#dyke-terra

[jewish-culture-is]

Jewish culture is coming up with elaborate headcanons as to what the Jews were up to in settings where Jews aren't really considered or included as anything other than an afterthought. (The J in PJO stands for Jew.)

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[edenfenixblogs]

You give off the vibes of someone who is very kind and my friend!!!

Omg! No way! You too! 😊😆💜

[t4tails]

The thing you were criticizing was silly polls… it’s not like there’s any actual consequences for it being mistaken for an actually silly poll…

no dont you understand if it was a really silly poll they would have been completely justified in telling me to die. obviously

[kissingagrumpygiant]

Good gd. What the fuck does that anon think they’re doing for the cause of Palestinian liberation? What is there to be gained by being a dick to random people online? Obviously they’re not actually trying to help, but like. Pretending they are for a second. Come on.

an idiot that doesnt care about liberation and is just blood thirsty and shouldnt be paid attention to

[kayleerowena]

Tabled at my first con today, taking some advice I asked you for months ago! (I think before I changed my url from raven-dreaming/something along those lines to dyke-terra). I actually ran into someone wearing two pins I recognized as your art. Well, I recognized one and they pointed out the other was you too— they were along the lines of haunt your own house and eat the rich. Small world, I guess! It was very fun and I’ve just about earned back the cost of tabling :) I’m sure I’ll cross the threshold tomorrow. You’ve really been an inspiration, so I just wanted to say thanks.

omg congratulations on taking the leap into tabling your first con, that's so exciting and i'm so happy for you!!!!! i'm so glad my advice was helpful & i'm sending you so many good convention vibes for tomorrow!! you're doing great!!!!

(also so cool that someone with my pins was there! the convention scene is so small; i feel like every con i go to i run into at least 5 people i've met at other cons, no matter how far away those cons are, which is really neat!)

[dragongirlsnout]

Okay, wait, I'm sorry, I can't figure out how to get the avatars for reblogs back. I think I'm on the most recent version but they're still gone? Sorry!

v3.6.5a? If you just updated, you might have to refresh it a few times

[bestbutchbracket]

Bitch/Rachel Lindt from Worm! The author hates her for her butch doggirl swag

help me i love this description for a character. sick as hell

[batarangsoundsdumb]

House (blue) of Leaves is about a house (blue) that's very much not feng shu

at least the feng shui guy that haunts my youtube shorts would have a good time fixing it up?

[haunthouse]

Re: latest post about language and missed opportunities with older relatives. Gd... that's such a mood. I'm, I think, a fourth or fifth generation immigrant? (Well, technically I'm an immigrant myself because I was born in the UK but my family was born in the US and moved there for work, then moved back shortly after I was born, not like my... I think grandparents' grandparents?) And there's been so much assimilation over the generations... it's like trying to wade upstream in a whitewater river trying to figure out who I am (especially in relation to my Jewish ancestors) and the more I learn about people who ever died before I was born or when I was too young to appreciate them, like my great grandma, the more I have regrets for choices I didn't even get the chance to make... I think it's a type of haunting. Literally, the ghosts of the people you didn't get to know, but also the ghost of possibility-- if those previous generations hadn't tried to assimilate, would I know Yiddish? Hebrew? Would I even be here at all?

(re: this post, since it's been a couple days and it's not at the top of my blog anymore, whoops!)

yeah! you get me! it's absolutely 100% a haunting — all of those potential-unrealized pasts and futures are just kind of there invisibly hanging over our present and it's such a weird melancholy thing to think about.

potentially a bit of a tangent, but this also reminded me of a passage from karen barad's quantum entanglements & hauntological relations, an article which generally i don't know enough about quantum physics to really grasp, but this bit stuck with me:

"The past is never closed, never finished once and for all, but there is no taking it back, setting time aright, putting the world back on its axis. [...] Time can’t be fixed. To address the past (and future), to speak with ghosts, is not to entertain or reconstruct some narrative of the way it was, but to respond, to be responsible, to take responsibility for that which we inherit (from the past and the future), for the entangled relationalities of inheritance that ‘we’ are, to acknowledge and be responsive to the noncontemporaneity of the present, to put oneself at risk, to risk oneself (which is never one or self), to open oneself up to indeterminacy in moving towards what is to-come. Responsibility is by necessity an asymmetrical relation/doing, an enactment, a matter of différance, of intra-action, in which no one/ no thing is given in advance or ever remains the same. Only in this ongoing responsibility to the entangled other, without dismissal (without ‘enough already!’), is there the possibility of justice-to-come."

and i think that's kind of my philosophy with regards to this sort of thing in general? i don't have connections to my family's past, nobody in my immediate family is actively jewish aside from celebrating hanukkah anymore (which i can't judge them for, obviously, because that type of attempt at complete assimilation is so often a safety measure, and i'm not religious regardless even if i do want to connect more to my judaism, but it still saddens me that i seem like the only one who's interested in that in my family) — but i feel a responsibility towards both the past and the future, all of those ghosts we speak with, to carry some element of that on. not in a 'i want to make my ancestors proud of me' way or anything, because, like, i know very little about them, but just the acknowledgement that there's shit people went through a hundred, two hundred years ago, that then led directly to me existing today, and i want to do a little bit to make sure that isn't lost entirely, y'know?

it's a really sad feeling to think about all the missed chances and the pieces of your own personal history that you'll never get a chance to know, but also. past and present and future overlap in so many ways and maybe we can make the most of those hauntings? idk!

[helmetkeeper]

Hullo! Mood board request for Lisa Wilbourn/Tattletale from Worm, please!

Hello!! I had no idea what this is before i looked it up, and you're telling me there are books posted completely on the web for free? (maybe?) to read?? for FREE? i know what i'm going to spend my summer doing. can't believe i never knew this. as a previous 'read 25/8 in elementary school kid,' i am ashamed /joking.

anyways! i just found out this entire book existed, so forgive me if i'm a little off, but it should have just posted! hope y'all enjoy it :D.

[heartnosekid]

Astarion stimboard, from BG3? With themes of red, black, and silver. Nothing too directly vampire related.

absolutely!! here ya go!! i hope it’s what you wanted!! i accidentally tagged it as anon but i am fixing it now!!!

[fungi-maestro]

This is also true

Renee Montoya is a girl that says "tch." and Vic Sage is a guy that says "uwaa!"

[juniepops]

honestly after having played hwbm i feel like halimede on twitter and the reputation/fanbase she's accrued really downplay how much of a comedic brat the character is

[gatheringbones]

judy grahn, from another mother tongue: gay words, gay worlds, 1984

[kissingagrumpygiant]

What the FUCK is that anon. Like first off. Doon't say that. Second off DEFINITELY DON'T FOLLOW IT UP WITH "SORRY I DIDN'T MEAN FOR THAT TO BE RACIST"

i wouldnt even take it as antisemetic in the first place but the need to clarify. the thought that we're what? friends having a little haha? you dont know me. why would u call me a rat or racoon or whatever i dont KNOW YOU

[fancyfade]

People hear “the writing in UTRH is classist” and assume that means “Jason being the bad guy is classist” and it makes me want to throw things.

Actually, follow up, I think the way people interpret “UTRH is classist” as “UTRH is classist to Jason in particular” really says a lot about how people understand bigotry as it relates to media? And how to fix it? Like, if Jason is being demonized by the narrative for being poor, you can just flip that around and woobify him. And demonize the big mean rich Bruce. But it’s not that. It’s messy. The story has an agenda and that agenda is more often than not expressed through the negative space— what isn’t there— rather than what is. And that’s harder to “fix.” So they just don’t engage with it.

i do not have much to add here but yeah.

like it has to be all about jason and how his character is wronged and not about the war on drugs rhetoric. IDK how closely you want to tie that into classism or if thats what you're referring to but i dont think its even negative space its pretty overt :P

and like. winick did not tie any of jason's motives into his childhood in poverty it was all about him being dead.