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son-of-avraham · 5 months ago

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I love talking to rabbis as a recent conversion student because the interaction goes something like, "you're converting? Now?! At this time, at this moment in history?!". And they always talk about this influx of jewish convert students they've seen recently, and it's like...

There's this level of respect I get from rabbis for converting at this point in time, but... Has there ever been a good time to be a jew in the last thousand years or so plus? I'm imagining that rabbis and jews in general back in 1492, back in 1290, back in 1349 would have said the exact same thing. So, really, there is only a time to be a jew. Maybe it's not a "good" time, yes, but it is a time. And to me, that's good enough

#jumblr #jew by choice #jewish conversion #personal thoughts tag #and to me i *know* that being a jew has historically Not Been a Good Time. i don't ask that of my conversion #i would convert if i had to run one day. in fact i count on that as a possibility #that's why i like simple judaica. if i have to run away with my people it'll be easier with simple bare-boned judaica #i would convert even in the middle of a desert. in the middle of exhile. on threat of pain and death #because to me being a jew isn't about it being a 'good time.' it's about being true and honest about what i need to be #if i were born this same way a thousand years ago i would make this decision again #where you rest; i will rest. where you pray; i will pray. when you weep; i shall weep. and where you die; i will die #i can only speak for myself but i've seen other students with a similar mindset #so in truth it's not the timing that motivated me. it's deeper. it can't be intellectualized. it is a primal feeling - something soul-deep

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topnotchquark · 1 year ago

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Nico saying that Lewis gives his daughters boxes of presents every Christmas just got caught in my mind.

Imagine you were a mixed race boy born in Hertfordshire, different from everyone else around you. Bullied in school, being raised by your father to compete in a sport where money is very much of essence and you and your family do not have a lot of it. And then you meet this other boy who comes from the kind of life you dream to live one day. You're friends and fierce competitors. You find solace in each other. You visit Monaco for the first time with your friend, dreaming up the life you will have when you make it, when you beat out of the mould that the world thought it could capture you in.

And then you two grow through the ranks and you're at the pinnacle of your sport and you have what it takes to win and the world recognises that you can win. And you win. You win with your friend and fiercest competitor by your side fighting with you for those wins, and this fighting ruins something something that was valuable to both of you when you were still innocent and unsullied by life.

But despite everything that went into the doing and undoing of this relationship, you still realise that this person you once called a friend has a life and family beyond your bitter dynamic. He has children, and children need love and affection and good memories. And you're a better man now so you understand that. So you make sure the kids get gifts on Christmas. And you make sure of it every year. Afterall, if you met someone you loved deeply when you were both kids, wouldn't you feel a pang of nostalgia when they had kids. Wouldn't you try to extend the warmth that you couldn't find for your friend to his children. Afterall, whatever happens during childhood basically remains with you forever.

#and nico's perspective of the same is just #being bullied as a child and being profoundly lonely till you find this friend who is in many ways the yardstick for performance #and even when you go through all this rancidity and the love has almost evaporated down to bare bones politeness #you know there is something that remains deep down #and so he gets your kids Christmas gifts each year #both their childhoods were sites of pain and both of them found something with each other #and lewis honours that by being a positive presence in nico's childrens' lives #albeit from a distance #and of course we're no strangers to how much Nico loves his kids #you can bet if Lewis had kids Nico would do that same #sorry this caught in my heart a little #I knew he had been giving presents for a while and I always thought of that as very beautiful but seeing it on the tl made me remember #man #love haunts you in such peculiar ways forever #brocedes #lewis hamiton #nico rosberg #f1 #formula 1

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nightmarearian · 9 months ago

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Done (heavy quotation marks) with monster Ody @evergreen292 ;)

tbh I couldn’t for the life of me pick a color palette I liked And Render it so I gave up on color. Enjoy the half assery.

Tbh I’ve just been call it Ithacan Naga, but it’s objectively it’s a mix of snake, owl/bird, and human. So 🤷.

Tbh the wings are supposed to be white/gray-brown, cause owls & Hermes, while his scales are supposed to be an oscillating scale from sea green-blue to purple-tinted gray. Uhm. Evidently that sorta didn’t happen but also did. So.

The purple/grayer scales are gonna be more around with the feathers and wings.

Those fin colors are. Too blue and too bright but I love the colors themselves so they’re staying for now.

Uhm. That’s it for now, ig. I’m sorta on a timer rn and I’m tired so <3

The writing bit with this is still in the works (😭)

#Odysseus #epic the musical #Ithacan naga au #guess that’s what we’re calling it #an Ithacan naga would deadass just be an aquatic naga #I think #the feathers and wings are cause he’s Zeus/Hermes’ kin & Athena blessed #tbh the main reason i wanted to color at all is cause I wanted easier differentiation between… everything. and actually draw the scales.#so snakes have this extra (?) bone that connects their skull & jaw which is what lets them extend it. so. ody gets that here.#resting/casual naga ody is like. 7ish ft? anything intimindation or just rising usually reaches 11-12 ft. his full length js 20 ft #naga eyes don’t have any eyelids. it looks very odd on a human (unsettling)#owl eyes don’t really have visible white scelcra #or however you spell it #nor do snakes #unsettling #maybe I’ll caption this later but hhhhh #he’s sorta supposed to be an olive sea snake and fish owl #but fuck colors rn #uhm cause he’s aquatic I suppose he does have to make up with Poseidon… uhm let’s say after everything Seidon picks up a fuss and Athena #argues back n everything and it causes a reallllly big fuss so Zeus (+ others) eventually work smth out that basically amounts to:#Don’t fuckin bother each other (intentionally)#also endgame for naga ody (he can change back and forth dw) is that he gets used to it. he doesn’t advertise it cause he’s sneaky like that #(and after he gets over the self loathing). uhmmm. yeah. It’s great cause NEREID PEN and SEA NAGA ODY #they can go on sea hunts together!!!!#ody CAN fly yes. same logic that lets Hermes fly with 2 small pairs of wings on his ankles and head.#he folds the wings when swimming and the fins fan out underwater. vice versa. his feathers are waterproof.#you can BARELY see the vauge shape of thighs/legs melting into the serpent part btw.#Ari’s art #my art #I’mma add onto this + actually type this out in a post later or smth

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ezlo-x · 1 month ago

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updating my art fight roster 💪

#the additions are pretty bare bones rn so you wont see much #im gonna try to draw new icons for all of them also new refs for the old charas #im debeating if should seperate yue and yueru cause ik ppl like her zonai ver a lot #and i say cause idk if i will be able to have sooraj's goron ref ready #same goes to yun #txt

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silverspadesss · 3 months ago

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the first thing to come out of billy’s mouth after realising that he’s home in black sails s2 being ‘get gates’ makes me ;-; because yeah he has some very disturbing and important information that gates as quartermaster would need to know but he’s just returned from something long and terrifying and painful and so it’s also a very instinctual, very sincere ‘i want my dad.’

#hal get up your son is STRUGGLING #me? black sails posting in 2025? i’m surprised too #black sails #billy bones #hal gates #pirates #it kills me that gates died without knowing billy survived UGHHHH #and honestly kudos to billy for not ripping flint apart with his bare hands after finding out flint killed him #the way gates grieved billy and probably blamed himself for ‘letting’ it happen just like flint tried to suggest #and billy after finding out gates was dead probably did the same thing.#he couldn’t help but feel like if he’d been there he could have stopped it. stood up to flint for once #it’s wild to me that gates dies at the end of season ONE like it feels like he’s so much more present #go on hal you Haunt that narrative

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lucabyte · 3 months ago

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#hey quick smell check from my plural followers: whats the consensus on just like. making a guy plural and it barely being #relevant to anything. like ocways. i havent done my Nice Mundane Research yet besides the usual 'getting informed' reading & generally #nodding my head at and making mental notes of the pluralposting i see on my dash but like. realising i had an oc who is like a decade old+#rn and she had a brief stint of like. 2011 'has an eeevil dark side' split personality trope going on. hasnt had it since for ...#like what? 2012? like it was short lived. shes just a very silly happy go lucky type now. but . would it be like. would it be funny to #reference that old short lived thing. by just giving her a completely mundane headmate to like #100% subvert the old bad trope kid me was using. like turns out this character was just plural the whole time but because her #characterisation is that she's generally chill and a bit bone-headed she's never really brought it up. would that be anything.#(obviously id still have to figure out how id write that if i did do it but like. thats just what all writing is.)#in the same vein as just having rep 4 stuff because thats just like. more realistic than not having it in the case of any irl thing #would that be like. welcomed. or would that be a bad call. whats the vibes. sound off in the replies #the setting is like. grounded and present day by the by. light science-techy at BEST if you wanna call it that.#i just enjoy bringing back old ideas and finding the more modjern ways to execute them. so. im exploring my options rn #im not set on it if its a bad move. just figured id ask u guys since. there seem to be a lot of u. and like. well. hello everyone

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allastoredeer · 1 year ago

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I'm currently researching the 20th century education system in New Orleans (reading "Becoming American in Creole New Orleans" for anyone whose interested) and here's a little segment I came across:

"As Upton Sinclair observed in The Goslings: A Study of American Schools, it “is the thesis of the businessmen who run our educational system that the schools are factories, and the children are raw material, to be turned out thoroughly standardized, of the same size and shapes, like biscuits or sausages."

It's good to know that our education system never evolved past the 20th century, amirite fellas ♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

#I hate it here #our education system is SO messed up #its literally the same thing as back then #details may have been changed but in its bare bones it hasn't evolved in the slightest #i hate that for us #fuck the American education system #im rediscovering the joy of learning through fanfiction #school never did that for me #school made me hate learning #especially history #I've learned more about history by researching the birthplace of a sociopathic bloodthirsty serial killer deer man #than all the years I spent at school #fanfiction research #fanfic research

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absoluteabsolem · 1 month ago

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not dropping any name out of respect (for now. but i gotta say it's starting to rly piss me off) but i am reading the SHITTIEST novel i've read in a while and i sincerely don't understand how it's possible to fumble cannibal lesbians so bad

#i want to DNF this shit SO BAD but sadly i PAID for it #serves me right for reading fiction eh #i kid i kid right before i read a GREAT book that i will reread soon #i think all my mutuals know about it already lmfao but in case someone here doesn't #it's our last wild days by anna bailey #it's a southern gothic novel with a gay. and another gay. perhaps even a third one #hear me out ok it features. a Man. ok #built like a fridge. BARELY speaks. prone to violence. he has tattoos on his jaw #do you understand what i'm saying. anyway #it's a murder mystery and i enjoyed it very much #you should ALSO read tall bones by the same author. it's very good. i read it like. five times #this post started full of hatred but look at me ending it with positive things !! Growth

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leafzterr · 1 year ago

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happy pride motnhy as you can see i arranged my new gel pens in a rainbow for the special occasion. im ace so yay. pride motnh. i am prideful huzzah!!!!!

first and only time i will ever draw reigen (complete lie i just have NO IDEA how to draw suits.) also FALSETTOLAND X MOB PSYCHO 1000??,?.!!.!,!!,!,!,!!, GUYS I LOVE FALSTEOOLAND I LOVE THE MUSICAL AGHHHHHH

anyway

my fav part of one of the songs, reigens kids (plus dimple ig) being his backup singers is soreal. dimple is so fin to draw hes so silly and wants your social security number

alsolittle pride month thing: spot the aroace flag you will never find it 😈😈 (its right next to dimple)

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wuh oh tags coming up

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master-of-the-railway · 10 months ago

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Actually they should have had an episode where Nia went back to China to chill with Yong Bao and Hong-Mei like girl went there first and also I think she'd just have a really nice dynamic with them because they all have the same vibe.

#ttte #thomas and friends #thomas & friends #I have the most bare bones barely ironed out literally no structure human AU #and in it I've decided that when Nia runs off to China she ends up getting hosted by Yong Bao and Hong-Mei #who are like not *related* but Yong Bao views Hong-Mei as his little sister and they decided to live together because of it #and they teach her all about their culture and their language #but it takes a bit of time because the only verbal communication they have is the fact that they can all speak english pretty okay due to-#-the fact that their railroading duties caused them to clash with folks from english speaking countries/areas #Yong Bao develops the same feelings he has towards Hong-Mei towards Nia because he ends up teaching her how things function on his branch #and Thomas gets there and he's like NIA IM SO GLAD I FOUND YOU IM SO SORRY FOR BEING MEAN TO YOU. COME BACK TO SODOR WITH ME.#and Nia is like. King I appreciate the apology and all but. I got a pretty sweet deal here idk if I wanna up and leave.

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july-19th-club · 1 year ago

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one thing that is so genius on a craft level with the broken earth books is that the derogatory for 'orogene' is - That Way - on 100% purpose. you're supposed to feel like it's not a word to say out loud, it's supposed to be uncomfortably similar to words you've already heard and know as cruel slurs in the real world. it's a direct fucking parallel designed to deliberately give the reader that crawling feeling and it works so well i dont even feel right typing it up for a post

#which leads of course into direct parallels when orogenes reclaim it and start calling themselves it as a use name #which gives ESSUN the ick . despite using it herself in a derogatory/self-deprecating way #how they're not supposed to use it in the fulcrum because it's a slur. but this also gives them no framework for reclaiming it #an orogene who's grown up with that mindset will think it's crude or self-hating to start using the r-version in earnest #and this supposed mark of propriety and politeness thus becomes yet another way for the fulcrum to exert control #'don't use that word it's a dirty word.' 'we're the only organization on earth that will treat you like people. but we both know you're NOT #etc etc #which i think this level of bare-bones just-this-close-to-reality worldbuilding #might be part of what's prevented the series from getting as big as some other similar spec fic series #it's full of fantastic elements but the main conflict/problem with the world is a 1:1 problem we already have #i imagine a lot of readers feel uncomfortable about that #but also. as illustrated by this exact 1:1 problem. it's a very Black series by a Black author that is only ostensibly about people who can #move rocks with their minds #which is unfortunately the other reaosn i think it doesn't have the audience of say. baru #and i love baru! good books. having a lot of fun with them #but jemison's ability to write about the same things has this extra toothy edge that baru just ... won't. just by nature of experience #anyway there is so much in these books . god

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thefinalwitness · 9 months ago

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DESTINY PORTS ARE ALL DONE........... I CANT BELIEVE IT..........

#i still have to do previews and i Cannot figure out how to make the shorter hroth port animate in the back because hroth use none of the #same bones as all the other races but honestly that part barely animates even when the bones ARE working so i dont care 😭#previews are for tomorrow though i've been porting since this morning i am DDDDOOOOOONE #yoshi talks

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cuntwrap--supreme · 7 months ago

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Dog has a swollen lymph node. Just one for now. Which means her cancer is getting worse already. The longer this goes on, the more detached I feel from reality.

#I've been barely eating for over a week now and don't feel it #all the money i have is going towards her. i have enough body fat to survive without eating properly for a while.#but I'm just not hungry because nothing feels real right now #she's been breathing with more difficulty the past couple days too so i know the tumor on her tongue is getting larger #she's been whining so much too. like way more than she ever has.#and the prednisone has increased her appetite by so much that she's eating almost double what she normally would #she's skipped eating in the morning almost her whole life. don't know why. she's just a picky bitch like that.#but now she wants extra food in thd morning and snacks during the day and extra food at night #i was worried her food would go to waste after she died but goddamn #it definitely will be eaten plus some at this rate #she seems so normal. but i know she's getting worse every day and probably just doesn't want to bother me.#that's the worst thing about dogs. they don't want to bother you.#she's so opinionated when it comes to things she wants to eat or play with. but she's never let me know when she was in pain.#the only times she has are emergency vet visit times #like when my ex broke her tail and she kept putting her butt in my face to tell me shit was fucked up #or another time when her gut bacteria somehow got out of whack and she shat bright red blood all over my house #or when she broke a claw so bad it damaged the bone underneath #anything minor and i have to find it on my own #she's extra spoiled right now #i never tell her to stop unless she's doing something potentially dangerous #like yeah. let's sniff that same spot on the same bush you smell 8x a day for ten minutes girl.#you look hungry. have some peanuts or freetos or cotton candy.#you want snacks even though you just had snacks? bitch. have some more.#you want to sleep in my spot on the bed? thats ok. I'll go to the othef sidd where i don't have my cpap. get comfy.#i feel bad denying her anything when i know she only has a set amount of experiences left #there's a finite amount of sniffs she can snorf or food to be fed and i know it's pretty limited.#and then i get days like today where i don't even really start working until the time I'd normally be getting home #and that enrages me like little else can do because it's taking away from time with the only living thing that's real to me #except the longer i have knowing she's dying the less 'here' i feel. which makes her seem less real.#and i hate it. but i deny myself pain by pretending shit isn't real until it isn't. and then there's no more pain.

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pitohuimaki · 7 months ago

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no but seriously can the anime community finally come around to sao so i can make my long ass essay about how kirito and eren jaeger are the same character without being called the r slur and getting told to kill myself thanks

#like. kirito’s always had those bare bones similarities with eren #but ever since alicization they genuinely are so so similar. especially with star king #this isn’t a joke about the hair or the fact they have the same voice actor or anything. they just genuinely are similar characters #and i think it’s interesting to see how two different authors wrote characters with the same base ideologies and motivations etc

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frothingatthemaw · 10 months ago

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been oc-ing the fuck out of vessel….. i have written some Thoughts about him while i’ve been away :3 if anyone wants to see them, i can post em!!

#he is sooooo special to me <3 #i’ve made him vaguely nonhuman and it RULES #some of the things don’t even make sense but they’re real to me without further explanation lol #OUGH he’s my lil creechur #also funny that i’ve given him Autistic Traits but he’s definitely not autistic to me #bpd yes but autism nope #like i’ve made him suuuuuch a picky eater and he’s very specific about how he likes things and he also has sensory issues #and his need for sameness/lack of desire for change #his eating is so specific to me that i’m considering him having arfid #i need to look into arfid more to confirm but yk i thought the hc was worth mentioning anyways #when the autistic guy ocifies the guy ever 😭😭#<- please helppppp #AND i’ve also started a base idea of an oc and a universe where vessel gets a healthy relationship ^_^#it’s bare bones but the base concept i have feels special to me #so if anyone wants to hear about that i can definitely ramble a lil #ender.txt #oc-ifying the creechur #sleep token #sleep token vessel #vessel sleep token

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novelconcepts · 1 year ago

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i don't make resolutions, but if i did

it would be to finish this fic

(and to be kind to myself for however long it takes to actually do so)

#i'm finishing it if it kills me #i know i've been writing this makeout scene for 3 weeks but baby that can't last forever #if we want to get deep and dark and serious for a second i do think a lot of my struggles to write lately have to do with engagement #and how incredibly low engagement has been on the last few things i've written #which like. is what it is. i'm not entitled to anybody's time or comments or kudos.#but when you write stuff you're proud of and it feels like it's barely getting read it's hard to keep momentum.#this isn't intended as a woe is me or whatever it's just kind of like. there. hovering.#happens enough times you start to wonder if it's you. am i just writing for the wrong fandom/ship?#(too bad if so. they're in my bones i'm writing for them and no one can stop me.)#but yeah. if you ever wonder if authors do care or notice about hits. comments. kudos. buddy i am here to tell you #not only do we care and FLOURISH we also notice when those things drop off and readers vanish #and it is a giant bummer. and sometimes makes us wildly paranoid about why that might have happened.#so if you liked a fic today--not even one of mine. just. anybody's. share it. comment on it.#kudos at the VERY least (cuz frankly kudos is there to be an 'i got to the end and this was nice' feature.#so when you get 500 hits and only like 30 kudos? it feels like 470 of those people hated your work)#anyway. that got out of hand. lil' too raw lil' too honest. happens when you let yourself ramble at 11:30 instead of sleeping #to sum: let your local fic writer know if they've made you happy #and as we go into 2024 i am swearing to myself that this fic (and probably several others) are getting finished #come hell. high water. or dishearteningly low engagement numbers.#(and then maybe we...actually work on something original. cuz why not. new year same old me but i'll do my best.)

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