soup, sex, & sun salutations

thoughts n feels with regard to all sorts of fandoms, some i've been in for 16 years and some 16 minutes. i am lost somewhere in the old star wars canon. i block conspiracy theorists on sight. skye, bi, she/her, cis AO3 larrie boycott list ecce superbia sententia

[yessoupy]

logging into my lj to find a post a friend made like a decade ago to send to my lifelong friend who FINALLY UNDERSTANDS SLASH.

tagging @aimmyarrowshigh bc this is V-coded.

[yessoupy]

On this day in Olympics history (1/?)

July 30, 2012 - London Olympics

In men’s swimming, two medal finals were swum, one of them being the 100m backstroke. Since the 1996 Games in Atlanta, the United States had dominated both backstroke events with eight different American men winning gold between the 100m and 200m distances. This dominance continued at the London games (and was furthered in Rio, four years later).

Gold went to Matt Grevers, a giant of a man. At 6′8″ and 240lbs he dwarfed the rest of the American team physically. The closest in size was Nathan Adrian at 6′6″ and 225lbs. Of course they were roommates (they were ROOMMATES) in France at the post-Trials pre-Games training camp…

Matt Grevers and I will be sleeping close for the next 8 days #europeanstyle

They even went to the spa together –

But better yet was Matt’s insistence that they would take Matt’s last name:

there’s your little bit of fun olympics flashback from the first summer games where like everyone had a twitter account and used it. the glory days, i call them. i can’t even remember all the interactions i had with my faves (i do recall getting a tweet from eric shanteau pre-Games). 

OH! Matt got gold and American Nick Thoman got silver. “America goes 1-2 yet again.”

[yessoupy]

[yessoupy]

Hiii! I was wondering if you still write fanfiction? I know I'm a bit late to the party XD I read one of yours called Your skin makes me cry and fell in love with it. Thank you for that amazing fic, it was really a fix-it story and Desus is just perfection. Have a great day :D

I haven't written fic in awhile, but if I do again it'll be on AO3! you can subscribe to me as an author, forget about it, and maybe someday you'll get a happy surprise in your inbox.

I'm so glad you enjoyed that fic! It's def one of my faves and I get a lil thrill whenever I get a comment on it. 💜💜💜 And with fic, you're never late to the party! That's the beauty of an archive.

[lovelylittlelosers]

why does this cat look like robby

[noah-wyles]

[mythmagicetc]

eddie figures out his feelings post-texas and then he's talking to hen about it and he's like "well i can't make a move Now. i'm his landlord. that's like an abuse of power or something right?"

and she's like "eddie you two sleep in the Same Bed"

[mythmagicetc]

eddie, later: buck do you consider me your landlord? in like a power dynamic way?

buck, with pupils the size of a small country: mmmh. do you want me to?

[chewbacca]

Heath Ledger in A Knight's Tale (2001)

[gliklofhameln]

Sefer Nofekh (responsa), Rabbi Abraham ben Jacob ibn Tawwah, Algiers, 16th century

Rabbi Abraham ben Jacob Ibn Tawwah (d. after 1551) was a prominent halakhist, yeshiva dean, preacher, cantor, and liturgical poet of Catalonian extraction based in Algiers. He was a descendant of both the Spanish Rabbi Moses Nahmanides (1194-1270) and the Majorcan-Algerian Rabbi Simeon ben Zemah Duran (1361-1444).

This manuscript, entitled Sefer Nofekh, origninally contained one hundred fifty (the numerical value of the word nofekh spelled without the vav) of his responsa, copied in his hand and, in several cases, signed by him with his distinctive signature: “The most humble descendant of Adam and Eve [Hawwah], Abraham ben Jacob Ibn Tawwah, of blessed memory.” (The manuscript is currently missing thirty-one of the responsa: numbers).

Sefer nofekh not only covers many topics in ritual law but also treats personal status and business law questions. Its pages preserve questions received from Fez in Morocco, Djerba in Tunisia, and several cities and towns in Algeria (Algiers, Tlemcen, Oran, Miliana, Constantine, Médéa, Ouargla/Mzab), especially those that had no local halakhic authority. In his answers, Ibn Tawwah traced the sources of Jewish law from the Talmud to contemporary times, objected to excessive stringency, defended established communal practice, and worked hard to minimize conflicts between members of a community. The book’s essays thus shed much light on the history and socio-religious culture of North African Jewry in the critical period following the expulsions from the Iberian Peninsula and open a window onto Ibn Tawwah’s thought, halakhic methodology, and spiritual leadership.

Ibn Tawwah was a lyrical writer, and many of his responsa include rhymed poetic portions. Toward the end of the volume is a collection of the author’s liturgical poetry, in which he displays great expertise in the principles of traditional Sephardic piyyut.

[bantlers]

Shoutout to hairy chests 🫡

[inoculatedcupcake]

Artemis II crew returned safely back to Earth. 🚀

[tenitchyfingers]

“We chose the term “asexual” to describe ourselves because both “celibate” and “anti-sexual” have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrificed sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. “Asexual”, as we use it, does not mean “without sex” but “relating sexually to no one”. This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality.”

— The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Note the date, people:

That’s 1972

29 years before AVEN was started online,

and 47 years before the present.

And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.

So, no: we are not just Tumblr trenders. Get out of here with that.

[queerhumanbeing]

supporting my asexual friends and foes by rebbloging this

[freyjawriter24]

It’s 50 years this month since the first version of the Asexual Manifesto was written. Aces have been writing about our experiences under this name for at least half a century. We are not an internet fad.

[mariacallous]

I need him to die please

[smegorl]

Maybe this is too far but I think every Crimean Tatar on Earth should be flown to LA so they can all kick him in the nuts until his balls pop.

[rootless-cosmopolitan]

For the Westerners who don’t know: during soviet times, Crimean Tatars were subject to forced deportation and replaced with ethnic slavs to make the region more loyal to the USSR. Then in 2014, russia occupies Crimea, and over a million Crimeans, both Tatar and non, flee, causing the biggest internally displaced population in the world at the time. russia replaces them with loyal russians via a planned settlement program, to make the region more “loyally russian.”

USSR/russia commits textbook ethnic cleansing and these fucking genocidal blood and soil chuds are like, “no this is the Indigenous Land of the proud Russian Slav”

[wintersmitth]

Russia systematically cleanses Crimea of Tatars to this day. The amount of Tatar activists imprisoned on bogus grounds is astounding.

Also funny how Hassan Piker is just throwing his fellow muslims down the bus.

[sephardi-bf]

I do think it says something that every Jew I've met who regularly goes to synagogue believes that a Jew who converts in is fully, ethnically Jewish, regardless of genetics, and can call themself Ashkenazi/Sephardi/etc., and all the Jews I know that disagree were raised with only a glimmer of cultural connection to the Jewish identity and if they're reconnecting it hasn't been for very long.

Ethnicity is decided by ancestry, language, food, culture, traditions, history, social treatment, and religion. Missing one (not speaking Ladino, being atheist, etc.) does not preclude you from an ethnicity. Genetics are not the same thing as ancestry, especially in a society built around tribal affiliations. It is not synonymous with the concept of race.

Converts, gerim, Jews-by-choice, new Jews, you're wholly Jewish. An antisemite does not ask how you were raised before calling you a slur. Nobody decides if you are Jewish enough besides your beit din. You are welcome, you are one of us. Indeed, halacha forbids us from discriminating against you or reminding you of your time before your first visit to the mikvah. It is not inappropriate to remind people of this, if they break those rules.

Jews who are reconnecting, converts do not threaten you. You might actually share a lot of experiences, which is a good thing. A lot of the resources that are utilized in the conversion process are available and useful for you as well, if you want. You both deserve grace for this process.

Jewish values tell us to embrace each other. Do not ostracize one another for doing Jewish things.

[chutzpahchesed]

(the question says women because that’s who she was initially speaking to, but the answer is for everyone.)

[kamogryadeshi]

‼️A Russian drone attack on a residential building in Odesa killed a 30-year-old woman and her 2-year-old daughter, as well as a 53-year-old woman, the head of the Regional Military Administration, Kiper, said.

According to him, another 15 people were injured to varying degrees, including a pregnant woman and two children: a 7-month-old boy and a 2-year-old girl.

According to Deputy Prime Minister Kuleba, there may still be people under the rubble.

[pastelispunx]

My emotions about space travel, and the history of, are strong today.

[mankillercalledbunny]

The answer to "How did these Ancient People do this????" is basically always

1. A lot of dudes. Just a ton of fucking people from beginning to end of the process.

2. Ancient people weren't stupid, they just figured shit out the same way we do: fuck around until you find out.

3. We're gonna plan this out and it's gonna take ten fucking years, and you will cope.

4. Sticks and string are surprisingly versatile and can be used for a variety of purposes, like moving stuff and making sure things are even and go in the spot you wanted to put them in!

5. I want to make this easier and more efficient to move. If I put this on the round thing and push, it will move. If I put this in water, it will move. If I get some animals and rope and have a whole bunch of them drag it, it will move. All of these things are a better option than one guy trying to pick the whole fucking thing up.

[mankillercalledbunny]

"I'm not calling the people who believe in this conspiracy theory racist" I am. They're racist. Maybe not out of malice, but the fact that they believe in this is in itself racist. These conspiracies are always about brown people. Machu Pichu, the Pyramids, Göbekli Tepe, Easter Island, it is ALWAYS POC. It's never the Parthenon, it's never the Colliseum, despite the fact that these were built around the same time as some of the other sites these conspiracy chucklefucks like to throw around, it's never something fucking European. It's always "primitive people" with "stone tools" and "no understanding of modern engineering" so "clearly someone must have taught them this or given them the technology because CLEARLY they were just too Primitive and Savage to figure it out themselves." Fuck off with that shit.

[firstbuzz]

Four astronauts to begin training for most ambitious Moon mission in over 50 years

Months after their name was announced to be the first astronauts to go around the Moon in over half a century, the Artemis-II crew will begin training for the ambitious mission.

The first crewed mission aimed at paving the way for humanity’s return to the Moon will see four astronauts go around the Moon in a newly developed spacecraft and return to Earth. The training for the 10-day mission will begin in June and will last for 18 months. During the training, the four astronauts receive detailed lessons on the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System as they learn to operate and monitor systems for the ascent, orbit, coast, and entry phases of the mission, and how to respond in emergency situations.“We’re building a robust training plan for the crew to ensure they’re ready for every aspect of this first mission to the Moon under Artemis on our newest spacecraft and rocket,” said Jacki Mahaffey, lead training officer for the Artemis II crew.The crew will also focus on vehicle systems and operations to support normal and potential emergency situations during the two most highly dynamic phases of the mission - ascent and entry. Orbit and coast training will give the crew the skills they need to execute the rest of their first day in space after launch when they will carry out a rendezvous and proximity operations demonstration “The majority of the crew’s training will take place at Johnson Space Center, where we have an Orion simulator and a mockup of the crew module to help the crew understand placement and orientation of what’s inside. The crew will begin their training in our launch and entry simulator in Houston in the fall, and we plan to begin our integrated simulations between the crew and mission control about 12 months before launch,” Jacki Mahaffey added.