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Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre were paired up in a series of films together, playing ambiguously gay criminals.

Sydney got immortalized as Kingpin and other large, conniving gangsters, based on his roles where he played a very large and intimidating gangster

Peter got immortalized as Igor, a role he never played, because it never existed in the first place

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Shredder is essentially running an afterschool program. One that gets children into trouble rather than out of trouble, but not all that different from sending your kid to do karate at the strip mall dojo.

The wikipedia page on Igor (character) is fucking wild.

Everyone remembers Peter Lorre playing Dr. Frankenstein's hunchbacked lab assistant named Igor in one of the old Universal horror films, except none of that ever happened.

This character is just a misremembered amalgamation of horror tropes.

Tbh our society going to complete hell because of the vapid dildos from a garbagey 90s game show retaining their cultural currency against all odds? That tracks

It's really fucked up how MTV's Singled Out gave us both the anti-vax movement and trashy overcommercialized nerd culture

Chris Hardwick didn't really create Ready Player One or Funko Pops, but in a way, he did

In 2015 and 2016, I was doing research studies on trauma to make money. I was traumatizing myself for science, because I was so broke. And that's not even rare for us, is it? We do these studies telling cis people about how they've fucked us over, because they don't listen otherwise. I feel so mad sometimes.

I have friends who've done sex work to make money to survive.

I used to go to a trans employment support group where another trans guy told me he sold plasma until he moved here, where it's illegal.

The only jobs they told us about at this group were, "re-traumatize yourself in front of cis people and tell them your story".

I participated in this project they told me about, where a grad student "helped" me tell my story to an audience. I had more writing experience than he did.