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Obi-Wan is like I got the kids in the divorce. They aren't even my kids. Or my divorce

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The friends that are chronically 30 minutes late are so important to have because they teach u patience and the meaning of loving someone so much u let ur anger go. I have not mastered either yet but I’m sure it’s coming

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I actually passed away quite a few years ago, but I'm a very private person and never told anybody.

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Therapy speak is super annoying in characters and i think more authors should weaponize this by having a character use therapy speak to justify all their bad life choices including but not limited to bullying, arson, and war crimes to really drive home just how obnoxious it is

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On conservation and survival

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Shavuot really is That girl. You have to have a countdown 50 days in advance till i get here. Yes, i will keep you up all night. You will wear all white for me. Im going to stuff you with cheese till you explode. Yes, i am associated with the most prominent story centered around the relationship between 2 female characters. She is diva, she is elegance, she is serving cunt. Theres truly no one else like her. We have the neurotic gay cousin holiday (purim) and the cottagecore aunt holiday (sukkot) and the nerdy undiagnosed dad holiday (pesach) and many many more, but no one truly does cool confident older sister the way shavuot does. She is the moment, she is THAT girl.

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Tomorrow is Farhud Day, the day marking the violent ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Jews in 1941, equivalent to Kristallnacht and the Holocaust.

There used to be thousands of Jews in Iraq. The ancient Talmudic centers of Surah and Pumbedita were in Iraq. Jews in Iraq, and indeed most of the world, had never been treated as equal citizens, being subject to Dhimmi laws, but still the Iraqi Jewish culture flourished.

Today, it is estimated that there are only four Jews left in Iraq. Four Jews.

The Iraqi Jewish community is one of the oldest Jewish communities outside of Israel, and it was razed to the ground.

If you talk about the Holocaust but don't talk about the multiple ethnic cleansings and genocides of Jews in the SWANA region, you are being deliberately ignorant and antisemitic.

My ancestors lived and died and were buried in Iraq but I can't visit their hometowns and gravesites because they're all gone.

Remember Iraq's Jews.

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Finally figured out how to permanently disable google assistant on phone

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forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the make up industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. im doing none of that in fact

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thinking about how literally no one understands more than the wilson family about how family can mean sooo much more than blood

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chimney should go grey from grief for season 9

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am i the only one enjoying the athena/chimney storyline? I actually think it's been really well thought through and am looking forward to the payoff

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ok but give me one good reason why you wouldn’t date Kermit the frog besides that he is a puppet and a frog

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not madney making me tear up last episode. they are so in love it's just gorgeous. all the emotions and the looking out for each other and trusting each other and supporting each other throughout 8b

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i've noticed that there is a bit of ingrained antisemitism in some non-jewish fiddler on the roof fans and im not gonna lie it really rubs me the wrong way. like they probably don't even know they're being kinda antisemitic in this way

here's what i mean. fiddler on the roof is about (shocker) jewish tradition and change. when you see tevye who cannot accept his daughter for marrying a non-jew, do you think, "oh, he's set in his ways, he's bigoted, he's just not modern enough, his (jewish) tradition is making him blind." ? whereas every time someone in my family would see it for the first time, literally everyone said, "it's a shame, but i absolutely understand why."

i think that's the most important thing -- do you understand why a man like tevye, a jewish man whose judaism is incredibly important to him, a jewish man who lives in the pale of settlement and whose village is under constant threat of pogroms, a jewish man who is alive in this period literally 2 years after the infamous kishinev pogroms (assuming this story takes place in 1905), a jewish man whose ancestors were constantly persecuted for being jewish (ESPECIALLY in the pale), a jewish man who is so remarkably proud to be jewish despite all of this --- do you understand why this man might be rightfully upset at his daughter for breaking the tradition that he and his people have paid with their lives to keep?

you can disagree with tevye's decision all you want -- i do too -- but like. if you don't see this you need to check yourself. fiddler on the roof is not just about the breaking of tradition -- it's about the breaking of tradition that is been their only method of survival for generations because they are Jews.