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Dec. 10th, 2017 03:55 amI can't sleep so I read Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman
It's a f/f contemporary romance novella starring two Jewish women, one's a small-batch yarn dyer and the other's a painter with stuff in art shows, Florida is practically a character in its own right here, they're fannish
Sweetest return on a two-buck investment I've seen in quite a while
Eeeeeeeee
oh and if the yarn dyeing thing interests you
Also re #ownvoices: Glassman is Jewish, and clearly it matters to Glassman that she's Jewish. So of course the Jewish cast are all treating each other's Judaism with the deepest of respect. And I'm not Jewish? But I'm also not a member of the locally dominant religion in the US? And—having in American lit characters who are not Christian being treated respectfully wrt religion by the narrative and the other characters? It just hit me how rarely you get that. With respect to my own (much smaller) religious tradition, I hope to write the sort of story that Glassman wrote here with respect to her Judaism.
(Jesus Haploid Christ I hope either she doesn't see that or she finds it complimentary—it's meant complimentary but that doesn't mean the transposition will be taken that way)
And! Explicitly trans characters exist and are treated respectfully!
...yeah so I'm already taking notes for what to nominate for Yuletide 2018 :P
OH AND! the sisterly relationship! *_* and the leads explicitly respect each other's agency and consent
It's a f/f contemporary romance novella starring two Jewish women, one's a small-batch yarn dyer and the other's a painter with stuff in art shows, Florida is practically a character in its own right here, they're fannish
Sweetest return on a two-buck investment I've seen in quite a while
Eeeeeeeee
oh and if the yarn dyeing thing interests you
Also re #ownvoices: Glassman is Jewish, and clearly it matters to Glassman that she's Jewish. So of course the Jewish cast are all treating each other's Judaism with the deepest of respect. And I'm not Jewish? But I'm also not a member of the locally dominant religion in the US? And—having in American lit characters who are not Christian being treated respectfully wrt religion by the narrative and the other characters? It just hit me how rarely you get that. With respect to my own (much smaller) religious tradition, I hope to write the sort of story that Glassman wrote here with respect to her Judaism.
(Jesus Haploid Christ I hope either she doesn't see that or she finds it complimentary—it's meant complimentary but that doesn't mean the transposition will be taken that way)
And! Explicitly trans characters exist and are treated respectfully!
...yeah so I'm already taking notes for what to nominate for Yuletide 2018 :P
OH AND! the sisterly relationship! *_* and the leads explicitly respect each other's agency and consent