while this poor man begged and pleaded for his life. Austin then drove him a few miles out of Calgary where he slit his throat and shot him in the head before burrying him. A few years later one of his accomplices would flip on him and tell the police everything, leading to his arrest and sentencing. Diana expands on this a bit in her book, saying that she thinks Hermesh killed around 50 people.
Diana says Jim Neidhart is the most wicked man she ever met and calls him a moster. Jim married her sister Ellie, and says Jim left her body bruised and lumpy from years of being her punching bag.
Diana actually talks about Ellie dating a man named John who was her soulmate. They dated for 4 years until her family convinced Ellie she needed to leave him because he was paralyzed and in a wheelchair. Apparently Stu and Helen hated seeing Ellie push him around and said a girl as pretty as her shouldn't be doing that. They also hated that John couldn't have kids so Ellie wouldn't give them grandchildren if she stayed with him. Diana then casually mentions how Ellie broke up with John after he made a pass at their sister Alison.
Diana says that Jim Neidhart was on a University scholarship for Shot Put, but was eventually expelled after he tried to extort the school for money. He didn't go to class and demanded money in exchange for him being on the shot put team. He was tossed in jail and expelled.
After thir 3rd child, doctors informed Ellie that she would have to have her tubes tied. It sounds like Stu and Helen were heartbroken over this and Jim was furious because he wanted a son.
Diana says Jim would go on the.road for a couple weeks and only leave Ellie with $10 and order her not to leave the house.
Diana says Jim was doping Ellie's drinks and rping her every night. She says that Jim would teach this "trick" to Davey Boy. Diana also says the repeated rping left Ellie with bad hemeroids and she could never afford the cream to treat it.
Diana says Davey Boy knocked some other girl up just a few weeks before they got married. She later says that Alison's husband Ben moved in with a girl named Monique, and Diana says that Monique later claimed to get knocked up by Davey Boy before Diana married him. I'm unsure if Diana is referring to the same person here, or if Davey Boy knocked someone up and another girl also claimed to have been knocked up the same time.
Diana and Davey Boy moved to Florida in the early 90s where her sister Ellie and Jim Neidhart were as well. This is where Diana says that Davey Boy started drugging and r*ping her. She says that Duke "The Dumpster" Droesse showed Davey how to make liquid GHB (Gamma-hydroxybutyrate) to "help with sleeping." She was confused why she had hemeroids and was waking up sore and with bruises. When she explained this to Ellie, Ellie just casually said "That's what Jim would do to me."
Diana says Bruce's wife Andrea would drink and smoke pot and do drugs through all her pregnancies. Really helps explain their 3rd child being born 2 months premature and nearly dying.
Diana says that Andrea was getting pregnant again and again and again with hopes of Helen and Stu giving her and Bruce the Hart House.
Diana says Davey Boy failed a WWF drug test in early 1992 for Ecstacy and MDMA. She says Vince told Davey that he would wind up killing himself if he continued down this road.
Diana puts over her preformance leading up to the 1992 SummerSlam where Davey Boy and Bret wrestled in the main event. She says that Vince McMahon asked Bret and Davey to come up with the finish on their own so he would be suprised. First time I've heard Vince doing this, I think Diana got worked by someone here.
Diana remembers seeing Davey Boy after the match and him asking her how the match was because he couldn't remember it. She thought he was joking initially.
Diana compares Davey Boy being fired to Bret winning the WWE title following their match. Davey was fired after Ultimate Warror ratted on Davey Boy to the Drug Enforcement Agency. Vince apparently told Davey that he would hire him back once things cooled down. She legitimately believes that Davey Boy would have won the WWF title instead of Bret, had he not been fired.
Diana says Davey Boy and WWF battled over legal rights to the Bulldog name. Diana is bitter and points out how Vince still sold Bulldog merchandise after he fired Davey and they never saw a dime.
Diana says Davey Boy hated working for WCW and calls out Vader for being reckless in his matches with Davey.
Diana randomly says that she finds Sting to be overrated.
Diana talks about the event at a bar in July 1993, where Davey Boy alledgedly assaulted someone for hitting in Diana. She describes it as Davey putting some drunk asshole in a front face lock, and walking him over to the bounces to let him go. She says when Davey let him go, the man fell and hit his head. Eye witness accounts claim that Davey Boy just picked the guy up and spiked him down on his head. Diana vehemently denies this claim, calling it impossible. The man would sue Davey Boy and risk sending him to jail for a serious assault charge. Diana says while tye judge eventually ruled in their favor, it cost her and the Hart Family over $500,000 in legal fees.
Diana says WCW used the pending lawsuit and legal battles to withhold a bonus they promised him. She says at one point in a meeting, Eric Bishoff pulled out his false teeth, slapped them on the table and challenged Davey Boy to a legitimate fight over the money.
Diana says WCW let Davey Boy go after he failed a drug test and refused rehab.
When WWF reached out to Davey Boy in 1994 about returning, Diana claims Hulk Hogan called up Davey Boy to pitch him coming back to WCW and says Davey Boy struggled to pick where to go. She said Davey Boy really trusted Hogan but didn't trust WCW.
Diana says WWF wanted her to be a heel on the road with Davey Boy and cutting promos but Bret nixed the idea and pushed against it. She thinks Bret was afraid of having multiple family members in kayfabe shitting on him and what that would do to his reputation. Diana says the WWF was really impressed by her promo work.
She would do some valet work though for Davey Boy and Owen, Diana puts over that time as well as Jim Cornette who got involved as well.
Diana says that WWF wanted her to be an on screen heel who makes a move on Shawn Michaels, who turns her down. So she goes and tells Davey Boy that she turned down his advances to kickstart a big rivalry. Davey Boy hated the idea and Diana says that her parents and Bret talked her out of doing it. Though she does wonder if this could have been her big break and become a wrestling star.
Diana spends a chapter talking about the saddest tragedy in the entire Hart Famlily history, little Matt Hart. Allison and BJ's 13 year old son Matt contracted a rare and deadly flesh eating disease that tore through him in under 2 weeks before he passed away. Both Diana Hart and Nattie Neidhart talk about how disfigured Matt became before his death. Diana says the doctors told them that Matt was the sickest child in the country at that time.
Diana spends a chapter taking about Owen and Martha Hart, and all but calls Martha a ring rat. No one has ever made that claim about Martha as far as I know.
Diana randomly brings up how Martha's sister Virginia had an affair with her son's hockey coach. She says Owen wanted nothing to do with Martha's sister.
Diana says that Owen fell in love with some girl in England named Louisa, and that Owen confided to Diana that he wanted to leave Martha and that Louisa was everything he wanted. Diana says Martha "wouldn't have it" before describing how Martha manipulated Owen into staying with her. She says that Owen had never broken up with a girl and didn't want to hurt her. Diana says that Owen told her, "I just can't hurt her, so I'll live with it then. Christ."
Diana calls Martha "a dominating and controlling partner in their relationship."
Diana describes how Martha's aunt got too drunk at Owen/Martha's wedding.
Diana says Martha was always victimizing herself and making Owen feel like he needed to take care of her.
Diana says that while on the road with Owen in 1995, he confided to her how unhappy he was with his marriage and specifically calls out Martha's mother who was living with Martha and Owen. Diana says Martha's mother had a big drinking problem.
Diana says that none of the Hart's were invited to Owen Hart's son's christening and Diana says Helen was especially hurt. Owen defended this by claiming they wouldn't have bothered to even show up on time.
Diana says Martha didn't want to tell the Hart's when she was pregnant because Martha believed it would curse her baby.
Diana says that Davey Boy tried morphine for the first time the weekend of the Calgary Stampede show in 1997. She says she heard about this from her son Harry because Davey Boy decided to confide about using morphine to his 13 year old son.
Diana randomly shades Ken Shamrock, calling him out for having a ton from stripper girlfriends in Calgary, while always pretending to be a devoted family man.
When Davey Boy and Shawn Michaels headlined the One Night Only ppv in September 1997, Diana says that Bret was furious that he wasn't main eventing. She says Bret made a big stink over it and even threatened to quit the company.
Diana says she first figured out Davey had a drug problem on Halloween in 1997 when Davey was suffering from withdrawl and couldn't even sit up on his own one night.
Diana criticizes Bret, calling him a hypocrite for not trusting Vince while Bret was secretly wearing a wire and recording their conversations. She is referring to the Wrestling with Shadow's documentary crew and how Bret was mic'd.
Diana remembers being at the show for the Montreal Screwjob and how Davey Boy thought it was weird how Vince wasn't wearing a big suit like he usually does.
Diana says that Davey Boy hurt his knee during the post-match kerfuffle.
Diana repeats a claim that Bruce Hart made in his book, that Bret disowned Owen as a brother following the Montreal screwjob. Bruce and Diana both say that Bret was furious when Owen didnt quit WWF and was given a massive raise instead. Diana even says she remembers Bret screaming, "That fucking Martha! She's got Owen so fucking p*ssy-whipped! Fuck her, she doesn't know what she is talking about, she doesn't unsterstand the wrestling business!" Bruce Hart maintained in his book that Bret and Owen never really talked again or repaired their relationship before Owen died. Bret denies this and describes tons of times him amd Owen kept up following the Screwjob.
Diana says that Owen got tired of Bret calling him all the time and says Owen eventually told Bret, "I'm sick of you, I'm sick of all this." She says Owencjust wanted to retire to a remote place where no one knows his or the Hart name. She remembers all he wanted was for people to leave Martha and him alone.
Diana says Bret never got over the Screwjob.
Diana describes how Bret hounded Davey and her every day trying to get Davey to leave WWF just like Bret was doing by calling Owen and Martha daily.
Davey Boy's first WCW match back in 1998 was against Steve "Mondo" McMichael and Diana claims that Eric Bishoff told Davey Boy to break Steve's arm for real. Apparently Eric said he was tired of dealing with him.
Diana also says that backstage before the match, Arn Anderson told Mondo to go do some coke so he could preform better. She says Davey Boy was mortified by the lack of care to the wrestlers in WCW.
Diana says Davey Boy immediately regretted jumping to WCW and says Bret refused to help him backstage or with his booking. Diana remembers a day when Davey Boy broke down crying at the dinner table, saying how he shouldn't have left Vince and how he hates Bret.
By mid-1998, Diana says Davey was "like a vegetable," and described how he just laid on the couch all day and needed help doing everything other than using the bathroom or shooting up.
Diana says he family didn't believe her when she tried to confide to them about how bad Davey was. Diana says she was told that she was being hysterical.
Diana describes how she would use a water pistol on Davey Boy when he became despondent and her sisters would act like she is abusing him. She describes how tough it was to keep care of big Davey Boy when his body would shut down.
Diana remembers how her kids would ask her why their dad has sores all over his arms and why he behaves like a zombie.
Diana says Davey Boy became a "public embarrassment."
It was Friday night in early December when Diana remembers watching Edward Sissor Hand with her son Harry while Davey spent the day shooting up morphine and being a vegetable on the couch. She says after she put Harry to sleep, she wrote a letter to herself and then got worked up and wanted to confront Davey. He was passed out in bed, so a manic Diana grabbed a bottle of Xanax and downed what she thinks to be 100 pills. She told Davey if he loves her he will call an ambulance for her. She watched as he struggled to sit up and realized she doesn't want to die. She called 911 and confessed what she done and they told her to get dressed, unlock the door for the ambulance and lay down.
Diana says her heart stopped 4 times on the way to the hospital.
Keith Hart says Diana was never the same after her suicide attempt and that she was a shadow of herself.
Diana says her mother Helen was more concerned about some party she was planning in a few weeks and wanted to know if Diana could make it. Diana also says Helen told her not to tell anyone what happened to her.
Diana says her brother Keith confided to her afterwards that Davey is "as bad as Elvis" when it comes to his drug problems.
Diana also remembers her brother Owen Hart lecturing her about never doing that again because she would have been leaving her kids with a drug addict.
Diana says she filed for divorce in January 1999, and with the help of her brother Bret Hart and his wife Julie, the 3 of them confronted Davey over all his issues and eventually got him to agree to rehab and Diana agreed to put off any divorce for now.
Diana claims that Davey Boy would cheat on her with nurses from the rehab clinic.
Diana says Davey checked himself out of rehab a week early, citing kidney problems that no doctors agreed were actually present. She says he then tried to fake every illness or sickness he could to get administered to a hospital where they would give him drugs.
Diana says she desperately called WWF in 1998 and asked if they would hire her as a valet/manager, and she even pitched working with Owen. She says Owen later scolded her for this and told her she shouldn't get involved in wrestling and that it would only make her more unhappy.
Shockingly enough, Davey would get his wish when he got a legit staph infection and had to go to the hospital. Diana remembers watching the nurses or doctors struggle to find a vein on Davey.
The doctors told Davey that his career was over, and Diana says "this eclipsed Bret's retirement," but this was 1998, and Bret hadn't retired yet. I'm not sure what she means.
Diana says WCW released hum by fax while Davey was in the hospital for over a month. Diana says Owen got Davey back in touch with the WWF and claims that Vince promised Davey a job even if he couldn't wrestle.
Diana says she and her kids were watching the 1999 Over The Edge ppv by coincidence because Diana wanted to get up to speed on WWF storylines as Davey was heading back. She said she stepped away for a few minutes before a TSN reporter called her and asked about Owen's condition and that they were praying for him. After she hung up, her son Harry came running over, saying something happened to Owen.
Diana says that Stu called her first to tell her Owen died because of how close she and Owen were.
Diana said she later found out that Bret spent that night at Martha's to console her. But she hints at an affair which is just wild, though she tries to cover her ass by saying "I'm sure it was platonic, but" before ranting about how Bret manipulated Martha into wanting to sue Vince.
Diana says she spoke to Vince McMahon on the phone the morning of Owen's funeral, and she puts over how compassionate and loving Vince was.
Diana says that Bret will kill her for saying this, but she believes Owen Hart was like a son to Vince McMahon.
Diana says that only Bret and Ross were allowed to speak at the funeral and is very upset that her parents weren't asked to speak. Their older brother Smith wrote a lovely poem that he had hoped to say, as well as Bruce and Ellie, both hopeful they would be allowed to speak. Like Bret, Diana featured Smith's poem in her book and some of what Bruce and Ellie would have said. But Bruce mentioned in his book how he wanted to use Owen's funeral as a platform to make some passionate speech that he believed would bring Vince and Bret and the whole world together.
Diana says that Martha didn't thank Diana during Martha's speech at the funeral. Martha thanked each of Owen's siblings, except Diana. Diana says that later, Bret would bring this up and tell her that Owen thought Diana was useless and didn't like her.
Diana gave an interview to the Calgary Sun, where she said that Vince feels awful and called Owen's death an accident. She said Bret later called her screaming about how that undermines the investigation and accusing her of trying to get her and Davey jobs with WWF.
Diana says that Bret threatened to kill her during that call and promised that if he saw her on the street, he would run her down with her car. He then threatened to publish articles about Davey being a drug addict and Diana's suicide attempt. At the time, Bret had a weekly column in the Calgary Sun about whatever he felt like. Though, Bruce Hart claims to have written most of it until a jealous Bret fired him.
Diana says that Bret was adamant that Vince intentionally killed Owen that night, and there was nothing accidentally about it.
Diana remembers her sister saying that Owen's death would hit Diana and Bruce hardest since they were closest to Owen.
Diana says she tried to bury the hatchet with Martha after the funeral, but Martha's mom wouldn't let Diana in the house and told her, "Martha doesn't need anything from you."
Diana says Davey Boy fumbled every opportunity WWE gave him after Owen died, and one cold night in late 1999, she caught him injecting morphine into his arm. He tearfully begged her not to tell Vince.
Diana remembers her sister Ellie stopping by while Davey Boy was passed out on the couch. Diana pulled back his sleeves to show Ellie all his track marks from needle injections.
Diana served Davey Boy divorce papers in January 2000, and she remembers her parents berating her choice to leave him. She specifically remembers Stu saying to her, "You're no spring chicken!"
Diana says she told called Vince McMahon herself and told him about Davey's drug problem. Vince ordered Davey into rehab, and Diana remembers getting dozens of manic phone calls a day from Davey and how they terrified her.
Diana was dating and not wanting to be secretive about, told Davey Boy. She claims Davey reached out to some of his criminal friends, and her new date started getting phone call death threats.
Diana bought herself a place to stay away from Davey, but when Davey checked himself out of rehab, he moved right into Diana's place. She said she called the cops and was advised to leave. She had nowhere to go and moved in with that guy she was seeing.
Around the time WWF finally released him, Diana says Davey Boy, and some accomplice showed up at her boyfriends place with a tire iron and ski masks on, but the building security stopped them
Diana says Davey would regularly shoot up morphine in front of the kids.
Diana says Davey Boy OD'd 6 times from March to September in 2000.
Diana says she didn't care that Davey Biy was dating, but shocked when she found out Davey Boy and Bruce Hart's young wife were having an affair together. Diana says Bruce asked her to take Davey Boy back so that Bruce's wife Andrea would have to go back to Bruce.
Diana says Davey Boy threatened to "bootf*ck" her and her new boyfriend and threatened to slit her throat.
Once, Davey actually broke her door down, so she called 911 and remembers how one of the cops actually asked Davey for an autograph.
Diana points out how Martha dropped all contact with the Hart's after the Owen lawsuit and notes how Martha says whatever mean things she wants now, despite the fact that Stu and Helen paid her legal fees.
Diana ends her chapter on Owen and Martha by casually suggesting the Hart's should sue Martha.
Diana says at a WWF show in 2001, she ran into Owen's old valet, Deborah, who screamed at her for using the talent bathroom, saying that no one wants to catch whatever Diana has. Diana assumes Deborah was threatened by her when she saw Diana talking to Deborah's husband, Steve Austin. This is such a random little story she brought up at the very end of her book.
The book ends with Diana mentioning the RAW show in Calgary in 2001, where she and Bruce dragged Stu to the show after Bret and Martha asked them not to go. She says Bruce purposely sat her behind someone so the camera wouldn't see her. Smith got on camera with a sign that said, "Hi Bret."
She says Bret came to the house afterward and took baby pictures of Owen off the wall while yelling at them all for being selfish. She says Martha called the house and screamed at Helen, telling her to go to hell! Both of these have more or less been confirmed to have happened. Martha and Bret asked them not to go to the WWF show, with Stu and Helen both agreeing. But Bruce and Diana showed up the day of the show and literally dragged Stu to the show. Poor Helen didn't go and still got yelled at for it.
The book ends with her saying she is close to her kids and living with her boyfriend still.
She wrote this book before Davey Boy's death so we don't get any details there and I would have loved to hear some since Davey Boy was still with Andrea when he died, though Diana claims that Davey Boy reached out to her, just days before he passed, hoping to reconnect.
Both Andrea and Diana put on separate funerals, and Bruce said in his book that they were trying to outdo the other one. I would have loved to hear Diana's take on that.
Diana Hart went on record, saying that the book twisted her words and had been changed from how she written them originally. Though when Martha initially threatened legal action, Diana was quoted as saying, "Martha has money to fight me on it, and I don't. I know what I have written is true."
Tom "Dynamite Kid" Billington confirmed most of the stories involving him in the book are true. Why would anyone admit to what Diana said about him?
Co-wroter Kristie McLellan has stated that Diana Hart took her on "an amazing journey" when writing the book. Kristie continued her writing career, including helping pen one of the best sports books I've ever read, "Playing With Fire," the story of Theo Fleury of the Calgary Flames. I can't believe she helped write both of these books. One is in the top 5 sports books, and the other is in the bottom 5 books of all time for me.
Bret had publicly expressed skepticism to Diana's claim of ignorance on the book.
Diana actually went on to write a trilogy of romance novels that were well regarded and won some awards. Diana calls this book "a failure as a journey."
Diana still does the odd appearances and anything to help promote her dad and family, and in 2015, she sold all the rights to the British Bulldog to her son Harry. She seems close with all her siblings these days, except Bret.
I hope to find Martha Hart's book next, and then I think that would be the last of the Hart Family books that I've been looking for over the past year. Big thanks again to the users who helped me out with this book!

I’m confused about the new Alison Weir novels. Is Passionate Tudor the same as Queen of Sorrows? Similarly, is The King’s Pleasure the same book as The Heart and the Crown? I’m worried that I’m missing out on two whole books! Weir is my favorite author and I must read them all!

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What I mean is I am confused about his beleifs. He thinks he's king of the world or something because he's like a demigod or whatever but he sees the vary gods who made him as flawed and uncool . He wants to wipe out a large percentage of the world's population because aparantly people aren't as impressive anymore and to be fair this is him before he became like castor but seriously what made him come to the conclusion people aren't as impressive anymore. there are still heroic spirits coming from around this time they just aren't as powerful because there's less powerful magecraft now but there are still several impressive servants tesla,Alison,archimedes,nightingale umong many others. I suppose wiping out so many people would also erase alot of progress in science thus making magecraft more powerful but realy that's just delaying the inevitable. humans are curious in nature and so long as that's the case there will always be innovators who move science forward thus weakening magecraft again. and erasing so much would also take away impressive things like humans being able to travel space which is a different kind of impressive but Impressive none the less. there's more to being powerful than just physical might the mind is far greater and if he denies that he'd also be denying hundreds of powerful caster servants aswell as others. he himself probably thinks he's smart more than just power so surely he won't deny the power of the mind. So with all this why in the world would he want to still do his whole plan. I also don't get his arrogance aside from the god stuff I mentioned earlier he also thinks he's like the first king or something but than what about his father if he was born king than surely the concept of king existed before that. And if he thinks he can do whatever he wants because he's the strongest well he's not there are far superior beings in the nasuverse the true magic users I think not to mention servants like first hassan,entities like gaia and alaya and isn't he just a demi god several gods in mythology are stronger than him. the Abrahamic religions are a thing too Hinduism also heck Hinduism has stronger demigods not just karna arjuna there are others in Hinduism that have yet to make it to fate. There's also the Buddha a normal human who became stronger than him and probably many more I really don't get his arrogance also in his own myths he wasn't that powerful his power seems to have been added by the grail also wasn't utnapishtum born earlier than him and was a king pr something.

I'm a history fan in general and love biographies in particular. Monarchs and other royals make excellent biographical subjects, and I wanted to share my thoughts on a few books. I hope you'll also share thoughts and recommendations.
In no particular order:
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart - John Guy. I think this book has a few different titles, depending on where/when it's published, but under any name, it's superb. All historians should be great, thorough researchers, and Guy is definitely that. But he's also a wonderful prose stylist. He provides a sympathetic and realistic portrait of the tragic queen and her context.
The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr - Leanda de Lisle. Another gifted writer (her Tudor, an overview of the entire dynasty, is a rollicking read), de Lisle doesn't let Charles I off the hook in this book, but she does paint him as a multifaceted individual. I finished the book still thinking he was a disaster, but understanding a little better some of his decisions. Also, Cromwell and crew were just awful, but I didn't need this book to tell me that.
The Plantagenets and The Wars of the Roses - Dan Jones. I think alone out of the entire world, I'm not a fan of this authopresenter. I love writing with flair, but there's such a thing as too much flair, and I think we see this in these two books. I appreciate that Jones is writing for the nonspecialist, but still, if you know just about anything about the period and personalities involved, there's not much to learn here. These books are mostly flash with less substance. There is a place for storytelling - at its heart, before the Germans in the 19th century got to it, history is about storytelling. But there are better tellers of this particular story. If you want a great tale, I recommend Thomas Costain instead. A young George RR Martin read Costain's work on the Plantagenets and lists it as inspiration for A Song of Ice and Fire.
King Edward VII - Philip Magnus. Biographers have been mostly unkind to poor Bertie. Yes, he liked women. Yes, he slept with a lot of women. Yes, he had a special chair made for that purpose. But is that really all there is to the man who reigned over the British Empire and gave his name to an era? Philip Magnus doesn't waste a lot of time on the philandering. I don't think he's trying to cover anything up. Rather, in the grand scheme, it's just not that important. Instead, he speaks to Edward's role as a social icon during his long years as Prince of Wales, and then focuses on the King's diplomatic and constitutional work. It's a serious work about a serious man, and highly recommended.
King George V - Kenneth Rose. The author is definitely a fan of the King, but still doesn't do much to convince that one would want to spend much one on one time with this particular sovereign. George V was as dedicated to his duty and his empire as was his father, but the son was not nearly so interesting, personally. He turned stamp collecting into his entire personality. But I came away from the book admiring how George V did his job. He was honest and did his duty as he saw it. A boring king is much better than most of the other figures in charge of European nations in the 1930s. A great book, though I wonder why Rose did not mention that George was mercy killed. Either that came out after publication, or he thought it beneath the King's dignity. Not sure which.
The Queen: Elizabeth II and the Monarchy - Ben Pimlott. This is the only book I've ever read about Elizabeth II or her immediate family that wasn't mindbogglingly stupid. 99% of books published on Queen Elizabeth and now on King Charles III are just silly gossip, and Pimlott is perhaps the only author who attempts to address the Queen's constitutional role and the framework in which she existed. A fascinating book.
A note on Alison Weir: I actually owe a lot to Alison Weir. Like most everyone else, the Tudors sucked me in, and for me the hook was her The Six Wives of Henry VIII. But that was in middle school, and I've since grown, read more and learned more. A quote from Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch (if you haven't already, seek out his books on Thomas Cromwell, the Reformation, and Christianity) on Weir's Henry VIII: King and Court will suffice: "...hers is a great pudding of a book, which will do no harm to those who choose to read it." Her books won't hurt you, but there are better books.
The above are a few of the books I've read about the UK's monarchs. For various reasons these stood out. I'd love to hear which books are your favorites, or which to maybe avoid. Does anyone know of any books that will be published soon? I love something to look forward to.

In S6E5, when Mona comes back, she's worried about being in trouble for "being dead when she wasn't" and "sending Ali to jail for months".
But she was literally kidnapped by A. How would she get in trouble for that? I mean yeah ok she had originally PLANNED to fake her death but she didn't actually get to go through with it because A got to her first. This part doesn't make sense to me, it's like they forgot she didn't actually fake her death 😵‍💫

Hey guys, this one took a little time but I'm happy with the end result. Basically Matt has been following along with my story on here and loves it so far...and he asked if I'd write a chapter about how I lost my virginity. I've agreed to indulge him on this one, I hope you don't mind the slight deviation from our regularly scheduled Avery+Matt sexcapades. More of those will return in part 9.
As always, feel free to message me with feedback and critiques! Disclaimer, everyone is 18+ in this chapter. ♡Avery
So how did I lose my virginity? I was 18, in my senior year of highschool, about to go out and join the Army. I was still petite, with an athletic build and B cup breasts. I was always tan from playing on the soccer team and I wore my dark brown hair to about the middle of my back. It was prom night. Stereotypical I know. Bare with me, I think my story is still fun.
So I had been dating Kevin, an exchange student from South Korea for a few months, since he had asked me to be his homecoming date back in the fall. He was maybe 5'6, slim with short black hair and a fairly nerdy but cute overall style. He was a huge fan of League of Legends and I actually thought he was super cute.
So Kevin picked me up at home in a dashing black tux, with a peach bowtie and vest that matched my dress, which was floor length, flowing with a toga style cross of fabric, crisscrossing my chest with an open back. I wore my hair down, slightly curled as it hung down my back.
We had your average night of dancing and hanging out with our friends, taking lots of pictures and overall having a good time. Kevin was an absolute gentleman, except he let his hands wander down my butt as we slow danced at the end of the night. I thought it was so scandalous and loved that we were getting away with something in front of the chaperones.
Now this isn't to say Kevin and I were a totally chaste couple, we had had our fair share of steamy makeouts and we had even touched eachother before...and scandalously enough I had given him three blowjobs out on dates we'd had the past few weeks. We had talked about going further, but we both wanted our first time to be special. We had talked about maybe going all the way at prom, and I said I'd try if Kevin figured out a plan.
So back to prom night, the dance was at this fancy hotel. As the night was winding down, we were thinking of heading out to my friend Kelly's house for a house party her parents were letting her throw. But Kevin said he had other plans. He had booked us a room at the hotel the dance was at. So instead of heading out with our friends, he pulled out a room key and walked me upstairs. My parents were letting me spread my wings before leaving for the army, and quite frankly, Kevin's host family kinda just let him run wild if he wanted.
As Kevin opened our room, I was blown away. To 18 year old me, it was a stunning, top class room. Looking back, it was an average king bed room at a 3 star hotel, but to me it was perfect. As soon as we were inside, we started making out on the bed. As things heated up, Kevin slipped out of his tux and was in an undershirt and some cute blue plaid boxer briefs. I still hadn't done anything with my dress when Kevin asked if he could undo the top of my dress between kisses on my neck.
I reached back and undid the clasp he was struggling with and let the drapes of flowing peach fabric that were holding my b cup breasts fall away, exposing my braless look for a wide eyed Kevin who had never seen me totally topless except in dirty snapchats I'd sent him before.
I pushed my dress below my hips and to the floor, revealing a purple lace thong I'd worn to prevent any pantielines under my dress...and I thought it'd be cute if we got this far tonight. As my dress fell away, leaving me in just a thong, I suddenly felt slightly embarrassed, being this exposed to a guy for the first time. Kevin pulled his shirt off "so we could match" and I laughed, the awkwardness breaking away as we started to kiss again and he eased me back onto the bed, positing his body between my legs as we continued to make out.
I reached into Kevin's boxerbriefs and grasped him in my hand. He was a little small, maybe 5 inches but he was rock hard and it was a huge turn on to feel him that excited for me. He slipped his briefs off and reached into my thong as he continued to kiss me. His fingers awkwardly traced their way between my lips, sometimes brushing up against my clit and sending shivers down my spine as I nervously waited to see how this would go.
He sat back on his heels between my legs and he pulled off my thong and we were suddenly naked together for the first time. His dick looked so much bigger than the hair brush handle I would use alone in my room and he could tell I was nervous. He was nervous too, this was a big first for both of us. He slipped a finger slower inside me, my walls relaxing slightly as I got wetter in anticipation. He leaned down and kissed me passionately as he continued to work his finger in and out of me, and I rocked my hips in time with his movements.
This continued on until he pulled away again and asked if I wanted to go further. I nodded yes and asked him to take it super slow. I could feel the tip of his hard cock bumping around between my legs, trying to find my entrance. He slightly was embarrassed and asked if I could help him. I giggled and reached up to kiss him as I reached between our legs, grabbed his shaft and placed his head against my vagina. He gasped slightly as his head slipped in and I pressed against his hips to keep him from going in deeper.
I let out a slight squeal as he suddenly pushed inside me for the first time and I grabbed his hips, easing him all the way inside me as I stretched out to take him. It hurt slightly but nothing crazy. It was a dull ache between my legs as he slowly started to move in and out of me in an awkward rhythm.
He kissed me again and again as he picked up speed. I moaned into his mouth in a mix of ache and pleasure as I stretched out all the way to take him. After maybe 2 or 3 minutes he said he was close. I pulled him out of me and he quickly jerked himself off, splattering my pubic bone and stomach with ropes of cum. I thought it was kinda hot...a little like some of the porn I watched alone in my room some nights. We kissed a little more before moving to the shower to clean up...my first time taking a shower with a guy. We didn't do anything else sexual that night but spent an intimate night together, all because Kevin made the effort to go all out for me before he went back home to South Korea after graduation.
I hope you all enjoyed this story! We'll be back to more of Matt and I in part 9 I promise (: Thank you all for your feedback! I look forward to any critiques you want to message me with! ♡Avery

Contest Rules For Best Song Of The Month • Updated May 19th, 2024

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Best Song Of The Month Contest

Music Or Lose It hosts a monthly Best Song Of The Month contest at this musicorloseittv subreddit community. There is no cash or monetary value prize at this time. This contest is simply just for fun. Winners earn the enjoyment of being voted the best. Winners may cite the win in their biographies and social media posts.
The moderator (mod) is available to help music creators with the entry process, eligibility requirements, and deadlines. Music creators are allowed to contact the mod to ask questions about the contest anytime and mod will reply as soon as possible.
Definitions
Music creator: refers to a solo creator, band, group, choir, orchestra, or duo.
Brand identity: refers to how a creator presents themselves as an entertainer making music for the general public. For example, Simon & Garfunkel as a duo is one brand identity. Paul Simon solo is another brand identity.

Process & Deadlines

🟡 Round 1
1) Discovery ◦ Each month, moderator keeps track of songs shared at this musicorloseittv community.
2) Notifying Music Creators ◦ When a likely eligible song is seen, the u/musicorloseittv profile or u/themusicfanman profile will notify the music creator of likely eligibility within the qualifying song’s post. The reply will indicate, “⏳ This song appears eligible for the Best Song Of The Month contest. Please provide the following information…” If the song is confirmed to be eligible by a mod, the mod will make a reply “🟨 This is confirmation notifying you that this song is eligible and in consideration for the Best Song Of The Month contest…” within the qualifying song’s post.
3) Determining Contestants ◦ The Music Fan man will evaluate all eligible songs by the month’s eligibility deadline. He will then at his discretion choose up to 5 songs to compete.
3) Finalists Post ◦ At this musicorloseittv community, the musicorloseittv profile will announce the top finalists (up to 5) in a post tiled “Contest: Best Song Of The Month Finalists (Insert Month & Year).” This announcement will be done in a post made 4 days before the final day of the month. The post will be made sometime in the morning. The songs will be listed within the post in a manner most representative of music diversity as determined by the musicorloseittv profile mod. All songs available on YouTube will be included in a playlist titled “Best Song Of The Month Contestants • (Insert Month & Year)” hosted by the musicorloseittv channel on YouTube. Songs not available on YouTube will be excluded from the playlist. The playlist will be mentioned in this post. The available playlist will help voters get familiar with the songs.
The u/musicorloseittv profile or u/themusicfanman profile will notify the music creators of qualifying for the contest in their post of the song. The reply will indicate, “✅ Congratulations. Your song qualifies for the Best Song Of The Month contest…”
4) Voting ◦ The “Contest: Best Song Of The Month Finalists (Insert Month & Year)” post will specify a duration of 3 consecutive dates during which music fans can vote for only 1 of the top finalists. Voting occurs by the voters making a reply to the post in the following manner: “🗳️ I vote for….” Failing to vote in this manner will result in vote not being counted. To best ensure vote accuracy, voters must not use the “🗳️” emoji anywhere else in the post’s comments section. Music creators may vote for another music creator yet may not vote for themselves. For music creators, it’s “word of honor” voting. The top vote earning song within these three days will become the winner.
‣ Community moderator profiles musicorloseittv and onesongoftheday will abstain from voting. Also, themusicfanman and any special judge involved will also abstain from voting - unless they’re needed to serve as a tie breaker, in the event of a tie preventing a clear winner. If themusicfanman and any special judge involved are needed as a tie breaker, they must come to a consensus to achieve tie breaking. If no special judge is involved, then themusicfanman alone will serve as the tie breaker.
🟢 Winner Declaration!
Declaration Post ◦ At this musicorloseittv community, on the final day of the month, the musicorloseittv profile will announce the winner in a post tiled “Congratulations! 🎉 Best Song Of The Month Winner (Insert Month & Year)” in a post dedicated to celebrating the song. Using the sticky-post feature, the post will be prominently displayed the home page of the musicorloseittv subreddit community for ≈ 24 hours.
Achievement ◦ The contest winner may promote their song as:
My song “Song Title” won:
🏅Best Song Of The Month By Community Vote
(Insert Month & Year)
At The Music Or Lose It Community
The winner may promote themselves and the song as the winner at venues like X/Twitter, Facebook, Threads, or their YouTube channel’s Community feed. The winner may also cite the win in their biographies online including their personal website.
🏆 Song Of The Year
A similar Song Of The Year vote will occur in December. It will be similarly organized and scheduled to conclude on the final day of the year. To determine a Song Of The Year by the end of the year, December’s monthly contest will only be ≈ 2 weeks. Why? Because we need time to conclude The Song Of The Year vote by the end of the year. Additionally, this is a busy time of year for many people. What’s more, non-Christmas music released in December is typically overshadowed by Christmas music. It seems to be a bad idea to release new-original music in late December. See opinion commentary: The Best And Worst Months To Release Music.
Achievement ◦ The contest winner may promote their song as:
🏆 Best Song Of The Year By Community Vote
(Insert Year)
At The Music Or Lose It Community
The winner may promote themselves and the song as the winner at venues like X/Twitter, Facebook, Threads, or their YouTube channel’s Community feed. The winner may also cite the win in their biographies online including their personal website.

Eligibility

Here are the rules for the Best Song Of The Month contest organized by Music Or Lose It just for fun. The eligibility rules are intended to make this contest as fair as possible to the music creator participants.
**👤 Personal: **
Requirements:
✔️ Must be an actual human.
✔️ Must be 17 years of age or older.
✔️ Must be a music creator abiding by the rules of this musicorloseittv subreddit community.
✔️ Must be a music creator posting using either your personal profile or your brand profile as a music entertainer.
Ineligible:
🚫 Profiles run by publicists, music labels, or channels hosting performers.
🚫 People posing as other humans using imitation avatar type creations by artificial intelligence (AI).
**🗿 Music creator’s stature status: **
Eligible:
✔️ Unsigned amateur or unsigned professional yet lesser known.
✔️ Lesser known music creators who have not yet achieved two different songs with over 500,000 views/listens and are signed to deals with small to medium-sized record companies or seeming one-song-per-time type distributors.
✔️ Lesser known music creators who have not yet achieved two different songs with over 500,000 views/listens and are signed to deals with to a major label.
**📅 Release date: **
Eligible:
✔️ Your song must be published and accessible to the masses anytime between November 15^th of the prior year and 5 days before the final day of the current month.
**💽 Songwriting, singing, & recording: **
Requirements:
✔️ You must be the copyright owner of the song (lyrics and sound recording) or authorized/licensed to perform the song by the copyright owner as the first original performer.
✔️ An exception is made if your song is an authorized/licensed remix or includes authorized/licensed interpolation or sampling content by the copyright owner in collaboration with any other amateur music creator(s) or unsigned professional yet lesser known music creator(s). The aforementioned release date also applies to any remix, interpolation, or sampling content.
✔️ Collaborations within the aforementioned rules are allowed so long as the song is entered into the contest by the lead. Lead refers to the first person named in the collaboration.
Ineligible:
🚫 Copyright/trademark violations.
🚫 Songs written by artificial intelligence (AI).
🚫 Songs primarily generated artificial intelligence (AI).
🚫 Cover, parody, nor artificial intelligence (AI) imitation.
🚫 Songs likely to be very divisive for political or religious/anti-religious reasons.
🚫 Collaborations within deceased music creators akin to “Unforgettable” by Natalie Cole featuring Nat "King" Cole.
🚫 Interpolations, remixes, or samplings of a song by a creator signed to a record company of any size or signed to a one-song-per-time type distributor.
🚫 Song with hard cussing. No variations of F word, S word, C word, D word, N word (er or a), ahole word(s), or sexually vulgar words.
🚫 Extremely sexual, gang promoting, violent, or especially scary/gory/maleficent/evil aesthetic content.
🚫 Songs primarily about brands. For example: “I Love Driving Such-And-Such Brand Name Trucks.”
**👂 Recording quality: **
Allowed:
✔️ Professional quality recordings (live or studio).
✔️ Amateur quality (including songs record in a bedroom, car, outdoors, etc…) yet reasonably pleasant sounding.
✔️ Demos are welcome.
Ineligible:
🚫 Live records with too much interfering audience noise.
🚫 Recordings with excessively poor sound quality (abrasive on the ears, difficult to hear).
**📏 Song length: **
Requirement:
✔️ Minimum of 01:15 minutes up to 10:00 minutes.
**💻 Distribution venues: **
Requirements:
✔️ A song published and accessible to the general public masses at a well-known music website such as YouTube, SoundCloud, or Bandcamp.
✔️ A song uploaded to a channel hosting live performances is allowed so long as the song is entered into the contest directly by the creator and so long as the creator confirms permission by the channel. Confirmation can be done in either your original upload URL link source or at this community within your posts’ body-text section or a reply to the post.
✔️ The song’s upload date must be visible at the distribution venue website.
⚠️ If you enter this contest with a Spotify or TikTok URL link, ensure you’ve provided a link for the entire song (not a teasesampler) in a manner that does not require login; ensure the publish date is visible; and be weary of looping flashing visuals necessitating a “⚠️Possible Seizure Trigger Risk Warning.” Failing to do this will result in ineligibility.
Ineligible:
🚫 Login required to access the song.
🚫 Payment required to access the song.
🚫 Uploads of songs directly to Reddit.
🚫 Links not fully available to the public such as an “unlisted” YouTube video.
**🖼️ Song’s artwork: **
Definition: artwork refers to the image/drawing/photo/visuals accompanying your individual song at a music distribution venue such as YouTube, SoundCloud, or Bandcamp. It is sometimes referred to as “cover art.”
Requirements:
✔️ You must be the original creator of the song’s accompanying artwork.
✔️ Alternatively, you must be the copyright owner of the artwork if you paid to have it made. Otherwise you must be authorized/licensed to publish the artwork as part of the presentation of your song.
✔️ Artwork primarily generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is allowed so long as you are authorized/licensed by the AI source to publish the artwork as part of your song’s public presentation. However this is advised against because public sentiment may be hostile towards AI generated content.
✔️ If your song’s artwork uses aspects of copyrighted, creative commons, or “free” material content, you must confirm you’ve got authorization/licensing to use the content as part of your song’s public presentation. Confirmation can be done in either your original upload URL link source or at this community within your posts’ body-text section or a reply to the post.
✔️ Your own logo that you own the copyright to may be displayed in the song’s accompanying artwork (including on a person wearing a hat or T-shirt).
Ineligible:
🚫 Copyright/trademark violations.
🚫 Parody notably displayed in the artwork.
🚫 Visible logos of any brand other than your own logo as a music entertainer.
🚫 Extremely sexual, gang promoting, violent, or especially scary/gory/maleficent/evil aesthetic content.
**🎥 Song’s music video (optional): **
Including a link to a music video is optional.
Requirements:
✔️ You must be the original creator of the song’s music video visuals including: animation; moving graphics; prominently featured still artwork or photos.
✔️ Alternatively, you must be the copyright owner of all the video’s visuals if you paid to have them made. Otherwise you must be authorized/licensed to publish all the video’s visuals as part of the presentation of your song’s accompanying music video.
✔️ Visuals (including: animation; moving graphics; prominently featured still artwork or photos) primarily generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are allowed so long as you are authorized/licensed by the AI source to publish the artwork as part of your song’s public presentation. However this is advised against because public sentiment may be hostile towards AI generated content.
✔️ If your song’s accompanying music video uses aspects of copyrighted, creative commons or “free” material, you must confirm you’ve got authorization/licensing to use the copyrighted material as part of your song’s public presentation within the accompanying music video. Confirmation can be done in either your original upload URL link source or at this community within your posts’ body-text section or a reply to the post.
✔️ Your own logo that you own the copyright to may be displayed in the video (including on a person wearing a hat or T-shirt).
✔️ Allowed music videos include “Official Music Video,” “Live Performance,” “Dance Video Version,” “Animated Video,” or “Lyrics Video.”
✔️ If you opt for an “Animated Video” or a “Lyrics Video,” you must be authorized/licensed to publish all the video’s visuals as part of the presentation of your song’s accompanying music video. If you hire an animator or use AI or an app/software designed to create music video lyrics, you must be authorized/licensed by the animator or AI source or app/software creator to publish the animation and/or lyrics as part of the presentation of your song’s accompanying music video.
✔️ If you opt for a “Dance Video Version,” the dancing and/or choreography must be originally created for your song’s accompanying music video. If you hire a choreographer and/or dancers or collaborate for free or for barter, you must be authorized/licensed by the choreographer and/or dancers to publish the video’s dancing/choreography visuals as part of the presentation of your song’s accompanying music video.
✔️ “Official Audio” type music videos are allowed so long as an accompanying still image complies with the aforementioned “Song’s artwork” rules. Alternatively, if the “Official Audio” music videos has moving visuals, it must comply with these above-mentioned “Song’s music video” rules.
✔️ “Live Performance” music videos may be made from your home/cafield (pretty much anywhere decent and reasonable) or from one of your well-recorded performances from a show. Be sure to avoid copyright and trademark violations in the video.
⚠️ Brief uses of music distribution venue logos at the end or start of a music video may be allowed at mod’s discretion, when the intent is to inform the viewer of venue availability of the song. This is however discouraged unless the distribution venue, at their website, specifies this is allowed. Music videos that display any trademark logos (other than the music creator’s own copyrighted logo) entirely throughout are ineligible.
Ineligible:
🚫 Copyright/trademark violations.
🚫 Notable use of virtual reality program recordings.
🚫 Notable use of filters from apps/websites similar to Snapchat.
🚫 Parody of intellectual property characters prominently displayed in the video.
🚫 Notably visible logos of any brand other than your own logo as a music entertainer.
🚫 Notable display of brand products with visible logos including but not limited to toys, stuffed animals, autos, hats, T-Shirts.
🚫 Extremely sexual, gang promoting, violent, or especially scary/gory/maleficent/evil aesthetic content.
🚫 Limitations on involving minors (under 18 yo): no minors doing dangerous stunts; no depictions of minors participating in drugs/drinking/smoking or very sexual behavior (including sexual dancing); do not prominently feature children that are not your own in the video (exception may be made if a relative only allows you to involve their children).
⚖️ Quantities:
Requirements:
✔️ One song per music creator’s brand identity.
✔️ If a music creator uploads more than one of their brands’ potentially eligible songs, the music creator must inform mod which song they prefer to be included in the contest.
✔️ A music creator may win this Song Of The Month contest up to three consecutive times. If this happens, thereafter the creator must abstain from the contest for the next month and then may return to the contest after that 1-month eligibility hiatus.
Ineligible:
🚫 Every collaboration will not automatically be considered a new brand. For example, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss collaborating one time should not be considered a brand. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss making an entire album together should be considered a brand. Music creators attempting to enter multiple songs under multiple brand names will be scrutinized. If there is no social media presence for any additional brands, their songs will likely be rejected as “also eligible” by mods. If this happens, the music creator will have to enter only 1 song.
**🖱️ Accounts you may post from: **
Requirements:
✔️ Your post must be made directly from either your personal Reddit account profile or your brand’s Reddit account profile.
✔️ If you have a medical condition necessitating aid, on your behalf, you may appoint a publicist, manager, caretaker, helper, spouse, partner, friend, guardian, or family member to post from either your personal Reddit account profile or your brand’s Reddit account profile.
✔️ If your song is from a band, group, choir, orchestra, or duo brand, the post must be made directly from either from one of the members’ personal Reddit account profiles or from your brand’s Reddit account profile.
✔️ If your song is collaboration, the post must be made directly from either the lead’s personal Reddit account profile or from the lead’s brand Reddit account profile.
✔️ If you want another song to be a part of the contest from another brand identity you are involved with, the song must be posted by a Reddit account profile for that separate brand – or one of the brand collaborators’ personal Reddit account profile.
👩🏾‍🏫 Presentation at this musicorloseittv community:
Requirements:
✔️ You must post a link to the song at this musicorloseittv community by tapping “+” on smartphone or clicking “+Create a post” on desktop/laptop. You must select the “My Song” flair.
✔️ Your post must be done by the “Title & Link Share Only method.”
✔️ The song’s URL you provide must be of the standalone song upload - not part of a playlist URL link.
✔️ You may post an audio only upload URL link (such as an individual song published at SoundCloud or Bandcamp). Alternatively, you may post a music video link from a venue like YouTube.
✔️ You may include a smartlink for the individual song (not album or playlist) within your posts’ body-text section or a reply to the post.
✔️ You may title the post whatever you want within the community’s rules and the contest’s rules. Remember: no vague titles; limit post title emojis to no more than 2 (if you decide to use them); and don’t request feedback.
✔️ Your post title may be done in the style of “Entertainer - Song Tile” (or something similar). Alternatively, the post title may be more elaborate. For example: “This Is My Latest Song. It’s About A Wonderful Time I Fell In Love.”
✔️ In your posts’ body-text section or in a reply comment, optionally you may share details about the song that you feel the audience would enjoy knowing.
**📝 Needed information: **
Requirements:
✔️ Within either your posts’ body-text section or within a reply comment at your post, provide the following information – as is:
❇️ Contest entry for your consideration:
• Entertainer's Name - Song Title:
• Published on: [Insert date & year. Refers to date published at your URL link source]
• Genre:
• I am an independent creator unsigned I am signed to [insert label name]
• Interpolations/remixes/samplings disclosure: N/A this song contains authorized/licensed interpolations/remixes/samplings [specify] of another song released since 11/15 of the prior year in collaboration with other unsigned music creator(s)[specify]. The link to the original song is [insert URL link – publish date from URL link source must be visible].
• Al disclosure: N/A. A portion of this [song/artwork/music video] is created by Al. Explanation: [specify if this applies to song/artwork/music video].
• Copyright disclosure for song: I confirm I’m the copyright owner of all the contents of this song (lyrics and recording) as it is presented including the artwork [(if applicable) and music video]
Copyrighted content I am authorized/licensed to use commercially in the promotion of my song include: [insert details]
• [optional/voluntary] Confirmation of substantial human involvement: A real human substantially arranged/compose this music. [Note: This type disclosure is strongly encouraged by creators who use instrument sounds and beats from apps/software in substation of instruments played live at the time of recording. This is especially encouraged for music creators who do not show their face and/or don’t show themselves creating the music in a music video or behind the scenes video. For music fans opposed to music primarily created by AI, this type of disclosure can be helpful and assuring.]
• Lyrics: [insert URL link or embed URL link into “Lyrics” text] [note if the lyrics are available at the upload source] [only if you're the copyright owner of the lyrics, you may entirely include them] [type “vocalized” or “instrumental” if applicable]
Ineligible:
🚫 Uploads of songs to Reddit.
🚫 No engagement pleas disguised as feedback requests in post titles nor in your posts’ body-text section. No feedback requests.
**👨🏼‍⚖️ Copyright/trademark compliance: **
‣ Important note: Aforementioned rules already state you either must be the copyright owner of the content you enter for this contest or you must be authorized/licensed to commercially use the content by the copyright owner. Aforementioned rules already state you must disclose use of copyrighted, creative commons, or “free” material. Mods reserve the right to ask for additional proof for confirmation. Suspected violations will be removed at mod’s discretion. You are strongly encouraged to upload your best, newest, utmost original content.
‣ Resources:
U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright in General https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html
What Musicians Should Know about Copyright by U.S. Copyright Office https://www.copyright.gov/engage/musicians
U.S. Copyright Office Fair Use Index by U.S. Copyright Office https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use
**🤝 Mutual Support **
Requirements:
✔️ You must be active in the musicorloseittv community regarding mutual support and engagement with other posts. You must post a comment reply to at least two other posts of any kind at the musicorloseittv community before the final day of the month. Failing to do so will result in disqualification.
Ineligible:
🚫 Posting then ghosting the community.
**😎👍 Encouraging fans to vote: **
Ineligible:
🚫 You are not allowed to ask for votes in anywhere in the musicorloseittv community’s comments section.
🚫 Music creators may not offer anything to anyone whatsoever in exchange for voting for them.
Allowed:
✔️ If you see a music fan has voted for you, you may thank them in a reply comment.
✔️ You may make social media posts at venues like X/Twitter, Facebook, Threads or your YouTube channel’s Community feed to encourage your fans to join this musicorloseittv subreddit community and vote for your song.
Example post:
My song “Song Title” is a finalist for Best Song Of The Month at the musicorloseittv community at Reddit. At [insert URL link] please vote for me and my song. Thank you.
**📜 Rules adherence: **
‣ Important note: If you are new to the musicorloseittv community as either a music fan voting or music creator entering the contest, latitude may be given as you get familiar here. It’s up to mod’s discretion.
‣ Important note: This contest is just for fun. Likewise playing boardgames or cards with friends is also just for fun yet people expect rules to be followed.
**🕊️ Truthfulness: **
Requirements:
✔️ Contestants and voters are expected to behave honorably and ethically.
Ineligible:
🚫 If anyone is ever discovered cheating or being dishonest akin to author James Frey or music entertainers Milli Vanilli, they will be disqualified and also likely be banned from this community.
Additional Info
If you do not want to be in the contest yet want to continue sharing your songs in this community, it is totally ok. Please inform the moderator. A “Message the mods” option is at the homepage.
In circumstances where uncertainty arises due to an unforeseen issue not addressed here in this outline of rules, moderators reserve the right to approve or disapprove eligibility. Moderators reserve the right to disqualify any song for any reason. Unfortunately, not every contest can perfectly satisfy all participant hopefuls.
Just do your best, don’t take it too seriously, and have fun.
Thank you.
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Okay, hi! I’ve searched the subreddit, scoured the omegaverse megathread, and posted in a few Facebook groups, but y’all have never steered me wrong (even though I’ve only lurked and given recs on other people’s requests) and I’ve found it kinda difficult to get recs for my specific request. It says it in the title, but here are my requirements:

• omegaverse
• audiobook (available on audible)
• NOT narrated by Bridget and Jake Bordeaux (I appreciate the work that goes into narration but something about their voices makes it impossible for me to listen to the books 😭)
• rh
• any amount of men loving on a female omega, and hopefully each other (mm preferred with a female omega thrown in) (maybe cap it at like five guys though? Maaaaaaybe six?)

My hopes include:

• a male omega with a female omega and a bunch of alphas, male or female. Seriously it is my favorite pairing in omegaverse when a male and female omega fall in love. Best.
• grovels are great, but so is a story where the alphas don’t???? Fuck up massively??? Either is good. insert both is good meme here

Things I’m okay with and things I’m not okay with:

• dark themes are okay, I enjoy a dark book, but body betrayal where the omega really doesn’t want it and actively says and thinks it is a no for me.
• shifters are okay, I’d prefer to stay away from alien omegaverse though? I did not enjoy my brief foray into that (Ruthless King by Alison Aimes)
• I don’t like historical romance at all, and idk if there’s even an omegaverse set in a historical romance setting but I def don’t want to read that. Otherwise I prefer contemporary or like, kinda urban/paranormal fantasy vibes? I don’t want fantasy romance either, not with my omegaverse.

Here’s a list of omegaverse audiobooks I have thoroughly enjoyed! Might give you an idea of my taste!

• Pack Darling by Lola Rock (all time fav, I’ve listened numerous times)
• Baby and the Late Night Howlers by Kathryn Moon
• Lola and the Millionaires by Kathryn Moon (I enjoyed it because I loved Lola in Baby’s book, but I would prefer to stay away from the fmc being beta or alpha for future recs)
• One Pucked Up Pack by Sarah Blue
• Forbidden by Emilia Emerson
• Left In Ruins by Jillian West (loved this one, I’m a sucker for rockstar romance)
• Omega Found by Evelyn Flood (other favorite, it’s dark but I loved the dystopian world and the way the pack came together for the fmc. Didn’t love the miscommunication so much but hey, what can you do)
• Havoc Killed Her Alpha by Marie Mackay

Lastly, here’s a list of my favorite narrators I’ve noticed in the omegaverse genre!

• Kelsey Navarro
• Maeve York
• Samantha Cook
• Alyssa Rogge
• Troy Duran
• JD Tomlinson
• Michael Gallagher
• Ash Beverly

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and if you take the time to rec something please know I am so freaking grateful!
(Ps fun game, how many times did I say ‘omegaverse’ in this post, because it feels like a lot)

2296, The scene is set in a post apocalyptic Mojave desert, 15 years after a joint effort of the New California Republic, the Rangers, and the mysterious benefactor of the New Vegas Strip, Mr. House pushed back an attempted invasion of the Mojave and a final battle was waved for control of the hydroelectric powerhouse, Hoover Damm.
In the aftermath, Mr. House was removed from power discreetly, due to the actions of a wasteland wanderer on a mission for revenge, known only as the Courier. Mr. House's iconic Lucky 38 casino opened its doors, for the first time, offering a single floor casino and bar, it's upstairs remained an exclusive and mysterious meeting place for the New Vegas Strip's elite. The Lucky 38 represented one of the cleanest, most secure facilities, protected, like the rest of the strip, by the Securitron Mk 2, predominantly. Their presence ensured visitors on the Strip behaved themselves, though the other casinos maintained their own security and 'house rules' internally.
The Strip defined and maintained its status as an independent entity, determining through the Courier's observations that the NCR was stretching it's military might too thin, and couldn't realistically manage over the Strip and Mojave, so a new deal was struck, similar to the prior, but with The Strip extending it's Securitron security to enforce the immediately surrounding communities and a few outlying satelites. Trade to the surrounding areas increased, the Mojave benefitting from the prewar tech, pre-programmed security forces. The drug addicted fiends and other Raider groups would never be any match for their advanced weaponry, and ultimately were cleared out of existence.
The King's continued to watch over Freeside, making alliances with the Follower's of the Apocalypse... their desire to service the needs of the belittled, disadvantaged and destitute lined up, and this is where Mr. Wolf found his place in the story... the Courier and a Follower's doctor found love in the wasteland.... and raised a child together under a Ranger's flag... 23 years later? This is New Vegas...
A handsome man in a leather jacket sat in a dusty leather booth watching one of the girls dance on a pole, shaking her ass as bottle caps clinked on the stage in front of her. It was a swanky post apocalyptic casino strip club. A man in a leather jacket stood nearby, his hands crossed in front of his chest, "Kings" embroidered across the back in silver letters. A waitress approached him carrying a glass of some amber colored liquor, and sat it down at the half moon table. She lingered a moment in her lacey body suit, following his gaze up to the girl rubbing her tits in some older cowboys face.
"You don't get jealous seeing her like that, Mr. Wolf." The girl bit her lip and met his eyes as he picked up his glass and swirled it before giving it a smell and taking a slow swig. He tilted his head looking her over. She couldn't possibly be older then 19. Tight, perky little thing.
Mr. Wolf smirked and shook his head. "I like her... nice and wet when she comes to my bed."
The girl blushed and bit her lip. "So you like to watch?" She surmised.
"I don't mind, but why do you ask?" Wolf had these intense eyes that shot arrows into your very soul. It made her incredibly nervous... but she found it deeply exciting at the same time.
"Well... I'm living in 206 now... maybe... you might stop by sometime and I could dance for you? I know I don't have her body but... if you wanted something that was a little fresher... something... just yours?" She figeted her fingers against the table.
Jason looked her over once more and smirked.
"Two-Oh-six, huh?" He tilted his head, considering.
She nodded.
"Leave your cum soaked panties on my doorknob one of these nights if you really need it and maybe I'll come see if you got the moves." His Texan accent was subdued, but enthrallingly charming with his confident, somewhat bored with reality overtones.
"M-my panties?" She stammered turning bright red. "On your doorknob?" Alexa couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"If you're gunna shoot your shot with a dom... with an alpha... you need to be willing to submit. If you can't do that... I'm not interested." Wolf shrugged, completely unphased.
"But what about... what if..." Alexa glanced at Laura, the clubs most iconic stripper in the club, perhaps even the whole Strip.
She was taking some NCR soldier to the VIP lounge for a private dance.
Alexa had been bold enough to offer herself but now she was feeling nervous. If Laura wanted her out, she could lose her job... her home.
"Oh she won't mind... if anything she'll want to watch." Wolf shook his head, sensing her anxiety.
"Assuming of course... she likes the way you smell... she's funny like that." Wolf let the conversation end and Alexa nervously retreated.
Wolf sat drinking by himself, but got bored.
"Jakey, go get yourself a drink and sit down, I'm bored." Wolf called to his body guard.
Jacob looked over and nodded, giving the lounge one last look around before approaching the bar and getting himself a mug of beer, from the tuxedo shirt and boytie bartender Gerald, and returning to the table.
"What's on your mind boss?" Jacob had his hair slicked back in the usual King's gang hairstyle.
"Heard any rumors lately?" Wold looked at him, taking a drag from his cigarette and flicking the pack over to him.
"Honestly, boss, aside from the occasional drunkard or fiend rolling through freeside, nothing out of the ordinary... well, except... a way's out.. the crazy lady... Gloria was swearing up and down she found a headless metal suit of armor.. said the Enclave would burn down New Vegas. God's wraith and all that, you know how she gets."
"Enclave?" Jason's attention was piqued.
"Yeah, I don't know, she was probably just in withdrawal from the Jet... said she found it in the hollowed out shell of the Super Duper, out by the old highway." Jacob shrugged and drank from his beer and pulled a cigarette from the pack.
Wolf finished the last drag of his own cigarette. "Has anyone validated her claims?"
"Well... no... but... I mean... you've met her, she sees things that aren't there, all the time." Jacob shrugged and lit a cigarette.
Jason squinted, considering the resident crazy ladies most recent half coherent ramblings.
"That's an oddly specific hallucination though....take a group of guys out there tonight... humor me, and make sure she's not right." Wolf lifted his glass.
"Sir?" Jacob raised an eyebrow, thinking surely this could wait until tomorrow.
"Hypothetically" Wolf pondered aloud, "If there was... for some reason, there in-fact was... a pre-war, piece of military tech out there....a T-45, let's say, or T-60, best case scenario? We want it. Even if it's not at 100% capacity? It's fusion core alone... could change up the game for Freeside, something like that could make our tiny little city independent. We wouldn't have to be reliant on the scraps of New Vegas, and forget about the Hoover Dam completely."
Jacob caught Mr. Wolf's drift.. a fusion core could mean producing its own, radiation-free water, it's own electricity.. not just a little, a lot. Powering long dead machines, not to mention the agricultural benefits... producing healthier, higher yield tobacco... expanding their income ten fold.
Jacob suddenly felt like he understood Mr. Wolf's vision for the future.
"I should... go and deploy the King's to investigate." Jacob concluded.
"I think that would be for the best, I can take care of myself here." Wolf waved Jacob off.
Jacob downed his beer and excused himself.
Wolf drank the rest of his whiskey, extinguishing his cigarette.
Laura, the dancer came up to the table, and Wolf motioned to the blushing new waitress for a round, who felt a twinge of jealousy seeing her crush with the most popular stage act in town. She bit her tongue though, bringing over two more heavy pours of whiskey.
Laura eyed the girl as she came and went.
"She likes you." Laura concluded as the waitress walked away.
"Yeah.. I think she does." Mr. Wolf shrugged, flicking her a cigarette.
"The NCR boy liked me." She giggled wiping a little bit of cum from her lips and used half her shot like mouthwash.
"Get anything out of him.. other then.. his seed?" Wolf sighed.
"Of course," She grinned mischievously, "Apparently there's been trouble out West with the Brotherhood. They had some type of skirmish? Apparently NCR lost? NCR was apparently holding some old world tech, I don't know, but apparently it lit up the west coast power grid, like... in it's entirely?" Laura tilted her head to look at him.
"The entire western power grid was lit up by a single piece of tech??" Wolf shook his head at the topless girl beside him.
"Yeah, I had to make him cum twice for more details, but apparently it's the size of a grain of rice, with quote, unlimited energy potential." Laura relayed the information. It seemed more important then a suit of power armor or its fusion core.
"Who else knows about this?" Wolf demanded with his eyebrows squinted against his eyes.
"Anyone with a functional light bulb for... like... three hundred miles?" Laura guessed with a shrug.
"You said... it was the Brotherhood that took the win on the skirmish?" Wolf clarified some details.
"Yeah... rumor has it they have a new up and coming knight that's making waves." Laura shrugged.
"Stay on the rumors... I need details." Mr. Wolf nodded at her, drank his whiskey and stood up, downing his drink.
An energy source that powerful would have a big effect on the balance of power in the Mojave. It could mean a resurrection of the New California Republic to it's former glory and then some, and potentially... might mean a renewed effort to reclaim the western part of the former United States, in time.

Last year's four-way tie between Alexandra Daddario, Karen Gillan, Anna Kendrick, and Kiernan Shipka in the final round (all with 20%) resulted in the first sudden death vote-off in Sexiest Woman history. In the end, the title belonged to Shipka in her second consecutive try (and after her third place finish with Sydney Sweeney the year before).
Now, in its 25th year, 90 ladies have one thing in mind...or make that two: Become not only Sexiest Woman of 2024, but Silver Anniversary Sexiest Woman as well! Beginning with the Juniors (ages 18-30), they are in no particular order:
Group A: Sydney Sweeney (2022 third-place finisher) Dua Lipa Camila Mendes Kelsea Ballerini Millie Bobby Brown Madelyn Cline Halle Bailey Kaia Gerber Sabrina Carpenter Florence Pugh
Group B: Zendaya Madelaine Petsch (2022 runner-up) Olivia Rodrigo Dakota Fanning Anya Taylor-Joy Addison Rae Maddie Ziegler Charli D'Amelio Sammi Hanratty Lili Reinhart
Group C: Jenna Ortega Kaitlyn Dever Lily Chee Olivia "Livvy" Dunne Elle Fanning Rachel Pizzolato Kathryn Newton Kendall Jenner Camila Cabello Megan Thee Stallion
Next, we have the Seniors:
Group A: Emma Stone Natalie Portman (2002 runner-up) Lucy Hale Olivia Wilde Margot Robbie Emily Blunt Reese Witherspoon Sofia Vergara Katy Perry Selena Gomez
Group B: Heidi Klum Julianne Moore Alison Brie Taylor Swift Jessica Chastain Demi Moore Aubrey Plaza Kate Beckinsale (2021 third-place finisher) Anne Hathaway Mariska Hargitay
Group C: Jessica Biel Eiza Gonzalez Kristen Stewart Emily Ratajkowski Karen Gillan Jennifer Lawrence Kirsten Dunst Emma Roberts Nina Dobrev Vanessa Hudgens
And lastly, the Leftovers!
Group A: Padma Lakshmi Hailee Steinfeld (2018 third-place finisher) Tate McRae Victoria Justice Rachel Zegler Jennifer Lopez (2001 runner-up) Rita Ora Alessandra Ambrosio Keke Palmer Dove Cameron
Group B: Shakira Kelly Clarkson Kylie Jenner Caylee Cowan Joey King Olivia Ponton Lupita Nyong'o Xochitl Gomez Elizabeth Hurley Renee Rapp
Group C: Hunter Schafer Hannah Waddingham Kira Kosarin Christina Aguilera (1999 runner-up) Jennifer Garner (2005 runner-up) Katherine McNamara Halle Berry Ella Purnell Olivia Culpo Ariana Madix
Now anybody who's followed Sexiest Woman for 25 years over on Usenet knows how the whole elimination process goes; but for you newbies on Reddit, here it is:
Top 20 ladies from each category advance to Round 2, where the field is narrowed to ten apiece; when we resume in the fall with Round 3, the categories are merged and last year's third place finisher (which was Anna Kendrick) joins the remaining field; top 20 after that joins Alexandra Daddario (last year's runner-up and 2022 winner) in Round 4.
The remaining ten ladies -- plus one or two more from the Second Chance Round, which features ten eliminees from previous rounds -- will meet Shipka in the final round for the Sexiest Woman of 2024 title! But for the 25th anniversary this year...it won't end there!!!!
That's because this year's winner -- as well as the aforementioned Taylor Swift, who I named Sexiest Woman of the Decade in 2019 (but still has yet to win the annual title) -- plus all of our past winners (which will be listed in a separate post) will be competing for the very special title of Silver Anniversary Sexiest Woman!!!
But for right now...voting is now OPEN in Round 1; you get up to 20 votes per group so use them any way you can.
Oh, and the voting limits are as follows: Round 1: 20 times per group Round 2: 30 times per category Round 3: 40 times Round 4: 50 times Second Chance and special rounds: 10 times Final Round: As many times as you like!!!