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just saw a "Holiday" list of like 75 gay romance novels, and there was literally not a single Hanukkah one, not one, like bitch say its a Christmas list

biglawbear

Please report the moment if you find a cheesy gay Hannukah romance novel

qbdatabase

the Queer Books Database I run has a Tropes column where you can filter for the "holiday" tag, and you can also search for any individual holiday in the Additional Notes column (not by tags, so you may want to try different spelling variations)

it currently has 11 queer hanukkah romances (+2 straight romances with queer SCs, +1 FF romance to be added)

(MM) The Remaking of Corbin Wale by Roan Parrish, +autistic rep

(MM) Mistletoe and Mishigas by M. A. Wardell, +fat rep

(MM) His for Hanukkah by Reese Morrison, +trans rep

(MM) To Touch the Light by E. M. Lindsey, +trans rep, +disabled rep, +Latino rep

(all FF) Do You Feel What I Feel: A Holiday Anthology ed. by Jae, +trans rep in one story, +older FF couple in one story

(FF, MM) Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday Anthology ed. by J. P. Walker, +kwanzaa, +black rep, +pagan rep

(FF) Eight Kinky Nights by Xan West, +ace rep, +autistic rep, +fat rep, +disabled rep

(MM) Hearts Alight by Elliott Cooper, +bi rep

(MM) Eight Dates by E. M. Lindsey

(MM) Ben's Bakery and the Hanukkah Miracle by Penelope Peters

(FFF) Eitan's Chord by Shira Glassman, +butch rep

These two haven't been added to the database (yet!), but I still highly recommend them!

(FF) Alice Rue Evades the Truth by Emily Zipps, +bi rep, +butch rep, +disabled rep

For the Rest of Us ed. by Dahlia Adler (all non-christmas holidays!)

aroaceauri

@queerliblib any suggestions you can add?

queerliblib

for non-christmas holiday books we’ve got several of the above, plus:

It Was Chanukah. And They Were Roommates. And There Was Only One Bed. by AJ Aise (+ several others by this author)

Kiss Me At Kwanzaa by L.L. Bucknor

Eight Nights in December by Kiera Andrews

Yule be Home for Solstice by Sharon K. Angelici

check out our holiGAYS list for more ✨ ❄️

going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi

things to say after fucking up egregiously

pack it up boys we've made a social blunder

let's run that again

one more time normal style

I'm going to become a statistic

further proof god is out to get me

it's because I tore my acl senior year

I couldn't do it for religious reasons

my ex took my talent in the divorce

good thing nobody saw that (said directly to someone who definitely saw it)

coolfrogdude

original thread by @pukicho and several other users

plausiblyren

I always love seeing this comic because it interprets Tumblr as a gigantic theater ruled by absolute chaos where sometimes somebody just stands up on their chair and shouts and we all pay attention

venusrrvelez

beardedmrbean

blogofex

These guys would be the biggest hit at any Renaissance fair they went to.

therobotmonster

An envoy from a kingdom in the far East comes to your hamlet and of course you give them a warm welcome!

Do you have any idea what access to the spice road would do for the tiny Dukedom of Fairground By the Budget Hilton?

spinosacha

This is Doris Pollas, the cofounder of the organisation now known as lgbt+ Denmark which by being founded in 1948 is one of the oldest ongoing queer organisation in the world.

Doris lived in a farm in Jutland as a child. She was always butch and figured out she was a lesbian in her teens. When she heard about a club in copenhagen where boys kissed boys and girls kissed girls she went just some months after and it was through that club she started a paper connecting queer people all up to seventies and co founded lgbt+ Denmark.

She is now 97 years old and wishes for every queer person to have an as loving and accepting family as she did.

I don’t see a lot of older gays from my country, so learning about Doris, a masc lesbian, was really nice.

viktor-sbor

A 50-kilogram anvil floats perfectly on the surface of mercury, because the density of the steel from which it is made is almost half the density of mercury.

e-102

damn that shit is light lmfao

telltaletypist

vienna1954

Fun fact! Many lighthouses with especially large fresnel lenses would have huge fucking tubs of liquid mercury in the lantern room because it’s a super easy way to make these giant lenses rotate quickly!

Shockingly, however, spending most of your time in close proximity to 500 pounds of liquid mercury is Not Great For One’s Health and tons of lighthouse keepers started to go crazy from the whole. Mercury poisoning thing. Hence why there are a lot of “haunted” lighthouses or wickies that lose it and maybe do a bit of manslaughter.

Anyway, people saw a bunch of lighthouse keepers go crazy and get sick and got empirical evidence that it was in fact related to the 500 pound mercury bath they have to visit every day and then they decided nah it’s fine actually. So we’ve kept the liquid mercury thing and I think that’s beautiful

ben-the-hyena

I love how it is so dense it does not "wet" the anvil, the drops all run and leave with nothing behind them unlike water, oil, sauce... it's super satisfying it's like in cartoons

macleod

In a letter written on April 19, 1825, Augustin Fresnel proposed the use of mercury to reduce the friction in revolving lenses. His statement follows: “I propose to float our rotating devices, of the first order, in a bath of mercury, instead of placing them on rollers. This project won't present many difficulties; nevertheless, as I have not put it into execution, I won't require you to adopt it for your first lighthouse.”

Fresnel’s plan for mercury flotation was not put into practice until 1890 when Monsieur Leon Bourdelles, Chief Engineer of the French Lighthouse Service, designed and built a workable mercury flotation system. The mercury bath allowed the lens to operate in an almost frictionless environment and, additionally, allowed the speed of rotation to be dramatically increased.

Lens Rotation by Thomas Tag | United States Lighthouse Society

sashaforthewin

Ah to be a sailor in 1890 who has to turn to his fellow men and ask "is it just me or are the lighthouses flashing faster?"

asteroidtroglodyte

They had been slowly getting faster for decades.

It mattered for optics reasons.

Under less-than-ideal conditions, you can only see the beam when it’s pointed more or less directly at you. In-between beams you would not be able to see anything. One solution to this was to create multiple beams, and the lenses Mr Fresnel designed usually created 8 beams. But, even still, duration between flashes could be as long as one minute in the old mechanical roller systems.

The nearly frictionless operation of the Mercury suspension system allowed the lenses (large pieces of precisely ground glass weighing several hundred pounds in some cases) to rotate fast enough that they could be redesigned to create fewer (usually 3) beams. Fewer beams from a similar light source will be proportionally brighter, and the gains in speed were sufficient that duration between flashes could still be reduced to as little as 10 seconds.

This was a big upgrade. It didn’t just make the lighthouse signal faster, it allowed them to completely overhaul the lens and derive more visibility from a light source.

What’s a little Madness, in the face of Progress?

myth-myth-yeth

mods are asleep, post the fresnel lens

czech-hunter-reject

Please listen to this baby tapir CHEEP and maybe all your sorrows will go away for a precious moment 🩷🩷🩷

via Instagram

monochromaticblack

“be stubborn about your goals but flexible about your methods.” the best advice I’ve ever received.

pictures-of-dogs

the age old question

needacupoftea

pictures-of-dogs

huffylemon

why yes I have seen tinks

pyreflydust

You... brought her home, right? Called her owners? Did something to get her generally in the direction of the people who certainly must miss their daughter dearly?

st4lker

no they just took a picture for tumblr and then threw the cat down a sewer drain

pleasereturntoheaven

*gets dressed up to spend time in the woods alone*

benchowmein

once at dawn i dressed up in my regency suit and went for a walk in the woods where i heard someone go “oh” (a little like a moan) and i got terrified i’d interrupted someone dogging or something so i immediately tried to walk away before i saw the person in question, who was just walking their dog (dogging in a sense!) and i got even more scared because they were wearing black skinny jeans and a black hoodie so they looked like they had very long slender arms and legs, and both of us were really shaken so i quickly tried to get out of sight. anyway i forgot i was wearing full 1810s regencywear complete with hat and probably looked significantly more like a ghost than they did. remember you’re never alone in the woods

bowling-with-skulls

imagine walking your dog in the woods and seeing an obvious Regency-era ghost notice you and bolt out of sight, visibly shaken

a-humble-waffle

I’m CRYING this is hilarious

santas-clauze

every western movie ever made: The wild west is dying. theres no more room left for cowboys anymore…

me everytime: :(

nem0c-deactivated20260716

every samurai movie ever made (both edo and bakamatsu periods): The bushido code is dying. there no more room left for samurai anymore…

me everytime: :(

rickfuckingdalton

A lot of westerns are remakes of samurai movies

bonesawcagematch

those samurai movies were very often heavily inspired by 50′s and 40′s westerns

simon-newman

Cowboys and samurai are brothers separated by time and space.

eric-coldfire

Best duo.

seriousfic

breadgunner-deactivated20200418

I’ve got y’alls new favorite art piece right here.

phoxxent

According to Google, Samurai were abolished in 1868.

This means that at the same time that cowboys were reaching their end, so too were samurai.

Cowboys and Samurai were separated not by time, only space.

shoudesuka-mechadork

I’ve got something else to add to this: there’s also an extremely specific species of mushroom that can only be found in Texas and Japan. I’m serious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorioactis

anybodyandsomebody

The most ambitious crossover

ghost-cassette

Fantasy setting but it’s just Texas and Japan together at last

ladymaplecourt

Mycelial portal between cowboys and samurai

pixie-writes-prose

@britonell your tags I’m dying xD

crackinwise

Shoutout to Nazgul, the 2yo Czechoslovakian wolfdog who ran onto the cross-country skiing course and across the finish line to the crowd's cheers.

No worries: He's a local pet, he's friendly, he didn't interfere with any athletes' results, and he was returned to his owners. Videos at the link. [X]

Nazgul, YOU are an Olympian!

#still my fave memory of the 2026 olympics tbh

khoesib

Not being able to understand all the languages of the world fucks me up. There's so much art by people and while translations are available (sometimes), the contours of the original text will forever be alien to me. Sad.