@roz Shit 
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
The Sound of Music was my first favorite movie. When I watched it as a kid I didn't know what it was, or for that matter what a musical was, and I had to look at the newspaper afterwards to even figure out its name.
But damn, I loved it so much. This man was a legend. RIP.
@arkandel said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:
But damn, I loved it so much. This man was a legend. RIP.
I know. I saw him in King Lear.
The man who beat Muhammed Ali - Leon Spinks. 67, Cancer.
Fantasy artist Rowena Morril.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
-- Hamilton: An American Musical
@lifebird
This one got me this morning. My dad loved Jazz and he had a CD with 4 songs. I would play that thing over and over.
@silverfox said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:
@lifebird
This one got me this morning. My dad loved Jazz and he had a CD with 4 songs. I would play that thing over and over.
The first (and only) flute solo in my high school's jazz band was me picking it up for his song 'Spain' bc none of our sax players could double and introduced me to a new genre to love. He will be missed.
Ex-President of Argentina Carlos Menem. Die mad, fucker.
@cupcake This one makes me incredibly sad. I remember so many of her paintings, and IIRC she went to one of the colleges I did. 
Oh fucking well.
Rush Limbaugh, Age 70
@surreality I mean, basically if you read any Anne McCaffery novel EVER you have seen her work, and it was formative in my imagination for how those characters and their dragons looked. Along with many Piers Anthony and even Lovecraft works.
@kk said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:
I have seen so much death and suffering this year.
The groups that this man has oppressed through his advocacy of their destruction has seen more death and suffering than just what happened this year.
I appreciate your sentiment and being kind and fair, but please also understand the rage and hurt from which the celebration comes.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
This situation bothers me from the perspective of what happened when a rapist was being lionized here after his death. A lot. I am feeling particularly bothered by how this is allowed, and how talking about the rapist being a rapist was not.
eta: like I hope this guy gets whatever he deserves in the afterlife, but I am really bothered about the difference in what's allowed and not.
eta2: like, what level of badness means that it's OK to be happy he's dead in-thread? rape clearly doesn't count, so where's the line?
@sunny said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:
What level of badness means that it's OK to be happy he's dead in-thread?
The line is not determined by the badness of the deceased. It's determined by relative ideas of conceptual badness. Cheerleading for government austerity measures that have led to demonstrable suffering for millions of Americans, advocating for meaningless wars that have killed millions of Americans and less militarily advanced foreigners alike, reading off obituaries of gay people who died of AIDS on the air for the purpose of mocking the dead, spitting invective all over the airwaves about how women are sluts and succubi out to steal honest men's semen and money: sure, those things are bad, but are they really as bad as being glad that the person who made a career of doing those things can no longer do those things? So much for the tolerant left, amirite?
@silverfox said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:
@lifebird
This one got me this morning. My dad loved Jazz and he had a CD with 4 songs. I would play that thing over and over.
The first (and only) flute solo in my high school's jazz band was me picking it up for his song 'Spain' bc none of our sax players could double and introduced me to a new genre to love. He will be missed.
