Hello! Circe by Madeline Miller, a Greek myth retelling that puts Circe (the witch from The Odyssey who turns men into pigs) front and centre in her own story Very weird having recently watched Kaos on Netflix and seen Hadestown in the West End, so many different versions of the same material
If you’re in the UK, trans and your GP has refused you adequate care around your hormones get in touch with Dr Tlaleng at the UN who is collecting evidence for show down with the government in December. Under Special procedures spsubmission.ohchr.org
Hello! Several years later than everyone else, I am reading A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
Everybody I know has been fairly blindsided by this, so maybe this is going to ring hollow, but I want trans women entering SFF to know that lots of us are in camp "fuck off, terfs." The transphobes don't speak for us.
Hello! Just started Countess by Suzan Palumbo, an anti colonial space opera riff on Count of Monte Cristo
Hello! Just finished The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach (which was interesting but had a lot of dangling plot threads) Just started The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu
Of course this used to be the usual thing, to remix stories, and therefore the idea of submissiveness and defensiveness didn't apply More like cookery, you're not aiming to make the first lasagna but to make your own lasagna
But on the other hand fanfic is written in a specific cultural moment and responding often to lacunae in the culturally dominant narrative (writing the gaps/healing the wounds) and as you say is explicitly extracommercial and outside of the concept of ownership 2/2