Happy birthday to Kevin Nowlan!

Remembering Alex Toth, who was born on this day in 1925 and passed away in 2006.

I made this nearly a month ago and then immediately got covid and had to cancel my birthday party an hour before it was supposed to start. but cake freezes well, and now I have a job and friends and also SO MUCH HOMEWORK help

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happy birthday tori spring! 💓💥

i just know that tori was the type of teenager who hated having big birthday parties... she just wants to drink her diet lemonade and lay in her bed scrolling through tumblr :(

"Birthdays" a short John Constantine fancomic, will be posted on May 10th to coincide with Johnstantine's b'day. Ruminations on grief and loneliness (cw for family loss and stillbirth [discussed, not depicted).

It’s my birthday tomorrow so I had to draw my boys 😏.

It was my birthday earlier this week. It certainly was A Day

"Birthday" The Super Dictionary (1979)

idk man. from 2008 to 2019 i was self-employed. i dropped out of high school in 2006 and then dropped out of college in 2010 and moved to a swamp to watch my great-grandma die because that was the only thing i could afford to do. then i went back to college and lived off student loans for a while. if i managed to scrape together $500 in a single month, that was a very good month. i applied for a gamestop credit card i shouldn't have qualified for and used it to buy taco bell gift cards for when i couldn't afford groceries, then paid a stupid amount of interest on the cost of my taco bell gift cards because i couldn't afford to pay off the balance.

during that period i bought over 2000 ebooks and 600 steam games. i like to believe that i'll read or play them someday. i probably won't, with most of them. but it was nice to have the option. i paid $10 a year for a domain name that did nothing but show a single image when you went there because i thought that was funny. i bought every sims expansion. i bought a ps4 and pretended i was in debt for a ps4 instead of taco bell gift cards and the sims. i barely ever played anything on the ps4, but it was nice to have the option.

when i got a part-time retail job in 2019 ($12 an hour! 20 hours a week!) i felt RICH. i was getting $200-$300 a week! that's so much fucking money! i was spending most of it on gas, and food that i could eat in a store break room without dying. but it was still so much money!! i paid off all my credit cards and then immediately ran them back up. i bought matching couches for me and my cat at tj maxx. i bought a ferris wheel for mini cupcakes. i bought cute dresses and shoes that i never had a chance to wear because the only time i went anywhere was to work, in my work uniform. i was 29 and that was the most money i had ever had in my life. now i'm 32 with a full-time office job and most of my money goes toward debt but the rest of it ends up being spent on dumb shit. every month i look at my budget and try to figure out where it all went wrong and every month the conclusion is, "spent too much money on dumb shit". you would think that i would try to stop doing that, and yet.

it's like. i was poor and now i'm lurking somewhere near the low end of middle class, and in both cases buying dumb shit was simultaneously proof that i would be rich if i could just stop buying dumb shit, and that i couldn't possibly understand true poverty if i was capable of buying dumb shit. i do not know how to explain to people that i will always waste more time and money than anyone ever should on dumb shit that i think is funny. there is nothing i want more than to spend my last dollar on a laugh and my last minute laughing, and no one's insistence that they would use them better will change this.

Remembering Carl Burgos, creator of the original Human Torch, on his birthday.

Happy Birthday to Charles Vess!

♰ 𝐻𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 𝐵𝒾𝓇𝓉𝒽𝒹𝒶𝓎 𝑀𝒶𝓉𝓉 ♰

🥊Happy birthday to one of my favorite superheroes. A guy who literally embodies the term morally gray

*also I refuse to acknowledge Ben Affleck’s version of DD

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Me too Eddie. Me too. 🍷🍷🍷

charlie’s birthday present from nick - comic vs show (S1 E5 ‘friend’) 🤍