Mightiest-anathema

i have 3 moods:

skips every song on my ipod

lets the music play without interruption

plays the same song on repeat for days

“I’ve always liked the time before dawn because there’s no one around to remind me who I am supposed to be, so it’s easier to remember who I am.”

— Brian Andreas

“Red lights, stop signs I still see your face in the white cars, front yards Can’t drive past the places we used to go to ‘Cause I still fuckin’ love you, babe Sidewalks we crossed I still hear your voice in the traffic, we’re laughing Over all the noise God, I’m so blue, know we’re through But I still fuckin’ love you, babe”

— Drivers License: Olivia Rodrigo

Surf’s Up (2007)

“Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts,rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all the pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.”

— Liam Neeson - (hatin)

I don’t even think Christmas shouldn’t be all over the public space like it is. Clearly it does make a lot of people happy and I lowkey I actually kind of like it too! (Sort of. But I also don’t.) So, continue covering your town square or wherever with trees and lights, I’m not saying not to. What I *am* asking for is:

- 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.

(Yes, non-Jews can reblog this.)

Moonlit village in winter (1926) by Mikhail Markelovich Guzhavin (1888-1929)

“East Boston, 1996; Night Walk,” in God’s Silence by Franz Wright

Edmund Dulac, The Snow Queen Flies Through the Winter’s Night. Illustration for “The Snow Queen: in Seven Stories,”  Stories from Hans Christian Andersen, 1911.

Snowy Night by Mary Oliver

Winter, Midnight, 1894 by Childe Hassam (1859–1935)

Good Hours by Robert Frost

Street in the Evening, Prague (1875) by Jakub Schikaneder (Czech, 1855-1924)

from Street Haunting by Virginia Woolf 

Old Houses, Montreal by Maurice Galbraith Cullen (1866-1934)

„you don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear." - oscar wilde

@insearchforpoetry ♡︎

“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.”

— Issac Marion, Warm Bodies