summer,

five years ago.

[raventropy]

Hello! Making this post to pin. Welcome to my blog! I'm Raven, I use she/her, in my 20s, Jewish, Canadian. Feel free to send asks/reach out/anything! I don't have a theme I just rb stuff I see

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[trans-girl-nausicaa]

drink more tea. no, like, a LOT of tea. drink it for the caffeine. If anyone in your life gets on your case about how much caffeine you’re intaking, start talking about antioxidants. they will have no response to that because nobody knows fucking anything about antioxidants. including you.

[tributary]

buddy i think you may be very stupid

[tributary]

1. “semitic” is a language category

2. wilhelm marr popularized the term “antisemitism” as a more scientific-sounding alternative to judenhass (literally “jew hatred”) in the late 1800s, so for those of us with a sense of historical time that’s before the nazis. the term has only been used to mean jew-hatred.

3. are butterflies flies made of butter, or is that etymological fallacy?

4. okay enough time spent on this nonsense, i am going to eat frozen fruit

[doomsday-dj]

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

[kuttithevangu]

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

[kogiopsis]

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

[phantomrose96]

Concept I've been stewing on for a while here. I've got a name for it now and I'm calling it the Shot Dog Factor. It's a numerical value, assignable to any internet post, which represents the average number of engagements it needs to reach before someone comes along acting like this post shot their dog.

And for the sake of High Number = More Danger, which feels like the intuitive and sensible read, let's call it the inverse. As in the chance that any given interaction results in a Shot Dog response.

"Hee hee haa haa" type of silly shitpost? Low Shot Dog Factor. Largely safe. A genuine political opinion? Critically high Shot Dog Factor. Guaranteed to elicit such a response if it breaks containment.

As a result of this phenomenon, you see phrasings and circumventions added specifically to lower the Shot Dog factor. Every "now I know this doesn't apply to EVERYONE'S specific situation, but I just think--" about something where the non-specificity was obvious, but OP needed to add that disclaimer to avoid the Shot Dog from someone who thinks it needs to apply to them.

And another--perhaps the most--critical thing to understand about the Shot Dog factor is that 0 is not a valid value. There's a discontinuation at 0. And as such, the Shot Dog limit, as engagement goes to infinity is, in fact, 100%. Any and every post you have ever made, given enough containment breaching, WILL piss someone off in wild ways. You can lower the Shot Dog factor but it is never 0. Sometimes when a post of yours escapes containment, you must simply sit back and accept this reality.

[phantomrose96]

#op the fact that you called it this. has skyrocketed the shot dog factor for this one astronomically. im so sorry (via @mecharose)

Thank you yeah no that was part of the vision

[whumpster-fire]

How dare you accuse us of shooting dogs

[maachine-deactivated20250630]

lets All lock in starting Right Now

[virusgeist]

how i feel about locking in

[definitely-not-a-plant]

how i feel about locking in

[ravioliet]

god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies

[sentimentalslut]

??????

[maimonideznuts]

Guess what I'm watching...

[grubarchived]

thinking about whale falls

(inspired by the work of @catadromously )

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

[nattousan]

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[nattousan]

Madam....

[nattousan]

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

[nattousan]

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

[nattousan]

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

[nattousan]

SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

[nattousan]

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

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[aesungaia]

In the future they will invent a way to be in bed and in the shower at the same time with no negative repercussions and it will be history's most important invention

[aesungaia]

It's for me

(No shade to this person I just thought it was a really funny thing to say in this specific situation)

[slyandthefamilybook]

so much antisemitism of the last two years has been from people who just don't want to admit that they know nothing about Jews

[notaplaceofhonour]

Potentially one of the earliest known references to the Jewish people outside the Torah is an Egyptian stele that brags about the Pharaoh’s military conquests, containing the line “Israel is laid waste, his seed is no more.”

The civilization this Pharaoh belonged to no longer exists, and yet we are still here, despite so many repeated attempts to wipe us out that followed.

Am Yisrael Chai. We will outlive them.

[judaicsheyd-deactivated20240609]

This references the Merneptah Stele Inscription, which was originally created in honor of Amenhotep III, but added onto by Merneptah around 1208 BCE. Here are the glyphs referencing Israel:

The passage as a whole reads:

It's a super cool piece of history that I know way too much about. Am Yisrael Chai. ✡︎

Edit: Tumblr on mobile fried the images, I apologize.

[firstfullmoon]

Alex Dimitrov, “August,” in Love and Other Poems [ID in alt text]