when i was a kid i read my Collected Grimm's Fairy Tales cover to cover a bunch of times & among my favorites of the obscure ones was "The Three Spinning Women," in which a girl's mother tells the queen she's really good at spinning (she's not) & the queen says she can marry the prince if she spins a huge amount of flax (which she does not want to do). instead she finds three ugly women who spin it all for her and then, at the wedding, tell the prince that if she keeps spinning she'll look like them (one of them has a big foot from treadling the wheel etc) and the prince absolutely forbids her from spinning.
it's a) delightful wish fulfillment for some teenage girl in the 1800s (you marry a prince AND you don't have to spin ever again!!) and b) a really good example of how the pop cultural conception of fairy tales as having a moral is sometimes true but a bunch of other times it's just "did you see that? damn it's fucked up. anyway i'm Jacob Grimm."
look at the state of sport journalism dawg, he sucked on a lollypop with steeliness and determination??? oozing mental fortitude??? Autosport it's time to open up the schools
I went to the eye doctor's yesterday and I, an adopted person, always feel like "oh no I'm failing the interaction" for some reason by not being able to relate. HOWEVER, I got praised for having common sense so it works out.
“Just give me one more good day. Starting now. Make me some toast. Then take me to the boutique, where I’ll pick out outfits for us. You’ll wear what I ask, and we’ll get married. And you’ll cook a delicious dinner. Then you will crush all of these up, put them in my wine. I will drink it. Then you will take me by my hand, bring me to our bed, and I will fall asleep in your arms.”
Personally what I like best in terms of who’s older between Donnie and Leo is just them never knowing for sure BUT imagine Leo going up to Draxum and saying he’ll never bring up the roof incident again if Draxum tells Donnie that Leo’s the older twin.