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"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
I have gotten so many messages from folks who see what's happening to Jews right now, how literally any statement from us that isn't straight up "death to Israel!" "tear it down!" "river to the sea!" etc. - no matter how tempered in other ways or critical of the Israeli government it is - anything even mildly supportive of the terrorism victims/their families in their grief and/or Israelis deserving to live is getting dog piled to an absurd degree. And yes, that primarily targets Jews (because we're the ones primarily speaking on it) but it definitely is also hitting anyone not Jewish who says this as well. Immediately, overnight, the left has made any position that respects everyone's human rights and allows Jews room to grieve our murdered and missing family and friends without telling us they deserved to die in terrible ways completely radioactive. Like literally even the most milquetoaste statement attracts numerous hysterical commentators. And because it's so toxic, people are afraid to speak up.
And I've now heard from a lot of gentiles that they had no idea how deep the rot of leftist antisemitism went, how they've been seeing this unfold with horror, and are afraid to speak up.
Here's what I'll say: those messages give me a lot of strength, because they help me remember that I'm not insane, that this is horrendous, and we are seeing in real time exactly who would have helped the Gestapo find us if they were sufficiently convinced that this is "decolonization." That yes, the backlash really *is* that bad. I hear that affirmation and I appreciate it, and I understand your fear, because it was mine too. I myself strongly considered at the beginning not saying anything about this until I could do so without being harassed. (I decided against that because I am physically incapable of shutting up when it pertains to my people, but I understand the sentiment.)
Here's the thing: this is never going to end - those people who take seriously the question "are Jews people?" are going to be the vocal minority unless and until we all speak out. Jews are 2% of the US population and 0.2% of the world's population - there are literally more self-identified Nazis in America than there are Jews. I would honestly be surprised if there weren't more horseshoe theory leftists in the world than Jews also.
That being the case, we really do need our allies to speak up with us. I think if we all spoke up at once, it might be enough to break the silence-taken-as-agreement and shame everyone but the avowed antisemites (rather than the thoughtless and opportunistic ones) back into keeping their antisemitism under wraps. Which does have the effect of bringing the mob under control. Jews have faced a ton of mob violence in the form of pogroms throughout our history and backlash to Jewish victimhood. (Tl;dr - "How dare you make me consider how I might have benefited from or been complicit in hurting Jews? This is actually the fault of the Jews." is a disturbingly common thought process.) (You may also be wondering what I mean by "opportunistic;" I can explain in another post if people are interested.)
I know it's scary. I am well aware that you might lose friends from this. I personally decided that if those "friends" valued Jewish lives so little, they were never my friends to begin with, but it's different for non-Jews. They may genuinely be your friends. I'm not demanding you do this for me or my community, but I am asking you to consider what your line is for your friends. And if you are able to talk to them, to ask them what makes this group different from all other groups in terms of deserving compassion and human rights, it may just help us to quiet the mob.
And, if nothing else, just privately reminding those of us who are speaking about it that we are grounded in reality and compassion helps combat the mass gaslighting going on.
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Jews of Tumblr. I know times are difficult right now. I know we're all hurting and scared and angry.
But our constant fatigue? Our aching chests? Our pain? That's what they want for us.
I'm not saying this to shame any of us. Our pain is completely valid as a response to the world around us. However, I would like to urge you to take care of yourself.
Of course, try to get the full nine to eight hours of sleep, and your average number of meals you would normally eat. Engage in basic self-care, regardless of how secondary it may seem at this time.
Besides that, take time, at least once a week, to take extra good care of yourself. If you don't keep shabbat and starting to do so would not be convenient for you, maybe make that day special by taking at least an hour or two to do a face mask, read a book, engage in a hobby that makes you happy.
If you do keep shabbat, maybe use the hours after havdalah to do the same, or maybe do that Sunday.
Regardless, take at least some time to take care of yourself.
Because, and I know I've quoted this before, but "If we don't dance, they win." So dance, whatever that may look like for you right now. Do whatever makes your soul dance.
Because if we don't dance. They win.
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Things to say to your Israeli/Jewish friends right now instead of Are you okay? or How are you doing? Because we are not okay:
Thinking of you!
I hope youâre taking care of yourself!
Iâm praying for you!
My thoughts/heart/prayers are with you right now!
Checking in. Let me know if thereâs anything I can do to help you right now!
Again, thereâs never a right thing to say but these are decent starting points.
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So when discussing the ending of âOver the Garden Wallâ and the nature of the Unknown in general, I think it is important to remember that itâs left deliberately up for interpretation. You know, itâs not a Quiz with one concrete answer we must uncover, but itâs more about our interpretations and personal feelings. Each and every one of us experiences that journey with Wirt and Greg into the Unknown in a slightly different way.Â
So what I want to do here is not present a Correct Interpretation that will dispute all the others and prove them all wrong and prove myself right, I just want to share my own outlook on the nature of the Unknown. In the hopes that others will like it and itâll inspire more cool readings and interpretations
So on some level I do agree with the popular theory that the Unknown is some sort of Afterlife - but I donât see it as a regular Afterlife for human souls, I think it is an afterlife for Stories. This place is where fictional characters and stories end up once theyâve been totally forgotten by the living, âlost in the clouded annals of historyâ. and become.... unknown It is quite literally a place where âlong forgotten stories are revealed to those who travel through the woodâ.
Thatâs why the Unknown is a mishmash of different time periods and primarily visually and narratively influenced by stuff like fairy tales, ghost stories, childrenâs books and old cartoons - these stories have a high-tendency to be forgotten and thus get lost in the Unknown (whatever itâs because they rely on oral traditions or because they suffered from very poor preservation historically).Â
And that is what the theme song, âInto the Unknownâ is talking aboutâŠ
Where can we pretend that dreams do come true? In Stories.
And what are âthe loveliest lies of allâ? Now that would be Fiction.Â
The entire concept of stories is a huge theme of this song, I think.
Beatrice and her family, Adelaide of the Pasture, Auntie Whispers and Lorna were all originally fairy tales. Maybe the same fairy tale, or maybe they were originally separated before being âmeldedâ together. (If, for example, the last child to Remember them before they were forgotten just assumed the Bad Witch in both the Auntie Whispers and Beatrice stories was Adelaide)
Pottsfield was an old urban legend about a haunted ghost town, Wirt and Greg basically played through its âplotâ directly.Â
Miss Langtree, the schoolhouse and the other associated characters come from a long-forgotten and out-of-print childrenâs book. Thatâs why those characters tend to talk in comically-stilted expository dialogue.Â
The Tavern was the setting for a series of 20âs animated cartoons. (Although obviously set long before that era). The Tavern Keeper was created as a Betty Boop clone and was the main character. The Tavern setting was probably a mere framing device for all sort of musical animations. The reason why none of them can comprehend the idea of not having some sort of Title or Label is because thatâs how they were written - all given job-related titles but not named.
Fred the Talking Horse was a main character from a forgotten tradition of humorous oral stories where he was sometimes a trickstery anti-hero and sometimes a straight-up comedic villain protagonist.
Quincy Endicott and Margueritte Grey were characters from a satiric limerick about the greedy rich and their wacky habits. (Quincy was at least inspired by a real-life person since his name appears on a tombstone in the real world)
Possibly the same limerick where the punchline was the status-quo at the beginning of their OTGW ep, that both rivalsâ mansions have become connected and they assume the other is a ghost haunting their house. Or maybe they were each from different regional variations of the same limerick about a greedy rich weirdo being lost in their own house and going mad.Â
Frogland and their little boat might be from a childrenâs book as well, but I also think that maybe⊠from the vignettes shown at the opening of the seriesâŠ
That one might take place outside the Unknown, and shows the real inception of Frogland. Two brothers making up stories with their toy boat by the river. Since they never shared these stories with anyone else, when these two brothers died or maybe just grew up and forgot their boyhood misadventures by the stream - these stories also ended up in the Unknown.Â
The Fishing Fish we see briefly in âBabes in the Woodsâ might be a small comedic illustration from a childrenâs book, or another piece of limerick, or just someoneâs random notebook doodle that gained a life of its own first in the creatorâs mind and then in the Unknown.Â
Cloud City, the North Wind and the Queen of the Clouds were also, much like the Tavern, from a very old cartoon.
The Beast was once just a mere Boogie Man to keep young children from wandering off into the woods. Ending up forgotten in the Unknown just ended up giving him a whole world of lost souls to harvest.Â
Maybe the Woodsman and his daughter were always a part of the story of the Beast. But since it seems that the Woodsman being a lantern-bearer is a fairly recent development - they might have had their own separate story. Some sort of pastoral novel about a family moving near the woods? But their narrative has been âhijackedâ by the Beast.Â
Wirt and Greg ended up lost within the Unknown cause had they actually died in the lake that night - they would have become a Story in their town. I mean we have a moody lonely teenager and his adorable little brother disappearing/dying - on the night of Halloween - after last being seen in a graveyard - with the older brotherâs last act on this earth being to hand his crush a cassette of his love poetry. Can you imagine what sort of Urban Legenda you can grow from those seeds?
But as they were not yet dead, and not a Story yet⊠so they were technically an Unknown story. Between the borders of life and death from a human perspective because they were about to die, and from a Story perspective because they were just about to be born.
And the ending sequence, with the little vignettes showing where all the characters from all the episodes ended up. I think thatâs almost like Wirt and Greg back in the world of the living and the real - being able to create happy endings for all of those stories they've met. Thatâs how the Woodsmanâs daughter ended up being alive all along - it was less that the Woodsman's whole tragedy was a wacky misunderstanding all along. But it became so as a gift of thanks by their new storytellers - Wirt and Greg.
Because if dreams can't come true, than why not pretend?
into the unknown
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"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
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