End of an era.

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Moment of silence, please, for my Really Really Ridiculously Gay Purse Strap.

The RRRGPS started with a black purse I bought at PacSun many years ago. It came with two interchangeable straps: one with pyramid studs and one with grommets. I preferred the latter, and eventually wove a rainbow shoelace through the grommets.

Then more rainbows: I slipped a bangle I wasn't wearing (bracelets tend to drive me nuts) onto the strap, and tied a ring onto the long end of the shoelace. Both were made of layered plastic, and I was pleased to have found a way to use them.

And then the buttons. An assortment of sizes on the front of the purse (I lost one in the pit at a TAI... show ages ago, another few fell off at random), and one-inch buttons attached to the shoelace. Some funny, some geographic allegiance stuff, but mostly queer pins.

I haven't used the purse in a really long time, because the strap was disintegrating. The snaps were working their way out of the fabric.

But there is still the other strap. I won't be able to thread the studded strap with a shoelace or cover it in little buttons, but I can just shift them to the body of the purse instead.

Purse! One MBTA map, French/British/Italian flags, fleur de lis, two bi, one DYW, and one trans. Oh, and the plastic bangle.

Four DYW and one LJ. As you can see, there was a sixth pin at one point, but it has fallen off.

Slash, feminism, recycling, gay, gay, gay. And the ring.

This post brought to you by "it's two in the morning and I tried to sleep, really I did, but I am too wound up to reach unconsciousness."