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OH MY GOD whyyyy did no one tell me you’re supposed to send thank-yous after interviews?? Why would I do that???
“Thank you for this incredibly stressful 30 minutes that I have had to re-structure my entire day around and which will give me anxiety poos for the next 24 hours.”
I HATE ETIQUETTE IT’S THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE THING FOR ME TO LEARN WITHOUT SOMEONE DIRECTLY TELLING ME THIS SHIT
HP RP Pair Up
In the spirit of script swap, here’s another event to bring the community closer together. The HP RP Pair Up.
Once all the names are submitted, and May ends, I will pair everyone up. Everyone will get one randomly assigned partner. You and your partner will co-write and perform a thread together. It must have at least two characters, though it may have more than two. You and your partner are the only ones allowed in the thread.
Send me an ask or a message saying that you’d like to participate. If you aren’t sending me the message from your RP account, be sure to also send me the URL you roleplay from. Sign ups will be open for the entire month of May. I am aware that it is finals season, so this will be slower going with longer deadlines.
Can’t wait for Wonder Woman tonight and thank Hera it’s sounding like it’s a good movie too! Here’s a throwback to a Wonder Woman piece I made two years ago after getting tired of only seeing skinny pinups of her.
Punctuation Matters by The Visual Communication Guy
For really tho
Slytherin: How long did it take before you guys started liking me?
Hufflepuff: Couple weeks.
Ravenclaw: Six months.
Gryffindor: Jury’s still out.
Hey uh, if anyone here would be willing to message me about how to bind using safe methods without buying an actual binder (like sports bras) could you just send me a message? Preferably if I know you already
GUYS the 80s are back!!!!
Star Wars, high waisted jeans, over sized sweaters, flannels, horrible republican government, conflict with Russia, the ever impending threat of Nuclear Anihilation, scrunchies,
Please don’t call a whole fanbase or group a problem when its only a small amount of people in them that are causing the problem.
who the FUCK told society that depression and awkwardness is cute and adorable
On falling in love with your gay best friend 💖
follow me @dresdoodles or on twitter
i have some more tips but i have to get back to homework!!! i hope this was helpful anon
when your grandpa grows a weird dog in a tube and now he’s your brother but also your pet, sort of
Hey, I don’t usually make PSA posts like this, but if you have a bot by the name of “Notsobot” on any of your discord servers, don’t click the link that it has set as “playing”. It’s a link to a site containing suicide video compilations.
So! Allow me tell you why I’m seething over this in two parts!
Part I
First of all, let’s get specific about what this means: They explicitly want to exclude Hillel. To vaguely phrase it as “all Zionist-related groups” is just a dogwhistle for Hillel. And look, there are legitimate reasons to be opposed to Hillel as a national organisation, especially when it comes to their stance on Israel. I personally do not believe Hillel should have any stance on Israel at all, because it’s meant to be a home for all Jewish students, and that includes Jews of varying political and religious opinions. I would love to see Hillel abandon its present stance, and I know there are Jewish students all over the place working on making that more of reality as I sit here typing this.
But here’s the thing: Regardless of Hillel’s bad policy on this issue, it’s still overwhelmingly the centre for Jewish life at nearly every college and university in the United States. It just is. So the message quickly becomes an ultimatum—from gentiles—that any Jew who wants to be considered progressive must completely divest themselves from the existing Jewish community and only engage with other approved Jewish individuals in order to be considered ideologically pure. It doesn’t matter if Hillel is your only option for getting Kosher food, attending services, being with other Jewish people, etc. It’s #bad and if you engage with it, then so are you.
Now, would be bad enough just on the principal that gentiles shouldn’t dictate how Jews access Jewish life and Judaism, but in light of all the drama with the Women’s March Organisers, this whole thing becomes even more offensive and absurd. Because when Tamika Mallory (along with Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez) refused to denounce Louis Farrakhan’s comments about Jews and LGBTQ+ people, the following was said: “I don’t agree with everything that Minister Farrakhan said about Jews or women or gay people…[but I hope that Jewish and LGBTQ+ people] will also take the time to understand why I have partnered with the Nation of Islam and been in that space for almost 30 years.” Basically: “He has some bad ideas, but I think his group does enough good for my communities at large that I am willing to overlook it.” So then why aren’t Jewish groups afforded the same nuance? Why is it only Jews who are being held to a standard of unattainable perfection, while everyone else gets to be messy and flawed?
They’re so quick to say “It’s not anti-Semitism because opposing Israel isn’t the same as being anti-Semitic!” and like…it’s not always the same as being anti-Semitic, but you have to fucking do it right, and my goyim, you ARE NOT. Gentiles holding Jews to different standards from everyone else, asking Jews to prove themselves from cutting ties with campus Jewish life, and generally just trying to define anti-Semitism as non-Jews? Like, it doesn’t even matter what your Israel stance actually is; your praxis is already inherently anti-Semitic all on its fucking own.
Part II
The article notes that the statement calling for Hillel to be excluded said the following:
“Black folks and other People of Color have a long-standing history of standing in solidarity with Palestinian folks,” the statement reads. “The quotidian experiences of Palestinians include a long history of dealing with violence, colonization (particularly through land dispossession), and oppression. We cannot in good conscience advocate for our own liberation without being mindful of the current and historical liberation struggles of others locally, nationally, and globally.”
Later on, the statement added that The Drylongso Collective was focused on “anti-Black and anti-Brown racism at Cal Poly.”
“To attempt to decenter Blackness from our discussion by focusing on an accusation of anti-Semitism based on a false equivalency of Zionism and Judaism is deeply disturbing and speaks of not only the lack for anti-Semitic acts committed by non-Black/Brown students but also of the coalition work that remains to be done,” the statement reads.
Okay, so let me stop y’all right fucking there with this reminder:
JEWS OF COLOUR EXIST JEWS OF COLOUR EXIST JEWS OF COLOUR EXIST
Like, not only does this statement completely overlook the fact that over half of all Israelis are either Black or Brown, which demonstrates a total lack of understanding about who Israelis are, thus utterly disqualifying these students from really having any opinion on the state as an entity all, but FUCKING HELL, does it really go out of its way to way absolutely erase Black and Brown Jews existing in their own corner of the diaspora. They mention the ‘struggles of others locally, nationally, and globally’ in the same breath that they imply that Black and Brown people are a wholly separate entity from Jews, and then go on to preemptively accuse Jewish people of derailing the conversation to be about themselves, shifting the focus away from Black and Brown people, when again JEWS OF COLOUR EXIST.
How much chutzpah does one have to possess to be able to simultaneously erase all Black and Brown Jews whilst also demanding that they stop engaging with Judaism unless it’s entirely on your uninformed gentile terms?
I am so sick of discourse that paints Judaism as whiteness, not only because it misses the point of how anti-Semitism has operated as a racial hatred for centuries, but also because it always ends of with Jews of Colour being attacked and harassed by people who claim to fight for, well, People of Colour. Just like how the CDM organisers revelled in the “white tears” of the Iranian Jew they ejected from their march, and the trans Indian Jewish reporter they got fired from her job, these organisers would have you believe that Jewishness, in and of itself (and unless otherwise proven on an individual basis through a series of loyalty tests), is whiteness, perhaps even whiteness in its very worst form. And I don’t know how much of that outlook is due to ignorance and how much of it is due to blatant hatred, but it’s anti-Semitic no matter which way you spin it, and I’m so fucking tired of watching people who think they’re progressive swallowing conspiracy theories from the pages of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, as if it wasn’t already trite Jew-hating bullshit when it was first published in 1903.
Chaplains in the 101st Airborne Division have fired the longstanding Jewish lay leaders at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, allegedly without providing any reason, effectively ending Friday night Shabbat services for Jewish soldiers and their families.
The two ranking chaplains also refused to support the Jews’ attempts to celebrate Passover on March 30, the first night of the eight-day long religious celebration, allegedly because it conflicted with Christians’ Good Friday observances and would save money during the installation’s four-day holiday.
Jeanette Mize, her husband, Curt, and son, Lawrence, served as lay leaders for Jewish worship on the installation for nearly two decades. On Feb. 28, the three were allegedly fired without cause under the direction of the division chaplain, Col. John Murphy, and his deputy chaplain, Lt. Col. Sean Wead.
“There was no explanation why I was fired,” Jeanette Mize told Army Times.
She added that her family has “faithfully provided weekly Shabbat and yearly religious worship events since 1999,” and they have worshiped at Fort Campbell since 1984.
“This is the first time in at least 34 years that the Jewish soldiers and their families have been denied weekly Shabbat worship at Fort Campbell,” she said.
Mize and her family have never been paid for the services they provide for the roughly 80 members of the Jewish community on Fort Campbell.
“There is no synagogue in the Fort Campbell area or the nearest towns of Hopkinsville or Clarksville,” she said. “The nearest synagogue is located in Nashville, more than 50 miles away.”
Mize added that other religious groups at Fort Campbell could actually worship nearby, “outside the gate,” but there is still worship at Fort Campbell for these organizations.
At the meeting in which she was terminated, two subordinate chaplains did not give her a reason for her dismissal, and would only say they appreciated her service of many years, according to Mize.
“I asked him what he ‘appreciated,’ since he and [the other chaplain] had never been to a worship event, even though I had invited them for High Holy Days and Shabbat,” she said.
One of the chaplains told her he had been busy with a Catholic event and that another Christian Army chaplain reported back to him.
When Mize said that chaplain has never attended a religious worship service, he responded that “it would compromise his religion to attend,” according to Mize.
“They had to celebrate Passover on a non-Passover date,” Weinstein said. “That’s like telling Christians ‘I know you want to do Christmas on Dec. 25, but it’s more convenient if you do it on Dec. 7, so we can save money.’ ”
Mize said she was told that if the Jewish community still wanted to hold a Passover event on the proper night, there would be no advertising or support for it.
“When you say that some of the most senior military chaplains can’t even observe Jewish faith practices because it would be offensive to their religious views, it doesn’t get much worse than that, except when you tell them that if they want the base chaplains to support Passover, they have to choose a day that isn’t Passover,” Weinstein said.
Mize added that one chaplain in particular, whom she characterized as a fundamentalist Christian, bullied and threatened to take over the religious decisions for Jewish worship after he was assigned to be the Jewish lay leaders’ chaplain sponsor in the summer of 2017.
“I made appeals to replace him,” Mize said. “Nothing was done about this. [He] enjoyed his position and exerted his authority.”
Mize said the lower level chaplains were under the direction of Murphy and Wead, who she claims were transparent in their intention to make conditions so bad that she would quit. The dismissals came when she would not do that, according to Mize.
Don’t mind me I’ll just be over here shipping
Concept: an RPG side quest where a couple of villagers ask you to help sort out their marital problems, and actual solution is to sit their asses down for a counseling session and talk about how they’ve reached a point in their lives that each of them independently arrived at the conclusion that asking a heavily armed stranger they’ve just met to secretly mess with their spouse was a reasonable way to approach their relationship.
Remus in Rome.
Remus Lupin going to Rome, and criticising everything like “my brother should have let me build, look at this wall! It’s falling to pieces!” And if ever he has to queue for anything, James says “Oi, his brother murdered him for this city, and he came back from the dead to see how it was doing, show some respect.”
And every time someone tells the story, Sirius points at him like “yeah, we have Remus here, and he’s the wolfiest person I know.” And Peter makes way too many “Raised by wolves” jokes.
Day 71
last night i dreamed that i made this image in ms paint, so i decided to make it for real
YAS. YOU GO SASSY MCGONIGAL
Holy shit
things toddlers and i have in common
- need naps - will scream ‘dog’ when there’s a dog - cry too much - screaming - ???? - need to be held often
i am the most obnoxious person i know
When signs start a fight
DUE, I won’t start a fight:
LEO, LIBRA, PISCES
I will definitely finish one:
CANCER, VIRGO, SCORPIO
Oh I will start a fight, YOU WANNA F*CKIN GO?!
ARIES, GEMINI, AQUARIUS
Watches silently while chewing popcorn:
TAURUS, SAGITTARIUS, CAPRICORN
i just.... okay let's say that it really is dan's pillow: why? he's never taken his pillow before? that's a thing phil does. unless...... they shared phil's bed in their previous flat (fight me, they totally did) so when phil brought his pillow on tour, it was comfort for both dnp. this time, now that they're sharing the moon room, they're bringing a pillow from there. but THIS TIME it's in dan's suitcase so nobody would question it.
I mean. I don’t have time to look up receipts at the moment but. We know Phil takes his pillow for comfort and that hotel pillow germs creep him out. We know that he carried that pillow around everywhere last tour. We know that dan doesn’t care about using hotel room pillows because that was in the same conversation they had about Phil’s pillow. We know they share luggage, sometimes they only take one suitcase, they always only carry one backpack etc. We know that Dan under packs and you can bet phil over packs because he’s a worrier. I think that phil wanted to pack his pillow and dan had room in his suitcase and I will continue to believe it until Phil shows up with a pillow in that green plaid pillowcase and slaps me in the face with it. I Want To Believe.
