i'm not quite lost, not quite found

i honesty don’t remember waking up and sending this to my friend, but apparently i did. i vaguely remember being awake and thinking about little crabs before getting pulled back under into sleep, but zero memory of sending these messages.

anyway, did y'all know? did y'all know.

You can draw it on the back of an envelope.

my GOD.

i had forgotten about this post!

oh god this was such a joyous event.

the crab with a hat post, for the record.

I found photos of those Pallas Cat kittens born this year and bye I'm deceased

why do these kittens have the exact same energy as a nest of baby owls

@curlicuetruth you are very right

More animals for the “if no can pet, why so cute” list

as someone who grew up in an interfaith family it’s time to take a stance on christmas/hannukah cards. the best ones are for sure the ones where santa is gay married to a hasidic man

like. slay.

now i don't know much about star trek but data being an android named data is kind of funny it'd be like if there was a human being called memories

I think it's very funny when people on tumblr tell me that "decolonisation is not a metaphor". Because, uh, yeah. I know that. My ancestors were colonised and stripped of our native lands, forced to assimilate and lose our culture, forced to convert and lose our religion. Every day I work to undo that damage. Every day I study Hebrew because my family could not do so safely under colonialism. Every day I pray to a G-d that my people could not safely worship under colonialism. Every day I study and embrace ancient Jewish ways of learning, thinking and being that were lost because of colonialism. I share this knowledge with my family, with my friends, and with my community. As an academic, I am actively involved in attempting to unmake the violent and continued coloniality of my people's homeland, hoping to undo the damage caused by Brits, Romans and Turks. I do that for the benefit of native peoples in the land-- all of them. Jews, Arabs, Druze, Samaritans and Bedu all deserve equality and peace. Decolonization isn't a metaphor to me. It's a constant way of life.

And what are you, non-indigenous American goy on tumblr, doing for your decolonization? Are you learning the Cherokee language? Sioux? Muscogee? Do you spend your spare time meeting with the indigenous tribes local to your area? Do you push your representatives to help those tribes have greater access to land, healthcare, and autonomy? Can you even list the names of the native peoples whose land you walk on without looking them up?

Or does your "decolonisation" look like an occasional land acknowledgement, reblogging lip-service posts about the plights of indigenous communities, and using your political views to justify attacking Jews on the internet? 'Cause patting yourself on the back for that sure looks like a metaphor to me.

Do I need to do everything around here

Anyway

חג שמח זונות

"don't ship—" i will just be doing whatever the fuck i want actually

I was already a Zionist with a two state vision, and a belief in the right of return for both Jews and Palestinians.... But nothing has done more to make me more vocal in my Zionism and support for the existence of a Jewish state than the behaviour of goyische leftists on and since October 7.

“phones are disrupting natural sleep cycles” I mean true but also bold of you to assume I had one before the tech boom lol catch me out here reading chapter books by the light of my light up pens in the third grade

as a child being told "the moon controls the tides" with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you're talking about magic right now? okay. fine

sorry. only semi-related but i simply wasn't ready for "the sun is a distant gorilla". thank you NASA

A lot of pop psychology gets thrown around and since I already have a headache, here's preventing you lot from making it worse.

Love-bombing: A manipulation tactic of increasing affection and grand gestures before or after doing something abusive, specifically to weasel one's way out of consequences.

What it is not: A streak of affection and generosity towards friends/loved ones.

Trauma-bonding: Knowingly traumatizing someone to take advantage of their vulnerable state, to then act like the "hero" or the one who cheers them up.

What it is not: Bonding over similar traumas.

Gaslighting: *Knowingly* convincing someone they cannot trust their own perception of a situation in pursuit of one's own narrative.

What it is not: Misaligned perception of events.

Narcissist: Someone afflicted with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a traumagenic cluster B disorder, that struggles with self-obsession, paranoia, craving validity from the public, delusions of grandeur, and social disconnection.

It is not: Your rubbish ex that cheated on you.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

-Xanthe

Here y'all go pitting two bad bitches against each other for no reason.

no more brother wars

why would you hide this in the tags

It's my birthday! I've made the e-books in my Ko-fi shop pay-what-you-want starting at free for the day.

Gleam is a gothic fairytale, for anyone who's ever read Cinderella and thought, 'This is good, but what if it had ghosts in.' I got you.

Crown of Ivy is a retelling of the myth of Ariadne and Dionysus, inspired by The Song of Achilles and Hades.

The Hunt and the Haunting is a regency ghost story, a story about stories, for anyone who's ever read Jane Austen and thought, 'This is good, but what if it had ghosts in.'

You can pick up all three here in my Ko-fi shop!

good morning to these talented husbands who are both called david and wear the same outfits and to them ONLY

from uncle david’s insta:

“thirty years + and counting”

A dragon but instead of a fire breath or ice breath ability they have a dagger breath ability and the daggers do piercing damage