#grimm’s fairy tales

[lepetitdragonvert]

Grimm’s Fairy Tales

1920

Artist : Elenore Abbott

“The Six Swans”

[patheticbatman]

Day Four of my 54th Win a Commission contest! Guess the fairy tale upon which this is based, win a commission! This contest ends on October 14th at 12:01am, so get those guesses in!

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In the original tale, the evil stepmother is killed by the stepson-turned-bird’s final ‘gift’, which is usually a large stone of some sort which crushes her. Sometimes she is burned, sometimes the stepson’s favored tree burns alongside her. Either way, he gets reunited with his father and sibling. While I’ve aged up the characters, that’s otherwise what is happening here. He got transformed back.

[themelodyofspring]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

June 14, 2023 - Leatherbound

[angeloftheodd]

Princess Briar Rose playing her harp as she dreams of the world beyond her castle 👑🎀🎶

Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics (1988)(Saban Dub) 🧚🏰

[sixty-silver-wishes]

@eyeball-freak said my art reminded them of grimm’s fairy tales, so I doodled hansel and gretel :)

[savagebeauti]

The prince could decree the witches death right away at like 8 but they don’t actually manage to capture her. She is monarch of a neighboring kingdom after all. But it has been decreed so it has to happen. So years and years go by and the Queen finds out that Snow White is living a kingdom over. I say that makes her crazy enough to go to war. The prince’s army is victorious but it’s a hard war. So the royal wedding and torture of the Queen is to help the people start to recover from the war

You know the Grimm version of Snow White makes more sense than most versions if only because in that version Snow White was like 7 years old.

[steampunktendencies]

"Antique Door Lock: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"

Crafted by Frank Koralewsky in the early 20th century. It took Koralewsky seven years to complete and received the gold medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915.

[dommnics]

Sleeping Beauty (1959) turned 65, and it remains still such a beautiful film. It's one of my favourite quintessential fantasy films, and I adore princess Aurora and Maleficent!

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[iphigeniacomplex]

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 361

Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm / illustrated by Arthur Rackham

The Folio Society 2000

Here’s another Folio Society book. The text is taken from the revised edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, translated by Mrs Edgar Lucas, and this edition with the Rackham illustrations was first published in 1909. According to a note by Rackham, there was an edition of this book with 100 black-and-white illustrations published in 1900. He then revised them, redrawing some entirely, and colored 40 for inclusion in the 1909 edition. Printed on heavy paper and with a slipcase, this edition is a gorgeous piece of work.

[lepetitdragonvert]

Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Edited by Sara E. Wiltse

1923

Artist : Blanche Fisher Laite

The Two Brothers

[patheticbatman]

Welcome to my 54th Win A Commission contest! Guess the fairy tale my adaption was based upon, Win a Commission! This one ends at 12:01am EST October 14th.

This is based on a darker German tale, one I felt was perfect for October: the stepmother kills her stepson and convinces her daughter that she is the murderer. In the original tale, both the stepson and daughter are children. In mine, I aged them up a bit, and the stepmother actually has a nonbinary child.

In any case, they try to hide the body, but not all of it will fit in the wholes they dug. So, they cook and serve him on a plate.

This is one of my favorite Grimm’s tales; I hope you read it too!

I do this monthly, and my last one comes out in December. I’m very excited to share these last few with you all :D.

[themelodyofspring]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

February 17, 2023 - Fairy Tales

[angeloftheodd]

The Wolf testing mushrooms for General Bear 🐺🍄

Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics (1988) 🧚‍♀️📖🏰

Episode: The Wren and the Bear 🐦🐻

[kabishkat19]

Princess Counter Parts🖤

(The Grimm Legends vs. Disney)

[tarisbackyard]

Here's how to write an authentic Grimm style fairytale, brought to you by a Certified German TM:

Forget everything Disney movies taught you, besides maybe Snowwhite, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. But even those are on thin fucking ice. Also ignore modern fantasy literature conventions, especially Dungeons & Dragons type stuff.

Ideally only the protagonist or none of the characters ought to have names. And the names should either be really fucking ordinary, or some kind of epithet. Like, either that's a Franz or a Bramblesock, cause when Bramblesock was a child he lost a sock in a shrub of brambles. Everyone else is either the king, the grandma, or the carpenter.

The common types of protagonist: Regular working class guy who cons his way into a life of riches, poor downtrodden peasant who through hardworking kindness is granted salvation (usually via gaining riches), too pure too good for this world princess who can't catch a fucking break, too nasty too bratty for this world princess who gets taught a lesson in humility.

The characters are generally very one note and the only kind of character growth they can experience boils down to "maybe I shouldn't have been a dick, huh?"

The location is either as vague as possible or super fucking specific for no reason; either the story takes place literally nowhere or in the town of Buxtehude.

Animals and inanimate objects that can talk for no apparent reason and no one bats an eye at are always a great addition.

If you want to add any fantasy races, use giants (large, dumb brutes), dwarves (angry little guys who live in the wilderness and get really angry if you touch their beards), or gnomes (mischievous house spirits who might be helpful but watch out!), but never more than one of these. Fairies are rare and usually the "tall beautiful wise woman" type, not the small annoying pixie type. Dragons are very pointedly no-where to be found, those distinctly belong in sagas, which are their own distinct type of literature.

Weird moral of the story that either boils down to "be smarter than all the other fuckers", "good things happen to good people, bad things happen to bad people", or "don't upset the supernatural".

Random tidbits of gore that no one bats an eye at.

Witches eat children, if a mother gets more than single line dedicated to her she's evil, fathers are spineless and/or assholes who either die or come around in the end.

Ugly means evil, pretty means good. Except when it doesn't.

Optional: Repeated rhyming phrases and numbers. Seventh son of a seventh son kinda stuff. The numbers 3, 7, 12, and 13 in particular.

Ideally a 19th century scholar should be able to read some clumsy Germanic pagan wishful thinking into the story, no matter how big and obvious the Christian overtones are.

Optional: Start the story with "Once upon a time" and end it with "And if they didn't die, then they are still alive today."