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Purim’s original queen: How studying the Book of Esther as fan fiction can teach us about the roots of an unruly Jewish festival
Whether thousands of years ago or right now, fans have always created new stories based on familiar characters, weaving their own experience
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I don’t post here much lately because I’m busy, well, doing actual Academic Writing. But I thought y’all might enjoy this piece that I wrote about Purim and Esther/Ishtar and reading the Bible as fan fiction. (This is what my next book is going to be about.)

Happy Purim to all who celebrate!

#purim#book of esther#megillat esther#fanfic
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Jake liked to ride out here with his paints and his brushes, his easel on his back. He'd set up about half a mile down river, usually, but he liked to come up this way sometimes, too. It felt more like home than his apartment, one room over the hardware store in town, dusty books and old photographs, a kitchenette, little notes stuck on random things.

Out here there was honeysuckle and clover and flat grey stones in the riverbed, cold beneath his feet. Out here Jake could forget about all the things he couldn't remember.

He hadn't planned on this, on being out here tonight, but someone had pressed a hand-drawn card into his hands at Finn's night before last, and right after that Tommy had followed him through the parking lot and into his truck, sliding in after him and jerking him off all slow and dirty.

--Georgina Li, "Closer To The Sky," Like They Always Been Free

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#georgina li#closer to the sky#like they always been free#nsfw
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MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant

The centerpiece of River’s performance, and the film, is a campfire scene with Reeves. Scott Favor takes Mike Waters on a road trip (on a stolen motorcycle) to visit Mike’s brother. At night, sitting by a fire they’ve made, they discuss their respective childhoods: “If I had a normal family and a good upbringing, then I would have been a well-adjusted person,” Mike insists. What’s really on his mind: he’s in love with Scott, and he’s terrified of saying so.

 “I only have sex with a guy for money,” a reclining Scott tells him. “Two guys can’t love each other.”

 A miserable Mike says haltingly, “I could love someone even if I, you know, wasn’t paid for it. And I love you, and you don’t pay me.” Curling up in a ball, he tells Scott, “I really want to kiss you, man.” The scene ends with Scott gently holding Mike, stroking his hair.

“This is the best part in the film,” Van Sant said, “and was chosen by River to be his big scene.” At River’s request, Van Sant scheduled it for the last day of shooting. River rewrote it himself, making it more lyrical and making his love for Scott explicit (in Van Sant’s original script, the relationship was more ambiguous).

 “‘I love you, and you don’t have to pay me’—I’m so glad I wrote that line,” River said. “I think that in his private life, Mike was probably a virgin, so he only relates sex with work.” River had spent some time thinking about situational virginity, and the emotional consequences of having sex when you didn’t want to have it.

— Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood he left behind by Gavin Edwards

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