Jess Mahler

To understand Jess, you only need to know five things: Family. Writing. Jewish community. Activism/education. Tikkun olam. These are the heart of Jess Mahler. The rest is details.
(Occasional bad puns and obscure references at no extra charge.)

Posts include kink and lewds, all under content warning.

Formal pronouns: they/them
White settler on Lenape land

Avatar is a harris hawk + cougar gryphon
Header is same gryphon walking the mountains.
Gryphon by @amaranth

Jess Mahler
jessmahler@wandering.shop

Twice this week I took the time to give detailed answers to "You don't know what the fuck you are talking about" questions on Quora. One about , one about people

Both times, the questions turned out to be from people who knew they didn't know enough & were trying to learn more so they could help other people in their lives.

This absolutely made my week. Both in seeing people who care enough to try to learn, and in being able to help others by helping them.

July 26, 2019
Jess Mahler
jessmahler@wandering.shop
US pol, *EVERYONE* in the US needs to know

Expansion of the 'expedited removal'. Any ICE agent can ask for proof of 2 year residency and if you can't prove it you can be deported, no hearing, no trial, no lawyer.

In theory, this only applies to immigrants, but of course if they refuse to believe you are a citizen and don't have a passport or birth certificate to hand, you may be up shit creek.

Watch out for each other folks.

"Papers, please."

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump

July 23, 2019
Jess Mahler
jessmahler@wandering.shop

"It's kind of like polyamory. I'm dating several projects at once."
--Their Troublesome Crush by Xan West

This is the best description for my 'process' I've come across!

July 08, 2019
Jess Mahler
jessmahler@wandering.shop

So, possibly long thread about the trope of teen/vampire romance.

A lot of people are uncomfortable with the trope of a teen and a several-hundred-year-old vampire falling in love. Classic examples of this trope are Buffy and Twilight, and a near-relation is a young-twenty-something and vampiring falling in love, as is common in many vampire romance books.

July 07, 2019
Jess Mahler
jessmahler@wandering.shop
concentration camp mention, asking for help/info.

Morning all.

Does anyone know any phone scripts for calling congress critters about the concentration camps? I think I have spoons to make phone calls today and figure those are calls worth making.

Thanks

July 03, 2019
Jess Mahler
jessmahler@wandering.shop
concentration camps

When we say ‘never again’, we don’t mean ‘never again a Holocaust’, or we do mean that, but we mean more. We mean never again the yellow stars, never again krystalnacht, never again the work camps. Never again the laws that single out a group for persecution out of fear and hate.

Because if you wait to say ‘never again’ until the cattle trains are rolling, you’ve waited too long.

July 02, 2019