Queerly Beloved

A kind soul on Tumblr has offered to buy folks copies of shiraglassman's books! Folks who have been here a while may remember my June giveaway of Knit One, Girl Two, Shira's incredibly popular (and super-duper adorable) contemporary romance between two Jewish women; now you have a chance to get not only a free copy of that, but of everything else in Shira Glassman's catalogue!

If you want to know about any of her titles, just comment here and I can gush at you for a while 😉 Her most recent release is "Gifts of Spring", a short romance between a trans woman mage and a Jewish acrobat, previously available in (IIRC) the Queerly Loving anthology.

Check out the details right over here. If you have any trouble requesting things from that generous soul, let me know and I'll do my best to help get things sorted!

Hi, everyone! I know it's been quiet around here, so I wanted to drop a quick reminder that the first official Queerly Beloved giveaway will be ending tomorrow, when I will draw the winners. Be sure to check out this post for more details, and links to sign up to win a $25 NerdyKeppie gift card, a copy of No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll, or a copy of Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman!

(Special note: Currently, every single person who has entered the K1G2 giveaway is set to win a copy. Yes, there are six people who entered. Yes, this means every single one of them. If up to another, say, five people or so were also to enter, it is entirely likely [read: 100% guaranteed] that I would also buy them a copy. Yes, this is more than I originally said I would give away. One of the reasons I've been busy is extra hours at work, which means I'll also have some extra money to do whatever the heck I want with, and that means possibly giving out more copies of this delightful short story, should anyone prove interested. Just thought I'd mention it.)

I'd also like to mention that the Pride Fanworks Prompt Fest is still going, and there's some really fun prompts and fills available to check out!

Thanks everyone for sticking with this community, and I look forward to notifying the winners of the drawings tomorrow!

To enter to win a copy of Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman, read the rules in the Announcement and FAQ post, then leave a comment in this post!

Summary:

Small-batch independent yarn dyer Clara Ziegler is eager to brainstorm new color combinations--if only she could come up with ideas she likes as much as last time! When she sees Danielle Solomon's paintings of Florida wildlife by chance at a neighborhood gallery, she finds her source of inspiration. Outspoken, passionate, and complicated, Danielle herself soon proves even more captivating than her artwork...

Fluffy Jewish f/f contemporary set in the author's childhood home of South Florida.

To enter the other giveaways, go to these posts:
* NerdyKeppie Gift Card
* No Man of Woman Born

If you have any questions or comments that are not related to entering the contest, please leave them in the Announcement and FAQ post. Thank you!

Edit 6/21/19: The winners of this drawing have been chosen; thank you to everyone who entered, and I hope everyone enjoys the story!

To enter to win a $25 USD gift card to NerdyKeppie, read the rules in the Announcement and FAQ post, then leave a comment in this post!

From the About Us section of NerdyKeppie (Note: The creator who is not Steve now goes by Spider, rather than the name listed in this section of the shop)

If you can't buy it, start making it yourself!

Because we couldn't find the colors and variants of Pride or nerdy kippot that our family wanted, Mandy started making kippot for family members. They focused on making these items sturdy, because a lot of the people they were making them for were very active and we needed them to hold up to everyday wear and tear! This ethos holds true for everything we make - we want our clothing to be ethically sourced, well-made, and as affordable as possible for our community.

When people started asking where they could get these items, the obvious answer was to hang out a shingle and open our shop. 'Keppie' is 'head' in Yiddish, and with my focus on geeky and nerdy items, it was a pretty straightforward name. Everything in here comes from our nerdy heads.

This shop is run by a Jewish family outside of Philly. We hope you'll enjoy what we come up with!

To enter the other giveaways, go to these posts:
* No Man of Woman Born
* Knit One, Girl Two

If you have any questions or comments that are not related to entering the contest, please leave them in the Announcement and FAQ post. Thank you!


Edit 6/6/19: The NerdyKeppie team is also doing a gift card giveaway! Anyone who enters the giveaway here on Queerly Beloved is welcome to enter vaspider's as well, but if you happen to win both gift cards, I'd like to give such a winner a $10 gift card instead and draw a second winner for Queerly Beloved and offer them a $20 gift card. I hope that sounds reasonable.

Edit 2 6/21/19: The winner for this giveaway has been chosen! Thank you to everyone who entered, and I really hope to be able to give out more gift cards in the future!

Phew, okay! I've got our community tags up. Or, well, as many as I can think of, at any rate. I'm sure there's a bunch I missed, and fandom tags in particular I'll have to add as we go.

Anyone who wants to is welcome to look over the tag list and request that I add something to it, especially if it's something I missed. This was just everything I could come up with off the top of my head, and while it covers a lot of stuff, I know I'm not perfect and didn't think of everything or everyone. Please also let me know if you spot any spelling mistakes or typos; I'm still not entirely used to the keyboard on my new laptop, which will account for some slipups, but definitely not all of them.

Let's see here, what else. Oh! CW is short for Content Warning, and warns for types of content that people might not want to deal with or, in the case of NSFW (literally: Not Safe For Work), is the type of thing they might get in trouble for having a record of on a work computer. Media is for reviews and shoutouts about various forms of media that have representation of us, good and bad. Everything else should be fairly self-explanatory, I think.

Since Dreamwidth has a tag limit of 1000 for free accounts (1500 for paid, 2000 for premium paid), there may come a time when I have to combine some lesser-used tags in order to preserve some more-used tags. We've still got close to 900 tags to go before reaching the free account limit, though, so I'm pretty sure we'll be okay for a while.

Thanks to everyone who's joined so far, and if you have any feedback, I would be very interested in it!

Edit: It looks like I have tags hidden somehow at the moment? Lemme go take a look around, see how I need to fix that.

Edit 2: Apparently all unused tags were marked as "private" in the tag management thing. There's probably a better way to fix that, but it's late and I'm tired, so my current workaround is: Literally tag this post with every single tag available. (For the record, I tried doing that and then untagging everything, but the tags went right back to being private, so that shortcut is a no-go.)