I didn’t think anyone needed to hear this but I don’t want to be told that Yiddish is an archaic low class language and gefilte fish is gross while filling out a profile on a dating app.

context??

asjkdjdksjdjdjfjdj this is so.

“yiddish is the language of exile.” like in addition how dumb and annoying a sentiment that is (as is thinking it’s ashkenormative to speak yiddish), calling it the language of exile rather than one of the languages of exile diaspora is actually ashkenormative. ffs.

found a video on insta where people are discussing their desire to commit acts of violence against jews in the comments and idk whether to post it to bring awareness for non-jewish allies that this is how dire things are or not to so i don’t just traumatize my jewish mutuals

@failure-artist oh nope not comments on a jewish video, rather it was an antisemitic video with a bunch of lies and conspiracies, the comments are talking about “so glad people are finally waking up” “i’ve been waiting years for this, im so glad people are getting on board” “it’s all well and good to wake up, we have to do something” “we can fight back with violence”

link here if you really wanna see but like. dead dove do not eat.

I love how they'll include "Theodore Herzl was an atheist" and "Jews recognize multiple genders" in the same list of atrocities as 9/11 and sinking the Titanic

yeah the video itself is. whatever. its the comments that freak me out

found a video on insta where people are discussing their desire to commit acts of violence against jews in the comments and idk whether to post it to bring awareness for non-jewish allies that this is how dire things are or not to so i don’t just traumatize my jewish mutuals

@failure-artist oh nope not comments on a jewish video, rather it was an antisemitic video with a bunch of lies and conspiracies, the comments are talking about “so glad people are finally waking up” “i’ve been waiting years for this, im so glad people are getting on board” “it’s all well and good to wake up, we have to do something” “we can fight back with violence”

link here if you really wanna see but like. dead dove do not eat.

I love how they'll include "Theodore Herzl was an atheist" and "Jews recognize multiple genders" in the same list of atrocities as 9/11 and sinking the Titanic

yeah the video itself is. whatever. its the comments that freak me out

found a video on insta where people are discussing their desire to commit acts of violence against jews in the comments and idk whether to post it to bring awareness for non-jewish allies that this is how dire things are or not to so i don’t just traumatize my jewish mutuals

@failure-artist oh nope not comments on a jewish video, rather it was an antisemitic video with a bunch of lies and conspiracies, the comments are talking about “so glad people are finally waking up” “i’ve been waiting years for this, im so glad people are getting on board” “it’s all well and good to wake up, we have to do something” “we can fight back with violence”

link here if you really wanna see but like. dead dove do not eat.

I love how they'll include "Theodore Herzl was an atheist" and "Jews recognize multiple genders" in the same list of atrocities as 9/11 and sinking the Titanic

yeah the video itself is. whatever. its the comments that freak me out

found a video on insta where people are discussing their desire to commit acts of violence against jews in the comments and idk whether to post it to bring awareness for non-jewish allies that this is how dire things are or not to so i don’t just traumatize my jewish mutuals

@failure-artist oh nope not comments on a jewish video, rather it was an antisemitic video with a bunch of lies and conspiracies, the comments are talking about “so glad people are finally waking up” “i’ve been waiting years for this, im so glad people are getting on board” “it’s all well and good to wake up, we have to do something” “we can fight back with violence”

link here if you really wanna see but like. dead dove do not eat.

I didn’t think anyone needed to hear this but I don’t want to be told that Yiddish is an archaic low class language and gefilte fish is gross while filling out a profile on a dating app.

Not sure which I think is funnier

Golde finding out fairly quickly, when it’s no longer the middle of the night and she’s still half asleep, that her husband made up the dream to make it so their eldest daughter can marry her best friend and just pretending to believe it going forward so no one is embarrassed about the broken engagement to Lazar Wolf

Or her just forever thinking her ancestors came to her husband in a vision to inform him of an impending curse on their bloodline if their daughter didn’t marry the town nerd

ok caveat that i haven’t read the original sholem aleichem stories, so i don’t know if they present that part differently. but what i will say is that the idea of dead people coming to you in dreams to communicate — and that it really is their soul talking to you, not something your subconscious cooked up — is a thing in jewish folklore. so it’s actually not implausible to me that she would believe it! and i imagine this is exactly why tevye constructed it the way he did.

prev your tag reminded me of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_social_platforms

To the person who voted the first option: you did NOT vote with your brain but we love you anyway.

I mean, almost half of the things on this list aren’t social media sites. For example, some are messaging apps. They counted Facebook and Facebook Messenger separately. They included Microsoft Teams.

My wife and I have a new theory of slash fandom: only lesbians* can truly appreciate which men in visual media are good/interesting/well-written characters, because we’re unblinded by attraction to their actors.

This theory was born of repeatedly having “wait HE’S popular and beloved??? why???? he’s written like a sheet of plywood that gained sentience, with the acting skill to match!” moments regarding unpleasant and/or bland male characters played by (allegedly) handsome actors.

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tedious disclaimer bc this is tumblr: this is a lighthearted jokey joke post, I am not advancing a real theory of media criticism here and I’m not saying you have poor media literacy for loving your milquetoast yet handsome blorbo. you may continue to enjoy your plywood man with my blessing.

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*and asexual people and anyone else wholly unattracted to dudes, of course.

All the F/m romances I can think of that scratched this "alpha female" list for me (this can't possibly be a complete list but I'm coming up dry past these titles!):

*Alisha Rai's Wrong to Need You's widowed bisexual heroine gets to "use" the hero, who I also love as Introvert Representation (such a rarity in romance!).

*The heroine in Andrea Ander's Under Her Skin gets very bossy, and this both helps her in her recovery from an abusive relationship and is just what she finds hot in its own right.

*The heroine in Laura Kinsale's medieval romance Shadowheart has never taken a BDSM 101 class in her life and that's so, so refreshing. On the flip side, her relationship with the antihero is...I was going to say wildly undernegotiated, but no, they do negotiate. It just gets off to a very bad start (nonconsensual, even!) and they're popcorn-munchingly messed up all the way through. Sometimes I love messed up, but I would be happier if this was one of many titles on my Alpha Female buffet rather than the main course. (The previous Medieval Hearts book, For My Lady's Heart, has a very take-charge heroine but it doesn't quite tip into femdom alpha heroine in my opinion. The deciding factor is that, sure, she tosses a rope over him for Hock-day, but the actual sex scenes start off with him being Explicitly Bad At It. That's good characterization! It does not scratch my itch.)

*For a historical alpha heroine I have fewer qualms about, Taylor Chase's Heart of Deception is a pretty fun Elizabethan espionage romance. (Eh, as soon as I type "fewer qualms" I remember the treatment of the heroine's gay brother and his crossdressing actor boyfriend is uneven. You can do a sympathetic reading but I'm not going to claim it's progressive. But in terms of the heroine's relationship to the hero: she has him undress and stalks around ogling him. It is very gender-inverse bodice ripper!)

*Katharine Buetner's mythology retelling Alcestis has a take-charge Persephone that I liked a lot (and she might be bisexual? Unfortunately this story didn't stick in my head, but one or two scenes...)

To be honest, my taste in F/F is vanilla enough that I don't have a strong list of titles on that front. Then, I'm not sure I'd call a 4.5-title list "strong" for the heterosexuals and bisexuals either, *sad LOL*.

I'm hoping some of this is just the "Ask me to name my favorites and I forget every book I've ever read" phenomenon. Maybe I'll wake in the middle of the night for a few more titles to add. But 1. This is a sadly uncommon character dynamic and even worse, 2. It's impossible to label/never tagged. Personally I'd call it femdom but not everyone does (for various reasons). For the most part it doesn't include bondage, whips, knives, etc, and that's part of what I enjoy about it--I like bondage and toys too! But sometimes I want to enjoy the fantasy of taking a lover apart with my bare hands/teeth/snappy words!

I feel like Megan Hart and Charlotte Stein have also both written either alpha heroines or low-energy/lazy/sweatpants-over-corset femdom, though specific titles aren't sticking in my mind at the moment.

I recently mentioned reading and enjoying Aya de Leon's The Boss, and it's not femdom but the heroine does give very explicit directions to her lovers in a way that's still refreshing and rare (as I mentioned, her kilt fetish is fun). (There are some 'femdom' scenes but they're in the context of the heist plotline, not sex for pleasure.)

Jumping over to literary fiction rather than romance, David Bajo's The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri has a take-charge bisexual heroine and I'd describe it as at minimum malesub-curious. In fact you might have a better shot finding "alpha females" in literary fiction written by men, due to a phenomenon known as Everyone Wants To Be Seduced, Nobody Wants to Do The Seducing: Or, Nobody Wants to Work Anymore: Or, The Top Shortage Theory of Everything. (To break the cardinal rule of separating authors' writing from their personal lives, simply because it's too good to pass up: Bajo's wife, Elise Blackwell, wrote a fascinating plotline about a submissive woman in her novel The Lower Quarter. Also about a dominant man who, I'll say without spoiling the novel, makes one of the most submitting gestures I've ever seen a character make. It's fucked up [complimentary].)

If you’re open to this dynamic happening in an f/f context, I recommend Kushiel’s Dart!

Melisande Sharizai is a legendary dom, but she is a full-on domme with toys and all, from the Great Family of Doms, which is a bit less subtle than the dynamic I'm thinking of here. Though I may be forgetting details of her and Phedre's story!

Ahh ok I read your post and I think I get what you’re saying now!

All the F/m romances I can think of that scratched this "alpha female" list for me (this can't possibly be a complete list but I'm coming up dry past these titles!):

*Alisha Rai's Wrong to Need You's widowed bisexual heroine gets to "use" the hero, who I also love as Introvert Representation (such a rarity in romance!).

*The heroine in Andrea Ander's Under Her Skin gets very bossy, and this both helps her in her recovery from an abusive relationship and is just what she finds hot in its own right.

*The heroine in Laura Kinsale's medieval romance Shadowheart has never taken a BDSM 101 class in her life and that's so, so refreshing. On the flip side, her relationship with the antihero is...I was going to say wildly undernegotiated, but no, they do negotiate. It just gets off to a very bad start (nonconsensual, even!) and they're popcorn-munchingly messed up all the way through. Sometimes I love messed up, but I would be happier if this was one of many titles on my Alpha Female buffet rather than the main course. (The previous Medieval Hearts book, For My Lady's Heart, has a very take-charge heroine but it doesn't quite tip into femdom alpha heroine in my opinion. The deciding factor is that, sure, she tosses a rope over him for Hock-day, but the actual sex scenes start off with him being Explicitly Bad At It. That's good characterization! It does not scratch my itch.)

*For a historical alpha heroine I have fewer qualms about, Taylor Chase's Heart of Deception is a pretty fun Elizabethan espionage romance. (Eh, as soon as I type "fewer qualms" I remember the treatment of the heroine's gay brother and his crossdressing actor boyfriend is uneven. You can do a sympathetic reading but I'm not going to claim it's progressive. But in terms of the heroine's relationship to the hero: she has him undress and stalks around ogling him. It is very gender-inverse bodice ripper!)

*Katharine Buetner's mythology retelling Alcestis has a take-charge Persephone that I liked a lot (and she might be bisexual? Unfortunately this story didn't stick in my head, but one or two scenes...)

To be honest, my taste in F/F is vanilla enough that I don't have a strong list of titles on that front. Then, I'm not sure I'd call a 4.5-title list "strong" for the heterosexuals and bisexuals either, *sad LOL*.

I'm hoping some of this is just the "Ask me to name my favorites and I forget every book I've ever read" phenomenon. Maybe I'll wake in the middle of the night for a few more titles to add. But 1. This is a sadly uncommon character dynamic and even worse, 2. It's impossible to label/never tagged. Personally I'd call it femdom but not everyone does (for various reasons). For the most part it doesn't include bondage, whips, knives, etc, and that's part of what I enjoy about it--I like bondage and toys too! But sometimes I want to enjoy the fantasy of taking a lover apart with my bare hands/teeth/snappy words!

I feel like Megan Hart and Charlotte Stein have also both written either alpha heroines or low-energy/lazy/sweatpants-over-corset femdom, though specific titles aren't sticking in my mind at the moment.

I recently mentioned reading and enjoying Aya de Leon's The Boss, and it's not femdom but the heroine does give very explicit directions to her lovers in a way that's still refreshing and rare (as I mentioned, her kilt fetish is fun). (There are some 'femdom' scenes but they're in the context of the heist plotline, not sex for pleasure.)

Jumping over to literary fiction rather than romance, David Bajo's The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri has a take-charge bisexual heroine and I'd describe it as at minimum malesub-curious. In fact you might have a better shot finding "alpha females" in literary fiction written by men, due to a phenomenon known as Everyone Wants To Be Seduced, Nobody Wants to Do The Seducing: Or, Nobody Wants to Work Anymore: Or, The Top Shortage Theory of Everything. (To break the cardinal rule of separating authors' writing from their personal lives, simply because it's too good to pass up: Bajo's wife, Elise Blackwell, wrote a fascinating plotline about a submissive woman in her novel The Lower Quarter. Also about a dominant man who, I'll say without spoiling the novel, makes one of the most submitting gestures I've ever seen a character make. It's fucked up [complimentary].)

If you’re open to this dynamic happening in an f/f context, I recommend Kushiel’s Dart!

Have any of you actually sold something successfully on facebook marketplace? Like 80% of the responses so far to my item are “Is this available?” with no follow-up when I say it is, or messages attempting to haggle an already-cheap item or telling me the item is stupid.

@westiec that tracks lmao, someone asked me how much it costs when the price is already in the listing

I put a code word about 3 sentences in.

No code word response, i dont even look at it.

ohhhh that’s smart