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theshadowrealmitself · 2 years ago

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I’ll concede that a lot of fairy tales don’t have *the* meaning because of regional variations and stuff like that

But I need you to understand something very important

A baby duck can never turn into a swan unless there’s magic explicitly involved

So the moral can never be that you’ll grow into being attractive

Actually this has to be its own post, I hate how people treat the moral of the ugly duckling tale like it’s “don’t worry you’ll grow up to be beautiful”

no!!! It was never an ugly duckling because it was never a duck!!! It was a baby swan!!! A cygnet!!! It was never ugly to begin with!!! People only thought it was ugly because they were judging it by their own standards!!!! The moral is that you aren’t ugly, people just don’t see you as you are!!!!

#not @ing or reblogging from them directly #but I hope they get the faint sense that we’re enemies now #yeah fairy tales can have varying messages but this isn’t the post to add that to #not when the main point of this is that people keep misunderstanding a moral as a moral that just can’t actually exist #ducklings don’t turn into swans #so the moral can never be that you just have to wait and grow up attractive #no matter the regional variations unless they changed something drastic about the fairy tale #wrong post to add this to shoo shoo #reblog #this may be more aggressive than I would like #but I am. in pain rn #don’t go look for them they didn’t do anything wrong #what they’re implying tho is ridiculous #‘regional variations’ DUCKLINGS TURN INTO DUCKS IT WAS NEVER A DUCKLING #they probably meant that the moral isn’t that people don’t see you for what you are #but I’m enraged at the implication that the moral is you’ll grow up attractive #that can never be the meaning.#my head abd ears hurt so much rn #I’m going to bed I shouldn’t have stressed myself out with this 😭

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