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Me'orot is actually a sci-fi convention! It is also an Aguda con. They Also have Dorot which is in Heifa and is at the same time as Harucon so it's less popular. I never been to one of their conventions, but Bein Hashurot are trying to follow Noar Kore's footsteps, so they might be worth checking out. Also, about the animusicals, you can find many of them on Youtube. And the Sushi's free and Janken musical both have English subtitles, but there are many others avalible in Hebrew. I really recommend volunteering in the convention - I volunteered in about 6 cons and it's very fun to help the fandom community, meet new people, and help make the conventions

Hi. Can you share a cool fact about Israel? How's the fan culture over there? You guys got conventions? 👀

BOY DO WE

There are 4 big conventions in Israel, run by two organisations- the Israeli Society For Science Fiction and Fantasy(known shortly as "Ha'Aguda), and AMAI, the Israeli Manga and Anime Organization.

The Aguda's conventions are the biggest and most well-known. There's Icon during Sukkot and Olamot("worlds") during Passover, and both are always in Tel Aviv. Those are the comic-con of Israel- they have everything geeky and fanish, from every type of media. They last 2-3 days, and are free to enter but you have to pay to go into specific events. Those are my favorites!

AMAI's conventions are centered around Japanese media and culture. There are also two- Harucon at Purim(the closest con), and Animatsuri at the summer. Those cons costs money to enter, but once you're inside you can go anywhere as long as there are free seats. Those cons are in Jerusalem, and are very big. They also sometimes include a run of an Animusical(anime-inspired original musical production done by members of the community)

Other then those 4, we have lots of smaller cons done by different organizations and for different specific topics- there's Meorot which is a Harry Potter and LOTR con set during Hannukah, the Aguda also has Mitopia in the summer, that's centered specifically around books, and there's Draconicon for DND and RPG players! And a lot more! Last year I also had the chance to go to the first Sha'atnez, a con surrounding specifically Jewish Fantasy and Fantastic Judaism. It was fantastic and I REALLY hope it'll be an annual thing.

Interesting thing about fan culture here- the main two groups involved in it are queers, and religious orthodox jews. Both are in the fannish scene in much larger percantages then they make of the general population! I suspect the religious thing is because Shabbat-keepers have a lot of time when all they can do is read, and queers are already very dominant in such communities, but it's still very cool I think:)

Anyway fun fact, I've been in the artist alley for... 6-7 cons up untill now? My favorite to sell in was Noar Kore which sadly does not exist anymore but I REALLY like doing those booths.

בצו הראשון שלי, הייתי 161. עליתי על המכשיר מדידת גובה בלייזר. הוא אמר שאני 210. החיילות באו לכתוב את זה, ואז קלטו שמשהו לא בסדר. רשמו שאני 158

אני: איזה משחק אכזרי גנים הפסדתי בו שגרם לי, גבר טרנס, להיות רק מטר 56, מתחת לגובה ממוצע אפילו לנשים!

אני:

I remember meeting my best online friend in the fucking woods. The stupidest thing I ever did. Luckily she was (and is) my age, not creepy, and a great person overall. But what the FUCK were we thinking? We met in a public bus station and them immediately went to the woods. Like wtf??? It was not an actual wood so people were there every like 30 minutes but what??? I just thought my parents would kill me if they knew so we secretly met IN THE WOODS. What the fuck 12 years old me. What the fuck.

ok but legitimately i think the reason why kids aren’t taking internet safety seriously is because the people who are telling us not to put our personal information out seem so out of touch. no one acknowledges the possibility of meeting very real teenaged friends online, they always say that everyone you meet is a 40 year old white man in disguise. because they aren’t acknowledging things we know are true, it becomes a lot easier to dismiss the rest of what they’re saying as well. internet safety lessons absolutely must keep up with the times and acknowledge the internet’s capacity for good if you want kids to take to heart warnings about its capacity for bad.

Go watch the doctor who episode: a Christmas Carol. It will prepare you to your future

The rain is gone, but if the air humidity gets any higher, native freshwater fish are going to start physically manifesting on our balcony.

IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

i feel like some of you are unable to wrap your heads around matt being a flawed person beyond "uwu my flawed traumatized baby"

he lies, he's reckless, he wrongs and disrespects the people he cares about, he's a hypocrite of the highest order, he decides that sometimes he knows best and that he is right to bulldoze over the motivations of other people.

after outing ayala as the white tiger in court — which i do think is in-character, he's a great lawyer but he's known to take risks and allow his daredevil-ness to bleed into how he presents his clients — he tries to moralize to hector with borrowed lines from maggie. matt, with his current rejectionist viewpoint on vigilantism, thinks he has done hector a favor by making it impossible or hard for him to be white tiger. he makes false equivalencies and says things that he knows are bullshit because he's deluding himself.

despite all his altruism (which he is currently going on a year of suppressing), matt is a spectacularly self-centered person. it's an argument he and foggy had multiple times. but as the audience, we can see the extent of it in a way that foggy can't: matt filters the world around him through the ways he thinks about himself. vigilantism lost matt his best friend, therefore it is not only okay but right for him to take the white tiger from hector (it would protect his loved ones).

but we know that matt is still experiencing a great deal of cognitive dissonance. it's not really as simple as "vigilantism bad" for him, is it? so we get matt saying things he would not otherwise say, not only to justify himself to hector but also to convince himself.

I was sad because I finished watching daredevil: born again and read almost all the fanfiction (you do not understand. If a fic is good, and isn't frank/matt or another ship I dislike, I read it. If a fic is bad, I probably read half of it.) but then I remembered I can read the comics. I have so much daredevil to read. So much of this stupid man who makes bad decisions but is so complicated. Yes it is stupid that you aren't telling your girlfriend that you are daredevil after all the things that happened with Foggy and Karen, but I get why he does that. Incredible.

Cannot Stress Enough how important it is to read Howl’s Moving Castle written by Diana Wynn Jones immediately after watching Howl’s Moving Castle directed by Hayao Miyazaki. When he made the movie he was of course upset with war and thus included it in the film, but you gotta understand. You really Gotta Understand. Every time in the movie where Howl turns the door dial black to travel to an absolutely hellish warscape? You know where that same dial takes him in the book? The Real World Country Of Wales

כוכבים.

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