#in memoriam

[melodi-jackson]

NEW MOON ✨🌓🌔 “NEM”DESIGN🌖🌗✨

Pure, innocent, baby boy✨What If new moon nexus discovered himself earlier on the TSAMS? Obviously he would be much happier not being under pressure of being a “better version of old moon” and not living up to expectations of everyone. He’d be enjoying his new life of course with new discoveries and of course with some flaws but he’s willing to have it. I miss my boy, he deserves to have a good life and be his own person 😢😭

*sigh* oh new moon nexus why did you have to be so young and have such a tragic life? 😞

[livinces]

Rest In Peace, President Jimmy Carter. 💙

[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

[joyousjoyfuljoyness]

Hope he took it home with him!

In 2021, when I heard of President Biden's dog, Champ, passing, I drew and foiled a portrait and mailed it to him.

A month or so later, I got a thank you note from the White House!

I wonder sometimes if it's hung up somewhere...

[odinsblog]

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

[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.

[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.

[letzternachtzug]

DAVID LYNCH Jan. 20, 1946 - Jan. 16, 2025

[musicalfilm]

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

May his memory be a blessing.

[qiornono]

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

[joyousjoyfuljoyness]

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

[droptheguillotineplease]

I recently read In Memoriam by Alice Winn, I highly recommend.

[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

[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