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Why did these horrible flip-books of short captioned gifs ever become a thing? Was there a file-size limit on tumblr?
Dunno. It doesn’t really translate as well to Lemmy -it has gaps between the images, . . . Hmmm. I wonder if i can get rid of those.
Edit: yep!
I appreciate the effort but I always thought they were horrible to look at even on tumblr!
I… 100% thought she was a drag queen until the last slide lol
Well, that’s because she’s so iconic that many drag performers use a similar look
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That totally explains it actually, neat.
(Just to be clear because I got a bunch of replies, my original comment wasn’t negative at all)
Dolly Parton on losing a Dolly Parton lookalike contest:
They had a bunch of Chers and Dollys that year and so I just over-exaggerated, made the beauty mark bigger, made my eyes bigger, the hair bigger — everything. … All of these other beautiful drag queens had worked for months and weeks getting their clothes and all that, and they were dressed like me. So, I just got in the line and I just walked across [the stage] and they just thought I was some little, short gay guy. And I got the least applause but I was just dying laughing inside. I say it’s a good thing I was a girl or I’d be a drag queen.
That’s a brave admission.
Uncultured buffoon
Boo on you. Booooooo.
I think there’s some ‘truth’ to it in some ways. Dolly acknowledges that she plays a lot with femininity and feminine expectations, and that ‘look’ she has is a costume in many ways. She doesn’t dress like that when she’s out incognito.
In the same way drag is a costumed examination of what makes someone look ‘like a woman’, subverting in some ways and embracing in others
Now I’m curious what she looks like with no makeup, would nobody recognize her?
And oh my gosh isn’t she like 80 years old now?
I bet her husband and Reba McEntire would be the only two people who would know.
I love that she says: It takes a lot of money to look this cheap!
Like for real, if people with wealth were half as kind as her there would be a lot less suffering in this world.
“Honey, I would never stoop so low as to be fasionable” Dolly to Barbara Walter’s in interview
At the very least
