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shiraglassman · 3 months

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GroundChag Sameach

that is all

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shiraglassman · 4 months

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Contemporary AU “On Christmas, Jews go out for Chinese food and then to the movies” picture of my beloved characters. The m/f couple have duck and the f/f couple have beef/broccoli, if anyone cares.

peroxids did this one. Characters are from The Second Mango, Climbing the Date Palm, A Harvest of Ripe Figs, The Olive Conspiracy, and the short stories.

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shiraglassman · 4 months

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Queen Shulamit, her partner Aviva, and the rest of their fictional Jewish fairyland wish you a happy and love-filled Chanukah!

Catch their latest adventure here: The Olive Conspiracy (whose first chapter takes place on Sukkot and final chapter during Chanukah!) or the short stories in Tales from Perach. Above picture by @aroaessidhe on commission. PDF’s available too.

#thanks!

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shiraglassman · 5 months

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Happy Chanukah, my friends!

Here’s the closing scene in The Olive Conspiracy, on the first night of Chanukah. Chef Yael and her waitress Halleli light the candles after closing up for the night, with Queen Shulamit sharing the moment because she stopped by to honor Yael for the part she played in protecting the country’s agriculture.

It will take the farms time to recover, but eventually, like in the story of Chanukah itself, there will be enough oil again.

The Olive Conspiracy is a Jewish fantasy novel about queer women (and one token dude, who is also a lizard) saving their land from an international plot to mess up their crops. PDF is $4; also available on Amazon/paperback. Shulamit and Halleli are both femme cis lesbians and Yael is bi and trans.

Art on commission by @tincansamurai.

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shiraglassman · 5 months

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Well, that’s one way to light the shamash!

Happy Chanukah from Rivka and her dragon, and from me, the author who created them.

Characters from the Mangoverse, a fantasy series with a Jewish cast and feminist/queer themes, drawn here by @erikahammerschmidt

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shiraglassman · 5 months

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Queen Shulamit, her partner Aviva, and the rest of their fictional Jewish fairyland wish you a happy and love-filled Chanukah!

Catch their latest adventure here: The Olive Conspiracy (whose first chapter takes place on Sukkot and final chapter during Chanukah!) or the short stories in Tales from Perach. Above picture by @aroaessidhe on commission. PDF’s available too.

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shiraglassman · 5 months

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Announcing the re-release of “Eitan’s Chord”, my erotic f/f/f short about Chanukah fairies gathering together to grant a poor queer Jewish human couple’s wishes while they sleep! Meet “cute butch Latke, enthusiastic party girl Dreidl, and their elegant leader Menorah”, seen above in art by @agaricals. (The beautiful new cover is by Jane Dominguez.)

The new version has a couple of minor improvements, such as Latke being on the fairy roller derby team now. Oh, and now it’s only 99¢! 🕎

BTW the human portions of the story are trans m/cis f romance and completely G-rated; the fairy portions are “heat level all nine candles.” 😏😏😏

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shiraglassman · 5 months

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Announcing the re-release of “Eitan’s Chord”, my erotic f/f/f short about Chanukah fairies gathering together to grant a poor queer Jewish human couple’s wishes while they sleep! Meet “cute butch Latke, enthusiastic party girl Dreidl, and their elegant leader Menorah”, seen above in art by @agaricals. (The beautiful new cover is by Jane Dominguez.)

The new version has a couple of minor improvements, such as Latke being on the fairy roller derby team now. Oh, and now it’s only 99¢! 🕎

BTW the human portions of the story are trans m/cis f romance and completely G-rated; the fairy portions are “heat level all nine candles.” 😏😏😏

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shiraglassman · 5 months

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The only book of mine that is out in audio is Fearless , and it doesn't sell so there was no way to continue funding audiobooks. I am really sorry about that. I tried to make audiobooks myself for Mangoverse, but the post attracted very little interest. That being said, I hope you'll check out Fearless even if that's all I have -- it's about a lesbian band mom who gets snowed in with the music teacher and it's super cozy and comforting and low-stakes.

Thanks for asking, and I wish I had a better answer. Maybe some day!

@newtsoftheworldunite

Queen Shulamit, her partner Aviva, and the rest of their fictional Jewish fairyland wish you a happy and love-filled Chanukah!

Catch their latest adventure here: The Olive Conspiracy (whose first chapter takes place on Sukkot and final chapter during Chanukah!) or the short stories in Tales from Perach. Above picture by @aroaessidhe on commission. PDF’s available too.

#audiobooks

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shiraglassman · 5 months

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Queen Shulamit, her partner Aviva, and the rest of their fictional Jewish fairyland wish you a happy and love-filled Chanukah!

Catch their latest adventure here: The Olive Conspiracy (whose first chapter takes place on Sukkot and final chapter during Chanukah!) or the short stories in Tales from Perach. Above picture by @aroaessidhe on commission. PDF’s available too.

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shiraglassman · 6 months

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Very sorry for your loss

thank you @noparlpf

#cats #noparlpf

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shiraglassman · 6 months

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I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. Lots of love, Josie was a lovely kitten! She blessed many dashboards with her digital presence and I will remember her fondly.

thank you. this is hard.

i appreciate hearing from you @improfem

#cats #improfem

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shiraglassman · 6 months

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Y'all,

I am sorry to report that Josephine is gone. I am among friends playing music, which is pretty much the only thing I'm capable of right now. My rabbi was with me when it happened and I had spent several hours cuddling her beforehand. I am full of grief but this is the price of love and that's okay.

Hug your critters.

Catte

#pet death tw #death tw #cats

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shiraglassman · 6 months

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They are admitting her to the hospital with an elevated white blood cell count and giving her fluids

Catte

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shiraglassman · 6 months

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Hello

We are at the emergency vet, will update

Catte

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shiraglassman · 7 months

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Friday the 13th is a good day to post black cats, right?

Shabbat shalom from Halleli, one of the secondary lesbian characters in The Olive Conspiracy, and her little black kitten. (You can also see her and her wife Hadar on the cover to Tales from Perach, where their scavenger-hunt date is the second to longest story in the collection.) Halleli and Hadar go through some hardship in Olive, but it’s not lesbian-specific hardship, and everything works out both for them and for the book’s main f/f couple–all Jewish, incidentally.

Picture drawn by @theloserfish on commission.

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shiraglassman · 7 months

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Micah, the trans street boy, jamming with the queen’s bodyguard Rivka in an alleyway at midnight on Shabbat in a scene from A Harvest of Ripe Figs. Illustration by @theloserfish .

Note for people looking for non-tragic trans representation: his subplot has a happy ending.

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