Victoria Don is a freelance writer living in Los Angeles. She is currently working on a young adult adventure novel featuring Asian American protagonists, wolves, boarding school, freeways, the desert, hereditary magic, underground murder syndicates, complicated family dynamics, and that weird dead LA light.
Previous Femslash Friday posts can be found here. This Femslash Friday is brought to you by Hans Christian Andersen. Yes, that’s right, Hans Christian Andersen, of such straight friendzone classics as “The Little Mermaid” and ladies-be-frail stories like “The Princess and the Pea.” Allow me to bring your attention to his work “The Snow Queen: A Tale in Seven Stories” -- or, as I like to think of it, “A Tale in Six Stories…
You are poor now. So very poor. You have left London and can now only afford a large house in the countryside, a rambling garden, and three (yes, only three) servants. Understandably, the degradation of this crushing poverty is very difficult for your dear Mother, but she bears it nobly. You have between two and four English siblings with whom you get into jolly and/or dreadful scrapes. They all love eating buns. Like seriously you…
