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I didn’t travel across the entire world so you could tell me no!

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CW: antisemitism, pale of settlement, pogroms, genocide, cultural erasure

I don't think goyim can really conceive of how much Jews actually hold back in our criticism of antisemitism in media, and when you hear us it is often because we see a dangerous message that you don't... Yet.

I have a complicated relationship with Tim Burton's rendition of The Corpse Bride. I love it as a beautiful piece of stop motion art, but it isn't what it should have been, he took a Jewish story from the Pale and with intention stripped it of its Jewish origins. This alone is incredibly antisemitic. The criticism you will hear has probably been "this is a Jewish story, it should have retained its Jewish elements" but have you heard why we feel strongly about this story?

The story of the corpse bride is incredibly important to me and was born from Jewish trauma and Christian violence. Mobs would routinely attack Jewish weddings, they would murder brides and they would bury them in unmarked graves by the roadside still in their wedding clothes, they reasoned that without Jewish wives there are no Jewish mother's. Jews are intrinsic to the story.

It is antisemitism to take our story, about our pain, at the hands of non-jews and strip it for "useful" parts, in fact it is heartbreaking every time.

We are often forced to pick our battles and fighting a battle over a movie that has already been released by a director with a cult following is not worth it, you only hear us speak up in numbers when the antisemitism may lead to another century of violence, because raising our voice means picking a fight, because so many of you already see our pain as inconvenient and it is exhausting to never be heard.

-anyone can reblog

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might I ask for Bocchi with a trans flag for Trans Day of Visibility next week?

Day 91: I wanted to do something more ambitious but I accidentally fell asleep for like 2/3 of the day

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Really can't get over how much the Bocchi The Rock anime transcends it's source material. Episode 5 expanded chapter 9 into a full episode with a ton of original content.

In the manga Nijika storms off and it cuts to the band talking in the practice room. Meaning this scene where they go after Nijika:

was entirely original. They moved the band's talk about the audition outside which gave some much needed variety in the scenery as this chapter in the manga takes place entirely inside Starry. Yes, that means:

this scene between Bocchi and Kita at school was also entirely original. This deepens Kita's characterization somewhat and shows off more of her relationship with Bocchi. In the manga it flows straight from talk of the audition to the wig skit. Then right after that we have this conversation between Nijika and Bocchi:

In the anime they played Bocchi's internal monologue over a montage of the characters going about their day. And the conversation between the two was expanded into my favorite scene of the episode:

Nijika talks to Bocchi about if she forced her into the band. A topic that just wasn't touched on in the manga. Next they get into the reasons they wanted to join a band. Which plays out much like in the manga but with the slower pacing in the dialogue as usual and a much more significant feeling setting. This scene in the manga I had pretty much forgotten about but I doubt I will be forgetting the anime version.

There's a lot more changes in this episode, for example: Seika's approval of the audition was a lot more straightforward in the manga. But these were all I wanted to talk about. Incredible work from Yoshida Erika (the script writer for this episode) and the rest of the staff. They were able to turn what was only six pages into this stellar and memorable episode.

Each week I just love this anime more and more.

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it froze over here today, which made me reminisce about sledding as a kid!

+ closeups! ❄️

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Snorkmaiden and Little My with Peonies

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running with my dress unbuttoned

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Whatever happened to 2014 Tumblr... miss her

#the fjällräven bags.......

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This is such a skill

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an unfortunate side effect of growing up autistic is that everyone always mistook my bluntness for rudeness n now whenever I do any sort business communication I overcompensate for my default absence of tact by speaking like a late 19th century dandy. this appears to be something I am unable to turn off despite my many efforts

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List of Books on Nature and Climate not Written by White Guys

In an effort to address the common complaint that white men dominate the climate conversation by sharing solutions:

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush. If there was only one book I could recommend it would be this one. The chapter titled Risk is itself one of the best pieces of climate writing.

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. A book of essays on the places where Western botany and indigenous plant knowledge meet. This book is a treasure. I wish I had read it a slower so I could spend more time in each essay.

The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh. A book about the social and psychological forces that prevent of us from truly understanding climate change. This is also the first book I’d read to dive deep on what climate change will do to India.

Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway. This is the true crime story of the people who lied to us and stole our future.

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Ostensibly a book about the botany and economics of the matsutake mushroom that grows only in disturbed environments.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert. This book is a bummer.

Trace: Memory, History, Race and American Land by Lauret Savoy. This is the kind of nature writing I love best, showing how geology, and the natural and human world intersect.

Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica White. This is a little, somewhat obscure book I picked up mostly because it is about Detroit but that I can’t stop recommending. This is a wonderful corrective to histories that have downplayed Black farmer activists and contemporary narratives that imply only white people want to be small farmers. If nothing else it’s a wonderful, thorough look at Fannie Lou Hamer’s work.

Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine by Gary Paul Nabhan. A beautiful, frightening exploration of agricultural diversity and the forces arrayed against it.

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Batsheba Demuth. All our ideologies encounter the people and animals of the Bering Straits, always for the worst.

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Dr. Joy DeGruy: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

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into “modern AU” Moomins but only really for Silly Reasons