Katie 🐝

The road is going ever on and I’m somehow still trapped on this hellsite??

[Katie 🐝 @AndIDoSparkle]

Neil Josten is big recovery love energy, send niche tweet

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

[elliot | MET PHOEBE @elliotembroider]

i’m still here

[nia @hudconisntbones]

these besties on our screens SOON

[Brando 🐞 @homesickbrando]

Happy salt air and everything you see out here will die month

[bee @loustates]

the way lestat was like im probably non binary but im also dying so i cant really focus on that right now

[Noah Kahan @NoahKahan]

Cincinatti it is hot as fuck. Store some water in your bodies for tears like one of those fuck ass camels

[c @clakearts]

people are sharing this again, so thought I’d add an alternate pride tape version for shane! happy pride month everyone 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[bee is miserable she cant lie 🐝 @nogoodbee]

people laughing over this/making it into an rpf related problem while they should be concerned for the lgbtq+ community in russia and how they are prosecuted for existing. fuck you koreaboo, and sorry to everyone who have to live closeted bcs of their govt.

[beck @unrivaled]

cutshot pulling their work is like watching the library of alexandria burn before my eyes. i'm devastated, y'all. this is just... i hate everybody (not the writers).

[Katie 🐝 @AndIDoSparkle]

I have nothing productive to add to this conversation rn other than to amplify this post and be sad on main about one of my favorite works of transformative fiction going on hiatus for THIS 💔

[don @katelosten]

the pitt so clearly expects its viewers to have empathy for both langdon and santos at the same time, something that the fandom seems adamantly against

[Nadja || salty-autistic-writer ∞ ✍🏻 @salty_nd_writer]

Common Goal is actually very funny. Kyle thinks Eric is still married bc Eric doesn't take off his ring. Skip disgusts everyone with being domestic as fuck. Scott goes to a drag show in a sexy elf costume. Scott has no idea Eric is bisexual. And Eric is talking to his goalposts.

[Austin MacNamara @gremloe]

Knowing ones history is a crime

[𝓝. 𖤐🧸 @luvblessingz]

Not a film but I think this is one of the most romantic things you can say to a person

[sonny @sonnycosplay]

also very important

[newt 🦎 @pencilnewt]

you can’t help it. you love it anyway.

[frances 🏒 @IlyasCigarette]

this should bother everyone. fanworks should stay in fandom spaces. we post ao3 with the understanding that it SHOULD only available to people actively seeking it out. this is putting someone’s work onto a platform they never asked for and opening it up to the wrong audience.

[tyler ☠︎︎ @kingofbrethren]

peter pevensie is so cool i wish knights who rode unicorns into battle and became high king of a fantastical realm were real