#Ugly Stepsister

[0starchild0]

Shrek: Princesses

Cinderella

Snow White

Rapunzel

Sleeping Beauty (Aurora)

Fiona

Fiona (Ogre)

Doris (Ugly Step-Sister)

[anchors-art]

“I understand Doris is given unflattering hair and makeup for her whole schtick, but what if she didn’t tho” I say, out of the blue, to post my painting practice upon the petrified mummy of my art blog

[blkgrlangst]

i don’t dream of labor but i would kill for her job…

[musicalthought]

why did no one tell me that when I wear purple eyeshadow I look like the ugly step sister from shrek

[recycledmoviecostumes]

This lovely white gown was first seen in the 2002 Wonderful World of Disney production of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, where Jenna Harrison wore it as Clara Van Den Meer. It was seen on an extra in the 2011 film Anonymous, as well as on another extra in the 2013 episode of Poirot entitled The Big Four.  In 2022 it was spotted on Naoko Mori as Mrs.Thistlewaite in the film production of Mr.Malcolm’s List.

Costume Credit: Anne81

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[gennsoup]

Nothing in my childhood was charming. What fortune attended our lives was courtesy of jealousy, greed, and murder. And nothing in my childhood was charmed. Or not that I could see at the time. If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 1D, MATCH 10 OUT OF 16!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Clara:

In Gregory Macguire's retelling and perspective flip of Cinderella, Clara initially comes off as one would probably write a Cinderella as told by one of her stepsisters. She's a bit vapid, spoiled, and a little delusional, believing that she's a changeling after being kidnapped by water spirits at birth. She's the one who gives herself the Cinderella nickname after sulking by the fire after the death of her mother. The only problem she seems to have, according to Iris, is that she's too beautiful!

That's partially true. Her beauty was both a blessing and a curse. The kidnapping she mentioned happened, but it was not as mystical as she made it out to believe. One of her father's business associated kidnapped Clara while she was out ice skating and locked her in a windmill until her family could pay the ransom fee (which was half of their riches). This lead to her being a bit antisocial. Her mother kept her inside of the house out of her safety, and it was a habit Clara kept after her death. Clara matures over time and finds herself to be genuinely befriend her two stepsisters. She takes on the role of the servant and the household chores so Iris (the viewpoint character and one of her stepsisters) could pursue her interests in painting without overshadowing her.

Ella:

so this is a discworld story, and in discworld stories are sort of parasitic life forms that like to happen over and over. they can be harnessed, with enough magic. this is what’s happening to ella saturday, who is playing the parts of both cinderella and the frog princess. her evil fairy godmother (you get two, an evil one and a good one, though her evil one is under the impression that she’s the good one) has taken over the city, and is forcing everyone into fairytale roles under the threat of execution if they’re not quite archetypal enough. she thinks this will make people happy. ella, on account of being the dead  barons daughter, has gotten the role of princess. so she’s being kept in a house with two snakes who have been turned into human women, and is being forced to go to the ball, where she is expected to dance with the duc, who is a frog turned into a human, and kiss him to solidify the spell. she very much does not want to do any of this, but fortunately she’s got that other fairy godmother! who is brand new, on account of the last one died, and has no idea what she’s doing. but it all turns out ok in the end, and the stories stop (for a given value) and she’s the baroness now a they all live, if not happily or ever after, then normally, and for a time

[jomarchswritingjacket]

did NOT expect that other dreamworks lady poll of mine to blow tf up so here have some honorable mentions

i haven’t seen sinbad or spirit so sorry to the people who wanted characters from those movies

[lanarchive]

just saw a bio with liverpool - man city - psg

[thebirdandhersong]

one thing about me is that I'm so abysmally horrendously astonishingly bad at doing my hair

[allaboutcinderella]

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (trailer)

If anyone has seen where the full movie of this exists I am on a man hunt for it!

I saw it on The Magical World of Disney on ABC ages ago and it’s been swept from existence!

It’s so good and I’d give anything to watch it again 😭

[appleinducedsleep]

She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.

Gregory Maguire, Confessions Of An Ugly Stepsister

[musicalthought]

I look like a mix of these two

[autismmydearwatson]

My one true love Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire (1999)

[anthro-apologies-blog]

New blog post is up! Link below.

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[livvyofthelake]

blogging live sitting on the floor at work because there’s nowhere else to sit rn because these random guys have invadedddd the back room where i would normally chillax at this time… and remind me why we need to install this new fancy shmancy inventory technology but can’t get people to clean the mass amounts of dust and grime off the rafters more than once a year? remind me how this is going to be more helpful than. registers that work or perhaps literally even just. fixtures that aren’t all broken. why is everything in this store that has wheels broken? anyway. the innovations of modern american capitalism at work! well it’s 2am. four and a half more hours to go hashtag night shift i guess. but in a way that blows ridiculously. anyway i don’t care for men being here. the way all they’ve done is take hours and hours to hang wires from the ceiling is crazy like i don’t wanna tell people how to do their job but how hard can it possibly be like speed it up boys you’re killing me. and why do we need this to be at night. and not just. close the store for one day and get it done. again the innovations of modern american capitalism at work! because god fucking forbid people not be able to shop for mediocre jeans and ugly tops for one or two days wouldn’t that just be an infringement on the civil liberties of the public. not as if you could walk your ass ten more feet and buy the same ugly crap at old navy. like this is a mall get serious i’ve been in these stores they’re all the same and frankly i might even argue my store is worse because it puts so much into falsely branding itself as eco friendly. babygirl you would not believe how much plastic gets thrown right into the dumpster out here. they don’t want you to know this because the jeans are made using like 70% less water than average or whatever the fuck but i’m pretty sure the amount of plastic i’ve thrown away here could create its own island. anyway. we persevere.