#the warnings are preemptive

[etz-ashashiyot]

I did a poll the other day about this from the [Jewish] Zionist perspective; I'm now curious about the Jewish anti-Zionist perspective.

To answer this poll, you MUST identify as BOTH Jewish and anti-Zionist. Jewish non-Zionists, post-Zionists, refusetoidentifyniks, other assorted folks, and goyim of any political persuasion, please just choose the see results button. Thanks!!

Also: This poll is meant for genuine listening, learning, and seeing the true thoughts of other Jews. I stg if I see anyone attacking any people nice enough to respond to this poll and give serious explanations for their answers, like folks did on the original poll?

I will find you.

If you don't like it, keep scrolling. Thank you!!

Edit: Please do reblog for reach regardless of your background or views; I'd appreciate it!

[theforswornelite]

[meskit]

hesitant heads up of no art for a bit >_<

[skepticalcatfrog]

"Benedikt walked to Marshall. Appearing utterly, utterly devoid of anything, anything—he put his hand to Marshall’s throat and kept it there, waiting.

A terrible noise tore forward from his cousin. Roma would hear that sound in his head forever."

- These Violent Delights, Chapter 38

(Commissions are open!)

((Close-ups under the cut, as usual))

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(Also just going to tag @chloegong down here because I don't know if I'm going to put this one on Instagram due to. uh. the blood)

[kadextra]

idk guys but the urgency I’m getting from q!Bad’s 4D chess moves lately is making me concerned. he is usually calm and collected when orchestrating stuff but the past few days has shown the opposite, he’s acting quickly

he even blatantly said that he’s trying to help q!Cellbit asap- because they are close friends, he feels responsible to help, but also because he was “relying on cellbit’s mental state to be stable for what could happen” which is…. really worrying to say?? and today he rushed to drop baghera on bagi’s doorstep and have them talk because “we need to rely on our friends. somewhat.”

It’s very obvious q!Bad is trying his best to hurry up a possible q!Cellbit solution + attempt to unite his friends before the 4th.

[This is all speculation from here]

Personally? I’m thinking the urgency is because his help is needed right now, and past the 4th he won’t be available to help anymore- and knows it, so he needs to do as much as possible now. and he would’ve liked q!Cellbit to be the mentally sound one if he can’t be. methinks down in purgatory he will go one-track mind to save the eggs, and based off the things he’s saying….

“What happens when those you care about get in your way…?”

“I lacked commitment, but I won’t anymore.”

“Even if I have to kill every single person on the island to get the eggs back”

“It’s been a while since I’ve gotten to cut loose”

“I don’t think you guys (the eggs) are gonna be happy with me when it’s all over…”

….feels like clear foreshadowing that he might go on an insane murdering-his-friends spree or something if everything goes horribly wrong. today he basically told q!Bagi that it could happen too. or alternatively this is all a fake out, and he tragically self-sacrifices? idk yall!!! either way I’m terrified!!

[danielkennedy-asks]

it feels like there’s a war going on in my brain and my joints move like they’re rusted together. not to mention they also hurt like a motherfucker.

does anyone have any tylenol? or aspirin? …or decaf? i’d rather die in combat than get out of bed right now.

(rip catnedy arc 😔 meow meow, meow meow meow 💔)

[partyinthemysterymachine]

I NOW HAVE A SH2REMAKE SPOILERS TAG FOR THOSE WHO DON’T WANT TO SEE SHIT

PLEASE BLACKLIST sh2spoilers IF U DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM FROM ME!!!

[lilalilan]

Finally got done watching the new Quinton Reviews video and have some thoughts. If you're not familiar with the video in question just know that I will be talking about child abuse so be prepared.

Something he did a really good job navigating is talking about behavior that was clearly abusive, but that doesn't neatly fall into the main categories of abuse we use, those being Physical, Emotional, and Sexual.

People really don't know how to handle things that clearly weren't okay but that don't fall neatly into those categories. I've even struggled with trying to understand my own experiences, which I'm going to use as an example. One of the things I experienced growing up was one of my parents asking me for massages and not being allowed to say no. Physical contact like that leads people towards wanting to categorize it as sexual abuse, but it wasn't sexual. And so people, with hesitation, refer to it as physical abuse. But our general cultural conception of physical abuse is physical violence, so I've never felt comfortable calling it physical abuse because I don't want it to come off as though I'm claiming I experienced something that I didn't. So I've generally had to go with explaining the specifics, and I hate that because I don't want to have to get into the specifics with everyone who I needs to understand what I've been through.

And I think that same line of thinking is why people to try and accuse Dan Schneider of child sex abuse even though (from my understanding) there is no evidence for that. They understand his behavior to be bad, and want to call it out, but our current understanding of abuse and abusive behavior doesn't really have a way of categorizing "inappropriate physical contact with a child that is not sexual". If it was child sex abuse that is a clear cut bad thing that culturally we already understand as a bad thing and have ways of talking about. So people lean towards trying to categorize it as child sex abuse even though the things we know about don't really fall into that category, because otherwise we don't really have a way to talk about it and understand it.

So I guess part of what I want to say here is thank you to Quinton Reviews for giving us the phrase "inappropriate boundaries" to refer to these types of things. Because I think we have words to describe certain types of inappropriate boundaries (sexual abuse for if it's sexual, parentification if it's about treating the kid like a fellow parent, etc.) but I've never really seen a term describing the overarching idea of just "adult behaving inappropriately with a child".

For me personally it gives me a better way of understanding and describing my own experiences. It's taken me from "there were a lot of different upsetting yet hard to describe things that happened that I don't know how to categorize or really explain" to "along with the neglect and the emotional abuse my parents did not maintain appropriate physical and emotional boundaries which messed me up in the long run". Clearly and succinctly describes what happened without getting into detail or forcing me to provide personal information.

And I think culturally having a way to talk about this type of abuse is useful. I'm hoping that enough people see the video that I can start talking about my experiences and be understood by others.

Also just like. Not being sexual abuse doesn't mean that it's not bad or messed up or worthy of attention and discussion and support. I feel like sometimes people think you're trying to downplay what happened but like. I say that being forced to provide massages was not sexual because I know for a fact it wasn't sexual. That doesn't mean that my being forced to provide an adult with physical contact was okay, it doesn't mean it didn't mess me up, it just means it messed me up differently than how it probably would have if it was sexual.

[sergle]

Have plenty of button-up shirts/tops you can put on and remove without moving your arms too much. Saved me and my younger sibling tremendously

already on it, boss!!!

[bearotonin-international]

Murray might have to make a reappearance if things don’t pick up…

[celluzu]

I am not responsible for any words that come out of my mouth if Cucurucho is involved in getting Jaiden out of purgatory btw.

[kleinewordpress]

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Obligatory A.I. Disclaimer

Do I use A.I. in my writing? To put it simply, no.

A.I. is a tool I find useful when I'm struggling to think of how to get a scene going, or how to continue an idea. It is, first and foremost, a tool for inspiration. I don't use it, and do not ever plan on using it, in my finished works - especially my poetry, as poetry is very personal to me and I take a bit of pride in my ability to churn out poems like a man possessed by an incredibly well-read eldritch being.

As a writer, it's important to be able to find inspiration from anywhere about anything - be it from beauty, from filth, from happiness, from grief, from trauma, from disgust, from anger, etc. Writing is art, and art is a medium. It is a vehicle which gives us the opportunity to connect and communicate the ideas that inspire us to others. To me, it's less about where you get your ideas and more what you do with them.

I'd certainly have a problem with entire poems or stories written entirely by A.I., but using A.I. as a starting point for that initial concept or to help guide you on where you should go with it is fine. We shouldn't be idolizing A.I. as the future of art or anything, but we shouldn't demonize it either: it has its uses, and when used as intended, it is fairly useful.

To summarize: Yes, I utilize A.I. as a tool during my creative process. No, I don't 'write' with A.I. - my words are my own.

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[notdeadyetnatural]

ok so i know i dont post a lot about us politics on here and that's cause tumblr is my escape app. but i NEED to vent about what this dude means for government shutdowns. cause it Deeply effects my family and i dont think many people (especially the ones causing them to happen) really understand what they mean. so feel free to block usa politics, us politics, & gov shutdown. cause i am anticipating my need to rant

[hoshizoraorchestra]

i would love to be a more engaged member of the prsk fandom on tumblr but i fear even here that i am just a fundamentally different person than the common fan. not to mention like 5 years older

[cosmic-kinglet]

Why do I do these things to myself?

I'm just under 9 and a half minutes into this 38 and a half minute audio file to write a F*ING TRANSCRIPT because OBVIOUSLY TITAN WOULDN'T BE AS GOOD AT COMING UP WITH THINGS LIKE THIS ON THE FLY AND WOULD NEED TO JUST GO LOOKING FOR STUFF

The worst part is, because I'm self-conscious about the things I'm writing being saved into my f*cking autocomplete, I have that turned off. But, I ALSO have AUTOCORRECT turned off, which means I can't keep up with the audio because I have to fix all my typing errors manually!

[noctomania]

Dear pro-Palestinian people,

Please be aware that the coming US president election is going to wreak havoc on online discourse around Palestine. I have suspicion that there will be (and actually already are) efforts to redirect conversations around Palestine to be about abortion rights - abortion seems to be the topic that has been deemed the focus of the next election (i know i know, as if there aren't several genocides we are complicit in if not entirely funding)

KEEP IN MIND:

-Do not let people hijack your 🇵🇸 posts

-Do not forget two things can be true; speaking about one thing does not mean you don't care about the other.

-You do not need to engage with those who attempt to hijack conversations, just delete/block

-People who actually care about right to abortion will not act in the way that who are trying to disrupt will. Mostly because they have actual work they are concerned about.

-They will try to compare children being killed in Palestine with fetuses being aborted - the comparison is clearly wrong and entirely tone deaf.

-BOTH POLITICAL SIDES WILL BE INVESTING IN ONLINE DISRUPTORS GURANTEED. So do not be fooled by disruptors who are "on your side" - if they are engaging in redirecting the convo, they are doing a disservice.

Lastly, please take care of yourself and your peace!! Keep it balanced. The next few months may get rough and exhausting. Step away when you need to & handle your basic needs properly. We cannot let ourselves burnout. Palestinians need us to stay strong for them, with them.

And last and most importantly: From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 💜🇵🇸🍉

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Daily click

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UNRWA