Patronised is not the same as limbs

[shadowsinfire]

GUYS. I want to write stuff. Give me prompts.

This can be anything from a word to a paragraph. It can be original or fanfic.

You can specify characters/etc if you want. For fandoms, I guess my tag page has a fairly good list. Although Pandora Hearts and Soul Eater aren't on there. I'm willing to try.I will need to get the prompts within 24

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[cat_i_th_adage]

Have you tried any Tanith Lee? Her takes on fairytales can get a bit dark, mind.

And "The Swan Princes" and "The Brown Bear of Norroway"/"Eros and Psyche" are up there for me. Love familial, love romantic, betrayal, redemption, and, while people screw up, these stories are both about fixing the screwups. They're great.

[shadowsinfire]

Not fairy-tales, I think. No, I've only read Indigara and a couple of the Claidi books by her.

And I... have only heard of Eros and Psyche, and that only briefly. I assume the swan princes is something like the children of Lir? Or the other one, with the seven swans and the sister who spins nettles as gets convicted as a witch? Or a typo of the swan princess? And wikipedia (the font of all knowledge) list the black bull of norroway and the brown bear of Norway, so I'm not sure which of those you mean...

[cat_i_th_adage]

"The Swan Princes" is another name for "The Seven Swans" (and there's another version in Grimm called "The Twelve Wild Ducks" and another with ravens). A princess's brothers are turned into birds, she heads off to rescue them, has to make garments out of an unusual fibre, gets married, accused of witchcraft etc. etc.

There's a whole clutch of stories with different titles but similar plots of which the oldest that I know of is "Eros and Psyche" from The Golden Ass (but I'm not an expert, so don't take anything in this comment as definitive, 'kay?) The Brown Bull and Black Bear of Norroway belong, as does "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" and "The Singing, Springing Lark": Girl is married off to monster or magical beast, he turns out not so bad, something bad happens that's usually the girl's fault and hubby flees. Girl quests to get him back.

Er, I was kind of a fairytale geek when I was younger. :-?

Oh, and have you tried any of this series?

[shadowsinfire]

That's the one I was thinking of, yeah.

Ok, maybe I don't know that 'Eros and Psyche'... motifs often repeat like that. Ooh, have you read North Child by Edith Pattou? Or it's sometimes called East. It's a retelling of East of the Sun, West of the Moon and I remember I enjoyed it.

I haven't tried any of that series, I'll have to keep an eye out for them.

[cat_i_th_adage]

I'll keep an eye out for the Pattou - thanks :-)

[shadowsinfire]

Welcome! Thanks for the suggestions.