#contes de fees

[krsonmar]

For those asking for a full version translated to English, this one in an anthology of fairy tales translated from French might or might not be the exact, correct one (I haven't read the whole thing yet) but it is roughly 100 pages long and has de Villaneuve's name on it. Scroll down to the Table of Contents and then you can hop right to the story from there. It is 100% free because public domain and also because, as always, PROJECT GUTENBERG AND INTERNET ARCHIVE FTW!!!

What we really need is an adaptation of the original 1740 The Beauty and the Beast

So were you aware that the The Beauty and the Beast story we all know is a heavily abridged and rewritten version of a much longer novella by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve?  And that a lot of the plot holes existing in the current versions exist because the 1756 rewrite cut out the second half of the novella, which consisted entirely of the elaborate backstory that explains all the weird shit that happened before?  And that the elaborate backstory is presented in a way that’s kind of boring because the novel had only just been invented in 1740 and no one knew how they worked yet, but contains a bazillion awesome ideas that beg for a modern retelling?  And that you are probably not aware that the modern world needs this story like air but the modern world absolutely needs this story like air?  Allow me to explain:

The totally awesome elaborate backstory that explains Beauty and the Beast

Once upon a time there was a king, a queen, and their only son

But while the prince was still in his infancy, in a neat reversal of how these fairy tales usually go, the king tragically died, leaving his wife to act as Regent until their son reaches maturity

Unfortunately, the rulers of all the lands surrounding them go, “Hmm, the kingdom is ruled by a woman now, it must be weak, time for an invasion!”

And the Queen goes, “Well, if I let some general fight all these battles for me, he’ll totally amass enough fame and power to make a bid for the throne; if I want to protect my son’s crown, I have no choice but to take up arms and lead the troops myself!”

(Btw, I want to stress that this woman is not Eowyn or Boudica and nothing in the way her story is presented suggests that she had any interest martial exploits before or in any way came to enjoy them during these battles.  This is a perfectly ordinary court lady who would much rather be embroidering altar covers for the royal chapel and playing with her child until necessity made her go, “Oh no, this sucks, I guess I have to become a Warrior Queen now” and she just happened to kick ass at it anyway.)

And the Queen totally kicked ass, but the whole “twice as good for half the credit” thing meant that no matter how many battles she won, potential enemies refused to take her and her army seriously until she had defeated them so no sooner would she fend off one invasion than another one would pop up on a different border.

So she spent the majority of her young son’s life away from the castle leading armies, but it was OK because she left him in the care of her two best friends, who just happen to be fairies!  This was an awesome idea because a) fairies have magic, and therefore are like the best people to protect the prince from any threats and b) fairies consider themselves to be so above humanity that the lowest fairy outranks the highest mortal, so they’d have no interest in taking a human throne.  Good thing they were both good fairies instead of one good and one evil one!

(Spoiler:  they were not both good fairies.)

So the two fairies basically take turns raising the prince until he’s old enough to rule.  And on the eve of his twenty-first birthday, the evil older one comes into the prince’s bedroom.

“So listen, kid.  You’re about to become king, your mother’s on her way home from the war to see you crowned, and I have a third piece of good news for you!  You see, I’ve actually been spending so much time here lately because Fairyland’s become a bit too hot to hold me for reasons totally not related to me being secretly evil.  And if I have to hang in the human world, I might as well reside in the upper echelons of it, so even though as a powerful fairy I completely eclipse your puny human status in a staggeringly unimaginable way, since you’re about to be king and since my premonition that I should stick this whole guardianship thing out because you would be hot one day has totally proved accurate (go me), I will graciously lower myself to allowing you to marry me.  Please feel free to grovel at my feet in gratitude.  (Btw, we can totally start the wedding night now, we’ll tell your mother about it when she arrives tomorrow.)”

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[keffirinne]

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[2t2r]

Le château de Neuschwanstein , un château de conte de fée pour de vrai

Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/le-chateau-de-neuschwanstein-un-chateau-de-conte-de-fee-pour-de-vrai/

Le château de Neuschwanstein , un château de conte de fée pour de vrai

[xphaiea]

from Contes De Fees, 1908.

[francepittoresque]

TRADITION | Éloge des contes de fées, miroirs de l’âme humaine ➽ http://bit.ly/Contes-Fees Aucune littérature ne possède de plus beaux contes de fées que la littérature française, à commencer par ceux de Perrault, dont l’académicien Charles Nodier disait qu’ils étaient le chef-d’oeuvre du siècle des chefs-d’oeuvre et que Bonaparte avait appris par coeur pour occuper l’ennui du siège de Toulon, le général devenu empereur récitant plus tard à Joséphine d’un bout à l’autre le "Petit Poucet" ou le "Chat botté"

[masteredinstinct]

cont. from here / @stlispenard

louis would have never stepped into a place like that .

the decadence began well before he stepped through the entrance : shivering bodies crowded in a fenced in corner , healing their nicotine addiction through laughter and coke fuelled conversations while , just a meter away , a girl held her friend's brightly coloured hair as she vomited every meal she had had throughout the day . the odour which spilled out of the club every time the doors were pushed open was obscene ( sweat , alcohol , tobacco , sex , bitter drugs , bitterer blood --- ) but it still called to the dozens of extravagantly dressed people queueing outside , eager to be freed of all the inhibitions of daytime .

louis would have never stepped into a place like that . but he did wait to be let in and paid a generous extra fee in order to persuade security to ignore the dress code . and once he got down to the dance floor , louis du lac felt as if he had entered a fresh new layer of hell . the loud music climbed up the walls and vibrated through every bone of the vampire's skeleton . the strobe lights caused the dancing bodies to flash in and out of existence and yet , despite all of the chaos , louis could hear only one thing ; a heartbeat echoing through the ether , calling to him , beckoning more than any flash of exposed skin or artery --- lestat de lioncourt was there . and that by itself might not have been a crime but , the fact that he had not gone looking for louis after he had extended a clear invitation to him , had been enough to propel mr. du lac to get on a plane and hunt him down .

pushing through the sea of people posed no challenge . plenty of humans protested or did a double-take whenever louis nudged past them , noticing how out of place he looked in his tweed . louis would have never stepped into a place like that . BUT THERE HE WAS ; he would have recognised lestat with his damn eyes closed . and even just a glance at the back of his blonde head had sent his heart into a frenzy . never mind that he had his face buried in a young woman's neck ( louis knew better than to be jealous , but still felt his jaw clench at that sight ) , he was quick to press his hand to lestat's back and guide him out of the nest of contorting bodies .

not a word is shared between them . louis cannot afford to give reason any room ; he fears lestat might try to persuade him out of getting what he wants again . though he doubts he can --- not when he can feel lestat's heart pulsating when they hold hands . not when they finally reach the backroom and louis pins him up against a wall to crash his lips into his , kissing the laughter right off his pink mouth . one of louis' hands latches onto the other man's jaw , making sure he keeps him still as he deepens the kiss , tasting every inch of lestat's mouth he can before the blond attempts to ruin the moment with words . louis cannot help but inhale sharply , the kiss too hungry and eager for a man who had named himself a master of his instincts . but god , he had missed him --- louis had missed lestat too much to sit idle and wait .

[princess-ibri]

Does the French fairytale Princess Mayblossom exist in the Disneyverse?

Eh, I was tempted for a bit as it is where the og name Carabosse comes from, but ultimately I decided that it was 1. A little too close to what we already have with Sleeping Beauty (hence why the name travled over into the Sleeping Beauty Ballet and became ubiquitous with the Wicked Fairy until Maleficent's portrayal gained prominence)

And 2. Its just a little bit too silly? Well not silly so much as tounge in cheek, which was very common for the salon fairy tales/ conte de fees before the Brothers Grimm's more folkloric style gained popularity (one of the reasons Beauty and the Beast has managed to become a staple when so many of the other salon takes have faded was because Beaumont's version reworked it into this folklore style)

And while I can definitely appreciate the tounge in cheek aspect and actually enjoy it from time to time my personal tastes run more towards Grimm's style.

[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.

[ataturquie]

https://www.geo.fr/voyage/732-chateaux-de-conte-de-fee-et-une-corruption-xxl-le-cauchemar-du-disneyland-turc-222859

[thetheatreacademy]

À moitié complet : Summer School 2024 | Stage de théâtre pour tout-petits | spécial Conte de fées | 10.07.2024 à 16h | Marseille #thetheatreacademy #Marseille

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[raffaelapflueger]

À moitié complet : Summer School 2024 | Stage de théâtre pour tout-petits | spécial Conte de fées | 10.07.2024 à 16h | Marseille #thetheatreacademy #Marseille

À moitié complet : Summer School 2024 | Stage de théâtre pour tout-petits | spécial Conte de fées | 10.07.2024 à 16h | Marseille: Marseille | The Theatre Academy | Summer School 2024 | Stage de... thetheatre.academy/theatre-hidden/theatre-pour-adolecents/stages-pour-adolescents/...

https://thetheatre.academy/theatre-hidden/theatre-pour-adolecents/stages-pour-adolescents/a-moitie-complet-summer-school-2024-stage-de-theatre-pour-tout-petits-special-conte-de-fees-10-07-2024-a-16h-marseille.html

[vroooom2]

You'll become richer than ever with this free AMA even if you don't give a damn to your business & employees security. What's the actual value of 45min of your time invested for your team safety? Just a dime, that will save you tons of energy, wasted into stressful situations, to focus on your end goal as a CEO: make money.

🗨️The fact that you're putting sensitive data in a hostile environment [social media platforms/cyberspace] is the definition of risk, and clearly you're prioritizing something else over security.

🗨️So be real. Say security is your third or fourth priority. But never lie to me and tell me it's your top priority.

🗨️> security is our #1 priority. Every company ever after a security breach lol

🗨️My respect for an org would increase by magnitudes if they were that honest. "Security was our #4 priority, but we've bumped it up to #3." I'll settle for "Security is important to us". (I created/posted the image below after a recent disclosure made that all-too-common claim.)

🗨️See also local governments, and some state governments. The small towns especially worry me because a fair number of them barely have enough resources to perform essential services (desktop support, maybe the ability to pay fees/taxes online), a feature they share with SMBs. Even if you somehow dropped a security appliance with all the bells and whistles there's nobody on staff to monitor and react.

🗨️It's all about threat modelling and risk mitigation rather than security absolutism.

🗨️Threat Hunting is a process / methodology and 99% of the time does not need a dedicated team. True value of a thrunting process: gap identification and remediation of said gaps through delivery of net new capabilities or improvement of existing ones (new controls or telemetry or improvements to existing / business process adjustments etc ). Easier to get resources allocated in existing teams who have knowledge of the land both technically and operationally (business) and establish mechanisms to feed findings through the flywheel vs dedicated teams.

🗨️Doing the right things in security does not require a ton of time. You just need to patch critical vulnerabilities, especially when they're exposed on the internet like the recent Citrix gateway hack. I suppose you could say that's max priority but it's not max resources.

🎧

Fei-Fei Li, a pioneer that helped lay the groundwork that underpins modern generative ai models, is pushing for a human-centred way of dealing with ai—treating it as a tool to help enhance—and not replace—humanity, while focussing on the pressing challenges of disinformation, bias and job disruption.

Fei-Fei Li is the founding co-director of Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence. Fei-Fei and her research group created ImageNet, a huge database of images that enabled computers scientists to build algorithms that were able to see and recognise objects in the real world. That endeavour also introduced the world to deep learning, a type of machine learning that is fundamental part of how large-language and image-creation models work.

« Guerre d'influenceur. Guerre d'influence.

Définition d'un influenceur du Robert: "personne qui influence l'opinion, la consommation par son audience sur les réseaux sociaux."

Influenceur est devenu un métier militaire. C'est le domaine des combattants de la "guerre informationnelle". Une guerre qui peut être offensive ou défensive. On attaque et on contre-attaque l'adversaire par les armes de l’information ou on contre l'information/désinformation de l'adversaire.

Cette guerre n'est pas nouvelle. Elle a porté différents noms. La nouveauté est que la puissance et la variété des Réseaux Sociaux en a décuplé la puissance en permettant de faire basculer "l’opinion publique" amie ou ennemie dans votre camp ou contre votre camp en quelques secondes et quelques clics.

La guerre informationnelle est donc une synthèse de la guerre cyber/informatique (le vecteur), de la guerre des "narratifs" (éléments de langage) et du triptyque connaitre/anticiper/contrer. Bref des technologies et des hommes.

Trois organisations sont centrales pour nos combattants français de l'information d'influence:

- Le ComCyber et ses cyber-combattants offensifs ou défensifs.

- Pour la production de contenus, il s’appuiera notamment sur le Centre interarmées des actions sur l’environnement (CIAE), basé à Lyon où, depuis 2012, les armées conçoivent en partie leurs «opérations civilo-militaires» et d’influence.

- La nouvelle "Cellule Anticipation stratégique et Orientation" de l’État-major des armées. Une "cellule" composée d'une douzaine d'officiers, dont beaucoup ont fait un passage dans la "communication" militaire, sous le commandement d'un officier général qui a exercé la fonction de porte-parole de l’EMA. Une fonction de porte-parole que le CEMA, le général Burkhard a exercé lui-même de 2007 à 2008. Cette cellule fournit les "narratifs" et "contre-narratifs" aux chefs militaires, aux cyber-combattants qui vont alimenter les RS et à un cercle d'"influenceurs" extérieurs sélectionnés. Ce sont d'abors des analystes qui travaillent en lien avec la DGRIS, la DRM, le quai d'Orsay,...

Une cellule essentielle pour que le CEMA puisse assumer ses responsabilités de chef militaire dans le nouveau domaine officiel de la guerre que constitue la "guerre de l'information".

La guerre du XXIème siècle sera informationnelle ou la guerre ne sera pas.

La distance la plus importante dans la guerre est celle qui sépare nos deux oreilles.

La guerre en Israël est véritablement la première guerre informationnelle du XXIème siècle.

Elle fera référence et elle ne touche pas que les RS. Il suffit de comparer la façon dont Le Figaro et Le Monde couvre cette guerre pour comprendre que, RS ou médias traditionnels, chacun est au service d'un positionnement politique, d'une vision idéologique de l'homme, du monde ou de la guerre.

Tout est information. Tout est guerre de l'information. Parole d'influenceur.» 🪶82un0

[piss-stained-jorts]

alright motherfuckers. you've forced my hand. here's my personal collection of royalty free music sites. I've curated them based on whether or not the terms of service allow for use in porn games. badda bing

maou

kamatamago

wingless-seraph

musmus (my personal favorite)

conte-de-fees (specifically for cute sounding music)

go. be free. make games!

at some point, I wanna make a short list of resources frequently used by dlsite games, because a lot of people assume there's more of a baseline quality gap between "eastern" and "western" rpgmaker games than there actually is, and a lot of that comes down to the JP rpgmaker community having established avenues through which to acquire cheap royalty-free assets that specifically match the vibes of rpgs lol

[2t2r]

La féérique forêt de Fanal et ses lauriers tordus à Madère

Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/feerique-foret-de-fanal-lauriers-tordus-madere/

La féérique forêt de Fanal et ses lauriers tordus à Madère

[sleepymimixx]

j’aimerai être une princesse, peut-être une princesse de conte de fée remasterisé à la disney. je voudrais qu’une citrouille se transforme en carosse. avec halloween ça pourrait arriver. si j’etaisune princesse alors fini le monde réel et j’aurais droit à mon happy ending. ils vecurent heureux jusqu’à la fin des temps. avant on ajoutait et ils auraienr beaucoup d’enfants mais c’est démodé et je n’en veux pas. d’ailleurs ce serait elles vecurent heureuse jusqu’a la fin des temps. alors c’est auoi mon conte de fee

[francepittoresque]

TRADITION | Éloge des contes de fées, miroirs de l’âme humaine ➽ http://bit.ly/Contes-Fees Aucune littérature ne possède de plus beaux contes de fées que la littérature française, à commencer par ceux de Perrault, dont l’académicien Charles Nodier disait qu’ils étaient le chef-d’oeuvre du siècle des chefs-d’oeuvre et que Bonaparte avait appris par coeur pour occuper l’ennui du siège de Toulon, le général devenu empereur récitant plus tard à Joséphine d’un bout à l’autre le "Petit Poucet" ou le "Chat botté"