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i used to say i would never openly declare myself zionist or antizionist or nonzionist for my own personal sanity and safety but were a year into the simchat torah war and i’ve come to the conclusion that i’m tired of self righteous goyim using Zionist as a scarlet letter and i will no longer indulge their violent fantasies of Glorious Revolution so here’s an explanation of my stance re: zionism
in simple terms, i believe in labor zionism. this is the movement that created kibbutzim, and is also sometimes called socialist zionism. the focuses of labor zionism are the healing of eretz yisrael (the physical land) through jewish labor and the equitable distribution of resources among Israelis and Palestinians. most if not all kibbutzniks are labor zionists and this ideology has become synonymous with the Israeli peace camp. the ultimate goal of labor zionism is the reclamation of indigenous jewish land and peaceful coexistence with arab peoples (both Palestinians and our neighbors in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt). various methods of achieving this goal are “redemption of the soil” ie a focus on returning to being an agrarian society, agreement on a two-state solution, and doing mitzvot as a part of daily living. kibbutzim are obviously the biggest manifestation of labor zionism today, but mutual aid is also a major aspect of labor zionism. mutual aid in israel may look unfamiliar to westerners because it isn’t a massive organized fund, but rather a societal norm - for example, one woman i follow on instagram has a chronic illness and occasionally needs IV fluids, so the nurse in her neighborhood comes to her house and gets her set up with saline so she doesn’t have to leave her young son at home in order to get treatment, and in exchange the nurse takes a few pieces of the woman’s handmade pottery. to labor zionists, an ideal society is one in which we take the lesson of avraham and sarah’s tent to heart; our homes are open to all who wish to enter and we are welcome into each other’s homes in kind. labor zionism is explicitly anti-war and anti-violence, instead seeking peace through understanding and compassion for our Palestinian neighbors.
if you read all that and still want to call me a bloodthirsty genocidal maniac, i think you might have a judeophobia problem.
#jumblr#judeophobia#antisemitism#leftist antisemitism#zionism#labor zionism#socialist zionism#israelis pls remind me of the name of the mutual aid system#it has a name but i can’t think of it for the life of me#and its driving me nuts#i dream of living on a kibbutz with goats and cats and apple trees#also sheep#we will make cheese and sweaters and maybe we can keep bees as well#i do not yearn for the shtetl i yearn for the kibbutz#i am a simple woman#but also this kibbutz has a room for my pc so i can play bg3 alone in the dark w my cat on occaison#bc i need enrichment time in my enclosure
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why is the matchmaking in mtg arena so ass
please i am a newborn fawn stumbling my way into this hobby stop pairing me with people who know these standard decks inside and out and are going to do the equivalent of shove me in a locker shove that locker in a fridge and push that fridge down a really really really long hill
#burnt the eggs#im juuust tryin to do the like 3 wins for the standard deck duel challenge thing#bc its dangling a prize over my head and i am a simple creature who likes prizes#but i am embarassed to say how long i played after my second win just to lose every single match#(it was a very long time with lots of matches i am getting my ass ground to dust out here)#also unrelated but i did all the color challenges#but its still telling me to resume them like i didnt#and its driving me nuts#what else do you want me to do#stop flashing at me i already did you!!!! what more do you want from me!!! theyre all checked off!!!!
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does anyone know what i might be able to do about this bolt. i got a bedframe from the storage unit but the clamp that lets you change the width, the bottom ones bolt just REFUSES to move. no amount of wd40 has done anything, and i cannot for the life of me find our (only) wrench/alligator jaw plier thing. i dont wanna have to wait til tomorrow bc im gonna be super busy, but i just. want my fuckn bedframe....
#ive been trying for hours. im pretty weak so ig i dont have the strength to fucking move it#the top one was perfectly fucking fine. but this thing Legit refuses to move#and its driving me nuts#my room reeks of wd40#grim.doc
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It tastes like my childhood. Like plastic swing sets and broken trampolines, river water and family tables. Camping and movies and the Wii, sneaking icing and sips of beer when no ones watching, rubbing sunscreen into my skin as the boat speeds along, fingers already dipping into the dark water. Pressing my face into soft fur, noses brushing and kisses given, jumping on hot concrete. It doesn't matter how many times I 'grow up', I'm always brought back to my past.
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Felt nostalgic yesterday, and I guess this is the result of that.
#original writing#childhood#childhood memories#nostalgia#nostalgic#australian#aussie childhood#I miss it#I'm not too old just yet#but I've reached the age where some things are too childish#and its driving me nuts
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ghhhhhhh i wanna interact with more ultrakil l communities via servers but i barely find any. Gah
#thinking abt the new content and its like. grah grah. i literally only have a few friends i [actively] talk abt it with on discord#and its driving me nuts#mutuals do you have any ideas ....#mors speaks
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I am going to kill you, I think
not sexually attracted to this guy not aesthetically attracted to him but a secret third thing
#this is about a FICTIONAL CHARACTER#i DID NOT FORGET FRIENDSHIP EXISTS#im NOT FRIENDS WITH A FICTIONAL CHARACTER#holy shit sorry random person but you're the sixteen millionth person to say this to me#and its driving me nuts
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every tumblr bot has a valid pesterchum handle
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i havent played yet bc im waiting for payday but
orange-y gods showing off their little green buddies!!!!!
#hades 2#hades game#hades supergiant#melinoe#hermes#melinoe hades 2#hermes hades#czrmArt#fanart#digital art#illustration#my art#hades 2 spoilers#i guess#hmm i cant get melinoe's face right its driving me nuts#frinos not true to size im sorry i couldnt do you justice ;-;
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There's been something about the woobification of Buck that's been sitting on the tip of my tongue for weeks now, and I think I've finally figured it out.
This is, of course, mostly in reference to the moral outrage about a decade-ish (give or take) age gap between two adult men and the infantalization of one said grown man, so all the puritanism isn't really coming from a place of good faith anyway, but here's the thing that's been bugging me that I couldn't quite put a finger on until now.
Buck has people he goes to for certain things. He has, what are in his mind, experts in the field for most of the things he can't think through on his own, that he goes to for a sounding board.
He went to Hen to talk through the sperm donor dilemma for a few reasons that made sense to him. 1) She's a mom. She has very much had to deal with the reality of 'giving up' children she considered her own. Buck is aware that he would be giving up something that could mean something to him, and he wants to talk to someone who has some insight into that. 2) She's dealt with IVF. She knows the risks, she knows the trials and tribulations, she knows about this thing that he is thinking about agreeing to be a part of so she's going to have a fuller grasp on the enormity of everything this process entails.
And they drink about it. Hen gives him what she can and cautions him where she thinks she should and they continue to talk about it and regardless of what SHE thinks, he makes his mind up in part because he got to talk to his Expert.
Bobby is often his go to when he feels like he's losing his grip on things. He's seen Bobby staring down the bottom of the bottle. He's seen the work he's done to pull himself back into the world, and he's seen the way he fights for his family, his people. Buck leans on him in times of questioning himself because he knows Bobby has pulled himself off the ledge with bleeding hands and a bleeding heart.
He reaches out to Maddie about interpersonal shit constantly. We see it all the way back in S2 when he's starting to question what the hell he's still doing in Abby's apartment, and that never really changes. She's the one with advice for him when he's angry with his parents, upset with the firefam, worried about his friends, or just generally concerned with the way he's perceived by people or how he perceives the world. He goes to her when he's embarrassed, ashamed, because he knows she won't judge him for it. She'll call him out, for sure, but she's not going to look at him differently when she knows he's done something he considers bad behavior.
When he goes to her during the Tommy arc, he's there for one reason he'll admit, and another she has to ferret out. 1) He lied to his best friend and he doesn't know why. 2) Oh yeah he went on a date with a dude that's not strange WHY IS THAT STRANGE I'VE ALWAYS BEEN AN ALLY PLEASE DON'T PULL BACK THE CURTAIN - and Maddie is there with two things: 1) It's not weird but it IS new and something you clearly haven't worked through all the way which is why 2) you'll tell Eddie when you're ready
And Eddie is sort of his go-to to bounce ideas off of. Eddie is his Buck expert. Eddie is the guy who can sort through all the bullshit and who sees Buck for exactly who he is, every time, regardless of what Buck himself is thinking. Eddie is his best friend, and he knows the good the bad and the ugly better than anyone else. He is also, quite frankly, the one Buck seeks out to help him contextualize all of his romantic feelings for people. Eddie's the guy he talks to when he's interested in someone, when he's falling for someone, he's the guy through which Buck filters his love interests into the firefam. I do the same shit with my best friend. It's instinct to want the person you consider the expert on you to meet the person you are interested in, it's instinct to want them to like each other, to get along. Buck knows Eddie loves him (in whatever way you see that love, Buck knows Eddie loves him) and he wants this person who loves him to be at least an active listener as he talks himself through the minefield of relationships. I do also think that up until the events of season seven, Buck considers Eddie sort of an expert on that traditional love-marriage-kids-white-picket-fence relationship Buck thinks he's striving for - in a very naive way, because obviously the wasn't what Eddie and Shannon had and Buck knows that, but he's probably fed some of Eddie's rose colored reminiscences back into that notion.
When he comes out to Eddie he's got two worries. 1) I lied to you and I figured out why but I'm still a little worried you think it's weird and 2) I screwed it up with someone I really like and I don't know where to go from here.
And Eddie (Buck expert) reassures him that just because it's new and unexpected doesn't make it strange, that it doesn't change anything in their friendship. And then he gets right to the heart of it - if you like him you should reach out and tell him that. He doesn't know you like we do but if you give him the chance to, he'll love you as much as we do. If he doesn't give it the same shot you want to he's the idiot.
With all that context in mind, Buck isn't seeking out Tommy's attention because he wants an authority figure, or someone to take care of him, someone to guide him through sex or love or relationship dynamics or any of the other random shit I've seen ppl infantalizing Buck about.
What he's looking for, and what he ultimately tells Tommy he'd like to pursue, is a partnership. Someone to walk (or more likely for Buck, speedrun) through experiences together. The Athena to his Bobby, the Chim to his Maddie, the Karen to his Hen.
So every time I see someone infantalizing Buck for seeking out a relationship with an older man for X or Y reason, I'm just like - no. He has Bobby, Hen, Maddie, Eddie, Chim etc for that. He doesn't want or need Tommy for that. He is a grown ass man who has built these strong relationships with his peers and his mentors and he is so fucking aware of that because he reaches for their help any time he feels the urge for a helping hand.
So yeah, Tommy's older. Yes, Tommy has more experience with his sexuality than Buck. And that - that's really it. Buck's been in the same career for more than half a decade. He's lived on his own since he was no older than 19/20. He's had serious relationships, he has a rich and fulfilling life. There is no power imbalance in the relationship between Buck and Tommy.
And while the age gap may be a bit of a draw for Buck, it's not WHY he's attracted to Tommy. We know because he's told Maddie. He's cool. He's interesting. He's confident. He has a cleft.
Buck isn't going into this waiting for someone older and more experienced to take the fucking reins. He felt like he clicked with Tommy, like there was an immediate connection, and yes, Tommy had to kiss him about it for Buck to actually figure out what it was he was experiencing, but from that point on it was all on Buck (and the people he leans on for advice) to help him sort through.
Tommy didn't do shit other than pump the brakes and try to give Buck the space he thought he needed to decide what he was ready for. Buck (again, with the help of his experts - Maddie for the emotional piece of it, Eddie for the Buck of it all) did the work on his own. Tommy didn't swoop in and overbearingly hold his hand through a sexual awakening. He kissed him, asked him out, realized he wasn't ready, stepped back and then checked in multiple times when Buck came back at it going 120 miles an hour.
And then he did everything he could to prove to Buck he wanted the same thing - a partner, someone to talk to, and lean on, and flirt with and rely on to show up whenever they could feasibly manage it (and sometimes when it's a little unfeasible too).
The narrative even acknowledges that Buck had no reason to go to Bobby in this scenario, when he often would, and lays out exactly why.
Within the canon of this particular arc, we're meant to see this as Buck realizing he has the experience necessary to think these things through on his own. This is Buck finally taking control of something that's always felt like it fell into his lap a bit. This is Buck doing more than treading water until his legs give out.
And minimizing that growth bc you personally don't like the LI he's pursuing is gross at best. At worst it's something much more insidious.
#anyway thats my rant i think#the fact that theres a group of people out there refusing to acknowledge that buck already HAS people for all the things they're#accusing tommy of 'taking advantage' of buck for#and buck ACTIVELY nourishes those relationships so he doesn't and would never NEED tommy for that#not in any way that tommy could manipulate him into dropping anyway#(not that Tommy would)#it drives me batty#im aware they're mostly bad faith shipper arguments#but its been driving me NUTS seeing glimpses of it#when discourse gets filtered onto my dash#bucktommy
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something about how wyll calls his romanced partner his “shining star,” and how i didnt know that at all, and the first time i romanced wyll HAPPENED to be in my first origin astarion campaign. something about him saying “to think i almost missed the light” to astarion, who at that point in time would still be in the process of manipulating him for protection/realize that hes a fool whose fallen for the literal fairytale prince a younger him once fantasized about marrying. something about astarion taking every opportunity he can to remark on how handsome and sweet wyll is, despite apparently despising heroes— and wyll doing the exact same thing, despite being a literal monster hunter. something about wyll having special unique lines for origin romances in his act 3 romance scene. how even if you dont romance him, if youre playing astarion and approach him at the epilogue party he is absolutely Delighted to see you and remarks on how much he missed you (and your hair, lmao). just something about two characters who have had their autonomy stripped away from them for years finding love and safety in each other. i dont think i can ever be normal about these two.
#the amount of parallels between them drives me nuts#mizora/cazador and their treatment of wyll/astarion respectively. ooh my god.#the essays i could write on that topic alone#i have a tadpole buried deep in my brain that is actively feasting upon my neurons and its THEM#these two fools and their constant snark flirting every time theyre in my party together#bg3#baldur's gate 3#baldur's gate iii#wyllstarion#bloodpact#wyll#astarion#wyll ravengard#astarion ancunin#bg3 wyll#bg3 astarion
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OVERANALYSIS OF THE BURNING SPICE UPDATE TRAILER BECAUSE YOU KNOW I HAVE TO
we open up like this. pretty ominous words ... and you wonder which one is the demon and which is the god. burning spice and golden cheese seem to be very similar, possibly the most parallels that one could draw from the ancients and their respective beasts.
And then we get this shot. Obviously it's showing the soul jam, but there are also some things behind it. One resembles a snake ... APOPHIS ANYONE? this has THE most Egyptian mythology symbolism ever. if golden cheese represents ra, which makes one hundred percent sense considering her kingdom and wealth and radiance and all that, and the fact that she resembles a falcon, then the snake on this wall HAS to represent apophis. it can't not. heck, in some versions of the story apophis was A FORMER SUN GOD. like crk def knows what they're doing.
there's also this tiger character ... nutmeg tiger I'm pretty sure? something like that. they seem to be under the influence of burning spice, as well as all the creatures around them. they seem to be at a higher "position" than all these other guys, though. maybe a willing host?
and there is this. this is really interesting. the fact that Golden Cheese is the one to say this is very intriguing. as far as we knew, the ancients had no knowledge that the beasts even existed until pure vanilla's trip. he wrote the letter to dark cacao, and it was all "you won't believe this - but the place called BEAST-yeast has BEASTS in it!!!" and dark cacao was equally surprised. they didn't know. they thought they were the first ever wielders of the soul jam. but golden cheese ... seems to know a bit more than she lets on to the rest of the group. and a bit more than us. what the heck is the spice swarm?
also, the return (and release) of smoked cheese!! man I missed this guy. he seems to be working with golden cheese in this shot, but then what was his little deal at the end of the first teaser about? it does make sense, though, that he would try to at least be against burning spice - his entire goal is to get the soul jam because he thinks the current wielders aren't worthy - but to me it seems like he might have his own third side in this battle. he'll probably convince both sides he's working with them, knowing this dude. he wants the power of abundance and destruction, a second half he knew nothing about, the ability to make a change in the kingdoms and the lives of everyone in them.
and these two images are probably the most interesting of them all. they seem to be part of some sort of ancient papyrus or prophecy or something like that. golden cheese is yelling about the "great destroyer." could it be possible he was some sort of legend in their kingdom, a prophecy just waiting to unfold? could golden cheese have known about this threat since the beginning? could the beasts' corruption have been inevitable from the start, written in the stars ... and could the witches have known about it?
#im way too hyped for this update actually#if you couldn't tell#burning spice's ability to bring others under his influence is a CRAZY power tho. I thought that would be more of shadow milk's thing#but its kinda unclear HOW burning spice's power works.#and that nutmeg tiger or whatever their name is ... what's THEIR role in all this?#and this isn't even the entire trailer!!! I covered like four frames!!! THERE'S SO MUCH!!!#anyways super excited to pull burning spice first try as an f2p#hey look. I did it w/ wind archer. twice. I got mystic flour on my first 50. it's POSSIBLE.#buuuut if there's anything I want it's shadow milk.#anyways SUPER EXCITED FOR OCTOBER!!#“THE GREAT DESTROYER!!” whaaaat does that mean?#also one more thing: this doesn't seem to be taking place IN beast-yeast? it looks like we're just at the fallen gc kingdom#do we go there eventually? what's goin' on?#the fanartists will be going craaazy (including myself)#crk#cookie run#cookie run kingdom#beast yeast#burning spice cookie#smoked cheese cookie#golden cheese cookie#also that whole Egyptian mythology thing is INSANE. I love mythology it drives me nuts about everything when im able to make a connection.
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tedtrent based on a leyendecker painting 💛💛
#ted lasso#ted lasso fanart#tedependent#ted x trent#trent crimm#I HAVE SOOOOO MANY TEDTRENT DRAWINGS I NEED TO POST im just gonna start dropping these o7#pn.art#its because of that damn server (affectionate) u all drive me nuts with these two#is this some sorta spy au? tedtrent at an event? u decide..!#I NEEEEED TO DRAW FOR OTHER FANDOMS I PROMSIE I JUST HAVE SO MANY DOODLES BACKED UP FOR THEM LOLLLL
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Let's do some "scrap disposal" then.
#genshin#genshin impact#genshinedit#genshinet#wriothesley#m:gifs#m:*#m:gifs:wriothesley#flashing tw#okay this is my last one <3 goodnight wrionation#he looks so good in that second gif its driving me nuts actually
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My friends don't understand how painful it is. My new hyperfixation of the week: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Unfortunately, it's a 'kids' show, so none of them are willing to watch it with me or even sit while I try to talk about it. LIKE HELP ME I NEED TO TALK TO SOMEONE ABOUT TMNT
#tmnt#help#adhd#guys im dying over here#hyperfixations#donatello#he is my hyperfixation#I NEED TO TALK#ABOUT DONNIE#AND HOW HE#IS LITERALLY PERFECT YOU GUYS#MY FRIENDS DONT UNDERSTAND MY OBSESSION WITH TALKING TURTLES#AND ITS DRIVING ME NUTS
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%5$#@! Huh? Phum. What did you say?
WE ARE | EP2
bonus:
#we are the series#pond naravit#phuwin tangsakyuen#phumpeem#pondphuwin#wats#we are#my edits#THE WAY THE LIGHTING IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT IN ALMOST EVERY SHOT IN THIS SHOW IS DRIVING ME NUTS#LIKE I GET IT THEY NEED 3787489 ANGLES FOR THE GROUP SCENES AND SUCH#BUT ITS STILL FRUSTRATING LIKE WDYM MY COLORING LOOKS COMPLETELY OFF IN THE NEXT SHOT DESPITE IT BEING THE SAME SCENE?????#weareedit#we are series
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YES. AThe 'my simon' thing people are making WK do is killing me.... it's like. Ripping me to shreds. Theres something about it..... like how simon says fellow simon etc etc. But then. .......His Simon .... I'm ill
-@strawberryyosuke
OMG ABOUT THIS. i actually put together a little compilation last night of whenever theyd refer to eachother as something like that. look!!!
#ITS SOOO CUTE ITS LIKE A TERM OF ENDEARMENT TO ME#AND ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THEY ARE THE SAME#adventure time#fionna and cake#simon petrikov#winter king#fionna and cake spoilers#winterkov#simoncest#mine#godd it drives me nuts.. YOUR fellow simon huh???
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