on another note… does anyone have recs for fantasy books with jewish characters, queer characters, or queer jewish characters?
So, besides mine (Jewish fantasy fluff with a lot of f/f), I can recommend @barrydeutsch’s Hereville graphic novels for Jewish fantasy about an Orthodox girl fighting monsters in her hometown, The Rabbi’s Cat for more fantasy set in Jewish Algeria starring exactly who it sounds like it stars, all of the free queer Jewish SFF short stories on this list, and Heather Rose Jones’s Alpennia series starting with Daughter of Mystery. This last one is 19th century Central European costume drama fantasy with magic and political intrigue, with lots of lesbians and bi women, but the Jewish character doesn’t show up until the second book (and is probably not one of the wlw.)
like! people always reference pride & prejudice as the archetypal “normal girl falls for mysterious brooding antihero” story but they overlook the part where lizzy drags darcy so fucking hard he leaves town and then apologizes for talking to her the next time they meet even though they’re at his literal house
Bruh religious or not there’s no debating that Dreamworks Prince of Egypt (1998) is a masterpiece and one of the most visually stunning works of animation of all time. The parallels between Yocheved and Miriam singing the River Lullaby as a tear runs down their cheek and the wind blows their hair in front of their face? Incredible. The use of hieroglyphics to show how Moses learned that his father ordered the Hebrew babies slaughtered??Ingenious. The duet between Moses and Ramses where the choir chants in the background while you watch the plagues destroy Egypt and Moses is begging Ramses to let his people go and Ramses refuses and it shows them facing each other and then side by side and then Ramses walking away while Moses stands firmly??? Intense. When Moses parts the sea and the Hebrews are walking between the water and lightning strikes in the background, illuminating the silhouette of a giant shark swimming in the wall of water???? Iconic. The entire movie is just absolutely breathtaking and that’s just tea
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