Bluma
@bluma.bsky.social
Werewolf advocate, Golem appreciator. Writes a little about H. Leivick on https://blumalangerobertson.substack.com/
Reposting Chanukah’s ramble.
(Birthday spankings, it turns out, have been around for a long time)
blumalangerobertson.substack.com/p/three-chan...
(Birthday spankings, it turns out, have been around for a long time)
blumalangerobertson.substack.com/p/three-chan...
Three Chanukah Candles
A Birthday Two-for One
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December 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Reposting Chanukah’s ramble.
(Birthday spankings, it turns out, have been around for a long time)
blumalangerobertson.substack.com/p/three-chan...
(Birthday spankings, it turns out, have been around for a long time)
blumalangerobertson.substack.com/p/three-chan...
I am trying very hard not to be weird this week and failing.
December 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I am trying very hard not to be weird this week and failing.
A follow up to ‘mascara comes in different colours?’
Man: I already ordered tights for the funeral, but they might not come. You might need to get some.
Me: What kind?
Man: (Talking loudly and slowly, sighing ) Black ones…?
Man: I already ordered tights for the funeral, but they might not come. You might need to get some.
Me: What kind?
Man: (Talking loudly and slowly, sighing ) Black ones…?
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A follow up to ‘mascara comes in different colours?’
Man: I already ordered tights for the funeral, but they might not come. You might need to get some.
Me: What kind?
Man: (Talking loudly and slowly, sighing ) Black ones…?
Man: I already ordered tights for the funeral, but they might not come. You might need to get some.
Me: What kind?
Man: (Talking loudly and slowly, sighing ) Black ones…?
It’s that time of year when I recoil knowing that when I make latkes the rest of the family (well, the ones who eat things that aren’t plain pasta and hot dogs) are going to eat them with salt and sauce or tomato sauce.
December 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
It’s that time of year when I recoil knowing that when I make latkes the rest of the family (well, the ones who eat things that aren’t plain pasta and hot dogs) are going to eat them with salt and sauce or tomato sauce.
Anyone want to go outside and scream at the moon with me!
December 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Anyone want to go outside and scream at the moon with me!
I’m still actually very nervous about talking to people about things, even when they‘re important things.
I’m envious of the folks with supportive supervisors in life. I’ll never forget the look on the face of mine when I asked a visiting writer a question.
I’m envious of the folks with supportive supervisors in life. I’ll never forget the look on the face of mine when I asked a visiting writer a question.
December 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I’m still actually very nervous about talking to people about things, even when they‘re important things.
I’m envious of the folks with supportive supervisors in life. I’ll never forget the look on the face of mine when I asked a visiting writer a question.
I’m envious of the folks with supportive supervisors in life. I’ll never forget the look on the face of mine when I asked a visiting writer a question.
We now have seven menorahs.
I’m not quite sure how that happened, but it did.
I’m not quite sure how that happened, but it did.
December 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
We now have seven menorahs.
I’m not quite sure how that happened, but it did.
I’m not quite sure how that happened, but it did.
I hope I will be forgiven for using the Forverts menorah, Tog hasn’t sent me one yet.
December 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I hope I will be forgiven for using the Forverts menorah, Tog hasn’t sent me one yet.
The cover of the Chanukah issue of the Feldafinger Magazine of the Feldafing DP camp, scanned during my trip to the USHMM archives.
December 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The cover of the Chanukah issue of the Feldafinger Magazine of the Feldafing DP camp, scanned during my trip to the USHMM archives.
I am reading an essay on Aftersun, and the only reason I haven‘t watched Aftersun is that I’m pretty convinced it would wreck me worse than All Of Us Strangers which totally obliterated me on a plane.
December 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I am reading an essay on Aftersun, and the only reason I haven‘t watched Aftersun is that I’m pretty convinced it would wreck me worse than All Of Us Strangers which totally obliterated me on a plane.
I am married to a glow in the dark Presbyterian guy, and even he knows this some WASPy bullshit.
December 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I am married to a glow in the dark Presbyterian guy, and even he knows this some WASPy bullshit.
I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned my *collection* here.
A long time ago, I was a ballet dancer. Three days a week, though I was measured up and told I definitely didn’t have the bones or ligaments to be a real dancer
And when you dance, people give you dance things
I have a lot of nutcrackers.
A long time ago, I was a ballet dancer. Three days a week, though I was measured up and told I definitely didn’t have the bones or ligaments to be a real dancer
And when you dance, people give you dance things
I have a lot of nutcrackers.
December 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned my *collection* here.
A long time ago, I was a ballet dancer. Three days a week, though I was measured up and told I definitely didn’t have the bones or ligaments to be a real dancer
And when you dance, people give you dance things
I have a lot of nutcrackers.
A long time ago, I was a ballet dancer. Three days a week, though I was measured up and told I definitely didn’t have the bones or ligaments to be a real dancer
And when you dance, people give you dance things
I have a lot of nutcrackers.
I haven’t done this in a long time because of my eye issues and my tremor, but I think this will work ok for little’s group skate routine to KPop Demon Hunters.
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I haven’t done this in a long time because of my eye issues and my tremor, but I think this will work ok for little’s group skate routine to KPop Demon Hunters.
I always forget about the real hard turn this book takes with Hitler literally being the monster under the bed.
It hits me pretty much the same every time, though I’ve lost count of how many times.
It hits me pretty much the same every time, though I’ve lost count of how many times.
December 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I always forget about the real hard turn this book takes with Hitler literally being the monster under the bed.
It hits me pretty much the same every time, though I’ve lost count of how many times.
It hits me pretty much the same every time, though I’ve lost count of how many times.
The big kid has discovered that I can apparently read German if I read it out loud and she is now delighting in making me read stuff about Peter Schilling to her.
My attempts to spell ‘star’ in Latin letters are apparently hysterically funny.
My attempts to spell ‘star’ in Latin letters are apparently hysterically funny.
December 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The big kid has discovered that I can apparently read German if I read it out loud and she is now delighting in making me read stuff about Peter Schilling to her.
My attempts to spell ‘star’ in Latin letters are apparently hysterically funny.
My attempts to spell ‘star’ in Latin letters are apparently hysterically funny.
I’ve decided to go hang out in Munich in 1946 again.
December 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I’ve decided to go hang out in Munich in 1946 again.
Oh, God, does this mean I have to like Paul Dano now?
I am still scarred from War and Peace. I don’t remember how long ago that was, but I hate the book twice and then there was a(nother) film and then I had to go see the Napoleon film where he crawls under the table and...
I am still scarred from War and Peace. I don’t remember how long ago that was, but I hate the book twice and then there was a(nother) film and then I had to go see the Napoleon film where he crawls under the table and...
December 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Oh, God, does this mean I have to like Paul Dano now?
I am still scarred from War and Peace. I don’t remember how long ago that was, but I hate the book twice and then there was a(nother) film and then I had to go see the Napoleon film where he crawls under the table and...
I am still scarred from War and Peace. I don’t remember how long ago that was, but I hate the book twice and then there was a(nother) film and then I had to go see the Napoleon film where he crawls under the table and...
How I became a socialist — I was sixteen and working at Chuck E Cheese and a mother asked me to come back to her table for a tip — she took my rag and showed me how to clean the sides and under the edge of the table to her standard.
I've just that learned In America there's a predatory payday loan app that asks for tips (!) and that 75% of users pay them (!!) Truly there is no prison like the prison of the mind
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
How I became a socialist — I was sixteen and working at Chuck E Cheese and a mother asked me to come back to her table for a tip — she took my rag and showed me how to clean the sides and under the edge of the table to her standard.
Weird content farmers: No, your grandmother/an expert/a doctor/ancient Buddhist master didn’t teach you that, just admit it came to you in a weird fever dream like my gefilte fish curry and admit you’re going to have to eat that whole pot of disaster yourself.
December 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Weird content farmers: No, your grandmother/an expert/a doctor/ancient Buddhist master didn’t teach you that, just admit it came to you in a weird fever dream like my gefilte fish curry and admit you’re going to have to eat that whole pot of disaster yourself.
Me: I would sure like to have stuff published someday.
Man getting paid for doing creative work: That would make you a dirty sell-out, you sell-out. Do you want to be a filthy sell-out instead of an artist, which you aren’t either?
Me: Yeah, actually.
Man getting paid for doing creative work: That would make you a dirty sell-out, you sell-out. Do you want to be a filthy sell-out instead of an artist, which you aren’t either?
Me: Yeah, actually.
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Me: I would sure like to have stuff published someday.
Man getting paid for doing creative work: That would make you a dirty sell-out, you sell-out. Do you want to be a filthy sell-out instead of an artist, which you aren’t either?
Me: Yeah, actually.
Man getting paid for doing creative work: That would make you a dirty sell-out, you sell-out. Do you want to be a filthy sell-out instead of an artist, which you aren’t either?
Me: Yeah, actually.
Today I am ‘enjoying’ the rebuttal to ‘In Treblinka bin ikh nit geven,’ ‘Un az ikh bin in Treblinka yo geven, iz vos?’
(Please forgive transliteration, I have a precarious grasp of it and the rtl text issue was doing my head in)
(Please forgive transliteration, I have a precarious grasp of it and the rtl text issue was doing my head in)
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today I am ‘enjoying’ the rebuttal to ‘In Treblinka bin ikh nit geven,’ ‘Un az ikh bin in Treblinka yo geven, iz vos?’
(Please forgive transliteration, I have a precarious grasp of it and the rtl text issue was doing my head in)
(Please forgive transliteration, I have a precarious grasp of it and the rtl text issue was doing my head in)
In the span of about ten minutes, the man has told me he doesn’t know anything about Stephen King or what he’s written and all about the time Jerry Springer came to town.
December 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
In the span of about ten minutes, the man has told me he doesn’t know anything about Stephen King or what he’s written and all about the time Jerry Springer came to town.
John Boyne should be fired into the heart of the Sun.
When authors shortlisted for a queer literary prize began removing themselves over the inclusion of an anti-trans gay bigot, Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media was there to lift up their work.
One of our top stories of the year and also a great place to find gifts for your queer family and friends!
One of our top stories of the year and also a great place to find gifts for your queer family and friends!
Queer Authors Withdraw From Writing Prize En Masse Over Inclusion of Self-Proclaimed TERF — Assigned
A UK LGBTQ+ writing prize seems to be crumbling as the queer community protests the inclusion of an anti-trans writer on the long list. Trans prisoners in Georgia accuse the state of cruel and unusual...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
John Boyne should be fired into the heart of the Sun.
I have reached a point in my life where something smashes in the kitchen and I scream and not one of the other three living souls in this house asks if anything is wrong.
That is where I am.
I feel like I am on fire all the time and I have followed all the rules and it has got me fuck all.
That is where I am.
I feel like I am on fire all the time and I have followed all the rules and it has got me fuck all.
December 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I have reached a point in my life where something smashes in the kitchen and I scream and not one of the other three living souls in this house asks if anything is wrong.
That is where I am.
I feel like I am on fire all the time and I have followed all the rules and it has got me fuck all.
That is where I am.
I feel like I am on fire all the time and I have followed all the rules and it has got me fuck all.