Red Viking Drew 🇻🇦

Meménto, homo, quia pulvis es, et in púlverem revertéris.

[Red Viking Drew 🇻🇦 @RedVikingDrew]

Day 2 of 21 Days of Horror

#31DaysofHorror #90sHorror

[Red Viking Drew 🇻🇦 @RedVikingDrew]

Day 1 of 31 Days of Horror

#31DaysOfHorror #40sHorror

[Cartoon History @Cartoonhistory2]

114 years ago today, ‘Gertie the Dinosaur’ released in theaters. It was made by Winsor McCay who is considered one of the fathers of animation.

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

My favorite aspect of Dracula is that he is irredeemably evil.

Flesh-Eating Zombies? Not their fault.
The Frankenstein monster? He didn't ask to be made.
The Wolfman? Didn't choose his curse.
The Gillman? The humans came to HIS house.
(I admit the Phantom, Mummy, and Invisible Man were evil, though perhaps not irredeemably so.)

But Dracula is Just Plain Bad. This is why I hated Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, and now Luc Besson's Dracula. They tried to whitewash Dracula by adding a romance subtext and it's dumb. Leave the past-lives romance to the Mummy. Can we not have one single monster that is just plain evil?

Make Dracula Malignant Again.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

The Villain (aka Cactus Jack) turns 47 today.
Shot like a live-action Looney Tunes, Kirk Douglas, Ann-Margret, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a very clever horse gleefully defy physics and logic in this Wile E. Coyote-style western. They even do the painted-wall drive-through gag.

[Angry Cops @AngryCops]

Erebus is a lying sack of shit! Don’t trust him Horus!!! Lift up the silver veil and slit his throat a second time!!!!!!

[Flashgitz Tom & Don @FlashgitzAnims]

Rest in peace to John Blanche. The artist who defined Warhammer 40k. He was legitimately a visionary and creative genius.

Take today to look at his works, there's nothing else like them. A very sad day indeed.

[Alyssa Hazel, Page Turner @AlysssaHazel]

>Be Me
>Finish Robert E Howard's Conan Stories
>Need a palate cleanser
>Starts reading a best-selling thriller from the past five years
>The Characters and Prose have the depth of middle grade fiction
>Only "Adult" because the Characters are in their thirties and they cuss.

[Jeremy @ManaByte]

This is one of the greatest photos ever taken by a human…so far.

[Red Viking Drew 🇻🇦 @RedVikingDrew]

Today would have been Roger Corman's 100th birthday. Happy birthday to my all-time favorite director/producer and a big inspiration of mine. Thank you for all the great movies.

[Red Viking Drew 🇻🇦 @RedVikingDrew]

Happy Easter! He is Risen, Alleluia! Christ is King!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Christ is risen from the dead, and with him, we too rise to new life! This Easter proclamation embraces the mystery of our lives and the destiny of history, reaching us even in the depths of death. #Easter

[Pray The Rosary @PrayTheRosary]

Alleluia, He is Risen!

[RetroNewsNow @RetroNewsNow]

📺On April 4, 1990, Wile E. Coyote made a brief appearance on ‘Night Court’

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In 1931, 14-year-old Forrest J. Ackerman wrote a letter to Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of Tarzan and the John Carter of Mars series, informing him of an argument he had with his teacher regarding Edgar's books. Burroughs replied...

Burroughs’ reply defended popular fiction in direct terms. He argued that reading anything engaging is better than not reading at all, and that entertainment can serve as a gateway to lifelong reading habits. He also criticized rigid school reading lists, noting that forcing material on students often turns reading into obligation rather than curiosity.

Ackerman would go on to become one of the most influential figures in science fiction fandom, editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland, literary agent to authors like Ray Bradbury, and a key organizer of early sci-fi conventions.

Burroughs, best known for creating Tarzan (1912) and the Barsoom/John Carter series, was one of the highest-paid writers of his era, with his works translated into dozens of languages and adapted into film, radio, and comics.

Ackerman preserved this letter for decades, and it became a widely cited example in debates about “high” vs. “popular” literature, often used to argue that genre fiction plays a critical role in building readers.

© Reddit

#archaeohistories

[greg @greg16676935420]

Chuck Norris was born May 6th, 1945

The Nazi’s surrendered May 7th, 1945

COINCIDENCE?

Yes. There is no way a one day old baby could have defeated them

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK debuted on US television in 1987 and came with this great intro to the film from Darth Vader.

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

A great science fiction TV show that is unjustly obscure nowadays was Journey to the Bottom of the Sea, featuring the nuclear sub Seaview. The first season was mostly cold war shenanigans, but starting with the second season they moved into science fiction, and even fantasy.

There was a full-length movie before the TV show but the movie is dull and slow-moving. Skip it.

There's an episode with a gigantic undersea werewolf, one in which an old-time ghost galleon attacks the sub, and one in which Vincent Price uses ventriloquist puppets to replace crew members. It had a smaller "flying sub" which looked like a flying saucer and could both fly and dive, and it also had a mini-sub. This meant that unlike every other submarine, the Seaview was a ship, not a boat.

For those curious, the definition of a "ship" is a vessel which carries one or more boats. This is why all subs (save the Seaview) are actually boats.

[Red Viking Drew 🇻🇦 @RedVikingDrew]

@SandyofCthulhu The British Empire specifically the Victorian era.

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

I have never created a game with the idea that it would modify or affect my audience’s political or religious views. My only goal is to entertain. To bring joy and laughter - even if it’s rather nervous laughter in the case of my horror stuff. To bring people together. Then they can resolve their political & religious differences on their own.

Art should not be activism.