christian thought in its original form is about defending and sympathizing with the most powerless members of our society and i think its one of the greatest tragedies in human history that something like that was so thoroughly corrupted and weaponized by the very people it was supposed to fight against
bc i’m tired of seeing christmas fic written about jewish characters! anyway here are some prompt ideas, goy inclusive even. anyone is free to use/rb!
It’s an hour until first night candle lighting. Person A and Person B reach for the last pack of candles at the store at the same time
The neighborhood loses power. Person A, who is not Jewish, sees that their neighbor Person B has a lot of candles going and stops in for some light. (Surprise! It’s Channukah!)
Somehow person A gets roped into cooking all the latkes for a Channukah party, which is fine, until Person B decides to tell them they’re making them wrong. OR person B starts eating too many OR Person B causes a huge mess
There are accusations of dreidel cheating—which means Person A and Person B have to play with someone else’s dreidel and an audience for bragging rights. Trash talking encouraged.
Person A, a goy, was invited to Person B’s Channukah party but Person B didn’t think they’d attend—now it’s Channukah and Person A clearly has no idea what’s going on and it’s kind of endearing how clueless they are
“Your latkes gave me food poisoning” “no it was the horrid sour cream you insisted on putting on my perfectly good latkes”
You accidentally caught your Christmas sweater on fire at my Channukah party while inspecting the channukiah. we put it out immediately and I’m trying not to laugh but oh no you think I’m laughing at you, not at the ridiculousness of the situation
This is a Bring Your Own Channukiah party what do you mean you didn’t bring a Channukiah/candles i guess we can share
“Channukah is about the miracle of the oil” “Channukah is about military victory” “Channukah is about eating fried foods, clearly”
you got sufganiyot jelly all over your shirt and now you need to borrow something of mine to wear this could get awkward
Christianized gentiles as a whole really have no idea how isolating fandom is right now. Winter events are inevitably called secret Santa and use Christmas color schemes. Elves is considered a neutral winter prompt. People rarely make the barest of effort to mention Chanukkah in their posts.
Jewish fannish ppl are telling you how frustrating it is for everything to be Christmas and begging for scraps of Jewish content and it never changes.
and i know there is concern about misrepresenting Jewish customs. I offer myself up every year, honestly year round, as a resource for Jewish stuff. Whether that’s answering questions or beta reading. I know the internet is daunting and complicated. I also know there are other Jewish ppl who offer similar things.
Goyim have created Jewish content for me that isn’t 100% accurate and it’s wonderful!!. I cherish it and sometimes even more so because i know it took going beyond comfort levels.
It’s not an impossible task!!
i’d just like to go a december without seeing content of obviously non christian characters doing christmas things
Tor are hosting the first chapter of Winter’s Orbit / Course of Honour for those either new to the space princes story or curious about the new version!
There should be some more uploaded in the next week or so - and just over two months until the book is here on Feb 2 \o/
Fun fact: The common belief is that vore day is on 8/8 as a pun of eight/ate, but I’ve heard that it was actually started by Japanese artists and the way 8/8 is written in Japanese is a pun on the sound a growling stomach makes.
Meaning we have a wonderfully cross cultural shared pun going on and if that isn’t the coolest shit then you are simply wrong.
the fact that biden cant landslide an impeached president responsible for a massive lethal disease outbreak shows how fucking pathetic he really is
Biden has over 70 million votes, which is the most of any Presidential candidate in history. He’s leading Trump by 4 million votes.
He came very close to flipping Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina.
The take is that 1) the electoral college is fucked up and 2) white supremacy and hate are extremely strong motivators for this country’s right wing, not “Biden is pathetic,” you fucking dimwit
Also this was in the face of massive voter suppression
And there’s a certain percentage of the voting population who are just … kind of terrible people?
The ones who like Trump because he hurts people they think he should be hurting. The ones who want to overturn things like marriage equality. They were never going to vote for Biden - or any Democratic candidate.
I saw this thread earlier from Ursula Vernon that helps put a lot of this in perspective: (ID and transcription below)
[ID: a series of tweets by twitter handle @ursulav, username Kingfisher & Wombat, who has a cute little hand-drawn wombat as their user ID pic.
“Basically, though, it seems like people expected a landslide denunciation of authoritarianism. And I feel like that was never actually on the table? Of course it would have been nice! Sure! No question! But that’s never how it seems to work?”
“I’m not enough of a historian to have any go-to but Hitler, sorry, but I seem to remember that he was quite popular and then he lost the war and a few years later nobody in Germany had ever been a Nazi and that was all other people in some other town.”
“We all wanted the big repudiation without the war. I get it! But I think we did something more impressive, in its way. We saw it coming before we got that far.“
“More Americans than have ever voted in the history of America saw down the road and went “Oh HELL no!” Before we had to have the big collapse where suddenly nobody had ever supported the despot, ha ha, no, not us, that was some other town, nobody here.”
“So yeah, it would have been more emotionally satisfying if all the Trump supporters had a Come to Jesus moment and threw down their MAGA has. But you only get that if the despot runs unchecked long enough to destroy…well, everything.”
“If there’s a really unsafe road and you block it off, a lot of people aren’t going to be grateful. They’re going to yell that it’s safe and anyway, they’re a good driver. Somebody has to die on the road—maybe multiple people—before they’ll admit it’s dangerous. Some never will.”
“But the sooner you close the road, the more lives you save. And that’s worth it.”
End ID.]
I know things are still unsure, right now, but I think this is worth taking heart from.
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