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[wolfythewitch]

Fun fact about elysian feilds!

All the mechs songs (except for the ones in the bifrost incident) are based on folk songs, and elysian feilds is based on a song called wayfaring stranger. The main themes of the song are about returning home/to your family (which fit the plot of the odessey) and its generally seen as being sung by someone who is dying and is ready to meet their loved ones in the afterlife, which is pretty neat considering how well it fits in the story of ulysses dies at dawn!

OH..

#wolfy tedtalks #jewishdainix

[monachopsissssss]

BLOOD ATTACK

FUCK UOYU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU MINA FUCK YOU

#words out of mouth go br #AGAIN #BY ANOTHER TRUDSTE FRIEND(?) #jewishdainix #sorry one of my irls rikcrolled me not 5 nmin ago

[koheletgirl]

You talked a little in your post about how you became anti-zionist about the israeli left's aversion to religion, and I've noticed it aswell but could never fully manage to connect these dots. Do you mind sharing a bit more about it?

let me preface this by saying everything i say here is based on my own experience and observations. what i'm going to say here will be oversimplified and i apologize for that, however i am in no headspace to get into the full nuance of this right now and i do want to talk about this.

so the influence orthodox judaism has on israeli politics is a major, major topic that i am going to address a few aspects of here. the first one (which is the least interesting one to me) is the idf. military service in israel is mandatory for every citizen over 18, but haredim are exempt from it. quoting wikipedia here (sorry), "haredi jews maintain that the practice of studying the torah (or reciting) [...] is crucial in defending the israeli people from threats, similar to an additional 'praying division' of the military". to non-religious zionist jews, this is seen as a betrayal. this, combined with laws that allow yeshiva students to live on government allowances rather than working, makes a lot of israelis feel like they're being taken advantage of by the haredim. it's not uncommon to hear people say haredim are "living off of" them.

another aspect of this, which genuinely causes me (and a lot of other people, obviously) pain, is the way jewish law is incorporated into israeli law. you may have heard last year about how abortion is allowed in judaism under certain conditions; this is true, but if i wanted to get an abortion i would have to go in front of a committee to determine whether i meet these conditions. orthodox judaism doesn't allow driving on shabbat, so there is no public transportation on shabbat in israel (shabbat being friday afternoon - saturday evening). if i want to get on a train or a bus on a weekend, i can't. a christian or a muslim living in israel can't either. there is no legal way to get married as a jew in israel without involving the rabbinate, which means that gay marriage is illegal, interfaith marriage is illegal, and so forth (if your last name is cohen, you're not legally allowed to marry a divorced woman, for instance). and worse, if you are jewish and considered married in israel (even if you didn't get married in israel), you can only get divorced through the rabbinate. which means the woman has pretty much no say in this, and there is a phenomenon in israel of women who are married against their will (i recommend watching gett: the trial of viviane amsalem, because it's informative but mostly because it's an incredible film).

these are just a few examples of this. to summarize, the influences jewish law has on israeli law are prevalent as it is, and a lot of the current israeli leadership is seeking to make them even more so. and this reality is very scary to a lot of israeli citizens, jewish or not, myself included.

now, here is where it gets unpleasant. the israeli left is mostly hiloni, non-religious, and heavily opposes all of this. for good reason! but what i have noticed, is that it creates a general aversion within the left to judaism in particular and religion as a whole. it creates a hostility. my relationship with judaism is incredibly complicated, and most of it stems from the fact that i live here. i have friends who feel a genuine disdain for judaism, because of the way it's manifested in israel. and there's a very real fear that one day soon we will become the minority, and find ourselves in an ultra-jewish theocracy. it scares me, genuinely, as a woman and as a part of the queer community. it scares a lot of people.

and this is where it ties to the left's fear of a one secular state solution and the right of return. this very real fear of living in a jewish theocracy, manifests itself in the much less realistic fear of living in a muslim theocracy. i always get to this point when talking to my parents. they ask me if i actually believe that this won't happen if jews are no longer the majority here. and an argument that is always present in conversations about the fear of secular jews becoming the minority is that "they (haredim and other religious jewish groups) reproduce a lot faster than us". sounds awful, doesn't it? but statistically speaking, the more religious you are, the more children you have. and they use this same argument when talking about palestinians.

israelis talk about palestinians as if they're all hyper-religious muslims. we've seen this recently, in israel's attempts at pinkwahing. and they teach us about islam in school, with every islamophobic stereotype you can think of. they showed us "not without my daughter" in arabic class. so islamophobia is rampant in israel, obviously. and what i have noticed with the israeli left, is that even the most progressives of them are still terrified of the prospect of becoming a religious minority, because it's a fear they deal with daily in the face of the current israeli government. that is not to say they're not also islamophobic, many (most) of them are. but personally i think it's fascinating to see how this ties into how oppressed they feel by a religion that they're a part of. how scared they are of religion as a concept. how very concrete fears of where this country is currently headed tie into fears of where a hypothetical multi-ethnic secular state would go.

again, this in no way encapsulates the full situation or even just this issue. it's just something i've been thinking about a lot lately.

#ask #jewishdainix #israel

[monggay]

Hello may I ask for a gunpowder tim holding a chicken. Maybe even a chiken with goggles idk sfhoshofhsifh

Oh damn i was gonna go to bed but.... Gpt & chicky...... 💛

Vote 4 me n I'll draw u stuffs ^_^

#the mechanisms #gunpowder tim #asks #maeart #jewishdainix #thank u fort he ask... 🥺 i love this sm its soooo cute yaknow

[phoenixyfriend]

@jewishdainix commented on this post:

The thing is, israel must be dismantaled because it is built on xenophobia, nationalism and subjeugation of palestinians. I agree with you on the worry of jewish safety, but that needs to be done by fostering and building communities of both nations of people, where both are welcome and safe, not by keeping an opressive colonialist state with no interest in equality or peace in power.

And Im saying this as a jew who lives in occupied palestine, btw. I know co-existing eont come out of nowhere, but it can be built.

(New post because the original is very long.)

Thank you for commenting! Most of the commentary I'm getting seems to be from people who are as removed from the conflict as I am.

I think a major factor in the discussion that stemmed from my initial response to the first "r u pro Palestine" question was that I was... well, very tired and not running on all cylinders, for one, but also in an intersection of Tumblr that sees a lot of half-baked political reblogs where people just... share things they either don't know ANYTHING about or don't realize how much is our isn't propaganda.

I am not immune to propaganda, especially the subtler kind, as evidenced by my having to adjust my understanding of the Yemen situation.

But the thing is that like... that intersection means I've seen a LOT of takes that are extreme (like Hamas and the Houthis being entirely right about Israel and how to handle it, or that even the children in Israel, by virtue of being Israeli, are guilty) as well as a lot of people who are supporting extreme solutions without really thinking things through?

Like, the majority of the people I see talking about Dismantling Israel seem to be in favor of doing so quickly and without regard to what happens to the people there, Because They're The Bad Guys, or because they just don't realize that this is the sort of thing that takes time and management to do safely.

Like... when I see so many people parroting things with an underlying tone of hate and malice towards even the civilians, it makes me concerned that any expression of support for a position like "dismantle Israel" will be taken as support by both "do so slowly and responsibly with an aim towards integration and safety for all" AND the "boot out all the jews" sides, because when the first question is only four words, I can't also answer in only four words, because political slogans are never JUST what they actually mean.

That said, the discussion over the past few days definitely has me sympathizing more with the Dismantle argument, but I do wonder about how it would be enforced, and by whom. Like, the Israeli government has made it pretty clear they have no interest in ceasefire, let alone a dismantling, so... does the UN get involved? NATO? Is the US sent in to undo Israel, the way they're trying to undo things like the Houthi government (as I've been told they're functionally the government of 70% of Yemen)? What gives us people of the world the right to choose interventionism in Israel but not Yemen or Iran?

Just cutting US aid from Israel opens the doors to Hamas and Houthi and associated groups "managing" the dismantling, which is the situation I expressed so much concern over in the previous post, so that's not an option. It looks like we do need the UN to be involved if that goal of Dismantling to build something new is possible, but that's interventionism, which is bad because it violates self-determination, except when it's not bad because there's mass murder happening, except when it's still bad even though the mass murder already happened, and...

IDK

It's so complicated and I WANT to believe there's a solution but the political philosophy and practical implications are kind of. A necessary consideration even when the ethics are clear cut.

#current events #Israel #phoenix talks #jewishdainix #death tw #antisemitism

[koravelliumavast]

If they use "storms" the say way we use "fuck" does that mean the stormfather could be called the fuckfather

I think they also use storms as like shit so he’s also the shitfather.

#asks #stormlight archive #stormfather #i want you to know that I just woke up and this was the first thing I saw I love it #jewishdainix #mina :)

[lordgolden]

God can you imagine all the queer slang the six duchies would have

“friend of Lord Golden” HAS to be one to this day like. his impact

#jewishdainix #ask #rote #tawny man

[spacedykez]

In ruthlessness when poseidon sings "I am your darknest moment" I imagine there being a huge fucking wave showing up and getting to such a big size that it obscures the sun making it dark on odysseus's ship

OOHHHHH i always hear it as stormclouds obscuring the sun except a single beam hitting poseidon but that is such a cool concept.... art ideas art ideas

#asks #epic: the musical #jewishdainix

[ulysses-but-somehow-more-transer]

You have the best posts

i do, thank you for noticing!

#asks #shrimp shrieks #i love random asks so much <333 i need them notifications. i eat them #jewishdainix

[secondbeatsongs]

@jewishdainix replied to your post “I'm still meh about Norway's song this year, but...”:

Hey op would you mind tagging this post as eurovision? For tag filtering

​sure thing! I did already tag them esc for tag filtering, but I don't mind adding a couple more tags (eurovision and esc23) for convenience

#jewishdainix

[jewishdainix]

he/she/they ✒ minor

Art blog: @minaglobe

#new intro! :D #previous urls: #mina-thb-with-no-caps #mina-globes-and-maps #jewishdainix

[wolfythewitch]

Wolfy since youre talking about biblical figures what do you think about Yona (commonly knoen in pop culture as Jonah from Jonah and the whale, even though the fish that ate him wasnt a whale)?

Y'know. It was impressive that he tried to run from God. A useless venture but impressive. Him cursing out a tree cause he was hot is so real

#jewishdainix #wolfy tedtalks #wolfy religious tedtalks

[monachopsissssss]

This guy

small fox man

#words out of mouth go br #jewishdainix

[koheletgirl]

For the ask game, 11, 31, 34!

11. are you listening to music right now?

only in my head. i have "don't wanna know" from inside in my head rn

31. 3 random facts

i cant think of anything but i've been staring at the friends script chana got me for my birthday so here are 3 random friends facts: joey and monica were meant to be the main couple, chandler and monica were meant to be a one night stand, there was a season 8 episode that was filmed pre 9/11 and featured an airport bombing joke. it was never aired but it's on youtube

34. most embarrassing moment

um im sure i have many from my adult life but here's one memory that stuck with me from kindergarten: i was splitting a cookie with my friend and my dad had just come to pick me up, so i went to show it to a guy who i thought was my dad to ask him if the parts of the cookie were even. he said "they seem even to me but i'm not your dad" and i had never been more mortified in my life

ask game

#later i asked my dad to show me his pants every morning so i wouldn't make that mistake again #ask game #jewishdainix #ty!!!

[mistninja]

Ok! so :3

The assignment my teacher gave us was to either write about our favorite teacher or a "letter" to the president/whatever about something. Both pretty boring assignments but we were allowed to write something fictional so I made it interesting. This is what I made up in the 30 ish minutes of class:

Dear Mr. Bladecutter, I hope this letter finds you well. If Lady Luck favours me, you will find the matter in this letter as urgent as I do. My name is Rythee Hoardcatcher. I assume can tell by my last name that my ancestors were not among the original dragon slayers. However, my great grand father earned his position and wealth because he impressed the Flame Maker by stealing the dragons' gold without the permission or assistance of the slayers. As of today, my family works on a farm where we research the new generation of dragons and Mayfiends, and recently we made an alarming discovery. As you know, the old dragons were made by the Night Burner as a ploy to destroy us. After the original dragon slayers killed them and rebuilt society, out patron god, the Flame Maker, made a second generation of dragons - smaller and less destructive than the first one - for us to hunt and use in our technology. My family's research has been suggesting that in the past 60 years we have been hunting these dragons faster than they could repopulate, driving them to near extinction. The Flame Maker's dragons going extinct would has disasterous effects on our country's economy and way of life, but it gets worse. We believe that the reason no has noticed the Flame Maker's dragons' population has dropped is because a newer generation is taking their place, and we have yet to identify which god they belong to. I'm no monk, but you know how they say that time is a circle. There have been rumers of the Night Burner's prophecies... Either way, we must make the transition away from relying solely on dragons. Thank you kindly, - Ryethee Hoardcatcher

:)

Dragons, yai! Thats a very good spin on a boring assignment, your very creative! Hope you get a good grade :D this sounds like a great idea for a story, the idea of a new species silently occupying the space of the old one is so eerie and the setting sounds interesting i love it, and just in 30 minutes? Thats impressive

#i love any and all stories involving dragons #this is a fun concept!! #asks #jewishdainix #posted with permission (just in case)

[dissociationswagcompetition]

No matter who wins, GG to everyone! Im on the stormlight side, but Mae seems very cool and I'll definetly check stuff out about her later.

Thank you for running this poll! It has been a joy to vote on and even more to see the hype and the excitment everyone has :D

Theyre both such good contenders!!! Tbh I couldn't be upset no matter who ends up winning, they're both just that cool!

And thank you!!! >///< this has been so much fun to run and im super hype for the post-tourney for-fun matches!!!

#asks #misc #jewishdainix