#░ fractured fairytales ░

[vivichancollection]

week 6: tamura blood - mafia boss (male match)

received 07.04.2024

[albinotanuki]

For me, it was the Fractured Fairytales version from Rocky and Bullwinkle.

[princess-ibri]

So @gayfergus sent me the link to these Disney storyboard/concept sketches by joehaidar_art on Instagram that appear to be a treatment for a Disney retelling of "A Goose Girl"!

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Haidar says in the notes that he worked on these after Home on the Range and that the concept was based on a novel that was a fractured fairytale retelling.

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After a little bit of sleuthing (by which I mean suddenly remembering very vaugly a book from school and trying to find it on Goodreads 😅) I'm pretty darn sure that this is the book he might be talking about!

And now I definitely want to find some time to actually read this so I too can draw Alexandria and her geese!

[tal-iced-tea]

i'm v excited for whatever the fuck rosamund's "sisters" have going on in neverafter. something about fairytale princesses becoming final girls as their happily ever afters crumble around them

[adarkrainbow]

Huh... I just discovered there was a recent French book that is a Hansel and Gretel retelling... that takes place in Brazil and is called "Hansel and Gretel and Saci Pererê"

The story is that Hansel and Gretel are now children of a gold-searcher living in Brazil... One day as the hungry children wander in the woods they meet the Saci Pererê, who decides to takes them on a magical adventure through time, to discover several of the great historical figures of Brazil - with food and sweets being a running theme unifying the whole book... At least that's what the back cover says.

@ariel-seagull-wings @themousefromfantasyland

EDIT: Wow okay... so apparently this is but one of an ENTIRE series of books centered around traditional European fairytales doing a crossover with either fairytale characters of non-European stories, or folkloric beings of Europe not usually seen in literary tales. Beyond the one above we have...

Donkey Skin and the Tanukis

Beauty and Ganesh

Red Riding Hood and the Chinese Dragon

Bluebeard and B'rer Rabbit

Cinderella and the Fire Bird

Little Thumbling and the Minotaur

Godilocks and Jean de l'Ours

Snow White and the Korrigans

The One Thousand and One Nights of Sleeping Beauty

Wow... Just wow. I definitively need to get my hands onto one of those

[openstorygames]

NaNoWriMo is coming.

I told one of my friends I was doing it this year.

I discovered that, prior to this, I've never told non-writer friends about NaNoWriMo.

He almost lost his mind trying to fathom what I'm about to do.

No way I lose now, if only to prove him wrong.

50k words, here I come!

[frenchiefitzhere]

what if Rumpelstiltskin was a tricksy, scary lady? what if she approached you in a modern-day bar?

what if @autisticempathydaemon wrote-ed and goated the script?

it might sound like this:

[penguinofspades]

You know in terms of Animaniacs and Fairytale parodies I could see:

A Rita and Runt episode parodying Hansel and Gretel

A Chicken Boo episode parodying Cinderella or Puss in Boots

[welcomehomenewneighborsocblog]

I Get Fractured Fairy Tale Vibes From This

Seriously, it makes me think Sally Starlet’s fairy tale segments were an art shift into 2D animation. And again it would be fun if it was inspired by Fractured Fairy Tales where the gang could go a little bit off base at times. Interesting they cast Frank as the prince and Julie as Cindrella since the former is confirmed gay. 

[thatlaylachick]

☆ a fractured fairytale post 🧚‍♀️ ✨️ ☆

"Hey babe? Can you get the trunk from the attic for me?" She called out to her husband who was doing his usual moping in preparation of her yearly trip.

"Yeah" he groaned as he went toward the attic. He knew which trunk she wanted. He both loved and hated it.

He hated to see her pack it to go; he loved seeing her bring it back in the Fall.

She was busy bustling about when he delivered the trunk with his strong arms but sad eyes.

"I hate this..." his voice cracked.

She stopped and walked to him.

Lifting her delicate hands to his otherworldly face she replied "I know, Love."

"There was a time when I couldn't wait for this part, but in all of our time together, I have grown to love you in ways that cannot be measured." She spoke softly.

"I know," he replied. "It must be done this way, as it has been for all of time."

"But look for me," he continued, "when the raven flies overhead. When the dark moon arrives each month. And when the flowers droop and whither."

"I do every year, my love." She replied, delicately kissing a lone teardrop resting on his cheek.

"We have a few days yet. Let us make the most of them." She replied with an element of cheer.

"Yes, Persephone, my Queen," he said with bravery in his voice.

"You will always be my King, Hades." She spoke softly. "Now help me pack this trunk."

Soon it would be Spring and she would be gone. But in the Fall, she returns home. To him. 🖤

[vivichancollection]

week 11: cedric casier - prisoner (male match)

received 09.13.2024

[swallowtailed]

sometimes i forget that i have to constantly change genres while reading, both to not get bored and to actually find good work. other times i read nettle and bone and the centre back to back and am instantly reminded

[frogsandfries]

Who knows how long Beast has been frozen in time, simultaneously forever a child naïve to the ways of a world he's never interacted with, as much as he has been looked to by the servants caught up in this mess to be the leader he was bred to be. Of course, with time continuing to pass beyond the cursed walls, stories have been spread to keep people away from this particular castle.

The little boy reaches out a hand to touch an ethereally beautiful rose that floats in the center of the garden where the fountain usually is. His hand bumps into a sharp thorn in the stem. In the dream, he doesn't feel the pain, but he feels the drop of blood splash upon the grass. Suddenly, the garden is filled with haunting, cruel laughter of many inhuman voices. They've tricked him, and now he'll be a beast so hideous as to be unlovable by any, the ultimate curse. His father's blood line will have no choice but to perish and the kingdom will belong to the fae once again, as it should.

Beast jars awake in the library, the book falling from his enormous chest to the floor. Why does he dream about that........ day, that horrible, stupid, childish accident all the time. It's done and there's nothing he can do except languish, frozen in time, trapped within the walls of the castle, unable to leave. What a cruel curse to burden a little boy with.

Of course, he has no way of knowing what legends and lore his story has evolved into, stories of a heart-consuming monster who tricks women, stories of someone whose foul and wicked soul has been made his exterior, someone who could never love and would never deserve to be loved. It's better that he doesn't know; the stories told when fires have burned low and children have gone to sleep would only hurt the sweet, naïve Beast.

Stories Belle had never heard before ambling into this little village in an isolated valley where she hopes her step-mother, and step- and half-sisters will never hear of her.

Belle wakes from what fitful little sleep she was barely able to get through nightmares of the gnarled, grizzled old drunk her step-mother tried to sell her to.

She rises quietly in the faint light of the approaching dawn. Her step-mother, step- and half-sisters sleep inside the house proper, on the far side of the house from Belle. Barefoot, Belle tiptoes out of the makeshift barely-a-room. She collects several bags from around the property, loads the farm horse, and quietly leads him off, away from the sun as the mist is being burned away by the sun.

A good distance away from the house, she rearranges the bags, mounts the horse and they set off at a better pace. Belle's mind rushes. Why haven't they come after her yet, what will they do when they catch her, where is she going to go, what are they going to do when they realize everything she took, what was she thinking?

Isolated in his cursed castle, Beast has no idea his life is about to finally gain momentum. This Belle is just as stunningly brilliant as the Belle in the original writing of the tale, as well as beautiful, but being so intelligent was no blessing for a girl who grew up socially isolated, neglected and verbally marred for more of her childhood than she hadn't.

Of course no one knows the truth of why he was cursed: The Beast was not transfigured to match his ugly interior, as rumor evolved into lore. He was merely a boy, caught in the crossfire of a battle between his father and the powerful fae his father had insulted, cursed to wear the appearance of a beast until he could find someone who could confess their love for him. After all, what is love that you can't verbalize.

A seemingly kind fae creature, feeling sad for the prince who would live his short life as a beast too hideous for any mortal woman to love, gave the boy what she thought was a gift, the chance to live, frozen and concealed in time. She comes to see him periodically, giving him new magical gifts--a magic mirror, a magic pantry, a magic book. Sometimes the fae is like a friend, sometimes like a mother--and lately, sometimes she's more familiar with the fallen prince. Idk maybe I throw that out.

Even though Belle's stomach is somehow more empty than her purse, she resolves to locate this castle--after all, the tales must have a granule of truth to them in there somewhere, and there doesn't appear to have been any nobles looking after this area for a long time. They must have lived somewhere. What's the worst that could happen? Her heart torn out and eaten by a monster? She might die of starvation or freeze to death in the rapidly approaching winter anyway, and then her heart would go to waste, scavenged by wolves or ravens. Belle had always fantasized about her prince charming whisking her off to a kingdom far, far away, where she could wear a new dress made of gems every day, if she wanted to. Even long-crumbling ruins of a castle are still a castle, right? Even if there isn't even a speck of gold dust remaining? It would be more shelter against the cold than the frigid pews of the church in the village.

[cyberpumped]

Kinda thinking about how Phantom of the Opera is a lot like Beauty and the Beast (or the other way around idk) and I'm really in love with the whole trope there. But I want to write a fractured fairytale story. I wrote one about Peter Pan being a bad guy. Now I want to write an all new story.

Phantom of the Opera but Christine and Erik are women? Beauty and the Beast but theyre both women? I really want to show off bisexual pride in this story. I need help with ideas.

Idk what to do. Someone help me with this idea that's been gnawing at my brain for the past year!

[adarkrainbow]

Fairytales in BD: Garulfo

I will conclude (so far, because there's a lot more to say) this look at Franco-Belgian comics with THE most famous BD series when it comes to fairy tales. I speak, of course, of Garulfo.

Published in six volumes between 1995 and 2000, created by Alain Ayroles and Bruno Maïorana (with colors by Thierry Leprévost), Garulfo began as a two-part (two volumes) humoristic retelling/parody that many summarized as "What if the tale of The Frog Prince had been told by Voltaire"? Garulfo is a talking frog living in a pond in a fairytale realm. And he has enough of living among wild and savages animals in a dirty, uncivilized swamp. He is endlessly fascinated and obsessed by humans, that he believes to be the epitome of beauty, biology and civilization: he dreams to become one. As such, hearing about stories of princess' kisses turning frogs into princes, he goes to a fairy so she can cast such a spell on him...

Problem is the "fairy" Garulfo visits is a witch - and quite open about her witchcraft, but Garulfo believes fairy and witches are all the same. So she does put the spell on him, but with the warning that it will only bring bad things... And indeed, as Garulfo is kissed by the princess of the realm and welcomed as a prince by the court, the naive frog ends up causing the most massive chain of "butterfly effect" you ever saw within the kingdom. Because, as he comes to learn, the world of human is filled with corruption, cruelty, lust, hypocrisy and other manipulations, and the arrival of an innocent, mysterious newcomer starts a whole series of events - courtly conspirations, assassination attempts, peasant rebellion, old secrets brought to light, tragic misunderstood identites - all culminating, of course, with the arrival of a dragon...

This humoristic, though cynical, BD proved such a success it was extended by four more volumes for a series of six tomes - the second "arc" of Garulfo exploring the relationship between the nice Garulfo the frog, and the human prince who he "took" the shape of, who turns out to be a selfish, arrogant jerk. The two end up again entangled in a set of transformations and identity swap, as a tournament is organized to win the hand of the princess in marriage - and this journey of the naive and the jerk learning from each other for personal growth gets derailed when an ogre kidnaps the princess and makes her a prisoner of his castle. But the rescue mission reveals that the story might not be so much "The Little Thumbling" as rather a bittersweet "Beauty and the Beast"...

As I said before, Garulfo is considered the number 1 BD when it comes to fairy-tales in the Franco-Belgian comics. And one of the classics of humoristic fantasy in BDs.

[gotham-bird]

If I would post chapters of my Alice in Wonderland retelling novel, would anyone be interested in it? Just wondering because I’m looking for feedback as I try to get back into writing.