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I have $5 I’m willing to chip in for an author, if anyone wants to start a crowd fund?
Hell, make it $50. It’ll have to wait until payday though…
I would read the shit out of this.
lmk if you find an author, id read it
I doubt she’s in need of commissions, but Charlie Jane Anders could write the hell out of that premise.
Eh, I’ve had ideas in my head similar to this, percolating around.
I’ve done retelling of Cinderella through trans lensing as a bedtime story, and have kinda sketched it out for eventual writing down in detail, but I’ve got three projects ahead of it that are going really slow because that’s how I write: slooooooow.
This specific idea is a good one, but I think it would work best as a short story rather than a longer form. Maybe novella length at most. I can kinda see the layout of the story, and without a very clear vision of what happens after they’ve stepped into their prophecized role, it would fall apart past that point.
So it would be best served as a story with an open ended finish rather than a conclusion. That’s not something that satisfies most readers. They don’t think “and Rebecca walked out the castle gate, sword in hand” is an ending. But that’s what the natural ending of this idea is. Once the girl is her full self, it’s just another fantasy trope unless you’re really careful, and even then wouldn’t sustain very well without some serious passion on the part of the author.
Came for the recs, stayed because $50 is $50.
The Desert Prince by Peter V Brett.
Intersex (and gender fluid) but same deal.
I want to read that book.
In the Supergirl tv show, there’s a hero called Dreamer. Basically, the powers are passed down from mother to daughter, and while everyone accepts Dreamer as a girl, they’re surprised when she inherits the powers and not her sister.
I think there is a villain in the Flash series that’s played by a trans women and (iirc) she has gender bending powers
This is, in the vaguest sense, similar to how Dreamer worked in the Supergirl show, just with less acceptance by her family. Not familiar enough with the character to know if that’s true outside of the show as well.
And yet transphobes can write about witches, with unfortunately great success.
and add a little anti-semetism and racism into mix in her books.
honestly it’s kinda fitting. if witches were real you just know that harry potter would be a total bastardization of their culture and practices
just like all the real cultures depicted in harry potter as total bastardizations
Opposite story, parents stressed out about a prophesy/curse that will kill their daughter at her 16th birthday, and he comes out as trans and the parents are relieved.
He comes out at his 16th birthday
Daughter: Mom, Dad. I’m… I’m a girl.
Dad: MOTHERFUCKING FAIRIES! Not you honey, sorry I didn’t mean to yell. You’ve done nothing wrong.
“You were a fool to challenge me. No mortal man may do me harm.”
stabbing my thigh with Estradiol “I. AM. NO. MAN!”
transing my gender back and forth like ikaruga to bypass the final boss’s multiple layers of mortal-man-proof and mortal-woman-proof armor
In The Invisibles Lord Fanny is brought up as a girl because he’s meant to be the next in a long line of witches.
Soa similar idea, but reversed?
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I, too, have seen Kaos
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Was about to mention it. What a shame it was canceled.
We’re cooked chat.
This sound like some Margaret Killjoy level stuff.
The Buffy reboot should do something like this with a character. That’d be nice
I thought one of the twins in the comics was male …
Yes, Fray’s brother was male, and split the Slayer ability suite with her.
Bridget in Guilty Gear XX
