FFT: Bonus Essays--Witches Past and Present Part IWalker misquotes, misattributes, distorts and outright lies about history, witches, Hinduism, Salic Law, Christianity, the Hebrew language, Paracelsus and the Scottish play, and babbles at length about a Neolithic Utopia that never was ( Read more... )

FFT: Bonus Essays--Beauty (2015) Part II

In which Walker hates on cosmetics, women in sci-fi movies, Rosie the Riveter, marriage, women’s magazines, and culturally diverse standards of beauty, we take note of sexism, racism and plagiarism, and Magic the Sporkers’ Cat gets a cameo.

Bonus Essays--Beauty (2015) Part IIn which Walker takes on patriarchal attitudes about sex, marriage and women working that seem to have more in common with the 1970s than now, patriarchal fashions that don’t exist any longer, and why high heels are totally the Western equivalent of footbinding ( Read more... )

FFT: Blurb

In which the blurb describes a great fairy tale anthology filled with active, intelligent, independent female characters...which is unfortunately the exact opposite of what we just finished reading.

Next up: the first of four bonus essays. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

FFT: Chapter 28--The White GodThe last story in the book, featuring three characters posing as African goddesses, an Africa containing talking endangered animals but no black people, ableism toward the mentally ill, and a divinely planned Utopia favoring bullying, a breeding program that has more than a little in common with eugenics, and mind ( Read more... )

FFT: Chapter 27 Part II--How the Gods Met Their End

In which Loki--pardon me, LOWKEY--invades the Garden of Eden and physical immortality ends, but not to worry, because ciswomen can still have babies!

Also: apples. So many apples.

warning: do not want, warning: potential triggers, warning: rape (mentioned), warning: sexism, warning: snakes

FFT: Chapter 27--How the Gods Met Their End (Part I)In which the greatest magical power ever involves giving birth; it’s ethical for a man to murder a woman if it helps a guy achieve what he wants; labor pains are faked to get attention; and laughing at babies that are physically different is perfectly acceptable. Also, Loki-as you’ve never seen ( Read more... )

FFT: Chapter 26--Fairy Gold

A young man is emotionally enslaved to the vampiric statue of an ancient goddess. The author doesn’t see this as a problem.

warning: death/possible death, warning: do not want, warning: nsfw art, warning: potential triggers

FFT: Chapter 25--The Three Little PinksIn which three vindictive fairies are substituted for three little pigs, threatening and endangering the life of someone you’re arguing with are fine, upstanding things to do, and Zelda, Ket and I fervently root for the wolf ( Read more... )

FFT: Chapter 24--The Empress's New Clothes

In which Walker epicly misses the point of the original story, making the rewrite all about sin, ethics, and humiliated women being jolly good sports to the people who shamed them.

warning: abuse (emotional), warning: do not want, warning: nsfw art, warning: potential triggers