#princess floralinda and the forty-flight tower

[notedchampagne]

i read princess floralinda and the 40 flight tower : first off FUCK THE TUMBLR POST that made me mistakenly believe this book had cannibalism in it. i am mournful to say that it did not.

despite this i enjoyed it a stupid amount and i think its a very entertaining read, especially if you share tazs sense of humor or like the variation in narrative styles throughout tlt. actually i think reading this book made me realize more why she wrote gtn and htn all [gestures] like that... tlt definitely has a larger number of memes but the way princess floralinda is written reminds me a lot of the original character-based humor you can see in gideons speech and just the general situational hilarity of things. i also think her take on a princess story is really delightful and sweet! and i didnt expect that amorphous, ambiguous kind of romance in it. its also very much like tlt in the manner that love is slowly present between the cracks in the story, but with tlt love IS the point of everything while in floralinda the love is a sickly ironic kind of development. it was like if stockholm syndrome was entertaining. A+.

i would recommend this mainly if you 1) liked mercymorn in htn 2) appreciate a good character development coming from a dumb princess, and 3) again, share that similar sense of horrific fucking humor taz has:

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Seven Covers in Seven Days: PRINCESS FLORALINDA AND THE FORTY-FLIGHT TOWER by Tamsyn Muir.

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[meatgoat]

floralinda gave cobweb a 6-month free trial of gender and she came out the other end a lesbian in stem so i think we can call that a win 

[saraquirtle]

The season had dipped into autumn, and the trees in the distance started popping into their Halloween clothes.

Tamsyn Muir, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

[vivaciouscynner]

I know we talk abut The Locked Tomb a lot but

It's one of my favorites from her that will supposedly have a sequel that I'm guessing with begin writing after tlt.

Basically a princess gets locked up in a tower by a witch. The witch put monsters on each floor and the hardest, a big diamond scaled dragon, on the first.

All the princes that came to save her were "crunched up by the dragon" and she left to fend for herself. She eventually teams up with a snarky fairy that had been blown in through the window to defeat the monsters one by one.

Such a good story

[showsandshowtunes]

i mean it when i say that tamsyn muir's prose is unmatched, case in point:

[bannedfrombookclub]

Princess Floralinda and the Forty Flight Tower is a subversive fairy tale retelling by Tamsyn Muir and I had a blast reading it.

For Locked Tomb fans you have Muir's distinctive voice, blend of horror, humour, queerness, and a loveably toxic relationship. The audiobook is also voiced by Moira Quirk.

For anyone who watched Damsel: you have a princess survival story that's a lot more thought out, grittier, and contains an interesting character arc.

[grey-ves]

do yall have any authors who feel similar to tamsyn muir? i am devouring everything i can find by her because her writing grabs me in a way no one else’s does, but im quickly running out of anthology short stories to satiate myself with

[nona-gay-simus]

For all my TLT girlies (gender-neutral), please read Tamsyn Muir's standalone fantasy novella Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower.

There is:

Subversion of classic fairytale tropes

A princess protagonist who starts out just like all the other girls and slowly morphs into a murderous bimbo

A secondary MC who is very Harrow-coded

And a non-binary icon to boost!

Graphic death and violence

General gross stuff

TazMuir's trademark sense of humour

[pygmypouter]

a princess—or at least, a girl

[mindfogs]

princess floralinda by tamsyn muir is like if remi and linguini from ratatouille were in a weird love-hate gay relationship and also remi was a huge bitch about it

[frociaggine]

I finished Princess Floralinda and the Forty Flight Tower! Some thoughts

It was SO cute I love it. I had a good chuckle at the narrative voice thorough the book but especially at the witch coming back and seeing a new business opportunity, and Agent Cobweb pouncing on it.

Jaded rough-handed once-Princess with a spear... new lesbian gender expression just dropped. Floralinda call me

Whatever weird interspecies gay possessive hatelove is going on between Floralinda and Cobweb... I'm obsessed

Has anyone written a fic where Floralinda fucks the next Princess and Cobweb sits on her shoulders and tugs on her hair and bosses her around criticising how she goes about it. Because I think someone should

[thereadingmoon]

SPOILERS FOR: “Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower” by Tamsyn Muir

on the ending of princess floralinda:

1.) as far as the hero’s journey is concerned, floralinda’s outer situation hasn’t changed that much. she is still a commodity—she isn’t a prize anymore, but she is a weapon. she is a monster. she is an object in a bloodsoaked art piece. she’s traded one cage for another, but the new one is one she can prowl in, maim in. it reminds me of how longtime convicts commit crimes just to go back to prison because it’s become all they’ve ever known and the outside world has become too complex and inaccessible to them. the prison ward is orderly, sensical, and comfortable—and for floralinda, fear and hunger and blood and gore are, too.

2.) floralinda’s third biggest flaw is her reliance on rigid norms. as a princess, she’s meant to be saved; as a fairy, cobweb should grant wishes. there’s also her strict dichotomies on gender and what is expected of men and women and how she forcibly genders cobweb, who went from ambivalent to dismayed at the idea of being seen through the lens of human gender binary. crazy, i thought, you go girl, expecting her gender to go queer. and it did in a sense, she transformed to something Other by the end, as said by the witch, but another thing stood out to me: she’s become a tool that assists the continued oppression and violence on women. instead of shaking the status quo, floralinda worsens it. she doesn’t think of the welfare of the women after her; instead she revels at the idea they’d follow her path, they’d get hurt, they’d transform, they’d transmogrify. she’s enabled the notion that one day, she won’t be the exception: she’d be the rule. she’s worsened the cycle for the women after her and the only way for them to break free is for them to gut her through and she salivates for it.

[meatgoat]

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bad princess

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