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EDIT 9/16: So I read this! And I liked it quite a lot, despite the fact I felt like Maggie really had very little interest in writing IP, due to the fact the ties to the movie canon was extremely loose and I did feel like Elinor's characterization was... interesting. Not bad, just... not conclusions I would come to having seen the film. (...has maggie seen the film?)

re the sexuality of it all: i DID like the het romance, but can not believe I've seen people pretend it's not a het romance because people who are not merida on occasion see Chaos God man as a woman SOMETIMES. that... does not make it queer. i saw a whole argument merida is ""still"" a lesbian because Feradach is non binary and Merida obviously was attracted to her literal foster sister. huh.

it is a hetwashing, but at least it wasn't a bad hetwash. Ah well.

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so either Merida is getting with a man after 10 years of her being read as aromantic/gay orrr (and I suspect this will be the case) she is quietly going to be made canonically wlw in a medium the conservative Disney fanatics won’t actually ever be aware exists. interesting.


I am excited for this book, but theres really no winning re her sexuality (and we’ve already ruled out aromantic courtesy of the summary) and it just feels weird to me to outsource a sequel to an extremely personal story written by a mother about her daughter who got fired mid production and replaced by a dude

but I love Merida! so. here we go.