thoughts on jonathan strange & mr. norrell
I have finally (after over a decade) finished Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and have firmly decided the following:
* Strange & Norrell are asexual & aromantic
* Flora and Arabella end up in a queer-platonic relationship and Flora never gets married pleasandthankyou
* Miss Redruth becomes a badass powerful magician & starts a school for young ladies to also become badass powerful magicians despite the patriarchy [to spite the patriarchy? ;)]
* Instead of stealing away pretty people Stephen starts “abducting” enslaved people & lower class people who are abused and creates a safe place in faerieland
In short: this is the kind of book that makes me want to take the concept and re-work it so that it is more queer & less white.
