100% true.

The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel.

Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

I need someone to draw this Iizard with a widows peak, mustache, snd unibrow.

Originally posted by givemegifs

Current status-

Desolate called Peace and Machinehood- complete.

The Unbroken- currently reading.

A Master of Djinn- starting audiobook

Just finished The Unbroken.

Currently-

Listening to A Master of Djinn

Starting Plague Birds

Just finished Plague Birds. Still listening to A Master of Djinn.

Up next, I'll start working on some of the Novellas and YA nominees.

I've already read Iron Widow (one of the YA nominees.) So I'll read Pslam for the Wild Built (a Novella nominee) next.

Psalm for the Wild-Built was beautiful and quick.

Up next, another Novella

Pouring through the Novellas. LOL. Up next-

Damn the Novellas move fast. OK, taking a break from the Novella list, I’m going to hop over to the Miggle Grades/YA nominees for this next one.

This movie really asked “ok, so you support women’s rights, but what about women’s wrongs?”

Obvious question - what is the works / don’t work ratio of the pens?

Incredibly, all but 2 of the highlighters are still good. Threw out probably 2 dozen pens? (Mostly red? The red pens seemed to have the worst luck. Not sure if that’s a weird coincidence or if they were from an older pack than the others or if there’s something about red ink…)

Seems like pretty often headlines that paint a lawsuit as frivolous and ridiculous seem a little more rational after some digging

There’s so much more to it as well. He repeatedly asked the company not to throw a party for him due to his anxiety (apparently this is standard practise for their office and he knew it would be triggering for him) and they “forgot” about his request. On the day in question, he predictably had a panic attack and went to his car to do breathing exercises.

The next day he was called into a meeting where he was insulted and grilled about “ruining the party” and “stealing his co-workers’ joy”, which caused him to have another panic attack and start doing coping behaviours like hugging himself, at which point his employers decided he must be angry and was going to turn violent. They then suspended him for days and later told him he’d been fired.

So yeah, it’s not over an “unwanted birthday party”, it’s over employers repeatedly failing to accommodate someone’s disability, trying to frame them as the villain for having accessibility needs, and firing them for not conforming to some stupid office politics.

Source with the court documents

#*it would not bc that's not how cultural differences work. cannot simply copy-paste jewish necklace over xtian necklace & get same result.

and i have said a lot in the replies of this post that i just want to consolidate but essentially: this is not just that (as in the tag) you can't just copy paste one symbol with very specific cultural connotations to replace another one with very different ones, this has to do with e g what cultural anxieties vampires embody. so like the vampire is a very literal amalgamation of literal beliefs about jews (that they drink the blood of christians, that they are attempting to infiltrate the upper class or that they are in fact already dispersed invisibly throughout it and thence forth exert undue influence, etc) in addition to other cultural anxieties around (in the case of dracula, eg) reverse colonization and concerns around immigration and xenophobia (...in this case: towards eastern european jews), as well as cultural anxieties around sex and sexuality (...not for nothing but this is often a component of antisemitism from medieval times well into the present day)

so like i think it's fine to be doing this kind of fun thought exercise it just really feels like it's missing the point to sit down and be like how would a jew fend off a vampire when a vampire Is a jew, in the sense that a vampire is an embodiment Of antisemitic stereotypes and canards and so forth and so on. the horror of a vampire is "jews exist and are out there, invisibly preying on good christians and trying to infiltrate the echelons of power"; that IS the thing that is overpowered by the crucifix (a sign that christianity Is the true religion). the crucifix is "solving" that cultural anxiety around the jewish by positing the supremacy of the christian. that's its function in this mythology, which makes it doubly ineffectual to simply replace it 1:1 with a jewish religious symbol - the vampire is inherently an interfaith monster in many ways, it is about (among other things) the interplay between differing religious groups, and any kind of Take has to at least partially take that into effect or at least think about these things.

what does it mean that (for example) willow rosenberg, a jew, put a crucifix on her wall to keep out vampires? there's something to be said there about assimilation, so like i do Get why it's more fun to be like, well what if she could just use a magen david instead, right? but that doesn't in any way grapple with what the Source of the horror of vampires is (i.e. the sexual and religious other who preys on the faithful and can be overpowered by christian religious authority).

imo a more interesting Take is, like, the vampire existing In the social space Of antisemitism; the horror of vampires from a jewish perspective being for example the looming threat of violence and retaliation and antisemitism; being forcibly identified As a monster against your will; seeing the living (un-living) stereotype as what it is and being unable to communicate that. something more in that space.

like, this is not to say that jewish folklore doesn't have these kinds of undead spirits and monsters - obviously, it does, and i am also interested in vampire Takes that draw more on a jewish worldview and existing folklore. but part of the Fun or Impact of the vampire Is its cultural omnipresence and legibility as an extremely Recognizable kind of monster, and playing with the ... underpinnings and understandings Of that very specific cultural, like, milieu... is part of. the fun. so i like a jewish take on vampires i am jsut... less compelled by trying to figure out what the 1:1 jewish equivalent of holy water is than i am by trying to actually tweak on Themes and Resonances