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He had such magnetism in his hands that his touch, even his hand on her arm, sent warmth through her.

Anaïs Nin, Little Birds

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Harold Ramis as Egon Spengler

GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)

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She is so lucky, this should’ve been me!! 🗣️

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Ngl I think it would be cute and funny if there’s an impromptu wedding ceremony in the firehouse (a first in its history)

Somehow Slimer eats most of the cake but he can play the violin surprisingly well.

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God bless the video games for giving us so many more examples of his voice and personality that the films' limited runtimes couldn't really provide. It feels like some people tend to forget how three-dimensional of a character he really is. These clips show his range so well.

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Y’all, look at this Ghostbusters app game I just found.

Did y’all know about this? I didn’t know about this. They look so goofy <3

There’s a little cutscene video when you open the app, the actual gameplay is much simpler than this, you just run around catching ghosts.

Some of the rooftop fight. I love Egon in the last image.

And look at his little face!

And of course we gotta show Peter getting slimed. His pose is killing me.

And Peter’s iconic hops, though not where he did them in the movie.

I’ll post some game play screenshots at some point, it’s very simple but I could see myself sinking some time into it.

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Not a canon fact since the line was changed, but the script for Ghost Fight at the O.K. Corral has Winston saying he took piano lessons as a kid, which I’m delighted by and fully willing to incorporate for him.

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One year ago today I posted this miniature mashup I created, Venkman using his ESP machine on the Mayor and Sally -

"It is a star! You're not cheating are you?. Sorry Mayor today isn't your lucky day"

All created using real figures and miniature sets

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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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when the multichapter fic gets a bit too long

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This just appeared for me for the first time. It’s Dan Aykroyd as Ray Stantz offering gps driving navigation. Via the Waze app.

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The Judean date palm

The plant was nicknamed “Methuselah,” after the longest-lived character in the Bible. Methuselah is remarkable in being the oldest known tree seed successfully germinated, and also in being the only living representative of the Judean date palm, a tree extinct for over 1800 years, which was once a major food and export crop in ancient Judea.

More info HERE

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Slimer's mind works in mysterious ways. Of course a little dance is the appropriate reaction to being told to leave. (This is of course the dance referred to in yesterday's poll.)

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Netflix has announced an animated Ghostbusters series in association with Sony Pictures Animation. No plot details have been revealed yet, but Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan will serve as executive producers. Given the disappointment of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, which had too much going on with different subplots and too many characters, the Ghostbusters animated show has the challenge of making the audience excited about it and regaining their interest.

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While Ghostbusters: Afterlife didn’t do as badly as Frozen Empire, it did have a more serious and darker tone than the previous movies, which Frozen Empire carried on with. An animated Ghostbusters TV show can return to the lighter, more comedic tone of the original movies, which can be key to regaining the audience’s attention while also appealing to a new and wider variety of audiences.

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I love Halloween I get to be a ghostbuster