#ancient fairy tale

[upontheshelfreviews]

Faerie Tale Theatre: The Ultimate Episode Ranking

So, we’ve come to the end of this years-long Faerie Tale Theatre retrospective, my friends. It’s been quite a ride. Unlike most big Hollywood collaborations, Faerie Tale Theatre wasn’t a vanity project or a corporate mandate driven by synergistic greed, but a labor of love from start to finish. There’s been highs and lows, but I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t any passion put into every minute…

[okaydays22]

[yebreed]

Fox Spirits In Medieval Narratives: Gender Bias

The domestic worship of the fox described by Zhang Zhuo informs us that the fox spirit occupied an ambivalent position in family lives. That foxes were enshrined in private quarters and offered food consumed by humans suggests that they participated in the family as insiders. However, their supernatural power and animal nature inspired both reverence and fear, and preserved their identities as…

[barananduen-blog]

Masks in Ancient CDramas

A screencap collection from:

An Ancient Love Song, The Blue Whisper, Heart of Ice and Flame, In Blossom, The Journey of Chong Zi, The Killer is Also Romantic, The Last Immortal, Lost You Forever, Love and Redemption, Love Between Fairy and Devil, Love You Seven Times, Mysterious Lotus Casebook, Princess Silver, Song of the Moon, A Tale of Love and Loyalty, Till the End of the Moon, Truth or Dare, Wonderland of Love

Bonus!

Please check the Alt Text to see which image corresponds to which drama.

To see all themed screencap sets, click here: [# cdrama themed screencap set]

[sarafangirlart]

I feel like I can only take satire/parodies of fairytales, folklore and mythology if it doesn’t take itself too seriously, Shrek is a comedic franchise and even when it makes serious critiques of the genre it is parodying it (usually) does so cleverly, like criticizing the lookism of a lot of these old stories that has the ugly characters be evil and and pretty characters be good. When these “feminist” retellings of mythology take themselves so seriously I kinda roll my eyes bc it usually usually boils down to “ooooh what if this character you thought was good was actually… *gasp* bad!?” It’s so lazy and ridiculous bc these retellings always take themselves too seriously.

Also, when Shrek makes Prince Charming and Fairy Godmother villains, it works bc in fairy tales they’re arctypes not actual characters, so when they make them into the villains of this world they have more to work with, not to mention the angle of parodying/critiquing Disney capitalizing on these stories. When ppl make say, Perseus the “real villain” it’s eye rolling bc he has more concrete characterization that gets completely ignored in favor of the writer’s biases.

Oh another thing that makes Shrek work, he’s not a poor little guy who did nothing wrong (like those Medusa retellings that straight up declaw Medusa) he’s allowed to be flawed, he’s allowed to be aggressive, selfish, self isolating and mean, then he goes through character growth and changes, y’know, like how a good character is supposed to do.

[super-paper]

afotaro is the elephant's foot of toxic old man yaoi but that's not gonna stop me from memeing on it, y'know, as a coping mechanism.

[fungoideale]

Actaeon transformed into a stag by Diana for daring to peek on her while she was bathing (Ovid, Metamorphoses)

[sailforvalinor]

*taps mic* This is a highly specific thing that irks me, but here we go: stop using the terms “canon” or “original” to refer to mythology, folklore, and fairytales. Canonicity is a modern concept (as in, the past several hundred years) that only applies to modern novels, films, and other such works. Stories like mythology, folklore, and fairytales that belong to large people groups, while different tellings may share certain fundamental details, by their nature will vary in their details great and small simply due their being told over and over again by different people over great swaths of time, and looking for the “original” is most often pointless, as these stories are usually so old that their first telling is lost to time, and calling the oldest source we have the “canon” version is incorrect, as in all likelihood the true “oldest” version has not been and never will be discovered, and doing this is a gross misunderstanding of how cultural storytelling functions—thus, mythology, folklore, and fairytales fundamentally cannot have a conclusive canon. *leaves stage*

[leyartser]

"My light"

I'm doing a dark urge playthrough and dating Karlach and I'm going insane over these two

[just-1-scorpio]

I made something

[okaydays22]

[yebreed]

Fox Worship In Rural China: From Village Patrons To Fox Kings

Foxes are ambivalent.) Late folklore depicts them as a kind of horny evil spirits. However, it’s a simplistic interpretation. Once upon a time, foxes were revered as patrons, had the status of local and family deities. The relatively low prevalence of foxes in northern China did not prevent the emergence of their sophisticated, semi-official cult. Before foxes acquired their own shrines, they…

[romancemedia]

I know from experience that things can seem pretty bleak when it comes to an anime's future and I know a lot of fans, including myself have been worried for Sugar Apple Fairy Tale's anime since it ended last month with no word on renewing it for more seasons... but I still have hope it'll be back someday to finish it's story.

The secret behind my hope is this year itself, considering how so many other anime series have returned to continue telling their stories.

Plus other animes have already confirmed their return for next year in 2024!

They are proof that any anime can return! For some they've only been on a break for a year, while for others it's been much, Much, MUCH longer! Anyway as always my message for SAFT fans is Have Faith and Keep Hope Alive!

Honestly I'm not the kind of person who would dwell on an anime's future (anymore at least), but Sugar Apple Fairy Tale is the one and ONLY exception to that rule.

[sarafangirlart]

I just realized that Disney’s Sleeping Beauty would not exist if the myth of Perseus and Andromeda didn’t exist.

[sealixirfairytales]

My three Fates :)

I used the latin names of the Fates from the mythology because I though the greek names (Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos) were super ugly

Decuma is smaller because the "present" is a shorter period than past and futur. Morta is taller because the "futur" is infinite

The Tapestry of Time on Tapas

on Ao3

[thebowlercapfairy]

Killing Koschei the Deathless always involves an egg. You have to break an egg & the means of killing him is hidden inside. I will never be over the imagery of the seed of death being found within the seed of life. Mortality wrapped up in rebirth.