a transangelic exodus on four wheels

(57)80’s twunk (he/him) || ✡️ || 20s || all things Jewish, Dimension 20, ancient Greco-Roman, TAZ, & queer stuff ||

[kosmogrl]

last day of august…

[dogpuppy]

[transfemstalin-deactivated20260]

real yearners miss people BEFORE they're gone

[transfemstalin-deactivated20260]

TRUTHNUKE

[bonesbeetle]

there's a stage in sandwich consumption where it's falling to pieces & you're desperately cupping it in your hands & it's like this poor wounded animal that is covered in mustard & wants to die

[martindykewood]

not to sound like a christian facebook mom but some of yall need to have grace in your hearts for the people in your lives or the people you pass once on the road and never see again like you literally need to stop assuming the worst of everyone and their intentions it is poisoning your brain. you can be careful and responsible without being a miserable person. it is possible i promise

[martindykewood]

you are a tar pit and you live this way because you choose to.

[turtlesandfrogs]

Also, if you're a jerk to others, the percentage of jerks you interact with will be higher than if you're not a jerk.

By being a jerk, you're actively making your life harder and less pleasant. This is because we're a social species, and we do this thing called "mirroring" usually unconsciously, so people tend to reflect the behavior you put out, back to you.

Also you can intentionally be kinder with people, and they'll be kinder to you.

We are a social species depended on cooperation to survive. Altruistic behavior is actually what's in our genetic past, far more than jerks.

[loveridden1999]

i miss my ex bestfriend & everyone else that i have ever loved but don't want any of them back either

[loveridden1999]

what the fuck man

[vixvigil]

at least sisyphus only had one never-ending task. i have like 50 and all of them cost money

[redstonedust]

guy who is stuck in a timeloop but is too socially anxious to bring it up to anybody or change their routine just in case it turns out they're mistaken. like yeah you're pretty sure that it's been november 3rd for two weeks now but idk maybe that's the depression talking. it's fine.

[what-alchemy]

The eternal whump struggle of making him injured enough to need care but well enough to fuck nasty.

[a-mental-piece-of-trauma]

[mythtakens]

drinking beverage. having to pee. drinking beverage. having to pee. what’s next? drinking beverage and then having to pee? fucking endless

[burnbrighterthanever]

supernatural 5x04: the end // angels before man, rafael nicolás // nobilis, jenna moran // dinner and diatribes, hozier // the caged owl, gregory orr // dear forgiveness, bloodnotink // nobilis, jenna moran // a cornstalk fiddle, notbecauseofvictories // cryptotheism // nobilis, jenna moran

[burnbrighterthanever]

doctor faustus, kit marlowe // askadeciever // the vampire lestat, anne rice // fallen london // the tiny details and the morning sky, bloodnotink // broken hierarchies, geoffrey hill // homunculus-argument // the guest, anna akhmatova // ficticious-whimsigoth

[aloeveragel]

I remember in my Arabic class we were going over the alphabet and the teacher was like there’s no ‘P’ etc and this white girl was like wait what but my names Paige and my teacher was like lol then we’d pronounce it as beige and she was so offended I’m crying thinking about it

[dotted-sixteenth-deactivated202]

One of my mom’s friends, Hugh, went to France and they had a lot of trouble pronouncing his name because the entire thing was silent.

[melonbottle]

salut je m'appelle [REDACTED]

[ghulheim]

lol when I lived in France my host family had a friend names Hugh. We saw him and his family a lot.

They pronounced it “oog” and I didn’t know until the day before I left France that his name was Hugh. I just thought he had some weird caveman nickname 😭

[prismatic-bell]

Something I find extremely funny about The Merchant of Venice is that Shylock’s daughter is named Jessica. They’re Jewish. Like that’s 99% of the plot, Shylock Is A Jew And That Is A Problem*.

You probably know Shakespeare made up the name Jessica for this character. What you may not know that makes this so fucking funny is THERE’S NO J IN HEBREW. And the play takes place in Italy. THERE’S NO J IN ITALIAN EITHER**.

*I don’t understand how this play can be both wildly antisemitic and contain one of the best Jacobean pleas for the humanity of Jews at the same time. I guess the bar was just that low.

**it exists in some words that’ve been borrowed from English, but that’s an extremely modern thing.

[theothersarshi]

=)))

I think I can understand the thought process there, though. Do you think if Shakespeare had a Chinese and a Japanese character he’d have named them Chinespia and Japafore?

[prismatic-bell]

So someone else asked about an origin and I was forcibly reminded to double check my sources.

Apparently he invented it in English. It’s based on a Hebrew name he wasn’t exactly transliterating.

But listicles think “he invented it” sounds better. 🙄

[jantesika]

J is (sometimes) used to transliterate yod, because latin happened and pronounced J like Y at the time (Elijah, Joshua, John; Eliyahu, Yehoshua, Yohanan).

[prismatic-bell]

Well, there was no J at all, as Indiana Jones fans can tell you. Yod became an I and from there turned into J.

[jantesika]

hang on, you’re right.

wait now I’m just confused; why the hell does the letter J exist?

[smegorl]

J was originally a variant i for words with two Is next to eachother. In many of the popular scripts of the first millenia ce e and ii looked very similar so to differentiate ii was written ij instead.

[wyf-of-bathe]

יִסְכָּה (Yiska) -> Ἰεσχά / Iesca (Latin) -> Jesca (German/English) -> Jessica.

He wasn’t too far off, but somehow added a syllable. I’s in Latin did double duty as vowel and consonant, so it’s common to transliterate consonant i’s to j’s, eg Iupiter -> Jupiter. So not just translating from Hebrew; rather, in this case, it’s Hebrew to Greek to Latin to English.

[jewishgay4il]

jessica is YISCA?????

Damn goyim really have no original names

[hyperpotamianarch]

Well, they have. If you define Germanic, Latin and Celtic origins as original, English is too young to have normalized names that are just words in it.

Most names that start with J seem to derivate from Hebrew, though, with a couple of exception like Jason and Julian. Those are from Greek and Latin.

[freakoutgirl]

some people are afraid to be cheesy. I live my whole life on the charcuterie board

[redstonedust]

confiscating cis peoples gender until they can learn to be normal about it. sorry you spent too much time talking about how men and women are 'supposed' to act, you're getting put in nonbinary time out. sit on the naughty step. no gender until dinner time.

[puttingthesickinforensic-deacti]

i love boys with weird little obscure interests

like yes baby tell me all about your favorite movie that came out in 2001 that only you and 3 other people know about. You are the most gorgeous thing ever

[0rl4a-cries]

i need someone like this plsplsplspls

[powerchairpunk]

you’re in his dms? okay, well, im on top of him. we’re not fucking he just likes the pressure