Does it look like I fucking know?

15-bi/gay idk fam-call me dax i guess

[daxab]

whats up gang i just opened my old tumblr (thiss one) uhh sorry i just up and left? like i didnt realy have any friends on here i think idk, but uh heyyy i have another tumblr ive been using (@frroggyman) cuz i switched emails blah blah blah but uhhh might bring this back if like anyone remembers me

i dont think i had mutuals here but if i did hello? this might just be a shout to the void who knows lol

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

[faramiir]

never thought i would have to reblog something like this but welcome to 2020

[rubyredwisp]

Zeus knew that one day, Ares might return to finish his mission. An endless war, where mankind would finally destroy themselves, and us with them. So Zeus left us a weapon, one powerful enough to kill a God.

[hydro-homies]

Nice Guys & Nerds™️

[cutearson]

@meliciousintent coming in with the FACTS

[etirabys]

…i did not expect to be touched while skimming a reddit thread on fetish origin stories

[milooomilo]

that dudes fetish is called: being a loving and caring dude

[gahdamnpunk]

This is qwhite interesting

[thisagain144]

But wait! There’s more!

Twitter pulled out their collective magnifying glass and got it confiscated when cops couldn’t get in touch with the d bag.

Emily G breaks it down- this is her Thing.

[thisagain144]

[programmerhumour]

Repost to spread. (Not really humor)

[knights-vigil]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/14/new-warning-issued-for-all-whatsapp-and-imessage-users-major-threat-to-encryption/

New Warning Issued For All WhatsApp And iMessage Users: ‘Major Threat’ To Encryption

Is this the beginning of the end for secure messaging?

[sandandglass]

[rillegas08]

Oh, that’s the context.

[rustiieldritch]

good dad

[indysabrewing]

Homer was a real one.

[catchymemes]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvSEeQWJfeT/

[cryptidinks]

this is … quality art

[daxab]

when you were already super depressed but you were happy cuz you’ve been looking forward to something for months and it’s happening tonight! but then it gets cancelled and you relapse a bit but it’s still ok cuz you still get to hang out with your friend! but then she says she can only come over pretty late cuz of other stuff so it’s less time but it’s still ok cuz you still get to see her! but then she cancels cuz something came up

hehehe :)

im literally about to cry :)

[artbymoga-deactivated20200516]

Throwback to all these Jesus comics I drew in 2012…

[nejire-vs-villains]

Good post OP

[prismatic-bell]

Good post, OP, and if you ever decide to do another may I please suggest “NOT IN HEBREW IT DOESN’T” as a punchline? So much of the Old Testament is HORRIFICALLY translated from the Tanakh, it drives me batty.

[end-of--the-line]

WAIT WAIT WHAT DOES IT SAY?????? I NEED TO LIKE,, DESTROY MI MUM FOR BEING REALLY HOMOPHOBIC

[prismatic-bell]

Okay, so, strictly speaking, the infamous Leviticus 18:22 does say “forbidden.” Here’s the thing:

1) The word translated as “forbidden” is “toevah.” While that translation isn’t … wrong, it’s sort of like saying “McMansion” means “really big house.” There are a lot of connotations in that word. The specific issue with toevah is that we … sort of … don’t know anymore exactly what it meant. Based on context, it seems likely that the word referred to something ritually forbidden. This part of Torah was written not only as a guide for future generations, but also to say “so, look around, see your neighbors? DON’T DO THAT.“ Thus, if we interpret “toevah” to mean something that’s forbidden to do as a ritual before G-d, then the verse says nothing whatsoever about Adam and Steve and their two kids and their dog–it’s saying you shouldn’t have sex with another man in the Temple as a sacrifice.

2) Following the same “this is ritually forbidden” logic of toevah, this verse may also be interpreted as “don’t do sex magic,” which was a thing in. Like. A lot of fucking cultures at the time.

3) Hebrew is a highly gendered language, and the grammatical gender in this verse is really really weird. One of the “men” in this verse is given female grammar. Why? Who fucking knows, man, this isn’t the only grammatical oddity in Torah. (There are also places where G-d is referred to as plural, and also as female.) One suggestion is that this is a way of creating a diminutive–that is, that the verse should be read as “a man should not lie with a boy.” Now, it’s worth noting that modern secular scholarship has concluded the written Torah was written down around the 6th century BCE, and most non-Orthodox Jewish scholars are like “yeah, all things considered, that sounds pretty legit.”

Do you know what else was happening around the 6th century BCE? What laypeople tend to mean when they say “ancient Greece” was happening.

Do you know what happened a lot in that time period in Greece? Dudes forming relationships with younger boys, like ages 10-15, and using them for sex in exchange for financial gifts, mentorship, etc. While we don’t know just how young some of these younger boys may have been, we do know some were prepubescent. In light of this, and also something I mentioned under the first point–”see your neighbors? DON’T DO THAT,” if this verse is interpreted to say “a man should not lie with a boy,” then it’s pretty clearly “my dudes, my fellows, my lads, don’t be fucking pedophiles.”

4) Because of the grammar I mentioned in #3, it’s also possible that “should not lie with a man as with a woman” is actually referring to a place, not an abstract personhood: a man shouldn’t have sex with another man in a woman’s bed. In the time period, a woman’s bed was sort of like–that was her place, her safe sanctuary. It was also a ritually holy place where babies were made. By having sex in her bed, you’re violating her safe space (and also introducing a man who may not be a male relative, thus forcing her into breaking the laws of modesty). If this verse is read this way, then it should be taken to mean “don’t sexually violate a woman’s safety and modesty.” 5) And as an offshoot of #4, this may be a second verse relating to infidelity. Which woman’s bed is any random dude in 600 BCE most likely to have access to? His wife’s. But laws were administered differently based on whether the person they pertained to was slave or free, male or female, and so on–thus, a man committing adultery with a woman would be treated differently than man committing adultery with a man (especially because the latter would carry no chance of an illegitimate pregnancy).

So you’ll note, there are a lot of ways to read this verse, and only a one-to-one translation with no cultural awareness produces “being gay is wrong, all of the time”. (You’ll also notice the word “abomination” is nowhere to be found. That’s like … a straight-up fiction created for who only knows what reason.)

[the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99]

Apparently tumblr mobile doesn’t want to show @prismatic-bell ’s long and in-depth essay, so here’s the screenshots, because it still shows up on mobile browsers:

[prismatic-bell]

Much appreciated.

[kuriquinn]

I love when scholarship and history debunks bullshit

[mandalorianreynolds]

…I sadly have more bullshit to report.

“removed for violating guidelines”, EVERY screenshot.

[the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99]

…goddamnit

[pulmonary-poultry]

Let’s try this again

[the-invisible-self]

I am horrified that @prismatic-bell keeps getting censored + this info is gold.

[prismatic-bell]

Many thanks, @pulmonary-poultry. This isn’t the only Jewish post of mine that’s mysteriously stopped showing up in searches and/or vanished from my blog entirely, but it is the one I get the most requests to repost, so this saves me from having to rewrite the whole damned essay. @the-invisible-self, thanks for bringing it to my attention that someone was able to preserve the post!

[daxab]

i love playing the game of who will get concerned first, the internet from my search history? or my friends from my complete lack of hiding my emotions? def not the latter :)

[cli-meme]

Permaculture memes for all the permies out there

[thasminlove]

@greetings-and-defiance

[inhale-fandoms-exhale-asdfghjkl]

Okay Black Friday is nowhere near being Starkid’s best musical but I am not here for all the negative energy I’m seeing on Twitter about the show.

Like are people really upset that starkid is choosing to evolve and do something different with their shows?

Or that the music was different?

Or that their ‘fav’ weren’t in it as much as they wanted?

Or that they keep adding new actors in their shows? Like god forbid these people get a chance to showcase their amazing skills.

Like please. Stop being disrespectful and immature and just appreciate the amazing show you were given (for free btw) and how much hard work was put into this show.

I’m actually so glad that the tumblr community is so much more positive and accepting of the show even if it’s not totally what they expected or if they didn’t enjoy it as much as the other shows.

[kookyreclusivebiologyprofessor]

[daphneblakess]

team starkid in 2010: haha guys what if instead of one harry potter musical, we made two???

team starkid in 2020: there is no ethical consumption under capitalism

[ihavenosoul12]

All right so like I have a theory of the Hatchetfield laws - things that are constant with each alternate timelines.

Jane always dies in a car crash;

Paul and Emma meet - it usually becomes romantic;

General McNamara;

Hatchetfield is always targeted by aliens or deities;

Professor Hidgens;

Emma's pot farm;

there is always an iconic musical within the diegesis, whether iconic outside the narrative (in this case Working Boys, as only three people knew about it and all died) or inside the narrative (Santa Claus Goes to High School, as a teen film that's well known and mentioned);

Peanuts the squirrel;

it has the same characters - those who aren't seen are mentioned and they never remove characters, only add;

fuck Clivesdale.

I probably missed some but I'm pretty sure there's some running constants like certain characters doing certain things.

[daxab]

general mcnamara is not a “constant” 

it’s the same guy

there is ONE general mcnamara

he just vibes throughout time and space