Happy Halloween! Have some festive ghosts singing one of my favorite songs from Ruddigore.
(Favorite things here: all the ancestors dancing with skeletons in the background, Robin’s look of disgust when Roderic kisses the skull, and that one ancestor who apparently had a bust made instead of a portrait. This Ruddigore [full version here, I think?] is full of delightfully low-budget special effects and inexplicable staging choices and I love it. Also features Vincent Price as Sir Despard, some endearingly bad greenscreening, and an entire chorus of gentlemen on very strange bicycles.)
Los Angeles graphic designer Emily McDowell, who survived Hodgkin Lymphoma, designed the snarky cards she wished she could have received. They’re called “Empathy Cards.”
“The most difficult thing about my illness was the fact that it was so lonely,” she says. One of the reasons was “friends and family either disappearing because they didn’t know what to say or well-intentioned people saying the wrong thing. So one of the most difficult things about being sick was feeling really alienated from everyone that I knew.”
These make great gifts for people with chronic illnesses.
(They’re also a great reminder that the average neurotypical person can’t “mind read”).
my family is so. fucking weird and resistant to talking about anything. when i was a small child i asked my mother why she had a lot of gifts and things where people called her by another name and she like. didn’t give me a straight answer? it was her Hebrew name. like that’s literally it. that’s all u had to say
great-great-grandma cohen refused to tell her younger children that they were related to her two eldest children
my family didn’t tell me about part of my actual name until i sent away for my social security info to get my driver’s permit in my junior year of high school. i have an entire middle name that no one ever felt the need to mention to me
i had to google my own brother to find out why we don’t talk about him anymore
one morning in seventh grade my mother was driving me to school and asked me if she was too overprotective. i told her “yeah, sometimes.” then she casually, calmly went, “maybe it’s because you were almost kidnapped as a baby”
she didn’t even elaborate until i asked her to explain
(my father later confirmed that i was, in fact, briefly stolen as an infant)
my mom just dropped this information on me for the first time and was then like “bye honey have a good day at school”
no one knows great-grandma ruth’s real last name
this is some Lemony Snicket shit right here
When my grandfather died we weren’t sure if he and his
partner Betty had ever been formally married. At that point he’d been separated
from my grandmother since the late ‘fifties, divorced since 1970 or so, and
living with Betty for thirty years. I still don’t know, because everyone
figured it was too late to ask without feeling awkward.
You are going to see that new ugly ass Gomez barely restrain himself from taking his new corpse of a wife Mortica in a manly fashion every sexual tension filled scene they are together and you will like it
Really man? Oscar Isaac isn’t ugly?
Oscar Isaac is only his VA, the design for Gomez Addams is based on the old comics and cartoons and is much “uglier” than other adaptations
This is a positive post not a call out, op is saying that we’re going to have a unconventionally un-Hollywood looking couple being portrayed as still being madly in love of screen and the people that are going to have a problem with that bc Gomez won’t look “handsome” will have to deal with that
THANK YOU! Gosh the amount of times I’ve had people get angry at me in the replies for this post. Yes I meant this in a positive way! I was talking about the actual character designs not the actors, and that it’s a very good thing for a movie to have characters that aren’t conventionally attractive be so in love with each other! Not to mention the Addams family are supposed to be all about defying conventions so making them be typically attractive feels like missing the point. Oscar Isaac is indeed a handsome man and i have nothing against him :0
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