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Ghost legends in England: The "Grey Lady" of Weltham Manor has been sighted for six centuries. She's a lady wearing grey. Though Weltham Manor burnt down in 1904, she haunts the ruins, and is said to wail over her fate.

Ghost legends in Japan: The "Nails-Hand Lady" haunts schools in Japan. If you are in a bathroom and hear nails running along the other stall - stay still. The Nails-Hand Lady is coming for you. If you tell her she's beautiful, she'll make you a Nails Hand Lady. If you say she's ugly, she'll kill you, with her nails in her hands. If you say you think all women are beautiful, she'll thank you for respecting women, before killing you, with her nails in her hands.

Ghost legends in America: The old bar in Icetown, Michigan gets cold sometimes, even when it's only -13F outside. This is theorized to be the previous owner, or perhaps the tragic victims of the incident in the early 1900s where the bar exploded and killed like fifty people, whose fates were not reported in any newspaper. Sometimes they lament their fate by tossing over ashtrays

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It's insanely sad to read post after post of gentiles talking about how at least we all have each other and all we can do now is draw strength from our queer and leftist communities bc Jews literally cannot do this. Like you all completely and so utterly turned your backs on Jews this year and we have no one. Except other Jews. Who make up 2% of the American population. It's so great for you all that you can hold hands and sing Kumbaya but you made supporting Hamas and retweeting twitter funny men with literal terrorist hate symbols in their usernames normal. So no some of us cannot draw strength from the queer and leftist communities. Some of us just have to sit here and take it as you all reassure each other that none of this is your fault even though it so obviously is.

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Seraph Serpent Birkat Habayit, 2024

a (non-)traditional blessing for the home, commissioned earlier this year as a wedding gift for a wonderful couple who share my alternative/dark-fantasy Jewish aesthetic! having just finished Esther Hamori's book God's Monsters, i was already thinking about the nachash seraphim & was excited to integrate one as a guardian here. the original piece was sketched in Procreate and then finished traditionally, but the photo i took of it before sending it off wasn't the right quality for prints, so this is actually a digital re-inking of the same piece.

it's not my usual practice to make prints of commissioned work, but the family not only graciously gave permission but in fact suggested it to me in this case! so i'll have some of these with me at my local Hanukkah market this December & will be stocking them in my shop next year.

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ya being kafkaesque isn’t about turning into a bug it’s about how if you turned into a bug your boss would still be like “ok but we’re short staffed can u still come in”

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ilove homosexuals i  love bisexuals  i love trans !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yayy ayyayy ayy Weare all sooo ocool

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"Hours after the polls closed"

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"male presenting" yeah i bet he's presenting. slut.

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yeah i think the amount of time the left and wider liberal/centrist american culture have spent nitpicking the politics and Sketchyyyy national and international opinions of the american jews who make up 2% of the national population and went about 80% for Harris in comparison to the amount of time spent unpacking and analysing the nice corn fed applebees racism of the christians and evangelicals who make up over half the country and went wildly for trump - 82% in evangelicals' case- might be something reallllly worthwhile of a serious little think. a serious chat. idk. maybe time for some self reflection.

my point isn't that american jews are politically perfect or harmless but that i think we've been exotified and scapegoated on a systemic level in a way that has genuinely and systemically allowed the normal and Comfortable mainstream american christian conservatism to go sliding under the ice as a weird little national quirk

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Idk guys, maybe people are blaming leftists who refused to vote because of genocide because I literally saw them holding political rallies last weekend in a swing state telling people not to vote

Like it wasn't just tumblr leftists saying not to vote for Kamala, or at all, because of Palestine. Those were real people I walked past last Saturday in Pennsylvania, a key swing state. They had megaphones in front of Philadelphia city hall and a sizeable crowd. I feel like we can, in fact, say they are partly culpable here.

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Call me a liberal elitist if you want but I do think I am smarter and better than people who believe Trump is going to improve the economy if elected, especially after like every prominent economist came out to warn us that his economic plan will absolutely tank the country

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there are some pigeons that roost in a traffic light by my house and it delights me every time i see them

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remember when i said every presidential election comes down to the absolute most checked the fuck out people in the country

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Since the original OP turned off reblogs, here, exit polls.