To every de-assimilating and re-connecting ethnic Jew lurking in Jewish tags:
One day it will all just be part of your life, no second guesses. One day you won't feel so uncomfortable or guilty, even a little bit. One day you will be cleaning your house for Passover and realize it's all just so normal. One day you will be saying the Hanukkah blessings and realize you know them by heart. One day you will offhand mention you're Jewish and not feel that familiar pang of guilt and shame.
You are already "Jewish enough" because you are Jewish. This feeling of not quite belonging does not last forever. You will feel all right someday. I know I do now, even though for a while it felt like I never would.
Post Op Disabled Black Trans Man Needs a Place By June 30th
posting this in the stead of my friend @needlebuggart
Troy recently got top surgery and is still recovering and is being KICKED OUT of their place of residency.
"Hi my name is Troy Colton. I'm a disabled transgender man in need of financial support. I'm also local San Diego artist by the name of NeedlebuggArt. "
"My landlord is kicking me out by June 30th unless I can pay off more of my late rent. Since I just turned 25 in April a lot of local resources will not help me. My current job doesn't pay me as much and I've been looking for a second job for since August of last year. Normally in situations like this, I'd open up digital commissions but my 4 year old laptop has finally bit the dust and isn't working anymore. I was supposed to be in a roommate situation but it fell through last minute and now I only have 10 days to get a secured place for both me and my dog so anything helps."
A message to the recent & future transgender pick-mes.
If you’re a trans pick-me (no matter where you align with gender) there’s a special place in Hell just for you & I don’t even believe in Hell. Having trauma isn’t excusing your actions of going out of your way to hurt other people actively. It explains that it comes from a place of hurt potentially or you’re just turning into a rage-bait influencer because it makes you money. Either way you come after trans people who don’t do being trans exactly like you so they “aren’t really trans.” You get a taste of the right-wing rage-bait money pot & you wanna keep going because money & maybe some weird part of you thinks this will save you from transphobic attacks? Honey, we’re all just fags to them no matter how we look or act. Even if you’re a cis person not following the norm or unaware of the politics of it all, you’re still just a faggot to them who they will eventually want to snuff out. I’m saying this as a tranny fag just to be clear! You can’t be playing these exclusion games & thinking it’s going to make you powerful! Even Milo Yionnapolis or whatever that fucker’s name was got dropped by the Trump Administration! They do not like us & they never will like us! Democrat, republican, whatever it is; if it’s capitalist, it doesn’t like us! No matter how much you lick those boots, it’ll do you no good. You’re a faggot/tranny just like me & the rest of us, that’s how these suits see it & always will see it no matter how much you try to prove “I’m one of the good ones.” They aren’t going to save you, we’re all on the chopping block to them no matter what our politics are. These government folks don’t see any of us as “one of the good ones.” Get over yourself, grow the fuck up, and stand side-by-side with your transsexual siblings! All we have is each other, these cis people aren’t shit! 💜 Down with cis! 💜
This person sent me an ask about her sick cat out of the blue and then immediately followed me. The post on her blog looks very convincing, a vet bill with her same name as the PayPal and everything, even showing crochet plushies offered in exchange for support.
However, a quick Google Image search for a picture of the plushes in question returns an identical photo on another person's (better corroborated) sick cat post from October of this year.
Furthermore, the blog header implies that this is a multifandom blog and lists a small handful of popular ones, like Good Omens and The Lord of the Rings.
However... There's no such content on this blog with even a cursory glance. It was made super recently and has a super shallow archive, just a really incoherent jumble of popular posts unrelated to any of these fandoms, and is mostly just self-reblogs of the sick cat post.
I feel bad reacting doubtfully to such a tragic story, but like... this person's stolen someone else's real struggle and is using it to scam kindhearted folks like us. I've been scammed by posts like this before, and I don't regret trusting enough to believe and want to help, but I do regret not doing my homework.
Always do digging, especially when contacted by a blog you've never seen before, and back-search any distinctive-looking images to see if they've been stolen. Block this person and spread it around that they're deceiving others.
My theory on what could happen in a potential season 3 of Good Omens
This does not contain any spoilers for season 2 beyond things we know from the trailer, as I typed most of this out several weeks ago, and also avoided leaks and spoilers about the already screened episodes of season 2. I posted about this before, but I have sorted my thoughts a bit better in this post.
Some background for those who may not know: In 1989, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett started planning a sequel to the book, which they never managed to write. Neil said that he put some stuff from the unwritten sequel in season 1 and 2, but the plot of season 3 would be mostly the sequel, and season 2 is just needed to bring us from the end of season 1 to season 3.
Here is my theory what the thing that needs to happen for season 3 to work could be, based on these information: A lot of people have speculated that this means that season 2 is needed to deepen the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley. I don't think this is the main reason, and it's mostly just a side effect. I think the thing that has to happen for season 3 to work is that heaven and hell need to start working together, which is something we have seen them do in promo material for season 2 (for example, looking for Gabriel together). A basis for this has already been laid in the ending of season 1, when Beelzebub and Gabriel both try to convince Adam to bring about Armageddon, and, after this failed, shaking hands and declaring that the fight isn't over.
So what could season 3 be about? At the end of season 1, Crowley said that he thinks that "the real big one" would be all of heaven and hell against all of humanity (and them). So I think that this war is probably going to happen in season 3. This is also supported by Neil saying that season 2 is "gentle and romantic" and kind of the "filling in the sandwich", because season 3 would, like season 1, not be as gentle and romantic either. Which would make sense if there was a war happening in season 3.
please stop using the “subordinate” thing as a basis for your arguments. that word does not mean what you seem to think it means.
y’all talk about jc asking wwx to be his subordinate as if it’s like some show of disrespect. some of y’all literally use it as “evidence” that jc “never cared about wwx” and that he “never viewed wwx as anything but a servant” but like.
my friends. subordinate literally just means “someone with a lower rank (than someone else).” it does not carry any connotations of subservience, servitude, lesser worth, or disrespect.
we understand how sect leadership works in mdzs, yes? there is One (1) sect leader.
Everyone who is Not the sect leader, but is affiliated with that sect, is Subordinate to the Sect Leader.
nobody ever claims that lan xichen didn’t care about lan wangji, lan qiren, or any of the juniors, even though they were all subordinate to him as the sect leader.
nobody ever claims that jin guangshan viewed madame jin, jin zixuan, or jin zixun as “just servants” or even servants at all, even though they were all subordinate to him as the sect leader.
hell, nobody even claims that nie mingjue viewed meng yao as “just a servant,” even when meng yao actually WAS a servant!
[edit: apparently some people are taking objection to calling meng yao as a servant? y’all, they literally made him be their water boy. what would you call that?]
that’s just how leadership works! being subordinate isn’t a bad thing!! it’s just “a person who has a boss”
“right-hand-man” IS a subordinate position to “sect leader,” and it’s also literally the highest position jc could have given wwx without quite literally making wwx sect leader!
so like. unless you ARE legitimately arguing that jiang cheng should have forced wei wuxian to become sect leader of yunmengJiang, just…please drop it.
that word Does Not mean what you Think it means. the thing you are Mad about is Made Up. please just let it go.
Another day i shall be spending the whole day Out and am thus unable to draw anything. if only you guys knew. I have so many thoughts. I can imagine anything 👉😎
I want to kill myself so fucking badly. I want to stop existing in constant torment and isolation and disappear whatever way is most convenient for me. I want to die through any method I possibly can. But then I think about elderly trans people.
Do you know if there's an editor or a transparent pic of the red tape like people were using to edit their icons for trench? Idk where to find one and noticed your icon has the red tape too.
Yes yes of course! Thank you so much for asking! The lovely @blurryfce300 actually put some together and I'm using one of theirs! And here's the link to them!
{ I'm sorry for just up and disappearing without notice, I took a little break from writing and being on this blog due to mental health reasons and I think it helped. Rping is a hobby I've had on and off for close to 10 years now and taking breaks is healthy and necessary to fuel my writing energy.
This month I've been busy with creating art and reconnecting with irl friends, and I picked up acrobatics as a hobby. I'm also taking more time off discord to recharge my social battery.
My writing partners/friends and the relationships we've established are something I value deeply and think about a lot. I want to keep writing the interactions that bring me joy at a pace that is comfortable for me to retain without me burning myself out, so thank you all for being so patient and understanding with me! I probably won't write as much in the tempo I had in the past (unless the inspiration strikes) and do a little spring clean on my inbox, but I do want to slowly ease myself back into writing in February c: ♡