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[wilwheaton]

How did you get into acting? Was it something you've always wanted to do?

My mother forced me to become an actor when I was seven, and then refused to let me quit, even though I literally begged her to stop making me work. She used and exploited me to get things she wanted for herself.

I sincerely believed acting was something I wanted to do, because my mother manipulated and gaslighted me my entire childhood. I was completely brainwashed. By the time I was old enough to realize that not only was it not my idea, but that I didn't have to be an actor any more if I didn't want to, I was terrified I would be the huge failure my abusive father always made me believe I was, so I kept trying to be an actor well into my 30s.

In my 40s, I decided to retire from acting on-camera, and use what I'd learned over the years to work as a voice actor, audiobook narrator, and writer. I'm a New York Times bestselling author! And number on audiobook narrator!

I just turned 50 in July. I'm still doing the performing and entertaining work I'm pretty good at, but I'm only doing it on my terms. My favorite thing I'm doing right now is hosting The Ready Room, the official online destination for all things Star Trek universe.

I'm the happiest I've ever been in my life. I'm truly thriving. I've been married for almost 24 years, I have two wonderful children and a daughter-in-law I love like my own. It's a really good life, but I'm not going to lie: I had to crawl through a LOT of shit to get here.

[rcgraves]

I have no father comma, @

[the-tree-line]

instead of putting my mental illnesses in my bio (stupid. unsafe. a trend that needs running into the ground) i like to spinkle a little bit of it into all of my posts for my followers to discover like a crossword puzzle (fun. sense of mystery and discovery. privacy retained)

[rcgraves]

TIL Arthur Koestler, noted author of the critically acclaimed anti-totalitarian work Darkness at Noon and, later, an insane antisemite, is credited, on Wikipedia, with crafting the first known crossword puzzle in Hebrew. The date of the crossword is unspecified, but Arthur Koestler and co-author Hamish Hamilton are cited. Presumably this creation of the first known crossword puzzle in Hebrew occurred before Arthur Koestler co-wrote the book crediting Arthur Koestler and then, later, he and his wife Cynthia killed themselves.

[rcgraves]

Word to your mother, @wilwheaton on #BevCrusherDay.

Was she ever Holmes with you or was she always the femme fatale?

[rcgraves]

I left @thecommunityclubhouse social media meeting a few minutes early to get to the hospital early for my 3:15pm de-suturing, because I am in stitches, as one nose, as one does, in #ThisIsNorthfield #ThisIsNorthfieldAfterTheApocalypse #GigaPopJokes #DadJokes, he said, desultorily, the bike’s Markov chain having been greased lugubriously. I did not park my cycle in the spaces reserved for the expectant. #30DaysOfBiking for the Wounded Warrior Project may continue fund raising, via Facebook groups and such, virtually. (at Northfield Hospital + Clinics) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdtnJSUuNKv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rcgraves]

Well, at leased theRepublicans locked in the northerner Know-Nothings vote, both times, at the shirtwaist factory for the Amazons and the Koch’s. The surviving shirtwaist factory employees paid to keep their good jobs, I reckon. (at Just Food Co-op) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdtISqlLYxR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rcgraves]

It’s 42 miles to 38th and Chicago, it’s dark, and the fighting apostles softball team won tonight, 20-12, I think. #Whatever #TerriersOfInstagram #DontLetTheTerriersWin #letthewookiewinalways #Domestics #ScottishPlay #DontSayGaia #0K (at Babcock Park North) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdnDffGuWjx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rcgraves]

Ending near the beginning, a peaceful random walk around Northfield on a peaceful official Sunday with a million dead, mostly needlessly, this afternoon. #HalfStaff #TerriersOfInstagram #AmericanBully #PeaceOfficersMemorialDay #MayFlowers ⚜️ (at City Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdl-fMBum7T/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rcgraves]

Will Rogers is perhaps not best known for quipping that being a member of an organized political party is like hurting cats. (at Imminent Brewing) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdXTAYZM9Nw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rcgraves]

“Oh, what a lucky man, he was,” dad joked, tomcaticalysmically, striving to build back better Ally, empathizing with the oft right testosterone-addled, neutrally. #GigaPopJokes (at Just Food Co-op) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdNN5KQuLA_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rcgraves]

🍀🌷🌷🌷🌷⛳️ (at Sibley Elementary) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdBmx3Hu_-2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rcgraves]

Cheers. 🥂🥞🥓✌️❤️ (at Undisclosed Location) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc-3m07F2d8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rcgraves]

I talk pretty some days, but not others. One size does not fit all. (at Kids'Content) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc6vB2eMvmJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rcgraves]

What’s cooking? Chicken stir-fry with the UofM Extension and yet another interrupting AI robocall from “friends of the police” (actually a far right klan-like “pro-gun” push-polling SuperPAC scam) to a number on the Do Not Call List. (at Minneapolis, Minnesota) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc6OdQhOZKi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rcgraves]

By All Means, pizza & love at Dominos. LOVE Mural by @brettwhitacreart whom we hope, like all animals, was unharmed by the making of this motion picture. Because that matters to us. (at By All Means Graphics) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcvmsyzPk3x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rcgraves]

It's time for a siesta, or in other words, a holy freaking Saturday nap. That's what gentle gente sé. Haters gonna hate. That's what people say. Whatever. Been there. Dundas. (at Dundas, Minnesota) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcbLeMTOqkb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rcgraves]

ICYMI: #til @BGMilitary is *not* actually the Bulgarian Military, but a "third way" military industrial complex publication, and therefore extremely interesting as regards coverage of for example India and Israel. US carrier battle groups be like 💩 let's pay attention at the next fire drill. This BTW is why the Trump administration's abuse of the crew of CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt (for naked political reasons, not allowed to stand down for COVID-19) is so maddening. #RememberTheRoosevelt https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2022/04/14/either-neptune-or-s-300f-missile-sank-the-russian-cruiser-moscow/ (at Northfield Fire & Rescue) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcaB769udDE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rcgraves]

Back in the olden days, the Vandals and the Horde would put the heads of the local leaders on pikes, as a warning to others not to be like them. Silence indicated the consent of the governed to just power. Sometimes, the purpose of your life is to serve as a warning to others. Historical markers, 17 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_Drina https://youtu.be/4k4NEAIk3PU (at Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcDQkV7Lwam/?utm_medium=tumblr