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sorry im not done gatsbyposting. the nyc celebrations for its 100th anniversary are so uniquely deranged. like here you have a book that absolutely scathes new york parties & dress-up & entertainment & alcohol & careless wealthy east coast elites. and the way the city is celebrating the 100th anniversary of one of the most beautifully written & personally devastating literary tragedies this country has ever produced is by. offering 10% off gatsby-themed cocktails at luxury bars. hosting pay-to-attend 1920s themed costume balls in the wealthiest areas of midtown. setting up penthouse hotel suites to ostensibly resemble locations from the book. a few hours ago at an exclusive private event they had the cast of the glamorous broadway musical, all in designer clothes, light up the empire state building green to advertise their show where tickets cost up to $670. one of them said the green light ‘represents the beauty of the american dream.’ i think you could power all manhattan with energy generated from the rotational torque of f scott fitzgerald spinning wildly in his grave

mephistopheles

anyhow i celebrated this international holiday by leaving work early & dressing up & driving north five and a half miserable hours to see the empire state lit up green because this was a true once in a lifetime event & this book changed my life & i wanted to celebrate a character i loved and mourned & see a glittering green light shining on the water & reach for it like dreamers do. but even though all the websites and blogs i could find told me it would be green on the 11th—that it would blaze green all night on the 11th, and i triple checked each one—by the time i got there at 8:15 pm they’d turned it off. and the parties had happened thursday night, not friday. so i ended up alone & exhausted & rain-drenched & freezing & quite frankly absolutely crying my eyes out on the shore across from the city, just fucking stupidly sobbing above the water, wishing i could go back just a little way into the past. and THATS how you do gatsby. ill kill you all

mephistopheles

if you don’t reblog this post im gonna explode

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ramshacklefey

No IDs, but these tags got me in a huff:

So ok look. The point is not the flared leg by itself. These cannot be yoga pants. These are, and you have to understand this if you are too young to have worn them, BLUE JEANS. And this was the last years before all jeans were 70% spandex.

They were denim, and they weren't bell bottoms. They hung loose from the knee in a way that would make a wizard envious. We all walked around like we were wearing hakama. And they dragged on the ground. That was important. Ragged cuffs. If your jeans weren't so long that they had ratty cuffs, they were embarrassingly short.

And the thing about denim is that it's a twill weave and it's cotton. So not only does it hold a lot of water, it wicks. Walking around in these suckers on a wet day could get you wet to the knees even if you never stepped in a puddle.

Then you'd go inside and take off your shoes and try to avoid letting your freezing, wet, filthy pant legs touch your skin.

Yoga pants. Hmf.

elodieunderglass

people in cold climates would have a tide line of white marks around their knees (if they were normal height) in the winter.

From wicking up road salt.

taibhsearachd

The visceral memory of that time is something that never leaves you. Everyone's jeans were many inches higher in the back than the front because you kept stepping on the hem and ripping it off. Your lower legs were so very cold. Every new pair of jeans literally enveloped your entire foot, they were so so long re: leg-to-waist ratio. Walking on a rainy day was a legitimate workout. You have no idea.

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directactionforhope

Fault for this also absolutely lies at the feet of Gavin Newsom.

Look at that chart. He entered the governor's office in 2019.

California is the world's fourth largest economy, all by itself. The governor of California is one of the most powerful people in the country, and thanks to that, a general leftist and liberal history, and particularities of US environmental regulation, California also has more regulatory power than any other state in the country.

Not only do executive orders in a state the size of California actually hold potentially massive power, but also, Gavin Newsom has enjoyed a Democratic majority in both houses of the California legislature, and for part of the pandemic iirc a Democratic supermajority.

Gavin Newsom could have genuinely, stopped this trajectory at any point, especially during the pandemic.

But he hates poor people and homeless people and Latine people and undocumented people way too much for that!!!!!

He's pretending he's powerless in the face of California's homelessness crisis, like half of it isn't literally his fault.

Also he came and spoke at my college campus in 2018, when he was running, and in response to student questions about tuition, he basically said he didn't care that we couldn't afford tuition to our faces, he had no real plans to do anything about it, and then ignored all our questions about tuition and the affordability and homelessness crisis, and pivoted every answer to gun control for the next 40 minutes.

(Fun fact: my university has a Homeless Student Union. Iirc in 2018 it had about 200-300 members. At an incredibly prestigious university that, as a UC, Gavin Newsom is also in charge of. The homelessness crisis has only gotten worse since then, especially in CA. Much of San Francisco's good reputation as a tech capital is dependent on massive, city-wide police sweeps to round up every homeless person they can find and arrest them or dump them outside city limits before major tech conferences or big national events.)

The fact that radical leftist activists and anti-homelessness activists are basically the only ones I've seen correctly blame Newsom for his massive role in causing and perpetuating the brutal and literally deadly homelessness crisis that's been killing Californians for years.

Cough. ALSO vote out all Republicans. But Newsom is almost certainly going to run for president in 2028. And he deserves way, way more blame for the state of California than he has been getting.

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do-not-u-dare

Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate

anistarrose

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"