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For all the freedoms women have gained in the Roaring Twenties, one of many they still lack is the freedom to have any body type outside of mainstream beauty standards . Sure, the corsets are gone, but slim figures are still expected. And since fashion is now looser and shorter, more of women's bodies and their perceived imperfections are on display. Add to that the explosion of movies and magazines, and it has become a really lousy time to be a beefy lady.

Just ask Fiona Faraway. She lives in Hollywood of all places, which is a media center even in the 1920s. On top of that, her father Harold Faraway holds a prominent yet delicate position the Irish-American Mob, where he is wealthy and empowered, but still lives in fear of many higher up the ladder, such as Bugs Moran , Nucky Johnson , and a female crime boss known as "the Fairy Godmother" (dodges tomatoes). Harold and his family have a reputation to uphold. Before 1920, he kept Fiona hidden away in the family mansion, guarded by her dragon of a nanny. When she was allowed out in public, it was with a corset, and every makeup accessory available, to conceal her green skin. (Possibly caused by the cocaine-based medicines her pregnant mother used in the early 1900s.)

But early in 1920, while waiting for the verdict on Women's Suffrage, Fiona Faraway meets Shawn Ogrland: a Scottish rum-runner and moonshiner, who brews ale from onions, and is known to his nonexistent friends as "Shrek." In a million-to-one coincidence, he suffers the same skin condition and ear deformities as her (in his case, it runs in his family). After defeating the corrupt Governor Farquad, Shrek and Fiona are married in a speakeasy called "the Giggle Swamp," with a collection of eccentric misfit friends as witnesses. Together, Fiona and Shrek now defy beauty standards, and are happier for it.

And they're not alone. Writer Elanor Glyn has a build similar to Fiona's, and is one of the most respected women of the Jazz Age. Glyn has popularized the concept of "it"--that mysterious magic something that draws the opposite sex to you. And according to Glyn , that something does not have to be physical beauty. She is often vague on the subject, but usually "it" boils down to confidence. Of which Fiona now has in abundance.

Harold doesn't like the influence that the Roaring Twenties on his daughter, whose hand he'd promised to the son of a that "Fairy Godmother." He hires a masked killer to do Shrek in, but the hit-man pussies out. Everyone is terrified of the couple--both Shrek "the Ogre" and his wife, Fiona "Mad Truck" Ogrland. Like another "Mad Truck" of Dillinger fame in a decade to follow, , Fiona is a dedicated moll who runs her house with a green fist, and will Hulk-slam anyone who speaks out of turn. Harold eventually comes to accept his daughter as a beefy, tough-as-nails, working class wife of a bootlegger, who wins belching contests at speakeasies and leads the molls of the city in an Amazon brigade.

Fiona and Shrek now run the Giggle Swamp, and are friends with all of the regulars: Shrek’s Missouri-born, motormouth driver, Don Key; his mute, fiery wife and gun moll (and Fiona’s former nanny), Violet; the catty, bisexual Latino hitman, “Boots” (now an ally); Wolfie, the Brooklyn-born cross-dresser; Pete Nocchio, a failure of a con man who likes ladies’ underwear; a trio of blind jazz singers; and a baker’s assistant named Gingi, who is still traumatized from his interrogation with Commissioner Farquad, over alleged moonshine brewing. The Giggle Swamp’s arch competitor is the Poisoned Apple. The rivalry between the two speakeasies fluctuates between “friendly” and “deadly.”

AN: Fiona's look here was inspired by Elanor Glyn's cameo in "It" (1927), staring Clara Bow. (For a silent film, it does a surprisingly good job at holding your attention. For some reason, acting in the silent era was infinitely more expressive and lively than in the earliest "talkies.") For this update, all I did was touch up the line work, and add the Art Deco "Shrek" logo.

I'm still mad at myself for missing February (for which I had planned Tiana, for a number of different reasons) as well as most of March. But hopefully the hangover of St. Patty's day still has enough people in enough of an Irish mood for this one. Merida was supposed to be March as well; we'll see.

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Description
For all the freedoms women have gained in the Roaring Twenties, one of many they still lack is the freedom to have any body type outside of mainstream beauty standards . Sure, the corsets are gone, but slim figures are still expected. And since fashion is now looser and shorter, more of women's bodies and their perceived imperfections are on display. Add to that the explosion of movies and magazines, and it has become a really lousy time to be a beefy lady.

Just ask Fiona Faraway. She lives in Hollywood of all places, which is a media center even in the 1920s. On top of that, her father Harold Faraway holds a prominent yet delicate position the Irish-American Mob, where he is wealthy and empowered, but still lives in fear of many higher up the ladder, such as Bugs Moran , Nucky Johnson , and a female crime boss known as "the Fairy Godmother" (dodges tomatoes). Harold and his family have a reputation to uphold. Before 1920, he kept Fiona hidden away in the family mansion, guarded by her dragon of a nanny. When she was allowed out in public, it was with a corset, and every makeup accessory available, to conceal her green skin. (Possibly caused by the cocaine-based medicines her pregnant mother used in the early 1900s.)

But early in 1920, while waiting for the verdict on Women's Suffrage, Fiona Faraway meets Shawn Ogrland: a Scottish rum-runner and moonshiner, who brews ale from onions, and is known to his nonexistent friends as "Shrek." In a million-to-one coincidence, he suffers the same skin condition and ear deformities as her (in his case, it runs in his family). After defeating the corrupt Governor Farquad, Shrek and Fiona are married in a speakeasy called "the Giggle Swamp," with a collection of eccentric misfit friends as witnesses. Together, Fiona and Shrek now defy beauty standards, and are happier for it.

And they're not alone. Writer Elanor Glyn has a build similar to Fiona's, and is one of the most respected women of the Jazz Age. Glyn has popularized the concept of "it"--that mysterious magic something that draws the opposite sex to you. And according to Glyn , that something does not have to be physical beauty. She is often vague on the subject, but usually "it" boils down to confidence. Of which Fiona now has in abundance.

Harold doesn't like the influence that the Roaring Twenties on his daughter, whose hand he'd promised to the son of a that "Fairy Godmother." He hires a masked killer to do Shrek in, but the hit-man pussies out. Everyone is terrified of the couple--both Shrek "the Ogre" and his wife, Fiona "Mad Truck" Ogrland. Like another "Mad Truck" of Dillinger fame in a decade to follow, , Fiona is a dedicated moll who runs her house with a green fist, and will Hulk-slam anyone who speaks out of turn. Harold eventually comes to accept his daughter as a beefy, tough-as-nails, working class wife of a bootlegger, who wins belching contests at speakeasies and leads the molls of the city in an Amazon brigade.

Fiona and Shrek now run the Giggle Swamp, and are friends with all of the regulars: Shrek’s Missouri-born, motormouth driver, Don Key; his mute, fiery wife and gun moll (and Fiona’s former nanny), Violet; the catty, bisexual Latino hitman, “Boots” (now an ally); Wolfie, the Brooklyn-born cross-dresser; Pete Nocchio, a failure of a con man who likes ladies’ underwear; a trio of blind jazz singers; and a baker’s assistant named Gingi, who is still traumatized from his interrogation with Commissioner Farquad, over alleged moonshine brewing. The Giggle Swamp’s arch competitor is the Poisoned Apple. The rivalry between the two speakeasies fluctuates between “friendly” and “deadly.”

AN: Fiona's look here was inspired by Elanor Glyn's cameo in "It" (1927), staring Clara Bow. (For a silent film, it does a surprisingly good job at holding your attention. For some reason, acting in the silent era was infinitely more expressive and lively than in the earliest "talkies.") For this update, all I did was touch up the line work, and add the Art Deco "Shrek" logo.

I'm still mad at myself for missing February (for which I had planned Tiana, for a number of different reasons) as well as most of March. But hopefully the hangover of St. Patty's day still has enough people in enough of an Irish mood for this one. Merida was supposed to be March as well; we'll see.

Old version:

More Prohibition Princesses

Prohibition Princesses on Tumblr

Prohibition Princesses on Archive of Our Own (relax, it's the clean side of the site)