#a first book of fairy tales

[thatwritererinoriordan]

[iphigeniacomplex]

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

[vero-niche]

peace and love on planet omegaverse 💕

[chthonic-cassandra]

The marvels and prodigies, the seven-league boots and enchanted mirrors, the talking animals [...] the stars on the brow of the good sister and the donkeytail sprouting on the brow of the bad - all the wonders that create the atmosphere of the fairy tale disrupt the apprehensible world in order to open spaces for dreaming alternatives. The verb 'to wonder' communicates the receptive state of marvelling as well as the active desire to know, to inquire, and as such it defines very well at least two characteristics of the traditional fairy tale: pleasure in the fantastic, curiosity about the real. The dimension of wonder creates a huge theatre of possibility in the futures: anything can happen. This very boundlessness serves the moral purpose of the tales, which is precisely to teach where boundaries lie. The dreaming gives pleasure in its own right, but it also represents a practical dimension to the imagination, an aspect of the faculty of thought, and can unlock social and public possibilities. [...] The enchantments also universalize the narrative setting, encipher concerns, beliefs and desires in brilliant, seductive images that are themselves a form of camouflage, making it possible to utter hard truths, to say what you dare. The disregard for logic, all those fairy tale non-sequiturs and improbable reversals, rarely encompasses the emotional conflicts themselves: hatred, jealousy, kindness, cherishing retain an intense integrity throughout. The double vision of the tales, on the one hand charting perennial drives and terrors, both conscious and unconscious, and on the other mapping actual, volatile experience, gives the genre its fascination and power to satisfy. At the same time, uncovering the context of the tales, their relation to society and history, can yield more of a happy resolution than the story itself delivers with its challenge to fate: 'They lived happily ever after' consoles us, but gives scant help compared to, 'Listen, this is how it was before, but this could change - and they might.'

Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

[missdarhk]

the theme is: there is no heterosexual explanation for what they have going on

honorable mentions:

[hanzajesthanza]

"the michael kandel translation of "the witcher" short story can't hurt you!!"

the michael kandel translation of "the witcher" short story:

[gabriestat]

the asylum where they raised me or whatever that woman said

[sergeantsporks]

I should revisit my Little Red Riding Werewolf retelling where The Wolf is a werewolf that spoke to her in human form (and therefore she trusted him) and she’s still like 7 instead of a whole young adult and therefore turns into a wolf puppy when she transforms and the woodsman (also a werewolf) takes her in. I know so many wolf facts now.

[tesnuzzik]

Sharing a WIP for a picture I've been working on while rewriting the comic :)

[ladywatereton]

30 years of Thumbelina🌹☀️🌈

🎥 Thumbelina (1994).

🎶 Golden Hour, JVKE (Quitezy Edit Audio).

📼 TOPxTOP (YouTube).

[flourmelon]

Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws.

T. Kingfisher in Thornhedge

01.12.2024

🐸🗼👸🏼⛲️🥀

[toonabby]

Happy 30th birthday, Marisa Duran!

[therulerofallpotatos]

Book about feminism not be super fucking annoying about Beauty and the Beast challenge: Impossible

[tommykinard217]

WICKED MOVIE IN A MONTH WICKED MOVIE IN A MONTH WICKED MOVIE IN A MOOOOOONTH

[valiantarcher]

Shocked and scandalised a coworker by admitting I read something as common and vulgar as a murder mystery.

[cepheusgalaxy]

My cousins always joke around about how me and my siblings didn't believe in Santa or the Tooth Fairy like they did, and looking back I think I was a REALLY skeptical kid.

I remember that I didn't believe giraffes were real. Or that they actually had purple tongues.

I saw them in a show, in TV and in cartoons and was like, "nope. doesn't seems legit for me". And I personally think that it was mostly because I didn't trust adults or the TV to tell me what was true. Because you know, when you're a kid, everybody thinks it's ok to lie to you. Aside from tales like Santa and stuff, they just lie and lie for you, to the point where for me, personally, I was pretty not believing of anything they told me. So I was watching those shows with animals and said "no way thats real. Seems like fiction for me." And my parents and people around me would be all "no, they're real!" and I was like "nope. You're not fooling me again."

But anyways I don't think my cousins remember the time where I first read Le Petit Prince and was fully convinced that it was a legit register of a real thing that happened.