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#1 Plantar Stan

@theplantarsdeservebetter / theplantarsdeservebetter.tumblr.com

Leo. He/him. English and יידיש | Jewish | I don’t tag spoilers or triggers

I am remaking my blog. I just realized i am following way too many people and would like to run a better managed and less chaotic blog. I’ll leave this blog up for a bit and drop my new url when I’m done remaking. I like to periodically “refresh” my social medias and start new. I will be taking on a new pseudonym with this new blog so don’t be surprised that the name is listed differently

Im at @thegunslingerfollowed if anyone’s interested.

I am remaking my blog. I just realized i am following way too many people and would like to run a better managed and less chaotic blog. I’ll leave this blog up for a bit and drop my new url when I’m done remaking. I like to periodically “refresh” my social medias and start new. I will be taking on a new pseudonym with this new blog so don’t be surprised that the name is listed differently

What I love about Jewish ritual objects is how....for so many of their productions, they just *can't* be automated. Even aside from Halakha, the details for some just *have* to be done by human hand. A machine can weave the fabric for a Tallit, but it can't tie the Tzizit correctly. A Shofar can't be made by a machine because each horn is shaped ever so differently with different textures. Kosher food can be mass-produced but only a human can ensure that it's Kosher, and a Jewish person *has* to turn on the ovens. A Mezuzah and a Torah and Tefillin can't be machine printed, they *have* to be written by a Sofer.

I just love how we emphasize the human involvement in our objects.

Part of me wonders if HaShem planned it this way on purpose.

Me too, honestly.

<3

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skyholdherbalist

Is the “fluffy one shot” pig doing whip its with those cans?  Cause that feels accurate.

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Then… where do I go? I’m just at home muttering

into the void of an open word document.

@valkyrien Oh but there’s more to this party than sugar and sweets~ ♥︎

THE PIG IS EATING PINE TREES IN THE PINING I CAN NOT DEAL.

IT GOT BETTER

Where’s the lemon buffet

Third Comic, featuring the citrus-themed juice bar~ @alltheusernameiwantistaken

This has me in stitches !!!!! LOL ah mon dieu, woo, I needed that :-) Thanks @lodessa

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probablynothumanish
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Literal FANFIC art. Art of FANFIC. I love this so much!

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This could use another go round.

Always reblog

I feel like we always see parents who are 100% super supportive allies, or parents who are horrible and cruel.  At least in media or in the most popular stories.  But I feel like that ignores just how many people have parents where you just have no idea?  And even if you think they’ll accept you on a surface level, you don’t know if they have a breaking point.  Especially if you need to go on hrt, or request they change the way they think about and refer to you.  Sure they’re liberal and all, or centrists, or “tolerant”, but how far does that stretch?

I think most closeted LGBT+ kids live like this, wading around in the grey area.  I’d like it of more of us knew that was normal, I’d like if we talked about it more.

We really, really don’t acknowledge the banal, disappointing reactions, and what those can do. When my husband came out to my MIL, her reaction was “Can I take some time to think about this?” and then she never, ever spoke about it again.

My MIL is not an awful person. She’s a loving mother who carries emotional scars from having been in an abusive relationship with her minister husband for a long time, which has left her with a disabling preoccupation with “What might the neighbours say” in her life, and that often means she makes poor choices without realising it. She loves my husband no less; she didn’t withdraw love and affection from him, didn’t cut him off.

But she chose to pretend it wasn’t happening, and that sent him into a hefty shame spiral we had to work through. A few months later, a stand up routine he did about being bisexual was doing the rounds on Facebook, and despite normally sharing every single routine of his, she rang him to tell him she wouldn’t be sharing that one because “Your brother’s wedding is coming up, and I don’t want it overshadowed by people talking about you and your news.”

And again, this is not because she rejects him. That’s an easy narrative, and certainly the one you’d assume from the outside. But that, in her own way, was her attempt to protect both her children from negative scrutiny - she truly thought that people would care, and would care enough to make a scene at the wedding, and that would hurt the two of them.

Everyone already knew. He’s a celebrity in his culture. No one cared. But, that was my MIL’s fear.

And the message it sent, intentionally or not, was “This is something shameful.”

She’s come to terms with it now. But she totally missed her “I love and support you no matter who you are” chance, and left him with a lingering issue. And that’s the sort of story we never see in queer media.

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WOW.

I could write a whole essay, a whole book about this experience in my family, but I won’t. It feels ungrateful to criticize the actions of people who still say they love you, and have never hurt you and will never hurt you in the big dramatic ways we see in the media. But in my case, and I think in many, it isn’t a clean, decisive cut. 

It’s a love that feels lesser. An acceptance with strings attached. And that hurts in a quieter way, but it still leaves marks.

I think it would be incredibly helpful and healthy to show these much more in-between reactions. Things I’ve seen or personally experienced that aren’t commonly depicted:

  • I will always love you no matter what, but I still believe what you’re doing is against God/immoral.
  • OK. Let’s just never ever talk about this again. We’ll love you and your bestie roommate for decades and support you financially and have frequent visits. But we really do not want to know.
  • Are you sure? How do you know? Do you think you’ll change your mind? Let’s take some time to think about this, okay?
  • We love you so much unconditionally, but this is going to take awhile to adjust to and we can’t promise much on the name change/pronoun change.
  • That’s fine, but you don’t have to dress like that just because you’re gay.
  • I can understand being attracted to the same sex, but please don’t cut yourself up trying to be another sex.
  • I can understand being born in the wrong body, but homosexuality is wrong, full stop. Are you sure you’re not really a female with a male soul if you like women?
  • Look, I don’t get it and I don’t need to, and I’m not going to stop you from transitioning, but I’m also not going to help you with access or the fallout either.
  • Spinsters have always existed, but it’s nothing to be proud of.
  • You’ll grow up someday.
  • That’s really funny. Anyway, what were you trying to tell me?

I think another thing that would ALSO be helpful though, is showing people - both the queer/trans folks and their families - working through this and getting to actually good and healthy places with this. It is possible to get past it, but it does require work on both sides and usually therapy. I bring this up because while it’s important to show those situations where it just lingers forever, I think it’s equally important to show people that an initial bad or lukewarm reaction doesn’t have to permanently dictate the relationship. One, so that queer and trans folks (especially young ones) aren’t encouraged to instantly give up on family that isn’t perfect right away, and two, to not let cishet folks off the hook for doing better going forward.

some people think i learned braille for Cool Points but i actually learned it bc my medicine holder has the days printed in braille and i forget to take my medication a lot. i didnt feel like turning on a light one night just to see my medication so i learned braille out of spite. now everytime i go anywhere i have to read the braille signs and i have seen “woman” misspelled as “noman” SEVERAL times.

Tired Of Waking Up To Take Medication? Learn Braille

deer diary: today i got a death threat for learning a language

Funniest part is it isn’t even a language. It’s a font. Those signs are in English. It was basically like you got a death threat for saying you were comfortable reading English in Wingdings.

This just in, being able to understand someone else’s accessibility tool is bad, you should only stay within your own understanding of ability and disability forever.

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im not blind but my brother legally is

ive always wanted to learn braille cuz my sight’s fucking terrible when it comes to reading and im dyslexic so that impacts it too, my little brother going blind’s given me even more of a motive to want to learn braille

now im gonna learn it so spite that anon too

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daddys-rainbow-princess

His face when he says “nickel” is great! XD

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mister-daddy

This reminds me of my little girl because her pants never have pockets

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babygirl-in-daddys-world

Haha Daddy you’re right! I neverrrrr have pockets, but that’s why you have them! You’re my pockets Daddy. ♥

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scenicroutes

i think about this post a lot. like, when you put something up on tumblr, you can never really be sure what’s going to happen to it - what comments will get attached to it, what reblog chains will gain critical mass, what kind of weird tumblr subcultures your gifs will get reblogged into.

and then we have this. this is a gifset of a cute moment from a pixar movie. of an infant mike wazowski finding a small coin and lamenting his lack of any pockets to store it in. when this person torrented monsters university, when they loaded these frames into photoshop, when they sharpened each frame one by one, did they know? did they know that shortly after expelling these gifs into the universe they would become a magnet for daddys-rainbow-princess, mister-daddy, and babygirl-in-daddys-world?

knowing what they know now, if they had the choice to go back to that moment when their finger hovered over the m key as the cursor in the pirate bay search bar blinked, would they type the rest of the word? if they had the power to go back in time and not make this gifset, thereby sparing the world from seeing a bunch of daddy kinksters opine about pockets on a goddamn pixar gifset, would they? 

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milolikesthings

all of these people are deactivated this is like an archeological dig

if you can’t deal with the fact that people with kinks you don’t care for and fandoms you don’t care for who ship things you don’t care for will reblog your posts, and maybe even tag them with things you don’t like, you might not be tall enough to ride the ride that is this hellsite.

My favorite “humans are space orcs” idea is that trope where aliens kidnap some humans for their zoo, except it ends up like Jurassic Park. And the poor Alien Humanologists who were invited to the park are like:

“You mean you locked up a pack of curious, highly competitive persistence predators with NO enrichment in the enclosure? You FOOLS! If you had bothered to throw a basketball or half a box of Legos in there, KE-X9 would still be alive!

“Well of course they climbed the retaining wall! Did you think to study their evolutionary lineage AT ALL?”

The humans would find a way to use the basketball and legos to escape. I mean one time a guy somehow escaped from a prison in Mexico without breaking any laws so his escape would be legal so honestly given enough time the Jurassic park situation is inevitable.

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Jurassic Park would be awesome, but now that I think about it I also kind of love love the idea of humans as the alien zoo equivalent of those octopuses that climb out of their tanks and wander around taste-testing other exhibits or throwing sub-par shrimp at handlers. 

Like they’re totally unable to figure out what’s happening because the cameras keep going out, but every night things get moved, or stolen, exhibits are disappearing, WHAT IS GOING ON, they’ve moved facilities twice and it’s still happening, are they haunted, are the ancestors angry, WHAT IS HAPPENING!?

And then a weary humanologist is all ‘… your humans are getting out’. 

“That is impossible.” 

“They’re getting out.” 

“That enclosure is COMPLETELY SECURE.” 

“And yet somehow they’re getting out.” 

“THE HUMANS ARE NOT GETTING OUT.” 

“Oh yeah? I bet you twenty glarks they’re getting out. Stay after closing time with me and I’ll show you.” 

*next day*

“… the humans were getting out.” 

“… why did they keep going back in, then?!”

(In a deeply embarrassed mumble) “They said they weren’t going to escape until they finished their behavioural experiments. Uh. On us.”

Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

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smileforthehigh

Finally. People need to realize aliens aren’t the answer for everything (when they use it to erase poc civilizations and how smart they were)

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desiremyblack

(via TumbleOn)

What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”

Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.

Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.

Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/

Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄

Adding to this, the Inuit communities in Nunavut KNEW where both the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were literally the entire time but Europeans/white people didn’t even bother consulting them about either ship until like…last year. 

“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.

In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.

“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”

“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”

Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.

“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”

Indigenous Australians have had stories about giant kangaroos and wombats for thousands of years, and European settlers just kinda assumed they were myths. Cut to more recently when evidence of megafauna was discovered, giant versions of Australian animals that died out 41 000 years ago.

Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.

oh man let me tell you about Indigenous Australian myths - the framework they use (with multi-generational checking that’s unique on the planet, meaning there’s no drifting or mutation of the story, seriously they are hardcore about maintaining integrity) means that we literally have multiple first-hand accounts of life and the ecosystem before the end of the last ice age

it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.  

Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with  the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians.  So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least

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Ain’t it amazing what white people consider history and what they don’t?

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I always said disservice is done to oral traditions and myth when you take them literally. Ancient people were not stupid.

writers: *intentionally write villain as sympathetic*

fans: *sympathize with villain*

the purity police on tumblr dot com: 

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marysuewhipple

For everyone on this post asking which villains I’m talking about/what kind: this post was written especially about the all villains that you particularly hate, and it was written to spite you, personally.

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i am once again asking people i know to do actual research on OCD and what it is b/c i saw someone equating POCD to actual predatory shit recently and i think im going to break out of my enclosure . OCD is not about “subconscious desires” it’s about fear. fears, aversions and repulsions, both subconscious and conscious. OCD forces you to obsess over things that make you anxious, scared, uncomfortable, or disgusted. possibilities (about yourself, your future, your loved ones and their futures, etc) that would give you nightmares if you considered them for too long.  literally the second you start thinking OCD may be about “subconscious desires” you have lost. you made an immediate left turn when you were supposed to make a right and now you’re on a completely different road. this applies to all forms of OCD by the way, even the most “disgusting”, taboo or “disturbing”. whichever form of OCD you’re thinking may be an exception to this rule, is not an exception. b/c there is none