#no really

[bookdrgn99]

Sing it, Crowley

[jessicalprice]

how can you be so controversial and yet so brave

(reposted from Twitter)

Hey so, have I ever told you about the time I was at an interfaith event (my rabbi, who was on the panel, didn't want to be the only Jew there), and there was a panel with representatives of 7 different traditions, from Baha'i to Zoroastrian?

The setup was each panelist got asked the same question by the moderator, had 3 minutes to respond, and then they moved on to the next panelist.

The Christian dude talked for 8 minutes and kept waving off the poor, flustered, terminally polite Unitarian moderator.

The next panelist was a Hindu lady, who just said drily, "I'll try to keep my answer to under a minute so everyone else still has a chance to answer." (I, incidentally, am at a table with I think the only other non-Christian audience members, a handful of Muslims and a Zorastrian.)

So then we get to the audience questions part. No one's asking any questions, so finally I decide to get things rolling, and raise my hand and the very polite moderator comes over and gives me the mic.

I briefly explain Stendahl's concept of "holy envy" and ask what each of theirs is.

(If you're not familiar, Stendahl had 3 tenets for learning about other traditions, and one was leave room for "holy envy," being able to say, I am happy in my tradition and don't desire to convert, but this is something about another tradition that I admire and wish we had.)

The answers were lovely. My rabbi said she admired the Buddhist comfort with silence and wished we could learn to have that spaciousness in our practice. The Hindu said she admired the Jewish and Muslim commitment to social justice & changing, rather than accepting, the status quo.

The Christian dude said he envied that everyone else on the panel had the opportunity to newly accept Jesus.

I shit you not.

Dead silence. The Buddhist and Baha'i panelists are resolutely holding poker faces. The Hindu lady has placed her hands on the table and folded them and seems to be holding them very tightly. Over on the middle eastern end of the table, the rabbi, the imam, and the Zoroastrian lady are all leaning away from the Christian at identical angles with identical expressions of disgust. The terminally polite Unitarian moderator is literally wringing his hands in distress.

A Christian lady at the table next to me, somehow unable to pick up on the emotional currents in the room, sighs happily and says to her fellow church lady, "What a beautiful answer."

anyway I love my rabbi to death and would do anything for her

except attend another interfaith event

[averyshittyseal]

The last dream, this time, for the last time.

(A small continuation)

(GEEZ I DID IT)

[felixeis003]

liGHTSABER cODYYYYYYY I'm so brain dead I can't stand to look at this piece anymore but I can't tear my eyes away from him I'm nitpicking every brush stroke

[that-wildwolf]

Ideologically I like the idea of tone indicators but the way it is implemented in practice makes me want to scream in rage at the sky. don't call me a piece of shit all of a sudden. hj means handjob. gen means general. why have you kids chosen specifically abbreviations that already exist in internet culture I'm insane. Nothing hurts as much as a good idea with terrible execution.

[youngroyals-stuff]

[aroaceofthesea]

This feels like a good moment to remind people not to whitewash tv!annabeth and tv!grover

[earhartsease]

okay we know nobody has any money on here, but if you're be willing to share this about we'd be really grateful, you never know who's lurking

we're having to fundraise toward replacing our existing power-assist tech on our wheelchair with one that doesn't need us to push, because increasing body fuckery means we can't do that any more even with assistance due to bad pain stuff

(and it's still way cheaper than getting a power chair custom made for our ludicrous tallness, and means we can continue using our custom manual wheelchair that fits perfectly)

we have some savings and will eventually be able to sell on the current tech, but we still need to somehow raise some of the money

thanks for listening

we've had to go undercover out there as a person of singular pronouns so as not to freak out the general public innit

[monkey-wrench-zeurel]

Since Shrike doesn't have a visible nose, how exactly is he able to breathe without having his mouth open 24/7? Does he breathe? What are noses? These questions haunt and trouble me at night.

I'm afraid your nights will continue to be sleepless :(

[bigfatlesbian]

So... I just saw the Speak with Dead Isobel scene and... I AM NOT OKAY

Tav: Do you have anything valuable?

Isobel: No... I... lost her...

Tav: Who did you lose?

Isobel: Aylin... my... angel...

[feralrosie]

Can you imagine coming to Tumblr from Twitter and immediately facing the Pikachu Man

[loisroo]

the acting olympics that is wwdits. how in the hell do any of them keep a serious face when all this shit is happening. if I was in the room when matt berry said neeOwyork sit-ayyy i wouldn’t have been able to contain myself.

[annadeedee]

A benefit of going to big conferences is that you get to learn about math concepts that would otherwise be outside your field. Such as

[gummidino1]

Yeah, I got that dog in me.

Debilitating crush

On

Glenn Close

[lavi394]

Thorin: I can't believe it, I've been a pedophile for all this time and I didn't even know it...

Balin: What do you mean? What happened?

Bilbo: *sigh* He found out I'm 50

[tolicandco]

my queen I didn’t do you justice your beauty can’t be captured