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Title: On a Time
Author: llassah
Fandom: Original fiction; written fairytale
Wordcount: 1000
Rating: pg-13 for disturbing imagery
Prompt: this picture
Warnings: some blood, abuse of fairytale princes, wolves.
( Perhaps they aren’t princesses at all, for all that they are beautiful, for all that they live in a castle. Perhaps they wandered too far into the forest as children; perhaps they have a mother to weep over their absence. No princess has a mother, not if she is to sew a nettle shirt or make a woman wear burning shoes and dance or wait in pain and hunger but with unshakeable faith or throw a frog at a wall, for what girl with a mother could do that? )
Author: llassah
Fandom: Original fiction; written fairytale
Wordcount: 1000
Rating: pg-13 for disturbing imagery
Prompt: this picture
Warnings: some blood, abuse of fairytale princes, wolves.
( Perhaps they aren’t princesses at all, for all that they are beautiful, for all that they live in a castle. Perhaps they wandered too far into the forest as children; perhaps they have a mother to weep over their absence. No princess has a mother, not if she is to sew a nettle shirt or make a woman wear burning shoes and dance or wait in pain and hunger but with unshakeable faith or throw a frog at a wall, for what girl with a mother could do that? )
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I especially love this line: He is no prince, so he waits patiently for them to awake. Very nicely done :D The same goes for the other references too (and there are probably a load I'm missing). This is such a nicely woven story, and the kind of hearty, satisfying prose I wish people wrote more of :D
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LOL, yes, necrophiliac prince was a bit of a WTF moment when I first read about him! It was like wow, no wonder Disney translated that as a kiss... Although the idea of just kissing the (presumed) corpse of a stranger is in itself a little odd. And now my brain's gone off on one about how this is a little like Orthodox icon veneration (with the kissing of the relic or icon, all that emphasis on the tactile). Oh dear.
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Fairytales are full of people humping dead/asleep people. That came as a terrible shock to me. And I would read that icon/princess book. Oooh, and then there are the undertones of the saints with the non-decomposing corpses...
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No princess has a mother, not if she is to sew a nettle shirt or make a woman wear burning shoes and dance or wait in pain and hunger but with unshakeable faith or throw a frog at a wall, for what girl with a mother could do that?
Because fuck, for something read to tiny children, fairytales are CREEPY.
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(snow white:dwarf orgy next?)
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