FFT: Chapter 21 Part II--The Littlest MermaidIn which Littlest the Mermaid demands that Prince Aquam marry her in a very; Aquam is the very picture of privilege and entitlement; Aquam’s mom suggests that Aquam take advantage of Littlest’s naivete; and Aquam’s betrothed does her level best to escape from this story (and Walker’s ethnic slurs) as ( Read more... )

FFT: Chapter 21 Part I--The Littlest Mermaid

In which Ariel’s Expy is a saboteur, a stalker, and a sexual assault victim, and Walker ramps up the violence and the ableism for no reason at all.

FFT: Chapter 20 Part II--How the Sexes Were SeparatedThe supposedly benevolent Great Mother continues to sit back and do nothing while her favorite race, the humans, gets tortured physically, emotionally and spiritually by the evil Sky Father; LGBTQ people continue to be erased from a story where they appeared; Walker expresses the homophobic rape ( Read more... )

FFT: Chapter 20 Part I--How the Sexes Were SeparatedIn which Walker turns Atheist Jack Chick as she re-tells a story by Plato, tosses in a Mother Goddess, removes the canonical male/male and female/female pairings, and blends Zeus with Yahweh so that she can rant about the awful abusiveness of the Judeo-Christian god-while simultaneously ( Read more... )

FFT: Chapter 19--Little White Riding Hood

In which wolves are fluffy and harmless, men have hair-trigger tempers and are, if developmentally disabled, violent pedophiles, and blood and gore solve everything. Also, there are many pictures of adorable animals. Other than that...at least it’s short?

FFT: Chapter 18--The Gargoyle (Part II)In which a woman literally worships a gargoyle for saving her life (not knowing he’s her stalker and that he deliberately endangered her); the author inserts an Authorial Rant similar to those of Jack Chick; the premise of the story is invalidated twice over by actual history; and we are both hit by the author ( Read more... )

FFT: Chapter 18--The Gargoyle (Part I)In which Walker believes that gargoyles were demon-gods of medieval pagans; obsession with a child, stalking and voyeurism are seen as signs of love; I hae to explain something about the history of fantasy that literally turns my stomach; war, slaughter and decapitation are forms of entertainment; three women ( Read more... )

FFT: Chapter 17--Lily and Rose

Walker’s version of Snow White and Rose Red, if you take out the sisters. And the bear-prince. And the evil dwarf. And the girls’ widowed mother. And the rose trees. But otherwise, it’s completely the same ( Read more... )

FFT: Chapter 16--The OracleIn which Walker writes an atheist Chick Tract where rude, arrogant con artists are the best, people who find meaning in religion are a thousand kinds of wrong, magic is something only gullible people believe in, and actually researching or respecting monotheistic religions is seen as entirely pointless ( Read more... )

FFT: Chapter 15--Prince Gimme and the Fairy of the ForestIn which a prince falls for the Fairy of the Forest, who he’s never met, sets himself up to be kidnapped, and is tormented and terrorized by women and their cats while Zelda, Ket and I try NOT to have meltdowns about the sheer proliferation of mother goddesses and symbolic uteri in this story ( Read more... )