#queen shulamit

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 5, Poll 11

Keyla Detmer vs. Queen Shulamit

Keyla Detmer (Star Trek Discovery)

Queen Shulamit (The Second Mango)

Voting ended onApr 21, 2024

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave and prior here.

Kayla Detmer-Star Trek Discovery

Qualifications:

She was in a space battle which resulted in a severe unspecified injury to her head and left eye. Because of this, she relies on a prosthetic eye and a prosthetic of unknown use on her head. She also suffers from PTSD due to this and other incidents. It is popularly theorized that she is a lesbian, and should be in a relationship with Joann Owosekun, another character.

Propaganda:

She may have very few actual character beats or lines, but she is very cool and very gay! Let's give it up for lesbian spaceship pilots!

Submitted by @convenient-plot-device

Queen Shulamit-The Second Mango

Qualifications:

She has a severe gluten allergy which causes chronic issues. Also she is Very Lesbian

Propaganda:

Disabled Jewish lesbian queen who fights for and gets her happy beginning with her bisexual chef girlfriend in book one. She's genuinely so wonderful <3

[doyouknowthisjewishcharacter]

Do you know this Jewish character?

Queen Shulamit from the Mangoverse (book series)

I know them

I’ve heard of them

I don’t know them

I know them but didn’t know they were Jewish

Voting ended onApr 14, 2024

[shiraglassman]

Queen Shulamit loves solving mysteries and taking care of her subjects, so when beautiful young music star Esther’s violin is stolen after a performance, she jumps at the opportunity to help. But what if dangerous, illegal magic was used to commit the theft?

A Harvest of Ripe Figs is a cozy mystery set in a tropical fairy-tale land, with an all-Jewish cast and happy, stable f/f! This one is heavy on musician characters in the cast, if that’s something that appeals to you. (Book is written by a violinist.)

$4 PDF here, or here’s the Kindle link

Drawing by @theloserfish

[earlgraytay]

This scene is adorable, and Shulamit is just the best. <3  even her anxiety is fluffy kittens. 

[image description: text from climbing the date palm: a labour rights love story.

“Oh, the honeyman! Yes, okay.” Inside Shulamit’s head, an army of kittens were scrambling around, hoping she could fake her way through this. “I love honey with yogurt.”

[cormackncheese-blog]

Rereading Shira Glassman’s Mangoverse books and Shulamit is my beautiful daughter whom I love forever.

(Fun fact: if you go through @shiraglassman’s mangoverse art tag you will find a drawing I did... last year? I can’t remember, but it’s from my main blog, not this one. While my love of Shulamit has not changed my art has. Three cheers for improvement!)

[shiraglassman]

Random Shulamit hair

[shiraglassman]

The queen was seated on velvet cushions beside the spiky-leaved pandanus trees that hung over the river. Several of her ladies-in-waiting lounged around her, but not too close, gossiping quietly. Shulamit herself was not speaking to anyone, but instead stared intently at a book in her lap as she picked at a bowl of fruit resting beside her in the grass.

The ladies-in-waiting all stared at Rivka and whispered to each other as she stalked up between them. “Your Majesty,” said Rivka, bowing deeply. “One of your guards said you sent for me.”

Queen Shulamit busily not fitting in, making friends with her new prospective bodyguard instead in Chapter 2 of The Second Mango. (All-Jewish fantasy fluff, $2.99.) @meirmakesstuff drew this for me for my birthday back in October. Thank you!!

Rivka approached her. “What are you reading?”

She was expecting to hear the name of some traditional love story, or perhaps one of the more exciting, newer tales, and was taken aback when the queen answered, “Canon of Counterfeits.”

“What?”

“It’s about how to tell the difference between counterfeits and real art — gold or something adulterated with another metal — or if someone’s forged an artifact of antiquity. Oh, you can sit down.”

[shiraglassman]

Queen Shulamit has a lot on her mind—just as the High Holidays come to a close, a mysterious pest threatens her country’s crops, and she’s just uncovered evidence that it might be a deliberate plot. More personally, there’s a chance that Carolina, the foreign queen who was her straight crush when they were both teenage princesses, might be involved. Fortunately, her beloved Aviva is there to support her and reassure her that whatever the problem, whatever the solution, whatever the difficulty, she believes in her and will be there for her all the way.

Check out The Olive Conspiracy for fluffy, affirming high fantasy starring mostly queer Jewish women and also a token man who spends much of his screen time as a dragon or lizard, saving their country. $4 pdf here, also on Kindle/paperback. Includes two f/f couples who survive and stay together 🌺 

Art done by the remarkable @karinamorenoart, whose commission page is here