#sunday 13th november

[namitha]

The day began with half my coffee spilled on my desk and a few drops flew over my dress, this's a good Sunday, oh yeah. :)

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[rossberry]

a steamy sunday night swim. | ross & sebastian | 11/13

Ross undressed in the locker-room that led to the campus’ swimming pool as fast as he could. He was too excited to devote any amount of organization to the haphazard way he stuffed everything into his locker. it’d been a little too long for his liking since he’d been with Sebastian, so when the Dominant ordered him to the pool for a late night, steamy swim, he bounded out the door and made it there in record time. He kept on a billowy, white caftan of sorts, but underneath he was wearing nothing but a skimpy, blue bikini bottom. He knew Sebastian would appreciate it, but he wanted retain some element of surprise before he revealed his ensemble completely. With his flip-flops on, Ross exited the locker-room and headed out to the pool deck. The whole facility was still partially outdoors, but a seasonal wall like a green-house of sorts was installed for the winter months, keeping the swimmers insulated enough to tolerate being out of the water, while heating the water a little more to further accomodate the season. Thus, a thin veil of steam hovered over the crystal blue pool. Ross squinted and looked around for Sebastian but didn’t see him. Figuring he had got there early in his haste, Ross situated himself on the end of a cot and waited for the Dom to join him. @dom-bastiansmythe

[frogndtoad]

albums 11/14 -

julien baker - little oblivions

[blueandyellowdiamond]

[dailydosetoablessedlife]

Sunday November 13th 2022 🔯 Read Deuteronomy 31 🔯 The appointment of Joshua 🔯 Deuteronomy 31: 1 - And Moses went and spake all these words unto all Israel. 2 - And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 3 - The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said. 4 - And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed. 5 - And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. 6 - Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 🔯💟💟💟🙏 . . . . . . . . . . . . #joelosteen #joelosteenpodcast #tdjakes #tdjakesministries #bible #bibleverse #biblejournaling #biblestudy #gospel #gospelmusic #jesus #church #baptistchurch #lakewoodchurch #morningprayer #dailybible #dailybibleverse  #dailybibleverses #bibleverse  #bibleverses #biblequotes #bibleverseoftheday #christianquotes #bibleversedaily #dailyscripture #dailybible #dailyverse #dailyverses #biblescriptures #biblegram

[autismserenity]

A Chabad synagogue in Pomona, New York, burned to the ground on April 17th, along with its three Torah scrolls.

Torah scrolls are hand-written, hand-made, and kept in elaborately decorated cases or wrappings.

Many of them have long histories; my synagogue has two, I think, that were smuggled out of villages being destroyed in pogroms or in Nazi attacks. One of them is the only remaining piece of that village on earth.

Sometimes, the Torah scroll doesn't even belong to the synagogue, but is on loan from a place like the Memorial Scrolls Trust:

There's an entire Jewish holiday just for taking them out and dancing with them: Simchat Torah, "The Joy of Torah."

In fact, that was the holiday on which Hamas's invasion took place.

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So it's a particular tragedy when a Torah is destroyed.

Chabad itself has a page about what goes into making just one Torah scroll:

"An authentic Torah scroll is a mind-boggling masterpiece of labor and skill. Comprising between 62 and 84 sheets of parchment -- cured, tanned, scraped and prepared according to exacting Torah law specifications -- and containing exactly 304,805 letters, the resulting handwritten scroll takes many months to complete.

"An expert pious scribe carefully inks each letter with a feather quill, under the intricate calligraphic guidelines of Ktav Ashurit (Ashurite Script). The sheets of parchment are then sewn together with sinews to form one long scroll. While most Torah scrolls stand around two feet in height and weigh 20-25 pounds, some are huge and quite heavy, while others are doll-sized and lightweight."

I learned all of this on Tumblr.

Once upon time, in people's "punch Nazis" days, I would've been able to find some mention on Tumblr of this synagogue burning.

There is none, so I'm posting about it.

And I'm going to quote Daniel Weiner, Rabbi of Temple de Hirsch Sinai in Bellevue, Washington, when his own synagogue was vandalized last November:

"It’s horrific and heartbreaking.... [Taking out your feelings about] what's going on in the Middle East by defacing a sacred space of a synagogue -- that’s the very definition of antisemitism."

I'm also posting about the Kehillat Shaarei Torah Synagogue in Toronto, whose windows were broken on Friday, April 19th, by someone who also tried to break the front door down.

And the April 15 graffiti outside a Bangor, Maine synagogue that said, "Nazi Israel 30K murdered," next to a crossed-out Star of David. The same synagogue faced pro-Hamas flyers plastered around it in November.

I was going to include all the synagogues vandalized over the past six months. But there are way too many. Several every week. Lots are swastikas.

I'll go back to just doing attacks on and near synagogues.

Someone has to talk about the 1-year-old who was stabbed outside Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel (BZBI) synagogue, in Philadelphia, on April 13th.

The foiled terrorist attack on a Moscow synagogue on April 11th.

The man who, on April 9th, screamed at the rabbi at Moldova's Great Synagogue, "What are you doing here? How come no one has finished you off for everything you are doing to the Palestinians?" Just one week after people had vandalized a Holocaust memorial in nearby Soroka, and sprayed "Free Palestine" on it.

The Oldenburg, Germany synagogue that was firebombed on April 5th.

The Florida Las Olas Chabad Jewish Center, which on March 16 burned, but not to the ground. The Torah scrolls were safe, and no one was hurt, but the back of the building was severely damaged.

The planned-but-thwarted-on-March-7th ISIS massacre in a Moscow synagogue.

The stabbing of an Orthodox Jew in Switzerland on March 5th. (He was badly injured, but expected to survive.)

A man leaving a synagogue in Paris was beaten on March 3rd.

People set the courtyard of a synagogue in Sfax, Tunisia on fire on February 27th. Firefighters managed to put the fire out before it consumed the inside of the building.

The synagogue is no longer used; there are no Jews left in its area, and fewer than 1,000 Jews left in Tunisia overall.

(Thousands of Tunisian Jews were sent to work camps during the Holocaust. Antisemitism across the Middle East continued to increase rapidly for decades. By the 1970s, 90% of Tunisian Jews had fled to France or Israel.)

On February 18, an Orthodox Jew leaving Synagogue of Inverrary-Chabad in Lauderhill, Florida, was beaten by an attacker yelling racial slurs.

Someone deliberately chose International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, to smash all the windows in the front of Sgoolai Israel Synagogue in downtown Fredericton, New Brunswick.

On December 29, Turkey arrested 32 people linked to ISIS who were planning attacks on synagogues and churches.

On December 17, a man drove a U-Haul truck up onto the sidewalk between a barrier and the front door of the Kesher Israel Congregation in Washington D.C., got out, and started yelling "Gas the Jews." He also sprayed a foul-smelling substance on two people leaving the synagogue.

December 17 also saw 400 synagogues across the United States receive bomb threats.

On December 11, a man attacked an elderly couple on their way into a synagogue in Los Angeles, screaming, "Give me your earrings, Jew!!" and beating one of them bloody with a belt. (Happily, he chased the guy down the street, and caught him when his pants fell down.)

On December 10, a 16-year-old was arrested in Vienna for planning an attack on a synagogue.

On December 8, on the first night of Hanukkah, 15 synagogues in New York State received bomb threats. And someone screamed, "Free Palestine," and fired shots outside of Temple Israel in Albany, NY. Which has a preschool that was in session.

Meanwhile, the five Jews left in Egypt were canceling public Hanukkah candle-lighting at their synagogue out of fear of reprisals. Particularly after two Israelis in Alexandria had been gunned down by terrorists on October 8. (While Israel was still fighting Hamas in Israel.)

On November 15, a terrorist group set the only synagogue in Armenia on fire.

Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) has a history of working with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

(PFLP is part of Hamas's network of groups. Samidoun is their nonprofit arm - which is why Germany banned Samidoun last year, although it's still active in many other countries.

PFLP is also actively supported by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), a diaspora nonprofit group, and Within Our Lifetime (WOL), an SJP spinoff in NYC.)

On November 11, halfway through Shabbat services, police asked Central Shul in Melbourne, Australia to evacuate "as a precaution" due to a "pro-Palestinian" protest that had chosen the neighboring park as its gathering place. Australia has seen some very outspoken antisemitism at protests, including the march shortly after October 7 that chanted "Gas the Jews."

Also on November 11, protesters targeted a synagogue along a march route. They sat in their cars, spraying green smoke and shouting at people leaving the synagogue. The march itself featured a record number of horrifying signs and chants.

On November 7th, Congregation Beth Tikvah in Montreal was firebombed, and the back door of the Jewish organization across the street (Federation CJA) was set on fire.

On November 4, protesters chanted "Bomb Israel," and burned an Israeli flag outside the only synagogue in Malmo, Sweden.

During October, there were 501 antisemitic acts under investigation in France in just three weeks, including groups gathering in front of synagogues shouting threats, and graffiti such as the words “killing Jews is a duty” sprayed outside a stadium.

On October 18, people firebombed a synagogue in Berlin after homes all over the neighborhood were graffitied with stars of David.

And also on October 18, hundreds of "pro-Palestine" rioters attacked the Or Zaruah Synagogue, in the Spanish enclave of Melilla in North Africa, while worshippers were inside.

Based on the video, they seem to have blocked the synagogue entrance completely, while screaming "Murderous Israel" and waving Palestinian flags. (Melilla is an autonomous zone belonging to Spain. It borders Morocco.)

On October 17, during pro-Palestinian protests, hundreds of rioters set fire to Al Hammah synagogue, an abandoned house of prayer in central Tunisia. They hammered down the building’s walls and raised a Palestinian flag on the building. Police did not intervene.

The Facebook page "Tunigate", which has around 88 thousand followers, published a video of the assault. So did "Radio Bousalem”, with 83 thousand users. The vast majority of comments on these videos welcome these acts. The building was severely damaged and almost completely razed to the ground.

On October 15, bomb threats were sent to many East Coast synagogues. Attleboro synagogue Congregation Agudas-Achim received one of the emails, which read, "The bombs will blow up in a few hours. A lot of people will die. You all deserve to die."

On October 8 -- again, while Hamas was still in Israel -- Madrid’s main synagogue was defaced with graffiti that read “Free Palestine” next to a crossed-out Star of David.

And on October 7, an assailant in Rockland, NY fired a BB gun at two women entering a synagogue. Later in the month, a banner at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in the area was vandalized with the words, “Fuckin kikes."

[anisaanisa]

Happy 27th Anniversary, Inuyasha!

Written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi, Inuyasha first debuted in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday (issue #50) on November 13th, 1996 ☆

[buffysummers]

Back by popular demand, my third annual vampire appreciation week will take place from Tuesday, November 7th to Monday, November 13th. All content is welcome, from gifsets, to graphics, to edits! You don’t need to be following me nor do you even have to like me to participate, truly EVERYONE is welcome. I tried to incorporate some new prompts as well as keep some of the original ones. Here’s how it will go:

Tuesday, November 7th: Favorite vampire

Wednesday, November 8th: Favorite vampire/vampire dynamic OR favorite vampire/non-vampire dynamic

Thursday, November 9th: Favorite mythos (which vampire story did the vampire mythology the best?)

Friday, November 10th: An underrated vampire OR vampire fiction that deserves more appreciation

Saturday, November 11th: Favorite vampire fiction(s) OR first vampire obsession 

Sunday, November 12th: Most attractive vampire

Monday, November 13th: You choose!

Tag your edits with #vamp appreciation week 2023, and I will reblog your work! I can’t wait to see everyone’s work and I hope you all feel welcome to participate! 🧛‍♀️ 🧛‍♂️ ❤️ Signal boosts are greatly appreciated so that more people will hopefully have a chance to participate!

[erisolweek]

Live prompts for Erisol week 2023!

Hello everybody, let me tell you about a wonderful week that is coming this November. From Monday the 13th to Sunday the 19th this event is back and still kicking!

This year the prompts are being kept simple in the traditional way: one word prompts to make your mind spring to action. Find more information about the event here.

As always, have a great and fun week! ＼(＾▽＾)／

[tianasimstreehouse]

Pancakes with Bacon

Another little breakfast option to make those lazy Sunday Sim mornings feel extra special: Golden brown pancakes dripping with maple syrup and topped with crispy streaky bacon.

Suggested by someone a little while back... I'm sorry I can't remember who it was but I hope this fulfils your pancake dreams!

*REQUIRES the latest version of my TianaSims Cookbook, this can be downloaded here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64612779*

Category: Breakfast  

Ingredients: Milk, Flour, Eggs, Red Meat  

Skill Level: 2 (Homestyle)  

Available sizes: Single, Family, Party  

Dietary: contains dairy and meat

DOWNLOAD (Patreon): Here Milk and Cookies: now! Sugar Cookies: 13th Novemeber Public: 20th November

[consanguinitatum]

David as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (the first time he did it, that is!)

David Tennant fans are aware of 2011's brilliant Much Ado About Nothing, in which DT starred as Benedick, alongside Catherine Tate as Beatrice. Filmed at the Wyndham's Theatre in London and directed by Josie Rourke, the production was recorded and offered on Digital Theatre.

But did you know David had played Benedick before?

Yep - he sure has!

It was in 2001, a full decade before his production with Catherine.

Beginning in 1999, BBC Radio 3 launched Shakespeare For The Millennium, an ambitious project to dramatize seventeen Shakespeare productions in four years.

The project was done in collaboration with BBC Worldwide, which emphasized it wanted to take a contemporary, innovative approach to the Bard. It launched on 12 September 1999 with a Shakespeare discussion panel, and a new production of Hamlet -- starring none other than Michael Sheen as the Dane!

On 23 September 2001, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a new production of Much Ado About Nothing as the Sunday Play, with David in the lead role as Benedick and Samantha Spiro as Beatrice. Adapted by Sally Avens, it featured an introduction (as had all the previous productions in the Shakespeare For The Millennium series) by Richard Eyre, the former Director of the Royal National Theatre.

The production also starred a few other recognizable names. There was Chiwetel Ejiofor as Claudio, Emilia Fox as Hero, David Swift as Leonato, Julian Rhind-Tutt as Don John, and David Haig as Dogberry.

All original music was composed and performed by Simon Oakes and Adam Wolters.

Radio listings and announcements, and promo photos of David and Samantha Spiro

Here's a review of the prodcuction!

Much Ado About Nothing was commercially released by BBC Worldwide as part of the BBC Radio collection series in 2001.

The sleeve notes of cassettes and CDs of the production include a scene-by-scene synopsis, a full character analysis, and an essay on interpretation from the director Sally Avens.

Almost four years later, in November 2005, BBC One broadcast a television series called ShakespeaRe-Told, a set of four adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. Each play was adapted by a different writer, and all were relocated to the present day.

The first to be broadcast - on 7 November 2005 - was a modern-day version of Much Ado About Nothing starring Sarah Parrish and Damien Lewis...and Billie Piper and Nina Sosanya and Olivia Colman!

You can watch it here:

Six days after this television broadcast - on 13 November 2005 at 7:15 pm - BBC Radio 3 re-broadcast the audio version starring David and Samantha in its 'Drama On 3' slot.

Fast forward to August 2020.

The BBC released a set of four BBC Radio Shakespeare collections: Histories, Comedies, Tragedies, and Roman Plays. Much Ado About Nothing was included in the collection of Comedies, and became available as an Audible digital download.

If you want to listen, you can find this collection a lot of places. It might be at your local library or on Overdrive, on Google Play, or as an Amazon Audible book.

Or, ya know, just go here:

[merlinrarepairfest]

Coming Soon...

We're happy to announce the first round of the BBC Merlin Rare Pair Fest! This is a prompt-based event that will focus on the lesser explored relationships (romantic & platonic), and run from August until November. For the sake of this fest, any work not focusing on Merlin & Arthur (as either romantic or platonic) will count as a rare pair.

Schedule:

Prompting: August 17th until August 31st - anyone will be able to leave up to 10 prompts through a form we'll share

September 1st/2nd: a list of all submitted prompts goes live

Claiming opens: September 3rd - anyone who would like to create for this part of the fest can claim a prompt by filling out another form. You do not need to have submitted prompts to do this, and submitting prompts does not mean you'll have to otherwise participate!

Works Due: November 5th - all creations created for a claimed prompt must be submitted to our AO3 collection. We will draw up a posting schedule by which works will be revealed over the next few weeks!

Posting Starts: November 13th, with one to two works per day.

As these fest formats somewhat tend to favour writers, the second part of this fest will be a Rare Pair Week run here on Tumblr in November, to give any and all visual artists some time to shine!

Monday, November 6th: Your Fave M/M Ship

Tuesday, November 7th: Your Fave F/F Ship 

Wednesday, November 8th: Fave F/M Ship

Thursday, November 9th: Fave Non-binary/Genderqueer Ship 

Friday, November 10th: Fave Poly Ship

Saturday, November 11th: Fave Gen Dynamic 

Sunday, November 12th: Free Choice 

Artists are still more than welcome to participate in any other parts of the fest (prompting, claiming, etc.) we just hope to make the fest more accessible to all mediums like this!

More detailed information on all parts of the event can be found on our blog, and we'll be sharing regular updates and information. That said, please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!

We can't wait for a great fest!

[brokehorrorfan]

Gutter Garbs has Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter and Jason X designs by Sam Coyne on T-shirts ($30), zip-up hoodies ($50), and 12x18 prints ($36). Pre-orders are up through Sunday, October 15, and will ship the week of November 13.

[layton-npc-appreciation-week]

Layton NPC Appreciation Week 2023!!

I'm so glad to announce that Layton NPC Appreciation Week is back for another year!

The event will run from Monday 13th November to Sunday 19th November 2023

Here are the Prompts:

Day 1: Curious Village/Diabolical Box

Day 2: Unwound Future/ V.S Phoenix Wright

Day 3: Last Specter/ Eternal Diva

Day 4: Miracle Mask/Azran Legacy

Day 5: Mystery Room/Mystery Journey

Day 6: Obscure characters

Day 7: Free day

Thank you to @tea-of-destiny for helping with the prompts!

In case you're wondering, each day is a day to appreciate minor characters from each of the games. You can create anything, from fanart to fanfiction, to moodboards, anything you like. Feel free to check this blog for all the amazing works from last year!

Make sure to tag @layton-npc-appreciation-week and I will reblog every work to this blog. Or you can submit if you prefer.

Please share so as many people as possible can participate!

[linbeifongsweek]

PROMPTS ARE OUT!

Hello everyone!

Your votes have been tallied and the prompts for Lin Beifong's week are out! Each day has been allocated two prompts. You could either pick one of them or incorporate them both in your submissions.

(Day 1) Saturday, November 11th 2023:

Love Languages Under the Moonlight

(Day 2) Sunday, November 12th 2023:

Fireworks A Long Night

(Day 3) Monday, November 13th 2023:

"If I could take all your pain away, I would. But I cant, so just let me love you." Gossip at the RCPD

(Day 4) Tueday, November 14th 2023:

Clandestine Meetings There was only one bed

(Day 5) Wednesday, November 15th 2023:

"Why do you always have to look this damned good?" Let me take you dancing

(Day 6) Thursday, November 16th 2023:

Soulmate AU "Those green eyes you have could be the death of me."

(Day 7) Friday, November 17th 2023:

A Reunion "I love you more than anything. Why won't you believe me?"

(Day 8) Saturday, November 18th 2023:

Festivals/Party Two night stand

Get that creativity flowing! We have almost 40 days to go!

[squiddokiddo]

.⊹*𖦹Thunderbirds Birthdays 2024 𖦹*⊹.

So there's already been a lot of you saying yes to birthday weeks and I just can't wait until the poll ends so I'm posting this all for you now to give you plenty of time to prepare for our first week which will be in a months time. (We missed Jeff's but he's still listed.) Ok on with the list:

𖦹*⊹.𖦹*⊹.𖦹*⊹.𖦹*⊹.𖦹

☄️Jeff - 2nd January☄️

Jeff Tracy Week: Monday 1st January - Sunday 7th January (Already passed at the time of this post)

🫧Gordon - 14th February🫧

Gordon Tracy Week: Monday 12th February - Sunday 18th February

🚀Alan - 12th of March🚀

Alan Tracy Week: Monday 11th March - Sunday 17th March

🌩️Scott - 4th April🌩️

Scott Tracy Week: Monday 1st April - Sunday 7th April

🔓Parker - 30th May🔓

Parker Week: Monday 27th May - Sunday 2nd June

⚔️Kayo/Tin-Tin - 20th June⚔️

Kayo/Tin-Tin Kyrano Week: Monday 17th June - Sunday 23rd June

🎨Virgil - 15th August🎨

Virgil Tracy Week: Monday 12th August - Sunday 18th August

🪐John - 8th October🪐

John Tracy Week: Monday 7th October - Sunday 13th October

⚙️Brains - 14th November⚙️

Brains Week: Monday 11th November - Sunday 17th November

🌸Lady Penelope - 24th December🌸

Lady P Week: Monday 23rd December - Sunday 29th December

𖦹*⊹.𖦹*⊹.𖦹*⊹.𖦹*⊹.𖦹

Note:

I've only listed characters with canon birthdays, for John I chose the birthdate that was referenced the most in Thunderbirds media. (like books and annuals and such)

I'll post a reminder at the start of these weeks for y'all so you don't forget, pls don't feel obligated to join in if you don't want to, I'm just setting this up for fun.