#fairytale comedies
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So, I realized I made a BIG mistake in my previous post (thanks @gay-impressionist and @northwest-by-a-train for correcting my big mistake, I clearly wasn't well-informed Xp) - time to redo a new post!
As a result I'll go straight to the conclusion: there's something inherently queer about fairytale adaptations. There's something inherently queer about literary fairytales, for example, written by French lesbians of the Renaissance or sad Danish gay men. There's something even queer by the more "traditional" folktales (see the famous fairytale type which ends with the heroine undergoing magical gender transition - I posted a Greek version and reblogged a Romanian one). But when it comes to various fairytale adaptations, the queerness is even more present.
The most famous example is the Disney classics. Movies that are the epitome of fairytales in America, movies that are some of the huge symbols of heterosexuality and "conservation of traditional values" in America, movies owned and produced by a company still known today for not being queer-friendly... And yet movies that form a huge part of the queer aesthetic, and that fuel the cross-dressing/drag-art imagery, and that formed a certain gay audience. Charming princes, beautiful princesse, disturbingly sexy villains, Disney had all to please a queer person.
But it isn't just in America. In France the two major fairytale movies, the dominant pieces of fairy-tale cinema, were created by two prominent gay/bisexual artists of their time, and each had their own queerness in it. Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (he literaly had his boyfriend play the Beast), and Jacques Demy's Donkey Skin (his musical movies of the 60s form in themselves a sub-genre associated with gayness in France - we don't have the "Gays love musical theater" stereotype, but we do have the "Gays love Demy's musicals" stereotype).
(This isn't so much about "classics" but I have to point out how the motif of queerness as a joke or subversion of fairytales also is quite present in French media since the 90s-2000s onward. The sex-comedy "Blanche Neige la suite" has, obviously, a lot of gay jokes, the humoristic-fantasy book "Blanche-Neige et les lance-missiles" and its sequel have a lot of lesbianism, the recent "Robilard" comic book has a big gay element by the middle of its run, and even the recent Cinderella parody movie has an entire segment about a gay fairy godmother directly referencing Demy's Donkey-Skin ; while of various qualities and worth, I can't help but compare this prominence of the "lesbian joke" or "gay subversion" in fairytale comedies and parodies in France, compared to for example American fairytale parodies and comedies which seemed more shy about it? I don't know, again, I'm just scribbling down notes)
And from my old post other people pointed out similar phenomenon in old "classics".
@countesspetofi pointed out how in the UK you have the entire pantomime genre, and there is no need to explain why they're queer. And @maimoncat higlighted how a lot of fairytale productions of Europe like to use the "crossdressing princess" motif (Three Wishes for Cinderella/Fantaghiro) - plus how Roberto de Simone's adaptation of "Gatta Cenerentola" explored the motif of gender ambiguity by having femminielli (third gender people from Naples and Campania) be involved in specific scenes, and the wicked step-family played by crossdressing actors.
If you ever have other examples don't hesitate to share! (And let's hope this time I won't have to rewrite the post due to my own ignorance Xp)
#queerness in fairytales#queer fairytales#fairytale movies#fairytale parodies#fairytale comedies#fairytale adaptations
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#funny#lol#funny post#lolol#hilarious#comedy#funny pics#funny images#meme#dank memes#fairy tale vibes#fairytale
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Riddle of Fire (2023)
Dir. Weston Razooli
#film#movie#riddle of fire#adventure#fantasy#folklore#faery#faery folk#faery aesthetic#weston razooli#comedy#neo-fairytale#lio tipton#charles halford#charlie stover#skyler peters#phoebe ferro#lorelei olivia mote#wyoming#summer#vintage#shot on film#Kodak#16mm#Kodak 16mm
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How The Princess got her sword.
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Free my man Joe Keery from Stranger Things. He filmed four movies and one tv show in between season 4 and season 5, just imagine what’s in store for after he’s free! Cast this man!
#Joe Keery#this guy needs to be in more stuff#he deserves to be an indie darling#get this man in the audition room lol#I need him in a romcom a dramedy a fairytale a limited series and a comedy stat
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Ok, so, since I don’t have my iPad with me rn, I want y’all to decide smth.
#blabbering#mention#Polls#genres#Thriller#Adventure#Horror#Action#fairytale#comedy#supernatural#romance
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A Cinderella Story (2004)
#aesthetic#pop#pastel pink#fairytale#warner bros#hilary duff#chad michael murray#movie#ilm#cinderella#sam austin#love story#romantic#teen movie#comedy#chick flick
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Newly acquired:
Bunny by Mona Awad
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub
#bunny#mona awad#humour#fairytales#dark comedy#dark academia#horror#thriller#fantasy#magical realism#literary#mystery#bleak house#charles dickens#classics#literature#19th century#victorian#historical#british literature#pride and prejudice#jane austen#novel of manners#romance#regency#the scandalous confessions of Lydia Bennet witch#Melinda taub#epistolary#coming of age#mashup
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gradually letting out the accumulated thoughts of genshin updates + gaming insanity shortly but first: i'm so fucking thoroughly insane about jakob rene mary-ann carter/caterpillar and alain, and yes, i am a million years late to this party
#there are at least 24 fics on ao3 i cheered (just finished the first annapausis q released in 4.0 lol)#i need like. grotesque horrifying abomination tragic jakob fic injected into my veins right now#ramblings!#narzissenkreuz fairytales#<- new tag#the thing with genshin world quests is that i never do them in the intended best viewing experience order#(i finished the unfinished comedy quest before the first one with ann. which got released earlier lol)#genshin's tragedies are honestly some of the best written parts of the game idk what they put in the doomed historical characters but its#very tasty thank you
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S čerty nejsou žerty (1984)
#s čerty nejsou žerty#československá kinematografie#czechoslovakia#80s#1984#comedy#fairytale#christmas movie#iconic#ondřej vetchý#vladimír dlouhý#jiří kemr#petr nárožný#film#movie#retro#aesthetic#loveit#❤️#božena němcová#Give The Devil His Due
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Given the premise you’d expect OFMD to be Captains Courageous, and it certainly follows that arc a bit, but it’s like Jane Austen cowrote it with Kipling. All the drama of the romance and the lovely absurdities of people and the ways they drive each other nuts and save each other.
#it’s made for me#perfect marriage of the naive adventurer genre and the social comedy with a healthy heaping of fairytale#ofmd
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Dark Fairytale Drabble Series
Hey guys! So, to destroy the reader's drought I have been making all of you go through😆, and to provide you guys with more stories, I have decided to create a drabble series inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales. Though his original tales are dark in nature, ours will be more light-hearted bubbly fics that hopefully make you laugh and chuckle a bit. They are outrageous, exaggerated, and dramatic, have some unhinged smut in them, and are overall a set of ridiculous stories . Hope you like them!!!❤️
#bts x reader#chubby reader#bts x reader plus size#comedy#bts#fanfic#fairytales#hans christian andersen
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Hi!
This is a story about life in general, overcoming hardships and true friends.
#story#cat#worm#catandworm#friendship#comedy#cartoon#animation#comics#book#fairytale#illustration#drama#Youtube
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whipple makes a funny
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what's your favourite fic that you've written? (Or, I suppose a scene from a fic that you're particularly proud of?) (although saying that so much of your fic is top tier 🩵🩵🩵)
hello anon!! this ask made me 🥺🥺, thank you so much for dropping it in my inbox <3
my favourite fic that i've written... this is actually more difficult than i thought, as there are some that were hell to write but i'm really pleased with how it turned out, and some that are not absolute masterpieces but i had so much fun writing them. and the one that's a mix of all of the above (as contradictory as it may seem) hasn't even been finished and posted yet lmao. i think, overall, my favourite that i've posted is we left the book of love signed in blood on every page, which looks at the breakdown of gwaine and merlin following lancelot's death. i enjoy writing angst like that and i also had fun with the sustained imagery
but in terms of a scene that i'm particularly proud of, the moment in bitter is the antidote where gwaine begins to relax around lancelot and both of them are pressed close to each other and reaching out to merlin is one that i'm quite proud of. the full scene is below the cut and i enjoyed trying to depict the hesitancy on both gwaine's and lancelot's parts. also i really like the line 'so he let his tea go cold and his shoulder grow numb' but i couldn't tell you exactly why
thanks for the ask anon, hope you have a wonderful day! ��
Lancelot had one hand buried in Merlin’s hair again, twisting the short strands between his fingers, knees pressed against the bed. Hesitantly, Gwaine hovered on Lancelot’s left side before sinking down to the floor, one leg strewn out beneath the bed. His hand reached for the one Merlin had draped over the edge of the bed, taking it between his fingers and, upon receiving murmured permission, gingerly leaned against Lancelot’s leg. He was aware of the bone pressing into his shoulder, just as he was aware of Merlin’s grip tightening around him, but it didn’t scare him half as much as it should have done.
Never, never had Gwaine thought that he would be so close to two others when all three of them were conscious. Never had he thought he would be confronted with the knowledge of his best friend having magic, either, and Gwaine couldn’t help but wonder what other unexpected things fate had in store for him. He didn’t dare move, in case it all proved to be an illusion and the slightest twitch dispelled it. So he let his tea go cold and his shoulder grow numb, let his abdominal muscles ache with the effort of not allowing all of his weight to fall on Lancelot’s leg and his hand be manipulated by Merlin’s touch.
Merlin, assured by their physical presence, had closed his eyes and Gwaine took the opportunity to use his gaze to sketch out the angles of Merlin’s body in his mind, safe in the knowledge that Lancelot couldn’t see his face. Before, he’d been convinced that he’d successfully memorised each dip in Merlin’s form in the same way that he’d memorised the placement of his own gaping traps in woods over the years. He’d thought that he’d be able to sculpt Merlin flawlessly from ribbons of clouds and wind. But, as Merlin shifted and the tip of what looked like an old scar peered over the neck of his shirt, Gwaine realised just how wrong he’d been. It was a blessing that the hand not holding Merlin’s was engaged with a cold cup of tea because Gwaine could feel temptation running its fingers along his arm, leaving a trail that ended at Merlin’s chest.
The skin looked leathery, much like Merlin’s burned leg, and, if it had been fire… Just how many times had Merlin narrowly escaped the flames? How much of himself had he kept protected from Gwaine with a clumsy cut of material tied around his throat? Dropping his gaze to his right hand, Gwaine pushed one side of it into the bed, careful not to squash Merlin’s hand. He was one to talk.
Faintly aware of a subtle movement behind him, Gwaine rotated his head by several degrees, glancing over his shoulder and through his hair. Lancelot was no longer holding the cup in one hand – if Gwaine shifted his hip, he’d knock against it on the ground – and the hand was now hovering above Gwaine’s shoulder. Gwaine began to phrase a silent question but cut himself off as he reached an answer; it seemed that Lancelot was reluctant to place his hand in his own lap for fear of elbowing Gwaine in the head.
Returning to look straight ahead, Gwaine raised his left hand and took his little finger away from the cup, hooking it around the tip of Lancelot’s middle finger. Careful not to spill his drink, Gwaine slowly lowered his hand, taking Lancelot’s with him, until Lancelot’s palm met his shoulder. As Gwaine rested his own hand on his thigh, Lancelot made port with his thumb at the muscle between Gwaine’s shoulder and neck. It was then that Gwaine registered that, in leaning against Lancelot, his jacket had slipped a little off his shoulders and had dragged the neck of his shirt down with it.
Most of Lancelot’s hand was planted firmly over Gwaine’s shirt, his wrist grazing the collar of the jacket, but his thumb was on that muscle – a muscle bearing layers of tension that Gwaine hadn’t even been aware of – and his index finger was dangling over Gwaine’s collarbone. And then Lancelot began to sweep his thumb back and forth along that single muscle, collecting the tension in Gwaine’s shoulder like a bee picking up pollen, and Gwaine couldn’t hold himself up any longer.
#hey nonny nonny asks#honestly i was not expecting this ask and it was such a lovely surprise when i checked tumblr last night#(i was in the middle of a rewatch of go2 at half 11 at night so decided to save it for this morning)#for the record i am also proud of much of mortality clings to butterfly wings but i'm trying to appreciate my recent writing#as my brain has been telling me it's not as good as my writing from 2021 and yeah it's slightly different but that doesn't mean it's worse#i am very excited for the day when i finish a fic i started last year and post it bc it is frankly hilarious if i do say so myself#it's the first fic that actually feels like a comedy and it's just. silly.#it's a merwaincelot fairytale au based on a tale called the bear that was collected by andrew lang in the grey fairy book#but with some changes and more comedic value#anyway i'm aiming to get it done for au day for merwaincelot week 2023#currently have 6 active wips and 4 of them are merwaincelot whoops#thanks again for the ask anon and for enabling me to ramble!!#lit talks#lit writes
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Various stills from Gutboy: A Badtime Story
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