i reblog random stuff that i find interesting or funny as well as posting about my thoughts on media, fandom, social issues, my personal life, and just whatever comes to mind on here. feel free to start up a discussion with me in the replies or reblogs of any of my posts <3
i am Jewish, white, bisexual, a young adult, an anti-zionist, USian, and a transsexual that uses he/him exclusively: i post about all of these things and the intersections therein from personal experience.
i also have a sideblog called @tsoh-archive that houses assorted aesthetics and original writing for an unpublished fiction project of mine. if you like any of my creative writing on this blog or that one, consider reblogging it so more people see it.
there is some more info below the cut (which is currently under construction) if you want to know more for some reason. enjoy your stay 👍
blog policy:
the tag system for this blog is basically nonexistent except for the #myscrabbles tag i use for the occasional creative writing. sorry lol
if i say something fucked up without realizing it, feel free to send me an ask about it so i can correct myself as needed.
i don’t reblog callout posts bc they’re usually just cover for online harassment campaigns. don’t send them to me. i will not reblog them.
i typically don’t engage in arguments with other users on here; if i see a post or topic floating around that i feel the need to talk about, i will probably vaguepost about it a little and call it a day.
i tend to publish anon/ask hate to keep a record of it instead of deleting it. You Have Been Warned.
some of my general positions for reference, feel free to inquire about them:
as a rule i believe that most things are nuanced.
i am Jewish and an anti-zionist, meaning i believe in the necessity of Palestinian liberation, the urgency of morally condemning the israeli state as it currently exists, and in combating antisemitism wherever it exists, in this movement as in any other. i do not believe these statements contradict one another.
i don’t identify myself definitively as an anarchist or a communist and i won’t until i read more serious political theory on the matter. from what i can tell i fall left of liberal on pretty much every issue and often lean anarchist specifically on some.
i find dark subjects interesting to explore in fiction. this means that sometimes i talk about media with themes around violence, abuse, SA, etc on this blog, and sometimes how it relates to real life. filter that out if it bothers you.
i don’t buy into the idea of “transandrophobia” bc 1) i don’t think it’s a useful ideological framework for understanding the origins and impacts of transphobia that trans men experience, 2) the way it’s used by a lot of guys on here is simply straight up transmisogynistic.
most kinks are value neutral to me as long as everything is safe sane and consensual. human sexuality is naturally weird and has all sorts of facets. the only real exception to that imo is raceplay, something im not even going to try to defend nor do i want to.
i don’t Care about bi vs. pan discourse and discourse about microlabels. Who Cares Be Free Language is Fake
(SECTION UNDER CONSTRUCTION) recurring themes on this blog are:
major fandom interests: naruto (yes really), dc comics (specifically nightwing, other assorted batlings, and john constantine), star wars from multiple angles, and the vampire chronicles books + the interview with the vampire tv show.
minor fandom interests: standalone movies or indie video games that randomly catch my interest like hail mary or mouthwashing, the walking dead, supernatural, the magnus archives game of thrones, fire emblem, legend of zelda, etc.
the thing about the human brain is that it is trying soooo hard to do the right thing for you at all times. it wants to keep you alive and functional and it wants to maximize the good things and minimize the bad things in your life. it is also not very good at this a lot of the time but you must remember that it is trying so so so hard
when you reblog a post about life being hopeless as an acknowledgement that your own life sucks and then your mutuals reblog the same post from you and tag it with the name of a hockey player it's like oh. so it's just me and this millionaire bastard in canada
I started a philosophy book about dogs and I am going in with as open a mind as possible, but it's very difficult when in the first chapter they've used the term "virtue signalling" which is a huge red flag for me.
ok well now I've tried looking up the author but I can't find anything about them other than this book and they're described as an "independent researcher" which could be fine but is also kind of iffy with no other information
So the book is What It Really Means to Love Dogs: A Cultural And Ethical Exploration (2026) by Melina Jacques. I saw it recommended by two influential dog people, Clive Wynne and Karishma Warr. I'm 14% of the way through and it's pretty weak so far. I am frustrated by its positioning of authority when I have no idea who this author is and there is nothing about her online, there is no research cited so far, and a lot of the implications are rather loose. The author clearly does not like dogs or the role they play in society, but the arguments are not supported by much. I agree broadly with a lot of it so far because it's true that there's tons of problems in dog-keeping across the "West", and the attitudes around dogs as symbols are deeply problematic. But that doesn't mean everything she is extrapolating from that follows. And without citing literally anyone else, it doesn't hold up to me. She's already had a whole section about predatory drift but has failed to mentioned who coined that term, or the fact that it's not a scientific term at all. Frustrating so far. I am trying so hard to remain open-minded.
i left a reply about this already but i want to put this on my blog as well, i hope you dont mind. i dug into this author because something didn't smell right to me, and she is apparently a real dedicated crank on this topic and has spent nearly ten years running a truly bonkers dog and cat abolitionist youtube channel
this woman is out of her god damn mind, and i say this as a deeply dog-skeptical dog owner. i have no idea how she is getting nods from any serious dog people, i think she must have really toned down her rhetoric for the book?
these ones are REALLY funny
^^^ this trio are my favorites, each of them looks like a throwaway simpsons gag
she's completely correct that american dog culture is a nightmare, but her concept of animal cognition and symbiosis in domesticated species is nonexistant, she's fully an obsessive crank who appears to have campaigned really hard to get this book recommended by actual dog professionals, and i'm not sure why
??? lmao
in this video she spends eight minutes talking about how The Last of Us made her cry because it gave her hope that, just like surviving the zombie apocalypse, someday she too can be free of "dog worshippers"
i actually completely agree with like 40% of her points (ecological destruction, any dog can be actively dangerous to humans and it isnt taken seriously in north america, wildlife destruction by domestic animals is of urgent concern, people who call themselves "dog parents" are deluded and annoying, dogs smell bad, etc) but the other 60% is purestrain obsessive schizoposting (companion animals are incapable of thought or empathy, dogs are ontologically evil, dogs and cats provide no benefit to humans in any circumstances, "predator drift", pit bull nonsense, humans are being mind controlled by evil dog hormones/parasites [similar to toxoplasmosis presumably?]).
her comment section is representative of what her actual agenda is, the TLOU video above her handful of followers warn her that there are undercover dog lovers "sneaking in' to her youtube comments to spread lies....they are not TRUE Dog Haters (self identified, direct quote) like us and therefore she must be on the alert!
the one channel she links to from her youtube frontpage is a guy with an unusual name who appears to be a professor at some pdunk university , specializing in Randian Objectivism (naturally) whose entire youtube channel is just videos of dogs mauling children. given what we know about the monkey torture community on youtube which presents similarly i suspect there is some overlap with the dogs-mauling-children guys but this is pure speculation on my part, based on the shared vocabulary and cadence of the comment sections. i suspect some of these people may be here more for the child-mauling than for the dog-extermination but are happy to enjoy both, if you know what im getting at. again just vibes-based on my part, knowing what i do about the bad parts of the internet
she is fully a dog exterminationist, and pet abolitionist, so she aligns with PETA. her channel is 7 years old. i am deeply suspicious of what is driving the handful of dog professionals who have referenced the book in public. marketing firm? or maybe they just didnt actually look her up? the book appears to be her effort to get mainstream press attention so i assume it's very toned-down from her actual beliefs
edit: also i forgot to say, maybe because it sort of goes without saying, she has zero credentials, has done no research, and has not studied this topic. she's literally just a tiny tiny little hate youtuber who has never broken 2k views on a video. so yeah, how this book got recommended by these people is really intriguing
Took Ollie to the vet today. And I'm not gonna say who. But ONE of us had a panic attack immediately after the checkup and wouldn't get out of the sink
Remaking bc notes and I think ppl associate notes with not needing any more help
Can anyone help me eat today pregnant black woman currently really struggling with the day to day currently I have no more detergent no more money and no more dishwashing soap the job that said that was gonna hire me is ghosting me I think all in all pretty discouraged bordering on s*cidal :/
wait a minute. hold on a second. wait just one fucking minute. when we talk about American Jews living in diaspora. do people think we’re referring to some kind of diaspora from the modern state of Israel. do they think when we talk about diaspora as it pertains to Jewish Americans we’re principally referring to…. the diaspora from the thousand year old kingdom of Judah. is that. is that what you people think we’re talking about when we reference that diaspora. the fucking. fall of the second temple. excuse me
“average diasporic population experiences 3 separate diasporas every 100 years” factoid actually just statistical error. average diasporic population experiences 1 diaspora per couple hundred years. Diasporas Jews, who collectively experience a separate mass exile every couple of decades to the degree that goyim have stopped bothering to keep track of them after 70 CE, are an outlier adn should not have been counted
now i do think the Jewish people are in possession of a legitimate piece of transcendental knowledge that we discovered (not that we were the only ones) and that this idea has allowed us to survive through the centuries; this idea being, of course, that it is much easier to physically defend and reproduce a book than a temple.
also i do think it is kind of funny when people are under the (mostly wrong) impression that what is being spoken about when people reference the cultural artifacts of “ancient greece” is quite literally what was going on in geographical location of modern greece in the past. because lol. lmao, even. everybody go look up the term “hellenization” and its impact on the development of cultures throughout europe, asia, and africa Right Fucking Now
like okayyyy on one hand i understand being annoyed when a historical source material is mischaracterized (i’m interested in biblical scholarship lol trust me i Get It) and that’s a perspective i can understand on the face of it. but on the other hand…. idk! maybe i’m just too Jewish for this but it is often difficult for me to decouple “ancient greek” or “ancient roman” “culture” from its modern connections to fascism specifically and western chauvinism more generally. the price of being enshrined as one of the culturally dominant narratives in a significant section of the planet for like a bajillion years is that your shit is gonna get endlessly iterated upon and yes, sometimes misinterpreted, and sure you can be irritated by that but don’t go dressing it up in unnecessary social justice language. i mean cmon. it is not Racism for someone to be misinformed about the mostly fictitious trojan war. be serious
historical Jewish-American immigration is such that if you have enough experience in Jewish-American communities, you come across someone with a vaguely eastern european name of a specific variety and your ears perk up like a dog. I Know What You Are
someone is introduced as andy ilyin or alexander novak and its like okay thats just a russian or polish stranger. someone is introduced as michael levinsky or saul lieberman and its like an 8/10 chance you were at their bar mitzvah
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