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welp!
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I shan't be going to bluesky*, but if you are, follow ap.brid.gy to bridge it to the fediverse for interoperability with mastodon and such
don't get me wrong, I will be here til they unplug the servers. I just want to build the off-tumblr connections with y'all before it's too late
*except inasmuch as wafrn federates with bluesky so technically my wafrn account has a mirror on bsky
goyim on this webbed site willfully refusing to understand the concept that jewishness isn't determined by blood quantum
meanwhile the (conservative) rabbi at the shul in my hometown will actively stop people from telling him or even implying that a particular reform ger's conversion wasn't fully halakhic because he doesn't want to be obligated not to count them
meanwhile before i went to the mikveh i sometimes had to remind *my own sponsoring rabbi* that i don't count in a minyan yet
meanwhile i've learned our prayers so thoroughly that the stranger standing next to me on rosh hashanah assumed i must've gone to hebrew school as a kid
meanwhile at my first shabbat morning service when i told the floor gabbai i was just starting the conversion class she double-checked which honors i could do then had me open the ark
meanwhile when i told another congregant i was studying to convert she immediately invited me to shabbat dinner
meanwhile my rabbi straight up gave me a set of tefillin when i couldn't afford to buy my own
meanwhile one of my friends recently offered to make me a tallit katan completely unprompted when i said i hadn't been able find one in my size
meanwhile when i went to the one year memorial for october 7th, only a month or two into studying, the ritual assistant from my shul said she was so glad i came because "you're already one of us"
meanwhile every jew who knows i'm a ger or who knew me while i was still studying has invariably welcomed me into the tribe with open arms, because the idea that that makes me any less jewish just isn't there. not even remotely
i asked my rabbi in september 2023, about three months into my conversion, if it would be okay to start wearing a kippah -- i had one from a bat mitzvah and wanted to wear it. he said yes and i've worn one ever since.
two of my best friends bought me a tallit after i went to the mikveh. one of them gave it to me at hebrew school so i wore it for t'filah that morning and got to show the kids what a tallit is and how it's used -- my friends were already enabling me to fulfill the mitzvah of tzitzit, but that day i got another mitzvah out of it by teaching it to the kids.
my best friend and i have been invited to the same friends' house for dinner the past two rosh hashanahs; they've shown us pictures of their grandson.
i sign up for aliyot as often as i can because the mi shebeirach for aliyah has become kind of crucial to my mental health and there's nothing more meaningful to me than to stand in front of the congregation and affirm that g-d gave us, all of us, the torah.
i've said this before but there was a fellow ger on my beit din, and having "avraham v'sarah" written twice on my conversion certificate is so special to me -- sometimes i think of gerim as a sort of tribe, in that we're all siblings, b'nei avraham v'sarah.
i'm secure in my jewish identity thanks to my community. racists are mad because they can't do shit about the fact that my people love and embrace me.
As a born Jew I wanted to add why, to me at least, gerim are so deeply special. There’s this post I saw a while back from a cis woman about how she loves trans women because it means there is joy and light to find in womanhood, and her womanhood outside of the pain that society puts on that role. That there’s more to it than just the suffering. I feel similarly about gerim. You saw our history. You saw our struggles in the modern day. You saw all the shit that people say about us. And through it you saw us. Our people, our community. You saw us, and loved us. You did this and, knowing all the risks that come with it, wanted to be part of our people. And it’s a reminder of how much joy and love there is in being Jewish. A reminder of all the wonderful parts of being Jewish. And a reminder that you don’t have to be born into it to see it.
Nigerian Pride 🏳️🌈🇳🇬
I meant to have this out yesterday. Happy belated pride. :)
I'm glad you all like the Nigeria Pride post!
Originally, I went in worried the opposite would happen. Growing up, I've been taught that Nigeria, the country, is homophobic. (I was born in America.) But over time, I learned that there's tons of other queer Nigerians; some are out, and some are in the closet 😭.
I'm also not used to this much attention, lol
Thank you all!
just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out
EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!
if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.
if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to
PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply
figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list
i NEED people to realise foreshadowing is. in fact. a literary device. and not a Bad Thing. the audience picking up on your hints is a Good Thing. because. it makes the story and it’s conclusion make sense. and some people will not see those but enjoy seeing them on a second read through. red herrings are one thing but if your novel consists of nothing but red herrings it’s not a coherent story it’s just a collection of paragraphs that don’t actually plausibly link to one another. you're not fighting with the audience you don’t look clever you look like you don’t know how basic fiction works. be vulnerable for once in your goddamn life and don't treat writing like a game to be won where the audience losing is a good thing.
Getting to the end of a story and going "THE CLUES WERE THERE THE WHOLE TIME!" is always joyous for me whether or not I picked up on the clues leading up
If I saw the clues and caught the hints then yes! I am clever and me and the author/creator/artist etc were in on it together the whole time!
If I didn't notice the clues or got fooled but can clearly see them in hindsight then "Ha! You won this time storyteller! I am delighted by this game we play!' and then I enjoy putting the pieces together afterwards and enjoying how clever it was. I feel like the creator respects me as an audience
If there is a "twist" that comes with 0 clues or foreshadowing at all I'm annoyed. I'm pissed off. I feel like I'm being condescended to and patronised. It's not clever or interesting and makes me annoyed I ended up caring about characters and plot points that ended up meaningless.
Because it's not that these stories don't have foreshadowing or plot clues. They just abandon it for a "surprising twist"
A story that pays off the clues is letting me into the fun and makes a participant in the story
A story that just gives me a "shock" but no pay off is telling me not to engage or get attached or care. So why would I watch?
[covered in blood] i styled an html table
playing off of tooie @dragongirlsweetie's poll but i want more specific information on the longer end of things.
What is the longest song you have in your library? (not including album mixes, sets, and any other combinations of multiple shorter songs)
< 15 minutes // bald
15:00 - 18:00
18:01 - 20:00
20:01 - 25:00
25:01 - 31:00
31:01 - 40:00
40:01 - 48:00
48:01 - 55:00
55:01 - 65:00
> 65 minutes
if you chose any options other than < 15 mins / bald, please put the song you are thinking of in the tags!!! thank u ^-^
idk anything about this but I love it
If any competition needed to be on Tumblr, it's this one.
Hello bisexual community
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is jake gyllenhaal gay??
why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this
happy pride month to this post specifically
I don't think the Trinity is that hard to understand or explain. o:
I usually think of it like this:
You have a friend; they have 3 jobs.
They have a job as a engineer, a cashier, and a janitor.
You wouldn't go to your friend in each job and ask "Are you the same guy I know????" - You know it's the exact same friend at each job, even though they're doing something different at each job.
Or think of it in gaming terms:
It's like someone with three different characters in a game. They switch between each character whenever needed, but you know it's the exact same person controlling each character, despite the different skills/class abilities.
Heck, even further think of someone who changes their hair color + style every day. You don't question or ask if they're the same person from when you first saw them. You know it's the same person, just different presentation.
That view of the Trinity is called "modalism" and Sabellius was excommunicated for it in 220.
It's almost impossible to describe the Trinity without committing some kind of heresy.
Right, which supports the view that the purpose of the Trinity is to get people to affirm a logical contradiction as a commitment device.
"Stop saying the Trinity is obscuratinist or hard to understand; it's easy! *immediately commits heresy*" is a genre of post which never stops being funny.
in absolute tears about the pride module at my work
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...
Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).
happy first day of pride everyone
you dont have to be a parent to understand the horror of walking into a room to discover that the baby crawled out of his crib and onto that pottery wheel you forgot to turn off, and while the baby is spinning around and around, the dog is sitting there all calm, like a person, gently using his paws to fashion the babys soft cartilage head into something a little more modern. it might be the classic tale of bad parenting, but lets see where the dog is going with this
This post is from 2013. It has less than 100 notes. Together we can revive this work of art that tragically ahead of its time. We’re ready for it now
Happy Pride!
Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions
I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.
It’s time for our annual PRIDE FUNDRAISER again BBs so, grab your hottest, smartest, most chronically-online friends and start a fundraising team for QLL on @givebutter! ✨ For every $300 your team raises you get to choose a book to add to the collection. This is your chance to add yet another queer theory text, or sapphic monster romance novel or just about anything in between.
HERE’S THAT LINK!! https://givebutter.com/qqlls-pride-campaign-2026-rg3yn3
hang on i'm gonna cry a little thinking abt how g-d promised avraham that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky and now among millions of descendants there are thousands who literally carry his name, go up to the torah as b'nei avraham v'sarah. that's our mom and dad!
wanna cry a little more? think about how Avraham and Sarah both had trouble believing they could have a child at their advanced age, and then think about how many many centuries later they are still having children who carry their name.
