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[coffeefrenchandhistory]

About Me

Tumblr bio (because it's somehow getting cut off and I don't like that): I'm Josh. 33. Unapologetically Jewish & Zionist. History geek, nerd, and Francophone. I write fanfics on AO3. Slytherin ambition with Gryffindor nerve. Blank/empty/anti-Zionist and antisemitic blogs will be blocked.

This blog stands proudly with Ukraine, Israel, India, the Kurds, Romani, Iranians, and Druze. This blog proudly supports the Free Iran protestors to overthrow the regime. And this blog proudly supports Kurdish and Druze independence.

What's your name?

Sir Lancelot of Camelot (and my quest is to seek the Holy Grail) It's Josh [surname redacted]. Pronouns are he/him.

You're on AO3?

Yes I am

Do you use AI for your writing?

I would rather hurl myself into the sun than ever use AI. Do not ever insult me by asking this again.

What fandoms do/will you write?

Predominantly Harry Potter if only because that series was my first love and still has a place in my heart. I'm also planning a few fanfics planned for the Mass Effect, DC, Star Trek, Game of Thrones, original fiction, and Fallout fandoms.

Why?

Well it all started when I was born...

Who are your fanfic idols/inspirations?

@artemisia-black, hands down. She is one of the finest writers I've ever seen, ever had the privilege of interacting with, and I genuinely adore her as a person. She’s incredible and if she ever published a book, I will body check someone out of the way to purchase it.

But I'm also a big fan of Frickles, TheSinister_Man, Dorothea Greengrass, and TheEndless7.

What kind of fanfics do you write?

If it's Harry Potter, it's either a Wrong Boy-Who-Lived (WBWL) fic — either with Harry's brother as the believed to be Boy-Who-Lived or Neville as the believed to be Boy-Who-Lived. Or it'll be "action-adventure" where canon diverts this way instead of that way.

Ships?

I mean the USS Massachusetts is pretty neat, but that's also because I was able to visit it when I was a kid.

No, I mean, who do you ship?

Ohhhh!

I'm not a fan of Harry/Ginny, nor Ron/Hermione.

Actually, the only canon pairings I like are James/Lily and Ted/Andromeda... that's pretty much it.

For Harry: Lavender (she'd be great for him ngl), Hermione (eh, sometimes), Pansy (enemies to lovers is top tier), Daphne (Haphne is a top tier ship and everyone should know it), Susan, Fleur (I just think she's neat), Tonks (post-war), Andromeda (post-war), Parvati, Padma, and Bellatrix (when it involves time travel).

I’m also a big fan of Snape and getting his ass handed to him.

Most out-there ship you've got?

Anthony Goldstein/Hermione Granger, Draco/Ginny, Dean/Ginny. Also Kingsley/Bellatrix, and Sirius/Aurora Sinistra. I also think that Sirius and Andromeda would make a good couple as well.

Most cursed ship you've seen?

[trauma intensifies] We don't go there. But I've seen some shit.

What character(s) do you hate the most?

Snape. I despise Severus Snape with every fiber of my being. The fact that Harry names his son after that child-abusing terror supporting racist wank-stain who simped hard for his mother after calling her a bigoted slur is a stain (and wanted her as a prize after he sold Lily, James, and baby Harry out to Voldemort) is the reason I throw the epilogue into the trash where it belongs.

Also Dumbledore, while I do think he's (for the most part) well-meaning, is very much the chess master who got far too up his own ass with how important he is. Also he facilitated child abuse, so I don't like him.

And Molly Weasley, who is an overbearing harpy of a mother who gleefully and maliciously went out of her way to bully a 15 year old girl because she read some bullshit in the Daily Prophet — when a few chapters before she had dismissed the author (Rita Skeeter) as a hack.

And then Dolores Umbridge, but we all know someone like her.

What do you do?

I used to work for a medical provider's office until the higher ups eliminated my position. Specifically, an ophthalmologist's office. Oh, and go get your eyes checked!

So then what do you want to do?

I'm actually getting myself out there to be an actor! And a writer of works that aren't fanfics.

What's your profile pic?

It's an image of Jason Isaacs as Magneto. I think it would be solid casting (and also because Isaacs is Jewish, like Magneto)

Are you Zionist?

Yes.

What does that — ?

It means I believe Jews have the right to national self-determination in our ancestral homeland, like any other people.

But what about — ?

That's literally the definition of Zionism. Anti-Zionism is antisemitism in that it denies Jews as a people the right to be self-determined in our ancestral homeland — a homeland that we have yearned to return to for over 2,000 years. Because you are denying the national self-determination of a people who has been historically persecuted for countless centuries.

What if I'm anti-Zionist?

Get the fuck off my blog then. I don’t want you here. Anti-Zionists and antisemites get blocked on sight.

Is Zionism land-back?

It absolutely is! Jews are an indigenous people and Zionism is one of the most successful land-back movements in history.

[moonriase]

Robby: I grew up going to Rodef Shalom. You?  Yana: Tree of Life.  Robby: They’re rebuilding.  Yana: A new one. Remember, Rebuild, Renew. That’s the slogan. 

The Pitt: 2x03

[jewish-vents]

I'm tired.

I'm tired of not being allowed to grieve.

I'm tired of even in Jewish spaces being expected to couch everything I say in disclaimers about ~Palestinian civilians~ and ~the Israeli government~ and a ~two state solution~ and ~peace~

I'm tired of having to preform being a Good JewTM even to other Jews when all I want to do is scream and cry and I DON'T CARE ANYMORE. Members of my family were killed that day and I do not care what happens to the people who killed them. I don't. People I love have killed themselves because of what they witnessed and I don't care what happens to the people who drove them to it.

I just want to grieve my family members. But no, I'm not fucking allowed. Not even other Jews will allow it. I have fucking had it. It's been nearly three years of carrying this, of being constantly told to shut up and sit down because I'm not politicizing my grief enough.

No one cares who I lost or how much I'm hurting unless I give them the performance they want.

No one fucking cares.

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[dioraddik]

rest in peace to a queen 🤍

[loveletters2myself]

less artificial intelligence and more ancestral knowledge please.

[cocoagadgetsworld]

[sogoodtoheritsvicious]

i hope they’re somewhere ice skating together ❤️‍🩹

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

Jews Love Live Jews

Dara Horn’s blockbuster, People Love Dead Jews, published in 2021, describes the subtle and insidious ways in which anti-Semitism presents i

[pelinore]

[jewish-vents]

Leftist Americans falling for Mamdani’s bullshit as easily as rightwings fell for Trump, and they don’t even realize they’re the exact same 😭 embarrassing

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[afurioushawk]

[wertfi-penguin]

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

[geekyhistoriansunite]

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

Look, it's a free country, if you're not Jewish and you don't want to accept the idea of Jews as an ethnocultural group with its origins in the Levant you're free to do so (and I'm free to think you're a racist to deny a group's ethnocultural identity as invalid and an idiot as this fact is rather well attested to in the historical record).

But what confuses me is when people who self identify as Jews refuse to accept the idea of Jews as an ethnocultural group with its origins in the Levant. Like, in what ways are you Jewish if you reject what could arguably be considered THE central tenet of Jewish identity, around which like 90% of the religion revolves in one way or another?

(if you're wanting to sass Sim Kern for their stupid opinions, just remember that they use they/them pronouns and misgendering them is a dick move)

[some-israeli-guy]

I mean, there is evidence very much on display in Rome, depicting exactly how Jews got to Europe, so that bitch can fuck all the way off.

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

A lot of the quote tweets of this tweet were just pictures from the Arch of Titus

[tpwrtrmnky]

"screen time screen time screen time screeeeEEEEEEEE" before the smartphone, kids were so bored they'd play with explosives, vandalize local infrastructure and harass old people for entertainment.

fund libraries. fund makerspaces. fund youth sports. enable kids to actually go places without having to ask someone to drive them everywhere. excessive reliance on digital spaces is a symptom of having nothing else to do.

[moniquill]

We need third spaces that do not require money.

[aetherograph]

We also need to allow children and esp teenage children to exist in public without seeing that as threatening or criminal. Loitering is a fake crime. Teens making noise by riding bikes or skateboarding outside is not a crime. People sitting on their front stoops hanging out IS NOT A FUCKING CRIME. Someone sleeping in a park IS NOT A FUCKING CRIME. Some kids fooling around in the bushes IS NOT A FUCKING CRIME. Black and brown kids EXISTING OUTSIDE IS NOT A FUCKING CRIME.

PEOPLE EXISTING IN PUBLIC IS NOT A FUCKING CRIME.

[girlactionfigure]

This isn’t even an exhaustive list.

kelly_aizicowitz

[kosher-salt]

Love how in progressive spaces a minority group can espouse discomfort, frustration, endorse discrimination, even explicit hostility against majority/oppressive groups, and it's acceptable because they've Been Through It and it's Understandable given what they experience at the hands of that group.

But Jewish people must prioritize other bigotries above antisemitism, must cater to the groups that have and are targeting us, must assure them that we would never feel so much as distrust towards people chanting for our literal eradication. You feel the discomfort in your body reading that? The compulsion you're experiencing right now? Yeah, I feel it too writing this - I've toned it down twice. Why is that.

[lecoindecachou]

"antizionism not antisemitic"

Cool, so an Irish tourist threatened to put a bullet in the head of two Australian Jews in a French supermarket and told them he wished Hitler had finished the job, tell me again how it's about Israel and being "anti-genocide"

[daughterofstories]

“Antizionists not antisemites” really don’t want you to think about the fact that a movement whose stated purpose is the eradication of a national identity is definitionally genocidal.