#((i got this ask like at least a year ago

[benjaminthecoathanger]

okay, because i saw a poll earlier and i thought the choices weren't clear enough and also the answers i saw to it annoyed me and also i'm curious:

NOTES:

I am including having watched gameplay of a game and not having played it as having watched the source material

In this context if you are writing fic/making art and you are not being commissioned to do so. This is purely for funsies

You getting into something because you saw a post/gifset/video about it and then watched the source material does not count. That's just how you get into new things.

Goncharov does not count because it's not real. I'll break kayfabe here I don't care.

#polls #look i got really annoyed by reading the tags of the since-deleted poll of people like 'did you forget goncharov hahaha' like. #that. that's not what was asked. #also like. i'll reblog posts of something ive not seen if i think theyre interesting/funny #but i don't count that as like. 'engaging in fandom" necessarily #bc to me at least fandom requires active engagement? and like im not gonna go hunting for like. leverage posts if ive not seen it #i also don't read fanfic like. at all. so i have no concept of how people read it? #like. i last read fanfic like 2 years ago bc i had just finished disco elysium #so people who read fic bc of the like. tropes or whatever like. i do not get it. im happy for you though #anyway. sorry i went insane i love u all #ben leaves the house #or doesnt. i guess in this case. a very Chronically Online Poll

[can-of-slorgs]

are you the one with the nt series where sloth is all buff and hanging out with the user's twinky oc? there was something also about sloth turning into a snowbunny? was that you or another guy?

do you know what i'm talking about if it isn't you... because if not this is embarrassing...

Anon I have no idea what you're talking about.

I haven't publish (nor read for that matter) anything NT related in maybe a decade.

Now, that said... The what comic about dr sloth's twink??

#vin answers #anon im sorry i have no idea what youre reffering to JHASDKFASD #i only got my retail neo account back after years of not being able to enter it like 2 weeks ago and just restarted my neo fix like a month #listen; i did not want to be known as the “babygirl sloth” artist in the neotag by any means #at least not before being an actual artist that is #not this early HJFFJSK #but the existence of whatever anon described only fills me with dread #and probably makes me rethink of whatever i did draw and how it can be taken completely serious by some....... individuals #that or it gains me death threats for making a space dictator into an egirl in some shape or form #i have to come clean..... i haven't read the dr sloth plot lmao #i started it and never finished i have no idea what he even does in neopets #an now im too afraid to actually read it HJDFHJSD #anyways thanks you for the ask anon i..... i do not know what to do with this information #but i do not what to claim ownership of said cursed arts #but it did give me the idea to make a random image of my grundo lad making a thumbs up next to dr sloth #and just having an upper text “DR SLOTH” and bottom text “AND THE TWINK” #its just hilarious to think about

[posi-pan]

let’s talk about panphobic dogwhistles

A panphobic dogwhistle is coded/subtle to avoid opposition. These statements aren’t inherently panphobic and not everyone who shares them is panphobic.

“You can identify as pan, if... I support you being pan, but...”

This create hoops for pan people to jump through in order to be supported. But support and respect contingent on us internalizing and regurgitating panphobia isn’t genuine. We don’t trade autonomy for a sliver of pseudo acceptance.

“New labels damage the community. It doesn’t matter if a label is valid, it matters if it’s useful, materially different, and serves a political purpose.” And other anti self-identification/individualism statements.

This targets any label that isn’t The Four. Labels are, and always have been, useful if they help someone understand and communicate their feelings, identity, and experiences. We don’t owe our queerness to anyone, and we don’t have to use our queerness as a calculated strategy for anything.

What damages the community is creating an environment where any kind of difference in identity/language/expression or rebellion against norms/status quo/rules is met with hostility, fostering fear and distrust of the people who are supposed to support and nurture that self-discovery and expression.

“All genders/regardless of gender has always been the definition of bi.”

This often perpetuates the counterfactual ideas that pan “stole” The bi definition and isn’t necessary because “bi already means that”. This is also ahistorical biphobia; there’s never been one “true” definition of bi (this isn’t even the common community one) and it erases bi history/people who don’t relate to it.

Using scare quotes around pan.

Putting pan in quotes when it isn’t necessary is often a way of disrespecting its legitimacy, casting doubt/judgement, especially if pan is the only one in quotes.

“Bi has always included trans/nonbinary people.”

This is often used to falsely claim pan was created because “biphobes thought bi didn’t include trans/nonbinary people, so pan doesn’t need to exist”. (Binary bi texts aren’t universal, but there are plenty that speak to a reality that affected people and contributed to the current more inclusive language.)

“Mspec labels overlap but the distinction matters to some and that’s okay.”

I’ve seen this said so many times in response to people asking what bi and pan mean and how they relate to and differ from each other. What good is it to tell people the distinction matters while avoiding explaining what that distinction is? Ultimately this statement discourages any dialogue about mspec labels.

“Bi is an umbrella term that includes pan.”

The bi umbrella was once genuine inclusion of all mspec people, and activists/orgs use it, so most people don’t see it as anything else. But when bi only content has “bi+” slapped onto it, it becomes meaningless and performative. Panphobes also use it to argue pan doesn’t need its own, specific visibility.

“When a character ‘just likes people’ or is ‘attracted to all genders or regardless of gender’ they aren’t automatically pan instead of bi.”

I’ve experienced this from panphobes who simply assume pan interpretations of pan definitions/common pan explanations must be because of biphobia. But it’s a big, false, and purposely bad faith leap of logic to fuel the panphobic narrative that pan people are always misrepresenting bi.

“Pan people need to let bi people have something and stop making everything about themselves.”

This might seem like advocating for bi only content/events for the sake of bi visibility/community, but it’s often malicious exclusion of pan people who’ve always been included. We aren’t “invading” or “derailing” anything by being in spaces we’ve always been in, or by sharing a bi post because we relate to it.

“Read the Bi Manifesto.”

A lot of the time, people say this because they think the manifesto states the true definition of bi and proves pan is unnecessary/biphobic. However, the full text explicitly states there isn’t one true definition of bi and the group who published it explicitly supports all mspec people and identities.

“People identify as pan due to internalized biphobia.”

This masks panphobia with concern for internalized biphobia. Pan is being written off as a product of biphobia under the guise of wanting bi people to embrace being bi. Pan people are being equated to bi folks who just haven’t unlearned biphobia enough to embrace being bi, when that isn’t the case.

“All pan people are bi, but not all bi people are pan.”

This appears to be an easy explanation of bi/pan, borrowing from “all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares”. But queerness isn’t geometry and doesn’t work like that. The only pan people who are bi are the ones who also identify as bi. We can’t box queerness into simple, universal categories.

“Analyze why you’re uncomfortable with being associated with bi people or being called bi.”

Of course, pan and bi are associated, but it’s never mere association these people are referring to. Pan people are vilified and wrongly painted as biphobic for criticizing the erasure and mislabeling of our identity.

“Bi and pan people need to stop fighting each other, both are valid and neither is -phobic.”

This implies the “fighting” is equal. But there are popular bi accounts dedicated to panphobia, “battleaxe bi” was coopted for panphobia, a major bi org spreads panphobia, panphobic bi authors/activists are praised, and researchers subsume pan data into bi data. Biphobia from pan people just is not on the same scale as panphobia from bi people.

This is not to disregard/downplay biphobia from pan people. It’s just important to acknowledge the reality, severity, and disparity of the situation. Erasing that by saying or implying it’s just a silly mutual argument about which word is better is disingenuous at best, and malicious misrepresentation at worst.

“I’ve never seen a definition of pan that isn’t biphobic/transphobic.”

Panphobes involved in bi/pan “discourse” saying this aren’t hoping to learn the actual (read: non bigoted) definitions of pan, they’re saying there aren’t any definitions of pan that aren’t biphobic or transphobic, because they believe pan is inherently biphobic and transphobic.

“Behaviorally/scientifically bi.”

“Behaviorally” and “scientifically” bi are used to categorize people based on so-called innate, universal indicators of being bi. Both say pan people are actually bi, hiding identity policing/erasure behind science. Funnily enough, researchers have said it’s hard to determine who is “actually bi” because “individuals determine this for themselves”. In other words, there aren’t innate or universal indicators, we simply are who we say we are.

So. I’m sure there are plenty more examples I’ve missed, and if you have any please send them my way! (I tried to make this as short as possible, so if you’d like me to elaborate on any of these, let me know and I’ll happily do so!)

But I hope this will encourage you to think a bit deeper about the things people say and the possible intent behind it before sharing, as well as be more invested in supporting pan people and trusting us when we tell you something is being said to spread panphobia.

#pansexual #pansexuality #pan antagonism #text #mine #panromantic #dogwhistle/strawman #mspec antagonism #bi antagonism #long post #bi umbrella #bi manifesto #i was asked like.....2 years ago to make this post.............at least i finally got to it amiright??? #wondering if i'm gonna hate for this though as everyone who talks about panphobic dogwhistles seems to #but just in case.....if you come onto this post with willful ignorance i will simply block you #if you come onto this post with the genuine desire to understand something better or talk about something i will respond in kind

[oceanwithouthermoon]

the realization that tumblr does not work like twitter and i cant just vague post about random discourse or arguments otherwise people will wrongfully assume its about them has flipped my whole life upside down

#exaggerating obviously but still like i vague post so much #did not realize people thought this #like wdym i cant just vague vent about a random argument i had with friends #because at least one person will probably think im talking about them #especially with a blog dedicated to like a small fandom circle like saiki k #whoops! #i once vaguely posted about how i hate getting called boring for disliking toxic ships- #and i got an anon ask being like 'i feel like that was about me cuz i JUST posted a saiki k toxic ship post' #and i just deleted the ask cuz i was like haha thats dunb ofc it wasnt about anyone on here #why would i subtweet about people on here right on here #and not every one of my posts is about saiki k #not only am i in multiple fandoms but also not every post is even a fandom post #that post was about twitter discourse that was making me mad lmfao #then i slowly realized that thats common actually like people assume that shit a lot #whoopsy daisy #any time i post about fandom discourse too- #ppl always think im talking abt them but im always either talking about a post i didnt want to reply to cuz it was from years ago- #or sometjing i saw on like twitter or pinterest or tiktok #if u ever wonder if im vague posting about you- of course im fucking not #i would lowkey just reply directly tbh #lol this is why i hate when people ask me 'who is this about' cuz idk bitch someone who hasnt been active here for like three years- #or some random user on tiktok!! i dont know!!! #i think i did post directly abt someone here like once ? and it was cuz i was sure that person was like 14- #so i didnt want to reply to them and be all mad #so i posted about it cuz i was like well i see people do that a LOT so whatever #(talking about 'teruhashi ruins my gay ships cuz shes a stupid bitch woman🤓' btw) #even then i didnt rlly consider it like a callout post of them or anything cuz theyre just one person out of hundreds that have done that #sorry these tags are so long lol i just erm.. its kinda funny to me ig idk #meows post

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

.

#these past two weeks have been so intense that ive just.. not spoken about it once i got home from work #blocked it all out #my beloved colleague whose desk is next to mine has cancer #breast and uterus. she needs two major surgeries #they just diagnosed her two weeks ago #so we've been trying to deal with that as colleagues and friends #because we love and miss her and i am so deeply sad as well #but i feel like i couldn't process that at all bc two days after the news of her diagnosis i was asked to take on half of her work #on top of my fulltime #which i agreed to do bc i like her tasks and i want to help her and i also know i can do it #but it does feel very off bc i know i don't earn enough money for this workload to be long term and it is def like this #for the coming four months at least #so i did tell my manager that i would like a raise and. that bitch told me to BUY MORE SECOND HAND SHIT. #i seriously thought i saw my life flash before my eyes #then the day after she asked one of my colleagues who's been with the firm for over 30 years whether she was looking for another job maybe? #which caused that colleague to instantly go home in tears and be home from basically a nervous breakdown the past 1.5 week #which is her full right and i support her with all my heart but bc my management sucks it meant that we had to also carry her tasks ofc #i felt soooo spread thin and super super angry actually but i didn't even realise how angry i was until last thursday my colleague w cancer #came by the office. and talked about all of it. and i suddenly realised how sad i was but then also how angry #but i was just blocking it all out trying to stay afloat #bc we told her about what the manager had said and she said “i hope that i get the chance to really tell her how it is someday.” #“because the stress she causes with people can actually kill you. just look at me.” #and the rest of the day i felt so ready to be done with everything actually #but seeing her anger made me see my own anger #and released me of my own pent up emotions bc i had actual leg pains this week and it was purely psychosomatic #i then managed to tell some friends yesterday about what was going on and their outrage spurred me on even more #so today i emailed hr. demanding a raise #doing this amount of work while constantly feeling like the house is on fire while also struggling financially seriously makes me suicidal #and i am not joking #so.. if nothing comes of that im leaving that job and not looking back

[angelizs]

hi guys guess who's back 😁

#PLEASE READ THE TAGS!! #OMG I'M SO SORRY FOR JUST. DISAPPEARING FOR MONTHS LIKE THAT 😭 #at the end of the year life got very hectic for me with my semestral project coming up + some other personal things #so I kinda lost it a bit and decided I needed to take a break !! #and proceeded to uninstall tumblr 🤩 and discord as well 🤩 #I didn't even enter TWST for some months too #and then things calmed down but I. got kinda embarrassed about disappearing like that and didn't know how to come back 😭 #so today I gathered some courage and decided I missed this too much so. Hi 😁 #TRULY I MISSED WRITING AND TALKING WITH EVERYONE ABOUT TWST SO MUCH 😭😭😭 #and here I am now 😁 #I can't promise I'll be as active as I used to be since I've got a lot going on irl but!! I'll at least still come around to write and talk #now I'll get onto answering my asks and tags! #ALSO I've created a twitter account around a month ago where I'm pretty active! I'll put it on my pinned so feel free to follow! #that's it <3 #mad purrs

[outeremissary]

✨ How did you come up with the OC’s name? For Balthazar (Seriously curious because I love that name and have had a stuffed animal named it for years)

Siren, I fear you (and Cassy, who asked as well) are about to get far more than you may have anticipated for this and it will be very silly. Balthazar is probably second only to Carmen (who is a much older character) in terms of convoluted meta histories that get long winded answers.

[prompt list]

✨- How did you come up with the OC’s name?

Okay, so there's a bit of necessary background here. Balthazar is loosely derived from a character conceptualized in 2016 who never had a real, settled name (mostly a series of titles; at this point the most consistent have been Herald and Three-Horned Devil). The project this character was made for was mostly to entertain me and keep me sane during the first year of university. At some point in the front half of 2017 I began learning 5e. A part of the process for this was getting a feel for the scope of characters and limits of character creation by making a bunch of character sheets with different concepts. To expedite this process, I used OCs from stagnant or abandoned projects as the basis for concepts; Caina and Balthazar were pulled from the same one (although it's possible that Balthazar actually had a 3.5 sheet first- he was a recurring character in my 3.5 campaign and I don't remember if he was introduced in spring or fall).

So Balthazar at this point did not have a name, and I needed to make a "traditional fantasy" name appropriate for what was then a half-elf sheet. The class, sorcerer, had already been determined, as had the first of several concepts for the adapted version of the Herald. My goal was to make a name with an occult sound to suit this ambitious Vecna cultist and to honor the Herald's whole evil god thing. And my other, more specific goal? To work in at least one demon name to amuse myself. I hate coming up with names so I have a bad habit of the joke name that sticks.

Anyway. I started with the demon names. The first and most obvious point to me was Ba'al. I was familiar with Ba'al as god king and god of storms from the Ba'al cycle and some related Urgaritic texts, but as I recall Ba'al was a title meaning "lord" attached to a number of regional deities (some variants of that Ba'al). In Jewish and Christian texts Ba'al appears as a false god and force of emnity. Ba'al also provides the root of "Beelzebub," and eventually becomes absorbed into the roster of demons in many traditions (I'm most aware of medieval Christian here) before washing back up in horror flicks as a stock name for a demonic force. The aspect of transformation was appropriate, I felt: a messy polytheistic deity who was also now known as a menacing demon. This worked well for the Herald. I was especially attracted to the "false god" aspect. So I wanted a name that could incorporate that name and ideally might naturally produce something functionally like Ba'al as a nickname. I chose Balthazar. It was a real name, which felt especially grounded, and it had an archaic sound due to having fallen out of style in the region I live in long, long ago, which gave it a certain mysterious flair.

From how that story went you may already have guessed about Lucienne. And you would be correct. That famous angel Lucifer was the over the top element used to round things out- partly because it's very easy to find other derivations from lux. It's also true that Lucian was a given name I'd considered for the character before discarding for being too trite (although Lucian Balen would become a recurring tongue in cheek alias for NPC Balthazar cameos in oneshots). I decided to push for a French sound because in my mind - and don't ask why, I have no fucking idea - French was an especially alchemical sounding language. Now some of you reading this may know some things about French, and may perhaps speak it yourselves. If this is you, you've probably caught the thing I wouldn't realize until two or three years too late, which is that Lucienne is not a French sounding name. It is an actual French given name of the feminine gender, the feminine equivalent of Lucien and the French version of Lucia. Whoops. At that point I was in too deep to change it and I just pretend I do not see it. Maybe it's endearing in a quirky JRPG way. French doesn't exist in most fantasy settings anyway despite the prevalence of Latin out there. It's fine. At this point the in story origin of the name is that he made it up himself anyway, so who knows. Maybe that 12 Int just produced the same mistake as me.

#I'll never live down the Lucienne thing really #actual genuine total mistake lmao #I think someone asked me this some time back in fall in a Discord server. now everyone gets the ~extended cut~ for better or worse #complete with my doing my best memories of etymology from a class I took six or seven years ago #for the record absolute total flop on the nickname front no nickname anyone has applied to him (Balth and Baltie) has been that lmao #I like those though :) short sighted younger me failed well #I do like the name even if the origins genuinely embarrass me #I am glad you enjoy it as well :) #ask game #ask me emithing #balthazar lucienne #I actually got out my old volume of Canaanite mythology to fact check at least some of this so we weren't just relying on my memory

[mspaint-flower]

what fandoms are you in

JUST VOCALOID/VOCAL SYNTHS AHKJFSFGHEJDHGJKEHGKJEHG the brainrot is too strong

#asks #i mean i've been in other fandoms before but it was. catastrophic to say the least #and also i lived without a social for years so i didn't really have a place to post my art JHKSDFHKJDHKGJDE #<- reason why i explode at every single compliment #even when i first got into vocaloid i didn't really have a place to post art aside from like. friend discord servers #which was more than a year ago #god time flies............

[m0us34rt]

He might have ruined unus annus for me because I can’t even grieve the channel without remembering that my ex broke up with me using the UNUS ANNUS REFERENCE NICKNAME??!?!

#he introduced me to HIS MOTHER as “’eef’ and it. is. insane. #my names Ethan btw #I put it in my bio as a joke like a year or more ago and it’s all he ever called me. #after I got a tad bit drunk at new years I asked him to just call be my my name because I was worried it was so that he wouldn’t have to #call me a more masculine name instead of just perceiving me as a woman in his head #his response: lmao ok. #I hate this guy sm #at least my friends roasted him at lunch Friday :) #it helps #unus annus #sky

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Hateful: multiple times in the past few months I've read fanfic about two separate characters whom I found endearing and thought "Oh my god Hux was the blueprint"

#this KEEPS HAPPENING #it keeps happening.... i have such a type it's. the horror of knowing myself #for the three beloveds who will see this (if you see it you're the beloved) #and whose passing curiosity will have asking 'oh who was it?' #it was a modern au!astarion a few months ago #and right then it was loki. 😔 #i mean to be fair i fucking knew it. i knew it! #like. astarion? i saw his face three times in august and it was over. i didn't pick favourites because there wasn't a choice #loki i have been Aware of for. years and years. and i was studiously avoiding anything mcu related because god forbid #but it's happening. it's happening #i always knew if i got into it loki would be. a clear blorbo for me. and i was correct! #the 13yo inside of you never leaves. i get to make her proud by drawing fanart at least #how do i even describe that type. what kind of character are all three of these guys? #i need to study all my blorbos under a microscope and compare them #wow i have a ramble tag now

[straycalamities]

stares into the night....... i started entre’s mainverse blog over 11 years ago...

#txt #i know in general covid has warped a lot of ppls general relationship with time passage #mine too but it's mostly from all the Harrowing Events that have taken place since then so i feel like i'm 5 years behind AT LEAST #if you asked me in a void how long ago i started entres blog id be like #oh like 6 years ago i think! #and even thats like woah thats a long time #it doesnt feel real #when i saw that i made the truffula flu server blog and zombino slayer all in 2019 and that was FOUR!! YEARS AGO!!! #i flipped out man #there's noooo fkn way #aint NO way #depression comas eat all my time and other than that...i dont even know how to explain it #i just do not vibe w this knowledge #straight up disagree #PEOPLE ARE IN THEIR MID 20s AND OLDER THAT WERE HIGHSCHOOLERS BACK THEN #LIKE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!! #like in the thick of the height of it all everything moved so fast but that was normal! and time felt real #but after i divorced myself from it the first time it just got weirder and weirder to fully understand how much time has been passing by #since #and now im in this weird bubble where i like KNOW theres gaps in my interactions with the internet (that isnt discord dms) but #the real time gaps just dont feel real what do u MEAN i disappeared for two years before joining weehawken #wait... #it was three. #three years #between 2019 and 2022 #i hate this #what did i even do in that time i dont remember #i know there was a lot of vrchat

[h3rmitsunited]

*sobbing as I finish rewatching s1 of In the Flesh for the thousandth time*

This show is so fucking good.

But my emotions.

Oh my god.

Like s2 yes, I love it too, and you get the simon kieren Amy dynamic and the second rising and raging at Maxine and jem having like bad times, but s1 is...

I mean it's jam packed and goes so quick but also like slow but not in a boring way but in the way of a small village with the soundtrack making things feel like even though the plot is going at a breakneck speed through these three hours of incredible television it doesn't feel rushed. And then the end of the season is just bam bam bam bam one thing after another and you're left in a puddle of tears.

Like just the focus on the family process of grief and trauma and loss in s1, not just with the walkers, but the Macy's, and the little bits with the rest of the village that gets explored more in the second season. Like that scene with kieren and his mom and then kieren and his dad. The scene with kieren and Rick's dad and mom. Amy leaving and the I'll see you again and just thinking about the end of s2. Fucking Gary attacking Amy in her house and being the final stake to drive her out of town. I'm just like... ahhhhhhhh this show. It's been too long since I rewatched it and it's just as good and emotionally overwhelming as it is every other time.

#literally if you ever want to ramble on about this show at me or with me or whatever i will be game for it #send me a message an ask reply to my posts like i dont care i will talk about this show #like its so good. i did ruin my roommate in colleges life showing it to her before telling it it got cancelled lol #shes like so whens the rest coming and i was like... uh yeah so heres the thing it got canceled last year #and that was a million years ago so sad times #but lets cross our fingers that dominic writing this gofundme s3 ep1 script will make something happen #or at least just give a brief glimpse into what could have been #in the flesh #itf #kieren walker #amy dyer

[two-calicos-in-a-trenchcoat]

My grandmas done with my shit lol

#LOOK #i would like a scanner for scanning my art #cuz i vastly prefer physical media over digital #but i would like to be able to sell prints and stuff #also i like bookbinding so i wanna try fanbinding some fics #at least i didnt ask for vacuum filters like i did a few years ago #i considered asking for a rock tumbler instead but the printer is more of a need #i can feel the judgment through the phone lol #my mom asked for a drill #she got a similar reaction

[hella1975]

i have also decided to do my Sleep Reset thing i do when my sleep schedule becomes so fucked that i just have to bite the bullet one night and do an all nighter to literally reset my schedule so if you think ive gone to sleep at any point tonight pls shout at me i promise it's for my own good

#oh yeah babe pick the night before an exam to do this you're actually clever #ive got a checklist of things to keep me up #im going to read some more fic chapters (im now on risking it all by sreeder) #(no one needs to comment on the fact i only started liab like three days ago) #(immediately after binging war games in the same amount of time) #(i read like 600000 words of atla fic in the past week after effectively not interacting with atla for like a YEAR i love mental illness) #so yeah! im gonna do some reading #then im gonna write some taob and HOPEFULLY finish sokka's pov and maybe even start zuko's pov #and im gonna do my micro notes up to at least lecture three #hmmm what else is there #i might answer some asks too! so if you guys want to chat to me send me shit bc i am Around and Miss You <3 #specifically if it's taob shit actually! keep me motivated fuck knows i cant be trusted to do it alone #hella goes to uni

[asinglesock]

me yesterday: I'm going to bite my tongue so I can live peaceably and not argue with my brother-in-law. I'm not going to fight over interpretation of scripture because even if he's teaching harmful things, that doesn't mean I'll be able to make anything better by getting upset

me today: how dare you suggest that "Hellenistic Jews" were a distinct group from "Non-Hellenistic Jews" in the 2nd Temple Period rather than Hellenism being a broad cultural millieu under which all Jewish communities of the time interacted with questions of identity in diverse ways. Read The Beginnings of Jewishness : Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties by Shaye J. D. Cohen or I'm going to throw hands.

#a sock speaks #grad school tag #local construction #I was sitting in the living room when he started a Bible study and he got all huffy because I was muttering about it #as picking fights goes though. probably major damages and minimal resulting satisfaction. not great to offend him over this. #not interrupting a Bible study is one thing #but this is the second Bible study in our living room this afternoon. Bible studies muItiple days per week. #I feel like at some point they ought to let me participate. or at least let me sit and mutter. #since a couple years ago I can't get my thoughts straight for in-person discussions. ask a question and I fall apart. #this degree program is NOT inherently useless but I sure can put it to poor use #I know I was being petty and rude. I'm so mad about it #I feel like I've completely lost credibility with my family and childhood church community. feels bad!

[r0bee]

My siblings keep not asking if I want to watch movies with them even when they know I like the movie and they also ordered takeaway without speaking to me so I'm kinda upset but alas we move

#Scream was literally my favourite movie like 2 years ago and my brother knows that but when he watched it last month he only asked me #like an hour into it #I get why they don't ask bc a lot of the time I turn it down but it would be nice to at least be asked #Whatever I've got the new Scott Pilgrim show to watch