#or the jewish lived experience

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Hey major shout-out to my fellow trans Jews. This year has been hell and it's hard not to feel like we've been completely abandoned, betrayed, shut out, and made unsafe across the full political spectrum.

I'm so sorry; we deserved better. I hope you're okay and standing strong - we will get through this together 🕎 🏳️‍⚧️ ✡️

[crimeronan]

the pro of "crazy dyke" being Your Type (TM) is that it makes you look like you're """One Of The Good Ones (TM)""" or whatever without even trying. you love queer women in fiction & therefore are freed from every fandom conversation about how most people only like the white men. or something. (the truth is you just like women with complex relationships to queerness, womanhood, & oftentimes their cultures as well, for various personal reasons.)

the con of "crazy dyke" being Your Type (TM) is obviously. God Help You if you want to find fandom content exploring your faves with the kind of messy nuance you thrive on.

[gxlden-angels]

Do not stop talking about Palestine. Do not forget about Palestine. This is not a battle of religion and I do not think it should be treated as such. From the river to the sea, they will be free 🇵🇸

Disclaimer: I am not an expert. I am just some guy in the US. I am not a direct source of information. Please listen to Palestinians. Please help them directly. Please help with protests if your country is supplying Israel with weapons like the US.

[aguineapigcouldntdothis]

remembering when i died of alcohol poisoning and right after my journey into nothingness I had a vivid as fuck dream/vision where i ended up in what i assume was christian heaven and G-d and two angels were there and i said "im not supposed to be here" and then i just left. the reason i knew it was Christian heaven is bc it was plain, blinding white with zero decor. I dont know what the fuck that says about me or death but that shit was extremely jewish

[fanchonmoreau]

Dramaturgy Jason Schneiderman

I’m writing a play about a Kommandant at Auschwitz who recognizes one of the Jewish prisoners as a famous poet, and as the Kommandant has poetic aspirations himself, he pulls the prisoner away from the work detail to receive poetry lessons from the celebrated Jewish writer. The bulk of the play is their discussions of poetry, which the poet is initially reluctant to have, the power differential being so stark, and though he flatters the Kommandant at first, when he begins to see his Nazi pupil’s true devotion to the art, as well as his untrained and untapped talent, he goes to work in earnest, and at times they are both simply lovers of the German language, though the truth of their situation often interrupts. In the last act, the Kommandant is on trial for his crimes, and in the days before he is to be executed, he begs the poet to publish his work under his own name— the Nazi’s writing under the Jew’s name— because as a Nazi, he feels his own name is disgraced, but he believes so strongly in poetry that it matters more to him that his work survive than that anyone know it was his work. The play is pulled entirely from my imagination, a careful rereading of Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower, and the poetic ideas of Rilke and Goethe, with a smattering of Nietzsche. In readings of the play, the Kommandant has seemed more noble than I had intended—in many ways, more noble than the Jew, because the Jew is suffering by no fault of his own, while the Kommandant is tortured by conscience, and driven by a sense of poetic calling that separates him from the Germans around him. On the morning of the third workshop reading, I watched a video of two Russians on an ice-dancing reality show performing as Jews in Auschwitz. I was sickened, even though I couldn’t follow the pantomimed action, and I wondered if I was producing Holocaust kitsch myself, if my work was as disgusting as theirs, though I knew if I asked any of my team, they would reassure me that I am doing important work that rises to the level of art. Last night, during a break in the workshop of the play, I told the story of how my grandmother, upon learning that her entire family had died in the camps, had burned the photo albums of everyone she had loved. I have told that story many, many times, without feeling much more than regret, or sympathy, but this time I broke down crying, and I couldn’t stop. Everyone at the table came to comfort me, and I felt ridiculous, but the only thing I could say was, “It’s time for us to go. This isn’t a place we can live anymore.” I left the studio embarrassed, and later that day, I resigned from the production. I don’t think they believed that I was serious, and they’ll expect me to show up at the next table reading. I won’t. The play will go on though I can have nothing more to do with it. This morning, after taking a shirt off the hanger, I looked in the mirror and realized I hadn’t put it on. Without thinking, I had started packing a bag.

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[monachopism]

being jewish with zero affiliation to israel and rather a generational line of activists for palestine is a hard line to walk and sometimes i wish i could just fall off

[zone-seven]

Thinking about zones culture...

(Before I get into this, please keep in mind that I see the DD universe as like 75 years removed from the literal apocalypse, so things like communication, transportation, and infrastructure are very different from our modern world, or even the real world 1950s. Add that to extreme poverty, and you get zone dwellers living 'only' 200km apart who don't necessarily know that much about each other first hand.)

Really there is no singular "zones culture". Well, there is in a sense — in the interplay between the collective cultures of the California Desert — but that's nobody's real culture. It's just the natural result of cultures colliding.

This half-real "Zones" culture is little things — like everybody knowing a little bit of English, but not because they speak it for real, just because it's the lingua franca between communities, and between the desert and Battery City. It's using the same ingredients in very different cuisines because those are what's available in this time and climate. It's dressing pretty differently but following similar principles, since everyone lives with the same relentless sun, dust, and drought. It's broad things that came about due to proximity or convenience, not necessarily out of a sense of community.

But then there are smaller, much real-er cultures — local ones, lone ones, town-by-town ones. It does tend to cluster in regions, and there is lots of crossover of course, but each settlement, whether 100 people or 10,000 people, has it's own norms and customs. There's a lot of dead space out there; neutral towns vary wildly in their languages, religions, beliefs, and values... and smart folks will know at least a bit about their immediate neighbours! It's hard not to, to be honest. Life in the desert of California (and maintaining sovereignty from Battery City) requires a decent bit of cooperation and willingness to form alliances.

Some of the biggest towns in the Zones — the few approaching that 10,000 citizens mark — have quite the influence on the settlements around them. The biggest of them even exert influence on the entirety of the Zones, being big enough to support things like newspapers and far-reaching radio stations. Even then, though, people really do value tradition and custom; they've fought tooth and nail to keep it, as did their parents, grandparents, and so on. The city is already after their culture. They're not friendly to people trying to change their ways.

Killjoy culture is a little different.

Killjoy culture, as I'm defining it in my canon, is primarily the culture of ex-citizens of Battery City. Of course, it is also describing a political movement, and these escapees are not totally isolated in their politics, so it also includes some people who were born in the desert. There are plenty of reasons why desert-borns dislike the city, though few take it so far as to join up with killjoys. Similarly, some immigrants from the city have no interest in the political fight and instead do their best to assimilate into (usually) one of the larger towns. Mainly, however, I think about Killjoy culture as being heavily influenced by Battery City, especially in ways that feel very 'un-city' and free to people who once lived there, but feel restrictive and extremely 'city' to anyone desert-born. It's sort of separate from the cultures of desert towns as a whole, because they do not interact nearly as much or on as good terms. Neutrals don't have the sort of wariness with each other as they do with 'joys.

So, I think killjoy culture is sort of false in the same way that "zones culture" is false. It exists, but it's built first and foremost around something other than its people. Well, that combined with whatever scraps of Old World (pre apocalypse) culture their family in the city managed to keep. Very “killjoy” to have one-of-a-kind cobbled together cultures like that.

Killjoys do have a sense of community, though neutrals often miss this because killjoy community looks different than theirs. Killjoys are often rather nomadic, and they're always scattered. A lot of their culture is in media, and in folklore, and in the few events that are important enough for mass gatherings. Different than typical zones folklore, which often follows certain themes — killjoy folklore is heavily influenced by lobby culture, including a lot of droid religion.

But folklore is another topic…

[earthytzipi]

for people to say that young Jewish people breaking down out of fear (even fear that's not justified) is the same thing as white tears is despicable. did you all fucking forget about the Holocaust? why do you think a young Jewish person who's been told Zionism is the answer to antisemitism their whole life and that Hamas wants to kill them might react with fear? just use your fucking brains for One Singular Minute.

the answer to Zionism in Jewish communities is not the same as the answer to racism. telling Jewish Zionist people, who have been raised around people who suffered a genocide, who have this severe intergenerational trauma within living memory, that they are the same as a random white Christian American when they have a trauma response to something they've been told is an existential threat is not fucking helpful. in fact, it's only going to cement their Zionism.

do you actually want to eradicate Zionism in Jewish communities? start by acknowledging that antisemitism is real, still happening, and deadly. until you can do that, most Jewish Zionists are not going to be receptive to you. if you can't do that, I suggest leaving that work to Jewish antizionists and devoting your energy to political actions that will help Palestine, like calling your reps, protesting, and continuing to raise awareness about the situation on the ground there.

[starlight-bread-blog]

Well if it isnt just the most jew thing to do to call someone an antisemite just for saying killing innocent people in Gaza is not ok…

The only reason I'm answering this is to show whoever sees this: They said Jew. Not Zionist. They are an antisemite.

[mamawasatesttube]

hear me out. "close every door" from joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat could be a kon song. at least kind of. hear me out okay

[bisexualamy]

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[shalom-iamcominghome]

So I’m sephardic Zera Yisrael/Bnei Anusim and I want to convert to sephardic Judaism. I know it’s the same religion with the same theology, but practicing sephardic minhag/traditions that my converso ancestors would’ve practiced is really important to me but it’s hard to find any sephardic rabbis or community thy even takes in converts and I keep seeing people, papers and articles discuss how Sephardic communities don’t allow converts. Do you possibly know more about this/if this is true or how common it is for people to convert and follow sephardic minhag instead of Ashkenazi? I only found one person on Judaism subreddit that converted sephardic

I've personally never heard of sephardic communities that don't accept converts, and I follow a convert who is a sephardic orthodox jew, so overall... I personally don't assume this is the case everywhere - this is my first time hearing about this, so I don't know if I'm completely able to answer this in a more thorough way

I myself am exposed to a lot of sephardic influences, though I'm most likely just going to follow ashkenazi traditions because of who I am and where I live, and this has personally never come up as a contentious topic

[edandstede]

Okay, what do you want Dean to do? It seems like nothing they do is ever gonna be enough for you to shut up about them.

phrased like they’ve ever tried to change their behaviour when they’ve only doubled down on pretending to be jewish AFTER ADMITTING THEY’RE NOT. “nothing they do is gonna be enough” tell me dean are you still peddling the holocaust OCs you invented? how’s the non-existent grandma who taught you yiddish— oh wait, i thought you said on reddit you never got to learn it? how’s the blatant racism and the stereotyping going? someone refusing to be fucking quiet about this shit isn’t the issue here you dense cunt and real people are going to continue to be hurt because of it <3

[shivology]

unrelated i guess but i keep seeing tweets about how colonialism is why SWANA countries are misogynistic, antiblack, antisemitic etc, and it is so... annoying. sure, colonialism absolutely exacerbated this + made it so invading SWANA countries and brutalizing SWANA people is seen as somehow morally correct, see: pinkwashing, purplewashing, liberal white gays on twitter saying "why should i care about whats been happening to palestinians for decades, they kill gay people over there :/". "why should i care about whats happening in iraq when they hate women." etc etc THAT is a byproduct of colonialism and white supremacy. But like. babygirl read up on the arab slave trade. read literally any arabic poem from the gahileyah جاهلية! arabs were so good at slavery and antiblackness that white europeans literally took that and made that the blueprint for the transatlantic slave trade. white people (and I cannot believe I'm saying this,) did not create everything bad ever in ur home country lmao. a case could definitely be made for homophobia but everything else? nope thats been there from the very beginning and saying it's all colonialism is a. ridiculous b. won't fix shit since you aren't genuinely willing to look into it. and don't get me started on labeling anything even slightly critical of Islam as islamophobic

[goldeneyedgirl]

I love korean Alice SO MUCH!!! As an asian person myself, I always hadcanon Alice as asian because she had always been my favorite (and because if Meyer isn't going to do this then I WILL DO THIS MYSELF) so this fic seems like my dreams coming true. But my real question is: does Jasper knows is he is going to lose his memories? Does Alice tells him he isn't going to remember her?

Hi Anon! I'm so glad that you enjoy Korean Alice!

I must admit, I always thought that the Cullen family composition was so boring. Carlisle is born in England in 1663 and travels extensively over the centuries... and somehow ends up with an all-white family, presumably Christian, the majority born within a 40 year timeline, heavily favouring the South of America?

That's just lacking imagination. Or being super Mormon, take your pick.

And I support retconning canon facts at all times. There is nothing the Twilight fandom can't improve with some DIY. And I'm really excited that you like Korean Alice, because I have a few other fics I've started that feature an Asian Alice, but I wasn't sure if too many people were invested in that.

As for your question: no, Jasper has no idea his memory is wiped. He visits Busan every few years, meets Alice for 'the first time', and has his mind wiped at the end of every single visit. That was the agreement Alice made with her coven leader, Ratana (who is kind of a dick, but also trying to protect everyone the best way she knows how) but Jasper has never been informed of this deal.

Alice never tells him because she's ashamed that she's bartered with his memories without consent, and because she never wants them to focus on how long they've got left before they have to return. She's also terrified of leaving her coven because of the dangers towards her out there, and she doesn't want to burden Jasper and his coven with her protection and survival.

Hala can sort of return memories, but the older they are, the more degraded they are. Only very recent memories can be restored perfectly - older ones decay; they are missing parts, missing conversation, and have all the emotion stripped away from them. And because Jasper's an empath, the emotions attached to his memories are very, very important to him. Arguably more important than anything else.

It's a bit of a problem.

Thank you again SO much for your message, it made my day!

[mulletmitsuya]

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