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perfectlyvalid49 Ā· 1 year ago
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I just want to say that your words about feeling like you yourself are becoming radicalized resonated with me. I was already growing fed up with the current state of leftism and this just seems the last straw. The black and white thinking, the purity culture, the blood thirst ā€“ Iā€™m just done.
Iā€™m not even Jewish in any meaningful way (my mom hid/disavowed that part of her ancestry growing up in the soviets). Iā€™m just a very mixed queer person whose ethnicity is best described as ā€˜uhhh.ā€™ But my social circle has always been largely Jewish, and recently many of said social circle have had to up and leave their home country. In many cases, Israel was their only option. So seeing thousands of people who are supposedly on my side thoughtlessly chant ā€˜from the river to the seaā€™ just broke me. Seeing people try to prove that itā€™s not antisemitic has been mind-boggling. ā€œIt doesnā€™t explicitly call for violence against Jewish people.ā€ Well, nor does ā€˜Jews will not replace us,ā€™ and yetā€¦
I deleted my social media at a really low point, and now that Iā€™m back I find myself mostly following Jewish blogs. And I feel my worldview shifting because where before I had hopes that things that frustrate me on the left could maybe be fixed, now I no longer think itā€™s fixable.
Sorry for rambling from this Schrƶdingerā€™s gentile
Hi Anon,
Iā€™m glad I could write something that spoke to you.
Before this blog became so focused on the conflict in Israel, I talked a lot about US politics, a topic Iā€™ve been interested in since I was in middle school (Iā€™m weird and nerdy ā€“ get over it). And to be clear, Iā€™m ā€œoldā€ for the internet, so middle school means the 1996 presidential election, which I remember discussing with my friends at lunch (they were also weird and nerdy, thereā€™s a reason we were friends).
So when I say that Iā€™ve been watching other people get radicalized for a long time, I mean it. Iā€™ve watched friends fall into information silos and have felt helpless to stop it. I mean, the best man at my (very Jewish!) wedding is now a trad-Cath who thinks Iā€™m going to hell because I refuse to accept Jesus into my life.
There has always been an antisemitism problem on the left. You can scroll through just about any blog on jumblr and look at posts prior to October and you can see that we were all bitching about it before the 7th. Iā€™m not sure if it has actually gotten worse or if itā€™s just more obvious now, but we can say they seem radicalized now. Honestly, thereā€™s nothing I can do about it, because they certainly arenā€™t going to listen to me ā€“ Iā€™m a filthy (((Zionist))) after all.
But thereā€™s at least a handful of Jewish people who are listening to me. Iā€™ve picked up a score of followers in the last few months, so clearly you all think what I have to say is worth reading, so read this: I worry that at least parts of the Jewish community are headed down a bad path and I donā€™t know what to do about it. I know why we are blocking and unfollowing so many ā€“ the things they say are hurtful at best and terrifying at worst. But it leaves us in a situation where itā€™s the same few voices being repeated over and over. It doesnā€™t mean that we are radicalized, but I worry that weā€™re headed toward an echo chamber at least, and thatā€™s not good. Iā€™ve left a lot of leftist spaces behind. Iā€™d prefer to not have to do that with Jewish ones as well.
I donā€™t have a solution other than that we need to be really careful and think about how weā€™re thinking about things if that makes any sense. The example I gave last time was moving from ā€œyou can be anti-Zionist without being antisemiticā€ to ā€œanti-Zionism is antisemitism.ā€ How did we make that move? Was it motivated by logic or emotion? Itā€™s ok to change your stance, but with the way things are I think we really need to think about why weā€™re doing that, or it could lead to a bad place.
Back to the anon who is losing hope ā€“ thatā€™s tough, and I can see why you feel that way. There are two thoughts that I repeat to myself to keep me hopeful. The first is that on a long enough timescale, things tend to improve. Thereā€™s lots of small steps forward and stumbling backwards, but overall we tend to move in the right direction. The other is that trying and failing and not trying at all have the same result. Maybe we wonā€™t have a big effect. But if I can tell 30 people and even three of them can tell 30 people and so on, then maybe my words can reach at least one person and help them pull their heads out of their ass. And thatā€™s better than nothing.
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skipar00 Ā· 3 months ago
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fuck it I was persuaded to post
New Orleans Miku
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isjasz Ā· 1 month ago
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[Ready for a new game?]
day 11 definitelynottober - heart in your fist & week 1 weeklyhermittober - beginnings
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IM SO READY LETSGO SO EXCITED FOR THE NEW LIFE SERIESšŸ’„šŸ’„šŸ’„šŸ’„šŸ’„šŸ’„
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trashy-greyjoy Ā· 10 months ago
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sometimes, it's not so much about the romance as it is about the devotion. the adoration.
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kimdokjas Ā· 7 months ago
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though the movie might be cancelled, yuri on ice will live forever in our hearts. thank you yoi fandom, it's been real ā™”
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nothatsmi Ā· 1 month ago
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The raven king, chapter ten
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"How interesting," they say.
(and they say it a lot)
(i'm not kidding. the entirety of the first two books is just both of them saying how interesting the other is. it's suffocating.)
Another medicated Andrew! And black haired Neil!
The two first books hold such bangers, and clearly not enough people ramble about them. I'm a sucker for the relationship they have afterwards obviously, but even before that they're hilarious. Many underrated scenes that could be worth drawing.
Also I underestimated how Neil dress and presents himself - like: he wears oversized, worn out and faded, preferably light-colored clothes; messy curlyish hair with bangs; sports hoodies; JORTS-
... He's got a banger style actually.
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violent138 Ā· 14 days ago
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Bruce definitely trained all the Robins to abandon him if things got bad. He'd give them scenarios like him trapped under something in a fire, hypothermic conditions, he's too injured, and they need to get information to Lucius, and the list goes on. And to date, the only bit of training his kids have continually failed, whether in simulation or practice, is failing to leave him behind.
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watmalik Ā· 2 months ago
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Does it ever drive you crazy...
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...Just how fast the night changes?
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Ā Going out tonight, changes into something red//We're only getting older baby.
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originalartblog Ā· 2 months ago
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Someone's last crush didn't live up to the hype šŸ˜¬
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adaki Ā· 4 months ago
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Yk I think Toby is by far the least freaky crp in design but the thought of an encounter with him is terrifying.
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cj-the-random-artist Ā· 3 months ago
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Ok hear me out: Narilamb but they're both aroace and in a qpr.
I've been rolling around in my head for like a long long time this idea that Narinder and Lambert could both be aroace and (after like. A couple of centuries or so) end up in this like very comfortable very close relationship that neither of them define as anything specific other than calling it a "companionship". But on the other hand most of the cult thinks that they're dating in secret or something despite the fact that both of them have said they don't take lovers, because they are clearly very tight but maybe not super openly so, so maybe the cultists thing they're being secretive and hiding something or something like that. Idk but my aroace brain loves thinking about extremely close (mostly) platonic relationships and for some reason my brain decided hmm. I'm going to take this and throw it at Narilamb and see how I like it.
So then I decided to make a ridiculous joke comic about Narinder asking Lambert's hand in marriage specifically because he wants to get out of paying taxes. Because like, I know that spouse followers do actually still have to pay taxes in the actual game but. Hey Narinder and Lambert have presumably never married so they probably don't know that...? Honestly the only reason I made this was because the concept tickled me and I spent too much time on this for no one to see it, so. This comic and all it's absolute ridiculousness be upon ye.
While there's a tiny part of me that's been thinking about making this into an AU (which I'd probably call something like the "Strictly Platonic AU" or something), I know for a fact that I would blatantly not do anything legitimate with it so. It's an unofficial AU I guess?? But. Anyways. I thought this would be funny. Enjoy my ramblings and I hope you enjoy this thing that I spent. Actual time on. Lol
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bizarrelittlemew Ā· 8 months ago
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i can't wait to be 30+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 40+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 50+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 60+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 70+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 80+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 90+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to look back on my life and know that i loved things deeply and passionately and was inspired to create and was part of communities with incredible people from all over the world brought together by the stories that touched us
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iamespecter Ā· 6 months ago
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"Well shit"
Designs of the entire cast for my fic, "The Unexpected Reunion"! You can read the prologue and the first chapter on my ao3 :) https://archiveofourown.org/works/56008111/chapters/142245028
Bonus with their real names:
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isjasz Ā· 6 months ago
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Stellar death
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random-fun-polls Ā· 2 days ago
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egophiliac Ā· 6 months ago
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tsum events really are just the best, huh
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