Today in Queer Black History Month, I'm celebrating early 19th century transgender sex worker, pickpocketer, and master scammer Mary Jones who made a healthy living fleecing wealthy white johns who never reported the thefts because they didn’t want their conservative peers to know they had a fetish for black trans women. She was eventually charged with grand larceny when someone turned her in to the police. The anti-abolitionist media mocked and humiliated her during her trial. But Jones appeared in the NY courtroom “neatly dressed in female attire, elegant, and in perfect style," and completely unbothered in a voluminous white dress, snow-white earrings, and a gold-gilded comb, despite the hordes who waited in the courtroom to jeer and prod her. When asked why she dressed in women's clothing by the court, Jones replied because she looked good in them and because her community had always accepted her that way — Mary Jones, y'all, making them eat it, all the way back in 1836. Jones was convicted of grand larceny and released after five years in prison, at which point she was arrested again for dressing as a woman. She served an additional five months. Upon her release this time she disappeared from recorded history. 🏳️🌈
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Today is also the last day of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement. Israel refuses to negotiate the second phase of the deal as was agreed on, since this phase guarantees the definitive end of the war. Instead, Israel is now proposing that it wants to extend the first phase of the deal, which Hamas is obviously going to reject (and that's exactly what the media is hyper-fixated on rn).
Israel was supposed to start withdrawing from certain positions in Gaza today but it has not done so, which is in violation of the agreement of course, but who's counting? The second phase was supposed to start tomorrow (Sunday, March 2), but with Israel refusing to negotiate the implementation of this phase, no one knows what this means for Gaza.
In short: Israel is threatening to restart the "war" on Gaza if Hamas doesn't agree on Israel's violation of the already agreed upon deal in January. Is there a crazier example that shows the asymmetry of power between the occupier and the occupied? I don't think so.
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Dame Maggie Smith
1934-2024
Alexis Meade | Ugly Betty (insp.)
Saw this song on tiktok (creds to @/cartervailmusic over there) and thought it described a certain group of Mug- Magical Misfits
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Nancy Wheeler appreciation post!!
Oh oh! Do you have other ideas/plans for merch? Like clothing, hoodies, etc?? A Wally Darling inspired hoodie would look super fire 🔥
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Yes, we have already begun planning what will arrive next! (Clothes have been on the table, although I can't say much beyond that!) However- It can only come to fruition if we are successful with this first shop run! With that said, the final day for the shop before it is taken down will be May 10th at 11:59 PM PST!
If we are successful with our sales and if the shop proves to be popular, we will be able to re-open with our original four plushes (Wally, Barnaby, Julie, and Frank) as evergreen products (Meaning they will not go away!) and with more on the way! (Not just plushes either!)
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Stranger things and the Twilight Zone(1959)
Stranger things - the Pumaman (1980)
Stranger things - Halloween III: Season of the witch (1982)
Stranger things - The Poltergeist trilogy (1982, 1986, 1988)
Stranger things - The Philadelphia experiment (1984)
Stranger things - Total Recall (1990)
Stranger things - Goodfellas (1990)
Stranger things - The good son (1993)
Stranger things - 12 monkeys (1995)
Stranger things - Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
Stranger things - Twister (1996)
Stranger things - Primal Fear (1996)
Stranger things - Mimic (1997)
Stranger things - Event Horizon (1997)
Stranger things - Fallen (1998)
Stranger things -Magnolia (1999)
Stranger things - Ravenous (1999)
Stranger things - Never been kissed (1999)
Stranger things - Unbreakable (2000) parallels
Stranger things - The Cell (2000)
Stranger things - Donnie Darko (2001) (part 1 cinematography, scenes)
Stranger things - Donnie Darko (2001) (part 2 plot)
Stranger things - Minority Report (2002)
Stranger things - Spider (2002)
Stranger things - Dreamcatcher (2003)
Stranger things - Unleashed / Danny the Dog (2005)
Stranger things - Fringe (2008-2013)
Stranger things - Unborn (2009)
Stranger things - Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated (2010-2013)
Stranger things - the Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Stranger things - Source code (2011)
Stranger things - Stoker (2013)
Stranger things - The Guest (2014)
Stranger things - Hidden (2015) by the Duffer Brothers
Stranger things - Fast Color (2018)
*posts in bold are heavily referenced movies/important