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[fortunatelychaoticphantom]

Here is your permission to sit down.

I am a fully abled person, with no physical restrictions, able to perform some really weird shit in Yoga classes. But there's this one meal that I really love that I don't make often because it takes a very long time to make, and so once in a while I make it in a batch, which obviously takes even longer. I'm not a fast peeler not cutter, and that's okay with me in general, but for when making this specific meal, after standing for almost an hour my back really hurts. I would find myself standing in the kitchen fantasizing about sitting down and peeling potatos at the dining table, every single time the same fantasy to just sit down. One day I asked myself - who am I suffering for? Why am I in pain? Who am I in pain for? Which law would I break if I were to peel potatoes sitting down? Pirates do it sitting down. Italian grandmothers do it sitting down. Why can't I?

So I sat down. And I've been sitting down ever since.

You don't need to prove yourself through pain, ever. Pain is not a challenge to overcome, it is a burden that should be relieved as much as possible.

Sit down. It's okay.

#life #disability

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I need you all to understand just how amazing things like what was just explained about The Nanny and The Golden Girls are, and just how recent they are. These women had to fight to be Jewish on screen, not in the 40's but in the goddamn 80's and 90's. And it didn't end there! You know we have to talk about Seinfeld and Friends...

George Costanza and his family are known as the most Jewish-non-Jewish family in the history of television because they weren't allowed to have two Jewish men on screen at the same time, so they had to do exactly what they tried to do to Fran and succeeded in doing to Estelle - make them Italian (**Regina George's voice** so you agree? Jewish people are Mediterranean?). And on top of that of course there's Elaine - there is no greater sin than a Jewish woman on screen, and so Julia Louis-Dreyfus was turned into the ultimate shiksa.

And this particular hatred for Jewish women is probably the most constant and present (if technically invisible) form of antisemitism on screen, and the examples given before show just that. Obviously Jewish men suffer from antisemitism as well, but there is a sort of bar of acceptance of at least one Jewish man on screen. Any more will have to be negotiated. But Jewish women? God no!

And so we find our way to Friends. Here the antisemitism was tripled - The Costanziation of Rachel, the blurring of Monica and the casting of Lisa Kudrow.

In case you didn't understand the hints (don't worry, I didn't either before they were pointed out to me), but Rachel - rich doctor daddy's little spoiled girl who loves shopping from Long Island and had a nose job in highschool - Green is indeed a hundred percent Jewish, but we're not allowed to say it out loud. Now, I just want to be very clear - I have seen people criticizing Rachel for being an antisemitic stereotype of a JAP. I understand where you're coming from, but she's not. Rachel Green might be one of the greatest most incredible subversion of antisemitic stereotypes ever - she is a rich Jewish girl who on episode one leaves her stereotypical privileged life to start from almost scarch and build herself from the bottom up. She literally cuts the credit cards her dad pays for and goes to find a shitty job. She is a fashion lover, yes, but instead of being a consumer of fashion she slowly but surly becomes the fashion industry itself, working her way into an incredibly high level position in one of the most famous fashion houses in the world, and so having other people essentially consume her products. She is also, and I cannot emphasize enough how lovingly I am saying this, an absolute slut. One of the stereotypes of the JAP is that she is sexually frigid, having the hots only for daddy's money. Rachel screws her way through highschool and remains a very sexually active and sex positive woman for the rest of her life. I'm sure there are a couple more aspects to this that I'm forgetting right now, but Rachel is truly an amazing character that I dearly love and believe is a fascinating work of resistance within the boundaries of US television.

So Rachel is Jewish, that's her whole schtik. And that's exactly why Lisa Kudrow didn't get that role, the one she actually auditioned for because of the Jewishness of the character, since she is a Jewish woman herself. The studio just couldn't handle the thought of not only a Jewisg woman character on screen, even if her Jewishness is hushed, but a Jewish woman playing her? That's just way too much. Which is why both Rachel and Monica are palyed by non-Jewish actresses.

Which leads us to Monica - the half Jew half White woman, who conveniently has a male sibling, who happens to be played by a Jewish man, so he gets to be the Jewish part of the family while she gets to never ever mention anything about the subject. Why half and half in the first place? Oh because if they were fully Jewish that would require their mother to be Jewish on screen... And let's be honest, the only thing worst than a JAP is her MOM. Nah. We have Elliott Gould and David Schwimmer, that's enough Jews on screen. Thank god they're men. Do you know how many times Monica's Jewishness is explicitly mentioned in the show? Once. In the last season, when she and Chandler meet Erica, and she thinks they are a reverend and a doctor. Monica says she could be a reverend, and Chandler says "you're Jewish". That's it. That's the only mention. 10 seasons of episodes, one joke, made by someone who is not Monica. Ross gets to teach Ben about Hanukkah and celebrate his tenure with "Israel's finest" champagne (we do have great beer, I swear), and Monica gets to decorate the Christmas tree every year and celebrate Thanksgiving. Fun.

"Hollywood is controlled by Jews" is such a complicated concept. Jews "control" Hollywood because, just like banking, gentiles thought it was an immoral profession while simultaneously barred Jews from working in anything else, especially if it was guild related (or owned by Ford...). So guess what Jews did? Can you? Can you guess what they did, like they were always forced to do? And can you guess what happened when it became a very lucrative business, like it always does? And even before the rest of the US flocked to Hollywood, Jews still worked within the boundaries of a society that saw them as foreign, under laws that dictated what could and couldn't be shown on screen. And those rules might have been cancelled since, but the social rules remain, and they are often surprisingly similar.

Anyway. Yeah. This sucks.

I've been watching The Nanny before I go to sleep to distract my mind because my anxiety is so bad, but sometimes I still can't help but think of the horrible way things are right now. of course her being Jewish is a huge part of the character and the comedy, but there are also lots of lighthearted references to Israel and American Jewish connection to Israel (there's even a joke really early on about Arafat). at the end of an episode I just saw, the whole family goes to a kibbutz for winter vacation and it's part of the plot and just meant to be funny, not at all political. some jokes about Israelis being attractive and picking fruit. and I thought, they could never do that now. she'd be called an evil zio colonist now. kibbutzim were massacred and it was celebrated. people would be screaming on Twitter about the writing normalizing "Isnotreal." it made me so sad...things have changed completely in thirty years and not for the better, definitely not for the humanization of Jewish people and culture.

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#antisemitism #jewish things #jumblr #friends #seinfeld #the nanny #the golden girls

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אז יש לנו מנצח! תודה רבה על שהצבעת והשפעתם!

תכירו את ישוע בן יוסף, ידוע בקרב חבריו בשם שוקי, בן 38, דור שלישי לנגרים מנצרת, בוגר התוכנית לעיצוב תעשייתי בבצלאל, החליט לפתוח נגריה בפלורנטין לפני שלוש שנים כדי לקדם מודעות לקיימות צרכנית ולקדם מלאכה איטית ואיכותית. נשוי למרים "מירי" אליהו, הבת של שלמה אליהו, מקים חברת הביטוח מגדל (הבנתם? מגדל? זה היה ממש מצחיק). מירי מנהלת עמותת סיוע לשורדות מעגל הזנות בדרום תל אביב (הבנתם???), ולזוג שלושה ילדים וכלב לברדור. כתבו על הנגריה בדה מרקר והכריזו עליו כ"נצרתי הצעיר שהולך לשבור את המונופול של איקאה" ויש כתבה על הדופלקס בשווי שלושה מיליון דולר שלהם בפלורנטין ב-Xnet. כל הכסף הוא כמובן של מירי.

כולנו יודעים מה ישו *לא* היה ולא היה היום אם הוא היה בחיים, אבל מה הוא *כן* היה אם היה חי היום?

(אין לי שום בעיה עם ישו, דווקא נשמע כמו אחלה בנאדם בסך הכל, אבל אתם מבינים...)

#אני עדיין תומכת בגרסה שהכנסיה הנוצרית המציאה את הסיפור שמרים ממגדלא הייתה זונה כי הם שנאו אותה ושזה לא נכון אבל זה מצחיק ככה או ככה #ישראבלר #jumblr #jewish things #אני הצבעתי ללהקה אבל אני מבינה אתכם

[fortunatelychaoticphantom]

I am genuinely so worried for all the young horny dykes going into adulthood thinking there's something "problematic" / "wrong" with them for being horny because fucking tiktok lesbians think any horny dyke content is "male gaze fetishitic"

#queer things #purity culture #social issues

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If you wouldn't go to someone for advice, don't take their criticism either.

#interesting #life

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✨✨✨here to sprinkle some JEWISH JOY into your inbox✨✨✨

💕💕💕 Thank you!!! That's so sweet!!! 💕💕💕

#joy! #way better than all the asks iv'e got in the last six months... #jeiwhs things #jumblr

[fortunatelychaoticphantom]

^ Okay, who the hell animated Mai in that one scene in The Boiling Rock? Whoever it was deserves a raise. They managed to portray Mai's sense of dejection, an epiphany that Zuko's position is both honourable and achievable, a sudden disillusionment with the war effort, a newfound conviction to take a political (not just a personal) stand against Azula, her parents and Ozai all in the span of three seconds and without even changing her facial expression or having any lines of dialogue to work with!

The other writers/animators needed three whole seasons to depict Zuko's infamous redemption arc. Pathetic.

Whoever animated Mai could have probably spedrun the entire show in one episode. Woulda saved a ton of money in hiring voice actors storyboarders etc. Give 'em a pay rise, hell better give them an academy award, a beer, a statue in Republic City, a gobby, you name it dude. What a ripper c*** ❤️

#i fucking wish a single part of this was in the show #but none of it was #mai #zuko #anti bryke #atla #avatar the last airbender #atla meta

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i like w,hen ......... theres a Big scaresy fantasies beast ok .... and then the big beast has a litter of babies,,,., and the babeis are veryvery small . ok

#fantasy #media

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#to think nerd and techbros are the same... #my god #technology #social issues

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Zuko doodle! On that ATLA bandwagon with the new Netflix show out now so I felt nostalgic and drew everyone’s fire nation boyfriend 😆 I actually think the Netflix show is pretty decent! I think the cast is doing a very good job with the characters so far and I saw a 2nd and 3rd season is confirmed so I’m looking forward to seeing more.

#zuko #atla #avatar the last airbender #fanart

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katara !!

#katara #atla #avatar the last airbender #fanart

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Hey, take it from someone creeping towards 40:

Ignore the fun police.

If you like it, order your steak well done. Get your bagel toasted with jam and butter. Put ice in your scotch and ketchup on your hotdog. Get red wine with fish and white with steak. Who cares?

If you want to, listen to pop music. Watch blockbuster popcorn flicks. Read dime store novels. Enjoy them.

Dye your hair or cut it off. Paint your fingernails blue. Wear whatever the fuck you want on your own time (ie, when not at a job or school or whatever where you can get penalized for breaking rules) as long as you aren’t like welding or shoveling snow.

Anyone who tries to tell you you’re wrong? Say “okay” and go back to what you were doing. You’re not hurting them by enjoying yourself or having things the way you like them.

There are no caveats or addendums to this. No “but what about x?” Nah. You’re allowed the things you like. You don’t have to justify your taste or apologize for it if it’s not hurting anyone.

And likewise, let other people live their lives. We’re all dead in the long run, so tend your own garden before you become fertilizer in it.

#life

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Leftist goyim misunderstanding (often purposefully) the concept of Jews as a "chosen people" in order to further perpetuate their antisemitism is making me want to bang my head against a wall.

#jewish things #jumblr

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I wish we had more female characters like Eleanor Shellstrop. One of the most unlikable people you've ever met. Read a Buzzfeed article on most rude things you can do on a daily basis and decided to use that as a list of goals. Makes everyone's day worse just by being there. Dropped a margarita mix on the ground and tried to pick it up, only to get hit by a row of shopping carts which pushed her into the road where she was hit by a boner pill delivery truck, killing her instantly. Cannot keep a romantic partner despite being bisexual. Had a terrible childhood but will die before she gets therapy. Best employee at a scam company. Just the worst but also can't help but root for her to improve.

Absolute loser. Girl-failure. Bad at almost everything. Literally perfect female character.

#the good place

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Posted by Steven Payne to Facebook group British Medieval History:

People in the Middle Ages valued sweet smelling breath and bodies, seeing them as desirable, so there is a great deal of evidence from the period of tooth pastes, powders and deodorants. Contrary to the typical Hollywood depiction of medieval peasants with blackened and rotting teeth, the average person had teeth which were in fairly good condition, mainly due to the rarity of sugar in the diet. Most medieval people could not afford sugar and those who could used it sparingly. Archaeological data shows that only 20% of teeth had signs of decay, as opposed to 90% in the early twentieth century. The main dental problem for medieval people was not decay but wear, due to a high content of grit in the main staple, bread. For deodorants, soap was available for the wealthy, but a variety of herbs and other preparations were also used. Soapwort is a plant native to Europe and Asia which, when soaked in water, produces an effective liquid soap. Mint, cloves and thyme were also extensively used by simply rubbing into the skin, and alum (hydrated potassium aluminium sulphate) was an effective deodorant. I am trying to keep to 14th century technology on my pilgrimage to Canterbury, which gives me various options when looking at hygiene. In the middle ages people generally cleaned their teeth by rubbing them and their gums with a rough linen cloth, or the chewed end of a stick. There are various recipes for pastes and powders that could be put on the cloth to help clean the teeth, but I have chosen simple salt to whiten them and to aid fresh breath. I will also be using the stick method, and will be taking along a supply of liquorice root sticks for that purpose. I also have a few blocks of alum, which when rubbed into wet skin has a deodorising effect. Alum, like beeswax, was used extensively in the middle ages for a variety of purposes, also being useful: * in the purification of drinking water as a flocculant * as a styptic to stop bleeding from minor cuts * as a pickling agent to help keep pickles crisp * as a flame retardant * as an ingredient in modelling clay * as an ingredient in cosmetics and skin whiteners * as an ingredient in some brands of toothpaste The photograph shows my wash kit including home made olive oil soap, salt for the teeth, a block of deodorising alum, cloves, a boxwood comb made for me by Peter Crossman of Crossman Crafts and some liquorice root sticks, all on a woollen ‘towel’. Note that the cloves are kept in a ventilated box….this is because insects hate the smell of cloves and so a perforated box will keep them out of my kit and food bag when I am sleeping rough. TIP: If you steep some cloves to obtain the oil and put the liquid around the doors and windows of your house, it keeps spiders and insects out.

#history #middle ages #medieval

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“stop traumadumping to your friends tell this to your therapist” my god they paywalled human connection

#life

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I wanted to redraw that cave scene, but the background turned out to be terrible, so so

#zutara #zuko #katara #atla #avatar the last airbender #fanart