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hi, i'm noah or kal/cal. i'm a grown-ass adult who screams about EMH a lot.

please note: any and all disturbing subject matter dealt with in the series may be discussed or referenced here. and i ship everything (and under maryann’s name no less, for shame), so good luck with that.

kih28 is still being used, in reduced capacity, even though i am back to shitposting on main :p

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angryjewishcockroach

843.

I will never forget watching that number tick up day by day.

Realizing that it was going to reach 100.

Realizing that it was going to reach a year.

Watching hostages come home in trickles and spurts (b’’h), but still that number ticked up.

But now, finally, after two years, three months, and nineteen days,

We can finally stop counting.

iliothermia

Barley + Fig

jewish-vents

im starting to feel like my blocklist is getting longer than the talmud

titimylove

i don’t know how i’m going to move forward once this war is over after seeing the way so many people treated jews and israelis after october 7th.

because even when the war is done and the fandomification dies off and people forget, i won’t forget.

i won’t forget the way people justified raping women to death, lighting babies on fire, killing pets, abducting hostages, beating and maiming and starving them away from daylight, making them dig their own graves while jeering at them.

i won’t forget the way people cheered for the bibas children’s coffins on a stage like it was coachella.

i won’t forget the doctors and nurses that would betray their hippocratic oath for what, revenge? against a person who has never met you and never wronged you?

i won’t forget the jews around the world who were victimized.

i won’t forget the people who told us that we don’t matter, that our concerns don’t matter, that we as a people deserve pain and suffering and death.

i won’t forget the way everyone outside the middle east holds israel to an astronomical standard above any other nation; demands they supply aid to their terrorist attackers; and are still slammed for not doing enough despite doing everything above and beyond any other nation.

i won’t forget the useful idiots, the queers for ‘palestine’, the jews who turned coat, the pick-mes, the influencers using the worst aspects of war they have no stake in to farm clout.

i don’t know how i can go forward knowing how many people currently wish for jewish genocide, while crying about how unjust genocide is.

i don’t know how i can go forward knowing how many people currently wish rape and violent murder on jews, but cry about it happening elsewhere.

i don’t know how i can reconcile the hatred and violence of this world and the neverending lies spread by racists, by those who don’t know their own history, who don’t know the modus operandi of the people they support.

the people who want them dead and laugh at their ignorance.

i don’t think i can forgive people not doing their due diligence in fact-checking, in fair journalism.

i don’t think i can forgive people “just talking” about the suffering of one side while ignoring the hostages that were taken the night terrorists attacked.

as if jewish suffering is as mundane as the weather.

i don’t know how i’m supposed to trust anyone anymore.

the-library-alcove

@blunderpuff ,your tags pass peer review.

shiinayumi

Aw shit really knit picks!? 😮‍💨

spamitami

#oh i should go back to tumblr #ummm

laventurine

If it appears on your feed, is to clear those nasties hurting you now.

al-kol-eleh

I keep hearing that Israel/the Jews haven't learned the lessons of the Holocaust, and I desperately want to know: what lessons? Was the Holocaust some sort of educational experience? Is that what the brutality, the humiliation, the psychological torture, the rape, the murders, the slavery was? An education? And what, dare I ask, is the consequence for those who did not learn the lessons of the Holocaust, whatever they are? Is it to repeat the class?

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unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240

Why is this year different from all other years?

On other years, we dance joyfully with the Torah. But this year, we are brought from Devarim to ein milim.

On other Shabbatot, we lock away our phones and tear the challah with our hands because cutting it with a knife is too violent for the peaceful sanctity of Shabbat. But these Shabbatot, we carry our phones for safety and some even carry weapons.

On other years, Chanukah is primarily about sacred oil and miracles. But this year, it is about war and the cost of Jewish survival.

On other years, Tu b'Shvat celebrates the new year for trees and environmentalism. But this year, we think about crops left unharvested by hands no longer living.

On other years, we celebrate Purim with costumes, candy, drinks, and the purimspiel. But this year, we ask ourselves about the nature of Haman and of self-defense.

On other years, we shout-sing Dayeinu with raucous cheer. But this year, we self-consciously skip the shefokh khamatkha and we wonder if the gentiles know that we spill wine drops from our glass because all human life has value.

This year, we ask ourselves the meaning of "divine" and "liberation."

mylight-png

Oh wow the Pesach one gave me chills.

People really don't understand our mentality. Yes, we believe that our safety and self-determination is important. Yet we also recognize that it comes with a price.

We choose to live and yet we recognize the humanity of those trying to stop us from surviving.

We recognize that through the years we had to defend ourselves from Egypt, Greece, Rome, Persia, Babylon, and now Hamas.

But we also recognize that self-defense can have tragic consequences. And yet we also know the necessity of self-defense because we've seen what happens when we are defenseless.

We are complex human beings, just like anyone else. And it seems like people forget this about us much too often.

We resist one-dimensional idealistic Disney ethics, because Disney ethics simply don't work in real life and one side always ends up dehumanized.

We believe in the sanctity of innocent human life, but we also know that we need to protect ourselves.

I wish more people could understand that.

slyandthefamilybook

since we now know that all those "my blog is safe for Jewish people" posts are bullshit, here are some Jewish organizations you can donate to if you actually want to prove you support Jews. put up or shut up

FIGHTING HUNGER

Masbia - Kosher soup kitchens in New York

MAZON - Practices and promotes a multifaceted approach to hunger relief, recognizing the importance of responding to hungry peoples' immediate need for nutrition and sustenance while also working to advance long-term solutions

Tomchei Shabbos - Provides food and other supplies so that poor Jews can celebrate the Sabbath and the Jewish holidays

FINANCIAL AID

Ahavas Yisrael - Providing aid for low-income Jews in Baltimore

Hebrew Free Loan Society - Provides interest-free loans to low-income Jews in New York and more

GLOBAL AID

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - Offers aid to Jewish populations in Central and Eastern Europe as well as in the Middle East through a network of social and community assistance programs. In addition, the JDC contributes millions of dollars in disaster relief and development assistance to non-Jewish communities

American Jewish World Service - Fighting poverty and advancing human rights around the world

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society - Providing aid to immigrants and refugees around the world

Jewish World Watch - Dedicated to fighting genocides around the world

MEDICAL AID

Sharsheret - Support for cancer patients, especially breast cancer

SOCIAL SERVICES

The Aleph Institute - Provides support and supplies for Jews in prison and their families, and helps Jewish convicts reintegrate into society

Bet Tzedek - Free legal services in LA

Bikur Cholim - Providing support including kosher food for Jews who have been hospitalized in the US, Australia, Canada, Brazil, and Israel

Blue Card Fund - Critical aid for holocaust survivors

Chai Lifeline - An org that's very close to my heart. They help families with members with disabilities in Baltimore

Chana - Support network for Jews in Baltimore facing domestic violence, sexual abuse, and elder abuse

Community Alliance for Jewish-Affiliated Cemetaries - Care of abandoned and at-risk Jewish cemetaries

Crown Heights Central Jewish Community Council - Provides services to community residents including assistance to the elderly, housing, employment and job training, youth services, and a food bank

Hands On Tzedakah - Supports essential safety-net programs addressing hunger, poverty, health care and disaster relief, as well as scholarship support to students in need

Hebrew Free Burial Association

Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services - Programs include early childhood and learning, children and adolescent services, mental health outpatient clinics for teenagers, people living with developmental disabilities, adults living with mental illness, domestic violence and preventive services, housing, Jewish community services, counseling, volunteering, and professional and leadership development

Jewish Caring Network - Providing aid for families facing serious illnesses

Jewish Family Service - Food security, housing stability, mental health counseling, aging care, employment support, refugee resettlement, chaplaincy, and disability services

Jewish Relief Agency - Serving low-income families in Philadelphia

Jewish Social Services Agency - Supporting people’s mental health, helping people with disabilities find meaningful jobs, caring for older adults so they can safely age at home, and offering dignity and comfort to hospice patients

Jewish Women's Foundation Metropolitan Chicago - Aiding Jewish women in Chicago

Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty - Crisis intervention and family violence services, housing development funds, food programs, career services, and home services

Misaskim - Jewish death and burial services

Our Place - Mentoring troubled Jewish adolescents and to bring awareness of substance abuse to teens and children

Tiferes Golda - Special education for Jewish girls in Baltimore

Yachad - Support for Jews with disabilities

afrenomes

Great list! I’d also add Keshet, a US-based LGBTQ Jewish organization that “works for full equality of LGBTQ Jews and our families in Jewish life” by training Jewish communities to be more queer-inclusive, providing resources and events for queer Jews, as well as advocating for queer rights on both a state-by-state and national level.

flagellant

The stigma of self-inserts is so harmful to the creative process. Relax. Admit it. Everything you make is derivative of yourself, always, no exceptions. You can turn the mirror into tinier and tinier shards or you can make it as big as you want to reflect as much as you want. At the end of the day it's always going to show you inside of it. Pretending otherwise is stupid.

jeza-red

It's not about not using self-inserts.

It's about doing it in a way so that the reader doesn't know.

If I read the book and come to a moment where "oh, this is the author writing about themselves" my interest in the story drops by about 300%. Don't make it obvious and you'll be fine.

flagellant

Nope. Wrong. Missed the point. It's about using self-inserts. You can make it as obvious as you want. It's perfectly fine. The point is to have fun.

keiachi-chan

THIS IS ABOUT SELF-INSERTS NOT READER-INSERTS (I misread initially)

Self-inserts! Do them! I won't read em but do em anyways! You're not supposed to appeal to me!!!

Reader-inserts, however. I am not a fan (evil)

flagellant

"You're not supposed to appeal to me!!! But also if you write reader-inserts I am judging you"

Nope. You're missing the point also. Reader-inserts are also cool and chill. It isn't fucking about appealing to you.

isaiahomega

As long as they aren't Mary Sues and clay the best, most coolest person ever who never does anything wrong.

Those characters are lame, let me see then walk into a light pole or get caught acting like a dweeb.

flagellant

Nope. You're missing the point still. Stop acting like it's acceptable behavior for you to call the earnest creation of art "lame". Power fantasy characters are rad as fuck. Everybody loves seeing John Wick do that shit. You're not just being needlessly rude and harmful to others, you're also just flat out fuckin wrong.

flagellant