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title of this is just ‘lesbian sex’
lot of terfs have been reblogging this so I may as well publicly state that the woman on the right is modeled with permission after my transfemme friend. if you relate to it as strongly as many of you claim in the tags I urge you to reflect upon that with empathy and compassion about the depth of experiences you truly do share with trans women.
otherwise fuck off I guess. my art is not fuel for your hatred.
Brb replacing "I should" with "I have the option/opportunity to" in my internal monologue re: beating myself up over shit that needs doing. Let's see if that works.
It actually really did help and I did the laundry and cat boxes. Guess I'll keep trying that one.
My psychiatrist told me this early on working with him. Every time I said "I should" he would be horrified and urge me to replace it with "I could." It took a lot of practice but my life is so much better for it because it replaces the pressure of external obligations with my own agency.
Sometimes it helps to replace “I have to” with “I get to”
Thinking “I have to water my houseplants” makes it a chore. But thinking “I get water my houseplants” reminds you that you keep houseplants for a reason and you can enjoy the time you spend with them
every time i'm caught on a "should" i try to reframe it as "if I want [a certain result], then doing [thing] can help me get there". It does double duty of taking the guilt out of the "should" while still reinforcing the motivation of WHY my brain pinged "should" in the first place. Or it even works to make me realize that i care less about the result than i think i'm """meant""" to and I can safely de-prioritize it
taking my gamer dog out for a walkthrough
found this pic on facebook marketplace thats unintentionally up my alley
Most unserious animal
Daddys back
Real Name: Prototype jack
Street Name: P.jack
Birthplace: I was built in russiaa
Origin: JUst a guy trying to be a buddy in a world that's been totally screwed over by greed+no mindfulness
Age: 7 years old
Blood Type: Gasoline
Height: 235 cm
Weight: 185 kg
Hair Color: Going bald
Eye Color: Glwoign red when im mad or crazy
Occupation: Robot prototype
Marital Status: Single
Likes: Pre rolls, built jock twunks, orange mad dog
Dislikes: Hate across the world
Hobbies: Thinking about world problems and possible soluions
Fav quote: History isn't written by the losers
i need (abruptly stops talking & stares at some random fixed point with a vacant expression)
My band! We wear these during concerts
The drummer, the guitarist, the bassist, and me the singer :D!!!
Mantis is SUCH a pretty bird, and because Bug raised her, she's also the best of both worlds- wants to be pet by humans, easily hangs out with the other birds. Lets me put 4-leaf clovers on her head like a hat so I can take cute photos of her.
Felt compelled to draw this magical scene <3
my goodness your artwork is beautiful! It's GLOWING!
In Judaism joy is the supreme religious emotion. Here we are, in a world filled with beauty. Every breath we breathe is the spirit of God within us. Around us is the love that moves the sun and all the stars. We are here because someone wanted us to be. The soul that celebrates, sings.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Studies in Spirituality, p. 258
Yup.
It’s so weird to me that so many Christians act like Judaism is depressing and something that people need to escape from.
Like, I know that’s what y’all want to MAKE it to pressure us out of it, but we’ve always known that joy is a form of resistance.
Judaism, as a practice, exists to sensitize us to both the goodness of reality, so we feel joy and gratitude and awed tenderness, and to the brokenness of reality, so we can heal it and finish the work of creation. And the guiding star even there is joy and awe and wonder.
I think at least for most Christians it's not a conscious wanting to make Judaism something people have to escape from, I think it's a combination of projection (because Christianity *is* something lots of people want to escape from, at least white, European Christianity) and the fact that the only things the US school system, and I suspect lots of European school systems, teaches us about Judaism is about the Holocaust and other persecution. (I understand that said persecution is Christians trying to make Judaism something bad to be escaped from by making it miserable/deadly to exist as a Jewish person, but I don't think antisemites are aware of anything other than hating people because they're different in this specific way)
I was raised Christian and have been putting myself into spaces designed to help broaden my understanding of Jewish culture, and I was honestly surprised by your statement that it's about joy. I think perhaps this is one of those things that doesn't get talked about to outsiders, possibly because to those in the Jewish community it is so obvious/well known?
Speaking personally? It’s not that it’s not talked about to outsiders, it’s that it’s not always talked about explicitly.
So, like... if you follow a bunch of jumblr bloggers and notice us going absolutely feral passing around some pictures of pomegranates? That’s Jewish joy. When you see our pictures of sukkot and chanukiyot and shabbat tables? That’s Jewish joy. Delightedly “yes-and-ing” each other about speculative halacha? That’s Jewish joy.
More privately, part of our morning daily liturgy -something that, in many communities, is part of the “at home and waking up” daily prayer routine as opposed to the “in synagogue and functional” daily prayer routine (although it’s usually still said in shul, at least in the spaces I’m familiar with) is called “Nissim B’Chol Yom” - (literally “Miracles in Every Day”), in which we express gratitude and wonder at the mundanities that theoretically shape our existence. Also in that “at home and waking up” section are a prayer called “Elohai N’shama” in which we express gratitude for our souls, and “Elohai N’tzor” (also said after using the restroom) in which we express awe at how wonderful it is that the human body works.
And to take that further, we have prayers of joy and wonder for surviving dangerous situations, but also for seeing mountains for the first time [ever/in a while] or the ocean or particularly beautiful people. There is so much joy and awe and wonder for the amazing world we live in, and that we are part of it, and it spills into so much of what we do.
When we’re jumping around going “YES AND THAT PERSON/TRADITION IS JEWISH” -that’s not “hey, notice us” (okay, it’s sometimes “hey, notice us” or “hey! please remember we exist”); it’s something we do in our own spaces too, and it’s an expression of joy -communal responsibility means that we aren’t just shamed by each other’s failings, but that we reflect the glow of each other’s successes.
Ever been in a shul during a celebration, when we reach a lull and pelt the celebrants with candy while singing congratulations to them at the top of our lungs? Or watched the dancing spill out into the street as a community welcomes a new Torah? Heard the mood shift during the High Holy Days as we begin Ki Anu Amecha? Seen the look on a child’s face on their first day of school when you give them a honeystick and then start the lesson?
I had a rabbi growing up who dressed as Elmo for Purim every year so small children wouldn’t be frightened by all the noise going on when we boo Haman, and every year, especially as it got late, he wound up with a whole bunch of children arrayed around him while he/the chazzan/various other congregants read the megillah; often holding a small child and pointing things out. In the synagogue I currently belong to, the Hokey Pokey is part of the Simchat Torah dance lineup so that even the smallest, least Jewishly-knowledgeable children will have something they are confident that they know and can participate in wholeheartedly. My b’nai mitzvah class (I teach Sunday school) will launch into the Torah service at the top of their lungs with the slightest provocation because they think it’s fun to sing.
I wouldn’t say that it’s about joy -not everything in Judaism is joyful, and something does not become less Jewish for not being joyous. And there is an unfortunate reality that often, when there is joy, it’s shaded together with sorrow or defiance. The broken glass at weddings, the spilled drops at the seder, the counting of the Omer, because we have so many things to never forget.
And beyond that there is so much longing written into Judaism. So many what-ifs. So many places where too many died. So many places where people still do. So many somedays and maybes. Musaf. Leshanah HaBaah. The way many people will fall silent near the end of Birkat HaMazon. And so much of that is hopeful, but at the same time, so much of it still commemorates tragedy.
But... well. It’s not that we don’t talk about our joy. We do. A lot. But I suspect it’s harder to immediately comprehend and recognize for people who want to learn but don’t have the cultural context to do so. And I feel like portraying us as joyless and miserable and archaic and so caught up by the burden of historical suffering (not of our own making, for the more charitably minded) that we can and never will be free of it even if we want to (but we don’t want to because that’s how we manipulate people, for the particularly hostilely minded) is... a very efficient way to dehumanize us? Because people, writ large, experience joy. Experience a broad range of human emotions. So if “those people” don’t? Well... there’s probably something wrong with “them.” Or at the very least weird about “them.” To acknowledge our joy means to acknowledge that we’re people. That we’re still here, that we’re surviving, that we’re continuing to grow and change.
And there are a lot of people who are very threatened by that idea. Not just our joy, of course -this is a conversation I’ve had before with friends of other minority backgrounds. And on top of that... trauma can sell, and if you can convince the intended audience that it wasn’t really that bad or give them a hero fantasy where they would’ve helped, it can sell really well. Let them say “it could’ve happened to me“ and clutch their pearls, because they didn’t quite empathize before. Let them walk away able to sleep soundly, secure that it wouldn’t’ve been them as the victim, and if it had, someone would’ve come to the rescue, because someone always does, because these are stories, not people. Let them sleep soundly, having not even considered that they would’ve been the bad guys because those are characters and they know better.
And when all you know of a people is their pain, and you learn to define them by it, it becomes very difficult to see that that’s not necessarily how they see or define themselves.
Thank you for sharing your moments of joy with me. None of these are moments I have, or expect to have, the opportunity to see and I appreciate you sharing them and helping me to understand better.
If you want to see -at least a bit.
That first paragraph of examples? We do stuff like that on tumblr quite often. We’re currently a week out from Tu Bishvat -the corresponding uptick in excited posts about trees and plants is already starting. Two weeks after that is the beginning of the month of Adar, which will have with it a whole bunch of posts about constellations (especially old zodiac art from synagogues) and fish. Two weeks after that is Purim, and while you probably won’t see many costume photos on tumblr because of safety/privacy/anonymity concerns, there’ll definitely be food photos. (Two years ago, I got into a hamentaschen bakeoff with @nonasuch over our grandmothers’ respective recipes -the results of that should be pretty visible on both our blogs.)
The second paragraph: Here’s the everyday miracles being chanted, plus translation (Reform nusach). This is a harmony of Elohai Neshama and Asher Yatzar. Here’s the text and translation for Elohai Neshama; this is Asher Yatzar.
This is an explanation (and story) on the blessing for natural wonders. This has several examples of Jewish blessings on marvels of nature (please note the blessing for firsts, which is said often -and gets this special tune when sung the first night of Chanukkah). This is the prayer said responsively after surviving something dangerous; here’s the text and translation.
This is our main celebration song -looking at the video, that’s a celebration of a Bat Mitzvah. This is a major song for weddings -the text is biblical. This is a common dance for weddings (that has spread to B’nai Mitzvah in many communities) -hoisting the people getting married up into the air and dancing around them (the song is a prayer for peace in the daily liturgy). Here’s people throwing candy at a bar mitzvah.
This is a torah scroll completion and dedication. It’s really long, but highlights are the scribing, the singing, the part where the person reading the first reading every from that scroll does so under a canopy like a wedding, and then at the end where the whole congregation goes up and dances. This is another Torah dedication, with dancing in the streets as the Torah is escorted to its community. This is the tone shift I mentioned in the high holy day liturgy -the opening solemn bit is a prayer for forgiveness, but the main prayer here is about how we see our relationship with G-d.
This is a Simchat Torah celebration -this is a major religious observance -the celebration is reaching the end of the annual torah reading cycle and restarting it, and people are singing and dancing and drinking in the streets.
I’m the OP of this quote, but I’m reblogging for the amazing additions! Thank you for the links, whoever you are!
petition to change LGBT to DFTQ (Dykes Faggots Trannies and Queers, naturally)
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happy pride everyone
psa...this entire video is AI generated. none of these clips are real recorded shots. this is where things are at now.
for anyone doubting!
The knight is doing her best to fend off the bandit ambush, so if the princess could please stop flashing her tits because it's "funny to distract her", that would be greatly appreciated