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Love's unfortunate

Four autumns passed, my love is back From me you get the peace you lack With God's will and a second chance Our fate now is in your hands Our love is unfortunate Please, don't turn your back

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Cinderella September-through-November: "Cinderella" (1990 Golden Films animation)

Golden Films was one of those low-budget animation companies that specialized in producing "mockbusters": middling-quality, direct-to-video animated films based on the same subject matter as the latest hits and time-honored classics from Disney and other high-profile animation studios. I never watched any of their films in my childhood, but I remember seeing them available at Blockbuster and other video stores: particularly their notorious 1996 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which changes Esmeralda's name to Melody and has Quasimodo become handsome and undeformed in the end. Fortunately, there's nothing so offensive in their Cinderella. That is, apart from the fact that it was sold with a misleading VHS and DVD cover portraying Cinderella and the Prince as looking more like their Disney counterparts than they do in the actual film, making many parents think they were buying the Disney classic for their children only to realize their mistake too late.

This 25-minute Cinderella is a far simpler retelling of the story than Disney would ever thought of producing, both in terms of its storytelling and in its plain, cartoonish animation. The backgrounds are reasonably well-detailed and pretty, often resembling a lower-budget version of the Disney film's backgrounds, but the character designs have decidedly less elegance to them. Cinderella herself is pretty-faced yet rail-thin, with a massive strawberry blonde ponytail that becomes a massive beehive hairdo for the ball, while the Stepmother and Stepsisters are buffoonish, long-nosed caricatures, one sister thin, the other sister and their mother fat. The teeny-tiny, chubby, pink-clad Fairy Godmother has a cartoonish charm about her appearance, while the handsome Prince is the most realistically drawn character overall. The time period is indeterminate: the Prince and other men's clothes have a Renaissance flair and the King and Queen wear medieval-looking robes, and yet most of the women's gowns have a vaguely 19th or 20th century appearance, and photography evidently exists too, as the morning after the ball, an embarrassing picture of the Stepsisters is published in the society newspapers they constantly read.

The classic story is told in a straightforward, mostly faithful fashion. Cinderella's father is said to still be alive by the voiceover narrator, but he's always away on business and never appears onscreen. The Stepmother and Stepsisters are petty bullies to Cinderella: when at one point she accidentally spills coffee on her Stepmother's dress, the Stepsisters purposefully spill coffee on their own dresses too just to give her extra work by making her wash them, and later, they send her outside during a rainstorm to bring in their packages from a shopping spree, causing her to catch a cold. Meanwhile, Cinderella daydreams and sleep-dreams of romantic interludes with the Prince – the very likeness of the real Prince, despite the fact that she's never met him – and the Fairy Godmother later reveals that she sent her those dreams. Another creative touch (although the Muppets' Hey, Cinderella! did it earlier) is that the ball is a masked ball, which helps to explain why the Prince has to rely on the glass slipper to recognize Cinderella rather than her face.

Apart from minor embellishments like those above, this Cinderella is surprisingly loyal to Perrault's original in some ways that most other versions ignore. This is one of the few adaptations where the ball takes place over two nights instead of just one, with Cinderella losing her slipper on the second night. The first night, she gives special, kindly attention to her Stepsisters without their recognizing her, although here she urges the Prince to dance with them rather than giving them oranges. Likewise, in the end she not only forgives them, but pairs them off with handsome gentlemen of the court.

As a whole, I'd say this is a reasonably charming Cinderella, though far from an essential one. The writing, voice acting and music are all solidly done, and while the animation isn't beautiful, its colorful appearance still holds some appeal, especially for children. If this should serve as a child's introduction to the fairy tale – for example, if their parents are misled by the cover and buy it thinking it's the Disney version – it would serve that purpose well. But as a whole, there are plenty of Cinderellas better than this particular "mockbuster" version.

@superkingofpriderock, @ariel-seagull-wings

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Cinderella September-through-November: "Cinderella" (1994 Jetlag Productions animation)

Together with Golden Films and UAV Entertainment, Jetlag Productions was one of the '90s main producers of animated "mockbusters" to cash in on the success of Disney and other Hollywood animation studios. Their Cinderella, released on VHS and DVD by GoodTimes Entertainment, seems generally to be viewed as one of the studio's best efforts. A surprising number of online reviewers not only praise it, but claim that they and/or their children prefer it to the Disney version, despite Disney's technical superiority.

The most frequent reason for this praise is that this 45-minute Cinderella focuses more exclusively on Cinderella herself and on her interactions with the other leading characters than the Disney version does, rather than adding screentime-stealing sidekicks like Disney's mice. Cinderella is first shown living happily with her parents, but then in quick succession her mother dies, her father remarries, and then her father departs on a long business trip, leaving her at her stepfamily's mercy. (Like its fellow "mockbuster" version from Golden Films, this adaptation uses this alternative to either killing off her father or making him a henpecked husband.) Amid her servitude, she takes comfort in a box of mementos of her mother that she keeps hidden behind a brick near the fireplace, including a snow globe with a figurine of a little old fairy. One night she sheds a tear onto this snow globe, and suddenly the figurine comes to life as her Fairy Godmother. Thus introduced much earlier than usual, the tiny pink-haired Godmother becomes her secret companion, affectionately calling her "Cindy," using her magic to play practical jokes on the Stepmother and Stepsisters, and (in a touch inspired by the Grimm's version) summoning birds to pick beans out of the ashes for Cinderella at her stepmother's command. After the ball, when the Prince arrives with the glass slipper, the Stepmother confines Cinderella to the attic, but once again her Godmother comes to her rescue, this time by urging Cinderella to sing; the Prince recognizes her voice instantly. Disney itself would later borrow the detail of Cinderella's singing revealing her presence in the 2015 live-action remake of their own version – for once the "mockbuster" was "mocked" by the Hollywood giant! After this, the final happily-ever-after features not only Cinderella's wedding, but the return of her father, and her pairing the Stepsisters with two handsome lords of the court, as in Perrault's version of the tale.

From the beginning, this version clearly has more charm than its Golden Films predecessor. While the animation is far from sophisticated, the characters still have visual appeal, especially the brown-haired, blue-eyed Cinderella herself. Even the comically caricatured stepfamily aren't quite as revoltingly hideous as in other low-budget animated versions. (As in the Golden Films version, I could have done without the fat-shaming choice of having the chubby stepsister constantly stuffing herself with food, but I do appreciate the choice to have the skinny sister's foot be too small for the glass slipper rather than too big, not equating tiny feet with utmost beauty for a change.) And while this isn't a full-fledged musical, it does feature three songs: "Dream On, Cinderella," the film's main theme sung by a voiceover singer, "The Chance of a Lifetime," sung as the stepfamily prepares for the ball, and "When Love Has Gone Away," a distant duet for Cinderella and the Prince as they pine for each other, which Cinderella later reprises to reveal her presence in the attic. These songs certainly aren't on the level of Disney or Rodgers and Hammerstein, but they're still charming in their own early '90s way.

Is this an especially high-quality Cinderella? No, but of the '90s low-budget "mockbuster" versions, this is definitely the best. While it wouldn't be my first choice to introduce a child to the story of Cinderella or to introduce a Disney fan to other versions of the tale, I still understand why it has such a nostalgic following among the people who grew up with it.

@ariel-seagull-wings, @superkingofpriderock

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Darkness

Before the darkness falls

The scent of your skin swims in the cold air

My scream broke the walls

Wishing your soul to answer my calls.

My voice echoes through the empty halls

As the night sits beside me

But where are you?

No answer.

Where have you been?

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The Siren Song: Tom Riddle x Male Reader (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/story/366784562-the-siren-song-tom-riddle-x-male-readerutm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=Switchnflick 

(𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗫 𝗧𝗼𝗺 𝗥𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲) 

𝑨 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏, 𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒊𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓, 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒌𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝑺𝒍𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏'𝒔 𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓. 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒃𝒊𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒆𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒏𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒎.

In the mystical depths of the Mediterranean sea... Adrian, a 16 yo little merman born with unique magical abilities unlike any other siren in the kingdom of Atlantica, finds his life taking a dramatic turn. His destiny changes forever when his grandfather, the King of the Sea decides to send him to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for unconvincing reasons. Entrusting Adrian's care to his old friend Dumbledore, King Triton sets the way for his grandchild's magical journey in the world above. In the enchanted halls of Hogwarts, Adrian encounters a charismatic figure: Tom Riddle, the one and only heir of Slytherin. A tall, well-built and handsome young m the merman's world. Now, Adrian must confront the forbidden secrets of his past that threaten to plunge the world into great danger. Can Adrian trust Dumbledore or does the headmaster hide secrets of his own? Will Adrian's encounter with Tom Riddle lead to salvation or destruction of the wizarding world? 

🧜🏻♂️︶꒦꒷♡꒷꒦︶🐍︶꒦꒷♡꒷꒦︶🧜🏻♂️︶꒦꒷♡꒷꒦︶🐍︶꒦꒷♡꒷꒦︶🧜🏻

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Our fantasy

Here I am in my bed, Daydreaming in my head.

How do I miss your soft skin on mine Before even we could touch?

Our hands intertwined as if they were branches Of two different trees : one on a mountain, one by the sea.

How do I crave the look in your eyes, Gleaming like stars on a new moon?

And your lips sealed on mine As we swim in our sweet fantasy.

But that's what it is... a fantasy

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Five of Cups

Five of cups, Tear soulmates apart. A black dressed friend, Has stabbed my heart. Five of cups, Darkness has fallen. Two of cups behind, The love is rotten. A misty day, I do recall, River of sorrow, standing tall. A darkened path, leading to end, Pulling me to his shadow's scent.

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"In where ink and parchment meet Ancient mystery and the wisdom I seek As I open the portal of runes and spells Let the fairies and witches ring their bells"

-MaleficusVeneficus-

some magical books 📗 💜 🌿

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The Sacrifice

"Once upon a witching hour, darkness now has fallen,

Killing the spirit of light, flowers are lifeless and solemn.

Even miracles won't make it right.

For what happened can't be undone in this night.

The innocent girl had decisions to take,

To bring back joy and laughter, a deal she made.

To universal powers, her soul she traded,

Making all the darkness slowly fade."

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The Villains Lair: the story so far

I’ve been rewatching The Villains Lair by PattyCake Productions and I’ve written a summary of the plot so far.

If you haven’t watched it and want to avoid spoilers, you can watch it here.

According to the villains themselves (what they say should be taken with a pinch of salt) and what we’ve seen ourselves, the story so far is this-

Maleficent helped Stefan gain the throne and become king. Stefan pretended he’d done it all alone, didn’t acknowledge Maleficent’s help, married someone else and didn’t invite her to the christening of his daughter.

Maleficent wanted revenge so made a deal with Ursula AKA the Sea Witch (sister of King Triton and daughter of Poseidon). Ursula gave her a Sleeping Spell in exchange for her wings so that she could curse Stefan’s daughter.

When the Evil Queen gave Snow White the poisoned apple, the seven dwarfs chased her off a cliff. The Evil Queen fell into the sea and died. Ursula found her and brought her back to solid ground.

Ursula spoke to Evil Queen’s spirit and offered a deal; if Evil Queen helped Ursula overthrow her brother, Ursula would bring her back to life. Evil Queen agreed to the terms. However, the moment she felt she could get away, Evil Queen reengaged on their deal and went off to do her own thing.

Evil Queen found Maleficent at the bottom of a cliff with Prince Philip’s sword in her heart. It’s unclear if she was dead or dying but Evil Queen either somehow brought her back to life or saved her.

Evil Queen and Maleficent teamed up. Evil Queen asked Maleficent to resurrect the other dead villains and when they came back to life, they all moved into Evil Queen’s castle. Villains who didn’t die, like Cinderella’s step-mother Lady Tremaine also got invited.

Evil Queen was still in debt to Ursula who might be able to undo the magic that brought her back to life. Some or all of the villains worked together combining their powers to magically seal Ursula away so she’d be unable to collect her debt.

While they are all talking about how much they hate how their stories went, Dr Facilier AKA the Shadow Man told them there was a way to rewrite time and make it so that they’d won. He took items from some of the villains to make a magical spell of some sort. The spell didn’t immediately rewrite time or do anything obvious.

The villains asked Dr Facilier for more details of how to mess with time. He told them about the Sundial of Cronus.

When the universe was young, the titans ruled. Cronus – the most powerful – became obsessed with controlling of time. However, he was cruel and mad. Eventually, Zeus defeated Cronus and locked him away inside the Sundial. Now the Sundial of Cronus can be used to move time forward or backwards.

Dr Facilier used his cards to discover the location of the Sundial. It used to belong to Hades but Zeus entrusted it to Meg after Hades’ soul fell into the river styx. She now protected it at the Princess Academy.

Unfortunately (or fortunately because they are villains with evil intentions), Dr Facilier told the other villains that, even if they managed to get the Sundial, he didn’t actually know how it works.

Maleficent told them that she thought the answer was obvious. Sunlight moves time forward and moonlight moves it back. However, for the dark magic they were planning, a blood moon would be needed. As Mistress of all Evil, Maleficent said she could easily make a blood moon.

Evil Queen decided she would disguise herself, go to the Princess Academy and trick the Princess into handing over the Sundial. It took her a while to prepare and put this plan into action.

During all this, different villains have been interacting in different ways. Some get along but others do not. Evil Queen, Mother Gothel and Lady Tremaine bonded over their abusive parenting techniques.

Cruella de Vil, Gaston, Mother Gothel and Yzma all love making bad look good. Dr Facilier, who was listening from the shadows, stepped out and introduced them to Vanessa, a Queen from under the sea, who can change her looks. The group then had a discussion about something (it’s probably nothing, don’t worry about it!)

The minions and henchmen hung out together and sang a jolly song about being their for their villains.

Evil Queen went to the Princess Academy in disguise. She span a story about being sent by Zeus to stop a great evil. However, it turned out that someone got there before her. According to the person who’d come the day before, the Sundial was in danger but it would be safe under the sea with Triton, so now it’s gone.

When Evil Queen got back to the castle, she told everyone what had happened. They realised someone must has leaked their plans. Then worked out that Dr Facilier had tricked them into releasing Ursula and told her about the Sundial so that she could steal it first.

Cruella de Vil, Gaston and Mother Gothel tried to sneak off but were caught by Maleficent who realised they knew about Ursula already. Yzma wasn’t there so its unclear if people know that she knew.

Vanessa stepped out of the shadows. At first the villains threatened her until they thought she was an envoy for Ursula. They demand Vanessa tell Ursula to bring them the Sundial. Only for Vanessa to transform and reveal that she was Ursula all along.

Ursula told them, she would bring the Sundial once they’ve all made a deal with her. If they don’t, she would keep it 20,000 leagues under the sea.

Dr Facilier revealed that he hadn’t told them everything about the Sundial. Only the descendent of a god can unlock its power. As Poseidon’s daughter, Ursula is the only one of them that can make the Sundial work. Whether they liked it or not, he said they needed her.

Ursula vanished. She would come back when the others decide to make a deal with her. Some of the villains thought they should make a deal with Ursula but others didn’t.

Lady Tremaine pointed out that if the descendent of a god can activate Sundial, then surely a god would work even better.

Evil Queen remembered Hades who’d already owned the Sundial once. Unfortunately, Hades was dead, dead. Maleficent had brought a lot of the villains back to life but Hades wasn’t one of them. His soul had fallen into the river Styx but Evil Queen thought that the Black Cauldron might be bring him back.

Maleficent voiced her reservations but Evil Queen was sure this is a good plan. She asked the Magic Mirror where the Cauldron was and it told her it was on Morva. It also said that the lord lost inside it will rise again. Everyone ignores that line.

Maleficent pointed out that the Cauldron was supposed to be broken and it’s protected by three witches. Evil Queen dismissed this. The Mirror said the Cauldron would work and she believed it. She decided to distract the witches by pretending to offer them the Mirror so that someone could steal the Cauldron when they were away.

Captain Hook offered to sail to Morva with his pirate crew to steal it. He just needed a new ship (Peter Pan stole his).

Prince Hans had recently come to the castle and Lady Tremaine thought he’d be willing to offer his ship and sail with them. We don’t see her ask him but later we find out he did agree to help with the plan.

Gaston offered to go too and be the mussel.

After all her arguments against the plan, Maleficent suddenly changed her tune. If this was the plan they were all determined to go with, she’d accompany them to make sure everything would go smoothly. As punishment for not telling them about Ursula, Maleficent told Cruella she has to come as well.

It’s unclear why Maleficent wants at least two members of the crew of the mission to be people who knew about Ursula before everyone else. It seems like a bad idea to put them on a ship, on the ocean, where they’ll be nearer to Ursula but I’m sure she has her reasons. Maybe she just wants to keep an eye on them.

Maleficent went down to the dungeon where she’s keeping Oogie Boogie prisoner, for reasons unknown. Oogie doesn’t care about the villains’ various schemes and backstabbing. However, when Maleficent offered Oogie a tied-up Santa in exchange, of his magic dice that can control the shadows, he didn’t hesitate to agree.

It’s unclear where Dr Facilier has been since he told them all they needed Ursula. However, Maleficent hopes the dice will be enough to stop him using the shadows anymore.

Hans, Gaston, Jafar and Frollo bonded over being misogynistic incels. Even the other villains think that their ‘love interests’ were right to turn them down (though the hunters do like Gaston’s story of in sighting a mod to kill a monster). Anastasia and Drizella, on the other hand, were on Hans and Gaston’s sides, and said they were in the right and fought for their attention.

Evil Queen questioned Maleficent about why she’s choosing to go to Morva. Maleficent says it’s to return Hades to life but changes the subject when Evil Queen asks if that’s the only reason she’s going.

Whatever Maleficent’s motives; she, Hook and his crew, Hans, Gaston and Cruella will set sail soon.

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The garden's guardian

"A long vanilla garment, walking through the garden,

Picking up flowers, right and left.

Suddenly, she turns back and hears,

Winds attacking as strong as eagle's wings.

Air takes away the petals she has taken,

For that, stealing from earth was strictly forbidden."

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Sugar Coat - Poem

"A walking sugar coat, white as cold snow

Asking, where's the light? Lead me to the show

Now she sits and watches closely,

Admiring the glowing light, enchantingly.

There she goes and as she walks,

A singing voice from the sea talks.

She sits again and listens closely,

What other souls couldn't comprehend"

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H o m e

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name moodboard for “emily” for anonymous

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I claim :)