i am the chuppahcabra

39 year old opera singing married lady who likes cartoons and stuff main fandoms are star trek (tng and ds9 mostly, but also catching up on the others), hetalia, and also some death note here and there. lots of classical music stuff here too.

[currymuttonpizza]

Steph / 39 / INFP / she / מרים בת יעקב

“Opera singer” though I really do mostly oratorio and concert work (i.e. stuff that isn’t staged or with costumes, but I sing in the style that most people associate with opera).

Puerto Rican, Ashkenazi Jewish. Agnostic-atheist by Christian standards. Just plain Jewish by Jewish standards. From an interfaith home, was raised Catholic but grew closer to Judaism and my Jewish heritage in adulthood and officially converted (between me being patrilineal and the fact that I wasn’t raised in the faith, it was still necessary, both for ritual purposes and my own closure). Conversion was Conservative (sect, not politics), I consider myself old-school Reconstructionist (not the more recent turn the sect has taken). I will still post about both faiths. I have joked that I had an “amicable breakup” with Catholicism and it’s pretty much where I stand.

Fandoms over the years have included: Tenchi Muyo!, Chobits, Ouran, Death Note, Hetalia, Star Trek (primarily TNG and DS9). Warner Bros. cartoons I wouldn’t really consider being part of any fandom with it but it was my first hyperfixation as a kid and it still has a special place in my heart and I will still absolutely geek out over it. But most of this blog is Hetalia, Star Trek, Jewish issues, and random shitposts. Sometimes all four. (Oh, and I love guinea pigs a whole lot.)

Re: Hetalia I also post a lot about Jewish!Austria. Full post about that here.

I ship things, so stay away if you’re not cool with that for some reason.

I tag “alcohol” and “body image,” I do not include cw or tw in the tag. Please message me if you’d like something else tagged.

EDIT 8.1.24: I should have put this in my pinned months ago, but I will softblock or block for the intracommunity k-word. (I mean, I obviously block for the slur against us from the outside, too, but I find the intracommunity one to be a horrific thing to invoke. Anyone who isn't already familiar with this word, don't ask, I am not up to discussing it.) I do not care how much I agree if someone is cozying up to people who hate us, I do not believe in invoking that word.

[winged-wolf-dreamer]

I searched Peter Gelb on YT for Reasons and... well, these videos were together and I think there's a story to be told here

And the situation is even more dire now!

[palmer]

This is GAY PRIDE Kirby! Reblog for 20 Years of good luck!

[pargolettasworld]

This is relatively long, clocking in at 18 minutes, but stick with it. A final mention from Matti Lazar's webinar. He couldn't play all of this, of course; in fact, he really only mentioned it. But I was interested enough to look it up, and I was rewarded with this stunning, fiendishly difficult choral setting of the beginning of the Torah, Bereshit, the creation of the heavens, the earth, and humans.

Copland does a couple of interesting things here. The first is that, as the famous seven days of creation come to an end with the verses about the Divine resting on the seventh day, Copland doesn't stop. He keeps going through Bereshit 2:7. The thing about Bereshit is that it actually contains several different creation myths, all kind of strung together, and Copland is giving you the first two of them -- the famous one, and then another one thrown in as a bargain.

The second interesting thing that Copland does, as Lazar pointed out, was that, like the good atheist Jewish boy that he was, Copland made sure to end his piece with a powerful celebration of humanity as the apex of creation.

Absolutely stunning work from all the singers here!

[eldr1tch-cr0w]

number one rule! never believe ur thoughts after 10 pm . unless its about The Character then believe all of your thoughts wholeheartedly

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

a convo in the replies of a post where one of them is hidden because i blocked them and the other one makes a comment that i cant possibly understand due to how out of context it is is funny to me every single time

[kaylmao]

[hypokeimena]

[image description: text on a pendulous hand-drawn speech bubble. text overlaps lineart & reads: reads: you might think this is a speech bubble but its actually my ripening talkfruit. please wait patiently until it's fully ripe. its very bitter if you eat it prematurely /end description]

[everyday-cutephoto]

[ailithnight]

This is a worm? Or perhaps some sort of slug?

[marlynnofmany]

And it's gonna getcha

[poketcg-art]

Chikorita -- kamonabe

[kosmogrl]

[magnetothemagnificent]

I recently came across a post from you stating that it’s “insidious” that Pride events are often scheduled on Saturday which means you as an observant Jews can’t go. Why is your schedule more important that everyone else’s? Why do non Jews, such as myself, need to schedule things according to your schedule?

Are you a religious Christian for whom a Pride parade is considered "work" and therefore something you would not be able to attend were it scheduled on a Sunday? Do you attend Mass on Sunday that takes all day and therefore limits your free time on Sunday? No? So then why is it such a hassle for things to be scheduled on a Sunday? In fact, many workplaces still don't give off Saturday as a given, but they do give off Sunday. Wouldn't you want more people (Jewish or not) to be included?

Jews, whether you like it or not, were and are deeply foundational to the modern LGBTQ Pride and Rights movement. Magnus Hirschfeld was a Jew. Harvey Milk was a Jew. Brenda Howard, the literal "Mother of Pride" was a Jew. They may not have been Orthodox Jews or Shabbat-observant, but Jews of all levels of observance and religiosity deserve to be included. And Jewish religious institutions have been supportive of LGBTQ causes for decades. And even if Jews weren't part of and supporters of the community from the start, Jews are part of the community now and ought to be included, as should people of all ethnicities, races, religions, and nationalities.

But honestly? My views have changed since I made that post that earned it a screenshot and post onto reddit saying "look how crazy and entitled those Jews are". I think the Western LGBTQ movement's exclusion and hatred of Jews now goes far beyond scheduling things on Saturdays. That's just the surface level. Things are far more overt when Jewish interest groups are quite literally banned from Pride events, when Jews are regularly harassed and attacked both off-line and online, when the overwhelming message from the Western LGBTQ world is that an LGBTQ person who is also a Jew is a traitor to their own kind. And it gets worse and worse each year as more LGBTQ people trade in their own safety and welfare and future prospects to spend their time, energy, and money hating Jews. Not only is it disgustingly hateful, it's counterproductive. LGBTQ rights are being attacked and stripped away all around the Western world, but people care more about investing their energy into best excluding Jews, Jews who, LGBTQ or not, would be and are supportive of LGBTQ causes. It's deeply insidious.

My schedule isn't more important than anyone else's. I know that. You know that, and you know that you were reading my post in bad faith. Jews are not the only people who would benefit from important Pride events not being scheduled on Saturdays. People who still have to work on Saturdays would benefit too. And I know you read a tiny snippet of my post and blacked out, because in that post I also mentioned Pride events being scheduled on Jewish holidays (Shavuot often times falls out in June). I think if you are in a community with a large number of Jews who are contributing members, it's only basic decency to be considerate. I am annoyed at conventions that do that same thing, mind you. But "niche interest conventions" are not a broad, umbrella movement the way the Western LGBTQ movement is. A science fiction convention isn't part of the same movement as a WWII history airshow, for example, and they are often not run by the same kinds of people and they are often not even attended by the same kinds of people.

Put on your thinking cap and think for a moment as to why you have such a visceral reaction to a Jew asking to be included.

[thememedaddy]

[spaghettihell]

Reblog to hug prev

Please

[currymuttonpizza]

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[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 1 day 4 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 1 day 4 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 1 day 4 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

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[wordfather]

idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????

[wordfather]

'whats your favorite apple' 'red' 'no i mean like what type' '??????' actual conversatiom i've had with a mutual from usa

[wordfather]

THIRTY TWO??????

[phillyphillyphilly]

Listen that doesn’t even account for all the weird shit local farmers are getting up to.

May I present the best apple:

[wordfather]

the world is so big and beautiful

[maudit]

[profeminist]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.

Gifset source

[missbliss12]

Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.