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[visenyaism]

this has nothing to do with anything but you should so go listen to the nymphet alumni podcast, they’re 3 very smart very funny just a touch chronically online women talking about kind of niche things/trends/aesthetics/discourses like i think their beautiful minds and hot takes might speak to you & its very well researched so i’m always learning new things

@vvingdings this seems right up ur alley too

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

I had a lovely long chat with a customer today and among the amazing things we discussed they told me about a video they watched that spoke about how brown doesn't actually exist as a colour. I relayed my fun fact about magenta, but now we're adding brown into the mix as well I am intrigued.

[n1et]

Hi ok so I saw your tags asking about how witches were antisemitic and wanted to give you an actual answer! Basically every common stereotype of witches has roots in antisemitism. Green skin color, stealing children, frizzy black hair, hooked noses, sharp teeth and nails, pointed hats, satanic worshipers, all of it.

A lot of times historically when they're talking about persecuting witches, they were more often targeting Jews alongside other heretical minorities, it's definitely not mostly innocent white woman like certain groups often like you to think cough t*rfs cough. Satanic worshipers or associations with Satan in general are another common antisemitic dog whistle. Even so far as historically it was common to give Judas red hair because in Italy/Spain it was common for Jews to have red hair and obviously Jews betrayed Jesus so clearly they were of the Devil (sarcasm).

The witches hat takes directly from the pointed hats that medieval Jews in Europe were forced to wear to identify them as Jews, they were literally called judenhut (literally jew hat) and if you look up on Wikipedia you can see some good visual examples of hats from historical artwork

On the note of physical features, large hooked noses and "frizzy" (curly) hair are very common Jewish features both in actual people and stereotypically, but it's the antisemites who added unnatural skin tones, and sharp teeth and nails. Antisemites often gave Jews in art unnatural skin tones, usually greens and yellows, to exemplify their "otherness" and "inhumanity". The sharp teeth and nails goes along with the kidnapping children and occasionally earlier association with the devil, either way showcasing Jews as "predatory creatures" with the general (Christian) public being the poor victims. Kidnapping children and eating them falls into the category of blood libel, which goes super far back as well, and you can even find it in a lot of fairy tales like the tale of Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty. Also has definitely stuck around in modern day, just in the form of "celebrities taking babies adrenochrome to stay young".

Kidnapping children and eating them falls into the category of blood libel, which goes super far back as well, and you can even find it in places like the tale of Hansel and Grettel.

Even the term "witches sabbath" takes from Judaism itself, the day of rest being Shabbat (or Shabbos if you are Ashkenazi) and Sabbath is just the 'English' pronunciation of that, as well as the associations with the moon, when the Hebrew calendar is lunar based and often the rituals/celebrations that come with the beginning of the month were done by the women in the family/community.

There's probably even more I'm forgetting about here, because antisemitism is just like that, but anyway that's a not-so-short summary of how witches are related to antisemitism. Obviously there are ways to have witches in media that aren't antisemitic, but the ones in minecraft certainly are.

Thanks for the prompt response!

[hypewinter]

He didn't know how far he had wandered. He had just kept running and running, for once glad of his newfound body's constitution. But now he was finally tired and he doubted his pursuers were close by (if they were even looking for him anymore). So for now, he found an abandoned warehouse, bundled up under a tarp, and rested.

----

Wally had been scouting the area for the enemy when he found the boy. He'd noticed a particularly weird shaped clump in the corner and when he removed the tarp, he found a body. At first he thought the body was dead since he had no pulse and was cold to the touch. But then the boy suddenly sat up causing Wally to have to back up (he did not yelp from the sudden movement thank you very much).

The boy backed up towards the warehouse wall and pulled his knees to his chest as he studied Wally. For his part, Wally studies the boy back. He was clad in a black suit with golden accents and more knives that Wally was comfortable with. His golden avian eyes seemed to bore into the young hero. They seemed to size Wally up as opposed to being full of fear. Additionally, despite being huddled away in hiding the boy displayed no signs of fear. Overall it felt less like he was cowering away and more like he was silently judging him. Wally really didn't like how it felt like this kid would slit his throat if given the chance.

As the two continued their staring contest, Wally felt a gust of wind and Barry was suddenly by his side. "Kid Flash, what's up? You weren't answering your co-" Barry trailed off as he noticed the boy.

He side glanced at Wally but the sidekick only shrugged back. Barry stepped forward. The boy tensed, muscles suddenly tight and body ready to spring. Barry quickly put his hands up.

"We don't want to hurt you," He said. "Quite the opposite actually. We're heroes, we can help."

The body blinked long and slow at him, before finally his body seemed to uncoil. He gracefully got to his feet and neared the pair, circling around them once before stopping in front of them with a soft smile.

Wally returned it with a smile of his own. "So uh- why are you here? Is someone chasing you or something? Wait, what's your name first?"

The boy's face crumpled into something sad before he pulled down the collar of his suit to reveal a scar running across his throat. Oh. Both heroes side glanced each other at the same time, a silent communication shared between them. The bats? The bats.

[the-girl-with-too-many-ideas]

Shen Yuan's life would have actually been far more difficult if he was the only transmigrator. Instead of airplane, he would have been dealing with an active and malicious spy who would not have hesitated to take advantage of him and his situation.

Either he believes the entire amnesia story or picks up that SY is an imposter. Maybe even both. He believes the amnesia first but then realizes something more is going on when he tries to take advantage of the so-called "amnesia."

Whatever the case, Shen Yuan's life would have gone from easy mode to medium or even outright hard.

[icryyoumercy]

@petermorwood

i have. a slightly odd question, if you have time and inclination to answer

i am currently going through all the cooking books on librivox, among them tom bullock's 'the ideal bartender'. and while i may take issue with his idea of how to serve absinthe, most of the cocktails sound like reasonable drinks to my ignorant ears.

but then, there is one called 'bombay cocktail'. its receipe, it its entirety, reads as follows:

use a claret glass.

1/2 pony olive oil.

1/2 pony vinegar.

1/2 pony worcestershire sauce.

break one ice cold egg into glass.

add salt and spanish paprica and serve.

which strikes me as a fairly odd thing to drink. would you happen to have any insight as to the drinkability, purpose, history, or naming of this concoction?

(as you can probably guess, googling 'bombay cocktail' has not been helpful, and any ideas i can think of that remove bombay sapphire from the search results leave me with the ideal bartender in various formats and restaurants serving shrimp cocktails)

[starlessskyline]

aroace hate in the ace tag (aro poster), very cool very awesome, love that for you bud, have a wonderful day

this exact behaviour is what drove me away from r/aaaaaaaarrrrro and then r/aaaaaaacccccccce, very nice to see it persist onto tumblr dot com

all this behaviour does is splits up the community, we should be connected and together, not infighting bc aroallos and alloaces and aroaces exist, what does aspec mean, remind me?

edit: we defeated the evil

[clownowo]

I'm not gonna lie when I started Persona 3 i wasn't particularly invested in Akihiko. Definitely wasn't planning on romancing him. Then I encountered the most insane piece of dialogue. I haven't been the same since. It haunts me.

the full dialogue under the cut:

[daily-xisuma]

[158] What's that

[autismswagsummit]

hey i don't want to bring up the whole voter fraud thing again but there are straight up dozens of totally vacant alt accounts all commenting donnie sweep on the poll

[buriedpentacles]

On my walk today, I was followed by a one-eyed ginger cat.

I'm not sure how long he followed me, at least 5 minutes, but when I noticed him he paused and waited for me by the stream. I approached him slowly so not to spook him and he batted a nearby leaf. When I looked at the plant he had smacked, it was bindweed with a Pine Ladybird perched on top.

He looked at me, meowed once then hurried further up the path, jumped over the small stream and disappeared into bushes opposite.

I'm pretty certain its a message, I'm hoping to do an important meditation/ritual with Mother tonight so am hoping its a positive sign.

[bookshelfpassageway]

Miles Edgeworth is rocketing in my appreciation levels as I am playing Investigations

this man will not stop ending up in Situations, so far he's been kidnapped, framed, knocked out, passed out, had a guy murdered in his fucking office, and he just matter-of-factly rolls with it like "hm. guess i'm here now. inconvenient i suppose." while sassing everyone around him and being breathtakingly neurodivergent

like I can't screenshot my physical 3ds but i'm going insane over various moments, like him noting a flight attendant's lounge, going "smells like women's perfume. well, there's nothing of interest to me in there" and then immediately hard Zoning Out until someone goes "...you good?"

and this bc i remembered i have a phone camera

"that's all." MILES

rotating this gay little man and all his mental illnesses

[ladynoirist]

the cruelest thing thomas astruc has ever done to adrien agreste was giving his evil cousin the dog miraculous because now adrien can never live out his tamaki suoh dreams without a bucketload of trauma

[mermaidsirennikita]

because I see discourse about this again, I'd like to once again be brave and controversial and say that the issue with Sebastian St. Vincent having an (unbeknownst to him) secret baby revealed in Devil in Disguise is not that he has a secret baby at all... because let us be honest, no matter how careful he was, no man in the 1800s was getting as much ass as Sebastian St. Vincent pre-Evie without siring AT LEAST one kid (probably more lbr)

The issue is that Lisa Kleypas honestly wants me to believe that Sebastian (a man who, let us remember, KIDNAPPED HIS BEST FRIEND'S LADY LOVE BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANNA GET A JOB) would've been a good dad to his illegitimate child pre-Evie, which actually makes his entire arc of "becomes a real boy/learns how to be useful and have character" in Devil in Winter pointless because apparently his inner goodness would've just been triggered had he found out that some lady he was fucking got up the duff

Like, look into your heart and you know that AT BEST Sebastian would've been floating some child support that kid's way, and those checks would've bounced 75% of the time pre-Evie

And you know what??? I think he PROBABLY would've just told that lady to go convince her man that it was is baby, JUST LIKE my boy from Flowers from the Storm. OR he would've put him in some corner like Dain from Lord of Scoundrels (and Evie would've been like ARE YOU FUCKING FR ABOUT THIS just like Jessica in Lord of Scoundrels)

Oh but look both of the books I just referenced are considered historical romance classics even though the heroes do legitimately shitty things would you look at that huh

[dykethang]

99% sure someone's put up a mural of harley quinn making out with poison ivy in my city. love that for them

[leojurand]

i'm 60% into busman's honeymoon (enjoying it immensely) and it's so refreshing to read about a couple who adore each other and have endless chemistry, who follow each other's thoughts because they're both witty and intelligent... a couple who you read about and think, yeah, i get why they're together and why they're in love!

i'm allergic to m/f usually both because i prefer gay shit and because so many authors put zero effort into writing the romance in their novels (this is especially true in speculative fiction, from my experience). but when i read a romance like this it's really like wow. maybe i'm not as heterophobic as i thought maybe i just want a good fucking romance!! an amazing discovery

also, for the love of god, we need more married couples in fiction. i love slow burns and will-they-won't-theys as much as anyone else but. give me more husbands and wives. AND also exes