Let's Celebrate...Good Times

C'mon...Debate + Hate Elsewhere

The internet—especially the YouTube comments section—is like the Wild, Wild West: It’s full of the good, the bad, and the ugh-ly.

Every couple of months, I’m reminded how much the internet is run by basic bitches, contrarians, drama mamas, naysayers, and trolls who seem to live for stirring the pot.

I’ve got little to no patience for these bothersome bots and buttheads. And I make no apologies for regularly blocking them from accessing my channel and content.

Honestly, it’s better for everyone’s mental health this way—mine, yours, and theirs.

I don’t create my work to encourage people to argue and nitpick.

I’m here—and queer—to celebrate our creativity, history, and humanity.
I’m not here to debate. And I am definitely not here to hate. Mostly.

Asshats do bring out the worst in me. They think I’m joking when I remind them to be kind…or rewind elsewhere. I’m not. My reminder is their one-and-only warning. If they keep fucking around, they will find out I’m not playing around.

There are plenty of places and platforms online where cruelty and snark are sports. Where assholery not only thrives, but gets rewarded.

So let me be very, very clear: Collide Press is not one of those places or platforms. Clint Collide is not interested in playing these high school games. Personally, I done graduated a long, long time ago. Hopefully, you did too. So enough with the childish games…let’s act like grown-ups and treat each other with respect.

If you're here to celebrate the good stuff—connection, community, and curiosity, for instance—you’re more than welcome to be part of the crew, boo. For those wanting to be a pain in my ass, I suggest exiting before getting ejected.

No hard feelings. Just firm boundaries.

Thank you for being a force of good on the internet…
Clint 🌈✌️

P.S. Today is Mother’s Day, an often complicated holiday for many of us LGBTQ folk. If you are celebrating with your mom today, please give her a hug for me. And if you are missing your mom today—like I am—please give yourself a hug. And if you’d rather not deal with it or think about it…forget I even brought it up.

P.P.S. Yesterday, my YouTube channel crossed 17K subscribers and my Substack crossed 2.5K subscribers…both milestones are worth celebrating. So, for the next week, all new subscriptions are 20% off for the first year. Cheers!

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ON THIS DAY = MAY 11

BIRTHDAYS

• 1739 = Eleanor Butler = Irish aristocrat and socialite 🌈

• 1755 = Sarah Ponsonby = Irish aristocrat and socialite 🌈

• 1854 = Ottmar Mergenthaler = German-American linotype machine inventor

• 1888 = Irving Berlin = Belarusian-American pianist and composer

• 1889 = Paul Nash = British painter

• 1894 = Martha Graham = American dancer and choreographer

• 1904 = Salvador Dali = Spanish artist 🌈

• 1927 = Bernard Fox = British actor

• 1932 = Valentino = Italian fashion designer 🌈

• 1935 = Dick Leitsch = American activist 🌈

• 1936 = Bernice Bing = American artist 🌈

• 1963 = Natasha Richardson = English actor

• 1971 = Christopher Bailey = English fashion designer and Burberry CEO 🌈

• 1982 = Cory Monteith = Canadian actor and singer

• 1999 = Sabrina Carpenter = American singer-songwriter and actor

EVENTS

• 868 = A copy of the Diamond Sutra was printed in Tang-dynasty China, making it the world's oldest dated printed book.

• 1969 = The British comedy troupe Monty Python forms.

• 1981 = Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats opens in the West End, London.

HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES

• Mother's Day

• National Eat What You Want Day

• National Foam Rolling Day

• National Twilight Zone Day

PORTRAIT + QUOTES OF THE DAY

SALVADOR DALÍ BY CARL VAN VECHTEN

“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”
Salvador Dalí

“Let my enemies devour each other.”
Salvador Dalí

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