#peppermint candy cane ballerina barbie

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[haveamagicalday]

Battle of the Barbies! Round 5: Barbie as…

This is round 5 of the bracket. All other polls for Battle of the Barbies can be found here.

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Matryoshka Doll & Wooden Soldiers (WIP title)

— A Nutcracker Retelling

Genre: Fairytale retelling, adult fiction, speculative fiction.

Setting: Wintery, early 19th century Germany, Russia & other culturally-inspired fantasy settings with a touch of steampunk.

Summary: Clara Stahlbaum is forced to prematurely shelf her ballet career after a severe injury. Feeling lost and alone, the former ballerina leaves the comfort of her home in the countryside to visit the city and help her godfather run his toy shop while she recovers from her mental strife. After encountering a peculiar stranger with wooden hands who speaks of a fairy that can undo all injuries and ailments, Clara is pulled into a plot of curses, tragedy and lost personhood.

Themes: Identity & self worth, loss of humanity, defying fate, vengeance and repressed emotions, hints of unhinged womanhood if you squint.

Introduction & Context

Matryoshka Doll & Wooden Soldiers is a retelling and slight reconstruction of the beloved story The Nutcracker & the Mouse King, taking partial inspiration from the ballet, but is otherwise mostly based on Hoffmann’s original 1816 novel! I’ve been deeply infatuated with this story ever since I watched the animated movie by GoodTimes Entertainment (please tell me someone else watched this as a kid) and the Barbie version when I was little. I’ve since read the original book and been wanting to reconstruct the story into something new! Everything in this post is very much a WIP and subject to change as I develop the story, as it’s still in its first draft!

Inspirations & Vibes

Tchaikovsky’s music and the ballet (naturally), powdered snow, sweet Turkish delight, hot steam from the locomotive swirling in the crisp winter air, scent of gingerbread and mulled wine with cinnamon, winter wonderlands and peppermint candy canes, pastel baroque & rococo aesthetics, white marble with specks of blood, loss of humanity and sense of self, tragic romance, whimsical inventions, old fashioned toy shops filled with wonder, out of tune music box and other antique trinkets, freshly baked Berliner buns, the gritty and dark hiding beneath the prim and proper, prickling fingers on thorns while picking berries.

Main Characters

Clara Stahlbaum (23) she/her

Burnt out gifted kid filled with longing and passions she can no longer pursue, a romantic posing as a cynic to protect her feelings, loves messing with little trinkets and antiques and is kinda a nerd.

Hans Peter (25) he/him

Stoic, intellectualises his feelings, detached yet slightly vain, charming until you realise he’s not aloof for allure’s sake he’s just kinda socially awkward, but hey maybe that’s charming to some.

Godfather Drosselmeyer (52) he/him

Eccentric, mischievous, a bit sketchy but people brush him off as just a quirky old man, secretive, knows a lot and yet literally no one in the city knows anything about him he just showed up one day.

I might make a deep dive post about these characters to go into their psychology and development if that’s something people would be interested in! Deconstructing a character’s psyche is one of my favourite aspects of writing and I’d love to be able to share it. Also I know this seems very heteronormative as a story but I promise there are queer themes brewing beneath the surface here I would die otherwise.

✦ If you’d like to be added to a tag list for future writing updates/excerpts, please let me know! 

Story Tag; #md&ws

[unavitrinallenadetesoros]

¡Hola a todos!

¿Sabéis qué? Me encanta el ballet (llevo un rato en silencio mirando a todas partes intentando buscar las palabras que describan por qué me gusta tanto esta danza y no las encuentro), transmite tanta belleza, te acelera el corazón de una manera que parece que se te va a salir, al igual que las lágrimas o las sonrisas espontáneas. El ballet es magia y punto. ¿Qué si he ido a ver ballet en directo?… La verdad es que no, pero eso no invalida lo anterior.

Prácticamente desde sus inicios Barbie ha mostrado interés por el ballet clásico y la hemos visto ponerse las zapatillas de punta.

1961 Ballerina

1976 Ballerina

También la hemos visto interpretar las obras más famosas como El Cascanueces o el Lago de los Cisnes.

Barbie Doll as Snowflake in The Nutcracker

Barbie Doll as Marzipan in The Nutcracker

Barbie Doll as Flower Ballerina from the Nutcracker

Barbie Doll as the Sugar Plum Fairy

Peppermint Candy Cane Barbie Doll

Barbie Doll as Swan Ballerina from Swan Lake

Barbie Doll as the Swan Queen in Swan Lake (African-American)

¡Y aún hay más!

Prima Ballerina Barbie Doll

Barbie Doll as Titania

Barbie Doll as Juliet

La colección Ballet Wishes puede que no sea una de las más queridas pero es pura dulzura.

Y luego están ellas, la joyas. Forma parte de la colección Prima Ballerina:

Classic Grace Barbie Doll

Lighter than the air Barbie Doll

También hemos visto a su hermana Skipper practicando Ballet.

Ballet Class #1905

Y no podemos olvidarnos de Misty Copeland o de la bonita Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Barbie Doll.

Misty Copeland Barbie Doll

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Barbie Doll

Y todo esto sin incluir a las playline. En definitiva, ¿quién puede resistirse a esta danza? Y si no, que me “saque alguna pega” a esta maravillosa muñeca que, si mi intuición no me falla, se trata de una OOAK.

Rebeca

Imágenes vía Mattel.

Barbie como bailarina de ballet ¡Hola a todos! ¿Sabéis qué? Me encanta el ballet (llevo un rato en silencio mirando a todas partes intentando buscar las palabras que describan por qué me gusta tanto esta danza y no las encuentro), transmite tanta belleza, te acelera el corazón de una manera que parece que se te va a salir, al igual que las lágrimas o las sonrisas espontáneas.