Yes, a lady who was a vampire and had a following of 20000 vampires who was a KISS fan tried to get DC to fire me for making jokes about KISS and no part of this statement is made up, it is 100% true. She called all the way up the ladder at DC and WB trying to get me fired. - ThreadSky

gailsimone.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Yes, a lady who was a vampire and had a following of 20000 vampires who was a KISS fan tried to get DC to fire me for making jokes about KISS and no part of this statement is made up, it is 100% true.

She called all the way up the ladder at DC and WB trying to get me fired.

Reposted from Shon Richards

Gail, forgive me if I am wrong, but didn’t you have a bunch of KISS fans mad at you for some reason? I feel like it was years ago at the other place.

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grungypoo.bsky.social•4 days ago

cre0.bsky.social•4 days ago

She sounds like a real Peter Criss.

emly.bsky.social•4 days ago

never take a band more seriously than they take themselves

unchi.org•4 days ago

why my love of They Might Be Giants will never grow old

goodhoratio.bsky.social•4 days ago

Gail took on 20000 actual Creatures of the Night?! 😲

ratherastory.bsky.social•4 days ago

There are 20,000 vampires who voluntarily follow someone on social media?

ididntvote4him-0.bsky.social•4 days ago

Look at how many "people " follow trump...somehow, asshats have appeal...

ratherastory.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s not the appeal I was questioning, it was that many vampires’ ability to use social media. 😛

kirkofdoom.bsky.social•4 days ago

Did you know your twitter has its own wiki? I went to look up of some comic site had the whole kiss drama aggregated and this was the first hit:

https://gail-simones-twitter.fandom.com/wiki/The_KISS_Vampire_War

cripdyke.bsky.social•4 days ago

Are they cataloging GS's BlueSky posts? Bc I want "boysenberry boobs" immortalized. I want it to grow, to spread, to creep across the land like vines of Himalayan blackboob. I want it to reproduce like the fingers on an AI-generated hand. I want the world to enjoy it as much as X-ass.

silvermansecurity.bsky.social•4 days ago

So you’re saying you want a boysenberry boob enlargement.

dbjorkca.bsky.social•4 days ago

“Gail, the Vampire Annoyer”. BwahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, etc

cripdyke.bsky.social•4 days ago

That was, indeed, insanely great.

Thank the internet for preserving this.

6sidedgames.bsky.social•4 days ago

Huh.

That's a thing that exists that I wasn't aware of.

I'm not going to click the links because fuck Nazis, but it's interesting they immortalized Gail's Tweets.

Wait. Does that make her a saint? Or is she a founding member of Gail-centric theology?

delaneyking.bsky.social•4 days ago

Did they say "fangs but no fangs"?

luckydoghotsauce.bsky.social•4 days ago

lmao forgot about that one. 😂

werechicken.bsky.social•4 days ago

Gail can she make me into a vampire

piewords.bsky.social•4 days ago

Feels like she justified the jokes you made about KISS fans

sailorviolet92.bsky.social•4 days ago

Kiss was my favorite band when I was like 8, but Paul Stanley revealed himself to be transphobic a couple years ago and it made me sad. Like Alice Cooper and Johnny Rotten, so many older male rockstars fail to connect their non-conformity with anything genuine

mstfacmly.bsky.social•4 days ago

gene simmons' wrap sheet should also freeze your blood

blurplebleb.bsky.social•4 days ago

This deserves a story about KISS all becoming vampires and launching a KISS Sucks world tour

clippernolan.bsky.social•4 days ago

Van Helsing squaring off against the KISS army is my favourite part of Bram Stoker's famous novel Draclia.

paulmurphyetc.bsky.social•4 days ago

Van “Morrison” Helsing you mean.

clippernolan.bsky.social•4 days ago

And I got something else wrong. It was Brian Stoker who wrote Draclia.

blagueplague.bsky.social•4 days ago

but but, they saved Santa!

anonymousfunk.bsky.social•4 days ago

So Knights In Santa's Service?

used39.bsky.social•4 days ago

That sentence just got weirder and weirder as it went on.

tsalmoth.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm assuming that like most vampires, she was nocturnal, and did all her pestering after dark.

Which means those must have been some Crazy Crazy Nights.

errantpedant.bsky.social•4 days ago

That was some good times. Internet weirdness at its finest

dreedful.bsky.social•4 days ago

Draculas are always trying to take away our jobs.

thatianeliott.bsky.social•3 days ago

That's wild. No one makes fun of KISS the way KISS fans do. Some people are just special. 😉

dozy-willy.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is why people believe you are a bear.

Because your life has these crazy stories.

xmadux.bsky.social•4 days ago

That's an unexpected story.

kryptothewonderdog.bsky.social•4 days ago

Could you please please follow up on the more precise nature of this vampire? Does she suck literally?

thaisdf17.bsky.social•4 days ago

My brain remembers the vampire queen thing and the kiss thing, but in someway it refused to conect the two stories.

derekmahr.bsky.social•4 days ago

I would like to hear Paul Levitz’s reaction to her phone call.

artaud23.bsky.social•4 days ago

Lol. KISS sucks.

danimadu.bsky.social•4 days ago

The lady

achloryn.bsky.social•4 days ago

do you ever look back at parts of your life and just think "...ok that sounds really far-fetched now that i'm telling the story"?

bryanhowell.bsky.social•4 days ago

I just cannot believe something like this could be done by a fan of the legendary band that performed “Two Princes.”

Sad.

lucisaves.bsky.social•4 days ago

...I'm wondering if this is the same vampire lady I pissed off online.

onewingedsparrow.bsky.social•4 days ago

Holy shit, I think I know this woman. I'm not joking. If it's who I think, the psychopath ordered EVERY KISS ALBUM and EVERY ANNE RICE BOOK through my bookstore's special orders system every week. Even if we had them in store. And she never once picked them up.

onewingedsparrow.bsky.social•4 days ago

One day out of NOWHERE she started trying to get us to stop carrying DC books and no one could figure out why. We just chalked it up to "fucking crazy". I STILL remember her name and address back then. It's been over a decade. One of only 3 people I straight up banned from special orders in 8 years.

tiffhudson.com•4 days ago

She sounds a bit like a young goth woman I knew in art school. Teeth from a land without dentistry. Claimed that her psychiatrist had seized her journals. Fixated on the notion that Xander (from Buffy) was racist because he only dated demons. Definitely a "see and avoid" case.

ironspike.bsky.social•4 days ago

People genuinely don't seem to understand how unhinged this sort of thing makes them come off as.

jheijndermans.bsky.social•4 days ago

So much anger, when she could just rock and roll, all night even.
…
Oh, AND party every day.
Shame.

lizzymatheson.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s not nice to misgender Gene Simmons like that :P

benjamyno.bsky.social•4 days ago

What were the KISS jokes

archytoothless.bsky.social•4 days ago

Those vampires also review bombed Vampire’s Kiss when it came out and was not the story they were expecting.

paulmurphyetc.bsky.social•4 days ago

Scary. I bet you had Fake Vin Diesel on High Alert!

igasu.bsky.social•4 days ago

I must know who this lady is

psychofish77.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s astounding to me the amount of time some people have on their hands.

anonymousfunk.bsky.social•4 days ago

She sucks

walker-i.bsky.social•3 days ago

That's a great anecdote!

federation-skum.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah, that sounds like Gene.

rosalarian.bsky.social•4 days ago

Big Anne Rice vibes 😬

barrycrain.bsky.social•4 days ago

Gail, this deserves an entire mini-comic

jesseducker.bsky.social•4 days ago

Was she, like, a Twilight vampire? Or a Salem’s Lot vampire? Or a The Strain vampire? Or a Blade 2 vampire?

djdresden.clownpenis.monster•4 days ago

Kiss is just juggalos for boomers.

vegapunk-aurora.bsky.social•4 days ago

Handle checks out

djdresden.clownpenis.monster•4 days ago

😎

shonrichards.bsky.social•4 days ago

I swear to the Goddess, I had a vague memory of vampires being involved but I thought my brain was messing with me.

themightyjerd.bsky.social•4 days ago

You have quite the ability to evoke strong reactions in people 🤣

docmagnus.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah no that checks out.

flixinnag.bsky.social•4 days ago

Truly, KISS is responsible for much evil in the world.

hazyjay.bsky.social•4 days ago

She is aware that KISS is objectively bad, right? As in worse than Billy Joel.

twug.bsky.social•4 days ago

Whatever happened to Vampire Dave and Werewolf Steve?

fencingmonkey.bsky.social•4 days ago

Jeez Gail, whose side are you on, the Phantom of the Park?

patrick6669.bsky.social•4 days ago

To be honest, Gene is a total tool.

brandishjaye.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wow. You pissed off KISS fans AND vampires at the same time? Real impressive work there, Gail.

dbjorkca.bsky.social•4 days ago

On the positive side, good to hear that a vampire didn’t resort to their more traditional responses when something vexes then.

jeffemeral.bsky.social•4 days ago

“Blahhhhhhh I’m culling vor Mister Zaslav blahhhhhhhhhh. Please tell him it ezz urgent blahhhhhhhhhh. 20000 cheeldren of dee night must have their voices heard blahhhhhhhhhhhh”

and so forth

rudymadrox.bsky.social•4 days ago

“Did you even think about whether or not you were upsetting our vampire demographic readers?” - The higher ups at DC, I imagine

Also shouldn’t the KISS vampire lady be mad at Lobo? Or love him? One of those?

adamiani.bsky.social•4 days ago

I know this person was unhinged, but it’d be kinda great if it was true. An eternal unlife of frustrated pettiness….

solomongrndy.bsky.social•3 days ago

😂

apollomax289.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wow

redlabdad.bsky.social•4 days ago

erm.. actual vampires ?

unchi.org•4 days ago

I think it's best not to know.

storyslug.bsky.social•4 days ago

Sounds like they were, *at least,* emotional vampires.

redlabdad.bsky.social•4 days ago

ah that makes more sense lol

adamsull.bsky.social•4 days ago

badge of honor

dabaum.bsky.social•4 days ago

O_O how boring must their life be to go "NO ONE CAN MAKE FUN OF GENE! I WILL GET EVERYONE FIRED!!!" ...I wonder how many people at the networks laughed everytime she called to complain about the late night hosts making fun of them?