"The world is something that was put into your hands and that you must deal with- so you will." Okay, test, you don't need to go so deep into my psyche 🫠
I kind of noticed a big misunderstanding of German fairytales.
There are two kinds of fairytales.
The folk fairytale:
This are your classic fairytales, born from a thousand years of oral history. Most of the Brother Grimm's fairytales are folk fairytales. Folk fairytales end well for the Heros and terrible for the villains (example: snow white- the evil queen is forced to dance in hot iron shoes till she dies, in snow whites Wedding)
It plays in an unknown land and in an unknown time. (starting phrase of fairytales in German : For langer, langer Zeit, in einem weiteren entfernten Land [A long, long time ago, in a far away land]) and features stereotypical characters like 'big bad wolf' and 'beatiful princess'.
It often uses magical numbers like...
7 (seven dwarves behind seven mountains, 7 ravens, seven flys killed' at once, seven Kids(?)/ little goats)
3 (three taskes, three ways to kill Snow White, three Balls in 'Aschenputtel' (German Cinderella))(examples for this are a little hard to explain in few words because they're so specific)
13 (thirteen fairies in sleeping beauty)
These stories are often uses to explain morals or rules of survival. (Don't abuse your Kids/ step Kids, don't just Run into the woods, don't let strangers into the House)
The Art fairytale:
This fairytales was written by an author and is Not meant to explain a rule or bring hope.
Most of these are very tragic. The little Mermaid (from Hans Christian Andersen) would be a good example.
Others would be 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier'(also from Hans Christian Andersen) or the 'girl with the matches' (ALSO from Hans Christian Andersen)(goodnes he wrote a lot of these, this poor man's mental health really was bad)(Spoiler: the solider and the girl die)
Hans Christian Andersen wrote 156 Art fairytales. Remember: they all endet badly! I think the guy set in Stone what an Art fairytales is?!? I did Not know that? I Just wanted to teach about fairytales, I did NOT want to learn about this man's tragic live.
Like this are two books, full of fairytales (mostly Art fairytales) from the guy.
TWO books.
And the title reads ' Die schönsten Haus- und Weihnachtsmärchen' (The Most beautiful home and Christmas fairytales)
Beautiful fairytales my ass. The guy kust did therapy but as written stories. I mean, he wrote Snow Queen, which kind of ends well? But that doesn't really make it better.
So before I end this, to mull over Hans mental health:
Fairytales are not the only type of German folk Story. They are a very specific Type, that follows specific rules. Other types follows other rules.
Not every German folk Story ist a fairytale. And other very old Stories can end badly, but then it's not a fairytale. Not a folk one at least. But maybe it's danish and actually from this depressed Gay Poet that seems to have written all the Art fairytales of my childhood. Further more, there are many folk fairytales that do not come from Germany, but those also follow These rules more or less. (There are also a lot of different versions of the same fairytale all over Europe)
@incissam asked:
You belong to me. For Alicent from Rhaenyra pick a verse.
"Is this about Ser Cole asking me to dance tonight?" Alicent asked as she looked up at the Princess, she knew the pair had issues on the training grounds, but she was just being nice in dancing with him. She knew her heart lay with Rhaenyra as it always had and always would. "I am yours, my love-- only yours, one day I will be your wife and dancing with one knight will not change that."
Tell me about your favorite subject concerning moral theology, like one that makes you really passionate about the subject matter
Well, currently I'm stalled out five out of a planned seven chapters into a book attempting to situate a robust account of "nonviolence" (one that takes into account the concept of nonhuman forms of life as moral stakeholders and takes into account the paradox of neutrality constituting de facto support for an oppressor--most previous moral theologians have only tackled one or the other of these problems, if either) within Christian theological ethics, and since I'm only stalled out because I had an incredibly busy month of May I should be able to get back to that soon enough!