Celebrities We've Lost 2026 Edition

[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

[Tez]

@hellfrog No!!! I could watch the Cher show outfit reveals for hours.

[Muscle Car]

@hellfrog Costume designer for The Carol Burnett Show and the spinoff Mama’s Family season one, the latter leading to one of his ten Prime Time Emmy awards. Mama’s Family is still comfort food TV for me 40 years on. Rest easy, Bob, and thanks for the memories.

[Gashlycrumb]

Annie Dillard

“Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process