Juliet huddy breast

It is just past midnight with no more unknowns.
Hunched in tears, my once gold hair spills silver over
and my breasts hang low, all over your dry bones
To confront our worst day without composure,
hysterical much alike Madam Sejua,
I pain to remember our first date sober
John, you walked in and chuckled a nervous hah
I blushed, stood across, and pulled down my bandeau
You bit your lip, “I want you and damn the law”
“Juliet” the madam sold, “to your Romeo.”
I led you to my room on the floor above
And off to the floor, there went my stiletto
In the Madam’s brothel, we were sure of love
Our souls were together to death from thereof
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Name - L'Amore Juliet
Gender - Female
Age - 17
Height - 183 cm
Birthday - February 14th
Epithet - "Aphrodite-sama"
Origin and Residence - Grand Line (Holiland, Lovebird Island)
Occupation - Ruler of Lovebird Island
Devil Fruit - Human-Human Fruit, Model: Cupid
Appearance - Juliet is a tall, slender young woman with shoulder-length curly light brown hair, light skin, and light blue eyes. She has thick lips, and big breasts. She usually wears a white Greek-style dress, a wreath of gold laurels, and red lipstick.
Abilities Devil Fruit - When she was 12 years old, Juliet ate the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Cupid, a Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit, gaining the ability to manipulate the feelings of her targets. To do so she summons a "sentimental energy" bow, with which she can shoot arrows that can induce a specific feeling in her target.
This OC is an antagonist belonging to a fan-made filler arc I write, called "Holiland Arc".

I am not The OOP, OOP is u/dorkvader23
Bride made a profit on bachelorette trip!! (SIL drama)
Originally posted to weddingshaming
Thanks to u/Kresley for suggesting this BoRU
TRIGGER WARNING: financial exploitation, controlling behavior, theft, fraud, manipulation, mentions of mental health issues, body image insecurity, infidelity
Forced to wear revealing bridesmaid dress!! Jan 20, 2024
I miss the days when bridesmaids were treated like people and not like stage props! My future SIL is getting married so of course I’m a default bridesmaid. She didn’t give us options for the dress, she picked it out and told us it’s the one we’ll be wearing.
The dress is a strapless, backless, thigh slit halter neck. I am a larger girl - triple D chest should explain why I don’t wear backless or halter styles. Backless means I can’t wear any form of supportive bra AND there is virtually no shapewear I can put underneath it. The only bras that work are stickies or tape, which do not hold me up in the least.
I tried the dress on….my chest is spilling out the sides, back rolls are on full blast, and I am popping out of this thing every which way. I’m so uncomfortable. I basically told the bride sorry, I know it’s your big day but there is no way I’m wearing this dress. My body shape is different from the rest of the bridal party and I can’t justify wearing it.
I told her I’d be fine if I can simply modify it to be more conservative at the back and chest. She DECLINED and told me to “just be more confident in myself” because all the dresses must be identical for photos.
I have no body confidence issues, there are plenty of styles that suit my figure. It just so happens that this dress was not made for larger women and does not look appropriate on my body.
I want to drop out of the wedding but my family insists I stay in because it’s my SIL and it would “ruin” the wedding and the relationship.
I don’t get why I should have to be paraded around in front of my entire family, extended family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, etc in an outfit that makes me uncomfortable. It’s just getting ridiculous.
Brides - please have enough tact to make sure your girls are comfortable on your special day. We’re humans, not props.
RELEVANT COMMENTS
beckerszzz

Did she not go shopping with her bridesmaids to try on the dresses? I feel like this would have solved all the problems.

OOP

Nope, she chose one online (no consulting with any of the bridesmaids.) I know a few of the other BMs were irked because they would have liked to have a say in the dress, but ultimately no one else complained to her face. The rest of the group is fairly tiny so I’m sure they’re ok in the dress even if it’s not their first choice

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gnosticnightjar

Can anyone link to a similar dress? I’m having a very hard time picturing what a dress that is backless but also both strapless and a halter top looks like. Aren’t strapless and halter mutually exclusive?

OOP

Yes……so a backless halter dress.

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UPDATE
First of all thank you so much for all the support. I appreciate your helpful advice and suggestions. On that note, I’ve decided to stay in the wedding to avoid sending my mother to an early grave.
HOWEVER!!! I’ve also decided I’ll be wearing the sh*t out of this dress and making sure the center of attention is not on the lovely bride. I tried to resolve the issue with tact and class and was shot down, so I feel I’ve earned the right to be petty.
I’m going to order some really specific shapewear which can be concealed under what little material this dress has (kudos to you all who sent me suggestions!!) I’ll be going FULL side boob, FULL shimmer added on the exposed back, and FULL body oil on the legs for the thigh slit. I’ll be doing an updo on the hair so there is nothing getting in the way of this dress 💃🏻 I’ll be wearing a shawl for everything else, but TRUST that for the ceremony I’ll be looking like Salma Hayek in Dusk till Dawn.
Let’s see what she thinks about this “body confidence” she asked me to find. GIRL please!
If anyone is curious I’ll most likely come back in May to post my pics!!
Bride made a profit on bachelorette trip!! (SIL drama) Jan 23, 2024
SO MUCH TEA. I’m glad I can spill to my Reddit community because I can’t gossip about it to my family!
SO - about 6 months ago the bride planned her destination bachelorette trip and charged each of the 11 girls $650 for the Airbnb. I was salty about the high cost but it’s my SIL so I sucked it up and paid her. I also was suspicious about the high AF price so I did cross check the Airbnb listing and it checked out. (Yes this b wanted a $2300/night beachfront house.)
Well today I’m chatting about wedding stuff with my brother (who is marrying future SIL) and he said something along the lines of “what a relief her dad paid for the Airbnb because that would have been so expensive for your group.”
I about choked! I said hey are you sure about that because all 11 girls paid $650 for the house alone. Maybe run it by her…:..his face turned purple so I take it he had no idea.
To add to the greed going on here - when I got married I flew her out, paid for her accommodations, paid hair and makeup, paid for her bridesmaid dress, and paid transportation because she was going through a hard time. Now she has the balls to steal from me.
I get that weddings are expensive but don’t have one if it requires stealing from your BMs. I’m assuming I’m the only BM who is aware of what’s going on here. Not sure if I should spill to the group or just let it go……
There’s a chance her dad stepped in and paid for it after the fact, and she just chose not to refund us. I’m not clear on the exact situation and want to avoid embarrassing my brother.
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UPDATE 1- 1/23/2024
Thanks for all the advice and support! Yes - I agree with most of you who are saying I’m morally obligated to spill the beans because $650 is not child’s play.
This is what I’m going to do. First, I’m going to talk to my brother and give him a chance to clear it up with SIL. Before I make a scene, I want to understand what’s really going on. For example, did daddy pay for the trip but SIL decided to put that towards a different wedding expense? Things like that.
That answer will determine when/how I tell the rest of the BMs. Im going to give my brother only 1-2 days because this trip is literally next week.
Stay tuned for update #2
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UPDATE 2 - 1/26/2024
Alright so I regrouped with my brother. My mom also stepped in, bypassed my brother, and got some more info directly from her dad! HERE’S THE TEA - future SIL’s dad did not offer to cover the cost until a few months after we all paid for the trip. This was after he found out the cost and was pissed that she chose a $2300/night house and asked us to pay. Apparently he threatened not to pay for the wedding if she added more expenses onto the wedding party. Turns out she originally wanted it at the Maldives and he forbid her!
According to my mom who chatted with him directly, he felt embarrassed when he heard about the Airbnb price and wanted to save face with my side of the family. So he gave SIL about $7k to cover the cost of the house. She was supposed to refund us but obviously that never happened.
THIS IS WHERE IT GETS GOOD - so my mom went total FBI and learned that in addition to not paying us, SIL didn’t put the money towards a different wedding expense either. SHE DOESNT HAVE IT. So where did it go?? What did she spend it on??
There is currently a FULL BLOWN INVESTIGATION going down between our two families rn!
I have been asked by my mom not to alert the BMs just yet until we get the last bits of info AND come to a resolution with both SIL and her dad. But we WILL tell them asap one way or another.
I will come back tomorrow with another update!! Wow, CRAZY.
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UPDATE 3 - 1/27/2024
The plot thickens!! So as this drama is all unfolding, the maid of honor (who doesn’t know what’s going on yet) is continuing her duties. We all get a 4-paragraph text from her outlining the dress code for each night of the bachelorette, per the brides orders. Keep in mind the bride is asking us all to go out and buy new outfits for each night of the trip. And the themes are WILD - animal print Thursday, Faux Fur Friday, Sparkle Dress Saturday, and Barbie brunch Sunday.
As if we’re all going to go out and buy that sh*t one week before the trip (or at all!!) Thankfully the BM’s seem to be waking up to the BS. Several of them wrote back saying they won’t be able to pull together those outfits in time, and one flat out said it’s just not going to happen.
But that’s just a side story to the absolute sh*t show that is unfolding.
My mom is very involved now as she’s paid a decent chunk of this wedding as well, and does NOT like that the bride is throwing around THOUSANDS of dollars from her dad as well as lying to the bridal party.
SHE SET UP A MEETING directly with SIL to cut the BS and explain what’s going on. She told SIL she’s going to inform the BM’s herself unless she gets a valid answer.
At this point I’m just shoveling down popcorn waiting for the events to unfold.
I will be back tonight with hopefully the final update!!
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UPDATE 4 - 1/29/2024
A SWAN ICE SCULPTURE.
She used the $7k to book a swan shaped ice sculpture to be displayed at the reception and didn’t tell anyone.
Turns out her dad banned her from adding any more “extras” to the wedding design because it was already so expensive and unnecessary.
When he venmoed her for the Airbnb, she thought she was being sneaky and kept it instead. She didn’t even tell my brother this - he only found out that her dad decided to cover the Airbnb because those two went out for cigars one night and it came up.
So that mystery is solved thanks to my mini FBI crew - but now the REAL questions remain. Where tf is my $650 and how to break the news to the BM’s!??
Out of the kindness of her SOUL my mom is giving SIL 24hrs to confess to the bridesmaids and figure out how to pay us back our money. Because you know what, I did not spend $650 on some damn ICE!!!!! I have kids to feed! I have BILLS TO PAY.
It is taking everything in me not to text the BM group right now but my mom is trying to give SIL one opportunity to do the right thing.
This has been a roller coaster - don’t know if anyone here is still interested, but let me know if I should post the final outcome with the BM’s in one last update.
Lord have MERCY.
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UPDATE 5 - 2/5/2024
Ok - as promised here is the latest tea, served BOILING hot. This is a long update and I’m going to try and get everything in.
First let’s start with the bride’s explanation to her family: myself, my mom, my brother (her fiance) and her dad. She broke down crying saying that wedding planning has been getting to her head, and she has been “crushed” under the pressure to have the perfect wedding. Which she felt couldn’t go on without this alleged Ice Swan.
I didn’t buy her sob story. After this whole incident I think she is a delusional, controlling, attention-starving bridezilla who is using the wedding as a way to compete with other girls on instagram. Btw her job is “influencer” if I didn’t mention that yet.
My brother took the bait. To be honest, I don’t even blame him. This is his future wife, and he said he wants to help her with her mental health and get her back to a good place. He is disturbed by the situation but will continue to support her. The wedding is on, for those who were curious.
Next let’s get into the matter of the missing $7K and whether we’re getting our money back. The sad, gut wrenching answer: probably not. Her dad said he has already paid the Airbnb cost once and he will not do it again. He said his daughter is 31 and needs to get herself out of her own mess and figure out how to make it right. She chimed in that the $7K is gone and asked how she would possibly pay us back. My brother refused to pay for her screw up.
While I love that everyone is finally forcing this b to be an adult, I would like my money back more. Unfortunately we’re not going to get it unless she magically wins the lottery or gets a real job. For those that asked, there is nothing we can do legally. We all willingly paid a fixed amount and we would have to move mountains (and spend more $$$) to sue. Plus, while she was incredibly shady and a terrible friend, she technically didn’t do anything wrong that we could prove.
Now onto the bridesmaids. After some threats from my mom, SIL finally broke down and contacted the BMs in our group chat. She sent a text that made my skin crawl:
“Hey Ladies! You’re my bride squad so I feel compelled to share that my dad recently offered to pay for our bach accommodations. However, being that the wedding is so expensive, I have decided to put his donation towards a wedding expense. I hope you all understand and I can’t wait to party with you all next week!”
Oh HELL no. I immediately replied back making sure everyone knew the “expense” was an ice sculpture. AN ICE SWAN!! Come ON PEOPLE! Many of them replied and expressed how they would have loved to use that $650 for something more important. But ultimately no one has backed out…..one of the girls started a side chat without the bride and asked if there is any chance of getting our $$ back if we force SIL to cancel the reservation. Unfortunately since we’re only a week out, we aren’t eligible for a refund. They decided to go through with the bach or else it would be a literal waste of $650.
As for myself…..I’m in the same boat. I would rather run myself over than go on this trip. But $650 is not a small amount and I can’t fathom just throwing it down the drain. I haven’t made my final decision yet. If I do go, it will solely be to avoid eating the $650 plus my airfare. I will not be doing any of the planned events or outfits, or contributing even $1 more. I would have my own mini vacation as best I can.
Im really upset that it seems like this crazy person is going to get her way after all!!
MINI UPDATE 5.a - 2/10/2024
There are so many curious comments coming in so I want to keep you in the loop!! More drama has unfolded among the bridesmaids.
The side-text without the bride popped off and we have all agreed to do the following:

1. We will be going on the trip, but it is NO LONGER a bachelorette trip. We will all be taking personal vacations with our hubbies/significant others while staying at the property. We were forced into this beachfront mansion + airfare, so we’re going to make the most of it.
   
2. We have all backed out of hosting and paying for the bridal shower. The bride will need to find another way to move forward if she wants to have it. We will attend as guests if she has it, and we will not be gifting anything. Mother of the bride is absolutely furious. More on this later.
   
3. We’re letting the bride know she needs to cancel the Ice Swan ™ and give us our money back. After some more research, we doubt all of the $7k went towards the alleged swan because it doesn’t seem liken they cost that much.
   

I won’t be back for a while because I want to save my next update for after the trip! Stay tuned.
FUN FACT
This is not one of my updates but I thought you guys might like to know that bored panda picked up this story 😂
Check it out: link to article
I will be back around Tuesday with the FINAL post bachelorette trip update!
RELEVANT COMMENTS/ADDITIONAL INFO
Perspex_Sea

Info: I need to know if you're also paying for your own dress, shoes, make up, hair on top of this.

OOP

Yes - everything. A $350 dress (I have a whole other post about that scandal) $150 hair, $150 makeup, $200 shoes, and I haven’t done jewelry yet. Oh and the bridal shower cost is being split among the 11 girls, PLUS the shower gift, PLUS the wedding gift from me and hubby.
I truly hope bridesmaids go out of style in the very near future…..I go broke every time and on top of that you end up slaving away for some bridezilla.
Not all brides are like this. I’ve been in a few weddings that were really great. THIS is not one of those times.

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SouthernCrime

So, you have paid $650 for the Airbnb but now you have the added expenses of everything on the trip on the 4 coordinated outfit activities with her sparkly, furry, barbie dresses. (So glad yall just dismissed those!!)
Why do these sad sad women think they need to beat everyone on IG instead of just sticking to a reasonable budget and having a good, stress free wedding.

OOP

Oh helllll no. IF I go, I will not be doing any of the planned outfits or events. I’ll most likely have my own mini vacation so as not to eat the cost of my airline ticket on top of everything else - which I already paid for too

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Tis_But_A_Scratch-

Good LORD. $650 is good money to anyone not absolutely rolling in the stuff. Honestly if my friend or family expected me to fork out 650, I’d tell them to take a hike off a short pier.
When I got married, I paid for hotels, meals, everything related to my wedding. Guests just had to show up.

OOP

Yes - this exactly. I got married out of the country, which tbh was a way to cut my guest list down to only 15 people. With that said, we paid for flights, accommodations, BM dresses and haiMUA, no bridal shower / no bach, and all the guests had to do was show up and have a good time. And yes, future SIL was part of that group.
The petty part of me wants to send her the bill of her costs from my wedding! If I could go back in time….

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Castianna

Whatever happened to just going out to dinner and maybe a few drinks with your girlfriends? Shadiness aside, this just seems like a lot of work and I'm experiencing secondhand exhaustion.

OOP

Weddings and all the events that go with them have gotten completely out of control lately. And while this one is pretty extreme, I’m in 3 other weddings this year which are equally involved and expensive. And why is it only the BM’s who are victim to the extreme cost and all the labohard work that goes into it?
Looking at my brother and the groomsmen - the bachelor party was a short drive up to the mountains where they stayed (for free) at a friend’s place, hung out, had some beers, and wished my brother well. Meanwhile the BM’s are spending our life savings, using up PTO, and putting in Olympic sport effort just to get through the bachelorette alone. Not to mention the bridal shower and all the other things still to come.
Sorry to create another rant but I am so over weddings and bridezillas.

FINAL UPDATE 6 - 2/17/2024
Warning - this is a long one.
The absolute TEA I have today. It took me so long to write this because I am at a complete and utter LOSS FOR WORDS.
Where to begin 🐸☕️ ….
Let me start with this: there is no Ice Swan. There never was an ice swan. It was all an elaborate fabrication designed to distract everyone from where the missing $7k actually went.
RIP Ice Swan ™
Turns out there was a reason behind SIL’s luxury bachelorette location. Here’s what happened - all the bridesmaids show up to the beachfront mansion with our significant others. SIL had already been made aware that it was no longer a bachelorette, but to our complete shock, she was still stunned that we actually meant it.
She arrived last in her pre-booked limo absolutely FUMING that no one else showed up to the limo meeting spot at the airport. She was the only one still sticking to the original itinerary. Then she was flabbergasted that the husbands/SO’s were with us. It was a comedy show at best.
Anyway we went about our individual mini vacations and eventually someone realized it had been about 48hrs since anyone had seen SIL. I assumed she was mad and either flew home or went to stay somewhere else.
Then the unthinkable unfolds. SIL rolls up the driveway in a wheelchair being pushed by two female nurses. The entire group jumped into action thinking something horrible happened - everyone ran over to see what was going on but the nurses ushered us away and wheeled SIL into her room.
At this point I’m actually VERY concerned - we’re all banging on her door asking if she’s ok. The nurses eventually leave and say they legally can’t reveal the nature of her health issue but assure us she’s fine. I call my brother and mom but get no answer, so I finally decide to call her mom (aka the mother of the bride, who was FURIOUS that we took over the bachelorette party.) MOB reveals what actually took place.
She isn’t sick, she didn’t have a health issue, there was no accident -
She got her boobs done. 🍈🍈
Yes folks you read that correctly. She had planned - as part of the original itinerary - to disappear for an afternoon and return with a set of new melons.
……..I’m sorry….WHAT?????
The location of the beachfront mansion is conveniently 5 mins away from a very famous cosmetic surgeons office. The reason she needed this giant ass property was not really to host 11 girls, it was to host 11 girls plus the surgery recovery nurses and personal chef she had reserved for after the operation.
There is so much more that we need to unpack, I honestly don’t know where to begin.
• What was her mother’s knowledge/involvement in all this?
• What was the cost of the procedure (GUESSING AROUND $7K) and WHY was it meant to be part of the bach???
• WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE ICE SWAN LIE??? wtf??!?
• will the bridesmaids (myself included) pursue legal action?
• where does this leave my brother? Is this lady OK mentally? Was this a horribly misplaced cry for attention? Was it an FU to the bridesmaids somehow?
So many questions remain….i am only a few hours back from this trip so this is all the information I have right now. I was intending for this to be my final update and I just want to say - thank you ALL for your support, advice, bags of popcorn, and funny input.
This has been a WILD ride and I’m glad I could share it with you. So far we have had this crazy ordeal picked up by a news publication, multiple podcasts, and a magazine. I literally want to write a book about this experience 😂
I’ve already revealed a great deal of info and so to protect my brother’s privacy moving forward, I think I need to step away from the updates.
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
RELEVANT COMMENTS/ADDITIONAL INFO
nunyaranunculus

Oh my god. Are you SURE your brother wasn't in on the theft? Because breast augmentation isn't exactly something you do without consultations and having someone to help you for the ensuing few weeks following the procedure. Did her mother know and was she in on it? I'm assuming FoB and MoB are divorced? If your brother is truly in the dark, his fiancée is throwing red flags around like Oprah threw car keys and he still has time to back out of this.

OOP

So far I know that my brother was aware of the procedure but never imagined our money went towards it. We’re still figuring out exactly where the money went. Apparently there was going to be some grand boob reveal during the bach and we would all celebrate her - I’m still piecing together the details crumb by crumb

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jaduhlynr

I'm guessing she planned on paying out of pocket for the surgery (and having the BMs cover the house), then when the dad offered to pay for the Airbnb she saw the dollar signs and ran with it

OOP

Yeah, we’re assuming this is most likely what happened. I’m still piecing together details about when the hired staff became involved (was this before or after the BM’s backed out?) but at the very least we think she saw an opportunity for free $$$ towards the procedure in one way or another

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BananaIceTea

Nah, this story was kinda believeble at first, but the last few updates were just pure fiction. How did you all managed to organize your spouses to go with you so suddenly? How much was the surgery, personal chef, limo? I just doesnt add up. Especially given the time frame.

OOP

I don’t know all the costs yet or the timeline that she organized all these things - we’re still gathering information 🤷🏻‍♀️ I can’t speak for the other BMs but my husband works remote and was more than happy to tag along. Plus he got to leave the kids at grandmas, which is another incentive lol.
As for the new melons, this is total speculation but I’m betting she has an onlyfans. I know her influencer career (if you can call it that) is not working out, and I have seen several “influencers” switch over to OF.
Not trying to cast even more judgement on her but I just wouldn’t be surprised at this point.

LiberryExpresso

So she gets wheeled past you, you and the bridesmaids find out that she got a boob job with your money, and you all just...left without any follow up discussion? What did the other bridesmaids say? How was there no confrontation with the bride at this point?

OOP

Of course there was confrontation/questions/discussion. It simply has not yielded all the answers yet. We also didn’t chain down the bride and water board her for answers - we took it all in and tried to end our trip on a somewhat normal note 🙂

NEW UPDATES

Not An Update - 2/28/2024
Hey friends! I’m getting boatloads of requests for an update so I’ve decided to make you all a deal - I will come back with an update after the wedding in May. As of right now it is still on!
That’s all I can say for now - check back in May!
CHECKING IN - 3/29/2024
Hi friends, thanks for being so patient for my update. I wanted to let everyone know I have THE UPDATE OF ALL UPDATES coming for you - it turns out the drama just won’t quit with this wedding!!
It is so juicy that for LEGAL REASONS I cannot share it just yet but will be able to post in a day or so.
Check back soon!!!
UPDATE - THE WEDDING IS OFF - 3/30/2024
ALRIGHT Y'ALL - get your comfy socks and your popcorn because I've been holding on to this update for SO LONG and I have to get it all out there. I feel like at this point we've all become good friends - literally when I do these updates I like to imagine we're all together eating snacks and gossiping 😂 I'm on desktop right now so you KNOW I mean business.
ANYWAY - let me start with this: the wedding is officially OFF. I know a lot of you out there were team #CancelTheWedding so this should warm your soul. For me personally, I wanted it to work out for my brother despite her insanity :/ I was kind of hoping this would (somehow) all blow over like a bad dream and he could find normalcy again. Unfortunately that is not at all the case.
Here's what happened: when I last updated you, SIL had pulled up to the bachelorette with a set of new melons and shocked us all. We were left wondering WTF, and I told you I needed to stop the updates to protect my brother's privacy.
Well, that has all changed now and I've been given permission by my brother to spill the f*cking TEA.
My brother was aware that SIL had planned on getting a breast augmentation at some point this year - he actually knew it would be during the bachelorette trip. Despite thinking it was very weird, he really wanted to support her. So he kept her "surprise" a secret. What he did NOT know was that she may have used the bridesmaids money (or even her dad's) to finance it.
But it turns out that she did not in fact use our money or her dad's money to pay for the new titties. That's because her procedure was on the house. Why you ask?
Because she has been having an affair with the surgeon for over a year.
Yes you read that correctly. She's been diddling her married plastic surgeon for more than 14 months. He is a VERY WELL KNOWN PLASTIC SURGEON and his legal team has been ON ME LIKE WHITE ON RICE. There are limits to what I can disclose. At this current moment I have been advised not to disclose the state he practices in, his name, or any personally identifying details.
Back to the story….
He wanted to fly her out for a complimentary titty upgrade!! We found out because his WIFE found her sad little influencer IG page, tracked her down, AND SHOWED UP TO THE FAMILY HOME!!! Which would be her father's house because she still lives there.
There is so much more to say that I think I'm going to have to split this into 2 updates because my fingers are legit going numb. I REALLY wanted to get that off my chest. I know you might be wanting to know the specifics like:
• So WHERE did the money go after all??
• How did the wife find out and what happened when she showed up?? (That's an update in ITSELF!!)
• How is my brother handling this? (besides of course leaving her dusty ass)
• What did SIL have to say for herself?
I PROMISE I will be back to finish this horror story!!!
UPDATE - SOME LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING - 4/1/2024
A few housekeeping items before I share the next update:
• I thought you all should know that I now have to submit all of my updates to an attorney for legal review before I can post them here. This is primarily because of the high profile surgeon (who is aware of this thread) and his legal team. The wife is also in the mix and wants to minimize fallout, so I'm dealing with her people as well. They can’t stop me from telling the story but they CAN come after me if I disclose specific things. Basically everyone knows about this post now (SIL included) but I PROMISE I'm coming back to finish spilling the TEA for you all on that. Ready your kettles!!! 🫖🫖🫖
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• The support/interest/fan club vibes this post generated has been amazing. Thank you guys so much for sticking with me on this crazy ride!! 💗
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• With the support has also come some negativity - I am being impersonated online in a few places, and some people are trying to profit on this story by claiming it as their own. To combat this, I've listed my own information at the top of this post - anyone else is impersonating me and if you spot this story circulating online without directly tagging my IG or Reddit, it's not authentic.
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• Due to the above, I've decided to copyright this content and will continue to amend it as I make the updates. Who knows, maybe SIL will star in a tv series or book about this nightmare one day! 📚
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• I've had some requests to timestamp my previous updates so new readers can get a better timeline. I backdated all of my updates - please go easy on me as I can't remember the exact dates I came back to edit this post, so most dates are approximate. 📆
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• Shout out to the podcasts and other channels who have picked this up for a live reading! The ones I'm aware of include ThreadTalk and Charlotte Dobre. I LOVE listening to these - it's a cool perspective, so feel free to DM me if you come across any others! 🎤
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New update - Instagram Apr 7, 2024
Transcribed
hey friends Juliet Pepperwood here with episode 7 of the Reddit story bride who made a profit on Bachelorette sister in law drama and for those who have been followving since the beginning.
So this one will be brand new. No matter what you're watching or reading the story and now it's time to spill some of the final tea in this crazy kettle, and let me tell you it is piping hot. So here we go.
Let me start by refreshing you memory. At this point in time the wedding is off. My brother has learned about SIL's affair with the plastic surgeon and he called off the engagement, called off the wedding. It is danzo not happening. Also the bridesmaids who had initially assumed that the missing $7000 went towards the melon job, we are now aware that the procedure was free it was on the house. So we still don't know where it went.
Let's start with the affair. So much of this information in fact the vast majority of the information is second hand provided to me by my brother. With permission to share with you all. So when he called off the engagement, my brother asked exSIL to give him the whole truth, it was the least she could do. He just wanted to know honest to God what happened. And this is what I learned.
The wife of the surgeon apparently learned about the affair thanks to a pair of Tiffany diamond earrings which went missing from her jewelry collection and at some point she goes down to the hospital to bring her husband lunch then she sees a female patient wearing the exact pair of Tiffany diamond earrings that she has lost. And yes you guessed it, that patient was our bride. Now I don't know the timeline of when the wife realized that the earrings were missing and started those suspicions, but I do know that she would have seen SIL wearing those earrings at the hospital while she was there getting her consult for the free melon job and this would have been long before the bachelorette trip. Most likely on one of their earlier visits while SIL was flying in and out of town to see him.
Now she did as part of her confession to my brother that she did steal the diamond earrings from the wife during one of the times that she was at the surgeons house. This crazy bat stole the earrings of the wife and if you ask me that is a whole other basket of cuckoo crazy but alas.
So the surgeon demands the earrings back according to SIL. So he either realized that she stole them or the wife had or the wife would have had to bring it up to him and say; hey I'm missing these earrings, I saw this girl in your office wearing them. What's up?
So he's demanding the earrings back and here's the kicker. She doesn't have them. She doesn't have the earrings. She claiming that she lost them. I don't know if she got rid of them. Did she burn them? Was she you know batshit crazy off her rocker? Obviously yes. But the earrings aren't in her possession anymore. So she asks how much do they cost I'm just going to pay you back for the earrings and were gonna move on and continue with our messed up affair. Turns out they cost about $7500 from Tiffany's.
And there you have it folks. Just like that the mystery of the missing $7000 is solved.
So at the time when she was starting to plan this bachelorette trip and then her father comes along offering to cover the cost of the Airbnb she probably sees a golden ticket to recoup almost the full amount of money she needed to pay back the stolen earrings. And she did admit to my brother that she sent her dad's money to the surgeon after he had offered to pay for the Airbnb.
So the surgeon has our missing $7000 and to be quite honest I don't know who is worse. Someone who would start an affair, steal from the wife and then rob their bridesmaids to pay back the cost or the surgeon who continued the affair after learning the mistress stole from his wife. I mean these two were just made for each other.
So I'll never know if the surgeon gifted his wife a new pair of diamond sparklers from Tiffanys with the money but I do know that she was obviously suspicious. I mean one or another this lady found out. Could have been from bumping into SIL at the hospital and seeing the earrings which would be my best guess or it could have been something else that set her off later and caused her to find out. But she ended up at the family home so obviously she knew something was up.
I know that social media was part of the way that she tracked SIL down. So she obviously had her name in advance. Could have been from the hospital? Maybe not because my understanding is that's not allowed, like I don't think you're allowed to disclose patient information. Not sure if it was that but regardless of how she got the name, sure anyone with the name in a mission can find an address online and unfortunately I'm not at liberty to share the details of the confrontation between the wife and SIL. There are just certain things that I cannot get into publicly, that happens to be one of them.
So this update ends here and guys this is the end of the kettle. You know all the tea has been spilled and it was boiling hot thanks to you guys helping me spill it. And I'll tell you what, I will be back with at least one update on how my brothers doing. I'm rooting for him, you're rooting for him. We all want to see him recover so I'll keep you in the loop. I'll let you know how he's holding up.
But for now that is the end of this wild ride and I want to thank each and everyone one of you for your support in helping me spill the tea. Until next time.
A picture of Tiffany Earrings for $7600

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Over the years, much attention has been lavished on the various sources of fiction that have influenced George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books, such as Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Tad Williams’ Memory, Sorrow & Thorn trilogy, Maurice Druon’s The Accursed Kings series, Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, Shakespeare, Jack Vance, and H.P. Lovecraft (to cite just a few of the more popular examples). And yet, I’ve seen very little focus on the nonfiction books that have influenced Martin’s series, mainly the ones he used when conducting his research. On the one hand, I find this surprising, because in many of his interviews that I’ve read (or watched) Martin has oft stated the necessity of research to writers of historical fiction, even when it’s in a fantastical context (see, for example, his answer about the importance of research to his books in this video, starting at the 26:35 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LodUKFrUtpE). On the other hand, I also find it not so surprising, in that (in contrast to the namedropping of his fictional influences) very rarely does he seem to give specific examples of just what exact nonfiction books he’s used for his research, usually instead just listing the topics he’s said he’s read a lot about (the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses, the Crusades, jousts/tournaments, and so on). There seem to be two exceptions to this that I can find. One is his perpetual evocation of Thomas B. Costain’s 4 volume history series on the Plantagenets dynasty, and the second is the FAQ on his website, where he lists 10 nonfiction books that he claims were especially useful to ASOIAF: https://georgerrmartin.com/for-fans/faq/. Over the years I’ve read a few of those books that he cites on the FAQ, specifically, the two “Life in a ...” ones by Joseph and Frances Gies (modern reprints of which have blurbs written by Martin on their front covers) and the Tournaments one by Richard Barber and Juliet Barker. I read these books mainly because I’m very interested in reading about history in general (and the Middle Ages in particular), but also because I was slightly curious to see if I could detect specific ways in which they influenced Martin’s own series.
More recently, I finished reading L. Sprague de Camp’s Great Cities of the Ancient World, which I’ve long been curious to investigate, firstly because of de Camp’s link to Lovecraftiana studies (he wrote a well-regarded biography about Lovecraft in 1975, which, as a Lovecraft obsessive of longstanding, I’m almost ashamed to admit I have not yet read myself), and secondly because of Martin citing it as an important book in his research. I was also intrigued by the fact that, unlike all of the other books Martin mentioned on his FAQ list, it was the one book listed that didn’t deal with medieval times, instead concerning itself with the Ancient and Classical world: from this, I surmised that perhaps he used this book when crafting the lore of the cities of Essos. One can see why Martin might have gravitated towards de Camp, who (besides the Lovecraft link) was a well-known science fiction and fantasy writer of his time, and a man who also wrote many historical books (both fiction and nonfiction). And yet I’ve seen very few (actually, none at all) people in the ASOIAF fandom commenting on this book, perhaps because it’s fairly old and out-of-date (having first been published in 1972, and reprinted in 1990: incidentally I splurged for a nice first edition copy autographed by de Camp himself, which I bought off eBay), and also somewhat obscure and out-of-print: it seems it only has one review on Amazon, and just a handful of reviews on Goodreads.
Great Cities of the Ancient World is (as the title suggests) a study of 14 great cities of the Ancient and Classical world (focusing mostly on the Mediterranean and Mesopotamian regions), and is thus divided into 14 (somewhat longish) chapters, along with an introduction and an opening and concluding chapter: the 14 cities under consideration are Thebes, Jerusalem, Nineveh, Tyre, Babylon, Memphis, Athens, Syracuse, Carthage, Alexandria, Anuradhapura, Rome, Pataliputra, and Constantinople. The book is nicely illustrated, with close to 150 detailed maps, illustrations, and photographs, the latter of which seem to be de Camp’s vacation snapshots: he seemed to have been quite the well-traveled fellow, and of the 14 cities he analyzes in his book, he personally visited all of them (with the exception of Nineveh). However, the book is by no means an easy read: it’s over 500 pages long, and de Camp (a devout materialist) often takes on an annoyingly smugly superior tone when talking about some of these past civilizations, frequently interjecting his own biases and venting his spleen against religion, theology, astrology, occultism, Gnostic literature, even Ayn Rand’s Objectivism (all the proof you need that this book was, in fact, written in the late 60s/early 70s). De Camp also has a tendency to illustrate his points with (lengthy) excerpts from his own historical novels, and a little bit of that goes a long way. The book’s academic credentials are skimpy: 17 pages of endnotes and a terse 7 page bibliography. I believe the words you’re looking for here would be “pop history,” which might also explain what drew Martin to it (as he’s self-confessed in the past that much of the history that he’s read falls into that category: I suppose one can also see him being drawn to de Camp’s frequent atheistic/agnostic diatribes and overall materialistic skepticism).
I did, however, find a few nuggets in the book that might be of general interest to ASOIAF fans, so I’ll get into that now, in the order I encountered them during the course of my reading. I should perhaps stress here that I’m not saying with 100% certainty that they inspired elements of ASOIAF, as Martin may have encountered them previously in other history books he might have read (or heard about them in history classes he took from his days as a student). But I still found them interesting enough to make note of them here, so that people might form their opinions and come to their own conclusions.
On page 41 of the hardcover first edition, in the chapter on Thebes, de Camp writes this about women’s fashion in that city at that time: “A common garment among women was a long sheath dress that left one or both breasts bare.” This passage seems to have influenced the design of the infamous female Qartheen gown, and one can imagine Martin eagerly underlining it in his own copy.
On page 61, in the chapter on Jerusalem, de Camp makes mention of David’s taking of Jerusalem where David gets volunteers from his army to crawl through a tunnel and climb up a well/water shaft into the city itself, which reminds one of Jorah/Barristan/Strong Belwas and company’s infiltration of Meereen via its sewage system in A Storm of Swords.
On page 114, de Camp writes a bit about the Punic tendency to sacrifice children to the gods in times of peril, usually by burning them alive. Later in the book mention is made of how children of noble blood were seen as especially valuable sacrifices. Which reminds one of Melisandre’s own eagerness to use the blood of kings in her fire rituals, to say nothing of Stannis sacrificing his own daughter (as seen in the show, and which Martin has confirmed will also happen in the books).
On page 261, mention is made of a Canaanitish deity worshipped by the people of Carthage known as Melekh-Qarth or Melqarth, which might be where Martin got the name for his own city of Qarth. While on the subject of Qarth, it’s also worth noting that earlier in de Camp’s book, he spends a fair bit of time discussing the triple walls of Babylon, which seems to be something Martin had in mind when designing Qarth.
On page 301, there’s a brief mention of the mathematician Theon of Alexandria. I wonder if this was the first time Martin ever ran into that name? But that’s just conjecture.
On page 408, in the chapter dealing with Pataliputra, de Camp mentions an old Indian custom called sati in which widows mount their husbands funeral pyres and calmly allow themselves to be burnt alive, which brings to mind the ending of the last Daenerys chapter in A Game of Thrones (funnily enough, on this same page de Camp mentions how in the Gupta times of India the practice of child brides was quite common, which I’m sure pricked Martin’s attention).
In the chapter on Constantinople de Camp mentions the huge chain that was stretched across the mouth of the Great Horn to control ship traffic, which naturally reminds one of the great chain Tyrion had constructed for the Battle of Blackwater Bay. In the same chapter he also talks a bit about the “Greek Fire” (which was the real-life inspiration for the wildfire in Martin’s books). However, these are two well-known facts about Constantinople so odds are good that Martin must have previously heard about them before he read this book.
Also worth noting: throughout the book de Camp refers to people from Tyre as “Tyrians,” which is only a letter’s difference from “Tyrion”... though most likely Martin may have already been familiar with the Welsh name in question, so that might be a stretch!
Well, that’s the main gist of it all... no doubt there may have been other things that I may have missed, but in my defense, it’s been a decade since I read the ASOIAF series, and I can’t recall every single little detail about it!

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SO MUCH TEA. I’m glad I can spill to my Reddit community because I can’t gossip about it to my family!
SO - about 6 months ago the bride planned her destination bachelorette trip and charged each of the 11 girls $650 for the Airbnb. I was salty about the high cost but it’s my SIL so I sucked it up and paid her. I also was suspicious about the high AF price so I did cross check the Airbnb listing and it checked out. (Yes this b wanted a $2300/night beachfront house.)
Well today I’m chatting about wedding stuff with my brother (who is marrying future SIL) and he said something along the lines of “what a relief her dad paid for the Airbnb because that would have been so expensive for your group.”
I about choked! I said hey are you sure about that because all 11 girls paid $650 for the house alone. Maybe run it by her…:..his face turned purple so I take it he had no idea.
To add to the greed going on here - when I got married I flew her out, paid for her accommodations, paid hair and makeup, paid for her bridesmaid dress, and paid transportation because she was going through a hard time. Now she has the balls to steal from me.
I get that weddings are expensive but don’t have one if it requires stealing from your BMs. I’m assuming I’m the only BM who is aware of what’s going on here. Not sure if I should spill to the group or just let it go……
There’s a chance her dad stepped in and paid for it after the fact, and she just chose not to refund us. I’m not clear on the exact situation and want to avoid embarrassing my brother.
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UPDATE #1 - 1/23/2024
Thanks for all the advice and support! Yes - I agree with most of you who are saying I’m morally obligated to spill the beans because $650 is not child’s play.
This is what I’m going to do. First, I’m going to talk to my brother and give him a chance to clear it up with SIL. Before I make a scene, I want to understand what’s really going on. For example, did daddy pay for the trip but SIL decided to put that towards a different wedding expense? Things like that.
That answer will determine when/how I tell the rest of the BMs. Im going to give my brother only 1-2 days because this trip is literally next week.
Stay tuned for update #2
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UPDATE #2 1/26/2024
Alright so I regrouped with my brother. My mom also stepped in, bypassed my brother, and got some more info directly from her dad! HERE’S THE TEA - future SIL’s dad did not offer to cover the cost until a few months after we all paid for the trip. This was after he found out the cost and was pissed that she chose a $2300/night house and asked us to pay. Apparently he threatened not to pay for the wedding if she added more expenses onto the wedding party. Turns out she originally wanted it at the Maldives and he forbid her!
According to my mom who chatted with him directly, he felt embarrassed when he heard about the Airbnb price and wanted to save face with my side of the family. So he gave SIL about $7k to cover the cost of the house. She was supposed to refund us but obviously that never happened.
THIS IS WHERE IT GETS GOOD - so my mom went total FBI and learned that in addition to not paying us, SIL didn’t put the money towards a different wedding expense either. SHE DOESNT HAVE IT. So where did it go?? What did she spend it on??
There is currently a FULL BLOWN INVESTIGATION going down between our two families rn!
I have been asked by my mom not to alert the BMs just yet until we get the last bits of info AND come to a resolution with both SIL and her dad. But we WILL tell them asap one way or another.
I will come back tomorrow with another update!! Wow, CRAZY.
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UPDATE #3 1/27/2024
The plot thickens!! So as this drama is all unfolding, the maid of honor (who doesn’t know what’s going on yet) is continuing her duties. We all get a 4-paragraph text from her outlining the dress code for each night of the bachelorette, per the brides orders. Keep in mind the bride is asking us all to go out and buy new outfits for each night of the trip. And the themes are WILD - animal print Thursday, Faux Fur Friday, Sparkle Dress Saturday, and Barbie brunch Sunday.
As if we’re all going to go out and buy that sh*t one week before the trip (or at all!!) Thankfully the BM’s seem to be waking up to the BS. Several of them wrote back saying they won’t be able to pull together those outfits in time, and one flat out said it’s just not going to happen.
But that’s just a side story to the absolute sh*t show that is unfolding.
My mom is very involved now as she’s paid a decent chunk of this wedding as well, and does NOT like that the bride is throwing around THOUSANDS of dollars from her dad as well as lying to the bridal party.
SHE SET UP A MEETING directly with SIL to cut the BS and explain what’s going on. She told SIL she’s going to inform the BM’s herself unless she gets a valid answer.
At this point I’m just shoveling down popcorn waiting for the events to unfold.
I will be back tonight with hopefully the final update!!
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UPDATE #4 1/29/2024
A SWAN ICE SCULPTURE.
She used the $7k to book a swan shaped ice sculpture to be displayed at the reception and didn’t tell anyone.
Turns out her dad banned her from adding any more “extras” to the wedding design because it was already so expensive and unnecessary.
When he venmoed her for the Airbnb, she thought she was being sneaky and kept it instead. She didn’t even tell my brother this - he only found out that her dad decided to cover the Airbnb because those two went out for cigars one night and it came up.
So that mystery is solved thanks to my mini FBI crew - but now the REAL questions remain. Where tf is my $650 and how to break the news to the BM’s!??
Out of the kindness of her SOUL my mom is giving SIL 24hrs to confess to the bridesmaids and figure out how to pay us back our money. Because you know what, I did not spend $650 on some damn ICE!!!!! I have kids to feed! I have BILLS TO PAY.
It is taking everything in me not to text the BM group right now but my mom is trying to give SIL one opportunity to do the right thing.
This has been a roller coaster - don’t know if anyone here is still interested, but let me know if I should post the final outcome with the BM’s in one last update.
Lord have MERCY.
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UPDATE #5 2/5/2024
Ok - as promised here is the latest tea, served BOILING hot. This is a long update and I’m going to try and get everything in.
First let’s start with the bride’s explanation to her family: myself, my mom, my brother (her fiance) and her dad. She broke down crying saying that wedding planning has been getting to her head, and she has been “crushed” under the pressure to have the perfect wedding. Which she felt couldn’t go on without this alleged Ice Swan.
I didn’t buy her sob story. After this whole incident I think she is a delusional, controlling, attention-starving bridezilla who is using the wedding as a way to compete with other girls on instagram. Btw her job is “influencer” if I didn’t mention that yet.
My brother took the bait. To be honest, I don’t even blame him. This is his future wife, and he said he wants to help her with her mental health and get her back to a good place. He is disturbed by the situation but will continue to support her. The wedding is on, for those who were curious.
Next let’s get into the matter of the missing $7K and whether we’re getting our money back. The sad, gut wrenching answer: probably not. Her dad said he has already paid the Airbnb cost once and he will not do it again. He said his daughter is 31 and needs to get herself out of her own mess and figure out how to make it right. She chimed in that the $7K is gone and asked how she would possibly pay us back. My brother refused to pay for her screw up.
While I love that everyone is finally forcing this b to be an adult, I would like my money back more. Unfortunately we’re not going to get it unless she magically wins the lottery or gets a real job. For those that asked, there is nothing we can do legally. We all willingly paid a fixed amount and we would have to move mountains (and spend more $$$) to sue. Plus, while she was incredibly shady and a terrible friend, she technically didn’t do anything wrong that we could prove.
Now onto the bridesmaids. After some threats from my mom, SIL finally broke down and contacted the BMs in our group chat. She sent a text that made my skin crawl:
“Hey Ladies! You’re my bride squad so I feel compelled to share that my dad recently offered to pay for our bach accommodations. However, being that the wedding is so expensive, I have decided to put his donation towards a wedding expense. I hope you all understand and I can’t wait to party with you all next week!”
Oh HELL no. I immediately replied back making sure everyone knew the “expense” was an ice sculpture. AN ICE SWAN!! Come ON PEOPLE! Many of them replied and expressed how they would have loved to use that $650 for something more important. But ultimately no one has backed out…..one of the girls started a side chat without the bride and asked if there is any chance of getting our $$ back if we force SIL to cancel the reservation. Unfortunately since we’re only a week out, we aren’t eligible for a refund. They decided to go through with the bach or else it would be a literal waste of $650.
As for myself…..I’m in the same boat. I would rather run myself over than go on this trip. But $650 is not a small amount and I can’t fathom just throwing it down the drain. I haven’t made my final decision yet. If I do go, it will solely be to avoid eating the $650 plus my airfare. I will not be doing any of the planned events or outfits, or contributing even $1 more. I would have my own mini vacation as best I can.
Im really upset that it seems like this crazy person is going to get her way after all!!
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MINI UPDATE 5.a - 2/10/2024
There are so many curious comments coming in so I want to keep you in the loop!! More drama has unfolded among the bridesmaids.
The side-text without the bride popped off and we have all agreed to do the following:

1. We will be going on the trip, but it is NO LONGER a bachelorette trip. We will all be taking personal vacations with our hubbies/significant others while staying at the property. We were forced into this beachfront mansion + airfare, so we’re going to make the most of it.
   
2. We have all backed out of hosting and paying for the bridal shower. The bride will need to find another way to move forward if she wants to have it. We will attend as guests if she has it, and we will not be gifting anything. Mother of the bride is absolutely furious. More on this later.
   
3. We’re letting the bride know she needs to cancel the Ice Swan ™ and give us our money back. After some more research, we doubt all of the $7k went towards the alleged swan because it doesn’t seem liken they cost that much.
   

I won’t be back for a while because I want to save my next update for after the trip! Stay tuned.
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FUN FACT 2/12/2024
This is not one of my updates but I thought you guys might like to know that bored panda picked up this story 😂
Check it out: link to article
I will be back around Tuesday with the FINAL post bachelorette trip update!
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FINAL UPDATE #6 - 2/17/2024
Warning - this is a long one.
The absolute TEA I have today. It took me so long to write this because I am at a complete and utter LOSS FOR WORDS.
Where to begin 🐸☕️ ….
Let me start with this: there is no Ice Swan. There never was an ice swan. It was all an elaborate fabrication designed to distract everyone from where the missing $7k actually went.
RIP Ice Swan ™
Turns out there was a reason behind SIL’s luxury bachelorette location. Here’s what happened - all the bridesmaids show up to the beachfront mansion with our significant others. SIL had already been made aware that it was no longer a bachelorette, but to our complete shock, she was still stunned that we actually meant it.
She arrived last in her pre-booked limo absolutely FUMING that no one else showed up to the limo meeting spot at the airport. She was the only one still sticking to the original itinerary. Then she was flabbergasted that the husbands/SO’s were with us. It was a comedy show at best.
Anyway we went about our individual mini vacations and eventually someone realized it had been about 48hrs since anyone had seen SIL. I assumed she was mad and either flew home or went to stay somewhere else.
Then the unthinkable unfolds. SIL rolls up the driveway in a wheelchair being pushed by two female nurses. The entire group jumped into action thinking something horrible happened - everyone ran over to see what was going on but the nurses ushered us away and wheeled SIL into her room.
At this point I’m actually VERY concerned - we’re all banging on her door asking if she’s ok. The nurses eventually leave and say they legally can’t reveal the nature of her health issue but assure us she’s fine. I call my brother and mom but get no answer, so I finally decide to call her mom (aka the mother of the bride, who was FURIOUS that we took over the bachelorette party.) MOB reveals what actually took place.
She isn’t sick, she didn’t have a health issue, there was no accident -
She got her boobs done. 🍈🍈
Yes folks you read that correctly. She had planned - as part of the original itinerary - to disappear for an afternoon and return with a set of new melons.
……..I’m sorry….WHAT?????
The location of the beachfront mansion is conveniently 5 mins away from a very famous cosmetic surgeons office. The reason she needed this giant ass property was not really to host 11 girls, it was to host 11 girls plus the surgery recovery nurses and personal chef she had reserved for after the operation.
There is so much more that we need to unpack, I honestly don’t know where to begin.

• What was her mother’s knowledge/involvement in all this?
  
• What was the cost of the procedure (GUESSING AROUND $7K) and WHY was it meant to be part of the bach???
  
• WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE ICE SWAN LIE??? wtf??!?
  
• will the bridesmaids (myself included) pursue legal action?
  
• where does this leave my brother? Is this lady OK mentally? Was this a horribly misplaced cry for attention? Was it an FU to the bridesmaids somehow?
  

So many questions remain….i am only a few hours back from this trip so this is all the information I have right now. I was intending for this to be my final update and I just want to say - thank you ALL for your support, advice, bags of popcorn, and funny input.
This has been a WILD ride and I’m glad I could share it with you. So far we have had this crazy ordeal picked up by a news publication, multiple podcasts, and a magazine. I literally want to write a book about this experience 😂
I’ve already revealed a great deal of info and so to protect my brother’s privacy moving forward, I think I need to step away from the updates.
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Not An Update - 2/28/2024
Hey friends! I’m getting boatloads of requests for an update so I’ve decided to make you all a deal - I will come back with an update after the wedding in May. As of right now it is still on!
That’s all I can say for now - check back in May!
CHECKING IN - 3/29/2024
Hi friends, thanks for being so patient for my update. I wanted to let everyone know I have THE UPDATE OF ALL UPDATES coming for you - it turns out the drama just won’t quit with this wedding!!
It is so juicy that for LEGAL REASONS I cannot share it just yet but will be able to post in a day or so.
Check back soon!!!
UPDATE - THE WEDDING IS OFF - 3/30/2024
ALRIGHT Y'ALL - get your comfy socks and your popcorn because I've been holding on to this update for SO LONG and I have to get it all out there. I feel like at this point we've all become good friends - literally when I do these updates I like to imagine we're all together eating snacks and gossiping 😂 I'm on desktop right now so you KNOW I mean business.
ANYWAY - let me start with this: the wedding is officially OFF. I know a lot of you out there were team #CancelTheWedding so this should warm your soul. For me personally, I wanted it to work out for my brother despite her insanity :/ I was kind of hoping this would (somehow) all blow over like a bad dream and he could find normalcy again. Unfortunately that is not at all the case.
Here's what happened: when I last updated you, SIL had pulled up to the bachelorette with a set of new melons and shocked us all. We were left wondering WTF, and I told you I needed to stop the updates to protect my brother's privacy.
Well, that has all changed now and I've been given permission by my brother to spill the f*cking TEA.
My brother was aware that SIL had planned on getting a breast augmentation at some point this year - he actually knew it would be during the bachelorette trip. Despite thinking it was very weird, he really wanted to support her. So he kept her "surprise" a secret. What he did NOT know was that she may have used the bridesmaids money (or even her dad's) to finance it.
But it turns out that she did not in fact use our money or her dad's money to pay for the new titties. That's because her procedure was on the house. Why you ask?
Because she has been having an affair with the surgeon for over a year.
Yes you read that correctly. She's been diddling her married plastic surgeon for more than 14 months. He is a VERY WELL KNOWN PLASTIC SURGEON and his legal team has been ON ME LIKE WHITE ON RICE. There are limits to what I can disclose. At this current moment I have been advised not to disclose the state he practices in, his name, or any personally identifying details.
Back to the story….
He wanted to fly her out for a complimentary titty upgrade!! We found out because his WIFE found her sad little influencer IG page, tracked her down, AND SHOWED UP TO THE FAMILY HOME!!! Which would be her father's house because she still lives there.
There is so much more to say that I think I'm going to have to split this into 2 updates because my fingers are legit going numb. I REALLY wanted to get that off my chest. I know you might be wanting to know the specifics like:

• So WHERE did the money go after all??
• How did the wife find out and what happened when she showed up?? (That's an update in ITSELF!!)
• How is my brother handling this? (besides of course leaving her dusty ass)
• What did SIL have to say for herself?

I PROMISE I will be back to finish this horror story!!!
UPDATE - SOME LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING - 4/1/2024
A few housekeeping items before I share the next update:

1. I thought you all should know that I now have to submit all of my updates to an attorney for legal review before I can post them here. This is primarily because of the high profile surgeon (who is aware of this thread) and his legal team. The wife is also in the mix and wants to minimize fallout, so I'm dealing with her people as well. They can’t stop me from telling the story but they CAN come after me if I disclose specific things. Basically everyone knows about this post now (SIL included) but I PROMISE I'm coming back to finish spilling the TEA for you all on that. Ready your kettles!!! 🫖🫖🫖
   
2. The support/interest/fan club vibes this post generated has been amazing. Thank you guys so much for sticking with me on this crazy ride!! 💗
   
3. With the support has also come some negativity - I am being impersonated online in a few places, and some people are trying to profit on this story by claiming it as their own. To combat this, I've listed my own information at the top of this post - anyone else is impersonating me and if you spot this story circulating online without directly tagging my IG or Reddit, it's not authentic.
   
4. Due to the above, I've decided to copyright this content and will continue to amend it as I make the updates. Who knows, maybe SIL will star in a tv series or book about this nightmare one day! 📚
   
5. I've had some requests to timestamp my previous updates so new readers can get a better timeline. I backdated all of my updates - please go easy on me as I can't remember the exact dates I came back to edit this post, so most dates are approximate. 📆
   
6. Shout out to the podcasts and other channels who have picked this up for a live reading! The ones I'm aware of include ThreadTalk and Charlotte Dobre. I LOVE listening to these - it's a cool perspective, so feel free to DM me if you come across any others! 🎤
   

BE BACK SOON!
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‼️ *NEWSFLASH - My Reddit account has been reinstated. I will be adding the last two updates below for you to read * ‼️
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UPDATE #7 - The Missing $7k - 4/7/24
Alright friends - if you’re still with me on this wild ride, it’s time to spill some of the final tea in this crazy kettle. I want to start with the details of SIL’s illicit affair with the plastic surgeon. Much of the detail was provided to me by my brother. When he ended the engagement, he asked SIL to give him the whole truth, after all it’s the least she could do. She fessed up, and my brother has given me permission to share. Here’s what happened:
The wife learned about the affair thanks to a pair of Tiffany diamond earrings, which apparently went missing from her jewelry collection. At some point she goes down to the hospital to bring her husband lunch, and sees a female patient wearing the EXACT PAIR of earrings she’s lost.
And you guessed it, that patient was our beloved bride. Now I don’t know the timeline on when she noticed these earrings went missing, but I do know that she saw my SIL wearing the earrings at the hospital while getting a consultation for her free melon job. This would have been long before the bachelorette trip, most likely on one of their earlier “visits” while SIL was flying out of town to see him.
The wife at some point brings this up to her husband (the surgeon) who probably plays it off as a coincidence. In her confession to my brother, SIL admitted to stealing the wife’s earrings during one of their “visits.” The surgeon demanded them back after realizing the wife spotted SIL wearing them that day. Problem is, SIL doesn’t have the earrings anymore. She claims she lost them. She asked the surgeon how much the earrings cost and swore she would make amends by sending him the money. He reveals they are from Tiffany’s and cost about $7500.
And there you have it - the mystery of the $7k is solved.
When SIL’s father offered to cover the cost of the airbnb, she probably saw a golden opportunity to snag almost the full amount of money she needed to cover the earrings. She did admit to my brother that she sent her dad’s money to the surgeon after he paid for the airbnb.
And TBH I don’t know who’s crazier - SIL for stealing the earrings or the surgeon for continuing to have an affair with someone who literally stole from his wife!! ANYWAY back to the story.
So I’ll never know if the surgeon gifted his wife a pair of new diamond sparklers or not, but I do know that she didn’t let her suspicion go. I don’t know for SURE if the earrings were the giveaway, or if she found out later. She ended up getting SIL’s name somehow and looking her up on social media. How she ended up at the family home I’ll probably never know, but I’m sure anyone with a name and a mission can find an address online.
I’m not at liberty to share the details of the confrontation between SIL and the wife. This update ends here, but I’ll be back with at least one more for you soon.
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UPDATE #8 - Where are they now? - 4/15/24
Okay everyone, I received the green light to share just a tidbit more on this story. I am out here scrambling to keep up with the demand for this tea but stay with me - it will all eventually be spilled (one way or another.)
For this update I wanted to address some of the main questions I get from all of you onboard the crazy train with me. Most people are curious to know the current status of the main players like ex-SIL, the surgeon, and a lot of kind folks want to know how my brother is holding up. So I’ve decided to do a “Where are they now” type of update for you today.
Let’s start with the surgeon - and boy is he a popular subject in my comments! (Quick thank you to everyone for being so respectful of my request that you avoid speculating names. Glad to see you’ve moved it to your DMs 😂I’m here for that!) Anyway back to the surgeon - so to be fair, there isn’t a lot I know about him in general. But I can tell you that YES, the wife DID file for divorce. AS SHE SHOULD 💅 And sadly that’s pretty much the limit on what I can reveal about those two at this time. I will add that most divorce records are public, though the surgeon strikes me as the kind of guy to get it sealed. But hypothetically, if someone wanted to look up a public divorce record, they could.
Moving on to ex-SIL……..sigh. I’m debating whether to continue giving her any more attention, even if anonymously. Before I give this update, I do want to say again for the record that I have my brother’s full support in sharing this information. ex-SIL decided to move out of state shortly after my brother called off the wedding. And maybe you saw this coming, but she relocated to be close to the surgeon. Yep. So sad. But yes, given his official divorce, those two are seemingly staying together. This disgusts me and I have so much more to say, but for now I’m moving on.
I’m going to end on a positive, note - I am thrilled to report that my brother is doing absolutely fantastic given the circumstances. He has moved into a new place for a fresh start. Even though he was not living with ex-SIL, he wanted a new perspective and to be out of that place filled with bad memories. Good for him! He also told us the other day that he’s taken the first steps to opening his own restaurant in town, something he has always wanted to do.
And for those who watched this in episode format on my IG/TikTok - no, Eugene will ABSOLUTELY NOT be signing my brother up for Tinder 🤣
To my readers here, I will be back to regularly update this thread with any new info from now on. Giving you the text-only tea is more important than my beef with Reddit.
SEE YOU SOON. (and Eugene says hi.)

The grandfather clock struck 2 am.
‘The Witching Hour,’ Faye said in a low voice.
‘Come, come,’ Philip replied.
A knock on the door made them both start.
The butler admitted the girl. She stood in front of the aristocratic couple, head slightly bowed.
‘She has bosom enough for you!?’ Faye said maliciously.
...
Once in the nursery, the girl knew what to do. She removed her bodice, taking out her breast.
Faye looked on enviously. Since the birth of baby Juliet, she had not produced a drop of milk.
The babe latched on immediately and seemed to become stronger each passing minute.
Faye inspected the wet nurse closely.
‘And where is it you trace your lineage to?’
‘Oh, the East End, Ma’am.’
‘And before that?’
‘I do not know.’
The women returned to Philip, who was nervously stroking a tumbler of brandy.
‘Marvellous,’ he continued, standing. ‘Thomas,’ he gestured at the butler, ‘show this young lady to her room and pay her for the first feed.’
The girl took up what scant possessions she had, leaving the couple.
‘She makes me uneasy,’ Faye said. ‘I believe she is a Romani Gypsy.’
‘Milk is milk.’
…
Weeks passed. Baby Juliet’s health improved immensely, yet Faye’s suspicion would not be dampened.
There was something unnatural about the wet nurse. Her raven hair and green eyes lined with coal powder.
She thought of those purported witches on Bethnal Green conducting Black Masses.
…
One night, Faye secreted herself in the nursery.
The feeding done, the wet nurse deposited Juliet in her crib but then pulled out a handkerchief, which she dabbed at the baby’s nipples.
‘Witchcraft!’ Faye screamed.
The house fell into tumult. Servants were roused from slumber. Lamps were lit. Baby Juliet’s screams threatened the integrity of the chandeliers.
‘She has produced an unnatural liquid,’ Faye continued.
And it was with horror that Philip saw what appeared to be milk emanating from the babe.
‘Sir, you see it sometimes in my profession. Medical men call it neonatal galactorrhea.’ the wet nurse said.
‘And holy men call it Witch’s Milk! You instigate the flow and feed it to your creatures of the night.’
‘I’m afraid I have to ask you to leave,' Philip said.
‘Please, Sir, it is imperative I keep this job.’
‘Out, you Devil!’ Faye screamed.
…
The wet nurse, a shawl pulled closely over her head, knocked on the back alley door.
50 babes lay in cots, a matronly woman circulating among them with bottles of cheap milk formula.
‘I have more money,’ the wet nurse said.
‘I am sorry, Ms,’ the matron said, ‘it is too late.’
She led her to a cot at the rear of the dank, foul-smelling room.
The wet nurse took her emaciated son and pressed him to her breast– it did not matter. She was dry, and the baby was already dead.
As it had always been, the rich fed from the poor, and the poor perished.

Hi all, I've seen various Warped Tour posts floating around. I kinda got the vibe that eventually Sad Summer may expand and have as many bands as OG Warped did. If that were to happen, it'd be a fun idea to do 2 traveling festivals. Now clearly, having just 1 was nearly impossible. So having 2 would be even crazier.
And sure, it's easy to just write all the deserving bands in a list. But these are the bands I think should/would be on them if it were to come back. Some bands also fall into the category of the artists being plugged hard by their label and would realistically be on the tour this year if it was still around sort've thing... Had some fun bringing back a few bands too.
(x) = an alternate may be needed even in dream scenario...
Mock Vans Sad Summer Tour 2024
Left Foot Main:
Hot Mulligan Knuckle Puck Mayday Parade Movements Mom Jeans Silverstein State Champs The Wonder Years
Right Foot Main:
Beach Bunny (x) Magnolia Park Knocked Loose Knox Sleeping With Sirens Stand Atlantic Turnstile Waterparks
Monster:
Belmont Counterparts Saosin (x) Scene Queen Set Your Goals (x) Silent Planet Thousand Below The Devil Wears Prada
Liquid Death:
100 Gecs (x) Bilmuri Dayseeker Hawthorne Heights Electric Callboy (x) Nothing, nowhere. We Butter The Bread With Butter (x) Wicca Phase Springs Eternal (x)
Ampitheatre Left:
Arm’s Length Between You & Me Just Friends L.S. Dunes (x) Real Friends Tigers Jaw (x) The Home Team The Starting Line
Ampitheatre Right:
Games We Play Grayscale Hot Milk LØLØ Meet Me @ The Altar Noahfinnce Pinkshift Taylor Acorn
Punk Rock Saves Lives Stage:
*random band following tour* Ben Quad Carly Cosgrove Cliffdiver Driveways Free Throw Heart Attack Man In Her Own Words Koyo Origami Angel Prince Daddy & The Hyena Saturdays At Your Place
Ernie Ball:
*local band 5x* Action/Adventure Census glimmers House & Home House Parties Keep Flying Palette Knife
Mock Vans Warped Tour 2024
Left Foot Main:
Beartooth (x) Black Veil Brides (x) BoyWithUke (x) Four Year Strong jxdn KennyHoopLa Sueco Simple Plan
Right Foot Main:
Mod Sun (x) Neck Deep New Found Glory Set It Off The Story So Far (x) The Used We The Kings Yellowcard
Monster Stage:
Attila Blessthefall DON BROCO From First To Last (x) Mike’s Dead If I Die First (x) Point North SeeYouSpaceCowboy (x)
Liquid Death Stage:
Catch Your Breath Chelsea Grin Holding Absence I See Stars Rain City Drive The Plot In You The Word Alive Trophy Eyes
Ampitheatre Left:
408 Andy Black (x) Beauty School Dropout DE’WAYNE girlfriends Huddy Jack Kays TX2
Ampitheatre Right:
Boys Like Girls Every Avenue Hey Monday/Cassadee Pope Juliet Simms/Lilith Czar LIGHTS Maggie Lindemann Nessa Barrett The Wrecks
Kevin Says:
*random band following tour* Bearings Daisy Grenade Drain First And Forever Honey Revenge John Harvie LiL Lotus No Pressure (x) Tiny Moving Parts WSTR Yours Truly
Ernie Ball:
*local band 5x* Aryia Brooklane CARR Makeout (x) Redhook (x) Unturned Wilmette
Special Guests for either tour:
5 Seconds Of Summer A Day To Remember All Time Low Avril Lavigne blackbear blink-182 Bring Me The Horizon Fall Out Boy MGK My Chemical Romance No Doubt Olivia Rodrigo Paramore Pierce The Veil Post Malone Sleep Token Twenty One Pilots YUNGBLUD
So did I make good picks? What say you? Do you think Sad Summer will continue to expand, or just stick to its current format?
Also if they bring it back, bring it back 100% or not at all. Keep the schedule, but expand it if need be to give more time for drives/setting up/rest/etc. Also experiment with the crowd sizes and all that. Maybe certain dates will have to pay more, whereas others could still pay less. I'm willing to pay more as long as everyone on the tour is taken care of properly.

AND the winners are:
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Luna Star, Emily Lynne and Kazumi co-hosted the 41st annual ceremony along with comedian Lil Duval.
The 2024 winners are:
VIDEO
Grand Reel
Machine Gunner, Digital Playground/Pulse
Best Actor – Featurette
Tommy Pistol, “We Are Alone Now” Delphine Films
Best Actress – Featurette
Maitland Ward, "Casting Couch" My DP 6, Tushy/Pulse
Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene
“Lesbian Threesomes Scene 3” Sweetheart/Mile High; Blake Blossom, Vanessa Sky & Aidra Fox
Best All-Girl Movie or Limited Series
Drip 3, Slayed/Pulse
Best All-Girl Series or Channel
Touch, Slayed/Pulse
Best Anal Movie or Limited Series
Anal Icons 2, Tushy/Pulse
Best Anal Series or Channel
Tushy Raw, Tushy Raw/Pulse
Best Anal Sex Scene
“Influence: Vanna Bardot – Part 1” Tushy; Vanna Bardot & Maximo Garcia
Best Anthology Movie or Limited Series
Video Secrets, DeepePulse
Best Anthology Series or Channel
Club VXN, Vixen/Pulse
Best Art Direction
Space Junk, Digital Playground/Pulse
Best BDSM Movie or Limited Series
Switch: Leaving Your Mark, Adult Time/Pulse
Best Blowbang Scene
“Mouths of Babes Part 1” Up to and Including Her Limits 3, DeepePulse; Vicki Chase
Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene
“She Ruined Me” Deeper; Violet Myers & Chris Diamond
Best Cinematography
Ashford Manor, Lust Cinema; Viki Collins
Best Curve Appeal Movie or Limited Series
Breast Worship 8, Jules Jordan Video
Best Directing Portfolio – International
Julia Grandi
Best Directing Portfolio – Cross-Genre
Ricky Greenwood
Best Directing Portfolio – Narrative
Kayden Kross
Best Directing Portfolio – Non-Narrative
Jules Jordan
Best Directing Portfolio – Specialty
Aiden Starr
Best Double-Penetration Sex Scene
“Influence: Vanna Bardot Part 3” Tushy; Vanna Bardot, Alex Jones & Dante Colle
Best Editing
Influence: Vanna Bardot, Tushy; Gabrielle Anex
Best Featurette
“The Mystery of Jane Doe” Delphine Films
Best Female Mixed-Age Movie or Limited Series
Moms Bang Teens 47, Reality Kings/Pulse
Best Foursome/Orgy Scene
“All for Us” Blacked Raw V70, Blacked Raw/Pulse; Gianna Dior, Kylie Rocket, Richard Mann & Dwayne Fox
Best Gangbang Scene
“Angela White: Unbound Part 4” Brazzers; Angela White, Alex Mack, John Strong, Eddie Jaye, Vince Karter, Will Pounder, Scotty P & Mazee the Goat
Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene
“Punch” Slayed; Vanna Bardot & Liz Jordan
Best Gonzo/Cinemacore Movie or Limited Series
Performers of the Year 2023, Elegant Angel
Best Gonzo/Cinemacore Series or Channel
Blacked Raw, Blacked Raw/Pulse
Best Hair & Makeup
Sally Mae: The Revenge of the Twin Dragons, Adult Time/Pulse; Raven Lux
Best Ingénue Movie or Limited Series
Slut Puppies 16, Jules Jordan Video
Best Ingénue Series or Channel
Young Fantasies, Vixen/Pulse
Best International All-Girl Sex Scene
“Dollhouse 2” Slayed; Little Caprice & Eva Elfie
Best International Anal Sex Scene
“In Vogue Part 2” Vixen/Pulse; Vanessa Alessia & Vince Karter
Best International Boy/Girl Sex Scene
“Secret Side” Vixen; Mia Nix & Chris Diamond
Best International Group Sex Scene
“Newly Engaged Swingers” WeCumToYou/Little Caprice Dreams; Little Caprice, Rika Fane, Stanley Johnson & Marcello Bravo
Best International Production
Missing, Dorcel/Pulse
Best Leading Actor
Tommy Pistol, Feed Me, Adult Time/Pulse
Best Leading Actress
Kira Noir, Machine Gunner, Digital Playground/Pulse
Best Male Newcomer
Hollywood Cash
Best MILF Movie or Limited Series
MILF Performers of the Year 2023, Elegant Angel
Best MILF/Female Mixed-Age Series or Channel
Mother-Daughter Exchange Club, Girlfriends Films
Best Multi-Partner Movie or Limited Series
Three V3, DeepePulse
Best Music
Influence: Vanna Bardot, Tushy
Best New International Starlet
Rika Fane
Best New Production Brand
MILFY
Best New Starlet
Chanel Camryn
Best Niche Movie or Limited Series
When the Husband Likes to Watch, New Sensations
Best Niche Series or Channel
How Women Orgasm, Adult Time
Best Non-Sex Performance
Julia Ann, Privilege, Wicked/Pulse
Best Oral Movie or Limited Series
Wet Food 10, Darkko/Evil Angel
Best Oral Sex Scene
“Machine Gunner – Episode 3” Digital Playground/Pulse; Kira Noir & Tommy Pistol
Best POV Sex Scene
“Big Tit Teen Angel Youngs Creampie” MrLuckyPOV; Angel Youngs & Mr. Lucky
Best Screenplay – Featurette
“Polar Opposites” Out of Our System, Pure Taboo/Adult Time/Pulse; Bree Mills & Seth Gamble
Best Screenplay – Movie or Limited Series
Primary 3, Lust Cinema; Casey Calvert & Mark Logan
Best Solo/Tease Performance
“Drawn to You” Vanity, Wicked/Pulse; Blake Blossom
Best Star Showcase
Vicki Chase Ninfómana, Darkko/Evil Angel
Best Supporting Actor
Danny D, Space Junk, Digital Playground/Pulse
Best Supporting Actress
Victoria Voxxx, Primary 3, Lust Cinema
Best Taboo Relations Movie or Limited Series
My Sexy Little Sister 15, Digital Sin
Best Tag-Team Sex Scene
“Machine Gunner – Episode 2” Digital Playground/Pulse; Kira Noir, Charles Dera & Scott Nails
Best Thespian – Trans/X
Daisy Taylor, “Daisy’s Flower Box” TransAngels
Best Three-Way Sex Scene
“All In” Three V3, DeepePulse; Jane Wilde, Avery Black & Troy Francisco
Best Trans Group Sex Scene
“Horny Golden Goddesses” Tantalizing Threesomes 2, TransAngels/Pulse; Izzy Wilde, Lola Morena & Billie Beaumont
Best Trans Movie or Limited Series
Office Ms. Conduct, Transfixed/Adult Time/Pulse
Best Trans Newcomer
Leilani Li
Best Trans One-on-One Sex Scene
“Muses: Kasey Kei” Transfixed/Adult Time; Kasey Kei & Casey Calvert
Best Trans Series or Channel
Transfixed, Adult Time/Pulse
Best VR Group Sex Scene
“Mile High Club” SLR Originals/SexLikeReal; Blake Blossom, Angel Youngs, Tru Kait & John Strong
Best VR One-on-One Sex Scene
“Dante's Inferno: Beatrice A XXX Parody” VRCosplayX.com; Blake Blossom & Ryan Driller
Best VR Trans Sex Scene
“Measure Me” VRB Trans; Emma Rose & Dante Colle
Clever Title of the Year
Total Eclipse of the Hole, Proxy Paige/Evil Angel
Female Performer of the Year
Vanna Bardot
Girl/Girl Specialty Performer of the Year
Amirah Adara
International Female Performer of the Year
Cherry Kiss
International Male Performer of the Year
Vince Karter
Mainstream Venture of the Year
“Everything in Its Right Place” (Short Film) Vicki Chase
Male Performer of the Year
Isiah Maxwell
Mark Stone Award for Outstanding Comedy
Influence: Vanna Bardot, Tushy
MILF Performer of the Year
Penny Barber
Most Outrageous Sex Scene
“Raining Blood” (or “Night of the Jizzed-In Dead”) Somegore; Ana Foxxx & Tommy Pistol
Niche Specialty Performer of the Year
Dante Colle
Outstanding Directing – Individual Work
Influence: Vanna Bardot, Tushy; Derek Dozer
Trans Performer of the Year
Emma Rose
Fan-Voted AVN Awards
Favorite Female Porn Star
Violet Myers
Favorite Cam Girl
OnlineGirl_ (Alex Knight)
Most Spectacular Boobs
Angela White
Hottest All-Girl Creator Collab
Angela White & Violet Myers
Ultimate Oral Content Creator
Coco Bae
Supreme Solo Content Creator
Coco Bae
Favorite Female Indie Creator
Coco Bae
Favorite Male Indie Creator
John Legendary
Favorite Porn Star Creator
Angela White
Most Amazing Ass
Abella Danger
Hottest Anal Creator Collab
Angela White & Alex Mack
Sexiest MILF
Kendra Lust
Hottest Adult Newcomer
Emma Magnolia
Hottest Boy/Girl Creator Collab
Lena the Plug & Jason Luv
Unsung Darling
Kali Roses
Favorite Domme
London River
Favorite Cosplayer
(tie) Sweetie Fox & Bunni Black
Favorite Adult Podcast
Plug Talk
Favorite BBW Star
Alex Blair
Favorite Trans Porn Star
Daisy Taylor
Favorite Trans Cam StaCreator
Aubrey Kate
Hottest Trans Creator Collab
Aubrey Kate & Dante Colle
Favorite Camming Couple
Kayley and Emily
Favorite Male Porn Star
Dredd
PLEASURE PRODUCTS
Best Enhancement Manufacturer
Sensuva
Best Fetish Manufacturer
XR Brands
Best Lingerie or Apparel Line
Barely Bare
Best Lubricant Brand
Swiss Navy
Best Pleasure Product Manufacturer – Large
XR Brands
Best Pleasure Product Manufacturer – Medium
Motorbunny
Best Pleasure Product Manufacturer – Small
OEJ Novelty
RETAIL
Best Boutique
Museum of Sex, NYC
Best Retail Chain – Large
Lion's Den
Best Retail Chain – Medium
Romeo & Juliet's
Best Retail Chain – Small
Cupid’s Closet
Best Web Retail Store
PinkCherry.com
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Garion Hall Jimmy James Robert Plarski
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Kim Airs Phyllis Heppenstall Karen & Barry Mason
Web-Tech Branch
Kenny B John-Michael D’Arcangelo
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Part 1
We appeared in the small square in front of the Eglise Saint-Nicolas. It was really more of a wide sidewalk than a proper square, but still. I looked around, taking in the sights. It was evening here (having been mid-afternoon when we left, six hours behind the local time), and the golden glow of the tinted LEDs they used perfectly recreated the sodium lights of the past, giving the place a timeless quality. The streets were still alive with pedestrian traffic
Brussels was gorgeous this time of year. Honestly, I knew it was beautiful any time of year, as Inanna and I had come here a few times on date night. In truth, our date nights had been getting wilder over time, and we'd hit most of the major cities of the world a few times.
Except Paris. Paris made Inanna jealous, and she didn't like feeling jealous. She preferred, in her own words, to feel horny, the better to watch me 'rail a variety of wet holes'.
"Reminds me a bit of Paris," Michelle said, earning a look from Inanna.
"Let's get started trying to find the epicenter, shall we?" I said quickly, hoping to avoid any cattiness. I don't use that word lightly, either. Inanna is a very gracious and understanding person, but she can also be vicious as hell. When she can't physically hurt someone, she will happily turn to words and there's really no other way for me to describe than than 'cattiness'. And I didn't want that.
Fortunately, Inanna was listening to me. She turned around, her eyes becoming those glossy, black orbs I had first known her with as she tuned into her magical senses. I did the same, reaching out, feeling the blood magic and following the whirls and patterns, trying to find the source.
"Damn, Jerry," Michelle said. "Your eyes are as black as Inanna's."
I nodded, only partially listening. "I've been using my magical senses a lot more. Peering into the frequencies that magic glows in tends to have that effect."
"How come none of the wizards do that when they're looking for magic?" she asked.
"Because they're not looking as deeply as I, and they haven't spent as much time doing so. When I'm at work in the lab, I'm like this pretty much from the time I start work until I log out of my computer."
"Even then, he sometimes forgets," Inanna said. "It can be easy to forget. It doesn't interfere with your physical senses, so you're still aware of your surroundings."
I nodded in agreement. I was following the eddies and swirls, but not really getting anywhere. I could see the storm above, like a red-glowing hurricane, but I wasn't seeing any focal points except for the eye, which wasn't where it would have started. Not a thousand feet above the ground, anyways. Someone had done this, and that meant that either they had been flying when they did it -a very unlikely possibility- or they had been much closer to the ground.
"I think we're going to have to roll back the clock a bit," I said. "Use a little temporal magic."
Inanna gasped, and I turned to see a look of faux shock on her face. She clutched her hands together between her breasts. "Is he finally admitting to having a well of time magic? So many years later?"
I blinked in surprise. Why would she act like I'd been keeping this a secret? I had given her a well of time magic, a few years ago.
"Uhhh," I said. "It's not a secret." She gave me a tolerant smirk. "Really?" she asked. "Because this is literally the first time you mentioned it."
I shrugged. "It's not very useful for most things. It doesn't come up."
"I've found it's quite useful when investigating incidents," she retorted. "You know, like I do for my job?"
"I gave you a well of it," I said, still confused. "Which is exactly how you know that."
"But you've yet to say a word about it," she said. She took a step forward, narrowing her eyes at me.
"Jerry... I feel a bit like I caught you cheating on me."
I blinked in surprise and more than a little bit of fear. I didn't want to have an argument with her over something like this. The thought of her being pissed at me was so strange. I didn't like it at all. It frightened me, not because I thought she might do something regrettably precipitous, but because the thought of her feeling anything but love and affection for me fit squarely into 'my worst fucking nightmare' territory.
And yes, I said 'fucking', in case you didn't notice. It's warranted.
Just as I was opening my mouth to stammer something incredibly stupid and defensive and probably more than a little obsequious, I noticed the gleam of humor in her eyes. The sense of relief flooded me, right as she raised a finger to waggle it in front of my face.
"I think I might have to mark my territory," she threatened. "Right here, right now."
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Michelle backhand a burly security officer. "Cross your fingers, we're about to see the hottest porn ever made," she said. Franklin turned away, literally covering his eyes with a hand.
This is why I love Franklin, by the way.
"Not in public!" I whined. Yes, it was a whine. Because I really didn't want her to jump on me and start having her way with me in public. But I kinda also did. So instead of me putting my foot down like a man, I whined like a little boy.
And before you give me any crap, how many times have you saved the world? Huh? Once? Oh, not even once? That's what I thought. Leave me alone, I can whine if I want to.
She put her hands on her hips and regarded me the same way a hungry lion regards a plump lamb for a moment, then reached out and booped my nose with one finger.
"Later, then," she said. Another wave of relief (this time, tinged with disappointment) washed through me.
"Let's do that, then," she said a moment later. I had to take a second to collect my thoughts to realize what she was talking about.
"Oh yeah, temporal magic," I muttered, making Inanna titter. Michelle threw up her hands and grumbled complaints and Franklin took his hand off his face.
I let slip a little temporal magic, letting it infuse my senses, and then used it to roll back time. I watched how the storm reversed its course above me and began to shrink. In time, it collapsed into a dense knot of magic, that then flowed downwards. I froze the perception as it hovered about a hundred feet above the rooftops of the city.
"Okay, I'm seeing a vector, now," I said. "Northwest," Inanna confirmed.
"How far?" Franklin asked. "Should we secure a vehicle?"
I nodded. "Yeah, I think a vehicle would be a good-" I stopped as a trio of local cops rounded the corner and stopped, staring at the heavily-armed security detail. Their hands drifted towards the guns on their hips, so I moved forward quickly, holding my hands up.
"What's this?" the one in the front asked, using English. Because of course, they knew we were Americans. I mean, it's pretty obvious.
"We're with the Divine Crisis Management Group," I explained. I approached to just past arm's length, then slowly reached into my jacket to produce a business card, which I handed over. She took it and looked down at it, then showed it to the other two as I explained myself. She was a tall woman with dirty blonde hair pulled back into a severe bun. She was thin, but carried herself as if she knew her way around a night stick.
"Our wizards have been monitoring blood magic storms that have been forming over major cities worldwide. The first such storm formed here, so we're just looking into the cause right now."
"You need soldiers to look into the cause of a magic storm?" she asked, her expression a little incredulous.
"It's a safety precaution."
"None of those weapons are legal here," she replied right away. "The rifles are illegal, and carrying those handguns in public is illegal. This is not America, Mister Williams."
I sighed, and let my aura come out a little. I plastered my best friendly smile in place.
"Officer, uh," I peered at her nametape. "De Slet. We have a long-standing agreement with the Federale Politite that allows us to operate our security apparatus on Belgian soil with the full force of law enforcement. It's a formal agreement, and you can verify this by contacting Director Borremans at the General Commissioner's Office. I can give you his number, if you like."
Her look softened, which probably had a lot more to do with my aura than my explanation. I decided to sweeten the pot.
"I can have the security detail wear their rifles on their backs, if that would make you feel better. I'm afraid we can't leave them behind or stow them away for now, but I can have them stop, uh... Brandishing them."
"Please do that now," she said. She pulled out her phone and began scrolling through it. "I'm going to confirm this agreement with my superiors." I smiled again and nodded. "Of course."
I turned back to see that Michelle and her team were already in the process, having overheard our conversation. Franklin was in his civvies, and only wore one of the Gen 9 Mk 23's on his hip, so he was standing there with his hands on his hips, trying to look un-intimidating and failing miserably. I wondered if he'd seem less intimidating if they knew he actually, fervently believed the Green Lantern could take Superman in a fight.
Probably not, I thought. Franklin is a big guy who spends a lot of time at the gym. I mean, a boxing and MMA gym, not a swole-bro gym, though you'd be forgiven for thinking the latter.
"Excuse me?" one of the other officers said in heavily-accented English. I looked at him.
"You are Jerry Williams?" he asked. I smiled. "Yes," I said.
"You are the, uh, beroemd, uh, famous Jerry Williams? The author and tovenaar?"
"That's me," I said.
"Could I get uh... Signature?" he frowned, and I frowned, too. It was a little too soon for me to be signing any citations or anything. But then it struck me.
"Oh, uh, handtekening of autograaf?" I asked. He smiled. "Een autograaf, alstublieft." He reached into his back pocket and produced one of my books. Not one of the treatise on magic I'd written, nor even any of the pop-history books. It was the sci-fi novel that flopped years ago.
I mean, I didn't get bad reviews. An average of four-point-seven stars on Goodreads, but there were only three hundred reviews, and I'd only sold about five thousand copies. I never made a dent in the sci-fi market, and I'd given up trying to make it as a fiction author. As it turns out, a fictionalized version of my real life on the small screen was as exciting as I could get.
I produced a pen from hammerspace and accepted the book. "Voor wie is het?" I asked.
"Juliet Lambert," he said. "Mijn dochter." I quickly inscribed a short message to Juliet Lambert, wishing her joy in reading the book and signing my name beneath it.
"Bedank," he said with a smile. "Ontzettend bedankt."
I smiled back as he stuffed the book back in his pocket.
The lead officer got off the phone.
"Yes, my supervisor said that your people are allowed to operate as law enforcement on a case by case basis. But we have no open cases for you. The last one was closed a month ago."
"Officer De Slet, we're just here to look into these storms. We're not expecting any trouble, but... Well, I don't know if you're familiar with how dangerous occult matters can become, but a security force like this is an absolute necessity."
She cocked her head to one side and gave me a once-over look.
"Didn't you once threaten all of the gods that you would personally put them in line if they didn't surrender to the American army?"
I blushed. "Yes, that was me," I admitted.
"So why would you need a security detail?"
I sputtered for a second, my brain blanking on the fundamentals of combat, but fortunately, Michelle came to my rescue.
"Ma'am," she said in her professional voice. "A single person, no matter how tough, can only pay attention to a small amount of their environment at any one time. A single person might be trapped or incapacitated, which would be the end of any fight they were in. Even if that only held for a few seconds, that's generally enough time to kill anyone or anything that can't fight back."
The woman was immovable, however.
"Without an open case, then you have no authority here."
Inanna stepped forward, and as she did, Michelle nearly melted. I could feel her aura on full as she walked up so close to the woman that their breasts were touching. She reached up and stroked the sides of her face with both hands. The woman melted, moaning softly and leaning into Inanna's touch.
"We're no threat to anyone dear," she purred. "And if any threats do appear, wouldn't it be best for us to be equipped to deal with them before any civilians can get hurt?"
"I uh... Neuk mij..." the police woman replied. She was clearly lost in Inanna's eyes, and thinking dirty thoughts.
"When I'm not busy, I'd love to," Inanna said. She leaned forward and nipped gently at the woman's chin. The cop shuddered, closing her eyes and moaning as Inanna clearly took some of her weight. Her knees shook, and I got the distinct impression that she'd just... Well... Had a, uh...
An orgasm. Jesus Christ.
When she recovered, she opened her eyes and blinked rapidly.
"Jas, dat is goed," she said. She reached up and cupped Inanna's hands with her own, turning her face to nuzzle one for a moment.
"You're, ah... You're fine. It's fine. Everything's fine," she stammered. Inanna took a step back, letting her go as she patted herself down like she was missing something.
"Do you have a card?" Inanna asked. The woman jerked, resumed, and produced one, which she handed over. Inanna took it and made a little show of stuffing it into her cleavage, which held the woman's attention until it was done.
"Thank you so much, Officer De Slet," Inanna said. She turned and sauntered off, a wiggle in her steps that drew every eye on the streets. It was a moment later when Franklin's hand on my shoulder broke the spell.
"We following her boss, or what?" he asked.
"Oh, yeah, let's go!" I said and we all took off.
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We walked a few blocks east, find a car rental place near a cluster of high-end hotels. At Inanna's insistence, we rented an expensive BMW sedan and a passenger van (also BMW, but much less expensive) to cart us all around. Franklin joined us in the sedan, while Michelle elected to ride with her troops in the van as we made our way to the spot over which the knot of blood magic still hovered in our vision.
We ended up leaving the city, driving out a short distance into the countryside, where we found it. It was a square complex with whitewashed walls, a red tile roof, a courtyard in the middle and a square tower keep on one corner. A small shrine on the front held a carved wooden statue of some saint or another. Signs were hung up near the entrances prohibiting trespassers and a chain-link fence surrounded the whole affair. We parked in the grass in front of the place, the only available parking.
"What is this place?" Franklin asked as we climbed out.
"An old castle," I said. "Used as a farming complex since, like a lot of the smaller castles in this part of Europe."
"It doesn't look like a castle," Franklin said. I shrugged. "A lot of them don't. I mean, most castles were just mansions, really. Especially the smaller ones. This one was likely the court of a minor noble."
"How can you tell?" he asked. I pointed to the square tower with the steep roof in the back of the complex. "That's a keep," I said. "Where there's a keep, there's a castle. I bet it looked a lot more typical a few hundred years ago, with a rampart and a moat around it."
"Huh," he said, still eyeing the place. My own eyes turned to the sky above it, where the vision of the blood magic still floated. I let the time in my visions wind back a bit more, watching the knot descend into the courtyard.
"Come on, let's see if we can find an easier way in than these boarded-up doors," Inanna said. We moved as one around the place, finding a lower wall in the back connecting the keep to another building. We quickly mounted it and found ourselves inside. In the middle, a small topiary garden was growing wild, almost obscuring the carefully manicured shape it had once held.
"Wonder why they boarded it up," Michelle said, walking around the circuit. "It looks to be in pretty good shape for a centuries-old castle."
"I couldn't say without doing some research," I said.
Inanna and I watched the knot begin to dissipate, inside the courtyard. As it faded, the glow it produced lessened, until we could make out the traces of other magic.
"Look at this," Inanna said. I nodded, already looking at it.
"That's divine magic," I said. "It's a little dirty, though. Looks like something from the spirit world, not necessarily a god or deva."
"Smell it," she said. I did. It smelled like a material world, which is hard to explain. The spirit world and Nibiru and the outer void all have distinctive smells, and all smell distinct from the fifteen material worlds, which all smell pretty much the same as each other. It's kind of an earthy, metallic scent.
"Hmm, so it's been here or in one of the other worlds for a while. You think maybe it's something from the Sixteenth?" I asked.
Inanna shrugged. "You could answer that better than I, babe."
I thought about it. The way I had returned the Sixteenth World to life years ago was by winding back time and undoing the event that had killed all life on that version of Earth. Which meant that it was now possible -at least in theory- that any creature of the spirit world could have traveled there. But as any sci-fi fan would know, time travel is tricky as hell.
In order to prevent something catastrophic from happening, something like the Sixteenth World conquering our Earth at some point in the past, resulting in me never being born, which would then result in a paradox that might trap the whole universe in a loop of destruction, I'd had to insulate it from the rest of existence. To that end, I had deliberately created time loops at any place and time that the barrier between the worlds became thin enough for anything, even the faintest sliver of magic, to cross.
So if any creatures from the spirit world had spent time in the Sixteenth World recently, they would have had to cross before the event I had changed. Which would make them about twelve thousand years old. Not many things lived that long, though... Well, let me re-phrase that. There were a lot of things that lived that long, but few of them were intelligent, fewer still were skilled enough with magic to do this, and fewer still could live unnoticed among humans for very long.
"It's probably something that's been on Earth," I said.
"How old would that make it?"
"The gates were sealed, what, two thousand years ago?" I asked.
"About there. A little before Eloham pulled his 'cradle to the cross' stunt', which wasn't long before we all went to sleep."
I thought about it. The list of possible suspects increased. It was distinctly possible. I sighed.
"So we've got some kind of spirit running around on Earth using blood magic to conjure up storms that are turbo-boosting seasonal flus throughout the northern hemisphere," she said.
"Yeah, but what's the point?" I asked.
"That's the question, isn't it?" she replied ruefully.
I thought some more. "Maybe one of the plague-bearers got trapped on Earth when the gates were shut?" Inanna pursed her lips and considered it, though I didn't have a lot of confidence in that guess myself.
"I mean, I'd expect a lot more, you know, plague if that were the case."
"Yeah," I agreed, "A bunch of people with the flu seems like penny-ante stuff for one of them."
"It might be something Klorpesh is up to," Inanna said. "Maybe the infections are just a side effect?"
"I'm pretty sure they're a side effect, but I can't make out any greater use for these storms," I said.
I became aware of a strange clattering sound, then. It was muffled and muted, as if coming from behind a wall.
"Do you hear that?" I asked. I let my magical senses fall away, tuning my head to get a better sense of the direction. It was coming from the keep.
And it was getting louder.
"That sounds like one of Carl's death machines," Inanna said, right before something that may very well have been one of Carl's death machines literally exploded out the side of the keep.
Bricks flew around, one of them catching Michelle in the chest and sending her flying with it. Dust filled the air, almost immediately obscuring the sight of the strange contraption of wood, metal and stone. The explosion had not been very loud, so I could hear it skittering and clattering towards me as I conjured my energy shield and my replica-Godslayer.
Inanna was closer, and I saw her suddenly spin and swing her massive blade as a shadow loomed through the dust. Guns fired behind me, shooting around us as they were trained to do (a handful of stray shots weren't really much of a threat to someone with a functioning energy shield).
I watched her cut through ropes and plastic tubes and thin pieces of wood, only to stop short as she struck a light-pole-sized piece of wood. She yanked back, but the sword would not come.
"Inanna!" I cried, right as a Rube-Goldberg-esque limb slammed into her, crushing her to the ground in an explosion of blood.
Part 3

Excerpts
Chapter 1 Truth and Beauty: Art as the Sensuous Appearance of the Idea
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The true, Hegel has claimed, is neither of these extremes: the true is the mutually determining unity of thought and object and the knowledge of that unity of thought and object and the knowledge of that unity. Since beauty is to be sensuously experienced truth, it must be an experience of this unity. In fact, Hegel says that "the consideration and the existence of objects as beautiful" is the "unification of both [theoretical and practical] points of view, since it cancels the one-sidedness of both in respect of the subject and its object alike and therefore their finitude and unfreedom" (Ä: I, 154/113).
It is by being this expression of the Idea that art is elevated to the same level as religion and philosophy. It is "simply one way of bringing to out minds and expressing the Divine, the deepest interests of mankind, and the most comprehensive truths of the spirit" (Ä: I, 20/27).
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Describing beauty as the "sinnliche Scheinen der Idee" also enables Hegel to imply multiple connotations of the word Schein. Translated one way, art allows the Idea to shine forth, to emanate, as it were, out of the realm of thought into the realm of the senses, But when translated as "appearance," Schein also implies art's seeming, or its semblance, as opposed to being (*13). Hegel interprets Plato as arguing that since art only imitates reality - the painted bed is not really a bed, the dramatized battle not really a battle - it is at best an inferior copy of reality and at worst simply fraudulent. But Hegel's claim will be that precisely be qualifying as seeming as opposed to being, art in fact presents a "higher reality and truer existence.": it "liberates the true content of phenomena from the pure appearance and deception of this bad, transitory world, and gives them a higher actuality, born of the spirit" (Ä: I, 23/29, italics mine). Hegel thus distances himself from aesthetic theories such as Aristotle's that locate art's essence in imitation and allies himself with theories like Schiller's that identify art's characteristic semblance as crucial to its value.
The claim that reality is deceptive and yet hides its deception is another lesson evident throughout Hegel's discussion of misguided epistemologies such as those represented by sense-certainty. In our ever day lives, we experience both our selves and the world as independently, individually existing: in short, as given. This experience, Hegel repeatedly suggests, is not only untrue but hampers our freedom. Part of beauty's power, as we will see, is that it can disrupt this misconception. When we experience beauty, the "self in relation to the object likewise ceases to be the abstraction of noticing, sensuously perceiving, and observing" (Ä: I, 155/114). In contemplating the beautiful object, the self "makes explicit the unity of Concept and reality, the unification, in their concreteness"; it senses the unity beneath what was "hitherto separated...in the self and its object" (Ä: I, 155/114). It allows us, in short, to sense the mutual formation at the heart of reality.
The beautiful object models idealist reality in other ways as well. It must appear free and self-determining: an integrated whole whose parts are both necessary and harmonized. The necessity should, however, not be too obvious but rather "hidden behind an appearance of undesigned contigency" (Ä: I, 157/115). The harmony, in turn, must "preserve an appearance of independent freedom" among its parts. The beautiful object's form must also not appear "stamped" on the content mechanically; the artwork must make it seem that the form instead is "giving itself an outward shape" (Ä: I, 156/115). He we again see echoes of the rationalists' emphasis on harmony and the appearance of perfection. But Hegel claims to have derived these desiderata not from a pre-existing order that humans discover but from within his system. Beauty entails harmony and necessity because the components of the Idea itself are harmonious and necessary. The need and nature of art have always been demonstrated by his overall philosophy, a philosophy that itself, he claims, is presuppositionless . Deriving a definition from within the system establishes a pattern we will see Hegel use throughout his definition of both particular art forms and the individual arts.
Despite its centrality to his system, however, Hegel's relationship to beauty is both complicated and unclear. This is because, as we will have ample opportunity to witness in both his discussion of classical art and of sculpture as an individual art, he sometimes seems to reserve the designation "beautiful" for art of the classical world. As a consequence, he is sometimes accused of a "neo-classicism" that recognizes beauty only in ancient Greek art. I will argue in Chapter 3 that a better understanding of art's various endings shows this accusation to be misguided. And indeed, much of Hegel's contemporary relevance in the writing of Danto, Pippin, and others relies specifically on his theory's ability to account for art's importance after it is no longer beautiful in the classical sense but has adopted other criteria for success.
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Art is a way humans reflect on their place within the self-determining whole.
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In order to be a sensuous appearance of the Idea, art instead must express the identity of identity and difference by merging forms and content, not forcing an already chosen content into an artistic form.
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Hegel's extreme disapproval of this characterization of art frequently takes the form of personal animosity toward Friedrich Schlegel and his celebration of irony. Schlegel, himself both a theoretician and practitioner of art, placed irony at the pinnacle of philosophical truth. The Absolute, Schlegel claimed, could never be conceptualized; it could only be approximated and gestured at. This fact necessitates an ironic attitude that acknowledges both the Absolute and our inability to understand it. In this claim he was not alone: others o Hegel's generation, including K.W.F. Solger and Jean Paul Richter, also advocated this ironic stance. But Hegel generally serves his ire for Schlegel. Not entirely fairly, he describes both Schlegel's artist theory and practice as nothing but aestheticized egoism. From the ironic viewpoint, he complains, the ego "can remain lord and master of everything": anything can be art as long as it is related to the self. Consequently, "everything genuinely and independently real becomes only a show [Schein]" (Ä: I, 94/65): from an ironic standpoint, there can also be no seriousness about the divine or about "law, morals, and truth." Such extreme subjectivity runs contrary to the claim that the true is not the individual subject but, instead, the whole. Aside from this philosophical concern, Hegel clearly see irony as a relativism whose corrosive effects on ethical life must be resisted. "This irony was invented by Friedrich von Schlegel," he concludes dyspeptically, "and many others have babbled about it or are now babbling about it again" (Ä: I, 95/66).
Second, as Hegel also argued in the Encyclopedia, art cannot be mere imitation (EPG, 558). On Plato's view, art will never be truthful, but the least objectionable art will imitate reality as closely as possible. The history of imitation as a criterion for art after Plato is long and complex, as is its relation to nature*26. Hegel is primarily concerned with a more recent trend, namely naturalism. Playwrights such as August von Kotzebue, whose popularity far outstripped that of Goethe or Schiller during Hegel's lifetime, advocated a return to the "natural" in drama as a particularly German counterweight to overly-stylized French art. At the foundation of this trend is, as Hegel points out, the "old, ever-recurring dispute whether art should portray external objects just as they are or whether it should glorify natural phenomena and transfigure them" (Ä: I, 212/160). Hegel repeatedly shows himself to be no admirer of the French aesthetic. But he also has little patience for art that is nothing but a recitation of daily events.
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Worse: naturalism in art repeats the mistake of presenting the world as simply given. Such art does little to make the strange familiar or the familiar strange or, as Hegel also puts it, to "reconvey" "external existence into the spiritual realm, so that the external appearance, by being adequate to the spirit, is the revelation thereof" (Ä: I, 206/156). Art must essentially and obviously be a seeming, not an imitation of the reality we claim to know. Part of art's spiritual potential, Hegel has argued, is exactly its ability to free us from the realism that naturalism professes to provide. Art's distance from reality - again, the fact that the bed is painted, not actual, and the battle is staged, not fought - is essential to its worth. Hegel claims that the "hard shell of nature and the ordinary world make it more difficult for the spirit to penetrate through them to the Idea than works of art do" (Ä: I, 23/29). It is difficult, to put it in terms of Hegel's philosophical idealism, to see myself and the world in a mutually formative relationship. But since a painted tree or a character in a drama is explicitly an act of creation, the mutually created nature of the world becomes available to sensuous experience through art.
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Hegel lists three basic characteristics of art that allow the artist to transcend the prosaic and achieve the poetic. The first is that art must first be "brought about by human activity" (Ä: I, 44/25), neither natural nor a product of the divine. The nature of artistic activity - to what extent it is the product of rules, inspiration, or genius - will be a topic of the following section. The third we have already considered: art must have as its end not education or entertainment but only itself. Art, Hegel says, must be made "for apprehension by the senses" but in a way also related to the spirit (Ä: I, 44/25). In everyday life, the self responds to objects by desiring them, appropriating them, or negating them for its own use. As again in the case of the lord and bondsman, neither the consuming subject nor the consumed object is free. Art interrupts this negative relation: "With mere pictures of the wood that it might use, or of the animals it might want to eat, desire is not served" (Ä: I, 58/36). The subject can relate to the art object "without desire, as to an object which is for the contemplative side of spirit alone." Not unlike aesthetic pleasure in Kant's philosophy, the enjoyment of art is, in other words, disinterested.
Although the art object should be not experienced as a consumable particular thing, neither should it be experienced only by the intelligence as a universal. Art instead "cherishes an interest in the object in its individual existence and does not struggle to change it into its universal thought and concept" (Ä: I, 60/38). In order to experience something as an artwork, we must not, "as science does," only understand "the concept of this object as a universal concept" (Ä: I, 60/38). The artwork's particular, sensuous nature must remain dominant.
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3. The Determinacy of Art
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A. The General State of the World
In order to act, a character "requires a surrounding world as the general ground for its realizations" (Ä: I, 234/179). This "general state of the world" depicts how "the concepts of ethics and law, and...justice, are activated" within a society (Ä: I, 235/179). In Homeric epics, for instance, laws are not yet codified and individual are not yet attached to the stability of any regime. These individuals, then, are supremely independent. Hercules <Ancestor of Alexander> does exactly as he pleases, creating his own ethical world, as it were, in his wake. Because the hero instantiates authority on his own, he is "connected with his entire willing, acting, and achieving, so he also takes undivided responsibility for whatever consequences arise from his actions" (Ä: I, 246/187), Oedipus being the classic example.
The modern world, by contrast, is a "prosaic state of affairs": norms are codified and circumscribed into law. Hegel believes that the world is better for this development. And ultimately, he argues in Objective Spirit, modern humans are capable of being self-determining even within these systems of norms . But the ways in which this is true are opaque, technical, and require philosophical analysis - an analysis, fortunately for Hegel's readers, such as the one offered in the Philosophy of Right. However philosophically advanced, the resulting situation does not make good art. The "heroic individual is more ideal," Hegel writes: he seamlessly embodies self-determination in a way modern individuals cannot.
But modern artists have found ways to balance heroic individuals and the prosaic nature of modern life. Modern dramas are, for instance, often set in times of civil war in which norms break down and individuals are again required to be self-reliant. Such moments of social upheaval lay bare our otherwise hidden responsibility for the norms around us: the familiar becomes strange and we are able to reflect on our relationship to our ethical <Individual-Symbolic, Eternal Recurrence wouldn't be eternally recurring otherwise> order. Schiller and Goethe offer modern examples, although not all are successful. Schiller's Robbers pits its hero against the entire society, giving him ample room for self-determination, but the play's Robin Hood-like "robber ideal," Hegel thinks, can only appeal to boys. Kabale und Libe, by contrast, focuses too much on the "tiny details and passions" of its protagonists. Only in Fiesco, Don Carlos, and Wallenstein does Schiller succeed in making the characters embrace a sufficiently substantial matter, such as political liberation. Goethe's Gotz von Berlichingen makes the emergence of modernity itself its theme, showing the "collision between the medieval heroic age and the legality of modern life" (Ä: I, 257/196). The task of modern artists such as Schiller and Goethe, then, is to choose general states of the world - configurations of morals and laws - that allow protagonists to exhibit their self-determination. A play simply depicting individuals doing their civic duties would not show the human freedom that persists despite prosaic life. Modern authors must, in other words, find ways of making the general state of the world poetic again.
B. The Situation
In addition to depicting the general state of the world, art must depict humans' reactions to the tensions that state produces. When the state of the world is combined with the heart of an individual who "moved by circumstances, feels itself induced to react." we have what Hegel calls the situation [die Situation] (Ä: I, 282/217).
What situations can best express the Ideal? What individual reactions to which circumstances can highlight the character's self-determination and so make familiar norms strange to the audience in ways that invite reflection? Some artwork, Hegel says, lack situation entirely, for instance Egyptian statues or busts of Christ. There are also works in which the situation is harmless, for instance Greek sculptures and lyric poetry. But the third category of situation, namely collision, is fertile territory for exposing components of action that have become too habitual for us to see clearly. Again, Hegel's aim here is to indicate what has to be true of an artwork in order for it to express the Idea: among other things, to remind us of our creative participation and our authority in the world. Some kinds of collisions do this more powerfully than others. Collisions with nature, for instance a natural catastrophe or illness, depict nature as a given, and so do not effectively put humans in mind of their co-determination with nature<*1>. Better examples are when the situation is connected to a spiritual concern, for instance problems with succession in Oedipus or Macbeth or political injustices such as "slavery, serfdom, casts, the positions of Jews in many states" (Ä: I, 272/208). A third kind of conflict, however, even more closely achieves Hegel's goal, namely when we find "a transgression brought about by an actual human deed" which, in addition, violates "absolutely justified interests and powers" (Ä: I, 278/213).
< *1. Shin Godzilla exemplifies the situation in a way that affirms our co-determination with these powerful elemental forces, one reason why I hold Shin Godzilla in high regard. I feel the Monsterverse is the by-product of some calculus, from the arithmetic of the current Imperial Regime. International myth-making production. "Look at how great the UN is at coordination and disaster relief. Also we really have to remember that we are totally at the mercy of these gargantuan atavistic forces, who are actually good because they return us to a State of Harmony with Nature... the Eco-terrorists are right in spirit but wrong in approach, still it is a good thing that the 'gods' have returned to keep us in line." In starting with the International, with International coordination and Global Systems of care and relief... a particular element is sacrificed prematurely, so ambitious in scope it becomes unambitious, hollowed out. Another attempt at creating a New World Mythos, following in the trail of Disney-Marvel. Mytho transmitted to us not by the Poet but by the streaming device. Shin Godzilla emerges in response, to this. Stirred.
One that was explicitly National-in-Form.
When does the deity end and the mech start? When does the mech end and the deity begin?
With Shin Godzilla we also get to witness what the "End of Cinema" as the End of the language of Cinema (one defined by its technical limitations, the innovates perspectives that emerge out of them, and the referentiality of perspective that binds together the cinematic canon. Anno like his fellow auteur and countryman Satoshi Kon, found in animation the means to explore perspectives that are difficult if not outright impossible to capture in live-action. The scene of Godzilla "discovering" his automatic blast, exemplifies a new phase in the language of cinema, the ability to translate imagery/perspective that had once been confined to, or submerged in, animation.)>
C. Action Proper
The general state of the world sets the stage; the individual reacting to that state determines the situation. That reaction causes another reaction, and action proper results. Hegel is explicit about the importance of this outcome: "At this point only has the Ideal entered into full determinacy and movement. For now there stand in battle against one another two interests, wrested from their harmony, and in reciprocal contradiction they necessarily demand a resolution of their discord" (Ä: I, 282-283/217). How then can an artist depict action such that it brings our self-determination to our attention?
While the spectrum of possible human actions is vast, Hegel says that "the range of actions suitable for representation is on the whole restricted" (Ä: I, 285/219). He specifies three components of a depicted action that are accordingly necessitated by the Idea. The first is that the actions should be undertaken in the name of what Hegel calls universal powers. These are "the great themes of art, the eternal religious and ethical relationships; family, country, state, church, fame, friendship, class, dignity, and, in the romantic world, especially of honour and love, etc." (Ä: I, 286/220). The truly successful drama will show a conflict in which each side has some justification. Hegel again uses Antigone as his example, echoing his argument, familiar from the Phenomenology of Spirit, that both Antigone and Creon are acting on universal values (the family and the state, respectively), meaning that in neither case is the action irrational or unjustified.
Dramas that do not have universal powers at their core are inferior. Hegel complains, for instance, that the plot of Hartmann von Aue's twelfth-century poem Der arme Heinrich is occasioned by a "repulsive" collision involving a leper who can only be cured by the sacrifice of a young girl's life (Ä: I, 287/221). Hegel is similarly uneasy about plots that are "purely negative," simply depicting evil, baseness, or madness, a category in which he places both King Lear and the "grotesqueness of irony" typical of E.T.A Hoffman (Ä: I, 289/222-223).
Secondly, the individuals portrayed must be self-determining. Attributing motivation to the gods cannot express the Ideal since it would operate as a kind of given. The "genuinely ideal relationship" instead "consists in the identity of gods and men" (Ä: I, 295/227). We might be told, for instance, that Athena checks Achilles's wrath, but actually this is "an event which happened in the heart of Achilles" (Ä: I, 296/228). In modern art, the witches express Macbeth's own desires; the ghost confirms Hamlet's pre-existing suspicions. In short: in ideal works of art, "the gods seem to bring about what is alien to man and yet actually accomplish only what constitutes the substance of his inner heart" (Ä: I, 296/228).

Hegel also chooses another modern example, namely Goethe's reimagining of Euripides's Iphigenia, to illustrate this point. In the original plot, innocent victims of an unjust ruler, Thoas, are rescued by divine intervention. In Goethe's version, by contrast, Iphigenia, a human, brings about the denouement by calling on Thoas's "magnanimity and clemency, trusting on the height of his dignity.... She does not need the image of the goddess and can go away without cunning and treachery, since Goethe explains with infinite beauty, in a human reconciling way, the ambiguous oracle" (Ä: I, 298/229-230). Hegel finds this transformation deeply moving. "In this, as in every other respect, we cannot marvel enough at the deep beauty of the drama" (Ä: I, 299/230) <Orpheus sings to Hades, Epic III from Hadestown>.
Thirdly, action requires character. Being a human character involves having a rich range of traits. "[T]o a true man many gods belong," Hegel says: "the whole of Olympus is assembled in his breast" (Ä: I, 307/237). At the same time, "this fullness must appear as concentrated in one person and not as diffusion, freakishness, and mere diverse excitability" (Ä: I, 308-309/238). Characters, in effect, must be unified and purified the same way warts must be eliminated from portraits and extraneous events omitted from plots. They must, however, also not be over-simplified: one aspect should remain dominant, but the individual must also have the "opportunity to turn in many directions, to engage in a variety of situations" (Ä: I, 310/239). He gives Romeo as an example of someone who is chiefly defined by his love for Juliet, but whose character is given fuller expression through interactions with family and friends.
This definition of character leads Hegel to be critical of trends in modern art. He criticizes Corneille's Le Cid in which the main protagonist displays "splendid rhetoric and affecting monologues" but "is inherently contrary to solid decisiveness and unity of character" (Ä: I, 312/241). The principal characters in Racine's Phedre, Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther, and Jacobi's Woldemar are guilty of his fault. Hegel also takes the opportunity to criticize both irony and an outgrowth of the ironic standpoint which he calls the beautiful : a character who thinks itself too morally pure to engage with the world. If others cannot admire its "solitary beauty," the beautiful soul is "infinitely injured"; "the most trifling matter . . . brings such a beautiful heart to the depths of despair." Hegel has, as usual, no patience for this: it is, he says, "a property of a genuine character to have spirit and force to will and take hold of something actual" (Ä: I, 314/242). The Ideal can only be achieved if a character remains firm and unified.
In addition to its plot, a drama must portray the setting in which character and action appear to us. This includes depicting "locality, time, climate," as well as "tools and housing. . . weapons, seats, carriages": "in short the whole variety of customs and usages in all situations and actions" (Ä: I, 317/245). If the goal of art is to help humans reflect on idealist truth, how can the world surrounding the protagonists be aestheticized? Here Hegel argues that artworks should have a measure of harmony and symmetry: a drama's scenes and acts should be roughly uniform in length; music should balance harmony and discord; paintings should have a harmonious color scheme. Characters in the work must find an echo in their surroundings: Ossian's heroes, for instance, are "tied to their moors where the wind whispers through the thistles, to their clouds, mists, hills, and dark glens" (Ä: I, 330/255). Good artists achieve this harmony fully; bad art (the Nibelungenlied, not for the last time, gets a critical mention here) in only a "poor and vague" way (Ä: I, 329/254).
Finally, Hegel asks how the work of art itself should interact with its own time: whether the artist should "keep his eye only on the past . . . or whether he is not only entitled but in duty bound to take account solely of his own nation and contemporaries" (Ä: I, 343/265). Both extremes are, predictably, false. Herder's anthropological research into folksong, for instance, excessively favors the past, focusing too much on "historical exactitude and fidelity" (Ä: I, 349/270). At the other extreme, Hegel objects to Kotzebue's attempts to put before the public "merely its own casual subjectivity, i.e. the man in the street in his ordinary present activity and concerns." Audiences may enjoy seeing themselves so depicted, but "such subjectivity inherently fails to rise to the feeling and imagination of what constitutes the genuine content of the work of art" (Ä: I, 347/268). Such plays are simply not artistic enough; they mirror rather than transform our understanding of our world. Shakespeare, by contrast, often achieves this ideal. Goethe, in his retelling of Iphigenie and in his adaptation of Persian poetry in the West-ostliche Divan, does as well.
When all of these criteria are met - when the right state of the world, situation, collision, action, character, and setting are united in a work that is "enjoyable by all ages and nations" (Ä: I, 343/265) - art is capable of making the Idea appear to our senses. Such a work will be best equipped to "disclose to us the higher interest of our spirit and will, what is in itself human and powerful, the true depths of the heart" (Ä: I, 361/279).
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[*13. As Rutter points out, Schein also has its foundation in the Logic. It appears first as the opposite of Wessen or essence or "as a deception counterposed to truth." But this opposition, like all others, is unstable, and essence must ultimately appear (erscheinen). The resulting unity of inner and outer is actuality (Wirklichkeit). See EL, 142 and Rutter (2010). 65. See also important distinctions regarding meanings of Schein in the Logic at Hindrichs (2018), 30-33 and a comprehensive attempt to link the Logic to beauty at Wicks (1994), 71ff.
*26. As Lichtenstein writes of the French tradition that predated Hegel: "The definition of painting as the imitation of nature was widely accepted in the Academie, and the Academicians all identified nature with truth. But they did not all ascribe the same sense to the word nature. It functioned as an authoritative tribunal but it could mean empirical reality or the essence of things...nature real or ideal" (Lichtenstein 2008, 45).]
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Love is an ultimate Truth.
But Islam rejects this natural love between a boy and a girl.
While Islam deems love to be immodest.
There is no concept of Love in Islam, but only SEX.
Islam condemns the love of Layla and Majnun (Arabic characters like Romeo/Juliet) to be immodest.
And Islam punishes all the Laylas and Majnuns severely, while they commit the crime of indulging in Natural Love.
Islam employs the tools of the Hijab and Islamic Modesty in order to kill this love.
Islam is not a religion of nature, but it is a murderer of nature.
Islam not only allows Muslim men to have sex with 4 wives,
but also to have sex with dozens of slave girls in a Shia Mut'ah-type "Temporary" sexual relationship
And this temporary sexual relationship with slave girls is not out of any necessity,
but only and only for the LUST of Muslim men.

Islam usurps the right from a small girl to indulge in love, by forced marriage without her consent

Islam allows the fatheguardian to forcefully give a minor girl in Nikah to any man, even if he is 50 years old. The fatheguardian does not even need to ask for the consent of a minor girl.
Abu Bakr gave 6 years old small child 'Aisha in marriage to an old person like Muhammad without even asking her.
Therefore, the most important question is what chance does such a minor child girl have, to become an adult, and fall in natural love with any boy of her own age group?
And the answer is, she has absolutely no chance.
Islam usurped her right to fall in love completely. And now Islam is forcing her to love only that old man to whom she was married by her guardian without her consent.
It is a wonder that despite this oppression, Muslims still claim Islam to be a religion of nature.
And what to talk about a small child girl, Islam does not allow even an adult girl to indulge in love with any boy of her age group. Islam puts complete restrictions upon her for making any interaction with any boy in the name of so-called Islamic modesty and Hijab. She is practically forced to marry a man she has never talked to before and does not know if his mentality and personality suit her.
This makes both Hijab and Islamic decency حياء to be crimes against humanity.

Excuses by Islamic apologists:

An Islamic apologist wrote:

Islam is not alone in this regard, but it is true of most societies and religions in the absence of effective contraception, testing for sexually transmitted diseases and DNA tests.Before DNA testing, men had no way of knowing paternity so virginity was one of their biggest concern. And Allah's wisdom in unmatched while Islam achieved this task perfectly by prohibiting interaction between men and women. A premodern world with high mortality rates, no guarantee of paternity etc wasn't exactly a suitable place for current standards of love.

Response:
This is a totally wrong assumption that not doing Hijab or both genders having interaction would necessarily lead to illegal sex and illegitimate children.
Please remember that:
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1. Muhammad prohibited slave women to take the Hijab and even kept their breasts naked. Thus, there were thousands of slave women present in front of Muhammad and in public without the Hijab and with naked breasts
2. And the interaction of Muslim men with slave women is also completely allowed in Islam.
3. Thus, if Muslim claims that despite non-Hijab and naked breasts and interaction with slave women didn't lead to illegal sex and illegitimate children in Islam society, then why would necessarily lead to illegal sex and illegitimate children only in the case of free Muslim girls and women?

Look here how Muslim men were interacting with slave women in Islamic State:
The slave women of Umar Ibn Khattab used to serve men with naked breasts. Imam Bayhiqi recorded this tradition and declared it "Sahih" in his book al-Sunan al-Kubra (link):

ثم روى من طريق حماد بن سلمة قالت : حدثني ثمامة بن عبد الله بن أنس عن جده أنس بن مالك قال : " كن إماء عمر رضي الله عنه يخدمننا كاشفات عن شعورهن تضطرب ثديهن " . قلت : وإسناده جيد رجاله كلهم ثقات غير شيخ البيهقي أبي القاسم عبد الرحمن بن عبيد الله الحربي ( 1 ) وهو صدوق كما قال الخطيب ( 10 / 303 ) وقال البيهقي عقبه : " والاثار عن عمر بن الخطاب رضي الله عنه في ذلك صحيحة " .Anas bin Malik said: ‘The female slaves of Umar were serving us with uncovered hair and their breasts shaking”Sheikh Albani also declared it "Sahih" (Link).

Prophet Muhammad used to walk in public while holding the hands of the slave girls of another man in his hand:

Sahih Bukhari, Hadith 6072:Anas bin Malik said, "Any of the female slaves of Medina could take hold of the hand of Allah's Apostle and take him wherever she wished."

This same tradition is also present in Sunan Ibn Majah too.

Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith 4177:“If a female slave among the people of Al-Medinah were to take the hand of the Messenger of Allah, he would not take his hand away from hers until she had taken him wherever she wanted in Al-Medinah so that her needs may be met.”Grade: Sahih (Darussalam)Grad: Sahih (Albani)

Therefore, if the INTERACTION of Prphet with slave girls of other people (and even holding their hands and roaming in the city of Medina) was not the cause of illegal sex and illegitimate children, why then it becomes so in the case of only free Muslim girls?
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Taken from: https://atheism-vs-islam.com/
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