Author: mooncustafer

alvadee:

last night i dreamt that jeff goldblum was a little bit sick, idk, a light cold, just enough that he wanted to rest a bit instead of working. and he used a small vacant store that was like a kiosk and sat there and you could just… walk up to him and talk to him and get autographs. after three days when he felt better again he was gone and from each day there was a big black sketchbook still lying on the shop window because he wrote 90% of the autographs he was asked for in these books but apparently the fans didn’t know they could like, rip out their page?? and so there were just three books left filled with his signature and dedications i could flip through.

This all seems quite plausible, except the part about the fans leaving the autographs in place.

hellabatfam:

nonasuch:

taraljc:

notavodkashot:

dominawritesthings:

wait-whereami:

thebuttkingpost:

Greek mythology: aren’t the god great they only sexually harassed my wife and turned one of my children into a stag beetle this week

Norse mythology: dînghïr œne nüt got his name when he killed a lizard the size of every mountain in the world without Odin’s permission so Odin thought it would be funny to punish him by making him fart so hard one of his nuts flew off

Chinese mythology: This guy just shot down 9 of the 10 suns scorching the planet but he’s mean now so his wife and her rabbit overdosed on immortality pills and floated into the moon so he won’t be a tyrant forever and we made cake in her honor

Yoruba mythology: a project team of gods was sent to earth on THE most massive project ever and the men decided to exclude the lone woman on the team because har har girls suck, and she responded by taking ALL OF THE WATER ON EARTH and watched the men take L’s until the team lead made them take her back

This same goddess is the one a group of male human villagers had to appeal to when the women of their village got so pissed off at their fuckery, they literally left and set up shop somewhere else and had zero plans of coming back

Aztec mythology: Tezcatlipoca is at it again. Which Tezcatlipoca? Does it even matter at this point? Also, Quetzalcoatl had a bright idea again. It ended up in disaster. Again.

irish mythology: local queen kicks husband out of bed for trying to prove he brought more to the marriage. this results in supremely vicious and bloody war over a cow that ravaged Ulster and Connacht. 

the talmud: these rabbis are basically LotR wizards as scripted by Mel Brooks. one time Rabbi Eliezer got so mad about an argument over how to make an over kosher that he destroyed 1/3 of the world’s crops. it would have been all of them but when they sent someone to tell him he was excommunicated for the oven fight he broke the news gently. also he tried to murder Rabbi Hillel with a tidal wave but Hillel rebuked the wave so that was done.

Filipino Mythology: This fucking dragon wants to eat these moons, but the God of Death is so gay for one of the moons that he stops the dragon and gays it up with the moon

officialfifthcolumn:

theatrejew:

darkhei-noam:

queerkeitcoven:

A Medieval Gay Brawl in the Synagogue On Yom Kippur

Sometimes the finds of the Genizah are so incredible that you have difficulty believing that it’s really there, that you are really peering through this window into the lives of medieval Jews around the Mediterranean. This story caught my attention in a footnote of Goitein’s and I thought I would post it for Yom Kippur… It’s not really magic-related, except that I think there’s a certain magic in recovering and reclaiming the past.

The fragment shown here, T-S 8J22.25 in Cambridge, is a letter from a Jewish pilgrim named Hasan ben Mu’ammal, who had gone on pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the High Holidays, Tishrei 4813 = September 1052 CE. He reports that a certain Daniel had wished to see him but he was unable to, because of “the altercation” that had happened in synagogue. Apparently, on Yom Kippur, many pilgrims had gathered from around the Mediterranean, and “a man from Tiberias and a man from [Tyre] became involved in love, and the Tiberian began fondling [?] the Tyrian in the sight of everyone… and the people from Tiberias and those from Tyre began to fight with one another and went out to […] and they brought the chief of the police to the synagogue and […] until the people calmed down.” Hasan goes on to report that Daniel had told him that “such is the behaviour of these people every day,” and concludes the letter with best wishes to the recipients (his brother Abu Nasr and family). A wild ride from start to finish. Goitein drily observes that the letter indicates that homosexuality was regarded as a “vice rather than a deadly crime… [and] it did not form the object of great social concern.” 

Shana tova — welcome to 5777! May all who are fasting have a meaningful, enriching, and affirming day… and hopefully a peaceful one too!

And now, 5778. Tzom mo’il!

5779!!

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So… this reads to me like the actual fight was because of some kind of Tiberias/Tyre rivalry, rather than because two dudes were making out in the synagogue?