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Last year or so one of my neighbors put a Christmas wreath on the entrance and exit gates to our neighborhood. It was very very clearly Christmas.
Donât get me wrong, I love seeing the decorations. Inside the neighborhood, most of the houses were decorated for Christmas and I adored it.
But it excluded me and it excluded my family when they put the wreath on the front gate. My family wasnât represented. And when we asked for the wreath to be taken down, or at least for them to add representation of Hanukkah, we were told we were being âToo dramaticâ
Itâs not a big deal. I know itâs not. But America already decides that Christmas is the most important thing for over a month. My younger brothers remember feeling excluded not only in everyday life, but where they lived.
I donât even think Christmas shouldnât be all over the public space like it is. Clearly it does make a lot of people happy and I lowkey I actually kind of like it too! (Sort of. But I also donât.) So, continue covering your town square or wherever with trees and lights, Iâm not saying not to. What I *am* asking for is:
- Acknowledge that Christmas is not a universal holiday and that some people either feel negatively about it or just donât celebrate it. Stop being offended by this.
- Stop forcing people to participate. Donât make your Jewish employees wear Christmas outfits, donât make schoolkids be part of Christmas plays, etc.
- Stop pushing back when Jews are honest with you about how they feel about it.
- Stop deflecting to talk about how Christmas traditions are actually pagan in origin. We know, and also itâs fully irrelevant to our issues with Christmas.
- Recognize things from other cultures. Or at very least donât *prevent* members of other cultures from expressing them. If your employee wants to put up a menorah, let them. If your coworker wants to add a Chanukah decoration to your office donât take it down when theyâre not looking because it âmesses up the Christmas spiritâ or whatever.
- Recognize things from different cultures at other times of the year too. Let your Jewish students and employees take days off for the fall holidays. Maybe even consider merchandise or decorations for those holidays too!
- Stop with the double standards. You donât get to say that a menorah is religious and a Christmas tree isnât. Either both of them are or neither of them are. A menorah actually is a ritual object but a) plenty of secular Jews use them and b) I donât think most Christians know that, they just think of Judaism (and therefore Jewish culture) as âa religionâ and Christian culture as normal. When people claim to object to Chanukah (the holiday most widely â and often exclusively â celebrated by secular Jews) because itâs âreligious,â theyâre actually objecting because itâs non-normative.
- Listen when someone is telling you about their experiences with and thoughts about hegemonic culture. Donât argue that actually itâs fine becaude Christmas is secular or pagan or whatever. Trust people about the experiences theyâve had and how things impact them.
(Yes, non-Jews can reblog this.)
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If you arenât following the Dimension 20 twitter then what are you doing
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a little preview for my piece for @intrepidadventureszine!! super excited for it, you guys should all check it out when pre-orders open!!
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Good libraries will help you find whatever you need
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i couldnât decide which i liked better so take them both i guessÂ
also im emotional
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im back on my mememaking bullshit everybody!
The Bad Kids + Whose Line is it Anyway? party quirks
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NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE (9/23/20): Breonna Taylorâs life mattered. There is no justice to be found under this neocolonial system. We must bring it to its knees.
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gnome wizards wearing oversized clothes learning magic on their own with a passion for necromancy?? i feel like Cheese and my boy Littleking would get along
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TUC dream team high school au:
- sofieâs a senior. sheâs cool but not popular, if that makes sense. she throws parties when her parents go away for the weekend and she sometimes is in the drama club but also sometimes not because she likes Ms. Moore but she doesnât like, really care about shows like some of the other kids. school is kind of just a thing sheâs finishing before she can go to cosmetology school.
- pete, ricky, and esther are FRESHMEN they are CHILD BABIES.Â
- ricky plays soccer in the fall, runs track in the winter, and plays baseball in the spring. heâs the only boy in his home ec. class and he is TERRIBLE at it but he also tries really hard.Â
- estherâs in all AP classes already and is going to start doing the dual-enrollment stuff with the local community college as soon as sheâs a junior. sheâs on the JETs (junior engineering team) and also does yearbook, lit mag, drama club (stage manager queen), student council, and plays fockey in the fall.Â
- esther and ricky meet bc the fockey team is constantly kicking boys soccer off their field. she threatens him with her stick and heâs immediately charmed but too shy to do anything about it until they are SENIORS this is a SLOW BURN
- pete is. newly out. heâs freaking out a lot about it but all the attendence records say pete so like! all his teachers call him that and nobody knows him by his deadname. he and ricky are in the same math class and neither know whatâs going on the entire first week so they become friends over that. peteâs in marching band and he plays the trumpet. heâs decent but he doesnât practice ever and he never ever knows his drill.
- kingston (Mr. Brown) teaches US history. heâs really good about teaching kids to challenge the source materials for the class (c*llege b*ard uses some DEEPLY BAD AND QUESTIONABLE MATERIAL ON THE AP CURRIC). so many of his students have cried to him. he writes unbeatable rec letters. he has lost his temper one (1) time in thirty years of teaching and it was when he tried to do a kahoot in class.Â
- Kugrash is a lunch lad.  one of the gym teachers and the track coach. Heâs well liked by the runners and generally has a good dad vibe about him. He doesnât know how to handle teenage girls like At All so getting him for gym is Choice because you can âforget your uniformâ and âbe on your periodâ all semester and still get an A-.Â
- Misty (Ms. Moore) is an ENGLISH TEACHER she teaches the freshman class thatâs like a survey of global storytelling and the senior elective Shakespeare classes. Sheâs Mrs. Darbus. She runs the drama club and she cries during every performance of every show sheâs ever directed. Misty sends Kingston candy and flowers during all the like student council holiday fundraisers and she always makes Kugrash play The Dad in the school plays when there arenât enough boys
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âSays mean things if you give her enough goldâ myrtle have you been to see trixie đ
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Had to pause ep12 of Fantasy High to draw Fig, flying during her battle with an air elemental
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Sig Fig OC
Name: Rhene (Pronounced Reen) Visahli
Role: Rhythm guitarist (backup vocals) - I believe Fig is the bassist and lead singer
Race: Half-Elf
Age: 17
Class: Oath-breaker Paladin
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Appearance Description: Long black hair, ivory skin, blue-green eyes, arched eyebrows. Her nose and one or two of her fingers are crooked (she kept breaking bones as a child. They couldnât all be fixed perfectly)Â
Personality Description: Rhene is a witty, arrogant, and adventurous person. She loves excitement and the unknown, but she can act very overconfident about how things will go. Sheâs very charismatic, but can be a bit cruel with her sarcasm sometimes. Overall, although she sometimes falls short of being kind, Rhene is incredibly loyal and will fight for her own until the end.
Backstory: Rhene and her twin brother were both raised in the Church of Sol. Her twin was a cleric and she was a paladin, both raised to champion their god and his beliefs. They did so through most of high school, but then Rheneâs twin came out as gay to the church and it went extremely badly. Rheneâs brother was threatened, belittle, and dismissed. After that, Rhene broke her oath, realizing that she had only been staying in that close-minded church full of close-minded people out of love for her brother. The two left the church and found an aunt who was also estranged from the church, who offered to let the twins stay with her. The twins joined The Sig Figs not long after
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Iâd love to see other Sig Fig OCs, or even ones from other bands in Solace!
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Barbarella âBobâ Sasparilla Gainglynn
âI am delightful. They donât pay me the big dragons for nothing.â
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lover, hunter, friend and enemy you will always be every one of these
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