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Until I read this, I hadn't even noticed that Tumblr doesn't have any special blogging games for today (like they did last year).

My first fanfics were handwritten with pencil into spiral-bound notebooks and shared with friends while playing outside.

We'd climb to the tops of trees to read without being bothered and give each other ideas on what to write next. I have a deformed bone on my middle finger from writing so much.

(Many, many years after that it was Ao3)

My first fanfic was acquired from a Star Trek convention in 1976, much of it served in typewritten, staple-bound zines, along with black and white comics which used a thin veneer of "parody" to tell what were actually pretty solid Trek stories with silly names.

(Yes, The Orville has a long pedigree of precedent.)

Not listed: the Prodigy® bulletin boards, around 1991, and, through contacts found there, printed paper fan 'zines sent via U.S.P.S. (Mostly Forever Knight fandom). The service is now defunct.

I was also active on the Original Fiction Writing boards, and as each individual posting had a limit of 600 characters (iirc), it was also my introduction to writing micro fics, as we had ongoing challenges to write an entire story in a single post.

You can see some screenshots of what Prodigy® looked like, here:

Vintage Computing & Gaming: the Prodigy Preservation Project

🙋‍♀️Mr. President, I have a question:

Are the roughly 50% of Jewish Israelis who are protesting Netanyahu's breaking the Gaza ceasefire, and calling for his resignation, being antisemitic?

Sources:

4-minute listen; full transcript not yet posted at the time I write this (21 March, 2025)

The majority of this editorial is behind a subscription wall, but you can read the lead. According to Wikipedia, Haartez is "the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel." It's also left-leaning in its coverage, so I suppose Trump & Netanyahu don't think it counts as a real newspaper.

My Point Is: Calling all protest of Israeli Government policies and actions "antisemitic" is, itself, antisemitic, because it ignores the complexity of Jewish thought and culture around the world, and even within Israel itself.

Regardless of what Netanyahu (and his even further Right government) says, Calling for a Two-State Solution is not saying that Israel has no right to exist.

And also, pointing out that Hamas is dictatorial (when they first came into power, they promised a multi-party democracy that never came) is not saying that Israel's actions are right and should continue.

The few people in power, in both governments, are not the nations they claim to represent.

I haven't been able to follow everything happening recently, can you clarify your post and tell me which president said that protesting Israel is antisemitic, and in what context? Like, a lot of pro-Palestinian protests in the US are antisemitic, but obviously not all protests again / criticism of Israel and of Netanyahu is antisemitic.

The President of the United States (along with his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio) have been revoking the student visas (and arresting) foreign students who've protested Israel's conduct against Hamas and the civilian citizens of Gaza, based on the accusation that they are "supporting a terrorist organization."

On March 8, 2025, I.C.E. agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil (A former graduate student who participated in pro-Palestinian protests, last year), saying they were revoking his visa, except he doesn't have a visa. He's a permanent legal resident of the U.S., and a green card holder, married to an American citizen. He is currently being held in a detention center in Louisiana.

Article about that, from NPR:

Excerpt:

And then, after I wrote this initial post, on Tuesday, 25 March, 2025, I.C.E. agents arrested a Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, after she was doxxed by Canary Mission.

Here's the NPR piece about that:

Excerpt:

(Emphasis my own)

The thing is, I clearly remember, when I was a teen and early twenty-something, having Jewish-American friends who believed three things simultaneously:

But ever since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Wikipedia article) was assassinated in 1995, these three statements have been treated as ever more incompatible.

When I listen to the news, these days, my inner Seventeen-year-old wakes up, blinks, and wonders what sort of fun-house mirror world I'm living in.

I mean, the protests at many American universities are definitely often antisemitic. So just saying that since Israelis also protest the Israeli government, the protests in the US are not antisemitic is wrong. That is the element that made me ask for more details.

However, you are correct that unless they can be tied to a concrete illegal action, which does not seem to be the case for Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, arresting and trying to deport the protesters is not only legally and morally wrong but also sets a dangerous precedent.

*Nod*

The thing is, the way Trump and his spokespeople are explaining & (if you'll pardon the pun) trumpeting these arrests to the Press, they are equating protesting the actions of the current Israeli government with being antisemitic.

So when these reports of Jewish Israeli citizens participating in protests came up in the news I listen to, the opening question in this thread came up in my head.

Yeah, ok, in that context your post made sense. As I mentioned, I have been somewhat isolated from the news, and the i/p conflict is a sensitive subject. But I do appreciate that you're always willing to have a peaceful discussion about it!

Thank you. I try.

The other part of my skepticism of this administration's reactions to these protests, is that Trump is mostly speaking to his right-wing base. And a lot of conservative Evangelical Christians at the center of that base support the state of Israel because its existence plays an important role in Apocalyptic prophesies. But those same people also believe Jewish people are destined to go to Hell for not being Christian.

In other words, while not all protestors against the actions of the Israeli government are antisemitic, some of the people endorsing the actions of the Israeli government are.

So conflating these protests with antisemitism only feeds into truly antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Oh yeah, Trump definitely doesn't have good intentions. Starting with the pro-pal protests gives him a way to shift blame onto the Jews, and also these protesters have managed to amass quite a bad reputation in some spaces, what with all the instances of antisemitism during many of those protests. And not only is what he's doing to those protesters wrong, he's also gonna move on to other activists.

He already has. Here's an article that's from the Associated Press:

Excerpts:

And:

me when i cant comprehend that different continents have different animals

the rest of the paragraph that was cut out in that screenshot literally explains the reasons behind the easter bilby and bluntly theyre minimising the impact that wild rabbits have had as an introduced species in our ecosystem.

the easter bibly was an ingenious campaign that builds in social awareness and change to an ongoing annual tradition without detracting from what that tradition represents. the choice behind it was intentional

they also bring awareness to the sheer existence of the bilbies as ive run into so many american people who dont know what the animal is and only know of it through our easter traditions

bless the little bilbies and fuck them rabbits

Okay, two things:

🙋‍♀️Mr. President, I have a question:

Are the roughly 50% of Jewish Israelis who are protesting Netanyahu's breaking the Gaza ceasefire, and calling for his resignation, being antisemitic?

Sources:

4-minute listen; full transcript not yet posted at the time I write this (21 March, 2025)

The majority of this editorial is behind a subscription wall, but you can read the lead. According to Wikipedia, Haartez is "the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel." It's also left-leaning in its coverage, so I suppose Trump & Netanyahu don't think it counts as a real newspaper.

My Point Is: Calling all protest of Israeli Government policies and actions "antisemitic" is, itself, antisemitic, because it ignores the complexity of Jewish thought and culture around the world, and even within Israel itself.

Regardless of what Netanyahu (and his even further Right government) says, Calling for a Two-State Solution is not saying that Israel has no right to exist.

And also, pointing out that Hamas is dictatorial (when they first came into power, they promised a multi-party democracy that never came) is not saying that Israel's actions are right and should continue.

The few people in power, in both governments, are not the nations they claim to represent.

I haven't been able to follow everything happening recently, can you clarify your post and tell me which president said that protesting Israel is antisemitic, and in what context? Like, a lot of pro-Palestinian protests in the US are antisemitic, but obviously not all protests again / criticism of Israel and of Netanyahu is antisemitic.

The President of the United States (along with his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio) have been revoking the student visas (and arresting) foreign students who've protested Israel's conduct against Hamas and the civilian citizens of Gaza, based on the accusation that they are "supporting a terrorist organization."

On March 8, 2025, I.C.E. agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil (A former graduate student who participated in pro-Palestinian protests, last year), saying they were revoking his visa, except he doesn't have a visa. He's a permanent legal resident of the U.S., and a green card holder, married to an American citizen. He is currently being held in a detention center in Louisiana.

Article about that, from NPR:

Excerpt:

And then, after I wrote this initial post, on Tuesday, 25 March, 2025, I.C.E. agents arrested a Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, after she was doxxed by Canary Mission.

Here's the NPR piece about that:

Excerpt:

(Emphasis my own)

The thing is, I clearly remember, when I was a teen and early twenty-something, having Jewish-American friends who believed three things simultaneously:

But ever since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Wikipedia article) was assassinated in 1995, these three statements have been treated as ever more incompatible.

When I listen to the news, these days, my inner Seventeen-year-old wakes up, blinks, and wonders what sort of fun-house mirror world I'm living in.

I mean, the protests at many American universities are definitely often antisemitic. So just saying that since Israelis also protest the Israeli government, the protests in the US are not antisemitic is wrong. That is the element that made me ask for more details.

However, you are correct that unless they can be tied to a concrete illegal action, which does not seem to be the case for Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, arresting and trying to deport the protesters is not only legally and morally wrong but also sets a dangerous precedent.

*Nod*

The thing is, the way Trump and his spokespeople are explaining & (if you'll pardon the pun) trumpeting these arrests to the Press, they are equating protesting the actions of the current Israeli government with being antisemitic.

So when these reports of Jewish Israeli citizens participating in protests came up in the news I listen to, the opening question in this thread came up in my head.

Yeah, ok, in that context your post made sense. As I mentioned, I have been somewhat isolated from the news, and the i/p conflict is a sensitive subject. But I do appreciate that you're always willing to have a peaceful discussion about it!

Thank you. I try.

The other part of my skepticism of this administration's reactions to these protests, is that Trump is mostly speaking to his right-wing base. And a lot of conservative Evangelical Christians at the center of that base support the state of Israel because its existence plays an important role in Apocalyptic prophesies. But those same people also believe Jewish people are destined to go to Hell for not being Christian.

In other words, while not all protestors against the actions of the Israeli government are antisemitic, some of the people endorsing the actions of the Israeli government are.

So conflating these protests with antisemitism only feeds into truly antisemitic conspiracy theories.

I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that "How many of tumblr's favorite movies have you seen?" list that's been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.

Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn't on here in 2013 or so, but you're telling me you made a list of "tumblr's favorite movies" that doesn't include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.

I'm a ridiculous human and genuinely couldn't sleep until I tried my hand at a better, more balanced list -- though of course, I have my own biases when it comes to what corners of this website I've lurked in over the years. For what it's worth, I did consult the last several Years In Review, while also drawing on the fact that I've been here for over a decade. But if there's anything that truly doesn't feel like it should have made the cut, blame my mutuals for putting it on my dash all the time.

(And apologies, but I couldn't seem to find Goncharov among the website's listings)

disabled children not allowed be children.

especially. intellectually and/or developmentally disabled (I/DD) children, & children w behavioral or “behavioral” struggles (aka many I/DD children) not allowed be children.

which may be weird thing say at first because I/DD famous for be infantilized, be treat as forever children. so would think children be only thing they “allow” be, n say they not allow be children contradicting—

but not actually.

as general whole, nondisabled children “allowed” tantrums. allow emotional immature. allowed childish quirks.

what be normal child tantrum fuss in (white) nondisabled children, even with child health/care professionals who whole entire job be understand that nondisabled typically developing child have underdeveloped brain n not yet have self regulate skill n that developmentally appropriate that normal, it may be talk as annoying & inconvenient, but for I/DD children every. single. time. where they “tantrum” “fuss” even in developmentally appropriate ways, chance be write as sign of their disability, sign of behavior problem, sign of emotional problem. be evidence of disorder. of abnormal. of something wrong. which be “okay” reason dehumanize, abuse, be talk about like animal, like not in room, like difficult problem to be solved.

nondisabled adults fondly look back at childhood comfort objects that maybe still have now, stuffed toys blankets or maybe less usual things that mean something to them. but when disabled children have them it be more likely *automatic* see as problem, as something need be weaned off, need be taken away, as unhealthy overattachment, be write into behavioral plan, only allow x minute per day, see as “impractical” & “useless”.

as general whole, nondisabled children allow say no, allow act out “no,” allow prefer, allow not want do something so protest by not doing, by not listening, by pretend not hear you. it may be see as funny or annoying but meanwhile for disabled children it largely see as oppositional as noncompliance as inattentive as something need be trained out of by all means possible.

nondisabled children do things because they kids. disabled children do things because there something wrong with them.

nondisabled children rights n autonomy not fully respected by any means but disabled children get even less of it.

disabled children often not allowed many leeway’s as nondisabled children, what be developmentally appropriate for same age nondisabled children often be over label as disorder as problem as something abnormal need be get rid off in disabled children.

n especially when come to behaviorally, white nondisabled children get be the most “child,” n Black n other disabled children of color get “child” stolen from them in multiple ways.

This is true for physically disabled kids, too (some physical disabilities, like cerebral palsy, 👋are also grouped with developmental disabilities).

Kids with C.P. often don't get a chance to play, just for the sake of playing, without parents, teachers, and clinicians, insisting that it be turned into a physical therapy session.

[I once wanted to illustrate a kid with C.P. walking on forearm crutches {for a poem I was writing about my own childhood memories}, so looked on YouTube for family videos, hoping to find scenes of kids having a birthday party, or just goofing around with their friends, so I could have a life model to draw from. And every single video that came up was parents filming their P.T. sessions, and praising how "normal" they were becoming]

And if a kid needs a personal aide in school, they rarely get to even talk to their classmates without the adult getting in the middle of the conversation.

And if a kid misses out on school because they need surgery, instead of getting a summer vacation, they have to get summer school to make up for lost time.

Yes! Preach!

The intersectional bigotry starts early.

🙋‍♀️Mr. President, I have a question:

Are the roughly 50% of Jewish Israelis who are protesting Netanyahu's breaking the Gaza ceasefire, and calling for his resignation, being antisemitic?

Sources:

4-minute listen; full transcript not yet posted at the time I write this (21 March, 2025)

The majority of this editorial is behind a subscription wall, but you can read the lead. According to Wikipedia, Haartez is "the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel." It's also left-leaning in its coverage, so I suppose Trump & Netanyahu don't think it counts as a real newspaper.

My Point Is: Calling all protest of Israeli Government policies and actions "antisemitic" is, itself, antisemitic, because it ignores the complexity of Jewish thought and culture around the world, and even within Israel itself.

Regardless of what Netanyahu (and his even further Right government) says, Calling for a Two-State Solution is not saying that Israel has no right to exist.

And also, pointing out that Hamas is dictatorial (when they first came into power, they promised a multi-party democracy that never came) is not saying that Israel's actions are right and should continue.

The few people in power, in both governments, are not the nations they claim to represent.

I haven't been able to follow everything happening recently, can you clarify your post and tell me which president said that protesting Israel is antisemitic, and in what context? Like, a lot of pro-Palestinian protests in the US are antisemitic, but obviously not all protests again / criticism of Israel and of Netanyahu is antisemitic.

The President of the United States (along with his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio) have been revoking the student visas (and arresting) foreign students who've protested Israel's conduct against Hamas and the civilian citizens of Gaza, based on the accusation that they are "supporting a terrorist organization."

On March 8, 2025, I.C.E. agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil (A former graduate student who participated in pro-Palestinian protests, last year), saying they were revoking his visa, except he doesn't have a visa. He's a permanent legal resident of the U.S., and a green card holder, married to an American citizen. He is currently being held in a detention center in Louisiana.

Article about that, from NPR:

Excerpt:

And then, after I wrote this initial post, on Tuesday, 25 March, 2025, I.C.E. agents arrested a Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, after she was doxxed by Canary Mission.

Here's the NPR piece about that:

Excerpt:

(Emphasis my own)

The thing is, I clearly remember, when I was a teen and early twenty-something, having Jewish-American friends who believed three things simultaneously:

But ever since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Wikipedia article) was assassinated in 1995, these three statements have been treated as ever more incompatible.

When I listen to the news, these days, my inner Seventeen-year-old wakes up, blinks, and wonders what sort of fun-house mirror world I'm living in.

I mean, the protests at many American universities are definitely often antisemitic. So just saying that since Israelis also protest the Israeli government, the protests in the US are not antisemitic is wrong. That is the element that made me ask for more details.

However, you are correct that unless they can be tied to a concrete illegal action, which does not seem to be the case for Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, arresting and trying to deport the protesters is not only legally and morally wrong but also sets a dangerous precedent.

*Nod*

The thing is, the way Trump and his spokespeople are explaining & (if you'll pardon the pun) trumpeting these arrests to the Press, they are equating protesting the actions of the current Israeli government with being antisemitic.

So when these reports of Jewish Israeli citizens participating in protests came up in the news I listen to, the opening question in this thread came up in my head.

the degree that parents of young children seem to think Baby Shark came out of nowhere astounds me. this is a DECADES-OLD camp song, that has spanned generations. 

i am not a parent of a young child but i worked at summer camps for years and let me tell you before it was ruined by parents of young children baby shark was the most fun camp song ever. kids went buckwild over baby shark. but then it had to be commercialized. you ruined it. yall motherfuckers stay away from the bear song or we’ll have words 

#part of the problem w/ commercializing camp songs#other than you know Everything#is that it canonizes a specific version#one of the best parts of baby shark was that every camp had slightly different versions#does the singer die and go to hell?#are they reincarnated as a shark?#are they left as a concsious severed head bobbing in the waves?#it was different each time it was sung and its fucking beautiful

I think maybe Children's camp and schoolyard songs are the last, true, "folk music," by the strictest definition.

Happy 20th anniversary New Who!

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It's caught up with "The Five Doctors" now ...

reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

No, no, mine aren't bad enough. Can we give him one of @thebibliosphere's instead?

Beaming my five different types of neurological headache disorder directly toward him like a heat seeking missile. 🫡

Well, if we all combine our efforts, an he gets ten-thousand headaches, even regular ones, that would be good, too.

🙋‍♀️Mr. President, I have a question:

Are the roughly 50% of Jewish Israelis who are protesting Netanyahu's breaking the Gaza ceasefire, and calling for his resignation, being antisemitic?

Sources:

4-minute listen; full transcript not yet posted at the time I write this (21 March, 2025)

The majority of this editorial is behind a subscription wall, but you can read the lead. According to Wikipedia, Haartez is "the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel." It's also left-leaning in its coverage, so I suppose Trump & Netanyahu don't think it counts as a real newspaper.

My Point Is: Calling all protest of Israeli Government policies and actions "antisemitic" is, itself, antisemitic, because it ignores the complexity of Jewish thought and culture around the world, and even within Israel itself.

Regardless of what Netanyahu (and his even further Right government) says, Calling for a Two-State Solution is not saying that Israel has no right to exist.

And also, pointing out that Hamas is dictatorial (when they first came into power, they promised a multi-party democracy that never came) is not saying that Israel's actions are right and should continue.

The few people in power, in both governments, are not the nations they claim to represent.

I haven't been able to follow everything happening recently, can you clarify your post and tell me which president said that protesting Israel is antisemitic, and in what context? Like, a lot of pro-Palestinian protests in the US are antisemitic, but obviously not all protests again / criticism of Israel and of Netanyahu is antisemitic.

The President of the United States (along with his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio) have been revoking the student visas (and arresting) foreign students who've protested Israel's conduct against Hamas and the civilian citizens of Gaza, based on the accusation that they are "supporting a terrorist organization."

On March 8, 2025, I.C.E. agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil (A former graduate student who participated in pro-Palestinian protests, last year), saying they were revoking his visa, except he doesn't have a visa. He's a permanent legal resident of the U.S., and a green card holder, married to an American citizen. He is currently being held in a detention center in Louisiana.

Article about that, from NPR:

Excerpt:

And then, after I wrote this initial post, on Tuesday, 25 March, 2025, I.C.E. agents arrested a Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, after she was doxxed by Canary Mission.

Here's the NPR piece about that:

Excerpt:

(Emphasis my own)

The thing is, I clearly remember, when I was a teen and early twenty-something, having Jewish-American friends who believed three things simultaneously:

But ever since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Wikipedia article) was assassinated in 1995, these three statements have been treated as ever more incompatible.

When I listen to the news, these days, my inner Seventeen-year-old wakes up, blinks, and wonders what sort of fun-house mirror world I'm living in.

I actually love hearing about reformed people's stories. I love hearing about people who were in toxic communities or people who used to objectively be dickheads talking about how they got out of that. How they made themselves better.

I hate how most people's initial reaction to stories like that are things like:

"How could you have ever done those things?!" "Oh my god, you believed those things?!" "Well it doesn't un-do the harm you did!"

People incessantly advocate for change but then refuse to allow people who have changed the grace of being acknowledged and given opportunities and chances.

I love hearing about ex-antis talking about how they don't spend their days being angry and sending death threats anymore.

I love hearing about ex-homophobes who realized there's no magic law about what is "natural."

I love reformed bullies talking about how they made amends with their victims and spend their days being considerate of others.

You can't scream about wanting people to change but then expect them to spend the rest of their lives stuck in the past and on who they used to be. You can't expect people to spend the entire rest of their lives grovelling and apologizing and demeaning themselves.

Instead of clinging to who they were, latch onto who they are.

Ask how they got out of it. Commend them on changing. Enjoy that there's one less cause of harm in the world.

I also love stuff like that because it's a blueprint for how we can save others. If someone used to be a giant racist and stopped, we can take what convinced them to change and spread that message

I mean, in case anyone who thinks well of me might need an example of how true this is, I used to be kind of a terrible person who believed terrible things that directly contradicted not only the things I now believe but contradicted who and what I now am. I fixed my shit. I'm still not a good person, don't get me started on the difference between what I think and what I do, but I'd rather be a bit terrible and aware of it and trying to do better than horrible and insistent that I was right and content to abuse people or let them be abused. At least I have the potential to become better.

Let people grow. If they change their minds, fucking welcome them to a better place. They have shown their potential. Extend a hand, don't shove them away.

i always like to reblog posts like this because it's so affirming to people who are afraid to start to be told "yeah it's scary and hard but you can do it, i did".

#48 from The Vatican Sayings of Epicurus (translator not acknowledged): A 14th C. compilation of sayings attributed to Epicurus and his followers, residing in the Vatican library. [Source]

No one is born perfect. No one dies perfect. But we all can strive to do better today than we did yesterday, and do better tomorrow than we did today.

shit ton of people are repeating the thing about hayao miyazaki saying AI art is an "insult to life itself" and just as a reminder he was talking about the zombies that team made that were intended to be scary in how much they shook, but instead reminded him of his disabled friend. the insult to life itself was referring to the team trying to make scary real symptoms that people live with.

it was a quote about ableism. if he has said other things about AI type stuff, that is a different thing. but that specific quote was about ableism.

this is the full quote.

His actual answer to AI is this which is just a few seconds after the insult to life speech. [source]