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me: care about people
half the notes: youre the real oppressor for telling me what to do.
the other half: cut out this useless liberal proselatizing. you are an invertebrate and you will perish in the revolution.
we have a new prize comment which is âpretty neurotypical of you to assume i have the capacity to care about other peopleâ
Honestly, if you ever see a manga character and think "Damn, their style is dope as fuck" 9 times out of 10 their fit comes directly out of a fashion magazine. Sailor Moon was wearing Dior. JoJo was wearing Missoni.
Not to downplay the skill of the artists adapting those styles to their characters, but that is why the drip is so clean.
Like, this is a piece of trivia I love to share and I think it's important for a few reasons. One is because it emphasizes how much great art is about study and reference. Artists learn from artists and it elevates their work.
Two, because fashion *is* art (which is maybe a less controversial take now than it was a decade ago) and it's important that we recognize when great fashion inspires us.
Three, because acknowledging how much time great mangaka spent studying fashion *is* recognizing just how much hard work and effort goes into their creations.
And also I just think it's cool as fuck.
So you want to see the 1988 Phantom of the Opera proshot at the New York Public Library...
If you know one thing about me on this internet it's that I love when things are spelled out and easy. This weekend my friends and I went to the New York Public Library (NYPL) Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT) located at Lincoln Center to watch the Phantom of the Opera proshot. I saw some how-tos and asked friends who have already seen it, but it was still a little confusing and I wanted to clarify how my experience went:
Bottom line: if you can make your way to NYC, you too can see the Phantom proshot from 1988 starring Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman, and Steve Barton and lose your mind :)
Here's how I did it:
I showed up to the New York Public Library Library of the Performing Arts located at Lincoln Center with my two (2) also phanatical friends. We were vibrating. We went when the archive opened at noon. Hours can be found here.
We were directed to the third floor where the archive is. We had to check our bags (but were able to bring whatever in - I brought my phone, a pen, and a notebook for notes)
We met the sweetest librarian who was so helpful - he got us on computers to apply for NYPL library cards AND special collections cards. If you live in NY, you can get a regular NYPL card. If you are from out of town, they will give you a NYPL visitor card (good for 3 months!) We filled out applications you can find here and here if you are curious about the questions asked. Many questions are optional! Note: there was some scuttlebutt about needing to be a student or researcher or even an expert in the field - you don't need to say why you're there unless you want to! I kept it brief: said I was an independent researcher and there for personal interest. They are just happy people are using our libraries! Sign the letter here to stop the mayor from closing our libraries
Once we had our cards (NYPL Card AND a special collections card/number) we were told to head to the archive, where we met a second, lovely librarian who was excited we were there. You can ask for any show that isn't currently running (sorry Hadestown nation). You can find a list of what they have here. All titles available at TOFT begin with the call number NCOV, NCOX, or NCOW. Note: we did not make an appt ahead of time, and luckily no one was watching Phantom but our friend wanted to watch Great Comet and someone already had it. To avoid this, make an appt. To make an appointment, call (212) 870-1642 or email [email protected].
We signed off to use the archive and were off to the races! That's it! We were put on three monitors and I controlled the pausing and replaying of the tapes. You can replay as much as you want, and can even ask for other plays/musicals that you want to watch during your session there. I took notes in a notebook, I saw other people taking notes on their phone. There are cameras to make sure you aren't doing any recording or photo taking. Note that you can only see this proshot once without special permission, so if you want to come back you'll need to look into what that permission is.
If you're interested in what was actually IN the beautiful, spectacular, amazing, never before been done proshot (it's from May 25, 1988 by the way) listen to my/our podcast, Leroux Less Travelled!
My inbox is open if you have more questions! I hope this clarifies how easy it is if you're ever in NYC!! We will get through phantom-drought together :)
I wonder why the American/global media aren't reporting that there are weekly protests by the Israelis against Netanyahu and his cabinet? That him and his little right-wing coalition are deeply hated amongst their own people?
America doesn't care about other countries and right wingers have a vested interest in supporting the Likud right wing coalition and the left wing media have a vested interest in painting all israelis as evil settler colonialist baby murderers
Followers? dissenting opinions?
My opinion is that almost every day for most of winter I had to take a bus from a street where some of those protests are happening. They've been happening in multiple places, at different scales, some block the road and some don't. And every day I patiently waited for them while they blocked the road, chanted, then cleared the way. They did that multiple times during the protests every day. They're still protesting, although it's coming more in waves now.
And I have seen a single person trying to go against them during all those weeks. One single man with a microphone, whose only problem was that they were protesting during shabbat, so he went out on a weekday to tell them to stop doing that because it'll hurt the hostages. And once a woman panicked because she didn't know the area well and needed to catch a bus home, and didn't know whey never blocked the road for more than 10 minutes.
The Israeli population mostly agrees with those protests, to varying degrees. There's no unified opinion on what action Israel should take, but everyone agreed on one thing - that it should take action, and that Bibi needs to resign.
Why don't the global media show you those protests? Because they don't want you to think about the Israeli people as humans, as separate from our government. They want you to think we all want Gaza to be destroyed, that the hostages don't matter in this war, that we agree with Bibi and want him as our PM.
The protests intentionally happen in both Hebrew and English, so non-israelis would also be able to understand clearly what they're protesting about. Their signs contain English, Hebrew and Arabic. They chant in Hebrew and English.
The choice to not report them is deliberate.
I completely agree with the above. One thing I would like to add is that another reason why American media might not be reporting on these is that they want to paint all protests about this as purely antisemitic. I know that some leftists are protesting against this for antisemitic reasons, or have become swayed/infiltrated by antisemitism, but the reality is complicated - there are both good and bad ways and reasons to speak out about this.
But the media narrative tends to be very binary. Either âPalestine good, Israel bad, Jewish people horribleâ - in which case the fact that these protests are happening doesnât fit the narrative - or âPalestine is Hamas, Israel perfect, Jewish people are pure sad perfect innocent victimsâ in which case the existence of these protests STILL doesnât fit the narrative! Of course neither of these narratives are true, but those are by and large the versions of reality that the discourse tries to depict, depending on the source.
human brain is so easy to manipulate its stupid. sun is out longer in evening = life is worth living...read some negative social media posts = everybody hates me...read one interesting article = i have the scholar's ambition
You know a characther is fucked up and traumatized when they are wearing one of these
genuinely fuck all of you for diluting the meaning of ânaziâ down to âperson i donât think is radical enoughâ and the absolute devastation of the holocaust to âjews whining about a couple of them being killed.â fuck you. i hope you all spend the rest of your lives embarrassed and ashamed at the bold faced antisemitism you took part in.
the only time yâall take the holocaust seriously is when youâre using it to give other tragedies legitimacy. when it comes to jews and the actual fucking holocaust suddenly itâs âthat was so long ago and other people died too you know and anyway you all just use it to gain sympathy and you really actually benefited from it so stop playing the victim.â
...[a]s I read the endless wall texts describing the specific quantities of poison used to murder 90 percent of Europe's Jewish children, something else occurred to me. Perhaps presenting all these facts has the opposite effect from what we think. Perhaps we are giving people ideas.
I don't mean giving people ideas about how to murder Jews. There is no shortage of ideas like that, going back to Pharaoh's decree in the Book of Exodus about drowning Hebrew baby boys in the Nile. I mean, rather, that perhaps we are giving people ideas about our standards. Yes, everyone must learn about the Holocaust so as not to repeat it. But this has come to mean that anything short of the Holocaust is, well, not the Holocaust. The bar is rather high.
Shooting people in a synagogue in San Diego or Pittsburgh isn't "systemic"; it's an act of a "lone wolf." And it's not the Holocaust. The same is true for arson attacks against two different Boston-area synagogues, followed by similar simultaneous attacks on Jewish institutions in Chicago a few days later, along with physical assaults on religious Jews on the streets of New Yorkâall of which happened within a week of my visit to the Auschwitz show.
Lobbing missiles at sleeping children in Israel's Kiryat Gat, where my husband's cousins spent the week of my museum visit dragging their kids to bomb shelters, isn't an attempt to bring "Death to the Jews," no matter how frequently the people lobbing the missiles broadcast those very words; the wily Jews there figured out how to prevent their children from dying in large piles, so it is clearly no big deal.
Doxxing Jewish journalists is definitely not the Holocaust. Harassing Jewish college students is also not the Holocaust. Trolling Jews on social media is not the Holocaust either, even when it involves photoshopping them into gas chambers.(Give the trolls credit: They have definitely heard of Auschwitz. Even hounding ancient Jewish communities out of entire countries and seizing all their assetsâwhich happened in a dozen Muslim nations whose Jewish communities predated the Islamic conquest, countries that are now all almost entirely Judenreinâis emphatically not the Holocaust. It is quite amazing how many things are not the Holocaust.
The day of my visit to the museum, the rabbi of my synagogue attended a meeting arranged by police for local clergy, including him and seven Christian ministers and priests. The topic of the meeting was security. Even before the Pittsburgh massacre, membership dues at my synagogue included security fees. But apparently these local churches do not charge their congregants security fees, or avail themselves of government funds for this purpose. The rabbi later told me how he sat in stunned silence as church officials discussed whether to put a lock on a church door. "A lock on the door," the rabbi said to me afterward, stupefied.
He didn't have to say what I already knew from the emails the synagogue routinely sends: that they've increased the rent-a-cops' hours, that they've done active-shooter training with the nursery school staff, that further initiatives are in place that "cannot be made public." "A lock on the door," he repeated, astounded. "They just have no idea."
He is young, this rabbi-younger than me. He was realizing the same thing I realized at the Auschwitz exhibition, about the specificity of our experience. I feel the need to apologize here, to acknowledge that yes, this rabbi and I both know that many non-Jewish houses of worship in other places also require rent-a-cops, to announce that yes, we both know that other groups have been persecuted tooâand this degrading need to recite these middle-school-obvious facts is itself an illustration of the problem, which is that dead Jews are only worth discussing if they are part of something bigger, something more. Some other people might go to Holocaust museums to feel sad, and then to feel proud of themselves for feeling sad. They will have learned something officially important, discovered a fancy metaphor for the limits of Western civilization. The problem is that for us, dead Jews aren't a metaphor, but rather actual people that we do not want our children to become.
people love dead jews, dara horn. pages 187â189. bold and colors mine
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are the phases âIsrael should not existâ, âIsrael is not a countryâ antisemitic?
yes, and I am Jewish
no, and I am Jewish
yes, and I am not Jewish
no, and I am not Jewish
I am not educated enough to cast my vote
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Yes, and I am not Jewish.
There are a lot of reasons why "Israel should not exist" and "Israel is not a country" are antisemitic statements, but I have a very simple reason why I believe these phrases are antisemitic. I think other non-Jews will find this a stomachable explanation.
No one fucking says shit like this about any other country.
I have never in my life heard Spain shouldn't exist. Or England, the Netherlands, France, or any other colonial powers from the Colonial Era. Nobody says it about Germany even though they caused the second World War and carried out the worst genocide in human history.
The only people I've seen say that Russia (currently invading Ukraine; made up of many other imperialized, once-sovereign nations) should be destroyed are warhawks in meme subreddits, and they say it half-jokingly.
Nobody says it about Iran or other Arab nations even though they colonized the shit out of North Africa and lots of those Arab nations are theocracies that treat their women and Jews like shit. Or China, who wants to eat Hong Kong and Taiwan and has a horrible track record with human rights abuses and is carrying out a genocide against Uyghurs.
Or even the United States! We're built on the stolen land of peoples we genocided. All Native American populations are ruins of what they used to be, and we've done barely anything to make reparations. And then we ran our country off the labor of enslaved African people! Yet the most we get is fringe extremists online passively awaiting "the fall of the American empire" and fringe Islamist extremist groups wishing "death to America."
No other country on the planet has wishing for its destruction, denying its legitimacy, and wishing violence against its people as a core part of the popular discourse around the nation like the only (non-exclusively) Jewish nation on the planet does. ESPECIALLY among progressives.
It's antisemitism and it's obvious.
Please donât stand by the islamic regime for the attack on israel. The whole thing was a joke and all it did was endanger the innocent lives of millions of my people. Stand by iranian people whoâve been taken hostage by these lunatics for decades. The islamic regime was killing iranian children and hundreds of men and women not so long ago. Have you all forgotten? Its still the same fucking terrorist regime. Just because their beef with israel now fits global sympathies with palestine, it doesnât mean the islamic regime is now benevolent. Theyâre the same fucking murderous regime that killed mahsa amini for not observing the islamic hijab and then proceeded to kill hundreds of people who protested against her murder. This iran-israel conflict will not hurt israel or benefit palestine. It will only hurt iranian people.
US americans is there, to your knowledge, a supernatural episode set in a town you live(d) in?
yes
no
no but very close by
I was thinking "nah, why would they? not the right vibe" and was going to just assume the answer was no, but...
A map of all the known locations Sam and Dean have travelled to throughout every season of Supernatural.
...I was very surprised to learn that in fact, they did. (close by, that is)
"Isn't it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal" I mean, there's a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it.
Humans have a really weird mix of mundane superpowers.
We're not fast and don't have a lot of natural weaponry but we're bizarrely tolerant to a broad range of toxins to the point that one toxin is considered a morning necessity for some to perform at work. Gotta love us.
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