#jew queue

[deceitfuldevil]

Did I mention that I met CHARLIE COX yesterday?? And got his autograph?? Definitely going to be dwelling on the fact that Charlie called me “love”, complimented my nose chain, remembered me when I went to get his autograph, and signed a ‘x’ like a kiss on his autograph for me.

(Yes I’m delusional and will be annoying af about this)

I have so much more to say and post about my time at Denver Fan Expo in Colorado, I’m at the last day of the con now and go back home tonight on another 20 hour Amtrak train ride. Hooray 🤪

[deceitfuldevil]

Just got on a 19 hour Amtrak train ride to Colorado for the Denver Fan Expo where I’m going to meet Charlie Cox!! I’m very excited… and also very behind on writing and posting (because my work situation still hasn’t gotten better, worse in fact.) so please keep me away from boredom during this trip and fill my inbox!

Sleepover Night!

fuck marry kill

tell me about your crushes!!!!!!!!!!

make me chose between two things

tell me about your day

confess some secrets u.u

recommend stuff to me

ask me weird things

ask me personal things

do you need help with your drama?

truth or dare

ask me for song recs

unpopular opinions

Vent to me

ASK ME ANYTHING PLS!

okay on or off anon it makes no difference pls talk to me!!!!

[knightoftableround]

"im trans" "im bi" ok?? im bitching??? hes bitching?? they're bitching??? we're bitching???

[come-see-our-show]

i’m so glad the prince of egypt was never fandomized like other musicals because it would’ve consisted of non-jews shipping the fuck out of moses/rameses and hotep/huy, babygirlifying rameses, villainizing miriam and tzipporah (or making them a side-pairing without really caring about them), completely ignoring yocheved and tuya because they’re women, and rewriting the history of jewish people

[alaskan-wallflower]

yippeeeee wip

[batmanego]

How do I get through to you?

Do I have to use my position as an American Jew to advocate for the life of someone close to me? That’s horrific. I don’t want to do that, but I feel like I have to.

Isn’t it ghoulish that I have to tell you details of unimaginable suffering to get you to be compelled to give Ibrahim what amounts to a cup of coffee for us in the West? Can you imagine the degradation of that? Of your life being worth that little to people, but relying on them to see it as worth anything at all?

Is it photos you want? Will seeing his face make him real to you? Will seeing the rubble make it real to you? These are photos Ibrahim sent me this morning, because I thought they might get people to pay attention.

Do you see the rubble? Do you see the layers of clothing he has, because it’s winter in Gaza? Do you believe him now? Will you help him now?

Ibrahim is cold. He is hungry. He doesn’t sleep well. He’s been sick recently. His loved ones have been injured and killed. He has put the most unimaginable suffering on display, made his grief public, something nobody should ever have to do, just so people will donate anything to him. Please, don’t let him suffer.

Donate. Share. Queue this post. Tell your friends and family. Please help my friend.

[edenfenixblogs]

On the status of my “The Antisemitism Experiment” tag:

So, when something is a straight up experience that someone had, I reblog it and add it to the queue.

When it’s something that’s full of misinformation that I need to fact check and provide sources for, I often put it in drafts until I have the emotional capacity to deal with it. I have never even used the drafts function before starting this experiment. Everything in my drafts is from the experiment.

My Queue currently has 23 items.

My Drafts currently have 828 items.

Not even including the amount of antisemitic stuff I’ve already posted to the queue and removed from drafts, I want all the people who have sent me inbox messages or posted about experiences or felt like I’m not including enough in my queue: I know.

I see you. The amount of insane misinformation we must combat is so unfair. The amount of grace under pressure and distress we must show in order for others to take our suffering seriously is unfair. The amount of misinformation that people uncritically take as fact is so harmful and unfair.

And that’s all JUST the stuff I think is bad enough to be queued. The amount of insane bullshit I see every day is sickening and inexplicable.

This is why we Jews are so desperately asking for IRL visible support from our friends. We know how much antisemitic bullshit is out there. And the fact that non-Jews aren’t talking about it regularly makes us wonder if it’s because you believe it and agree with it.

It’s too ever present. It’s too widespread. And if you haven’t even privately reached out to your Jewish friends to check in or acknowledge their pain proactively, you’re part of the problem. If you’ve actively distanced yourself from Jewish friends, you’ve done more damage than you’ll ever know. And it’s something that should haunt you for a lifetime. It’s something you should learn from. It’s something you need to make amends for.

It’s never too late to reach out to a Jew you care about. It’s never too late to apologize to a Jew you’ve abandoned and to do better by them. Nobody acting in good faith is asking you to stop caring about Palestinian life. All we are asking is for you to care about Jews. Because we are people too.

[queer-jewish-spoonie]

Today at work I rang up an older Jewish lady. I noticed her magen david, and complimented it. She froze for a second and then relaxed, and asked me where mine was. I showed her my necklace and we had a short conversation. She said that she could tell all the way from the queue line that I was Jewish. At one point she said, "these days we just want to-" and she closed her shirt a bit to hide her magen. I wish I weren't so socially awkward because instead of nodding along, I would have told her, "no, we can't hide, not anymore, not again." I wish I could have hugged her and told her how much she- a total stranger- means to me. Every time I run into another Jew when I'm not expecting it, it takes my breath away. I'm reminded of why I converted- because I fell in love with Judaism, the Jewish people, Jewish culture, Jewish everything. Jews, I love you so much. We are amazing. We have each other. עם ישראל חי

[aqlstar]

Anyway before I go to bed I do have to queue at least one MLK Jr appreciation post.

This is it- no hot takes here. It’s hard to overstate the importance of Martin Luther King Jr’s work towards and equitable and free America.

He was such a brilliant leader of the civil rights movement, and such an irreplaceable ally and inspirational figure to American Jews.

[damnfandomproblems]

We received a handful of very similar submissions not too far apart from each other, so I've decided to break format a bit and include them all in one post together here to get them out of the way. Each will have their own Fandom Problem number but we will still be getting the same amount of posts today, this will just be one item in the queue.

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Fandom Problem #6735:

I saw someone complain that Hatsune Miku drawn as an Israeli teenager is exactly the same as drawing Nazi Germany Miku!

This is an example of an antisemitic trope called Holocaust inversion - but that's actually beside the point.

I saw the same person post their own lovely fanart of an Egyptian Miku.

Look, I don't think random ass Egyptians nowadays are to blame for their government's or their ancestors misdeeds. Nor do I think Egyptian Miku somehow represents them.

But I find it hypocritical that they're implying Israeli civilians are just like the fucking Nazis when they're from a country where ~20 Jews live.

There are over 50 000 Egyptian Jews in the world! They had to leave Egypt because there they're were being murdered or having their houses firebombed. Most went to Israel because no other country would take them.

I guess by this person's logic they're just as bad as Nazis.

But since this is a fandom blog, let's bring Miku back into this:

Miku is Japanese.

Japan is a nation with an imperialist past. Japanese nationalism is still going strong. The Ainu people and Ryukyuan people had their homelands colonized, and were forcibly assimilated. To this day the Japanese government does not recognize them as minority ethnic groups.

The Wikipedia category page for Japanese war crimes has well over 50 entries, sorted by the nation they were committed in. Between them, hundreds of thousands were killed, and hundreds of thousands were raped or forced into sexual slavery. This is not a distant past, there are "comfort women" survivors still alive today. The Japanese government didn't apologize for any of this until the 1990s. Japan continues to not have any laws in place to prevent racial or ethnic based discrimination.

Does Miku represent imperialism, colonialism, mass murder, genocide, racism, and state sponsored mass sexual slavery, just because she is Japanese?

No, of course not. That would be dumb. We don't hold individual Japanese people, and certainly not random Japanese fictional characters, responsible for this. That would be both racist and pointless.

If you think that it's somehow different for a fanmade Israeli teenager Miku design,

🫵you are an antisemite🫵

Fandom Problem #6736:

'white people participating in the international hatsune miku trend is LITERALLY colonialism' isn't a take i expected to see and yet here we are!

I think it's time we all go outside!

Fandom Problem #6737:

I really don't want to be judgemental and I know that the whole Mikusona monday/personal Hatsune Miku design trends from a while ago were all about redesigns based on the artist's tastes.

But you know, sometimes the design is so far removed from the original that its just unrecognizable as Miku?

I mean if your character has a different silhouette than Miku, a different outfit than Miku, a different face than Miku, a different hairstyle than Miku, a different hair color than Miku, nothing that would thematically connect it to Miku, then that's not Hatsune Miku, that's your OC!

Fandom Problem #6738:

"I drew Palestinian Miku because Israeli Miku made me feel sick!"

Really? Seriously?!

You drew Palestinian Miku, not because you love Palestine, not because you love Palestinian culture, but because you wanted to stick it up to those pesky Israeli artists?

That's... I don't even know what to say. That's awful, and it reveals an awful lot about you.

You're not even Palestinian - you're appropriating Palestinian culture to fuel your hatred of Israeli citizens.

You aren't pro-peace. You aren't even pro-Palestine. You're just antisemitic.

Fandom Problem #6739:

Artist draws Chinese Hatsune Miku

People: 😍🥰🤗💗

Artist draws Iranian Hatsune Miku

People: 💖☺️😄🤩

Artist draws Afghan Hatsune Miku

People: 😊😻💞🥰

Artist draws Indonesian Hatsune Miku

People: 👏🤗💗🙂

Artist draws British Hatsune Miku

People: 😄♥️😽💕

Artist draws USAmerican Hatsune Miku

People: 🥰😍✨💝

Artist draws Israeli Hatsune Miku

People: I literally feel sick rn kill yourself you racist nationalist genocidal colonizer! How dare you touch Hatsune Miku! Your culture is fake and your art is ugly as shit!

...somehow, I feel that it isn't about genocide being bad 🤔

(and yes, I have actually seen people say each and every single word I wrote there. It's not an exaggeration.)

Fandom Problem #6740:

There's a trend going around of people drawing Hatsune Miku if she was from their own countries, which is really fun to see, but I gotta say,

If seeing someone's drawing of Israeli Miku makes you 'feel sick' (actual quote that I saw), or if you think someone drawing Israeli Miku means they support genocide,

I need you to step back and realize that this line of thought isn't normal, it is in fact really fucking racist.

Random citizens of Israel aren't to blame for their government's actions, if you can't realize that, you have been radicalized and not in a "cute" way!

People are not to blame for their government's actions. Random people sharing their culture and making a drawing fucking Hatsune Miku aren't showing approval for everything their country does.

If you can respect, say, Chinese, Russian, or Iranian artists (or anyone, really) in spite of their countries' rampant human rights violations - because it's not their goddamn fault - but you are unable to do the same for Israeli artists -

That is just racist, it's a double standard, and it reeks of antisemitism.

This sort of performative outrage, this performative disgust - it does JACK SHIT to help people in Gaza.

Please do better.

Fandom Problem #6741:

I can't help but to side eye people who draw their blorbos with Palestinian flags... OK, you drew Miku with a keffiyeh on her ass. Exactly how is that supposed to help? By creating awareness? You really think anyone on this site isn't aware by now?

It seems like performative activism at best.

If you really want to use your art to help people in Gaza, take charity commissions or something that'll help materially you know!

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

So I'm considering changing tumblrs entirely, but in slower stages than last time. I like the Jewish Song of the Day posts and think it would be disruptive to try to pick that up on another blog, but I think I'm going to queue those posts up and let that be a curtain call.

This blog has gotten extremely large and unwieldy, and I find myself getting more and more anxious every time a new person follows me. I'm not a public figure. I'm not a political commentator. I'm not a journalist. The idea of being famous is like a horror story to me. I'm Just Some Guy.

I'm glad I've been able to be a comfort to other Jews and friends during these awful times. I don't plan on leaving fully, and I will probably continue to talk about these things. But this is starting to feel like the end of a chapter of my Judaism. I closed the chapter on my conversion student blog when I finished my beit din and came here. And over time, the old blog has been like a little time capsule for me to look back on and remember.

This is starting to feel like the end of a different chapter. When I started this blog, I was a Jew without Jewish trauma.

That is no longer true.

I feel changed in some fundamental way, like my place in the world writ large and my place as a Jew and within Jewish community has been changed forever.

There is a purity of love that can only happen before pain, but there is maturity of love that can only happen through and after pain. I loved being Jewish in the unsullied way that only a new ger can, and now I love being a Jew fiercely, as something intrinsic and bone-deep.

I haven't just lived with my Judaism; I've survived with it. And there is both pain and pride in that.

And so perhaps, it is time to close this chapter and begin a new one.

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

This post was recently reblogged, and it struck me that it was originally written 11 years ago 😥 before TWOIAF came out (let alone F&B), so I ought to update it with the few relevant topics that have appeared in the worldbuilding since then.

So, @bitchfromtheseventhhell, an update: Eastern Europe inspo is at last a thing! In TLOIAF/TWOIAF, we have the land of Mossovy at "the ends of the earth", far to the east... so far that it's east of Yi Ti, east of Asshai.

And yet with a name like that and its great northern bear shape, it's for sure an expy of Russia. With quite an interesting description: "Beyond N’ghai are the forests of Mossovy, a cold dark land of shapechangers and demon hunters." And, um, that's all. welp. At least it's there?

Also in TWOIAF we have a little bit more about the Orphans of the Greenblood, that they speak the original Rhoynish language in secret, after it was banned by the Red Princes. I think this leans far more to the Romani inspo of the culture, with their private language, but I could see an argument for the use of liturgical Hebrew among medieval Jews. It's an argument I'd disagree with, but I could see one!

But the most notable thing, finally a situation where I was looking at the book like 🤔 hmm, was in F&B with the Lyseni Spring. Now... the Rogare family of Lys are very much not physically or even culturally inspired by medieval Jews. They're of Valyrian descent, silver-gold hair, purple eyes, the works. And Lys is, well... it's awful. The Rogares' primary historical inspiration is the Medici family and the Medici Bank of Florence, with Lysandro Rogare "the Magnificent" about as obvious a parallel with Lorenzo the Magnificent as you can get. But I was wondering where were the stereotypes of greedy bankers and blood libel, and well...

All this the court and kingdom might have come to accept in time, had Lady Larra not also insisted upon keeping her own gods. [...] Her ladies, her servants, and her guards would join Lady Larra at certain times in performing obeisances to these queer, ancient deities. [...] Darker rumors soon arose. [...] every time a child went missing, the ignorant would look at one another and talk of Saagael’s insatiable thirst for blood.

Drazenko’s ties to Sunspear and Lysandro’s to the Iron Throne made the Rogares the princes of Lys in all but name. By the end of 134 AC, some feared they might soon rule Westeros as well. Their pride and pomp and power became the talk of King’s Landing. [...] Yet the brothers were no more than puppets in the hands of Lady Larra; it was her and her queer Lysene gods who held their strings.

Or so the stories went. Like all such tales, they had some truth to them, well mixed with fear and falsehood. That the Lyseni were proud, grasping, and ambitious cannot be doubted. That Lotho used his bank and Roggerio his brothel to win friends to their cause goes without saying. Yet in the end they differed but little from many of the other lords and ladies of Aegon III’s court, all of them pursuing power and wealth in their own ways. Though more successful than their rivals (for a time, at least), the Lyseni were only one of several factions competing for influence. Had Lady Larra and her brothers been Westerosi, they might have been admired and celebrated, but their foreign birth, foreign ways, and foreign gods made them objects of mistrust and suspicion instead.

Nothing at all could be proved against his brother Roggerio, but Lord Manderly sentenced him to seven lashes all the same. “For what?” Roggerio demanded of him, aghast. “For being a thrice-damned Lyseni,” Torrhen Manderly responded.

Mind you, without an actual strong parallel to medieval Jewish culture and customs, this can just read as generic xenophobia, exacerbated by a shady business practices and an economic crash. But to me, I see the overlap of a banking family refusing to worship the Seven or take on Westerosi customs or wear Westerosi clothing, being accused of kidnapping and murdering children, being accused of secretly controlling the country (or conspiring to), being put on sham trial, and I go, well, hmmm.

crossingwinter asked:

I’ve been having a long series of discussions with a friend of mine about the analogous bodies of Europe that can be found in Westeros, and one of the things that I keep finding to be true is that there don’t ever seem to be Eastern European analogies at all.

While that’s fine, because lord knows GRRM can’t do everything, the one that my friend keeps hitting me with is an analogy to Jews and Judaism. He likens it to the Red Priests and their faith to Judaism(which I agree with your posts is definitely more based on Zoroastrianism than on Judaism) but I’m looking much more at a socio-historical angle. I see the Orphans of the Greenblood as being much more like the Roma (complete with unfortunate prejudices from those who don’t understand that culture); as far as we’ve seen in Dany’s experience in Slaver’s Bay, there doesn’t seem to be much (beyond the obvious Exodus comparison) to an analogous Jewish people so much as an amalgamation of slaves from different cultures much like what the Egyptians or Persians had. I just don’t find anything remotely comparable to the historical experience of either Sephardic or Ashkenazi Jews with Westerosi or Essosi society.

I guess this is a a wonk question that’s basically a “am I being an extreme dolt and missing something obvious” question, but it’s eating me up. Am I being an extreme dolt and missing something obvious?

Nope, you’re not missing anything obvious because there’s really not anything there. As you might imagine, noticing references to Jews and Judaism is something I’m pretty good at, and, well, I got nothin’.

Well, almost nothing. The closest religion to the basic core of Jewish beliefs is that of the Lord of Harmony (minus the butterflies), but the vegetarian pacifist golden-skinned Naathi are not really comparable to Jews as such. You also point out the Orphans of the Greenblood being similar to Roma, and I agree that’s what they’re drawn from; but they do have one small parallel with Jews, and that’s those who return to Mother Rhoyne, “making aliyah”, so to speak. And there’s a teeny-tiny thing re the cloaking ceremony of marriages, but that may just be a coincidence.

But from what we’ve seen, there’s really nothing comparable to the historical experience of Jews, their outsider culture in the Middle Ages, nor anything strongly resembling antisemitism (stereotypes of greediness, pogroms, blood libels, etc). (There is xenophobia re the Dornish, but not in the same way.) Mind you we haven’t seen all of the Free Cities yet, there could be something there that GRRM has yet to illustrate. (And if we don’t see any other Free Cities in the books, maybe TWOIAF will mention something?)

Note, it’s possible that this… comparative historical lacuna… could be because of the major inspirations for Westeros – the Wars of the Roses, the Hundred Years’ War, that general era of the Middle Ages in England – almost entirely took place when the Edict of Expulsion was in force, when Jews were officially banned from England (1290-1657). So GRRM may not have any major analogies to the historical experience of Jews because they’re just not there in his sources at all. Or it could just be a parallel he’s not interested in writing. (Which could be a reason why Eastern Europe isn’t especially referenced either.) Nevertheless, it’s something that might be interesting to ask him about one day, perhaps.

[vintage-tech]

Today's acquisition was a 1922 issue of Life magazine. The cartoon is relevant a century and three years later. It's not the same Life magazine you're thinking of, and yet it is.

Let me explain: Life was created in 1883 and ran as a highbrow humor magazine (competing with Punch and Esquire) until it was purchased by Henry Luce in 1936, whereupon it took a more serious tone and featured great photography, thus allowing it to bounce back after swirling around the drain for a few years... or until it folded as a publication in 2000 though today its archives exist as a Tumblr.

The early version of Life is a different vein of humor than most people understand today... or probably understood in 1922, either. It is relevant to point out that the United States had enacted the 18th Amendment, Prohibition of liquor, just a couple years earlier, so several of the barbs in this magazine are about the 'dry' nation.

Some of the above jokes I can explain, others "I guess you had to be there", but I can tell you the point of the cartoon: Life was published in America, where people couldn't drink so no liquor advertisements (other than Mouquin Vermouth, which had an 'American formula' that reduced the alcohol content by 5 ounces per bottle) and their British competition Punch had no such issues, thus the visit from a confused Johnnie Walker of Scotch whiskey fame.

From a modern perspective, and probably from many a century ago, the problem with Life was all the racist stereotypes. Jews were shown with big noses, Asians wore queues and kimonos, and as for Black folks... yeah. This was 1922 so don't come at me for sharing the final "joke" above and the cartoon below of a youngster trying to make off with a watermelon!

I'd like to end this post with something more upbeat, so here's a cartoon titled "From Counter to Coronet" by Gluyas Williams. The jokes are a bit more tongue-in-cheek but you'll get the idea.

[hellochildrenoftheatom]

Queer Jews Project

Hi fellow LGBTQIA+ yids. I know we’re hurting and scared and dreading pride month.

So I’m going to queue up a queer Jew for every day this month. Posts will go up at 12 p.m. EST.

Disclaimer: There are so many queer jews. These are just the ones I feel like listing. This is just a fun project, not a serious academic discussion of these people and their legacies. And definitely not the place for I/P discourse. The tags are for exposure but I'll limit them to the identities of the jews in the posts themselves.

EDIT: The tag is queer jews project.

[radiomogai]

[PT: Transmasc Jew. end PT]

[PT: Transfem Jew. end PT]

Transmasc Jew

→ Someone who is Jewish (religious or ethnic) and transmasculine.

Transfem Jew

→ Someone who is Jewish (religious or ethnic) and transfeminine.

[kick-a-long]

sorry tribe, I'm stressed about packing up the car and driving in heavy snow with my husband's back at a 6/10 pain, so I'm going to futz around the house and wash the homemade lox until i feel sure i have everything prepared logistically and emotionally. I got a queue running and I suggest everyone else do the same. we all know the threat this year. we all know that random attacks might be coming. lets get prepped for our holiday of resistance and their holiday tradition of jew pogroms. leaving some encouragement:

Here’s my displayed ribbon for the hostages. Am yisrael chai.

And here’s my favorite model

I love you Jews in my phone.