Issue 1 author interview: FLOOZY L'PIOUX
Today on the NYGEL blog, we’re joined by Floozy L’Pioux, author of the sapphic, cryptid erotica “Candle,” featured in our very first issue!
NYGEL: What piece of media was your gateway into monsterfuckery?
FL’P: Honestly. Honestly HONESTLY honestly? Probably Hexxus from Ferngully. As a kid, every show had a villain that was not human, queer coded, and s.e.x.y. Hexxus was probably the first time in my life I went, “Got it, I’m feeling attracted to the monster, the monster is sexy. Cool.”
NYGEL: What creature or character is your biggest ‘hear me out’?
FL’P: Rasputin zombie from Anastasia. And don’t idealize him, this is not an “of course” situation! I’m talking he is ROTTED, head in his CHEST CAVITY. Canonically SMELLS. I want him carnally.
NYGEL: Did anything in particular inspire you to write this story?
FL’P: Years ago I started writing about Santo Domingo. A call for flash fiction fairy tales ended up being the first draft for “Candle.” Thank goodness it wasn’t accepted, it turns out all my fairy tale was missing was an interlude with monster sex. Also, I’m into fisting, conceptually.
NYGEL: If you could add a monster romance to any existing story, what would you choose and why?
FL’P: Here’s the thing…I believe in the power of fic. So I kind of can add a monster romance to any existing story. I’m not a fic writer myself, but I have definitely found myself in the bowels of Archive of Our Own so that I could enjoy the monster romance that a story was originally missing.
If I could add a monster romance to some source material, it would be Brendan Fraser’s 1999 The Mummy. I think Brendan smooching the pharaoh would have healed something in the American psyche.
NYGEL: What would you like to see more of when it comes to weird and spicy fiction?
FL’P: Body diversity! Lillian Lark and Emily Antoinette, Michele Mills, of course, all have books with plus-sized heroines that I think are extremely impressive. However, I think the craft of erotica finds itself in some trouble when the form takes its fantastical core and translates that to mean that people don’t have lumps and bumps.
More than anything, I think that the form can do a lot more with penises. Don’t get me wrong, monster erotica does some truly creative things with penises, but the trends seem to be that they are contoured differently than human penises, they have some sort of physiological mechanism that obligates a waiting (and cuddling) period–typically a knot, and occasionally there is more than one penis per monster. There always, always is a stretch kink involved (part of why I find Sara Ivy Hill’s Salt Planet Giants series so impressive, because she depicts STEAMY sex where the answer to something not fitting isn’t, make it fit). I want sex that meets the challenge of body diversity by declaring that everything is capable of being desirous!
Check out Floozy’s story “Candle” in Issue 1 for fairytale-esque sapphic smut with a furry cryptid twist!
Floozy L'Pioux is a human author, philanthropist, and incorrigible liar. Generous, kind, sexy, she is a friend (with benefits) to all monsterkind. She can be found @floozywrites.bsky.social
