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This is belated Purimgifts letter! Apologies to whoever is writing for me -- I didn't expect sign-ups to go out so fast, but I am so glad you signed up to write a thing for me and I am really looking forward to whatever you come up with. :D

(A note: I am Jewish! And a woman! But I have never, personally, been persecuted by an evil vizier.)

Things I love generally: women and interesting interactions of all kinds between women, ensemble stories, sibling dynamics, weird crossovers generally and weird Purim crossovers in specific!

A few Purim-specific notes on each of these fandoms ( are under the cut )

I have to take a moment to do what I meant to do last week and glee out about my PURIMGIFT FIC! Because the glorious nextian wrote me glorious A:TLA/BACCANO CROSSOVER FIC featuring SOKKA and TOPH and ISAAC and MIRIA and it is basically the best thing in the world, and if you doubt me you should be able to tell by the titles:

Toph Bei Fong Overcomes Her Initial Misgivings To Discover Newer, Fresher Misgivings Beneath Them

Isaac and Miria Involuntarily Spread Dissension Between Two People Who Sorely Need It

Sokka Explains Things Discreetly, And Against All Odds Nothing Explodes

So basically Emma wins everything in the universe. To everyone else in the universe: sorry, better luck next time?

Purimgifts reveals also means that I can take some time to talk about Fiddler on the Roof, which I watched in order to write my Purimfic (which for the record was Chava and Hodel for opalmatrix, about sisters postcanon) and which I ended up with a surprising number of feelings about on the rewatch.

First of all: so Fiddler on the Roof is basically the Russian Jewish Pride and Prejudice AU, right? You have a not-very-well-off couple, and they have five daughters, and one of them turns down the well-to-do guy that their mom would really like them to marry, and one of them runs off with a slightly shady fellow who is not exactly on the right side of the law . . .

(Okay, so Perchik is a much better dude and definitely a more likeable guy than Wickham, but the fact remains that I think not being totally happy about your daughter running off with a baby Communist organizer who's being sent to Siberia for the foreseeable future is a PRETTY REASONABLE attitude for a parent to have.)

I also remember really shipping Chava and Fyedka as a little kid, because he hits on her BECAUSE SHE LIKES BOOKS and, you know, well. As an adult, rewatching, I can see a lot more of Fyedka's privilege -- man, a Jewish lady not wanting to hang out with a Russian dude is not the same thing as a bunch of dudes harassing a Jewish lady -- but I still have to admit I ship them because, well, books, and also, man, they're both so clueless and somehow that's really sweet?. They've read so many books, so they're like "WE'RE GONNA ELOPE *__* IT'S SO ROMANTIC *___* SURELY ONCE THEY SEE OUR LOVE THEY WILL UNDERSTAND!" and then once the Russians do some bad stuff they're like "WE ~CAN'T LIVE~ IN A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE ARE SO CRUEL, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE AWAY IN A ~NOBLE SHOW OF SOLIDARITY.~" Spoiler alert, kids: people are not going to be better people in Krakow than they are in Anatevka. But it's adorable that you think they might be!

Also in the movie I just really like Tzeitel and Chava's faces.



Tzeitel looks so sensible! Chava looks like SUCH A BABY! Hodel in the movie is super pretty, but she looks like a movie actress. Tzeitel and Chava look like, you know, my cousins.