#robin hood retellings

[maggiekwest]

AHHHHHH LOOKIT THE PRETTIES!!! 🥹

I love my new covers so much 💕💕

[geeky-nightphilosopher]

The thing about Leverage is- its intoxicating. There is no other word to describe it. It's intoxicating. I'm only on season 2- but my goodness the show is magical. The dynamic is so genuine, honest, and pure. And it's so ironic- because their criminals. Their thieves and liars... but their so, so, good.

Like they make the family dynamic so believable.

Watching Nate be the drunk dad, not being abusive, and watching his children grow while still being them. To watching Sophie figure out exactly how she fits in- because it's a retelling of Robin Hood and she's suppose to be Maid Marion. And she's an actress, it's how she connects with people. To Eliot whose the big brother who teases and is sarcastic. But if you so much as touches one of his siblings- so help you- the world will be on fire. He's a wolf- and he'll tear you to pieces for attacking his pack. To Hardison whose kinda dorky, nerdy, and awkward but is so smart and resourceful in his own right. Who has the teams back. To Parker whose basically a mouse and can get away with anything with her family. They love her and they will do anything to keep her safe.

If I had a choice of found family- I'd want to join them.

[shy-sapphic-ace]

Guys should I write a Dracula musical. Should I???

[bilightningwhumper]

Basically, I'd update it whenever I made changes to the world, usually in improving upon it/explaining more. Character lists as well. It might have spoilers, but I'd keep them to a minimum.

[gunitnekoh]

Also it makes sense to me that Harley got to kill Batman

Not just because she's from his rogue gallery

but because head to head Harley is the only "Villain" to ever beat Batman on her own

Anytime she "lost" to him it was with someone else's help/interference/distraction: Joker or Ivy

If Harley had decided on her own (away from Joker and Ivy) to kill Batman just because she wanted to, she absolutely could and I think Batman knew that

Harley being an anti-hero, having a slight crush/respect for Batman, and having some sort of moral compass is the only reason he's still alive

Harley knew Batman even without knowing he was Bruce Wayne

If anyone was going to take Batman out when he went rogue (and the Bat Fam wasn't around to do it) it was going to be Harley

[bookshelf-in-progress]

Me, trying to write a sanguine: What would Chester Arthur do?

[mrs-mikko-rantanen]

STOP IT WITH THE LIVE ACTION REMAKES!!! NO ONE WANTS THIS!! STOP IT!! AND IF YOU INSIST ON RETELLING THE STORY STOP IT WITH THE FUCKING COMPUTER ANIMATION!! USE PRACTICAL EFFECTS LIKE THE UNIVERSE INTENDED. NO. COME ON. FUCK OFF. I SHOULDNT HAVE TO SAY THIS.

[whoslink]

Happy Valentines day! I wanted to draw something silly, so here we are: Valentine's cards with my OC's on them.

For anyone not in the knowhow or for the people who just want a quick recap:

Card 1: Wolfgang, aka, "The Pied Piper". Cursed into silence, so doesn't say anything.

Card 2: Pinocchio, speaks for itself

Card 3: Robinson "Robin" Hood

Card 4: Rapunzel

Card 5: Willemijn, from the Terschelling folkstory "De prinses van het eiland" (also known as the origin story of "Doodemanskisten").

Card 6: Friedrich, Rapunzel's prince who got blinded after falling from the tower into a thorn bush.

Card 7: Rouge Hood, aka, (Little) Red Riding Hood.

Card 8: Lyra, the narrator.

Card 9: Cantrell, the lyre-playing bard and Lyra's self appointed partner in storytelling.

[llycaons]

oh huh in this one 'elizabeth' is a trans man

[author-a-holmes]

ROBIN HOOD RETELLING?????

Roflmao! It's on my schedule :D

It's a stand alone I want to do after Fey Touched, and before Stolen. Robin Hood was my favourite Disney movies as a very young child, and then as I got older I fell in love with the folklore/myth/legend stories too.

So I wanted to try my hand at a Retelling, and when I started doing some research on what, exactly, the geenre expectations are for a 'Retelling', it basically boiled down to one of 3 things.

Setting; Changeing the world or location where the story takes place.

Genre; Turning Pride and Prejudice into a Zombie Horror, for example.

Changeing Moral or Perspective; Making the Villian the real Hero, for example.

I love Robin Hood. I love Fantasy. It seemed an easy decision change setting, and make it a Robin Hood Retelling, but with magic. I want to add elves, druids, and a hefty dose of mysticism, and cross my fingers it works out :D

I've gone back to reread some of the oldest remaining ballards, such "A Gest of Robyn Hode", and plan to use elements from those as backstory for the characters, with some twists of course :D

[maggiekwest]

Pre-Release Readers Wanted!!

Greetings dear readers!! I’m looking for ARC readers for my upcoming book, Son of Lightning.

The bonus is, I’m giving you the first two books in the series for free ;)

What is an ARC reader?

ARCS (Advance Reader Copies) are unpublished copies of a book that go out to a select group of readers to read and review before the book launches to the public.

This is a super important step in the successful launch of a book, because it allows authors to gather early reviews and spread the word about their upcoming release!

Son of Lightning is book 3 in the Descendants of Robin Hood trilogy.

In order to review it, you probably want to read the first two in the series first. But, you don’t have to! In the ARC (advance reader copy) application, I’ve included the option to just receive a synopsis of each book.

So, you can choose whether you’d like to download the other books as ebooks, or just download a synopsis!

Click Here for the ARC Application!

But what’s the series about?

Eight hundred years ago, a powerful sorcerer laid a trap for Robin Hood. But the curse backfired, releasing a burst of pure magic. Robin Hood’s descendants carry this magic as elemental powers.

The two nations of descendants are on the brink of war. Jack’s North Wind power is about to manifest when the rival nation attacks. Now Jack is on the run from the Sheriff, sorcerers, and a mysterious girl of the shadows as he struggles to contain his chaotic power.

As the war deepens, a villain out of legend rises to crush any opposition and claim his immortal throne. But the Sorcerer Gisborne’s plans run much deeper than first believed, and Dark sorcery spreads like a plague.

Follow Jack’s adventure along with a swing-first-ask-questions-later Fire bender, a Lightning bender with a dark secret, and a talking baby panther who is maybe more than meets the eye.

In Book 3…

There’s two sides to every story.

Jack’s victory over Sorcerer Gisborne is bittersweet as he struggles with the grief of Nick’s death to the all-consuming Sorcerer. Nick, buried in his own mind, struggles desperately to maintain his identity as he is pushed deeper and deeper under Gisborne’s control.

Determined that no one else will die, Jack sets off to rescue Natanian from the monsters who kidnapped him. But what he discovers will set off a chain of events far worse than he could dream. As the Ealdra weave corruption through the world, Jack faces a choice between saving his nation, and saving his friends.

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I don’t have any restrictions on who can ARC read for me. As long as you love fantasy, or you’re willing to take a chance on a young adult elemental fantasy, go for it!

If you’d like to review the book before it launches, it comes out on June 25th, which is 7 weeks away. 

But, it’s important to know that if it takes you a couple weeks after launch, or a couple months after launch, you’re not going to hurt my feelings! I know life happens, so just get to it when you can.

I hope you dive into this adventure with me, and see you over at the sign up form!

[chronicallydragons]

I’m going to try to submit a short story to an anthology for the first time this weekend and I wrote a genderbent Robin Hood with a chronically ill maid marian who’s also an ambulatory wheelchair user and an archer and I planned to make both Robin and Marian aspec like me and was going to end up in a QPR and/or an ambiguous relationship but it’s *definitely* sapphic

Anyway I love it so much and low key want to turn it into a full novel someday. I’m also so nervous to submit it 😅 but I made a mood board so I’m gonna share it!

[bilightningwhumper]

Finishing typing up all the Mangst 2024 prompts (they're all written, but all by hand at the moment). Now for a question for those that did read the excerpts, or if you didn't, there's context under the poll:

*Edit: Mangst 2024 is now done. Please, please let me know if you want to be on the taglist for any of these as I don't post on a schedule at all. I post when they're done, lol.*

Basically, what I've been doing is listing each characters' first name that appears in the excerpt with their fairytale character counterpart (ie, Sienna- Red Riding Hood, Wayland- Frog Prince, etc). That's only if they have one that is. Sometimes that changes with some side characters, but I leave them out of that list if there is no fairy tale character linked to them.

[sharry-arry-odd]

"In my life, I've discovered people want two things—to feel important, and to feel useful."

Lion Heart, by A.C. Gaughen

[sailorbadger]

re: my tags on this post, @psychicbluebirdmiracle wanted a list so here’s some of my favorite Robin Hood adaptations in no particular order:

Sidenote: most of these are either extremely niche and/or “you may think it’s bad but I think it’s good” because that’s just what my tastes are.

BBC’s Robin Hood: You all knew this one was going to be up here and if you didn’t, you haven’t been following me long enough. This is what gave birth to my brain worms. I’ve given a PowerPoint presentation about this which was three hours long. I have subjected other people to this show to the point that there is now a yearly celebration where we watch only one specific episode of this show and make memes about it. I am insufferable about this. The day I stop thinking about this show is the day I have lost all brain activity.

Back to Sherwood: I am once again reminding everyone that I have offered to exchange my firstborn child for the original English version of this show. The Vibes on this show are perfect and I will never forgive the people that cancelled it after only 13 episodes. Fun time-travel related hijinks? Sign me up.

Princess of Thieves: Who doesn’t love a Keira Knightley movie?

Disney’s Robin Hood: Listen, you just can’t go wrong with this one. Very solid all around. But there’s another reason I’m putting it on this list. My cousins (ages 6 and 4) were staying over with us on Easter and I put this movie on at one point to get them to sit down for a few minutes while my parents made lunch. My godson (the 6-year-old) asked me why I knew so much about what was going on in the movie and I explained that I watched it when I was young, and then my dad said that the movie is so old that he watched it when he was a child. It was a lovely inter-generational bonding moment over my special interest as my dad explained to my cousin about the different characters and how there’s a lot of different versions of the story.

Not really an adaptation but continuing from the last one, this YouTube video: Some of the best analysis on why most mainstream Robin Hood adaptations suck. This is why I mostly just like the versions that have good Vibes.

This soundtrack to a Swedish Robin Hood musical: I can’t even begin to explain how upset I am that I found out about this musical after it had already been cancelled due to the pandemic. I could have gone and seen it. There’s not even a DVD of it. At least we have the soundtrack which is full of bangers. Everything sounds as over-produced as you’d expect from the country that makes over-produced Eurovision songs, and I love every second of this. If you’re not going to listen to the whole thing, at least listen to Prince John’s song.

This even more obscure soundtrack to a Finnish Robin Hood play from 1997: Everything here is just Vibes. I wish I knew what the actual plot of the play was but these songs are great on their own. The fact that the singer from a famous Finnish band (Neon 2) sings a couple of the songs is just ?????A Choice???? but a perfect one at that.

Robin Hood: The Great Escape: My most vivid memories of listening to this play that’s a podcast is when my IBS was really bad and I was on the bathroom floor crying in pain, so I just put this on to distract me. Anyway, this one has good characters, interesting mix of different cultures and LGBT+ representation, and it all works seamlessly in a way that doesn’t feel forced. Definitely worth a listen.

Robin McKinley’s The Outlaws of Sherwood: I bought this book from my local library’s clearance about 15 years ago. It’s a solid fun adventure and that’s pretty much all I can say about it.

The Finnish opera adaptation of Robin Hood: The dogs in this are nightmare fuel and the whole thing is bordering on the “so bad it’s good” line. The lyrics are so weird at times, it’s awfully cringy sometimes but I love it so much. I own it on DVD and it has English subtitles so if anyone wants to watch it sometime let me know.

Carrie Vaughn’s The Ghosts of Sherwood and The Heirs of Locksley: I need a third part of this. These are a quick read, about 100 pages each, about the children of Robin Hood. And although the premise may sound cliché and childish, I swear these are so good and worth your time.

C.K. Brooke’s Marian: Princess Thief: Ah, yes, the “disappointingly heterosexual” one. Putting aside the fact that this book missed a great opportunity in making at least one of the characters gay, it has an amazing all-female-cast of characters (there’s a male love interest there too I guess, I don’t care about him). This book made me feel like how Sailor Moon made me feel in high school with it’s focus on the Power of Friendship.

That one Finnish audio drama that’s based on Finnemore’s version: Everyone sounds so horny in this one for some reason and the actual text is not helping. The theme song is a banger. It’s a shame the CDs were copy protected so I couldn’t rip the files for myself.

A black-and-white recording of a Finnish play from 1971: The fashion is so 70s it hurts my eyes. The songs are so bad. The plot is almost non-existent but I love every second of this. (I would have linked it but you can unfortunately only watch it in Finland)

The 2009 movie with a dragon in it?????: I don’t remember most of this except that it’s definitely in the “so bad it’s good” category. They just shouldn’t make high-budget versions of Robin Hood when low-budget productions are so much more entertaining.

Edale Lane’s Heart of Sherwood: I need to re-read this one because it had everything I could have asked for. A lesbian Robin Hood with a good story that was a fun adventure which still somehow made me very emotional. 10/10.

That one zoom-play on YouTube: I bought the novel that was made based on this play just because this was so entertaining. In a year I’ve only read about 20 pages of the book but the play was so good and at one point so full of twists I was staring at the screen with my mouth open for like 10 minutes.

I could probably include even more things from my List (I have a list where I collect all the different versions I’ve seen/read/listened to etc), but this is already too long and I ended up taking a few things out. I only included versions I’ve enjoyed the most but there’s still plenty of good ones out there.