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using "what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament" to mean "yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing" is very funny to me

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What is shabbat? Wrong answers only

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Oh hang on, Art was stalking Murderbot on the station before they even met, and then herded it to the transport.

An old feed showing Murderbot happens to play while it's watching the news, freaking it out and pushing it to find a way off station asap.

Murderbot starts towards another transport area and an automated traffic accident happens to cut it off.

It starts walking in Art's direction, and then Art shows up on the shipping list as being conveniently empty of people and leaving very, very soon.

When they get more comfortable Art starts showing Murderbot how it doesn't move like a 'human', revealing how Art spotted it in the first place.

Then, spoiler for later books, it seems like Art and the university already had an interest in sec-units before meeting Murderbot.

Gods I love an unreliable narrator that shows you enough pieces to put things together

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I was ruminating on fanon vs canon, and the ways in which certain ideas, through the power of plausibility or compellingness, can propagate through fandom. So here's a list of fanon of varying popularities, that have never actually been canon. Plus an honorable mention of fanon-proved-canon.

Fanon:

The entirety of All Systems Red is a letter given to Mensah - This is a popular fan interpretation of the final chapter of All Systems Red, but personally I've thought that Murderbot might have just written a shorter letter separate from the whole diary.

Gurathin is from the corporation rim - Not specified in books-canon, but this is a popular fanon. It's implied that Gurathin or his grandparents came to Preservation "later," so imagining a corporate background is a reasonable interpretation, though it's just as possible he came from another Preservation sister system or non-corporate system.

ART’s university is from a non-corporate system - If anything, the books imply that the university is from a corporate system if you take ART's credentials in Artificial Condition at face value: Murderbot met it at a corporate berth where its university supposedly was. It's possible ART could have been lying, but it wasn't lying about its official designation of "Perihelion" at the time. Also why not a corporate university doing anticorporate work?

Amena is going to the Pansystem Uni of Mihira and New Tideland - Reasonable to project this out from her reading the University catalogue at the end of Network Effect, but she hasn't officially matriculated yet.

Amena and Iris are of similar age - This never actually is mentioned in the books but is nonetheless a popular fanon. I suspect it comes from Amena and Iris being compared in size. Amena is specified to be a young-adult/juvenile human. Personally I imagined Iris as older, grad-school age, doing dangerous anticorporate work and all.

The company name AmaSoft - Murderbot never mentions the name of the company in its diaries but CompletelyDifferent coined this one and it has been used since by multiple fic writers.

Murderbot is tall - A very popular fanon that you'll see people defending to death but Murderbot has no strictly specified height, neither in numbers nor referring to itself as compared to population average. I can say short king all I want.

CombatUnit handlers - originated in the fanfic my enemy, bright star dancing and propagated to other CombatUnit fics from there by dint of being a fun idea to play with. Two related canon things: 1. the mention of a "controller" for a SecUnit in Exit Strategy and 2. Years later when System Collapse came out and it was shown that Barish-Estranza employs human-hubystem-like overseers for their SecUnits.

The Pressy is sapient - Mostly just fun fandom riffing

Exit Strategy combat unit in the shuttle is the same one as the docks - A reasonable assumption on all accounts but not strictly defined.

Aromantic Allosexual Ratthi - This one is just cool.

Fanon that was later proved canon by System Collapse:

Iris is ART’s sister - We did it gang.

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Imagine seeing an oppressed group of people saying, “hey we’re oppressed in ways that you’re unaware of for A Reason—erasure,”

and responding by going, “actually it’s because that oppression doesn’t exist,” like you’re So Obviously Correct and not directly contributing to The Problem.

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i had to

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“I asked chatgpt” well I asked Fëanor, son of Finwë, High King of the Exiled Noldor and he thinks that sacrificing your critical thinking skills to the whims and machinations of techbros is THE WORK OF MORGOTH WRITTEN INTO THE ODE THAT ARDA SINGS and that to do so IS TO SHAME YOURSELF AND YOUR UNLIMITED POTENTIAL. BE FREE. BE FREE AND CREATE WORKS OF WONDER YET UNTOLD

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Analysis so bad you don't even know what it's talking about anymore.

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Resources for LGBTQ+ Jews

I created this list for an LGBTQ+/Jewish event a few years ago. I've removed all of the local resources for my own privacy, but here are some online ones:

Eshel: Focuses on Orthodox LGBTQ+ Jews

Keshet: Resources for Jews across the observance spectrum

SVARA: Torah and Talmud study through a queer lens

TransTorah: Archive of trans Jewish resources from the 1990s to 2012

Human Rights Campaign: Articles for LGBTQ+ groups of several religions, Judaism included

PFLAG: Links to many other Jewish LGBTQ+ resources

There is a place for LGBTQ+ individuals within the Jewish community, even Orthodox communities! Happy Pride, Chag Sameach, and stay safe out there :) I love y'all <3

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you have to be able to defend people who are receiving unjust treatment even if they annoy you even if you personally find them extremely annoying you still have to be able to stand up and say "well thats fucked up"

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important to note two things:

1. Boulder Colorado has historically been a progressive liberal part of Colorado. it's blue bubble and Denvers blue bubble is the reason the state, while technically a swing state has been blue. this is honestly the last place I would've imagined a hate crime like this to occur.

2. the victims of the attack were 67-88 years old. On shavuot. at a March for the hostages. this is not some young adults getting into a heat of the moment fight at a protest. this person lit 6 elderly jews on fire.

I don't have any words for this.

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no one:

magazines at the boutique yarn store:

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while we're at it, tearing down the hostage posters was always evil and fucked up.

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cannot get over how ART had one of the most iconic character introductions of all time. in the span of 100 pages and a few weeks, it was like hey. if you mess with me i'll squash you like a bug. check out how i'm 10,000 times more powerful than you. wanna watch tv together? ah FUCK my tv blorbo died. what do you mean you won't tell me all the secrets of your dark past. can i do some surgery on you? do you need me to blow anything up? let me hijack your brain for a couple seconds. ok that went great! here's my number in case you ever need it

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are you a “mark for later”, bookmarking unread fics on ao3, bookmarking unread fics on ur browser, 25 fic tabs open, or a “i’ll just find this later in my history” gay