Pangaea was wasted on the dinosaurs. Imagine the railway network.

well have you considered that maybe the unstoppable force is in love with the immovable object

maybe the reason one refuses to stop and the other refuses to move is because they both long for the collision

Daily Drawing Day 163 - Once upon a December...

Every year, around this time, I re-watch Anastasia and every time it appears to be better and better!

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Thank Your Jewish Friends Trying to Educate You Right Now

If you’re a leftist, and you have had a Jewish friend reach out to you to try and tell you that you’ve said something alarming or harmful or antisemitic: listen to them, learn, and say thank you.

I am VERY lucky in that all the friends I’ve personally reached out to have taken the opportunity to learn and grow and adjust their behavior. I have never told them that they should not advocate for Palestine. I have told them I want to advocate for Palestine WITH them, but I need to feel safe in order to do so. I need to feel like the people I’m advocating with don’t want me and my loved ones dead. Thank HaShem that they have listened to me. From the bottom of my heart, my friends are a blessing.

But I’ve seen an incredibly disheartening number of fellow Jews who have had the opposite experiences—being expelled from their queer communities and activist communities and book clubs and any space they once found community. This is horrid but it’s especially horrid for Jews. It’s a reminder that we are only accepted if we conform. We are only accepted if we accept abuse. Our presence is always tolerated, never wanted. Our views are not to be trusted. Our opinions are always suspect. Our motives are always sinister. Our acceptance is always conditional. And I think that hurts even more for us than you’d imagine, because our own spaces are no longer safe. We are already in diaspora. And now our synagogues and homes and other community buildings are being vandalized and attack. We are cut off from our own cultural community and now many of us are being cut off from our personal communities as well. It is a loneliness that most people outside of a diaspora will never know.

Im willing to bet that if you have/had a Jewish friend who you considered close but who seems to have disappeared from your life, it’s because you either didn’t reach out to them after 10/7 or you have failed to acknowledge the stochastic threat to Jews or the Jewish connection to Israel. Why is it important that you do this? Because we are your friends and loved ones. And when friends and loved ones tell you they are hurting, you should listen. When you say you care about someone, you should be willing to listen to them when they say you’re hurting them and then you should apologize. It is more hurtful than you can possibly imagine to watch people you thought cared about you decide to listen to people across the world who they have never met rather than simply have a conversation with a friend, because they assume that friend will dismiss the pain of Palestinians.

Many of you are assuming what your friends are feeling about Israel and Palestine, but you haven’t actually asked them. Many of you think that expressing sorrow for Israel or jews in the world, that means we cannot care about or want a better future for Palestine.

If you are lucky enough to have a friend who has tried to reach out to you, that means they are willing to forgive you for neglecting them in this time. They are willing to talk with you and try to explain their emotions in good faith. They want to find a way to advocate for progress with you. They want to keep you in their lives. They want you to understand our culture and history—not at the exclusion of anyone else’s culture and history—just at the inclusion of our own.

Because here’s the other thing: they won’t forget that you denied them understanding and respect and the benefit of the doubt. That’s not a threat. That’s a cultural feature of Judaism. We have famously long cultural memories. We remember the people and places we can trust and those who refused to give us peace and safety and basic kindness. We remember the people who targeted us, your friends and loved ones, simply because other Jews who we have never met behaved in ways you don’t understand and of which you don’t approve. You are blaming the sins of others on people you claim to love.

If someone is giving you the chance to undo the damage you have done on this, you should take it. And if you have expelled Jews from a space you once shared or failed to acknowledge their pain in this time—find them and apologize.

I am not Muslim, but I wouldn’t doubt that something similar is happening in Muslim spaces. Islamophobia and antisemitism are at terrifyingly high levels right now. And if you think you can’t support Jews without condemning Muslims or you can’t support Muslims without condemning Jews, you’re not only part of the problem—you’re the biggest part of the problem.

What we all need right now is unity, peace, solidarity, understanding, and education above all else.

I truly wish that goyim could understand how absolutely and completely terrified we are of you. Even if we love you. Even if we are very close to you. Unless we have specifically told you that we don’t think of you that way, we are just fucking terrified. All the time. Every day. There is never a time where I am not worried about saying The Wrong Thing and being either abandoned or abused by the people I love and who supposedly love me.

And when I say we are scared of you, I do mean scared. I don’t mean hateful, resentful, judgmental, blaming, or any other ulterior emotion you think we have toward you. We’re just scared.

If you think, without verbal confirmation, that you’re so safe that Jews don’t even have to worry about you, you’re wrong. We are worried for our own safety and how you might threaten it.

If you consider yourself close to a Jewish person and have any interest in not being antisemitic, take a look at how they respond to hate comments. Just today I’ve seen fellow Jews get hate comments directly in their inbox saying “I hate you and don’t trust Jews and I hate everyone like you.” Sometimes we react with sorrow or anger or offense.

But one thing I haven’t seen a Jewish person react with at all? Surprise. Of course we’re not surprised. We were expecting it. We’re always expecting it. We have never ever ever once been allowed a single moment of peace without being literally hunted. And if you think I’m exaggerating and am just ignoring all the years since the end of WWII? Well, one of us is ignoring something…and it’s not me or any other Jew.

No society has ever told us that we are loved or worthy or wanted or trusted or even the kind of group you can blandly ignore without understanding. We have only ever been told that at best we are to be tolerated and at worst (and frequently) that we are worthy of being exterminated like vermin. And we live with that every day. We carry all the same pains and joys and facets of the human experience that you do. And on top of that, we also carry this immense weight of fear.

Truly. Please. Imagine how heavy that is all the time. And then, imagine how much strength it takes to say, “To hell with the fear. I’ll risk my physical safety and/or emotional well-being to reach out.” Imagine how much courage that takes and how scared of other things one must be to risk the fallout. Imagine how much it hurts when you brush us off. Imagine how scared we are all the time without any provocation and then imagine how much worse it is right now.

This is why I love when goyim tag themselves as such when they reblog from me. It means that somewhere out there is trustworthy and hasn’t let the millennia of antisemitism reach them. Even if I have never met and will never meet you, knowing you’re there makes the world feel a little safer.

Jack hitting post

not my regional manager trying to get onto my autistic ass for not looking her in the eye lol

also feel like I should include that I wasn’t looking her in the eye because I’m hard of hearing and was reading her lips!!!!!! now I’m gonna make her feel like an asshole if she brings it up on our conference call this week

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... I can't be the only one seeing this.

Before you came, I was all alone. It is bad to be alone. THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN 1935 | dir. James Whale

They are studying us in petri dishes