Anna-wili Highfield, paper sculpture.
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Aimo and Sad Sausage Dogs got a spread in the New Straits Times!
And don’t forget, Page 11 of Fox & Willow is up today! :D
Also, thanks to the kind soul who submitted F&W to Piperka.net!
Ha ha - me and James Marsters at Philly Comic Con. (He’s mugging it up there a bit) ;-)
He was a total sweetheart! :D
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In mythologies where mermaids do get to walk, the cure is often framed as a tragedy because it’s short term, and they’ll have to return to their helpless flippered state at the end of the night, or day, or week. This frames the mermaid’s own body as a problem; it’s the body that is the tragedy, because it doesn’t fit on land and doesn’t belong there, and the mermaid must pretend to be something she is not in order to capture her love interest or save the day or whatever she is doing on land. At the same time, her body is an object of mystery and awe because of its alien and unusual nature.
It is rare to see the flip side of the story, with a mermaid’s love interest drawn underwater and tormented by the limitations of a body designed for land. There is some inherent gendering, here. Since mermaid stories are often heterosexual and mermaids are usually female, the love interest is typically male. We do not see men floundering in the ocean or struggling with breathing systems so they can be with their loved ones. Instead, it is the mermaid who must sacrifice to be on land if she wants to pursue her true love.
” —From s.e. smith at This Ain’t Livin’
I have never wanted to write mermaid fic more in my life.
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