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name | age | sexual orientation | pronouns | living on the traditional, ancestral, unceded, and reclaimed land of the Jewish people.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Pacing in circles at work somehow led me to the idea of trans woman Jake. Copying Rachel when they were little, over the course of the war either letting the identity settle as fact and not outwardly worrying about it too much, or retreating back into the closet as they get closer to the endgame. I can’t tell if this is a great idea or a boring one but what do you think?

Aw man, I can imagine during the series Jake's gender being "I'm probably a girl, but I have a war to fight in the morning so I don't care about that right now." Because in this scenario I feel like she would. She's got Animorphs to lead, a planet to save, God's Own Angst to chew on at night... and, okay, everyone gets her gender wrong. But that last is just... she just can't deal with it right now. Her friends and her brother and her entire species all have to come first.

And then after the war? Healing looks like retreating from the public view. Healing looks like letting the TV networks and armchair historians have that boy called Jake whom they've mistaken her for, and quietly building her own identity. Healing is trying on dresses, trying on eyeliner, and letting herself move ever further away from that guy called Prince that someone wants to carve into a mountain and 20,000 strangers want to be president. At some point she just disappears from the public view entirely, and at some point soon after that there is no one legally called Jake Berenson anymore, and the inaccurate name goes down in the history books as the real person lives on.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Also: I just remembered that the woman after whom Jake was named came out as trans! I wonder how she feels about a famous fictional character having her deadname. Regardless — Jake was originally inspired by a trans woman!

[shifgrethors]

just remembered that time when i asked tumblr for recommendations of books on jewish folklore and someone unironically was like “you should read the gemara!”

a. i spent 16 years in orthodox day school, i guarantee i’ve earned a fuck ton of gemara.

b. you need to SPECIFY. the gemara is over 5,000 pages long and has 37 masechtot. over 2 million words!!!!! do you want me to read about sheydim or dybbuks or do you want me to read about legal disputes of tree ownership? because there’s a ton of the latter.

[hyperpotamianarch]

Hmm. Still not covering it, but Midrash Rabbah and Midrash Tanchuma can be useful. And they're shorter than the Gemara!

(Also, you can read about giant fish that look like islands within a couple of pages from discussing tree ownership! Even Bava Batra has a decent amount of Agadetot! But you are correct, the Gemara is a lot more legal code than people sometimes expect.)

[thulium]

[bugslady1124]

“I asked chatgpt-“ yeah well I ask Rupert Giles from hit 90s show Buffy the Vampire Slayer and he said “I’ll have to consult my books!”

[toast-the-unknowing]

the bad news: I now hate my current wip and strongly believe there isn't a single joke in it that lands

the good news: I know my process enough to recognize this as the slump that I hit in everything I write when it's like three-quarters-ish done

the bad news: the only way out is through

the good news: I do know the way out!

the bad news: yeah but it's through

[toast-the-unknowing]

making a cross stitch that says "I am funny and he would fucking say that" to hang directly above my monitor

[toast-the-unknowing]

"hey toast you stayed up past midnight because you were working on the fic and not because you were procrastinating by making a hideous pattern for a joke cross stitch" have you never met a writer before

[toast-the-unknowing]

gonna tell my kids this was live laugh love

[mumblesplash]

and come to think of it it’s pretty hilarious that all it took for me to understand the appeal of ryan gosling was to take away all his love interests and shoot him into outer space. like i’m still not gonna watch any of that other stuff but seeing him break his nose against the control panel of a burning spaceship really opened my eyes

[mumblesplash]

woah this ryan gosling guy is kinda cute. has anyone else thought of this

[airbus-a380-800]

we are so normal about hollywood heartthrobs here on tumblr dot com

[loki-zen]

has anyone considered that it was probably her house too. where else was she supposed to put her chintz?

[mtndewpitchblack]

[sleeplessdreamer14]

casual reminder to not treat aroace people like they’re just allies this pride month

[fus-mar-hoz]

it is the 15th of April, 1919, a calm day in Milan. The recently formed Fasci di Combattimento march towards the office of Avanti!, the newspaper of the PSI. They force their way in and ransack the place, destroying equipment and setting fire to every piece of paper they can get their hands on. An editor faces down the barrel of a gun and realizes: "if only we'd published abstract and experimental art"

April 28th, 1945. soviet forces are bearing down on Berlin like a bulldozer, preceded by a hailstorm of ordinance. the cutting edge abstract art machine guns tear apart the cement facades of Berlin's government district, pushing the hitlerite regime to its limits and over them, Hitler cannot bear the psychological torment of his reality being torn apart by the legions of experimental artists levied to free Europe from fascism.

[yugo-totel]

that original comment is so historically innaccurate too hahahaha. futurism was THE fascism art style! specifically in 1919 in milano!!!

filippo tommasso marinetti wrote both the fascist manifesto and created this type of art:

i'd call this art quite experimental. it was also deeply fascist. as in like, literally.

yet on the other hand... you had... russian futurists who were anti-fascist!

art is a symptom of its times but is ineffective in combating fucking anything. its valuable to analyze it to see how the society reflects in it; its also used as a part of propaganda, art is incredible and very important... but it wont be combating shit!

take it in the modern example - artists raising funds for palestine through raffles or using their art to get more eyes on fundraisers is a very literal and active use of art; its political, its useful, its applied. but it sure as hell isnt stopping any bombs.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Amazing that we call him the cookie clicker guy and not the "this website's hate mail game is insane" guy because one of those things had a much bigger impact on Tumblr culture than the other

[snissel7]

the difference is that computer games are made by people who can be interacted with, while tumblr posts spontaneously generate from the aether

[ponpurin]

No actually as an indigenous Mexican who had the beautiful ancient cities and temples of my people callously buried under catholic churches, who is also Jewish, I’m not going to be chill about the dome on the Temple Mount either.

I’m not going to stop feeling strongly about it in the same way I still feel strongly seeing centuries of my people’s history buried under Catholic churches. I understand the dome is there now, and I don’t think it should be destroyed because I understand the significance it holds now.

But I’m not going to stop being angry about it. Especially since my people are not even allowed to go there. I can’t imagine the rage we Mexicans would justifiably have if Spaniards suddenly decided we aren’t allowed to visit our own ancient cities and temples becuase the land is “their’s now” since they built their churches there. The patience and understanding of the Jewish people is so fucking undermined. We have time and time again been expected to and have bent over backwards for others becuase we fundamentally believe in uplifting everyone, even at the cost of ourselves. Even in our own fucking country. Even in the country everyone accuses of being “Jewish supremacist” do we still face blatant discrimination, and allow ourselves to face it for the sake of our muslim neighbors and muslim Israeli citizens.

My people’s history has been repeatedly stomped over and time and time again attempted to be eradicated from history. I won’t stop being mad about that.

[sethshead]

And a reminder: when construction of the Qubbat al-Sakhra began, there were still people alive who remembered the last effort to rebuild the Temple when Jewish autonomy over Jerusalem was briefly restored in 614.

And don’t get me started about the conversion of the Cave of the Patriarchs into the Ibrahimi Mosque, from which Jews were prohibited.

[jewishpangolin]

[uss-edsall]

Does anyone have this picture

But it’s a parody of Master and Commander’s opening title

I swear I have seen this before and I cannot for the life of me find it

[kesslersymbolic]

This image?

[uss-edsall]

YES

[eddardsharpe]

[bacony-cakes]

PNG'D! (i didn't know the font so this is taken directly from the image)

+ bonus italian navy vessel

[catgirl-kaiju]

[smute]

i think the most upsetting thing about american-flavor puritanism is how fucking patronizing it is. it's 2026 but the whole world still has to deal with a cultural hegemony grown from the gnarled vestiges of victorian-era paternalism. tax-paying adults with passports and the right to vote are treated like wayward children because of the antiquated idea that authorities must protect the weak minds of the unwashed masses from depravity and corruption. the average american can send a fellow citizen to the chair, but they can't piss in a ditch without being declared an outlaw. american entertainment media is saturated with sex, but you can't talk about it online without getting your account suspended. it's such blatant censorship at a universal scale, but because sexual content is framed as inherently dangerous, this restriction on basic adult autonomy, this blanket denial of moral and intellectual adulthood, can be reframed as protection, an expression of care, a moral duty. "won't someone think of the children!" I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN!

[smute]

thank god that the video game that features slow motion animations of graphic gunshot wounds and is rated 18+ has a profanity filter in single player offline mode. thank you for protecting this 33 year old mind from the corrupting influence that is a horse named apple slut

[dogpuppy]

[squirrelly-13]

they got married btw

[visit-me-here-in-wonderland]

oh you’re not kidding

[quietwingsinthesky]

friend is trying to convince me this is a common experience and I do not believe her, so

Do you expect to be paid back if you pay for something for your friend while you’re hanging out? (I.E. a ride, a meal, a trinket.)

Yes, always

Yes, but only if it’s above a limit of money

No, never

I don’t buy things for my friends.

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Remaining time: 1 day 16 hours

For a more illustrative example, say you go to the movies with a friend and you buy them popcorn, do you expect them at some point to send you money back via cash or through an app of some kind? Will you be upset if they don’t?

[snissel7]

pro tip: there exist people that think the only ethical action for the pope to take is to suicide bomb the next meeting with all the top cardinals. These people are wrong and stinky

[damazcuz]

When you have a hammer, every problem looks like it's a nail. And when you have a character, every post looks like it's about them. And that's cause it is! 😊 #wisdom