#rinielelrandir

[evilwickedme]

I'm going to preface this with you absolutely don't have to answer if you don't want to/don't have the emotional energy - but I was wondering if you had sources for JVP being "not really Jewish"? I ask because as someone who usually says I'm Jewish for simplicity's sake despite my conversion being still in progress, I've definitely been told I'm "not really Jewish" (I recognize that halachically I'm not til I immerse in the mikveh, that isn't what I mean here, I hope it makes sense.) I also have a lot of friends who have been told they "aren't really Jewish" by other Jews because they converted or are patrilineal Jews or follow a different observance level or even because they're anti-Zionists. And since I happen to have a lot of friends and local community members who I know are JVP members and I also know are Jewish, I'm always really confused when I see claims the organization isn't Jewish - bc the folks I know in it are. Like, I personally know 5 members of their rabbinical council, one of the members is even my advising rabbi for my conversion. So I'm trying to determine if my local JVP is just *vastly* different from the rest of the org or if I'm right to immediately be on edge by "not really Jewish" claims and wonder if the person making them will start questioning the sincerity of my desire to convert (or once complete, validity of my conversion) next.

I hope that all makes sense? I'm operating on very little sleep this morning so I apologize if anything isn't clear or something. (Also, I would be happy to talk about my experience with my local JVP, which is rather limited beyond knowing they exist and knowing a lot of members, but I do have some knowledge of the work beyond JVP folks in this area who are members are doing.)

They're not Jewish cause they're run by goyim lmao

Here's a doc on their antisemitic history which has lots and lots of sources in it for every claim

Also, this:

A quick search for jvp or Jewish voices for peace in my blog should come up with half a dozen other sources

I feel like I've been pretty clear in my pro-convert stance, and that I think converts are real Jews (I once made a post making fun of that saying "reblog if you think born Jews are real Jews" that unfortunately didn't land or gain traction, but I maintain hilarity). That doesn't mean that everyone who claims to be Jewish is in fact Jewish or that every org that claims to represent Jewish people does in fact represent Jewish people. Jvp is about as Jewish as messianics are - there's certainly some real Jews working with them, but nobody in charge seems to be, and overall they do lots of antisemitic shit.

[pomrania]

Compilation for week one of Draw Everything June 2024, where I drew people's queer TTRPG characters using the poses @adorkastock put out. (week two)

Ander, non-binary Wizened Woodwalker, for @lynnedoublelegacy

Riniel, queer elf ranger, for @rinielelrandir

Soleil, aro-ace fire genasi sorcerer/warlock, for @happinessisntfun

Passion, bi tiefling paladin, for @marseny

Enis and Myrci, bi half-elf ranger and genderfluid half-drow bard, for @drizzit and @nabanna

[dualcasterjay]

very good hands

:3c

@rinielelrandir @davyrawr

last fictional character in ur camera roll just adopted u

(Yes I did do this only because I want him to adopt me. Fuck off)

tags: @cryptidwithaninternetconnection @reggie-the-inferi @gingerbreadeel24 @pickupstyx

and whoever the fuck sees this

[wilwheaton]

Wil, my last name is McMaster. I don't know if I'm related to the guy basically working for the angry cheeto, but given the size of Irish families the chances of us being somehow distantly related are actually pretty high. How do I reconcile this with the fact that I am literally repulsed by everything Trump stands for?

To quote Office Space, “Why should I change my name? He’s the one who sucks.”

[shadowdragonia]

I love you guys. Also, here

[bumbleboa]

Answer collections

I really liked the many answers to this post and wanted to collect them here. Because it feels a little less lonely to know I am not the only one struggling.

rinielelrandir said: When I took Spanish in high school, I had a teacher tell me that this was common for people who are multilingual. I never managed to successfully learn another language, but my teacher was multilingual and said when she was commonly using both languages she had this problem a lot and had a hard time switching back and forth, that it took years and years of practice to get it stop. She was in her late 30s or early 40s at that point and still sometimes had trouble.

sleepypuppy said: This is just too real. Greek is my native language but at this point my greek friends often tell me i sound like google translate, i always brush it off by saying that it’s because i no longer live in greece, but the truth is even having moved to germany i still speak English more than i do any other language. It’s frustrating to not be able to feel at ease with a language youve spoken from birth and i honestly dont know what to do about it.

nodancer said: h a r d same. i feel bad because i genuinely enjoy german a lot on a linguistic level, it’s so flexible and fun to play with in a way that just isn’t possible with english. i used to want to become a writer as a kid specifically because i enjoyed playing around with the language a lot. i really lost that when i switched to english as my main language, now writing and speaking german is just frustrating cause i feel like i don’t have the same access to it anymore.

zahachi-eithne said: I know the struggle! In Dutch I used to just use random English words in my language and I now try to avoid that. I’ve recently moved to Germany bc of my German partner, but bc I’m Dutch we speak English to one another. Ironically enough that has caused me paying proper attention to which language I’m using again. For me having seperate language'spaces’ has really helped against jumbling up my languages!(Helps of course that I have an active English space too) Goodluck! Also (Sorry much to say!) It really doesn’t help that Germany doesn’t really offer a platform for using English on an active basis. English for me feels like a normal part of Dutch life because of stuff like subtitles and all that. I notice that I hardly get exposed to English in Germany, which must make it extra difficult for you to deal with the mumbojumbo of languages!! I’m still tempted to start an anti-dubbing campaign :’)

urob said: Same, I’ve also noticed that whenever I speak to my siblings who will understand me in either language I stumble over german words a lot more and stutter until i just give up and use the english word my brain supplied to me for the situation.

[starlightomatic]

tags from @rinielelrandir: #when i heard the news about 07Oct#my immediate reaction was to frantically check facebook#bc members of one of a havurah i am part of were in the west bank then#they had joined a community peacemakers team led by the minister of the church we hold our high holiday services in#they ended up spending multiple days trapped in the west bank#unable to get back through checkpoints into israel bc everything closed#all while tensions mounted#so i was desperately worried for their safety#while also feeling somewhat uncomfortably relieved my rabbi wasn't with them as originally planned#a short while later i attended the monthly shabbat services a different havurah i'm part of hosts#it's not a large group - regular attendance is 10-20 people and i think that in october there were maybe 25 of us#so. fucking. many. people there had friends relatives or friends of friends killed or kidnapped on 07Oct#just so many in this tiny group of american jews l#(and i should point out that said tiny group is explicitly a feminist & non-zionist havurah)#(most members are either non-zionist or antizionist)#(and still we were connected to a large number of the victims)#and op is right - people just don't seem to realize how many of us have personal connections to people killed or harmed that day#like the majority of the irl jewish spaces i hang in are explicitly pro-palestinian & often non-zionist#and still most people have direct connections - family friends or friends of friends - in isreal#we should be able to join in support for palestinian liberation without having to hear that our dear ones deserve to die

hi, i just want to remind folks that a lot of people on here have personal connections to people who died or were kidnapped on october 7th. please keep this in mind when you want to understand why we react so much when people denying, minimize, or celebrate it.

a couple of months ago i met vivian silver's best friend. vivian silver was a long-time peace activist who was burned to a crisp so badly on october 7th that it took weeks to identify her body. my ex-boyfriend's family was friends with her as well, and they spend those weeks believing she was a hostage and hoping for her return, only to discover that she had been dead the whole time.

a couple weeks ago i met the sister of a nova festival survivor. she said that the hours when her brother was out of contact and they didn't know if he was alive or dead were both the shortest and longest hours of her life. another friend of mine lost five friends that day. yet another friend lost two friends who were on a biking trip in southern israel.

a couple who i know because they attended my childhood synagogue while in the US for two years lived in kibbutz nahal oz. they always told us how beautiful it was, and how they wanted us to visit it. now we can't; it's destroyed, with several of its residents killed. they and their two young girls miraculously survived after hiding in their safe room for ten hours before being rescued. a good friend of mine's boyfriend is from one of the kibbutzim that was destroyed, but he was not there at the time and so survived.

once, many years ago when the ex-boyfriend who i mentioned above (the one who knew vivian) were on a gap year in israel, i visited him on the kibbutz he was living on on a thursday night, and his friend gave us a ride to a bus station the next day to help us get to our shabbat destinations. the friend was headed on to visit friends at kibbutz be'eri, now destroyed, with over 10% of residents killed. i don't know if that man's friends survived.

another friend of mine, who was my coworker for several months when she was in the US last year, lived in metula in northern israel, on the border with lebanon. because of the war, she and many others are internally displaced within israel, because her home is not safe from rockets. recently, a mutual friend told me her house has been destroyed.

another friend of mine attended virtual synagogue with chaim katzman, a young man who spent time in the west bank protecting palestinian shepherds. when hamas fighters opened the closet he was hiding in to capture hostages, they shot him immediately, before taking hostage the women and children hiding in the closet with him.

in total, i have at least eight friends-of-friends who were killed on october 7th. the actual number is probably far higher, since i have a lot of friends in israel and many israelis lost people; but the eight is confirmed.

all of this to say: please understand when you're interacting with me and other jumblr bloggers that this is not theoretical to us. maybe to some of you, it's an academic excercise in seeing fanon's works in practice. maybe it's about decolonial theory and you might think "ah, well, decolonization is violent, what a shame but it was necessary." please remember it's easier to think that when you're not the one sitting at a shabbat lunch table with your mom's old friend who had to learn within the past few months that a woman she'd built movements with and was best friends with had been burned so badly she couldn't be identified for weeks.

i already know that people will believe the purpose of this post is to "generate consent for genocide" no matter what i say, but i'm going to say it anyway: nothing justifies genocide. nothing justifies the brutality that israel visits on the palestinian people. the people of gaza people have gone through an order of magnitude more horror than what israelis have. the entire gaza strip is destroyed; people's homes, schools, mosques, orange orchards, everything. entire families have been killed with not a single surviving member. people have starved to death. people lack sanitation, menstrual products, and safe places to give birth. children are operated on without anesthesia. this is one of the greatest humanitarian crises of this century and it is israel's fault.

we need a ceasefire now; we needed a ceasefire yesterday; we needed a ceasefire months ago; we needed this never to begin. blowing up a child in gaza does not bring back vivian, it does not bring back chaim, it does not bring back my friend's cycling friends. it doesn't untraumatize the girl who waited hours to know if her brother was okay or the young family trapped for ten hours in their safe room. and i know for a fact that vivian and chaim would never have wanted this. not in their names, or at all.

so i am not posting this in an attempt to deny, minimize, excuse, or justify the genocide of the people of gaza, or to deny or excuse the nakba, the israeli raids in the west bank, settler violence, land theft both past and present, burning of olive trees, checkpoints and the restrictions on palestinian movement, the denial of right of return, and the fact that most palestinians do not have voting rights in the country that controls their lives.

i also understand that there are folks on here who have just as many personal connections to gaza -- or more -- than i do to israel. that it's deeply personal to them too, and they have watched as loved ones die, places they love and remember are bombed to dust, and people continue to minimize it, excuse it, or fight over semantics. i understand that this post will not land well for many of those folks, and that it will have activated people to hear me speak of nahal oz as a beautiful place i wanted to visit, because that land likely once belonged palestinian families, and was seized after its residents were herded into gaza during the nakba.

and.

people are human. humans deserve to live in safety. friends of humans who are harmed will feel pain, even if those friends lived on colonized land. i also live on colonized land, i am a settler. i live on the lands of indigenous peoples. when i looked up the nation whose land i live on, i can find information about their history but no information on where they went or whether they still exist. i don't know if they experienced a genocide and were all killed, or if they joined another people. i know i have never met any of them, and i live on their land.

and i'm not the only one. millions of people on this site are also colonizers of indigenous land. if you are not indigenous or Black, and you live in the US or Canada, you are every bit as complicit as my friends' dead friends in israel. your beautiful town is not morally better than nahal oz. you recognize yourself and your friends as people; you see their humanity.

i am beyond begging you to see the humanity of israelis, i think many of you can't. instead, this is my request:

remember, as you're doing your callouts, as you're describing me as evil and a person who needs to be blocked for the safety of your followers to i don't infect you or them with my evil:

i say and feel the things i do in large part from a traumatic event that occurred less than a year ago that i am personally connected to. please use what you know of trauma to understand that.

and then, if you can do that, maybe we can start to understand how trauma plays into why israel is the way it is; why trauma is actually the biggest player. so many of you have asked "how could a people who've been brutalized and oppressed brutalize and oppress another people?" my question: why would you expect that not to happen? trauma responses include fear, anger, aggression, compassion fatigue. when a population of descendants of refugees and genocide survivors, in a world that they believe to be out to get them, either supports or turns a blind eye to their government's atrocities, i am not surprised. saddened, but not surprised.

we then have to start asking: who enacted those traumas? when will we start to see the pain of both palestinians and israelis in light of the violence inflictated by far more powerful entities? by germany in the holocaust; russia and poland in the pogroms; swana arab countries in the persecution of jews post-WW2? who's at the top here? many of you are happy to believe it's jews pulling all the strings, but who set this in motion?

who denied jews safe haven before the holocaust, thus enabling this trauma to be inflicted in the first place? the US, and nearly all countries around the world. who restricted jewish immigration even post-holocaust, thus funneling huge numbers of jewish refugees into palestine, overwhelming the population even if israel had not been a colonial project? again, the US, and many other countries. who made double-promises and drew arbitrary lines in the region leading to decades of conflict? the UK.

who's funding this war? the US. Russia. Iran. don't be fooled that any of them care about israelis or palestinians. they have their own interests.

israelis and palestinians are the collateral damage in a horrible chess game that world powers have been playing for centuries. but they are not collateral damage, they are human beings, and their lives have value. collective liberation demands we look at the levels above the oppressor to see who is holding the strings, who put the puzzle pieces in place, who set off the levers and strings in a noxious rube goldberg machine that left nahal oz and be'eri in ruins and gaza destroyed almost beyond recognition.

my friends' little girls cowering in a safe room were never the enemy. chaim katzman hiding in a closet hoping the fighters would overlook it and leave him alive, or at very least capture him instead of kill him, was never the enemy. and they can't be; not if our goal is freedom and safety for everyone in israel/palestine. choosing who will dominate and who will be the oppressed minority in whatever comes next will not be the answer we need, and will not be liberation. just as zionism was not liberation. what can we build together, when this is all over?

what do we need to dismantle and destroy?

let's start with what we don't: homes. villages. cities. kibbutzim. orange trees. olive trees.

and who do we need to fight?

let's start with who we don't: the children.

[storm-arts-around]

Doodle dump continues, with dnd oc’s, some monster hunt characters, a doodle of a very handsome @rinielelrandir and doodles of some of @aeverelle ‘s horribly cute ocs.  Also a floofy pink boi. >:3c

[evilwickedme]

I may have just gone through your blog and reblogged things like it was my dash when I should have been getting ready for work, so have a picture of my cat sleeping like a doofus the other day. I hope you're doing as alright as you can be, all things considered, and that you and your loved ones continue to stay safe. (Also, if and when you can, you should get yourself a little treat, I'm a big fan of the little treat method of coping with awful things. And what you're dealing with right now is awful beyond all belief, so you deserve a little treat.)

Yeah I stopped omw home today and got myself some candy (and also milk but that's unrelated)

Thank you all for all the cat photos I love them dearly!!! I actually just got my cat buffy back, like 15-20 minutes before an alarm forced both of us to the basement to take shelter. She did NOT like going back in the car carrier, lemme tell ya

[pomrania]

Day two of #DrawEverythingJune2024, where I'm drawing people's queer TTRPG characters.

This is Riniel. She is @rinielelrandir's queer elf ranger.

"Riniel wasn't looking for a new family. The Rangers changed everything anyway."

The pose reference can be found here, and my progress thread for this piece is here.

[thebreakfastgenie]

#sometimes i'll tell people 'oh you need to watch this it's one of my favorites!'#and forget that it's like actually something really depressing#or really emotional to get through#bc i use things that make me cry when i need to as comfort shows#and i forget that's actually slightly strange#(I'm like 90% sure this is related to how i experience emotions oddly bc autism btw) @rinielelrandir

This does not actually sound odd to me! It's certainly not universal, but it's a pretty common sentiment I've seen! A lot of people like the really dark or emotional episodes (including me) for a lot of reasons, that can include using them for catharsis. Watching sad movies to cry it out and make yourself feel better is a well-known trope, I just don't find it relatable for reasons discussed above.

Do I not talk about how I don't cry enough on here? I don't cry so much that I am never sure if people are being literal when they say shows made them cry or if it's a figure of speech.

[lukadarkwater]

Had one of the single creepiest and strangest interactions of my life last night when I was having dinner with @rinielelrandir @midnightlupus and @painthorselover and then this guy, who was probably in his 40′s, just pops up out of nowhere and goes “Do you girls wear leggings?”

And all of us freeze because we’re not really sure who this guy is or why he’s just walked up to this group of girls and asked them this question in the first place. My first instinct was that he was going to tell us off for being heathens or something if we said yes (because #America) but then Rin tentatively goes no and he then processes to hold up this flyer about a leggings show that is going on sometime this weekend?? At which point we’re all like yeah no we’re not interested at all and he’s like “ah come on” but we’re all like no thanks until he finally leaves.

But yeah it was just suppper creepy because he gave no preamble to his question not to mention I do wear leggings but I’m not about to disclose that to some creepy stranger at a random restaurant?? Like, we’re all college aged girls and it’s creepy enough to have some older dude walk up to us and start talking to us not to mention just pop up to our table and ask us a pretty personal question with no warning. So yeah, it was just really strange and really threw me off for a second 

[iamthestrangerinmoscow]

11 questions

I was tagged by @strangerdarkerbetter. Thanks! I need a distraction right now. RULES: Always post the rules. Answer the questions asked, then write 11 new ones. Tag 11 people to answer your questions, as well as the person who tagged you. 1. What is your favorite place to be? Home. Doesn't need to be any particular place, just a place that I currently call home. Somewhere quiet, warm and safe, with my books and favorite snacks. I'm a stereotypical introvert. 2. What is your best memory? I have a lot of good memories, but I usually say my favorite one is seeing "The Day of the Doctor" in a cinema on November 23rd 2013. I don't think I have ever felt as happy, excited, thrilled and full of joy as on that day, from waking up in the morning to being in the car on our way there to seeing all the people inside to hearing the first lines of the episode. It was such a great day. 3. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you want to go? To London, probably. And to other places in England. I really want to visit it, and not just because of Doctor Who. I wanna see the Buckingham Palace and 221B Baker Street and go to museums and see all the landmarks. I wanna visit Cambridge and Shakespeare's home town and maybe also Cardiff and Edinbourgh. And I wanna go to a theatre and actually watch Hamlet in its original language. Basically I just love Great Britain. 4. What is your favorite thing about tumblr? The people. Not every single person but many, many of the people. I love that on tumblr minorities kinda took over and became majorities. I like going on tumblr and not assuming that everyone I interact with is transphobic or ableist or bigoted in other ways. Here I can tell the truth and be myself and in general, people are okay with it. 5. What is your least favorite thing about tumblr? The fact that some things become extremely polarized and black and white. I think many people here are dreaming of a perfect society and forget that some things are still up for debate and also that some people really don't mean to offend anyone and need to be educated and accepted and forgiven. I wish we could all be nicer to each other. 6. What is something you have a very strong opinion about? Oh so many things, but first and foremost: science and pseudoscience. I can have very calm and polite conversations about very sensitive topics but the moment someone tells me evolution isn't real or global climate change isn't happening, I lose all patience. 7. What is your view of current politics? To be honest I can no longer tell apart an onion article and actual piece of news so at this point I think it's too complicated for me to understand. Russian politics has been like this since I was in middle school but now US politics is going there so I'm just confused. I also think that the question of "how you would behave in pre-nazi Germany" is becoming less and less theoretical for US citizens every day... good luck resisting. 8. What is your dream job? Scientists with some writing/science journalism on the weekends 9. Who is your favorite band/musical artist? The favorite favorite is Michael Jackson. If we extend a little, I also love Panic! At The Disco, Owl City and Avicii. 10. What is your favorite song? Oh how can I possibly choose one? I usually say Michael Jackson "Black or White" but in reality I have so so many favorite songs. 11. What book could you read again and again? A lot of them, but the one I come back to at least every year is Mikhail Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita". Read this book. It will change your life. My questions: 1. What is the last thing that really made you laugh? 2. What is your favorite kind of weather? 3. Tea, coffee, both or neither? 4. If you could have any animal as a pet, who would you choose? 5. Which TV-show did you really enjoyed watching recently? 6. What is a gift that you'd love to get for any occasion? 7. If you could go back and re-live any previous day of your life, which one would you choose? 8. Pineapple on pizza - what is your opinion on this Discource? 9. If you could meet anyone in the world, dead or alive, who would you like to meet? 10. Favorite candy bar? 11. What is on your mind right now, apart from answering these questions? I tag @urrsari @domino-taurus @observantalienscribbler @basiliskhallward @psychotistic @maxens-is-here @selectivelyserious @to-reach-the-farthest-star @leaving-the-blue-neighbourhood @rinielelrandir and @falldeere But this is an invitation, not an obligation, so don't do this if you don't want to!

[thebreakfastgenie]

Tag Game

Tagged by @supergeekytoon

1. Why did you choose your url? It was my fanfiction.net username and I liked it so I used it again. The origin is I arranged a bunch of plastic food in a breakfast tray, and I thought this little pitcher looked like a magic lamp, and imagined a breakfast-themed genie. I was 13.

2. Any side blogs? None that are active.

3. How long have you been on tumblr? It'll be ten years this summer.

4. Do you have a queue tag?

Babygirl I don't even have a queue.

5. Why did you start your blog in the first place?

My best friend, who's no longer on this website, had one. I wanted to follow her and it spiraled from there.

6. Why did you choose your icon/pfp?

I like manatees so I looked up a picture of one and now I've had it so long I refuse to change it.

7. Why did you choose your header?

The current header image is a placeholder because I was trying things out and didn't like how it worked out but foolishly had clicked save. Before that it was Turnstiles because I love Turnstiles.

8. What’s your post with the most notes? It's gotta still be the one Lin-Manuel Miranda reblogged at the height of the Hamilton craze. I made a jokey Your Fave Is Problematic post about him and he told me to step my bars up.

9. How many mutuals do you have?

I don't know but I love them all. Is there a way to find out?

10. How many followers do you have?

I don't know. Okay, I checked, it's 2,304.

11. How many people do you follow?

I don't know. Like 2-3k but a lot of them are inactive or at least I never see them. Okay, I checked, it's 3,578.

12. Have you ever made a shit post?

That's what this website is for.

13. How often do you use tumblr a day?

Constantly. It's terrible.

14. Did you ever have a fight/argument with another blog?

Yes. Unfortunately.

15. How do you feel about the ‘you need to reblog’ posts?

Don't tell me what to dp >:-(

16. Do you like tag games?

Yes!

17. Do you like ask games? Yes!

18. Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous? @larkandkatydid maybe.

19. Do you have a crush on a mutual? No. I did once. Multiple years ago now.

20. Tags!

@genderqueer-klinger @frogeye-pierce @that-one-leaf-on-that-one-tree @blue-ravens @nimuetheseawitch @rents @wellmanneredthief @hunnihawkhunnicutoasis @terinaofvulcan @rinielelrandir

If you want to do it and I didn't tag you consider yourself tagged, I always forget people!

[dualcasterjay]

@rinielelrandir

DICE GIVEAWAY

Since I'm moving forward with a new dice size this year, I wanted to share a few of my existing sets with y'all!

To Enter -

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Tag a fellow dice goblin!

First place will get their choice of these three designs (Stargazer, Alchemist's Fire, Black Ice) painted in their choice of colors! Second place will have their choice of the remaining two designs, and third will get the remaining set.

Giveaway ends 1/31 at midnight EST

I'm running a similar giveaway on my Twitter (DiceDragonJo) and my Instagram (terrible_trio_crafts) as well but with three different designs on each one!

The giveaway is sadly limited to US only due to shipping costs, sorry!

[undiagnosedautismfeels]

In regards to the anon who asked why so many people are self-dx and said it isn't fair, how is it unfair? Self-dx Autistics use no services, receive no disability benefits, and are given no accommodations (all with regard to autism, they may for a different condition). Self-dx takes nothing away from people who are professionally diagnosed and helps those people who can't access that feel more comfortable with and accepting of themselves. And it is endorsed by most self-advocacy groups.

Exactly! What’s unfair is that people don’t know how to recognize autism outside of an extremely narrow stereotype!