#sur este

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Raglan Castle - WALES

[zero-signal]

[captain-jale]

L'impopularité du vieux mdrrrr

[sleepsucks]

[yumesei]

Yo, if you come in my ask box to whine about how Soap would hate me and kill me because i'm a "pedo" and a "rapist" I hope you know that :

1) the soldier in anti-terrorism has probably better things to do than to care about fictional shit

2) idk where you took the whole pedo and rapist shit from, because my ship is literally super vanilla and between two adults

3) don't hide in anon like a pussy

4) your f/o would probably hate you for being such a bully on the internet where you think you're anonymous

Aussi tu penses pas que c'est un peu bizarre, contradictoire, de m'insulter parce que d'après toi ce que je fais (dans ta tête btw, puisque je le fais même pas MDR) c'est mal. Et après fondamentalement me dire de mourir ahah ? C'est bien ça peut-être ? Moralement correct ? Assez pur pour toi ?

Anyway, Soap n me are making out rn. Stay mad 🩷

[pigeonneaux]

J'ai fait un quatre quart pour la première fois depuis des siecles

[pikmininaplane]

"Se faire peg" n'est pas une réponse valide ça lui est déjà arrivé et ça l'a pas sauvé

[suskindkore]

Adria Arjona

credit: suskind

[unteriors]

Mussey-sur-Marne, Haute-Marne, Grand Est.

[allgirlsareprincesses]

Hi. Not sure if you've answered this before, but do you have a list of books to recommend on fairytale/mythic analysis?

So I finally have a real response to this question, but it's LONG, be warned:

First, it depends what you want to get out of your folklore study, what lens you'd like to use for analysis. And second, it's important to know that the practice of folktale analysis has changed over time, especially in the last ~15 years or so as the scholarly consensus has evolved toward decolonization.

For example, the common historical starting place was Bruno Bettleheim's The Uses of Enchantment. Candidly, I haven't read it yet for a few reasons: 1) It focuses fairly exclusively on Western European fairy tales like those of Grimm, Basile, and Perrault. 2) It assumes the primary audience for such tales are children. 3) It's a white man's perspective, and there are already enough of those to go around. That said, it's considered a foundational text for folklore study, so I'll probably get to it eventually. There are some modern authors who might be considered scholarly successors of Bettleheim, like Maria Tatar. I haven't read her books yet but I know she's also a powerhouse of Western fairy tale analysis.

Some other popular perspectives include the works of Carl Jung and his protégés in psychoanalysis, Marie-Louise von Franz and Erich Neumann. These are wonderful sources for learning about depth psychology and the universal unconscious which causes certain motifs to recur in storytelling across the globe and over centuries. Another popular author in this field is Robert Bly, who dove deeply into the concept of the Shadow as it appears in folk tales.

But for me, my favorite sources have been a collection of feminist authors who were active in the late 80s and early 90s, notably Barbara Fass Leavy and the incomparable Clarissa Pinkola Estes. While their work is pretty firmly grounded in second-wave feminism and therefore not very intersectional as we understand it today, they were the first to begin exploring interpretations of folk tales outside of a patriarchal context. I personally refer to Leavy's In Search of the Swan Maiden and Estes' Women Who Run With the Wolves more than any other books.

A lot of the most current perspectives are only accessible via blogs, like Jeana Jorgensen AKA The Foxy Folklorist, who often explores fairy tales through a Queer lens. Another brilliant voice working today is Helen Nde of Mythological Africans, who is doing the long-overdue work of decolonizing African folklore.

And while all these sources will help you develop a framework for analysis, still one of the best things you can do is read the tales for yourself. One of my favorite series is that of Heidi Anne Heiner of Sur La Lune Fairy Tales, who has amassed impressive collections of folk tales of the same type from around the world, making comparison easy. She also provides excellent footnotes that offer context to the versions and translations she's selected, and every tale has a source.

Outside of that, I like to read regional collections from indigenous scholars and native speakers: some editors will even include a copy in the original language along with the English translation, thus allowing others to "check their work." One of my favorite folkorists like this is Inea Bushnaq, who collects Arab folktales and again provides accessible cultural context. It's important to remember that most oral folktales which are now available in English were first recorded by colonizers, so the versions we have may be edited, mistranslated, or even maliciously altered to suit Western tastes. This is why seeking out versions from actual members of indigenous communities is critical.

Right now, I'm reading The Japanese Psyche: Major Motifs in the Fairy Tales of Japan by Hayao Kawai, and I'm next going to try Oral World and Written Word by Susan Niditch. I tend to just go where the spirit moves me, journal a bit, go down a research rabbit hole about a particular topic... it's fun. But whatever you're looking to get out of your folk tale study, rest assured you will never run out of material!

[dreki]

Au revoir là-haut doodles because I can't get Édouard and Albert off my mind

[aljeitfael]

J'ai une TO-DO liste longue comme le bras, c'est le moment parfait pour me lancer dans un tableau en liège de la chronologie de la Quête d'Ewilan, pas vrai? 😃

Vous pouvez voir le bouzin sur ce lien, et moi je vais de ce pas le refaire from scratch avec un autre outil plus maniable et surtout qui te laisse exporter ton travail (et Figma peut aller se faire frire des chataignes).

[vinstinx]

elles sont charmentes les huîtres de nos jours dis donc

j’ai explosé de rire en lisant fallait que je le partage ici

[rotting-guy]

[eldaryadiary]

Today marks 10 years of me playing Eldarya :')

I remember coming back from school super exited about that new Beemoov game I had been waiting for months.

Became an Obsidian. Got a becola to look after.

Episodes were not coming out fast enough so I decided to write the story myself and now it's basically a trilogy with each book being 400 pages long x) (also, I stopped playing 'cause the episodes were just too different from my canon lol)

I remember saving for months to afford that Lawrence wig (15k maanas, at the time).

Now 26, living abroad and still logging in every single day to look after the very same becola (Solal, I love you).

And now I'm about to go re-read that fic and add a few chapters to it as I've been doing twice a year for years :)

[theokusgallery]

Les français. Je sais qu'il y a des français qui me suivent. Vous vous souvenez de Mme Pavoshko de Black M...