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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 09/09/2025

I especially love it when there aren’t any super obvious signs, just sort of a general vibe that honestly could go in any direction and then one day your new acquaintance casually mentions or alludes to it and you’re both like

The classic Spiderman pointing at Spiderman meme with sparkling pink heart emoji’s scattered around both the Spidermans

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 26/06/2025

Some people wants to know, the regular price 600 bucks, you can get some twice And I'm talkin' 'bout my baklava, only thing I sell And you can get my sweets, any night at twelve.

A beautiful plate of pistachio baklava that Ruby made sitting on a yellow tablecloth with eyelet cutouts

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 12/06/2025

When you have a duo with a man whose name sounds like it comes straight out of the golden age of porn and he fully commits to the bit, you know it was a good ass time💀 @dateaurora.bsky.social

A pizza box with the box for sausage checked on the ingredients and Ruby & Aurora listed in the space for customers

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 02/06/2025

It’s Pride Month, which means it’s time to remind you all of my favorite tweet I’ve ever posted.

A screenshot of a tweet Ruby posted in 2022 reading “As a queer sex worker, I’ve always struggled with the way my sexuality is reduced to nothing more than a spectacle for the male gaze. That’s why this Pride Month I’m partnering with Brazzers.”

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 13/05/2025

I know Mickey had more than a few fans among my followers, so I hope you all pour one out for this boy today. He was a real one, and I’m going to miss him terribly.

Ruby, a pale, dark haired, femme person with many tattoos cuddling Mickey, a snowshoe cat.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 13/05/2025

Yesterday I said goodbye to Mickey, my eldest and favorite cat. I have been so lucky to have spent the last decade with him, and to have been able to give him not only a beautiful life, but also a good death. So it goes.

Mickey, an elderly snowshoe cat, standing in grass in the sun.

Mickey, a snowshoe cat, sitting on a green chair in golden hour light.

Mickey, a snowshoe cat, lying in the sun on a sidewalk.

Mickey, a snowshoe cat, lying in the sun on a lawn chair

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 09/05/2025

Big changes to my schedule! Starting next weekend, ya girl is once again available on Saturdays! Come celebrate my birthday month with me!

Ruby, a tall, slender, pale, brunette femme person with many tattoos is wearing navy blue lace lingerie and sitting on a white bed with their feet under them and their legs spread with their hands resting on their knees. Their head is cocked to the side and they have a playfully skeptical expression on their face.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 15/03/2025

On this, the Ides of March, it’s important to remember what this day is truly about: not simply stabbing despots on the steps of the senate, but coming together to COLLECTIVELY stab despots on the steps of the senate.

The Death of Julius Caesar by Vincenzo Camuccini, depicting a group of Roman senators assassinating Julius Caesar on the steps of the senate building.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 14/02/2025

♥️Be my Valentine? ♥️I’m booked up this weekend but you can still find all the platforms I use for gifts and tips at www.rubybellchicago/links or book a date through my website.

Ruby, a tall, slender, pale femme person with black hair and many tattoos wearing lingerie in a black and gold leaf pattern, lying on a gold velvet couch.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 12/02/2025

My Valentine’s Day weekend has long ago been spoken for, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy some romance with me in the meantime.

Ruby, a tall, pale, brunette femme person with many tattoos lies on a gold velvet couch wearing a black and gold lingerie set

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 06/12/2024

Understandable tbh, he is a very sweet and handsome boy. What he lacks in brains he makes up for in heart 🥰

Totino, an orange cat, wearing a tan kufiyah and looking slightly away from the camera in a fashion pose.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 24/11/2024

What’s a pic of you that could be an album cover: (It actually almost was the cover for a benefit compilation that was going towards abortion funds right after Roe got repealed, but the people organizing it were COWARDS and felt it was too graphic 😒😒😒)

A body from the hips down with legs spread on either side of a medical pad and a hospital gown strategically draped over the crotch. Between the legs is puddle of blood, crumpled blue nitrile gloves, also bloody, and a crucifix with a fasces making up the vertical piece of the cross that appears to have just been extracted via the forceps and speculum visible below it.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 22/11/2024

67. Wanda (1970) I love this grimy, unglamorous movie so much I have a shirt that says “written and directed by Barbara Loden” in the credit font.

Barbara Loden in a still from her movie Wanda, sitting in a car wearing a weird, flower-covered bonnet.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 22/11/2024

66. Klute (1971) Honestly the most accurate portrayal of sex worker burnout I have ever seen on film

Jane Fonda in a still from Klute, talking to her therapist.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 22/11/2024

65. Amy (2015) The way this movie shows the complicity of not only the people around her and the British tabloid press, but also the people who consumed her downfall, in Amy Winehouse’s death is masterful (and heartbreaking)

A still from the 2015 documentary Amy, showing Amy Winehouse playing guitar

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 22/11/2024

64. Monkey Man (2024) A critique of the cast system featuring some of the most visceral film combat I’ve seen recently and a bunch of trans women rolling up to save the day? Fuck yeah.

A still from Monkey Man showing the hijras about to FUCKING WRECK SHIT

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 21/11/2024

63. Hackers (1995) This movie is entirely unlike anything resembling the projects or lives of the various hackers I have known, and I love every fantastical minute of it.

A still from Hackers showing the hacking gang rollerblading down a street

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 21/11/2024

62. The Shining (1980) Stephen King may hate this movie but tbh it is an improvement on the source material and one of the most genuinely unsettling movies out there.

A still from The Shining showing Danny Torrence riding his tricycle down the hotel hallway towards the Grady twins

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 21/11/2024

61. Vertigo (1958) How can you not love a proto-psychedelic thriller about obsession and control, especially when it’s as skillfully executed as it is here?

Kim Novak in a still from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 21/11/2024

60. Of Human Bondage (1934) Incredibly problematic portrayal of sex work and the limitations of the Hays production code aside, this movie is mesmerizing, mainly because of Bette Davis’ completely unhinged performance.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 21/11/2024

59. The Living End (1992) The nihilistic defiance of this movie’s love story is impossibly beautiful.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 21/11/2024

58. The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) Macbeth is my favorite Shakespeare play, and this movie, with its medieval brutalism, spare costuming, and minimalist nightmare aesthetic, crushes it. I just wanna see Denzel Washington’s Shakespearean powerhouse era happen.

Denzel Washington in still from The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 21/11/2024

57. Pink Flamingos (1972) This movie is perfect in every way.

A still from John Waters’ Pink Flamingos

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 21/11/2024

56. Beau Is Afraid (2023) I feel so fortunate that I am able to watch Ari Aster’s artistic trajectory in real time. This movie is a surreal picaresque epic, and a huge departure from his usual horror, yet is somehow more horrifying than either Midsommar or Hereditary

Joaquin Phoenix in a still from Beau Is Afraid.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 21/11/2024

55. Harold and Maude (1971) It’s both one of the funniest, and also the most touching movies I have ever seen. Maude really is elder goals.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 21/11/2024

54. The Watermelon Woman (1996) Every time I watch this I want it to be a real documentary so badly. Also Camille Paglia’s cameo is (I suspect unintentionally) hilariously gross.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 21/11/2024

53. The Menu (2022) Horror about class where the hooker doesn’t just survive the whole movie but WINS? What’s not to love??

Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy in a still from The Menu

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 21/11/2024

51. Dead Ringers (1988) The experience of having a uterus is eternal, inherent body horror, a fact this film expresses incredibly beautifully.

A still from Dead Ringers (1988) showing Jeremy Irons getting ready to perform surgery

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

50. But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) This was the first overtly queer movie I ever watched and I do not have one (1) bad thing to say about it.

A still from But I’m a Cheerleader showing Natasha Lyonne and Clea Duvall’s characters being regular gal pals. Roommates, if you will.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

49. Teeth (2007) I cannot express how much I love this film. Dawn’s vagina dentata in the context of purity culture is inspired, and the ending is deeply satisfying.

A still from the scene in Teeth when Dawn visits the gynecologist

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

48. Heathers (1988) My one criticism of this movie is that at the end she should say “my date ended up blowing me off.”

A still of Winona Ryder as Veronica Sawyer at the end of Heathers

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

47. The Substance (2024) The cinematography! The performances! The practical effects! The use of color! The story! I was enthralled from start to finish!

A still from The Substance showing Demi Moore in front of her locker.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

46. Mary and Max (2009) liek if u crey evrytim 🥲 (despite the fairly problematic portrayal of autism which lowkey makes me cringe a little bit evrytim also, not gonna lie)

A still from the animated feature Mary and Max

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

45. My Cousin Vinny (1992) Marisa Tomei’s outfits, Joe Pesci’s comedic timing and delivery, there’s just so much to love about this movie.

Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei in the climactic courtroom scene of My Cousin Vinny

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

44. Cabaret (1972) I am EXTREMELY not a musical person, but I love the way this story about encroaching fascism is moved along not by random song and dance numbers, but by various stage performances, mainly in the cabaret Liza Minelli’s character works at.

Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles in Cabaret (1972)

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

43. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) They’re both just so iconic 😭

A still from Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? showing Bette Davis lifting Joan Crawford’s limp body off a bed

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

42. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) One’s degree of bisexuality can be conclusively determined by comparing the level of attraction to Marlon Brando in this movie and to Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not (previous skeet).

A still from A Streetcar Named Desire showing Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

41. To Have and Have Not (1944) This is an excellent movie overall, but the scene where Lauren Bacall ask, “You know how to whistle, don’t you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.”, while casually lighting her cigarette awoke something in me.

A still of Lauren Bacall as Slim in To Have and Have Not lighting a cigarette and igniting many smoking fetishes for generations to come.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

40. Cat People (1942) The list of things I love about this movie is really far too long.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

39. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) There are a lot of things I love about this movie, but one of the biggest ones is that it implies that repression, not queerness, is the primary source of Tom’s violence.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

38. Nightmare Alley (2021) This remake of the 1947 film lacks the hopeful ending of the original, which gives it a bleakness much more in keeping with the novel they’re both based on.

A still from Nightmare Alley (2021) showing Cate Blanchett and Bradley Cooper in a beautiful Art Deco office.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

37. Nocturnal Animals (2016) I love the contrast between the overt turmoil of the scenes from the manuscript and the superficial calm that overlays the inner turmoil of Susan, the reader. Also, it’s just an aesthetically stunning movie, as can only be expected from Tom Ford.

A still from Nocturnal Animals showing Amy Adams’ character getting dressed

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

36. Aliens (1986) This is the only sequel I can think of that is as good (imo) and arguably better (I would not go that far, but there is a strong case and it’s really just a matter of preference) than the original, despite not being planned in advance.

A promotional still from Aliens showing Sigourney Weaver as Ripley carrying Newt in one arm and pointing a rifle at a xenomorph somewhere out of frame.

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

35. Alien (1979) I love H.R. Giger, I love Sigourney Weaver, I love a bad bitch in space, I love a movie that was written expressly as a rape metaphor aimed at horrifying young men specifically.

A still from the end of Alien (1979) showing Sigourney Weaver as Ripley stripped down in order to hide her heat signature from the xenomorph

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Ruby Bell ✵ BIRTHDAY Love Witch ✵ 🏴🇵🇸🍉 @rubybellchicago.com · 20/11/2024

34. Night of the Living Dead (1968) This movie might feel basic today, but that’s just because it’s the OG, a movie that changed zombie movies forever and defined the entire genre.

A still of a zombie child from Night of the Living Dead

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