NO ONE UNDER 25 BEYOND THIS POINT 🔞 Anna Katherina ᴵᵗ . 33 . North Central Oklahoma 🌸 Desktop-Only [Personal Life, Health, Food, Plant, Religion, & Studies ᵉᵗᶜ] Blogger Just Trying To Get Its Life Back Together ⭭
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If you follow me, then please actually interact with the entirety of me as an actual Human Being; say hello to me somehow on occasion, at the very least. Let me know that you are here, and that you are Human too and respect our mutual Humanity.
How do you do this? Comment on my posts. Or even just like them sometimes! Maybe even send me asks every now and again; I love getting asks no matter what it’s about (even if it’s one tiny little question for an ask game. That’s why I post them for y'all!) … Just don’t DM me, however. Tumblr’s DM system is disability unfriendly for me.
And I mean my personal posts in all cases, by the way- not things that I’ve reblogged, or any quotes I’ve posted; if that’s all you’re interacting with every time you’re here? That’s still not real or genuine Human interaction. It’s still just empty, mindless content consumption.
In other words: Treat me like the actual living, breathing Human Being that I am. Not like just another meaningless number, or something for you to mindlessly consume from as you scroll through social media like a zombie … Because I am not a content machine, or just another number. I am an actual person. And I want to be acknowledged treated as one by the people who follow me- even if it’s on the most bare minimum effort of levels.
Otherwise there’s literally no actual point of following me or being here. And I do soft-block in order to force unfollow people who don’t genuinely interact with me.
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my pronouns are whatever will get me out of this situation
imagine being the first ancient person to realize that the ocean and their tears taste the same. imagine realizing that your sorrow and the waves share a taste. i wouldve gone crazy
periodic reminder that anti-convert rhetoric is antisemitism. and yes that includes when it comes from inside the community.
what we’re not going to do is weaponize our trauma to disrespect those who chose to join am yisrael and fight alongside us to keep our family alive, those who had the courage to face persecution and take on that communal memory and remind us why we still fight. it is explicitly forbidden to remind jews by choice that they were ever not part of am yisrael. jews by choice experience antisemitism. if you really want to make it a competition, they also experience forms of antisemitism that most jews who were born jewish will not experience. if i see another person try to hold their “jewish dna” over another jews’ head, i will find them and shit in their bed. do not fucking test me.
SCIENTIFICALLY??????? we’re doing nazi race science now????????????
anyway this is where anti convert rhetoric always leads. race science and victim blaming. what jews by choice experience is antisemitism. not just prejudice. and again; this is explicitly forbidden in jewish custom. some of y’all care more about your precious “jewish dna” than you do your jewish community and it’s fucking atrocious and embarrassing.

I think they're talking about epigenetics and how someone experiencing trauma can pass altered genes down to their descendants. Which is a real thing that happens, but like... I'm not Jewish, but I'm 100% certain that's not how you guys decide who is and who isn't. And if someone thinks it is, it is awfully bold of them to call the person telling them not to do that the 'edgy' one.
I AM Jewish and I can tell you that's not how it works.
It's obviously stupid, but throwing in this race science stuff has some truly great implications. How much oppression does someone need to endure to count? If an assimilationist Jewish family from Germany, truly a relatively comfortable position for some time, saw the writing on the wall and got out before the Shoah, have they not endured enough oppression to be Jewish now? Are all Black people Jewish, as slavery and lynch mobs are epigenetically similar trauma as the Pale of Settlement and pogroms?
I mean, this is also pop-science bullshit where people read "prolonged starvation can cause changes in metabolism of descendants" and think it's some Lysenko magic as opposed to a handful of changes in sequencing as a stress response that are in no way uniquely Jewish.
exactly. a lot of people don’t seem to understand that when we talk about generational or ancestral trauma it isn’t something that’s like?????? coded into ur dna?????? it’s sociological, it’s people whose parents were holocaust survivors being taught to always find a place to hide or to always have a passport, it’s being taught from a young age that you need to make friends with people who will hide you if it comes down to it. and guess what? that’s something jews by choice have to learn to do later in life which is traumatic as fuck! bc they have to do it alone!

What that person is also missing here is that "convert" is not a particularly meaningful category of Jew. Literally all it means is that you had to go through a halachic "naturalization" process, as it were, in order to be considered halachicly Jewish for ritual and/or religious purposes. That's it. It doesn't tell you anything about a person's Jewish background, family, genetics, upbringing - none of it. I know gerim who had two Jewish parents, were raised practicing exclusively Judaism, were already Jewish in every meaningful way - but had to do a giyur l'chumra because their mother had a liberal conversion. Or, in another case, because they couldn't prove their matrilineal descent.
What about all the converts who had to convert because their families endured so much antisemitism that their records were wiped out, or their parents or grandparents assimilated or converted out? Where do they fit into all of this?
Because truly, my experience as a true outsider with no Jewish ancestry to speak of (that I know about) and basically no exposure to Judaism or Jewish people before adulthood? Nowhere near as common in my experience as people who do have some prior connection.
But even for those of us who are very much gerim in every meaningful sense? It's sad, that attitude, because every ger I've met has been so ride or die lmao. We looked deeply at all of Jewish history into the present day, sized it up, and still decided that being Jewish was worth it. Worth living for - and chas v'shalom worth dying for, too.
Oooooo … If I still cursed, I swear to HaShem I would be slinging some absolute shit right now after what I just went through.
We went to go take Echo to her appointment. We live right down the road from our Vet’s clinic. But to get there you have to go around this kinda slightly windy road to get there (which is right in front of a school, I may fucking add).
So we’re starting to get into the windy bit … And this insane ass woman in a white car with tinted windows- blonde, probably mid 30’s to 40’s, male passenger … Just swerves into our lane and guns it at us, and literally plays chicken ???
We nearly got into a fucking head-on collision. And she was laughing at us. Who does that. Who almost intentionally causes a literal head-on collision with someone, and then laughs about it ??? She’s fucking insane.
I want to curse her ass so bad right now. I had to settle for flipping her off. Fucking spirit edicts 😡 Just. I am filled with pure rage right now. I cannot believe this shit.
In everything from simple prayer and acts of kindness, to complicated ceremony and intensive ritual training, people do their religions. By emphasizing the Craft as a practice — especially a practice that engages both the mind and the body as active doers of knowing — [we] may bring about a paradigm shift [… in our …] understanding of religion as embodied practice.
From Coming to the Edge of the Circle: A Wiccan Initiation Ritual, published 2005; Nikki Bado-Fralick (My Review Here) (My Ko-Fi Here)
After modifying the new divination method as far as I could stand tonight I decided to make a “what’s for dinner” jar based on the date night jars I’ve seen going around a lot.
I divided sets of popsicle sticks up into groups of 12 and then painted them different colors for different categories. After the paint was dry I wrote various recipe names on the sticks and placed them in a jar.
Blue for Seafood dishes:
Gold for Poultry dishes:
Green for Vegetable and non meat dishes
Bronze for Beef dishes
Red for Pork dishes
Silver for Fast Food and Dining Out
My husband and I are both terribly indecisive about what we want for dinner most nights so I think this is going to be really good for us.
And the great thing about this, too, is that we can add recipes just by painting more sticks.
This is something I created forever ago for my husband and I that I really should bring back around again, honestly. It made meal planning so much easier.
This time, however, I think I may swap a bunch of the stuff out for recipes in the cook books we haven’t used yet- and just make a great big giant one instead of this small one I originally made.
ETA: Finally I got one to keep the original text of mine without the unnecessary reblogs. Wow, that was annoying. Wtf Tumblr!
Rural magic practitioners are feral. Even after years of socialization and urban living one can snap and become feral again with the slightest provocation. You've been warned.
Ooo, but the Oklahoma Invasive Plant Council just released a new webinar for Oklahoma Thistle Identification, Regulation, and Management scheduled for next week. Don’t mind if I do.
Got smacked in the face both by the worst sleepiness and by my Lyrica at the same time today. Makes me very glad my Husband was let go from work early and is here to drive the cat to the vet appointment, because otherwise I’d’ve had to reschedule everything because I can barely walk all of a sudden. Also really glad I’ll finally be off the Lyrica soon so this stops happening. Good Lord.
imbue your actions with character; imbue your interactions with meaning.