How The Times Choose To Cast Us

Not until every single one of our siblings is born, fed and educated to the same extent as their siblings. Is allowed to remain unmarried, allowed to sing and dance and play without their voices being deemed provocative, allowed to buy their own clothes and sign their own medical documents.

This is genuinely some of our only connection to the outside world. Like we don't get to 'touch grass' because this is our only impression of our brothers on the other side of the world.

I feel that way too. Like, I come online because that's the only trans community I have. There's nothing in my town because it's illegal.

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

a trans inclusive space, earth

“You feel the bulge in his pants” - implies that you are feeling some guy’s penis, may be sexy depending on context

—whatever that looks like; if it is viable to have strong inter-community partnerships with non-Jews (however many are willing) through civil rights orgs, or a labor union / bund, or whatever; if it is viable to just coalesce in historically Jewish neighborhoods and ensure we have strong, internal community support & aid, and defense; if it is viable to buy a bunch of land somewhere uninhabited / undeveloped / abandoned to build something new; however it is viable, wherever it is viable, if it is viable.

It’s a difficult balance to get right, between the practical realities of strength in congregated numbers or circling the wagons, vs not putting all our eggs in one basket, between not abandoning a good thing when it can still be protected, vs the probability of needing to get out before things do get too bad and escape is blocked. But I’m not consigned to the idea that any effort put into strengthening diaspora presence or non-Zionist strategies needs to go the way of the Bund & Yevsektsiya—in part because we do have Israel; these things don’t have to be fully mutually exclusive.

I feel like productive discussions sometimes get hampered by the idea that one or the other shouldn’t exist, or that different visions for Jewish life need to be “opposing” factions, that if one fails then the other must be the only way forward for all Jews. They often do fall into being that, or at the very least gravitate towards or feel that way. And I don’t fault anyone for taking the options available to them and doing what they can with what they have. But what would life look like if we had more productive interconnectivity, where “Zionist” and “Diasporist” were more like two wings of one bird instead of conflicting opposites? Where we treat these less and less as inherently conflicting ideologies and more and more as two mutually-beneficial strategies, or a whole suite of tools in a single Jewish tool belt?

really I think it's gone way too far in all other areas like clothing, but obviously medicine is a whole other ballpark (hell, even in my own life- I wear contact lenses, which were theorized before the invention of plastics but never practical, and my glasses would have broken so many times over the years if the lenses were still actual glass)

BUT

taumoeba (obviously)

instructions on how to use taumoeba (obviously)

50+ hrs of unedited footage of Grace fucking up a bunch of stuff in the ship

so much info about Eridian language

1700+ hrs of unedited footage of Grace and Rocky fucking up a bunch of shit in the ship

Cannot emphasize how much info on the eridian sentence structure there is here

a weirdass knit sweater pattern that takes people weeks to realize is for Rocky

literally hundreds of pages of Grace just describing Eridian linguistic history which like honestly isn't even his field why should we even listen to this guy- (hes the only one to ever fucking met an intelligent alien Dave. we'll take him at his word)

Why the Goldilocks Zone is for Idiots Part 2: Biological Diversity all across the Petrova Line (subtitled "We haven't found them yet BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN THEY DONT FUDHING EXIST-")

what are essentially just those reaction videos "Alien watches Legally Blonde for the first time" "Alien gives thoughts on movie Cats (2019)" "You'll never believe what this Alien thinks of the movie Fantastic Mr. Fox"

Grace's modified cardigan charts because someone was asking for them on his Ravelry and he never actually got around to posting them

(people have already fully recreated this cardigan just months after his launch. but they appreciate it)

very respective, kind eulogies for everyone who died in this mission (Grace AND Rocky's crew)

a lace shawl pattern inspired by the petrova line with a beaded fringe. knitters everywhere weep in despair because those instructions are gOD AWFUL, the man had 0 (zero) test knitters AND THERES NO PICTURES FUCK

Rocky make Grace cringe compilation statement

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.