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Look, everybody! Look at the lovely fic that thetreesgrowodd wrote for me!

Sea Change

I've long had thinky thoughts about The Little Mermaid, in its various variations. It's sometimes decried as a story of a girl willing to change everything about herself in order to pursue a man--but the Disney version emphasizes Ariel's fascination with and longing for things land-bound before she ever meets Eric. What if Ariel wanted legs not primarily to run after Eric with, but because legs felt more natural to her? What, in other words, if you read Ariel as trans?

So I asked on disney_kink for trans Ariel, and thetreesgrowodd delivered, with a sweet and melancholy story that incorporates details from the fairy tale and Disney movie in unexpected ways. I think Hans Christian Andersen might have liked it.