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adarkrainbow · 5 months

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I just clicked what my favorite adaptation/version of Cinderella is. I mean, I kind of knew back then, but I didn't realize it because at the time Cinderella wasn't a story I was really interested about, and I hadn't gone into the entire Cinderella rabbit hole. But if you ask me what my favorite Cinderella retelling is, it is definitively the story of Emberella as presented by Terry Pratchett in his "Witches Abroad" novel.

Yes it is kind of a parody and deconstruction of the Cinderella story (and a quite excellent one at that), but it also works very well as its own fairytale - plus it literaly predicted/foresaw Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" 18 YEARS before the movie was released.... and while slapping so hard the face of the Disney company.

Yeah, Emberella is my favorite version of Cinderella.

#cinderella #terry pratchett #witches abroad #emberella #discworld #fairytale parody #fairytale deconstruction #disney's the princess and the frog #and who doesn't love evil fairy godmothers and vodou gods battling in what is the Disneyland castle thrown in the middle of a bayou #plus meddling witches and masked ball #AND there's a good focus on Cinderella's father and why he is absent here #honestly this is an excellent case study of a deconstruction of the cinderella story

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