mumblingsage:

My medieval and ancient ancestors watching me trying to charge my laptop and connect to WiFi: Ah, yes, she must feed her magic mirror on the telluric current and summon the spirits of knowledge from the aether.

My ancestors watching me proceed to doomscroll on Twitter: Alas! She is beguiled by the cruel babblings of the demons within the mirror; soon she will descend into melancholy from the things she has witnessed.

thatnoulguyorsomething:

bangaraangex:

satanaels-pride:

‘Tis the season

Hi I’m the Fenris in the post!

Wow, I hope people see this reply!

I haven’t been on tumblr in ages but someone brought this post (and another) to my attention so here’s your story:

For starters, yes it’s real. The movie is called Merry Kissmas and you can see us in the opening credits. It’s a cheesy romcom christmas movie you can find on Netflix. I watched it, it’s so cheesy lol.

What happened was I was staying in this hotel in Downtown LA for Anime Expo and on my way back to the room, this film crew approached us and asked us to be extras in his movie because “it’ll be funny!” Sure why not! So it was totally intentional.

I still cosplay Fenris from time to time but I’m more active on my Facebook page if you want to find me/credit me!

hero-israel:

maelace:

athingofvikings:

hindahoney:

hindahoney:

I have to remind myself daily that I cannot define my judaism by antisemitism and that I need a healthy dose of Jewish joy

Anyway please comment or tag with something positive and jewish that you’ve seen/done recently

This is relevant again. Enjoy the comments and reblogs

I recently made a large, large batch of my grandmother’s honeycake recipe for the High Holidays, and mailed off portions of it to various friends, many of them not Jewish, to wish them a Sweet New Year, as well as making babka for two of them, one of them for his birthday the other week.

Not only is this a joyous thing on its own, the sharing of Jewish food, but seeing them comment that, yes, this is indeed something sweet and joyous for a New Year’s blessing was particularly satisfying to me.

Why?

I live in Germany. In the town I live in, there is an abandoned Jewish cemetery. I have seen the plaque on the building in the center of town that was once the synagogue.

And yet, here I am. Making honeycakes for the High Holies with my grandmother’s own recipe that was handed down to me, making latkes and lighting my menorah for Channukah, making hamantaschen at Purim.

So Am Yisrael Chai.

My MIL is making a ‘first year’ scrapbook for our baby, so we are of course getting pics every holiday, as one does. And the most recent batch includes the baby Next To one parent holding the etrog and lulav while the other parent holds her, because when we attempted to let her shake things, she tried to fit The Entire Etrog into her mouth. (she also got her very own plushie torah for Simchat Torah and I’m just so enjoying introducing a tiny being to Jewish life).

My parents gave my son a mezuzah necklace. He has been asking for one for years, to be like me, and now we feel he’s old enough to be responsible for it. He is so proud, gazing at the mirror and taking “pairs” pics with me. He knows why the letter shin is there, we said the mezuzah prayer even though a necklace isn’t “affixed” per se. He was so happy. I could kvell!

officialspec:

walkable cities also means sittable cities send tweet

theprofessional-amateur:

knitmeapony:

scribblecate:

ifellinlovewithjaneway:

witchofprose:

This is the FUNNIEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN

Reblogging for cultural enrichment

bout time I brought back the Laurel and Hardy flex tape-

From The Killers, 1946. A Film Noir Classic

I’m an archivist, behold my growing collection was of old photos mirroring timeless memes I’ve come across at various places I’ve worked.

menheratic:

Again for the people in the back:
You are never “too old” to wear a fashion that makes you happy, that concept originating in capitalism to make you buy new clothes over and over again to “dress your age” aside. Also, doesn’t matter if you go out or not, if it puts a smile on your face it is still worth it.

tzikeh:

Warning: a possible huge spoiler is making the rounds

For Our Flag Means Death fans, be aware that NYCC attendees saw this Thursday’s episode and there is a massive spoiler(?) floating around, so be careful if you are looking to avoid being spoiled.

calamitys-child:

calamitys-child:

calamitys-child:

I think the best most human thing in the world is strangers doing a silly thing together

Examples:

- guy at work “Yes, and -” ing the bit me and my coworker were doing where we pretended to be owners of a fantasy medieval tavern not minimum wage retail staff

- at the gay club when Die Young by Kesha came on and two hundred people, all dancing and drinking separately, jumped up and down to make the “- beat of the drums *STOMP STOMP*” as loud as possible

- person who watched me stomp round the beach singing a made up song about breakfast foods to name a cat after and suggested more breakfast foods that would be good cat names

- guy who started a dance off with everyone across the road while waiting for the lights to change

- very tiny girl at the pharmacy interviewing everyone in the queue and every single one of us in turn sat down and answered this toddler’s questions like we were on Letterman

The three pillars of humanity, in no particular order, are Joy, Absurdity, and Sharing

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just7frogsinapeoplesuit:

skarabrae-stone:

just7frogsinapeoplesuit:

wondersmith-and-sons:

theygotlost:

theygotlost:

now im imagining what pride events in ankh morpork are like

there will EXCLUSIVELY be kink at the ankh morpork pride parade

(via @takiki16)

(Tags via @romanceyourdemons)

Extremely correct response, leaving out the inevitable debacle over citizens declaring counterfeit genders in order to have rarer pronoun pins to sell to collectors in the underground pronoun market.

Dibbler, only mildly discouraged, eventually realizes he can sell embellishments for your pronoun pin, which he claims will upgrade your gender.

Also of note is that there are no cops present at Ankh-Morpork Pride. This is not because they aren’t welcome (everyone knows Nobby is as kinky as they come), but because the festivities include throwing bricks at the City Watch building and they are busy trying to make sure they still have a place to work the next day. The Night Watch prepares each year with a barricade, and pre-marriage Vimes always collects the good bricks so he can save for a house. Nobody is really sure where the tradition came from, but it’s good fun and usually nobody gets hurt too badly.

The bricks are provided by Vetinari, who considers it a good test of city infrastructure and training for the Watch.

• Cheery would 100% march in the parade. She’d get Nobby to go with her, but Nobby would be completely oblivious as to why (he assumed she just wants company).
• Moist von lipwig would have pride-themed stamps made; these would inevitably have some kind of issue, which would create some outrage and ultimately make the stamps more valuable as collectors’ items.
• I don’t get the impression that Ankh Morpork ever had anti-sodomy or crossdressing laws, so I don’t think the queer community’s history with the police would be the same as it is in the real world. Especially because Cheery Littlebottom literally started the Dwarf trans/feminism movement as an officer of the Watch, with the Watch’s support.
• Dibbler would totally sell pride flags with the wrong colors (and then insist it was the “new, updated version” if anyone questioned him)
• The nobility are all scandalized, meanwhile the Seamstresses Guild has a float in the parade
• Adora Belle Dearheart is deeply involved with at least one queer organization and is one of the main organizers of the Pride festival, but refuses to answer any questions about why
• Ridcully decides the wizards should be involved, and Ponder Stibbons should make a float and organize the refreshments for them to eat while riding on the float. Ridcully’s concept of allyship is loudly saying, “Well done, that man!” and pointing at anyone he thinks is exhibiting particularly queer behavior.
• Madam Sharn and Pepe release a whole new line of Pride-themed chainmail
• Bengo Macarona is embraced as a gay icon
• Reg Shoe decides the main pride event is too corporate, and organizes an alternative pride parade for the same time and place; this immediately gets subsumed by the main pride event. Some Omnians show up to Pride to protest and Reg is delighted to have someone to fight with.

More from the tags, I love all of you

@seventhscorpio COME HERE

At one particularly memorable Pride, a bunch of Drag Queens from Fourecks had a fight with one of the wizards (some bloke with a hat with Wizzzard) on it because they claim he nicked their travelling luggage.

I am in discworld heaven right now laughing, it’s all so perfect and Terry would love it.

priestin:

seven journalists were killed in Gaza in the last 48 hours, wearing their distinctive Press jackets and all. Gaza is under total siege while being bombarded rn