Flesh

this is not all that we are

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

June 8th, 1984: New South Wales, Australia, decriminalizes homosexuality.

[katelikescookies]

Denim drying in Armidale, NSW, Australia

[transtarks]

reblog this and put in the tags at least two (2) songs you are listening to on repeat right now

[cienie-isengardu]

Environmental Protection - Bats, Postage Stamps - Poland, 1997

[ovur]

Shut the fuck up about feminine and masculine energy

[victoriantomodern]

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Two Women Embracing, 1911, watercolour. From the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives (JSTOR)

[nicejewishqirl]

If you tell Jewish people that "they don't look Jewish" I can't stand you

[fleysh]

The following quote from ‘The Jewish Body’ by Melvin Konner sprang to mind immediately.

Yet in the past few centuries, despite the effort that has gone into physically defining a Jewish race, some of the bitterest vitriol has been reserved for Jews who don’t look like “Jews.” These impostors, goes the rhetoric, are even more insidious than typical, obvious Jews, since they are infecting, infesting the collective body of “normal” people without being found out, a kind of latent virus that can linger for years or decades in a healthy-seeming communal body and then spring forth in vicious attacks. This was, perhaps, the twentieth century’s most destructive metaphor. Building on the racial tracts of the nineteenth century, German physicians and scientists gradually turned the Jews into a health problem by defining Jews themselves as a disease.

[helenvaughans]

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[fleysh]

Last night, I dreamt of Astarion Ancunín on the witness stand. He was played by none other than George Russell. I just thought you should all be made aware that that’s something that happened.

[fleysh]

[The party is in the midst of battle. Astarion is engaging an enemy trying to join the main fray.]

Astarion: I’ve got a fucking cultist up my arse. Want me to let him pass?

Tav, calmly: No, thank you.

Astarion: Ah, just checking.

[fleysh]

Last night, I dreamt of Astarion Ancunín on the witness stand. He was played by none other than George Russell. I just thought you should all be made aware that that’s something that happened.

[dead-dyke]

You wrote about murder?? Murder is illegal?? You wrote about this dude killing someone and you didn't even say 'murder is bad' at the start of the book, wht wtf, wtf is wrong with you? I can't believe you condone murder, I can't believe you're pro murber, oh my fucking God don'ttalk to me when ou literally kill people, freak. I'm calling the cops, what the fuck, I'm shaking and crying.

[hiddurmitzvah]

The Joy of Hating Jews - Tablet Magazine

Why antisemites always have a blast—and how Jews enhance the experience

[mouse-fischer]

Today’s digital culture has monetized these pleasures. Online platforms are engineered to maximize engagement by maximizing emotional reward. Antisemitism is extraordinarily well suited to such systems. Platforms amplify the thrill of forbidden knowledge, insider language, memes, and collective outrage while making them instantly accessible and endlessly repeatable. The digital dogpile—coordinated mass attack on a single Jewish target—is the mob made digital. Like the analogue mobs that preceded them, these too are often gleeful and public. But unlike earlier forms, participation no longer requires gathering in the street or much physical effort at all. The mob no longer needs to gather, it simply needs to log on.

Flooding Jewish journalists’ social media feeds with Holocaust jokes and “oven” memes; defacing synagogues, menorahs, or Jewish community centers with swastikas—often timed to holidays; filming antisemitic taunts of visibly Jewish people and posting them online for laughs; turning classic antisemitic tropes into viral “ironic” content or remix videos—none of these are coherent responses to a supposedly sophisticated international cabal controlling the world’s economy, politics, media, migration, and satellites. They are rituals of humiliation. The point is not resistance. The point is pleasure.

[sprinkledsalt]

"The third pleasure is moral. Antisemitism allows its adherents to experience hate as virtue. The antisemite does not feel like a bully. His experience is one of courage. He is exposing hidden power. Defending society. Cruelty becomes public service. This framing—hating Jews as just and right—has proved infinitely adaptable. Medieval violence against Jews was 'defense of Christendom.' In the medieval Islamic world, Jewish subjugation under dhimmi law was framed as righteous social order and mercy. Soviet purges were coded as 'anti-cosmopolitan virtue.' Nazi propaganda framed persecution as national hygiene. In much of the world today, antisemitism travels under the banner of anti-Zionism and resistance, repackaging eliminationist sentiment as liberation theology. The vocabulary shifts—anti-colonialism, anti-globalism, anti-elitism—but the emotional architecture remains. The antisemite gets to feel good. He is a whistleblower. A truth teller. A patriot. A freedom fighter. It is remarkable how stable the narrative structure remains. The blood libel accusations that convulsed medieval Europe—murdered innocents, monstrous perpetrators, the righteous community that exposes them—have proven durable and portable. Dress the accusation in the language of human rights reporting rather than theology and the structure barely changes."

[strangesmallbard]

“If Jews protest loudly, it will be cast as Jews having something to hide. If Jewish organizations demand collective condemnation, it will be cast as Jews having the power to suppress criticism. If Jews stay silent, it will be cast as indifference, arrogance, or worse—tacit agreement. Confront the accusation publicly and Jews feed the spectacle. Ignore it and normalization spreads. Explain it carefully and with nuance and lose ground faster. Complexity will always be outrun by emotional simplicity and the vocabulary of moral crusade. In short, Jews become unwilling performers in someone else’s theater. The antisemite wins either way.

This is part of the exhaustion Jewish communities experience in the wake of antisemitic waves that followed Oct. 7 and have not abated. It is not only fear. It is the demoralizing recognition that every available response is both necessary and compromised.”

[pyx]

kent horse fair

[mumblingsage]

I would love to know the difference between US and UK English in terms of quotation mark punctuation! I feel at this point in my life, through reading both, the rules have just merged together through osmosis, and I'm mostly just confused. For me, even as a native speaker, dialogue is the hardest set of grammar rules to use. You learn it once in primary school and write essays thereafter. So, unless you start writing for fun again, you don’t have to know them!

I was extremely lucky in the awesome teachers I had, but experience has led me to conclude that most of the useful things in life are not taught in school (and the useful things we are taught in school get sabotaged by connecting grade and homework anxiety with them).

Then, I was probably lucky in that my schools rarely had me write fiction (I got to do that for fun and sometimes money, no grades attached) and I don't recall ever learning dialogue grammar in a classroom. If I did, I forgot it. At some point in high school I realized I was tired of guessing what to do with every sentence I wrote and looked it up. I've been using this web page as a reference for ~15 years - not for everything (thus why I've opened up my inbox to questions!) but for the basics. The lessons were repeated and emphasized by being edited and then earning my copyeditor's license and editing others.

Anyway: US vs UK punctuation around quotation marks. Come to think of it, I may have bitten off more than I can chew here. I'll offer broad observations. (My specialty is US English, but some of my clients write with UK English, so I study their punctuation rules so as not to "mis-correct" what's right in their version.)

First off, there's the obvious difference of 'UK single quotes' vs "US double quotes." And then each country uses the other style to mark off quotes within quotes. This doesn't pose much trouble so long as it's consistent within each manuscript, although when I was getting the ebook of Teleny updated, the proofreader and I needed to go very carefully to track the nested quotation marks (IIRC, some parts of the story got four deep, for ' " ' "!)

A more surprising difference, for some, is how UK English does closing punctuation vs US English (when the punctuation is not part of the quote). It might stand out most when done midsentence:

My assistant in the US said "Here's an example," as an example.

My assistant in the UK said 'Here's an example', as an example.

The UK comma goes after the last quotation mark, while the US comma goes inside it. (As for a comma before the first quotation mark, whether it's included or not for a short quotation depends on a publication's preference: check the style guide and if there is no style guide, pick one and be consistent. In my experience, most fiction uses a comma before, but in these examples it might have looked odd and having only one comma makes its change in location clearer.)

She added, 'Even in the UK, though, a closing period (or full stop) usually goes inside the quotation marks.'

There can be nuances, however, again depending on whether the ending punctuation is part of the quote or not! This applies in US English too, for that matter:

"Did he really say 'British punctuation is absurd'?"

vs "Did he really say 'How absurd is British punctuation?'"

But what US punctuation does for a quotation mark, UK English is also doing with a comma (which the US usually puts in quotation marks no matter what):

‘This sentence’, she said, ‘has a full stop but no commas.’

(That example is taken from this page, which has more and additional details, including in nonfiction contexts.)

[fleysh]

Australian English is supposed to make use of British punctuation (per the Australian style guide), and it does in certain fields, such as publishing and media (the ABC being a notable exception). Where it gets murky is the education system: standardised in theory, varied in practice.

I dug up this Reddit thread, which confirms my own experience, which is that schools in Australia have taught students (at least until the mid-2010’s) American conventions of punctuation. The curriculum might have specified British English, but in practice, there was no penalisation or correction.

So yeah, it probably wouldn’t hurt to brush up on my British English, given my likelihood of having been further Americanised since graduating.

[roobydoos]

FOR NON SELFISH REASONS have you ever considered drawing Robby in a tallit

:)

[nonbinaryjudean]

bisexual has always meant attraction regardless of gender

[lemaldusiecle]

Repose en paix, dear Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026).

You were my goal during my teenage years. Photographs by Rahi Rezvani 🖤