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I revised my lesbian princess adventure comic based on expert advice from my typography tutor. Damn but she knows what she's talking about.
I guess i never really wrote about what my motivations were for making this comic. Basically I wanted to make a queer version of the woman-disguises-herself-as-a-knight-and-has-adventures-and-marries-the-prince trope. I am a huge fan of that trope. When I was in fourth grade I read Tamora Pierce's Alanna series and it was like the most amazing thing ever, my little mind was totally blown. I have a friend who shares my feelings about this stuff and when we meet up we always watch princessy fairy tale movies together and have an awesome time. That was how I discovered Princess Fantaghiro, which is this amazing Italian miniseries about a kick-ass princess who pretends to be a prince in order to duel the prince of a neighboring kingdom for her country's freedom (and then they fall in love!). Mulan is of course another good example. However, it is a total shame that the kind of inherent queerness in this trope is always kind of negated in the end once the girl falls in love, gets married and (in a lot of cases) kind of settles down and doesn't have any more adventures. Also, if we're going to have something as gay as a butch cross-dressing princess why can't she just be gay? I am sure my young self would have loved a story like that, as would my current self. And that is basically what I tried to do with my comic. I left the ending kind of open in case I ever get the urge to do a sequel, because I have the feeling that once they show up at the castle the king is not gonna be so down with their plans, not to mention that Sigrid and Genevieve are still in the process of getting to know each other.
I guess i never really wrote about what my motivations were for making this comic. Basically I wanted to make a queer version of the woman-disguises-herself-as-a-knight-and-has-adventures-and-marries-the-prince trope. I am a huge fan of that trope. When I was in fourth grade I read Tamora Pierce's Alanna series and it was like the most amazing thing ever, my little mind was totally blown. I have a friend who shares my feelings about this stuff and when we meet up we always watch princessy fairy tale movies together and have an awesome time. That was how I discovered Princess Fantaghiro, which is this amazing Italian miniseries about a kick-ass princess who pretends to be a prince in order to duel the prince of a neighboring kingdom for her country's freedom (and then they fall in love!). Mulan is of course another good example. However, it is a total shame that the kind of inherent queerness in this trope is always kind of negated in the end once the girl falls in love, gets married and (in a lot of cases) kind of settles down and doesn't have any more adventures. Also, if we're going to have something as gay as a butch cross-dressing princess why can't she just be gay? I am sure my young self would have loved a story like that, as would my current self. And that is basically what I tried to do with my comic. I left the ending kind of open in case I ever get the urge to do a sequel, because I have the feeling that once they show up at the castle the king is not gonna be so down with their plans, not to mention that Sigrid and Genevieve are still in the process of getting to know each other.
