Sherlockian Trekkie

Today’s (sorta canonical) Jewish Character of the Day: Tony Stark/Iron Man from the MCU.

Tony remembers going to shul on the High Holidays with his parents until they passed. He hadn’t always understood the miracles in the Torah until his time in captivity.

My dude, my brethren, my fellow comrade

This is just literally what being Jewish feels like

My grandparents were holocaust survivors that could barely talk about their birth country when they were alive. My great grandmother lost her entire family when nazis gunned down Jewish Latvian villages and left no survivors. My great great great grandfather lived in a desert with barely any water resources because that was safer than staying in Poland next to his christian neighbors. And then there’s also my ancestral grandmother that lost everything when her family barely escaped the spanish inquisition.

My family has more lost history than the library of Alexandria

And you know what’s the worst part is?

You learn it in bits and pieces, scattered across your lifetime.

The first time you hear about places we can no longer visit or ceremonies we can no longer perform, you’re too young to remember. It is always part of you. It feels more like a fantasy world then a piece of history you’ve lost.

One day, you are researching family history. So many of the branches of your family tree get suddenly cut off. You start to understand what that means.

One day, you are reading your great-great-grandmother’s story’s. You read about her sister who moved east when your great-great-grandmother moved west, and the day that the letters stopped coming. You know what it means, even before you look up the name of the city she moved to, and what happened to it.

(You are one of the lucky ones. The trauma is far enough back that you weren’t raised in its immediate shadow.)

One day, you learn about the Yizkor book, the collected memories about the inhabitants of a village that no longer exists, which talks about your family.

(You are one of the lucky ones. So many villages don’t have Yizkor books, because there was no one left alive who remembered them.)

One day, you visit what used to be one of the cultural centers of your people. Now, it’s a museum to what was destroyed.

(It’s one of the lucky places. So many of the memories have been paved over and erased.)

One day, “the last Jew alive in [country where hundreds of thousands of Jews once lived]” stops being a shocking statement, and becomes a genre.

(You are one of the lucky ones. You’ve never been the last.)

There is no one time your culture was violently destroyed. It happened over and over again, across continents and millenia. The survivors flee, and hope they will have a few generations before the place they flee to is also destroyed.

(You are one of the lucky ones. You’ve never had to flee.)

Your culture is still here, because you are still here. What you have is the fragments of a thousand burned texts and demolished buildings and extinct dialects, but it is real. It is alive. Multiple militaries and paramilitary organizations are actively trying to kill it.

(You are one of the lucky ones. You don’t live in their direct line of fire.)

You grow up being told it’s better now. People don’t hate you for being different; not like they used to. One day, you realize their acceptance is dependent on them not having to think about how different you are.

(You are one of the lucky ones. It is possible for you to pretend.)

You speak your language, and you are speaking for everyone who was murdered for speaking it. You study your texts, and your are studying for everyone who was murdered for studying them. You celebrate your holidays, and you are celebrating for everyone who was murdered for celebrating them. You live your life, and you are living for everyone who was murdered.

(You are one of the lucky ones. You are able to speak, and study, and celebrate, and live.)

Nothing you do will ever be fully for yourself. You are a memorial to everything that was lost. You are everything that has been salvaged. You are the hope that something can be rebuilt.

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Last Song: Paper Dolls by STOMACH BOOK

Currently Reading: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult,

Currently Watching: X-Men 97 (season 1 and soon 2), Animaniacs Volume 4 on DVD, Pinky and the Brain on DVD, Game Changer

Current Obsessions: X-Men, Animaniacs, Patb, Morpherine

Ships I Luv: Morpherine, Brinky, Yax, Jedtavius (more I lowkey can’t think of)

Fandoms I’m a Part Of: Animaniacs, Patb, X-Men, Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel, TADC, TMNT (2012 and RISE), NATM, (more I can’t think of again)

Currently wearing: X-Men shirt, black baggy jeans, red panda socks, a grey hair tie on my wrist, an anklet I’ve had for two years, cross body bag with ungodly amount of keychains, fake glasses, and vans.

WIPs: Currently on hiatus for fics but I’m cooking something up for art!

Favorite Flower: Wild Carrot/Queen Anne’s Lace

Favorite Artists: The Living Tombstone, Jack Stauber (includes micropop), The Offspring, Green Day, ABBA

tagging:

@stupidlilguy3

@guineaspin

last song: okay so i’m listening to music rn??? im listening to fire by vane lily and jamie paige featuring kasane teto but my last song was abstraction by kittensneeze featuring michael kovach

currently reading: splatoon manga :3 (i’m waiting to go to the library soon so i can read the whole series)

currently watching: PLANET CLUE VIDEOSSSS RAHHHH

current obsessions: splatoon, tadc, vocal synths, planet clue and animaniacs

ships i love: pearlina (pearl x marina, splatoon), brinky (pinky x brain, animaniacs/pinky and the brain), pomni x jax x ribbit (tadc), dizzy (doll x lizzy, murder drones), vizzy (V x lizzy, murder drones), and probably more but i can’t think

fandoms: check my intro post man i can’t remember all that </3

currently wearing: NEON PINK SWEATSUIT BUT THE TOP IS A HOODIE CROP TOP.

wips: if i listed all of them, we’d be here all day, but im gonna work on oc art soon :3

fav flower: corpse flower (it’s fascinating)

fav artist: FLAVOR FOLEY FLAVOR FOLEY FLAVOR FOLEY FLAVOR. FOLEY.

epic awesome tags of awesomeness:

last song: my time (I'm trying to make a teto cover of it)

currently reading: fan fiction fan fiction and more fan fiction! (Mostly from stranestelle because omg do they write good angst)

currently watching: nothing surprisingly 😭

current obsessions: tadc, sw, vocaloid/voicebanks (LEN I WOULD DIE FOR YOU!), omori, deltarune (DO NOT SPOIL!!!!), marvel (specifically gwenpool)

ships I love: anidala, abstradegy, homumado, ragapom, funnybunny (qpr), codywan, obitine, barrisoka, dexrita, mikurin, suselle, papyrus x greatness, malink, lumity

fandoms: loz, sw, mrvl, heathers, bmc, bom, pmmm, ut/dr, ddlc, ccs, sm, dexter, fnaf, gf, toh, tadc, omori, sxf, AND MORE!

currently wearing: pajamas

wips: like a million different angst fics, chapter 3 of the time travellers guide to the galaxy (my sw time travel fic), my time cover by synthv teto, oc art for my moot corpsie, codywan fanart, and anidala fan art (also like 3 indie games but we do NOT talk about that :,) )

fav flower: the lily of the valley but specifically the one in minecraft

fav artist(s): dazey and the scouts (maggot is such a good song ughhhhh), green day, the muslims, flavor foley, stomach book, Toby Fox

last song: Dustland Fairytale by The Killers (I feel like it fits Anidala/Skyberrie so I'm trying to make an edit!!!!)

currently reading: Parenting Beyond Pink and Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes by Christia Brown. I'm not pregnant, I don't have any children, I'm just going through my gender creative parenting hyperfixation again and it could help me to stop stereotyping the kids I teach and just people in general!!

currently watching: The Clone Wars 2008, still stuck in season 2 lol

current obsessions: Star Wars (prequel trilogy, tcw, certain scenes with Hayden Christiansen in them from the Ahsoka series lol), The Killers possibly (I've relistened to Hot Fuss, and plan to listen to the other albums again), I don't think gender creative parenting counts lol

ships i love: Anidala or Skyberrie, Codywan, Obitine, Barrisoka

fandoms: Star Wars, MCU Spider-Man, Stampy Cat, I don't really post about any others lol

currently wearing: Yellow shirt, grey pants

wips: Happy AU of course (want to write every chapter before posting chapter 1 because I WILL get frustrated with myself for never finishing it if I start posting it incomplete lol), Modern AU with trans Anakin, Ahsoka and Obi-Wan (basically a retelling of the prequels and tcw in which everything sticks as close to the canon timeline as possible except that Obi is a trans man, Ani is a trans girl and Soka is enby)

fav flower: Wish flower/dandelion!!! They're so pretty and I love blowing on them and watching their seeds float away! I've heard that many people don't like them because they're weeds, but they're sooooo pretty! HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE WISH FLOWERS???

fav artist: The Killers or Rhett and Link

Last song: got me singing Jaafer Jackson, Godlight by Noah Kahan.

Currently reading: the unlikely take of Chase and Finnegan by Jasmine Warga.

Ships I love: Anidala and Obitine

Currently wearing: summer Pjs

Current obsessions: Michael Jackson, the Beatles, Hayden Christensen and his films. Webkinz, Jellycats, Keith urban,

WIPS: more sick fics/hurt comfort, Star Wars AU and RPF. Hoping to get at least one more fic finished before I go on my two week vacation. 🤞

Favorite flower: Roses 🌹 and any purple flower

Favorite artists 🎵: the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Dhani Harrison, Paul McCartney, Mat Kearney, Keith urban, Brian Ray.

•Last Song: Son of a Son of a Sailor by Jimmy Buffett

•Currently Watching: the Paranormal Activity movies, The Duchess, any adaptation of Cinderella, Sense & Sensibility (1995), and Carol.

•Currently Reading: Be Your Own Bestie by Misha Brown, the Bramble Hedge stories, the Beatrix Potter tales, and The Secret Garden.

•Ships I Love: all of my self-ships with my beloveds!

•Fandoms: Harry Potter, Star Trek, LOTR, Star Wars, Disney, Marvel/MCU, and way too many others.

•Currently Wearing: Floral nightgown.

•Current Obsessions: Grandmacore, fairies, Cottagecore, ghosts, Twilight, Winnie the Pooh, Adar (from Rings of Power), and Peter Facinelli!

•WIPs: Far too many to count.

•Favorite Flower: Sage, lavender, and roses!

After James Norrington returns to Port Royal with the heart of Davy Jones, he faces a bittersweet reunion with Governor Swann.

Swann broke into a smile of relief. “Oh, thank God,” he said, then moved swiftly towards James to embrace him. “I wouldn’t do that if I were you,” James warned, suddenly self-conscious of the fact that he was covered in filth. Swann paused, then frowned as he got a good look at James’ dirty, tattered clothes and generally unkempt appearance. “Are you all right?” Swann asked. James shrugged. “More or less.” “You look…” “I know,” James said. “Believe me. I know.” Swann offered a tentative smile. “I hardly know what to say,” he admitted. “I didn’t think… Well, I suppose I didn’t know what to think, once we got word of…” He trailed off, as if he couldn’t bring himself to say it aloud. 

This is such a modern misunderstanding of respect.

Yes, a wife can ask her husband for help. But she can do it without scolding him, belittling him, or turning the home into a running argument about who did what.

A feminine woman does not lose anything by being gracious.