#fairy-tales-for-adults

[thepersonalwords]

These days when you kiss a prince you often run the risk of turning him into a frog. But don't let the ogres in shining armor get you down. There is no need for distress - you don't want to be anyone's damsel anyway. Simply remind yourself that you are busy racking up those 'frequent failure points' that will eventually pay for an all expenses paid trip to Mr Right.

Anthon St. Maarten

[diana-andraste]

The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter, 1979 (read in English)

La cámara sangrienta, (read in Spanish, trans. Jesús Gómez Gutiérrez)

Illustrations by Alejandra Acosta

[runawaycarouselhorse]

I don't want to act like a snob, but, y'all... really don't read old fairy tales or mythology, do you...? You only know the sanitized, bloodless Disney versions? People get cut to pieces (Cinderella/Ashputtel, The Red Shoes), women are abducted to be wives (an upsetting practice that continued until very recently, still practiced in some countries today—horrible, but part of life that found its way into stories, like The Seal's Skin), and magical talking animal husbands / wives (The Crane's Return of a Favour; East of the Sun, West of the Moon, etc.) abound in old mythology. Kids have been raised hearing these stories and not thinking about sex for centuries...

Humans marrying Pokemon in the ancient past was frankly stated in the Japanese version of DPPt. The English version rightly assumed English-speaking fans won't take it and reworded it from used to marry to used to eat at the same table (some euphemism!)

The Typhlosion story is no different from western stories like East of the Sun, West of the Moon (the way she was advised not to look at him reminded me of that) or The Seal's Skin (selkies cannot transform and return to the sea without their pelts—the abducted wife leaves her half-human child on land, escaping with her pelt when she finds it... the half-human, half-Pokemon children are bullied by their pelts being thrown on them to transform them against their will for cruel human amusement..)

The bloody myth about the boy with the sword is Veilstone's myth, but told in detail, right down to the Pokemon exacting a toll from him for how he maimed and slew them for amusement.

A man unknowingly marries a transformed-into-human form Froslass he met once before in Pokemon Legends: Arceus and she flees when he finds out what she was... it's based on a tale about the yuki-onna, the folkloric snow woman Froslass is based on.

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[magpie-trove]

Actually I don’t think you are actually fr an adult author if you can’t write something without a s*x scene in it

[demi-pixellated]

So there's this demon slayer and monk 😊

[serien-grl-22]

Jude was invited to her own wedding.

[disneytva]

New Rejected Disney Television Animation Pilots Unveiled "Odd Jobs" and "Portal Hoppers"

Recently we unveiled a a look to the rejected Disney TVA series Uncookedland, apparently Matt Danner ("Legend Of The Three Caballeros") worked as Director for the pilot.

As Danner was thanking the people for seeing the pilots where here worked on ("Shred Force", "MEGA, MEGA Whoosh" and Uncookeland"). Cartoon Network Studios creator Andrew Dickman ("Harmony In Despair") mentioned a pilot under the name "Odd Jobs" where he worked on.

Not many information for Odd Jobs or it's creator is available however based on it's title we can assume is a wacky episodic comedy about the mcs having multiple jobs.

Recently JJ Villard attended the Creative Block podcast where he commented about his career as cartoonist/animator that lead to create the Adult Swim series "King Star King" and "JJ's Villard Fairy Tales" and the Cartoon Cartoons short "Scaredy Cat" that according to him almost lead him to be blacklisted after trying to sell it to Nickelodeon since Warner Bros/Cartoon Network dosn't want to release it and apparently broke the NDA contract.

During the podcast Villard revealed that he had a small overall development deal with Disney Television Animation with a show under the name "Portal Hoppers" according to Villard the series was aiming to be for Disney XD, as it's name says the show would have been about multiverse dimension hopping alongside the likes of Star Vs The Forces of Evil by Daron Nefcy, Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero by Jared Bush and Sam Levine and Very Important House by Jenny Goldberg and Jhonen Vasquez this is the only information so far.

Likely "Portal Hoppers" was passed when Disney decided to bring back all DTVA series in development for the Disney Channel which made Portal Hoppers to feel out of place with the demographic Disney Channel is know for.

[nix-is-reading]

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Finally getting around to posting my top 12 of 2024.

Not really in any particular order 🖤

🖤 Signs of Cupidity by Raven Kennedy

🖤 Deceit by Katelyn Taylor

🖤 Bonded by Thorns by Elizabeth Helen

🖤 Order of Scorpions by Ivy Asher

🖤 Luxeria by Collette Rhodes

🖤 A Soul to Keep by Opal Reyne

🖤 The Other Side of the Mirror by Dana Evyn

🖤 Demon Throne by Debbie Cassidy

🖤 Death's Obsession by Avina St Graves

🖤 A Heart So Cold and Wicked by Rebecca F Kenney

🖤 Lord of Bones by Aiden Pierce and RK Pierce

🖤 Monstrous by Nicole M Rubino

QOTD: What's your favorite read of 2025 so far?

AOTD: Demise by Katelyn Taylor

I hope all of you are having a wonderful 2025 so far 💖💖

You can also find me on Bookstagram @ Nicole_Nightrey

I'll be changing the handle soon to match this

[rat-rosemary]

Adding on my post about how if the Evil Queen had manipulated Apple into thinking she was a good mom so Apple would free her the dragon special would be so much better, if they hadn't got rid of the book in wonderland and now the main tension is the fact that Raven had to sign it so they wouldn't die, but Apple has not signed it yet because the one she did sign in the ceremony thing was fake. So now the moral dilemma becomes that if Apple signs the book her fairy tale is bound to happen, just like he wanted, but Raven did not sign it because she wanted to, she did it for her and her friends survival

So Apple has to deal not only with the whole Evil Queen and her mom fiasco, she also needs to deal with the fact that no matter how much she wants to, she shouldn't sign the book because it would seal Raven's fate when she didn't agree to it out of her own free will

[quietwingsinthesky]

i do love canon amy & rory but god, does some part of me wish they really had gone with the idea of the doctor picking up a child as a companion (and then later, that child’s best friend with a huge crush on her.) with the rest of the season really not changing at all, except now it’s amelia pond with an angel in her head killing her and lost alone in the woods. it’s little rory who dies and is forgotten and becomes a toy soldier. if this is going to be a fairy tale, then let it be one. children have never been safe in fairy tales.

[vestaal]

Re reading To Kill a Kingdom because Lira is such an awsome main character

[movieposters1]

[theradianthealer]

Parents : She'll be turning 20. She'll take up her responsibilities now.

Meanwhile me*

Wearing a crown and cloak at midnight, reading fairytales and dancing in the arms of my imaginary prince :))

[mytardisisparked]

Gosh, I love the Chronicles of Narnia. I love the childlike wonder. I love the message about forgiveness, grace, and unconditional love. I love the fact that it's simultaneously such a good introduction to fantasy for children and a message of hope for adults. I've read these books several times, each at different eras of my life, and find some new encouragement every time I read them that is exactly what I need for that stage of existence.

Thanks, Mr. Lewis.

[ariel-seagull-wings]

@princesssarisa @themousefromfantasyland

Picture of afro brazilian actress Adele Fátima playing the role of 'Clara das Neves' (a word play with 'Branca de Neve' (Snow White) and 'claras em neve' (egg whites, snow eggs or meringues in english) in the 1979 erotic comedy movie 'Histórias que as nossas Babás Não Contavam' (Tales Our Nannies Didn't Tell), which was a theatrically released parody of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs for adults, part of the genre known as 'pornochanchada' that was popular between the late 70s to mid 80s during the climate of political opening and relaxing censorship in Brazil during the proccess of redemocratization.

This is the most family friendly picture of the movie that I could find to share on Tumblr.

[david-talks-sw]

"What I'm really interested in is Star Wars from the perspective of the bad guys. Therefore, if we set something earlier in the timeline, something before the prequels, but a little bit after, you know, end of a High Republic, I was like, then the Jedi become, y'know-- Star Wars is always about "rebels vs institutional threat", right? "Underdogs vs huge empire", right? So if we set it then, the Jedi become the antagonists."

If this is implying the Jedi represent the institution/the Man... they're not. They're the underdogs.

If you go by the movies and The Clone Wars, the only people "below" them in status are Jar Jar, the clones and Anakin when he was a slave. Everybody else walks all over them.

"I think it’s difficult to do a show that is critical in any way of the Jedi."

It's surprisingly easy. Just watch Tales of the Jedi.

It won't be accurate in its criticism, but it does so happily.

"People were very nervous about saying this particular institution may not be the light and perfect, stunning group of heroes that are totally nobly intentioned"

If you search "The Jedi were good" on YouTube you get this result.

"[The Jedi] are fallible. That's really the story that George told with the prequels, right? The fall of this particular group."

No. It's not.

If you ask George Lucas, he'll ALWAYS say, from 1999 to 2020, that they're about:

how a democracy becomes a dictatorship and

how a good kid becomes a bad man.

He never brings up the Jedi when describing what the Prequels are about. The Jedi can only stand helpless, play catch-up and watch because guess what? They're the underdogs. They're not the institution.