Author's Notes: Puss's Boots
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Puss's Boots. This story is over ten years old, over 475 years old, and over thirty years old. As a child, I fell in love with a picture book of Puss-in-Boots; I loved the simple, colourful, elegant faux-Medieval art designs even more than the story. Years later, I studied history thrive fashion, and this one book still lives with me. I wrote this story three times; it was my first original fairytale, and my first original queer story.
Now, it has been rewritten to the form that now next represents all the fairytales that have come after it. In many ways, this story is a bridge between my Queering Fairytales series and my Fairytales in Space series; the characters are aspects of the ones thar would later go into space and makeAlicante and Zero their home, but it's heart is the more traditional Fairytale.
This story has the usual queer twist that all of my stores do, but there is also a bit of a twist in this story. I will credit you in the comments of chapter seven if you guess it correctly here.
About the Creator
Dionearia Red
Fairytales and poems are some the first pieces of literature and have been reimagined countless times. Here they will be retold again, but our versions all have a queer identity at their heart and, of course, end with 'Happily Ever After'
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I really liked the way you framed this as something that’s simultaneously ancient, personal, and still evolving — that line about it being ten years old, 475 years old, and thirty years old at once stuck with me. It feels like you’re tracing how stories don’t just get rewritten, they age alongside us, picking up new meanings as we do. The idea of this being a bridge between your queered fairytales and the ones that eventually go to space is especially intriguing; it makes it feel less like separate projects and more like one long conversation you’ve been having with yourself through fiction. I’m curious what it felt like emotionally to come back to your first original queer fairytale after so many other stories — did it feel like meeting an old version of yourself, or like discovering something new hiding in plain sight?