#the fairytale collection

[salarymanwaka]

[evermore-fashion]

Favourite Designs: Yanina Couture 'Thumbelina' Fall 2023 Haute Couture Collection

[dailyfigures]

Anne Halford ; Sugar Apple Fairy Tale ☆ Design Coco

[lionofchaeronea]

Der Froschkönig (The Frog King). Card from a series of color lithographs by an unknown German artist, 1905 or earlier, depicting scenes from the tales of the Brothers Grimm. Here, the frog returns to the princess her golden ball that had fallen down the well. This card is now in the Jack Zipes Historic Fairy Tale Postcard Collection, Minneapolis College of Art and Design Library. Photo credit: MCAD Library.

[denisulet]

♡₊˚ 🦢・₊✧ Kate Moss in “Beauty and the beast” by Tim Walker for Vogue Italia December 2015 ♡₊˚ 🦢・₊✧

[veinsfullofstars]

📚 Quite the haul at the Library Turtle today, huh? 📚

(ID: Kirby series fanart of young Meta and Para Dee excitedly dashing by on a grassy plain, each carrying a tall, haphazard stack of colorful library books in their arms, eagerly looking forward to a long weekend of reading. END ID.)

Started 01/07/25, finished 01/08/25. | Childhood Friends AU Masterpost

[catastrophic-crisis]

A Game of Three Princes - FairyTime Studio | itch.io

The Belladonne family has had it rough for the last couple of years. After the patriarch of the family passes away and their wealth with him, they are forced to move to a little cottage in Morrowhill.  Fortunately, they might have the chance to gain back what was lost. At least that's what the letter in the mysterious box says.  And all they have to do is play a game.

This version released for Spooktober VN Jam is considered a beta, and the full version will have "more characters, tasks and customisation". This story takes place in the world of the upcoming game Glassheart.

[cantstopthegifs]

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS & THEIR NAMES (2/∞)

Rosella from Barbie as The Island Princess Mariposa from Barbie: Mariposa Liana from Barbie & the Diamond Castle Alexa from Barbie & the Diamond Castle Eden from Barbie in A Christmas Carol Barbie Roberts from Barbie Presents Thumbelina Corinne from Barbie and the Three Musketeers Merliah from Barbie in A Mermaid Tale Barbie Roberts from Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale

[ambsdollhouse]

✨🫖🖤

Dolls n Stuff:

Way Too Wonderland Dolls (Maddie, Kitty, Raven)

Way Too Wonderland Playset

[ianthewife]

the children yearn for the in-universe Parish of Tide and Flesh lore

like i know they are such an old faith that it must run just so deep, so i actually need to know their every single legend and all the retellings, i want to know what kind of fucked up fairytales they tell their children and what weird ass grim lullabies they sing, i need to know all their hymns and folk songs and the full extensive list of all the traditions and superstitions and and and godddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

[sadexecutivelove]

Rose-inspired tutu for Finnish National Ballet's Sleeping Beauty

[booloocrew-blog]

Two things I noticed about this Warner bros Barbie collection

1. There was a box inside of a box inside of two other boxes like a Russian doll.

2. Barbie and the diamond castle clearly missed the memo.

[mare-sanguis]

Black Out characters = Snow white characters

in an older post, i assigned each black out main character to their potential snow white counterpart. i didn't really elaborate on it but got asked to do so- so, here it is:

jeongwoo as snow white: his backstory alone makes him the perfect match as the main character of a fairytale- in many of them the main character loses a parent prior or early on to the story and the surviving parent will become estranged to them and sometimes even die as well, other times some other poignant tragedy happens that sets the story going. in relation to snow white: snow white's parents were rich as they were king and queen, they lived a very happy life in a castle and the queen's hobby was embroidery, early on in the story the queen dies (in the 1812 and 1854 she doesn't die but her personality changes after childbirth). snow white is described as having fair skin, with beautiful eyes, red lips and a kind (but also helpless and naive) personality. she gets lost in the forest, wanders aimlessly and goes through multiple murder attempts. when the 4th one is successful, the dwarfs find her on the ground of their hut and because they didn't want to bury her they put her in a coffin of glass. 

→ JW's father died, his mother barely survived (this could either serve as a metaphor his snow white's father remarrying or serve as a metaphor of the 1812/54 version where her mother suddenly acts different), prior to everything he lived in a beautiful big house, with a beautiful garden, had many friends, was seen as a nice student and loved by his parents. he is soft and caring (to the point it made him seem naive to others) and his looks fit at as well (eyes, hair, lips when stained with blood). he gets lost, wanders around, chases one person, goes through many murder attempts. When he gets poisoned he falls to the ground. he is put to rest on a mattress- the mattress could serve as a metaphor for the glass casket. while DE is clearly supposed to be snow white when she's found in the greenhouse in a bed of roses it doesn't really match the narrative of where snow white is put to rest. as mentioned she lies in a coffin of glass, put to rest where everyone could see her- but there are no windows surrounding the place DE is found at as it is deep underground. whereas JW is surrounded by windows, in a bright room above ground. DE lies buried (what the dwarfs wanted to avoid with the glass coffin), JW is put to show. 

sangcheol as the prince: i think this is very self explanatory but i will try to summarize it anyway even when there isn't much information regarding the prince. 

→ the prince wanders around the forest and stumbled upon snow white, the dwarfs tell him snow white is dead but he still didn't give up on her, waking her up by pure accident by getting rid of the poisoned apple, confesses his love to her and takes her to his castle. SC too appears out of nowhere in JW's life, in a moment both wandered aimlessly and JW feels alienated and dead. they met by pure accident. he continuously takes care of his wounds (representing the prince taking care of snow white's "wound" from the apple) and one day even takes him home. and when is that? exactly, the moment after JW got into the car accident. he was also the one who was by his side after he woke up from in the attic. and he was the reason why JW began to actively question the people around him- freeing him from poison they fed him. 

(SH is self explanatory so i will just skip him)

haseol as the huntsman: we also don't know much about the huntsman, only that he once worked for the evil queen (for the first murder attempt)

→ while HS doesn't try to kill JW she does believe the lies everyone else tells of him and is afraid too (serving as the metaphor of the huntsman accepting the offer to kill because he is mostly likely afraid of her), but she's also one of the first to have doubts- just like the huntsman who, upon seeing snow white, questions the evil queens actions and lets her go. and while the huntsman has a knife he is naturally associated with, HS has her motorbike she's automatically assigned with. 

nakyeom and her CEO as the evil queen and mirror respectively:

→ the queen is controlling, possessive, obsessive, beautiful, vain and wicked. she wants snow white gone. just like NK- she wants full control over JW and while she doesnt want him dead, she wants to possess him so he will only ever look at her, so she will be his center of attention, so no one else will ever look at him. NK throwing her temper tantrums is just like when the evil queen throws her tantrums when snow white is still alive 

→ the mirror gives the queen her well deserved reality checks- and so does NK's CEO on multiple occasions. the most when she tells her that JW doesn't love her and that love can't be won by throwing tantrums.

the friends as the dwarves: i think this, along with the part of the townspeople will be the most difficult to explain as there are layers to it but i will give my very best.

→ there are 7 dwarves. in the original brother grimm version it goes as follows: the 1st one spoke "who has been sitting on my chair?" the 2nd one spoke "who has been eating from my plate?" the 3rd one spoke "who has been eating my bread?" the 4th one spoke "who has been eating my vegetables?" the 5th one spoke "who has been sticking with my fork?" the 6th one spoke "who has been cutting with my knife?" and the 7th one spoke "who has been drinking from my mug?" before they discover snow white in their beds. each dwarf is very clearly associated with one item on and around the dinner table giving them distinct personalities (what they like/cherish) even when we don't know much about them. JW's are 7 and each of them comes from a very different background with very different struggles (BY= domestic abuse; SH and GO= both mentally ill/neurodivergent with a controlling father; DE= living with her grandmother, transfer student; NK= outsider, possessive; BM and MS= poor and very jealous of JW) giving them distinct characteristics and reasons why they do what they do and why they die the way they die. also, BY says something along the lines of "you guys are his underlings" in one scene and BM gets mad. if one knows anything about folklore, this is exactly what dwarfs are seen as. overall they don't have much in common with the dwarfs in snow white that's for sure as the dwarfs in the fairytale are caring but in some tales and parts of the world dwarfs are known for their bad reputation and excessive stealing. it says "many legends show dwarfs as kindly beings, generous to those who pleased them but vengeful when offended. in scandinavia and germany they are depicted as friendly to men, but occasionally they stole corn, teased cattle, and abducted children and young girls." in archaic times they lived in clans under leaders and in the middle ages they had kings. they are also known to take on many different forms (like dragons or otters) and make themselves invisible. DE's and BY's dead bodies disappear like that; GO leaves for the states; SH hides in his greenhouse; BM and MS go to military and take on role polar opposite roles to what they did to BY and NK becomes an actress (taking on different forms) - all of these things fit very well into the abilities of dwarves and could potentially serve as a metaphor.

the townspeople as the 4 murder attempts:

regular towns people

mucheon garden (+4 friends)

mucheon police 

congress

→  the 4 murder attempts in snow white were as followed: 

1st attempt: the huntsman obeyed and took snow white into the woods. he took out his hunting knife and was about to stab it into her innocent heart [...]

2nd attempt: this time, the evil queen approached snow white herself, disguised as a peddler woman, by selling bodice laces to her. "child," said the old woman, "how you look! come, let me lace you up properly." the unsuspecting snow white stood before her and let her do up the new lace, but the old woman pulled so quickly and so hard that snow white could not breathe. when the dwarves returned home they saw she was to tightly laced and cut it in two

3rd attempt: the queen approached her once more, this time in the disguise of an old woman, by selling her a poisoned comb. after they had agreed on the purchase, the old woman said, "now let me comb your hair properly." she had barely stuck the comb into snow white's hair when the poison took effect, and the girl fell down unconscious. later that evening the dwarfs returned home they found the comb stuck in her hair, bringing her back to life once more by pulling it out

4th attempt: the queen went into her most secret room -- no one else was allowed inside -- and she made a poisoned, poisoned apple. this time she disguised herself as a peasant woman, approaching snow white one last time. "are you afraid of poison?" asked the peasant woman. "look, i'll cut the apple in two. you eat the red half, and I shall eat the white half." now the apple had been so artfully made that only the red half was poisoned. snow white longed for the beautiful apple, and when she saw that the peasant woman was eating part of it she could no longer resist, and she stuck her hand out and took the poisoned half. she barely had a bite in her mouth when she fell to the ground dead.

now, why would i assign the people mucheon of being metaphors of those 4 murder attempts? because they are also trials. fairytales are far from reality but they serve as a moral lesson, a life lesson, a warning to people, especially to children and everyone still learning. they challenge us to overthink peoples motivations, help us to see the good and bad in people, see nuances and understand struggle. 

each of those four groups conveyed their anger towards JW with different actions: 

→ the regular townspeople: attacked JW with words. they could serve as a metaphor for the huntsman's knife as he was supposed to stab her heart- and words do stab through the heart just as much as a knife, perhaps even more. the huntsman was unsuccessful at killing her but he did scare her. and every word the people spit at him also never hurt JW physically but they did scare him off. 

→ mucheon garden: threatened and physically hurt JW on numerous occasions. they hunted him down, were in his hair- even when he didn't do much, only tried to live his life as normal as possible. their behavior can easily serve as a metaphor for the poisoned comb the queen sold to snow white. after all it got stuck in her hair, serving as her demise.

→ mucheon police:  didn’t use direct physical violence towards JW but they mentally restrained him, gaslighted him. when ever he would step back into the station he would be thrown back to the times he was arrested- when he saw KHD, he stopped breathing and was reminded of all the abuse he suffered under his hands. he couldn't breath- just like snow white when the queen laced the bodice lace too tight. also: the constant gaslighting JW suffered under the words of HGT worked like poison on his mind- like the apple snow white bit into.

→ the congress: that's the part i'm more unsure about and i can't really find any association to any of the 4 murder attempts on snow white but that doesn't mean this group doesn’t serve as a challenge for JW- they target him just as much as everyone else but it is subtle. also, we can't forget that in any iteration of snow white it's easy to switch, remove or add trials. this one could be a completely new one. 

who could be black out's equivalent be to the forest snow white almost got lost in?

→ i for my part think mucheon town (as a separate entity disconnected from its people) could be the forest. while JW isn't new in town, he was away for 10 years and in those 10 years i bet much changed so him feeling lost fits the snow white narrative

[mysticalmariesworld]

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[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in the Forest Artist: Carl Larsson (Swedish, 1853-1919) Date: 1881 Genre: fairy tale Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 37 cm (14.5 in) high x 45 cm (17.7 in) wide Location: private collection

[thepenultimateword]

Fics and Fables Story Collection

Thank you everyone who participated in the fics and fables fairytale writing challenge! Everything I’ve read so far has been so cool and interesting! I wanted to collect all the stories in one place so that people who may not have known about the challenge can easily read them! If you have not finished your story for the challenge yet, that’s totally fine, when you do I will edit this post to add your story to the collection!

1. @faenemy—Hansel and Gretel + Snow White

2. @maybeitsalivescribbles—The Piper and the Frog (The Pied Piper + The Frog Prince)

3. @owlsandwich —Duck and the Beanstalk (The Ugly Duckling + Jack and the Beanstalk)

4. @chaoticgoodthief Beans, Greens, and Other Strange Things (Jack and the Beanstalk + Tom Thumb)

5. @real-fragments7— The Piper and the Princesses (The Pied Piper + The 12 Dancing Princesses)

( I got assigned a really big work project right after creating this challenge, so I’ve been delayed but hopefully I’ll have my story done soon too!)