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i have a question and i’m not entirely sure if it’s offensive but. so i know in judaism you are supposed to spell g-o-d like g-d to respect the name, so like, would typing quirks that substitute numbers for letters (eg. g0d or g9d) also technically be valid ways to write it??

this isn’t really a super important question. i was just curious, if you’re not comfortable with answering you can delete this ask!

So first, bit of a misconception here, albeit an understandable one. It's not required to do this in any language except Hebrew, and the only word you're required to do this with is the Tetragrammaton, which is the ultimate true name of G-d. If you're using another name, like Hashem or Adonai, it's not required. As far as I know you wouldn't even have to do this if you were spelling out the Tetragrammaton in transliteration, although I still wouldn't do it--you're not even supposed to speak the name, and spelling it out sans vowels might still encourage people to speak it when reading. If it is written out on anything, that thing has to be treated as sacred in its entirety and cannot be destroyed. It has to be buried in a genizah, which is...you can sort of think of it as a combination mausoleum and repository, specifically for items in which the name of G-d appears. We have a lot of really interesting documents from medieval genizot because it was a custom in certain times and places to write the Tetragrammaton across the top of a debt or deed as an indication of how seriously the contract signers took the contract. With that said, a lot of us use the abbreviation in English as a mark of respect, but only when it's used specifically as a name that, if the sentence were spoken in Hebrew, could be replaced with the Tetragrammaton. So for example, I would say that Adonai is G-d, lord of all, but that the Jewish religion believes in a single god instead of many gods. I started doing it out of courtesy to other Jews who might be uncomfortable printing or carrying things I wrote without being able to dispose of them in a genizah, but now it feels kind of wrong to not do it, which creates some very interesting situations when I'm writing fanfiction with goyische characters. (People who've followed me from fandom to fandom may notice my characters say "G-d" a whole lot less these days, usually substituting "lord" or, if replacing as an expletive, "Christ," which is ironic in its own way, but also I'll just rewrite entire sentences to yoink the word entirely.) Now to your question itself: would this kind of spelling be acceptable? That...is a loaded question, although is there really any other kind in Judaism? I think I'd shy away from "G0d" because the zero can still be read as an O, as 4ny0n3 wh0 c4n r34d 13375p34k will tell you. Something like "G9d" might be unnecessarily confusing, but I'm not sure I see a reason not to do it outside of that. I've seen a few people use G*d before, although that one's pretty rare because it also gets used by antitheists who are doing it specifically as an insult. And technically there is a tradition of misspelling certain words on purpose if the written word may be carried into an unclean place like a bathroom. Even the abbreviation for the Tetragrammaton itself, '-', is a misspelling. (Technically, that's a pair of apostrophes and a dash right there, but apostrophes look close enough to a yod and I don't have my Hebrew keyboard installed on my computer right now so you're getting grammatical marks instead.) If you were to try to read this as it's written, it'd be Yaya. This is...not The Name, by a long shot. So I guess you could? But unless you're trying to make Dave Strider Jewish, I'm not sure why you would. YMMV, though.

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anti-hear me out: tenna deltarune. i certainly have a Type

Babe. Sweetie. Dearheart.

You can do better.

Don't stick your dick in crazy. And that TV? Oh man, he is cuckoo bananas.

He's literally a yandere, except possibly worse because he truly doesn't have any context to understand why a life is worth anything in the first place, at a fundamental level.

He's a yandere with depression.

Setting aside the fact that he is a TV, my friend, if this is your most mainstream option, you gotta look into Doki Doki Literature Club.

[The Anti-Hear Me Out Game]

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where did you get the original "general problematic ship meme" template from? sorry if this is a silly ask but i wanna do my own versions and i'd like to be able to give proper credit

i made it! you can find it here ♡

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kingdom hearts AND deltarune chapter 5!!!!

WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUCK THIS IS SO MUCH WHERE'S THAT PICTURE OF SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH EATING TOO GODDAMN MANY PANCAKES

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give me your most controversial chicken opinion

My most controversial chicken opinion won't be controversial at all here on Tumblr Dot Org because it's a leftist chicken opinion which is that chickens are the ideal food animal for any and all non-grazing spaces and we should Pigeon-ify them even further until they are everywhere we are (pending environmental studies of course I'm not a monster). Until everyone knows their own Chicken Guy.

Disperse the birds!!!!

When presented with the question of a highly accessible, digestible protein source, you're not going to beat a chicken for ease of cleaning, food to weight conversion, ease of keeping, etc etc you just aren't gonna, people have been trying for centuries and unless you live in a heavily wilded area with gamefowl chickens are simply, necessarily the way to go forward in democratizing food access.

In terms of an opinion that would be controversial here on tumblr dot gov dot UK: While my personal favourite breed are Brahmas, I think the "best" chicken breed is, without question or reserve, the modern sex link hybrid, the Golden Comet.

Simply an unbeatable bird. Ideal for all skill levels and production scales. Friendlier than many dogs. Lays prodigiously. Honestly quite clean as long as you offer a sand bath.

You really cannot go wrong with a golden comet, despite them being basically a factory produced bird available in bulk at any farm store. There's a reason they dominate so completely. They aren't even particularly sickly, since they are all first generation hybrids.

Basically the only reason not to get a golden comet is if you are doing your own breeding, as they don't breed well and aren't broody.

Well, that or you aren't interested in raising chickens, of course.

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sorry if this is an odd ask to send out of nowhere but i thought your mlp post was really interesting! could you go further into detail about what you think the show does wrong in later seasons? you don't have to, i'm just curious since i really like the show and it's been one of my hyperfixations for a very long time & you have really interesting takes/meta on things in general

thank you for your time!! :3

It very much gets "less about girls" as it progresses. People's background friends/family are suddenly almost always male, for example, with Fluttershy getting a brother, Rainbow Dash's other school friends being male, her dad being more prominently played than her mom, things like that.

This isn't even a bad thing!

While I would argue, and have before, that a show almost exclusively about women is an important thing for the media landscape compared to the glut of All About Men shows?

The reality is that any artistic lens that focuses exclusively on a single gender is going to be worse for it, if for no reason other than where are the trans people.

A truly "gender neutral gaze" would be the ideal, but to be honest I don't even know what that might look like. I can at least conceptualize the female gaze out from existing, limited examples of female led production for a female audience.

But in terms of, IDK, a trans-led production for a genderqueer/neutral audience, I don't even know it that kind of thing exists. It must, because well, trans people are everywhere in the indie arts, but I have never seen it.

Certainly I've never seen it around a kid's show. And one of the things that makes kid media so easy to analyze is, the "allowed" topics are fairly limited. When sex is off the table, you can devote that time to deepening friendships. When men are off the table, you can spend that time deepening female characterization. etc etc.

So anyway, while I would say a female gaze is preferable to a male one in this male dominated society, both have their deep shortcomings. The way MLP handled male characters in S1 by either not having them, or having them be kind of the butt of the joke (Spike) isn't actually a good thing, just a very different one than is common. And there are plenty of ways that the show mistreated Spike particularly for Being A Boy that would make me hesitate to suggest season 1 to, say, trans masc viewers.

But then there are some ways that I can safely say later seasons are just worse.

The fat jokes, for example, were Not A Thing in S1 and as a fat viewer that was a huge relief at first, which became a sharp slap in the face as characters began making fun of heavy eating or using obese background ponies as gross out gags, etc.

On the other hand, the racism very much was present from the beginning, as evidenced by Over A Barrel's portrayal of native americans as literally another species. And that's before we get into the sheer racism of pony colonialism in the first place. Also Zecora the Zebra's... situation. Which was okay as a one off bit in S1, trying if not succeeding at the message of "different=/=bad."

But, like many of these early flaws, the later seasons magnify the problem, especially when the show tries to approach real world issues. Just off the top:

Zecora becomes the magical negro whose mystic knowledge transcends that of the pony gods.

Gryphons become antisemitic stereotypes, obsessed with cash hoarding and isolationism.

Yaks live in technologically inferior wastelands of Yakyakistan, where they are loud, rowdy, and even dangerous.

Dragons are... just... really fucking bad, like by nature, with rare "good ones" going to live among ponies to become civilized.

The fucking saddle arabians apparently just Not Having Perfomance Art and needing to be taught by Trixie.

The kirin being very literally silent to show how zen they are, needing Westerners to give them back their voices.

The sheer audacity to bring Little Strongheart back in the fucking finale and "assign" her as Applejack's token buffalo friend (not even RD???) after AJ and her family nearly wiped the buffalo out and fully never fucking apologized

There's definitely more. Basically every single non-pony species shown to be sapient ends up some kind of a racist mess. At least cows are just like... white people from wisconsin so there's less racism inherent to their depiction but even then...

There are also ways in which the attempts to cater to a male audience weaken the show's overall presentation. Ponies with adult men's human meme images as cutie marks started popping up, for example, which is again not a bad thing, but weakens the overall fantastical world building.

Likewise, the attempts to modernize the setting are... um. Let's go with uneven.

In S1 technology is firmly pre-industrial Euro-Fantasy. I'd put it around 1770-1800 in the human western world.

By S2 there is an electrical grid even in "small" towns like ponyville, something which in the human world didn't take place until about150 years later, with another 50 years to roll out things like video games, which also start appearing.

But only for ponies.

Never for the other species.

I get why they did that. It's a "have your cake and eat it too" scenario where they can keep the pre-industrial fantasy tech level sometimes, but use a modern tech level at other times. It opens up more storytelling options. And it's not like the magical horse universe needs to obey our physics and timelines.

But then why only ponies.

All that does is deepen the racial division between ponies and other species. Which the later seasons LOVe to do. Deepen racial divieds.

After all, in S1 most other species (cows, gryphons, etc) were shown to live in equestria too. But in later seasons, are revealed to live in cloistered ethnostates nominally self ruling but in practical terms subservient to the equestrian state if they want basic rights like the fucking sun.

Which acts to retcon Spike's hatching and adoption from something very heartwarming into something very horrific.

Honestly, the "male gaze" is not the issue I have with late seasons of MLPFIM. It very much comes down to "this show got SO fucking racist SO fucking fast what the FUCK."

And that probably would have happened with all female writers and directors, too, if they were mostly white.

This all makes me sound like I hate MLP, but I promise you, all of this criticism comes from a place of utmost love. This show is really, REALLY good. It is charming, beautifully animated, excellently directed, with passion poured into every aspect of the visuals, the audio, the stories, the characters...

That's what makes these constant missteps so painful to encounter.

Because the highs are so high!

I mean, the movie easily constitutes the best 2D animation out of the western world in DECADES and every track on the album is a banger, and that's just the movie. Cartoon movies aren't exactly noted for their stunning quality, but MLPFIM sure as fuck stuns.

And when the highs are that high, oh man, the lows look lower by comparison.

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sorry if this is creepy since we havent interacted much but i just wanna say you seem like a really neat person and i think you have a lot of insightful posts

Aww, thank you!! I don't think this is creepy at all. These sorts of comments ued to be very common on tumblr, the "anon love" counterpart to the "anon hate"phenomenon, so you're not overstepping any invisible cultural boundaries here, don't worry!

I've noticed your URL in my notes sometimes! I was going to say your icon is super cool, but then I clicked through and darling? That blog theme is a BANGER, amazing work, did you make it yourself or is it from a theme garden?