Can you all help me out?

[conuly]

flamingsword asked me if I remembered posting a certain link, and I do, but I haven't tracked it down either. It was a discussion here on DW about how you could make Buttercup in The Princess Bride a more interesting character, with more agency and intelligence than a sack of potatoes* by turning her into a poet.

* This is mean. To potatoes. They might roll down a hill after somebody, but they hardly ever spontaneously dive overboard into eel-infested waters. I don't know what this says about their agency, but I don't wish to insult their intelligence.

Comments

[batwrangler]

As you wish: https://staranise.dreamwidth.org/627145.html

[conuly]

You're a doll, thanks.

[larryhammer]

*thumbs up*

[elainegrey]

I am delighted to have had a chance to read it!

[landofnowhere]

I don't think I'm actually even going to write this, but I've been thinking of the idea of a Princess Bride book fic called "The Bad Parts Version". The premise being that it's a feminist blog explaining that "The Princess Bride" is actually a complex multilayered work with deeper feminist themes that Goldman elided for the story.

(This also interacts with my idea for replacing Buttercup and Westley by the leads in Jane Austen's Persuasion.)