בהצלחה.

Jewish by choice Lost-and-found Ashkenazic ancestry main: @fatespectrum

[greenandhazy]

Every male Conservative rabbi: Shabbat shalom, everyone! My name is David, Aaron, Jacob, or Jonathan. I have a neatly-trimmed beard and wear glasses, and you can tell I’m fun because I’m wearing colorful socks and a knitted kippah! Please join us for Musical Havdalah this week, where I’ll be playing guitar/hand drums/tambourine along with my Jewish dad band!

[greenandhazy]

@ everyone tagging this with some variation of “you’re right but you shouldn’t say it,” you all are COWARDS and Every Male Liberal Rabbi is going to play Kol Ha Olam Kulo to remind you that הָעִיקָר לֹא לְפַחֵד כְּלַל

first he’s going to lead us in a niggun, so once you’ve become accustomed to the melody, feel free to join him in song

[jewish-kulindadromeus]

You know what they say: “two Jews three opinions” and “if you want it done right you have to do it yourself” 

sorry for not including beta israel holidays I didn’t really know enough about a lot of them besides sigd to accurately describe them 

[jewish-burrito]

Interactive visualization of the connections between Talmud and Tanakh.

[entanglingbriars]

[lifeinpoetry]

You are not as tired of diaspora poetry as I am of the diaspora.

— Omar Sakr, from “A Beautiful Child,” published in The Margins

[quietwingsinthesky]

a moment of clarity. of life clawed free from the grave inside you. and then apologizing for it. apologizing for it. apologizing for it.

[victorianlonging]

i saw the tv glow said to come out you have to kill a part of yourself, the version of yourself you've created to protect yourself, the imaginary vision of yourself that was fed to you

[joculine]

The fucking parachute. And the inflatable planetarium. Fake, ephemeral “rooms” made of plastic and air. Fake spaces that will inevitably fall into each themselves and on top of their inhabitants. Fake spaces kept stable by the pumping of air. Fake spaces with colors and stars and the strange feeling of being enclosed.

And they’re inside a high school gym class. Good god.

[mistyheartrbs]

just watched i saw the tv glow and one thing i haven't seen anyone bring up yet is that in the final seconds of the movie, right when it cuts to the credits screen, you hear the sound of rain. which is what maddy says it was like when they woke up in the pink opaque as tara. implying that owen/isabel, too, is on the precipice of making it out. is this perhaps a more optimistic interpretation of the ending than intended? probably, but i feel like it's worth mentioning

[the-blue-fairie]

Jane JANE-

[wormsdyke]

hey have you guys heard of that movie. yeah the obliterating masterpiece on trans identity

[starzonez]

sometimes it feels more real than real life.

[karmelarts]

so much of the horror genre is informed by the metaphor of queer/transness as monstrousness. especially emphasizing the amount of horror that depends on the audience's repulsion at seeing a human body changing into a new, other body. I Saw the TV Glow is about the horror of NOT transitioning. the horror of static. the horror of looking into yourself and being terrified of what you see. the horror of seeing who you are and choosing to do nothing about it. the horror of looking away. and by god is it terrifying.

[mediademon]

I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024) DIR. JANE SCHOENBRUN

[novelconcepts]

I Saw the TV Glow is such a uniquely, devastatingly queer story. Two queer kids trapped in suburbia. Both of them sensing something isn’t quite right with their lives. Both of them knowing that wrongness could kill them. One of them getting out, trying on new names, new places, new ways of being. Trying to claw her way to fully understanding herself, trying to grasp the true reality of her existence. Succeeding. Going back to help the other, to try so desperately to rescue an old friend, to show the path forward. Being called crazy. Because, to someone who hasn’t gotten out, even trying seems crazy. Feels crazy. Looks, on the surface, like dying.

And to have that other queer kid be so terrified of the internal revolution that is accepting himself that he inadvertently stays buried. Stays in a situation that will suffocate him. Choke the life out of him. Choke the joy out of him. Have him so terrified of possibly being crazy that he, instead, lives with a repression so extreme, it quite literally is killing him. And still, still, he apologizes for it. Apologizes over and over and over, to people who don’t see him. Who never have. Who never will. Because it’s better than being crazy. Because it’s safer than digging his way out. Killing the image everyone sees to rise again as something free and true and authentic. My god. My god, this movie. It shattered me.

[steveyockey]

I saw tv glow is like YES the realization you are trans might implode your life and make the world you live in uninhabitable but that will happen anyway if you don’t do anything about it. if you retreat from your own needs and refuse to let yourself resurrect you’re still gonna run out of air and even the tv show that kept you alive at one point won’t be able to bring you back

[the-blue-fairie]

Fuck.

[threewolfmoons]

profoundly impacted by i saw the tv glow, had to make something for it.