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I spent a large portion of today researching tekhelet for work as part of a piece on ancient dyes and I got so stupid emotional. Like it's just a dye, but it was such an important thing in ancient Judaism as the dye which would make tzitzit blue and the method of making it was lost around the time of the Arab conquest of Israel in the 7th century. (Also I note that lots of sources date the loss of the secret of the original manufacture but many just gloss over it mapping directly onto the colonisation of Judea/Israel by the Rashidun Caliphate - I know that the two events may not be connected but I have spent too long looking at history to be able to say that these were completely unrelated y'know... Lost knowledge is very, very rarely a coincidence)

They literally, to this day, still don't know how it was made.

There are multiple theories, most of which revolve around the murex snail (where we get Tyrian purple from) and the fact that if you expose the pigment it produces - di-bromo indigo - to light at the right point in the production process, it is reduced to regular indigo from which you can get your blue dye. But this has all been worked out using modern methods. The ancient production method of tekhelet is gone and I honestly find myself mourning yet another piece of lost knowledge form our history.

#yeah I think about it too #jumblr #jewish history #judaism

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Having feelings about Jeff Mace, the third Captain America who was Jewish-American and targeted by the Lavender Scare because of his friendship with a gay man and his relationship with the second Bucky, Fred Davis Jr., and was forced to replace Bucky with a female sidekick and eventually gave up the Captain America mantle and got married, but never had any kids with his wife.

#jeff mace #fred davis jr #marvel #marvel comics #earth 616 #the patriot #captain america and bucky #captain america #bucky #jack casey

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There's a peregrine falcon pair on the roof of one of the buildings on campus. A few months ago I also saw an American kestrel. There's plenty of blue jays that live in the woods near my parents' place, and red-tailed hawks, too, and at least one brown-headed cowbird. And now a bald eagle lives there too......my bird AU is crossing over into real life, folks.

#birds #bird au #birds of a feather au

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A bald eagle now lives in the woods near my parents' house. I am so excited. I can't wait to look for its nest this Summer and observe it.

#birding #birds #bald eagle #eagle heard I'm writing a bird au based on the birds native in my area and decided to join in the fun ig

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Steve 🤝 Bucky

Finding a kid created for the sole intention of being a weapon of mass destruction and deciding to adopt said kid

#ian rogers #steve rogers #leopold zola #bucky barnes #kobik #marvel #marvel comics #rj boyle

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Always thought I'd be the main character but actually I'm the queer-coded best friend in a rom com that fans immediately pick up on having had unrequited feelings for the main character but has swallowed their sadness and forced themself to be happy for the main character and help them get their fairytale romance even if it hurts.

#personal

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Has your #1 comfort character committed a crime?

#so so many crimes but he was sexy while doing them so it's fine #magneto posting

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Just once I'd like to turn my phone on after Shabbat and see good news......

#sighhh #current events

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BuckyToro is great because Bucky lets Toro get a little bit unhinged and Toro lets Bucky feel like a normal teenager just for a short while.

#buckytoro #bucky barnes #marvel #marvel comics #toro raymond #the invaders

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I love the phrase "they get along like a house on fire". It's perfect. You and me have perfect chemistry and it's setting off the carbon monoxide detectors. People are calling emergency services to get us to stop being so chummy. Someone died

#toro raymond #bucky barnes #buckytoro #the invaders #marvel #marvel comics #it's them

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So I'm not really a bug person, I don't hate bugs, I don't love bugs, I'm just ambivalent about them most of the time. But the other day I was watching old documentary footage of close-ups of various insects, and there was a close-up of a fly cleaning itself. The way it ran its little leg across its wing, smoothing it out, spreading its saliva across it, fluttering its wings ever so slightly.....it reminded me so much of watching my bird Supermango preen himself, or any bird preening itself. This tiny little fly preened itself in the same all the other flying creatures I'm accustomed to watching do. People talk about bugs like they're a lesser form of animal, like they don't have preferences or thoughts the way larger animals do, but I know Supermango has preferences about his preening, I know that when he preens himself he doesn't do so out of instinct but out a cognitive understanding that something about himself isn't right and that he wants to fix it. Birds don't preen themselves exactly alike, different birds have a different order of doing things, is it the left wing or the right wing first, where are you perched when you do it, do you like company or doing it alone....how could I have never considered that flies could think the same way too? That flies have the capacity to *prefer* and *desire* just as other animals do?

This doesn't really have a point so much as me making an observation. We are all animals- I scratch my back and comb my hair for the same reason my lovebird preens his feathers for the same reason a tiny fly cleans its wings.

#animals #life #bugs #nature

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I am not in the DC fandom but Tumblr and I will fall into this feedback loop of Tumblr recommending DC posts to me, I sent those posts to my friends who *are* in the fandom, and then because I engaged with those posts Tumblr will recommend *more* DC posts and it just goes on and on and it's so funny

#don't get me wrong I love those posts even if I only have the context for half of them #but it's very funny

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I know I hate it oh my God let Magneto be radical, let him be extreme, stop trying to project culturally Christian moral values into a fundamentally un-Christian character aughhhhh

Forgive and forget is *not* a Jewish value

In light of Resurrection of Magneto's latest issue and blunder of the Jewish belief that "if you save one life it's as if you saved an entire world"....

It doesn't mean that Jews are all saintly protectors who must save everyone and never kill anyone. It doesn't mean that all. In fact, there's an equally as important belief that goes along with the aforementioned one which is that "if you allow a murderer to escape, the blood of their victims is on your hands." We Jews are not naive. The life of a murderer is not worth more than their victim- if you had a chance to stop a murderer and didn't, yes, even if it means killing them, the blood of their victims is on your hands.

Which is why Magneto saying "to save one life is to save the world" about Tony freakin' Stark is not only out of character, but also not what the phrase is about. Tony Stark has proven numerous times that his actions have led to disastrous things. Magneto is under no theological or moral obligation to help him. And Magneto himself as a character wouldn't *want* to help him.

"oh but he's had his redemption arc, Magneto is good now uwu"

Magneto doesn't have to be a doormat to have a redemption arc. Him not killing Tony for his actions inadvertantly causing the destruction of mutantkind by Orchis is enough of a "redemption". He doesn't have to save Tony to prove he's "good" now, and in fact, helping him would statistically most likely end up with more destruction in the future. Magneto can just. Not do anything. That would be more in-character.

Jews are not naive doormats. *Magneto* is not a naive doormat.

#magneto posting #magneto #erik lehnsherr #max eisenhardt #marvel #marvel comics #antisemitism #woobification

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Oh my god I'm not the only one

i have a disgusting amount of dreams that just involve me identifying birds like i come out of my dreams with lists of birds that i saw and i was like "i know who that is. Great Blue Heron. Cedar Waxwing"

#birds #birding #it's annoying when I dream of identifying birds that aren't in my life list yet and then I wake up disappointed the dream wasn't real

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On Twitter there are currently a lot of Christians and Muslims getting really angry about ways that Jews work around restrictions on work during Shabbat, and, like, honestly I do not understand why they care? Just a lot of non-Jews telling nice Orthodox Jews that they’re doing their religion wrong for no reason.

#yepppppp #jumblr #antisemitism #judaism #christian antisemitism #supercessionism

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In light of Resurrection of Magneto's latest issue and blunder of the Jewish belief that "if you save one life it's as if you saved an entire world"....

It doesn't mean that Jews are all saintly protectors who must save everyone and never kill anyone. It doesn't mean that all. In fact, there's an equally as important belief that goes along with the aforementioned one which is that "if you allow a murderer to escape, the blood of their victims is on your hands." We Jews are not naive. The life of a murderer is not worth more than their victim- if you had a chance to stop a murderer and didn't, yes, even if it means killing them, the blood of their victims is on your hands.

Which is why Magneto saying "to save one life is to save the world" about Tony freakin' Stark is not only out of character, but also not what the phrase is about. Tony Stark has proven numerous times that his actions have led to disastrous things. Magneto is under no theological or moral obligation to help him. And Magneto himself as a character wouldn't *want* to help him.

"oh but he's had his redemption arc, Magneto is good now uwu"

Magneto doesn't have to be a doormat to have a redemption arc. Him not killing Tony for his actions inadvertantly causing the destruction of mutantkind by Orchis is enough of a "redemption". He doesn't have to save Tony to prove he's "good" now, and in fact, helping him would statistically most likely end up with more destruction in the future. Magneto can just. Not do anything. That would be more in-character.

Jews are not naive doormats. *Magneto* is not a naive doormat.

#magneto posting #magneto #erik lehnsherr #max eisenhardt #judaism #resurrection of magneto #resurrection of magneto issue 4 #al Ewing has proven time and time again that he sees Judaism as an aesthetic for him to manipulate him to his means and I am done #marvel #marvel comics

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For all you fuckers in the notes saying that it's okay that Beau De Mayo had him say all that shit because he's "not actually a Holocaust survivor" in the series...........

First of all....the original series not explicitly showing the Holocaust is because of standards at the time for children's television. It's why they said things like "war" instead of "Holocaust". But now in the spin-off X Men 97......in their most recent episode they explicitly showed Magneto having been a Jewish concentration camp prisoner. So fuck you.

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Today sure was a day for ruining Magneto's character huh....

First, Resurrection of Magneto depicted him without his tattoo, and then X Men 97 had him say that the Holocaust was about religion and that Jews oppressed him.

I hate it here.

#beau demayo #magneto posting #max eisenhardt #magneto #erik lehnsherr #resurrection of magneto #marvel #x men 97 #antisemitism #sighhhhh #holocaust