Metallic Roses and Dimension 20

- Acknowledge that Christmas is not a universal holiday and that some people either feel negatively about it or just don’t celebrate it. Stop being offended by this.

- Stop forcing people to participate. Don’t make your Jewish employees wear Christmas outfits, don’t make schoolkids be part of Christmas plays, etc.

- Stop pushing back when Jews are honest with you about how they feel about it.

- Stop deflecting to talk about how Christmas traditions are actually pagan in origin. We know, and also it’s fully irrelevant to our issues with Christmas.

- Recognize things from other cultures. Or at very least don’t *prevent* members of other cultures from expressing them. If your employee wants to put up a menorah, let them. If your coworker wants to add a Chanukah decoration to your office don’t take it down when they’re not looking because it “messes up the Christmas spirit” or whatever.

- Recognize things from different cultures at other times of the year too. Let your Jewish students and employees take days off for the fall holidays. Maybe even consider merchandise or decorations for those holidays too!

- Stop with the double standards. You don’t get to say that a menorah is religious and a Christmas tree isn’t. Either both of them are or neither of them are. A menorah actually is a ritual object but a) plenty of secular Jews use them and b) I don’t think most Christians know that, they just think of Judaism (and therefore Jewish culture) as “a religion” and Christian culture as normal. When people claim to object to Chanukah (the holiday most widely — and often exclusively — celebrated by secular Jews) because it’s “religious,” they’re actually objecting because it’s non-normative.

- Listen when someone is telling you about their experiences with and thoughts about hegemonic culture. Don’t argue that actually it’s fine becaude Christmas is secular or pagan or whatever. Trust people about the experiences they’ve had and how things impact them.

Don’t get me wrong, I love seeing the decorations. Inside the neighborhood, most of the houses were decorated for Christmas and I adored it.

But it excluded me and it excluded my family when they put the wreath on the front gate. My family wasn’t represented. And when we asked for the wreath to be taken down, or at least for them to add representation of Hanukkah, we were told we were being “Too dramatic”

“Journeys end in lovers meeting.”

If you aren’t following the Dimension 20 twitter then what are you doing

Bonus:

i couldn’t decide which i liked better so take them both i guess 

im back on my mememaking bullshit everybody!

- sofie’s a senior. she’s cool but not popular, if that makes sense. she throws parties when her parents go away for the weekend and she sometimes is in the drama club but also sometimes not because she likes Ms. Moore but she doesn’t like, really care about shows like some of the other kids. school is kind of just a thing she’s finishing before she can go to cosmetology school.

- pete, ricky, and esther are FRESHMEN they are CHILD BABIES. 

- ricky plays soccer in the fall, runs track in the winter, and plays baseball in the spring. he’s the only boy in his home ec. class and he is TERRIBLE at it but he also tries really hard. 

- esther’s in all AP classes already and is going to start doing the dual-enrollment stuff with the local community college as soon as she’s a junior. she’s on the JETs (junior engineering team) and also does yearbook, lit mag, drama club (stage manager queen), student council, and plays fockey in the fall. 

- esther and ricky meet bc the fockey team is constantly kicking boys soccer off their field. she threatens him with her stick and he’s immediately charmed but too shy to do anything about it until they are SENIORS this is a SLOW BURN

- pete is. newly out. he’s freaking out a lot about it but all the attendence records say pete so like! all his teachers call him that and nobody knows him by his deadname. he and ricky are in the same math class and neither know what’s going on the entire first week so they become friends over that. pete’s in marching band and he plays the trumpet. he’s decent but he doesn’t practice ever and he never ever knows his drill.

- kingston (Mr. Brown) teaches US history. he’s really good about teaching kids to challenge the source materials for the class (c*llege b*ard uses some DEEPLY BAD AND QUESTIONABLE MATERIAL ON THE AP CURRIC). so many of his students have cried to him. he writes unbeatable rec letters. he has lost his temper one (1) time in thirty years of teaching and it was when he tried to do a kahoot in class. 

- Kugrash is a lunch lad.  one of the gym teachers and the track coach. He’s well liked by the runners and generally has a good dad vibe about him. He doesn’t know how to handle teenage girls like At All so getting him for gym is Choice because you can “forget your uniform” and “be on your period” all semester and still get an A-. 

Name: Rhene (Pronounced Reen) Visahli

Role: Rhythm guitarist (backup vocals) - I believe Fig is the bassist and lead singer

Race: Half-Elf

Age: 17

Class: Oath-breaker Paladin

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Appearance Description: Long black hair, ivory skin, blue-green eyes, arched eyebrows. Her nose and one or two of her fingers are crooked (she kept breaking bones as a child. They couldn’t all be fixed perfectly) 

Personality Description: Rhene is a witty, arrogant, and adventurous person. She loves excitement and the unknown, but she can act very overconfident about how things will go. She’s very charismatic, but can be a bit cruel with her sarcasm sometimes. Overall, although she sometimes falls short of being kind, Rhene is incredibly loyal and will fight for her own until the end.

Backstory: Rhene and her twin brother were both raised in the Church of Sol. Her twin was a cleric and she was a paladin, both raised to champion their god and his beliefs. They did so through most of high school, but then Rhene’s twin came out as gay to the church and it went extremely badly. Rhene’s brother was threatened, belittle, and dismissed. After that, Rhene broke her oath, realizing that she had only been staying in that close-minded church full of close-minded people out of love for her brother. The two left the church and found an aunt who was also estranged from the church, who offered to let the twins stay with her. The twins joined The Sig Figs not long after

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Barbarella “Bob” Sasparilla Gainglynn