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Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

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happy pride month

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Thinking about how Perrault's Cinderella forgave her stepsisters (but not, conspicuously, her stepmother) and matched them up "that very day" with fine husbands. "You want noble husbands?" I can hear her saying. "Okay, I asked the prince to find his most gormless, decent-looking, decently-rich, blandly inoffensive friends, so you can marry them and get away from your mother. Trust me, you'll thank me later."

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I swear. The more you look at this image, the weirder it gets. I promise you.

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The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke c1855

by Richard Dadd, (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886)

Oil on Canvas

Tate Britain, London

Dadd was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail.

Painted in Bethlem Hospital, Dadd created this scene above from imagination and painted it in intense detail. Painted from the view of an onlooker observing the scene through grass, it shows the ‘fairy feller’ with his axe raised to split a chestnut to make a new carriage for Queen Mab. A host of other fairy and supernatural creatures are in attendance for the event, and the scene is crammed with action and detail.

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do you have the source for Pandragus and Libano? The internet yields no results

Here's what Heidi Anne Heiner writes in her book:

"According to French medievalist Anne Berthelot, the story is part of the Four Drafts of Baudouin Butor edited by Lewis Thorpe in three sequential issues of the Nottingham Medieval Studies journal. It consists of a series of failed – or at least unfinished – attempts at an Arthurian romance written by Butor in the margins of Manuscript BnF f.fr. 1446. In other words, the manuscript is incomplete but it also predates Perceforest in written records. Depending on how one reconstructs the entire romance, the "Pandragus et Libanor" episode is found in the third or fourth draft. Besides Thorpe's version, Louis-Ferdinand Flûtre has also edited one of the drafts and renamed it Le roman de Pandragus et Libanor."

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Watching silent movies will leave you wondering how they were able to do all those death-defying, and sometimes death-not-defying, stunts on a daily basis. How were they able to get away with just having live big cats and elephants hanging out in the middle of scenes, or all those crazy stunt scenes? Anyway the answer is that none of the Hollywood unions were formed until the mid 1930s

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A Modern Cinderella, 1910, starring Mary Fuller.

As far as I know, this silent Vitagraph short is the oldest surviving screen version of Cinderella from America. It's a realistic modern retelling, in which "Cinderella" is a girl sharing a room in a boarding house with her haughty older stepsister, the "fairy godmother" is a well-off elderly woman who also lives there, and the "prince" is the "fairy godmother's" grandson.

Mary Fuller went on to play Elizabeth in the earliest film version of Frankenstein for Edison in the same year.

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When the live-action Snow White failed, we all rejoiced thinking that maybe this live-action remake trend would die. Then the live-action Lilo and Stitch and live-action HTTYD came out and, well, tragically they made money :/

Disney’s still filming live-action Moana (yes, I cringed just now too) so let’s all cross our fingers that it fails miserably 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

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The Regents Park Open Air Theatre staging of Into the Woods is to me the definitive version of the musical.

I know that to my many people, the original Broadway version is almost secret, and for a very good reason. Bernadette Peters is a goddess.

But the Regent Park version has some story and stage choices that I think complement the show in such a nice way I can't picture it without them.

"Our Little World" really helps to flesh out the relationship between the Witch and Rapunzel;

As much as I love the Witch's "You are just nice" monologue, I really prefer when the "Last Midnight" is about the Witch desperately trying to steal the Baker's son to replace Rapunzel. It really fits her character;

I love that the Giant's wife is killed on Rapunzel's empty tower, symbolizing the tragedy of her absence;

I love the decision of having the Baker's son as the Narrator. It was the Baker's and his wife's wish to conceive him that caused the whole plot to happen. The relationship between him, the Baker and his wife, and the Witch, is the most important one in the whole musical

Still on the Baker's son as the Narrator, in my headcanon, the first act is just the Narrator telling the story that his father told him, a simple fairy tale mash-up. But during the second act, as the hours pass, he starts getting afraid and anxious in the woods, so he loses the control of the story. The dream becomes a nightmare, and little pieces of his family life start invading the fairy tale world. That's why the Baker becomes his father in real life;

Children Will Listen feels incomplete without these verses: "How do you say to your child in the night? Nothing's all black, but then nothing's all white. How do you say it will all be all right. When you know that it might not be true? What do you do?"

All these story choices make the show go full circle so nicely, and they really expand the theme of parents and children, and what are the values, the stories, that we as parents and adults will leave to our children. The show simply feels incomplete to me without them.

@ariel-seagull-wings @thealmightyemprex @the-blue-fairie @mask131 @princesssarisa

[themousefromfantasyland]

The Regents Park Open Air Theatre staging of Into the Woods is to me the definitive version of the musical.

I know that to my many people, the original Broadway version is almost secret, and for a very good reason. Bernadette Peters is a goddess.

But the Regent Park version has some story and stage choices that I think complement the show in such a nice way I can't picture it without them.

"Our Little World" really helps to flesh out the relationship between the Witch and Rapunzel;

As much as I love the Witch's "You are just nice" monologue, I really prefer when the "Last Midnight" is about the Witch desperately trying to steal the Baker's son to replace Rapunzel. It really fits her character;

I love that the Giant's wife is killed on Rapunzel's empty tower, symbolizing the tragedy of her absence;

I love the decision of having the Baker's son as the Narrator. It was the Baker's and his wife's wish to conceive him that caused the whole plot to happen. The relationship between him, the Baker and his wife, and the Witch, is the most important one in the whole musical

Still on the Baker's son as the Narrator, in my headcanon, the first act is just the Narrator telling the story that his father told him, a simple fairy tale mash-up. But during the second act, as the hours pass, he starts getting afraid and anxious in the woods, so he loses the control of the story. The dream becomes a nightmare, and little pieces of his family life start invading the fairy tale world. That's why the Baker becomes his father in real life;

Children Will Listen feels incomplete without these verses: "How do you say to your child in the night? Nothing's all black, but then nothing's all white. How do you say it will all be all right. When you know that it might not be true? What do you do?"

All these story choices make the show go full circle so nicely, and they really expand the theme of parents and children, and what are the values, the stories, that we as parents and adults will leave to our children. The show simply feels incomplete to me without them.

@ariel-seagull-wings @thealmightyemprex @the-blue-fairie @mask131 @princesssarisa

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Which of your favorite musicals would you like to spend a day living in... making sure that you wouldn’t constantly fear for your life?

I think it would be pretty nice to chill in The Music Man for a day. Sit in the park, watch the colorful small-town Americana types going about their day and occasionally getting smooth-talked by a suave con artist.

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Lyla is a Lizali.Lizali women are cannibals who devour their male mates .Lyla is a proud man eater consuming many males,letting their bones litter her lair .She is however known as a sentimental Lizali for she keeps the skull of Rex,one of her mates who she was most fond of ,as a high honor and a good luck token

Lyla colored

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Oh right, the eggs, the eggs for Kronk, the eggs that are the property of Kronk, the eggs that specifically shouldn’t be touched except for Kronk, Kronk’s eggs

….those eggs?

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Reminds me of when I tried to write my own fairy tale and it was just Snow White mixed in with Cinderella. I was maybe 9 at the time.

What was your first...

...fanfic, if you write?

Fandom? Ships? How old were you? Is it still accessible in any way or is it lost forever?

Mine was a Mortal Kombat movie fic in which Shang Tsung cursed Johnny Cage so that whenever he nut-punched anyone they fell in love with him. So, to answer my own question: Mortal Kombat (1995), unrequited Goro/Johnny Cage, I was 13, and god, I wish I could find it again.

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Okay. I'm curious.

This sounds like a Chespirito version of Descendants 😂

@ariel-seagull-wings

What was your first...

...fanfic, if you write?

Fandom? Ships? How old were you? Is it still accessible in any way or is it lost forever?

Mine was a Mortal Kombat movie fic in which Shang Tsung cursed Johnny Cage so that whenever he nut-punched anyone they fell in love with him. So, to answer my own question: Mortal Kombat (1995), unrequited Goro/Johnny Cage, I was 13, and god, I wish I could find it again.

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Lyla is Lizali a race of reptiles.Lyla wears on her shoulder the skull of her husband Rex,whom she ate .Lizali women devour their men .Lyla is sentimental keeping Rexs skull as a way to honor him.

@ariel-seagull-wings @themousefromfantasyland @theancientvaleofsoulmaking

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In my humble opinion as a gay cis male, if I may add to the conversation, is that I always thought "pick me girls" were ANY woman bashing other women to gain male approval.

And they can be either women who bash others for being too feminine, or, women who bash others for NOT being feminine enough.

I saw both of them, both online and in real life.

Women who complain that all the others are frivolous and stupid, and women who think that all those who don't fit the gender roles are unworthy.

And I think both suck.

I absolutely DESPISE the "tradwives" as much as "Not like Other Girls".

There's no right or wrong way to be a woman, and women should support each other.in the fight against the patriarchy and misogyny

It's still so incredibly twisted how if a woman doesn't wear makeup or has "masculine" interests (which is a stupid concept on its own) people not only attack her and assume she only does that to appeal to men* but also act like they're being feminist for doing so.

If anyone at all should be getting called a pickme I could at least understand if it was misogynistic tradwives or something, not just women who don't fit in with gender conformists.

*A lot of men seem to actually prefer it when women wear makeup and act "feminine" actually. That's the gender role that gets enforced.