Noa

she her | jew (still) in progress | disabled | 🇵🇸 🕊️🎗️

[challahfairy]

In case you’re wondering where I’ve been:

To be honest, for starters, I mostly forgot about this blog. I had (have and in fact am avoiding) a lot of assignments; two major deaths and I recently got a new cat. Also, I have had a lot of sports, medical issues and relationship problems too.

I still am working to convert, but to be Frank and open with all of you, I don’t think I will be formally joining any Jewish community soon. I think that this goal will be put on hold for me. This isn’t to say I don’t identify as Jewish adjacent anymore, I certainly do, and the religious aspect is helping me more now than ever. However, I honestly felt like I don’t have proper/reasonable access to Jewish spaces, and I don’t have the full energy and time to commit to conversion. And personally I think that’s ok. When I convert, I want my heart to be in it, my time to be in it, and so on, and that’s just not possible right now. I think that it’s important to discuss this part of the journey, because some people don’t talk about it, and it’s not super common either, but it’s also not realistic for some times in our life to reach our goals and for me, I don’t think it makes me any less “Jew in progress”; I’m still just as in progress! But the goal post has moved. Realistically I think that it will be a few years, but hopefully it’s only 2-3.

Regardless, hope all of you are well! This is a scary time politically and socially for a lot of people, and I want you all to know you’re not alone in this and most of us are feeling the stress!! Much love (and heres my new cat!)

[thosefaroffconstellations]

ויהי בימי אחשוורוש…

פורים שמח וצום קל לכולם !

Taking a break from my usual minhag of drawing a comic page for Purim just because I was so inspired by Alphonse Mucha lol!

How many symbolic details can you spot?

[ketubahring]

Queen Esther was a young Jewish woman hiding her identity inside an empire that wanted her people gone. And when the moment came where she could either protect herself or risk everything for her people, she chose her people. She fasted for three days, walked into the king's throne room uninvited (which could have gotten her killed), and changed the entire course of Jewish history.

Purim is really a story about how the people who seem all-powerful aren't always as secure as they look, and how one person's courage at the right moment can unravel an entire evil plot. Esther was probably was terrified, but she moved anyway because she understood that she was exactly where she needed to be for exactly this reason.

I love Mordechai's words to her, "Who knows whether you came to your position for just such a time as this?" Every generation has its "such a time as this" moment and somehow we're still here, every single time.

חג פורים שמח 👑

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[challahfairy]

Happy purim!

Fun fact: Esther is one of my favorite women in the Torah 🥹

[challahfairy]

Hey guys, sorry for the super long hiatus. School has been very very very stressful and busy.

I just want to let everyone know I am ok!!!

Prayers for Persia/Iran, Palestine, Israeli citizens, Ukraine, etc. Hopefully I can donate to foundations soon.

I will hopefully be posting a bit more now! :)

[brazilspill]

Once the friend of a friend of my mom's was visiting Rio and she saw Sugarloaf Mountain and she wanted to impress her taxi driver with her knowledge of Portuguese, so she said in Portuguese "Look, Sugarloaf [Mountain]! It's very big!".

Unfortunately, English native speakers have a hard time making the "ão" sound correctly since the sound doesn't exist in English, so instead of saying "pão de açúcar" (literally, bread of sugar), she said "pau de açúcar." Now, "pau" technically just means "wood," but it's also, unfortunately for her, slang for "penis."

So to the driver what he heard was "Look at the sugar dick! it's so big!" and he almost crashed the car from laughing so hard.

[ikuzeminna]

I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!

[tayalla]

there's this word in Serbian 'vukojebina' which literally means 'the place where wolves go to fuck' but they use it to mean 'in the middle of nowhere'. it sure does the job well, but the visual stayed with me longer than I would have liked it to.

[celtib]

a ‘hot minute’ can be both a very short period of time, and a very long one. however, a hot minute in the past (“It's been a hot minute since I've seen you!”) is most often a long duration, while a hot minute in the future (“I'll be with you in a hot minute!”) is most often a short duration. this suggests some very strange things about the temperature of time.

[goatsandgangsters]

an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

[dj-of-the-coven]

I know everyone's sick of my jewposting but I need to say one more thing: guys the letters on a dreidel are specific you can't just put some fucking bullshit on it. signed a jew who just had to see an ad in the subway with an ai generated fake hebrew letter that doesn't mean anything

[phoukanamedpookie]

Remember that study that came out years ago that a lot of white Americans who claim to have Black friends were...how do I say this delicately...lying and that 75% of white Americans have no Black friends?

I think a lot about that study when people claim to know lots of Jews or have Jewish ancestry.

[ketubahring]

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[beemovieerotica]

something that should be taken with a grain of salt are the statistics talking about the high rates of mental illness + neurodivergence among trans people (ocd, bpd, adhd, autism, etc)

I see both sides of the political spectrum taking these studies at face value - conservatives say we're broken, and trans people try to come up with reasons why for example autism + gender dysphoria makes sense and why one of them feeds into another

at the end of the day you have to remember that we're the one category of people on this planet who are legally required to go see a psychiatrist in order to receive non-psychiatric medication and surgeries.

more trans people are in therapy by law than any other demographic of people, and as a result, this captures more comorbidities.

if I had to look at my own family & rates of mental illness?

mom, dad, 2 maternal aunts, maternal grandmother, paternal grandmother, sister, sibling, and me all have OCD.

7/9 of them are cishet, never been to therapy, never diagnosed. 2/9 are trans, required therapy for hormone treatment, and were diagnosed.

you don't have to do any math to just see that the resulting statistics end up intensely skewed.

and we can think back to how autism was virtually never diagnosed more than 50 years ago - ruling out any grandparents being included in statistics - and even my parents' generation (they're in their 60s now) wouldn't have been included either.

I don't think it's to anyone's benefit to accept these studies uncritically. a lot of these things are hereditary and far more prevalent in the overall population than people realize

[marcusbrutus]

the worst part about ocd and ocd-like tendencies is that you think hyper-analyzing your thoughts and constantly psychoanalyzing yourself will fix you but that's actually part of the disorder. it's the disorder. disordering.

[hailruth-deactivated20260123]

absolutely insane menorah

[mokozroach]

every single time i open any social media app im greeted with people using medical terminology for everyday things, without understanding what they actually mean. and it drives me INSANE 😃 to name a few:

'dissociating' rather than just 'zoning out'

'overstimulated' rather than 'overwhelmed'

'maladaptive daydreaming' rather than just 'daydreaming'

'hyperfixation' rather than 'interest'

it is so DRAINING to see the line slowly blurring between the terms that describe extreme traits and things just everyone deals with on a daily basis. and dont get me STARTED on how watered down OCD and ASD is becoming, like holy shit. anyways rant over. point is - its frustrating and annoying.