#tale types

[rapha-reads]

So I'm reading Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer, and I absolutely adore how it's a mix of all these tales I spent five months studying for my thesis. It's the entire ATU 425 tale type category at once*. A bit of Beauty and the Beast, a bit of Cupid and Psyche, a bit of East of the Sun and West of the Moon... When you know what you're looking at, it's so interesting to analyse it all.

*ATU= Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index, a classification of as many of the folktales and fairytales indexed around the world and the centuries, catalogued after their structures (their type). ATU 425: "The Search for the Lost Husband". ATU 425A: "Animal as Bridegroom" -> East of the Sun and West of the Moon (and The Serpent Prince, the Pig King...). ATU 425B: "Son of the Witch" -> Cupid and Psyche (also The Son of the Ogress, Tale of Baba Yaga...). ATU 425C: "Beauty and the Beast". There are a few more types (it goes to 425E), but these three are the main ones.

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

This image somehow explains everything and nothing about Gabriel at the same time...

[dyinggirldied]

The parentified child who has to mature quickly and becomes the head of the family only to be surrounded by unjust rumors and bad reputation as adult who then get a second chance-

[sasukeless]

what if i was devoted to you as a knight is to his king and became your right hand and sword and i was ready to lay my life for you and your dreams

what if i was devoted to you as a dog is to his owner and i would attack and maul anyone who dared to touch you but i’d also bite and claw you if you ever tried to leave me

what if

[giantkillerjack]

Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

[clockworkreapers]

Making more stuff up for Tales From The Road, maybe rest stop to figure out where exactly you are cuz its looked like this for nearly three hours of driving

Boy Nebraska is flat, hope someone doesnt get abducted by something in a corn field, that would so suck

[sketchingdemonss]

dumb blocktales doodles

[beaulesbian]

Tři oříšky pro Popelku / Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973 režie Václav Vorlíček)

Tak už znáš odpověď na mou hádanku? Tváře umouněné od popela, ale kominík to není. Klobouk s peřím, luk a kamizola, ale myslivec to není. Šaty s vlečkou, stříbrem vyšívané, ale princezna to není, jasný pane. Kdo je to?

[lixel-5]

no one talks about how good jack townsend is at pick pocketing. there’s like five points where he’s in a rough situation and he just goes “so i stole his wallet/phone while he was beating the shit out of me lol” and NO ONES NOTICED HIM YET

[minibuntinnyoffi]

Happy Best Friend day!!! Here's a redraw of one of my fav tetocu scenes, taken from Netflix

No my place doesn't celebrate best friend day, but I like that day, can't miss it. Also, they're just friends, I was talking abt George and Harold

[alyniix]

Four Infinights vs. hat vs. a bush

[beezobop]

me when i kill the embodiments of all my negative emotions and in exchange i can no longer feel anything

[shinakazami1]

Commission done for @jweska of Rhys >< I'm really proud how this turned out :] I'm super proud of it, it looks s poster ready...

Would be cool to get fourth comm of this man hehe,,

[goldentigerfestival]

Coming soon... 👀

The Vesperia stageplay, Justice of Light and Shadow, has been subbed and is almost complete! @kanasmusings and I are in the final stages of touchups and revisions, but otherwise, it's almost ready to be released! Kana has worked on this play for months as the main subber, and I've helped with proofreading, quality checking and light translation, as this is Kana's first bout into Vesperia's world. This play's subs were requested by @manekineko-89, and @suguelya kindly provided the raw footage for the subs to be overlaid on.

We ask that anyone who watches this does not reupload this anywhere. Please only use the link provided by Kana when the play is released, even if sharing. Subbing content, even if unreleased in the west, is still a gray area, and we'd like to continue releasing various Vesperia content without any trouble.

At this time, the talk show (two parts/videos) is also being subbed, though we can't give a timeframe for the release just yet (that's already in the works, but the main play was of course the first priority!). The interviews (two videos) and behind the scenes production of the play are also in consideration for being subbed.

We hope you'll enjoy the play once it's fully complete! Just as a note, this play is a bit of a mesh between the 360 and PS3/DE versions and is also a condensed retelling of the story. Patty is not in this play, and many other side characters had to be cut, as well as all of arc 3. Despite that, it's an amazing play and I hope you guys will enjoy it!

Be on the lookout for an update sometime soon!

[sanglunaria]

Octillerink Day 26: Mysterious Sisters

[jaynaneeya]

Mary Kate Wiles's first and last lines in Shipwrecked projects.

Bonus: The Case of the Greater Gatsby doesn't have a visual component but Vivian's first line in that is the same as her last line in The Case of the Gilded Lily ("Mr. Phillips, something terrible has happened!") and her last line is "Mmm. Feisty. I like it. Bixby, their next round is on me."

Anyway, Happy Birthday, dear MK!!! I hope you have a wonderful day and year ahead in which you feel loved and appreciated for the wonderful human you are and for the joy you bring to a dark world.