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Because what else is the internet good for?

[hartsnkises]

I don't want to be blocked and I'm tired of worrying about it. Yes I'm above 18.

[cronenburger]

[molabuddy]

3 hours of sleep = i hate people who laugh

0 ours of sleep = waouw 🌼🌼🌼🌼🐎

[molabuddy]

we all need to take better care of our selfs or we might Pass away

[moringmark]

[lakemojave]

They. They forgor

[lakemojave]

[hotsoupeymiku]

[grimmtidings]

They were opened in AUGUST 2001. Oh my god. That's both hilarious and tragic.

[predstrogen]

this is a fucking futurama bit

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

I will regret this and shouldn't make wheels at 2am but

This tumblr sexyman is your son!

Are you proud of him

yes!

somewhat

I shouldn't be but yes

No

NO.

I'm disowning him

I am scared of him

Results

Remaining time: 5 days 14 hours

(sorry if your favourite is not in this poll, I went mostly off the contenders from this year's poll and the classics)

[memecucker]

I still think it’s funny how the Exagoge a Hellenistic Jewish play about the Exodus story written in the Ptolemaic period had to include a line where God tells Moses “it is impossible for a mortal to see my face, but it is possible to hear my words”bc Greek attendees would’ve been really confused about getting to the exciting scene where a god appears and would’ve been expecting Yahweh’s actor to be lowered from the ceiling astride a chariot and would’ve been scratching their head wondering if there was technical issues with the crane or something bc like where’s the god i was expecting a cool exciting entrance of a god they clearly got the burning bush effect to work like maybe that did happen during the opening run and they had to quickly insert that line

[animatedamerican]

How is this the first I have heard of the Exagoge in my slightly-over-half-century of life. HOW.

From the Wikipedia article on the play's author, Ezekiel the Tragedian:

Exagōgē is a five-act drama written in iambic trimeter, retelling of the biblical story of The Exodus from Egypt. Moses is the main character of the play, and parts of the biblical story have been altered to suit the narrative's needs. These changes probably point to Ezekiel's intention to stage the play, since certain scenes that are impossible to stage were converted into monologue. This drama is unique in blending the biblical story with the Hellenistic tragic drama; Erich S. Gruen writes that "the choice itself of that tale suggests an appeal to pride in national history and tradition produced in a quintessentially Hellenic mode."

... So you're telling me this was Alexandria's Prince of Egypt? That's what you're telling me?

I can't remember the last time I went so quickly from complete ignorance of a thing to a passionate need to experience it.

[starlightxraven]

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

[appalachian-werewolf]

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

It fucking better.

[mrsjdavis]

Like to charge, reblog to cast?

[moonlightingcurse]

And this is hard, anyway, because I can’t take any meaning from the text.  Ophelia’s just singing nonsense songs.

[teaboot]

Was about to fall asleep and apropos of nothing was struck out of nowhere by a horrible future vision of a brightly-lit and saccharine 3D-AI Calvin and Hobbes movie with Scarlet Johanssen voicing the mom and Chris Pratt voicing Hobbes and experienced an emotional haptic jerk so chilling I feel like I just foresaw my own death

[teaboot]

(Drenched in a cold sweat, visibly shaking) We Need To Warn Bill Watterson

[crystaltoa]

No, we don't.

He knows.

He has always known.

Actual quote:

"I don't want some animation studio giving Hobbes an actor's voice, and I don't want some greeting card company using Calvin to wish people a happy anniversary, and I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer. When everything fun and magical is turned into something for sale, the strip's world is diminished. 'Calvin and Hobbes' was designed to be a comic strip and that's all I want it to be. It's the one place where everything works the way I intend it to"

This was in the 1990's, pre-AI, pre- Chris Pratt, pre- Cinematic Universes, and if he was opposed to it then, he sure as hell wouldn't be okay with it now.

I think he probably experienced the same nightmare dystopian vision of the future you saw, but fortunately he had it like 40 years earlier.

[teaboot]

oh thank heavens

[belloochie]

hair silky like tofu

ass firm like another kind of tofu

[val-mora]

#Tits moderate firm yet jiggly like a third kind of tofu

[microsff]

A spaceship entered Earth's orbit and broadcast a message:

"We are the Interstellar Library. Do you want to swap? We have thousands of stories."

There were many replies.

The library was silent for a whole day, then:

"What do you mean, 'We have millions'?"

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

"And that's just on AO3!"

[oscar-isaac]

RYAN GOSLING "I'm Just Ken" wins Best Original Song at the 29th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (January 14, 2024)

[forsovngarde]

[stillmuseum]

[hartsnkises]

THAT COLD OPEN THO

[wynntermelon]

SVSSS x Witch Hat Atelier AU

Master Shen meets an unexpected visitor...👀

Binghe would make a terrifying brimhat witch and I'm all for it <3 he's gonna show Shizun levels of Freak that no one's ever seen before

[mariacallous]

[hyperpotamianarch]

in terms of cosmere jews, what do you think is the prevailing view on the Weeping? I could see it going either way, as a mashiv haruach type of thing or a three weeks kind of deal.

Since the diaspora, holidays connected to agriculture or the holiday cycle weren't completely a thing. It does depend on whether we go on my and Spring's version of Cosmere Jews - where they come from their own planet - or we're just having Jews somehow exist on Roshar. And even within my and Spring's version, there's the question of how they keep the calendar. I do believe we ended up agreeing they'd use a local calendar due to the need for Pesach to be in the spring (which doesn't go well with how they do stuff in the southern hemisphere, but that's a different matter IMO). Due to that, Pesach is half a Rosharan year from the Weeping. So...

The weeping is actually around when their Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot fall. Probably. So, more of a Mashiv haRuach approach. Though, quite honestly, with how Rosharan weather works, they either keep the "according to Eretz Yisrael" laws or have a very, very different system in place. One where Mashiv haRuach is more of a year round thing, while Morid haGeshem might be a Weeping only thing.

[judaismandsuch]

So we would 100% need to determine the form of "Jews Inexplicably in the Cosmere" because that has an obvious impact.

Assuming we go with: 'Earth facsimile is in the Cosmere, which is Shard free so we can ignore the impact of a shard on the evolution of Judaism (along with readily accesible magic), and assume Judaism would have evolved to be as it is now on Earth.'

I think we would have to go with 'Calendar According to Israel' (which would cause a lot of havoc becuase of non-standard year length, etc.), the 'Season' issue is completely irrelevant because Roshar doesn't have seasons. So regardless of going with Roshar calander or not, spring doesn't exist.

(From the Coppermind wiki)

(if you are wondering why the word 'Season' was used in the books, they use it to refer to temporary weather patterns of like... 2 weeks)

In addition the presence of 2 moons would cause some havoc with a moon based calender, so tying the Jewish calander to another planet is really the only logical choice.

[hyperpotamianarch]

Yeah, we have considered that.

The Old World (as I'm currently calling the world the Jews came from) should be sort of similar to Earth, but also distinctly not it. I don't really remember why we leaned more towards using local seasons, but the three moons were considered as a problem. Can't say we have a proper solution so far, I'm afraid.