I HATE the Disney version. So I pretend it is another story.
Buffy: He ran away, right? Giles: Sort of, more. turned and swept out majestically, I suppose. Said I didn't concern him. Buffy: So a mythic triumph over a completely indifferent foe? Giles: Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.
'Same Time, Same Place'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
beth b - Oct 28, 2009 12:31:45 pm PDT #28383 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Cashmere - Oct 28, 2009 12:33:31 pm PDT #28384 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
On the Special Edition DVD of The Little Mermaid, Disney put an animated short of The Little Match Girl on to the disc. DH had never read the story and was completely freaked out by it. He asked me, "What kind of Disney Snuff are you buying?" I told him The Little Mermaid was supposed to end in her death, too, but Disney punked out.
Laga - Oct 28, 2009 12:39:30 pm PDT #28385 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I was going to argue that the little mermaid doesn't die but I guess being sea foam isn't really living.
WindSparrow - Oct 28, 2009 12:43:38 pm PDT #28386 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
The Little Match Girl always made me so sad, and yet I loved it when my mother read it to me.
Toddson - Oct 28, 2009 12:48:51 pm PDT #28387 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I've pretty much avoided most of the Disney stuff since the mid-60s for one reason or another. I did see something that had a still from Snow White with a caption about that being the last time a Disney character was shaped like an actual woman (or girl) as opposed to the extreme hourglass figures they have now.
And ....
It's funny - I hate Pochahantas with the burning of a thousand suns, but don't mind the Princesses.
it's the tiaras - they get Aims every time.
Aims - Oct 28, 2009 12:50:53 pm PDT #28388 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
It's true - I'm a shallow, shallow woman.
And also the brutal ripping apart of the true history just makes me want to smash things.
SHE WAS ONLY TEN YEARS OLD!!
Anne W. - Oct 28, 2009 12:51:03 pm PDT #28389 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I think people who don't like The Little Mermaid should watch Princess Tutu, which takes a similar idea (water creature becomes human to woo a man) and makes it way more interesting and awesome.
YES. THIS.
Polter-Cow - Oct 28, 2009 12:53:33 pm PDT #28390 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I didn't even notice the Little Mermaid similarity until now, especially since, besides that superficial plot point, it's the anti-LM.
Aims - Oct 28, 2009 12:58:06 pm PDT #28391 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
::Note to self - Emeline HATES being in her bedroom. Good to know.::
Burrell - Oct 28, 2009 12:58:28 pm PDT #28392 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I have always loved Cinderella, esp when I was a girl, but my go-to Cinderella wasn't the Disney version. I like the one where her sister cuts off her toe.
Other favorite fairy tales: Little Mermaid, The Dancing Princesses, and The Wild Swans. And Anne Sexton's One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes.