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The Hunter's Funeral Procession

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props to stem people wtf! i can bullshit my way through any english essay because literally u just have to say stuff. but for stem paper u have to say stuff AND it has to be true. wack. 

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Illustration from "Tell me a sto.." by Una Hart. The book follows the evolution of most famous fairy-tales through time and how many fun, bizarre and dark versions there are.

For Rapunzel I leaned heavily into Renaissance fashions, considering her Italian origin, but the whole book is stylized with medieval aesthetic in mind.

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You don’t remember your name?  No, but for some reason I remember yours.

Spirited Away (2001) I  千と千尋の神隠し dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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There is no moral.

The wolf eats you one day,

And until it does,

The forest is beautiful

[Neverafter - Brennan Lee Mulligan]

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"Will you swear to be my friend forever and ever?"

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“Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met?”

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Jessie Wilcox Smith - Cinderella and the Glass Slipper. 1916

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my best friend and I have been writing a novel together. It's a lot of fun, and a great writing exercise, and I have mostly been a content editor which I love.

But my friend keeps using chat gpt to help them write the "bare bones" and then going in and editing what it outputs (which I further edit after) and it's driving me bonkers because you can absolutely tell that a human being did not write this and I also don't know what the point is if you're just going to write over it anyway.

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Moon

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Mars!

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Mercury☆

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This feels so gross… this feels good

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I live in a beautiful and tourist-heavy location, so every so often I get the occasional message from people telling me they visited recently and are now "seriously considering" (they always say that) moving here, and if I had any advice.

And every time I'm like "you visited during peak tourist season. You are a tourist. This province makes its wealth on tourism. What do you think it's like here in the winter?"

So far, no one has moved here.

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Thanks for tagging me!! Might I introduce the term "folkloresque" into this discussion, for things that feel like folklore but are not, in the traditional sense, folklore? (the best example I can give is Spirited Away).

Although I am inclined to lean it a bit more towards the literary fairy tale end of the spectrum: scholars consider The Wizard of Oz a literary fairy tale after all.

I don't think either opinion is wrong: Peter Pan is fantastical children's literature; but it also draws on fairy tale imagery and ideas. I think this just goes to show how difficult it can actually be to define the boundaries of what a fairy tale actually is.

I've been thinking about Peter Pan retellings. It's wild to me that there have been multiple prequels that, by their very nature, cannot be prequels. Vastly different in tone, genre, and events. The original book explains Peter Pan's backstory pretty straightforwardly. There's also The Little White Bird, Barrie's previous book which is the backstory, kind of. It's all very whimsical and dreamlike. Neverland is explicitly made up of children's dreams and imagination.

I love love loved Peter and the Starcatchers as a kid and feel more fondly towards it than I do towards J. M. Barrie's actual book, but it's very much its own thing. I remember the later installments in the series tried to segue into being closer to the original, and that shift was super jarring because they are different stories and characters. Neverland in the Starcatchers series is an actual island that's affected by magical stardust. Tinker Bell is an evolved bird, which is a fun nod to ideas in the original but is not the same as the original canon Tinker Bell.

There was also Syfy's Neverland miniseries (which I watched) and that movie Pan (which I have not watched other than that clip of Blackbeard's prisoners performing "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and man I wonder how J. M. Barrie would have reacted to that). The Neverland miniseries is set in 1906 (per Wikipedia) and it seems to end on the implication that Peter is off to meet Wendy for the first time and, uhhh, no? Peter is supposed to have been around for a long, long time - Captain Hook is implied to be from the Golden Age of Piracy. And apparently Pan is set during WWII, which, yeah. I'm rambling here but it's interesting to me that there are so many prequels which are technically prequels to a different, reimagined version of the story.

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*aborted little brother voice* it would be my turn on the xbox...if i existed...

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DEAR, DONKEY SKIN

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I had a visual imagining of this tale... [Art prints available on my store !!!]