#i'm kvelling

[thescholarlystrumpet]

Hello there!!

Just to tell you that I just devoured For Loving One in one go... it was sooo so incredibly good!! Thank you for writing it 💛💛

Ahhhh thank you so muuuuch!!

My beta readers can tell you I shed actual tears sometimes trying to get it finished exactly the way it was in my brain but the incredible comments, beautiful works of art (x, x, x, x, x, x), and even a playlist have paid me back tenfold!!

Fic link: For Loving One

[deadpanwalking]

@girlbossjodiarias The story is "Shabbos Mitzvah for a Jewish Princess" by Sara Leder, from an anthology called The Oy of Sex.

[moreroom4happiness]

Viking babies! Incredibly adorable!

I'm over here dying 😭😭💀☠❤😍⚔🛡⚔🤣👼🏻🙌❤❤❤

I don't know whose photos these are so please let me know if you do? I will happily credit them. They were sent to me from a Facebook folklore and mythology account that did not credit them.

[schreibvibe]

Liev Schreiber in Fading Gigolo (2013)

[longeyelashedtragedy]

granit in the bundesliga team of the season :')

[tachypodion]

I am somehow simultaneously a butch lesbian and a femme gay boy and an aroace agender and I love that for me happy pride month

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

i'm pretty sure he sucks at drawing

enough of things will's good at. what do y'all think he sucks at? this is obviously for research purposes.

@suchawrathfullamb wifey for the inauguration of the data collection.

[xcziel]

Jeon Jungkook: Intro to I Need U

MBC Gayo Daejejeon | Dec 31 2015

[hindahoney]

If you want to code-switch so often that you are nearly incomprehensible to goyim, here is a list of my favorite and most-used Jewish terms:

Schvitzing - Sweating. (Ex: "I'm schvitzing so much it's showing through my clothes.")

Schlep - A tedious and long journey, depending on usage it can mean that you were carrying something. (Ex: "I had to schlep all the way across campus, my backpack was so heavy." Usually denotes a long walk, but other forms of transportation are acceptable too. "You drove all the way to New York from Florida? That's quite the shlep.")

Shtati - Something really cool. (Ex: "I visited my friend's place and they had a shtati mezuzah!")

Neshama - Soul. (Ex: "Mazel tov on your conversion, you have such a strong Jewish neshama!")

Balagan - A big mess, chaotic, confusing (Ex: "Moshe forgot to bring challah for shabbat dinner, and it turned into this big balagan")

Achi/Achoti - "Achi" literally means "my brother," but can also be used like bro or dude, "achoti" is the feminine equivalent meaning "sister"

Yalla - Come on, let's go (Ex: "Yalla yalla, you're going to make us late again")

Mishpacha - Family. Doesn't have to be literal blood relatives, usually a sign of warmth or friendship. (Ex: "I care about every Jew, they're all my mishpacha.")

Pshhh - Interjection sound, to express respect or agreement with what someone is saying, but can also be playfully poking fun at someone taking themselves too seriously, can be used sarcastically.

Achla - amazing, awesome, great, the best (Ex: "You graduated from university? Achla!")

Sheina Punem (Shayna Punim) - Pretty face (Ex: My bubbe kept pinching my cheeks and calling me a sheina punem) Can be used ironically, in which case it means "a disgrace."

Ahavat Yisrael - to love your fellow Jew (Ex: "I firmly believe in ahavat yisrael, even if it's hard sometimes.")

Schande - Shame, dishonor among the nations, meaning a Jew who represents Jews badly, a serious insult. (Ex: "He's a schande, he feeds into antisemitic stereotypes.")

Schmutz - Dirt, stain. (Ex: "Use your napkin, you've got schmutz on your face.")

Amalek - Any enemy of the Jewish people. ("[Fill in blank] is the modern Amalek, they hate the Jews.")

Lanceman/Landsmen - Two jews from the same place, a point of connection between two Jews who now live far away from their hometown. (Ex: "Your grandma is from Crown Heights? Mine too, our grandparents are landsmen!")

Goyisch - Something not Jewish (Ex: "I don't listen to Taylor Swift, her music is too goyisch for me.")

Goyischekop/Goyische-kop - Goyisch head, a jew who thinks/sounds like a non-jew. (Ex: "How could you say about your fellow Jew? Do you have a goyische-kop or something?")

Kindaleh/Kinderlach - Little children (Ex: "I passed by the school and saw the kindaleh on the playground, they're so cute!")

Chamud/Chamuda/Chamudi - Sweetie, cutie, usually aimed at children, but can be a term of endearment between a couple. Can be condescending when said rudely to another adult, like "Sweetheart" can be in English. (ex: "Goodnight, Chamudi. I can't wait to see you tomorrow.")

Daven - to pray ("Are you going to join us for davening?")

Frum - A religiously observant Jew. ("He's frum, he davens three times a day.")

Treif - Unkosher, generally something not good, doesn't have to literally refer to a food. ("I trained my dog to stop barking when I say 'treif!'.")

Bubkis - Zero, nothing, nada ("Moshe got a gift from bubbe and I got bubkis.")

Kvetch - To complain ("I'm just kvetching, I'm not that upset about it.")

Kvell - Extreme pride. ("I heard your daughter made it into her top school, you must be kvelling!")

Mensch - A good, admirable person. ("He volunteers every week, he's a mensch.")

Chillul HaShem - Disgracing God's name, someone who does something that makes Jews look bad.

Kiddush HaShem - Something that sanctifies God's name, brings honor to God. ("I love seeing you wear a kippah, it's a kiddush HaShem!")

Bubbe meise - Little white lies ("He told his teacher a bubbe meise about his dog eating his homework.")

I should acknowledge that these are mostly Yiddish words, as my experience is primarily with Ashkenazi Jews. If you would like to add common slang from your community (like Ladino phrases, Judeo-Arabic, Italki, etc) I would love to learn about them!

[spunsugarmusings]

Young Frankenstein: The Musical Starter Sentences

Starters from the Mel Brookes' hit musical Young Frankenstein. Change pronouns and tenses as necessary, and enjoy!

"What happened in that castle made our lives a living Hell!"

"We're the happiest town in town!"

"Hold the happiness!"

"Please, do I look like the kind of madman who'd prowl around graveyards, digging up freshly buried corpses?"

"I don't indulge in hijinks or tomfoolery!"

"I live for truth and reason, that's the reason I exist!"

"Hearts and lungs are simply tinker toys when stacked against the brain!"

"His reflexes have no freedom to react when I mistreat him."

"Those naughty thoughts are fine with me as long as they stay locked away in your imagination."

"You can savage me and ravage me; I care not what you do."

"Oh everybody look! How unique. They're not touching."

"Please keep your hands off these."

"It'll be like old time, you and me, right up there with the world's greatest pairs!"

"We've only met in a dream!"

"Up until now it's been the worst time, but now that you're here, we're a team!"

"What good is a stooge if he ain't got a boss?"

"I'm very high spirited, doctor. I hope you won't hold it against me."

"So, have you thought of any ways you could use me?"

"Nothing's better than a hayride, underneath the sun."

"There! There wolves!"

"There wolves, there castle!"

"Don't risk my curse, it could be worse!"

"Join the family business, learn the family trade!"

"Make yourself a monster, and make the world afraid!"

"Follow in our footsteps and you'll earn eternal fame!"

"As you know, predestination, from the day of your creation has determined you vocation, that's a fact!"

"Just relax, create a serum; come up with a brilliant theorum!"

"This is one position that you never can decline!"

"Love dances in on a whim."

"He was a bully and a brute, he was as crazy as a coot!"

"He was my boyfriend!"

"He always treated me like dirt!"

"But I was happy to be hurt!"

"I was an innocent young lamb, and he was a dirty old goat."

"He was the one I gave my heart to, but we were never wed, even so."

"If I'd mention wedlock, he put me in a headlock!"

"When I asked to be his wife, he stabbed me with a kitchen knife!"

"Where did all the good times go?!"

"If he had an angry fit, I was the first thing that he hit! But I didn't give a shit!"

"So, now we hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself."

"Death has ruled without question."

"Tear the night asunder, cast your light upon the dark!"

"Give my creature life!"

"We're considered both a Death and a Tourist Trap."

"Rich and poor are all soft-shoeing it in hotels or huts!"

"Even dogs are also doing it, pedigrees and mutts!"

"Do the Transylvania Mania!"

"Catch the monster before he strikes again!"

"Hello heartaches, goodbye kvellings."

"Let's forget about thinking, thinking's never smart."

"Flush your brain right down the drain, and listen to your heart!"

"Lose your mind, 'cause love is blind, and listen to your heart!"

"You'll find such bliss in the kissin' you're missin'."

"Intellectuals are ineffectuals when it comes to making love."

"Don't resist cupid's dart."

"Everybody loves to get a surprise."

"It all can change, if your fates arrange a nice surprise for you."

"There’s nothing like a wonderful surprise!"

"Here’s what we advise, never bother people with a surprise!"

"It's been so long since I felt the touch of someone's hand."

"Oh, Lord, let's face it, we're talkin' LONELY here!"

"You don't know your left from your right."

"You'll be the greatest creation of man since the invention of fire!"

"You'll be cheered, never feared evermore!"

"You know, until now my life has been nothing but a meaningless world of silly parties."

"Again? Oh, you're incouragable, aren't you?"

"We will take a hay ride when we're on our honeymoon!"

"Even monsters fall in love!"

[dudeyuri]

only friends episode 1 spoilers below. my kneejerk reactions

it's gonna be a neomark late summer baby, it's happening, it's already here

i love the yolo bar take me to the yolo bar

ray and sand with the fight at first sight. ok you got me. i get the firstkhao hype i really do. i even forgive first for singing. he's that welcome on my screen.

“did we have sex last night? you’re actually kind of hot i’m cool with that” SOOO unbelievably GOOD and AWFUL. coupled especially with sand’s absolute eat the rich disdain. looking forward to more of their dynamic the most i think. you know i love when a pair starts out violently at odds. you KNOW i love a pathetic drunk rich rudeboy

all i want for mewtop (why do i want to write mewtwo every time) is for mew to keep his glasses through the end of the season. no makeover prayer circle. these two are very sweet it's going to be rough for them. i think book is going to have some emmy worthy high drama scenes

BOSTONNICK MEET CUTE BOSTONNICK MEET CUTE like. this is what we came for. boston trespassing behind the counter and mistakenly calling nick nong. the flirty 🏳️‍🌈🤨 eye contact. they're already thee hot mess i'm kvelling

nick leading boston to the back and hitting the lights. it's a neomark summer!! we're all just soaking up the sun!!!

btw i'm obsessed with the music that plays when a character has horny intentions

boston is the character i’m most intrigued by as of right now. not just saying this as a "neo has fourth's acting range and leading man charm but hasn't gotten to really shine yet" truther. boston is as slutty and messy and distant and unscrupulous as i could have possibly hoped for. take us to new lows baby boy

finally. my fave little moment. this response to the mewtop development:

let them team up let them do terrible things

i have 0 hopes and expectations after ep1 but i wanna see more random gmmtv actor hookup cameos. you know I shouted DRAKE⁉️ at my screen.

also anxiously awaiting more core group backstory. and a dose of lesbianism pwease

FINALLY some good FUCKING FOOD thank you p'jojo

[carlos-in-glasses]

"Still here, they all say, we’re still here."

i feel almost parasocially proud of carlos for the strides he made this chapter. a JOURNAL! with his NAME! even him considering it makes me absolutely kvell (you can google that, if you want).

i think a lot about writing poetry for my former younger selves, and about remembering that i am still a version of them. and that's what i recognized in carlos this chapter. they're still here. and they're waiting for him to be brave.

i'm waiting with (respectful and patient) anticipation to read the revised version of la tormenta! i know it'll be even better than the last.

you know, i can't help but feel like my own shadow poet, signing in every week to send my little anonymous messages. i hope you're not getting beat up about it like steven, though :P

enjoy the episode tonight! we survived the week!

xox angels anonymous

Awwww oh my gosh Angels Anonymous, I'm in one of those moods where I'm findng everything adorable and you being proud of Carlos here when he's trying to overcome so much shame makes me want to squeeze something. A journal with his name! Who knew?! Not him! 👀Kvell!! Certainly a new word on me, and it's lovely!

I definitely have a big thing about our younger selves always being part of us and our future selves waiting to meet us and being like 'don't worry, I'm going to take it from here because you've giveb me what I need' or on the flipside, 'I don't know what to do because we're stuck or maimed in some way and we have to help each other figure things out' (hence it being a major theme of most of my fics, I guess!) Time usually does make us braver, I think, and we can live long lives with a lot of wounds.

You kind of are your own Shadow Poet! That's funny! And that's also okay. I really appreciate it, as you know! Happy to say that so far so good and I'm not facing the same issues as Steven. Not anymore, anyway.

Thank you!!! I hope you enjoy the episode too!! I'm at a giant office awayday thingy tomorrow so I'm going to be hiding in the bathroom trying to catch up on what's gone on I think, but oh well!! I'm just so excited we're back on air after a little break! Have a lovely week Angels Anonymous!

Please enjoy these two being the silliest:

[jacensolodjo]

Seven knowing it isn't the real Janeway because Janeway would never call her Annika I'm kvelling

“Kathryn? Is it really you? This is Annika. Please respond!”

The delay in the response was brief but, for Seven, telling. Then came the reply.

“Yes, Annika, it’s Kathryn. Are you all right?”

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"We have to go."

"Go where?"

"Anywhere but here."

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“Why are we running from Janeway? I thought she was your friend.” “She is. That was not Admiral Janeway.”

[kvella]

welcome!

i'm kvella and i'm glad you're here. here's a bit about me 🌹 30 flirty & fabulous, she/her, american, queer, barely knows how tumblr works

🌹 what's "kvella?” it's born of the yiddish word "kvell," which means "to burst with pride or joy, especially for someone else.” in this case, it's for all my blorbos and mutuals, but on occasion i also feel that way about friends and family

🌹 a really difficult thing about me is that i only fall head over heels for rarepairs, so i end up having to write the ships i wish to see in the world

🌹 i write and share on ao3. dragon age, baldur's gate 3, and fullmetal alchemist currently, specifically for josephine/cullen and gale/shadowheart and royai (and i deleted all my middle school fanfic from the internet thank goodness)

🌹 if you know me irl, no you don't and you don't know anything about my smut writing proclivities 🤐

[roamwithahungryheart]

For your birthday celebration week, m'love!

Tell me about your worst date!

And who do you ship me with?

As for who I ship you with, it's a tough choice between Brett and Henry, but ultimately I'm going to say Brett. I can just imagine you both bouncing off one another with the sassy humour. And that he's a nice, Jewish boy your mother would kvell over, too :D

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT!!!

OOF, my worst date?? Two came to mind, and they were both with the same guy - it would either have to be the time my ex casually invited a colleague to come and get coffee with us in the middle of the date so I had to sit there awkwardly and make up an excuse to leave early OR the time he (accidentally I guess?) body-shamed me and I ended up crying in the restaurant bathroom.

Okay now that I'm reading that back he was actually very shitty and I'm glad it's over 😂

Hmmm who do I ship you with? It's a tie between Tyler Rake and Angel Reyes (insert joke about being tied up by Tyler and Angel here) - I think I may have to go with Tyler Rake because I could see you being a kickass assassin couple!

YES GIRL I would invite myself onto Films To Be Buried with just to be sassy and derail the whole thing for fun because I'm evil, but in, like, a cool and sexy way 😎💅 x

[placegrenette]

Y'all would have been tickled by the squeaks I made when I saw this on Yeol's Instagram.

Apparently he is taking part in some sort of cultural exchange event, one of a series (the caption above reads "2022-2023 Korea-Kazakhstan Year of Cultural Exchange"; and now you know that "Kazakhstan" in hangul is 카자흐스탄). I have no idea how long he's going to be in the country, or how much he's going to get to see of it (probably not much beyond Almaty), or whether he's going to meet any of my Kazakhstani faves. I would put the odds as low but if he does post selfies with Ninety One I will kvell.

(...pretty sure he's taller than all of them except maybe Bala.)

(Last musing: between this, the drinking with a politician I'd never heard of after getting out of the army, and all the joking about his developing a taste for wine and golf, I'm starting to wonder if Sungyeol isn't thinking of entering politics someday. He's got the brains for it, though I have no idea what positions he might take. And, hey, in the Taro Yamamoto era, who knows what might happen.)