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Oct. 6th, 2020 09:02 pmLance Bass's Twitter no longer appears to work. Anyone know why? He didn't Tweet a lot but was big with the retweets.
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I don't know if anyone reading this journal is Jewish, but with any luck there will be someone. I have a query, and I really don't know how to search for the answer.
See, last night as I lay abed in my regular insomniac condition, I noticed that in the fic I am painfully prodding towards a close, I have my Christian-background character feeding my Jewish-background character something that includes shrimp.
It's RPF. I'm solidly confident that my character's real life counterpart does not keep kosher, but. I wonder if there is a, what can I call it, a hierarchy of reluctance when it comes to eating things that are on the forbidden list? If a person who happily eats pizza with meat stuff on it would balk at eating, um, crab? If someone might be perfectly happy to eat shrimp but be unable to bring himself to touch ham? If there is any kind of consensus on this sort of thing, or not?
Food is such a cultural and specific matter. I am a Christian-background person (also, English) and I am quite certain there will be all kinds of details that I simply don't know. Plus, it will vary so much. In a different incarnation of this character, I had him decline prunes wrapped in bacon on grounds of Prunes, Ew! and be happy to eat pepperoni on pizza (which, as a double fault, may be at the top of the Do Not Want list?). I just hadn't thought very much about it at that point, beyond thinking—wait, Jewish! and having my Christian-background character be embarrassed about offering him something with bacon.
This time, having thought about it, I am wondering. Hierarchy of reluctance seems like a good way of putting it. Also, I'm interested.
It is RPF, and I have no way of knowing what the person in question actually chooses to eat. I don't mind making wrong choices in my fic, but I would prefer not to make thoughtless choices. So, anyone have any advice?
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I don't know if anyone reading this journal is Jewish, but with any luck there will be someone. I have a query, and I really don't know how to search for the answer.
See, last night as I lay abed in my regular insomniac condition, I noticed that in the fic I am painfully prodding towards a close, I have my Christian-background character feeding my Jewish-background character something that includes shrimp.
It's RPF. I'm solidly confident that my character's real life counterpart does not keep kosher, but. I wonder if there is a, what can I call it, a hierarchy of reluctance when it comes to eating things that are on the forbidden list? If a person who happily eats pizza with meat stuff on it would balk at eating, um, crab? If someone might be perfectly happy to eat shrimp but be unable to bring himself to touch ham? If there is any kind of consensus on this sort of thing, or not?
Food is such a cultural and specific matter. I am a Christian-background person (also, English) and I am quite certain there will be all kinds of details that I simply don't know. Plus, it will vary so much. In a different incarnation of this character, I had him decline prunes wrapped in bacon on grounds of Prunes, Ew! and be happy to eat pepperoni on pizza (which, as a double fault, may be at the top of the Do Not Want list?). I just hadn't thought very much about it at that point, beyond thinking—wait, Jewish! and having my Christian-background character be embarrassed about offering him something with bacon.
This time, having thought about it, I am wondering. Hierarchy of reluctance seems like a good way of putting it. Also, I'm interested.
It is RPF, and I have no way of knowing what the person in question actually chooses to eat. I don't mind making wrong choices in my fic, but I would prefer not to make thoughtless choices. So, anyone have any advice?