#we are all immigrants

[scopophilic1997]

scopOphilic_micromessaging_883 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new micro-messaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally.

#scopOphilic1997 #scopOphilic #digitalart #micromessaging #streetart #graffitiart #graffiti #Manhattan #nyc #photographers on tumblr #original photographers #ArtistsOnTumblr #2022 #Phoebe #We Are All Immigrants #Misfits #brokenheart #brown #black #red #pink

[captainpirateface]

BATMAN FUCKIN' GETS IT!!!!!

#heritage of freedom #freedom #equality #batman #batman knows #vintage batman #bill of rights #captainpirateface #bipolardepression #chemicalimbalance #wtf #captainpiratefacelovesyou #sighthsandsoundsofinstagram #sights and sounds of tumblr #be kind #equality for all #we are all immigrants

[supercantaloupe]

What is the antisemitism in TUC season 1? Does it have to do with Wally the golem?/gen

[ID: an ask from an anonymous tumblr user that reads "would love to hear more about the antisemitism in unsleeping city! was a while ago that i watched it and can't remember what you might be referencing but definitely want to be aware of it.]

no, it's not about willy the golem -- i actually think willy is a great addition to the season (even if i wish we got to see more of him), and an indication to me that brennan/the showrunners were definitely trying to be sincere and inclusive. i want to make it clear that i don't think anything antisemitic in tuc is there intentionally; i think it's there out of simple ignorance, which is also why i think fans don't frequently see/comment on it either. but i don't think that's an excuse, either.

my grief with tuc1 is largely centered around its portrayal of robert moses as the villain. especially by making him a greedy, power-hungry lich working en league with bloodsucking vampires. (also his mini is literally a green skinned skull man in a suit. yikes.) here's the thing; i know robert moses was a real life horrible person, who actually was racist and powerhungry etc etc. and i know that robert moses, the real actual person, was jewish. my grief with tuc1 is not that they chose to use robert moses over literally any other person (real or fictional) to be their season villain (though i'd be really curious to know what tuc1 would have looked like with a different villain), but that they chose to take a real jewish person, turn them into an antisemitic caricature, and then only barely add other portrayals of judaism to balance that out.

like, tuc isn't completely devoid of other jewish representation. as you mention, there's willy the golem -- and again, i really like willy, and i love that it's a portrayal of a golem that's faithful to jewish folklore (ie as a benevolent, guardian construct rather than a mindless destructive monster. i am not a fan of how 'golem' is so frequently misused as a generic enemy creature in other fantasy and ttrpg spaces, including other seasons of d20). but as i said earlier, i wish we see more of him in the season, because he's not around very much, and feels a little more like worldbuilding than a full character to me. also, he's not human. jews are people.

the only other human jewish character in tuc1 is...stephen sondheim. which, again, yeah, that's a real person who really was jewish. but i really wouldn't blame you if you had no idea of that when watching tuc1. maybe from the name you could guess he might be jewish, but i don't think people ought to make a habit of trying to 'clock' someone being jewish by having a 'jewish-sounding' surname. as he's portrayed in tuc1, you'd never know he's jewish, unless you happen to already be pretty knowledgeable about the man in real life. it's far more likely you'll know him as a theater legend than anything else (may his memory be a blessing).

now i'm not saying that brennan or the showrunners should have played up the jewishness of Real Person Stephen Sondheim to counterbalance the depiction of robert moses; that just feels weird to me, especially considering that sondheim was literally alive when tuc1 was filmed and released. it's a tricky thing to portray real people in fiction alongside made up characters, especially when they are contemporaries, and i don't think 'outright caricature' is the way to go about that. nor do i think that moses' jewishness should have been played up at all, because again i don't think that would have been particularly true to the person/character, and also Fucking Yikes. but, c'mon, if you hear the names 'moses' and 'sondheim' next to each other, which one do you associate more with judaism?

and as it stands, these are the only representations of judaism in tuc1. one admittedly nice but very minor nonhuman character; one human character you'd never be able to tell was jewish; and a third human character who, while never explicitly referenced as jewish, plays into some really hurtful antisemitic stereotyping. and it was a choice to not include anything else. maybe not a deliberate one, probably more likely one made out of simple ignorance than anything else, but a choice nonetheless. in a city with one of the largest and most visibly jewish populations in the country, and a culture that is inextricably influenced by that jewish population. a jewish population which has been and continues the target of rising hate crimes for years. i know that nyc means different things to different people, and everyone's nyc is their own -- but my nyc is jewish, and it sucks that that its jewishness is referenced directly in only one very minor way, which is greatly overshadowed by its, in my view, really insidious indirect references.

i don't know exactly how to go about addressing this. obviously, the show can't be changed by now. even if it could, i think the final product would be very significantly different from what it is now if the villain was something/someone else. i think including more references to jews in new york, more (human) jewish characters, hell, even mentioning hanukkah celebrations and menorahs in windows (it takes place in late december, after all; depending on the year it's not at all out of place for hanukkah to coincide with xmas!) would help. having literally any more positive jewish representation in tuc1 would, i think, help balance the bad stuff that's there. because, yeah, robert moses was real and he was terrible and he was jewish. but he's one jewish guy in a city with over a million jews, the vast majority of whom are just normal people. i don't want him to be the only vision of us that people get, in tuc1 alone or in any media. i'm not saying that jews can't or shouldn't be villains in fiction; but especially if you are a goyische creator, you should be really careful in how you're portraying us, and if there are other contrasting depictions in your work, too, in order to not (even accidentally) demonize jewish people as a whole.

#sasha answers #anon #unsleeping city #the unsleeping city #long post #sorry for not putting this under a read more but i think people ought to see this. or at least #if two people felt the need to ask me about it then at least they would want to see the full thing uncovered #also fwiw i do think that they tried to address this to some extent when they made tuc2 #with more scenes with willy (and incorporating more golem folklore with the animating word in his mouth -- nice touch!) #the jewish immigrant family in the photo flashback encounter (even if the hanukkiah in the picture isn't exactly kosher lol) #and ESPECIALLY rabbi mike. i ADORE rabbi mike. i think he's a WONDERFUL addition #i do still wish he was a more important/prominent character. cause again he isn't in it all that much. #(and he's still like. the only new jewish human character in the campaign.) #but i recognize what he represents and i am happy about it #i do think brennan & the d20 crew tried to improve after tuc1. i do. i see their efforts and i applaud them for it #but still to my knowledge they haven't ever directly addressed the errors made in season 1 #and it's extremely rare that i even see other fans mention it #and like. sorry but i am tired. i am. we deserve better. we deserve portrayals in media that show us as People #not just as evil monsters #anyway you're welcome to rb this but be cool in the notes esp if you're a goy #other jews are welcome to (respectfully) disagree with me if they want #also if you so much as mention the word israel on this post you're getting blocked end of

[gayvampyr]

i think american gen ed schools should start requiring foreign language classes across the board

#and considering america is like a melting pot of immigrants and different languages so it only makes sense that we connect to our surroundin #gs #it’s a skill i think we all should have #im tired of ignorant monolingual english speaking adults mocking other languages

[simplyender]

the spiderverse movies depiction of new york is completely accurate (besides for the startling lack of jewish people)

#do we not exist in miles universe? lol #atsv #itsv #spiderverse #judaism #unless i missed something and theres s guy w a kippah in the background of some shots? or a sign that says kosher? #yeah peter breaks a glass at his wedding cool #but thats like...thats it #no offense but new yorks culture would not be the same w/o jewish immigrants #yall have bagels because of us #thats right! bagels were invented by jewish people #thats our culture! so where are we? can somebody maybe point us out? #there are a lot of details its possible i missed something with all the other cultures shown in the movies #into the spiderverse #across the spiderverse #jumblr

[soldier-poet-king]

I can't fuckin do this anymore!!! Bro 1 said THE most racist shit at dinner today, doubled down on it when I called him out, straight up said 'yeah I'm racist', tried to say it was okay because his south Asian friend is one of the 'good ones', told me I was being a politically correct socialist. And bro3 backed him up???

I am not even going to repeat what he said because it's genuinely so disgusting in so many ways, but he managed to fit MULTIPLE kinds of racism in there AND anti refugee, anti immigration, pro libertarian rhetoric

I try to be good and patient but Im. I'm breaking. I don't understand how anyone can be SO selfish and lazy, and have SO little regard for other human beings, he barely sees others as PEOPLE. He only cares about himself. He said he's 'in my me myself and I' era. Our mother babies him because he was the favourite growing up. He never does anything for himself. I'm SO angry. And he just keeps getting worse.

#MY BROTHER. WE ARE IMMIGRANTS. WHAT THE FUCK. #the duality of fran #i frankly dont want to be associated or around him at all anymore

[maria-ruta]

that one tnumblr post with poll going like "do you have more of online friends or more of irl friends" made me realise that I made a lot of irl friends while living in Moscow but now most of them are online friends?... Immigration really does it to you huh....

#Me #My life #personal #I like it here and moving from russia helped me deal with my strong depression and anxiety escalation #But I miss my friends and family in Siberia dearly #And it hurts me so to not be able to visit them right now or any time sooner #But that's a life of an immigrant for you #Nothing new I guess #I'm glad we love in technology century and I can keep in touch with all my friends and family #But it's still not enough and never enough #Vent #Venting

[spr0utsies]

"dont vote for the fascist" the red one or the blue one?

the one that wants to completely overturn the democratic system idk. think with your fucking brain lol this is not the “gotcha” you think it is. i fucking hate joe biden but i also don’t want republicans to start project 2025 and make my existence illegal 👍

#i hate anti-vote people thinking theyre doing something #all ur doing by refusing to vote is saying ur ok with trump winning and for the maga ‘reforms’ the gop wants to put in place #like the concentration camps and mass deportation they want to start for latino and muslim immigrants #further restrictions on bodily autonomy #go actually read project 2025 and tell me that both parties are equally bad #i fucking hate joe biden but if you think we are living under fascism now you’re objectively incorrect

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

this essay is going to be absolutely genius if I'm not talking rubbish

#girl either I'm having an epiphany or I'm stupid and I cannot articulate my epiphany clearly enough to know! #basically right ok the concept of authenticity #basically it's divided into two ideas - we perform authenticity relationally and then authenticity itself #which is what we're performing #but what if. the performance of authenticity were all there were. there's nothing behind it. ONLY the performance #performance is what CREATES the authentic! and as such the authentic is not a seperate concept from it! #I'm writing about food specifically Korean food but generally food and authenticity #thinking about pasta not being part of the italian national identity until immigration in the 19th century thinking about kimchi not being #fermented until the 16th century and the chili used in it not being native to Korea #like??? #but I may be Literally Insane who knows

[kinomiya]

I cannot believe I am watching the western world mourn a racist nationalist who was only throwing tantrums because it wasn't him in control of the empire.

#He supported the annexation of crimea and said he'd not return it to Ukraine if he became president somehow #He also compared Muslim and Asian immigrants to dental cavities and said we needed to deport them bc they brought drugs to Russia #And the west really just forgot all of that and fell for the revisionist history the media sold them about a man fighting corruption #When he was always just as corrupt and his outcome was gonna be the same #He would have been destined to be another dictator #So good riddance to bad rubbish #Another career politician who would say and do anything and change his politics if it benefitted him is dead #Navalny was never going to be Nemtsov and I hate how the west acted like he was #This post is me yelling into the void pls disregard lol

[deltaruiner]

AGHGFCCV LISTEN.

I have a theory-----

So it always bothered ne how despite there being so many witches in Mitakihara, there only seem to be Mami (and kinda Homura) as magical girls in the city at the start of the show, like surely these witches come from an equivalent amount of magical girls right???

Welll what if- magical girls and witches cone in some sort of "waves" of despair- basically, kind of like highs and lows in stuff like market economics

Heres how i think it might work- Kyubey reveals himself to a girl, and there are 2 options-

1- She is a lonely person and has therefore a higher likelyhood of witching out or dying without a support network, or-

2- She has, to some kind of degree, close friends she can talk to about stuff like being a magical girl.

If option 2 happens, then even if the girl herself is the only one out of her friend group (or out of whoever is eligible in it anyway) who becomes a magical girl, then eventually when she inevitably enters into a dangerous situation, Kyubey will manipulate any eligible friends she has into making a wish for her (which constantly happens in the show)

Then, if a wish wasn't made, a new witch or at least dead magical girl wouldve been created without any friends joining as magical girls

The more likely situation i suspect though, is that a wish DOES get made, and then, when one of the friends gets into a dangerous situation again and none is there to make a wish to save them (which will inevitably happen because being meguca is suffering)-

One of them will die or witch out, starting a chain reaction because well, your friend just died in front of you, probably brutally, or instead went the non gorey (if nothing else) way of becoming a witch- both highlighting the futility of your cause AND making you use energy to defeat a new witch in an already bad for you situation.

Both cases are highly likely to make the entire friend group witch out this way, because of the collective downward spiral.

And again, lonely girls are known to be preyed on because they do not last long.

In short i suspect the show takes place right after these kind of "chain witchification" happened to many magical girls in Mitakihara, which Mami was not affected by because she is a lone veteran (despite her efforts)

Basically, I think Gertrude, H.N. Elly, Elsa Maria, and maybe one of the other less significant witches (not Charlotte tho we know what happened There...) were part of a magical girl squad that fell to despair

Heck, this chain reaction is even shown to happen in alternate tinelines the Quintet was together, Sayaka witches out, Mami breaks down bc of it and kills Kyouko and then dies (to Madoka), and then Madoka becomes a witch, and so too would have Homura if she could not time travel most likely, resulting in net 0 magical girls and only witches for a short amount of time.

Mitakihara could also just actually be really small and all the witches immigrate from Kazumino or something. idk. that would be boring though

#pmmm #puella magi madoka magica #sorry for the repeating wall of text i really got into it #anyway its really sad. magical girls fall together so much we just dont see them sometimes at all. insane #also the implications if this is true on the shows exploitation themes with mgs being subject to market highs and lows like a commodity. ag #i hate that i thought of a way to make the show sadder somehow #sorry mutuals this probably doesnt make sense its late and im tired n stressied #my posts #deltaruins tags #aghhhhh #also reread the last line now im imaginging the wings of magius platforming against witch immigrants using a barrier (wall) #like some magical girl trump #anyway i am become sleepy again. will see notifications on the morrow. good eve

[mcnuggyy]

hiii would anyone be willing to buy a 30-50$ dollar commission from me tonight/tomorrow? I really need gas money and I don’t get paid until Sunday 😔🙏 thank you so much everyone, it’s been a rough couple of days..

#it’s all these lawyer fees we gotta pay for immigration they’re absolutely destroying us rn ough #luckily we’re okay on groceries and necessities but ough I don’t wanna leave my partners car w out gas #but yeah we’ll be okay <333 money stress just always gets to me ough

[kuruk]

white liberal lgbt americans kind of have a little bit of an oppression fantasy though sorry for phrasing it like that lol but it feels like they get some weird excitement out of this sort of thing. I've seen a lot of them end their posts telling people to vote for biden with how not voting for biden is going to endanger "queers and people of color and anyone who's not a white cishet christian" and pretend they care about what's happening to black people and latinos and immigrants but you can tell they're mostly talking about how they're scared of getting killed for being a gay atheist or whatever

#obv not that only white americans are capable of thinking like this #but for them to mention what will happen to like mexican immigrants if we dont vote biden is like awful. like do they know #they think it all goes away whenever we have a democrat president #even if it did it wouldnt justify this sort of selfish cruel thinking. but it really shows they barely care about even that

[saetoru]

my dad is so sad ab replacing his car 😭😭😭 he literally got a better one today but he’s just attached to the old one sobs

#it was his first real like #fancy car #we used to be dirt poor when i was a kid #cuz they just immigrated and stuff #and my dad worked rly hard to land his job now #you know the typical immigrant story #but yeah moving to texas and getting that job rly changed everything and then he bought that car and it was like #his dream you know #bc we used to live in nyc and we didn’t have a car for a while and we’d just use the subway and stuff #and my dad hated it #so yeah he holds onto that car like it’s his lifeline #it’s honestly rly old now #it was new when he got it but it’s been many a years #and so yeah he’s TECHNICALLY upgraded #but he’s actually so sad djfjsjf #he was happy for a bit bc it was a new car w new fancy tech stuff #and now he’s back to missing his car #and he’s getting all emo and wallowing in self pity #poor guy 😭😭😭 #anyway now that i’ve over shared #ig it’s just a really crazy to really realize how much life has changed #and how far my family has come #and how drastically life has rly improved now vs when i was a kid #and that car was like the first sign of those changes so #it’s my dads pride and joy #that all his hard work was worth it #so he holds onto it so #i can feel him on that #but also this new car is so slay 😭 he needs to cheer up

[deadpanwalking]

the one (1) other jew i know in this city and that i have been maintaining a friendship with through mostly network-based alliance will not stop complaining about how little he thinks the students at the protests actually believe in palestinian freedom while he himself seems to believe everyone talking about palestine is at least a covert antisemite. he keeps bringing this up around me as if he expects me to agree. your tags the other day about jewish fragility really hit the spot but idk if i can tell him that without him disintegrating into dust and/or facebook messaging my sister to tell her im a self hater

The reason I'm not talking about intercommunity issues on this platform is because no matter how articulate I am about precisely why I am so disturbed, antisemites will jump on anything I say as some kind of tacit admission of (((cultural))) decay. Seriously, think about it for more than a second—if the wrong gentile got their hands on an expression like “Jewish fragility”, they'd be deploying it early, often, and in the worst contexts imaginable. Meanwhile, Zionists will go into conniptions about how I'm a kapo who got kicked out of Hebrew school before I could seal the deal with a bat mitzvah. Anyway, I know you probably aren't trying to bait me, but that's where we are now. If you do ever find some tactful way to broach the topic, let me know.

#like a lot of immigrants i feel almost entirely alienated from american jewry and the feeling is mutual. we disappointed each other. #the only subset i've managed to meaningfully connect with are converts and those in the process of converting #like ruth and naomi we are strangers in a strange land #anyway. i'll stop now before i get to the part in my castigation of american judaism where i start shitting all over schindler's list #but uh. good luck with your friend and tell your sister to get off facebook #anonymous #assbox

[cowboyslikedean]

god the tory party just truly is absolutely fucking disgusting. a fetid heap of bigotry stitched together with the guiding policy of “if we can’t cancel it we can just make it really, really, shit.” a scourge on these nations. a party of people so overflowing with self importance that they believe all their ideas must be excellent, all their prejudices justified, because they were predestined to lead! they were meant to write these laws and give these speeches! ordained for it! they must be right! i hope they get so badly destroyed at the next election that they become a cautionary tale of political failure. i hope one day kids in history classes learn the word tory like they learn the word whig. “what a strange nickname for a party. i wonder what happened to them?”

#and for that matter i hope they all get bedbugs #lucys ramblings #i apologise for the rant it’s conference season and also i went campaigning yesterday and some guy shouted at me with his young son #next to him about the ‘’evils’’ of immigration #tories cw #uk politics #tags for ppl who don’t wanna see this stuff #most of all i hope there’s enough of the state left functioning that we can fix most of their mess. and that we don’t forget what they’ve #ruined beyond repair