brightthunder

I'm a good Jewish girl and I keep my promises.

Two from my giftee, lferion: A Sea of Assyrian Tents, in which Doctor Who's Donna meets the historical Judith, and Child of the Forest, a beautiful look at Jabe's (DW) childhood.

ryfkah writes Chava and Hodel, Fiddler on the Roof futurefic.

Mary Morstan: Timelord is a Who and Sherlock Holmes crossover series by sansets and LOL.

Daegaer writes From the Sun to the Shade, a series of post-Biblical Jewish RPF, which involved a lot of research and is really an excellent story.

Kass writes a series of different versions of Esther; here's the first.

seekingferret writes Of All the Gin Joints.... Bereshit in space. Amazing.

All Summer in an Afternoon by opalmatrix is Greek myth femslash with Persephone.

What an excellent Purimgifts. I'll have a recs post for you soon, but for now, here's what I got and what I wrote. It all ended up being Who fic!

fetchmeagiraffe wrote a series called the sound of miles passed beneath your feet for me. It's on Donna, Martha, and their lives after the Doctor, and it is really great, with lots of magnificent bits like 'It took five weeks for Mickey to suggest bringing in a third person to do research and coordinate jobs. (This followed the incident where Martha showed up at an abandoned car park looking for an autopsy while Mickey was at hospital searching for an anonymous informant.)' There are comics and a music playlist treat and it must have taken so much effort. Thank you so much, fetchmeagiraffe.

For lferion, I wrote:

Five Times Nancy Gathered a Spark. Summary: 'The ethical choice doesn’t always feel like the right one. In which Nancy of "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances" saves the world in ways the Doctor never can.'

I was trying to get a Jewish presence in my stories, and I thought, well, World War II, the healing nanogenes in TEC/TDD might be said to resemble the Lurianic sparks... let's make Nancy an Ashkenazi woman who is hiding her Jewishness as well as her motherhood. It was interesting to write because, for one, I don't speak Yiddish as Nancy does, but do use little bits of it in my daily life as she does in the story, and I wanted to go on the good side of the line between "Ashkenazi woman struggling with language by way of struggling with racism and integration" and "Yiddish as irritatingly represented in US popular culture". I didn't provide a glossary because I wanted to make people feel as alienated by the language and culture divide as Nancy does herself. It's probably worth looking things up, but I make a lot of the meanings evident from context.

Originally, I was going to have Nancy's mother as a much stronger presence in the story, and something about her parents being taken to a British internment camp, and Nancy escaping into Whitechapel. I was going to tie that with the terrifying sameness and death represented by the gas mask people. But it didn't work timeline-wise, and I can't write World War II stories. And I like this idea of five mitzvot, which don't feel like goodness, which gather sparks and save the world.

A Little Time and Space to Oneself. Summary: 'Sometimes, Donna needs a little time for celebration and survival. In which Ten is very silly, and there is pastry.' It's silly, it's fun, there's spandex and a planet full of Jews. Not much more to say on it.

Gorgeous White Boys. Summary: '‘Gorgeous white boys aren’t going to swoop down from the sky and save you.’ A medical students’ night at the pub goes a bit wrong. A prelude to Martha’s meeting the Doctor.' From the notes: 'The racial politics of Doctor Who can always do with exploring, and that’s something of which the relationship between Martha and Ten is in particular need.' It hinges on Martha's speech to the Doctor as she leaves her travels with him, and making her friend Vicky Mizrahi and Sean white. Here are my original notes:


Anyway, I think it looks at the Martha/Ten/Rose thing pretty well without actually including Ten or Rose.

Presently I am reading a book in which a Jewish villain of devilish appearance tries to take the jewels of our beautiful white heroine. Aren't stereotypes fun?!

Anyway, Purim's coming up! I'm looking forward to mishloach manot - in the form of Purimgifts! - and reading Megillat Esther, which is my very favourite book in the Tanach. I don't actually own a noisemaker anymore, so we're going to be pulling out the pots and pans for reading Haman's name. Also, hamentaschen, because yuuuuuuuum.

I am going to dress up as a rainbow. I shall enjoy confusing people as to the reason for this. Is she gay? Is she seriously into the Noah's ark story?

Hello, delightful creature. I'm sorry that there's practically nothing in my journal for you to go on, but rest assured that I'm easily pleased. Here are some things you should know.

Things I like

I like all sorts of things that aren't intense downers, so happy/bittersweet/whatever is good. I love my gen/friendship fic quite as much as my romance, and I tend towards femslash pairings, although het and boyslash are great, too. I'm into crossovers when they're reasonably realistic.

Things I don't like

Noncon, dubcon, power imbalances (ie one partner in a position of social power over another).

Fandom-specific

I've only seen through season 2 of Being Erica and season 8 of Degrassi, so please nothing that covers material from later seasons. In the Bible, I ship David/Jonathan and have soft spots for Rachel, Michal, and Esther.

Me-specific

I'm Jewish, so I'd love love love any religiously/culturally specific details with which you'd care to sprinkle your stories. Do not panic if you're worried about getting it wrong, though. Jewish characters talking about being Jewish makes me happy.

Mostly: thank you so much for writing this for me, I'm so happy and excited to have you as my author. If you're worried about appealing to my tastes, you can probably contact lefaym and she'll tell you what's what.