HE'S DONE IT AGAIN ! HE MADE ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE FOOD IN THE WORLD INTO CHOCOLATE !!!

seeing christians beef over who is christian and who isn't when they all pray to the same jesus is so so funny to me bc ill see a jew with a completely different lifestyle than mine and we'll be like "jew?" "yes, jew!" "yayyyyy!!!" then invite each other over for shabbat dinner and find out we have like 15 shared friends

A Zionist Jew and and Anti-Zionist Jew walk into a bar. The bartender says, "We don't serve Jews."

back from the hospital

I forgot I'm on the "piss on the poor" reading comprehension website.

I am not saying you "ooooonly reblog things". I'm saying that reblogging someone else's post and adding contradictory tags to that post is very confusing.

To make it even more clear:

You are added the tags "terfsafe" and "radblr" to a reblog of my post. However, my post is very clearly NOT radfem safe or terfsafe.

So why did you add those tags? What was your intention?

@oops-wedrovethedownwithcisbus

Actually feminists want you to shut the fuck up about how much you hate men and males. Yeah we voted. We decided it's actually super uncool to hate half of humanity due to something beyond their control.

@oops-wedrovethedownwithcisbus

@frogs5pride

Ok so I know you're both adding these tags as a joke but like

You realise that adding tags to a reblog does not make this post appear in a Tag Search, right? Only original posts show up. Reblogs do not show up. So you are not flooding the Radfem tag with pro-trans content. You're just... tagging a reblog on your own blog as "radfem".

Actually feminists want you to shut the fuck up about how much you hate men and males. Yeah we voted. We decided it's actually super uncool to hate half of humanity due to something beyond their control.

no “multiple” option I want the WORST

for whom good omens is being written

Hey maggots and the rest of the fandom, it's the Good Omens Mascot here. Today I read a post about this tweet:

The accompanying video genuinely made me cry. And I've been thinking about this for a long while, as far back as February, when I saw a lot of conflicting opinions on what people wanted from the third season. It really is true that no matter what you do, some people will be dissatisfied. But what matters is that Neil is writing this for Terry.

And I was reminded of some paragraphs from the Good Omens TV Companion, which I'd read in Amazon's sample excerpt of the book. I know this is a long post, but I really truly do think you all need to read these, I've done my best to select only the most important parts. Here you go:

'His Alzheimer's started progressing harder and faster than either of us had expected,' says Neil, referring to a period in which Terry recognized that despite everything he could no longer write. 'We had been friends for over thirty years, and during that time he had never asked me for anything. Then, out of the blue, I received an email from him with a special request. It read: “Listen, I know how busy you are. I know you don't have time to do this, but I want you to write the script for Good Omens. You are the only human being on this planet who has the passion, love and understanding for the old girl that I do. You have to do this for me so that I can see it." And I thought, “OK, if you put it like that then I'll do it."

'I had adapted my own work in the past, writing scripts for Death: The High Cost of Living and Sandman, but not a lot else was seen. I'd also written two episodes of Doctor Who, and so I felt like I knew what I was doing. Usually, having written something once I'd rather start something new, but having a very sick co-author saying I had to do this?' Neil spreads his hands as if the answer is clear to see. 'I had to step up to the plate.' A pause, then: 'All this took place in autumn 2014, around the time that the BBC radio adaptation of Good Omens was happening,' he continues, referring to the production scripted and co-directed by Dirk Maggs and starring Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap. ‘Terry had talked me into writing the TV adaptation, and I thought OK, I have a few years. Only I didn't have a few years,' he says. 'Terry was unconscious by December and dead by March.'

He pauses again. 'His passing took all of us by surprise,' Neil remembers. 'About a week later, I started writing, and it was very sad. The moments Terry felt closest to me were the moments I would get stuck during the writing process. In the old days, when we wrote the novel, I would send him what I'd done or phone him up. And he would say, "Aahh, the problem, Grasshopper, is in the way you phrase the question," and I would reply, "Just tell me what to do!" which somehow always started a conversation. 'In writing the script, there were times I'd really want to talk to Terry, and also places where I'd figure something out and do something really clever, and I would want to share it with him. So, instead, I would text Terry's former personal assistant, Rob Wilkins, now his representative on Earth. It was the nearest thing I had.'

(...) As Neil himself recognizes, this is an adaptation built upon the confidence that comes from three decades of writing for page and screen. But for all the wisdom of experience, he found that above all one factor guided him throughout the process. 'Terry isn't here, which leaves me as the guardian of the soul of the story,' he explains. 'It's funny because sometimes I found myself defending Terry's bits harder or more passionately than I would defend my own bits. Take Agnes Nutter,' he says, referring to what has become a key scene in the adaptation in which the seventeenth-century author of the book of prophecies foretelling the coming of the Antichrist is burned at the stake. ‘It was a huge, complicated and incredibly expensive shoot, with bonfires built and primed to explode as well as huge crowds in costume. It had to feel just like an English village in the 1640s, and of course everyone asked if there was a cheap way of doing it. 'One suggestion was that we could tell the story using old-fashioned woodcuts and have the narrator take us through what happened, but I just thought, “No”. Because I had brought aspects of the story like Crowley and the baby swap along to the mix, and Terry created Agnes Nutter. So, if I had cut out Agnes then I wouldn't be doing right by the person who gave me this job. Terry would've rolled over in his grave.'

And, finally, this paragraph:

"Once again, Neil cites the absence of his co-writer as his drive to ensure that Good Omens translated to the screen and remained true to the original vision. 'Terry's last request to me was to make this something he would be proud of. And so that has been my job.'"

I think that's so heartwrenchingly beautiful, and so I wanted you all to read this, too, just in case you (like me) don't have the Good Omens TV Companion. It adds another layer of depth and emotion to this already complex and amazing story that we all know and love.

Share this post, if you can, please, so that more people can read these excerpts :")

Tagging @neil-gaiman, @fuckyeahgoodomens and @orpiknight, even if you've definitely read these before :)

happy pride to my jewtuals and any queer jews this comes across :)

tbh i feel like the whole "all men inherently oppress all women" idea also betrays how white their takes on oppression are. if this statement were true, black men would oppress white women, which is obviously wrong if you know anything about how systems of oppression work.

The biggest reveal to me is that they only believe gender is an intersection for women. That’s just straight up not what intersectionality means! All parts of your identity combine to create more than the sum of its parts, and in the case of Black men specifically manhood intersecting with Blackness results in being treated as aggressive, hypersexual, and dangerous. This is what my LGBT History, ethnic studies, and Queer of Color courses have been about but people who only see intersectionality as systems of oppression intersecting will genuinely try to tell me I don’t understand the concept as well as they do.

You know, something just hit me. When people mock Israelis for counting things like schnitzel as “Israeli culture.” The perfect comparison:

Would you tell a Navajo person that Indian frybread isn’t Native culture?

Let me recap.

Indian frybread is, in its basic form, wheat flour fried in lard. You will notice neither of those are ingredients we normally associate with Native Americans. What happened here is that when the US government decided to uproot all the Natives in various genocides and landgrabs, they took all the Natives’ assets and provided them with basic “American” rations: wheat flour and lard.

The Natives who survived these genocides took those rations and turned them into a new food: frybread. It now forms the base of many dishes across several Native cultures.

Only an asshole would tell those Natives “that’s not really your culture, you stole it from white people!” No, they didn’t. They adapted to what they had. And yes, when some of them were able to return to their homelands, they took frybread with them. It’s not less Native for being made with ingredients forced on them by white people, and it’s not less Native for not being abandoned the moment they were able to return to their natural foodways.

Jewish foods from around the world are exactly the same. We were hunted and killed and stolen from our homeland, we adapted to wherever we landed, and now we are returning home and bringing those adaptations with us. They have become part of our culture because of how our culture has formed and changed over millennia.

I hate how people can openly complain about "overpopulation" in the global south and "low birthrates" in europe and japan

Biden has not only called for a ceasefire, which he has done before, but has now publicly endorsed a specific plan from Israel that would lead to the end to the war. It is now on Hamas to accept it. Here's an official summary of the plan from the White House:

I don't believe there's a reason to be angry at this if you genuinely care about peace in the region and the end of Palestinian suffering. It is not a perfect plan, but there could never be a perfect plan for one of the most difficult foreign policy situations in the world. More civilians will die if people want to wait for perfection. There is no reason to continue this war. It's long past time for this to end.

But I think the Terminally Online are angry about this because it disrupts their radikewl narrative, which they care about more than the actual people impacted by this war. They don't want to accept that the Biden administration's alliance with Israel and painstaking diplomacy are what might lead to results that alleviate suffering, instead of Saying the Right Words (such as tweeting "IsNOTreal sucks" on 10/7), which does nothing but get likes on twitter.

It also disrupts the "genocide Joe" narrative, which doesn't really land for the average person when the administration has been trying to negotiate for a ceasefire for months, has been trying to get aid into Gaza for months (both by actually delivering aid and urging Egypt to reopen the Rafah Crossing to let in aid trucks), and is now calling for the war to outright stop. You can say calls for a permanent end to the war should've come sooner (although, since it's clear that most of diplomacy has happened behind closed doors, we genuinely can't know if that was a feasible position to take without losing leverage with the Israeli government before now), you can say that the administration should've threatened to withhold weapons to Israel sooner. I think that, too, especially after what's happened in Rafah.

But it is not honest to call Biden a genocidaire. Functioning in reality >>> social media narratives, fantasies of a revolution and/or overthrowing of Israel that will never happen, and excuses for anti-voting performance art (which is what most of these conversations always come back to, let's be real).

I really hope this plan goes through.

Do you block people in the same fandom as you just because you don't like their takes?

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Forget the Section 31 show. I need a prequel set on Cardassia following a young Garak in the Obsidian Order. Section 31 can obviously be involved. But if you want to do a nutrek that explores fascism and modern day political issues in the Star Trek setting, we need to do it on Cardassia. Cardassia is a ripe and fertile ground for new Trek stories we haven’t explored. They aren’t bound by the Federation’s post-scarcity utopia thing and Garak is an unreliable narrator anyway so the writers will have full impunity to do whatever they want. It would be absolutely perfect. Plus Andy Robinson could do voiceovers as Garak making holo-recordings about his memoirs for Bashir to hear. And then at the end obviously they’ve been married the whole time.

That is all. You know I’m right. Rattle rattle I’m banging on the walls