[Image shows drawings of a ray and 5 sharks. There is a nurse shark, a hammerhead, and a great white, as well as two sharks I don’t recognize. The great white, nurse, and anotherdark grey shark all have their eyes closed and appear to be smiling. Hammerhead and a blue coloured shark look worried.
“We’ve always struggled with finding a quick way of communicating why #TheZoneCast is worth listening to. Hopefully, this trailer for the Balance arc does the trick. Thanks for sharing it with everyone on Earth.”
judaism and christianity aren’t similar. at all. their view of god, of morality, of what being religious means, of conversion, of anything are so far apart from each other, they’re not only in a different ballpark, they’re playing a different game. Islam is much more similar to judaism, and even then, it shares a lot more with christianity than judaism ever will. the term is almost always used to appropriate our culture and twist it until it’s unrecognizable. it’s almost always used by christians who simply assume that their reading of their old testament is equal to our reading of the tanach.
but it’s not just the inaccuracy and inability to do any research on judaism that makes it antisemitic. no, it’s the fact that for two thousand years, one of the maining defining characteristics of christianity was its hatred of jewish people.
antisemitism didn’t start and end with the holocaust. it involved the labeling of jewish people as christ-killers, it involved blood libels, it involved pogroms, it involved putting us in ghettos, it involved expelling us from almost every country in europe, it involved limiting us to one profession and then villainizing us for it. for a long time, christians didn’t bathe because jewish people did. it’s one of the reasons for the quick and easy spread of the black plague.
jewish people were seen as lesser, and were often forced to convert or lose everything – even at times their lives. they’d be advisors to royalty one moment, and thrown out of their houses the next. the spanish inquisition was no joke for the people who went through it.
judeo-christian ignores the fact that the bible isn’t our tanach, that the old testament isn’t our term for our holy text but instead incredibly demeaning, that for two thousand years the church branded itself “the true jews” and treated us worse than anybody else because of it. judeo-christian connects the oppressor with the oppressed, coopts a tradition that doesn’t belong to christians. easter isn’t passover. channukah isn’t christmas. our holidays, our traditions, our beliefs, aren’t only different from christian ones, but are also separate from them – incompatible, disconnected, unrelated, and not yours to claim.
YES, THIS ^^^ If you are discussing anything regarding the (incredibly limited) overlaps between islam, judaism, and christianity, the only accepted term is ‘abrahamic’ specifically for the aforementioned reasons, because in all honesty that is the ONLY real connection. And even that is thin. Please dont approprate this erasure by lumping a rich heritage of a longstanding faith and ethnic culture with christianity, like we as jews are just a sidenote in christian history. Spread this around.
it takes ten seconds to tag something and forty five minutes to hours to calm down from a panic attack. think about that for a second
and totally feel comfortable enough to ask me to tag something that bothers you bc there are so many things that trigger people that i wouldn’t even think about and i’m sorry if i do that but let me know!
Please tell me if you need something tagged. Please please please. I will without any hesitation.
^^ please guys if i ever need to tag something don’t hesitate to tell me. If you’re not comfortable sending an ask you can dm me.
^^^ I will always tag something if you ask! No explanation needed! ❤
@redclovermama – the first picture here reminds me of you and your kids. (Several of the others, too.) Or, at least, what I know about y’all from what @hauntedlittledoll’s said.
Spook: Someday, if you truly love me, you need to read “Dealing with Dragons” by Patricia Wrede. It has a stone man in it. And a princess that reminds me of you.
Artists doing different things just blows my mind. Wow. Beautiful.
[Image is of Aizawa from Boku no Hero Academia. He’s sitting on a roof, looking out at the night sky with his sunglasses(?) on. His scarf flutters in the breeze. The sky is a wash of blues and purples, and everything looks like it was done in watercolours.
God I really wish carrying stuffed animals around with you was socially acceptable
I don’t mean to take over a post, but I actually did a project on this for my sociology of deviance class in college!
I carried a large stuffed rabbit whenever I went in public for about a week to observe the reaction of others. The point of the project was to do something harmless yet unusual to see if the action would be considered deviant, in which case someone had to try to correct or shame the behavior.
Long story short, nobody tried to correct my behavior. I was asked about it casually, had a few lingering stares thrown my way and when I was with my boyfriend, shop employees would direct questions to him instead of me. However, nobody refused to assist me when I was alone in a store, nobody said anything about the rabbit besides “oh, thats a cute bunny!” and I attended college classes without even a teacher questioning it.
In conclusion, it is socially acceptable to carry a stuffed animal, its just not a societal norm. ^^
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