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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ Dalley! • they/she/he/it • I like Shakespeare, history, theatre, writing, etc! • Or call me Staf/Stafford, Banquo/Banq, Tom, Feste, Mercutio/Mercury/Merc, Ajax, Five, Bedlam, whatever you want lol I'm an indecisive nickname magnet • icon & header from oz no mahōtsukai

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I'm Dalley! (We're trying something lol.) I have many nicknames tho, listed in bio. Listen guys names are hard

I use they/she/it pronouns with the occasional he/him for spice (il avec les adjectifs féminins au lieu de iel, s'il vous plaît) and my gender is whatever's funniest. ♣️

Perennial interests: Shakespeare, history (mostly US), primatology, Greek mythology

Hyperfixations current and old: MASH, The Outsiders, The Wizard of Oz for some fucking reason, LOTR, Superman

Wooloo shiny hunt ->

Back on my Wooloo bullshit Pokédex: 377/400 Wooloos KO'd in a row: 3

[journeymanfool]

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN

[sophisticatedswifts]

The real highlight of Dolly Parton’s autobiography was the q&a at the end. I’m obsessed with her answers.

[becomedog]

“…in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library” [source: Us]

In a lifetime of amazing creations, this program has gifted over 330 million books to kids.

Contribute here in her honor: imaginationlibrary.com

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in partici

[urie]

calling dolly parton a country singer is like calling jesus christ a carpenter. it is technically true but theres a lot more you could say

[transjudas]

dolly parton did so much good in this world. just because she cared. caring means so much. loving people and wanting to make the world a little better while you’re here matters so much.

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

"A rhinestone shines just as good as a diamond.”

Rest easy, Dolly.

[entryn17]

not religious but lord you could've taken anyone else

[cosmicretreat]

[tchaikovskaya]

Rename nashville it’s that serious

[the-big-mood]

The legendary Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80.

[guccifloralsuits]

Dolly Parton could have been a billionaire 3 times over but actively chose to give her money away to cause after cause for charity. She was an incredible musician and artist but more importantly lived with compassion and kindness and with the drive to help those around her in every way she could. God I’m sad. The world lost one one of the greats today :(

[vintage-tigre]

[rumman]

patti and dolly harmonizing to an acrylic nail beat

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton's hometown of Sevierville Tennessee was at 34% (Research shows that most kids make up their minds in fifth/sixth grade not to graduate). That year, all fifth and sixth graders from Sevierville were invited by Parton to attend an assembly at Dollywood. They were asked to pick a buddy, and if both students completed high school, Dolly Parton would personally hand them each a $500 check on their graduation day. As a result, the dropout rate for those classes fell to 6%, and has generally retained that average to this day.

Shortly after the success of The Buddy Program, Parton learned in dealing with teachers from the school district that problems in education often begin during first grade when kids are at different developmental levels. That year The Dollywood Foundation paid the salaries for additional teachers assistants in every first grade class for the next 2 years, under the agreement that if the program worked, the school system would effectively adopt and fund the program after the trial period.

During the same period, Parton founded the Imagination Library in 1995: The idea being that children from her rural hometown and low-income families often start school at a disadvantage and as a result, will be unfairly compared to their peers for the rest of their lives, effectively encouraging them not to pursue higher education. The objective of the Imagination library was that every child in Sevier County would receive one book, every month, mailed and addressed to the child, from the day they were born until the day they started kindergarten, 100% free of charge. What began as a hometown initiative now serves children in all 50 states, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, mailing thousands of free books to children around the world monthly.

On March 1, 2018 Parton donated her 100 millionth book at the Library of Congress: a copy of "Coat of Many Colors" dedicated to her father, who never learned to read or write.

[recreationaldivorce]

9am: i can't wait till bedtime

10pm: i have always wanted to write my own operating system

[bas-rouge]