This Is Lovely.

This is lovely.

I’m reblogging though because it’s #relevant to my yesterday. I said “thank you for trusting us with this moment” to someone (Shitty was right, it’s a heartfelt way to acknowledge vulnerability!) - and then had a wild moment of fear that THEY might be a Check, Please! fan. That they’d know my heartfelt response to their vulnerability was just...me poaching. Textually.

Thankfully the moment passed. But it was good to hear about a random in-person fannish encounter. I’ve never had a spontaneous one of those.

I’m doing nanowrimo again this year (against my better judgement), and I’m also trying to be social while doing it, so I went to a local write-in yesterday.  I got to talking with one of my table-mates and we discussed the fact that we were both published. They asked for my pen name, I told them, and then they said I sounded kind of familiar.

So on a whim, I ask, “Are you by chance in the Check, Please! fandom?”

They nod. We meet eyes, start to grin There has been an exchange. We are already bonded, just a little.

Then, “do you know justwritins/sinspiration?”

Yes.

It me!!

And it turns out they’d just finished reading self reflection! 

So *waves to @dsudis* it was nice to meet you! I hope we run into each other again (or arrange it? I’d love to talk to you more)!

it’s always amazing to watch adults discover how much changes when they don’t treat their perspective as the default human experience.

example: it’s been well-documented for a long time that urban spaces are more dangerous for kids than they are for adults. but common wisdom has generally held that that’s just the way things are because kids are inherently vulnerable. and because policymakers keep operating under the assumption that there’s nothing that can be done about kids being less safe in cities because that’s just how kids are, the danger they face in public spaces like streets and parks has been used as an excuse for marginalizing and regulating them out of those spaces.

(by the same people who then complain about kids being inside playing video games, I’d imagine.)

thing is, there’s no real evidence to suggest that kids are inescapably less safe in urban spaces. the causality goes the other way: urban spaces are safer for adults because they are designed for adults, by adults, with an adult perspective and experience in mind.

the city of Oslo, Norway recently started a campaign to take a new perspective on urban planning. quite literally a new perspective: they started looking at the city from 95 centimeters off the ground - the height of the average three-year-old. one of the first things they found was that, from that height, there were a lot of hedges blocking the view of roads from sidewalks. in other words, adults could see traffic, but kids couldn’t.

pop quiz: what does not being able to see a car coming do to the safety of pedestrians? the city of Oslo was literally designed to make it more dangerous for kids to cross the street. and no one realized it until they took the laughably small but simultaneously really significant step of…lowering their eye level by a couple of feet.

so Oslo started trimming all its decorative roadside vegetation down. and what was the first result they saw? kids in Oslo are walking to school more, because it’s safer to do it now. and that, as it turns out, reduces traffic around schools, making it even safer to walk to school.

so yeah. this is the kind of important real-life impact all that silly social justice nonsense of recognizing adultism as a massive structural problem can have. stop ignoring 1/3 of the population when you’re deciding what the world should look like and the world gets better a little bit at a time.

The homeowner said the buck shows up everyday, so they gave him a bed, too.

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“movies that have some asshole or monster claim to be a god and so some…”

I can’t help but feel that the Jewish people should not be proud of israel meaning “he who fights with G-d.” It’d be like Christians being called “those guys that really hate Jesus”

Your big mistake was taking xtianity and trying to apply it to Jews, Judaism, and our relationship with G-d.

You can not on a fundamental level apply xtianity to Judaism because they are nothing alike and highly incompatible.

To understand this concept of fighting G-d you have to solely look at Judaism otherwise it won’t make any sense.

See xtianity sees fighting with god and takes that to mean one hates god.

Jews see fighting with G-d and we go ah that person loves G-d.

Fighting with G-d to Jews is an expression of love. It is a massive aspect of relationship with G-d. 

There is a reason that there are many atheist Jews and those Jews are some of the most like hardcore Jews ever.

There is a famous story of two Rabbis arguing about something in the Torah and finally after much back and forth The Voice of G-d speaks to them and says Rabbi A is correct.

So Rabbi B says to The Voice of G-d that might be, but You gave us the Torah for us here on Earth to understand and interpret so what you say is correct has no bearing on this argument.

G-d starts to laugh and says “Look at how wonderful my children are”

To Jews, G-d is not necessarily necessary to the equation.

So to fight G-d is rather an expression of love rather then hate.

Fighting G-d whether you be like Yakkov who physically fought G-d or if be a battle of words like pretty much every Jew ever is a basic core of Jewish culture.

No matter where in the world we are, no matter how far we are from each other, no matter what the one thing you can always count on is that fighting G-d will always be apart of Jewish culture, Judaism, and the very nature of every Jewish person.

Why is one the most important words in Judaism. Why allows us to explore the world, ourselves, and each other. Why helps to debate and to understand. Why lets us argue with G-d and Why helps to become closer to G-d.

One of the fundamentals of Judaism is to ask questions and question everything.

Question your leader, question yourself, and question G-d.

When we question and fight G-d we don’t come away hating G-d or rejecting Judaism. Rather we come away with a deeper understanding of everything and with a further love of G-d.

To G-d there is nothing as wonderful as when a Jew comes and fights with G-d.

And to a Jew it is one of the most fundamentally Jewish things they can ever do.

An old and homely grandmother accidentally summons a demon. She mistakes him for her gothic-phase teenage grandson and takes care of him. The demon decides to stay at his new home.

a 6-year-old girl’s sparkly tiara as PROTECTION FROM TROLLS DRAPED OVER THE MODEM. LONG FLOWING LOCKS AND REAL SWORDS. I love everything about this post.

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