I'll do the The Frog Prince for my smutty fairytale. It'll be perfect! She's such a brat and he takes so much crap from her in the beginning. Now, should she be black? I could set it in slightly more modern times too or would that take it too far from the original?

So I'm reading this thread and one of the biggest chestnuts of race/cultural/appropriation/gender/sexual orientation wanks falls out midway through a bunch of unrelated silliness. And I could have been...are some more obscure Grimm's Fairy Tales that I think I could spice up. This is the smuttiest thing I've ever posted for public consumption. Think there's enough pron to meet their guidelines

So I'm meant to be pitching 4-5 one sentence column ideas to Fantasy magazine this week. You know my brain is too full so I need some help cutting my list down to that 4-5 ideas. Here's what I've come...and that feature protagonists other than the standard het white male or female. But condensing that down to a one sentence pitch and not having it sound like a panel topic for Wiscon is eluding me

Following karnythia 's, delux_viven 's and thewayoftheid 's examples, I wanted to do my part in combatting RaceFail 2.0. While reading the latest episode, I was reminded of the...at some flash fiction) and I hope a lot of you do too. Separately, I need prompts. Please to be giving them to me. I have a couple of things in mind, but I'm thinking I want to post a lot that day

Is this romance novel worse than this one ? Inquiring minds would like to know. Okay, really Inquiring minds would just like to share the hilariously awful purple prose, but I am also curious as to which one my audience considers the worst specimen of Romantica.

I've been having a bunch of snarky fandom fun tonight discussing the lack of casting of actors of color as characters in things that specifically delineate race. Sometimes when you're discussing representation...thing this piece has to a white character is the folks that pop up in comments. Is it really necessary to see someone white to connect with a story about POC or is that just America reinforcing racism

Hey you guys...should I submit something? It would be my first bit of original fiction that I submitted for publication and I'd be poking at a couple of you for feedback.