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I’m coming back to the CatCF fandom

The old ones here know it: this blog started out as a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory one. It’s one of my obsessions, and I had many retellings of the story and the characters. I pulled them off the Internet for a time for different reasons but I think I’m ready to go back. 

If you want any over look at other Charlie and the Chocolate Factory work look at @danguy96 retelling or @boggleseal one. 

As for my old retellings and characters, you can find drawings done by friends at @atomsmsher Tumblr or DeviantArt account, or at PPF2009′s account. 

I’ll also reblog the few old CatCF posts I made, because now they are buried in the oldest, deepest part of my blog. 

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So, @atomsmsher decided to open a side-blog entirely dedicated to art, drawings and such. It’s @coffeetastesreallygood. Go check it out! 

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Guys and girls, this is a guy I should warn you about. 

He is a thirty year old guy that draws like a five year old child, and... well apparently one of his main thing is that he takes every interpretation and design of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory characters disponible on DeviantArt, and he redraws them hastily with a round body, calling it “Inflated [XX]” or “Blueberry [XXX]). He doesn’t ask, he just takes the designs and badly imitates them. And worse than that, he says “drawing FOR [author name]”. Like if it was some kind of request or commission. But I had never even heard of this guy until I had notifications saying I was mentionned in his posts (because, at least, he mentions the people he takes from). I asked him to take it down and he agreed, but you should maybe have a look at his gallery in case your designs were also “re-used”. 

@danguy96, @atomsmsher, @ebraunstein and all other CatCF artists 

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Old fairytales updated

So, I was talking with @atomsmsher and here is a theory I made for fun:

What if the different children of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory represents different old fairy tales? I mean, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is an attempt to create a modern fairytale, we know that, a bit like what Baum did with The Wizard of Oz. Well, what if we try to link the CatCF kids with old fairytales? For example:

Augustus Gloop could be "Hansel and Gretel". In the story, the kids eat a gingerbread house, and end up being captured by a witch who want to eat them. In CatCF, a boy drinks from a chocolate river and ends up being sucked into a pipe, to be turned into fudge. In both case, the children are hungry, eat from a "miraculous edible thing" (gingerbread house, chocolate river) and end up being "eaten" in a way (literaly for Hansel, sucked up in the pipe for Augustus). And both children are supposed to end up in a meal of some sort (Augustus would be turned into fudge ; while in the German opera Hansel is supposed to become a gingerbread man). And both of them are fattened-up German kids (well, Augustus is German in some versions). For Violet, I think the fairy tale could be "Little Brother, Little Sister" (or maybe it's the other way around?). The story begins with the bigger sister forbidding her smaller brother from drinking at different water sources, because she knows that it would turn him into all sorts of wild animals. But in the end, the little brother disobeys and drink from one of the sources, turning him into a doe. In the same way, Violet disobeyed when she was told not to chew the gum, and as a result she was turned into something else, a blueberry here. And here it's the opposite from the tale : a younger female character not listening to an older male figure. 

For Veruca, I would use the fairy tale "Donkeyskin". In the story, a father wants to make his own daughter his wife. She tricks him into pushing the wedding further and further away by asking him for ridiculously expensive gifts - a dress color of the sun, one color of the moon etc... But since he can afford her all of that, in the end she asks for the most cruel gift of them all: the father owns a miraculous donkey that literaly has gold instead of feces. It is the main source of the kingdom's wealth. The daughter asks for its skin, knowing the father wouldn't dare do such a thing... but in the end he does.

It reminds me of Veruca because in the tale, the girl pretends to be a spoiled brat so that her father wouldn't mary her. And in here Veruca is really a spoiled brat asking for all sorts of gifts, with her father being all too compliant. And in the end, both of them ask for the complete ownership of fabulous animals: a donkey who has gold instead of poop, and highly intelligent squirrels. 

As for Mike... I think the story I could link him to is Frau Trude, even though it's not the best choice, but for the moment that's all I have. 

Frau Trude tells the story of a turbulent and naughty girl. One day, she hears about Frau Trude, a fabulous woman-witch with great powers, living in the woods. She wants to know more about her, and she wants to encounter her to see all the wonders she can do. Her parents explain to her that Frau Trude is someone dangerous, and they ask her not to go in the woods and to forget all about Trude. But the child doesn't believe her parents, and go to Frau Trude house. And it ends up Frau Trude is really a demon disguised as a kind lady, and she turns the little girl into a wood log to put in her fire to burn. I thought of Mike because he is, like the girl, obsessed with things that seem marvelous from the outside: guns, violence, television... But everybody tells him how truly bad it is. But he doesn't listen, and ends up going inside the television, just like the girl goes at the house of Frau Trude. And Mike discovers that being inside the television isn't just all fun and wonders... As for Charlie, I have also a tale. Diamonds and Toads. 

For those of you who don't know, there are two sisters, one kind and one wicked. The good sister helps an old woman at a well, who turns out to be a fairy: she is rewarded with the gift of creating pearls and diamonds whenever she peaks. So the wicked sister tries to help the fairy the same way to also have the gift, but she ends up disrespecting the fairy, and she is cursed: each word she says will turn into a toad or a snake. I don't think I need to make you a comparison with Charlie during the tour, compared to the other children.