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[afrenomes]

I have a question for the fanfic writers among you: How do you treat your work in progress when a very similar story is put out there? Do you go on writing - in the spirit that everything is unique in its own way - or do you abandon the piece - in the spirit of preventing 'superfluous' contributions?

Let's add a further wrench into the process by saying the recently published work by another author, so similar to your own, seems so much better written than your own (granted we are always our own worst critics). Where do you go with that?

Maybe this is a question for readers, too. Do you mind reading similar works/story lines?

#i’m a reader and very much not a writer but I’m definitely a two cakes type of person #i dont give a flying fuck if the story is similar to something i’ve read before #if it’s a similar trope/scenario that I love with a ship that i love then i’d read thousands of different versions if i could

[afrenomes]

Fuck astrology who’s your Stardew spouse?

#leah my beloved ❤️ #stardew valley

[afrenomes]

quite possibly one of the funniest things you could've said.

#🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ #antisemitism #the jewish experience tag #israel

[afrenomes]

If you genuinely enjoy being alone, do you ever wonder if it is an inherent part of your character or if it stems from feeling inescapably lonely in the first place until you taught yourself to enjoy the peace and happiness one can find in solitude? what if the reason you now prefer & choose solitude at every turn is because you were a very lonely child, or teenager, not by your own choice, and that’s how you learnt to thrive and grow, so you no longer know if you can do that around people? There might also be an element of personal pride, an unconscious “you can’t fire me I quit” point when your brain decided to switch your feelings about solitude from distress to relief. I often find myself defending my love of being alone, to people who worry that I can’t possibly be happy to live in an isolated house in the woods; I insist that I do! I really do specifically enjoy the isolated factor and chose to live here because of it, but then I wonder how to differentiate an ingrained love of solitude from an acquired ability to thrive off unchosen loneliness, to learn from it and be nourished by it; to what extent it might be a form of contentment built on a bedrock of resignation.

#hey op could you not delve into my psyche please #anyways yeah even though i lived (and still live) in quite the opposite of an isolated house in the woods #i still feel this in many ways

[afrenomes]

I haven’t reached out to my non-Jewish college friends (all of whom graduated last May, while I still had a semester left of school) since October 7th, and I think I’m going to keep it that way for the moment. There’ve been a couple subtle hints on Instagram about some of their stances, but for the moment I’d rather live in my own bubble of remembering the good times with them in the past, rather than reach out to them right now and risk learning that they want people like me dead. I’ve heard from other left-leaning Jews what their experiences are with feeling betrayed by friends they’ve had for years, and I just don’t know if I can handle that. Even if it’s not that extreme, I resent having to be an educator or a representative of all Jews to them just because I was the only Jew (sort of, it’s complicated) in that friend group.

#i just don’t wanna have to deal with this ffs #ship makes a personal post #the jewish experience tag #antisemitism

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#apparently they deleted this post #but in the process of me looking for this post on their ig #i found out that one of my college friends as well as a few artists i admire follow them #i’m not gonna do anything with this knowledge (meaning i’ll keep following those people on ig and won’t say anything to them) #but idk it just feels like i’m dying by a thousand cuts and everything y’know #antisemitism #the jewish experience tag #yemen #israel #palestine

[afrenomes]

In this house we love a hydrated boy

This was just supposed to be a silly doodle wtf

#ganondorf #tears of the kingdom #the legend of zelda #fanart

[afrenomes]

Any protest where people are saying there is “one solution” or, worse still, a “final solution” to the Jewish Question Israel where those saying it aren’t immediately ejected?

It’s an antisemitic protest. No exceptions.

#antisemitism #the jewish experience tag

[afrenomes]

the other infuriating thing happening rn is people picking all the wrong enemies and having extremely little empathy or comprehension with Jews like. Frankly. A LOT of the loud voices on behalf of Jewish students rn or against antisemitism are coming from right wing and really conservatively pro-Israel Jews and organizations - or from republicans eager to make this into a partisan problem. Yet people have taken this to mean that Jews are inherently a right wing action group, rather than the reverse - the majority of Jews in America, and certainly I’d assume the majority of Jews at these campuses, are on their side. Furthermore, the majority of Jews, ranging from committed antizionists on their protest encampments to many nonzionists and liberal Zionists - and Jews who know how ambiguous all three of these categorizations are, depending on who you talk to - are not republicans or supporters of right wing Zionism and would love not to become a Republican plaything and are, for the most part, abiding by the central leftist issue of shutting the FUCK up when the cops or media ask about problems hurting them in a cause many support. Like I wish people would look at the presence of Jews in protest movements as a “wow my Jewish comrades are being incredibly and unbelievably brave swallowing and dealing with attacks on their own identity because of how strongly and truly they believe in the cause of a ceasefire and Palestinian liberation” not “haha no antisemitism here that’s a whole Zionist psyop out to get us who could never be antisemitic to Jewish People”

it’s confusing as hell because republicans have weaponised this into the ultimate partisan issue but people have got to be smarter about picking their enemies

#antisemitism #the jewish experience tag #israel #palestine

[afrenomes]

The elite belief in Uberized, Muskized cities is at odds with fundamental, irrefutable facts of geometry

The appropriately named Jarrett Walker is the author of Human Transit, a seminal text on transportation and cities that draws on his decades of experience in urban planning; he has the distinction of being called “an idiot” by Elon Musk on Twitter, when he pointed out that Musk’s Boring Company tunnel proposals could not possibly work due to their low capacity.

Walker’s overarching thesis is that city transit is undermined by “elite projection,” where rich people pretend that the way they like getting around – in private vehicles that go from door to door – can possibly work at urban scale, despite the fact that simple geometry shows that this is a physical impossibility.

As in, “It doesn’t matter how tightly you pack self-driving Ubers together on our roads. If all the people who make your coffee and empty your wastebin are in private vehicles rather than on buses and trains, the roads will be at 5 or 10 times their physical capacity.”

This emphasis on private vehicles leads people to seize on technological fads to defend the indefensible – hence the vogue for describing the smartphone as the key technology for transportation, or self-driving cars, or data-driven custom shuttle routes that re-route themselves based on demand signals from riders’ phones.

These all share the geometric flaw: even the smallest cars, packed as tightly as possible, multiplied by all the people who rely on buses and trains, will overflow all the roads we have now and all the roads we could ever build.

There is another flaw: when you make it cheaper to ride private vehicles (rather than public transit), you siphon transit riders out of the buses and trains, and put them on the roads, increasing congestion: so adding “efficient rideshares” actually makes transit worse, not better

Walker tried to explain this to Elon Musk on Twitter, discussing how his proposed Boring Machine tunnels’ narrow bores meant that on the one hand, they couldn’t carry enough people to make an appreciable difference in traffic, and on the other, that his proposal for allowing private cars to run through the tunnels is nuts: “The amount of the city that you would have to level to create enough of those elevators to get everybody’s car into the tunnel at 5:30 in the evening, it’s preposterous; it cannot help being. Anything that is that inefficient has to be only for elites.”

Musk called him an idiot.

https://boingboing.net/2018/01/26/elite-focus.html

#elon musk #car culture

[afrenomes]

no multi option, agonize and choose, no results option, pick one to find out or scroll onward

#if by saying the laundry is all organized you mean that it’s all put away then fuck yeah that’s the best one #I’m currently sitting in a room with clothes fucking every because i cant seem to put my shit away when it’s clean and it’s a nightmare #*everywhere

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BREAKING: A man kidnapped, raped, and tortured a Jewish woman in Paris to “avenge Palestine”.This is what your protests are encouraging.

#rape tw #misogyny #antisemitism #antisemitic misogyny #the jewish experience tag

[afrenomes]

So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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Please reblog for a greater sample size if you’re interested in the results!

Edit: While comments and commentary is much appreciated, please don’t give away whether a particular answer is correct or incorrect until after the poll!

#israel

[afrenomes]

I sat next to the protest today.

I wrote fan-fiction about two gay jewish dads raising children to the play list of the chant- "No peace on stolen land!" on an American college campus. It isn't a name brand one either, nor does it have any legitimate ties to Israel. The anger is just there- it has rotten these future doctors, nurses, teachers, and members of society.

I don't even know what to call their demonstration- it was a tizzy of a Jew hatred affair. At points, there were empathetic statements about Gazans and their suffering. Then outright support of Hamas and violent resistance against all colonizers. Then this bizarre fixation on antisemitism while explaining the globalists are behind everything.

"Antisemitism doesn't exist. Not in the modern day," A professor gloated over a microphone in front of the library. "It's a weaponized concept, that's prevents us from getting actual places- ignore anyone who tells you otherwise."

"How can we be antisemitic?" A pasty white girl wearing a red Jordanian keffiyeh gloats five minutes later. "Palestinians are the actual semites."

"there is only one solution!" The crowd of over 50 students and faculty cried, over and over.

"Been there, done that," I thought, then added a reference to a mezuza in the fourth paragraph.

Two other Jewish students passed where I was parked out, hunching and trying to be as innocuous as possible. We laughed together at my predicament, where I am willingly hearing this bullshit and feeling so amused by this.

"Am I crazy? For sitting here?" I asked them. My friends shook their heads.

"We did the same last week- it's an amazing experience, isn't it?”

We all cackled hysterically again. They left to study for finals. Two minutes later, I learned from the current speaker that “Zionism” is behind everything bad in this world.

Forty-five minutes in, a boy I recognized joined me on my lonely bench. He came from a very secular Jewish family and had joined Hillel recently to learn more about his culture. His first Seder was two nights ago.

He sat next to me, heavy like the weight of the world was on his shoulders. There was just this despondent look on his face. I couldn’t describe it anyone else, but just sheer hopelessness personified.

“They hate us. I can’t believe how much they hate us.” He said in greeting.

And for the first time all day, I had no snarky response or glib. All I could do was stare out into the crowd, and sigh.

#i heard that ‘one solution’ chant for the first time (i think) a few days ago in a video and holy shit it was bone-chilling #also i’ve come to expect this type of shit from young college students bc for them this is like ‘baby’s first humanitarian crisis’ #but the fact that i’m hearing more and more about professors and faculty being involved #is just another layer (amongst dozens now) of disappointment and betrayal and hopelessness #at my own alma mater there’s a group of professors pushing for a cultural boycott of Israel in the school’s faculty senate #idk what ‘cultural boycott’ means to them but to me it sounds like it’ll harm israeli students and professors who are just trying to exist #plus it’ll do the opposite of what higher education is supposed to do which is learn from different cultures and different perspectives #but hey what do i know right? 🤷‍♀️ #antisemitism #the jewish experience tag #israel #palestine

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Searched “firebomb a walmart” on twitter to find the original and they’re still trying to find a comeback for it. Dozens of attempts daily since the day it was posted

#maybe bringing up mlk jr— #the man who preached nonviolent action #and witnessed multiple firebombings (including the bombing of his own home!) committed by white supremacist terrorists #and whose main goal included voting rights for black americans #—maybe he’s not the best guy to bring up if your trying to argue that firebombing a walmart > voting

[afrenomes]

prince of egypt is not a christian movie. the exodus is a jewish story. it’s found in other religions, and can even have a heightened level of significance, like for black (specifically african american) christians. but it is a jewish story from jewish scripture written from a jewish perspective about jewish persecution. enjoy it all you want. but don’t go on about how much you love prince of egypt then erase the fundamental jewish spirit of it.

#hmmm i wonder what ‘enjoy it all you want’ means… #the prince of egypt #antisemitism #the jewish experience tag