Celebrities We've Lost 2026 Edition

[Roz]

Dolly Parton. Legitimately devastating. What an amazing positive force in the world she was.

[Muse]

@Roz We were never going to be ready for this one, just heart breaking.

[Testament]

Wrong 80 year old, Death is getting blind.

[junipersky]

@Testament

[hellfrog]

RIP Queen, the world is poorer today than it was yesterday.

[Aria]

Always and forever a favorite:

[MisterBoring]

Tim Curry, absolute bloody legend.

[Solstice]

Oof. What a sucker punch of a 24 hours.

[Testament]

Testament said:

Wrong 80 year old, Death is getting blind.

I REPEAT MYSELF. WRONG 80 year old.

[Aria]

@Testament said:

Testament said:

Wrong 80 year old, Death is getting blind.

I REPEAT MYSELF. WRONG 80 year old.

Yeah, I have SOME FEEDBACK I’d really like to give the universe on Death’s performance lately.

[MisterBoring]

Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime

[Wizz]

legit don’t know why I keep clicking on this thread this week

[Testament]

@MisterBoring said:

Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime

WHAT HAVE I SAID FOR THE LAST TWO FUCKING DAYS.

No, it’s fine. Just keep taking my childhood icons away from me during a year of hell. It’s fine, I wanted to be kicked in the nuts repeatedly.

[dvoraen]

I can’t find an “ugly cry” GIF that’s good(?) enough to explain my feelings about all these passings this week.

[MisterBoring]

@dvoraen

This is my go to ugly cry gif.

[Pavel]

On a somewhat different note:

‘Butcher of Bosnia’: convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić dies

[Gashlycrumb]

Wendell Berry

[Gashlycrumb]

“The fragment of the earth that is now me is only on its way through me. It is on its way from having been a tree, a school of fish, a terrapin, a flock of birds. It will pass through all those forms again.”

— Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

[Aria]

Gloria Steinem, feminist journalist and activist.

I met her twice. She was a lot funnier than you might expect.

[hellfrog]

y’all, Bob Mackie died yesterday what an icon