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I love talking to rabbis as a recent conversion student because the interaction goes something like, "you're converting? Now?! At this time, at this moment in history?!". And they always talk about this influx of jewish convert students they've seen recently, and it's like...
There's this level of respect I get from rabbis for converting at this point in time, but... Has there ever been a good time to be a jew in the last thousand years or so plus? I'm imagining that rabbis and jews in general back in 1492, back in 1290, back in 1349 would have said the exact same thing. So, really, there is only a time to be a jew. Maybe it's not a "good" time, yes, but it is a time. And to me, that's good enough
#jumblr#jew by choice#jewish conversion#personal thoughts tag#and to me i *know* that being a jew has historically Not Been a Good Time. i don't ask that of my conversion#i would convert if i had to run one day. in fact i count on that as a possibility#that's why i like simple judaica. if i have to run away with my people it'll be easier with simple bare-boned judaica#i would convert even in the middle of a desert. in the middle of exhile. on threat of pain and death#because to me being a jew isn't about it being a 'good time.' it's about being true and honest about what i need to be#if i were born this same way a thousand years ago i would make this decision again#where you rest; i will rest. where you pray; i will pray. when you weep; i shall weep. and where you die; i will die#i can only speak for myself but i've seen other students with a similar mindset#so in truth it's not the timing that motivated me. it's deeper. it can't be intellectualized. it is a primal feeling - something soul-deep
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One Kid's Room 2024, ep.01 - Han.
#seungmin doesn't really lie or sugarcoat so when he says that you know he means it#7 yrs of beginners luck is crazy fjjfj (truth revealed. hes really talented fr no lie no clickbait)#han jisung#kim seungmin#stray kids#skz#skzedit#skz gifs#bystay#createskz#stray kids gifs#one kids room#theres other moments i'd gif but with my computer bein so slow i shall see if any of you guys get to them so then i can reblog 😇#but obv i got a rep to keep up here so obvs this one had to be done
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still can't get over how insanely pretty they are
i will be Thinking on these two specific photos for a Long Time... ja'marr looking slightly surprised at whatever obj is showing them on his phone... ceedee looking at ja'marr so fondly while resting his chin on his hand... then ja'marr laughing and grinning as hard as he can - oh you can sense the Joy through the screen, hear that contagious hahaha ...
and i will literally never shut up about ceedee's loose bun, it looks so fucking good wtf... ooh ceedee has two (2!) piercings... all of them having intricate hand tattoos... ja'marr wearing like... five (wow) rings... lmao wait is ceedee charging his phone midgame?
also the Narrative of flying halfway across the world to fucking Paris, just to sit courtside at an NBA game with your friends (instead of just meeting up in your home state like normal folks do).... 😭😭😭
#ja'marr grow out your hair PLEASE I BEG#(i'm sorry ja'marr will always be pretty but i'm just not a buzzcut girl sorryyy)#it doesn't have to be this long but like. i would DIE if ja'marr had that hair styling UGHH#obj being the older exasperated friend watching ceedee and ja'marr flirt and laugh and look at each other through the corner of their eyes#and also shaking his head at all the ✨sparkles✨ and the fucking fur coat (young people these day amirite)#once again i will speak my truth: ceedee and ja'marr should go back to their hotel after the game and 👉👈#one night stand typa thing you know. nothing serious. what happens in paris stays in paris 🙂↕️🙂↕️#just a bit of fun with your friend from the same state that you happened to meet with in the city of lights#(i do suspect that it was actually an accident given ja'marr's insta stories which i shall post soon)#like obv this isn't the sheer Insanity of the joe'marr date (ja'marr has kept his arms to himself as many have noted)#but! listen! they just deserve to fuck a little!#1) as a treat. for the way their seasons went off the rails and into the pits of Hell#and 2) it would be SO tragic for all this Pretty to go to waste#like LOOK at them. seriously!#i really never thought so much Pretty could exist in one picture holy cow...#these pictures have me in a CHOKEHOLD#link is connected to most recent pictures by david dow so you may have to scroll#ja'marr chase#ceedee lamb#odell beckham jr
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forever hilarious to me that tennis is promoted as this prestigious highbrow big-brain sport when most tennis fans these days are like. yeah this is my favorite player. yeah i don't know why they're like that. yes they are stupid. no i will not choose somebody else.
#wta tennis#atp tennis#i feel like the era of...shall we say 'federer-esque' players is waning#which i think can in part be related to the loss of the one-handed-backhand#as the sport moves more toward a necessity for fitness and athleticism players do not put as much emphasis on 'art'#which imo is fine! i think the 'art' of tennis is too protected in some ways. which i maybe will expand on later.#but i think it's too much for the tags of a (mostly) silly post#but yeah you can hear a lot of commentators touch on it#i know nadal even said something abt it recently(ish)#but i think as tennis is gradually less associated with this abstract 'image' (e.g. the obsession with federer's 'grace' and 'class')#players are coming in thinking 'this is a physical battle and i am going to win' and very much leaning into the *competition*#which not to say that they're ignoring/denying the mental aspects at all because i actually do think many players are very strategic/aware#and in truth i think many tennis players ARE actually very smart#but i also think it's less apparent because more and more players are able to just hit the shit out of the ball and call it a day#which leaves you with the occasional shot/point/game/set/match etc where it seems like they don't know what the fuck they're doing#but you think about most sports which evolve in phases#it's very normal for certain player profiles to become more or less popular as the landscape of the sport changes#or as new techniques/strategies are developed#or as new communities/populations become interested!#extreme example but think of like. high jump's fosbury flop. that was one guy!#one guy who changed the entire fucking sport! so it makes perfect sense that tennis is continuing to evolve#given how many unique players have come and gone#and how much the sport is changing externally as well as internally#anyways. this got out of hand but i love sports and i love tennis and i love my brainless players.#this whole post was inspired by rewatching sabalenka v boulter and aryna completely missed an overhead by like five feet. lol#love her <3
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There was a blinding flash of light
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and it was filled with scary rocks and strange raisin cookies!
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#lunaladee photos#bet this post will cost me some followers 😹#as flannery o'connor said: You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd#and as EL&P sang: c'est la vie#original photography
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Pray, listen. Though I return not from mine unnounaced hiatus.
Nor shall I swiftly resume mine Jacaerys agenda come next month, yet here I sit right now upon an 8K word draft of a meta on Mel fucking Medarda, because she might be my favourite fictional character. Ever (even with the treatment she suffered in the second season). Any gender. Any media. Yes, I am aware Athena, Katherine Pierce, Elizabeth Sloane, Thomas Shelby, book!Petyr Baelish, Maeve Millay, Beth Harmon, and Henry WInter exist.
Meanwhile, rather than ply my fingers to editing said meta—or dare I say, to sleep—I hath decided to use my gloriously evolved DaVinci Resolve skills and edit myself an explicitly Mel/Jayce/Viktor rendition of Arcane.
Lo, the fruits of my labor! 'Tis my brain—corrupted inadvertently—but also! combining all their scenes: • in s1 amounts to exactly 1:54:52 h • in s2 amounts to exactly 1:54:25 h
Mine mind hath gone unhinged over it, so I deemed it only just to bid thee join me in the unhingedness.
PS. Fortiche (save for that one animator—yall knowest who), you have my eternal love. My INTJ brain is climaxing over the message hidden within the pattern. You and your bajillion (142 and counting—should I make a series of posts/mini meta-s about them—I have the spreadsheet ready) parallels between these three give me life in the abyss that Saturn and Mercury have hewn for me recently (ngl, I'm real sym/em—pathetic with Jayce).
#shall the tags bear a semblance of sanity thou might inquire—well not on my watch#what they shall contain is the utter absence of mine wits after a 50-hour insomnia episode#i do not even repent anymore—'twould seem I am not fated to remain a keeper of but one fandom's chronicles#plus the grand ignoring of s2 act3#i know they did them dirty aye i do yet in my mind they are handled most perfectly#featuring#mel medarda#mine one and only cerebral iconoclast#the truest baddest queen to reign o’er all while robbing me of mine very vocabulary#jayce talis#mine one and only visionary iconoclast#my most beloved my bestest boy i love you to the moon and sun and back mine most cherished#them be mine roman empire#viktor#by my truth it doth be wondrous fair glorious evolution#i hold my privacy in too such esteem i cannot say why i relate to you so thoroughly#meljayvik#i guess#when i said i am a bisexual intellectual and i need to be served i knew not this is what I sought#interrupting my irregularly scheduled 24/7 jace propaganda to bring thee#no i am not back from my unannounced hiatus
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just finished el mundo gira and i thought it was like. comically bad. sorry to any el mundo gira stans, but tomorrow's writeup will have some hater energy.
#sometimes we need to let ourselves be haters. it is a truth rarely acknowledged. but you know it to be true.#just sitting here wondering wtf i watched#their weird fucking heads 😭😭😭#usually when i see a bad episode i try to find an angle to enjoy it from but today we've got nothing#but the sheer absurdity of which was daring bold and camp in concept and a bummer in execution#there are three main kinds of bad txf episode#the first is “oh my god why did no one tell them this was a terribly offensive thing to put on TV” (genderbender or excelsis dei)#or “oh my god this is horrifically out of character” (3 or certain episodes from late s2 where they are always arguing)#and the 3rd kind are the just boring episodes#here we got offensive while trying to deliver some sort of message (i think?) AND boring!#a unique and unprecedented combo!#lmao man. lmfao even#it was just. not good.#usually with the horribly offensive ones i am at least invested in the plot in a sort of “can't look away from a train wreck” sense#but here i was just like. okay. what do you want me to say.#LMAO it was just not very good!! i am a lover enough to hate the things i love sometimes.#it is not my least fave of all time tho... perhaps i shall make a ranking on those. the ones i will never ever watch again.#but i would say it places into my worst 10... maybe? i think so. yeah. at least my worst 15.#4x11
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being a good guard dog😌
YES. You see my vision. Murder Espera my most beloveds - I need to work on my half baked wip of them asap.
You think Slasher iii and Stalker iv are cruel and twisted. Ohhh boy, if you only knew who they work for.
(gaaahhh i miss them so much omg 😭😭😭😭)
#they give me big Charlize Theron vibes if you know what I mean#or like. Galadriel on that one instance she went cray cray. All shall love me and despair etc etc#murderer espera is my truest truth 😌✊#espera#sleep token#sleep token fanfiction#< for blacklist#darya answers
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Song of the Day: December 14
“He Set Her Off” by Emily Ann Roberts
#song of the day#I'll talk about yesterday's song in a second TODAY'S SONG!! so much fun oh man#I spent many hours of today dredging the last five-ish years of angry lady country music and it was so rewarding#'now the house is up in flames his clothes are on the lawn#thought she was fragile like a flower but she's fragile like a bomb / yeah he set her off'#doesn't that absolutely fuckin slap. I love that. /and/ it's bright and fast and hella fun to sing. a true delight#anyhow I missed Friday because well I missed Friday! I sort of never went to sleep Thursday and then crashed this morning#never actually shut down my work computer so it was okay that I would've forgotten to log back into it. it all works out#prrrobably the song would have been 'Some Kind of Joke' by AWOLNATION#I left my laptop on shuffle-all and it played out of my Tony Stark playlist#hit that first 'I don't know why I don't know why I don't know why' out the gate and I was like yeah you're sure right there#Duncan pointed out too the other day when it was playing how good a line 'nowhere to run when you're hiding from the truth' is#lots of solid lines the last few days. probably there'll be a larger percentage of revenge-story country in the next little bit#but also my littles are coming tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so their music tastes will also affect the songs. we shall see#oh I am still singing 'he set her off'#'she reapplies her lipstick lights are flashin red and blue / they ask her why she did it she said 'honey you would too''#what a fuckin bop
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***History Lesson***
You Decide 🤔
#pay attention#educate yourself#educate yourselves#reeducate yourself#knowledge is power#reeducate yourselves#think for yourself#think for yourselves#think about it#do your homework#do your research#do your own research#question everything#ask yourself questions#ask yourself#truth shall prevail#the truth shall set you free#know the law#law#when you know you know#nothing is as it seems#nothing is as it appears
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for the batter teeth comic:
ship not ship, intimate or not, I'm leaving that one to y'all so go hogwild and b nice to each other -w-
#shaw-t up#I eat up all the tags#the truth shall be like ancient ruins#you never know what they thought when they made them#and so it'll stay
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Okay wooo let’s come on out about it, confession time babes!
I… think it’s so lame and embarrassing but I HAVE dealt with a fucking. Gambling addiction in the past lmfao there’s not much to it but yeah it was bad
So um. There’s a lot of substance abuse in the family and since I’ve already dealt with the lame gambling thing I do a lot to prevent other stuff from happening to me personally like I never keep alcohol in the house and as much as I like to have a good time I never buy ~party favors~ directly or like allow myself to have those connections/contacts
and yet I STILL found a way to abuse cigarettes about uhhh 10 years ago because it was the only thing I let myself have access to. It started with cigars in Cuba and by the time I moved to China YOH I was smoking a pack a night. Found out it was an issue when a friend took them from me once out of concern and I started crying and begging for them back, it was NOT pretty. I decided to quit cold turkey by myself 5 years ago and I got SO SICK when my body adjusted to like. Not poisoning itself. Anyway. Even nowadays I still crave them and I know if I even have one again I’m fucked but I never want to get that sick again so I JUST DONT
#I know my brother is not actually genetically related to me but do you see why I’m concerned about the cigarettes Jesus#my sister also used to have major substance abuse problems and the younger brothers don’t even LISTEN to her words of caution#yeah she had major issues and actually a lot of trauma bc of them that’s separate from our other trauma lmao#ISNT IT FUN TO VISIT FAMILY ALL THIS STUFF COMES UP TO THE SURFACE#but the truth shall set u free xoxo#tian talks#drugs mention#smoking /#alcohol mention#also uh my family DOESNT know I used to smoke hehehe
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#anyone who votes for the secret option shall know it’s truths#but omg if you vote know I really do appreciate it and appreciate you#bcs I desperately need guidance LMAO
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Re-tag drop: Yelan
#tag drop#[ yelan. ] i can't change the facts. but if it's a choice between the cold; hard truth and blissful unawareness: i'll take the former.#[ yelan: ic. ] that's a worst-case scenario. but all too often; the most pessimistic speculation turns out to be the closest to the truth.#[ yelan: inquiries. ] oh? you'd like to know more about me? what will you give in exchange then?#[ yelan: countenance. ] an old friend of mine once privately commented to me that ] yelan “is always smiling; but never with her eyes.”#[ yelan: introspection. ] like a phantom she appears in various guises at the center of events; and disappears before the storm stops.#[ yelan: wishes. ] that which hides inside her… that constant calling; it is the blood of heroes which has been howling for 500 years.#[ yelan: etc. ] every round of finger-guessing is a tiny adventure; and every roll of dice sends sporadic thrills down her spine.#[ yelan: liyue. ] liyue will never plunge into disaster without clue of the danger like it once did. she will see that it is not unprepared#[ yelan: home. ] i'm guessing you've fallen for the rumors about me being very wealthy; having high demands for my standards of living?#[ yelan: yanshang. ] the teahouse has really brightened up after the boss took over and kicked the fatui and gamblers out.#[ yelan: lantern rite. ] every year on this day; the lanterns light up the night. may the fire never die and may humanity endure.#[ yelan: chasm. ] perhaps she will plunge into that darkness one day; and the ill fate that once befell her ancestors shall find her too.#[ yelan: scope. ] i serve ningguang. the tianquan of the qixing. the scope of my work includes some of liyue's biggest secrets.#[ yelan: weaponry. ] water. divided it is as streams uncounted: close yet untangled. united it is as a giant wave: inexorable; unstoppable.#[ yelan: wriothesley. ] don't fight over fleeting gains or losses. focus on where your heart is leading you and move forward. [ delusionaid#[ yelan: uncle tian. ] there's nothing wrong with wanting to win other people's respect. but when has uncle tian looked down on anyone?#[ yelan: ningguang. ] we both made a mistake: we shouldn't have involved ordinary folk in what we do. / ordinary folk?#[ yelan: xiao. ] you think you're oh-so cold and ruthless. i'm not buying it. - losing one of us so the rest can escape? some victory that#[ yelan: keqing. ] if something happens that they didn't anticipate; it throws their plans into oblivion. but the yuheng is different.#[ yelan: ganyu. ] i could never work non-stop like she does. certainly not at that level of efficiency. i guess being half-adeptus has its#[ yelan: yanfei. ] when i help her out; i always get some invaluable leads in return. gotta say though: i think she respects me a little mu#[ yelan: traveler. ] you don't have to be on guard around me. i never scheme against people who have my stamp of approval.#[ yelan: v. youth. ] you're still young. be patient. believe in yourself; and don't look outside yourself to prove your value.#[ yelan: v. pre-qixing. ] i don't do these things to help the powerful or mighty get rid of dissident forces. but because water too has a s#[ yelan: v. qixing. ] seeing isn't always believing. and if you can't trust your eyes; you certainly can't trust rumors.#[ yelan: meta. ] the chances are if i open this door; there can be no witnesses left alive. is that a sufficient reason for you?
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The Lord revealed a truth to me last night about why I sheltered myself from emotions and why I would say I don’t like being human.
There were many times when I would be scolded, teased or even mocked for being emotional.
Because of those interactions, the Lord revealed that is why I don’t like feeling emotion and yet, the truth is…I am emotion.
I feel.
That is why I am creative in art, dance and writing. Everything I create comes by my feeling, my emotions.
However, I find myself at times literally stopping “me” from saying “I feel” and yet without realizing it, it comes forth because that IS me.
What if one of the reasons I am here is to know that it is okay to express my emotions and experience them.
Hmmm 🤔 That makes me wonder what I may have been like in a life before this?
#Phoenix#reborn#rebirth#rise from the ashes#Creative#art#dance#truth#faith#hope#love#inspire#heart#life#poetry#quotes#encourage#rise of the Phoenix#the truth shall set you free#knowing#believing#trusting#The Lord Almighty
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I love taituk they’re so funny. they’re simultaneously really cool and capable and. kind of a loser. wet cat of a woman (not actually a woman). a dykefag AND a fagdyke. they can’t tell when people are flirting with them and suaveness is Not in their vocabulary. everyone wants them and they’re involved with quite literally every crew member their age. their reaction to there being “men’s work” and “women’s work” is “I will simply do everything. all of the work.” they’re fine with the concept & reality of death but thinking about killing somebody with their own hands makes them physically ill. they will quite literally heal their enemies so they don’t die. they’re eldestsiblingcore but only see their siblings like. twice a year. they could be stabbed and bleeding out and their only reaction would be “ugh now my favourite jacket will be stained :/”. they don’t know what’s going on at any given moment. they’ve been permanently banned from the ship’s kitchen even though they’re the captain. by god they’re even transgender. they’ve even got long hair
#oc tag#elli rambles#oc rambles#the thing about killing might be subject to change but this is the vibe for now#taituk#the birates#the sibling thing is just. they had to leave their family behind both because of circumstances (drought. sickness. the only way to provide#for their family was to turn to crime and piracy was the best/safest option) and bc of their thirst for adventure. and though they know#they couldn’t (wouldn’t) have done anything differently their biggest regret in life if not being there to watch their siblings grow up#bc as lovely as being able to exchange letters and visit a few times a year is it just isn’t the same y’know :(#me choosing to give them siblings: how shall I hurt them this time#ok truth is that I chose to give them siblings bc I like them and so they couldn’t be an only child#esp bc there already are so many only children on the ship#which now I’m thinking about it oh god are there even any other eldest siblings in the crew#tetsuo maybe? sumiyati is an older sibling I think but not the Eldest probably. maybe tao? that would be Ouch#considering he can never visit or contact them as a fugitive from the ek#wait. I’ve always seen xuan as an only child considering his. Everything. but him being a stereotypical eldest brother like you see in films#(annoying. constantly blasting music at the loudest volume. vaguely alt. etc) would also fit actually#and would hurt considering his backstory (his family dies of an illness and he’s the only one who survives)#the way he’d feel sososo guilty…#anyway. this post was about taituk#conclusion: I LOVE THEM#my babygirl made of dualities <3
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