PoC Author: Malinda Lo, Ash

I try to avoid spoilers for books I already know I want to read, and I knew I wanted to read Malinda Lo's Ash the first time I saw it on the shelf at Barnes & Noble. I did read the opening comments of at least two posts that said, "Everyone keeps saying they wish this was longer, and so do I." I'll say that too, and I have some ideas about how it could be longer.

But before I get to that, I will say that I loved this. It's essentially a Cinderella retelling, ( Spoilers )

I did buy the book (yay for multiple Barnes & Noble gift cards!), so if anyone wants to read it, let me know and you can have my copy.

Mike/Kevin Bingo Card

sodamnskippy is playing bingo. It has no rules and no timelines, so I signed up. Part of why I signed up is that I want to write something different, and I want to write something shorter, so I'm also giving myself a self-imposed maximum of 2000 words per story. I don't know when I might write all of these (I already have the beginning of something that will fit one of them, I plotted out a second yesterday and today, and I maybe have an idea for the beginning of a third), but if I write an average of one a month, I'll fill the card by the end of the year. We'll see. I will come back and link stories as I write them.

Regency romance	runaway/street kid	psychic bond
fairytale	wingfic	didn't know they were dating
aliens made them do it	fuck or die	circus

Let's talk about FC as girls. (Plus snippet!)

These are all three different girl worlds.

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I keep wondering what an all girl!FC would be like. On the one hand, I think they'd be a lot like they are now, with their football and eating at Beans & Barley and hanging out. On the other hand, the way boy!FC is coded so masculine makes me think maybe girl!FC would be coded really feminine and all into cute shoes and talking about boys and Grey's Anatomy instead of Lost.

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Girl!Matt is cheerfully bisexual, and Andy has to lie in his bed in the room below hers and listen to her have sex with hot girls and hot boys.

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This one is slightly expanded from the version on Twitter. Also, I decided girl!Matt should be named Maddy. Theodore is Ryan Morgan's son (um, canonically, in case you missed it).


( I want to have Hurley's baby. )