Eight Jews Dead in an Antisemitic Hate Crime, and Trump is Already Victim Blaming
This morning, a white man named Robert Bowers entered Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, shouted “all jews must die,” and shot 14 people. At least 8 so far are dead.
When asked if this reflected on gun control, the president of the united states said, “If they had protection inside, the results would have been far better…if they had some kind of a protection inside the temple, maybe it could have been a very much different situation. They didn’t — he was able to do things that unfortunately he shouldn’t have been able to do.”
This is victim blaming. He is saying that because these congregants had chosen not to defile a house of g-d with instruments of death, they were shot.
When building the Temple in Jerusalem, it’s said, g-d required the stones not be cut with metal tools, as such things could be used to kill people. We believe that instruments of death have no place in the praising of g-d. We should not be required to sacrifice this value in order to stay alive.
May their memories be a blessing.
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So I had to drop $860 dollars on my car that is completely using up my paycheck and what I had in my bank account. My top surgery is in two weeks and I need $100 for the compression vest, plus gas money to get me there. I will have a little left over from my next paycheck after rent and car insurance but I’d like to also be able to eat on top of that. If you can donate at all I’d be so grateful
If Cthulhu can be summoned by humans who are so far beneath it, why can’t humans be summoned by ants? The answer is they should be.
Well if a bunch of ants formed a circle in my house I’d certainly notice, try to figure out where they’d all come from, and possibly wreak destruction there.
That’s why knowing and correctly pronouncing the true name is so important to the ritual. Imagine how impossible it would be to not go take a look if the circle of ants started chanting your name.
And they’re like, you can’t leave because we drew a line made of tiny crystals - now you have to do us a favor.
And you’re like, let’s just see where this goes “yup, you got me… what’s the favor?”
and usually the favor is like, “kill this one ant for us” or “give me a pile of sugar” and you’re like… okay? and you do, because why not, it isn’t hard for you and boy is this going to be a fucking story to tell, these fucking ants chanting your name and wanting a spoonful of sugar or whatever.
And SOMEtimes you get asked for things you can’t really do, one of them, she’s like, “I love this ant but she won’t pay any attention to me, make me important to her” and you’re like… um? how? So you just kill every ant in the colony except the two of them, ta-da! problem solved! and the first ant is like *horrified whisper* “what have I done”
This is the best explanation for higher powers I’ve ever really heard.
I was hesitant to sell my Raven Cycle charm designs, but after asking people for input and learning that lots of people have purchased TRC merch in the past and have seen Maggie be supportive of fanart, I’ve decided to open Preorders for the charms on my online shop!
I despise doing posts where I ask for help, but here we are.
About two years ago I started a new creator owned project. It began as a spin-off of Princeless, but the reality is this - Raven The Pirate Princess is its own thing altogether. I knew this from the first issue and if you’ve been reading, so have you.
Sure, the first few issues of Raven: Pirate Princess had that heroic lady feminist banter for which Princeless has become known both among its fans and detractors. I mean, Raven had this scene:
and issue 1 had this scene:
But perhaps much more importantly, the first issue of Raven had this:
but that wasn’t where that ended. This is a book about a community of diverse queer women actively claiming their place in the world and taking what’s theirs. It’s about Raven, who is desperately in love with her childhood best friend Ximena
It’s about Ximena, a girl who was held captive for years by a pirate king who pretended to be her liberator. Who fell in love with the pirate’s daughter, only to be left behind by that father when she outlived her value.
About Sunshine, the thief that chose the wrong target and ended up falling in love with a woman already hopelessly in love with somebody else.
It’s about Katie, the bisexual second in command who’s motivated by honor…and occasionally beating the snot out of a dude or two
Oh and in case I forgot to mention, Katie is also incredibly muscular:
And Jayla, the asexual science genius who’s tired of being treated like a little sister
and Cid, the deaf engineer who quietly keeps the ship running
and of course, these two:
The socially awkward poet and the angry sword fighter who couldn’t stand her who have somehow become these two:
But here’s the thing: this comic is failing. It has a very dedicated and exuberant but at this point SMALL fanbase. Today I had a hard conversation with Action Lab about the reality of the numbers on this book versus what it costs to produce this book and, suffice it to say, Action Lab isn’t ready to cancel the book, but they aren’t ready to greenlight year 3 either. After Year 2 #13, Raven is set to go on the shelf until numbers can support continuing it.
This is where I need your help
If you care about this book full of queer pirate ladies and you want it to continue, we need to find a way to spread the word about it. We don’t need to sell single issues (it would be nice) but ultimately we need the trades sales that back up the continuation of this big YA Pirate/Revenge/Adventure/Romance thing.
In fact, if you’ve already purchased volumes 1-4, volume 5 is available for preorder there right now!
Maybe you’ve bought all the issues already. Thank you! If you still want to support Raven, you can review the books on Amazon or other retailers, you can share, reblog or retweet this post. You can tell a friend about the book!
If you have a comics review site or, say, a blog where you talk about LGBT media, contact me for review links or interviews. Please, help us save our ship.
For people where Amazon shipping is too expensive, you can get the issues on TBD with free shipping world wide!
getting some star wars feels a day late, but my relationship with the prequels has always been really… personal. i grew up with them (was born in 1993, watched them obsessively for the next ten years since we got about two DVDs a year at most) and yeah its def got some moments of cringe but like. any time i try to talk about what these movies mean to me, at all, im always on the defensive.
now that i’m more established in fandom i can dig in my heels whenever someone shits all over something i love, but it hurts that i can’t really go back and enjoy a story that meant so much to me - or talking about it at all with anyone else who likes the series - without having a prepared speech. (i usually focus on the visual design, because fuck you the costumes and sets and when used the prosthetics are still goddamn cool and showcase such a staggering variety of cultures and aesthetics. i tend to leave out the part about being the gifted child of a horribly abused and self-sacrificing mother and identifying hard with anakin’s themes of isolation, idolization, corrupting influences and the weight of being the Chosen One and the eternal fuck-up crybaby all at once, because by that point in time i’ve already been cut off about the CGI or the ‘acting’ like it wasnt the shitty directing and writing of lucas being an unguided largely unfettered egoist surrounded by talented people doing their best, gee i can’t imagine what kind of male nerd would overlook that aspect of the prequels huh)
its worth to talk about art in any form from the standpoint of craft and intent and everything like that but sometimes people just like things that aren’t masterpieces, like white castle or hayden christensen in a mullet. let people get excited over sub-par things,
life is so fucking miserable anyway.
