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goth-queen

sharptoothsadist

𝕴 𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖉𝖗𝖚𝖎𝖉𝖘 𝖈𝖔𝖚𝖑𝖉𝖓'𝖙 𝖈𝖆𝖘𝖙 𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖇𝖆𝖑𝖑?

dungeonmalcontent

It's clearly casting moonbeam, you uncultured fireball-brained wizard.

the-haiku-bot

It’s clearly casting

moonbeam, you uncultured

fireball-brained wizard.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

shutoffthelights

to me, there's an innate horror in tradwife content. it's always a pretty young girl in her late teens, early 20s. she's so young. she's basically a baby herself. maybe she's about your age. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

either way, she always has at least three kids, sometimes more. you don't want to ask when she had them, but she had to have them young because her youngest had to have been born when she was at least seventeen based on how time works. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

she's smiling but there's something missing in her eyes - a spark that should be there. there's no passion, there's just the movements of the day. sometimes she'll give an interview where she says she barely feels like getting out of bed, and other times she says nothing. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

her world isn't real - it's neat kitchens and made from scratch cheese. she tells you how she doesn't need feminism because she likes this life, she likes wearing pretty dresses, don't you dare pity her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

you scroll up to an ex tradewife in her forties talking about how her husband divorced her and left her for a younger girl, leaving her destitute and penniless and twenty years out of the workforce. you scroll again to a pretty young girl saying she doesn't need a job, her husband will take care of her. you scroll again. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

another woman, this time in her early thirties, talking about how she just managed to leave her abusive husband and has nothing and he took the kids, warning and pleading young girls to not fall for tradwife lies. you scroll again to a young tradwife girl saying that would never happen to her, and you're just jealous of her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

you scroll again. a teen girl tells you that she'll just track her period, she doesn't NEED a toxic chemical like birth control. you scroll again to an obgyn pleading with young girls to understand birth control is just hormonal, and that period tracking isn't effective. you just watch happen. you can't save her.

you scroll again, and it's jd vance saying how women belong in the homes and shouldn't be allowed to vote. that their husbands should decide how they should vote. you scroll again to a domestic abuse counselor telling women their vote is private and they can lie to their husbands. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

she doesn't want you to save her. how dare you pity her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her. a horrible feeling washes over you. you just watch it happen.

shutoffthelights

bviralmedia

Curious Tiger Chews on Cardboard Tube in His Outdoor Enclosure

albva

tanicappack

Audio description: many sniffs and grunts and growl/purrs

blade-liger-4ever

@milksugarjams

grimseverity

As Shakespeare would say, Tube or not tube

lemonsweet

Very fascinated by this Walmart shirt. Could they not use the actual phrase or something? It's not even specifying "when you're mean to me" it's just when you're mean in general this particular bunny gets hurt. She carries all suffering. This bunny experiences all evil in the world.

asksloyxp

Maybe if I just work harder, this empty cup will pour again

shinyrock6498

Maybe the cup needs a bit of time to rest and refill?

asksloyxp

Maybe the cup needs to lock the fuck in???

oliviawhen

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

monstermonger

He's worried about stepping on flowers. He loves nature.

melgillman

Here’s HSTHETE, the 24 hour comic I drew this year! Thanks to everybody who followed along on twitter this weekend as I posted these pages <3

PS: if you liked this, there’s a whole book of these comics available now!

melgillman

I’m reblogging this 7-year-old comic of mine because, not only is it somehow still circulating, it just passed 400,000 notes??? Thank you, several hundred thousand internet strangers, for keepin’ this ol’ goat girl goin’ so long

(Also hi, I’m still making fairy-tale-flavored lesbian romance comics and have a new one coming out very soon…)

oatmylkmachiato

This is literally the most heart warming story I have read on Twitter so far. I think this is exactly what friends should do, and I feel everyone deserves people like this.

bmwiid

A barn rasing: a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community.

because you cannot, you CANNOT, build a barn on your own, and without it, you will not be able to survive.

What a fuckin’ gem of a sentence. “What we did today was a barn rasin”

nelc

nonlinear-nonsubjective

I hope you don’t mind, but I slowed the gif down because that is a FANTASTIC move.

chamiryokuroi

MEXICO WIN!!! FUCK AI!!!

lastoneout

blogging-at-your-funeral

lessdanthree

what drugs were they on when they made this

meanmisscharles

Cab Calloway rotascoped!

badgyal-k-deactivated20190901

Whoever thought of this was drinking absinthe

protectblkwomen

Thanks, Now I have nightmares

brunhiddensmusings

this was long before cartoons were ever thought of as ‘for kids’, the target audience of this one was roughly 20-40 betty boop cartoons featuring cab calloway singing, yes, but slang has changed so much you dont realize he was singing about opium, sugar daddies, death, weed, sex, booze, and gambling back when gambling was nearly as tabboo as sex and drugs. ‘minnie the moocher’ where cab calloway is a dancing walrus is specifically about someone who does literally everything on that list but die

most of the animation studios had their ‘thing’ to make their animation stand out, disney had fluid motion linked with quality music, warner brothers had top notch dialogue with carefully crafted facial expressions, MGM had comedic timing down to the individual frame that no live action comedian could dream of achieving, terrytoons had the budget of a ham sandwitch and a fistfull of nickels fleischer studios however had authentic jazz and heavy toned subject matter, often crossing the line of what we think of as ‘cartoon violence’ into realistic

peathefeary

idk why this is making me so emotional???

mcloveleigh

I love this. I’ve always had a love for cartoons

melaninondeck-deactivated201907

Cab Calloway, he was a legend performer and entertainer, although he’s listed as a jazz singer he did much more with his voice, his singing style and delivery was very unique. Cab (with his band) was the first black artist to sell over a million copies of a single record and he paved the way for many artists to come. Happy Black History Month.

impormable

sorry to make this long post longer, but I feel like it needed some actual photos of Cab Calloway, who is, in fact, the greatest

thestoicgod

G.O.A.T.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

theoutcastrogue

To clarify, the first video (the rotoscoped Cab Calloway) is “St. James Infirmary Blues” from the Betty Boop film Snow-White (1933). Vices mentioned: gambling with dice (“give me six crap-shootin’ pall-bearers”), alcohol (“hand me over another shot of that booze” – this was shortly before the repeal of Prohibition, btw), jazz (yes, that was a vice, at least in some circles; incidentally, the fastest way to hate and completely swear off critical theory is to read what Adorno has to say about jazz; I strongly recommend you never ever do that to yourself).

While the gifs are from Minnie the Moocher (1932). Vices mentioned: sexiness / sex work (“she was a red hot hoochie-coocher”, generally meaning dancer, um, with benefits), cocaine (“she loved him though he was cokey”), opium (“He took her down to Chinatown and showed her how to kick the gong around”), and, in the last two verses, a string of classics like greed (“a home built of gold”, “a diamond car”, “a million dollars”), gluttony (“each meal was a dozen courses”) and more gambling (“racing horses”), all assumed to be the result of hooking up with a sugar daddy (“he gave her things that she was needin’”).

HOWEVER, these two verses don’t tell us what Minnie has, they tell us what she dreams. In the film, Betty Boop forays into the exciting perils of the underworld and then flees back to her repressive but safe home. In the song, Min is of the underworld, dreaming luxuries she can’t have. Not unlike the Little Match Girl lighting a match, or Pirate Jenny, who’s not really a pirate, looking out a shitty brothel’s window and waiting for a ship that’s not there. That’s why the song is so funny and at the same time so dark, not because it lists “vices”.

See, Minnie the Moocher was a real person. Her name was Minnie Gayton, and she was a homeless beggar in Indianapolis, around 60 years old at the time: “she acquired the quaint nickname of ‘The Moocher’ by regularly begging food from grocers and carting it off in a baby buggy. She slept on doorways, on porches and in garages.” And she died about 20 years later, during a terrible blizzard, from exposure. They did get her to a hospital, but by then it was too late.

Do you think she ever lit a match, and imagined in its light extravagant meals and sacks of money and cars and booze and coke, and some sweet love to fight off the cold? Do you think she liked the song? Do you think it cheered her up? God I hope so.

Hi de hi de hi de ho Poor Min, poor Min, poor Min

redgranola

Ahh, but Minnie the Moocher is also somewhat based on an older folk song called Willie the Weeper aka Willie the Chimney Sweeper. Which follows much the same plot, a fantastic dream that eventually must end. Bit more explicit about it though, and Cab Calloway certainly added the flair and swing. AFAIK the origin is lost, thought to be 1880s, but here’s a 1927 recording by Ernest Rogers

theoutcastrogue

This is an fantastic addition, thanks! These lyrics are amazing.

Have you ever heard about Willie the weeper? Had a job as a chimley sweeper. He had the dope habit and he had it bad. Listen while I tell you ’bout a dream he had.

He went down to the dope shop one Saturday night. He knew the lights would all be burnin’ bright. Well I guess he smoked a dozen pills or more; When he woke up he was on a foreign shore.

The Queen of Sheba was the first he met. She called him lovey dovey and honey pet. She gave him a great big autie-mobile With a diamond headlight and a go-holden wheel.

Down in Honolulu Willie fell in a trance Seein’ the dusky beauties do the hula dance. His sweetie got in jail and Willie sure did shout When he got the news that she had wiggled out.

He landed with a splash in the river Nile Ridin’ on seagoin’ crocodile He winked at Cleopatra. She said, “Ain’t he a sight.” (‘N’ she said) “How ‘about a date for next Saturday night?”

He had a million cattle and he had a million sheep. Had a million vessels on the ocean deep. Had a million dollars all in nickels and dimes, Well he knew because he counted it a thousand times.

He landed in New York one evenin’ late. He asked his sugar for an after-date. Started to kiss her and she started to pout, When bang-blang! And the dope gave out.

By the way, I’ve found transcripts of “Minnie the Moocher's” lyrics with three extra verses (see here), but no recording that includes them except a cover by a modern revival band.

@redgranola (or anyone) do you have any idea if they’re legit, and who or when sang them first?

redgranola

New to me. Interesting to add another parallel to the ending if so. I’ve been digging, there’s more information here which includes mention of the extra verses:

If you're looking for Easter music this weekend, we have plenty from Allegri to Pugni and Dargomyzhsky to Irving Berlin. But for Sunday even

It’s also mentioned in the wikipedia talk page. And noted in this list of works but not in the transcribed lyrics. The recordings I’ve seen are all pretty consistent, and any adlibbing is usually in the call and response. But it could have been cut early on for sake of performance?

This blog post in French claims to have period sheet music with the extra verses.

That cover isn’t BBVD, but it might be Big Time Operator as suggested by a YT commenter. Album called High Altitude Swing. Can’t find even preview clips of it, but a brief compare with the one other song from this band on YouTube seems similar enough in style and voice.

Since I went way down the rabbit hole, have some more gems like this 1983 documentary

A whole movie

A later interview

And an autobiography that might have more information