Whether collected by The Brothers Grimm, written by Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Anderson or by other prolific writers or collected by others, which one is your favorite, and why? And it doesn’t have to have been adapted by Disney.
I ask this because Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson have been by Special Interest for a while now. My favorite is “The Snow Queen”, because unlike most fairytales, it spins the damsel in distress scenario on its head, with the way the heroine saves her boy best friend from the titular snow queen, and along the way meets several different interesting characters. It could make for a great 9 episode miniseries on HBO or something.
So what is your favorite fairytale or fairytale character?
The giant from Jack and the beanstalk cause he could smell out and destroy the English
There are also Redcaps, faerie looking like short old men with iron boots and polearms, brutally murder Scots and Englishmen at the border.
So named because they dip their hats in the blood of people they murdered. ANd I believe in one version they have to keep killing because if their bloody hat ever dries out they will die.
A very British creature indeed
It’s the clearest explanation for the behaviors of the British ruling class I’ve seen/
I wanna say Tom Bombadil. He’s just a silly wife guy who’s too busy touching grass and wearing his little booties to care about some ring.
they were doing the freakiest sex while the hobbits slept. you cant convince me otherwise.
It is almost a shame that he was adapted out of Peter Jackson Trilogy. Although maybe he would have brought in some pacing issues. Or maybe he still exists in that adaptation, just offscreen and not mentioned.
He gives me Middle-Earth Odysseus vibes just based off how hard he rides for his wife and honestly? Respect
Not sure if Robin Hood counts…
the lib didnt go hard enough tbh
Robin Hood shouldn’t have stopped at Nottingham
Great thing about Robin hood is that you can make him into anything you want. There’s no canon that’s off-limits. He could easily be a communist and it fits with the themes. He eats the rich and gives to the poor and redistributes Sherwood Forest! That’s perfectly thematic for him and his gang.
Or her? Robin and Marian have swapped gender riles in the past. It wouldn’t even be the first time.
Or her? Robin and Marian have swapped gender riles in the past. It wouldn’t even be the first time.
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now someone just needs to write it
Uphold Hood Thought
Joan Vinge did an interesting riff on the Snow Queen story with the adventurously titled novel The Snow Queen. Worth a read.
I really like Orpheus and Eurydice. I took a class on the myth in undergrad and it’s interesting how a simple story developed into so many explorations of love, loss, and the complexity of knowing when to hang on and when to let go. The stage production of Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown was stunning.
Skill issue, I would simply have the goddess of love come down at the end and fix everything.
Either Raven or Odin. In both cases because they’re just always up to some incredible bullshit. Zhuge Liang for the same reason if he counts.
Zhuge Liang for the same reason if he counts.
Considering how they embellished him, he do probably counts as fairy tale character lol
Hell, the ROTK version of Liu Bei probably counts at this point, too. [BENEVOLENCE INTENSIFIES]
Both him and Guan Yu counts because that book got like at least 4 revisions during the few hundred years it has been in circulation and it was always done by Shu fans who found previous version not going far enough.
Clearly I have to actually read Romance at some point; the most I know about it is bc Dynasty Warriors and I’m about 98% sure Liu Bei was still up to some fuckshit there from how often I remember fighting him
Zhuge Liang invented the repeater crossbow. And a self-powered military transport. And using lanterns for military communication. Oh and steamed buns.
Edit: meant to reply to comment below. Rip me
Queen Dido of Carthage. Pretty badass depiction for a woman in antiquity. Just hate how her character was completely butchered by Virgil’s misogynist dead ass.
Baba Yaga almost solely based on her house.
Apparently, she doesn’t appear in just one Russian Folktale. She appears in a lot of them. I myself would be happy just to have a mobile home like hers.
Yeah, she is a more or less pan-slavic entity. Kind of like Odin is for germanic peoples.
I had a drunken convo with my partner where we speculated that Baba Yaga embodies the fear of the aristocracy and landlords because her home is mobile. But also neither of us knew much about Baba Yaga other than walking chicken house and my recent playing Ravenswatch.
Bro i saw that when i was a kid too; i LOVED that cartoon!
there’s an artbook that this was based off of and i would love to track a copy down
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any magic pudding enjoyers in chat
If i find it im eating it
Mąʼii, the Coyote of the Diné Bahaneʼ (under folktale I guess)
a trickster type I guess that is always up to shit and consistently self-owns really hard. sometimes relatable, sometimes totally off the wall. invariably punished severely for misdeeds.
if I were to meet him on the road one day I would probably ask wtf he was doing and expect the answer to be extremely intriguing but like 95% bullshit. how can you lack affection for someone like that?
invariably punished severely for misdeeds.
Shoulda done the hiker nod, smdh my dick head
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The Little Red Hen?
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Probably djinni from One Thousand and One Nights, this was my favourite book in childhood. And i also hate Andersen, it traumatised me for a good time.
The Ring Djinni or the Lamb Djinni? There were two Djinnies in Aladdin and The Magic Lamp.
Both djinn, i think i mistook singular and plural in this case. I think ring one deserves some more sympathy since most people just remember the lamp one.
Guess my favourite and ill stomp so hard through the floor that ill fall to the centre of the earth
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