#( fairytale rules )

[marlynnofmany]

Anyone who has worked retail Knows this fairytale rule. The customers who are kind, and patient, and understanding ... those you will be more than grateful enough to do favors for. But the ones who try to get their way through brute force and intimidation are The Enemy.

Into the moat with them.

fairytales which tell you to be both kind and clever fairytales that say to be kind is to be clever and to be clever is to be kind fairytales that say the cleverest thing you can ever do is choose kindness and that cruelty or thoughtlessness are always foolish but not kindness never kindness

[afterthelambs]

It’s funny that Sumire is the one with the Cinderella persona and Akechi is the one with the prince outfit and yet the most Prince Charming-coded thing in the game is Joker holding onto a single glove, waiting for its owner to return after the magic that let them spend a brief time together was over. The glove is functionally the same as a glass slipper. So in conclusion detective prince? more like disney princess--

[ducktracy]

i know i'm preaching to the choir here but the "anime vs western cartoons" debates have always amused me greatly in thinking that you have to choose one or the other... Good Cartoons Are Good Cartoons Are Good Cartoons . they're cartoons. all united under the same love for the medium of animation c'mon now!

[allay-uxini]

Ok, Ok, so you know how Lizzie and Joel got married and then Joey and Shelby saw the goodies and were like “You wanna get married?” “Just for the gifts?” “Yeah!”

….well what if they ACTUALLY got married

It’d be a platonic marriage (obviously) for convenience, forming an alliance and resources (both from each other and from the wedding gifts). At first when referring to each other as spouses to the other empires they’d be weirded out but after a while they wouldn’t even bat an eye at the romantic connotations from the status and refer to each other as spouses with ease. They don’t call each other husband or wife when talking to each other however they will play the spouse card on the other when they want something.

For Example:

“Hey Joey what are you doing rummaging through my chests?”

“Ah, Shrub! My what a coincidence, I was just…”

“You were trying to steal from me weren’t you”

“I wouldn’t call it that. I was just….. borrowing some things AND as your husband I feel like this already belongs to me. You know ‘What’s yours is mine’ so really I’m not doing anything wrong”

“I don’t remember that being in my vows”

“Ahem! ‘I shall support you and your empire in order for us to become stronger’. This is just……supporting my empire’s builds!”

“You know what, sure! I’ll let you ‘borrow’ as much stuff from my chests as you like”

“Gre-”

“Only if I get to do the same after all I am your wife so it’s only fair”

“…well I suppose that could be arranged”

“That includes your totem farm”

“What, do you want me to make a special wife chest in my farm”

“Yes”

Their marriage is actually REALLY good and healthy to the surprise of EVERY SINGLE EMPIRE as they were all sure they were going to be awful (the perks of marrying your best friend I suppose). Then Xornoth gave Joey the crown.

You see the best thing about a platonic marriage between Shelby and Joey is that it makes Jornoth infinitely funnnier because the entire arc Joey was after Shelby and she’s like:

“Is this REALLY how you want to treat your wife”

*gasp* “Shelby are you, jealous? Oh Shelby, don’t you remember our marriage is strictly political and I can love whoever I want”

“What! No, I just think that my husband should have better taste in men!”

And then you also remember that Xornoth was mostly targeting Shelby so Joey is like “Xornoth! Are you flirting???? With my wife???? Instead of ME???????” Though after the whole Xornoth situation I feel like they’d still have a pretty good marriage just with more teasing, bickering and banter.

Joey and Shelby's friendship in season 1 is underrated and just thinking about all the hilarities this marriage can create is making me giddy. Or maybe I’ve just been reading too much of Rain’s marriage of the state au and Mochi’s secret husbands au that I also wanted to make a marriage au.

(If this gets enough traction I might open up my ask box for this au and maybe talk about some fairytale trio shenanigans for this)

[unattainablesillygoose]

Abandonment must be a family trait. Malcolm (later Peter Pan) was sold to a blacksmith by his father. Pan later abandoned Rumplestiltskin for eternal youth. Rumple then abandoned Baelfire (later called Neal) for magic and power. Neal abandoned Emma, and subsequently Henry, to allow her to fulfill her destiny. Henry was probably the first one of his line to not abandon his child. Talk about generational trauma 💀

[mikodrawnnarratives]

Dragon!Maggie/Princess Evie and Prince Max my beloved

the concept has my heart, has no backing in canon, and i don't care

He's her treasure hiss go away insert cat growling noises

[blood-orange-juice]

About Childe and his weird ethics.

He reminds me of what I know of real world medieval knights. Chivalry was a thing only applied to equals.

There was no glory in harming noncombatants and generally you would want to avoid that, but if you absolutely needed to sack a city (or take a city hostage to lure out its patron deity) then no one would blame you.

There was a lot of scheming too.

There's certain irony in wanting to be a fairytale knight and becoming a real one instead.

[athena-xox]

No you guys don’t understand the OBSESSION I have with cook and raven mother daughter relationship

Please someone give me a destiny that cook could have had because I have so many gk x cook hcs for them at eah together

[bookwyrminspiration]

quil i just noticed but. did you bookmark your own work in the fairytale exchange. “this made me a ruedacted shipper” friend YOU WROTE IT 💀

LISTEN THERE'S A REASON OKAY!!!

it's the very first book club, right? the first roll! and I'd promised to be there and active and enthusiastically heap praise on whatever was rolled.

but it was mine. during the anonymous period. if I left right after promising I was available and ready it'd be suspicious, so as we're reading through this lengthy fic for 2-3 hours, i'm lying my ass off acting like i've never seen this fic before in my life. screaming in chat, analyzing, the works.

and then we get to the end. and everyone starts leaving comments summarizing the rollercoaster of the last few hours. and I can't

Any comment I left would show up as "anonymous" since I was the author, and that would give me away! But I didn't want to do nothing, since everyone was commenting and I'd just spent so long praising it! especially since I make an effort to leave nice, long comments as much as I can

btw, i've been secretly messaging cath this whole time in a panic, like oh FUCK i have to LIE to everyone and I can't leave a COMMENT.

so I bookmarked it! since that showed up under my name and wouldn't give me away. and then if anyone asked "hey quil why didn't you leave a comment when everyone else is" (i wasn't sure how close people were paying attention--and there'd specifically been speculation about me and long fics) I could just be like, oh that's cause I bookmarked it instead! see? see? I'm totally not the author! definitely!

and then I forgot I did that and never unbookmarked it

[pinkrangersarah]

i think about fairytale island a lot and how it's supposed to function. merlin describes it as "a magical land of princes and princesses", and we're briefly shown a map that includes illustrations of several well known fairytales. in fact, let me quickly make a list of all the canon royalty:

snow white (daughter of the only king we see, king white from and unnamed kingdom, and main character)

merlin (prince from unnamed kingdom, not royalty in arthurian legend, a wizard/magician and mentor of prince/king arthur)

arthur (the only one who is actually a prince in his original fairytale, camelot)

hans (prince of an unnamed kingdom, was not royalty in the original fairytale)

jack (prince of an unnamed kingdom and, again, was not originally royalty)

pino, noki, and kio (princes of an unnamed kingdom and a play on pinnochio whom, again, was not royalty)

prince average (original for the film, minor antagonist, unnamed kingdom)

cinderella (seen on the fairytale island map, princess of an unnamed kingdom though the fairytale is french)

sleeping beauty (seen on the map, mentioned by prince average and cameos in the end credits, a princess of an unnamed kingdom but the fairytale is also french)

rapunzel (seen on the map and mentioned by prince average, princess of an unnamed kingdom, the fairytale is german)

ariel (seen on the map, mentioned by prince average and possibly cameos in the end credits but could have also been a generic mermaid, princess of an unnamed kingdom, the fairytale is danish)

the frog prince (seen on map, prince of an unname kingdom, the fairytale is german)

leia skywalker (mentioned by prince average and i have no idea how they got away with it)

unnamed fairy princess (seen in the opening scene and end credits)

the border lines are pretty blurred, our heroes are able to travel between locations fairly quickly (yeah i know it's a movie, blah), but we see the castles for both snow white and prince average. it is incredibly unlikely that they're all royalty of the same kingdom, and with this many royals either shown or mentioned there are at least 13 kingdoms on one continent. fairytale island is an empire, and if you think about it like the united states (yeah it's not classified as an empire but i mean when you think about it), there could be dozens of other kingdoms belonging to various other fairytale princes and/or princesses.

what is this point of this babble? none. i put too much thought into a movie all of 10 people have watched.

[itshype]

In The Village nestled in the foothills beneath a majestic castle, Twyla witnesses a recurring spectacle: princesses being banished from the palace after failing to win the heart of the crown prince. Week after week, she watches as they depart, and an idea begins to form in her mind - she could do better.

Ao3 Link

Tags: Female Tyler Galpin, Fairytale AU, Princess Wednesday Addams, Dragon Wednesday Addams.

For @wylerprideevent 2024!

[averagemrfox]

Going into a tag and seeing someone’s theory post and their “theory” is something that’s already been confirmed by the text. Like yes. Good job. You read the source material.

[thealogie]

The only thing I would pick over “dinner with sheen where you get to ask him about 10 acting choices” is “being inside Alan Alda’s mind while he was writing goodbye farewell and amen”

[sourcreammachine]

fuck it, let’s die on this hill

FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK IS THE ULTIMATE QUEER YULETIDE SONG

the straights have been getting increasingly uncomfortable with it in the last few years. you’re going to see a big resurgence of the censored version this year because Shane MacGowan died last week, but it has been well on the decline - meaning a wide open gulf is forming to allow the cheap, lousy faggots to swoop in and continue colonising it. here’s why we should

firstly it’s an absolute banger. traditional irish music combined with modern drums into a sound that fits the yule aesthetic perfectly whilst bringing drama and emotion. it’s cozied up by the fire, but alive and dramatic

the biggest source of discomfort for most people is that it’s MacGowan and MacColl aggressively arguing at each other, rattling off textbook sexist vitriol. and MacColl calls MacGowan a faggot, with total sincere usage of the slur, hatred and all. putting the slur aside, the nastiness of the song gets people’s ire. it’s a couple having a stereotypical domestic and they seem to kiss and make up in the final act, all unacceptable behaviour forgiven. it’s everything modern straights want to put in the past. so let them. it’s a het couple being toxic, cool. queer celebration has attached the bandwagon to worse things and it’s always taking up the castoffs of heteronormative society. queer love can be made of FONY all the same:

MacGowan’s first verse stings, does it not? sadness, desperation, and longing. in queer society, we have all been MacGowan’s character and we have all been the Old Man, even if it’s not the bottle and the drunk tank. we’re survivors, we’re bloodied and bruised, we refuse to go away no matter how many AIDS-genocides, moral panics, and hate-murders they do to us. there are nights where we think by all mercy we Won’t See Another One, and we turn our face away and Dream About You. there’s always hope. there’s always reasons to continue the fight, and they don’t have to be abstract

when the sobbing’s over, the Pogues immediately come to life for the main body. we go up and down the rollercoaster of emotions while the band keeps playing, while the air is always jubilant. the wonder, the delight, the hope, the madlove, the melodrama, the bile, the hatred. for a song making allusions of broadway, it sounds fresh from broadway - our story is painted through feelings, not words. and when it’s over, MacColl’s character (seems to, judging by the tonal finality of MacGowan’s lines and her participation in the final chorus) forgives her abusive partner and reattaches her hopes to him, her drunkard patriarch. but we’re queer, remember - we’re not celebrating these straggot pieces of shit. we find identity in the feelings. we have all been MacColl’s character, finding wonder and hope and the chance to become who we want to be, and being given false promises by false starts. and if you’ll forgive me for entertaining MacGowan’s character’s bastard misogynist perspective for a second, we’ve all found ourselves having to defend our queer communities, having to stand by our old sluts on junk, even as doing so takes its toll and sometimes feels like a burden. those feelings happen. they are irrational, they are bad, and they happen. and a new day comes and we’re thankful we stood by. it’s a melodramatic broadway banger - we can find meaning in all places, even the ‘b*tch-wife’ slurrings of a misogynist

it’s that power that lets a queer reading of FONY stick the fucking landing. again i repeat myself, from a surface reading the ending is toxic as shit. but queer reading is in the feeling. this lament, this mournful lament, of misplaced hopes, of lost dreams, and a commitment to what we have, and looking forward despite unbearable challenge. you’d scream ‘leave him!’ to every straight MacColl in the world, that’s like, feminism 101 - but queer life is nothing if not complicated. the queer-read MacGowan isn’t a toxic gay lover. he is queer life itself. he took our dreams from us when we first found him, so it may appear. the hatred we feel inside, the emptiness, the pain, it’s all there with the phantasmic joy, the discovery, the love, the everything. and the band always keeps playing. straight MacColls returning to their straight MacGowans is stupid, but we don’t have a choice. our community is everything, our support is everything. it’s rough. it can almost kill you. but would any of us trade it for anything else? we are MacColls and MacGowans all at once - we are the ones with fragile hopes, we are the ones who damage it, and shepherd it still. we’re our own worst enemy and we’re all we have

when Shane MacGowan adapted the original lyrics of a lonely seafarer, he did not turn it into a queer song. in fact, he wrote a character yelling the f-slur. there is not a gramme of queercoding here. but exactly what is the difference between the actual faggots finding commonality in the villain songs penned to mock us, or old broadway songs that have nothing to do with us, and the yuletide song that actively hates us? fucking little, i would argue. queer celebration’s power is its ability to reconstrue. they call us faggot every month of the year with nary a second thought, and we spit it right back at them with reclamation and solidarity. we should do the same in december. we dance to the tune of their bigotry and we sing along at the top of our lungs. they are quietening down out of embarrassment - long may our party reign. FONY, a bigoted song, is a queer anthem because it has been made so. the madness. the love. the sadness. the dreams. that is queerness. and queer revolution is not giving one single, solitary shite about straight people’s discomfort about what the cheap, lousy faggots choose to celebrate. the way the ending instrumental tapers off into beautiful emotion - the straights have abandoned it: that feeling of love, that feeling of joy, that feeling belongs to us now

sing it like you would all queer songs. hold your friends close and celebrate them. love everyone around you. and when the naughty word comes around, scream it

[dreamskis]

wanna start doing hyperrealism again because drawing this back in april was genuinely the most fun i think i've ever had working on a piece & i haven't gotten that same rush of enjoyment since 😭

[gods-favorite-autistic]

A list of things in Greek mythology that I think are funny:

Bellerophon killing one (☝️) lion and deciding he was a god

Demeter just kinda putting a baby in a fire nightly to try and make him immortal

Niobe going “I’m a better mom than Artemis and Apollo’s mom because I have 18 kids” and the gods going “no you don’t” and killing her kids (stop challenging gods people did we learn nothing from Arachne and Psyche and Marsyas)

The idea that natural disasters were just the gods having a bad day (lowkey the way people explained natural phenomena back then without all the modern day science we have right now is actually pretty cool but also Poseidon is pissy so he leveled my fuckijg town-)

That one guy who was like ‘I’m a god’ and Zeus responded by just turning him into an eagle

Apollo having just fatal levels of negative rizz

Midas being given donkeys ears because his music taste was ass

Athena throwing away the pan pipes because they made her look weird

Medusa getting her head cut off and just like a fucking flying horse popped out

That one guy who came home from the Trojan war only to immediately get killed by his wife and her side piece

The way Dionysus just had a group of fangirls following him around more often than not

The way my study packet called Procrustes a “scoundrel” in one of the questions

The fact that the Milky Way is supposedly just Hera’s breast milk that was supposed to feed Heracles (which is not her child mind you)

Anyways that’s it