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She/Her I like birds :3

[yappingdisease]

For this Yom HaShoah, I’d like to bring attention to the Yiddish author Chava Rosenfarb.

Rosenfarb was a survivor of the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. She’s best known for her magnum opus The Tree of Life which is a trilogy that chronicles the lives of 10 characters from just before the war to the liquidation of the Łódź ghetto. While Rosenfarb’s writing is widely known in the Yiddish world, outside of it, she is practically unheard of.

While I highly recommend reading The Tree of Life and her other published works, I understand that not everyone has the time or energy for that. So below I have linked two shorter pieces of her writings. One is an essay of her literary mentor Simkha-Bunim Shayevitch who perished during the Shoah, and the other is her diary of being liberated from Bergen-Belson.

I promise you will not regret reading them.

The Great Epic Poem of the Holocaust, and the Generous, Tragic Hero Who Wrote It

This essay, by the Yiddish author Chava Rosenfarb, appeared in Yiddish in 1991 in Di goldene keyt. This is the first publication of the Engl

Stunning Document of Survival: Chava Rosenfarb's 1945 Bergen-Belsen Diary

Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the British Army on April 15, 1945. Conditions at the camp were so horrendous that the British burned it down

[krakerjaksstuff]

[berrycobbler]

it's so hardcover –> we're so paperback

[cripple-punk-dad]

Ok so at this point I've had two people roll up to me in manual wheelchairs, well, one of them was somebody pushing somebody who was nonverbal at the time, but it still counts. They asked me why I had zip ties around my tires.

It's winter where I'm living and we have really bad snow. And the snow plow people are really bad at their jobs probably because there aren't snow plow people who clean sidewalks. As a solution I got to thinking about how I could increase the traction on my wheels. And the most redneck thing I could think of was taking a bunch of zip ties and tying them around my wheels. They last surprisingly long, and work surprisingly well. It's basically the same premise as chains for your tires during the winter.

I chose to space them out pretty evenly so there's about one for every spoke. You could probably do more or less depending on how many you want and how much traction you get but I wouldn't go more than three per spoke. I realize that it's a bit later in the winter, and I probably should have made a post about this sooner, but I came up with it about a week ago. So please share this, even if you're not disabled, because there are tons of people I know who are stuck in their houses because they can't get around in the snow. A pack of zip ties costs about $5, which compared to $200 knobby snow tires is a big save, and if you want to invest you could get colored zip ties.

[fandomshatefatpeople]

Sharing for accessibility

[catgirlwheels]

Oh fuck yes. Thank you all the abled people between op and me this is exactly what I needed to see 💜

[wishuponastarion]

ooh sweet, thanks for the tip

(for anyone using their chair both indoors and outside, highly recommend wheelchair 'slippers'/wheel socks like these so you don't tear up wood/vinyl/linoleum flooring with the zip ties!)

[ivyithink]

as is now traditional for my posts (because I’m so bad at titling them) here’s a song recommendation :]

differently coloured version under the cut because it wasn’t the original idea but I still quite like it:

[nautieval]

Bower bird

[nautieval]

Thanks for asking about the bird!!! I associate Sophia with a bunch of different animals, horses, kelpies, toothed whales, etc but I chose the bower bird for this piece because I was really thinking about an idea of lost time.

I don't love the idea that Sophia would finally accept Francis' proposal upon his return from the passage (though that might not be historically sound I haven't looked v deeply into sources about that) but I do think Sophia might regret her rejection of him purely because she valued him as a friend, potentially a lover, but couldn't envision them married- probably for more reasons than she explains to his face.

Male bower birds build alters for their female counterparts and decorate them with all manner of items in an attempt to impress and prove themselves, I think that in some part reflects Francis' two proposals to Sophia as well as her being a part of his motivation for the expedition. The idea of a female bower bird alone in a bower was what originally inspired the concept, so like a regret that Sophia might feel at not meeting Francis where he needed her even though it wasn't what she wanted for herself as well as a potential guilt about his fate.

I don't really know how tumblr works so I hope this was an alright way to respond to your question!!! <3

[nautieval]

Bower bird

[rpfofficial]

it's been 10 months (since i finished the show) and it only just hit me that the reason why tozer's death is offscreen unlike all the others in that scene is because you're meant to believe there's a likelihood he survived. like, one of the main myths around the franklin expedition comes from a sword that the inuit had that belonged to a royal marine and the leading theory is that it belonged to tozer. and obviously we never see tozer with that sword in the show and there's no opportunity in the plot for him to have given it to any of the inuit, but anyone who knows the details around the expedition would know that tozer is kind of a main character in the legend and the theories of what happened after the ships were abandoned. so considering the fact that dave k and soo h et al thought about literally everything I'd argue that tozer's death is meant to be sort of unconfirmed because who knows! if there's no shot of tuunbaq wolfing down the body then there ain't nobody dead! i say all this because i remember being upset on my first watch that he doesn't get an onscreen death because that felt "disrespectful" to a character that i cared about, but honestly now i like it better that way! it means i can imagine him waking up later, in pain and badly wounded, and wondering off into the wild pale yonder all on his own, maybe even making contact with the inuit and then living a few more days before succumbing to his injuries. yay ❤️

[turtleonaskateboard]

In the Terror Ned Little always gives off this EXACT energy:

Like... the poor man is constantly in a crisis please give him a break

[coldarena]

surprise, more beachdate

[groundwater]

never say i don't do anything for my friends

[scuttllebutt]

Sea Swallow ✶⋆.˚

Wanted to watercolor and picked the arctic tern to symbolize Crozier. A bird well loved by sailors for signaling safe passage through the oceans. A true arctic explorer as it flies to both polls each year.

[dingoskidneys]

It's always "The Terror" this "The Terror" that. What about Erebus. What about her

[dingoskidneys]

[oochilka]

Alive

[homunculus-argument]

I am one of those lunatics who fucking love dressing up for fancy formal occasions. If I figured out how to get the opportunity, I would go out of my way to have more formal occasions in my life just so I'd get to wear a suit for them. Boyfriend's cousin's confirmation party is today and beforehand I asked his mom if there's any particular dress code. I was reassured that we don't ~have to~ get all dressed up.

Like ma'am I don't think you understand: This isn't a matter of whether I have to, it's a matter of whether I get to.

[can-asta]

@krakerjaksstuff

[elyksina]

Why does he stand like that.

[can-asta]

@krakerjaksstuff

[appletunplushie-deactivated2025]

Might have been done before but silly tag game. Who is prev's blorbo?