CronoDAS comments on Open Thread, October 16-31, 2012 - Less Wrong
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Three Words: Little Mermaid Fanfiction.
Featuring Rationalist!Feminist!Determinator!Ariel, fighting against both the machinations of an Ursula with a massively increased power level (think Cthulhu's little sister) and her violent and patriarchal father, and the society that he defends.
I would like to write this, but I'm not confident that I've got the skills or knowledge to do so (specifically I need to read a lot more on feminism, also I've never written fanfiction before). Please PM me any ideas about anything that you think might improve the story, whether that's general writing advice or a specific scene or a character development ark or stuff about feminism I should read or anything else.
This could be absolutely fantastic, the source material allows for a lot of manueverability and I think canon Ariel's personality would only require some minor tweaking (mostly with the feminism) in order to fit the mold of what I've got in mind. View this and her curiousity just oozes off the film. There is so much potential here that it is just ridiculous.
Incidentally, there was a TV cartoon series based on the movie, which takes place when Ariel was younger and hadn't yet developed her humanity obsession.