ginger and polyglot

fangirling through life |✡️ עם ישראל חי | Captain Swan, 911 (Buddie), Leverage, McShep, Sterek, Doctor Who, Tony Stark, Batfam and Hollanov

[gingerpolyglot]

I don't know how many fucking times we need to say it but going after random Jews, targeting Holocaust memorials, and protesting outside of synagogues is not going to do anything to help Palestine. It is antisemitism, plain and simple, and if you are not horrified by it you have some serious fucking biases to unpack.

עם ישראל חי

[ravenbytes]

Ok but why did either of them need to be out “quietly” 👀 in TLG?

For as much as I’ve complained about everything else, at least I could usually parse the motivation (while disagreeing with it), but this just baffles me.

It being an open secret about Shane went nowhere except to weirdly suggest, in conjunction with Scott’s apparent acceptance by league and fans, that being an active and out hockey player is nbd actually. There’s JJ’s teasing about Shane’s crush on Ilya, but couldn’t he have just told JJ then? Then her precious Hayden wouldn’t look like such a dick for not dissuading JJ’s now non-existent attempts to hook Shane up (or else they’re both unambiguous assholes). Does JJ being very briefly hurt and not immediately defending him during Tripgate matter? They’re back to buddies in like 5 pages. And if her plan was to make MTL EvilTM…doesn’t them being straightforwardly homophobic make more sense than that they’re mad Shane would date a former Boston player? Hollanov can still (stupidly 😒) fight over the closet even if neither of them are out, so what is measurably changed by this?

So Shane is simultaneously terrified of anyone knowing about him and Ilya while clearly still dealing with the internalised homophobia that drove him to Hollandrygate last book as is evident in e.g., his interactions with Fabian, AND also apparently fine that the entire NHL has heard these rumours, which he took zero precautions against when he outed himself to the entire locker room. And you can’t say this is a simple case of self-protective pragmatism due to the rivalry (the entire justification for Ottawa unravels if this is still the main obstacle) either bc as shallow as her character interiority for Shane esp. is, he is still very demonstrably trapped in the shame nexus. That’s literally the primary source of r/s tension the whole book, which culminates in their fight over potential discovery. Soooo…if he’s not ashamed of being gay, are we to interpret he’s primarily ashamed of being with Ilya? Interesting choice for a romance novel. I do have some thoughts, but let’s move on fn.

**I want to be clear that I am not saying that this is a fair interpretation of Show!Shane or even book Shane if we really dig into the character and his circumstances (though, that does pretty quickly verge into headcanon territory). I only mean to point out the inference that can be drawn from this framing**

I’d ask how she thought she could justify it as a character beat, but it isn’t one. He did it off-page. In a time-skip. No explanation given.

Was all this literally just the fallout of not forcibly retiring Scott? Is she trying to drum up drama with JJ bc she thinks it makes Hayden look better? Was she trying to give Ilya (and the reader) another reason to resent Shane (unfairly as that is) for apparently having the better end of the Ottawa deal? But why do that?? I’m actually serious here. I don’t get this choice. I would genuinely love to hear some theories because this one still boggles the mind.

[ravenbytes]

The show changes to Sveta are gonna put a real damper on Ilya’s very real depression exacerbating isolation like as it stands there’s no way she doesn’t know and i think that Ilya having the option to confide in his lifelong best friend even if he doesn’t take her up on it because he’s depressed legitimately changes the hollanov dynamic in tlg than if he literally has no one and centered his life on shane but i unfortunately think thats why the entire choice works from the intel decision to the conflict to the resolution. I guess it can kinda work if they kinda have a falling out but its not gonna be a don’t talk for 3 years issues no matter what. a real as friend telling him not to move to ottawa from jump tho

I mean, JT had read the series before that change was made so I’m inclined to believe there was some level of reasoning behind it. I’m also personally not terribly concerned with any changes they want to make from this point as long as everyone remains in (show) character… But to your larger point wrt Ilya’s depression arc, I don’t think a falling out is required here tbh. Even people with large support networks in close physical proximity can be depressed to the point of suicidal ideation. It doesn’t require that he be so dramatically isolated and overtly codependent to quite that degree for him to struggle with his mental health. (And I think that would still be an issue/source of r/s tension even if he’d stayed in Boston tbh) He’s still a man with probable cPTSD that’s just cut off ties to his blood family and has now committed to a plan that would see him self-exiled from his country too, as well as abandoning his second home, life, and cup contending team in Boston, which includes his found family in Sveta bc she doesn’t have the option to just move to Canada. He’s still (maybe temporarily but he can’t know that for sure) torpedoing his career, badly damaging his reputation and legacy, and sacrificing all his previous coping mechanisms (sports cars, clubbing, and casual sex ofc but also the most important: good hockey) for the chance to be closer to Shane while still long distance by moving to his hometown and to gain Canadian citizenship so they can one day come out w/o risking his life or residency. He’s very much still centring his life around Shane and their r/s at the expense of his mental health even if he has Sveta a phone call away if he ever picked up. Especially if she already knows about Shane as we assume. Honestly, if anything, it’s likely more painful this way bc now we get to see him grieve for that sacrifice while choosing not to call her in his depressive spiral likely due to guilt and the worry of burdening her and/or his demonstrable struggles with vulnerability and avoidance and w/o the reasonable sounding excuse of defending their r/s closet. That’s the same kind of thinking that has him not confiding in Shane despite their codependency after all, and TLG barely scratches at the surface of it. This also has the added benefit of lampshading Ilya’s own agency rather than laying all the blame at Shane’s door as the book implicitly does with all the “Shane has more support in this” etc. bc Ilya is visibly choosing not to seek out support (not to say it’s his fault either; depression does a number on you) vs having none available. Which I think ultimately has more poignancy as part of the hollanov r/s arc bc it’s not relying on being as dramatic as possible to evoke angst in lieu of writing it, you know? Grounding it in something more approximate to real life actually gives them more room to work rather than less bc now they have the space to deal with those deeper issues tlg merely glossed over. So yeah. I agree it changes the dynamic and expect they’ll take a different route to get where they need to go, but, well, tbqh I don’t exactly consider that a problem lol. I wouldn’t worry anyway. Not about that at least.

[ravenbytes]

I mean…. i guess ultimately the books and the show are just different stories and should be viewed as such. Like Ilya does make a choice to move thats true for both the books and the show and in my mind has always been part of why things were as difficult as they were and obviously i dont blame people for having mental illness but adults do also have a responsibility to seek help so to me adding agency and choices where there were previously literally no choices…. Like Ilya had very specific grievances about his situation that he addressed that were objectively true and making his circumstances worse and i don’t think removing it makes the story inherently better or deeper I don’t think it’ll make it bad either but it fundamentally alters the story being told to me

Assuming this is a follow-up on this ask, tbh I’m not sure I entirely understand what you’re getting at here. I mean, yes, the show is separate canon to the books, but none of these changes fundamentally alter the story at its core. They just clean it up a bit. I’m not saying giving Ilya a friend on its own deepens the story; I’m saying small tweaks like that one can make a huge impact when handled well. I…don’t think I get what you’re trying to say wrt to Ilya’s “responsibility to seek help” though? Or the implications of his having “no choices” to do so (from people other than Shane ig?), when he did seek out professional help in the book. The execution of it was certainly flawed writing-wise, but that he willingly sought out therapy was a significant part of his arc in the book and we’ve currently no reason to expect that to change in show. That’s separate from accepting support from friends… Sorry, I feel like I’m missing something here, but I genuinely don’t see why having a bff he probably doesn’t call for awhile but could if he wanted to is an obstacle to this arc in any way if that’s what you meant. but I’ve already talked about that so. Yeah.

I’m sorry if this comes off as rude. I really don’t mean it to. But I just do not believe it’s necessary that he have literally no friends anywhere at all to feel lonely or to self-isolate in his pain. Nor do I think his choosing not to seek those friends out would make him less sympathetic to me or in any way alleviate the pain of his depression arc or his and Shane’s r/s struggles other than not implying it’s all Shane’s fault somehow. It’s their circumstances that suck. They’re just two flawed people doing their best. And I don’t think we need to overdramatise aspects like this to drum up angst.

As to other “specific grievances about his situation”…what else has changed that you’re anticipating? Unless they mention it in passing, we currently have no evidence Show!Ilya even had a car collection, but he still needs a new passport, he still has no wider community (even if he, like, FaceTimes with his old team or smth in the show, that would still be true?), his new team is still at best finishing a rebuild so he’s still got years of losing good hockey and missing competition w Shane to fuck him up as in TLG.

Hell, Ottawa doesn’t even need to be literally bottom of the barrel with no realistic hope for future growth and a seeming lack of ambition for better for Ilya to miss his already cup contending team, great hockey, and the devoted fans that came with it. And in fact them being at the end of a rebuild cycle with an actual prospect of renewed competition within a few years as this post proposes makes the Ottawa Plan a lot more believable as one either Ilya or Shane would have gone ahead with. But it would still be a gamble w his career for the sake of their future, still piss off fans and old teammates (tarnishing his legacy), still mean relearning a new team and agonising over his performance as captain, and absolutely still have him losing more games for years than he has in over half a decade. Not that I’m expecting them to go this way necessarily, but they could, and it wouldn’t reduce the angst factor at all.

My point was not that removing or dialling down on some of the more dramatic sources of misery inherently deepens the story. My point was that doing so loses us nothing and earns us (and the characters) some space to breathe, which is necessary if we want to explore their internal arcs with any level of nuance or, yes, depth. TLG as a narrative is so cluttered with plot contrivances and resentment fuel that it only lightly scratches at anything of substance and makes a mess of itself in the process. I’ve talked about this at great length in other posts, but to name a few:

Shane coming out in a timeskip to his team fsr just so Ilya can feel extra suffocated in the closet and resentful of Shane’s halfway out state without ever giving us an explanation as to how or why that even happened

Shane resenting the loss of competition with Ilya (i.e., the rivalry) to a delusional and thoughtlessly cruel degree despite proposing Ottawa bc apparently it didn’t occur to either of them that the Centaurs suck and have sucked for ages and Ilya’s only one person and somehow Shane can’t connect ‘Ilya is on a losing team’ with ‘Ilya is unhappy’ (tbc I think this is the fault of poor writing; and inconsistent with previous characterisation), when we could have had something like a post Sochi repeat w Ilya locking in thinking it will ‘fix’ him and their r/s by essentially reviving their private rivalry minus the public performance bits and Shane frustrated he won’t confide in him while fully well knowing why (not attached to this; literally just typing as ideas appear lol)

resolving what should have been a major turning point in their r/s (the block party fight) with an engine failure and a proposal instead of actually letting them talk it through

making Ottawa a gay utopia as part of the deflection from the real world homophobia the rivalry is scapegoating and then smacking the Voyagers over the heads with the Stupid and Evil sticks to get Shane to join the Centaurs rather than allow him to make an actual choice himself

Obviously I don’t expect this all to change and certainly not in the ways I’ve just spitballed off the top of my head. My point is just that even if they did change some of these things or drop or move or dial back on something like Ilya’s extreme and involuntary isolation, it wouldn’t change the core of the narrative which is just…navigating a grown up relationship while grappling with the added complications of long distance, their careers (and everything that comes with that, including Ilya’s legal status), family dynamics, and mental health struggles. There are a LOT of ways to do that with just the pieces they have so far, and bc I did not like the way RR went about it personally…I guess I’m just not primed to see it as an issue if they take a different approach.

Sorry this got so long. I just found I had more to say than I anticipated 🤷 Hopefully this little essay was of some interest, but thank you for the opportunity to rant a little 🙃

[sugarkaanes]

IM GONNA THROW UP THE WAY SHANE TURNS HIS HEAD IN LOVE WHEN THEY NOSE BOOP UGH. UGHHH

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[mayflowersinapril]

A universe grows on my body, where your hand touches me Suddenly the world returns, all that it has taken away

- Mashrou Leila, Radio Romances

[magnetothemagnificent]

I recently came across a post from you stating that it’s “insidious” that Pride events are often scheduled on Saturday which means you as an observant Jews can’t go. Why is your schedule more important that everyone else’s? Why do non Jews, such as myself, need to schedule things according to your schedule?

Are you a religious Christian for whom a Pride parade is considered "work" and therefore something you would not be able to attend were it scheduled on a Sunday? Do you attend Mass on Sunday that takes all day and therefore limits your free time on Sunday? No? So then why is it such a hassle for things to be scheduled on a Sunday? In fact, many workplaces still don't give off Saturday as a given, but they do give off Sunday. Wouldn't you want more people (Jewish or not) to be included?

Jews, whether you like it or not, were and are deeply foundational to the modern LGBTQ Pride and Rights movement. Magnus Hirschfeld was a Jew. Harvey Milk was a Jew. Brenda Howard, the literal "Mother of Pride" was a Jew. They may not have been Orthodox Jews or Shabbat-observant, but Jews of all levels of observance and religiosity deserve to be included. And Jewish religious institutions have been supportive of LGBTQ causes for decades. And even if Jews weren't part of and supporters of the community from the start, Jews are part of the community now and ought to be included, as should people of all ethnicities, races, religions, and nationalities.

But honestly? My views have changed since I made that post that earned it a screenshot and post onto reddit saying "look how crazy and entitled those Jews are". I think the Western LGBTQ movement's exclusion and hatred of Jews now goes far beyond scheduling things on Saturdays. That's just the surface level. Things are far more overt when Jewish interest groups are quite literally banned from Pride events, when Jews are regularly harassed and attacked both off-line and online, when the overwhelming message from the Western LGBTQ world is that an LGBTQ person who is also a Jew is a traitor to their own kind. And it gets worse and worse each year as more LGBTQ people trade in their own safety and welfare and future prospects to spend their time, energy, and money hating Jews. Not only is it disgustingly hateful, it's counterproductive. LGBTQ rights are being attacked and stripped away all around the Western world, but people care more about investing their energy into best excluding Jews, Jews who, LGBTQ or not, would be and are supportive of LGBTQ causes. It's deeply insidious.

My schedule isn't more important than anyone else's. I know that. You know that, and you know that you were reading my post in bad faith. Jews are not the only people who would benefit from important Pride events not being scheduled on Saturdays. People who still have to work on Saturdays would benefit too. And I know you read a tiny snippet of my post and blacked out, because in that post I also mentioned Pride events being scheduled on Jewish holidays (Shavuot often times falls out in June). I think if you are in a community with a large number of Jews who are contributing members, it's only basic decency to be considerate. I am annoyed at conventions that do that same thing, mind you. But "niche interest conventions" are not a broad, umbrella movement the way the Western LGBTQ movement is. A science fiction convention isn't part of the same movement as a WWII history airshow, for example, and they are often not run by the same kinds of people and they are often not even attended by the same kinds of people.

Put on your thinking cap and think for a moment as to why you have such a visceral reaction to a Jew asking to be included.

[magnetothemagnificent]

franz kafka’s writings are often analyzed in a trans lens the person who wrote that was almost definitely a trans person who related. people who call kafka a trans woman are almost entirely trans women. there is also a huge subset of literature shitposter girls who use kafka and the metamorphosis specifically to talk about their experiences with womanhood. so while i agree that the trope you are talking about is antisemitic i don’t think that applies here. he’s not being called a woman in a disparaging way.

It. Literally. Doesn't. Matter.

Spoiler alert: trans people can be antisemitic!

Franz Kafka was a real person who died not too long ago, and just because a trans person relates to his writings doesn't mean they can claim he's trans. It's not the same as relating to a fictional character. You can't 'headcanon' an actual person. I don't care how much you relate- he wasn't trans, don't call him a woman. He was an actual person, not a fictional character you can project on. An treating Franz Kafka like a fictional character you can project any label onto and separate him from his actual life is dehumanization and *also* antisemitic.

It's no different than queer people co-opting Anne Frank's memory and erasing her story to just herald her as a "bi icon" when she never had the chance to live long enough to label herself. Queer gentiles need to stop dehumanizing Jewish people and turning them into blank slates they can project onto.

Kafka's Metamorphosis and writings about his depression are from the viewpoint of a disabled Jewish man who was watching as antisemitism was slowly escalating around him and Jews were becoming insects in the minds of society. And "he's not being called a woman in a disparaging way" is the dumbest excuse ever- antisemitism is antisemitism. I've seen trans people infantilize Jewish men, calling them "different breed of man" or "scrunkly" and then insist they meant it positively. Intent doesn't matter. Calling a Jewish man, who never ever indicated having any gender identity otherwise, a woman, or implying he's somehow not a full man, is antisemitic.

[obi-waankenobi]

I hope I'm not derailing here (please tell me if I am and I'll delete this), but I'd like to especially call attention to this line (which I love, btw):

I don't care how much you relate- he wasn't trans, don't call him a woman.

At some point relatively recently, people seem to have come to the conclusion that you can't empathize with a character (or real fucking person, in this case, and I cannot stress how gross that is) unless you're just like them. "Oh, I, a nonbinary person can identify with this cishet man? He must actually be nonbinary!" "Oh, I, an autistic person, can identify with this Ambiguously Quirky™ person? She must actually be autistic!"

Being able to relate to a person--real or fictional--who isn't just like you is a good thing. It's good that you see yourself in the writings of a cisgender man! Maybe it will teach you that cis people aren't the enemy. It's good that an autistic character resonates with NT people! Maybe they'll gain new insight into their autistic friends and family!

It's called empathy, and it's so important to understand that you are going to see your experiences reflected in people who are unlike you. Those connections are important. Deciding that Kafka must be a trans woman because you're a trans woman is missing the entire fucking point. It means that you do, in fact, have some things in common with a cisgender man, and conversely, it means that cisgender men have things in common with you. To flatten them out so they're just like you is missing out on so much of what they have to say.

People are beautiful and rich and layered and the fact that we can connect with other people and share experiences despite how different we are? That's the whole fucking point. That's what makes life worth living.

OP, I'm sorry I only spoke on being transgender and autistic. Those are the only two points that I could speak on from experience. Talking about real people like they're fictional pisses me off, and I sort of... got off on a thing.

[terulakimban]

I'm not OP, but one thing that's frightening about this from a Jewish perspective (especially in the context of discussing someone who was alive in the interwar period) is the recurring idea that Jews only matter as lenses for other people's stories. That we can be empathized with, but only if our narratives can be twisted to someone else's.

Because we've seen that before. We see it very often because it's a fundamental premise of some incredibly antisemitic forms of Christianity, and when it turns out that we're real people with real opinions and real beliefs and real feelings who don't just exist to validate someone else's perception of who and how we could be, people don't just abandon their pretense at allyship, they get violent.

It's also a common failing in how the Holocaust is taught. People like to present this lens of "it was random violence that came out of nowhere and could've happened to anyone. It could've happened to you! Imagine if you'd been one of the victims! That would've been a tragedy wouldn't it?" And the thing is, that's bullshit. If you were just a random German citizen at the time? You would've been one of the perpetrators. And it was a tragedy in and of itself; it doesn't become a tragedy by imaging a scenario in which people who were perfectly safe would've actually been potentially in danger (never killed, of course, because Holocaust education is also commonly sanitized, which is a different rant).

Edited to take out a rant that was in drafts and got added to this by mistake, but. Well, the Tl;dr, since that's been reblogged

Well. I'm a cis woman. GNC, perhaps, but cis. And I get misgendered (and degendered) a lot because of how people read Jewish features. And... when friends insist that any discomfort I have with feminine stuff is because I'm an egg... I get that they're trying to be helpful for a journey of self-discovery. But I've done that introspection. I check in with myself periodically just in case. And "oh, you're really nonbinary/a trans man because you're [insert list of stereotypically Jewish features//personality traits commonly ascribed to Jews [whether or not I have them]" -it hurts. Because not only are they minimizing my actual identity and my self-knowledge, and deciding that they're the experts on my life, rather than me, they're doing it in a way that's constantly used to hurt me.

[theres-a-hole-in-my-wall]

another thing! Jewish men are (pretty often) seen as feminine/unmasculine and like they could never be 'true men'. In a lot of media they're the awkward nerds, the virgins, the weirdos. Point is this is not just misgendering anybody (which would be awful enough), this is misgendering a group that's known to be seen as less masculine than a white man for example

*this is a bit of derailing but it reminds me of how black men face the opposite issue of being seen as hyper masculine & in turn hyper violent. None of us can win in this racist ass society my g-d

[littledoggy-girlcollar]

“he’s not being called a woman in a disparaging way.”

No, but everything in his writing that gets commented on is something that speaks to feeling out of place in society, or something that conveys emotional or social vulnerability.

So for someone to say “because of these things I think she was a trans woman teehee!” they are implicitly 1) denying that any other aspect of identity might cause these feelings, and 2) asserting that if someone feels these things, they must be a woman.

Ignoring his Judaism AND implying that men can’t feel alienated or vulnerable and if they do they must actually have been a woman. Doesn’t seem very respectful or deconstructing of gendered norms to me.

People need to either start recognizing that you can empathize and identify with jews on our own terms or you can stop fucking talking about us.

[fuckyeahsapphics]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH HONEYS!👩🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏾🏳️‍🌈✨

[rainbow-femme]

They move in together full time and Ilya notices that Anya acts differently with Shane than she does with him, more quiet and less playful, and he worries that means she doesn’t like Shane or is jealous, so he hires a dog trainer to come over and see if there’s anything they need to do to help

After a while of talking about how Anya acts the trainer says there’s nothing to worry about, Anya likes Shane just fine, it’s just that she sees him as the boss and is acting accordingly

And Ilya is like. But. I’m the one who adopted her? And raised her before Shane got here?? And the trainer is just like yeah well she sees you more like an equal. And Ilya is like WAIT she thinks Shane is in charge of both of us?? And the trainer is just like well do you interact in a way that would make her think that?

Ilya’s life flashes before his eyes as he thinks of all the times Shane has come over with a snack for Ilya and a treat for Anya, or all the times Shane has announced they’re all going for an after dinner walk, or pets Ilya’s hair and tells him he did a good job at practice, or the fact that he uses the same warning tone with Anya when she misbehaves as he does with Ilya when he’s causing problems on purpose

Shane comes home to Ilya with his face in his hands going oh god I’m not Anya’s dad I’m her brother and she thinks we’re both your pets. And Shane just goes. What.

[ilyannarozanova]

If Ilya and Shane actually wrestled like no holds barred to the death full competition mode rough and tumble fighting, I think most of the time Shane would win. Shane is used to Ilya throwing him around and pinning him down, but Ilya gets tossed to the ground once and gets so turned on he passes out. Shane yells at him and pins him and he just gives up because he's so horny he cannot actually think. Their friends are like oh my god Shane you're hurting him! And Ilya is lying there under him so so so pleased like yayyyy I love being pinned by my huge sexy jock boyfriend #mysexyjockboyfriend DO NOT SAVE HIM he is exactly where he wants to be!!

[wetheurban]

Stop delaying joy until life looks a certain way. You're allowed to be happy while you're figuring things out.

[notaaronsroommate]

pride month.

ok, listen, shut the fuck up, shut the fuck up do not say any fuckshit you dumb bastards.

if you want to see sucking and fucking go to folsom street fair in San Fran, that's where you see people bouncing cocks off eachother and it's fine and self contained. No one is sucking and fucking at pride even if I wish they were. Everyone is fine there, yes whatever micro identity you just came up with, no one is stationed at the entryway to each blocked off street with a gaydar detector.

if you see the bank of america pridefloat shut the fuck up about it and ignore it. yeah, I KNOW. I been doin this for damn near 20 years at this point shut the fuck up "ooo corporate pride, pride was a riot" I KNOW. EVERYONE KNOWS. It is way BETTER if the billion dollar corporation thinks you are a non exterminatable customer base they must pander too rather than having no rainbow colored bullshit whatsoever.

shut the fuck up. shut the fuck up. get off the fucking computer. go get rammed up the ass. shut the fuck up.

[ponpurin]

I find it so interesting how some people accept and reaffirm the fact Israel has religious importance in both Islam and Christianity, and say that Jerusalem should “be for everyone”. Then they shit their pants when Jews say it’s also important for them.

So Muslims and Christians have a right to certain sites in Israel because they have deep religious significance, but Jews don’t? They have no right to their own damn indigenous land? To the birthplace of their entire culture, religion, language, and identity? The amount of mental gymnastics and Jew hatred required to make these statements is mind numbing.

And for anyone that’s curious, Muslims and Christians already can and have been to Jerusalem for decades. The whole “Jerusalem is for everyone” is so fucking stupid because literally anyone can visit already. And this argument is even more rich when considering the Temple Mount, the literal holiest site in Judaism, has highly restricted access to non-Muslims. Jews cannot visit their own holiest site without massive restrictions and they are not allowed to pray there. Only as recent as this year have SOME Jews been allowed to pray there (discreetly and out of sight). They’re facing these restrictions in their own indigenous land, no less! You would think since Israel is a “Jewish supremacist” country they’d get rid of these restrictions in their own fucking capital city.

Mind you Muslims and Christians are free to visit the western wall and pray there to their heart’s content. Though most Muslims wouldn’t since they can just go up to Temple Mount. The reason the western wall is holy to Jews is because it’s the closest they can get to the Temple Mount without facing restrictions. All of this to say Jews have no problem sharing their land making Jerusalem “for everyone”.

[imaginarygirltnt]

One of the funniest things in Leverage is where they go through a whole bunch of plans to ensure the item is deemed a fake and then it turned out that none of it mattered because the bad guy had already paid off the appraiser to say the item was real 😆

[ceruleanheaven]

month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in

[ceruleanheaven]

yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second

[ceruleanheaven]

many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third