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who’s gonna tell tumblr that executive dysfunction is more than Not Doing Things?

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Hey Jumblr I want to let you in on a secret that has made some of my worst days bearable

Blame the Romans

Have some freakish Ashkenazi malady…

Blame the Romans- you wouldn’t be a lactose intolerant with terrible sinuses if it weren’t for genetic bottlenecking caused by Roman slavery

Can’t eat fava beans…

That’s probably the Babylonians fault but YOU KNOW WHAT if the Romans hadn’t destroyed the temples then maybe your ancestors would have returned home and not developed a genetic mutation that causes deadly intolerance to a bean

Your boyfriend turned out to be an antisemitic weirdo and took all your friends in the break up by telling them you were an evil Zionist…

Those people were never your friends AND blame the Romans for renaming the land Syria Palestinina and confusing defiantly very anti colonial college students the world over

You feel like you have no sense of unique culture or identity and your antisemitic brain worms are tell you that you are a leech that produces nothing for society but CO2…

Blame the Romans for intentionally killing and robbing your ancestors of their indigenous land and disrupting cultural transmission

That hot Israeli girl won’t text you back because you don’t know enough about winter barley cultivation…

If it weren’t for the ROMANS you would be disappointed that a HOT JUDEAN GIRL wasn’t texted you back and you might know more about barley if Jewish society had remained agrarian in nature

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"i just feel like boys are easier" -- parent who is going to emotionally neglect their amab kids

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i want more nuance to be entered into the discussion of the green girl sorority and how differently cynthia plays elphaba in comparison to those who came before her because while a lot of people are rightfully like "why was elphaba not black from the beginning" and celebrating that she is now being played by a black woman, i think we need to be careful in just writing off all the elphabas of the past as Random White Girls when the role was championed (and often followed/succeeded) by a jewish woman

the pop culture archetype of the Wicked Witch has deep roots in antisemitism stretching faaaar far back. there is a level of reclamation happening in casting idina menzel, a jewish woman, to play the Misunderstood and Maligned young girl who is branded as exactly that. and stage!Elphaba is also written and acted with jewish stereotypes in mind--she is loud, aggressive, no-nonsense, blunt. she is quick to advocate for herself and shut down the discrimination she faces. all of this is very intentional! her personality is abrasive from years of abuse, and that makes propagandizing her easy. this is literally the thesis statement of the musical--it's not about aptitude, it's the way you're viewed.

cynthia's performance of elphaba is fucking INSPIRED despite going in a completely different direction. she's much more reserved, analytical, one of her key character traits is how well she can read people (see her calling out Galinda as insecure/putting on airs in their first scene together, clocking that Fiyero is using his party guy persona as a shield for his own depression) elphaba's attempts to blend in and make herself smaller all fail simply because of her existence, if not that then because she feels empathy so strongly she often struggles to hold back from acting, protecting.

personality wise, though, cynthia's elphaba is very quiet and closed-off, not at all the bullet-to-the-face that she is in the stage show, and... she still gets propagandized and maligned. though this seems to contradict the other interpretation, it tells of the other end of the spectrum of propaganda, one that black women watching (and many, MANY other marginalized folks) are sure to identify with--it does not matter how "nice," how reserved, how small a black woman makes herself. a racist society will still scrutinize her every action for a way to parse ill intent from it, brand her as an angry black woman who is dangerous and wicked, and write off any humanity she has in the process.

these two very different interpretations tell of the lie of assimilation. the fact of the matter is, when you are marginalized, there is no way to sand down your edges enough to make the people oppressing you "accept" you. that is why wicked is a tragedy at its core. whether loud and aggressive or quiet and unimposing, there is nothing elphaba could have done to make the people of Oz see her as anything other than a scapegoat to blame all their problems on.

so while i definitely appreciate that people are excited for black girl era elphaba, i would encourage us all to still show appreciation for what came before--that was not white girl era elphaba. that was jewish girl era elphaba. two houses, both alike in dignity, two stories both worth being told.

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I thought y'all would like to see some of the worst AI generated "Hannukah" products on Temu that I could find.

I like it. Shout out to that one monstera leaf, all alone in that vase. 5/10 hold it together for the hannam season monstera.

"There are not enough candles on the hannukah menorah" the Jews complain. That's OK, have....13! That's probably about right! 9/10 would have rated it less but then I read you can also use it for weddings AND birthdays, so special.

Shana tova! Oh, no, sorry. Rosh Hashana! Oh, no, not that either... uh, happy 60th anniversary? Congrats on your....blue apples. 10/10 extremely confusing and hurtful to the brain.

This is the best one. The way there is a Christmas tree, no hannukaniah, but MAYBE a basket full of Torah fondant scrolls and some gold coins? No notes. Chag sameach specluc! 11/10 specluc.

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tis the season

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Knitting, 2021 - by Joseph Ford, English

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crazy how 2,000 years of being fed "jews are untrustworthy two faced liars" will make people instinctively think jews are liars and have their gut reaction to jews talking about judaism be "assume they're lying." or maybe these are two unrelated phenomena that have no impact on each other and the gentile instinct to distrust the jew has nothing to do with thousands of years of antisemitism they've internalized.

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if your leftism doesn’t include fighting antisemitism then I’m really not interested in your leftism

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Haven't figured out a politic way to word this but before saying someone/thing "makes you uncomfortable" please ask yourself this important question: is it any of your fucking business

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okay, not to be Game Mechanics Dweeb On Main,

but i still think sometimes about how viscerally spooky (yet non-graphic and non-horrifying!) the torture mechanic is in this one "witch hunt" themed LARP that i've never had a chance to play:

To torture the witch, the Accuser takes a stick from the bundle on the floor and breaks it. This represents the Witch undergoing torture. Do not describe the details of the torture in any way. The Witch must not scream, groan, or describe his reaction in any way. The Accuser must look directly at the Witch while breaking the stick. After the stick is broken, the Witch must answer in the affirmative to the next question that they are asked. In their answer, the Witch must Inquisitor exactly what he thinks the Inquisitor wants to hear. The Witch should be florid and profuse with their explanation, and should go into vivid detail. In the first two rounds, only three sticks may be broken per round. In the final round, there is no limit to the number of sticks that may be broken. If all five are broken, the Witch dies, and the game ends.

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queer people on this site really make me feel like a confused straight guy at pride. the discourse here could kill a man

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one Verin Thelyss in his bug armor <3