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@homo-oddity
“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that
“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that
“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story
“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do
do you ever just sit and realize how insane people have acted towards you
WAIT HOLD ON I cannot fucking believe when I was like four years old my parents were cajoling me to walk with the family and trying to get me to keep up even though I kept insisting that I was "tired" until they took me to a doctor and found out my LUNGS DIDN'T WORK. how insane that we live in a world where reasonably loving parents think their FOUR YEAR OLD is trying to be LAZY. like they were mortified to be clear. adults are just so trained to ignore children's complaints as untrustworthy, kids just need discipline, they can't possibly speak for themselves. what the fuuuuck.
YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE BTW you should always be trying to take children seriously, especially very little ones but definitely all of them. the most disempowered class basically legally defined as property and most people are like "yeah that's good actually I hate when they Loiter lol they're stupid and loud and i actually think children should stop existing. restrict their personhood more actually"
me seeing a mutual's happy post: "hell yeah buddy :)" *hits like*
me seeing a mutual's sad/vent post: "aww no buddy :(" *hits like*
The like button is heart shaped for a reason and the reason is that it means I love you
This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8
I hate that my aesthetic sense agrees with this but everything you just said was correct
I went back to dig up this post because I was thinking about poetry.
This is one of those non-poem things that are among my favorite poems.
As the OP stated, the use of alliterative consonants is aesthetically just great, especially the placement of the strongest use at the end: “fuck him on the floor.” The use of “chintz” is indeed great word choice.
Because I’m insane, decided to scan the poem:
Not only is the second sentence, indeed, perfect iambic pentameter, the entire poem is perfectly metered, though the first sentence has four iambs rather than five.
There are further things I love about this poem, though: I like the casual connotations of “keep it real” juxtaposed with “chintz.” It causes me to interpret the “chintz” more strongly as meaning something fake, a facade. There is also of course the coarseness of “fuck,” which is a contrast with “chintz” but a different kind of contrast, gutsy and carnal where “chintz” is flimsy and inanimate.
And then there is the storytelling: there is SO MUCH storytelling in just these two lines. To break it down: The speaker is having sex with a married man, in the house he shares with his wife, which is “filled with chintz”—something that here connotes fakeness, in contrast with “keep it real.”
The illicit encounter in the poem takes place within a house filled with facade, the flimsy construction of the wife’s marriage and domestic sphere, but the encounter itself is a taste of something “real.” That’s a story, and it’s just two lines.
This is EIGHTEEN SYLLABLES, y’all. The amount of meaning condensed into these eighteen syllables is stunning, and it is so elegantly done.
From a technical standpoint (and ive taken 300- and 400-level poetry classes so I can say this) this is damn near flawless as a poem.
Kept thinking about this ever since I saw it and had to do something
there's art now
Ah dang to go further; the floor is framed as a refuge. As if there is literally no other space in this house that hasn't been populated by his wife with flimsy inanimate fakery. There is no space for this man in this house save for the floor. There is no space for him on the sofa, oon the counter tops, and most notably, no space for him in the marital bed.
I’d also like to point out the use of the word “has.” The wife has filled the house with chintz. She isn’t filling the house with chintz. She doesn’t fill the house with chintz. She has filled the house with chintz. Use of the past-tense makes the wife a subtly removed element in the story, someone whose presence we see in the environment, but who is blissfully distant during the actors throes of passion. There is an element of physical as well as emotional separation from the wife that is catalyzed by being fucked on the floor. Use of the past tense is an end to the wife presence in the actors life, a carnal catharsis amid cold fragility and emotional distance.
This is my new favourite post in the world
everyone cheer for the one (1) time tumblr had reading comprehension
And, predictably, it's because it was about gay sex
Sometimes you hear a song and a fic pops into your head full formed. This is a trap. The fic may be fully formed in your brain, but you still Have to write it down. This is an important step that most people forget about.
TIL one of the candidates running for Governor of Oregon in the Democratic primary is a woman calling herself Rabbi Fora. I was looking around on her webpage to find out where she got ordained, and I was confused to learn that her only listed education was a BFA from a private Catholic university.
And then I found screenshots the absolute wildest Twitter thread I’ve ever seen in my entire life:
“I didn’t wanna be a Rabbi despite the fact that I’m actively campaigning as a Rabbi and selling myself as a Rabbi. A random guy asked me to be his Rabbi, despite the fact that I’m not a Rabbi— how could I say no? I kept reaching out to real Rabbis, but “lefty Jews” don’t get calls back from congregational, establishment Rabbis. They definitely ignored me because I’m “lefty” and not because I’m pretending to be a Rabbi.
So for Jewish people: I’m not a Rabbi.
For non-Jewish people: I am a Rabbi.
Hope that clears some things up 😌”
For my fellow non Jews, this person is nowhere near qualified to be a Rabbi. If this makes you mad for some reason, then think about if this person called themselves a priest/pastor/minister despite not being ordained.
Does it make sense yet? Or do you still feel entitled to that which isn't yours?
I’m going to go one step further, and I want to make it clear that I have DEEP hesitance about making this accusation because it is absolutely asur to question someone’s Jewishness under ordinary circumstances… but I have serious doubts that this person is Jewish at all.
There are multiple extremely major racefaking red flags in some of the language used here ("HaShem has made it clear this is the path"?? Lubavitcher being the only widely accepted ordination not in Israel?? Wtf do you mean he was ordained "through his grandfather", smicha doesn't work that way???). However, I was not about to level an accusation this serious without substantial reason, so I went digging.
"Rabbi Fora" has covered her tracks by deleting most of her Facebook history, but what remains still makes it extremely clear that she was raised Pentecostal:
hi everyone! i would like to give you all an opportunity to let your light shine! its cliche but it still works. if you will all look at my
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And that her immediate family are all still practicing Christians:
20 years ago, I was blessed with my second and last child. A son, who has been a joy since the day he was born. Always has a smile and hug t
More than 24 years ago, Pam & her husband Bob were serving as missionaries to the Philippines and praying for a fifth child. Pam contracted
The greatest moment in my life is the day when God touched my soul, brought me his spirit and changed my life forever! He has been with me a
Crystal Heckman White updated her profile picture.
In Mark 12:40 and Luke 20:47 Jesus accused the Temple authorities of thieving and this time he names poor widows as their victims, going on
Happy Birthday MeMaw. I know you’re having a grand time in Heaven with PaPaw and the rest of the family. Sure do miss you. ❤️❤️
Could she have converted? Possibly, but if she converted, she's said nothing at all on the subject anywhere publicly at all, which is odd, because she went out of her way to make a post "beating everyone to the punch" regarding her past and her deadname:
Also... "My Rabbinic abbreviation is Fora"??? Wtf is a "rabbinic abbreviation"??? That's not a thing!
Given that we know that she is clearly already fraudulently claiming to be a rabbi, I'm comfortable enough calling it here: she does not appear to be a Jew. If she did convert, I think it's on her to provide literally any evidence whatsoever of that, because as it currently stands, all evidence points to her being just a left-wing variation on the playbook tested by George Santos.
A thought occurred to me. She made mention on marrying people....uhhhhh how legit are those marriages?
I'm guessing the marriages are legal because you can be ordained online to perform marriages. If she has that certificate, the marriages are legit.
But being able to marry people doesn't make you clergy. It means you can marry someone. I know plenty of people who have gotten "ordained" to marry family members and none of them are pretending to be clergy members.
Also, of course she's a pentecostal.
As much as it makes me uncomfortable to have people pointing to "her entire family is Evangelical Xian except her" as any sort of proof of non-Jewishness (for what I think are fairly obvious reasons, heh), I agree that there's a lot in this story that makes me give her serious side-eye, including one thing that I haven't seen anybody bring up yet, since I'm guessing I'm the only Portland local commenting on this so far:
Earl Blumenauer was the Representative for Oregon's 3rd District. He has been replaced by Rep. Dr. Maxine Dexter. When she talks about going downtown, she means Portland. She means she lives in the 3rd.
So do I. Earl was my rep. Rep. Dexter is now.
So believe me when I say, with my whole chest, "Bullshit, you couldn't get a call back from anybody local as a genuine seeker."
This is going to require me to break one of my major rules, so let me make it clear up front that I am not interested in discussing the content of what I'm about to tell you all, and I am presenting you with facts, not presenting any kind of opinion on the content of the things I'm about to link to, okay? I am only saying these things exist.
Because you know what's in East Portland?
https://shirtikvahpdx.org/
Congregation Shir Tikvah, an independent congregation which currently has an appeal for aid for Gaza and a prayer for Palestine as the 3rd and 4th paragraphs on its front page.
Do you know who was the rabbi of Shir Tikvah in 2023? I do. Rabbi Ariel Stone. She just recently retired, and Rabbi Elizabeth took over. Rabbi Emerita Stone still teaches at Shir Tikvah and has been known to take on rabbinical students. You can find her curated teachings on I/P on Shir Tikvah's site.
Not only does Shir Tikvah exist, with that leadership, but it's literally the only synagogue on the East side of Portland! Every other synagogue is across the river! Shir Tikvah is the synagogue near where she lives, if Earl Blumenauer was her representative!
So the idea that she just could not find anybody willing to take her on because she's sooooooo lefty and because, as she implies, of her views on Palestine? Yeah. I call absolute bullshit.
If Rabbi Stone wouldn't take her on, or refer her to someone who would, there's a damn good reason. Like maybe not being Jewish in the first place. And no, I ain't seen her around the Eastside Commons, because this is the first I've ever heard her fucking name.
Yikes, yeah, that certainly adds a whole ‘nother layer to this.
Also, I want to make it clear that what makes me suspicious about her Jewishness is not that she was raised Pentecostal, and it’s not that her family are still evangelical Christians – it’s specifically that, in addition to fraudulently claiming to be a rabbi, she’s seemingly gone to great lengths to conceal both of those things, to the point of implying in a few places that she was raised Jewish, which she was clearly not.
Jews by choice are Jews, full stop. It does not matter how they were raised and it does not matter who they are related to. And it’s possible for real Jews to be cagey about their upbringing and to not want to openly talk about their conversion journey. But in my experience, Jewish gerim do not generally take calculated steps to hide the fact that they are gerim in a political context, even if they are embarrassed by their past, and indeed, even when they are a part of a community which is not as accepting of gerim as it should be. I’m technically a ger myself, though both of my biological parents are Jewish (long story), and so I’ve spent a lot of time in groups for gerim, patrilineals, zera israel, and other similarly marginalized communities. Right or wrong, the vast majority of gerim with evangelical backgrounds who I have met lead with that in virtually any context where they are speaking for our entire community, in no small part because they want to put distance between themselves and the cultural appropriation that they’ve witnessed from others like this. Pretty much the only people who are not actively trying to distance themselves from Messianics and racefakers are Messianics and racefakers.
Again, what really stinks the worst to me here is the fact that she made the choice to be extremely preemptively open about her dead name when she started her campaign, but has made zero mention of being raised Pentecostal or converting. Prejudice against gerim in the Jewish community is very real, but you will have a very hard time convincing me that that prejudice is greater than the prejudice leveled at trans people. It’s hard to imagine why a person would be cagier about a valid conversion to Judaism than about a gender transition… unless the valid conversion in question doesn’t exist.
I just call bullshit bc like... I don't make it to shul as often as I would like bc of my movement disabilities, but like... I'm on the email lists for Shir Tikvah and a bunch of other local Jewish stuff and I'm a member of ORA (the local Jewish artist's collective) and if there is ANYTHING that is even VAGUELY nearby that any known quantity of Jewishness is attached to, you WILL get an email from ORA. I just absolutely refuse to believe that anybody who is a known quantity in the local Jewish community, much less a fucking for-realsies rabbi, is running for governor & I'm finding out about it from Tumblr.
Like I guess it's possible, but... I call bullshit.
white people will look you dead in the eye and say pedophilia/epstein case is comparable to eating meat/not going vegan
i wish i was joking
that part!!
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Why do you use It/Its pronouns...
i got tagged in elementary school and never recovered
obedience is its own reward, and yet, should still be rewarded
obedience is
its own reward, and yet, should
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Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.
oh shit
As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.
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Rebloging for OPs lower back tattoo!
I'm instituting a new policy of "if I can't easily read your crusty scanned PDF then I'm sending it back to you, telling you to get your shit together and save your .docx as .pdf, and causing snakes to manifest inside your house"
this but also if you are in accounting and you have an Excel file please do not save it as a PDF or take a screenshot of it and then paste it into another Excel file
I take it back whatever you have going on is way worse than what I was dealing with holy shit
@thesummoningdark hello?????
yeah no this is a real thing an actual human being said to me
Good afternoon to everyone in the notes having a horrible time! Y'all are fighting demons I never knew existed!! I think every person that makes you do stupid time wasting shit like this because they refuse to learn basic computer literacy should be fired!!
Racism in fandom spaces is actually insanely bad and if you ever try to downplay or avoid conversations about it because "fandom is supposed to be fun" then I'm not sorry to say this: You're adding on to the problem.
If POC speaking up about a fandom's racism issue offends you more than the racism itself, you need to think about that. You need to think about how POC fighting racism offends you more than the racism.
