Gabby @ prep hell

One half of @uchuusummer Black Sails account @treasurecryland. @gabbynessss on Instagram. he/they. 日本語ok [email protected] icon by @lorhsdraws

[pemprika | FanX Salt Lake @pemprika]

phos themed tin box set 😇💫🙏🪷 my baby rocks...

[卑屈な奈良県民bot🦌 @nntnarabot]

#8番出口

[Gabby @ prep hell @gabbyness]

@ohmywingels ughhh i hate when this happens, can't remember why i'm anxious

[Gabby @ prep hell @gabbyness]

@loveisalie_lie he's only 3 apples tall!!

[Gabby @ prep hell @gabbyness]

I really do love drawing Armand like this. Tinymand

[Gabby @ prep hell @gabbyness]

@loveisalie_lie they really would, i'm scared 😭

[assad zaman thinker 💭 @assadthinker]

hello beautiful with bambi eyes #assadzamanday

[☀︎ yupi ☀︎ 🇺🇦 @yupipuf]

let’s lose memories with mama

[Gabby @ prep hell @gabbyness]

@lestatsvamp 😔 sorry they made fun of Daniel’s book or something

[Gabby @ prep hell @gabbyness]

Got a little annoyed.

This is so stupid I’m sorry lmfao
#devilsminion #dnp

[Gabby @ prep hell @gabbyness]

It’s not Dan and Phil please 😭

[Gabby @ prep hell @gabbyness]

@loveisalie_lie Lollllll thank you

[SIMONE 🩷 @parasocialyte]

the headline sucks but this is literally just because of the connections between jewish and chinese immigrant groups in turn of the century NYC. this is very much not an israel thing, it's the opposite. it's a diaspora thing

[Ryn! @Fern_Rynn]

I will never get over how violently eric snaps his head around the moment he sees THAT expression

[dani ficada @dollfabray]

it will. but that's a good thing and that's the point of the movie

[Devil's Minion Week @devilsmnionweek]

help decide what month you'd like to see dm week!

[jodie⭐️ @princessarmand]

funniest dm occurrences
1. armand flirting by telling daniel he fucked his whole coven
2. armand calling daniel a hole
3. daniel calling armand 'dad' repeatedly then proceeding to date him
4. daniel telling armand he'll never love him then only months later they're companions

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

Hi! Jewish day school graduate here.

Firstly, of course Judaism isn’t *merely* just a faith. Thanks to the diaspora and Jewish customary rituals, Jews, despite the existence of the major split of Ashkenazi and Sephardi, constitute a national group. They’re similar to, let’s say, the Yazidis in this way, while differing from groups like the Serbs & Bosniaks which, while mostly deriving their identity from their religious differences, also have a strong ethno-specific element to their national identity. Also, no one serious denies that Jews have a historical connection to the Levant. Both the Bible and historical sources denote the existence of 2 ancient Jewish kingdoms in modern day Israel, and the city of Jerusalem carries an immense level of importance in Jewish theology and history.

However, acting as if the Jewish nation arrived fully formed either when Abraham heard God’s voice in Ur or when the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were founded (depending on your view) is ahistorical. Beyond the fact that the Israelites were organized within a united polity for only a very brief period, ancient Israel and specifically the kingdoms which ruled it, whether by the descendants of David or by the Hasmoneans, cannot be construed as something synonymous to modern Israel. Ancient Israel was not a nation-state: it was a theocratic monarchy whose legitimacy was not found within the collective existence of Jews as a binding group (it’s important to remember that Judaism proper doesn’t really exist until the diaspora starts; many Israelites prayed to/believed in gods other than Yahweh) but on the legitimacy of the royal family and of the Israelites’ commitment to Yahweh. Israel, the country which exists in the land formerly known as Canaan in the here and now, doesn’t follow halakhic law, hasn’t rebuilt the Temple (as supposedly commanded of Jews to do when they “return to Israel”), and gives citizenship to non-religious Jews and even non-Jews; theoretically, a Buddhist could become prime minister of Israel tomorrow (though using this as an example of whether or not Israel is an apartheid state is besides the point; theoretically an Indian could become Prime Minister of Apartheid South Africa and a black man could become the governor of a state in the Jim Crow South). Even if we wave aside the fact that the early Zionists were almost entirely secular or non-practicing and founded Israel with secularism in mind, the equation of Ancient Israel, the Israel discussed in the Torah and Talmud, with the State of Israel is anachronistic for the mere fact that nation-states are modern inventions: they require a belief that power and the legitimacy of power is constituted of and verified by a specific community called the nation, a vaguely secular notion. Ancient Israel in the Jewish tradition was not a nation as modernly understood: their identity might’ve come from the covenant they specifically had with Hashem, but Israelites constantly betray God’s wishes and are punished because of it. In fact, most Israelites vanish into the aether because of how they broke apart from Hashem (AKA the mythohistorical Ten Lost Tribes)! The Israelites, according to the Bible, can only finally “return to Israel” when they’ve totally reaffirmed their commitment to Hashem.

But if we base ourselves strictly on history, while historical consensus lands on the origins of the Israelites as occurring within the 10th century BCE, the eventual kingdoms of Israel and Judah can be more accurately considered states for *Israelites* than for Jews. The term Jew originates with the Babylonian exile, by which Israel was vanquished by the Assyrians and the remaining Israelites, in order to maintain bonds, found it easier to construe their identity around the former Kingdom of Judah. The Tanakh came to emphasize the Exodus (likely a pseudohistorical event) as a way to instill among these “Jews” a communal sense of origin strong enough to demand monotheistic faith yet (1/3)