[ SECRET POST #5634 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5634 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. The King Arthur stories before this are a LOT of dudes, sometimes being noble, sometimes behaving badly. This centered the stories of the women and their humanity and flaws with as much meticulous detail as all of the knights.

There's been more and better written since, but this was early and a lot of modern stuff stands on its shoulders.

MZB was awful, but this book was still important. (Her Free Amazons stories are absolutely part of the lesbian separatist movement and hinge on anatomical essentialism, and I side-eye women who stan her in this decade VERY hard.)

[(Anonymous)]

You're absolutely right about the Free Amazon stories being all that! But at the same time, it was my very first encounter queer protagonists in fantasy and I think the second or third encounter with queer protagonists in a book in general... so they were extremely formative for baby queer me. Much as I wince a lot at them now.