Bug-Eyed Detective

Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book.  It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.

there’s a timeskip

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!

IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH

AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because

THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING

AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA

BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM

HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -

IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK

#tbf the dude wrote it to be a dick

yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.

i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.

He's right and he should say it

It says a lot that the one apologizing for their words is the one who is correctly calling out dog whistles and not the one making up slander

I don’t want to ‘piss off a terf’, I want to make sure other trans people in my life are safe

People reblogging this with ‘but making terfs mad is fun tho’ or ‘why not both’ are missing the point.

The comfort and safety of those affected by bigotry will always be more important than a game of internet gotcha.

Same with jewish people. The safety and comfort of jewish people is of utmost importance, not simply or just fighting against nazis. The victims of bigotry are of utmost importance.

Black Lives come before ACAB, Jewish people come before punching Nazis, Trans safety comes before pissing off terfs.

cc: Who thinks, uh, Watson is too heavy? Raise your hand if you think Watson is too heavy.

*short cut*

Does anybody think he’s too skinny?

audience member: no.

No? M'kay..So uh, I’m very proud of you guys. You get a 100 percent. Uh, he’s perfect

*upbeat music plays as it zooms in on the dog*

james slay-caster

Source on twitter

How to get a small cylinder out of

here’s the thing, gentiles. there is pretty much no “critique” of judaism you can make that a jew hasn’t already made.

“circumcision is bad!!!!!!!!”

plenty of jews agree and have been wrestling with this practice for decades.

“the bible says being queer is bad!!!!!!!!!”

these verses have been torn to shreds by jews for decades if not centuries. i know dozens of queer rabbis, and most of my friends are queer jews. my rabbi has a trans kid and frequently goes to our state capitol to yell at the government for being transphobic.

“what even is the point of keeping kosher!!!!!!!!!!”

we have entire books written about this and discuss it frequently.

“but israel!!!!!!”

congrats! ur just antisemitic.

in conclusion, there is no Hot Take you as a non jew can have abt judaism and jews that hasn’t already been discussed to death by jews. your dumb one liner has already been pondered for 200 years by a bunch of nerds in kippot on a tuesday afternoon. your revolutionary opinion is old news. you are boring. make some jewish friends and learn something.

So my Jewish friend showed me the Talmud, and, not even kidding, it's like the old Tumblr nested reblogs, but in print.

Okay, and here’s the other part, much shorter than my response about reading Talmud, I promise. (Sorry, it’s just impossible to talk about Talmud with any brevity.)

After the disastrous Bar Kokhba revolt, which resulted in the Romans depopulating most of Judea (there are debates over whether it counts as a genocide), barring Jews from entering Jerusalem, and hauling most of the survivors off to Rome as slaves, the early rabbis were primarily concerned with ensuring that the Jewish population didn’t die, disperse, or despair. 

So via, in large part, the codification of the Mishnah and creation of the Talmud, and the privileging of study as the Jewish activity par excellence, they essentially turned the Torah both into the Ark we carried with us, and the Ark that carried us in exile.

It became a portable homeland. No matter how bad things were in whatever country we were living in, in Torah we had a sort of timeless, untouched land we could retreat into. 

And there, everyone was still alive. 

We discuss and debate, through all that commentary, as if we’re all alive at the same time, all the famous commentators throughout the ages, Moshe himself, everyone. We can all sit together and study. They might be dead, but they are not gone or silent. 

If you’re facing a particularly thorny ethical dilemma, you don’t have to face it alone. You can cluster around the text with 3500 years of other Jews who wrestle with the same issue. You’re never alone. 

I understand it as a parallel to the idea that all Jewish souls ever born and not yet born were present at Sinai. We’re also all present in Torah. 

Every week, around the world, everyone’s reading and discussing the same Torah passage.

Which, on the less happy side, is a major reason why the destruction of their Torah scroll is so traumatic for a Jewish community.

But also, on the happier side, it’s why we dance with the Torah on Simchat Torah. It’s why we dress it in vestments and a crown. It’s why, when my shul moved to a building in a different city, we walked it the 12 miles to its new home, all of us that could make the trip, elders, children, and dogs. 

We carry our home with us, and it carries us.

a little post-plot bonding between nemona and penny over cute fluffy backpacks

bonus, penny ordered her a shiny one:

this is soooooo cute, like, it sounds like them!! (also they need to make those eevee bags..) (sylveon when??(

Feminism isn't "Women vs Men"

Feminism is "Us vs The Patriarchy"

And "Us" includes everyone.

We were all thinking it

Some time your heroes don’t let you down.

chibi donbrothers :-) the normal sentai