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Celestus Metallicus

(Heavenly Metal)

How To Read the Stars: A Rocker’s Guide To the Galaxy!

Each of the icons will take you to a YouTube video or document, giving you better control of how you read this story.

If you want to know more about the school board stuff, that goes down the left leg, and if you want to know about the more depressing parts, those will go down the right leg. Those two things are foundational about what brought us here.

If you want to go into the tattoo sleeve and the merch wall, those will be on the right arm because that’s where they are physically on me. If you want to find out more about the charity side specifically, that’s going to be the left arm.

What’s going to go in the head and the heart? We’re getting there.

Podcast: Speak up for Julian

E1- Honoring Julian: A call to end unaccountable bullying and to support mental health

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E2- The Devil’s in the details: What happened to Julian from 2022-2024

E3- Call for help

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E4- Why Don’t Schools Want To Speak Up?

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E5- On a Brighter Note…

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E6- Back at DD2 Again!

For transparency, click here to see all of my notes and links

E7- Change Can’t Happen Soon Enough

E8- Honesty is the Best Policy (profanity; you’ve been warned)

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E9- Rally The Troops!

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E10- Prep Work

E11- When David Draiman Asks You To Share, You Share!

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E11b- What Happened at the DD2 Meeting 4/14/2025

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E12: Where Do We Go From Here?

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E13: That Merch Wall

E14: We’re Waiting for Some Meaningful Dialogue, or “WWFSMD?”

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5/16/2025 DD2 Meeting Transcript

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E15: What Now? We Get LOUD!

E15.1: LOUD in Front of

DD2!

Transparency

News articles

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Local Live5 News, Mar 27 2025

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Local ABC News4, Apr 16 2025

Local ABC News 4, Feb 6, 2026

Julian’s 16th birthday.

Local Live5 News, Feb 10 2026

Julian

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Here’s where we’re going to be building a page full of things that made Julian the friendly, caring, impulsive, funny, sad, smart, intense, energetic, and enigmatic character he was.

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Rockville 2024,

which will be among the best memories of my life.

I know this is going to seem repetitive for a bit, but rather than waiting until I’ve got all of this done it seems you’ll all get to watch it grow in real time.

Most of the contact links aren’t set up yet, and they will go towards whatever new accounts we’re creating for all of this.

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Update 2026: We’re planning lots of new things! While we work on getting our second event up and running, we’re also developing a guide to school boards for parents.
You can also follow the lawsuit as information comes out. The goal is for this to be as transparent as possible. Bullies don’t like to be seen.
Original statement:
I’m sure this will be a moving target for a while, but right now the focus is on bringing attention to the effects of unchecked bullying on mental health and suicide.
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There’s contact info available, but more than just the canned legal fodder I’d really like to hear how we can make this better. Because I know I can’t do this on my own.

Celestus Metallicus

How To Read the Stars: A Rocker’s Guide To the Galaxy!

Podcast: Speak up for Julian

News articles

Local Live5 News, Feb 10 2026

Julian

What is this website for?

What can I do to help?

This will be the final FAQ, regardless of how many we add. What if none of these FAQs answered my question?

Honoring Julian, Speak Up For Julian