Excuse Me While I Rant

Minors DNI please

[stealth-liberal]

If your story has only 1 female character in it, your story sucks. If your story revolves around your female character being "not like other girls", your story sucks. If every male character adores your female character but all other female characters (if you even have any other named female characters) hate her, your story sucks. If the only other female characters besides your main female character are ALL villians, if the only female good guy in your entire narrative is your main female character, your story sucks. If the only children your main character ever has are sons and she's so happy she didn't have daughters, your story sucks. If your female character in your sausage fest of a story, after having several sons, has 1 token daughter that she clearly loves less and pays less attention to than her sons, your story sucks.

If you are a female writer doing this, professional or amateur, please, please, PLEASE get some therapy for your massive case of internalized misogyny. Because your hatred of other women (and probably deep down, yourself) is really showing and it's both sad and extremely fucking annoying.

[stealth-liberal]

And now, I will log off for the final time on here. I won't delete the blog, but tumblr is not where I want to be anymore. See you guys around, maybe, somewhere....

That is all.

[kosherkept]

the way antisemites get on this website and talk like "in our ideal world we will see the destruction of israel and the zionists will burn. our revolution will be glorious and we are the righteous" like can you not hear yourself because you sound like youre roleplaying fascism. oh wait

[stealth-liberal]

I came back on to take one last look around before I uninstall the tumblr app from my phone. I won't delete my blog, but I won't be on here anymore. However, before I go:

People NEED to stop calling these quotes facist, because they're not. They are, in fact, communist. Facism is soaked in enough blood to float entire continents, it does not need to borrow from the blood that communism swims in. Both ideologies are so soaked in blood, you could use a firehose at full power for centuries and never clean either one of them off.

I am a deep believer in Horsehoe Theory and anyone with half a brain after this last year should believe in it too. The far right and the far left are equally violent, equally cruel, equally filled with hatred and equally desperate to commit heinously violent and lethal acts upon those their side deems "deserving".

People from the Americas and Western Europe are quite often a bit blind to the bloodshed of communism. We didn't grow up and live in it after all, and our education on the subject was often lacking and filled with people conflating communism with socialism, which is factual false. They two separate ideologies.

However, the death toll communism wrought over the areas and countries it controlled was every bit as bad facism. Stalin killed more human beings than anyone ever has and hopefully ever will. Communism is as soaked in blood and violence as facism ever was. There is functionally very little difference between the corruption and armed conflict both engage in. They are both exquisitely vulnerable to control by the elite, cadreism for communism and oligarchy for facism. They are both exquisitely vulnerable to scapegoating and massive human rights atrocities.

Oh, and Jew hatred/antisemitism? You have to go back to full divine right monarchies to find any form of governance that loathes and kills as many Jews as facism and communism.

So yes, these people want to cosplay a revolution. They want armed conflict in the streets. They're just not facist, they're communist. The two are kissing cousins after all and it's LONG past the time we used the comparison exhaustively. Force them to see EXACTLY who they are.

[sarahgreenillustration]

Rosh Hashanah is the start of the Jewish new year. We say l'shana tovah, which means have a good year. Apples and challah (dipped in honey) are symbols of hope for a sweet new year. :)

[stealth-liberal]

Shana Tovah everyone. See you around somewhere.

[wallacelovesyou]

Pumpkin says "Shanah Tovah!"

[palominojacoby]

Andrii Roshkaniuk, Ukraine, 2018

[thejewitches]

Fish Head: Rosh Hashanah means head of the year. Rosh = head, ha = the, shanah = year. We eat the heads of various animals to symbolize the head of the new year. Vegans/vegetarians may also eat a head of cabbage or lettuce.

Figs: Figs are one of the sacred foods.

Leeks: One of the Simanim, represents asking for protection and cutting our enemies off.

Pomegranates: One of the sacred foods, pomegranates are believed to contain 613 kernels, representing the mitzvot as well as fertility and bounty.

Apples: Eaten to bring sweetness to the new year, typically dipped in honey or baked into a cake.

Honey: While it was historically date honey, honey is believed to be a sacred food. It is eaten at the new year to bring in sweetness. Often baked into a cake.

Dates: One of our sacred foods, eaten to bring sweetness to the new year.

The Ocean: At Tashlikh, we cast our sins into the depths. We use living waters, like the great sea.

[girlactionfigure]

[mintytrifecta]

[image description: the bugs bunny in a tuxedo "I wish all (blank) a very pleasant (blank)" meme edited to say "I wish all of my Jewish followers a very pleasant rosh hashanah". In front of Bugs there is a jar of honey, a stack of apples and pomegranates. In front of bug's mouth there is a shofar.]

[moishe-pipick]

[girlactionfigure]

[iliothermia]

Shana Tova!!! May your enemies, haters, and those who wish evil upon you be cut off. The blessing for the leek has always felt resonant but this year it's been on my mind a lot. For me at least, 5785 is a year of practicing healthy boundaries and taking care of myself - even if I have to run on spite. I hope everyone has a safe Rosh Hashanah ❤️

[stealth-liberal]

Well, after thinking about it and ruminating, I have decided that tumblr is not for me anymore. The hatred of every Jewish person alive is seeped into this app. The rancid tankie takes on EVERYTHING, from politics to even TV shows and films is everywhere.

This app is no longer what it used to be. This used to be a fairly friendly place for fandom and art and such. Instead it has become a hateful to the core environment with people who are dying to attack, burn, kill and rape people... or at least beat their chests and posture as though they are. Death threats and suicide baiting is so common here that it doesn't even make anyone bat an eyelid anymore.

So, I'm done. I'm going to close this out and uninstall the app on my phone. Rosh Hashanah starts tonight and this is my mental health present to me. I will post a few High Holiday messages as my final acts on this blog and then... no longer be on here. This place has become misery to behold.

[midnight-specialist]

Misogyny survives because people make up new concepts about femininity and masculinity and using new age pop psychology as a way to ‘prove its accuracy’. Imma say this louder for the ones who keep talking bs.

Being assertive, independent, hardworking, goal-oriented and a go getter as a woman doesn’t mean you’re “in your masculine energy”. It simply means you’re a human who’s lived a life where those qualities developed. And actively looking for a man who will “put you in your feminine energy” is just another way of upholding these harmful ideas alive. Don’t partake in it.

[hasufin]

Shrinkflation

So, I found out a fun fact this last weekend!

Every state has a Department of Weights and Measures. One of their jobs is to make sure that companies are actually selling you the quantities they claim they're selling. For example, this is the department which tests gas pumps and makes sure they're really pumping out a gallon of gas when they charge you for a gallon of gas.

So....

If you happen to, just as an example, notice that your 1lb (16 ounce) box of San Giorgio spaghetti actually only has 10oz of noodles, and you weigh your other boxes of spaghetti to discover they run from 10 to 14 ounces but never the full pound they're supposed to have, and that's why you never seem to have enough pasta for leftovers the next day, then you can report that to the Department of Weights and Measures.

They will want to know where you bought the item, and then will investigate whether the store or the manufacturer is routinely shorting customers. If they do, they will issue a fine to the offending party, you will be eligible for a refund, and under some circumstances lawsuits may follow.

Now, I don't know the outcome of the complaint I just initiated, but they did not want to know specific receipts or times of purchase. Which is good for me as I didn't keep any of those things, at the time I just said "Wow, fuck San Giorgio" and switched brands. But this is still enough to get an inspector out.

[fallenangelvictorious]

Tumblr may not be the best at advertising but it is KING of the anti-advertisement. Not buying that shit!

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Art Nouveau necklace by Henry Dubret, 1900.