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So I had a great time at the con today! The baby con I first went to two years ago is really growing up! These pictures were from the competition. Sadly, I didn't place, and I feel a little cheated considering some of the winners but! I'm not the kind of person to get hung up on these things. Everyone did a good job and I'm happy I got to be apart of it! I got to talk to one of the judges! I told him how I designed the things and he asked if I wanted to go into costume design and I showed him my pirate England cosplay and he thought it was great. I am happy. Very tired. Goodnight.

“I definitely didn’t want to root [Corpse Bride] in a specific place, and wasn’t really interested in what real ethnic origins of the tale were, because the thing that got me was the fable aspect of it”⁹.

Jewish legends are, well, legendary. They are filled with mystery, magic, fascinating creatures, wild adventures, and dazzling heroes. But if you ask most people, even most Jews, they may be largely unfamiliar with Jewish folktales outside of the Bible or Fiddler on the Roof. That is until you unravel the way in which Jewish folklore has been commodified and removed from its Jewish roots in order to be suitable for a non-Jewish audience.

This phenomenon is not new and not singular to Jews–not in the slightest. Cultural stories, and so much more, are routinely co-opted and commodified, erasing the culture, religion, and heritage of the original storytellers in order to make the story palatable for audiences outside of the original group. Sometimes so egregiously or viciously that it is largely unrecognizable to those who aren’t intimately familiar enough to spot it.

One such story is, allegedly, The Corpse Bride.

However, Tim Burton would convince you that the story he heard of (allegedly from within Lilith’s Cave) isn’t actually Jewish–in fact, he doesn't even know the origin. In their 2018 YouTube video, Jewish Erasure in Tim Burton Films, channel The Princess and the Scrivener plays a clip of Burton stating, “Joe had heard a little story, like a paragraph, which was an excerpt from an old fable–I don’t even know from what country it came, my recollection is that it didn’t have a specific place of origin. [I] Wasn't really interested in what the real ethnic origins of the tale were, because the thing that got me was the fable aspect of it”⁹.

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I’ve been really into Welcome to Night Vale lately and this is a product of that. Not my best, but I was trying a new style out.

I FOUND THE PHOTO OF WHEN THE BURGER KING CLOWN CAUGHT MY HAIR ON FIRE AT MY FOURTH BIRTHDAY, I FINALLY HAVE THE PROOF IT HAPPENED!

I made arrows and a quiver for the con tomorrow. The cosplay is almost done! I'll post more pictures as I continue.

I JSUT SCROLLED DOWN AND SAW YOU DON'T LIKE THE CHAIN ANON THINGS I'M SORRY AAAAAAAAAAAA

IT'S OKAY I APPRECIATE YOUR APOLOGY I SAW IT AT AN OKAY TIME.

The French program at my school got cut and all they teach now is Spanish, but they decided to continue teaching French 1 and 2. Unfortunately the teacher is actually an English teacher and last year's lessons were mostly written by the French 2 kids because they knew more French than the teacher did.

no offense but! i wish american students would stop seeing foreign language classes as just an academic requirement but an opportunity to learn part of another culture!

Here's that dog's YouTube channel, I hope it can brighten your day!

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Norbert

NORBERT - I'm a 3-lb registered therapy dog, philanthropist & author. I also give pretty good high-fives. As a therapy dog, I have volunteer

i offer a gif of a cute puppy giving a high five

Oh my god that puppy is so adorable it made me forget my distress for a moment to just smile at the screen! Thank you so much for sharing this cute pup with me!

Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them.

“No matter how it was collected, where it was collected, when it was collected, our language belongs to us," said Ray Taken Alive, a Lakota teacher.

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STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. — Ray Taken Alive had been fighting for this moment for two years: At his urging, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council was about to take the rare and severe step of banishing a nonprofit organization from the tribe’s land.

The Lakota Language Consortium had promised to preserve the tribe’s native language and had spent years gathering recordings of elders, including Taken Alive’s grandmother, to create a new, standardized Lakota dictionary and textbooks.

But when Taken Alive, 35, asked for copies, he was shocked to learn that the consortium, run by a white man, had copyrighted the language materials, which were based on generations of Lakota tradition. The traditional knowledge gathered from the tribe was now being sold back to it in the form of textbooks. 

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BIRTHDAY!

IT'S MY??! BIRTHDAY?! IMPORTANT ONE?! 18?! I'M AN ADULT? SORT OF? !!!!!