Yaintstve

[Yaintstve]

[andromnoms]

hey @voxlerot i was your pinch gift person for @homestuckss secret santa! i hope you like what i drew, rose and jade are v good girls

also srry this is p late but i hope you had a merry christmas and a good new year! ;0

[Yaintstve]

[ot3]

TIS THE SEASON yet i have not had my dashboard graced by 

so here she is. Happy holidays, everyone.

[Yaintstve]

[elisamaza]

y’all

a mutual of mine

suddenly has posts on their blog

with links to “find women to have sex with”

my mutual is NOT POSTING THESE

tumblr just got even worse

[elisamaza]

on that note PLEASE let me know if i’m suddenly posting random pictures of women with a link underneath the photo. don’t click the link, just FYI.

[elisamaza]

i do suggest reblogging this in case someone sees this happening to someone else they follow

[Yaintstve]

[yayroos]

For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

• Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
• Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
• Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
• Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

• Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
• Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
• Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
• Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
• Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

[debwalsh]

Peaceful protest pointed at ad revenue, spiking activity elsewhere. Genius.

[these-are-the-first-steps]

at the very least, do this

[vgstims]

Just a reminder for tomorrow, I’ll be joining in with this

[Yaintstve]

Sbnkalny is offline because I am currently homeless

[sbnkalny]

I really don’t like posting on her blog myself but I’m in a situation that warrants it. Me and my girlfriend were kicked out by our roommates a couple of weeks ago, so I drove to Los Angeles with her to try and find a programming job there. However, we don’t have the money to last us much longer, so I’m posting here to ask for help.

My paypal is mraof@mraof.com, if you could donate there I would greatly appreciate it. I also have a patreon at https://www.patreon.com/mraof, but as I have a more immediate need for money I would prefer donations to my paypal.

Me and my girlfriend Ashley also need temporary housing, we are both trans women and both have cars.

If you have any leads for programming jobs in the LA area (or remotely), contact me at mraof@mraof.com. Other than sbnkalny, I’ve written the Minecraft mod Minestuck and various other mods and small projects, you can check out the source of a lot of what I’ve done (including sbnkalny) at https://github.com/mraof/

[Yaintstve]

[astrotomy]

oh also heres iris on her own because i love her.

[Yaintstve]

Anonymous asked:

i don't really understand why you would be pro-zoo. like i understand nature reserves and sanctuaries where people can observe from afar, but it doesn't seem right to me when they're locked up in generally small confined areas for people to watch them do nothing all day. idk maybe i'm getting this wrong, and i still really respect you, i just don't understand this. like i interned at a zoo and felt uncomfortable with how small their living areas were and how they had no stimulation

bigcatawareness answered:

Zoos don’t look like this anymore.

They look like this:

Good zoos do not keep their animals in “tiny spaces” with no enrichment.  I’m not pro-roadside zoo.  I’m pro-accredited zoo.  Zoos are incredibly important for conservation and education.

• Are Zoos Necessary?
• The Importance of Zoos: Resource Post
• Why Zoos and Aquariums Matter: Assessing the Impact of a Visit to a Zoo or Aquarium
• Why I Want to be a Keeper
• Why I Believe in Zoos

[useless-zoofacts]

There should be way more pictures of modern zoos so i just add some more

[merp-a-derp69]

Seriously zoos do so much important conservation work as well I hate when people shit all over zoos as if the animals are locked up and not looked after

[nyxetoile]

The SF Zoo has two sea lions. Now, if you know SF, you know that sea lions are a Thing. They’re all over Pier 39 and various other beaches in N California. In fact, the zoo is near the ocean, so there are sea lions not 200 yards from the zoo entrance. So having sea lions in the zoo seems sort of superfluous.

Except the sea lions are blind. One was found as an adult after suffering a gun shot wound to the face that destroyed his eyes. The other was found as an adolescent, weak and starving because it had been blinded and unable to hunt. So they were rescued and introduced and the zoo built them a nice pool where they can swim and sunbathe and people toss them fish. It’s not the biggest exhibit, or the fanciest. But it’s a home for them, where they’re safe and well fed. Sea lions aren’t the most romantic of animals, but they’re a part of SF culture and a lot of us have a soft spot for the loud, bulbous things. And because of zoos, these two get to live long, happy lives.

Whenever anyone complains about zoos, I think about Silent Knight and Henry. 

[zoogeek327]

I think it’s St. Louis zoo that is saving big cats in Africa. Scientists couldn’t figure out what was killing off the local lion population. They were dying off from Canine Distemper. The local unvaccinated dogs of the towns would spread the disease to other animals or have it themselves. When the lions ate the infected animals they would catch it as well. You know what that Zoo is doing to stop this disease? They are going over to those towns and vaccinating the dogs for free. The community loves it and people from other villages comes for miles to get their dogs vaccinated as well.

They also do work with camel populations because the local human population use the camels for food sources the zoos help monitor the camels health.

Another zoo, I want to say it’s the Oregon zoo but don’t quote me on that, is helping female inmates. The zoo works with the female prisons by encouraging the inmates to assist in the breeding and raising of endangered species of butterflies. They plant the specific plants that the butterflies and catapillars need, raise them, and release them. These inmates get noted in any scientific journals that get published. They are giving these inmates a sense of accomplishment and validation.

Zoos not only save species but bring together and assist communities in an effort to save the environment. Zoos, good zoos, are essential to the future and I will fight anyone who tries to say otherwise.

PS you don’t see PETA doing any of this.

[Yaintstve]

Jewish People Problem #20

[jewish-people-problems]

When you can’t find a single book with a Jewish protagonist that isn’t about the holocaust

[gayjewishbish]

I actually read a really nice novel that had decent Jewish representation when I was in college and its story was about a murder mystery.

Due to how my memory works, I lost the book and I forgot the title :( :( :(

[overgoldengroveunleaving]

okay I wrote a really long thing and my phone deleted it so here is take 2 of my MASTERPOST OF NON-HOLOCAUST-CENTRIC JEWISH MC’s:

Historical Fiction

“All Other Nights” by Dara Horn - Jewish spy for the union in the civil war

“Shylock’s Daughter” by Marjam Pressler - retelling of the Merchant of Venice with a sympathetic Shylock and a historically accurate look at the Ashkenazi AND Sephardic Jewish community in 16th century Italy

“The Chosen” by Chaim Potok - Hassidic + Modern Orthodox Jewish boys ‘friendship’ (lbr we all ship it) in 1945-1948 NYC

“My Name is Asher Lev” by Chaim Potok - ultra-orthodox Jewish boy takes up art, paints a crucifixion scene, and sh*t hits the fan

“The Museum of Extraordinary Things” - Jewish photographer + (non-Jewish) daughter of a sideshow owner meet and fall in love in turn of the century Brooklyn, and also a subplot about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

“Escape from Egypt” by Sonia Levitin - retelling of the Passover story

“Daniel Deronda” by George Eliot - it’s like Jane Austen. With Jews! (And while everything is not all hunky-dory, it’s also not the antisemitic travesty I’ve come to expect from 19th century gentile writers).

Contemporary

“Hacking Harvard” by Robin Wasserman - 3 nerds take on a bet to get a slacker/stoner into Harvard (also a really nice critique of the college admissions process tbh)

“The Pact” by Jodi Picoult - (suicide tw) A tragedy hits 2 families. The novel centers on a trial and flashbacks to the event in question. 

“Someone to Run With” by David Grossman - set on the streets of Jerusalem, a boy tries to return a lost dog to its owner, a girl who has run away from home in search of her brother (this is the English translation, obviously, but if you can read novels in Hebrew I highly recommend reading the original, משהו לרוץ איתו)

Urban Fantasy/Fantasy/SciFi

“The Mediator” series by Meg Cabot - teenaged girl starts seeing ghosts / YA romance (although the fact that the MC is Jewish is not even remotely relevant to the plot, it is mentioned outright several times which is more than most books)

“The Cure” by Sonia Levitin - futuristic dystopian society tries to cure one young man’s appreciation of music by sending him to a Jewish shtetl in 13th century Poland (fair warning for dystopian fans, though, the middle 2/3rds reads like historical fiction, so.)

Children’s (Middle Grade) Books

“All of a Kind Family” by Sydney Taylor - the classic “1920s NYC Jewish family”

“Dave at Night” by Gail Carson Levine - boy sneaks out of an orphanage in early 20th century NYC

“Witness” by Karen Taylor Hesse - told in free verse, the KKK visits a small town  (I’m including it because it’s not a Holocaust book, and it’s really good, but it still might  will set off your antisemitism sensors so fair warning)

“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” by Judy Blume - Classic. (Also, takes on an interfaith family in a really interesting and nuanced way!)

“Samir and Yonatan” by Daniella Carmi - two boys (one Israeli, one Palestinian) end up in the same hospital and learn that they have more in common than they thought

Plays

“Angels in America” by Harold Kushner - I can’t even begin to describe this one just google it. (or: Jewish and Mormon gay people in NYC during the AIDS epidemic, and also angels)

“Thirteen: The Musical” by Dan Elish and Robert Horn, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown - Jewish boy’s parents get divorced and he moves from NYC to Appleton, Indiana right before his Bar Mitzvah

[annekewrites]

Also for children’s books: Rebecca in the American Girl historical collection is a Russian Jewish immigrant.

Also for weird epic romances, I remember Cynthia Freeman having a lot of Jewish protagonists.  One of her books (Illusions of Love) slightly discusses the Holocaust but it is from the perspective of an American Jewish character who served in World War II and it’s not presented as *the* thing that defines him.  (Most of that book is a love triangle between this character, the Nice Jewish Girl his parents want him to marry, and an Irish-Catholic woman from a poor background who works her way into an advertising career.)

[thedappercat]

I haven’t read them [yet? to-read list miles long, concentration about an inch long] but if you’re down with indie-pub check out @shiraglassman who authors a series of fantasy novels featuring f/f couples. I’ll bet she knows more novels t add to the list too!

(sorry hope it’s cool i @’ed you ms glassman)

[shiraglassman]

It is definitely cool! I actually didn’t get the @ notification for some reason but I found this post just poking around Jumblr and then checked the notes to see what people were saying on it. I do have books to add to this list; not just my own–as you said, fluffy f/f-focused fantasy starring Mostly Jews–but also:

Miss Jacobson’s Journey by Carola Dunn (review) - Regency-era spy romance about escaping from France and getting back to England. Hero and heroine are both Jewish and although they’re Ashkies, it has Sephardic rep as well

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (review) - 1900′s fantasy set in the immigrant communities of NYC. Beautiful epic drama about friendship.

…and wonderful graphic novels like The Rabbi’s Cat, the Rabbi Harvey books (our legends told as if they were set in the American Wild West), and the Mirka books (fantasy starring an Orthodox pre-teen girl.)

The YA LGBT contemporaries Gone Gone Gone by Hannah Moskowitz and My Year Zero by Rachel Gold have Jewish MC’s. And non-LGBT but YA about Orthodox teenager is Playing with Matches by Suri Rosen.

By the way, @dappercat, your concentration may have an easier time with the standalone short stories in my universe than my full-length novels: Tales from Perach. They range from 900 to 9000 words and 6 of the 7 of them have Jewish MC’s.

[windcalling]

@kuttithevangu I assume you’ve seen/read most or all of these but you’re also my brain’s automatic ‘who wants to know about jewish books’ connection also i can’t remember the name of The Really Good Historical Fiction YA, You Know, The Dybbuk One, which along with Kavalier & Clay is the stuff i can think of offhand as missing on this list

[kuttithevangu]

The Really Good Historical Fiction YA is The Inquisitor’s Apprentice+The Watcher in the Shadows, by Chris Moriarty–Jewish family in 1910s NYC where magic is a thing!!

(Moriarty also has an adult sci-fi series featuring a Jewish AI character who did something mysterious in Tel Aviv back in the day–adult sci-fi is not my thing so I only read the first book but it’s worth mentioning!)

There is also a prominent Jewish character in Sarah Zettel’s American Fairy Trilogy (1930s historical fiction, but with fairies!)

I always have to mention that I Am J, a trans YA that people talk about fairly often, has a patrilineal protagonist–his mother is catholic and he’s baptized, but he actually has a complicated relationship with his Jewishness and says a shechehiyanu for his first hormone shot, and people don’t usually mention that as a draw to the book. The author credits Joy Ladin in her acknowledgments so you know she learned a thing or two about trans Jews probably. I like this book, it’s not super revolutionary but it has its charms.

There are also a good number of YA featuring the triangle shirtwaist factory fire which usually have at least one Jewish protagonist. Lost is my favorite of those (forget the author atm but it’s the one with a green cover with a picture of a feathered hat).

[tora42]

adding to this list The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner, it’s on my to-read pile but it’s jewish historical fantasy

[Yaintstve]

[weshoyot]

This is exactly why native people in California have issues with mass consumption of sacred traditions, natural materials and plant medicine.

Many ‘smudge kits’ have farm raised abaolone, and those that don’t encrouch on an already endangered species off our shores that used to be plentiful. We as native people cannot harvest. We used to subsist off the meat of the abaolone, and use ever piece of the animal and it’s shell, from nourishment, to adornment and regalia for ceremony.

My grandpa used to dive for these, something he learned from his father, passed down from generations, when we used to live on the coast of California and travel between islands.

Now we are fighting corporations from exploiting the animal for mass consumption by people who have no understanding of what they’re purchasing and how farm raising and illegal farming directly impacts our ability to maintain traditional ways of life.

This has been another Native Service Announcement to the general public. #NSA

Thank you @meztliprojects
<3 for posting the article and attached information as well!

#abalone #cultureappropriation #culturenotforsale
https://www.instagram.com/p/BrTy9ZfA5um/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rpexpo2z0w4m

[washok]

Like california sage the nuagers have created an economy for it and everything else, like headshops selling losse braids of sweetgrass

[Yaintstve]

[jewishcommie]

Help me or whatever

I’m almost too tired to make another one of these posts. All asking for help has done is made me the target of hate, much of it antisemitic and transphobic. That being said, hey. I’m R. I’m 25. I’m very disabled. Trying to get a job. Trying to get through another month. I’m always one step behind. Really need help with groceries and bills. Help if you can, I guess.

Paypal: transdragoning@gmail.com (link)

Cash: $RDonations (link)

Venmo: @Rabbie-Davis