#Human tales

[sugaldean]

Spring arrive and suddenly I'm not "life doesn't matter we should all die anyway" and I'm much more "there's a bird flying above a river and the sun is hitting the water so perfectly and there are thousands color and nice smells and that's probably why people starting making art. Because life is worth it and simple words cannot always make you feel the beauty of nature in your dna. And maybe that's why we must be alive and save others."

[sugaldean]

I need to find an English version of it but I know that they used phylogenetic to study different versions of fairy tales from around the world to trace their origin

Here is a French one at least but I will try to read/find some paper on it

https://www.science-et-vie.com/article-magazine/contes-de-fees-leur-origine-revelee-par-la-genetique

I’m tired of hearing people say “Disney’s Cinderella is sanitized. In the original tale, the stepsisters cut off parts of their feet to make the slipper fit and get their eyes pecked out by birds in the end.”

I understand this mistake. I’m sure a lot of people buy copies of the complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales, see their tale of Aschenputtel translated as “Cinderella”, and assume what they’re reading is the “original” version of the tale. Or else they see Into the Woods and make the same assumption, because Sondheim and Lapine chose to base their Cinderella plot line on the Grimms’ Aschenputtel instead of on the more familiar version. It’s an understandable mistake. But I’m still tired of seeing it.

The Brothers Grimm didn’t originate the story of Cinderella. Their version, where there is no fairy godmother, the heroine gets her elegant clothes from a tree on her mother’s grave, and where yes, the stepsisters do cut off parts of their feet and get their eyes pecked out in the end, is not the “original.” Nor did Disney create the familiar version with the fairy godmother, the pumpkin coach, and the lack of any foot-cutting or eye-pecking.

If you really want the “original” version of the story, you’d have to go back to the 1st century Greco-Egyptian legend of Rhodopis. That tale is just this: “A Greek courtesan is bathing one day, when an eagle snatches up her sandal and carries it to the Pharaoh of Egypt. The Pharaoh searches for the owner of the sandal, finds her and makes her his queen.”

Or, if you want the first version of the entire plot, with a stepdaughter reduced to servitude by her stepmother, a special event that she’s forbidden to attend, fine clothes and shoes given to her by magic so she can attend, and her royal future husband finding her shoe after she loses it while running away, then it’s the Chinese tale of Ye Xian you’re looking for. In that version, she gets her clothes from the bones of a fish that was her only friend until her stepmother caught it and ate it.

But if you want the Cinderella story that Disney’s film was directly based on, then the version you want is the version by the French author Charles Perrault. His Cendrillon is the Cinderella story that became the best known in the Western world. His version features the fairy godmother, the pumpkin turned into a coach, mice into horses, etc, and no blood or grisly punishments for anyone. It was published in 1697. The Brothers Grimm’s Aschenputtel, with the tree on the grave, the foot-cutting, etc. was first published in 1812.

The Grimms’ grisly-edged version might feel older and more primitive while Perrault’s pretty version feels like a sanitized retelling, but such isn’t the case. They’re just two different countries’ variations on the tale, French and German, and Perrault’s is older. Nor is the Disney film sanitized. It’s based on Perrault.

[nataliedecorsair]

How to hang out with your bird gf? Here's some mostly useful guide. Also, don't forget about the frog 🐸 Some of the previous comics are here and here ----- Separate post about Hedwig/Yadwiga is here.

Post about Vaughn, Yadwiga and their AU is here

Find even more comics about them on my Tumblr by the Pticenoga hashtag

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Dunno how to put it properly into words but lately I find myself thinking more about that particular innocence of fairy tales, for lack of better word. Where a traveller in the middle of a field comes across an old woman with a scythe who is very clearly Death, but he treats her as any other auntie from the village. Or meeting a strange green-skinned man by the lake and sharing your loaf of bread with him when he asks because even though he's clearly not human, your mother's last words before you left home were to be kind to everyone. Where the old man in the forest rewards you for your help with nothing but a dove feather, and when you accept even such a seemingly useless reward with gratitude, on your way home you learn that it's turned to solid gold. Where supernatural beings never harm a person directly and every action against humans is a test of character, and every supernatural punishment is the result of a person bringing on their own demise through their own actions they could have avoided had they changed their ways. Where the hero wins for no other reason than that they were a good person. I don't have the braincells to describe this better right now but I wish modern fairy tales did this more instead of trying to be fantasy action movies.

[lilybug-02]

A Gift from the underworld.

Bug Fact: The blood-red worm (Limnodrilus sulphurensis) is a newly discovered species that live off sulfur-eating bacteria in toxic spring waters.

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[lightfin]

Arcadiatober 5-6

After things settle in Arcadia, Blinky thought it a good idea to research into the very positions that granted him the human experience. With some help from certain wizards, he managed to recreate the effect lasting twenty for hours given, Trolls day out!

Day- blinky and Aaarrrgghh go about Arcadia, Blinky delights in the local Arcadia news, Aaarrrgghhs just there for the ride as Blinky shows him the wonders of humanity. Cuisine, Sunlight… automobiles. Toby snuck in a nugget Nummy for support for Aaarrrgghhs first day in the sun. ☀️ 

Night- Jim takes the opportunity to takes Draal to his first base ball game and show him the ropes. Just as Draal did with Jim’s Sword.

I took inspiration from other people’s human designs as well as there troll features. one that particularly inspired me was

They also looked at creating them in the style of the shows art work which I really like.

[found-in-retro-game-mags]

Blair Witch Vol 1-3 ad (Computer Games #120, Nov. 2000)

[dina-lani]

Tales of the HUMAN teenagers???🐢

[stars-obsession-pit]

Suddenly half-human

Danny was a full ghost hanging out in a random spot in the Zone when suddenly a rift in space tore open on top of him.

His very essence shifted as strange energies poured into him from a previously-unfathomable direction.

No longer pure ectoplasm. Something new, something living in a deeply foreign way.

A force suddenly pulled him to collide with cold, solid ground.

He felt different.

His whole body felt weighed down as if encased in thick rubber, preventing him from shapeshifting or even just floating up. Something thudded to life inside his chest, pumping a new fluid throughout his insides.

As he continued to lay there in shock, his chest began to burn.

Instincts he didn’t fully understood kicked in and his mouth flung open, gasping for breath. The burning subsided as his chest continued to heave.

What the hell? Since when did he need to breathe?

He heard three young, panicked voices from across the room. He flopped his head in their direction and took in their appearances semi-deliriously, still trying to pull his thoughts back together.

They were humans. Living, breathing humans. A tall redheaded girl, a boy in a beanie and glasses, and a girl in what he believed was referred to as “goth” clothes.

Wait… was he human now?

Awkwardly clambering to his feet, leaning against the wall of the strange tunnel for balance, he tried to give them a grin. It probably came out a bit more unhinged than he intended.

“So, uh, any idea what just happened?”

[kabukiaku]

Finished rewatching Trollhunters and of course I'm not okay.

i'll forever miss you Anton Yelchin, our trollhunter. Much love goes out to him and everyone on this show. longtime followers will remember how much I adore this series. 🖤

bonus jliare cause yes:

[strawbebe-dk]

THE GLITCH TRIO

Taging all my glitchtale stuff as variant glitchtale:overwrite or gt:OW for convenience sake

[nataliedecorsair]

What if there was a Borderlands cartoon instead of a movie? Here's my take on it, I drew some "fake screenshots" showing what it could've been. And there is a hidden frog in there 🐸 It's also my AU stuff mixed with canon, in case you were wondering.

Btw, the loader here is the Loader Bot from Tales. I was thinking how he's slowly started getting conscious, that's why he's looking at Jack like that. Generally speaking, I prefer older Borderlands games, so this art is my ode to them. Hope you like it

I also have other fan art posts dedicated to the early 2000s animation, and Hades + Eris crossover

[quazies]

Shobijin

[disteal]

‼️URGENT CALL FOR HELP‼️

A human rights volunteer in occupied West Bank has been arrested following the bulldozing of a Palestinian family home by Israeli forces.

She has been detained for entirely spurious reasons;

[The volunteer, who was standing peacefully at the site of the demolition, is being held on outrageous allegations of “publications supporting Hamas” “disturbing soldiers,” “discretion of state symbols,” and ��supporting a terror organization”.]

Human rights monitors in the region are working under constant threat of sexual assault, being held at gunpoint and having their belongings destroyed. I know firsthand of volunteers who’ve been surrounded by IOF combat vehicles until 2am, and one who had her phone smashed.

Please share and follow the link below to put pressure on occupation authorities for her immediate release!

[yuki2sksksk]

I was prepared for Steve and Aja, and got bodyslammed by Varvatos Vex falling in love at first sight with Toby's grandma.

[lemonduckisnowawake]

You know, it's a tragedy that there are no (or very little) Vampire x Christian stories out there, not for angst or theology or forbidden seductiveness or whatnot but for the sheer comedy of it all. I mean, the Christian would technically be immune to all of the vampire's shenanigans, like for example...

Vampire: Fool, I am the most powerful vampire in the West. Nothing but the force of an entire holy temple could even deign to scratch me Christian: Idiot, I AM a holy temple. 1 Corinthians 6:19, fear me and the Spirit inside that can burn you to ashes