#other remembrances of the day:

[carcarrot]

scrolling back through my liveblogging of the day of the nyc concert because of recent notifications and its such a fun mixed bag of emotions to relive it all again

#helloooooo pineapple in my notes i do not mind the likes and reblogs <3 #but it was such a crazy day that day of the show. so much happened #i also didn't remember that the day before the concert is when my bus got messed up and was taking me back to ny #and i had to get a car service home and everything #and then there was the concert the next day! #and what i had done was worked monday. took all of tuesday off for the concert. got like maybe 4 hour of sleep if that #and then went back to work wednesday. stupid #it worked out fine lol but i dont think id do it that way again idk #other remembrances of the day: #my biggest regret is getting all worked up abt my stupid letter that never got to them anyway like jeez. obviously i still enjoyed the show #but still. OH and i missed out on getting the latte pinback buttons #not the biggest deal but i did want those. i was just awkwardly standing around before the nyc show #and the merch line was always super long anyway #what else. oh i wish i could have met those of you that were there. but next time! im cooler now so next time. #the show itself was crazyyyy. again so fun and surreal #one of the tags on my original review was something along the lines of me having not been this excited since i was a kid #and it was really like that. like it really was that absolute pure overjoyed excitement that i haven't felt for a long time #i felt the same at the hollywood bowl. just having so much fun (missing it now lol 🥲) #cant remember if i mentioned this before but when i was standing outside the stage door i saw both spike lee and adam driver leave backstage #adam driver is Tall. i didnt even recognize him at first fdhgkgkg #anyway. some thoughts almost a year later wow!

[perfectlyvalid49]

Today is January 27th, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and I'd like to get some stuff off my chest.

First, I'd like to take a minute to point out that it is not Yom HaShoah, which is the day Israel (and by extension large portions of the Jewish diaspora population) uses as Holocaust Remembrance day. Yom HaShoah is on the 27th of Nisan, a date that was selected to commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, centering Jewish resistance in our own story. That date was selected nearly five decades before the UN picked January 27th, which was selected to center our white saviors who came to liberate Auschwitz. This is utter bullshit. And no excuses for not being able to handle a moving date on the Gregorian calendar - April 19th would be the Gregorian equivalent, and it was not selected.

Having said that, given how many infographics I've seen over the last four months about how people are increasingly denying or doubting the Holocaust, I figure any day that acknowledges it is a good thing, so yeah, let's take two days to remember. I think it's worth it.

So given that this is the Holocaust Remembrance Day that centers our goyishe friends, let's talk about how our goyishe friends should observe the day.

1. It is likely that you never learned a lot of details about the Holocaust. Holocaust education usually boils down to, "and the Nazis put Jews in camps in order to kill them, and a lot of Jews were killed in gas chambers, and about 6 million died in all." Go learn some details. Read or watch an account from a survivor.  Learn about the medical experiments, or the death marches. Learn some details about what the gas chambers were actually like. Try to understand the horror. Learn about the SS St. Louis or the Evian conference in 1938 where almost every country on Earth decided it was better to let the Jews die in Germany than to allow them into their own countries.

2. On that note, take the time to understand that anti-semitism neither began nor ended with the Nazis, and that even the "good guys" were incredibly antisemitic.Try to recognize that the antisemitism that was present where you live right now in the 1930s didn't just disappear, it just went into hiding. Think about where it might be hiding now.

Basically, because this is the Holocaust Remembrance Day for the goyim, I want to focus our remembrance of what happened on the goyim. What did they do? What could they have done to help? Why didn't they? We can come back in May for more Jewish focused learning, but the Holocaust could not have happened without A LOT of willing goyim, and I think we should spend the day remembering them and their actions.

And as a side note: if you happen to read this and you've chosen to spend the day engaging in Holocaust denial or Holocaust inversion, then know that my hope for you is that something happens in your life to teach you empathy and basic human decency. And I hope it isn't pleasant for you.

#holocaust remembrance day #antisemitism #I am expecting social media to be a NIGHTMARE today #it's going to be holocaust inversion all day long #and I'm not going to be surprised by it #but I am going to be infuriated #my hope is that this post reaches one person sometime in the future when the left has moved on to some other thing to be outraged about #and that it triggers growth in them - makes them take a minute to learn something about history #but I don't think that 2024 is gonna be the year for that #the jews are tired

[gwaedhannen]

[Excerpt from Sorrow Beyond Words: Collected Testimony of the War of Wrath, 4th Edition; ed. Elrond Peredhel. Archive of Cîw Annúminas, inaugural collection]

“Simply reaching Menegroth was a struggle. Doriath had become a twisting nightmare of overgrowth and rot and mists, as Morgoth’s power warred with the remains of the Girdle and our old songs. Ai, our home, our haven! I know the name of every holly in Region, before the exile. We found deadfalls surrounded by dozens of animals who’d lain down beside the trees and rotted before they died. Blind moose more antler than flesh staggered towards us even after a dozen arrows. Vines covered in dripping thorns reached for our eyes. The cherry trees were overladen with fruits that smelled like gangrene. Deildhod stumbled into a nest of maddened vipers, and only escaped because their tails were all tangled together into a festering mass and could hardly move. We never saw or heard a single bird. I’m amazed we lost no one in that whole push through Region. No, I speak a lie. I know how we passed through with nothing worse than scrapes. Elrond was with us, and the ghost of Melian’s love still recognized her kin.

“Esgalduin had nearly been dammed by one of Hírilorn’s fallen boles, but the bridge still held. We crossed and reached the ruined gates, wrought twice and broken twice. Within there was only darkness to be seen; we knew not what manner of horrors Morgoth had sent to infest the city, but Ingwion was unwilling to leave them at the rear of his forces as he moved north, if it could be helped. Celeborn stood at Elrond’s right and myself at his left. Far less an honor guard than the heir of Elu Thingol and Melian Besain deserved. Yet in those dark days it was all the honor we could muster. King Dior Eluchíl had known thirty-six summers when he was unrighteously slain. Queen Elwing Nimaew thirty-five when despair took her to the sea. Lord Elrond Peredhel beheld the city of Elu for the first and only time in his twenty-ninth summer.

“Elrond stood before his inheritance and Sang. He sang a lament, for the lost endless years of joy and peace, for deep halls lit by birdsong and echoing with wisdom, for the Forsaken People who awoke the forest and earth with many voices, for the works of beauty never to be seen again on this side of the sea. He sang a promise, that the glory of Menegroth will be remembered in the songs of Middle-Earth for as long as its children endure. He sang thanks, for the protection the halls granted us until it could shelter us no more. As his song at last ceased, I thought I heard nightingales answering him.

“Stars shone on his brow, and his hair glistened as the vault of night, and the memories of our once-eternal bliss in the woods of Thingol’s realm under Elbereth’s gifts arose in my mind. Let Oropher dream of a deep hall for his own; let Celeborn reign where he will at his wife’s side! I knew in my heart, as the echo of nightingale songs faded, that there was no lord or king I would ever stand beside save Elrond Elwingion.

“The living stone in which our kingdom once thrived knew his voice, and at long last laid down its burden and passed. The darkness over Menegroth was lifted, and we went forth into its corpse, and no beast or orc could stand before us. I do not sing of what we found and left behind when we cast down the bridge and gave leave for the river to flood the caves. It is not worth remembering.”

#silmarillion #the silmarillion #tolkien #silm fic #elrond #doriath #menegroth #war of wrath #my OCs #war of wrath: sorrow beyond words #stormwritten #the Second Kinslaying occurred on this day in FA 506 #you can observe the day of remembrance by burning a Son of Feanor in effigy #in remembrance I'm writing Sindarin Elrond because I've seen too much Feanorian Elrond recently #the narrator is a former senior Marchwarden who escaped the Kinslaying and brought refugees over the mountains to Celeborn and Galadriel #she'll never forgive herself for not being at Sirion for the Third Kinslaying #she becomes one of Elrond's chief counselors and one of the heads of Rivendell's forces along with Glorfindel #she and Glorfindel were definitely at each other's throats for years until Elrond yelled at them to chill #they may have hatefucked #sorry Erestor #she either dies when Celebrían is captured #or leads the search for Celebrían and sails west with her #in either case she'll never forgive herself for failing #“Nimaew” = “white/pale bird” I think #a name given to Elwing after her leap #she doesn't know about it yet

[political-sideblog-dont-at-me]

I had a big long post about the trending situation but when I tried to save the draft to go check on something else Tumblr ate it. Anyway here's trending:

Here's the daily post information for the top two tags:

Here's the daily post information for the bottom two tags:

And here's the daily post information for #Free Palestine:

I know people are upset that anyone is posting any fandom related stuff at all, but Tumblr absolutely has some explaining to do when the only tag on trending that has more posts than #Free Palestine is #WWE and two of the tags on trending are basically the same tag and should've been shown as trending together instead of taking up two spots.

Being this blatant with suppressing tags during a genocide is appalling, and doing it during a massive strike (One that places an emphasis on posting Palestine related content) is rubbing salt in the wound.

#free palestine #palestine #tumblr trending is broken #not tagging the trending tags because in the only one that's actually posting more than Palestine related tags it would get lost and the #people posting in other tags can't fix the situation by posting less since they already *aren't* posting more than the Palestine tags #so it feels counterproductive to shame people who can't actually change the situation if you get where I'm coming from #Also it's now occurring to me that it's Holocaust Remembrance day #while I understand people not wanting to post about remembering a genocide that's being used to excuse an active genocide #it's still really suspicious that while I saw the tag on trending today I never saw it at the number one spot #*and* that when I checked out the tag to see if people were being islamophobic or antisemitic Tumblr shoved me right to the search feature #instead of showing me how many posts the tag had #Like I'm not even sure what to make of that (Was the tag boosted? Was it being suppressed like the Palestine tags? Was that just a poorly #timed glitch?) it just feels really suspicious

[prommytheus]

hey ik i missed trans day of remembrance but i want all of you to know that i love you beyond words. youre all my trans brother sisters and siblings and we’re all going to live forever because we have to. okay good night

#we keep going yknow. on their behalf #idk. i love being trans becuase its a part of me and its beautiful but also its really scary sometimes #but we keep going. bc we love each other #ily all #crying. ngl #tdov #trans day of remembrance #transgender

[faulty-radio]

it's hard for me to think about the transgender day of remembrance because i know that i could be part of it any moment now

#yeah i know nobody would really give a shit if i did as they do about the others but like still #it's weird #like i'm supposed to be remembering the people that are dead #but i already feel dead too #transgender day of remembrance

[duchess-of-lara]

The Princess of Wales attending the annual Remembrance Sunday Service through the years 2011~2022.

#british royal family #princess of wales #duchess of cambridge #kate middleton #brf #royals #british royals #remembrance #remembrance sunday service #remembrance service #remembrance day #I will probably change the last pic because I hate it #but I can't find any other picture that would work #if you guys see one similar but whit her not singing I'd appreciate it

[delurkr]

Anne has a ridiculously big collection of Frank Sinatra albums, 30 years' worth from getting nearly every one upon release (she does not keep it in the attic). She won't ever admit to it though so you'd have to hear about it from one of her kids.

#context? why yes ofc i love context #frank sinatra was a huge thing in the 1940s for girls her age especially #but she was exceedingly not like other girls tm in a certain way and she would never own up to being a fan #its no holds barred at christmastime tho so keep the other clarkes in remembrance when they have to hear have yourself a merry #little christmas on repeat for 25 days straight #headcanons #anne clarke #the dark pictures anthology #little hope

[dashiellqvverty]

talking abt mary winchester in the gc <3

#some of my old jack posts got some notes and i remembred this convo from the other day <3 #sorry for using light theme dark themes hurt my wittle eyes #id in alt text #jack kline #spn #autistic jack kline

[noxtivagus]

the night sky was so pretty..

#🌙.rambles #the sky was so clear n #the night was cold yeah but it wasn't too much for me. i'm used to the cold #n the stars were.. so bright. i recognized some constellations n planets n #it's. been so long since i saw the night sky as clearly as that n i felt like crying a bit ngl #i'll forever remember the sight i saw tonight. of how i missed it so much. n the many times i've imagined n dreamed of it #finally i.. was under that night sky again. n time stopped for me then n i felt like myself. renewed hope. remembrance. #warmth despite the cold. n. oh my god i'm at a loss for words rn i'm so sleepy but yeah #to my dismay the moon wasn't seen but. the night sky was still so beautiful #one day i rlly want to just stargaze w my family again properly. w my friends n. someday one day with a significant other as well #i'm so happy hfksjfsjfs it's been so long since i saw the night sky so clearly n it means so much to me 🥹 #i'll sleep early tonight. i want to be up by dawn tomorrow #i'll always remember this night fr hfkjsfjsjjfs 🥹🤍 please.. please please let me remember that moment forever #edit/ i'm rlly so happy rn i feel like crying bcs last night i.. felt so. nvm i'll move forward from then. i'll remove these tags #n focus on doing better instead forging onwards to the future. n last night will always be a reminder. but seeing the stars tonight i.. #i'll still hope! i'll hold on! the sight of the stars tonight make me dream of a better me. they remind me of who i really am #i think i'll sleep early tonight i. i deserve that rest. today was good. #words i have rn aren't enough for me to convey just how much the night n the sky n the stars n. rlly just all of that mean to me :<< #ever since i was young n. honestly just rlly throughout my whole life. yeah. too personal for here though #i wish the wonder n love i felt under the night sky tonight wld last forever. even w its cold i found warmth. w apollo n my family n #one day.. you? if you ever wanted that. if you ever imagined it. one day i know i'll feel this way again. i'll hold unto myself until then. #n one day we'll meet under the night sky n i'll be glad i chose to hold unto myself n continue to forge ahead #ohh last thought yk next time i'll bring a proper camera too ehe i just used my phone this time >< #i just love love capturing memories n keeping them to myself n remembering n reminiscing. #i'm so tempted to write some stories or ideas or wtvr but i think i'll remember what i felt earlier tonight forever. #it rlly means a lot to me for. so many reasons. i'll sleep early tonight since i want to be up for dawn!!!! so. gn <3 #i miss the dawn i used to know so well just as much as i missed the same night sky i saw tonight. feels like i'm living in a dream rn #but this.. i guess a scar yeah. its meaning is different from last night n that means the world to me. a reminder i'm still alive. #i can dream n think n write more another day but tonight i hope i'll sleep in peace #there's more i want to do but.. i think i'll just do this for myself this once. yeah. so gn please take care n i'll see you on the morrow

[briarrolfe]

I did an illustration for Trans Day of Remembrance today at work.

Our little community contains so much anger and grief, but it's because we love each other so fiercely. We remember our dead because their memory keeps us stubborn.

I love all of us today, and I hope you do too.

#tdor #trans day of remembrance #my art #trans art #let’s all be furious together. that’s what love is all about.

[redgoldsparks]

My very last comic for The Nib! End of an era! Transcription below the cut. instagram / patreon / portfolio / etsy / my book / redbubble

The first event I went to with GENDER QUEER was in NYC in 2019 at the Javits Center.

So many of the people who came to my signing were librarians, and so many of them said the same thing: "I know exactly who I want to give this to!" Maia: "Thank you for helping readers find my book!" While working on the book, I was genuinely unsure if anyone outside of my family and close friends would read it. But the early support of librarians and two American Library Association awards helped sell two print runs in first year.

Since then, GENDER QUEER been published in 8 languages, with more on the way: Spanish, Czech, Polish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portugese and Dutch.

It has also been the most banned book in the United States for the past two years. The American Library Association has tracked an astronomical increase in book challenges over the past few years. Most of these challenges are to books with diverse characters and LGBTQ themes. These challenges are coming unevenly across the US, in a pattern that mirrors the legislative attacks on LGBTQ people. The Brooklyn Public Library offered free eCards to anyone in the US aged 13-21, in an effort to make banned books more available to young readers. A teacher in Norman, Oklahoma gave her students the QR code for the free eCard and lost her job. Summer Boismeir is now working for the Brooklyn Public Library. Hoopla and Libby/Overdrive, apps used to access digital library books, are now banned in Mississippi to anyone under 18. Some libraries won’t allow anyone under 18 to get any kind of library card without parental permission. When librarians in Jamestown, Michigan refused to remove GENDER QUEER and several other books, the citizens of the town voted down the library’s funding in the fall 2022 election. Without funding, the library is due to close in mid-2024. My first event since covid hit was the American Library Association conference in June 2022 in Washington, DC. Once again, the librarians in my signing line all had similar stories for me: “Your book was challenged in our district" "It was returned to the shelf!" "It was removed from the shelf..." "It was moved to the adult section."

Over and over I said: "Thank you. Thank you for working so hard to keep my book in your library. I’m sorry you had to defend it, but thank you for trying, even if it didn't work." We are at a crossroads of freedom of speech and censorship. The future of libraries, both publicly funded and in schools, are at stake. This is massively impacting the daily lives of librarians, teachers, students, booksellers, and authors around the country. In May 2023, I read an article from the Washington Post analyzing nearly 1000 of the book challenges from the 2021-2022 school year. I was literally on route to a festival to talk about book bans when I read a startling statistic. 60% of the 1000 book challenges were submitted by just 11 people. One man alone was responsible for 92 challenges. These 11 people seem to have made submitting copy-cat book challenges their full-time hobby and their opinions are having an outsized ripple effect across the nation. WE NEED TO MAKE THE VOICES SUPPORTING DIVERSE BOOKS AND OPPOSING BOOK BANS EVEN LOUDER. If you are able too, show up for your library and school board meetings when book challenges are debated. Send supportive comments and emails about the Pride book display and Drag Queen story hours. If you see a display you like– for Banned Book Week, AAPI Month, Black History Month, Disability Awareness Month, Jewish holidays, Trans Day of Remembrance– compliment a librarian! Make sure they feel the love stronger than the hate <3

Maia Kobabe, 2023

The Nib

#maia kobabe #banned books #library funding #comics #book challenges

[your-dads-filing-cabinet]

🍉

#everytime i see a viral video from p/alestine i get so fucking paranoid that in two weeks im going to see an update that is/real dropped #a bomb on their house and killed their entire family #part of me wonders whether all of the killings are planned like that one grandma that went viral and was shot by a sniper but the other part #knows that p/alestine is g #etting bombed so frequently and indiscriminately that the colonizers could have no fucking clue who's in those houses beyond the fact that #they're p/alestinian and that's enough to murder them #everyone is getting killed in such a blasé manner i can't even tell if its targeted or not its all so fucked up and western power sits #watching its lapdog destroy another country full of innocent brown people who did nothing but exist in the way of colonial expansion #and i hate it because- how'd that one post go #if we dont stop this- in 200 years p/alestine will get a day of remembrance maybe and half meant apologies #and the cycle of racist colonial violence will keep spinning unchanged even after the deaths of another people millions strong #and the white people in power will pat their kids on the head and say ''oh hun that was centuries ago. it was terrible but we've progressed' #and somewhere else another population will be screaming out as their crushed for existing just a bit to inconveniently for capitalism

[bison-appreciation-club]

i think the weirdest thing to happen this remembrance day was me being told silas couldn't be remembered. like am i just meant to forget about him for a whole 24 hours? no. too autistic about him

#seriously tho their reasoning was so weird #like 'remembrance day is for all the brave soldiers who died defending their country' #i think silas realised that his country didn't need defending #'he didn't die in battle. he deserted his post to help the enemy' #he refused to participate in an unprovoked massacre. he tried to save the lives of people who he didn't know #who he had just been told to kill #and ok he didn't die in battle but he was still murdered for what he did #fuck you. he's a hero. he deserves to be ranked with other war heroes #bravery isn't killing people to free your country. bravery is sometimes letting your country fall so that people aren't killed #anyway vent over hehehe #really went extra with the tags on this one huh #dee rambles #dee's history stuff

[selkiesstories]

Ten Big Myths of World War I

#history #wwi #remembrance day #pay particular attention myths 9&10 #the point of war is to achieve political aims through violence #and #the Treaty of Versailles wasn't really all that harsh as these things go #the treaty of Brest-Litovsk on the other hand... #personally I think the Germans knew that they had lost but they couldn't bring themselves to admit it #so they developed this victim complex #Youtube #History Hits #Dan Snow

[colonelarr0w]

Choso is attached to your hip in a way that a cat is attached to his owner — but it leads to a little tradition that you can pinpoint as your favorite. 

“Cho? I’m going to shower honey, are you coming?”  

Choso glances up at you from his place on the couch, standing from its cushions and immediately following you into the bathroom.  

You smile, placing down your folded clothes on the sink and closing the toilet seat. At the sound of clinking porcelain, Choso takes his designated seat, crossing his legs and watching you intently. 

“So, how was your movie night with Yuuji?” you ask, stripping yourself of your clothes and turning on the shower. Choso hums, smiling for a flicker of a second before he begins to ramble. 

You extend your hand to check the temperature of your shower, still listening to your boyfriend as he recounts his day with Yuuji.  

“He really enjoys those movies, I do not, but they make him happy,” Choso says, shuddering at the remembrance of the movie that Yuuji had shown him. 

You chuckle, stepping into the shower. 

And even after your shower, Choso sits patiently and watches as you towel dry your hair and brush through it. Neither of you say a word now — but neither of you mind the silence.  

“Can I help?” Choso offers, extending his hand towards the hair dryer. You smile at him, allowing him to take it from you as he stands to his full height. He hums, threading his fingers through your hair before taking your hairbrush, drying your hair in the exact same way that he had watched you do it.  

This was your little routine, and you wouldn’t have it any other way.  

#colonelarr0w #jjk x reader #jjk fanfiction #jujutsu kaisen x reader #jujutsu kaisen fanfiction #choso kamo x reader #choso x reader #kamo choso x reader #choso kamo x reader fluff #choso fluf #kamo choso x reader fluff #kamo choso fluff #jjk #jujutsu kaisen