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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 6h

Absolutely

John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 12h

Life drawing is just teaching your eye to talk to your hand, very practical skill set in the end

Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 6h

Lovecraft probably ate Cheeze-its crackers.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 17h

Keep going. Add a high speed rail through the state.

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 18h

Next year’s horror 48 is gonna be slime themed.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 19h

Did you know the voice of Disney's Prince Charming was gay? Neither did I, but according to this biography of actor Charles Laughton, Laughton and the actor Bill Phipps were having a not-apparently-secret affair during the making of Cinderella. Good for them!

Text from a book:
Brecht and Laughton also seem to have done the casting them-
selves: a few emigré actors, like Hugo Haas, as the Pope, quite a
number of serious young Hollywood actors, acquaintances of
Laughton (Frances Heflin, sister of Van, for example), but for the
most part, in James Lyon's phrase, 'both Laughton and Brecht
wanted unspoiled, teachable, younger people.' Many of these they
found in the recently defunct Actors' Lab, including one, Bill Phipps,
who, as it happens, became Laughton's lover, a troubled but none the
less sustaining relationship. He played Andrea, though Eric Bentley,
for one, reckons he was overparted. In general, the company they
assembled was young, eager and talented.

a photo of bill phipps in a suit, and a screengrab of prince charming at the ball

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 1d

Friend got mad at Hell dark my hand was getting and got me a sling. Jokes on her, I can’t get it on without her.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

there's a conspiracy theory going around that actually Travis Kelce wrote the songs on the new Swift album that everyone seems to hate and torn between stop making excuses everyone does bad work at some point and these are the sort of conspiracies we need as a society

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 1d

@phileil.bsky.social Rhode Island angle just dropped

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 1d

If you need $1 trillion to make your business work it’s not a viable business.

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 2d

I could possibly trade shirt for moving things 👀

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone in PVD available to pick up some tshirts next week?

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 2d

Dang, this was the season opener. What a strong choice.

Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 2d

S11 e1 of King of the Hill. Left meets a drag queen and is mistaken for a man. I was always a boyish kid and frequently asked about my gender. This episode has always been a standout. It wrongly conflates transgender and transvestite, but it is extremely kind to its characters.

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 4d

I’m a cryptid

A cemetary tree covered in porcelain dolls. A white woman in a yellow sweater is striding out of the frame. It’s blurry and has Bigfoot vibes.

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 5d

S2: the vampire theater is amazing. Someone’s senior thesis got remade in the show.

Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t even make all the pasta. I just boil it as I need it.

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 5d

FANNY PACK

WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 5d

/ NOT 2 BE AWKWARD OR WEIRD OR NETHING
/ BUT THERE IS A WEATHER IS HAPPENING FANNY PACK NOW
/ THAT IS ALL
/ merch.weatherishappening.com/product/the-...

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 5d

Yeup

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 5d

There’s a scene in Parks and Rec with a politician that just sits quietly staring into nothing in between meetings. It’s played as a joke. But adult me totally gets that guy.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone’s boycotting something lately. Conservatives rage at Netflix for old trans-inclusive shows, liberals cancel Disney+ over Kimmel, gamers dump Game Pass over price hikes. It shows how much people think “activism” just means withholding their wallet. Capitalism has captured even our dissent.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 5d

And the Jane Goodall Institute later licensed the cartoon to be featured on the shirts they sold to fundraise for chimp conservation.

So yeah, happy ending.

The above comic on a t-shirt, in black and white.

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks. At least I know now.

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 6d

Correction: fracture

Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 6d

d’oh

Broken in the “worst area”.

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 6d

At least I don’t have a day job designing websites and spend my free time running a film festival or making art.

Oh.
Wait.

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Mel’s Discount Ravens @melthemartian.bsky.social · 6d

I’m so tired of this. Sigh.

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