Catamite of Tartary

Probably nsfw, gay as hell, reblogs fandom and social awareness posts

[eldritchwug]

MARINATE or DIE

[eldritchwug]

CHAG SAMEACH

[filmnoirsbian]

Loki stans are either hilarious or unbearable and it all hinges on whether or not theyre gay

[eldritchwug]

@patrexes

[bumblebeebats]

I just…. i love this transition so much. Mustang at least gets a couple frames to straighten up his gremlin ass self but Ed and Al are all ÓwÒ and ( ͡°  ͡°<~ to Business in 0.0001 seconds. it utterly captures the exact emotion of the moment when you and ur friends are fucking the hell around & there’s a knock on the door and for 3 full seconds the whole gang is ready to commit murder before you remember it’s the pizza guy. Just… Hawkeye’s gun gliding casually into view. The single frame delay between Ed and Al. I am being totally 100% unironic when i say this is one of my favorite pieces of animation ever

[zookmurnig]

A thought occurs to me: according to rabbinic ruling, angels don’t understand Aramaic, which is why the prayer services were not switched entirely to Aramaic from Hebrew when Aramaic was the commonly used vernacular. But later rulings say that they do understand modern vernaculars, such as English, Yiddish, Ladino, German, etc. They just don’t understand Aramaic specifically.

So why is the Mourners’ Kaddish specifically in Aramaic, given that the rest of the service was kept in Hebrew because the angels would be able to understand it?

[zookmurnig]

I found an answer! Apparently, we say the Kaddish in Aramaic, among other reasons, specifically because the angels won’t understand this super awesome prayer and get jealous.

Another reason, kabbalistically, is that using a mortal language rather than the lashon hakodesh, Hebrew, is an attempt to bring worldly external forces under our control so that we can tell them how great Hashem is.

Source: Chabad

[onmu]

best character development: serial killer to community leader/diplomat

[snowgall]

How to @ people who tumblr makes it difficult to @

This came across my dash, so I thought I’d use it as a jumping-off point for a PSA:

If people can’t @ you, it might be because you’re using a sideblog username rather than a main blog. Sometimes sideblogs are not @-able.

Another possibility is that your blog is marked as NSFW, or else unsearchable in some way (check your Visibility settings under “edit appearance”)

Regardless of the reason, people actually CAN @ you, just not as easily. To @ someone, you need to go to the little settings wheel in the upper right-hand corner, find the “Text Editor” line and choose “HTML” then in the place where you want to @ the person, type in:

<a class=“tumblelog” spellcheck=“false”>@USERNAME</a>

Note: be sure to change USERNAME to the name you are trying to @. Also, the quote-marks in the HTML code need to be “straight” quotes, but tumblr keeps changing these to “curly” quotes just to drive me crazy.

That should produce the desired effect. Voila:

@unamedwatcher

This is how I am able to @ people like @stripedsilverfeline and @persephoneapples who are otherwise un-@-able.

[linguisten]

so @ is a verb now. i love it.

[birlinterrupted]

I forget where it was but I saw jeans for sale and like they were labeled as “girlfriend cut” instead of ‘boyfriend’ and like the irony to me is that the term “boyfriend style jeans” was originally done as this weird way to heterosexualize the dangerous idea of women wearing slightly loose pants so you knew you weren’t a dyke but like apparently the use of the term “boyfriend” was like too much of a gender confusion crisis for the buyer so they had to change it *again* as opposed to just calling it “loose fitting” to begin w and now it has fully no-homo’d itself into a corner and it just sounds like yr stealing yr jeans from some butch girl yr dating

[the-transfeminine-mystique]

My fave quirk w boyfriend jeans is that time the gap didn’t realize that having jeans that were “boyfriend” cut and “pegged” style would turn out greater than the sum of its parts

[eldritchwug]

[closeup of a clothing tag, reading:

THE NEW PEGGED BOYFRIEND 1969 Gap Premium Jeans]

[realcleverissues]

Poll: only 28 percent of young voters say they will certainly vote in the 2018 midterms

Millennials are pretty reliable Democrats, but unreliable voters.

VOTE!

[as-if-and-only-if]

DO YOUR PART TO CHANGE THIS STATISTIC WHEN IT MATTERS IN NOVEMBER!

[daddy-socrates]

are u fucking kidding me hey kids following me please make sure yall are voting in this fuckin midterm jesus louisus (with all due respect, of course)

[hellwolf99]

REMEMBER THAT THIS COULD BE LIFE OR DEATH

FUCKING VOTE

[kaijutegu]

And if you can’t physically go vote, look into voting by mail! It’s never to early to register to vote and it’s never too early to find out about voting by mail!

[beepbeepbeepbeep-deactivated202]

Even if you think you’re registered, they’re illegally deregistering people. Make sure you’re registered. It’s super fucking easy. Just go to turbovote.org.

[solluxisms]

Turbovote has good features like reminding you to vote on time, but when I tried to check whether I was registered it just wanted me to sign up again despite having already done so years ago. 

A more straightforward place to check would be your state’s official Secretary of State’s site. You can find a link to it here.

[timemachineyeah]

I keep wanting to use the phrase “Deep Doctrine” outside of a Mormon context, especially in a fannish context. But then I remember none of the people I’m talking to would get the reference. 

Deep Doctrine is when Mormons get extra analytical (and, often, extra weird) trying to explain/understand their religion. Some Deep Doctrine is really thoughtful, a lot of it is really zany. Almost all of it is Not Officially Approved, but still gets circulated in certain circles. It’s possible to be a life-long Mormon and come across almost no Deep Doctrine, and also possible to grow up utterly entrenched in it. Most Mormons won’t believe all or most Deep Doctrine, but also, most Mormons will have heard and might believe some. Deep Doctrine includes things like: Earth was in a different location in space before the fall of Adam, and was instantly transported to our sun after the fall. Bigfoot is Cain, cursed to wander the earth after his sin (his appearance being the Mark of Cain, of course). There’s life on other planets and Jesus is the savior of all of them.

Deep Doctrine tends to come as a result of having looked deep into scriptures and church history, and having had a lot of time to talk about it with others, trying to put together weird missing pieces and contradictions, with a good dose of wild speculation (and, of course, the tacit assumption that everything from the church and its leaders must be perfect - so contradictions or gaps can’t be mistakes). It can get kind of conspiracy-theory like. It’s one of the kookier sides of Mormon culture. 

Anyway every once in a while someone will ask me something like, “but how do you square that Sailor Moon headcanon with what we see at the Galaxy Cauldron?” and I will think, “Oh, now you want to get into the Deep Doctrine.” But of course I can’t say that because no one else would get the reference. 

[kakfa]

July 27, 1914: Kafka struggles to eat a peach

Ate rice à la Trautmannsdorf and a peach. A man drinking wine watched my attempts to cut the unripe little peach with my knife. I couldn’t. Stricken with shame under the old man’s eyes, I let the peach go completely and ten times leafed through Die Fliegenden Blätter. I waited to see if he wouldn’t at last turn away. Finally I collected all my strength and in defiance of him bit into the completely juiceless and expensive peach. 

[supinedemoness-deactivated20220]

It’s been 104 years since Kafka ate this terrible peach

[kuttithevangu]

Queer ppl like folk music because the top 3 queer emotions are “the moon” “the ocean” and “loneliness”

[firebirdscratches]

I don’t fully understand this and yet it echoes like a gong.

[eldritchwug]

I guess Persephone is a ghost now? I wonder if she also has to voyage underground. With a name like that, it’s almost obligatory, really.

[eldritchwug]

The ghost boy needs more scenes

[eldritchwug]

I just assumed he was autistic, but he’s actually a zombie ghost.  That was unexpected.

[eldritchwug]

oh no, it’s the other one

consider:

hates phones

chews that horrid leather bracelet

offends people by refusing to lie

[ripe]

yayoi89 on ig

[theroguefeminist]

UPDATES ON AMAZON PRIME STRIKE AND PRIME DAY!

The basics:

Thousands of workers all over the world have been striking leading up to and on Prime Day, Amazon’s biggest sale, calling for better working conditions, pay and health benefits.

Nearly 1,800 Amazon workers (96% of the workers at the San Fernando warehouse) in Spain went on strike Monday during Prime Day, the company’s biggest sales day of the year

Thousands more Amazon employees in Germany are expected to walk off the job Tuesday, the second day of the sale in six warehouses.

 Amazon’s website and mobile app crashed for about 45 minutes, due to a computer glitch – the most widespread to date, costing Amazon millions of dollars

In the US, advocacy groups are planning several consumer rallies outside Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market locations to protest the sale of Nazi, Confederate and white nationalist merchandise through Amazon’s marketplace of third-party sellers. 

Amazon is still expected to profit more this year than last year. Let’s hope we can keep spreading the word about the boycott and prove them wrong. Spain’s strike is supposed to last through the 18th, so keep boycotting