#fairy godmother

[justgivemeabookplease]

Shrek 2, while a cinematic masterpiece, is also an interesting look at queerness and comp het.

Fiona is married so it's time to reunite with her parents. But instead of marrying a prince, she's married to an ogre. Not just that, but she's also an ogre. (Yes everyone knew she would sometimes be an ogre but that was when she was a child, she didn't know she would be an ogre for the rest of her life, and besides once she met the right prince she would stop being an ogre. She was supposed to stop being an ogre.)

But okay they're both ogres. We can still ask about when they'll have children because even if they're ogres they can still have kids, right? That's what married princes and princesses do so naturally that's what everyone does. Even if ogres might not be great parents (I've heard that ogres eat their young, is that something you people do?) it's still something that should be discussed.

And okay you can stay in Fiona's childhood bedroom filled with all the reminders that hey, everyone thought she was just a princess and princesses marry princes. Her toys left out from the last time she played with them. The prince slays the ogre. The princess offers a token of gratitude for slaying the ogre. Fiona wrote Mrs. Fiona Charming a million times in her diary because what else was she supposed to grow up to be?

And Harold you have to fix this, your country can't be ruled by ogres. You were unfit to rule when you were a frog but I changed you, I made you better, I made you a prince. You know how this works. Think of your daughter's safety.

Shrek goes to the Fairy Godmother and oh honey, ogres don't live happily ever after. It's just not done. It hasn't happened in all of fairy tale history. You have to change the both of you to be happy. You have to present as a prince and a princess. It will be better. You'll fit in better that way. You'll be accepted that way.

[al-whatever]

Mrs Chen is fairy godmother of symbrock

[dimension20official]

A new Dimension 20 Animated short is up on Dropout! Animation by @squirrelcurlsredux, storybook art by Valentina Fiallo.

[itsdefinitely]

immediately obsessed with her

[the-evil-clergyman]

El Hada Madrina, from La Esfera Magazine by Manuel Bujados (Oct. 1915)

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

JEROME, COFFEE AND A MONTE CRISTO, NOW!!! ☕️🥪

I’m not sure If I’ve mentioned it here or if it’s something I’ve been keeping hush-hush, but this illustration, as well as the Jack Horner drawing, are a part of a little series! I’m planning on making an illustration, and subsequently a print, of every Shrek villain. Farquaad is next :) I have his drawing finished, and you can see the uncolored version right now on patreon if you want.

[theotherendcomics]

[luminouslumity]

I'm a day late, but better late than never and Happy Twenty Years to this masterpiece!

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Cinderella concept art by Mary Blair (1950)

[m0ckest]

They Call Her Godmother — She's the best magic-practicing lawyer in Glimmerbrook but she's fully booked until the end of next year 🤷‍♀️

bonus: fairy and human forms 🧚‍♀️

[sexyladyotd]

[madmaxified]

the fact that BOTH of them were in and somehow survived a weird homoerotic relationship with ella is shocking

like wtf they put in the little blue haired girl??

[rosasstrangemelody]

My first reaction to this:

OK, but I can't stop thinking about it 💀

(Now the thought and theory that Magnifico is kinda fairy godmother is increasing)

(TelI me I'm not alone)

[veemimis]

I wish Fay had wings

[dozydawn]

[adarkrainbow]

In a previous post I tried to show how one can wildly reimagine fairytales while still being faithful to the text with a case study of Hansel and Gretel's witch in illustrations (the post is here). But I want to continue by showing an even more extreme example... Because the witch of the brothers Grimm still has a given set of traits that keep popping up and are canon (she is old, she has something wrong with her eyes, she has crutches/a cane)... But what if we look at Cinderella's fairy godmother? Now that's fascinating because... Charles Perrault does not provide any physical description. We don't know what her body looks like, what her age is supposed to be, how she is to be dressed, if she is supposed to be human-looking or otherwordly... And already classic illustrations of the tale clearly threw themselves into the open hole. It's the free market, baby! Look at all those different godmothers: