"The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society" by T. Kingfisher

[Christopher]

What did everyone think of this one?

For me, this one didn't leave much of an impression.

[Cheryl]

https://uncannymagazine.com/article/t...

A hoot. I'd read other stories with those characters. "Are we pining?" I love 'turn-about' tales.

[Rachel]

It was fun, nice inversion of tropes blah blah. But it won’t be my top vote

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Yeah, it was cute. She writes funny characters and is good at drawing from folklore, which I always appreciate. But I guess I wanted a bit more meat to the story, though I apologize for the double entendre. I mean plot, not, you know, lost sheep.

[Kaa]

Lol, Allison! But I agree with you. It was a charming bit of fluff, but not much more. I think part of the problem, for me, is that I've read so many 'turn-about' stories in my life (I feel like this was a pretty major category of fantasy for teenage girls when I was growing up) that at this point I expect something more than just a flipped narrative.

[Silvana]

Christopher wrote: "What did everyone think of this one?

For me, this one didn't leave much of an impression."

Same. I think it is the weakest of the lot.

[Tria]

I found it thoroughly entertaining. Likely to end up at #2 or #3, I think, but I'd seek out more of the author's writing based on that. And I wouldn't call it "just" a turnabout, as I also enjoyed the way the author handled Rose's appearance and her behaviour with appreciation and without judgement, which hasn't been such a notable trait of the "turnabout" stories I've seen.

[Oleksandr]

I am not aware about original fairy tales this story makes fun off, so I cannot say I was impressed. But at least I learnt such words and phrases as "pined away", selkie and pooka :)

[Cheryl]

Well, it's not really making fun of any specific tales, but the whole set of tropes of this kind of fantasy.

Reading it straight, instead of as a gentle satire, does give a different insight, too.

[Suncani]

I like it, I don't think its the strongest of short stories from this writer though and I'm not too sure why there's so much hype around it.