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#MAKE ONE :D #comic

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when elton john said yeahr im gonna kill myself. he was so right

#so genuinely what was the idea behind that song and how did the public react to it then

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source

#apt

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“It’s always impressed me that Judaism mandates that goodbyes be said with a certain amount of hope. We end Shabbat with havdalah, a beautiful ceremony concluded by extinguishing a twisted candle in sweet wine and singing a song asking for a week of peace and a time of redemption for humankind. Seders end with the promise ‘Next year in Jerusalem’. On Simchat Torah, we conclude the reading of the Torah by rolling back to its beginning. Funerals end with Kaddish, a prayer not about death but about the generous gift of life and God’s goodness. At the completion of shiva, the rabbi often takes the mourners out of their homes for a brief stroll that enacts literally what is meant symbolically – walking them back into life. Somehow Jews trust that every ending is also a beginning, that the broken hearted will again feel loved, and the sun will rise no matter how long or dark the night.”

— Rabbi Steven Z Leder (via yidquotes)

#judaism

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How to buy a perfume by Christian Dior

#carmen

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okay where is everyone watching 911 cuz it’s only up to season one on hulu now and i can’t find anywhere to pirate it

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Esther scroll case, Poland, 1852, silver, pierced and engraved

Inscribed in Hebrew with a dedication in honour of the groom, Haim Lernor

H: 19; Diam: 4 cm

#judaism

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selling prints for some extra income this month! have been struggling with bills since i had to move in between 2 different jobs this past month, & i'm still battling the negatives most days. if you have already ordered a print, it will be mailed out this weekend 🕯️

smaller prints $10 USD

larger prints/collages: $15 USD

venmo/paypal: stdawns

please spread this around if u can <3

#i’ve bought the sun photo it’s so beautiful !! one of my favourite pieces of art

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I used to work for a trade book reviewer where I got payed to review people's books, and one of the rules of that review company is one that I think is just super useful to media analysis as a whole, and that is, we were told never to critique media for what it didn't do but only for what it did.

So, for instance, I couldn't say "this book didn't give its characters strong agency or goals". I instead had to say, "the characters in this book acted in ways that often felt misaligned with their characterization as if they were being pulled by the plot."

I think this is really important because a lot of "critiques" people give, if subverted to address what the book does instead of what it doesn't do, actually read pretty nonsensical. For instance, "none of the characters were unique" becomes "all of the characters read like other characters that exist in other media", which like... okay? That's not really a critique. It's just how fiction works. Or "none of the characters were likeable" becomes "all of the characters, at some point or another, did things that I found disagreeable or annoying" which is literally how every book works?

It also keeps you from holding a book to a standard it never sought to meet. "The world building in this book simply wasn't complex enough" becomes "The world building in this book was very simple", which, yes, good, that can actually be a good thing. Many books aspire to this. It's not actually a negative critique. Or "The stakes weren't very high and the climax didn't really offer any major plot twists or turns" becomes "The stakes were low and and the ending was quite predictable", which, if this is a cute romcom is exactly what I'm looking for.

Not to mention, I think this really helps to deconstruct a lot of the biases we carry into fiction. Characters not having strong agency isn't inherently bad. Characters who react to their surroundings can make a good story, so saying "the characters didn't have enough agency" is kind of weak, but when you flip it to say "the characters acted misaligned from their characterization" we can now see that the *real* problem here isn't that they lacked agency but that this lack of agency is inconsistent with the type of character that they are. a character this strong-willed *should* have more agency even if a weak-willed character might not.

So it's just a really simple way of framing the way I critique books that I think has really helped to show the difference between "this book is bad" and "this book didn't meet my personal preferences", but also, as someone talking about books, I think it helps give other people a clearer idea of what the book actually looks like so they can decide for themselves if it's worth their time.

#writing #lynn

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“We can define rituals as symbolic techniques of making oneself at home in the world. They transform being-in-the-world into a being-at-home. They turn the world into a reliable place. They are to time what a home is to space: they render time habitable. They even make it accessible, like a house. They structure time, furnish it.

[…] Rituals stabilize life. To paraphrase Antoine Saint- Exupéry, we may say: rituals are in life what things are in space. … They ‘have the function of stabilizing human life’. Their ‘objectivity lies in the fact that … men, their ever-changing nature notwithstanding, can retrieve their sameness, that is, their identity, by being related to the same chair and the same table’. In life, things serve as stabilizing resting points. Rituals serve the same purpose. Through their self-sameness, their repetitiveness, they stabilize life. They make life last [haltbar]. The contemporary compulsion to produce robs things of their endurance [Haltbarkeit]: it intentionally erodes duration in order to increase production, to force more consumption. Lingering, however, presupposes things that endure. If things are merely used up and consumed, there can be no lingering. And the same compulsion of production destabilizes life by undermining what is enduring in life.

Repetition stabilizes and deepens attention.

Rituals are characterized by repetition.

[…] Rituals are processes of embodiment and bodily performances. In them, the valid order and values of a community are physically experienced and solidified. They are written into the body, incorporated, that is, physically internalized. Thus, rituals create a bodily knowledge and memory, an embodied identity, a bodily connection. A ritual community is a communal body [Körperschaft], and there is a bodily dimension inherent to community.” 

Byung-Chul Han, The Disappearance of Rituals 

Title is linked with a PDF download of this short book. Thanks to @wavesofundoing for the introduction to such an excellent and profound piece of writing! 

#words #annemarie

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#micahcore #beats

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#please please me coming in hot at 69 😎 #rbing so i can keep this alive in my memory and actually vote on newer polls #thanks op you’re doing gd’s work here #the beatles

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#pesach

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#beats #micahcore

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#faces #b & w

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GEORGE NAKASHIMA, Kevins house, New Hope, Pennsylvania, USA, 1946

#apt

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#dog