Rose Lerner

"see how much good you can do for others by passively accepting the intolerable" is a teaching that only ever serves power, and I think Purim is supposed to be about power inversion

THIS

Measure for Measure is the play I mean, right? Where she marries the creepy incel guy who tried to rape her at the end?

I mean look from an artistic standpoint if you want to tell the story as, like, Measure for Measure, that is your right! But everything else about the evening was just like fun joyful party holiday and it just bummed me out

Ahashveros not only isn't defeated, Esther remains married to him. If he's a full monster that's deeply depressing

The Purim spiel went full supervillain Ahashveros and I just really feel that (1) it's not really in line with the text but more importantly (2) it makes the story totally unsatisfying because it sidelines Haman as the principal villain WHO IS DEFEATED

It's that time again

Like, that are changed out seasonally when you start a new book or group of books?

Oh thanks! I didn't know that. Do they not like those Bibles you can buy divided into 365 sections either? I feel like I see those everywhere

What does that prove about its significance to Anglicans? Exactly nothing.

This exact passage this person was objecting to, if I figured out its book chapter and verse I could find it in my 1816 Book of Common Prayer and there would be a day every year when it is supposed to be read during CofE services. This is what "the collect" is, I'm pretty sure

ALSO, it is my understanding that most Christian churches follow EXACTLY the same structure of dividing the Bible into sections over the course of the liturgical year!!!!!

Think about how Star Trek: TOS fans do not have to like or agree with every single episode or line of dialogue. It's a similar principle tbh

Jewish tradition encourages debate and interpretation and critical engagement with the text. Something being in there doesn't mean you're expected to like or agree with it. It means you are expected (for a value of expected) to *read* it

A lot of it we just skip past to be honest. And a lot of it we engage with critically. The mainstream Jewish relationship to the actual content of the Torah is not as reverent as our relationship to *the Torah itself* as a symbol, artifact, text, and ritual object.

While the Torah itself and the practice of reading it has a lot of significance and reverence attached to it, an individual passage or story may or may not be well known or beloved or significant.

In practice many if not most Jews do not actually read the week's Torah portion. Even when I attend services, typically only an excerpt is read and usually in Hebrew so some people may follow along in translation and some people don't

Secondly, Jews who follow the liturgical year read the entire Hebrew Bible once a year. Every week there are sections that belong to that week. Every single thing in the Bible is read (at least in theory) once a year regardless of its cultural significance, literary interest, or any other factor

First of all I had never heard of this thing. I am tired of Christians claiming to explain "what Jews think" because they are almost always wrong

I don't want to amplify the specific hateful thing but I keep thinking about the tweet I saw of someone (not Jewish) claiming that a particular Bible story had a special (and if course objectionable) meaning for Jews because we say it every year at the same time

apple plums, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912

apple plums, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912

Top line: I walked with a Zombie; Under the Pendulum Sun; Rebecca; The Wife in the Attic; Mr Rochester of Hornfield; Mistress of Mellyn; Escaping Mr Rochester Middle line: The Eyre Affair; The Governess of Thornfield; Thornfield Hall by Jane Stubbs; Mexican Gothic; Wide Sargasso Sea; Jane by April Lindner; Cousin Kate Bottom line: Jane Steel; Jane Slayre; Thornfield Hall; Jurassic Jane Eyre; Jane and Edward; James Eyre; Dark Heritage

I missed a few there because one of them was my talk on the Afterlives of Jane Eyre (with a little final focus on queer narratives!)

How many have you read or seen?

#GothsForBreakfast

what the ACTUAL fuck

Oooh thanks!

People want to do something, but they mostly don't know where to start. Blessed are those who can do the pointing.

me trying to figure out why i'm anxious is like dave foley trying to remember what movie he saw last night in this kids in the hall sketch (IT'S CITIZEN KANE!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jep...

anyway. i am going to log off now so i can heat up some soggy noodles and watch "the royals" on netflix, i need to know what this spoiled prince's spendthrift father did to him that was so bad he vowed never to play polo again

the part that really bugs me is that i KNEW i only needed a cup of noodles but ten minutes after putting them in, the soup looked under-noodled so i added more

I KNEW BETTER AND I FUCKED UP ANYWAY

also why can i not stop criticizing myself for putting too much noodles in my chicken noodle soup so it's just a pile of soggy noodles

it would not get high marks for presentation on a cooking show but realistically, i don't mind eating it at all so what's the problem

i am ALSO trying to avoid reasoning like "we are living in a garbage fire so only a bad person would feel good right now" because it is but a short step from that to "i cannot allow myself joy or pleasure or i will be a bad person"

but also IT'S JUST NOT MYSTERIOUS WHY I FEEL BAD