[seriousbrat]

I'm definitely reading Wolf Boy when it comes out btw. It's not at all something I'd pick up on my own lol, and I possibly won't enjoy it that much (though who knows!) but it's the fact that it's just inextricable from the exact fandom culture I'm always talking about. It's kind of fandom history in a way. So I do intend to read it and give it a fair review haha.

[blue-15000]

Really responding to your tags here, as I've read both Manacled and a chunk of Alchemised (DNF'ed), and a few other fanfic-adapted works. In my experience, and very unfortunately, published fanfic doesn't tend to trim the fat. Alchemised ended up being significantly worse than Manacled because of the need to introduce a new world, new magic system, and new terminology for that magic system. A good editor would absolutely trim down the story of ATYD... but I'm not sure a good editor will be given that happy power.

I'll probably read it when it comes out too, I've been observing the Marauders fandom with fascination for several years now, although I'm not active in Marauders tumblr spheres. I don't think an HP fanfic set primarily at Hogwarts has ever been adapted to tradpublishing, and I'm curious to see how it will all end up

[ladymaplecourt]

Hi my name is Mordechai ben Yair ben Shimei ben Kish, ish Yimini and I am from the tribe of Binyamin (that’s how I got my name) with a long white beard that reaches my mid-abs and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like King Saul (AN: if u don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!). I AM related to Queen Esther which is great because she’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a prophet but I'm humble and scholarly. I’m also a Jew, and I was a member of a respected group called the Sanhedrin in the Hall of Hewn Stones where I learned seventy languages (I’m one hundred). I’m a vizier (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly royal blue. I am second to the king and I get all my clothes from him. For example today I was wearing royal robes of blue and white, and a mantle of fine linen and purple wool. I was wearing a magnificent gold crown and riding a royal horse. I was sitting by the castle gates. A counter-decree had been issued so the Jews were not in mortal peril, which I was very happy about. A lot of antisemites stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

[blue-15000]

So do I have to explain why this is ridiculously misogynistic or can I just post without comment.

The comments were even worse, one person suggested the author make the character strong in a "feminine" way. What, pray tell, is feminine strength and how is it different from just... strength?

[koshercosplay]

I love finding out about things after they happen

[magnetothemagnificent]

SAME OMG LMFAO

[id: image with a blue flag and the text "Maked Safe Frum tumblr outage Today thanks to shabbat"]

[pusheenthenerdcat]

prev changing "from" to "frum" is such a funny typo on a shabbat post lmao

[magnetothemagnificent]

Oh nooo

[en-theos]

ok who confused the archaeologists again

[en-theos]

please don't baffle the archaeologists, it triggers their alcoholism

[en-theos]

common misconception but confounded is NOT the natural state of the archaeologist. stop confounding them

[en-theos]

all archaeologist know how to do is dig, brush, and forage for sherds. a group of archaeologists is called a 'survey'. any and all info they source from 'real people with real skills and knowledge and common sense duh'. resourceful little creatures

[cripp-tid]

my synagogue was set on fire last night during Shabbat at 3:00 AM in an arsonist attack.

no one was injured, which i am extremely grateful for. they have several security cameras, so there is a suspect in custody. the details and motivation haven't been shared, but it can be reasonably assumed to be a hate crime.

this was the first synagogue established in the state, the only one that's not hours away, and certainly the largest in the area. two Torah scrolls are destroyed beyond repair, 5 are damaged. the library where children have religious school and morning Shabbat service is held has been completely burnt down, much of that section of the building that's left is covered in soot and ash. the administrative offices were also lost.

our Tree of Life, which was for important life events like bar/bat/b'nei mitzvahs, was destroyed. i was just looking at it this past Tuesday while waiting for a meeting with my rabbi. it was dozens of bronze plaques in the shape of leaves with commemorations on them placed above a trunk. there is a photo of the wreckage that makes me cry every time i look at it.

we have a rescued scroll from Nazi-era Czechoslovakia (it is thankfully unharmed). we have a Holocaust memorial garden. we have names of dead loved ones displayed. memories in and on the walls. there are so many deeply meaningful and largely irreplaceable things here.

my rabbi was out of state for the last several days. i cannot imagine how he's feeling.

im fucking pissed at the police department. they said that they would patrol the grounds more often in light of the worldwide rise in antisemitism. I have not personally seen them once. they let the only area for our community to gather be set on fire.

i am exhausted. i am angry. i am thankful it is not any worse, because it easily could have been, but tonight i am grieving that little library full of vintage Jewish books.

[velvetys]

Don’t spend too much time with your family tomorrow we still need you here to post ok?

[blue-15000]

It's been a tough year and a tough week, but we persist

[jewish-converting-dinosaur]

The lion does not concern herself with how badly she's butchering Hebrew prayers. She reads the prayers anyways and apologizes to G-d profusely afterwards. (And then reads it again in English.)

I'm struggling.

[challahbeloved]

If you’re someone who likes saying tehillim, here’s a list Sydney names, per the email I just got from one of my chabad rabbis:

Yonatan Ben Tziporah

Yacov Dov Ben Pnina

Chaya bas Shterna Sara

[Urgent] Ruvein Ben Manya הי”ד

Yaakov Ben ethel

Arsen ben Zoya

Yaakov Halevi Ben Miriam (undergoing serious surgery)

Dovber Ben Talya

Moshe Ben Benyamin

Moshe Yonatan Ben Tzipporah

Toba bat Feiga

Elon Ben Ira

Feivel Eliezer ben Dobra Bella הי”ד

Elon Ben Shimshon

Yehuda Leib Ben Manya (post surgery in critical condition)

Shoshana bat minette

Levi Zev Ben Elisheva Rochel

Reuven Ben manya

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

Everybody STOP having a crisis, it’s now tea time

☕️☕️☕️🫖🍵🍵🍪

Pause all dread an catastrophe to have a cuppa and some cookies for the next 15-30 minutes

This is a wizard spell

[self-mythologist]

TRANS HAMSA

feel free to use it for whatever you like

[youtendtoforget-deactivated2025]

I’m ready to be transformed by the ibuprofen . I’m ready to be born again in its purifying light.

[blue-15000]

Oh tonight is not a good night

[bobemajses]

Elderly Jewish man in Bitola, Macedonia, 1913. By Auguste Léon.

[indecisiveavocado]

Joyce Fienberg, February 9, 1943 – October 27, 2018 hy”d. | Yitgadal v'yitkadash shmei raba | יתגדל ויתקדש שמה רבא

Richard Gottfried, January 13, 1953 – October 27, 2018 hy”d. | B’alma di v’ra khirutei, v’yamlikh malkhutei, b’khaiyekhon uv’yomeikhon, uv’khayei d’chol beit Yisrael, baagala uviz'man kariv | בעלמא די ברא, כרעותה. וימליך מלכותה, ויצמח פורקנה, ויקרב משיחה בחייכון וביומיכון ובחיי דכל-בית ישראל, בעגלא ובזמן קריב

Rose Mallinger, March 1, 1921 – October 27, 2018 hy”d. | Ve’imru: Amen. | ואמרו אמן.

Jerry Rabinowitz, November 10, 1952 – October 27, 2018 hy”d | Yehei shmei raba m’varakh l’alam ul’almei almaya | אמן יהא שמיה רבא מברך, לעלם ולעלמי עלמיא.

Cecil Rosenthal, July 20, 1959 – October 27, 2018 hy”d | Yitbarakh v’yishtabakh v’yitpaar v’yitromam v’yitnasei, v’yit’hadar v’yitaleh v’yit’halal sh’mei d’Kud’sha B’rikh Hu, l’eila min kol birkhata v’shirata, tushb’khata v’nekhemata, daamiran b’alma | יתברך וישתבח ויתפאר ויתרומם ויתנשא ויתהדר ויתעלה ויתהלל, שמה דקדשא בריך הוא .לעלא מן-כל-ברכתא ושירתא, תשבחתא ונחמתא דאמירן בעלמא

David Rosenthal, June 12, 1964 – October 27, 2018 hy”d | Ve’imru: Amen. | ואמרו אמן

Bernice Simon, August 2, 1934 – October 27, 2018 hy”d. | Y’hei sh’lama raba min sh’maya, v’chayim aleinu v’al kol Yisrael | יהא שלמא רבא מן שמיא וחיים עלינו ועל כל ישראל

Sylvan Simon, June 13, 1932 – October 27, 2018 hy”d. | Ve’imru: Amen | ואמרו אמן.

Daniel Stein, February 19, 1947 – October 27, 2018 hy”d | Oseh shalom bimromav, Hu yaaseh shalom aleinu, v’al kol Yisrael | עֹשה שלום במרומיו הוא יעשה שלום עלינו ועל כל-ישראל

Melvin Wax, November 23, 1940 – October 27, 2018 hy”d | Ve’imru: | ואמרו

Irving Younger, July 3, 1949 – October 27, 2018 hy”d | Amen. | אמן

This is scheduled to post at 9:50 AM (EST) on October 27, which appears to be when Robert Bowers entered the building shared by Tree of Life*Or L'Simcha, Dor Hadash, and New Light congregations.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

One of the most devastating conversations I had about museums and trying to preserve heritage was with a museum professional from Aotearoa. She was Māori and she was trying to get Iwi in her area to speak with them so that they could preserve oral histories and traditions, making it easier to access this information before some of it died out. But she was struggling because they were distrustful of museums a) because of the legacy of colonialism which is a very real and understandable concern, but also b) because of the rhetoric around museums seen online. She was horrified when she discovered that they didn't trust her and thought she was going to steal her own heritage. She said they'd made some headway in changing minds, but that time and again she was being told that they'd seen online that 'museums just steal' and that was having disaterous consequences.

This is one of the reasons I'm desperately trying to change the narrative, or at least get people to be more mindful that constantly spouting 'museums just steal things' is having real world consequences. Museums have their problems, no one is denying that, but they also preserve, care for, record, and study cultures, histories, and peoples that may otherwise be lost.

At some point we have to ask ourselves if what we're saying is helpful, or whether it is causing more damage and strife for the people that we claim we're trying to help.