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Hi keziah! Your answer about Jewish folklore inspired me to ask, do you have any book and author recommendations for Jewish folklore collections? And also I'd asked before but I think it's been buried in your inbox lol, but do you have any recs for Jewish children's books for my nephews (they also love supernatural and fantasy themes)? Thank you! -🍒

Oops! I'm sorry I didn't get to your original ask. Things do get buried in there lol.

For Jewish folklore:

Howard Schwartz has several award-winning collections of Jewish folklore, which are a joy to read, including 'Leaves from the Garden of Eden;' 'Elijah's Violin;' 'Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural;' 'Tree of Souls: the Mythology of Judaism;' and so many more. I definitely recommend any of those works.

Yiddish Folktales - Beatrice Weinreich

Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories - Shalom Aleichem

Jewish Legends of the Middle Ages - Claud Field

Legends of the Jews - Louis Ginzberg (a collection of Midrash that is so very good)

A Treasury of Jewish Folklore - Nathan Ausubel

Pomegranate Seeds: Latin American Jewish Tales - Nadia Grosser Nagarajan

Jewish Folktales - Pinhas Sadeh

Mimekor Yisrael: Classic Jewish Folktales - Micha Joseph Ben Gorion

For Jewish children's books:

Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins - Eric A. Kimmel (I adore this book)

The Golem's Latkes - Eric A. Kimmel (I also adore this one)

The Magic Dreidels - Eric A. Kimmel

The Adventures of Hershel of Ostropol - retold by Eric A. Kimmel

The Keeping Quilt - Patricia Polacco

The Blessing Cup - Patricia Polacco

The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming - Lemony Snicket

Marven of the Great North Woods - Kathryn Lasky

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fuckyeahanarchistposters

"It's easy to say "violence is never the answer" if you've never had to fight for your life"

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sakana-no-yama

catmask

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

catmask

this also goes for aesthetic or -core titles. 'y2k tank top' is going to get you resellers and fast fashion brands advertising to people looking to meet a current trend. 'thin strap crop tank top' is going to get you a diverse group of results and not upcharge you to hell and back

additionally, shop second hand when you can, second hand and thrift sites typically organize clothes by the cut and color. theyll be more affordable than a depop seller curating you a style to sell you

daftpatience

useful terminology for different kinds of clothing shapes :)

cutabello

here are more terms! these are all from enérie. it is a really good blog that has lots of fashion terminology and it's a good mix of menswear and womenswear! they also have a book as well compiling all their diagrams. you could also look into getting a visual fashion dictionary for terms as well!

sammypog

why is no one talking about the book reunion scene. did you know when grace explains that he’s going to die of starvation, rocky immediately tells him to leave and go back home, that he’ll just keep waiting, that erid might send another ship someday. i’m going crazy. rocky had probably completely accepted his fate and then grace miraculously appeared and gave him back his life and his home. and he was instantly willing to give it all up again just so grace could survive. can anyone hear me. this is insane. i’m insane

crafteeauthor

Imagine Eva Stratt years after sending her favorite guy to boss around to space. Getting the logs and recordings and finding out that her guy made first contact with sapient alien life and it IMMEDIATELY started bossing him around too. Like what if you surrendered your dog and it got adopted by an alien instantly. Happened to my girl Eva Stratt

whiteflwrs

can’t and won’t stop thinking about eva stratt and ryland grace as two sides of the same sacrificial coin: one who offered herself to the cause as the world’s scapegoat and celebrated by no one, and one who is made the lamb without his consent yet celebrated as the savior he never agreed to be.

and it’s exactly in said coin’s nature — two sides always meant to be tied to another, and never meant to face each other again.

your-own-scifi-nerd

Don’t talk to me I’m thinking about the way that Sandra Hüller managed to show how Eva Stratt was begging Grace not to make her force him. Every-time I see the look in her eyes she is screaming and crying and sobbing in her mind please don’t make me force you please let us part on good terms please

briarlovesclara

yes yes stratt is very scary and whatnot but i feel like we are overlooking how intimiadting grace made her too (largely in the book). because you expect the leader of the petrova task force to be cold and ruthless and scary, but then her... assistant? second officer? her guy walks in with her and he's very sweet, personable, and incredibly smart. and there's so much dissonance because you're talking with stratt about the biggest ethical decision of your lifetime and he's, like, annotating papers for her in the background. or you accuse her of being cold and calculated and this ray of sunshine just matter-of-factly goes "yep! she'll do whatever it takes!". and at the end of your meeting, probably the worst day of your life, the dictator of the world who has just calmly convinced you to do some atrocity or another stands up, gestures to him, and they casually walk out together chattering about something else like they've already forgotten you're there. that's so terrifying

sleepdeprivedcinnamonbun

One thing I love in the phm book is when rocky is explaining how old he is and how long he's been in space for and while being amazed grace is also like "wait so this is EARTH units right like you're literally 291 EARTH YEARS old?!" and rocky's just casually like yeah you're shit at maths so I convert everything to your weird units now you're welcome

hedgehogofvictory

another thing i appreciate about project hail mary the book is that the happy ending in still under construction. and complicated. I loved the film, but the book doesn't give us a magic perfect human habitat and i LIKE that.

Grace only recently got food that tastes okay. the dome is as comfortable as the eridians could make it, but its not a hyper-realistic recreation of earth. the gravity of Erid hurts grace. there's still a literal wall between him and the people (person) he cares about.

when the question of whether grace wants to go back to earth comes up, its not as simple as 'do you want to stay here with your best friend rocky?' its also "how long can your body handle this?" and "how long will you endure it?" and "do you ever want to have arms around you again?"

brothermouse-skeleton

Rocky: we built our spaceship by unifying every mind on the planet to create a super hive mind, pooling out collective knowledge and problem solving skills to come up with a plan.

Grace: we gave the scariest woman I've ever met two coffees every morning, an unlimited budget, and enough legal immunity to cuss out any world leaders she wanted to and boy did she want to.