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So, Pixar’s Brave.

Opinion has been divided on the issue: Either it’s going to be awesome and the art looks awesome and Merida is kickass and awesome, or it’s troubling that the only story about a girl that’s worth telling is the one where she wants to do boy stuff.

I am mostly in the first camp. Mostly because the art actually does look awesome. (Seriously, you had me at promotional tapestries.) Also, I love stories about princesses with swords (or in this case, bows and arrows) and always have; I will eat that shit with a spoon. (Also, it’s not like there aren’t a ton of Disney movies about a girl who does want to marry the prince and does marry the prince. Which is great and I love many of those too.)

But, well—why is it that “plucky girl defies her parents and rejects all suitors in order to become a warrior” is inherently interesting, and “plucky girl defies her parents and rejects all suitors in order to become a nun” is not? I guarantee you the second one has been a lot more common throughout history, in any culture where “nun” or some equivalent was a thing.

Partially I think it’s a discomfort with religion, or an inability to tell stories about religion without being evangelical, which is kind of silly—I read stories about violent people all the time while not being violent myself, why should I have to be religious in order to read about religious people?

(Disclaimer: I am religious. But there have never been Jewish nuns.)

But it’s also—if you want to tell a story about nuns, people will say, “Okay, but why should I read this? What makes it interesting?” Whereas if people are hitting each other with swords, you don’t have to ask; of course that’s interesting. (People kissing is also interesting, in the junior leagues of interesting that include “interesting to girls”.)

I dunno, maybe I should go read some literary fiction or something. But … most of it’s not very interesting?

So I'm looking through the list of yuletide fandoms, and one of them is Beauty and the Beast (the Disney movie). Well, okay. It seems the requester only requested two characters: the Beast, and Gaston. Now, as far as I know, I am the only person on the internet to have written Beast/Gaston--I'm certainly the only person on AO3 to have done so.

I'm choosing to believe--and it doesn't seem that far-fetched--that this person is a fan of mine, and in fact liked A Different Story so much that they used one of their yuletide nominations in hopes of getting more like it (though not necessarily from me, obviously).

Score! If you're reading this, random internet person, thank you! You have warmed the cockles of my heart!

Blues

Fandom: Disney, The Little Mermaid/The Princess and the Frog

Pairing: Ariel/Tiana

Rating: G

Word Count: 200

Summary: Sometimes Ariel misses home. A quick follow-up to Heart's Desire.

This one's for: lonespark

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Note: The song Ariel and Tiana are singing is Bad Land Blues, by Lillyn Brown.

Something else I posted to disney_kink a while back.

Love Me and Despair

Fandom: Disney, Aladdin

Pairing: Jasmine/Genie

Rating: R

Word count: 1000

Summary: A lamp. Dented, tarnished, cheap-looking. Warm, humming with power. Jasmine could have licked it—but she had been led to understand a gentle rub would be enough.

Jafar seized power in Agrabah and married Jasmine with the help of the Genie of the lamp. Now Jasmine has her hands on the lamp, and is ready to make some wishes.

This one's for: afterandalasia, who asked for dark!Jasmine. It was first posted on disney_kink

Warnings: Second-hand descriptions of gruesome revenge, implied background rape, general wrongness.

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Anima

Fandom: Disney, Aladdin

Pairing: Jafar/Aladdin

Rating: NC-17

Summary: Follow-up to imaginary_golux's excellent story Jafar's Boy on disney_kink. What if, instead of abandoning Aladdin in the Cave of Wonders, Jafar had decided to keep him?

Warning: Rape.

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