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Do any of my snzblr friends have the link for the forum that used to be at sfforum.invisionzone.com? Did it move or is it gone? Thanks!
hey! where is my 30+ sneeze kink crowd at? reblog this so we can find each other
it feels hard to find peers when snzblr is so crowded with younger bloggers, but i know weâre out here. if youâre part of the sneeze kink community and youâre 30 or older, please reblog this post!
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Whump Prompt #814
The human physically and mentally pushes themselves in order to keep up with the non-humans. However, they soon pay the price for their exhaustion. Perhaps they fall ill, or their tiredness leaves them prone to an accident/attack - maybe all of the above. But the human tries their best to hide their ailments as they do not want to come across as week. How well does it go for them?
Jaskier, my beloved
Reading your posts and hoping HC will have more input in the scripts next season. Not only in his character but in the others' characters story as well. He's the only one who loves the source material. At least Yennefer and Ciri will be with Geralt from the get go next season so there is a hope there...
Hopefully. I mean, his and Laurenâs versions of the same event (Roachâs death) differ a little bit. He said he was tired of long arguments and decided he could face the consequences for adding something from the books without Laurenâs approval. She makes it sound passive-aggressive but also indifferent to the scene, so as if he had her approval already. Somehow I believe Henry more than the lying liar whoâs been lying for the past three years (her twitter posts aged like milk ;)).
So to sum up, I think she wonât give him more freedom next season, but thereâs some hope in him finally having enough and blackmailing them with his leave (or in him paying for the producer role). I mean, all his interviews were about him hoping that the show will finally stick to the books. As for other roles and actors⊠Anya is all over Lauren (she even said that Yennefer is more brilliantly written in the show đ, which, yeah, if you want a spineless, weak, crying, indecisive and betraying teenager instead of a refined, proud, elegant, commanding, confident sorceress who never wanted to be seen as a victim and would do everything for her loved ones), and Freya isnât all that interested in the books (or the show, thereâs an interview in which she says that she doesnât want to play Ciri for too long iirc, I would have to look for it). Still, show Ciri is kiiiinda Ciri, while Yennefer in the second season should change her name to Jennifer or sth. Iâm really frustrated with that, because I really love book Yennefer and sheâs such a strong, brilliant and complicated female character, while in the show sheâs the stereotype of a hysterical and traitorous woman. I really, really hate it.
As for the hopes for the third season⊠I donât know. I had really high hopes for s2 and they just⊠crashed, burned and left me with nothing but disdain for Lauren (even more than I had before xD).
Thank you for the ask! â€ïžâ€ïž
I trust this guy:
local goth on a bench what will he burn
[ID: A digital drawing of Gerry Keay from The Magnus Archives. Heâs a thin man with pale skin, long, straight black hair, several piercings, black painted nails, and black stylized eye tattoos on each of his joints. He is lounging on a bench somewhere outdoors and surrounded by foliage. Heâs sitting sideways, leaning against the arm rest, with one arm propped on the arm rest and the other arm resting on the top of the back. One leg is also resting on the back, while the other is on the seat. He is wearing a red shirt, a black leather jacket with lots of pins and patches (including ace, aro, and trans ones), black pants, three belts around one thigh, a black ring on his right middle finger, and a white ring on his left middle finger. He tilts his head and smiles slightly at the viewer. End ID]
So I asked nonbinary reddit this a while back:
And they really went all out, here are some of my favorite responses:
And of course, the most confusing of all to cis people:
Link to the original if you wanna see more responses!Â
to be honest there has never been a fictional character iâve actually wanted to date. like. i want them to date each other. i donât want myself as a person to be involved in this scenario whatsoever. what would i add to this narratively? whatâs my thematic purpose in the narrative? immersion breaking.Â
#im the director bitch not the actor
donât hide this in the tags thatâs exactly it
This is totally me! I like to imagine these characters, and I am not a part of the fantasy.
This is something my partner doesnât really understand: I have told him about the kink stuff I am into, and he wants to indulge that for me, which is sweet, but I have no interest in being part of that story. I just want to read/write/think about my favorite characters in certain scenarios. I am not part of the story.
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For anyone whoâs wondering, from a New Zealander: They taste like caramel/toffee oatmeal cookies with the coconut giving them extra crisp. You can also add raisins or chocolate chips if youâre so inclined.
Also, theyâre nicest warm. A friend of mine served ones sheâd bought by warming them in the oven first. Delicious.
(Perplexed as to why youâd convert a recipe from grams, which are accurate, to cups, which are not â some ingredients like flour pack down in cups, meaning you get a variable result. I wouldâve converted to oz. at least. But you do you, Dylan. Maybe USâstyle kitchens donât have scales.)
#one sentence can have THREE TYPES of parenthetical punctuation#if you try hard enough#what do you do if you need like 15g of something?#do you just go with œ oz?#god i hate imperial @jackironsides Serious Bakers might have kitchen scales, but theyâre very much considered an optional, weird thing, whereas most peopleâs kitchens are FAR MORE likely to have a set of measuring cups. Most American recipes are going to be written for cups and teaspoons and tablespoons. So if I needed 15g of butter, thatâs like a tablespoon?
Iâve actually used A Lot of American recipes, bc when I first went vegan back in 2005 or so, there was basically 0 Australian vegan content. So Iâm aware that theyâre all in cups. :) It just occurred to me today to wonder if most people didnât have scales as a result.
Kitchen scales are a very standard thing here, but we do still have cup measures and various spoon measures. Cup measurements are â as I mentioned â imprecise. Iâll still use them for baking, esp if Iâm being lazy (or using one of my many, many US cookbooks), but frex, my American bread recipe has really precise instructions on how you should measure out 6 œ cups of flour to make sure that you donât compact it down as you go and wind up with too much. A year or two ago, I converted it to weights, and I cannot tell you how much easier it was this evening to shake out a kilo of flour from a two kilo packet into a bowl than it was c a r e f u l l y measuring out thirteen half-cup measures (making sure to level off each with a knife!) and praying that I didnât lose count midway through.
Nope, I have never once been in a kitchen with a scale in my life. :D
Yeah kitchen scales are a Serious Baker thing â if youâre into it enough that the disparities caused by volumetric measurements are an issue then yeah youâll have a scale, but otherwise the most you get is a set of measuring cups and measuring spoons, and thatâs usually enough for most people.
(Also, this is probably because we have a terrible system for weight measurement on the small scale because no one uses ounces regularly, itâs all just fractions of a pound and thatâs no way to go about life.)
(Also later edit but six and a half cups I would do in three two-cup measures and one half-cup measure, not thirteen half-cups, jesus christ)
Kitchen scales are great! I am an American, and I think theyâre not that common here, but I like to bake. I have converted so many recipes to weight, because measuring out cups of flour is slow and annoying. Plus, scales are cheap! Prices will surely vary internationally, but I just googled and found many options under $10.
alright so it seems like the prevailing argument is that not getting the vaccine makes u a ïżŒ murderer and the scum of the earth. so hereâs some statistics pulled straight from the CDC. the amount of each race that is vaccinated is as follows; White 60%, 11% were Black, 17% were Hispanic, 6% were Asian, 1% were American Indian or Alaska Native, and <1% were Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, while 5% reported multiple or other race. so white people are the only race thatâs been anywhere close to significantly vaccinated. idk about u but iâm not gonna force my opinion of what people should do on minorities who have legitimate reasons to not trust the government, much less call them ïżŒ ïżŒ murderers.
If you could link your statistic, Iâd appreciate it. I cannot find it on Covid.cdc.gov or cdc.gov, but I may have overlooked it. Iâm finding graphs that are harder to interpret.
The reasoning many minorities go unvaccinated is partially due to mistrust in the health care system which has been brought up in other posts. Other reasons include poor health literacy, lack of access, under insurance, or they simply are uniformed as to what is available them. Since the beginning of COVID, there has been outreach to underserved communities, and this likely needs more work.
The ones people are fed up with and screaming at are the vocal majority yelling my freedom! Over vaccines and masks (predominantly white if you notice). Not the ones who are afraid and need education and reassurance that this isnât some horrible event all over again or someone who doesnât even know how to go about getting the vaccine in the first place.
But those who hold not getting the vaccine as a badge of honor, I have zero time for.
I think I found the demographic data that the anonymous commenter was referring to: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-demographic
The best part about it is that the data don't say what the anon OP is implying: these statistics are showing the racial breakdown of everyone who has been vaccinated. So, for example, of all the people who have been vaccinated, approx. 60% are white, which is roughly equivalent to the 61% of the US population that is white. 17% of vaccinated people are Hispanic or Latinx, and 17% of the US population is Hispanic/Latinx.
So, even putting aside the rest of what they say, the statistics they provide are not even remotely saying what this person is claiming.
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This.
This is why people who stay in my life are neurodiverse like me!
this!! I swear I lost like all my friendships bc of this, like I had a group of friends in hs that one day I realized âhuh I havenât talked to this people in a whileâ and popped in to say hi and they were all awkward?? because they hadnât seen me in a while?? and thatâs when I realized that friendship works different for them?? I was like yeah I havenât talked to you in like four months but itâs not like Iâve forgotten about y'all why would anything change, and they were all like we havenât talked to you in four months why are you here again acting like nothing happened? and it was really confusing for me
YEAH! THAT!
Also I have a thing where I just put the people on pause. If I donât see them or contact them, my brain kinda put them in stasis. I donât think about them nor misses them, and I stay on what I last knew about them (how they look, what they study/work). So when we meet again Iâm like âwait, youâve aged?â and I have the same familiarity with them thanI had before.
Anyway all my mutuals I havenât messaged in forever - this is why
oh my gods this makes so much sense??? there are people who i havenât talked to at all for literally over a year and weâll pick up like nothing happened, but for their people itâs just likeâŠâŠ falling apart but onesided???? i think weâre still on the same level but actually weâre strangers??
Ohhhhhh
OHHHHHHHHHâŠ.
Ok but listen, on the other side of this, as a person who moved hundreds of miles away from everyone i knew and then became a hermit for several years, it was SUCH A FUCKING RELIEF to get in contact with an old friend and have him be like, âmy friendship levels do not degrade, so in my mind we are still awesome close buddiesâ and i almost fkn cried. I thought he would be mad or would have moved on because i had slacked on my reaching out to him and staying in touch and doing all the friendship things. But NOPE. 800 miles of distance, depression, and life changing circumstances didnt steal our friendship and i am SO GRATEFUL.
#came back to tumblr after four years #lottie and I immediately went like that spiderman meme yknow tags via @rudjedet
I have literally no friendship degradation whatsoever. I will not have spoken to someone for 5 years or more, and theyâre still as much a friend to me as if I had only seen them yesterday. Iâm just very bad at communicating if someone is not in my direct orbit. So when Sonja reappeared on this site I basically screeched into her notes like a banshee because I was delighted and we picked straight back up where weâd left off.
Happy to go on the record that I donât expect regular contact and will welcome hearing from people after a long time
Holy shit, I didnât actually realize this was a Thing.
I am currently reading this with horror - mainly b/c of the timescale yâall are using. Four months? If I reach out to friends about once a year I feel like Iâm doing great. Iâm considering whether it would be awkward to get back in touch with someone I havenât spoken to in eight years, just because Iâve been thinking about her lately.
Iâm coming at this from the opposite approach the OP seems to. I have ADHD and I grew up with very scant experience of friendships. As a teen I found My People either online, where I could talk to them every day, or in hobbies where we only met up every couple months at events we all had to travel to. Those just were my friendships; any relationship that couldnât survive under those conditions just wasnât meant to be. And I found enough people who do thrive like that to make a good life for myself.
I went that way partly because I had to deal with a combo of trauma over times I presumed too much and got a stinging rejection from someone I liked more than they liked me, and a real difficulty telling who actually liked me because my emotional response was always âNo of course I donât matter to them at allâ and I had to summon logic to try to puzzle out what was real and what was my brainâs bullshit. So frankly, it was kinder to myself to focus on the relationships I actually had with people who consistently connected with me than to try to constantly run after people who might or might not actually like me back.
So now that Iâve got a stable foundation of friendships that can survive the climate of my normal behaviour patterns, learning about this feels like a cheat code for helping relationships survive when I previously wrote off as lost causes, if I really want them. Itâs like having an international plug adapter that can help me connect to people with a wider array of types of brain wiring.
Wow, I have ADHD and suck at keeping in touch with people I care about, and I never thought to connect them. I just always thought I was terrible, and that my old friends dropped me because they outgrew me. During the pandemic my group of friends from back in our university days has gotten into regular zoom chats, and I realize that Iâm the only one who wasnât in regular communication over the years, who wasnât invited to the othersâ weddings, etc. It makes me feel sad and left out, even though itâs my own fault for failing to communicate.
Day 16: Float
Fandom: The Witcher (Geralt)
Summary: After fighting off a drowner, Geralt comes down with a cold.
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âCan witchers float?â Jaskier asked testily.
Geralt sniffled thickly and didnât answer, too busy tending to his nose. Ever since heâd fought the drowner this morning, it had been running and twitching, and he hadnât been able to stop swiping and rubbing at it for more than five minutes at a time.
The fact that he was still soaking wet, and wouldnât be able to dry himself off until they got back to their inn, wasnât helping matters. He shiveredâusually the cold didnât bother him, but heâd already been falling ill when heâd taken the drowner job, and he felt like he was freezing after that dip in the lake.
âI only ask,â Jaskier continued, still a bit miffed, âbecause if you fight the godsdamned thing entirely underwater, then you know I canât see anything well enough to write my next song. Weâve discussed this, Geralt!â
âHUHââ
âAnd there you go again, interrupting me!â Jaskier declared, even though he could easily talk over Geraltâs snuffling and hitching. He yanked a handkerchief out from his doublet. âPlease use this, because every time you sneeze, you shake like a dog and drench me in lake waterââ
âHUSSCHHSSHHOOO!â
âLike that!â Jaskier scowled and wiped water off his face. He leaned forward, pressing the handkerchief to Geraltâs nose for him. âHere, you beast.â
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I made a silly 10 question whump quiz. I wanna see if I can guess your favorite whump trope! Plz take? I think itâs pretty fun! Please reblog with your result, Iâd love to see and hear what you think!
What a fun quiz!
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I want to know if other people experience this but have you ever gotten distressed after someone breaks your concentration. Idk how to explain it but like someone breaks your focus or something and then it's like your brain decides that's cause enough to start crying and panicking??
this doesn't happen to me, but if i'm concentrating on something and then someone interrupts, i often find myself becoming over stimulated?? like when people talk to me their voices feel too loud and i get irritated. all the noise just gets to be Too Much. it's quite frustrating because i don't know how to stop it, or exit the situation without looking like a lunatic
whatever the case, you aren't alone. shit is hard out there. if you can, talk to a therapist. maybe they'll be able to help
hang in there fam <3
It happens to me all the time! I have ADHD and itâs hard enough to tune out all of the sights/sounds/etc of the world long enough to do a basic task like write an email or read a paragraph, let alone when someone interrupts to get my attention. In the time it has taken me to write these three sentences, my partner has been walking in and out of the room. He has stopped to talk to me three or four times, all because he likes me and wants to communicate, but sometimes it drives me kind of batty. Just let me finish doing this small thing while my brain is working! Aghghghg.
I understand if you want to ignore this ask or block me for it, but I hope you see it as a good faith question. <br> You expressed disdain toward Christians who observe Jewish festivals. Like we are stealing something from you, from your culture, desecrating it. <br> I defiantly agree in regard to those who do it as a fad, without striving for deep understanding. <br> In your opinion, is it possible for those of other religions to observe the Jewish festivals with respect, with empathy?
In your opinion, is it possible for those of other religions to observe the Jewish festivals with respect, with empathy?
Yes. By accepting invitations by Jews to be guests at our festivals when we celebrate them. Period. Â
Any other method is stealing our culture and desecrating it. Period.
To paraphrase a quote Iâve seen elsewhere, my heritage is not a sandbox for outsiders to play in, not after the number of bodies that youâve buried in it. Â
I found this very late because @athingofvikings reblogged my post about the Messianic movement and tagged this ask.
As someone who was raised Messianic/Christian and is now Jewish, I have an inside insight into the way Christians of various kinds celebrate appropriate Jewish festivals, and I would like to offer an opinion specifically targeted towards this excellent good faith question.
This phenomenon you're describing, Christians "striving for deep understanding" of Jewish ritual, is a very recent one, and is connected with Christian apocalypticism - the idea that Jesus is coming soon to bring the new millenium and restore true religion to earth as its literal ruler.
The 20th century excited a lot of Evangelicals, because they saw it as a time when signs started to fall into place for Jesus to return soon - and indeed, the NT promises that Jesus's second coming is imminent, so Biblical literalists take that seriously. Basically, they saw the year 2000 and geo-political events in the Levant (the formation of the State of Israel, Israel moving the capitol to Jerusalem, etc) as major indications that the end of the world and the second coming were about to go down.
This led to a fascination with Jewish evangelism, because one of the pre-requisites for Jesus to come again is for Jews and all the lost tribes to be gathered physically in Israel, and, according to many Christians, to accept Jesus as the Messiah. The NT itself says Jesus said he would not come again until Israel blessed his name as the one who comes in the name of God. That presents a serious problem for Evangelicals, because Jews are particularly difficult to convert to Christianity, both because its core theology is incompatible with Jewish culture and religion, and because Christians have historically oppressed and exterminated Jews in the NAME of Jesus and their theology. Like. A lot.
That is the cultural context in which Evangelicals who would soon call themselves Messianics started using Jewish terms and rituals as a Trojan horse to convert Jews to Christianity, and also the context in which the rest of Evangelical Christianity began it's fascination fetishization of Jewish rituals in what we might call "the Hebrew roots movement." Other groups within Christianity who heavily emphasize all things "Jewish" include Mormons, J Witnesses/Watchtower, and Seventh Day Adventists, all of whom ALSO do so in the context of... apocalyptic prophecy and the drive to convert all Jews possible before/so that Jesus comes back.
Like. Please understand that your decision as a Christian to "get in touch with the Hebrew roots of your faith" or however one phrases it, did not emerge from a cultural vacuum. It specifically developed around the motivation to convert Jewish people.
And why did it have to develop at ALL? If these holidays ARE part of the spirtual roots of Christianity, where did they go? Why did the Christian church stop celebrating them? Why did you not receive them in a continuous tradition of transition, the way Jewish people did?
Well. Frankly. Because even the earliest Christians in the second and third centuries were already moving away from Judaism and all things Jewish At Speed. Early Christian writings AND Jewish writings about the period indicate that Christians and Jews did NOT view themselves as belonging to the same religion or having the same customs and beliefs. A MAJOR focus of ecumenical councils like the council of Nicea was on deliberately and systematically removing ALL Jewish influence from Christianity, including specifically the calendar and holidays.
THOSE are your spirtual ancestors. THAT is your spirtual legacy. They didn't transmit Jewish holidays and rituals and words and customs to you, nor did any other Christian demoninations until the 20th Century, BECAUSE they viewed those things as NOT being part of their religion.
If you are going to go against the ecumenical councils (which is to say, the authoritative congress of ALL Christian leaders in the 3rd and 4th Centuries) when it regards Jewish holidays and rituals... and reconnect with those things... thats fine. But, the condition is that you ALSO leave behind all the theology of those councils. No divinity of Jesus. No Holy Spirit. No Trinity. No NT in the Canon. No Jesus as Messiah, divine or not.
But see, NO Christians are interested in giving up those positions, because those are the positions that DEFINE Christianity. To do that would be to literally leave Christian identity, belief, and practice, and literally BECOME Jewish instead, through conversion.
The very conscious and deliberate choice of Christianity, at its earliest stages, was to separate from Jewish religious practice and Jewish identity.
You cannot ignore that FOUNDATIONAL aspect of Christianity, because that choice is preserved in the same documents that DEFINE Christian orthodox theology. You can't have Jewish practice and Christian orthodoxy, according to THE PEOPLE WHO INVENTED CHRISTIAN ORTHODOXY. I am being. So fucking literal.
Also. A "deep understanding" of Jewish holidays and rituals would only come through actual Jewish sources, and if Christians actually gained that deep understanding, they would see that the entire "Old Testament" does NOT in fact fortell or point to Jesus. Christians who want to celebrate Jewish holidays and rituals are actually only interested in a very shallow understanding of them that fits inside their existing understanding of Christian theology. They AREN'T interested in a deep understanding. They're interested in taking the shiny things and using them for their own purposes, not the intended ones, and interpreting them through their own theology, not the deep and traditional Jewish understanding at ALL.
I realize that people don't always KNOW this. And that many MANY evangelicals do innocently believe they are trying to reconnect to the spirtual roots of their religion through the Bible.
But. Not only are those attempts fought with cultural appropriation and defilement of Jewish ritual. They are part of a systemic cultural movement designed to convert Jews to Christianity because of specific beliefs about apocalypticism.
It is therefore both personally antisemitic but also institutionally antisemitic to observe Jewish practices in a Christian context, AS WELL as being inconsistent with what Christianity is, as defined by its founders and early leaders.
In other words,
The thing that really frustrates me about Christians appropriating Jewish holidays, is that Christianity has its own set of holidays!
Donât steal Yom Kippur, we already have Ash Wednesday and Lent. Etc.
Oh, but those are ~too Catholic~, horrors!
Evangelicals hate Catholicism so much theyâd rather steal holidays from Judaism than celebrate Christian holidays that go back over a thousand years. Thatâs what this comes down to.
Now, now. Evangelicals also hate Jews. Remember, they're an apocalyptic death cult--they have more than enough hate to go around for everybody! /s
do something for me, comment one thing you like about yourself in the tags that has nothing to do with your labor output. as a disabled person whoâs really struggling with self worth rn i think it might be nice to read people, disabled and abled both, being proud of themselves and loving things about themselves that arenât about work
honestly ESPECIALLY physically abled people reblog this because i need to stop seeing liking yourself for just being you as a consolation prize for not being able to work or not being able to work all the time