@thebibliosphere look what I found? I saw it and thought of you.
in a good way, i promise!!!
I love the caption that says “they’re baaaack” both implying there is more to this, and the author is a 1980s equivalent of s shit poster.
I have. THREE. Of these books. They are a collection of short stories featuring the ridiculous fantasy tropes of women warriors. It’s a group of lady writers taking the piss out of lazy male fantasy writers and they’re FANTASTIC. If you ignore the shitpost covers.
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I was gonna add that these books were fucking great.
READ THESE. They are so funny and clever and they take a literary morningstar to the patriarchy.
There are six books in this series. Five of them came out between 1995 and 2004; Book Six came out in 2015 after an 11-year hiatus, so here’s hoping for more. They are, in order:
Chicks in Chainmail
Did You Say Chicks?!
Chicks ‘N Chained Males
The Chick is in the Mail
Turn the Other Chick
Chicks Ahoy! (trade omnibus of the first three books, no new stories)
Chicks and Balances
One of the things I love best about the series is that the various authors will often write short stories for them about the same set of characters: there are several stories about the Ladies’ Aid & Armor Society, a support group/workers union for women in the army; merc-for-hire Hallah Iron-Thighs and her partner in violence Gerta Dershnitzel; single mother/also merc-for hire Rivakonniva; etc.
So yes, go out and buy them, they are so fun.
Also edited by the same person, but not in the same series:
Bonus note: I met Esther Friesner a couple of times and she’s exactly what you’d expect from the editor of these. Lovely lady, 100% tumblr-before-tumblr-was-tumblr.
reblogging for the fangs for the mammaries. i must go find this book.
Oh my god this post got so much better.
YES, HAVE SOME!
ahahaha. I have five of them–i’m missing chicks and balances. I should fix that.
My wife told me to find a bit of a story she vaguely remembered me reading bits of to her, but I told her that would be…kinda a long journey since it could be in any of the five books I have.
HOWEVER! In the first book, there is a story called “Exchange Program” and it stars Hillary Rodham Clinton organizing the Valkyries in Valhalla and getting them better treatment from the Norse pantheon. It’s….wonderful. All of these books are wonderful.
I am going to have to find the Fangs for the Mammories. I did not know about it, and I need it.
The specific passage I asked her to find described a warrior lady in great detail, going into depth about how no part of her could reasonably by described as “pert”.
It concluded by describing some orcs. And that they could be called “pert” if you really wanted to.
“tall warrior woman wearing heavy armor and wielding a two-handed blade leaning over so her princess girlfriend wearing a pretty dress can stand on tippy-toes to kiss her on the cheek”
-ssvnormandy
I should totally be doing homework, but this was SO FUN.
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