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On Jew-Coding

thinking about like, jew-coding, and how often people point to whatever greedy little assholes exist in any given media property and go ‘those are an antisemetic depiction of jews’ and it’s like, thanks, i guess, but why were you connecting those two dots in the first place, so here we go! quick and messy guide to checking if a character is jew-coded in a Good or Bad way.

BAD JEW-CODING i.e, if this makes you think a character is jewish, you’re the asshole here (and possibly so is their writer):

-ugly little creature

-greedy

-thick accent

-mercantile and mercenary

-hateful

-conniving / scheming / tricksy

-cowardly

-unusually ‘swarthy’/ oddly colored

-big strident violent females and cringing wimpy little males

shadow council of beardy elders

-from new york (solidarity shout out to italians)

NEUTRAL JEW-CODING i.e, these are just common characteristics of many jews you can meet in real life:

-short

-curly hair

-regarded with confusion and suspicion by Normal Folks

-from new york

GOOD JEW-CODING i.e these character traits reflect real jewish values and which jewish people will themselves enthusiastically Vibe With:

-argumentative, curious, always searching and questioning

-kvetching, i.e, extended but humorous bitching about every last little thing

-sardonic and mocking sense of humor / punches up (and well above their weight class)

-extremely difficult to control and suppress, refusing to play by rules that don’t serve them

-defiant, rebellious, even spiteful towards agents of authority

-involved in arts, crafts, science, and social reform, multidisciplinary

-surviving and even thriving in a marginalized social status

-creative and incredibly annoying nonviolent resistance

-believes in restitution, not redemption, i.e transgressors should attempt to fix what they have broken rather than be forced to suffer an equal amount to the harm they have dealt

-plays with binaries but doesn’t take them very seriously; fluid and creative approach to if/then black/white good/bad dichotomies

-values wealth specifically as a way to safeguard life, health, safety, and justice; does not ever value material goods above a sentient life

-quietly but perpetually Big Mad

-from new york if it’s funny

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Oh this is absolutely my boy Harlan, he is all these things lol

#maincharacterenergy #writingwithsocialawareness

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OK I didn't know hurricane season was starting early this wind can stop now also I am in Canada so this isn't a hurricane help

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I remembered something correctly and other people were wrong and I cannot chart the amount of joy this has brought me.

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New recipes for the uninhibited

Part Two of our ongoing series of semi-sarcastic but functional drink choices for people who might want to drink less.

(who wish they were maybe just a bit more inhibited now and then because really, saying yes to everything is sometimes a bad idea) Part Two of our ongoing series of semi-sarcastic but functional drink choices for people who are trying to reframe their relationship with alcohol, caffeine, and all the other complicated molecules that so radically affect how we think and act. [Read Part One…

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The concept of a “real version” of internet content is so interesting to me.

irl museums feel special. Your “This is the real Starry Night” moment feels significant, certainly more significant than just googling the Starry Night and finding the first thing off Google. You already know what the Starry Night looks like before seeing it in the museum. But there’s a certain power to knowing this is the original. Van Gogh crafted *this* with his own hands and people have been admiring *this* for hundreds of years. It’s just special.

It’s the same kind of feeling with World Heritage tumblr posts. Comments like “This is a legendary post, I’ve only seen this in screenshots” are very common. It feels more real than just seeing it screenshotted or copied. It feels like a real piece of tumblr history. It’s wild to realize the original version of the post is still kicking around the internet in its original form.

But it’s not. It’s just a server sharing a copy of the original data and your screen rendering it for you. Same process as if you looked it up yourself. Nearly the same process as if you found a screenshot. It might not even be stored on the same physical server as the original upload, depending on how they’ve done maintenance over the years and how many backups they store. The version in front of you is no more real than the screenshots you’ve seen.

Except isn’t it??

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so looks like tumblr world heritage posts are The Ship of Theseus of the internet and i am so ready for this

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tfw the thing you least want to do is the thing you most need to do and why are humans like this???

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When I first read the Narnia books, I identified with Lucy (and a little bit Edmund, ugh) but these days it’s the Professor, the author’s self-insert character who keeps asking wtf they’re teaching kids in school these days

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Love is like a tightrope walk: sometimes you can’t help but fall…

don't look down...

I’ve been writing all my life in one way or another. I first finished a first novel in 2015, a contemp romance that may never see daylight (I say that now, but ).  Today I finished editing a book I wasn’t meant to write, featuring a character who was only going to appear in half a dozen steamy short stories then go away.  Instead I wrote all of those and then two more full length novels about…

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"Answer me these questions three..."

When writing is like cake

“…because I’m too lazy to search the archived threads” There are three questions every baby writer seems to ask when they join the online author-verse and start fishing for trade secrets.  I used to answer these questions when I came across them on forums and chats, but they get asked with such regularity that I got tired of doing other people’s homework.  The internet is right there,…

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In Defence of Being Interesting

We are all in drag.  Some of us just have more consciously formed personas.  

or When Every Day is Hallowe’en Though I keep my face off this blog for the most part, should you ever meet me in person, you will almost certainly remember what I was wearing.  To sum it up in a hundred and forty characters or less, my aesthetic ideal is something in the realm of Jay Gatsby’s disreputable cousin, down for the regatta with a cask of bootleg Canadian rum in the backseat of my…

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Look, it’s just going to be everything all the time every day from now until forever, so please stop asking

#adhd #yes im writing another book how can you tell #run on sentence #wordcount is hell