Don[ny]ovan (@dgschell) · DIRTY

Don[ny]ovan

@dgschell

M*rketing Analyst 📊 Cat dad 🐈 Married to @taystrom.bsky.social 👬 Gay 🌈 Travel ✈️ PNW 🏞️ Geek 🧙‍♂️🚀 Civic engagement nerd 🗳️ Prone to tpyos 🙆‍♂️

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Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· 27d

Here's today's cat report. Only two cats.

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· 28d

Tomorrow we disembark the cruise ship 😭

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· 28d

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Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· 28d

West End's Kerry Ellis and Rob Houchen

Kerry Ellis on stage singing

Rob Houchen on stage singing while holding fan

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· 29d

But another beautiful day ☀️

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· 29d

Only two cats today 😕

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· 29d

I love when people think the internet is real life (I'm not defending live action remakes just FYI)

No-Sympathy8727
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4h ago
People said we don't want live action remakes. Disney kept making them. We said we don't want a remake of a film that came out less than ten years ago and just had a sequel. Disney made it anyway.

We said we're not gonna watch it, Disney released it. People didn't watch it. Disney turns into shocked pikachu.

Absolute fucking morons.

HendrixChord12
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1h ago
“People said we don’t want live action remakes”

And yet they all made a shit load of money up to this point. Disney flew too close to the sun this time but it paid off well with their other remakes.

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 12

Fjords!

Selfie with fjords in background

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 12

Alleyways in cute European old towns hate to see me coming

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 12

Good morning from Montenegro 🇲🇪

Montenegro view from cruise ship

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 11

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 11

Broadway's Tiffany Mann who was simply phenomenal 👏

Tifanny Mann singing on stage

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 11

Got a little pink hanging out by the pool today 🌊

Showing slight burn at speedo line

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 10

My writeup on the situation involving our cruise for those who are curious 😘

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dschell9677

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Since a lot of people (on Reddit) don't seem to know what happened to our cruise, here's my writeup:

The country of Turkey has been cracking down hard lately on anything LGBTQ (when it had been a more gay friendly destination previously). As I understand, this recent hostility is the result of the party in power losing popularity, so they're doing things like scapegoating the gays to appeal to the masses.

Anyway, a gay bar (unaffiliated with Atlantis Events) in Istanbul invited all the cruise gays to their bar, then the local government caught wind of it and shut the bar down. And then it denied the ship from docking for "morality" reasons.

So then we changed our itenerary to go to Egypt instead, which Atlantis has been to in years prior. But because this cruise has gotten so much attention lately I think it got on the radar of Egyptian authorities, so we got denied there too.

And it's all very unfortunate because Atlantis has gone to Turkey 13 times over the past 25 years. And was even in Egypt just last year. But denied this year.

Dschell9677

So when I see comments like "What were they thinking hurr durr 🤪🤪 '

I just think "stfu"

LGBT people face ‘tsunami of hate’ in Turkey, once a haven of tolerance in the Middle East
From incendiary government minister tweets to censorship of gay characters on TV, a growing animosity is suffocating Turkey’s LGBT community
LGBT groups believe President Erdogan is attacking their community to distract his supporters from the country’s economic travails

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 10

The always incredible Patti LuPone 👏👏👏

Patti LuPone standing on a stage next to a piano holding a microphone

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 10

And only saw these cats here 😿

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 10

Had a fantastic lunch in the Venetian Old Town

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 10

Adding to my cookbook collection 😋

Flavors of Antiquity book held in hand with old town of Chania, Crete in background

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 10

"Donny" spelled in Greek 🇬🇷

Iced americano with spelling of "Ντόνι" probably

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 9

Incidentally, my favorite stringer tank 🩷

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 9

Leona Winter 💃

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 9

What a terrible day 🥂

Back of pool deck with a spirtz in hand

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 9

Cheers to an unscheduled sea day 🥂

Selfie out on cruise ship deck in tan fine mesh tank top and holding a spritz drink

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 9

Aaaand there goes today's replacement port. Guess I'll get to sleep in today then 🫠🫠

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 8

Some Canadians informed me that this is indeed how Canadians measure things.

How to measure things like a Canadian flowchart

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 8

Choosing a minimalist look for the first tea dance because it's very hot today 🥵: dog tag tea dance 🪖

Wearing olive jockstrap, camp hat, and green frame sunglasses in mirror pic

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 8

Bianca Del Rio from last night and Mary Mac from the night before

Bianca Del Rio

Mary Mac

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 8

Very much like this

Don[ny]ovan@dgschell· Jul 7

My boat of choice though