#so please help

[katherinakaina]

We all heard advise to go straight to P2 (good game) and skip P1 (pain simulator for weirdos). But what most of the community of people who have actually tried both games thinks?

Please reblog, we need to settle this.

[the---hermit]

I have been considering getting a pair of loop earplugs, does anyone have experience with them and some thoughts to share?

[hyperpotamianarch]

Weird question, but I'm a little lost right now lol. My mom always told me her mom was raised Jewish and my mom's grandma was born Jewish. She's not at all religious and raised me atheist. I've done my best to keep kosher, study Torah, learn Hebrew, attend services or go to shul, perform mitzvot, etc in the past decade or so, and definitely thought of myself as a ba'al teshuvah.

Lately, I decided to get on a genealogy website and look into my actual ancestors. I found US census records, military draft cards, hospital death certificates, marriage licenses - extremely trustworthy, verifiable sources - going back to at least 1880 in a very clear trail. My grandma's extremely Polish maiden name came from her Polish Catholic father. Grandma's grandmother and grandfather came over from Bulgaria in the 1880s and were married in a church.

While it's cool to see my great great great grandparents' actual handwriting and know where they lived, I was completely wrong about everything I thought I knew about my family history and I feel like a complete berk. I genuinely thought I was Jewish. I wasn't trying to lie to people or misrepresent Judaism to curious gentiles or worm my way into Jewish spaces in order to proselytize. I still definitely want to continue my study and officially convert, and I'm trying to work up the courage to lay it all out in front of the local rabbi and ask what he thinks I should do. I've only gone to two Yom Kippur services and a few study sessions over Zoom, so I don't really know him or the congregation well.

I don't want to come off sounding like I intentionally lied to him or that I'm trying to get special treatment or skip steps during the conversion process. This is a genuinely jarring realization that's changed the way I think about myself and my faith. Do you have any advice for me going forward, or do you know someone who might?

To be honest, I'm... Probably not the best person to turn to on this topic. However, I can try and help.

You didn't lie to anyone, and this kind of things can happen. You can probably said you were told by your family you were Jewish but upon investigation you found out your great grandparents married in a church. Now, technically that doesn't directly point to the idea that your grandmother wasn't Jewish - she could've been a Jewish woman attempting to assimilate with general society, or have converted to Christianity (which according to Orthodox Judaism at least doesn't change her descendants' claim to Judaism.

Honestly, at this point... I think it's more a matter of having courage to talk to the Rabbi about it than it is about things of the religion. And yeah, gathering courage to talk to an authority figure you barely know is going to be hard.

I don't know if it'll be helpful, and I hope this won't hurt you, but I know a joke about people in a similar situation don't take it as me laughing at you for being where you are, but maybe it can help add levity to your eventual conversation with your congregation's rabbi. Anyway, here goes:

Three Jewish brothers found out that their mother wasn't Jewish. One was a Hareidi, Ultra Orthodox; another was more Neo-Orthodox, but tended to go with strict Halacha; and the third tended to go with more lenient Halacha. When they found out they are Goyim, the latter immediately went to eat pork before he converted - since, as he got some time to be Goy, he could at least enjoy it. The second, on the othr hand, went to eat meat from a cow that had a hole in her lungs, as up to today he went according to the Halacha that it is forbidden. The first said: "oh, now I can drink Coca Cola!"

(Hareidim tend to only trust very specific Kashrut brands. Maybe there could be a version with Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews, but I never heard one.)

If you still feel trepidation... you can, perhaps, turn to others on Tumblr that are better suited to that than I. I'm an Israeli Jew and I assume you are American, so there might be cultural differences. I suggest you try be open with your Rabbi, personally, but I might be missing something cultural that is different outside of Israel.

I wish you good luck in talking to your Rabbi and your conversion process!

[the-whispers-of-death]

So I've been thinking about a John Price x Reader Drabble where Price is a knight & part of Reader's personal guard but I don't know whether I should it King!Reader (male Reader) or Sovereign!Reader (gender-neutral).

I'm leaning towards make Reader be male reader (simply because I don't think there's nearly enough male Reader content in this fandom & I want to change that) but there's also not a lot of gender-neutral readers either and most of my 141 x Reader stuff is gender-neutral.

Also side-note, I think I will also be doing a Knight!Ghost Drabble, but that will specifically only be male reader. I'm just having trouble deciding on the Knight!John Price Drabble.

[honeybadger-has-a-grimoire]

Next Post Poll

So I have two post ideas I want to write, it’s just which gets done first, so I’m leaving it up to you guys!

[midnights-wish]

i'm thinking of getting one of the fallout games, which one would be best?

[supercool-here]

Hello, I was wondering if you could help me out with something. I was doing research (reading Wikipedia) for personal reasons (I was bored and feeling nostalgic) and ended up feeling like someone wants to gaslight me. Do you happen to remember a tv channel called "boomerang"? Did you ever watch it? And if so, do you remember what the programmation consisted of?

[holographings]

someone on twitter said Imagine what s2 jayce would give to talk to s1 viktor just one more time. and someone had a time travel alternate dimension fic ready to go. and i read it. and now my face is being eaten by 3750 feral dogs i think

[bangtann-bangdamn]

So before I get back into writing and editing Not Like The Movies, I need to get back into the writing mood.

So send me some prompts or anything to help me get back into the zone

[grumpylittlecake]

Hello, I hope you and your family are well. Can you please help me recycle the post on my account? 🌺 And help rescue my family from the war in Gaza? 🙏 Thank you.

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i will share

[p-tinkie-85]

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Please help their family.

[aluminumneedles]

I'm knitting in the corner at a party

and guys my age stop by to tell me I remind them of their aunt, of their grandmother. This is a compliment and I take it as such. They confess to having tried crochet once, and I smile. They get back in line for the bathroom.

I'm knitting in the corner at a party and a queer woman sits on the floor next to me, arranges her skirt, and smiles up at me. (I try not to blush.) She asks me all the questions on her mind about my craft and I answer them, hands still moving. We swap yarn sources. She doesn't stay, but she knows where to find me.

I'm knitting in the corner at a party and everyone knows where to find me when they need a minute, when socializing is too much and the music is too loud and they need to catch their breath. They pretend to be checking in on me, which is sweet, but I can see the relief in their eyes the moment they stop performing for a house full of people. They sit down and tell me things and all the while they never take their eyes off my hands.

The party has wound down and I'm still knitting and the hosts, two guys in their twenties, thank me for "helping to curate the vibe." I had no idea that's what I was doing. I leave the party having forgotten to drink anything and without that woman's number but with many rows added to my top-down raglan sweater. I call it a night, and a good one.

[the-whispers-of-death]

Little Update

I know I haven't posted much 141 content in a while, but I'm working on a first part of Vigilante!Reader x Simon "Ghost" Riley, trust. It's been slowly building in my drafts for like a week, but I'm trying to finish it. And if all goes well, I'll also get started on the second part too.

A sneak peek of what's to come, though I suppose this isn't much of a sneak peak. Yeah, I started in on August 11th, RIP to it not being finished yet.

Also, I want to announce that I'm eager to get more asks for the 141 boys, but I don't want anything sexual as of right now. I have nsfw asks that I just can't get into the mood to write. But I do want to get back to writing for the boys again, fluff or angst, your choice.

[lillianforest22]

I don’t think This counts cause I was like 10 and didn’t really understand. But I was young and was like “you know in movies how they kiss why what does it feel like” so my then best friends was talking and I leaned in and kissed her but I did t say anything and it freaked her out and I think I may have traumatized me as an autistic child sense I remember the thoughts I had during that experience

Anyways I’m aroace now and no longer talk to her if tumblr would like me know if this counts or not cause it sometimes annoys me

trying to feel less bad about myself on this Tuesday night, so answer my poll please~

btw, this is not counting the random kiss you had with a kid in preschool who your parents joked you would marry. This is like actual first romantic kiss as a sentient human being.