local jester

taking a mike’s long hard look in the mirror ❈ she/her

[Elle Nolastname @1992dyke]

dolly’s Q&A section at the end of her book… pls she was a gem

[✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @chi_urbanist]

The proposed O'Hare Flyer battery-electric train would have to travel at about 82 mph to cover the 20.6 mile route in 15 minutes

[Actually_Tina_prepping for the 4th_FFXIV @Actually_Tina]

Not that 80 is particularly a young age but im really tired of seeing the people who try their hardest to make everyone's lives worse live to be like 103 years old.

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

If you're even a little bit camp start take care of yourself now. If you've done any work in a feather boa please take a multivitamin I stg

[house of the pelvic truth @paige_eden]

This photo of a dog with Cushing’s before and after treatment makes me so emotional I could cry

[Haydn, 🇵🇸 @bilbosfootcomb]

Girl if you don’t get your ass to the CONVENT.

you’re supposed to be having ecstatic visions of the Final Unity of All Things and levitating in front of the Eucharist not doing homework for a used car salesman

[local jester @westofmary]

This is how we must forge a path in the marketplace of ideas

[❤︎⁠ @hackerchick]

Tim Curry was a monster talent and had my favorite answer of any celebrity when asked about their sexuality: “It was the 70s”

[sloan @Sloanstweets]

Dolly Parton performing her cover of the Collective Soul song "Shine"
❤️🕊

(📺:Austin City Limits, 2001)

[Hoosier Hammer 🔨🦬🏆🏈 @Brentonmfender]

This video of Dolly Parton covering Stairway to Heaven is going around. Here's a higher quality version for you to enjoy. RIP to the Queen of Country and an absolute angel on Earth.

[PopCulture @notgwendalupe]

Rest in Peace Tim Curry 🕊️🤍 thank you for raising us with your undeniable range

[tori @skinstrash]

💘

[Red Hot World @RedHotWorld]

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985. Dolly supported LGBTQ people for decades, going back to a time when few others dared.

[retrocvnt @retrocvnty]

The original divas

[𝕯𝖎𝖑𝖉𝖔 𝕭𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖘 @EmmaTolkin]

Obsessed with this 1978 photo of Dolly with a horse at a Studio 54 afterparty

[David S. Duhalde @TheDuhalde]

Especially in this moment, it is worth listening to Parton's cover of Woody Guthrie's "Deportee" - about unnamed Mexican workers dying in the a place crash.

She and him give them names because they are human beings and deserved more than the papers just calling them "deportees."

[Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1]

Dolly understood the power of nostalgia and myth-making. But we do well to remember that in some ways her emblematic early song was 1969's "In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)" which is absolutely relentless about how awful it is to be poor.

[WBBM Newsradio @WBBMNewsradio]

The Willis Tower antennas turn pink in honor of Dolly Parton, who died today at the age of 80. Skydeck Chicago says the special display will shine over the city’s skyline as a tribute to Dolly’s extroardinary life, music, and impact on generations of fans.
📸: Arturo Gonzalez

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

The American Federation of Musicians, the major labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years.

AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.

That meant the musicians working for her were not simply being handed a check as hired players…their work was formally covered under union agreements that can require negotiated minimum pay, pension contributions, benefits and other workplace protections.

The union says Dolly “set the gold standard” for supporting the musicians behind her and “elevated our entire profession.”

[🕸️ @ibeuvivi]

she was just on the news talking about how the government took away funding for her reading program :( she was talking about how her father was the smartest man she ever knew and inspired her to create the program for kids who couldn’t easily access books :((((