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The Worst Hit Songs of 1958

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The Worst Hit Songs of 1958 1959 was the first year to have a full Year-End Top 100 under the Billboard Hot 100 magazine, but it's not the first year to have a list like it. The Billboard Hot 100 still started in 1958, and the Billboard magazine did release a Top 50 most successful songs of 1958 list at the end of that year, linked here . It may only be 50 songs, however, there does exist a full 100 song Year End list for 1958. But I do warn that it's incredibly debatable how "official" this list is. I'm not sure if the Billboard magazine posted this list at one point or if people actually went back and calculated what the full Top 100 would be, but either way, I'm going to use it. Since it's a little hard to find, I did post screenshots of what the 1958 Year-End Top 100 would be at the end of this blogpost, sources linked, for convenience's sake. It may not be entirely accurate, but it's the best I have to go off of. I've been record on saying...

The Face of TG Storytime Part 10: The "For a Girl" Conspiracy

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  The Face of TG Storytime Part 10: The "For a Girl" Conspiracy So, I've talked about “For a Girl” a lot. Not just in my review of it, but also in “Shame and Desire” and a few other times in the rest of my blogs. I just can not stop talking about this story. And I think I’ve already established why I keep coming back to it. It’s such a fascinating piece of literature, very evocative of the culture of the 2000s, especially in regards to how transgender people were viewed back then. But with this post, I’m not going to talk about the quality of “For a Girl”, I’ve done that more than enough. No, I want to discuss the plot, and try to uncover as much as I can about the lore of this universe. Yep, we’re doing a theory post this time, so let’s get right into it. The main transformation trigger in “For a Girl” is Gender Biomorphism, a non-contagious disease that transforms teenage boys into girls. And only teenage boys. According to the story, no one over the age of 18 has ever ...