James

He/They // 23 // Trans Nonbinary // Queer // Disabled // Mentally ill // Jewish // Author // Feminist // Animal Lover // Vegetarian // Ace & Aro Inclusionist // Transandrophobia & Transmisogyny both exist and are harmful // Avid Queue user // I block very liberally & often Love my fiance @strawberrylightss DMs & Inbox are always open & if you wanna be friends hmu :) Everything’s okay to reblog unless tagged otherwise Been on tumblr since 2014, this blog was started in 2020 (yes ive been on here since middle school lmao)

[b-b-e-e-s]

[whosplayerthree]

Important News Alert For Goyim:

"Yaweh" is not the name of the Jewish God. That's just how Benoit Blanc says "Yaoi".

It is also not "Jahova". I dont know where you're even getting that one from. I also can't think of a funny joke for that one. Jews who aren't jetlagged, help me out here.

[fruityculture]

Every day i think about those black musicians whose songs were made into covers by white people and now everyone thinks that these are the originals. Youtube comment sections are full of people like "is this what it feels like to find out you're adopted?" instead of celebrating and promoting the original creators of the songs.

[fruityculture]

Gloria Jones - Tainted Love

Little Eva - Loco-Motion

Martha & The Vandellas - Dancing in the Streets

James Ray - I've Got My Mind Set On You

Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog

Robert Knight - Everlasting Love

Erma Franklin - Piece of My Heart

The Family - Nothing Compares 2 U (written by Prince)

The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love

The Supremes - Keep Me Hanging On

[fruityculture]

The Top Notes - Twist and Shout

Lord Creator - Kingston Town

The Paragons - Tide is High

Commodores - Easy

And here's an entire playlist with songs by black artists covered by The Rolling Stones:

[dykespeare-deactivated20181228]

reblog if ur mom is smart and beautiful

[orangepenguino]

No. I'm fine, really. I'm just ugly crying about Carroll crater. A bright spot on the far side of the moon. I'm fine. I'll stop crying eventually.

[thatswhywelovegermany]

[chutzpahchesed]

“Iran” (by which he means the Islamic Republic, the regime, not the people of Iran who want freedom) “is our (the United States’) greatest ally” is an absurd lie to post no matter what your political beliefs are, no matter your opinions on this war or administration. the Islamic Republic? that forces children to chant “death to America, death to Israel” in school and considers the US “the great Satan”? the plot has been lost so thoroughly, and the underlying reason for the three people pictured here is just their Jew hatred. that’s it. it defies logic because that level of extremism and hateful prejudice exists beyond reason.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/11/04/strategic-anti-americanism-in-iran-from-the-hostage-crisis-to-nuclear-talks/

https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/anti-us-graffiti-still-covers-american-e-idUKRTXJIJXX/

Anti-American murals unveiled outside ex-US Embassy in Tehran

The former U.S. Embassy in Tehran got a new coat of paint ahead of the 40th anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the compound and it’s very a

Anti-US mural unveiled at Tehran square sends warning message

may Iran be free of all of this horror, and may the day come when we actually are able to call the nation of Iran allies in peace and liberty.

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

The people who honestly believe the Iron Dome, the only thing preventing thousands of Israeli civilian casualties, should not exist, are ludicrously evil.

If your position is truly one that more innocent civilians in any war deserve to die because of where they happen to live or the government they currently have in power, you’re not a humanist or an activist for any kind of justice.

You’re just a monster 🤷🏻‍♀️

[jewish-rock]

texts I send my xtian boyfriend

i still don't get ittttt

[jewish-rock]

i may have made it worse by asking another xtian friend whether they believe in jesus or g-d lmao

[jewish-rock]

i may also have asked that same xtian friend if saints were like minor deities since you worship (? pray to?) them

[jantesika]

I fully agree with the analysis of saints being minor deities, but technically the job of a saint isn't to work directly; what at least catholicism structures its official prayers around is that saints "intercede with god" for their various domains (one doesn't pray to a saint, but asks the saint to pray for them). like some kind of divine call centre.

[jewish-rock]

inch resting.

somehow, that still fails to fit with my xtian friend's explanation that good friday is the day that g-d became able to speak directly with people (because the tabernacle was destroyed??)

every time I learn something new abt xtianity I get more confused honestly

[jantesika]

... never heard that one before.

I was raised with this stuff and frankly yeah, it's weird. as most religions are, I guess.

[evilwickedme]

The story of the first blood libel is crazy because straight up this story was invented because a Christian knight murdered a Jewish moneylender he owed money to, everybody knew he owed money to him and that he was broke, and he wasn’t even denying that he killed him, he just claimed that he and the entire Norwich Jewish community had killed a Christian boy more than half a decade prior and therefore it was okay for him to murder the moneylender, and then as witnesses he summoned someone who was not in Norwich the year the boy died, a maid who probably hadn’t actually worked there, and a dead person. And then for the next one thousand years anytime Christians (and later Muslims) wanted to get rid of the local Jewish community they either blamed it on an actual dead person or, more often, on the vague recalled memory of other kids/people Jews had supposedly killed, and that’s just an inescapable part of life now.

Sources: The Murder of William of Norwich, by E. M. Rose (2015); The Life and Passion of William of Norwich, by Thomas of Monmouth (Penguin Classics translation) (originally published 1172)

[l3gendarycatlover]

Leftists: I can't be racist, because I don't even believe your ethnicity is real. Checkmate, Jew.

[magnetothemagnificent]

Thinking of the flight trajectory of Artemis II and how it'll be a historic flyby but they won't be landing, and the verse in Kiddush Levana (Sanctification of the New Moon)....

כשם שאני רוקד כנגדך ואיני יכול לנגוע בך כך לא יוכלו כל אויבי לנגוע בי לרעה

"Just as I am dancing before you (the moon) and cannot touch you, so too all my enemies shall not be able to touch me to harm me."

[id in alt text]

[meowzel-tov]

google search: blah blah jewish question about judaism

google; so yea in the old testament in the bible...

[nightmaretour]

I think one of the most annoying aspects of having a bulky mobility aid is that you completely lose the right to wander. Almost everywhere you go is "in the way" to someone so if you go somewhere and then change your mind and go back it's treated as if you're being rude and disruptive when it wouldn't be seen as an issue if someone who doesn't have a bulky mobility aid did it. It's just normal human behaviour to change your mind sometimes. This is doubly an issue when you needed assistance getting there, there's an intense pressure to stick with every single decision you make that doesn't apply to everyone else, and it makes every trip out in public so stressful.

[chutzpahchesed]

not what it’s about. not what Purim’s about. not what Chanukah is about. this is just a way to demonize the entirety of Jewish culture and Judaism. no :)

[spot-the-antisemitism]

remember when they tried to claim that about yom kippur? that was pathetic

They do this when every major holiday rolls around

[prince-atom]

This guy and the Hoteps -- fight!!

I am completely straining at a gnat but the Egyptians weren't Arabized yet when Exodus is traditionally set. I know I get a bee in my bonnet when people assert that Egyptians were homogenous in their ethnic group, but it's usually because someone is trying to co-opt more than 5,000 years of history to win an Internet argument or get laid or something.

[chutzpahchesed]

not what it’s about. not what Purim’s about. not what Chanukah is about. this is just a way to demonize the entirety of Jewish culture and Judaism. no :)

[if-i-am-not-for-me]

EGYPTIANS, ESPECIALLY BIBLICAL ERA EGYPTIANS, AREN'T ARAB!

Islam was THOUSANDS of years in the future. Arab expansion was even further down the line.

Retroactively colonizing a culture is insane.

And we do not celebrate the Slaying of the First Born! There is a whole part of the seder where we remind ourselves to never take pleasure in the suffering of the Egyptians, and we perform a symbolic mourning ritual to solidify the point.

The only plague we make light of at all is the damn frog(s). Because it is objectively humorous.

[bashfulbottombutch]

happy trans day of visibility to my fellow physically disabled trans people 🧡

it can be hard to express your gender when your body is working against you but nothing about your disability invalidates your transness, i promise ✨

you deserve access to gender affirming care. you deserve healthcare for you disability that isn't transphobic. i hope these things get easier for us 💝