My girls

before i forget!!! cool thing we heard last night at the sinners Q&A: MBJ decided to wear different sized shoes while playing smoke and stack. for smoke he wore a size too large, the explanation being that when you're wearing shoes that are too big, you're less likely to want to move around because of how uncomfortable and clunky it is. as a result, smoke as a character is very still and purposeful with his movements. and then for stack he wore a half size too small because it makes you constantly shift around on your feet trying to find a stance and a position that feels right and takes the pressure off your feet. that makes stack more fidgety and restless. so MBJ said that wearing the different shoes made it a lot easier to embody the twins because he was just reacting naturally to what his body was telling him, rather than overthinking his movements. just the coolest shit. such a neat acting choice. i love movies, man.

2026.1

好きなアニメの新シリーズが始まりました。

“My favorite anime’s new series has started.”

the thing about ">be me [break] >description" as a post opening is that there is genuinely so much more to unpack there if you know why it evolved as something people did. the problem is that it's kind of hard to word "you are indicating you are quoting something someone else said, which has at this point been generally broadened to include something someone else did, but the very first thing you proceed to clarify is that you are using this format to quote yourself (who must now be introduced by relevant characteristics)"

Finally got to be vriska in a homestuck cosplay group 🥲🎱

The “western” in “western esotericism” could be defined any number of ways, but for our purposes it will mean “the intellectual tradition born from the intersection of Jewish thought and Greek philosophy.” One day, thousands of years ago, an ancient Israelite guy met an ancient Greek guy, a bunch of stuff happened, and now here we are. Our modern conception of magic is the result of the ancient Greek conception of magic, interacting with the ancient Jewish conception of magic. 

The first hurdle when discussing Jewish Magic is the seeming contradiction in terms. In fact, any discussion of magic in a Jewish context will inevitably be a discussion of terminology. It is often said that the Torah, the central text of Judaism, condemns magic, so therefore Jews don’t believe in magic. The trouble with this claim is that Judaism has been many things. Its evolution from an iron age temple cult to the modern holy-text based religion was a process of constant adaptation and reinterpretation. A process that left Judaism full of interesting and meaningful contradictions. Let us do some interpretation of our own, specifically of this passage from Deuteronomy 18:10;

Jewish Magic: A contradiction in terms? Today on patreon.

accidentally got a site's ai assistant bolted down, and I do believe I was personally responsible for it, if only because I found out how to ask it for clothing suggestions in just such a way that it kept trying to find visions of hell in its stock and describing offerings of assorted red and pink scarves as like, insect-mutilated infants

"you can't be punk, it's just not possible" has sincerely become my stance on punk. it's just not possible