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@cadi I watched a good portion of Them and couldn't get through it; maybe it was the timing of the show's premiere but it just felt to me like it was trying really hard to be Lovecraft Country.

@too-old-for-this I'm more into its parent game, Pugmire, but I would still play the shit out of this.

@silverfox said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

A mu* where everyone is a cat. CatsMu

That's it.

The greyhound adoption group I got Rock from sent me a condolence card. I got it yesterday.

I was doing okay, and then I just unraveled.

@olsson what kinda pupper is that? Poodle?

Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed Shadow and Bone, BUT...

I started a rewatch of The Nanny and I am genuinely surprised at how well it holds up. Also, Fran Fine is officially now my style icon, big hair and all.

Wednesday night I had to put Rock to sleep due to neurological complications from his Cushing's Disease. I've been carrying around his collar everywhere I go and every time my house settles I think it's him moving around. In the morning I keep thinking about how I have to give him his meds and fill his bowls...and then I realize I don't. I'm devastated.

For me, FOMO is believing that my character has built her relationships to a certain level, only to realize that the esteem she holds for others is much higher than what's held for her. Finding out about things going on third hand, or group occurrences that include everyone, etc.

Of course, I have a pretty bad relationship with FOMO myself, from a lifelong history of "not being invited to things/not having people show up to my things". I generally have to try and disengage when that kind of thing happens or else I know I'm going to get ugly.

@aria It's a terrible movie, but Exit to Eden got one thing right:

"You want to make all of my fantasies come true? Paint my house."

Olivia from Darkwater here. Good to see you, man.

Jessica McClintock, women's formal fashion designer.

Gunne Sax (her fashion line) my mom wore a Gunne Sax bridal gown for her last wedding, and I wore one for my bat mitzvah.

@hobos

Wow, so...no.

Zionism is not colonialism, and anti-Zionism is anti-semitic, and I will tell you why.

Zionism, like any kind of political movement, has a spectrum of beliefs. There are deeply conservative Zionists, and there are progressive Zionists. There are Republican Zionists, and there are Democrat Zionists (yes, there really are). You have a extremists, like you do in any movement, and you have people who are invested in intersectionality.

Zionism, at its core, is simply the belief that Jewish people have the right to self-determination in their own homeland.

That's it. That is the essence of Zionism. So if Zionism is being attacked, the above is what you are against, and yes, that is anti-semitic.

Now...if you want to talk about Israel and its relationship with Palestine and Palestinians, that's a completely different issue. I would strongly suggest you turn to the works of Rudy Rochman, Hen Mazzig, and Dani Ishai Behan if you want a greater understanding of Progressive Zionism, instead of treating us like a monolith.

You can be a Zionist and believe that the government is handling relations with the Palestinians terribly.
You can be a Zionist and want the wall to be taken down.
You can be a Zionist and push for Palestinians to have freedom of movement, access to water, education, and the full rights of citizenship.
You can be a Zionist and embrace the co-indigeneity of both Jews and Palestinians.
You can be a Zionist and believe in a two state solution, or a one state solution.
You can be a Zionist and believe both Netanyahu and Hamas are vile and corrupt.

The only hypocrisy that's involved is in a deliberate failure to understand what Zionism actually is, rather than what it is being conflated with.

I work for a life insurance brokerage firm that used to have an enormous office that took up the entire floor of the building we used to be in. It was large enough to have separate wings connected via a large lobby, and you had to go through at least one door if not two in order to get from one to the other. This meant our sales people could blast loud music, talk loudly, and engage in the rowdiness that apparently serves as the formula for success.

However, we have since moved to a much smaller office as most of our workforce has gone to telecommuting, and now the sales people who do come in now have to share their space with others. You'd think they'd dial down the loud voices, the yelling, the loud music, but no. There's one particular manager who comes in once a week that I outright want to muzzle - it's like he learned how to project his voice and then just never learned to turn it off.

I am extremely sensitive to sound. It can often make me feel like something is pressing down on me, or cause me physical pain. Our new office has two different sound systems, one on each side, and since I sit in the middle, I pick up the music from both sides. I am constantly turning the music down on both - I don't shut it off, but I turn it down.

But mostly I want to throttle the entitlement out of the guys on the sales floor.

@tinuviel She is a young person with about 60 million followers on her Instagram. Removing a post doesn't mean one is apologetic about it or finds it inaccurate, especially when there's no accountability offered in terms of apology. Nick Cannon spouted some anti-semitic garbage but then turned around and started having his conversations with Rabbi Cooper along with reading the work of Bari Weiss. He made himself accountable.

If you want to give her the benefit of the doubt, that is entirely your right; I'm coming from a much more wary position.

@Derp I don't know you so I can't speak to how you assess anti-semitism. But I will say that when people criticize Israel, they are frequently not speaking in criticism of the government exclusively unless they indicate otherwise. There is a very common, almost global-wide conception that Jews/Israelis are a monolith. It goes along with the notions of controlling the world banks, Hollywood, and Jewish space lasers.

@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

ETA: And I'd probably support the argument that corrupt people in positions of authority, or supporters of said corrupt people, are "fake X-religion." It is difficult to have a nuanced argument on Instagram.

This a complicated idea. Being Jewish is about more than just being part of a religion, it's also an ethnic identity. And there's a huge anti-Zionist sentiment that insists that Jews, especially Ashkenazi, are European colonialists, which completely erases our identities and origins. So when someone accuses Israelis of being "Fake-Jews" it's an undercurrent of something more than just religion, it's an attempt to invalidate our goal to de-colonize.

@iluvgrumpycat I'm not sure that "oh, she was just sharing someone else's sentiment" is a viable excuse. I mean, she clearly didn't post it because she disagreed.

@Derp I'm equally not sure that "oh, she also dissed this other group" makes it viable, either.

Can you criticize the Israeli government? Absolutely. But criticizing Israel's existence? 100% anti-semitism.

@cassite

She goes on to accuse Israelis of being "fake Jews". And that the Israeli government "created" Hamas.

Discovering Dua Lupa's music: Awesome.
Discovering Dua Lupa is an anti-semite: Not so awesome.

Don't mind me, I'll be in the corner over here figuring out where she falls on my Death of the Author scale.

One of the things I love about Ares is the asynch format. Being able to post whenever you need to via the portal makes it easier for folks who are in different timezones or have busy schedules to participate in scenes.

However, it can be awkward when you start an asynch scene and for (sometimes perfectly valid, sometimes not) reasons, 3+ days, 7+ days, 10+ days go by, with no notification from other participants.

To circumvent this, is it reasonable to set a condition for desired response time, with requests for update if it's going to take longer? It can come through another player if necessary.

Is this micro-managing, or reasonable? I am seriously considering doing future asynch scenes with this caveat, but I feel a weather check is in order as to whether this is a reasonable expectation/request.

Theater on the Ground's Monologue Project. Anyone, at any level of experience, can participate.

I'm doing Portia's mercy monologue from Merchant of Venice.

I told the director of the project in an email that I had stepped away from theater for almost 25 years. His greeting in his reply email was "Hello, and welcome home."

I had to sit at my work desk for 5 minutes tearing up and trying not to sob.