Risu Just Sent Me This And I Am SO DELIGHTED

hey guys just wanted to say that while it’s super awesome that y’all wanna support jews this holiday season, it’s not really appropriate to do the bugs bunny “i wish all ______ a very happy ______” meme for yom kippur. it’s great for sukkot, fantastic for simchat torah, but yom kippur is a day for repentance, remembrance, and forgiveness. it’s probably the most serious holiday we’ve got, so please don’t make light of it. instead of “happy yom kippur”, maybe say something like “have a meaningful holiday”, or “have a healthy fast” for people doing the traditional sundown to sundown fast. yom kippur starts with kol nidre (some people go to services, others just eat a big pre-fast meal, my family does both) september 15th at sundown and lasts until sundown on the 16th. please be conscious of your jewish peers! love, your local jewish nonbinary lesbain

Jewish Curriculum

If you’re like me and felt overwhelmed as a convert trying to work out what to learn, I’ve made a checklist on google sheets which you can make a copy of and use to guide your learning. It includes:

Prayers and songs to learn

Historical events to research

Jewish theological topics

Important Biblical and modern figures

Jewish holidays

Book and film recommendations

Jewish values

Judaica to buy

Some resources that have helped me

I hope it helps :)

In 1944 a kitten named George (short for General Electric) was saved from drowning by a U.S. Navy crew member. George was then photographed and given a liberty card and detailed health record. Source.

As of yesterday, I have officially applied for grad school. Everyone send me some good vibes or thoughts or prayers or whatever you feel most suitable! I really really want to get into this school.

These past four years have been extremely hard for me. We were in a really bad financial state with my dad on disability and my mom out of work, and my dad was very ill with kidney and heart failure and in and out of the hospital. Then my mom good a job last winter, then the plague hit, then we moved, then my dad died. It has been a fight to stay in school, to do well enough to graduate. It feels like every semester is a boss battle and I'm doing my best to stay afloat. It's been hell, it really has, but I'm doing my best, I'm pushing through, and now I'm getting ready for grad school and graduation.

If I can make it through this, I can make it through anything, and we'll all get through this together. Have faith in yourself! And wish me luck on getting in, this is a big deal.

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Check out my new Voltron Fic!

In an attempt to get the Red Paladin to be more Galra, he and another paladin are captured. He is forced to watch them torture Blue, so that he’ll get angry and resort to instincts. No matter how much Lance pretends to be okay, Keith knows it’s not really okay, and knows there’s nothing he can do but watch helplessly.

My first fic in ages, hope you guys check it out!

BIRTHDAY

DID I MENTION MY BIRTHDAY IS MONDAY? MY BIRTHDAY IS MONDAY. A VERY IMPORTANT BIRTHDAY. IT'S ON MONDAY. OCTOBER THIRD. MY BIRTHDAY. Just saying.

this is from a real diary by a 13-year-old girl in 1870. teenage girls are awesome and they’ve always been that way.

BIRTHDAY!

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

pride month questionnaire.