#seven dwarves

[ybon-paramoux]

Snow White at the Tavern

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

I don't know if this was addressed already but how many fae types have we seen or heard of so far?

Off the top of my head, the two main classifications of fae seem to be nocturnal fae and diurnal fae, and there are several other kinds of fae that fall under each. Here is what I can recall:

All fae have pointed ears.

Depending on the subspecies of fae, they may have additional traits or powers.

Some fae can make their own magic, as well as absorb magic from nature to use.

Generally, fae govern certain natural elements such as fire or water.

🌙 Nocturnal fae

Nocturnal fae have many yet-to-be-named subclassifications; for example, both Lilia and Sebek's mother and grandfather are considered nocturnal fae but Lilia resembles a bat/ and Sebek's family resembles crocodiles.

The Zigvolts’ specific subspecies have not yet been formally named to us. Their subspecies is known for having scales and a strong bite.

Lilia says that "his kind" of fae can live up to 1000 years. It is said in book 7 that he is a bat fae, which may explain his weakness to the sunlight.

The language of the nocturnal fae sounds like animalistic snarls, grunts, and growls to the human ear.

Dragon fae (Dragon fae are also most likely a subspecies of nocturnal fae, which may be why the Briar Valley army’s slogan mentions the night. Malleus, as well as the Draconia line, are dragon fae; they are descended from actual dragons. Dragona fae are considered babies at 200 years old, teenagers at 500 years old, and adults at 1000 years old.)

Lilia, Malleus, and Sebek demonstrate enhanced senses. Lilia and Malleus also have enhanced physical abilities (strength, speed, etc.)

It is implied that fae in the Briar Valley are nocturnal fae. Additionally, silver hair is more common for nocturnal fae. Blonde hair is not common.

☀️ Diurnal fae

They do not get along with nocturnal fae.

The Fairy Queen from Fairy Gala is considered a diurnal fae.

Pixies are a smaller type of fae that fall under the "diurnal" category; they speak in a language which sounds like bell-like tinkling.

Pixies are usually associated with the various elements of nature so there are fire pixies, water pixies, and flora pixies.

We also see crafting pixies (those are the ones with blonde hair and leafy clothes), which fix items and can make a special bell which translates pixie speech.) The leader of the craft fairies is named Macy.

An honorable mention goes to dwarves, which were suggested to be a kind of fae. In 5-55 of the main story, Yuu thinks the Seven Dwarves are a type of fae because of their pointed ears:

However, even if you select the bottom option it’s not confirmed that the dwarves are a type of fae until a few chapters later (5-59) by Jamil.

It’s not stated whether dwarves are diurnal, nocturnal, or neither. Based on just aesthetic alone, I’d guess diurnal.

[jamiecalledraws]

So, um, we gonna talk about how snow white literally said she likes all 7 dwarves??? Finally finished, Snow White from Dimension20s Neverafter as The Judgment Tarot!

[balkanparamo]

Snow White at the Tavern - Joe Pimentel

[yuhyeearlyuh]

A new photo of Asha and her friends!

These character designs are growing on me more and more each day tbh 💫 Snow White comparisons down below because why not!

[illustratus]

Schneewittchen (Snow White) by Alexander Zick

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Seven Dwarves

"The gleam of rubies and my brothers and sisters by my side . . . what more could I want?" —Brognold the Third

Artist: Jason Rainville TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[deadlyflan]

TMNT Snow White a crack!fic from 2002.

In this mangled fairy tale, fairest Michelangelo leverages his good looks and colossal eating talents to thwart a jealous old queen.

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Snow White 🤍🥧🍎

[mat2modblog]

So Viz and/or WB are adverse to using non-existent trademarks like Weather Report but including the still-copyrighted in the US Astro Boy, Gigantor and Great Mazinger (which is oddly the only one of the three Japanese robots to not get the name localized. Although Mazinger Z was Tranzor Z, which hilarious considering there’s a 2019 Transformers crossover manga) are perfectly fine?

Least WB’s involvement explains why name-dropping Batman was perfectly fine and Viz’s involvement means Kenshiro and Raoh are covered but Gigantor’s US copyright apparently belongs to the Peter Rodgers Organization, Astro Boy Dark to Horse comics and Great Mazinger to Discotek Media.

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

I was going through songs that were available for purchase on music shop and there is this track called "Yahoo with everyone" so I wondered if it was the same song that Neige's group performed at VDC(JP server) but was skipped in Eng server?...if thats the case why is it here now?since its only available on the shop and remains absent from main story twistunes

I purchased the song from Sam's shop (in EN) to test it out for myself; it seems that the track "Ya-Hoo with Everyone!" is the instrumental version of Neige and the Seven Dwarves' song.

For those of you who may not be aware, book 5 originally contained a twistune/rhythmic featuring RSA's song and dance performance to rival NRC's. This occurs in 5-59, but was entirely cut out from the official EN release of Twisted Wonderland (though players were later compensated with what they would have earned for playing through the twistune/rhythmic). What's especially odd is that parts where the instrumental is played (like in the beginning of 5-60 in JP) is still absent in EN, so I'm not sure why it's suddenly resurfacing as a track now.

I guess Vil couldn't censor his competition forever, huh?/j 😂

[romangoldendreams]

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Vanishing Point par The Parks Via Flickr : Inari and Angélique are on their way to celebrate Christmas in the House of the Seven Dwarves with the Krampus clan... But on the E651 national road between Schladming and Radstadt, Inari breaks all speed limits with his Chevrolet Camaro RS/SS, affectionately nicknamed Vanishing Point. Wild Side by Motley Crue at full bass, the girls are hugged by police lieutenant Alice Faust Her, accompanied by agent Helmut Kool...

[itsmcp100]

So Wish is, not very good. But the official marketing image Disney released gave me a pretty cool idea...

The main character, Asha, has seven friends who are all based off the seven dwarves from Snow White. I figured I would make my Armile characters match their personalities the best I could. Most of it was pretty spot-on already!

Man I can't wait to start working on this story😌

[adarkrainbow]

BD reviews - The good, the okay and the bad

Today's review: Sept Nains

"Sept" (Seven) is a concept-series. This means that each volume is independant from one another - each issue has its own self-contained story with no relationship to other issues. Each issue is also done by a different team of writers and artists. The only thing these issues have in common is one same principle: they must tell a story focusing around a group of seven characters. The setting, tone, artstyle, plotline, all of this can be as free as wanted - as long as there are seven title-characters/main characters. Spread between 2007 and 2017, the series contains 21 issues with concepts ranging from "Seven corpses" or "Seven athletes" to "Seven psychopaths" or "Seven pirates", passing by "Seven prisoners" and "Seven detectives"...

And of course, "Seven dwarves" - "Sept nains". The 15th issue of the series, a Snow-White retelling done by Wilfrid Lupano and Roberto Ali. Wilfrid Lupano is notably quite a famous name in the world of French BD since he is the scenarist that was behind a series with some great success - Les Vieux Fourneaux.

Now, from the various reviews I could check online, the series as a whole is apparently very uneven in quality - which is to be expected with a concept-anthology. Some issues are excellent, some are very bad ; some are quite good, some are just meh, and some are okay.

And after reading this issue I can say... It is not a bad comic, but I felt there was something missing or going wrongly with it which prevents me from saying it is "good". For some people it might be a very good comic... For me it is just okay. Definitively a fun and entertaining read, and definitively something worth a check and that will stay in my memory, but not something I would particularly cherish or buy for my own little library.

Sept Nains offers a "realistic" retelling of Snow-White, without the magic and with only actual human characters. And under this angle, it does WAY better than "L'origine des contes". Not only does the comic stays faithful to the original story while twisting it, but it also understands a very important thing: when you need to do a realistic fairytale, you need to keep the "fairytale" aspect of it somehow, which must be carried on in a different way. And here, the fairytale aspect is maintained by evocations of magic, fairies and spells that people believe in but do not truly exist (the evil queen is accused of being a witch, but as it turns out she is not), and by the presentation of excentric, amusing and outlandish characters that give a cartoonish nature to it all - but in a good way.

Because you see - this BD is an humoristic one, and the whole purpose of the story is to be a dark farce. It isn't obvious at first because when the BD begins it seems like a straightforward, serious, dramatic story... But as you go on, as the characters become more cartoonish, the jokes pile up and the story takes twist and turn you realize it is actually more of a parody than anything - with actually clear intentions of mocking, debunking and viciously attacking Disney's version of Snow-White. For example the seven dwarfs here are clearly modeled after the seven dwarfs of Disney, but with more "realistic" implications... Grumpy is still grumpy, but also so badly-natured he is the first one to suggest "If somebody bothers us, let's kill him". Doc is the intelligent one of the group yes... Which also means he is the only one able to read in this medieval setting. And as for Dopey... Well he is more than a simpleton, he clearly has some problem as he spends his time his mouth wide open, drooling, dragging his feet, and can barely say a few words.

The humor is one of the reasons I call this an "okay" piece. You see the humor and the jokes are quite uneven. Sometimes they land, sometimes they do not. For example there is a very funny scene where Disney's scene of the evil queen brewing a potion to become an old hag is brilliantly parodied - she doesn't brew a magical potion... she brews a makeup-removal product, and that's all she needs to become an old hag. On the other side, there are jokes that fall a bit flat or feel a bit aged - for example there is a recurring joke of the seven dwarfs being mistaken for a gay polyamorous relationship and, while it was a fun little line at first, its repetition and insistance could become a bit heavy...

It is not just the humor that is uneven, but the entire personalities of the characters as well - and yet, on this point it isn't such a flaw, because that's what makes the charm of this BD. It carefully avoids the manicheism of fairytales by showing both the good and bad sides of each characters and making them all in the end morally-gray. The evil queen is clearly a selfish, vain, cruel, dictatorial tyrant at the beginning of the story... But as she turns into a "hag" to try to kill Snow-White, we discover how pressured she feels to be constantly young and beautiful in this patriarchal and sexist medieval era, and she ends up feeling liberated in her "hag" appearance, without makeup, bra or corset. Meanwhile Snow-White is still here a persecuted maiden who clearly got the bad end of the stick as misfortunes just keep piling on her and everybody wants to rape or kill her... But she isn't the sweet, soft and kind character of Disney, as all her misadventures made her bitter, strong, and ready to defend herself at any cost, with a quite vulgar language as one of her main weapons. In fact (spoilers here), but the BD ends with the true completion of this decision of making everything morally gray, by having the evil queen and Snow-White forgive each other upon realizing they have much more in common than they thought, and forming a new duo of equals rather than polar opposite rivals...

I say this is one of the charms of this BD, but I also recognize it might be one of its "flaws" because having such a dark, cynical and ultimately pessimistic moral might not be for everybody, and people who do not enjoy a bleak and arbitrary farce might not enjoy the BD who truly relies on all the tools of the dark comedy.

Another example of the double-edged nature of this comic, the seven dwarfs themselves. As the title says, the seven dwarfs are the main characters of the story and the driving force of the plot, the link between all the incidents and characters. And this is one of the forces of the comic as I have not very often seen Snow White adaptations that focus on the dwarfs first and make Snow a secondary character. We get to hear about their whole backstory, and they are tied to Snow-White in a much more intimate way - they used to be the jesters at the king's palace, but one of their jokes about the queen's habit of overly "painting" herself to cover up her age got them banished into the woods (the queen wanted them dead, the king turned it into an exile). This means that at the same time they already knew about Snow-White when she came to their cottage... But they also keep a certain bitterness towards the royals that forced them to become miners living in one dirty house in the depths of the woods. Because no shining diamonds like in the Disney movie! Their mine-work barely gets a bit of copper and this is why, they quickly decide to do a different digging work... Exploring the secret tunnels and passageways of the castle to try to steal from the royal treasury. All the while spying on the various inhabitants of the castle - Snow White and the Evil Queen in particular...

Because as you see, the dwarfs are just as morally gray as the rest of the characters, and this results in a true roller-coaster of a plot where the dwarfs keep switching between heroes, antagonists, allies and obstacles. This might be very enjoyable for some who like to follow "random Joe scoundrels" ; this might be more exausting for others. The dwarfs begin as the persecuted heroes banished for unfair reasons and that stick together like a brotherhood even in punishment... Then we find them as bitter, cynic, angry outlaws that live selfishly and decide to rob the royal castle... Then they become the very complicated saviors of Snow-White. Complicated because, unlike the Queen or the Hunter they do not want to kill or rape her... But they are still a lighter shade of black because they do have some bitterness towards the former royals meaning they enjoy making her their servant, and being medieval men who haven't seen a woman in many years, sexual harassment is one of their main entertainments... And then, as they learn that the king actually protected them, intended for them to become protectors and godfathers of Snow-White, and had destined for them wealth that ever reached them, they are filled with guilt and remorse over how they treated Snow-White, and decide to arrange for her a happy ending by finding her a prince and sending her away from the queen... But things never seem to turn right for those poor dwarfs, and everybody in the story ends up in the end reaping what they saw, maintaining a form of justice... Even though, due to the muddled morals, justice actually end up looking unfair.

As a final note - you might have noticed there is the presence of sexual elements in the story. Rape, sexual harassment - but unlike L'origine des contes which adds gratuitous sex scenes and completely uneeded nudity, "Sept nains" actually doesn't have any nudity, and at most has just suggestive drawings, clearly relying more on the idea of a "dark comedy with non-visual or visually censored sex jokes", rather than "L'origine des contes"'s "Let's add some softcore porn for no reason".

Anyway this comic is much better than l'origine des contes' own Snow-White, and if you want a dark, realistic, adult retelling, go check "Sept nains". But it might not be a comic for everyone and there's just a thing that is missing to be perfect, or a form of unbalance in it all that makes it... well somehow rough around the angles, so to speak.

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