Not to mention SUPER GROSS! Candy just sitting there in the sun for years and years. Of course, it was probably magical candy, so it never went bad, but instead gave you cancer because of all the preservatives.
I kind of adore how gruesome Grimm's fairytales are. I got an old book from my grandparents with a bunch of lesser known tales and they were positively horrible. In one the evil stepmother got stuck in a barrel lined with nails and then rolled down a hill. ouch.
It's kind of a combination of a few different fairytales, but Sleeping (which I almost just typed as "Spelling" wtf?) Beauty was the big one. I wrote a few years ago for dmhgficexchange.
I'm trying to think of what my favorite fairy tale is. It's not coming to me. I love fairy tales but I never felt especially partial to one...well no I think I'll always have a big soft spot for "the beaut and the beast" it has a rather lovely message to it I think, even if the beast turns into a boring perfect prince at the end. and red riding hood is special cause there's so many interesting variations on the tale from written texts by perrault and brothers grimm, to various incarnations spread around by word of mouth of the peasants, folklore basically.
Yeah, it's not very feminist, but . . . dammit, I always wanted to be her!! Having a handsome price willing to fight a huge-ass dragon for you is pretty BOSS . . .
And I never had a problem with your fanfiction-- I remember it being VERY good back in the day *wishes you had finished the one with Tasuki in it . . . And the Bust a Groove one . . . ^_^*
Yeah, I know. Which is kind of one of the reasons I've always wanted to rewrite it, because for the longest time I wanted to be her and now it makes me feel SO LAME.
HAHA, I recently uncovered that Bust a Groove fanfic for shits and giggles. I also had a horrendous X-Files fic I wrote back in middle school that is still housed on the internet somewhere. Same with Buffy. My HP fics are miles better than those, but it's still embarrassing.
I spent a good portion of my youth obsessing over fairy tales, folklore, and mythology. Lucky, being able to do cool stuff like that in college!
My favorite fairy tale is one of the nasty ones; Bluebeard. In one of my poetry classes during college we had to write an original poem that was based on the style of a famous poet. Anne Sexton wrote a lot of poems based on fairy tales (she has a Sleeping Beauty one, which is actually one of my favorite poems ever), and I chose to write about Bluebeard. Except I made it feminist, because really, having to wait for your brothers to save you from being beheaded? In my version she killed Bluebeard herself. I also like the Grimm variant, The Robber Bridegroom, because it's the girl herself who outwits the bad guy.
One fairy tales I don't like; The Little Mermaid (the Andersen version, not the Disney). I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to fairy tales, but I cannot forgive this one for how goddamn stupid the little mermaid is. But I tend not to like the Andersen fairy tales very
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I snickered here. :P
I liked them all, but I may like Hansel and Gretel the best. A house made out of candy is RI-DONK!
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Not to mention SUPER GROSS! Candy just sitting there in the sun for years and years. Of course, it was probably magical candy, so it never went bad, but instead gave you cancer because of all the preservatives.
I kind of adore how gruesome Grimm's fairytales are. I got an old book from my grandparents with a bunch of lesser known tales and they were positively horrible. In one the evil stepmother got stuck in a barrel lined with nails and then rolled down a hill. ouch.
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Man though, I can think of alot of wives who'd love to boil their mothers in law though. Sounds like a story for the ages!
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And I never had a problem with your fanfiction-- I remember it being VERY good back in the day *wishes you had finished the one with Tasuki in it . . . And the Bust a Groove one . . . ^_^*
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HAHA, I recently uncovered that Bust a Groove fanfic for shits and giggles. I also had a horrendous X-Files fic I wrote back in middle school that is still housed on the internet somewhere. Same with Buffy. My HP fics are miles better than those, but it's still embarrassing.
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I spent a good portion of my youth obsessing over fairy tales, folklore, and mythology. Lucky, being able to do cool stuff like that in college!
My favorite fairy tale is one of the nasty ones; Bluebeard. In one of my poetry classes during college we had to write an original poem that was based on the style of a famous poet. Anne Sexton wrote a lot of poems based on fairy tales (she has a Sleeping Beauty one, which is actually one of my favorite poems ever), and I chose to write about Bluebeard. Except I made it feminist, because really, having to wait for your brothers to save you from being beheaded? In my version she killed Bluebeard herself. I also like the Grimm variant, The Robber Bridegroom, because it's the girl herself who outwits the bad guy.
One fairy tales I don't like; The Little Mermaid (the Andersen version, not the Disney). I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to fairy tales, but I cannot forgive this one for how goddamn stupid the little mermaid is. But I tend not to like the Andersen fairy tales very ( ... )
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