Meredith Rose Schorr

used to be @rosemerediths but got locked out of my account. kidlit, disability studies, fiction, your friend and mine. she/her

[Meredith Rose Schorr @rosesmeredith]

@the_z_part self-promo: forgiveness, fall setting, disability, frum character/queer characters, contemporary fantasy, short story! https://t.co/InmplQ4jVm

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and i am writing a YA retelling of the snow queen and longer wild swans novella. lots of disability in that too! come talk to me about fairy tale retellings and all kinds of things!

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https://t.co/jKfT2Qaq5H happy disability visibility month, i am a disabled author who writes disabled fantasy, like this wild swans retelling in which there is chronic illness but the wing is not a metaphor (art by @catpotion)

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https://t.co/YlZac5g0x9 also you can find my flash piece Port of Call in the complete collection of helios quarterly, which is about living in a giant robot that's falling apart (but in this one it...IS a metaphor?)

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what better time to enjoy this sukkot story than right after purim. curl up with a citrus-y or otherwise hamantaschen of your choosing. elisa's favorite is poppyseed

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belated thank you for the shout-out, @BookishlyJewish is doing wonderful work, please check out all the other stories on this list as well, there is great stuff there! (direct link to mine: https://t.co/p5Alt57bm3)

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would like to again register my interest in writing a jewish remixed classics

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mary and allison are funny and charming hosts with a great rapport and i'm learning a lot. i'd like to cheerfully volunteer myself should they ever need resources about chronic illness/disability in children's fiction

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in light of the new round of talking about american girl on twitter i wanted to publicly rec @DollsLivesPod which i have been listening to since the round of talking about american girl on twitter before this, if you love history, kidlit, grew up with the dolls or didn't.

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i've always sort of joked "wow, wonder if this guy would hate that i'm writing jewish retellings of his fairy tales", but that was based on a (perhaps reasonable) assumption. sometimes the truth is lovelier and sadder and kinder, and more surprising.

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since this is at the moment an account apparently about HCA related things, here is some obscure information i didn't know about until recently: the story of hans christian andersen and the melchior family.

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presumably, he participated in or witnessed the jewish aspects of their lives. from reading what they wrote, and looking at photos and drawings of them, the deep affection is really clear.

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the wild swans is my favorite western fairytale because it’s not just about the lengths that someone will go to for love—it’s also about how sometimes being unable to do everything you set out to do for the ones you care about most is itself proof of love

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hans christian andersen’s the wild swans is a story about a princess who has to weave 11 shirts out of flax to rescue her brothers from a curse. plot circumstances render her unable to finish all 11 in time so her last brother is left with one swan’s wing

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i will even add a fun fact to this rt. do you know about leucistic swans? this is a rare condition when a swan is white instead of gray as a little baby, and has yellow instead of dark legs and feet as an adult. nicholas, our swan brother in question here, is leucistic. 💛✨

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good morning! it's a perfect day to read my jewish, chronically ill retelling of the wild swans and tell your friends, loved ones, and bird brothers about it

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if you are interested in fairy tale retellings, brothers and sisters who are friends, chronic illness, sukkot, snacks, dealing with the guilt of giving your beloved sibling a wing for an arm, or any and all of these, I have a story you might enjoy! https://t.co/p5Alt57bm3