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31st July 2007, 3:28pm
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#1 | | Registered User
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| fairy tales
I was thinking about writing a children's story so when I saw a great volume of the Grimm brother's fairy tales in my bookshop I bought it - thinking it would be good to stimulate the creative mind, but dear me - cannibalism, incest, decapitation, murder, metamorphosis, child cruelty - these stories are giving me nightmares. Also all females are either vulnerable and stupid or calculating and wicked (i.e. step mothers). Of course, of course it was a different time etc etc
So on an entirely different note what's everyone's favourite fairy tale?
The more obscure the better. I'd have to choose a popular one though - snow white!-'bring me back her heart!’- although I always feel bad at the very end when her step mother dies, she clearly had issues if looks were that important to her (apparently I cried when she died in the Disney version) | 
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31st July 2007, 3:30pm
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#2 | | tired and emotional Editor
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| Re: fairy tales
James Thurber's modern day fables are absolutely fantastic. If they count.
Check this one out, for starters. | |
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31st July 2007, 3:33pm
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#3 | | Harvey Kartel
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| Re: fairy tales
Name me one female in the modern world who isn't stupid and vulnerable or cold and calculating.
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31st July 2007, 3:34pm
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#4 | | Backwoods Motherfuckery
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| Re: fairy tales
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31st July 2007, 3:39pm
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#5 | | Stagger like you mean it
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| Re: fairy tales
The Godfather (aka Godfather Death) from the Brothers Grimm, although I know there are several other versions which apparently pre-date theirs.
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31st July 2007, 4:13pm
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#6 | | It girl. Rag doll
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| Re: fairy tales
One of my favourite programmes as a kid was Grim Tales with Rik Mayall reading Grimms' Fairy Tales  Weird animationy stuff too.
Can't think of a favourite fairy tale though. Rapunzel, I suppose...
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8th August 2007, 7:00pm
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#7 | | ...playground tactics...
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| Re: fairy tales
I prefer the Grimms/Norse fairytales. Dark? Sure. Entertaining? Oh hell yeah!!!
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8th August 2007, 7:31pm
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#8 | | Stop pissing me off...
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| Re: fairy tales
I dont know about one that I liked, But I hated Hansel and Gretel. They annoyed me, greedy wee shites. | |
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22nd August 2007, 10:50pm
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#9 | | whorehouse this way...
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| Re: fairy tales
billy goats gruff and the tinderbox... my dad had the perfect voice for em and they never failed to enthrall
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22nd August 2007, 11:38pm
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#10 | | Experimental stooge
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| Re: fairy tales
Sitting waiting for my interview to start at Caley I was reading some broadsheet magazine interview with Neil Gaiman stating the need for adult fairytales. Interesting stuff. I think it was Scotland on Sunday or the Herald equiv. if you want to try and find it. | |
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