#donttouchmyasymptote

[eah-exchange]

Happy holidays Andromeda!

I really liked the design of your OC Mahlee Black, so I drew her practicing ballet at the lake under the willows. She’s definitely an intriguing OC and I’d love to hear or find out more about her!

To: @andromedavwrites

From: @donttouchmyasymptote

[el-dritchknight]

I see the haleandy tag and I am 🥺

aaa thank you zena <3 we stan soulmates who save each other's lives through countless universes after having a rocky start <3 also soulmates where one half of them calls the other an 'unripe wifeguy'

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[jash-t]

happy holidays Zena! @donttouchmyasymptote

This is your gift for the @eah-exchange I loved all your ocs, but I have to admit Dee and Ramsay are my favs so i drew them for you, theyre just too angsty and I love that! go sheephearts yay !!!

[pianta]

hero 🔪

↳ commission for @donttouchmyasymptote!

[ele-alien]

"I see forever in your eyes,

I feel okay when I see you smile, smile"

My gift for @donttouchmyasymptote for the eah gift exchange hosted by @eah-exchange !

Happy Holidays!

[gnomeniche]

got six artfight attacks up so it's time to do a compilation post! in order, ocs belong to: @its-actually-ash, @magicmadscience, @blazernot, @puffspuff, @donttouchmyasymptote, and @binalakai!

[andromedavwrites]

tagged by @gumjester so let’s gooooo!!!

relationship status: taken!! been in a relationship for over 2 years :))

favorite color: purple! 💟💟💟

song stuck in head: Lover by Taylor Swift(funny bc (hot take) lover is my least favorite album)

favorite food: palak paneer from a Himalayan restaurant in the next town over from where i live

last song you listened to: “All The World’s A Stage” from Furina’s character Demo(i’m genshin obsessed whoops, i have it on loop)

dream trip: i’d LOVE to go to Japan or Paris, mainly Paris(i spend too much time watching Miraculous Ladybug and just want genuine macarons, also i speak the tiniest bit of french) but i want to go to Japan for the pop-up cafes and FOR TOKYO DISNEY

last thing googled: i think it was…. dopeslimes.com ?? idk i’m an ipad kid i have a bunch of slime it just scratches my autism in the right way

uhhhh tagging @athena-xox @donttouchmyasymptote @xxcherrycherixx and i think that’s it-

if you haven’t done this yet, feel free to!!!

[coeurvrai]

@donttouchmyasymptote

graves grow no green that you can use.

gwendolyn brooks

[joleenjackalope]

My @eah-exchange gift for @donttouchmyasymptote

I was looking through all your OCs and I fell absolutely in LOVE with these two. I read their entire fandom pages twice & immediately checked out their Pinterest boards. I absolutely had to draw them!

Bonus! A sketch of my favorite part in “Young and Dipped in Folly” 🐏

[creamodreamo]

holly o'hair in "our love will transcend universes"?

That’s the title of the fanfiction she’s thinking about going home and writing

[greed-the-dorkalicious]

ur love for clark and malfina is so admirable

I’m a goth girl who lives in Connecticut I would die for Clark and Malfina and their fucked up Connecticut dog

[rai-knightshade]

@donttouchmyasymptote

Sleepy Eepy Mareepy

[coeurvrai]

the australian ballerinas??? on my dash?? in 2021??

The WHAT?

😂

[glassphinix]

they're only splitting up because musk is in texas and grimes is in california so unfortunately it is not very drama filled

man they cant even be breaking up over something fucked up and hilarious?? cant have shit in cincinnati

[starberry-cupcake]

@donttouchmyasymptote replied to your post

I also see that there's less class mobility in D'Aulnoy than other writers - could that come from a feeling of being trapped by her (albeit, noble) social position?

I'm glad that my response was of use! I'll answer you this in a separate post because I know myself and I can't promise this to fit in a reply lol

I think that it might have been a combination between the context of production of the stories and their aim with them, especially d'Aulnoy's, but most of the salonniers as well.

In terms of production, compilers like Basile, Straparola, Perrault the Grimms, Afanasyev, etc., even if with different intentions (which influenced the types and forms of stories they had in their publications), were adapting, writing or compiling stories that were inherently folkloric. There are many theories about the origin of stories (some even speak of a spiritual level of wisdom that's very interesting) but it's known that these authors, as the original post said, took them from working classes, "lower" classes.

They adapted them, like I said, to their ideologies or their audiences, but they came from an ancient place and were shared from person to person.

For example, there is said to have been thousands of versions of Cinderella (or what we'd categorize as Cinderella today) around the world, Ye Xian being the first one written and surviving that we know of. It's very likely that the idea of class mobility that many versions of Cinderella carried came from the poorer classes that transformed the story through the centuries. When it reached Perrault, for example, that wasn't something his audience (or himself) would approve of, so he made Cinderella the daughter of a nobleman who had fallen in misfortune after his death, rather than a poor class girl.

The salonniers weren't really adapting folk stories as much as they were using them (and other elements) as inspiration to create their own, which were most often wish-fulfillment stories. Class mobility wasn't a priority for them to depict because it wasn't their issue, but sexism was, so most of the stories had female protagonists who did quests, rescued princes, were cursed or broke curses. They were also flawed in the stories, made mistakes they had to pay for, so if there were any morals they were mostly from women to other women of the same class.

I think this is mostly why that is, the interest wasn't on the class aspect but on the gender aspect for her. She certainly did feel trapped by the way her gender was perceived in her class at her time, by the limitations they had to live with, many scholars discuss that as a key element to read stories by the salonniers.

This is why it's very interesting sometimes to compare versions of the same inspiration in different authors and see what they prioritized. For example, I think Green Serpent by d'Aulnoy, Beauty and the Beast by Villeneuve and later adapted by Beaumont, Blue Beard by Perrault and Hans my Hedgehog by the Grimms are all coming from the Cupid and Psyche myth, with more or less degrees of evidence. The stories are so differently developed and the point is placed in such different places that you'd think they were all coming from entirely different sources.

Also, it's very interesting what you're doing with d'Aulnoy stories! I hope this helps!

[coeurvrai]

@donttouchmyasymptote

I just heard my mom tell my brother, “when you die, you will go outside and garden until your father says you’re done” and it took me a second to realize that my brother was playing a videogame and this was not a theological discussion.