Writer's Block: Grimm Question
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THIS IS EASY!
Sleeping Beauty.
Hands down. LOVE IT. Still do, despite having possibly the weakest female character ever created.
I was kind of obsessed with it as a child. I'd listen to the vinyl record my mother had of the Tchaikovsky ballet and dance around with the white blanket I slept with. I don't remember doing this, but I've seen the evidence and don't doubt it at all. I also made my cousins play Sleeping Beauty with me, which horrified them, because they were boys and it's about the girliest thing ever.
The Disney cartoon is one of my favorite movies, I love everything about it: the music, the animation, BASICALLY THE FACT THAT IT EXISTS. Which reminds me, I should totally rewatch it since it's been a few years.
I even wrote a paper on the evolution of the fairytale for an independent study I did on fairy tales as an undergrad.
When (okay - IF) I ever write an original story it's probably going to be a retelling of this tale, only severely updated to deal with the feminist issues I now have with it. (the heroine SLEEPS THROUGH THE CLIMAX. Not cool) confession time: I've already written a fanfiction version of Sleeping Beauty during my stint in the Draco/Hermione fandom. Don't look at me like that, rl friends... I never wanted to admit this to you, but I don't need to carry around this secret shame! You understand, right? Maybe you'll forget? *runs far away*
Drama Talk: Atashinchi no Danshi continues to be pretty cute, if underwhelming, but I'm totally just in this for the OTP of Chisato/Sho. I'm such a shameless shipper, it's not even funny. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sailorgaia! Hard Gay made a cameo appearance in episode 6 and I totally thought of you! OH DRAGON*CON)
MR BRAIN (I feel stupid just typing that, I'm glad I don't have to actually SAY it) is kind of awesome. I've always watched the first episode but I'm pretty sure I'll love it. KimuTaku's character is FANTASTIC. And is it just a fact of the universe that Mizushima Hiro has to have the WORST HAIR EVER. Ayase Haruka remains gorgeous, and her part it cute, but everyone else pales in comparison to KimuTaku.
THIS IS EASY!
Sleeping Beauty.
Hands down. LOVE IT. Still do, despite having possibly the weakest female character ever created.
I was kind of obsessed with it as a child. I'd listen to the vinyl record my mother had of the Tchaikovsky ballet and dance around with the white blanket I slept with. I don't remember doing this, but I've seen the evidence and don't doubt it at all. I also made my cousins play Sleeping Beauty with me, which horrified them, because they were boys and it's about the girliest thing ever.
The Disney cartoon is one of my favorite movies, I love everything about it: the music, the animation, BASICALLY THE FACT THAT IT EXISTS. Which reminds me, I should totally rewatch it since it's been a few years.
I even wrote a paper on the evolution of the fairytale for an independent study I did on fairy tales as an undergrad.
When (okay - IF) I ever write an original story it's probably going to be a retelling of this tale, only severely updated to deal with the feminist issues I now have with it. (the heroine SLEEPS THROUGH THE CLIMAX. Not cool) confession time: I've already written a fanfiction version of Sleeping Beauty during my stint in the Draco/Hermione fandom. Don't look at me like that, rl friends... I never wanted to admit this to you, but I don't need to carry around this secret shame! You understand, right? Maybe you'll forget? *runs far away*
Drama Talk: Atashinchi no Danshi continues to be pretty cute, if underwhelming, but I'm totally just in this for the OTP of Chisato/Sho. I'm such a shameless shipper, it's not even funny. (
sailorgaia! Hard Gay made a cameo appearance in episode 6 and I totally thought of you! OH DRAGON*CON)MR BRAIN (I feel stupid just typing that, I'm glad I don't have to actually SAY it) is kind of awesome. I've always watched the first episode but I'm pretty sure I'll love it. KimuTaku's character is FANTASTIC. And is it just a fact of the universe that Mizushima Hiro has to have the WORST HAIR EVER. Ayase Haruka remains gorgeous, and her part it cute, but everyone else pales in comparison to KimuTaku.
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Date: 2009-06-05 12:09 pm (UTC)I spent a good portion of my youth obsessing over fairy tales, folklore, and mythology. Lucky, being able to do cool stuff like that in college!
My favorite fairy tale is one of the nasty ones; Bluebeard. In one of my poetry classes during college we had to write an original poem that was based on the style of a famous poet. Anne Sexton wrote a lot of poems based on fairy tales (she has a Sleeping Beauty one, which is actually one of my favorite poems ever), and I chose to write about Bluebeard. Except I made it feminist, because really, having to wait for your brothers to save you from being beheaded? In my version she killed Bluebeard herself. I also like the Grimm variant, The Robber Bridegroom, because it's the girl herself who outwits the bad guy.
One fairy tales I don't like; The Little Mermaid (the Andersen version, not the Disney). I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to fairy tales, but I cannot forgive this one for how goddamn stupid the little mermaid is. But I tend not to like the Andersen fairy tales very much in general...
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Date: 2009-06-05 01:10 pm (UTC)