Tag: Theme: Jewish Faith & Identity
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Fear and Anger
Category: Gen, Character: Aoife Harkin, Character: Doctor Ephraim Margolis, Character: Ollie Whipp, Rating: M, Setting: Caer Afon Magical Hospital, Theme: Family Dynamics, Theme: Jewish Faith & Identity, Theme: Medicine & Nursing & Midwifery, Theme: Sexual Health & Midwifery, Theme: Vampires & Vampirism, World: Magic Beholden
Modern fantasy short. A vampire comes into the GUM clinic with symptoms of syphilis. Photo by Artem Podrez via Pexels. Rated M, 5.5k. Aoife Harkin meets a vampire at the Caer Afon GUM clinic who’s certain he can’t contract STIs. Also featuring Ephraim Margolis. Lots of descriptions of genitalia, including a lesion on the penis, and…
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Cold Comfort
Category: M/M, Kink: Knifeplay, Setting: 1920s, Setting: New Jersey, Setting: USA, Theme: Antisemitism, Theme: Class & Caste Differences, Theme: Crime & Criminals, Theme: Crises of Faith & Belief, Theme: Faith & Religion, Theme: Homophobia, Theme: Immigrants & Immigration, Theme: Incarceration & Imprisonment, Theme: Intersex People & Intersex Bodies, Theme: Jewish Faith & Identity, Theme: Jewish Religion & Mythology, Theme: Mental Illness, Theme: Organised Crime & The Mob, Theme: Power Struggles, Theme: Queer Community, Theme: Servants & Service, Theme: Sex & Sexuality, Theme: Sexual Abuse & Rape, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery, Theme: Violence & Killing, World: Magic BeholdenQueer fiction. A mob boss takes in a rival’s hostage, and tries to keep him from suicide. Photo by cottonbro studio via Pexels. 14k, M/M, rated E for equally explicit sex and violence. Set in 1920s New Jersey. Nasty and violent. Alvis Hunter, boss of a significant crime operation, steals a captive out from under a rival—Naham,…
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Yentl: A Trans Man Studying Talmud is Distracted by Gay Thoughts
Yentl (1983, dir. Barbra Streisand) and Yentl the Yeshiva Boy by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Any of us would be distracted from study by Mandy Patinkin. Via IMDb. It’s a sad thing, hearing cisgender people talk about Yentl — especially the short story — and think they understand it, that they’re getting everything from it, while at the same time, they can’t…
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Perfect Model
Category: M/M, Kink: Age Gap / Age Difference, Kink: Teasing, Rating: M, Theme: Art & Architecture, Theme: Artists & Designers, Theme: Banter & Flirtation, Theme: Cats, Theme: Jewish Faith & Identity, Theme: Jews & Judaism, Theme: Men Who Love Men | Homosexuality, Theme: Yiddish & Ladino & Jewish Languages, World: Magic BeholdenSlice-of-life short. A young man models for a favourite painter of his. 1.7k, just some slice-of-life and bickering between a painter and his model — some teasing and flirtation and some one-sided yearning and unrequited lust on the model’s part, with some feline mischief and some Yiddish too. “Ah, Dorian, you perfect Adonis!” said Mr Bichler, beaming, and…
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For Want Of Time
Category: M/M, Rating: T, Setting: Camelot, Theme: Banter & Flirtation, Theme: Clockwork & Horology, Theme: Family Dynamics, Theme: Golems & Animated Constructs, Theme: Grief & Loss, Theme: Jewish Faith & Identity, Theme: Jews & Judaism, Theme: Messengers & Postmen, Theme: Toys & Collectibles, World: Magic BeholdenFantasy/Romance short. A delivery man is quite infatuated with the clerk at a magical toy shop. Sweet and loving M/M romance developing bit by bit here. Rated T, 6k, with teasing and flirtation throughout. Adapted from a TweetFic. CW for loss of a parent and grief. Alec took shipments into the same toyshop each week, usually…