For real. If I don't know you and we've never interacted and you DM me out of the blue, I will assume you're a bot or a scammer.....

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

Had a dream that X Men 97 made Wolvinamor canon

Pesach prep is all about mopping your apartment wearing only underwear for your bottom half because you don't like feeling of soaked pants, in the dark with only the light from the open bathroom door because your bird has a set bedtime and dammit you might not have a healthy sleep schedule but he has to.

the last anon reminded me when i was in elementary school we had a civil war reenactor come to the school and he taught us to make something like hardtack (he called them war biscuits but i googled it and it looks the same lol) and i commented that it was "just bad matzah" and my teacher said "is that a Jewish thing? because Jews didn't exist during the civil war" 😭😭😭

HELLO?????

WHAT??????

Your teacher told you Jews didn't exist during the Civil War??????? Help?????

Eating hardtack all my childhood prepared me to enjoy matzah straight up as an adult convert. My other Jewish friends all are like ???? at me with it lol

Look Matzah is amazing some people just don't know what they're talking about.

Seeing leftists drool after Iran and Russia has certainly been..... interesting.....

Yes, I am aware that it is normal, however, there are some Jews that do not do it. It's called Gebrochts, it's an actual custom some Jews have. My family does not have matzah brei on Pesach because that would be wetting the matzah. Matzah brei is not essential for Pesach.

do you eat kitniyot on pesach?

I wish!

Because my parents are Baalei Tshuvah, they really just followed the traditions of the various Rabbis and families that took them in. And because my family is Chabad, there's no kitniyot.

My parents were utterly heartbroken when they found out that I don't peel my fruit and vegetables for Pesach, they don't even know that I wet my matzah, so honestly I don't think I'm ready to tackle kitniyot haha (although it would make my life as a vegetarian on Pesach sooo much easier).

Handmade Shmurah Matzah for the win!

(personal opinion but factory made Matzah is the stuff that tastes cardboard-y, handmade Matzah is top tier)

Jumblr, important question.

Do you like matzah?

I know to the more sane ones among us the very notion that matzah is tasty or good may sound preposterous. And yet, somehow, such baffling humans, who enjoy burnt-tasting dried flour-water paste exist.

So yeah I was just wondering :)

I mean like, the regular kind. Not fancy egg matzah or whatever.

do you eat kitniyot on pesach?

I wish!

Because my parents are Baalei Tshuvah, they really just followed the traditions of the various Rabbis and families that took them in. And because my family is Chabad, there's no kitniyot.

My parents were utterly heartbroken when they found out that I don't peel my fruit and vegetables for Pesach, they don't even know that I wet my matzah, so honestly I don't think I'm ready to tackle kitniyot haha (although it would make my life as a vegetarian on Pesach sooo much easier).

I spent a large portion of today researching tekhelet for work as part of a piece on ancient dyes and I got so stupid emotional. Like it's just a dye, but it was such an important thing in ancient Judaism as the dye which would make tzitzit blue and the method of making it was lost around the time of the Arab conquest of Israel in the 7th century. (Also I note that lots of sources date the loss of the secret of the original manufacture but many just gloss over it mapping directly onto the colonisation of Judea/Israel by the Rashidun Caliphate - I know that the two events may not be connected but I have spent too long looking at history to be able to say that these were completely unrelated y'know... Lost knowledge is very, very rarely a coincidence)

They literally, to this day, still don't know how it was made.

There are multiple theories, most of which revolve around the murex snail (where we get Tyrian purple from) and the fact that if you expose the pigment it produces - di-bromo indigo - to light at the right point in the production process, it is reduced to regular indigo from which you can get your blue dye. But this has all been worked out using modern methods. The ancient production method of tekhelet is gone and I honestly find myself mourning yet another piece of lost knowledge form our history.

Having feelings about Jeff Mace, the third Captain America who was Jewish-American and targeted by the Lavender Scare because of his friendship with a gay man and his relationship with the second Bucky, Fred Davis Jr., and was forced to replace Bucky with a female sidekick and eventually gave up the Captain America mantle and got married, but never had any kids with his wife.

There's a peregrine falcon pair on the roof of one of the buildings on campus. A few months ago I also saw an American kestrel. There's plenty of blue jays that live in the woods near my parents' place, and red-tailed hawks, too, and at least one brown-headed cowbird. And now a bald eagle lives there too......my bird AU is crossing over into real life, folks.

A bald eagle now lives in the woods near my parents' house. I am so excited. I can't wait to look for its nest this Summer and observe it.

Steve 🤝 Bucky

Finding a kid created for the sole intention of being a weapon of mass destruction and deciding to adopt said kid

Always thought I'd be the main character but actually I'm the queer-coded best friend in a rom com that fans immediately pick up on having had unrequited feelings for the main character but has swallowed their sadness and forced themself to be happy for the main character and help them get their fairytale romance even if it hurts.

Has your #1 comfort character committed a crime?