#ask perach

[seraphim-perach]

The stress of hiding Schnitzel in her quarters cashed a few of Sarai’s feathers to fall out. Not that she noticed, since she was far too busy emptying her cabinet of absinthe after she had managed to get the hell-chicken to stay put (somehow). To her dismay, it was empty. It seemed she was drinking a lot more than she had realized.

Smashing the bottle in frustration, Sarai heads off to the Palace buffet for some alcohol. Thank God she wasn’t made with alcohol immunity. She needed to feel good for a while, and she couldn’t bear to face Ava for support. Just because they had patched things up didn’t mean they could burden them with their own issues. Part of being a better sister would mean that they would do better than that.

Sarai finds bottles of the finest, strongest absinthe. She takes one, pops it one, and chugs it all. Then she does it again with the next bottle. And the next, and the next…

Soon their head is fuzzy, but their worries are still there.

Not enough. She had to take more.

She was about to until she spotted someone walking by.

@seraphim-sarai

[Perach was puzzled and confused. Her plan to catch the spy seemed perfect, she thought Sera would schedule a trial followed by execution for the same evening. And then Adina (where has she been the last few days?) will finally come to her senses and stop playing around the filth.. Right.. But then why's there still no news? Maybe Perach just wasn't invited to the trial? This option would also suit her. In any case, she had to find out what really happened.]

[Young seraphim approached Sarai and the smell of absinthe immediately hit her nose, making her wince. What's going on?]

...Sarai?

[seraphim-adina]

[A few weeks have passed since the beach day, and Adina could call these few weeks the calmest and happiest of her life. But all good things come to an end one day when you're a bitch.]

[An hour passed after Lee left the palace in the morning (not without them having breakfast together and kissing each other goodbye. all friends and fuckmates do this, right?). Suddenly, Perach knocked on the main entrance door, interrupting the rabbit seraph's peaceful routine.]

Heyyy, big sis, hellooo!!!

Good morning!~ Jeez, it's been a while, I missed you sooo much!~ Let me in, I wanna chat, Dina!

@seraphim-perach

Adina's fur bristled in irritation at the sound of Perach's voice, but she was curious. What was that little weed doing here, bothering her? They were usually quite good at avoiding each other, aside from running into each other at Seraph gatherings.

Adina opened the door, plastering the biggest, fakest smile she could muster for Perach.

Why hello, Perach~! How are you this morning~? What do you want to chat about with me now~? -🐇

[seraphim-perach]

[Perach notices the dying roses in the pots and her wings droop. She looks at the flowers upset and worried.]

Oh!.. Poor babies, they need help!

[The flower on Perach's head closes tightly. She begins to kiss each rose, making them come back to life and bloom again.]

[Perach knocks on Willow's door and then slowly opens it, smiling happily. Her wings flutter joyfully.]

Hey, Willow! Are you busy right now?

[She flies up to Willow and hugs her, curiously looking at what the elder seraph was doing.]

@seraphim-perach

Oh, hey Perach. Willow glances at the flower on the seraph's head, before turning back to her roses.

Not quite. Just trying to... Well, it's quite complicated to explain. I was having some issues with these flowers. Perhaps you could help? She tilts her head. The roses are drooping, several petals scattered around the base of their pots.

[askoverlordvox]

VOX give your opinion about AAAAALLLLLLL seraphs

we need it now

Oh, that pathetic lot? Fuck, yeah, let's bruise some egos!

Let's start at the figurative bottom. @ask-emily-em-emmy is kinda tied for the bottom of the seraphim hierarchy. She has a position, yeah, but it's one of service, beneath all the Winners, at their whims and mercy. Except, she's smart and charming and she's got the people of Heaven on her side in a way they'd never be on Sera's. I respect that she's aware of the power she wields, even if it takes a lot of pushing to get her to that point. She's kinda like Rosie and Cere, in an Overlord sense; she'll find a way to get what she wants, and everyone's gonna be willing to bend over backwards for her! 9/10, probably the best of the lot, if she ever decides to throw her weight around.

Now, the literal bottom, that's @seraphim-sarai. Stuck as an apprentice. Real shame, too; they're probably the most cutthroat in a way none of the others are. They're willing to hurt the ones they love to achieve their goals; that sort of blind Pride and ambition is something I saw a lot in... well, Val. Difference being: Sarai feels guilt. Probably the one thing that'll keep them from turning out like Val, too. Sometimes, it just takes a crumb of self-awareness. 8.5/10. Not gonna lie, though, I've been watching back some of their tapes. Bitch is living a telenovela and I am invested. Kinda rooting for Milan; I'm a sucker for the messy bitches.

There's a ton of seraphs, but which ones are interesting... ah! @seraphim-grace! Here's a bitch I wouldn't mind killing myself. While Sarai reminds me of the side of Val that made him a good Overlord, Grace reminds me of... everything else. Frankly, how anyone can find Heaven appealing knowing that she's there? Beyond fuckin' me! I will admit she's given me some interesting ideas for some horror and torture flicks we've got in production, so at least I'll profit off her. It'll pay for the therapy I'll need seeing what a chick Val is like. 2/10, how the fuck has she not been stripped down for parts?

And since the rotten apple doesn't fall far from the poisoned tree... @seraphim-adina. Honestly? I like this one. She's a lot like me: calculated, cruel, excellent at her chosen tasks... and a hopeless sap. Lucky for her, she didn't fall for a red radio bastard or get entranced by a... well... Lee was probably on the road to becoming something like Val, but steered onto a different course. 5/10. She's got a way to go before she can wield any true amount of power but she at least isn't afraid of what little power she does have.

Fuck, there's too many of these self important angels... wait, isn't there another little one... @seraphim-perach! Right, kinda peek in on her every now and again. Not much catches my eye; I think we've yet to see the juicy stuff from this one. But, for the scheming and excellent acting, I give her a solid 7/10. I see big things ahead for this one.

I'm capping it here with the top of the heap- the heap of shit. @ask-sera is the ringleader of this circus and the other seraphim's shortcomings are a direct reflect of her that she's too blind to see. Something I can admire about Charlie is that she doesn't, for a moment, misunderstand where the fuck she is. Sera's head is shoved so far up her own ass, I'm surprised she hasn't collapsed into a singularity. For someone so obsessed with purity and holiness, she's awfully blind to the dark filth surrounding her. But that's what Pride, Sloth, Wrath, and Greed can do to a person, when they refuse to acknowledge the Sin in their own heart. -10/10. If she was half the seraphim she thinks she is, she wouldn't be running a palace that harbors abusers.

Yeah, I'm a fucking Overlord in literal Hell, but even I have standards!

[seraphim-sarai]

Greetings. I have been instructed to open this account for purposes of communication. Do not waste my time. 🦢

Sarai is an apprentice to the Seraphim, one of the higher courts in Heaven. Unlike other Seraphim, Sarai knows and regularly interacts with angels of other choirs. Although she portrays herself as a reserved pillar of unflappable coolness befitting of the Seraphim, Sarai often struggles to properly conduct herself when around others. As an apprentice, they are watched by other Seraphim and this puts them in a position to sometimes appear exceptionally aloof to those they care about.

They are the sister of @exorcist-ava, the daughter of @lost-elam, and the current guardian angel of @lanagonzalez.

Their mate for life is @exorcist-milan420.

Read more about them here!

Mod: @joy-eris-joy

Sarai's Story

Backstory

Past with @lost-elam ( 1 | 2 )

Past with @seraphim-adina and @exorcist-ava ( 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 )

RPs

Arc One

The first Salad meeting

Sarai/Ava fallout

Arguments with @ask-lute and @exorcist-timpani ( 1 | 2 )

Salad meets again ( 1 | 2 | 3 )

Interactions with Ass (@askthefivefallen) ( 1 | 2 | 3 )

Meeting @ask-sadie-morgan ( 1 | 2 )

Getting into trouble with @ask-sera ( 1 | 2 )

SERAPHIM SHOWCASE ( 1 | 2 | 3 )

A Fascinating Conversation

BEACH DAY ( 1 | 2 | 3 )

Rejected Apologies

Guardian Angel ( 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 )

Reconciliation with Ava ( 1 | 2 )

Getting the Inside Scoop ( 1 | current interaction!! )

Talk with @seraphim-perach

Salad Talk

Encountering @your-favorite-spyho ( 1 | 2 )

Talk with Perach 2

Getting suited up by @suits-n-such

SAVING NESSIE ( 1 | 2 )

Ima, Sorry Ima??

The Spyho Returns

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[onmymasa22]

I told someone I'm an artist and she asked what I thought about ai taking over the art world. My answer is that I don't find it problem because I think- let people who appreciate it use or buy it. I can't really have an actual opinion because I don't appreciate it. I dont appreciate machine made things as much as hand made, I don't appreciate when artists sell prints of their paintings and I don't even appreciate acrylic as much oil because I see it as a fake not as good copy. Like a lab grown diamond ring. I don't like not as good copies when I can have the real thing. But there are people who don't care. They don't care if their dress came from shein or ally express. And as a seller I would 2100 shekel a month to live alone

She said it's OK to come those few days late

I do volunteering for perach and get more money, or volunteering for kibbutz and have to pay bnei akiva

140 hours for the year

She said to not wait

It's

הדבר הכי מתומתם וטיפשי שראיתי היום. למה? ��י דבר אחד, האסוסיאציה של שימוש בנקודה הזאת היא אצל אנשים שרוצים לזהות את עצמם בתחילת שיחה. שזה בסדר, אבל זה לא מחובר לאוכלוסיית המכללה. דבר שני, ומה שממש מכאיס אותי הוא שבאמת?! בתור מכללה שכלכך מכללה לבנות, ואיזה כיף שיש מכללה שבנות יכולות ללמוד אמנות כי בהיסטוריה היו בקושי אמניות! ואחרי שחקרנו נשיות בלימודים, זה מה שעושים? אנחנו מספר שתיים עוד פעם? אנחנו בצד?

I'm not interested in creating art that's hyper realistic. I'm interested in making art that gives me the chills. Where I have this weird sense of ruach hakodesh. That I want to cry and a shiver runs down my spine when I do something right. When I have the idea. When I capture something. That's what I go for.

Maybe hashem gave me doron not because I'd like him, but because he did. But did I do what I was supposed to do? What was I supposed to do with doron. Why did I meet him.

Maybe that's what it means when hashem gave us the torah. He gave us the most important thing

Gift

Doron was a gift I couldn't receive. It wasn't for me to receive, I wasn't the right address.

Hi ezra, it's dalya friedman. I just wanted to say that I really appreciate your work and setting up events for us. Honestly this year I felt really alone in Jerusalem, and I had only Israeli friends which is great but i didnt feel like i had a community. Going on the tzippori shabbaton and the Thursday trip allowed me to meet people who understand me from the get- go. I just think that not everyone who deserves a written out thank you gets one, and I wanted for you and your family to have a reminder how much what you do makes a difference because I'm sure along the way there might have been sacrifices. So thank you and everyone around you for providing a platform where we can have a good time and enjoy all the beautiful things about Judaism without judgement or strings. Without that, I think a lot of people including myself would having a hard time sticking around both in Israel and in a relationship with hashem.

U need to know yourself and who u are. And once u know that u r a good person, u start treating people according to who u are, not who they are. I'm not a person who argues back. I'm a person who treats people with dignity.

I was angry. I was angry about being in the hospital all alone for hours. Where they asked me if I had anyone to be with me at the moment. I was angry that my parents weren't there to be with me making all the nurses crazy cuz that's what parents do. I had to do a CT alone. I had to do the stitches alone.

Shai

[seraphim-perach]

I'm always happy to take care of my beloved sister! I'll make sure you're the first to know if I identify the sinner. I don't want you to worry much, Dina!

[Perach smiled sweetly. Red pollen floats in the air next to Sera.]

“Sera? You wished to see me?”

Again?

Sarai was having a hard time. The disaster at the party on the Promenade was still fresh in her mind, and she could only dread what Sera had to tell her now.

How can my life get any worse?

She hesitantly enters Sera’s office.

@seraphim-sarai

*Sera nods quickly, intently looking for something in the document folder.*

Yes, come in.

*Luckily for Sarai, she has no idea of what happened to her yesterday. All Sera's attention was focused on Emily and Shamira Ass.*

Lately I've been looking for another way for you to prove that you're finally ready to become a full-fledged seraph. And I remembered a test that was last used quite a long time ago.

In other words, I suggest you fulfill the position of guardian angel. Your promotion will depend on how you complete this task.

[shiraglassman]

hello!!! i'm really interested in your books, they look super cool, but i was just wondering what the TWs/CWs are, if there are any? just bc i couldn't really find a clarification on the age range or anything and i'm a teenager.

Hi! That's a really good question and I wish I'd gone through and made more careful content warnings at some point. But I'll do my best from memory.

Knit One Girl Two has some swear words and mention of financial theft within a family. There is no sexual content.

Fearless has swear words and a mention of someone off-camera building an inappropriate snowman. There is no sexual content.

The short story "Your Name is Love" doesn't really have any content warnings other than Halleli is crying at one point about her parents having passed away, but her wife is right there to comfort her.

All of these are about adult women but have no physical content past kissing.

Those are the three that are in the K1G2 collection.

On to Mangoverse. The age range for these is a big question mark; they're usually called "teen friendly" but not YA because most of the main characters are in their 20's. There are brief scenes of sexuality in The Second Mango, Climbing the Date Palm, and A Harvest of Ripe Figs. However, The Olive Conspiracy has no sexual content and since the series was written to be all standalones about the same characters rather than one huge story I think it's perfectly reasonable to start there. There is, however, an emetophobia trigger warning in chapter 18 that you will be able to see telegraphed a mile away, since the MC has major food allergies and the flashback sequence takes place before she was diagnosed. Also someone is misgendered in the first chapter but the speaker is immediately corrected and it's fine for the rest of the book.

Other content warnings in the Mangoverse include mild homophobia that the characters always end up safe from, grief from losing loved ones, and not being believed about food allergies. If you are sensitive about fire I may want to privately give you some comforting spoilers behind the scenes, just ask. Also this is kind of a spoiler but TW for a controlling romantic relationship in Figs.

The Mangoverse has some short stories -- Tales from Perach -- and they're all super tame except for "Rivka in Port Saltspray", which has a TW for violence. I suppose "Aviva and the Aliens" should have tw: kidnapping and tw: giant sentient bugs too.

Despite most of the leading characters in Mangoverse being Jewish, there is no mention of antisemitism of any kind whatsoever. However, mild mentions of period-accurate antisemitism exist in Gifts of Spring, which is also mildly sexual.

There is a lot of sexual content in Cinnamon Blade, Lioness in Blue, Wet Nails, and Eitan's Chord so I'm gonna go ahead and call those adult. Lioness also has major TW's for both MC's having lost loved ones to cancer.

@chaotic-queer-disaster I hope this helps! Feel free to ask for clarification or more details if you need.

Readers, if you'd like to leave helpful additions in reblogs that is appreciated :)

[seraphim-perach]

Arion, probably drunk because this guy has no hand-eye coordination, stumbles up to Perach's place, before busting down the door without knocking. Heyyyy Perach, can I crash here? She immediately tries to wrap an arm around Perach.

- @exorcist-arion

[Perach squeaked and jumped on her bed in fear, dropping the plan for the drawing master class for the winners right into her soup. She immediately frowned and glared at Arion, pushing her away.]

...First! You can’t enter without knocking! Second, why don't you just go back to the exorcist barracks? And third… are you drunk?!

[She crossed her arms disapprovingly, looking up at Arion and holding him from falling with plants.]

[seraphim-perach]

I'm amazed you still believe in him after all...

little memes cuz i feel silly

bonus: remember onion-hair lute? now we have banana-hair adina

[seraphim-adina]

I want to have the spy ho, share ;3

@seraphim-perach

Hmhm~

NO.

-🐇

[meirmakesstuff]

1/2 Hi Meir! I saw your answer on WWC, and since you mentioned you're professionals, I figured I'd ask directly: I'm writing a second world fantasy with a jewish coded people. I want to be clear in the coding but avoid the "if there's no egypt, how can there be passover?" so I called them Canaanites. I thought I was being clever by hinting in the naming that the whole region does exist, but I've since read that it might've been a slur in fact? Do you have any advice on this?

2/2 I did consider calling the group in question Jewish, but aside from how deeply Judaism is connected to the history of the Israelites, I haven't used any present-day real-world names for any other group, (I did use some historic names like Nubia). I feel like calling only one group of people by their currently used name would be othering rather than inclusive? Or am I overthinking this?

Okay so I want to start out with some disclaimers, first that although WWC recently reblogged an addition of mine to one of their posts, I am not affiliated with @writingwithcolor​, and second that the nature of trying to answer a question like this is “two Jews, three opinions,” so what I have to say about this is my own opinion(s) only. Last disclaimer: this is a hard question to address, so this answer is going to be long. Buckle up.

First, I would say that you’re right to not label the group in question “Jewish” (I’ll get to the exception eventually), and you’re also right in realizing that you should not call them “Canaanites.” In Jewish scripture, Canaanites are the people we fought against, not ourselves, so that wouldn’t feel like representation but like assigning our identity to someone else, which is a particular kind of historical violence Jews continue to experience today. I’ll get back to the specific question of naming in a moment, but because this is my blog and not WWC, and you asked me to speak to this as an educator, we’re going to take a detour into Jewish history and literary structure before we get back to the question you actually asked.

To my mind there are three main ways to have Jews in second-world fantasy and they are:

People who practice in ways similar to modern real-world Jews, despite having developed in a different universe,

People who practice in ways similar to ancient Hebrews, because the things that changed us to modern Jewish practice didn’t occur, and

People who practice in a way that shows how your world would influence the development of a people who started out practicing like ancient Hebrews and have developed according to the world they’re in. 

The first one is what we see in @shiraglassman​‘s Mangoverse series: there is no Egypt yet her characters hold a seder; the country coded Persian seems to bear no relation to their observance of Purim, and there is no indication of exile or diaspora in the fact that Jews exist in multiple countries and cultures, and speak multiple languages including Yiddish, a language that developed through a mixture of Hebrew and German. Her characters’ observance lines up approximately with contemporary Reform Jewish expectations, without the indication of there ever having been a different practice to branch off from. She ignores the entire question of how Jews in her universe became what they are, and her books are lyrical and sweet and allow us to imagine the confidence that could belong to a Jewish people who weren’t always afraid.

Shira is able to pull this off, frankly, because her books are not lore-heavy. I say this without disrespect--Shira often refers to them as “fluffy”--but because the deeper you get into the background of your world and its development, the trickier this is going to be to justify, unless you’re just going to just parallel every historical development in Jewish History, including exile and diaspora across the various nations of your world, including occasional near-equal treatment and frequent persecution, infused with a longing for a homeland lost, or a homeland recently re-established in the absolutely most disappointing of ways.

Without that loss of homeland or a Mangoverse-style handwaving, we have the second and third options. In the second option, you could show your Jewish-coded culture having never been exiled from its homeland, living divided into tribes each with their own territory, still practicing animal, grain, and oil sacrifice at a single central Temple at the center of their nation, overseen by a tribe that lacks territory of their own and being supported by the sacrifices offered by the populace.

If you’re going to do that, research it very carefully. A lot of information about this period is drawn from scriptural and post-scriptural sources or from archaeological record, but there’s also a lot of Christian nonsense out there assigning weird meanings and motivations to it, because the Christian Bible takes place during this period and they chose to cast our practices from this time as evil and corrupt in order to magnify the goodness of their main character. In any portrayal of a Jewish-coded people it’s important to avoid making them corrupt, greedy, bigoted, bloodthirsty, or stubbornly unwilling to see some kind of greater or kinder truth about the world, but especially if you go with this version. 

The last option, my favorite but possibly the hardest to do, is to imagine how the people in the second option would develop given the influences of the world they’re in. Do you know why Chanukah is referred to as a “minor” holiday? The major holidays are the ones for which the Torah specifies that we “do not work:” Rosh Hashannah, Yom Kippur, and the pilgrimage holidays of Sukkot, Passover, and Shavuot. Chanukah developed as a holiday because the central temple, the one we made those pilgrimages to, was desecrated by the invading Assyrian Greeks and we drove them out and were able to re-establish the temple. That time. Eventually, the Temple was razed and we were scattered across the Roman Empire, developing the distinct Jewish cultures we see today. The Greeks and Romans aren’t a semi-mythologized ancient people, the way the Canaanites have been (though there’s increasing amounts of archaeology shedding light on what they actually might have been like), we have historical records about them, from them. The majority of modern Jewish practice developed from the ruins of our ancient practices later than the first century CE. In the timeline of Jewish identity, that’s modern.

The rabbinic period and the Temple period overlap somewhat, but we’re not getting into a full-scale history lesson here. Suffice it to say that it was following the loss of the sacrificial system at the central Temple that Judaism coalesced an identity around verbal prayer services offered at the times of day when we would previously have offered sacrifices, led each community by its own learned individual who became known as a rabbi. We continued to develop in relationship with the rest of the world, making steps toward gender equality in the 1970s and LGBT equality in the 2000s, shifting the meaning of holidays like Tu Bishvat to address climate change, debating rulings on whether one may drive a car on Shabbat for the sake of being with one’s community, and then pivoting to holding prayer services daily via Zoom.

The history of the Jews is the history of the world.  Our iconic Kol Nidrei prayer, the centerpiece of the holiest day of the year, that reduces us to tears every year at its first words, was composed in response to the Spanish Inquisition. The two commentators who inform our understanding of scripture--the ones we couldn’t discuss Torah without referencing even if we tried--wrote in the 11th and 12th centuries in France and Spain/Egypt. Jewish theology and practice schismed into Orthodox and Reform (and later many others) because that’s the kind of discussion people were into in the 19th century. Sephardim light Chanukah candles in an outdoor lamp while Ashkenazim light Chanukah candles in an indoor candelabrum because Sephardim developed their traditions in the Middle East and North Africa and the Ashkenazim developed our traditions in freezing Europe. There are works currently becoming codified into liturgy whose writers died in 2000 and 2011. 

So what are the historical events that would change how your Jewish-coded culture practices, if they don’t involve loss of homeland and cultural unity? What major events have affected your world? If there was an exile that precipitated an abandonment of the sacrificial system, was there a return to their land, or are they still scattered? Priority one for us historically has been maintaining our identity and priority two maintaining our practices, so what have they had to shift or create in order to keep being a distinct group? Is there a major worldwide event in your world? If so, how did this people cope?

If you do go this route, be careful not to fall into tropes of modern or historical antisemitism: don’t have your culture adopt a worldview that has their deity split into mlutiple identities (especially not three). Don’t have an oppressive government that doesn’t represent its people rise up to oppress outsiders within its borders (this is not the first time this has occurred in reality, but because the outside world reacts differently to this political phenomenon when it’s us than when it’s anyone else, it’s a portrayal that makes real-life Jews more vulnerable). And don’t portray the people as having developed into a dark and mysterious cult of ugly, law-citing men and beautiful tearstreaked women, but it doesn’t sound as if you were planning to go there.

So with all that said, it’s time to get back to the question of names. All the above information builds to this: how you name this culture depends on how you’ve handled their practice and identity. 

Part of why Shira Glassman’s handwaving of the question of how modern Jewish practice ended up in Perach works is that she never gives a name to the religion of her characters. Instead, she names the regions they come from. Perach, in particular, the country where most of the action takes place, translates to “Flower.” In this case, her Jewish-coded characters who come from Perach are Perachis, and characters from other places who are also Jewish are described as “they worship as Perachis do despite their different language” or something along those lines (forgive me, Shira, for half-remembering).

So that’s method one: find an attribute of your country that you’d like to highlight, translate it into actual Hebrew, and use that as your name.

Method two is the opposite: find a name that’s been used to identify our people or places (we’ve had a bunch), find out what it means or might mean in English, and then jiggle that around until it sounds right for your setting. You could end up with the nation of the Godfighters, or Children of Praise, The Wanderers (if they’re not localized in a homeland), The Passed-Over, Those From Across The River, or perhaps the people of the City of Peace.

Last, and possibly easiest, pick a physical attribute of their territory and just call them that in English. Are they from a mountainous region? Now they’re the Mountain People. Does their land have a big magical crater in the middle? Craterfolk. Ethereal floating forests of twinkling lights? It’s your world.

The second option is the only one that uses the name to overtly establish Jewish coding. The first option is something Jews might pick up on, especially if they speak Hebrew, but non-Jews would miss. The third avoids the question and puts the weight of conveying that you’re trying to code them as Jewish on their habits and actions.

There’s one other option that can work in certain types of second-world fantasy, and that’s a world that has developed from real-world individuals who went through some kind of portal. That seems to me the only situation in which using a real-world name like Jews, Hebrews, or Israelites would make sense. Jim Butcher does this with the Romans in the Codex Alera series, and Katharine Kerr does it with Celts in the Deverry cycle. That kind of thing has to be baked into the world-building, though, so it probably doesn’t help with this particular situation. 

This is a roundabout route to what I imagine you were hoping would be an easier answer. The tension you identified about how to incorporate Jewishness into a world that doesn’t have the same history is real, and was the topic of a discussion I recently held with a high school age group around issues of Jewish representation in the media they consume and hope to create. Good luck in your work of adding to the discussion.

[whumphoarder]

Hey! First of all I love your works so much! Second- do you have any fic recs for Peter with seizures?

Hey! I’ve written one story with Peter having seizures:

Poison Apple

A field trip gone wrong leaves Peter and Ned wandering through a seemingly endless corn maze. This would be bad enough, but when Peter starts getting seriously ill on top of that, it all goes to shit.

And for recs I’ve got:

There's a hole in my head and my words are falling out by @wolfypuppypiles

Peter experiencing a traumatic brain injury and the subsequent recovery.

For Pete's Sake! by @kitcat992

Another one with Peter experiencing a traumatic brain injury and the subsequent recovery, but taken a different direction. Both are awesome.

The Primary Reason Tony Stark Would Throw Down With an Anti-Vaxxer in the Street by @caraminha​

Peter getting tetanus on a road trip with Tony

how can the body die? (you tell me, everything) by @madasthesea

Peter getting stung by a bad guy’s venom and things going Very Bad™

Cyanide? In My Shawarma? by @losingmymindtonight

Pepper convinces Tony to bring Peter along on his first dinner with the Rogue Avengers since their pardoning.

Poor Tony had thought the whole thing was a recipe for disaster before someone decided to shove some cyanide in his food.

let’s kick it by CivilBores

Tony and Peter’s relationship becomes strained after the events of Infinity War. When a mysterious alien gas infects Peter with a strange disease, they realize they need to pull themselves together or risk losing everything.

My Arms Are Wide Open, I'll Catch You by perach

"Hey, Pete, how's dinner coming along?" Tony asked upon entering. He earned no response, which was odd from Peter because he never stopped talking. The spider-child stood motionless in front of the stove. Bruce was at his side, snapping his fingers in front of Peter's face. "What are you doing?" The engineer crossed his arms. Bruce thought for a moment before turning away from the boy to answer.

"Peter's having a seizure."

[the-joy-team]

“And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for, our honorary awards! These are awards given as little snapshots of some of the most fun moments from the day! Just some joyous times that we would like to recognize as the day comes to a close.” -🐭

“Hand me the mic, this is my favorite part! Our unofficial kite builders of the day might just surprise you! Two little heavenborn with a surprising artistic ability… Papa and Rellena! As a reward they will be receiving a lifetime supply of cheese pizza! It will most certainly always be cold and the life span of a rat is not the same as a humans but the joy budget is not great.” -✨

“Next we have the winner of the ice cream eating competition! Never in my centuries of Joy Team™️ experience have I seen someone eat that many flavors with such gusto! One could even call it ‘fascinating’! The winner of the ice cream eating award is… Seraphim Sarai!” -🐥

“Next we had a beer chug happen without any prompting! I don’t even know if they both knew they were competing, but second place sure did! In second place… Arion! In first… Lee!” -🐭

“Pretty sure the first placer was a sinner but whatever… As an honorable mention, we at the Joy Team™️ would be remiss if we didn’t give a little shout out to the one and only Light of Heaven herself who finally drank more than half a glass of wine at dinner… Seraphim Emily the Joy Bringer!” -✨

“Next up, one exorcist put all others to shame today on the beach, rocking the shirtless look as he lifted for the masses, an absolute unit for such a tiny twink-” -✨

“What she means is that we’re so proud of the protectors of heaven and that one brought those muscles to the outdoor gym setup! The winner of the muscle-man award is… Dickie Junior!” -🐭

“Next up, we have an award for someone who played volleyball like it was her last day in heaven! Maybe she was showing off for her fiancé, maybe she’s just competitive, but whatever the reason, the award for the heaviest hitter goes to… Commander Lute!” -🐲

“As a kindness, we never figured out who got hit by the volleyball so if it was you, please come forward and we will voucher you for one free trip to see Medic Ray!” -🐭

“Our final award goes to someone who spent a substantial amount of time on the beach staring directly at one other person! Several hours, in fact! It’s always good to see the young folk of heaven with so much dedication and passion for what they believe in! The winner of the people watching award goes to… Seraphim Perach!” -🐭

“Not weird at all.” -✨

“Thank you all for coming out! It’s been an incredible event and we at the Joy Team™️ would like to thank Seraphim Adina for her hard work on this event, because for better or worse, it was all. because. of her. Thank you! Enjoy the bonfire!” -🐭

(( @exorcist-ava @seraphim-sarai @your-favorite-spyho @exorcist-arion @ask-emily-em-emmy @askthefivefallen @ask-lute @exorcist-ray @seraphim-perach @seraphim-adina ))

“HELLO!!!! And welcome to the Golden Shores Beach Day Awards Ceremony! Today we’ve had some AWESOME competitions running throughout the day, some that weren’t even planned, but we were so impressed we just had to shout a couple of you out!” -🐭

“This feels similar to what the kids would call bullying-” -✨

“But in a kind and rewarding way of course because we’re so proud of everyone’s joyous nature today!” -🐭

*Ellen rolled her eyes. Today was a shit show and anyone with eyes could tell that. Someone literally died and the High Seraphim who was supposed to be doing awards was no where to be found. Not to mention that… person Seraphim Adina was running around with for half the day was definitely a sinner. And honestly, there were several other halos that were suspect throughout the day as well! Calling attention to it would have caused a panic though so she let it slide but seriously? Joyous nature Penelope?*

“There were several moments we’ll be highlighting, so keep those clappers warm and ready to get to applauding! Today was a great day!” -🐭

“First we’d like to congratulate all of the sandcastle builders. There were 76 entries this year! Thats the most we’ve ever had compete during this event, and the competition was hot! With over six thousand votes turned in, it’s a surprise we even got the votes all tallied up in time!” -🐲

“Would have been a lot harder if you hadn’t set half of them on fire, but what do I know?” -✨

“Please, when you’ve been called, come to the podium to be recognized and receive your award. So without further ado, third place belongs to… number 34, Dahlia!” -🐲

“Our second place was a tight win, only a little over thirty more votes seperately these two placements! Second place was… number 33, Delia!” -🐥

“Our first place winner was an absolute landslide. This sand castle was entered a bit later in the day but still managed to get quite a lot of attention for their scenes from the skies! This castle was a masterpiece coming from an unsuspected source. With a tallied vote of 1256 votes, the winner of the sandcastle building competition is… number 68, Shamira!” -🐭

*Ellen remembered counting votes and laughing as she sorted through the paper slips. At least a third of them were all in Emily’s flowing cursive. But honestly, she loved Emily and if she was willing to turn in over 300 votes for the guardians castle, she would gladly count them. Even if said guardian would have won without any of them*

(( @exorcist-dahlia @exorcist-delia @askshamass ))

[silvireal]

hewwo, im mai

figured i should make this navigation post too, soooo

i rp as canon characters: @imp-poster-blitzo (Blitzo) @ask-sera (Sera) @adam-the-dickmaster (Adam)

and ocs: @your-favorite-spyho (Lee/Luther/Lyra) @your-favorite-therapist (Vienna/V) @ask-kori (Kori) @seraphim-perach (Perach) @lanagonzalez (Lana)

[the-knights-who-say-book]

I need book recs that'll make my Jewish self happy so I'm here at your door (inbox) asking, any good Jewish books (sf/f particularly?) You can think of?? (also book rec in exchange empress of forever was good as heck but Jewish but good)

ok obviously i know many good jewish books, don’t ask me why it took me 2 months to answer this then, the answer will make nobody more satisfied, least of all me

Jewish scifi and fantasy — published

The Girl with the Red Balloon and The Spy with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke—YA historical fiction novels in which magic exists as a function of math, both with Jewish main characters

The Second Mango and the rest of the Mangoverse books by Shira Glassman—short, fluffy adult fantasy books set in the magical Jewish land of Perach

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker—adult historical fiction in which a golem and a jinni meet in 1899 New York City

People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy—an anthology of short stories

Cinnamon Blade by Shira Glassman—a short adult superhero romance, featuring a thief-turned-superhero and her damsel in distress

Jewish scifi and fantasy — online

(links go directly to the stories)

Riley Marigold and the Winged Lizards of Tel Aviv by Kayla Bashe—a cute children’s story involving genetically engineered dragons

Avi Cantor Has Six Months to Live by Sacha Lamb—no one dies in this story. two trans boys fall in love

The Birdverse series—a whole series of rich fantasy novellas with Jewish-inspired worldbuilding. Link goes to the goodreads page, which lists in which online magazine you can find each story

Whom My Soul Loves—featuring a dybbuk and a magical doctor in the strangest and coolest urban fantasy setting

also, my fave Jewish contemporaries

Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz—my love, my light, my favorite YA romance

Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman—romantic fluff, jewish wlw

Epistolary by Sacha Lamb—an online meetcute between two Jewish trans teens (short story)

Jewish scifi and fantasy I haven’t read yet

Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner, Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik?, Starglass by Phoebe North, The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford, everything by Michael Chabon