I was going to argue that the little mermaid doesn't die but I guess being sea foam isn't really living.
Young Simon: So... how'd the Independents cut us off? Young River: They were using dinosaurs.
'Safe'
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.
Laga - Oct 28, 2009 12:39:30 pm PDT #28385 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
Laga - Oct 28, 2009 1:01:41 pm PDT #28393 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I like the one where her sister cuts off her toe.
Turn back! Turn back! There's blood on the track!
I got some of Ben Stein's Money for knowing they make the wicked step mother dance in red-hot iron shoes at the wedding. How festive!
Daisy Jane - Oct 28, 2009 1:01:48 pm PDT #28394 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I like the one where her sister cuts off her toe.
And the other one cuts of her heel.
I really like The Snow Queen. I think about it whenever someone becomes someone I don't feel like I know anymore.