Tumblr LOVES Cameras, And My Lovely Model Is Holding A Polaroid 420 Camera. I Had To Figure Out How To

Tumblr LOVES cameras, and my lovely model is holding a Polaroid 420 camera. I had to figure out how to open -- then close, which was more challenging -- the bellows, but no equipment was harmed in the making of this photo. This was produced 1971-1977 and you could still get film for it until 2016. The flash unit is really interesting because what you see at the top right is just a holder for a FlashCube, which filters the light more evenly.

A Yemenite Habani Family Celebrating the Passover Seder at their New Home in Tel Aviv. April, 1946. Photographer: Zoltan (Zvi) Kluger (1896-1977). לע''מ/GPO

The rabbi who's teaching my Intro to Judaism class told us (while talking about the maror) that bitterness is necessary for transformative change and freedom and I've been thinking about that for an entire week

The Jewish Woman

It makes more sense if you interpret "pro-Palestinian political action on Tumblr" as just another fandom these people have joined.

It makes even more sense if you realize that they understand very well that they cannot free anybody with their fandom activities... so they must be trying to accomplish something else. Otherwise, what's the point? Drawing your favorite character in the pan-Arabic flag colors and spamming pro-Hamas and anti-Jewish slogans in fandom spaces frees no one.

What it does do is:

Make Jews in their fandom feel unsafe enough to continue interacting with them, silencing their voices

Allow themselves to choose to continue pretending to believe that they are Good People Doing Good Work and that fanworks which only a few dozen people on a niche social media site view will Free Palestine

And.... ahhh. Now it all makes sense.

people will have "this is my art/fandom blog!!! nothing else!!!! just a sideblog for art or fandom!!!!" and then every other post going back the past six months is "i want all jews dead. coexisting on the same planet as a jew makes you complicit in their evil jew crimes and you must atone by giving yourself heart palpitations on twitter dot com" like what about that is fandom dipshit

1925 Dahlias table lamp by Charles Schneider. From My Vintage Dreams, FB.