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current hyperfixations : come from away and the addams family ✈️🖤 Favorite video games: Animal Crossing, The Legend of Zelda, Sonic The Hedgehog, Splatoon, Pokémon, Kirby, Super Smash Bros, Tomodachi Life Favorite shows: South Park, The Amazing World of Gumball, Wander Over Yonder, Wednesday, The Amazing Digital Circus, Invader Zim, Stranger Things, Ruby Gloom, Over The Garden Wall, The Vampire Diaries, SpongeBob SquarePants Favorite movies: South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, Forrest Gump, Coraline, Corpse Bride, 9, ParaNorman, Monster House, Frankenwienie, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Harry Potter, The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings, Twilight, Whisper of the Heart, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, BASEketball Favorite anime/manga: The Promised Neverland, Death Note, Sailor Moon, Komi Can't Communicate, Studio Ghibli Favorite singers/bands: Lady Gaga, My Chemical Romance, Green Day, Linkin Park, Evanescence, blink-182, Fall Out Boy, Weezer, Three Days Grace, Pierce The Veil, Paramore, Avril Lavigne, Gotye, Eminem I also love singing, drawing, reading fanfics, collecting figures, plushies, dolls, buttons/pins, stickers, keychains, and CDs, Sanrio, Vocaloid, Monster High, Tamagotchi, Peanuts, 2000s alternative culture, emo and scene culture, kandi, aesthetics, lost media, liminal space, learning Japanese language, playing bass, comic cons and cosplaying, and doing musicals for theatre at school and community theatre!! I’m passionate about mental health, LGBTQ+, and Judaism My favorite ship is Kyman :)) ❤️💚

[rainbowsforbreakfast07]

never getting over the fact that chad kimball isnt in the proshot of come from away … he will always be the perfect kevin t to me 😔💔

[mochiobonio]

i miss sidlink man, i miss them so much

[deep-down-in-drowsy-town]

happy pride month to gay kevin from los angeles and gay kevin from los angeles specifically

[return-of-sanders]

@disneyxdofficial So, why did you cancel Wander Over Yonder

[disneyxdofficial]

It was too sexy for our intended audience.

[steampunkhobo]

Being gay was invented in 1937 by the Soggy Bottom Boys

[beehivedemocracy]

Delmer and Pete were making out I just can't prove it

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Happy pride, here’s your yearly reminder that Jews belong in queer spaces! 🏳️‍🌈✡️

[anthropologistfromentropy]

I just learned about the Cloud of Guidance today. And I realized that's why I don't like the term "Jew by Choice".

I don't think I had a choice any more than those Jews in the desert. I didn't choose this, Hashem chose me just like He chose all Jews. I guess I could technically refuse to follow Hashem's guidance, leading me home. But if the choice is to be left alone in the desert, never finding home, is it really a choice?

And I'm not even in any hurry to finish my official conversion. If it takes 10 years that's just fine. But I don't think I can ever live without Hashem and the Jewish community again.

Also I REALLY need to email my local congregation again. I emailed them in January, got told the conversion class is full, and then my ADHD ass forgot and procrastinated on it 😭

[sic-transit-gloria-mea]

“I’ll tell you a secret: Hamas has told us since October 7th, in the last two years with all the suffering in Gaza, Hamas has never not told the Israelis—and this makes the Israeli prime time news, even if it doesn’t make your TikTok feed—that they’re going to do it again, and forever. Until every last one of us—not (until) every last one of us is decolonized into a civic democracy—until every last one of us is dead. You are telling Israelis “dismantle your self-determination and your defence in the name of peace and justice. And Hamas is telling Israelis “I will murder you the second you do that.””

-Haviv Rettig Gur

[fromourperspective]

That's so funny…

I just came across this post. I don't follow, but it's funny.

You say "you love your Jewish friends" but you are against Zionism and pro-Israel ideology -

that means you don't want them to have a safe homeland, or in other words you "love Jews" but only of a "certain kind", not all of them…

And what a charming info you gave here.. From AL JAZEERA and Hamas' Wikipedia... That says it all. The MASTER of Hamas propaganda. nice!

What do you think, my fellow Jews?

[murkyfulcrumparadigm]

I'm shouting into the void here but I need to get it out.

I don't label my politics, but I'm what someone would call on the left. I spent my teenage years when Tumblr social justice was at its height. I learned things, checked my own biases, and I would like to think became a more empathetic person because of what I learnt from online progressive spaces.

The way these spaces have treated Jewish communities over the past 2.5 years has been nothing short of fucking appalling.

The worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust was minimised, denied, justified, or outright celebrated.

Jewish people were immediately told to put their grief and trauma over this to away, because Palestine's pain was more important to talk about.*

Jewish and Israeli people were told they needed to try and understand why armed men raped, tortured, and killed members of their community. Because, you know, the murderous rapists are who we need to have sympathy for here. Anyone can be pushed to the point of, I don't know, murdering a young woman and parading her corpse around a street for men to spit on her dead body. If you really think about it, isn't that actually kind of an understandable thing to do?

When raising concerns over the rising antisemitism that was starting to look a lot like the build-up to that little historical tidbit called The Holocaust, Jews were told they were selfish for raising the issue.

When asking people not to call for intifadas that have historically resulted in thousands of dead Jews, they're told they're taking it all the wrong way.

When Israeli victims spoke of the abuse they received on Oct 7 and in captivity, they're told they need to stay silent because otherwise they risk justifying the genocide of Palestinians.

When 15 people were murdered at a Hannukah festival, there were no social media icons, no surge from progressive groups to find out what support they needed.

To be clear here, progressive groups seem more concerned with antisemitism in the Harry Potter books than they are about the actual, you know, string of dead Jews that have been murdered over the past few years. If you condemn antisemitic representations in diction and then turn around and completely ignore real-life fucking murder, then I'm sorry I genuinely do not think you ever gave a shit about fighting antisemitism, you just wanted to fight Jk Rowling. **

Absolutely fuck everyone who has justified or denied what happened on Oct 7th. There were ways to advocate for both Israeli and Palestinian victims, but the people who should have known better have ensured that Oct 7th wasn't just one day of hell for Jewish communities, but that its been currently 2.5 years of hell that seems to just be getting worse.

And the most infuriating part is the people who did justify Oct 7th will never admit they were wrong, because that would mean admitting they argued that the murder rape mutilation torture and kidnap of a Jewish community was acceptable, and that would break their brains. I mean it. The cognitive dissonance between believing you are someone who cares for human rights, whilst also being someone who justified all of that, is too great. The brain will always protect itself. Its why people are currently doubling down on there being no rapes on Oct 7th. Rape is not resistance, it is not self defence, it is not landback, it is not right of return, it is not decolonisation, it is not any of the shit people tell themselves Oct 7th was. Rape is just rape. It is just men torturing people (mainly women) for no other reason than because they enjoy it. You will never see these people admitting rape occurred, because the second they do is the second they realise just how horrifically they have behaved.

And it's not getting better. Hate crimes and murders of worldwide Jewish communities are rising. Jewish people are looking to leave places like the US, UK and Australia, which were once considered some of the safest places for them to live. A KKK slur (zio) is now common online usage. Jewish people are expected to sever any connection to an important part of their culture (Israel/Hebrew) in order to be treated somewhat civily. The more IDF crimes are uncovered in Gaza, the more worldwide Jewish communities bear the brunt of the anger. Typing 'Jewish' into any social media brings you into an absolute clusterfuck of the most horrific things you can possibly see people say about their fellow human beings.

I am just sick and exhausted and furious and it feels like I'm hitting my fists against a brick wall that is not knocking down. How do you even get people to realise how bad this is????

I am not Jewish. I know full well that Jewish people talking about all of this get ignored. I know full well that a Jewish person standing up for Palestine gets thousands of notes, and a Jewish person standing up for their own people barely breaks 100. I know full well that Jewish people are being smeared as paranoid or crazy or selfish. I know full well that non-Jewish people speaking up about antisemitism is taken more seriously than Jewish people talking about their own experiences.

Can you all just start fucking having some fucking empathy for Jewish and Israeli communities who have been facing the worst 2 years of their lives. Fucking please. It is not that fucking hard to feel empathy for lots of groups at once. To empathise with both Palestine and Israel, Muslims and Jews. Empathy for all is part of what brings us away from just being animals and makes us human.

If you can't do it, it is not an issue with Jews or Israelis or Zionists or the IDF, it is an issue with you.

*I am not saying Palestinian pain isn't important to raise awareness of, and the people fearing what the IDF would do immediately after Oct 7th were right to raise it. I'm saying asking Jewish communities to take on the trauma of Palestinians, when they were still reeling from their own inter-community trauma, was wrong and unhelpful. I wouldn't ask Palestinian communities to have centered the trauma of Oct 7th either. Trauma is not a competition and everyone deserves to have their respective pain treated fairly.

**also not saying that Rowling shouldn't be criticized, because she is awful, but that real-life massacres and rapes of Jews is sort of a bigger priority than bad representation in the Harry Potter books, and that if you can't understand that then...yeah. you didn't actually care about jewish people at all.

[cartoonverisimilitude]

One thing that pisses me off about the online leftist Free Palestine type is that when you confront them about commenting“Free Palestine” on a Jewish person’s post - they say “Oh - I’m not targeting Jewish people. I do this to everyone” or “I ask everyone about their opinion on Palestine before I decide if they’re a good person not just Jews.”

We all know that’s bullshit because if you did spend all your time writing “Free Palestine” comments underneath everyone’s posts — more than just Jewish people would be complaining.

And like…that is the laziest activism ever if it were true.

[theres-a-hole-in-my-wall]

I think my biggest problem with the pro Palestine movment (besides the rampant antisemitism) is their refusal to engage with reality

"Israel shouldn't exist!!!!!!" OK, but counter point,

It does.

And it's not gonna go away, at least not in any of our lifetimes. So instead of talking about destroying Israel you should focus on actual solutions to help Palestinians *now*

And that includes collaborating with israelis and trying to get the moderate ones to be more left leaning. Seeing the pro palestinian movment refuse to condem killing and murders of Jews in diaspora is not very reassuring to Jews back in Israel

TLDR: far leftists refuse to think of concrete solutions to help people now and instead they focus on impossible solutions that will never work

[enthusiasticmusicalquotes]

top five queer characters (confirmed or heavily implied) in musicals

in no particular order bc i’m indecisive (and only doing characters from shows i’ve seen either live or the proshot of):

Whizzer - Falsettos

Kate - If/Then

Lola/Simon - Kinky Boots

Kevin T and Kevin J - Come From Away

Charlotte and Cordelia - Falsettos 

(Allison from Fun Home would be somewhere on this list too) 

(and if you wanna count Elsa from Frozen since she’s heavily headcanonned by audiences, her too)

[holyfrankenfuvksnakes]

I need to add some quotes from come from away so you can see how amazing Kevin and Kevin are

“We’re both named Kevin it was cute for awhile”

“Would you like a Xanax because you are freaking out and it is me out and we are all freaking👏the👏fuck👏out”

“You look like a gay lumberjack”

“I’m his sexytary”

[montygreen]

I just saw the Toronto company of Come From Away and it was so freaking good?? Like I adore the soundtrack, but there are so many extra things about seeing it staged

The way the actors effortlessly flip between their various roles

THE TURNTABLE

Kevin J literally clapping back when he say his the line about Xanax

Just everything with Annette and all of her fantasies

A bunch of really hilarious Kevin J lines

“I’m his sexytary”

The entire bar scene with the Kevins

The way they brought the band to the front of the stage during “Heave Away”

The flash of the camera triggering the lighting effect during “Stop The World”

The cast building the lookout underneath Nick and Diane and moving the chairs so they can continue to walk across it while the turntable spins during “Stop The World” – somehow I have even more feelings about this  song than before

When the turntable started spinning during “Somewhere in the Middle of Nowhere”

Also, everyone stood up and clapped during Screech Out and I knew that was going to happen, but it was a ton of fun to just stand and clap while the band jammed out

They changed the key of “Me and Sky” and of Diane’s part of “Stop The World” which I found a bit weird, but it was likely to fit the ranges of the actors.

Somehow I think I love this musical even more than before.

[rogerdellibovi]

come from away but its just the kevins being snarky

[rainbowsforbreakfast07]

holy shit im so in love with them 😭😭

[2d-cartoon]

First Appearance: SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob SquarePants premiered on May 1, 1999