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ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

It’s almost Purim, so it’s time to share this 1845 article about two Jewish drag kings/crossdressers/trans men. I love these two and I want to be their best friend.

I was curious about the "Ram's Head Festival" thing and decided to see if I could find when exactly in the year this was published. I managed to find a different version of the article printed on May 12th 1859 in a magazine in Georgia which cited "last evening's" New York Post (which was called The Evening Post at the time). I tried looking up their issue for May 11th, but saw nothing related to this. Thankfully the site has a search function and I finally found the original Evening Post article was printed on March 24th, 1859. (The image is from the Georgia newspaper because it's a bit easier to read, but besides the intro sentence it has the exact same wording as the article in The Evening Post))

Ms Kelly how do you feel about submissive autistic tboys

there's been plenty of pushback against youtube's plan to age-check users by using an AI to analyze everyone's watching habits, but amidst that, i spotted this playlist circulating among some teens:

adding my favorite tags / comments so far:

Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it's not from Twitter, it's not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today's agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss." And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phrase edited over a piece of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”

a part of pom pom (my fan)

Nova I’ve just had the kind of absolutely surreal life experience that will now become a go-to trivia fact about me for the remainder of my life. It turns out you can stress for six months about every detail of your bar mitzvah and then you turn up on the day and the girl you have a crush on and star of stage and screen Anton Lesser, one of Britain’s foremost Hey It’s That Guys, are both there. I thought I was hallucinating from stress.

Here’s me leyning featuring Anton Lesser’s glasses in the foreground, my photographer friend said they got some wider shots with him in which I will post once I have them.