Let’s get into the true spirit of Chanukah this year and overthrow the government
I would love to live in a world where no one person has to represent a very large group of people,“ she says, “just purely because of the fact that there’s not many of those types of people in movies or TV or writing or producing or directing. I would like to live in a world where there are a bunch of different types of people doing those things. But obviously we don’t, and it’s something I think about a lot. I don’t take it lightly at all. Me and John [Boyega] talked about that too. Just the idea that we are people of color, that’s something we always address in interviews. We actually had this one moment on set that I still hold really close to my heart. This one day we were shooting this scene and I remember John stopping and saying, ‘Kelly, we’re making history right now,’ and we were. Because not only are we making a Star Wars movie, we have scenes where it’s just John and myself.
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Another fun fact: In realities where Logan was NOT captured by Weapon X and brainwashed/given adamantium coated bones he is known as James Howlett; an openly gay badass of a man who gallivants about with his lover Hercules.
Further fun fact: Logan’s clone, X-23, who is biologically identical to him because Fuck You Jackal That Is How Cloning Works, is AFAB. So. Yeah. Hella Gay Trans Dude Wolverine is a thing.
i mean, i’m not opposed to vision/wanda, but seeing as they haven’t introduced either vision or wanda to the mcu, i’m not quite sure how they’re going to pull that romance off
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the thing that i think trachtenberg highlights REALLY WELL in jewish magic & superstition is how like… the extent to which european antisemitism is inextricable from the view of ~the jew as a dangerous sorcerer~ renders all the fake “”jewish magic”” which is made up wholesale by gentiles based on their IDEA of what jews do and have access to… it renders all of that basically libel? like
this is not just a case of cultural appropriation. there is a LOT that’s not based in the reality of jewish beliefs & practices AT ALL! so you could be like, well, THAT stuff isn’t appropriated bc it wasn’t jewish to begin with!
and that’s true, it WASN’T ever jewish
it functioned as antisemitic propaganda! like! even if that function was unintentional (which is not always the case!!!!!!!!!!) every single (medieval especially) european document fabricating “”jewish”” magical practices served as evidence for those communities of the foreignness, dangerousness, magicalness, etc, of the jews around them. served as evidence that jews had some kind of special evil powers. served as evidence that jews had some kind of secret relationship with the devil.
those attitudes directly led to violence against jews.
it’s not benign.
YES and this is where the modern-day ceremonial magicians crying “it’s syncretic!” can kiss my ass
culturally-Christian European magicians didn’t just write their spells and sigils in (often fake) Hebrew because they thought it was so cool and they had so much respect for the Jewish tradition they were supposedly “descended from” (…as converts to Christianity, which had already violently removed itself from Judaism centuries before and pretty much immediately set about destroying its “religious ancestor”)
they did it because a) they fetishized Jewish mysticism as exotic otherness and b) Jews were very conveniently located to take the murderous blame from Church officials
oh, you were caught summoning demons? well who put you up to it? the Jews? shocking. let’s kill them.
so no, 95% of Western Esotericism didn’t come from “centuries of blending Christian and Jewish mysticism” it came from Christians LARPing Great Jewish Sorcerers while real Jews died en masse
The inclusion of Chad into the travel ban is the most random and moronic part of that. They’re an ally that we work with on counter-terrorism operations. Now they won’t work with us anymore. Why? Because DHS wanted sample passports from them and they ran out of passport paper. They asked for a week’s extension so they could get more, but were refused, because Trump is more than willing to empower Boko Haram if it helps to build his white ethno-state.
I agree, but did anybody else start reading this post thinking that a frat boy was being excluded from a ski trip for wrecking a hotel room?
fearlessstateofmind backup 