Proud working mom of two boys, BPD, T1D, and young heart attack survivor, author of many feels, administrative wench and former grad student of gothic lit, riddled with Catholic guilt and anxiety, needs to fucking chill. ********** The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi ******** NO TRUMP-NO KKK-NO FACIST USA! HISTORY HAS ITS EYES ON YOU ******** "We'll love again/We'll laugh again/We'll cry again/And we'll dance again" ~ 'I Never Told You What I Do For A Living' by My Chemical Romance ********* "There will never be a day when I won't think of you." ~ 'Think of Me' from The Phantom of the Opera ********** "To create a mythology, you have to be an open book" ~ Gerard Way ********** "Cancer is an evil, ugly monster" ~ Steve Irwin ********** "The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation!" ~ 'La Vie Boheme' from Rent ********** "I will go everywhere and see everything. I will meet all the people I can. I will think all the thoughts, feel all the emotions I am able, and I will write, write, write." ~ Thomas Wolfe ********** "When a woman loves a man, it doesn't matter that a crocodile bit off his face." ~ Marge Simpson **********
love that both The Phantom of the Opera and The Hunchback of Notre Dame took these beautiful pieces of architecture and said "what if a weird guy lived in there"
At this point, most of us in the POTO corner of Tumblr have dealt with @/ouat90, a rando who posts mostly AI slop of women being bridal carried by men, targeted harrassment of a community theatre in Brooklyn, NY and his own former high school in the Midwest, and complaining about how he thinks Black women can't play Christine Daaè in Phantom of the Opera (despite the fact that at this point at least six of them have professionally, to say nothing of how they always could and just weren't given the opportunity for way too long).
I've learned, almost by accident, over the last few days that this guy isn't some new rando out of nowhere when it comes to pulling this stuff. He's been a malignant presence in various theatre fan communities for over a decade, pulling mostly the same stuff. This post, and the identifying information therein, contains nothing this guy hasn't put out there himself. My point in sharing this isn't to start a counter-harassment campaign. It's that this guy will not go away but is very easily identifiable when you know what to look for, and I feel that people in the spaces he digs into should be prepared so he can be blocked/kicked out as necessary.
Meet Joey Velazquez. He's an aspiring actor who takes basically anybody getting cast above him extremely personally and makes up inflated claims about his own successes. When called on this, he begins years-long harassment campaigns against anyone who corrected him/denied him/whatever. This is part of where his whole vendetta against Narrows Community Theatre in Brooklyn comes from; he was in a production of It's a Wonderful Life a few years ago, and when the company tried to accommodate his lack of experience without kicking him out of the show, he accused them of discriminating against him for being autistic. It should go without saying that a lot of people who work in theatre are autistic or otherwise neurodivergent and don't have his issues.
In fact, he's just as vicious toward other autistic people. A personal friend of mine who is also on the spectrum shared this account with me:
This was over a decade ago. Joe continued harassing him for over ten years for calling him on an obvious lie. He might still be trying to do so, but my friend blocked him a while ago after one of the emails crossed the spam filter. My friend continues:
Regarding the first marriage in question, my friend mentioned that Joe attempted to force the woman into a "relationship contract" by which he claimed she couldn't leave him, and that he would grow verbally abusive whenever she simply walked into the home she shared with Joe and her ill mother rather than letting Joe carry her over the threshold. While this came up in a phone call, so I don't have screenshots, Joe's own Tumblr features multiple posts where he complains that his "wicked ex-wife" didn't let him carry her. His kink for men carrying women wouldn't have even been mentioned in this post if he didn't leverage it as an excuse to abuse his ex-wife, but here we are.
After his marriage ended, Joe had a long-distance relationship with a Norwegian YouTuber named Martine, who ended things after a few months. Joe has since had several Reddit accounts banned for begging others to try to force Martine back to him and to contact her on his behalf (which, to be clear, the Redditors refused to do). Martine is also on the spectrum, and Joe has used that as an excuse for why they "belong together". He's also posted alarming intent to defy a restraining order Martine might have placed against him:
@littleeliza-lotte has also spoken to Joe's former castmates at Narrows Community Theatre, who mentioned that his harassment of Amelie Jacobs began while she was still underage and that he's been banned from the theatre. I have also had to ban him from my bookstore in Brooklyn before I even knew who he was (it was recognizing his photo that tipped me off that it was the same guy as this incident) for following and harassing the staff of a local theatre in the same complex. I ended up having to get him escorted away by complex security, and he might very well be banned from the whole thing.
His tumblr right now as far as I know it is ouat90; he is on Instagram (and presumably Threads?) as joevelazquez2.0, joe.velazquez.7, and biggestpassionsfan. I'm not sure if he has any other accounts, but I've tried to provide a comprehensive breakdown of his behavior so he can be recognized and avoided accordingly.
I'm inserting a read-more at this point because there are discussions of CSAM under the cut.
The "her" in the first sentence is Gypsy Rose Blanchard; he was apparently stalking her/sending letters while she was in prison for killing her abusive mother (thankfully, she was released a few years ago), and after everything else she's been through. The last thing she needs is This Guy writing to her. I knew he was kind of fixated on her; I did not know he had contacted her enough to concern her family. As for the rest of this... good lord.
I am not sharing any of this for the sake of starting drama. This guy is legitimately dangerous and needs to be treated as such.
He also provided me with a log of Joe's posts on FilmBoard ("same behavior and just as unsettling there").
From another user, here are public records of his letters to Gypsy Rose Blanchard. And to circle back to what brought this goon into our consciousness in the first place, it turns out that while he complains about Black women playing Christine, he has no problem doing the most minstrel show-style blackface I've ever seen irl.
Don't engage with this guy. Block, report, spread the word, do whatever you need to do.
Quick question for the Phantom of the Opera/Broadway fandoms: For the Masquerade in NYC, does anyone know if it will be going past January 2027? I will be in NYC next March for a work trip and was told today that I get a free day to myself the day after our senior showcase, so I want to go to the Masquerade of course. Buuuuuuuuuut the website is only showing tickets/availability up to January, so I’m worried I’ll end up just missing it. Any info is greatly appreciated!
adriana smith who was forcibly kept on life support after being brain dead to incubate her fetus due to anti abortion laws in georgia, usa will be taken off life support this week. she had an emergency c-section today and the child was born prematurely and is in the nicu. her family is raising funds for hospital bills (that the state didn't even pay for despite forcing this "treatment" btw!) and for the new baby. donate if you can. [source]
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