I hope the orthodox jewish man with his tzitzit out in the background of heartstopper season 2 episode 5 knows he’s my favorite character in the show
Let’s put this to rest. Once and for all
at last I am ready to take my place among fandom history as I finally watch star trek in order from the beginning
i love it when italians argue about italian. like we don’t even know how our language really works we just roll with it
one time i saw a map of italy but instead of cities and roads etc it was just covered w different ways you can say the word vagina. it was covered
this is the Italian Vagina Map, reblog to… I’m not sure actually. Can’t hurt though.
Anonymous asked:
hope you had a lovely pesach!
I very much did, thank you ❤️
dougielombax asked:
Hey.
Sorry if I’m interrupting anything.
I’m just curious.
I saw all these memes and posts about the plague of frogs during the recent Passover week. (I’m not Jewish myself, I was raised Catholic but I’m not religious, idk what to believe tbh)
And it got me wondering.
Would frogs be considered kosher or not?
Assuming you know I mean. (Sorry if I’m wasting time)
I’d say probably not with the whole plague thing but idk.
Hence why I’m asking.
not a problem at all! the question of whether frogs are kosher actually has nothing to do with the plagues. there are very specific guidelines for which animals are considered kosher.
no reptiles or amphibians are kosher. any water-dwelling creature must have fins and scales in order to be kosher.
(land animals must have split hooves and chew their cud. birds are… more complicated, the torah lists 24 specific types of birds that are not kosher, but you can imagine the difficulty in trying to accurately translate biblical hebrew bird names and identify which modern day species they refer to)
one of the (many) things that resonated with me after reading the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers (if you haven’t read them yet, GO READ THEM) is Ouloo’s opinion on the exhaustion of political activism vs taking the easy way out and letting others do the work for you.
she wants to live a quiet life, and she wants people to stop killing each other. that’s the extent of her politics. she doesn’t know the complexities of the political landscape of the galactic commons in which she lives, nor is she obligated to become an expert in it: fundamentally, she wants people to get along, and she wants to serve them cake, and she does her best to live her life in exactly those terms. when she’s confronted with her own biases, she works doubly hard on herself to overcome them, because her existence is dominated by that one, very very simple thing: be kind to others. some of the other characters look down at her for it, saying it’s naive, that the world can’t be made better with cake, that if she really cared she’d do something more tangible about it.
but I think there’s something really valuable in that mindset. I want to be kind to others, and I want others to get along. I don’t have the answers to all of the political questions in our society. but also, I don’t have to. not everyone is capable of being loud and angry. I go through so much anxiety and stress, worrying that I’m not doing enough, I’m not loud enough, I’m not doing my part to change the world we live in, what if I’m just being lazy?
sometimes living your own life gently and with kindness and interacting with others from a place of love is enough. we need both kinds of people in the world. and sometimes gentle people get loud, and sometimes loud people need gentleness.
not having all the answers all the time is okay. worrying is not activism. anxiety is not activism. you are allowed to take care of your body and mind.
Let me know if anyone wants a list of Jewish fantasy novels
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- The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid (adult, based on Hungarian Jewish history)
- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (adult, based on Lithuanian Jewish history)
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (adult, urban fantasy)
- The Wise and the Wicked by Rebecca Podos (YA, urban fantasy)
- Burning Girls and Other Stories by Veronica Schanoes (adult, anthology)
- A good amount of Alice Hoffman’s books
- Same for Jane Yolen’s short stories and Briar Rose
- The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (adult, historical)
- People of the Book edited by Rachel Swirsky and Sean Wallace (anthology)
- Anything by Shira Glassman
Adding more!
- The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros (ya, historical urban fantasy about a series of murders in 1900s Chicago). Also read his sophomore novel Bone Weaver!
- From Dust, a Flame by Rebecca Podos (ya, urban fantasy)
- The Ghosts of Rose Hill by RM Romero (YA, ghost story told in verse)
- When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb (ya, historical about angel and a demon coming to America)
- Ravenfall by Kalyn Josephson (mg, urban fantasy murder mystery)
- A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft (ya, romantic fantasy about a fox hunt)
- The Way Back by Gavriel Salt (ya, historical portal fantasy)
- The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke (ya, historical time slip)
- Feverwake by Victoria Lee (ya, dystopian with magic)
- Death’s Embrace by HL Moore (adult, sci-fi)
This is a great list, and I wanted to add a couple I recently read!
The Tribe by Bari Wood: Intense social horror about golems, bigotry and some very gnarly murders.
Thistlefoot by Gennarose Nethercott, magical realism about Baba Yaga’s Jewish descendants getting willed her walking house.
swordsoprano asked:
hi, i shared the 'it is a beautiful day in egypt and you are a horrible frog' post on facebook, and my friend expressed interest in buying the frog knife picture that you added on a tote bag. i figured i'd ask, are you selling it anywhere?
I’m not, I made that meme in about five minutes and honestly feel weird about selling it.
Thanks for asking though!
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Yes i caught it at least once
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