So do you guys know how for several weeks, I’ve been teasing you about special news that I have? Well the wait is over because I’m finally allowed to go public with this information.
I’m publishing a novel.
Yep.
An actual novel.
One you can crack open and smell the pages of and dog ear (making dog ears is not a crime!)
Myself and the fabulous Amy H. Lynn are teaming up to bring you the cutest novel ever, 93% Chance I Don’t Hate You.
Carter Redford is a rigid, rule-following perfectionist whose idea of a fun Friday night is sitting inside reviewing spreadsheets. When she joins her university’s Graphic Design club, she becomes acquainted with the laid back artist, Ashton Lewis, who is as infuriating as he is talented. Through a turn of events involving a blind dating app, Carter and Ashton both end up on a date together, and learn that they may have more in common than they thought.
Unfortunately, Ashton doesn’t fit into the plans Carter’s parents have laid out for her to take over the family’s journalism business. Now Carter must choose between doing what she has been groomed her entire life to do, and taking a risk by following her heart.
“93% Chance I Don’t Hate You” is a romantic dramedy about self discovery, overcoming prejudices, and living your life on your own terms.
On May 2nd, head to Amy’s Wattpad account, where you can chapter one for free. Then every following Monday, another chapter will be added. We will make tumblr announcements when we upload a new chapter so you don’t have to worry about missing anything!
However, the full story will not be uploaded for free, just roughly the first12-13 chapters (that’s half of the novel). To read the rest of 93% Chance I Don’t Hate You, you’ll have to purchase it this September on Amazon. We will share preordering information this summer so stay tuned for that.
For any questions or comments, you may reach Amy or myself through tumblr.
This is exciting news and we can’t wait for you all to read the novel and fall in love with it! Please reblog to help us spread the word! Thank you.
today is technically a day to celebrate our heritage and our culture, but i want to use this as an opportunity to raise awareness of just how bad the situation is when it comes to us.
the oppression of romani people in europe is nothing new. it goes back to the middle ages. romani people
have been the victims of ethnic cleansing, slavery, forced labour, child
abduction, forced assimilation and eviction from their homes for
centuries, with the last genocide happening only 70 years ago during the
holocaust in which we were targeted alongside jews as the primary enemy of racial purity.
romani were legislated against in the same way, branded in the same way, deported in the same way, tortured and abused in the same way and killed en masse in the same way, and yet this is continually erased from the history books or barely worth a footnote. all that despite the fact that more than half of europe’s romani population is estimated to have died in the porajmos.
it took until 1982 for the porajmos to be acknowledged at all and even then it was only in west germany. the entire 40 years
before that people told romani our holocaust was “legitimate official
measures against persons committing criminal acts, not the result of
policy driven by racial prejudice”. the crime was exisiting and the
legitimate official measures were genocide. even after it was officially acknowledged we got no reperations and it is still continually swept under the carpet.
some of the legislations against us only became illegal in 2003, forced sterilisation of romani women being one. not that this stops that issue from still being a problem.
nowadays discrimination against romani people is still completely legal
in the majority of european countries and even countries in which it’s
not legal participate in it either way. this doesn’t extend to only
european countries either, the usa and canada are just as guilty of it.
romani
people are denied education, health care, housing and service based on
our ethnicity and are disproportionate targets of violence and crime.
in many countries in europe we are the number one group targeted by
hate crimes. often we are not allowed to attend schools or have to go
to a special segregated school that is basically useless.
we are 90% more likely than any other citizen in our countries to live in extreme poverty in living conditions which are considered to be
violating basic human rights. many romani people have to live without
electricity, running water or food. we are consistently illegally evicted in countries we have the right to be in and we face violence and persecution from both the civil public and the police.
there are
frequent anti-roma protests in countless countries calling for violence
against us and urging the government to deny us asylum and shelter. people burn our camps down after chasing us out of them. frequently romani children
are being taken away from their parents for not looking romani enough
because of the stereotype that we steal children.
the situation is dire and we need help. please spread as much awareness of these things as you can and if you even have five bucks to spare, consider donating to errc.org to help them fight for romani rights in europe. (or another trustworthy romani charity/rights organisation.) one of the many reasons why this is still going on is because so little people are aware of what’s happening to us. you can change that.
najis tuke for reading so far and for your support and help.
When Superman: Man of Steel came out people were saying that the film was too gritty and cynical and it was that cynicism that destroyed the Superman we have always know and loved.
That it was that very cynicism that had Superman break his cardinal rule of do not kill and had him that very thing, kill.
As the reviews come out about Batman vs Superman and the bleakness and cynicism of that film I posit that the reason Superman has killed and the reason he is so unrecognizable as the hero we grew up with and the hero we loved and looked up to is because every essence of his Jewishness has been meticulously and calculatingly been scrubbed out.
Superman was written by two Jewish teens in the early 30′s and they imprinted onto Superman a Jewish identity.
Superman is in Diaspora. His homeland gone, his language, his culture, and his heritage both alien and foreign to were he lives. Living day to day with a part of himself hidden so as to be live a somewhat unmolested life.
He must struggle with what it means to be a member of his people while not having his people or culture around him and while having the outside culture imposed upon him and expected to assimilate to this outside force.
A great example of this can be seen oddly enough in Man of Steel when Lois Lane asks Superman what the S on his chest stands for. He tells it means hope in his people’s language and Lois responds by saying that here it is a S.
Superman is expected to accept this new reality and to let go of his culture and understand that he must rather assimilate instead. That he must let go of what it means in his language and culture and understand that it is now a S.
It is the internal struggle of the Jew. To survive in Diaspora. To endure and still maintain a sense of self and one’s roots. To keep your people’s language, customs, and culture alive especially surrounded by a world where you are the alien. You are the foreign being and you must assimilate and then be grateful that you were allowed to be forced to assimilate in the first place.
Superman has two masks. The mask of Superman and the mask of Clark Kent. Kal-el, is the face of Superman and not the mask. Kal-el is the struggle to survive when you are the alien.
Superman in the films and especially Man of Steel and even more so in Batman vs Superman is meant to be a jesus figure. A Messiah.
But that is not what he really is. He is rather the personification of Tikkun Olam.
Tikkun Olam is that each and every person is obligated to fix the world. To leave it a better place that when it was when you got there. To work towards justice, peace, and truth, the three pillars of Judaism.
Superman is meant to reflect what each of us can be. What we should be and should do. That when given the opportunity to good we should take it with both hands. That is whatever way we can with whatever our own abilities and powers are we should help others when given the chance. That is Tikkun Olam and that is Superman.
The new Superman does not fail because it is cynical. The new Superman fails because he is not Jewish.
You forgot to mention that kal-el, which in Hebrew is famously and intentionally spelled קל א-ל means “voice of G-d”. His story specifically was based on that of Moshe in many ways. His father and mother – knowing that if he stayed with them he would only find death – placed him in a basket. And that basket, they floated down a vast river. The river of stars and particles, and seemingly nothingness. A nothingness that swallows everything which has falls into it. And that basket came to a place where he could grow up, and where in the end, he was needed. I personally don’t know much about the movies – my job as colony paper pusher leaves no time for such fun, but I agree with you. To erase superman’s jewish identity is to erase superman and create an entirely new character, empty and devoid of its original meaning and purpose.
No that doesn’t look like a young brooding white male with dark hair
But don’t worry I’m sure we can find someone for her, too! Maybe a wild and reckless character with tattoos and a carefree attitude (remember Quinlan Vos? think along those lines).
I mean, remember, Season 3 was also when someone started her character development:
…and that led all the way to a beautiful romance. So yeah, good reminder!
Boyfriends for everyone?
Boyfriends for Ezra? For Zeb? For Rex!?
(Let him find love in his artificially engineered old age.)
Well they put SNAKES IN LITTLE SHIRTS to find out!
SHRIMPS ON A TREADMILL
biology is the greatest
bad and naughty children get put into the bee wiggler to atone for their sins
The best thing about the ant one is that somebody clearly was like “Oh well ants probably count their steps” and that was just like… a thought that came into their head.
THE BEE WIGGLER
This demonstrates that discovery requires madness.
gravity was discovered because Newton just so happened to have an apple fall on his napping ass what do you think science is
This is a cool post but AAAH I need to talk about the ants.
>somebody clearly was like “Oh well ants probably count their steps” and that was just like… a thought that came into their head.
Not just any ants–desert ants! See, most ants lay down scent trails to find their way around. But in the desert the damn ground blows away constantly. So how do desert ants find their way around? Maybe they count.
>scientists wasting budget and time to see if ants count their steps
Okay but like. Ants can count. Ants have teeny teeny tiny brains and they can count. Do you know how teeny an ant brain is? Because I have spent time dissecting them out and let me tell you it is one of the most ridiculous occupations I have ever engaged in. They are like period sized. <–these things here at either end–>.
And the really cool thing about finding out that a teeny tiny brain can do a thing, is that the brains are simple enough that we actually might have a shot at figuring out precisely how they efficiently encode the ability to count. And then we can apply that to things like math and computers and living human brains, which we aren’t allowed to dissect very much because reasons.
Also, this was an awesomely clever experiment because do you want to know the budget for gluing stilts on ants to see what happens? Really small. Like ant brains.
>there had to be a guy who made ant stilts and put them on the ants
Their names were Matthias Wittlinger, Rudiger Wehner, and Harald Wolf, and the stilts were boar hairs! Also there was a second part of the experiment where they trimmed the ant legs to make them take shorter steps, but no one ever talks about that part because it’s less cute and more morbid. :O (It’s… slightly less morbid when you know this kind of thing happens naturally to ants with age and high temperatures. Life is hard for ants. But they are excellent at counting.)
>Science.
I know right?
Okay now I want you to talk about the mantis glasses and the bee wiggler.
My physiology professor is the one who did the shrimp treadmill study.
A Middleground 