#the pesach episode

[doyouknowthisjewishcharacter]

Do you know this Jewish character?

[jewishstargal]

finished watching we were the lucky ones and wow. i have no words.

[ofpd]

i miss atla daily i can't wait for pesach

[tomfoolerytime]

no one is ready for my jewish strawberry shortcake ideas

[keijoikawa]

thinkin abt how all my lovers wld celebrate passover wiv me…

[columboscreens]

I hope it isnt rude or presumptuous of me to barge in and vent, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on Columbos family. I just finished "no time to die" and I can't get over how bad that episode was. Maybe its me and my headcanons getting in the way but No Way is he from a family of cops. And not a single one of them sounds like they're Italian or new yorkers the blasphemy! To me that mans from an Jewish immigrant family, and proud of it.

combined with:

yeah the whole "family of cops" thing in no time to die came off as cheesy, contrived 90s copaganda, so i just kind of ignore it. it's hardly canon, so feel free to do the same! i picture columbo with a big, loud, italian family myself, in which he's just about the only cop.

I will say though, i actually totally agree that he comes off as more jewish than not. columbo is, in canon, a good little italian boy married to a catholic woman, so the natural assumption is that he, too, is catholic. but peter falk was a very organic, naturalistic actor--as a student of sanford meisner, his primary acting imperative was to live and behave truthfully to the self under imaginary circumstances. so for someone who was barely religious himself in the way "cultural jews" tend to be...

what i'd pay to hear the words "had the fuckin bar mitzvah'" come out of that man's mouth

...to me, falk's "truthful self" is just so jewish to his core that, because he puts so much of himself into the character, it bleeds clean through to columbo, and we get all these jewish mannerisms out of the supposed catholic! (jews, of course, have a rich and historic presence in italy, so there's no preclusion on that front.)

once you notice the little things, you can't stop. his phrasings, his gestures, the ways he interacts with others, his boiled eggs, his gastrointestinal sensitivity, even his sense of humor.

chag pesach sameach

there are, of course, more substantial pieces of evidence than ordering chinese food for his extended family or needing an antacid every time he eats too quickly. i'm not jewish myself, but i grew up in a very jewish neighborhood, had more jewish than gentile friends growing up, and my partner of seven years is jewish. to me, what really codes columbo as a jewish man is how well he embodies many aspects of specifically jewish ethos.

being honorable, sensitive, and humble, he's the ideal mensch. one tenet strongly prioritized in judaism is tzedek, or one's ethical obligation to righteousness, equity, and compassion. he is both moved by suffering and tenaciously committed to justice.

jews hold the deepest respect for both religious and civil law, and you will note that columbo is neither an outsider nor a vigilante--he is a sanctioned agent of the legal system respecting and following the process of the law in his pursuit of murderers. he functions within it, sometimes in spite of it, but not outside of it. when he gets creative, he toes, but never quite crosses the line.

he thinks for himself and thus has a strong moral compass; he treats everyone with kindness and empathizes readily with individual struggle. he is patient, courageous, and clever--all particularly valued qualities in judaism.

(rakish semitic looks aside)

paramount is columbo's intellectual curiosity, love of learning, and propensity to question, which is, too, seen as fundamental to a faith built entirely on asking questions. whether he's gently yet methodically poking holes in a suspect's alibi or wondering how much a random stranger paid for his shoes, he never has a shortage of them. he's a little guy bursting with chutzpah, perfectly at home both asking a prime suspect if he can have a closer look at his hand, and God Himself to spare sodom and gomorrah if he can only find a few good people...

if you really needed any further evidence that he's God's Chosen...

[burnbrighterthanever]

The X-Men adaption of my heart would in fact be a low-stakes sitcom about the Mutant Brotherhood. Yes, they are absolutely getting up to world-shaping shenanigans off-screen, it's just not central to the story.

Episodes would include:

- Magneto is trying to plan a Pesach seder and keeps getting interrupted. Interruptions range from "Dad, we tried to bake more matzah and somehow the oven caught on fire and Pyro tried to help and now the whole kitchen is on fire!" to "No, Erik, we have to reschedule the seder because we need to assassinate this Senator tonight."

- Wanda accidentally opened a portal to Hell while experimenting with her powers, and now everyone is scrambling to get rid of all the demons, curses, and general chaos before Erik gets home.

- X-Men vs. Brotherhood prank war. Pietro moves all of the furniture in the X-Mansion two inches to the left. Kitty sneaks into the Brotherhood's headquarters and glitterbombs everything. Wanda puts an actual curse on the X-Men uniforms that just ties everyone's shoelaces together at inconvenient moments.

- The Brotherhood has a betting pool on Magneto's relationship/intensely homoerotic rivalry/frienemies with benefits set-up/kismesitude with Professor X. Mystique is trying to "subtly" rearrange circumstances in order to win the bet. So is Angel. So is Emma Frost.

Unbeknownst to them, the X-Men also have a betting pool on Professor X's relationship/intensely homoerotic rivalry/frienemies with benefits set-up/kismesitude with Magneto. Jean Grey is also trying to "subtly" rearrange circumstances in order to win the bet. So is Gambit. So is Kitty Pryde.

Chaos ensues.

[gay-jewish-bucky]

I highly recommend everyone watches this Pesach episode of Yidilife Crisis 🏳️‍🌈

[terrasu]

Most western TV shows have Christmas, Halloween, and maybe Valentine episodes with repeated tropes. What Jewish holidays and what tropes would there be (without "confused Christian tries to hit the mark for their Jewish friends and fails")? Would bees/wasps set up shop in a sukkah? Elaborate plans to pet-proof menorahs (like my dad and his childhood raccoon, Buckwheat)? "I thought you were going to buy the apples" on Rosh Hashana? What about Purim? Pesach cleaning* gone wrong? Would shows for kids/teenagers have Mitzvah episodes?

*we are going to ignore the obvious toilet humor, I hope

[ao3feed-jonmartin]

Safehouse Seder

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/j0JsKe7 by thevampirecrow Looking back, he was too young, of course, and he was free already. How does a boy so young and naive, a boy who has always been free, understand what it means to be trapped?   In which Jon and Martin celebrate Passover in the Scottish Safehouse. Words: 2409, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Gen, M/M Characters: Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Martin Blackwood Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Martin Blackwood & Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Additional Tags: Angst, Jewish Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Jewish Martin Blackwood, Set in Episodes 159-160 | Scottish Safehouse Period (The Magnus Archives), Jewish Character, Apocalypse-Typical Suffering, Pesach | Passover, Seder Pesach | Passover Seder (Judaism), it is angsty but it's also very hopeful, Fluff, POV Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, non-ashkenazi rep too, Author is Jewish, Sephardi Jon Sims, Ashkenazi Martin Blackwood read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/j0JsKe7

[doyouknowthisjewishcharacter]

Do you know this Jewish character?

[nicejewishcharactershowdown]

NJCS 2024 Round One Eliminated Contestants (Part 2/2)

Lamb Chop Status: Transitive Jew Thank you Shari Lewis for my favorite “THEY’RE JEWISH?” moment of the 2024 bracket! Just check out the holiday specials for Hannukah and Pesach, available for free in full on Youtube. Reason enough to get your dogs some Lamb Chop toys this year, I think.

Betty Boop Status: Practically Canon Jew Boop-oop-de-doop! Betty Boop, our first Black, Jewish, female president. All hail the chief!

Dina (TLoU 2) Status: Canon Jew I feel like I would have been best friends with Dina if we went to Hebrew School together.

Coraline Jones Status: Canon Jew

Yes, this is an official still from the Coraline movie! She’d already qualify from the transitive property thanks to our good ol’ Tumblr friend Neil Gaiman, but this quantifiable, proof positive evidence of Coraline’s Judaism is really nice to see. Thank you, LAIKA Studios!

Philip J. Fry Status: Coded Jew He’s a man displaced out of time, reunited with his distant descendant in a future New York unfamiliar to him. Sound familiar? And of course, we can’t forget Farnsworth’s iconic moments in the time travel episode “The Late Philip J. Fry”.

Davey Jacobs Status: Canon Jew Dunno what else I can say about this mensch that isn’t mentioned in his character bio from official audition material for the musical… God, I love Newsies.

“Go and look it up, the poor GUY’S head is spinning!”

Yasmin (Bratz) Status: Transitive Jew Just like Barbie, the Bratz dolls have Jewish roots! Created by Isaac Larian in 2000, and adored by his tween daughter Jasmin, we can extra-hard claim the doll that was named in her honor. Yasmin might not have a specified ethnicity within Bratz canon, but the Sephardic roots of her namesake is proof enough for me. Even her Ken equivalent is textually Jewish (his name’s Eitan!) Just like Barbie, though, it seems this tournament might not be the friendliest environment for the plastic pop culture icons. Don’t worry ladies, I see you!

Paris Geller Status: Canon Jew Textually Jewish, Transitively Jewish (by way of Liza Weil)… she has it all!

[penguicorns-are-cool]

y'know those episodes in tv shows where they just stuff all the characters in a room or a house or something and trap them in there to force them to interact and have drama

imagine that, but it's a pesach seder and they aren't necessarily trapped there so much as they actually want to be here they're just increasingly tired, hungry, and drunk as the pre-eating part of the seder goes on and finally the food comes.

Like, I feel like so many non-Christian holidays have so much TV potential that we're all missing out on

like it would be really funny if a show was diverse and ramadan and pesach were overlapping and part of the joke of one episode is one portion of the friend group is fasting for ramadan all day while another portion are cooking all day for the seder, then they can even all come together at the end for the seder cause the seder starts after sundown and that's also when iftar is

when easter overlaps with purim but the family is multi-cultural so they end up having a purim party with an easter-egg hunt for the kids

Shavuot episode where they're all up all night and end up replaying a story from the tanakh or talmud. It would be funny if they end up acting out a case in the talmud and someone calls it out and they ask what they did in that case but the answer is like stoning or something else that they just can't do rn.

a yom kippur episode to force that one character to recognize they did something wrong

a movie or something where the kids act out the maccabee story except they're fighting the other group of kids who like tried to take over their fort in the woods of the playground or something that would be cute

just like, the big media studios are really sleeping on diversity. just having some real diversity would make tv so much more interesting

[attackfish]

I hope you had a good Pesach and are now having whatever chametz you like! Also... by any chance do you have thoughts about a situation in which Iroh, after returning from Ba Sing Se, didn't sit back and let Ozai take the throne? Would that have required Lu Ten to live, or Iroh to have finished the siege? How would that ripple through the White Lotus and the Fire Nation family? How different would things look once canon starts?

Aww man, thank you, and right back at you, but I always cringe a bit when people wish me happy holidays in asks like this, because when I fill them, and I put them in my queue, it just shows how far behind I am, and how long my queue is, lol.

I don't actually think that it would require Lu Ten to live or Iroh to have achieved a final victory over Ba Sing Se. I think all it really would have taken was for Iroh to mourn slightly differently, and for him to come roaring home with enough energy to rally his own supporters, and kick Ozai off the throne and put him in prison. What enables Ozai to take the throne is that Iroh doesn't fight him, that he is consumed by crippling grief, that turns into a years-long depressive episode.

Hell, I have AUs in which Iroh does take the throne after his father's death, and in most of them, what happens is that he has that kind of burst of energy, and then promptly sinks into a severe depression, and doesn't rule in spite of having the throne. The deciding factor here is not Iroh's political or military weakness, it's his psychological state, and his own choices, because he is a father who lost his only child, and he can't handle that.

As for how him taking the throne would ripple outwards, one of the things that allows him to come to grips with the harm he has done to the world and the harm his family has done to the world, and how his son is dead because of this ideology, and what needs to happen for the world to heal, is that he was effectively left alone in his grief to come to his own conclusions, where his actions had very few consequences, and he could hide away. If he takes the throne, that is not going to happen. Even if he hides himself away, if he has a throne, that is an action with a consequence.

[lichfucker]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💗

oh this is adorable. I love this so much.

five is an interesting number because-- discounting the four wips I consider active and the fan music I've written-- I've only published seven fics. so this'll be less a question of which ones I include and more a question of which I don't.

all right. let's get into it.

in no particular order:

Through His Stomach - Black Sails - E - 24k - ongoing this is my dark fairytale au. when I refer to "hagfic" I'm talking about this piece. Thomas is dying, and Flint strikes a deal with a mysterious magical entity known as the Cook to save his life. this fic is full of hunger and magic and psychosexual fixation and devotion and desperation and cannibalism and some of the most gorgeous prose I've ever written in my life. I learned how to write smut for this fic. it's my pride and joy. it has my heart in a way no other fic ever will.

Ner Tamid - Black Sails - M - 3k - complete if Through His Stomach has my heart, Ner Tamid has my soul. this is a character study about Silver and judaism and grief, masquerading as canon divergence wherein he cannibalizes Muldoon's corpse in the doldrums. I had a fun little mental health episode the night before my mom's birthday and wrote this whole thing in one ten-hour sitting. it's a pesach story-- the doldrums the plagues, Muldoon Nachshon, the dairy goat the paschal lamb, and Silver the prophet. Silver Moses. it's about the burden of responsibility and the burden of survival. it's about seeing how far you'd go just to keep shouldering that weight.

Sanguine - Ted Lasso - M - 19k - complete my Trent/Ted vampire au featuring Trent as the vampire (I got nearly 30k into my Trent/Ted vampire au featuring Ted as the vampire, but I honestly don't know if I'll ever finish that one). Sanguine is an s2 canon divergence wherein Trent goes into a frenzy after Ted lies about his panic attack and kills someone. it's about want and monstrosity, about seeing the grotesque and loving it anyway. I'm especially proud of how the narrative voice shifts between the scenes from Trent's pov and Ted's. it's just… a good story. Ted Lasso is the biggest fandom I've written for, so it makes sense that this is my most popular fic, but it very much deserves to be my most popular fic regardless. it's just a good story. it's a good story.

Cold, Dark, Depraved - Black Sails - E - 10k - complete my latest crime, extremely heavy on the angst. I nicknamed this fic "anti-comfort fic" on purpose. a canon-compliant look at s3 and s4 wherein Silver and Flint had been sleeping together for a long while, then broke up when they got to Maroon Island. it's about grief and cruelty and saying, "there can be no happiness in the world, and to prove it I will go out of my way to eradicate any shred of happiness I can find." this is a fic about beating yourself half to death and digging your fingers into every bruise. it's about love and denial and care and grief. grief is my favorite subject.

Five Girls Annie Almost Kissed and One She Did - Community - T - 11k - complete this is the earliest fic on my ao3 (I had a different account I used in high school; it's still out there somewhere but it's not worth finding). a canon-compliant character study of Annie from middle school all the way through the first few seasons of the show, chronicling her journey towards discovering lesbianism. I'm sure if I rewrote it today, six years later, it would look very different, but it's precious to me as it is. this is a fic about Annie, and it's a fic about me in equal measure.

there it is. that's my five. shout-out to the two I didn't include (Fraught, 15k of fucked-up smut for a book series three people have read, and Crawl 'Til Dawn, the Annie/Britta vampire au I left unfinished for four and a half years but finally got me back into writing, another piece I'd do very differently if I wrote it today).

thanks for letting me gush about my work. it makes me so very happy to do.

[neverlupus]

Chag pesach sameach anyway actually antisemitic that there was never a house episode with the b plot of worst seder ever. Cuddy + her mother + wilson + taub + taub’s entanglement & house as token goyim. house gets very into figuring out the plagues. dare i say he is drawing a dick on his plate with wine drops.