Happy Pride month to all the gay folks who should still be with us but were lost to AIDS. So many of them had (and continue to have) huge impacts on the world, despite their lives being tragically cut short.

Since this is primarily a Muppet blog, I wanted to take a moment to talk about Richard Hunt.

Richard Hunt was a gay man and a fantastic puppeteer who started working with Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, and company in 1970 at age eighteen and joined the cast of Sesame Street two years later. While working with the Muppets, he originated the characters of Scooter, Beaker, Statler, Sweetums, and Wayne, but also became the primary performer of Janice and is responsible for the flower child personality she is now known for. He was also known to be a fantastic singer.

But maybe most importantly, he made so many people happy. According the book "Of Muppets and Men" by Christopher Finch, Hunt "seems to get more unadulterated pleasure from performing than anyone else in the organization. When he is not working on camera, he is apt to have Scooter or Beaker or Janice -- anyone -- on his arm for the purpose of entertaining... He makes the crew laugh, jokes with the guest star, clowns for the shop personnel. He is one of the chief reasons for the loose atmosphere that exists around Studio D despite the pressure and the slow pace that are endemic to television production."

Hunt died at age 41 due to AIDS complications. The Muppet Workshop made a panel for the NAMES Project AIDS quilt in his honor. The Richard Hunt Spirit Award is presented every year at the Sesame Street wrap party to the cast member that best honors Hunt's generosity and dedication on set.

Rest in peace Richard. Thank you for the laughs and the smiles, and happy Pride 💛

HELP ME I M DYING.

“Here in my garaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage, just bought this, uh, new Lamborghini here.  Fun to drive up here in the Hollywood Hills.  But you know what I like a lot more than knowledge?  This, uh, new Lamborghini here.  But you know what I like a lot more than the new Lamborghini here?  My TEDx Talk where I talk about this new Lamborghini here.  Thththththhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

“In fact, I’m a lot more proud of these seven new Hollywood Hills that I had to get installed to hold two thousand new Lamborghinis. … UH, it’s like the Buffet Warren billionaire says, ‘The more you earn, the more you drive up here in the Hollywood Hills.’

“In fact, the real reason I keep this Lamborghini here… is the real reason I keep this Lamborghini here is that it’s a reminder.  A reminder that dreaerd are still possible, because it wasn’t that long ago that I was in a little Lamborghini, sleeping on bookshelves in the Hollywood Hills, with only 47 billion dollars in my bank account, and only 47 Lamborghinis in my Lamborghini account, and only 47 hills in my Hollywood account, and only 47 TEDx Talks where I talk about Warren Buffet in my TEDx Talks where I talk about Warren Buffet account.

“But you know what?  Something happened that changed my life.  I bumped into a Lamborghini.  …And another Lamborghini.  And a few more Lamborghinis.  I found five Lamborghinis.

“I don’t call it money anymore, I call it fuel units.  You must have enough fuel units.  You must have enough Lamborghinis.  You must CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS.  I’ll see ya on my website–this quick video, and you’ll see they’re absolutely NOTHING!”

certain queers will really believe that gender and sexuality labels have rigid, unchangeable definitions that must be maintained and "protected" from evil queers who want to ID as transman lesbians or whatever, and then go on to act like they are any better than a raging transphobe crying about how the terms male and female "don't mean anything anymore"

and you'll never get rid of me

*her

Maria Borges at Yanina Haute Couture Fall 2024

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Tricking girls into thinking I'm cool by *checks notes* over sharing, horny on main, having group chats on the dash, awful improv comedy, complaining, reblogging my own selfies 50+ times, posts that are in 4+ different languages, cool stuff that other people made being a safe space for it/its users

Hii! Welcome! You are the 3rd person to follow me off of this post

please contact the embassies in israel using the details above. im not sure how effective this will be but the freedom flotilla coalition channel on telegram has asked us to do so. please share for reach.

the Swedish embassy responded with this (June 9 2025)

Okay it's a bit misleading. He's not running for office himself. He's working with lawmakers to advance the interests of online content creators.

My biggest criticisms are the timing and the fact he's working with congress Republicans while the very same Republicans are helping a fascist dismantle American democracy and hurt millions of people in the US and around the world.

Here's what Elisabeth Van Duyne, one of the leaders of this new caucus, has to say about ICE and the protests against them

And here's her supporting Trump's bill to take away healthcare from millions of people.

It's a fine idea in concept, but by doing it right now and with these lawmakers, MatPat is helping promote fascism.

the yankees have a different definition but in my country at least this would count as being an active working member of the Republican party

man’s gone apparatchik

i love Hitch,,, fat mouse tboy

fat mouse boy upon ye (WIP)

Tumblr used to be so funny. There was a shoplifting community there was rabies pride

Seen at a café in Athens, Greece.

Absolutely hate the transit system strike. I NEED TO GO TO SCHOOL

It's 9:30pm and there are no bus or metro lines active. Im forced to take an Uber home

there is literally no amount of porn consumption or sex or masturbation at which you become a worse person for it and any attempt to construct one is sexually conservative regardless of how many pronouns you have in bio

Fujoshi Son or Fag Daughter.

por que no los dos?

Fujoshi Fag SonDaughter... fusion cuisine...

Fujoshi Son is a beautiful name for a fag daughter

alternate punchline: isn't Fujoshi Son the Softbank guy?

Yeah! I loved Perfect Blue!