Wow, So That’s Where My Profile Button Was!

‘I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.’

[most-sane-classicist]

He knows what's up

[sadspockpanda]

That moment when you’re reading a fic and your OTP finally hooks up

[jeankirschteinss-deactivated201]

That gif is literally perfect

[sadspockpanda]

#I reblogged this in 2013

this tag dealt me psychic damage thanks

[sadspockpanda]

#i’m putting it in the queue to give you psychic damage again later#your post is old enough to be in middle school

@kirihana CURSE YOU

[memeuplift]

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[jewish-joy]

#i love prayer plants but they're fussy so I don't keep them#can we have a picture op they're so pretty

Behold, Dorothea

(Naming my plant "Gift of God," and then giving her to a seminarian with just the explanation that it's a prayer plant? Okay, that's my bad.)

[biglawbear]

Oh my goodness she is so lovely and full! And she's flowering!! That's a happy maranta indeed

[xclowniex2]

If you view harming jews an acceptable thing to do in your quest to harm zionists and end zionism, you are antisemitic.

Its been explained countless times by countless jews on how to critize and talk about zionism without letting jews catch strays. And if you've somehow managed to exist in political spaces about israel and palestine, without encountering any explanation of how to do so, still a skill issue. It is your responsibility to seek out how to engage in activism in a way which does not cause harm to minorities.

[wowbright]

Friendly reminder that you're not required to publicly take sides in any geopolitical conflict you don't understand.

[minyardlumberyard]

tags too good to leave in tags @hyperrbolic-orange

[anxiette]

also way too valuable to leave in tags! from @carolinanadeau

[torturelabyrinth]

i found the absolute hottest take of 2017

[hyumjim]

NO

[blackshuckofficial-deactivated2]

Me: feeds my hermit crabs bc I enjoy the hobby of their husbandry

Someone who got all their feminist theory from Tumblr: actually you’re doing that because of the patriarchy and it’s unpaid emotional labor :/ liberate yourself :/

[pangur-and-grim]

@whomever tf wrote that text, I’m truly sorry that your cats don’t love you

[meow-of-cathulhu]

It’s now problematic.. to like cats…?

[the-golden-ghost]

I read the article and apparently this person genuinely thinks cats have the foresight and mental capacity to manipulate people?

[aerialsquid]

We love cats because we understand something doesn’t need to obey us to love us. If we’re going to go all feminist about the situation.

[jraker4]

I wonder if the fact that all kinds of people from literally all times and places in the world for literally thousands of years-a huge chunk if not all of recorded human history-might have some relevance on this question of feline un-lovingness.

[gallusrostromegalus]

How is your unfortunate dental situation?

Guess who has Oral Surgery tomorrow!! (it's me)

Seriously though, everyone who donated to the fundraiser last week is literally saving my ass. well. My mouth. But I would be in a lot of financial and dental trouble without y'all's help. Thank you so much.

[prokopetz]

Having been Very Online in the mid 1990s is rough because half of your formative influences are like "yeah, this Flash video engages in pop culture deconstruction that's strikingly topical even thirty years later and did things to my vocabulary that persist to this day, and I can literally never recommend it to anyone because its core premise is a level of homophobic ordinarily observed only under laboratory conditions".

[prokopetz]

Them: Hey, you were around for the first wave of real webcomics. Which one was your favourite?

Me:

[prokopetz]

#thank god homestar runner aged well (via @shibascarf)

Homestar Runner is the way that it is in large part because it's a response to the 90s edgelord bullshit I'm talking about; while the characters had earlier appeared in print, the Flash animated version that everybody remembers didn't debut until January of 2000. If it's aged well, that isn't an accident – it's a product of its authors looking at the state of 1990s Internet culture and making a conscious decision to be Not That.

[jewishgay4il]

Why do you care so much about a mayor in a city you don’t live in?

If you employed reading comprehension skills, you would note that I pretty much only reblog about the anti Jewish shit he says actually

[jewishgay4il]

[jraker4]

Wouldn’t want people to be concerned about the goings on outside of where they live, now would we?

Anyway, back to Mayor Mamdani’s political stunt about a war on the other side of the world…

[calvinandhobbes-rss]

[archtroop]

[syssilvester-blog]

[vaspider]

I mean, yes, but the NYT is just a new refrain of a very, very old song. This idea that it's just "normal" for rural poor people (and in this mindset, all rural people are poor) to be unrepentant bigots is ... incredibly old.

Like, I grew up in rural PA, in the Poconos — it's a lot more built up now than it was when I grew up there, but even now it's like the stereotype of 'rural tourist area' — and then lived in Lancaster County for a while, and when I moved to Philly, this idea that everybody I knew at home was a stupid, bigoted hick was... pervasive. That was an ancient song when I first heard it decades ago.

I am literally begging people to read White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America & stop being so casually classist that you're ignoring shit-tons of red flags.

[syssilvester-blog]

[dduane]

I managed to get my hands on a copy of So You Want to Be a Wizard recently and I can’t return it to the library without showing my appreciation. The love for NY just flows out of the latter half. Definitely misted over for the final battle. Snagging the rest of the series for keeps after this.

I hope your beverages are always the right temperature and you see a cool bird today <3

Thanks so much!

As for New York: there are times when it makes me a little sad that I'll probably never see the place again in the flesh. (My current physical condition—specifically meaning assorted annoying internal stuff I've got going on—makes it medically inadvisable for me to engage in long-distance travel that puts me more than two hours away from a hospital at any given moment. So no long-distance flights for me any more.)

...But at least I can look in on the place virtually, these days, and watch it change and grow. Meanwhile, I hope you have fun with the rest of the series! -- as we go a lot further afield than Manhattan. 🙂

[mariacallous]

How Liberals Screwed Themselves

Liberals did not betray Jews by caring about Palestinians. They betrayed Jews by deciding they could not care about both.

[the-library-alcove]

Then they arrive at the Jews. Suddenly Jewish history begins “in Europe.” Jewish connection to Jerusalem becomes mythology. Hebrew, the Bible, Jewish holidays, archaeological evidence, centuries of continuous Jewish presence, and the direction in which Jews prayed throughout exile are brushed aside. Jews are transformed into generic Europeans who woke up one morning, selected a random piece of the Middle East, and decided to colonize it. Indeed, much of the liberal Left could not tolerate that complexity. Its ideology required a settler and a native, a powerful group and a powerless group, an oppressor and an oppressed. Jews had to be placed in the first category. Once there, almost anything done to them could be reframed as resistance. This is where liberalism began turning into its opposite. Liberalism is supposed to protect individuals from collective guilt. Yet Jews around the world were expected to answer for an Israeli government they did not elect. Liberalism is supposed to reject ethnic essentialism. Yet Jewish schools, restaurants, synagogues, and cultural events were treated as extensions of the Israeli state. Liberalism is supposed to oppose the demand that minorities renounce part of their identity to gain acceptance. Yet Jews were increasingly told that we could remain welcome in “progressive” spaces only if they denounced Zionism, severed themselves from Israel, and proved that they were one of the “good Jews.” Even the definition of Zionism was taken away from Jews. For most Jews, Zionism means that the Jewish People possess the same right to collective self-determination claimed by other peoples. Liberals could have opposed particular forms of Zionism. They could have challenged borders, settlements, governments, and policies. Instead, many declared the entire idea uniquely illegitimate. The message received by Jews was unmistakable: Everyone may define their own liberation except us.

Yet too many liberals responded to Jewish fear by debating whether Jews had interpreted their own persecution correctly. That is how the liberals screwed themselves: They spent decades constructing moral standards that allowed them to claim not merely that their policies were preferable, but that their movement represented decency itself. Then they demonstrated that their decency had exceptions. They taught the public that hate speech could cause violence, then defended eliminationist slogans as harmless rhetoric. They demanded that society believe minorities, then interrogated Jews about whether antisemitism was really antisemitism. They insisted that silence was violence, then became silent when acknowledging Jewish victims threatened their political coalition. They opposed collective punishment, then treated random Jews as morally responsible for everything Israel did. They warned that Right-wing populists divided society into innocent insiders and dangerous outsiders, then created their own system in which some minorities were worthy of protection and others were presumed powerful enough to deserve hostility.

[l0verseyes]

Eris: I can make her worse