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am-i-the-asshole-official · 2 months

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Would I be the asshole for not doing chores in my friends' home anymore?

Due to a series of events (relationship ending, leaving my job, etc) I (32f) wound up moving back to my hometown. I couldn't take living with my dad and his girlfriend although they offered to put me up, and my brother and his wife don't have space for me, so I temporarily moved in with my childhood best friend M (32m) and his wife R (33f). They just bought a house and have plenty of space.

I got a part time job, but can't afford to pay rent or do more than chip in a few hundred for groceries sooo I offered to run errands and do housework instead which seemed a great compromise.

Except now they expect me to do ALL the house work. R does the cooking and the two of them do their own laundry, but everything else falls on me. I vacuum, dust, sweep, mop, load and unload the dishwasher, do windows, bathrooms, ALL of it. At least once a week R will also text me while she's at work asking if I can pick up this that or the other thing for her. There have also been a few times where she's prepped dinner and asked me to stick it in the oven.

When I asked to start doing housework for them I assumed I'd like be doing a third of it? Like I'd just be looped into the rotation to take a little off each of their plates.

I have some income now, but I have so many bills I'd rather forego paying rent and keep saving, but... I also really don't want to keep living this way. Would I be the asshole for telling them I don't want to keep this up anymore and I think we should keep the housework split between the three of us?

What are these acronyms?

#aita #am i the asshole

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fdelopera · 7 months

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Hi curious anon here. You mentioned in one of your posts (I think the sennek one? If I’m spelling it right) that the exodus from Egypt was metaphorical as the enslavement in Egypt didn’t happen, but I thought it did? Can you explain? (If you’re happy to of course)

Hi Anon! Thanks for your question. My response is looong lol (you got me going about a special interest), so buckle up!

Sooo I’m going to make a few guesses here, based on the way you’ve phrased your question. Judging from the fact that you’ve written Sukkot as “sennek” (I've looked through recent posts, and I think this is the post you're referring to), I’m going to guess that you’re not Jewish.

And judging from the fact that you think that Shemot, or “Names” (commonly written in Christian bibles as Exodus), is a literal historical account of Jewish history, I’m guessing that you have a Christian background.

You’re not alone in this. And I’m not saying this to pick on you. Many Christians have a literalist interpretation of the Bible, and most have zero knowledge of Jewish history (aside from maybe knowing some facts about the Holocaust). And so, what knowledge of Jewish history you have mostly comes from the Tanakh (what you call the Old Testament).

Tanakh is an acronym. It stands for Torah (the Five Books of Moses), Nevi’im (Prophets), Ketuvim (Writings). Also, the Tanakh and the “Old Testament” are not the same. The Tanakh has its own internal organization that makes sense for Jewish practice. The various Christian movements took the Tanakh, cut it up, reordered it, and then often mistranslated it as a way to justify the persecution of various groups of people — I’m looking at you, King James Bible.

But back to Shemot, the “Exodus” story. The story of Moshe leading the Israelites out of Egypt is more of a Canaanite cultural memory of the Late Bronze Age Collapse between around 1200 – 1150 BCE, which was preserved in oral history and passed down through the ages until it was written down in the form that we know it in the 6th century BCE by Jewish leaders from the Southern Kingdom of Judah.

Since the text is influenced by Babylonian culture and mythology, just as Bereshit is (which you know as Genesis), it is likely that some of the writing and editing of Shemot took place during and after the Babylonian exile in the 500s BCE.

Now, I’m guessing that what I’ve just written in these two paragraphs above sounds very strange to you.

Wait, you might say, didn’t the Israelites conquer the land of Canaan?

Wasn’t the "Exodus" written by Moses’s own hand during the 13th century BCE?

And wasn’t the Pharaoh in the Exodus Ramesses II (aka Ramesses the Great), who ruled in the 13th century BCE?

Actually, no. None of that happened.

The Israelites didn’t conquer Canaan. The Israelites were the same people as the Canaanites, and these are the same peoples as who later became the Jews, as I will explain. The Semitic peoples who would become the Jewish people have been in this area of the Levant since the Bronze Age.

Moshe was not a historical figure and did not write the Torah.

The “Pharaoh” in Exodus is not any specific Egyptian ruler (Ramesses the Great as the “Pharaoh” is mostly a pop culture theory from the 20th century).

Okay, now that I’ve said all that, let’s dive in.

The first ever mention of Israel was inscribed in the Merneptah Stele, somewhere between 1213 to 1203 BCE. Pharaoh Merneptah, who was the Pharaoh after Ramesses the Great, describes a campaign in Canaan to subdue a people called Israel. But there is no mention of plagues or an exodus because those things didn’t happen. The Canaanites were not slaves in Egypt. Canaan was a vassal state of Egypt.

In fact, the events that occurred during the reign of a later Pharaoh, Ramesses III, relate more to Jewish history. Ramesses III won a pyrrhic victory over the Peleset and other “Sea Peoples” who came to Egypt fighting for resources during a time of famine, earthquakes, and extreme societal turmoil. And Ramesses III would witness the beginning of the end of the Bronze Age.

The Canaanites, who were a Semitic people in the Levant, gradually evolved into the people who would become the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom of Judah (i.e., Jewish people), but during the 13th Century BCE, they were Canaanites, not Jews.

The Canaanites were polytheistic, worshiping a complex pantheon of gods; they didn’t follow the later Jewish dietary laws (i.e., they ate pork); and their religious practice bore little to no resemblance to the Jewish people of the Second Temple Period.

So, to reiterate, the people in Canaan who called themselves Israel during the Bronze Age were a Semitic people, but they were not recognizably Jewish, at least not to us Jews today. Canaan was a vassal state of Egypt, just as Ugarit and the Hittite Empire were.

Canaan was part of the vast trading alliance that allowed the Bronze Age to produce the metal that historians have named it for: bronze.

Bronze is a mixture of copper and tin (about 90% copper and 10% tin), and in order to make it, the kingdoms of the Bronze Age had to coordinate the mining, transportation, and smelting of these metals from all over the known world. This trading network allowed for the exchange of all sorts of goods, from grain to textiles to gold. Canaan was just one of these trading partners.

Well, between 1200 BCE and 1150 BCE, this entire trading alliance that allowed Bronze Age society to function went (pardon the expression) completely tits up. This is likely due to a large array of events, including famine and earthquakes, which led to an overall societal disarray.

Some of the people who were hardest hit by the famine, people from Sardinia and Sicily to Mycenae and Crete, came together in a loose organization of peoples, looking for greener pastures. These were all peoples who were known to Egypt, and many of them had either served Egypt directly or had traded with Egypt during better days. According to ancient records, this loose grouping of peoples would arrive at various cities, consume resources there, and then leave for the next city (sacking the city in the process).

Just to be clear, these people were just as much the victims of famine as the cities they sacked. There were no “good guys” or “bad guys” in this equation, just people trying as best as they could to survive in a world that was going to shit.

Well, these “Sea Peoples” (as they were much later dubbed in the 19th century CE) eventually made their way to Egypt, but Ramesses III defeated them in battle around 1175 BCE. He had the battle immortalized on his mortuary temple at Medinet Habu.

We don’t know much about these Sea Peoples, but we do know what the Egyptians called them. And from those names, we can figure out some of their origins. Peoples such as the Ekwesh and the Denyen. These were likely the Achaeans and the Danaans.

If you’re familiar with Homer’s Iliad, you’ll recognize these as some of the names that Homer gives to the Greek tribes. Many of the Sea Peoples were from city states that are now part of Greece and Italy.

Yes, the Late Bronze Age Collapse of the 12th Century BCE didn’t just get handed down as a cultural memory of the “Exodus” to the people who would centuries later become the Jews. That cataclysm also inspired the stories that “Homer” would later canonize as the Trojan War in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Exodus and the Trojan War are both ancient cultural memories of the same societal collapse.

And neither the Trojan War nor the Exodus are factual. However, despite having little to no historicity, they both capture a similar feeling of the world being turned upside down.

Well, back to the Sea Peoples. Remember the Peleset that I mentioned a few paragraphs ago? They were one of these “Sea Peoples” that Ramesses III defeated. They were likely Mycenaean in origin, and possibly originated from Crete. After Ramesses III defeated them, he needed a place to relocate them along with several other tribes, including the Denyen and Tjeker. It was a “you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here” situation.

So, Egypt rounded up the surviving Peleset and sent them north to settle — to the land of Canaan.

Now, if you have some Biblical background, let me ask you this. What does “Peleset” sound like? What if we start it with an aspirated consonant, more of a “Ph” instead of a “P”?

That’s right. The Peleset settled in Canaan and became the Philistines.

This is where the real story of the people who would become the Jews begins.

As the Mycenaean (aka Greek) Peleset settled in their new home, they clashed with the Semitic Israelite people of Canaan. Some of these Canaanites fought back. These Canaanites also organized themselves into different groups, or “tribes.” (See where this is going?) Some of these tribes were in the Northern area of Canaan, and some were in the South, but there was a delineation between North and South — aka they did not start out as one people and then split in two. They started as two separate groups.

If you’re following me so far, you’ll know that I’m now talking about what would in time become the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom of Judah.

Well, backtracking a bit. The Bronze Age was ending, and the Iron Age was about to begin. The Peleset/Philistines were experts at smelting iron, which was harder to work with than bronze due to it having a much higher smelting temperature. When the Peleset settled in Canaan, they brought this iron smelting knowledge with them, and they used it to make weapons to subdue the local Canaanite peoples. The Canaanites therefore had to fight back “with sticks and stones.”

Hmm. Does that sound familiar? Who is one of the most famous Philistines you can think of from the Tanakh (the Old Testament)? I’ll give you a guess. It’s in the Book of Samuel (in the Tanakh, that’s in the Nevi’im — The Prophets).

That’s right. Goliath.

The story of “David and Goliath” is likely a Jewish cultural memory that was transmitted orally from the time of the Canaanite struggles against the Peleset.

The man who would become King David used a well-slinged stone to fell the much greater Goliath, and then he used Goliath’s own iron sword to cut off Goliath’s head.

In this metaphor, we can see the struggle between the Canaanite tribes and the Peleset, as the Canaanites fought to hold off the Peleset’s greater military might.

Historically, the Peleset eventually intermarried with the Canaanites, and within several generations, they were all one people. Likewise, the Mycenaean Denyen tribe may have settled in the Northern Kingdom of Israel, intermarried with the Canaanites, and become the Tribe of Dan.

The Book of Samuel, containing the story of David and Goliath, was written down in the form we would recognize today in the 500s BCE during the Babylonian Exile. It is a cultural memory of the time that the Canaanites were unable to wield iron weapons against a much more technologically advanced society, and it would have resonated with the Jews held captive in Babylon.

And with this mention of the Babylonian Exile, I come to the question that remains. And I think the question that you are asking. Where did the story of Shemot, the “Exodus,” the “Going Out,” come from?

And more importantly, why was that story so important to canonize in the Torah — the Jewish people’s “Instruction”?

The Shemot was likely written down and edited in a form that we would recognize today during and after the Babylonian Exile.

So, what was the Babylonian Exile? And what was its impact on Judaism?

To answer that, I need to start this part of the story about 130 years before the Babylonian Exile, in around 730 BCE. We’re now about 450 years after the Late Bronze Age Collapse, when the Canaanites were fighting the Peleset tribe.

Between about 730 and 720 BCE, the Neo-Assyrian Empire conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel.

Now, you may know this as the time when the “Ten Tribes of Israel were lost.”

In reality, the Assyrians didn’t capture the entire population of Israel. They did capture the Israelite elite and force them to relocate to Mesopotamia, but there were many people from the Israelite tribes left behind. The Ten Tribes were never “lost” because many of the remaining people in the Northern Kingdom migrated south to the Kingdom of Judah.

One such group of people from the Northern Kingdom of Israel maintained their distinct identity and still exist today: the Samaritans. These are the people who today are the Samaritan Israelites. They have their own Torah and their own Temple on Mount Gerizim, where they continue the tradition of animal sacrifice, as the Jews did in Jerusalem before the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in 70 CE. The Samaritans keep the Sabbath, they observe Kashrut laws (i.e., they keep kosher), and they hold sacrifices on Yom Kippur and Pesach. In short, they have maintained religious practices that are similar to Judaism during the Second Temple period.

This mass migration into the Kingdom of Judah in the late 700s and early 600s BCE is where Judaism as we know it today really started to take shape.

At that time, the people of the Northern Kingdom of Israel were polytheistic. They ate pork. They did many of the things that the writers of the Torah tell the Jews not to do.

This is where many of these commandments began, when the priests of Judah needed to define what it was to be a Jew (a member of the Tribe of Judah), in the face of this mass migration from the Kingdom of Israel.

You see, the Ancient Jews didn’t know about germ theory or recognize that trichinosis was caused by eating undercooked pork. That’s not why pigs are treyf. Pigs are treyf because eating pork began as a societal taboo. In short, pigs take a lot of resources to care for, and they eat people food, not grass (i.e. they don’t chew a cud). So if you kept pigs, you would be taking away resources from other people. When you are living in a precarious society that is constantly being raided and conquered by outsiders, you have to make sure that your people are fed, and if you’re competing with a particular livestock over food, that livestock has to be outlawed.

This time period is also likely when the Kingdom of Judah started to practice monolatry (worshiping one God without explicitly denying the existence of other Gods). The people of Judah worshiped YHWH (Adonai) as their God, and the Northern Kingdom of Israel worshiped El as the head of their polytheistic pantheon. The Jews put both of them together as the same G-d. That is why the Bereshit (Genesis) begins:

When Elohim (G-d) began to shape heaven and earth, and the earth then was welter and waste, and darkness over Tehom (the Deep), and the breath of Elohim (G-d) hovering over the waters

NOTE: This is a modification to Robert Alter’s translation of the first two lines of Bereshit (Genesis) in the Tanakh. In a few paragraphs, I will explain the modification I’ve made of transliterating the Hebrew word “Tehom,” instead of (mis)translating this word as “the Deep” as in nearly every translation of Genesis.

Then over the next two hundred years, monolatry would gradually become monotheism. One of the Northern Kingdom’s gods, Baal, was especially popular, so the Judean leadership had to expressly forbid the worship of this god during the writing of the Tanakh.

The message was clear: If we’re going to be one people, we need to worship one G-d. And the importance of the Babylonian Exile cannot be overstated in this shift from monolatry to monotheism. The period during and after the Babylonian Exile is when most of the Tanakh was edited into a form that we would recognize today.

So, I come back to the question, what was the Babylonian Exile? It began, as many wars do, as a conflict over monetary tribute.

Around 598 BCE, the Judean King Jehoiakim refused to continue paying tribute to the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II. And so in around 597 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar II’s troops besieged Jerusalem, killed King Jehoiakim, and captured much of the Judean leadership, holding them captive in Babylon. Over the next ten years, Nebuchadnezzar II continued his siege of Jerusalem, and in 587, he destroyed the First Temple, looted it for its treasures, and took more of the Jews captive. The deportation of the Jewish people to Babylon continued throughout the 580s BCE.

So, by the 570s BCE, the majority of the Jews were captives in a strange land. They were second-class citizens with few rights. The Jews feared that their people would start to assimilate into Babylonian society, intermarry so that they could secure greater freedom for their descendants, and then ultimately disappear as a unique people.

The Jewish leadership knew that this assimilation would begin by the Jews worshiping Babylonian gods.

So the Jewish leadership had a brilliant idea. They said, “We are not in danger of our people drifting into polytheism, assimilation, and cultural death, because we declare that the Babylonian gods do not exist. There is only one G-d, Adonai.”

Now we have left monolatry, and we are fully in monotheism.

And so, the Jews in captivity took Babylonian stories that their children heard around them, and they made these stories Jewish.

That is why the opening lines of Genesis sound so much like the opening lines of the Babylonian creation story, the Enuma Elish.

And remember when I mentioned that I had transliterated “Tehom” in the first two lines of Bereshit (Genesis) above, instead of using the standard translation of “the Deep”? That is because Tehom is a Hebrew cognate for the Babylonian sea goddess Tiamat, who the Babylonian god Marduk defeated and used to shape the heavens and the earth, just as Elohim shaped the heavens and the earth.

When you read the Enuma Elish, you can see the parallels to Genesis:

When the heavens above did not exist, And earth beneath had not come into being — There was Apsû, the first in order, their begetter, And demiurge Tiamat, who gave birth to them all; They had mingled their waters together Before meadow-land had coalesced and reed-bed was to be found — When not one of the gods had been formed Or had come into being, when no destinies had been decreed, The gods were created within them

That is also why the flood story of Noah and the Ark sounds so much like the flood story from the Epic of Gilgamesh.

That is why the story of Moshe’s mother saving him by placing him in a basket on the Nile River parallels the story of King Sargon of Akkad’s mother saving him by placing him in a basket on the Euphrates River.

In order to survive as a people, the Jews consolidated all gods into one G-d. Adonai. Shema Yisrael Adonai eloheinu Adonai ehad. "Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One."

The Jews said, yes, we acknowledge that we are hearing these polytheistic Babylonian stories in our captivity, but we will make them our own so that we can continue to exist as a people.

But back to your question. What about the story told in Shemot, the “Exodus” from the Land of Egypt?

I think by now you can see the parallels between the Jewish people held as captives in Babylon and the story that they told, of the Israelites held as slaves in Egypt.

And so, the Exodus story, which had been told and retold in various ways as a means to process the cataclysmic trauma of the Late Bronze Age Collapse (similar to the oral retellings of the Trojan War epic before they were written down by “Homer”), now took on a new meaning.

The Exodus story now represented the Jewish people’s hope for escape from Babylon. It represented the Jewish people’s desire to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem that Nebuchadnezzar II had destroyed. It represented the acceptance that it would take at least a generation before the Jews would be able to return to Jerusalem.

And it represented a cautionary tale about leaders who become too powerful, no matter how beloved they may be.

At a Torah study this Sukkot, the Rabbi discussed why the writers of Devarim (Deuteronomy) said that Moshe couldn’t enter Canaan, even though he'd led the Israelites out of Egypt (which, again, didn't literally happen). And one interpretation is because the Jewish leaders were writing and editing the Exodus during and shortly after the Babylonian Exile, and after seeing the Kingdom of Judah fall because of bad leadership. And they were saying, “It doesn't matter how beloved a leader is. If they start becoming a demagogue, and start behaving as someone who is drunk on their own power, you can't trust them as a leader. And you need to find new leadership.” And damn if that isn't a lesson that we could all stand to learn from!

So, was the Exodus story historically true? No. But does it matter that the Exodus story isn’t historically true? No, it does not. It was and is and will continue to be deeply meaningful to the Jewish people. The Shemot, the Exodus, the breaking of chains, the escape from the “Pharaohs” that enslave us — these are still deeply meaningful to us as Jews.

Was Moshe a historical figure? No, he was not. Is he one of the most fascinating, inspiring, and deeply human figures in Jewish tradition, and in literature in general? Yes, he is. Moshe was an emergent leader, an everyman, a stutterer, and yet he was chosen to lead and speak for his people. He was chosen to write the Torah, the “Instruction,” that has guided us for thousands of years. It doesn't matter that he was not a historical person. What matters is what he stands for. He is the one who directed us in what it is to be Jewish.

Now, fast forward to 538 BCE, around 60 years after the Jews were first taken as captives to Babylon. The Jewish people’s prayers were answered when Persian King Cyrus the Great defeated Babylon in battle, and allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem, where they began construction on the Second Temple, which was completed around 515 BCE.

The Persian Zoroastrians were henotheistic (they worshiped one God, Ahura Mazda, but they recognized other gods as well). They also had a chief adversarial deity, Angra Mainyu, who was in direct opposition to Ahura Mazda.

Just as the Jews had incorporated Babylonian stories into their texts as a way to preserve their identity as a Jewish people, the Jews now incorporated this idea of “good versus evil” (i.e., It’s better to assimilate the foreign god to us, than to assimilate us to the foreign god).

This shift can be seen in the later story of the Book of Job, which is in the Ketuvim (Writings). Jews have no devil and no hell. There is no “eternal afterlife damnation," and there is no “original sin.” Jews believe in living a good life, right here on earth, and being buried in Jewish soil. Some Jews believe that we go to Sheol when we die, which is a shadowy place of peaceful rest, similar to the Greek realm of Hades. In the Book of Job, the Hebrew word “hassatan” (which Christians transliterate as “Satan”) is just a lawyerly adversary, like a “devil’s advocate” who debates for the other side of the argument. It’s certainly not anything akin to a Christian “devil.”

However, throughout the Second Temple period, various apocalyptic Jewish sects would arise in response to Greek and then Roman persecution, inspired by the Zoroastrian idea of a battle between “the light and the dark.”

In the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, this would lead to a search for the Moshiach: a human leader (not divine) who was descended from the line of King David, and who would restore Jerusalem. And that would not culminate in Jesus (Jews don’t recognize Jesus as Moshiach — for us, he's a really cool dude who said some very profound things, but he's not That Guy).

Rather, the search for Moshiach would stem from the events leading up to the Jewish War, which concluded in 70 CE with the Romans destroying the Second Temple and sacking Jerusalem, and it would culminate in the Bar Kochba revolt between 132 and 135 CE. The Bar Kochba revolt resulted in a Roman campaign of systematic Jewish slaughter and “ethnic cleansing” that nearly destroyed the Jewish people a second time. But that’s a story for another day!

In closing, I encourage you to learn more about Jewish history. And don’t just learn about us from the Holocaust, our darkest hour. Learn about our full history. I highly recommend Sam Aronow’s excellent series on YouTube, which is an ongoing Jewish history project. The YouTube channel Useful Charts also provides excellent overviews of Jewish history.

#tfw a simple ask compels you to write 4000 words #i hope i've answered your question anon!#jewish history #jewish studies #judaism tag

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rainbowonyourparade · 2 years

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Since JWST pics are going around, what with the new release and all, I'd like to clue tumblr users in to the Rename JWST campaign that many astronomers have been on for ages since that seems to not be common knowledge.

So most people probably know that JWST stands for the James Webb Space Telescope. It's been an ongoing, international project proposed before I was even born and had many launch delays, but finally launched on December 25th, 2021.

It's named after James Webb, a former NASA director in the 60s, who oversaw tne Mercury and Gemini missions. It was originally going to be named the Next Generation Telescope, but someone within nasa decided to change that in 2002 because he oversaw the Mercury and Gemini projects.

March 2021, before launch, there was a call from four astronomers in an opinion piece to rename the telescope. They go through the history and arguments quite well in there and are much more articulate than me lol, but to summarize: he helped organize what's known as the Lavender Scare where queer people were kicked out of government jobs simply for being queer. The authors suggest naming the telescope after Harriet Tubman because she navigated using the north star.

The piece kicked off a lot of astronomers protesting the name, especially on twitter where many are quite active, but nasa claimed there was "no evidence... that warrants changing the name." Which is, uh. Well. Utter bullshit. The evidence is literally publically accessible.

Even the American Astronomical Society (AAS, the main organization for astronomers in the united states) thought NASA's reasoning wasn't transparent enough and sent nasa a letter in November 2021 asking for more info. It's gone unanswered as far as i know.

March 2022, Nature published documents that showed that, yeah. He was a Bad Dude and was definitely involved in keeping queer people out of NASA because they were queer. Again, there was outcry. Again, nothing happened.

Issues within the astronomy community tend to be pretty niche, so I'm not surprised that when I mentioned it to my mom she wasn't aware. So I thought I'd make a post here so people would know.

There's really no resolution here except to bother NASA to change the name. You can sign this petition, but it does seem to be aimed at astronomers. It's also a google doc, sooo.... yeah. There really is no recourse other than to bother the agency leaders though. If you want to be clear about things, you gotta use the current name of the telescope, unfortunately. Though I have seen some fun alternative acronym meanings on twitter lol.

Dr. Katie Mack, a well respected astronomer, recommended this youtube video on this same subject on twitter and while I haven't watched it yet myself, I trust her judgement so it's probably good.

But yeah, that's what I know. I just wanted to raise awareness that, while space is definitely gay, NASA is still a government agency with many queerphobes in positions of power.

#rename jwst #astronomy #space #jwst #james webb space telescope

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girl my stupid idiotic psychotic ass naively thought hsts meant HETEROSEXUAL TRANSSEXUAL because there are so many transbians and i havent seen a term for straight trans girls and i started calling myself hsts without fucking realizing it was the chaser doctor's term as an acronym so i actually need to be crucified if you have anyone i can contact for that service please let me know

this is sooo 😭😭😭

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indigodreames · 28 days

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TIME / PERSONIFICTION OF TIME / IMMORTAL / FC: PARAMEE MAHATTHANADUL

can control time (stop & slow down)

can't time travel (go back or forward in time)

ages very very very slowly

they are immortal so while they can get hurt they can't die

has been alive for a number if millennia (they honestly stopped counting ages ago so they don't even know how long they've been alive for tbh) but looks-wise could easily pass for 20s

also doesn't have a birthday and doesn't care to celebrate

genderless, prefers they/them pronouns but has no issues with he/him pronouns

because they've been alive for so long, they will always have to change their identity or where they live after some time as to not arouse suspicion, but after a while just stopped caring stops bothering and you can find them anywhere or anywhere just going by time and nothing else

technically has picked up many skills over the years and could pick up just about any job available, but doesn't care much about working. also his time management makes him not exactly the best worker in terms of punctuality lol

has absolutely the worst time management with personal matters

time feels very slow to them and is often impatient as hell

also bc of this they are perpetually late to everything

even though they're always late they will show up very fashionably late

they like to keep up with the different trends with the changing times but mainly fashion

doesn't care about the changing lingo and sometimes will sound like a very very old person with how they speak or terms they use

absolutely hates acronyms don't use them they will be sooo confused

loves food! very much a foodie! they will go to all the new places to try out, loves trying different cuisines from around the world. basically doesn't hate any foods at all

spicy, sour and bitter foods are their fave!

they prefer tea over coffee but drinks both for the taste rather than the need for caffeine

in connection with their poor time management, their sleep schedule is absolute shit. sleep whenever, wake up whenever. never feels tired/sleep and can practically run on no sleep

doesn't wear sneakers or tennis shoes. loves dress shoes or boots, honestly just something with a lil bit of a heel bc he likes the sound of heels clicking against the floor (might be an asmr thing, but not like he'd know what that actually means LOL)

loves to wear jewelry, especially earrings and rings! but will also occasionally wear necklaces and bracelets too. will always accessorize weather they're dressed up or down

they are actually quite versed with social media but can't be bothered to keep up with things unless it's something related to their interests. uses it just to keep up with current events, news or tends and nothing else

#。‧ * ‧: ✧ ┊ life teaches us to make good use of time; while time teaches us the value of life ⊱ ◜time◞#。‧ * ‧: ✧ ┊ the mind is a river you cannot solve ⊱ ◜headcanons◞#had to get this out while they're on my mind #will probably flesh out more later #but for now have this :')))#also they'll probably be iconless for now until i can find the time to make icons #if anyone wants to plot with them feel free to hmu <33 #i've got lots of brainrot/muse for time atm

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hppjmxrgosg · 1 year

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So two things, the first and most important of which is I discovered Vertical Limit. Only got through chapter 7 at work and was too engrossed to comment (also no AO3 account and idk if guest comments matter but anyways) I am in love with your style of writing and the depth you manage to give the batfam so they feel /real/ and I love OP snarky ass Danny. Nailed the personality 100% lol.

The second and much lesser thing (and you don't have to answer if it's too invasive but it was killing me and had to ask) wtf is "hppjmxrgosg"?? Lol like it's a hellova acronym or something but I have no clue how to decode it 😂 either way you made my night shift go sooo much nicer thanks to that story. Many much love to you and stay awesome okays? Thank you for your time!

2) the world will never know the secrets of my user name. it remains a mystery. (i made it in the 3rd grade as my animal jam username and cant remember what half the letters are supposed to be)

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kithtaehyung · 1 year

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I am so glad I had the courage to finally write something ☺️☺️ i wanted to do so sooo many times but always overthink everything… and backed out

But from now on I will definitely be here regularly!💕 Also i wanted to gush about my little shopping spree in Jeju.. finally get a huge amount of tangerine stuff (definitely not getting a total of 3 tangerines on my new bracelet and ring because of 3tan👀👀👀) so now I can think of 3tan yoongi every second of the day.. not that i was not doing it before… 🫣 also got this cute little tangerine bag which would go perfectly with a sundress..

omg 3tan totally corrupted my mind 😜

Also so glad you already enjoy your time here!💕 korea is sooo high in the game with themed cafes for sure

- 🦔

hedgehog you are way too kind !! sorry this response came a lot later than the first, i’m having way too much fun here and barely check my phone. but i would love to see you regularly just like all the people that would love to chat🥺💕

AHHHH all the stuff you got in jeju sounds amazing and i’m distraught that i won’t be able to go there this time😭🍊 but i love how you’ll think about 3tan yoongi bc I totally would, too.. also ummmm I am most definitely co-signing getting a sundress to match that bag if you don’t already have one🫣

i’m sitting in a cafe answering this now!🤣 loving it here and haven’t consumed this much coffee in a miiiiinute💀 also learned about the “i’ll drink iced americanos until i die” acronym LOL

#it’s been so fun😭#you don’t have to overthink with me🫂#I promise!#🦔 anon #ryen in seoul!#asks:3tan #3fan:yoongi #*ryenfictalk #mailbox💌#3tangerines

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that-banana-headed-bovine · 2 years

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Question: Who's Kennie?

OOO!!! Okok- just to recap what Anon is asking about, here's a panel from a previous ask...

Who is Kennie indeed? This show has enough girls of the week that one of them could have had that name eventually lmbo- but if there is, that's not who's being referred to here...

Oh, also, just to get ahead of it- I switched to digital AGAIN oaihsdohas- My tablet had been acting up, but I've got it working now... I also animated the first panel, in hopes of animating all of this ask for practice. I'm hosting a reanimated project (different fandom) and wanted some practice... however, I quickly found out just how inexperienced I am and how long that would take, soooo I scrapped that idea LOL- have this puzzled Karr gif, ig?

Ok. I know how this looks okay. But I'm NOT just boosting Ask Blog Engagement by introducing a Marketable Animal Sidekick or something. I've actually been tossing around this idea for quite a while, and have had an established design for Kennie as early as 2020 (granted, not drawn very well because... two year old art x_x)

YeAh. It makes,,, some amount of sense for him to have a dog in the AU. As much sense as you would expect from our beloved Silly 80s Car Show anywho. Idk if it's clear from looking at her or not, probably not because I don't draw dogs very much at all, but she's a Husky! GERMAN SHEPHERD HOW DID I JUST NOTICE THIS OVER TWELVE HOURS LATER ASHDOIAHSD she’s a German Shepherd. I figure that Karr would be a dog person. The "Roving" bit of his acronym seems to suggest that he was more equipped for offroading than Kitt was, or at the very least more willing to (was there something in TDR about that, too??? I feel like there was but it has been a hot minute since I watched it haosfd), so he probably wouldn't have the same hang-ups about "a dog will mess up the interior and scratch the paint!!!" Plus, after how many times he's been double-crossed, he appreciates having a really loyal companion.

If I ever complete the AU beyond the ask blog, I'm not sure how much I will be able to integrate her... as fun as it would be to include her in the adventure, it would kind of bloat things sometimes too, y'know? I dunno, I'll have to spend more time considering it...

Anyway, you can imagine how well Kitt takes this.

I had a cat for Kitt too, but I cannot find a drawing of it, and it made no sense, so that's unfortunate :c

Anyways, as a bonus, have an old comic that I exhaled sharply at

Kennie looks so atrocious btw what was I DOING- I genuinely don't know if I'm actually better at drawing dogs now but. but at least I keep redrawing them until it looks like Not That ASHDOIHASD

Anyway, if y'all have any follow-up questions, my asks are ACTUALLY open now after an embarrassingly long time thinking that they were when they weren't... Sooo ask away :D

#knight rider human au #kr human au q&a #knight rider #k.i.t.t.#kitt #k.a.r.r.#karr #knight rider 1982 #knight rider au #knight rider human au q&a #okok be honest how long did I have you thinking I gave him a girlfriend IASHDOIASHD

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imeverywoman420 · 2 years

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Girl why are you trying to distance yourself from and demonize “terfs” so much? like shouldnt it be obvious by how much you get called a terf and hounded down by TRAs that that acronym means nothing?? Like i realize some radfems are rude but you act like TRAs dont send graphic rape and death threats at women for breathing??

Idk what a TRA is but all i know is “terfs” were the ones sending me anon hate saying shit like “ur posts are giving moid im pretty sure ur a (t slur) pretending to be a woman” laughing abt me catching chlamydia from stealthing n also being sexually assaulted. Making call out posts abt me for uhhh being.a whore including all kinds of weird culty language like “you think youre sooo much smarter than other women?” Lmao the amount of radfems that have called me a cum dumpster whore etc.

I dont distance myself from radfems, some of my mutuals are radfems. Theres a lot of different circles of them, i try to avoid the shit fetishist “troon” t slur using Reeee sodomize and kill scrotes 4chan isabella janke side of radfem tumblr the obsessed with arguing with 14 year old “gendies” types the victorian school marm conservative type of terfs etc. The unironic “gyn” users lmaooo.

The insistence on labels is weird lol like. Just bc i agree with some aspects of radical feminist theory i HAVE to go around calling myself a radfem?? Like thats weirddd and culty. I get asks all the time like “when r u gonna join the terf sisterhood”.

Like soo many of the radfems ive had interactions with are insane its like that anon fem meme freakfem shit like would andrea dworkin want you out here talking about vore and r*ping Scrotes and suicide baiting 15 year old xie xems.

#ask

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nikatyler · 2 years

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A1 and A10 for Sharon

A1. What of the Meyers-Briggs personality types they most fit into? INFP, ENFT, et cetera…

I don't think I'll be able to answer this because I barely remember my own personality type and what that acronym means exactly, let alone other ones😅 Sorry. But I'll say that although she doesn't really seem like it, she's more of an introvert. She doesn't mind being around people but her social battery drains out sooo fast. At least compared to her extroverted partner.

A10. Does your OC compromise easily? Too easily?

Depends on the person and the point of the compromise, but generally, she's a bit stubborn. She especially hates making compromises when she knows that's she's right. This has lead to many fights especially between her and her father.

Thanks for the ask!

#ts4 #sims 4 #rose legacy extra #oc: sharon

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thehedgehogsdilemmaa · 2 years

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hii what does your tvs tag mean? the posts in it are lovely but is the name of the tag an acronym?

hi anon!! I'm glad you like the posts in it!

sooo I'll try to keep the reply short – I was doing very very badly at some point during high school and a teacher got me into writing, and gifted me a notebook. tvs are the letters on it. she wanted me to keep a journal but I used it to try to write a story, a novel maybe, about a kid who is a genius navigating the hard conditions he was born in, trying to prove his worth and his genius through his writings, as if to earn his right to existence. the story is supposed to follow him from a young age to either its death or its fame, seeing the struggles of his vagabond life and his relationships and how his obsession with writing got in the way of many good things. BUT half of the focus of the story is just him meeting strangers of all kind and being very inspired by them and trying to write a work that could feel like an ode to strangers and their important role in his life.

#so basically the posts in there are just things that I thought could apply to one of the characters or are just a common theme in the story #or even just little details that are hard to explain. if you scroll through it you'll find mostly tags about either surviving and learning #how to live; devoted or idk. all-consuming love; or self-violence.#and ofc. strangers and subways and trains because THAT'S MY SHIT #I know the answer is pretty long anon I'm sorry!!#but it's a bit complicated because I've tried to write this story so many different times... I even once tried to 'steal' some characters #from i series I watched to make them easier to manage. yknow. so that I didn't have to create them from scratch. but it didn't work #I also wrote it as a play but it was awful. now I'm left with like. a prologue and some ripped bits that I liked that could add up to be #the length of 3 chapters if they were all tied together.#whatever. I'm talking too much #coffee time ☕#theuserdilemma

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akindmemo · 2 months

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[[LOST HEADER INFORMATION]] - BROADCAST unknown group(NULL) ______ _____, ______ ___, _________ _________ ________ _____

__: Fuck.

_C: Molkie. MK. I told ya the base strain of rot is not always a good bet anymore. People's been figuring out how to deal with that and damn well succeeding. The curing methods didn't exactly spread that far yet, but there's always a good chance someone in the local area of the target knows how to treat the basic form of rot.

__: You really should've gone for at the very least the accelerated strain. There's so many damn great options - the explosive one, the corrosive one, the one with electrocution and EMP's and the one that fucks hard with all processing, or- For void's sake, there's even mixmashes of different strains. I literally supply you with piles and piles of personally cultivated rot with varying properties and you use what? Of course, the lamest least effective option.

__: ..Use that nickname to refer to me again and i will ensure "Broken Can" is not only your name, but also the general state of your superstructure :]

__: Rude.

__: Imagine being unable to take an itty bit of constructive criticism.

MK: That's not constructive criticism, idiot.

__: It is as far as i'm concerned, Molkie. Now look what your general incompetence did. The 'halved forest' bastard is recovering.

____: Shut it, both of you. We have more pressing matters to discuss.

__: Oh heeeeey NIER. Finally resurfacing, i see?

__: And those are? The fuck is more important exactly?

____: The fact that apparently, someone is leaking our conversations out into the frequencies of random Iterators.

__: Whuh?? Excuse me????

__: Where in the voids below are you even getting that from?

____: I am witnessing it right now. Some public groups are getting it as well.

__: Well get whoever's doing it so we can nuke their can or something? Duh.

____: That is not a process that'd take up two seconds. I am currently blocking them out.

__: How much is visible in the leaked shit. ____. are at least your corruption plugins working.

_IE_: They are, though somewhat iffy. ______ ___'s name, my and ______ _____'s acronyms, along with some other things, slipped through a few times. I can clearly tell the person tried to mess with my censoring.

____: Stop asking me what it looks like. Open up literally the _________ group you're observing. They got that.

BC: Sooo.. fuck. I say we get rid of this and move to private broadcasts then?

____: Do so.

__: It's always fucking something.

__: Do throw an accelerated rot strain onto the HF guy th

...hm.

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tonybconscious · 2 years

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LOVE LANGUAGE L-O-V-E Living On Vibrational Energy That's my Essence And first ACRONYM But since then, I've created Sooo many more of them... My Language of Love First came through my pen When I was a youth When my Truth, began What is my love Language? Well it's bigger than English Far more vast than just Vocals and my voice But some have seen this My Language of love Also comes through my hands When I create and demonstrate With brushes and spray cans What is my Love Language ? It sounds like PIG-LATIN When my conscious Spoken Word And Freestyle Rappin' Sounds like I'm scattin' Jazzin' and DO-DO DATTIN' And ladies eyes are battin' And people's fingers are snappin' And Toes get to tappin' Hands get to clappin' As their legs and knees They're slappin' Cause that's what happens When my Love Language Turns to MUSIC And I make LOVE to it Everytime I do it... I'm fluid... My Love Languages Make me live better Way before Spanish and French More like the MEDU NETER OR.. Swahili... Turned into Graffiti While Speaking in CREO And in the Matrix like Neo I can speak in Tri though Or Pigeon but wherever we go Well be the people Called Black or NEGRO ABORIGINAL And Indigenous fo sho And My Love Language be my Melanin When it glows and shows Through my spirit and my soul I'm a DJEMBE for Divinity And A shaker for the Spiritual Sometimes real lyrical I'm Impirical And a vehicle A modern day miracle And an Instrument that's Imperial A masterpiece, Mastering Peace Like the dove Sometimes putting on the gloves As a fighter from above And, That's exactly what I'm thinking of.. As I speak to ya'll... Through my language of Love... Written By: Tony B CONSCIOUS Sept. 7, 2022 Copyright ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Ashe, NAMASTE TONY B. CONSCIOUS (323)251-4969 #art #poetry #artisticallyinclined #blacktwitter #bayarea #streetartists #oaklandart #blackartmatters #blackartmatters🎨 #soul #blackartist #bayareaartists #californian #poetry #leimertparkartist #lovelanguages #creativegeniusatwork #positiveoutlooks #iconicvibes #tonybconscious #tonybconscious1 #tonybconsciousart #tonybconsciousartwork #tonybconsciouspoetry (at Oakland, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiVKBRhrm6P/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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gnc-culture-is · 3 years

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hey there!

im not quite familiar with all the genders and sexualities, so if its not too much, could you briefly tell me about a few ?

thanks sooo muchh

ofc!

The best place to start is probably the LGBTQIA+ acronym!

The L stands for Lesbian! which is a queer attraction to women.

Some examples are (not limited to!) wlw, nblw, nblnb

A good source on Lesbianism (https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Lesbian)

The G stands for Gay! which is an attraction towards the same gender. While this was primarily used for Gay Men (mlm, nblm, nblnb) it is not necessarily limited to that group of individuals. It’s considered an umbrella term for non-straight people.

A good source on the Gay label (https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Gay)

The B stands for Bisexual! which is an attraction to two or more genders. Bisexual attraction includes non-binary genders. Bisexuals may or may not have a preference. Every Bisexual experiences Bisexuality differently.

A good source on Bisexuality (https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Bisexual)

The T stands for Transgender! which is a term the refers to an individual whose gender identity does not correspond with their assigned gender at birth (AGAB). Transgender can be seen as an identity on its own but it is also an umbrella term for those whose AGAB doesn’t aline with their gender identity.

A good source on Transgenderism (https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Transgender)

The Q stands for Queer! which is an identity and umbrella term. A Queer person would fall outside of the societal norms of gender and sexuality. It is also an umbrella term for those in the LGBTQIA+ community, although not all LGBTQIA+ individuals identify as Queer)

A good source on Queerness (https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Queer)

The I stands for Intersex! which is a term for individuals who are born with physical sex characteristics that can not be formally categorised as male or female. Intersex does not describe one body type, it’s an umbrella term for a broad range of variations and traits. Intersex is not an identity, it is something someone is born as.

A good source on Intersex (https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Intersex)

The A stands for Asexual! which is a sexual orientation that is defined by one's lack of sexual attraction. However, Asexuality is not something that is constricted. Asexuality is a spectrum that has many different Acespec identities within that spectrum. No Ace person experienced Asexuality the same.

A good source for Asexuality (https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Asexual)

Those are the identities that are in the main acronym! If you have any questions feel free to reach out to us :)

#definitions #LGBTQIA+#sorta gnc culture #Mod jack

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