Purim on Twitter, plus tangents

I read Rabbi Danya Rutenberg @TheRaDR all year, but over a couple of years have found her Purim teachings particularly useful. This year there was a long thread about whether drunkenness is actually required (no), that included the things one is supposed to do
"There are 4 mitzvot of Purim: 1) hearing the Megillah/Book of Esther 2) sending mishloach manot, aka treat baskets 3) the Seudah, or festive meal 4) Matanot La'evyonim, giving to the poor." My tangents: I am entranced by the idea of treat baskets, and thought of May baskets, which I also don't do. I would have thought the festive meal would be just hamentaschen. My donations to the poor today are going to wet poor people, in Nebraska and Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.

Within the thread about drinking was this:

"'Finally, when she becomes blind drunk, she is like a pig; wallowing in mire and coming to rest among refuse.'[Midrash Tanhuma, Noah, 13]"

My tangent: (I learned it originally from the Boys of the Lough. The web site I copied and pasted it from claims the author was anonymous).
>>It was a year ago, September
a day I well remember
I was walking up and down
in drunken pride
when my knees began to flutter
and I fell down in the gutter
and a pig came by and lay down by my side

As I lay there in the gutter
thinking thoughts I could not utter
I thought I heard a passing lady say,
"You can tell a man who boozes
by the company he chooses..."
And with that, the pig got up and walked away<<

Her posts last September deal more directly with some of the texts
(excerpt)
"So Vashti is deposed, probably killed, for saying no to a powerful man's sexual demands. What else she had to endure, on other days, at other banquets, when her husband and his friends were drunk will remain forever unknown to us."

My tangent: The text doesn't say she's killed, but it makes me think of the old thing about children being told an unwanted (by the parents) dog was sent to live on a farm. In our happy hopes, there's the dog, hanging out with Vashti.

I searched #TeamVashti and found this, among many other things:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgEKaomUEAE9A13.jpg
This was posted by Jennifer de Guzman, and it comes from a book of illustrated Bible stories.