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Given the way entertainment is going I doubt it but… idk one can hope.

We still need like epic fantasy stories with lots of different fantasy cultures, countries, etc but that have 0 White ppl. Fuck you

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Is that thing underneath the glassy Magen David supposed to be a Christmas Tree, or meant to be the top of one?

Because it looks like a spring to me.

BOUNCE.

it's time for my yearly chanukah merchandise ratings! how are there always so many to choose from. as always, this year is a doozy and I am as bitter as ever lmao

this was quite literally labeled "hanukkah cone tree." gee I wonder which winter holiday is The One With The Trees. surely it's the jewish one with all the fire. let's make it blue and white just in case. 4/10 there is no excuse for this

why are the chairs so far apart. why is there nobody there. why are there so many grapes. what even are those green things. why is there soup. will the mysteries never cease. 7/10 purely because it's pretty

I for one welcome our jewish alien cousins. not sure what this has to do with chanukah but I want to hear about jewish life on mars so 8/10 friends come in out of the cold and have a latke with me

the more I looked at this, the worse it got. there's a literal christmas tree and tinsel but oh it's got blue lights so it's fine. and as we all know, children regularly hold fully lit candle menorahs with mittens while going door to door during a snowstorm. I guess who are we to stifle a child's latent desire for arson. 5/10 somebody save that poor dying kitten

this poor magen dovid is being forcefully converted to christianity and we need to help it. quick somebody put this on a sufganiyot stack. 4/10 we all know the intended target audience isn't interfaith families okay

do I even have to say it. please just. just stop. get One (1) Jew to weigh on your hanukkah products, I beg you. -392928373/10 walmart owes me a personal apology for making me see this with my own two eyeballs

I spent a full five minutes staring at this shirt desperately trying to make it make sense. I shouldn't have bothered. it's worse than the hebrew could ever be. 2/10 amposzu zusach mezchamal to you too

congratulations, once again you wrote gibberish. this says nothing. it's not chanukah, it's not happy holidays, it's nothing. the letters on the dreidel are an ACRONYM people! there's an order! 3/10 it's antisemitic that this has over 4,000 sales (thank you @quartzfox for sending this to me. now you all have to see it too.)

now these are CUTE. and the dreidel letters are in the correct order too, which is unfortunately impressive. 10/10 no notes, it has cats, would wear

(previous years 1, 2, 3)

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Alexandra Burke in 2011

I realise a lot of girl’s Gay Awakenings was kiera knightly or kristen stewart which is cool phenomena tbh but I’m rlly interested in other Gay Awakenings like for example mine was morena baccarin in firefly and also gemma artenton in st trinians. CALLING ALL GAYS (boys and nb babes included)!! reblog with ur non kiera/k-stew Gay Awakening!!!

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first day of the trial against a group of sámi activists and they mispronounced every single sámi name including the president of the sámi parliament lmfaoooo

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In the midst of the euphoria over the Oppenheimer awards sweep, please never forget that it was executive produced by this genocidal Zionist cunt

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a movie about an Arab world with no Arabs in it at a time like this

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Wtf?

Perfect fancast for "Arcane: League of legends"

credits: lifevidence (on Tik Tok)

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children are starving at the fastest rate that the world has ever known

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Are you going to continue your Thir13een Ghosts/The Old Guard crossover?

First of all, thanks a lot for support.

Secondly... tbh I don't know. I still like combining these universes, but the lack of news for the sequel – which is where Quynh would have shined the brightest – is making me more and more cynical and jaded towards the Old Guard and its future.

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Rowling’s school is an imagination of what she wants a school to be, regardless of whether or not real schools are quite like that. Experience and scholarship have taught us that schools are not the egalitarian spaces they are imagined to be. The rich variety of literature that focuses on the classroom would be impossible to summarise: in particular, post-colonial scholars have focussed on the many inequalities perpetrated by the imposition of the British schooling system.

When placed in this context, one cannot escape the underlying implication of Hogwarts: that to have extraordinary agency, one would have to be a rather brilliant student of the British curriculum, preferably with access to one of the elite boarding schools that foster and nurture this kind of magic. By framing education as one of the central ways through which the magic of childhood can be imagined, we do a great disservice to forms of childhood that do not rely on schooling at all. And if children in schools have access to grand magic, so should everyone else.

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The existence of the magical school is a complicated thing — it necessitates the existence of a colonial legacy that allowed schools to become part of our everyday. It further necessitates a complex relationship with the more untameable, the wilder — magic. Almost all magical schools are somewhere or the other problems because of this — they cannot help but be antithetical to what they are meant to provide students. The Scholomance is not a refuge; it is not a safe space; it provides so much agency to children — at the expense of their lives.

— Why Do We Keep Inventing the Magical School?

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I had to share this cause it was hilarious

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as a jewish person, seeing the Barbie movie, a toy created by and based on a jewish woman, about to oust Harry Potter as the highest grossing warner brothers movie of all time is truly an experience. i hope joanne is fucking seething. 😌

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Somebody on Twitter pointed out that almost all of the netflix Avatar show was filmed so that the focus of the action would be at the center, so it could be viewed vertically, like on tiktok

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My baby here on Earth