#inadvisable

[dreadcartel]

I bought a celsius with lunch today not knowing it was an energy drink and it did pick me up, taste pretty good, and probably motivate me more for a workout later but I’ve seen my coworker bring like two of these in at his desk at once what in the hell

[grits-gal-raised-in-the-south]

Tina Brown, former sussex sugar and former Vanity Fair editor-in-chief, 71, appeared in the Mixed Signals for Semafor Media podcast on Friday, April 18, 2025 when she was asked about Rachel Meghan Markle:

'She's weirdly panic-stricken in her business model.'

she's 'desperate for attention'.

'Her problem is just that she is so ADD. She just never stops making announcements and never really follows through,'

'It's like, I'm gonna do a cooking show! Nah - I'm going to be a podcaster. And hello, hello, I've got a beauty line!'

'It's like, just do one of those things, do it really well, and then do something else

'Maybe she's just so devoid of self-confidence that she's always trying to be a sort of instant Beyonce or instant Michelle Obama without the background that has built those people - you know, those very, very strong structures on which they stand. So that's really been her problem,'

'If she'd simply succeeded at one thing, and then done another thing, she'd be in a much, much better place

'But she's enormously shallow in her approach to the work she does.'

The Palace just doesn't really think about Meghan anymore. It's almost like she's gone.

'Obviously, there are Meghan lovers and Meghan haters.

'The thing about Meghan is she's really not bad at anything that she does. 

🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥'She has a huge influencer following. When she puts on a shirt or carries a handbag, it sells out, which means that she clearly has a following of people who really like what she stands for in some ways.

'What I hear from everyone is that she's unadvisable, and that is the issue. 

'She's had a lot of good people willing to give advice to her, but what has irritated the people who do - and big people who do - is that they sit with her and they give her very good advice, and she kind of appears to be extremely motivated by it. 

'And then she doesn't do it, and does something else. She's worn out her advisory circle, who just feel like, well, what's the point? She's not going to do it.

'And, unfortunately, she is the major adviser to Harry. She doesn't take advice, and he only takes hers. That's not a very good combination really for either of them.'

proof the former Suits actress has an 'unerring instinct for getting it wrong'. 

the only show that would have worked would have been one where Meghan admitted 'what a flaming flop the last five years have been'.

Meghan 'has never figured out a convincing persona' and is 'behind the curve', the journalist and royal expert added.

Meghan is 'too damn impatient,' adding: 'Who announces a new lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard, and hounds celebrity friends to talk up her strawberry jam on social media, without doing due diligence on the availability of the trademark?

choosing Netflix over a future with the Royal Family and probably steering the Commonwealth.

Writing in her newsletter Fresh Hell in March she said: 'Meghan has come out with a show about fake perfection just when the zeitgeist has turned raucously against it.

Prince Andrew:

Tina said: 'I've always found the Giuffre story interesting... The story might be exactly as she's portrayed it, but it was a strange thing to do - to post pictures of herself black and blue on Instagram saying I have four days to live. And then it turned out that actually there hadn't been a bus crash of any particular severity.

'And she's fine, it seems. So what's that about? Does that just mean that she's currently unwell and has done this thing? Or is there another story there? I just think it deserves a good, full bodied blowout story.'

'I always wanted to interview the husband. Like, the story was that she left Epstein, she went to Australia, and then she never came back because she met this guy... and you never really learn the full surround.

'I don't think we've got the Epstein story wrong. Epstein was a very sinister, deeply terrible person. I don't think we got Epstein wrong.

'And I don't think we got the Andrew story wrong. I mean, Andrew is... he has the worst judgment in the world. He's an idiot. You know, he's kind of loathsome in a thousand ways.

'It's just possible, though, that he wasn't lying about Virginia Giuffre. I mean, that's one of the things in life.

Zeitgeist Genius Tina Brown on Meghan Markle, Vanity Fair and Whether We Still Need Editors

Podcast Episode · Mixed Signals from Semafor Media · 18/04/2025 · 47m

[kply-industries]

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

can you show us ur favorite animal

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS

(Please ignore how visibly nervous I am here)

[imgs-of-old]

HPIM0077 from June 2008

[the-four-hoursemen]

I need to stop putting headphone wires in my mouth

I keep fu*king up my headphones

On the bonus side my wires are all curled like decorative present ribbons

_Death

[pikapeppa]

“I want you,” she whispered. “I — are you ready?”

Slowly, with infinite care, Abelas reached up and tucked a lock of hair behind her ear. “I am more than ready,” he told her. “I yearn fiercely for you, Athera. Let nothing stand between us any longer.”

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Abelas and Athera Lavellan making two become one in Inadvisable, my modern university AU with @elbenherzart, whose exquisite art never fails to absolutely stun me. 😭😭❤❤❤❤ 

Full image in the fic chapter on AO3. 

[the-fae-folk]

Widdershins

It is inadvisable to walk Widdershins around your home at any time. Though we especially warn against it at times like Midnight, Dawn, Dusk. Under the Full Moon is a bad idea, as is under the New Moon. Also avoid it at the Equinoxes and the Solstices. Really, just as a general rule, try not to go round your home Widdershins at any time.