#in memoriam

[weoncelivedinacastle]

Shelby Blue

Remy LeBeau

Chloe Gray

Penny Lane

Sammi Davis Jr the Cat

Flanagan

Calvin

Lexie

SheRa the Princess of Power

Bearin Duke of Rottweiler

Chance

Miss Peabody

Raggamuffin

I will love you forever. Thanks for picking me to be your Mom.

[cyarsk52-20]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door." From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else. When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career. Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have … not made it. What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne. She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end. Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame." In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life." He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm. Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Credit: Will Stenberg

[odinsblog]

Born on February 5, 1995 — today should have been Trayvon Martin's 29th birthday. 🤍

[joyousjoyfuljoyness]

This is my portrait of @ragavon 's beloved Keke, may he rest in peace.

[not-miles]

Let the record state that a German Muppet was canonically murdered for licensing write offs.

RIP - Uli Von Boëfeld (??? - 1988)

Muppet Fact #1270

In 1988, a fire destroyed the puppets and Street set of Sesamstrasse- the German co-production of Sesame Street. While many puppets were rebuilt, Uli von Bödefeld was not, as the producers did not want to pay licencing fees for him.

Source:

Wikipedia. Sesamstraße. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesamstra%C3%9Fe

[nemfrog]

Victims of capitalism. Hell before death. 1908.

Internet Archive

[oldschoolfrp]

Influential RPG adventure writer, artist, and video game creator Jennell Jaquays has died.

She was a founder of the Dungeoneer zine before it was sold to Judges Guild. Her D&D adventures Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia became classics, often studied as examples of adventure design. She also wrote and illustrated for TSR, Metagaming, Steve Jackson Games, and many other publishers. Her video game career included developing many of Coleco's titles in the 1980s and level design for the Quake sequels at id Software in the 90s, and she co-founded the SMU Guildhall video game program.

She recently was hospitalized for symptoms of Guillain-Barré syndrome, and a GoFundMe to cover her medical expenses is still active.

[musicalfilm]

Chaim Topol (September 9, 1935 – March 8, 2023)

May his memory be a blessing.

[princess-kivee]

Rest in peace, Rachael Ellis

I grew up with the Pokemon anime, actually starting from Indigo League. So it breaks my heart that cancer once again took someone away from us far too soon. May her family find peace in this time.

[qiornono]

PLEASE PLS PLS read in memoriam by alice winn this book changed my freaking life!!!!!

[why-i-love-comics]

Ramona & Me (2024)

written by Brittany Holzherr art by June Brigman, Roy Richardson, & Trish Milvihill

[sid3buns]

Aɴᴅ ʜᴇᴀᴠᴇɴ ᴋɴᴏᴡs I'ᴍ ᴘʀᴏɴᴇ ᴛᴏ ʟᴇᴀᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴʟʏ ɢᴏᴅ I sʜᴏᴜʟᴅ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʟᴏᴠᴇᴅ,

Aɴᴅ ʏᴇᴛ ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ғᴀʀ ᴛᴏᴏ ʙᴇᴀᴜᴛɪғᴜʟ ᴛᴏ ʟᴇᴀᴠᴇ ᴍᴇ

[chaoticmiserablelover]

They call each other by their surnames trope + They use each other's first names in vulnerable moments trope.

Me: crying in the corner

[moon-yean]

LESLIE CHEUNG (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003)

A Better Tomorrow (1986), dir. John Woo Farewell My Concubine (1993), dir. Chen Kaige Days of Being Wild (1991), dir. Wong Kar-wai Happy Together (1997), dir. Wong Kar-wai Once a Thief (1991), dir. John Woo

[dykeganseythethird]

woof

the winners - fredrik backman / written on the body - jeanette winterson / a little life - hanya yanagihara / the dream thieves - maggie stiefvater / these violent delights - micah nemerever / the sunshine court - nora sakavic / in memorium - alice winn / the case for jamie - brittany cavallaro / shuggie bain - douglas stuart

[oldschoolfrp]

Bryan Ansell has passed away at age 68 (11 October 1955 -- 30th December 2023).

Bryan Ansell founded Citadel Miniatures in 1978 in partnership with Games Workshop, and co-wrote the original 1983 Warhammer Fantasy Battles first edition rules with Richard Halliwell and Rick Priestley. He became managing director of Games Workshop in the mid-1980s, and was primary owner of GW until selling his shares in 1991. He also founded Wargames Foundry / Foundry Miniatures, which continues to produce many older Citadel figures among many other ranges.

(Top: Bryan Ansell from Warhammer Armies, 1988; Bottom: Bryan Ansell (Left) with artist Tony Ackland at the 2017 Bring Out Your Lead oldhammer event at Wargames Foundry)