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I don't know what brought you here, you're probably not going to find anything interesting. It's mostly reblogs of things I like and/or support. 25 // genderqueer // biromantic asexual // USA Other Blogs I Post On: jewqueerpunkautist - social justice, performance art, judaism kyatto-cosplayandmodeling - modeling and cosplay mama-beluga - whales, anti cap, vegan recipes, animals, general nature/pro envrinmental stuff ladiesofpower - charity organization based on Dallas/Ft Worth Texas abeanaday -.... i failed to really keep up with this as Facebook is easier (and family uses FB) , photos of my daughter

[yidquotes]

Of course someone opened fire outside a synagogue on Yom Kippur in Germany. Fuck.

[spiritsdancinginthenight-deacti]

It’s so sad seeing the security. In London, for years now it seems every Jewish building requires it. I have a children’s nursery near to my home. It’s associated with Jewish organisations and security is there daily. Babies needing security. It’s so sad.

[allthingsmustgeorge]

In Amsterdam too: museums, synagogues, Jewish nurseries, elementary schools and high schools get police security. Jewish restaurants don’t so they get their windows smashed regularly. Kristallnacht normalized. Amsterdam used to be “Mokum”, Our football team Ajax is nicknamed “the Jews”. We don’t deserve those names anymore.

[owlmylove]

the year is 2027. the met gala theme is dashcon. i arrive in a navy parachute-nylon gown with a shimmering, mile long train containing a diving board, depth markers and hundreds of plastic balls. the vogue style editor dressed as Dr. Whostuck pulls me aside and begs to know the designer. i smile enigmatically and simply say, “it’s a ball gown.” all of the reporters are wearing mishapocalypse masks

[antiriko]

op do u take constructive criticism ?

[owlmylove]

i am not accepting comments at this time

[adulthoodisokay]

#i know exactly how cursed it felt to read this #bc i had to experience the horror of writing it

[meredith30x30]

I would wear a mile long dress of the what color is the sky post

[owlmylove]

I am accepting one (1) comment at this time

[mischief-and-misanthropy]

In an alternate universe…

[fluffygif]

Pomegranate world

[flarehunter76]

Pomegranate world

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

why did it censor out something she said. what did she say. let her speak

[peach-thief]

Okay so what she says (from what I can figure out, please correct me if I get something wrong) is basically:

“Alright today we’re gonna teach everybody the Proper way to open a pomegranate. First you’re gonna make four cuts in a square on its ass, top and bottom, side to side, cut cut cut, and then take this piece of the skin off. Now you COULD not follow my instructions and cut it in half right down the middle; however, you’re gonna end up cutting into the fruit, sending juice flying all over the fuckin place and your girlfriend is gonna beat your *ss and leave you; SO, it’s better to follow my directions using the cut cut cut method. Then, in a star shape make more cuts and pull back the pieces, and presto there you have a beautiful pomegranate flower; tell me that isn’t the prettiest fucki-“

[whitepeopletwitter]

[bisexualdaffodil]

supporting bi men also means supporting bi men who (heavily) prefer women. it means supporting bi men who end up marrying a woman and being happy with her, while also acknowledging that they are still bisexual men at heart. they arent acting their bisexuality out ‘the wrong way’, because there is no ‘right’ way. what they do with their love lives isn’t any of your business.

[bisexualdaffodil]

same goes for bi women who prefer men and who end up in a happy marriage with a man!!! 

[orotundmutt]

“Behind all insecurity there is a wall of assurance. She is her own worst enemy. She fights her battles for no one.” iamamiwhoami; t 

[chrissongzzz]

[thegroupiewitch-deactivated2019]

THIS IS ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT

my mom was 17 and my dad was 27 when they got together and they’re still together now after almost 40 years and they love their life and raised me and my sister in the best way ever!

and my whole life my parents told me that my mom was very mature and my dad even says that he never felt as sure of a relationship, he knew he could trust my mom and he asked her for advice and he treated her with the utmost respect. mom always says they were deeply in love and she had never wanted ANYONE before my dad but he just stole her heart since they were so in harmony together.

IT DEPENDS, NOT ALL TEENS CAN SUSTAIN A RELATIONSHIP WITH A MUCH OLDER MAN BUT SOME CAN!

[dontdowhatisayandnobodygetshurt]

no

no

no 

nonononono oh my fucking god

no

For starters, I’m happy your mom and dad and you and your sister are happy, that’s fantastic, I’m glad it worked out.

but this is seriously fucked up

GROWN-ASS MEN. SHOULD NOT. BE ATTRACTED. TO TEENAGERS. NO. NO. NO.

I’m a 17 year old dude and I physically can not be attracted to someone more than a year younger than me, because they are immature, they just are, no matter how ‘mature’ they are, they. are. fucking. CHILDREN. I AM A CHILD. I have changed so, so much since just last year, and I know I will change even more this year. Teenagers ARE CHILDREN. They are STILL going through puberty, they are still growing, their minds are NOT adult yet. Even if they are 18, they’re still trying to find their way in the world and their brains STILL AREN’T MATURED. You ask ANY 30+ year old about their 18 year old selves and 99% of them will say how naive they were or how they wouldn’t make the same choices they made then, now.

The fact that your mom ACTED mature as a kid and had her head screwed on straight is great, but that makes it even worse to think that she could handle that kind of relationship. That’s like saying the 12 year olds that are super precocious and intelligent are ready for a relationship, just because they’re ~so mature.~

What if she was 16. What if she was 15. What if she was 14. What if, what if. She’s still mature for her age, right? What makes those ages any less okay?

NO 27 YEAR OLD GUY SHOULD BE ATTRACTED TO A FUCKING MINOR. NO 27 YEAR OLD GUY SHOULD WANT TO DATE A MINOR. NO 27 YEAR OLD GUY SHOULD ACT ON THOSE URGES. BECAUSE YOUNG GIRLS ARE RAISED TO BE INSECURE AND HAVING A MATURE MAN TELL THEM THAT THEY’RE DESIRABLE IS A HUGE CONFIDENCE BOOST AND IS MANIPULATION WHETHER THEY KNOW IT OR NOT.

It is an adult’s RESPONSIBILITY to say no. If a minor likes them, or if they happen to develop feelings, even if they shouldn’t. Just don’t act on them. It is very, very easily to not act on feelings. It is your job to not be a creep and take advantage of a naive child.

IT IS NEVER OKAY FOR ANYONE TO DATE/COURT/INTERACT WITH A MINOR IN ANY SEXUAL OR ROMANTIC WAY. EVEN IF THEY HAVE ~NO BAD INTENTIONS.~ IT’S MANIPULATIVE AND A BIG SHIFT OF POWER EVEN IF IT’S ~EVEN~ AND IT’S SO SO SO CREEPY.

PLEASE DON’T PUT THIS OUT THERE FOR YOUNG GIRLS, OR BOYS, OR NON-BINARY KIDS TO SEE.

Because it is. not. okay. Even if it does work out eventually, it shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

[neptune-at-perihelion]

After my parents broke up, my dad, 33 yo, went into a relationship with a 18 yo. They’re still together to this day, had two beautiful children, and I’m sure if my half siblings saw this post they would have commented the same as the first commenter. Because they’re the relationship’s children, and because they’re hidden things a lot. Because I eavedrop a lot, I can tell you that this loving, perfect, romantic relationship is fucked up to the core. Because I needed to reach 33 yo myself to be fully aware how fucked up it was.

My dad didn’t want to get into a relationship with an adult, and made an exception for my step mother because she was “so mature”. He wanted a teen. Specifically a teen. He only dated teens. So he could raise them into the wife he wanted. It was totally calculated.

This is why they’re still together this day. She dress like he wants, lost weight like he wanted, She became as racist and conservative as him. She does all the houses chores, sometimes even late at night, while he watches tv, like he wanted, and then tells everyone around him she’s a clean freak and makes fun of her. He forced her to get an abortion, for a child she wanted. She still talks about it. She never forgot, never forgave him. And still, she stayed. Because she has no prior experience, and has no idea how bad their relationship is.

When an adult say that a teen is “mature” enough for a realtionship with him, he means she’s submissive. He means she listens to him and is easily convinced by his opinion. He means she’s calm and easy to deal with. 

When an adult is attracted to a teen, they’re attracted to their own dominant position in the relationship. A teen doesn’t know what they want in life. So they’re no conflict : the adult convince her that she wants what he wants. An adult is not attracted to a teen despite her age. He’s attracted to her because of it. A mature teen is not an adult. It’ something else, and no adult should date them.

[maphatingcharacteroftheday]

Read this until you can say it in your sleep

[virovac]

You can beat the odds and smoke and not die of cancer-related issues. Still doesn’t mean you should do it.

[ajoy3fanfics]

As a teenager I didn’t get this. Now I scream it to every teenager I know. A grown man should have nothing in common someone who can’t sign their own permission slips

[inugirl]

My sisters relationship is very much like this, granted the guy didn’t get with her until she was like 19, but still, he’s like 35-40 years old (I always forget). To make matters worse he acts like a whiny 20 year old. He’s incredibly defensive and has to be right about everything, any mishaps or mistakes the blame goes directly to my sister even if it was his fault, he’ll find a way to blame her and sometimes even use her age against her (don’t get me started on his manipulative and obsessive personality. He doesn’t trust her in the slightest). As a grown man, he’s financially unreliable and talks bigger game than he can dish out. Hell I’d be fine with his age if he was like a Sugar Daddy cause then at least she’d get more out of it and dude would know it’s not a real romantic relationship. But bruh can’t even provide. ‘Age is just a number’ yeah well technically it is but moral fucking reasoning should be first and foremost. You wanna date someone 14 years older than you? Cool, just don’t pry on children, teenagers, or young adults. Two of them are illegal and straight up immoral the last one is a person who is an adult in the eyes of the law, that is all. This person will most likely have nothing in their life figured out and yes, may be very gullible to the world even if they think they know better. Manipulating young adults with ideas of love when they know nothing about themselves is despicable.

And don’t @ me with fiction shit about a 200 year old demon who acts 15 falling in love with a jr high school student. This is real shit.

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

this california power outage shit is literally going to kill people.

the company only gave a 12 HOUR warning.

things powered by electricity:

life saving medical equipment

fridges and freezers which keep food from spoiling. this would be much less of a big deal if people were given a week or so’s warning, but they were given 12 HOURS.

many devices used for preparing food (ex microwaves and electric stoves)

phones, computers, televisions, and radios, aka everything that allows people to get news quickly, in an area extremely prone to wildfires and other natural disasters.

phones also serve as communication devices for both loved ones and emergency services. if your phone runs out of charge during these 5 days and you need to call 911 because you’re having a heart attack or got in a car crash? you can’t.

all lights… which is going to force people to use candles for light at night… in an area where fire is extremely susceptible to spreading… and all devices that can be used to contact emergency services are depowered…

cooling and heating systems (luckily california tends to be pretty stable temperature-wise this time of year)

electric wheelchairs and other electric disability aids

i feel like i should re-iterate life saving medical equipment

this INTENTIONAL outage is affecting over half a million california residents, and not everyone has the money to just go get a generator, or go stay in a hotel out-of-state for a week, especially on such short notice. this is evil.

[hundondestiny]

wait what

[butchhesbian]

pg&e is pretending they give a shit about people now since they got people killed with their faulty equipment and have to pay 11 billion in a lawsuit so now for “safety” they are voluntarily cutting off power due to bad weather conditions (high winds in some areas) but even though its october its still deathly hot in this area so its still gonna get people hurt

[paddingtonicon]

I love that man

[whatbigotspost]

Todd Phillips is pure trash.

[drowsilybearzerk]

He’s not the only one like, not even remotely fucking around.

[worstseawitch]

Todd Philips, how can Taika Waititi make a comedy movie about and starring himself as Hitler and still get a standing ovation from “woke culture”?

The answer is you’re just not funny! Get good!

[grootpoepjeplasjehoofd]

If y’all want a look at how depraved US soldiers are, I suggest watching The Kill Team. It’s about some fuckheads who were found guilty of killing random Afghan civilians for the thrill of it and planting weapons on them to make it seem like they were insurgents. At one point in the documentary one of these monsters is like “lots of other people do this, we didn’t think we’d get caught.” So keep in mind that the atrocities that we see in the US media are only a small fraction of the murders unjustifiable even by US military standards that soldiers regularly inflict, and most people who do anything will get to go on with their lives as usual.

[just-another-dead-blog]

this post made me go watch it and I’m 15 minutes in and I had to stop and take a break before continuing i think i’m going to throw up.  these guys are literally sitting there talking about how when they first entered the field they were excited and thought the firefights and violence were awesome but when it tapered off into being more about retrieving information and interacting with civilians they became frustrated and bored, and you can hear the defensiveness and resentment still in their voices that reality was not living up to their extremely violent fantasy of what war would be and what they had so eagerly signed up for. They speak so casually about murdering civilians and planting weapons on them like it’s some natural progression of their disappointment and dissatisfaction. the ‘what else were we supposed to do?’ tone in their voice is fucking terrifying.  they enlisted because they wanted to kill anyone they could without consequences and when their bloodthirst wasn’t satisfied in any ‘official’ capacity they fabricated ‘justifiable’ scenarios in order to murder people freely.  they’re just serial killers.  they’re serial killers but they have convinced themselves and other people they’re somehow different because their victims didn’t look like them and they wore uniforms as they killed them.

[wishgirls-archive]

i know this is a stupid reason to make a donation post but a few months ago my mom rented a couch so she would have somewhere to sleep but cus shes been in and out of the hospital we fell behind and are at risk of losing it. but that would tank my moms credit, and we're trying to move out of this place. the bill is $150 which normally wouldnt be an issue but we just paid for our storage unit and rent which was basically all of our money so anything helps!!

paypal

[justsomeantifas]

Also a ton of GWB’s atrocities have been written off as “Come on, guys he wasn’t really in charge. He’s a puppet and it’s the guys behind the scenes doing all the bad stuff.” And I don’t what to tell you but that’s literally every single president and Trump is no better so are y’all just going to excuse him and everything he’s done in about 15 years simply because he’s “wasn’t really in charge.” 

And yeah if it gets to a point where we have something like President Richard Spencer in 2044 y’all are going to be like “Don’t be mean to old Mr. Trump, he wasn’t so bad - remember he just tweeted a lot, it was really all the people behind the scenes doing the awful stuff, blah blah blah.” 

Like I guarantee you there’s an entire fucking region of this planet who doesn’t think GWB is a nice old man who did nothing wrong really.  

[lord-armitage]

Bush isn’t better just because he’s not Trump. Bush cannot enter Europe since he admitted to authorising torture on detainees. Both Bush and Trump are nationalists on the far-right who’ve committed crimes against humanity. ICE was set-up by the Bush administration, as was Guantanamo Bay. But Bush has ten years of everyone’s fading memory between now and then, and he looks like everyone’s favourite grandfather, his air of stupidity and jolliness is played off as good ol’ george who don’t mean no harm.

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

not to mention the democrat presidents have ALSO committed atrocities: FDR locked nearly the entire japanese-american population in concentration camps, truman dropped 2 atomic bombs on japan killing thousands upon thousands of civilians, bill clinton enacted tons of policy strengthening the prison industrial system and destroyed thousands of public housing units, and obama initiated drone strikes in the middle east that killed tons of innocent people under the guise of “””anti-terrorism””” (wanting more oil for the us).

most of the first presidents (george washington, thomas jefferson, james madison, james monroe, andrew jackson, martin van buren, william harrison, john tyler, james polk, zachary taylor, andrew johnson, and ulysses grant) OWNED SLAVES.

there is not a single american president who hasn’t been downright evil, but the media always tries to paint them as “good”. it happened to george washington, it happened to FDR, it happened to george bush, and it will almost definitely happen to donald trump in about 15 or 20 years. don’t let it happen.

[marshmallowgoop]

(A few) reasons the Kill la Kill English dub is gold

[marshmallowgoop]

#guess whos finally watching kill la kill  #except not the english dub #its amazing how much some of these lines are almost exactly #what the subtitles say

I’ve mentioned this before, and I’ve been meaning to do a line-by-line comparison for a while now since it’s come up enough, but this response has finally encouraged me to go through with it. 

To put it simply, though, yes, some of these lines are included more for their delivery than anything. But a huge point I was trying to make with the video was that the script is changing things–but in a way that I find really enjoyable!

In any case, the line-by-line comparison for each clip is included under the cut, for the curious.

Keep reading

[phytovernia]

How is this a “feminist” moment? When did Aang ever respect Katara’s decision? I mean, are you going to forget when he forced a kiss on her? She told him she was confused, he reacted with anger, and she was the one that ran away from the situation. God, leave your Kataang bullshit out of “feminist analyses”.

Katara is a ficitional character. She can’t actually make her own choices. Discussions of “agency” on fictional characters is quite ridiculous unless the text purposely explores the topic. Kataang was a forced pairing planned from the start and its conception was loaded with sexism. Bryke admitted that Aang’s adult design was based on Michael Dante DiMartino’s appearance, and that Aang was them in a way (a self-insertion). How can Katara even have a “choice” in romantic interests when Aang is really her only option? 

Early drafts of the Avatar series had Katara as the only girl in the group. Toph was an “asshole” jock-type male character who would compete with the “nice guy” Aang for Katara’s affection. Sokka and Aang teamed up together to bring Toph down because Sokka couldn’t stand him being the new “alpha male” of the group and Aang wanted Katara to realise that he was better than Toph for her.

Toph’s original “jock” personality was given to Jet. Katara had a crush on him but he was killed off right after his redemption. This would prevent any competition with Kataang since he was Katara’s first love interest. Mae Whitman believes that Katara’s first kiss was with Jet which is why she was hurt badly when he betrayed her trust but blushed furiously when she encountered him again, and Sokka recommended that Katara kiss him to help him recover his memories after he was brainwashed in Ba Sing Se. This was never considered canon by Bryke (Of course, they wouldn’t! Katara is Aang’s pure and precious forever girl!) but Viacom views it as official (it appeared as an Avatar extra put in by Nickelodeon), and the Avatar franchise belongs to Viacom, not Bryke, since the series was created under work for hire copyright laws. So yeah, Jet and Katara kissing is canon.

Katara got along well with Haru and they became good friends. Some fans shipped them but Bryke tried to spite these shippers by giving him an unattractive moustache which made it look awkward when Katara blushed at him, then they had Toph randomly blurt out “I knew it! You did have a secret thing with Haru!” just so Katara could give a flat what, deny it and officially sink the ship.

Bryke despise Zutara. At some points they considered giving them teasing romantic subplots after encouragement from their writing team because they thought it was interesting. Aaron and Elizabeth Ehasz were supporters of this, since they wrote most of the important Zutara-centric eisodes. However, Bryke became frustrated over time since Zutara was a much more popular ship than Kataang (their personal OTP) and every panel they attended had people cheering loudly for Zutara, and not much so for Kataang (lmao). They were constantly sent fanmail concerning Zutara (they later used the Zutara fanart they received to make a video mocking their shippers), and they began to fear the natural chemistry the two had whenever they were together (which fueled the shippers). They feared it so much so, they deliberately had Zuko and Katara not interact even once during Legend of Korra and they told Gene Yang to write the Zuko/Katara relationship with a degree of hostility while pushing Katara/Aang everywhere for The Promise comics (even though Gene Yang ships Zutara, and this preference led many Kataangers to harass and insult him on his own blog.) 

[phytovernia]

#daaaaaaamn son #this was awesome #you totally covered all bases #I enjoyed every minute of this #👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I wrote in a bit of a rush and I think I left some bits out but this is very reassuring :**

[accioelements]

Hahahah omg I’ve been there!!! There’s a post about bloodbending going around & I mixed up my words - it’s so easy to forget or mess up when you’re on a roll!!! It happens! But the rest of the fandom always comes in to get it, we’re passionate af! 😂 Honestly though, I don’t think this could have been said any better, this was amazing! You really nailed it, beginning to end!! Literally, you went from problems in the very beginning to problems now… No easy feat & you totally killed it ☺️🙏🏼👏🏼 major major props!!! 😎 *slow claps for days*

[kaf-kaf-kaf-deactivated20191009]

i just realized that if you look at the person’s blog who made that post, they say really shitty stuff about katara that only someone who would identify as feminist (or just a plain katara fan) would not say. how are we really going to see their input on katara’s destiny as trustworthy when they constantly demean her and hold her below aang? it’s ludicrous 

not to mention that this is a prime example of “tellling vs showing” and the closest thing i can see this whole thing related to is DC Comic’s Starfire She’s always being dressed in such revealing clothing that it’s known to be ridiculous. The male writers started to say it was because she could absorbed power into her skin. but like with bryke’s excuse, it was a bullshit to allow males to ogle at her, just as kataang was an excuse to force the main heroine to be the Trophy of the creator’s Nice Guy despite how awful that pairing became.

It was never Katara choosing her own destiny, it was Bryke taking it away from her.

[kaf-kaf-kaf-deactivated20191009]

@zutara-appreciation

[wrathofthestag]

You know what’s wild? Remembering that children hear things for the first time without context and are literally like, “What?”

I just said “See you later, alligator” to a four-year-old and I think it was the first time they had ever heard that.  They froze in their tracks, looked at me completely bewildered then replied, “See you later, chicken” and kept walking.

[mklutz]

my sister has a substitute teacher from the UK who said “Cheerio!” at the end of class and obvi her response was “and froot loops to you” before walking out the door to the bus

[jewish-privilege]

During Eleh Ezkereh, the martyrology prayer, we added the eleven names of those who were murdered a year ago in a Pittsburgh shul. 

Yesterday after break fast, I turned my phone back on to see the news about the attack in Halle, Germany. May their memories be a blessing. May we see an end to this.