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To celebrate Pride I wanted to make fun of a conversation where I was explaining that Henry in my BATIM au is aroace in my head to a friend, and they immediately go "but that goes against his character, he's not even the same person" and like...buddy, I'm gonna be honest with you, we hear about Henry's wife in a single recording and never again, I don't think that adds anything to the conversation booboo. I don't remember Mr. BATIM saying Joey was romantically obsessed with Henry and wanted to aggressively make out, but maybe I missed that, you tell me babygirl

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God finals are a paradox of feelings and intentions.

I’d love to be asleep right now and be bright and awake for my last final of the year but instead I’m thinking about what gods I need to add to my dnd pantheon and scrolling through two different social media apps that funnel me political doomerisms and unfunny memes respectively.

And during all of this I am not even remotely thinking about the importance of Hannah Arendt and whatever a Vita Activa is

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wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating

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No, but seriously, do you know how amazing Vincent Price is?

Not just as an actor, although he was a blast to watch in everything he did.  He’s one of those actors who’s just clearly having a whale of a time, no matter how bad the film is.  He’s just genuinely happy to be there (it makes his villains a particular delight, and he played a LOT of them).

But did you know that he was also on the PFLAG board after his daughter came out to him?  And that he was one of the earliest celebrities to speak out against the silence surrounding the AIDS epidemic?

Did you know that when his daughter came out to him, he admitted to her that it had been difficult for him during his first two marriages, because his wives had not been pleased to find out that their husband was just as interested in men as they were?

That’s right, kids, Vincent Price was BISEXUAL AS FUCK, and it was one of those open Hollywood secrets.  And his wife Coral Browne?  The one he grew old with and wrote cookbooks with and was basically ridiculously sweet with?

Also bisexual as fuck.  They were the queer power couple of Hollywood in the 70s.  His daughter, Victoria, grew up around Rock Hudson and members of the LGBT community.  When she came out, Vincent Price became a board member of PFLAG and was just about the most accepting and awesome dad.

Did you know that Vincent Price played Oscar Wilde in a one-man play, and when it was denounced by anti-gay activist Anita Bryant, he dismissed her right back, saying that Oscar Wilde had already come up with a term for her: a Woman of No Importance?  Because Vincent Price was deliciously witty and an awesome person.

Let me conclude with a quote from his daughter (from this article, where I got a lot of this information):

‘“In a funny way, and I think I’m going to cry, he understood me at 22 better than I understood myself then,” Price concluded. “Of course, he was in his 70s and lived a hell of a lot longer than I had, and he understood that at the end of the day it’s about who and what and how we love. And I have not been a person who has been very successful at conventional relationships, but loving well and loving deeply has been the most important thing to me.”’

Happy birthday, Vincent Price.  You were a gem of an actor, and an even greater human being.

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“THE MAGICIAN AND THE SNAKE.” Story by Katie and Mike Mignola Art by Mike Mignola Colors by Dave Stewart

From the pages of The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects “The Magician and The Snake,” is an Eisner Award-winning tale by Mignola and his then-seven-year-old daughter Katie.

Read Comics. Buy Comics here.

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Ma can I get a job at marvel yet?

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Clive Barker is such a funny author to read into, start off with BDSM demons and then somehow end up in the dramatic life of a lesser demon trying to drive a dude insane and continually failing to do so, until finally the dude just beats the demon at his own game and apparently all of this was written on some dudes forehead by a ghost

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Gubernatorial

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The game awards were cool and all but did you know that nitrous oxide fucking rules?

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Happy Giving

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Im telling you it’s always something when you pick up a $10 order and then you drop it off at a Bruce Wayne ass mansion full of Christmas decorations and shit and then someone will say “yeah that’s a fair tip”.

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There’s a lot of things in this world we can’t control.

I think it’s the way we respond to these things that makes us stronger or weaker as people. The ability to look the uncertain in the eyes and continue to be kind is one of the most difficult and empowering things you can do. I think without this strength we wouldn’t have made it far.

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I wonder how Sonic the Hedgehog would feel if he got to see the multiverse of fan creations made for him. One third are genuine loving tributes, and the other two-thirds are either him having sex with other guys or universes where he is murdered/possessed/evil.

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Physics are just the rules that make this universe extremely boring. You could shoot lightning from your fingers but then Dirk Dinglus, P.h.D comes in and goes “well that’s not PHYSICALLY possible” well you know what screw you this is why we can’t have nice things and god is mad at us

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Horror is when you like someone’s posts and then they go through your account and look at all the sins you present to the world.

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A Chair

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HELLBOY

“German expressionism meets Jack Kirby.”

— Alan Moore on Mike Mignola’s style