Cornelia Funke's Top Ten Fairytales. A good selection.
I know JZ was fond of one (title escapes me) that had a very good, not-wicked-in-the-least step-sister.
Spike: Or maybe Captain Forehead was feeling a little less special. Didn't like me crashing his exclusive club, another vampire with a soul in the world. Angel: You're not in the world, Casper.
'Just Rewards (2)'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - Jul 27, 2011 9:15:46 am PDT #15769 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
JZ - Jul 28, 2011 10:37:14 am PDT #15770 of 28343
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Kate Crackernuts. Wicked stepmother ruins the princess and heir to the throne (turns her pretty face into a sheep's head), and ugly stepsister, instead of thanking her, says, "You know, Mom, I never asked you to do that for me, and frankly it was kind of shitty of you. I think we're done here. Come on, kid, let's go fix you up." She tosses a veil over her poor bleating stepsister's horrid head and off they go, until they find a castle with two convenient princes, one of whom is being seduced by fairies and on the point of death. Kate cheerfully takes over, is practical and clever all over the place, and breaks the enchantments on both the prince and her sister, and it all ends in a double wedding because the prince's brother has fallen in love with the formerly sheep-headed sister (while Kate was being clever, they were off wandering the palace grounds communicating with nods and notes and sign language) and the rescued prince has fallen in love with Kate, because even though she's an ugly stepsister she is obviously MADE OF AWESOME.
I really want this to be Disney's next princess movie.
Toddson - Jul 28, 2011 10:46:27 am PDT #15771 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Love the story ... but you know, if Disney gets hold of it, Kate would get prettied-up at the end.
Polter-Cow - Jul 28, 2011 10:49:30 am PDT #15772 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It sounds to me like she gets prettied-up in the story.
JZ - Jul 28, 2011 10:53:36 am PDT #15773 of 28343
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Kate is never prettied up. She's uglier than her pretty stepsister at the beginning, she is prettier-by-comparison (but still objectively ugly) while her stepsister has a sheep's head, and when she fixes everything up her stepsister is back to pretty and she's back to ugly. And she still rescues the boy and marries him.
Polter-Cow - Jul 28, 2011 11:00:11 am PDT #15774 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, right, Kate is the non-sheep head one.
Toddson - Jul 28, 2011 11:18:29 am PDT #15775 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
A little wool-gathering going on?
Aims - Jul 28, 2011 1:25:05 pm PDT #15776 of 28343
Shit's all sorts of different now.
JZ - that sounds a lot like my favorite folk tale Taterhood, though Tatterhood gets prettied up at the end because the prince tells her some nice things and stuff.
I really want to get a Master's in Children's Lit with a focus on folk tales, fairy tales, and legends.
Strix - Jul 29, 2011 10:05:33 am PDT #15777 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
So, Dan's bday is today, and I therefore had time to finish the review of Feed I've been tapping away at in spare (HA!) moments for a week.
Toddson - Jul 29, 2011 10:12:53 am PDT #15778 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Erin, that sums it up well. One minor (really, really minor) point - "feed" has a third meaning - a news feed (old-style reporting usage, but also in there).