אל תפחד 👁️

Ezra - 28 - hy/hymn/hys (he/they aux) - aroace FtM angel - convert ✡️

[jewish-lgbtq]

A Trans Woman's Prayer Before Laser Hair Removal

Oh God, oh God! It is narrow for me! In the might of your Face's anger you shaped me with a beard that blocks the flow of my lifeforce. Sustain in me the spirit to know the secrets of the Expansion of your Face... to realize the revelation of the beauty of this body, in which You have desired to make Your Presence dwell. Establish in me the concealment of my beard, and I will find blessings, as it is written: "It is taught that when these two apples are revealed... all worlds are happy and complete with all completeness, and everything is happy and shining." Pour the good oil upon my head, and I will make your goodness flow to your creations. May the desire exist.

El! God! Tzar li m'od. Bigvurat apecha y'tzartani im zakan shesotem et shefa chayai. T'kayem bi ruach l'da'at sodot orech-panecha, u'l'kayem otam b'gilui hadrat haguf hazeh sheratzita l'shaken sh'shinat'cha b'tocho. Taken na bi hester z'kani v'emtza b'racha dichtiv "tanya, kad etgalyan tarin tapuchin alin vachol almin chadan v'shelimin m'chol sh'limuta." Tarik shemen hatov al roshi v'ashpia tuvcha l'viotecha. Ken yehi ratzon.

Alexandra Rayzel the Priestess, aka Lexi Kohanski

This is an abbreviated form of the bracha, the full text is here.

[fractangle]

Pride month vest project, a patch a day #29: Wheat But Not Bread, Fruit But Not Wine

[gelbgelbgelb]

As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: "God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation."

-- Daniel Mallory Ortberg

[technologistrevolution]

This has been driving me insane because this quote is so incredibly Jewish but every time I saw it was completely divorced from Judaism in the version applying it to 'transsexual'.

The original concept that humans complete the act of creation by making bread from wheat is from the Talmud! And the specific "wheat but not bread, grapes but not wine" phrasing is from Jewish theologian Abraham Heschel but it is missing "clay but not bricks".

And among trans Jews the sentiment was already popular before I ever started seeing this specific phrasing so I knew, knew, knew a Jew and likely a trans Jew was involved.

As it happens, Ortberg's friend Julian is Jewish and they have strongly negative feelings about the way the quote has been removed from the context of their life as someone trans and Jewish. They used to have a thread up on xwitter about it but have since made their account private and only have a very terse FAQ online from which you can glean the treatment they likely received when being more open about their Jewishness, relationship to transness, and the interaction of both.

[kosherdragon]

I've always thought there was something extremely Jewish about that quote! I had no idea that Julian is Jewish.

[annabelle--cane]

gothic horror is when there's a location. cosmic horror is when there's an unauthorized fucking Thing. folk horror is when you're outside.

[stalker-among-the-stars]

Okay, what is it when there's an unauthorized fucking Thing lurking outside of a location?

[of-starships-and-wombats]

Then you’re in John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing

[catchymemes]

[musingsofaraven]

Unless you speak whatever the language in this is (maybe Russian? It sounds at least related to Russian), you won’t understand exactly what they’re saying

You will however, understand exactly what they’re saying from the context of the video

And you will get to hear this person’s wonderful laughter

Sound definitely needs to be on

[thecrushheb]

I really hate the "Jerusalem is very important to three religions why would Judaism get full control of it" because its only important because thats where the JEWISH TEMPLE was and where the JUDEAN KINGS lived. just because people made religions out of fanficing Judaism means we have to give them equal slices of our own cultural history?

[sleepy-bebby]

Oh god, why didn’t you just let him through?

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

This Untitled Goose Game expansion is WILD

[imboromired]

wait, i just realised that aragorn was in minas tirith during ecthelion’s last ruling years (and was kind of vip, tbh). and you know who was there too, during that time?

baby boromir.

frickin’ baby boromir.

so it seems obvious to me, that aragorn held little boromir in his arms at least once (and probably saw it when nannies changed his diapers).

[penny-anna]

Aragorn: *sees Boromir arrive in Rivendell* wait is that

Aragorn: it can’t be him. he is a baby

Aragorn: *mental arithmetic* ….oh fuck it is him isn’t it

[nilesmoon]

[anghraine]

It’s quite possible that Aragorn held Boromir at both his infancy and his death. 

This is fine!

[catgirlcaliphate]

It was all fun and games until that comment

[the-old-fashioned-girl]

We are all fine

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

@i-am-the-broken-bride

[thranduilland]

Guys. Guys. Aragorn probably also met Theoden as a child, too. So… just fucking imagine that shit. Eowyn even says Aragorn went off to war with her grandfather… Aragorn: Gondor calls for aid! Theoden, remembering this dude used to babysit him on occasion and does not want to deal with his disappointed face rn: … and Rohan will answer.

[ten-and-donna]

using your unmatched dad energy to guilt the entire world into saving itself

[jewish-sideblog]

Magen David Pride Flags except I fixed the sizes and the colors to better soothe my neurodivergent brain

Feel free to use them for whatever without credit. I wouldn't stop you even if I could, it's all in the public domain anyway

[jewish-sideblog]

@hellblazer-pervert

I can't express how much seeing poorly-aligned Maginim set me off without seeming like a crazy person but suffice it to say that I am genuinely happy to make new pixel-perfect flags 100% of the time

[irreparableinnocence]

Hey, Tumblr. You like non-stereotypical depictions of autism? What about ✨ neurodivergent protagonists ✨ ? Yes? What about asexual neurodivergent protagonists that go on chapters-long rants about their special interests? You want gay characters that are important to the plot too? Then I've got the book for you! The author is gay!!! American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis, is

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

[yehuditexcalibur]

I wish all the “religion is inherently bad” people who go on to describe issues exclusive to Christianity would understand that their idea of Christianity being analogous to all religion is a very glaring sign that they are still steeped in the Christian hegemony they seem to reject so vehemently

[cognitohazardous]

no one says big mood anymore. no one even says mood. no one says anything. all thats left is a dry wind, that scours my face until i bleed

[campsis]

Eden Kalif, Good Cats

[cartoon-fanaticism]

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

[wassuppeas]

[i-say-spooky-you-say-scary]

real talk why do so many fantasy universes think giant spiders are necessary

[downtroddendeity]

The sad part is there’s a decent chance a large proportion of them can be blamed on one spider.

The tarantula that bit JRR Tolkien as a child.

He swore he didn’t have a spider phobia and the experience had nothing to do with the man-eating giant spiders in The Hobbit, the even more giant and even more man-eating spider in Lord of the Rings, or the unholy eldritch spider from outside creation that plunged the world into darkness and made literal Satan scream like a little kid in the Silmarillion. Very few people believe him.

Given LotR’s influence in the fantasy genre, there is a high probability that tarantula is the progenitor of even more fictional spiders than Ungoliant was.

[i-say-spooky-you-say-scary]

wow fuck that one tarantula

[jimintomystery]

“fantasy universes have too many spiders” factoid actually just statistical error. Georgs Spider, who bit JRR Tolkein & is to blame for menacing over 10,000 fantasy universes, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[blairwitchdiaries-deactivated20]

👀👀 not gonna name names but SOME of u are sweet and kind and deserve the world and i am rooting for u

[dizzyghoast]

brain, heart: idiot bitches who never know what they want

stomach, genitals: idiot bitches who know exactly what they want and never shut up about it

lungs, kidneys, liver: pretty chill organs, all told. if these ones are complaining then i'm usually the one who fucked up

[literaryera]

I keep hearing John Green say he's retired from working and lemme just say John Green is the least retired retired person I've ever seen.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

I am retired!!! I retired in October of 2017 and have kept my promise not to exchange my labor for money.

Since 2017, I have only done stuff that I thought was interesting or useful regardless of whether it pays, because we have more than enough money, and despite what billionaires might tell you, there is literally no difference between "more than enough" and "much more than enough."

So I no longer work for money. But in retirement one must keep busy, which is why I have taken on an unpaid gig as the social media intern for a coffee and tea business that donates 100% of its profit to charity.

I also sometimes travel to universities and other places to speak in support of Partners in Health and global access to tuberculosis care, and sometimes I write books because writing makes me happy, and every Tuesday I make a video on vlogbrothers, and I make a podcast about the world cup with my friends from high school, and so on, but none of these things constitutes work. These are just Retirement Projects, which are essential to a happy retirement.