#Hans Christian Anderson

[valerieandherweekofwonderz]

“No dancer will be more graceful than you. But with every step you’ll feel pain, like sharp knives stabbing your feet.”

Malá mořská víla / The Little Mermaid (1976) dir. by Karel Kachyňa.

#Malá mořská víla #The Little Mermaid #Little Sea Nymph #Karel Kachyňa #Miroslava Šafránková #Hans Christian Anderson #Czechoslovak #Czech #Czechoslovak Cinema #Czech Cinema #Czechoslovak Fairy Tale #Czech Fairy Tale #Fairy Tale #My Gifs #GD

[millacm]

I was very excited to join the Neverafter zine for d20 zine jam, but I must admit I rushed it a bit in the end.

For this zine I picked The Wild Swans story told by H.C. Anderson to make a character for the Witches, Warriors and Wolves: a d20 Neverafter zine !!

It was fun to imagine how this character would have suffered in a fucked up version of her story (which was already pretty gloomy) and the mistakes she might have made for the worse : P

#milla's art #d20 #dimension 20 #neverafter #Princess Elisa #The wild swans #hans christian anderson #d20 zine jam #tw body horror #she turns into like a #wereswan #and has that anxiety tied to a hard task under time pressure like when you forgot to do an essay and only have 6 hours to figure it out

[have-you-heard-this-fairy-tale]

#the little match girl #(speaking of girl- girl help i am manhandling myself to get through these my executive functioning is So bad-) #danish fairytale #19th century #literature #history #fairy tale #poll #tumblr polls #(tbh this is one of my personal favorites-- thank you for submitting it!) #hans christian anderson #christian anderson

[uncommoncritter]

Doodles from early February, Fate Scug Order. I still wanna draw more servant slugcats...

#rain world #fanart #fgo #fate grand order #slugcat #cu chulainn #cu chulainn alter #semiramis #hans christian anderson #edmond dantes #beowulf #billy the kid #marie antoinette #qin shi huang

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The gift of his fairy tales is wisdom and appreciation and heartfulness is always embedded in them, unlike many ordinary fairy tales, at least the ones passed on, and the way they were passed on…

“Hans Christian Andersen was born April 2, 1805 in Odense, Denmark. His parents were poor, but his father, a cobbler, read to him from The Arabian Nights and took him to see plays. He died when Hans was 11, and the boy was sent to a school for poor children where he worked for his board, first as an apprentice to a weaver and later to a tailor. Only in his late teens was he able to attend grammar school. A shy young man, he felt like an outsider who didn't fit in with his younger classmates, and he began to write as a means of escaping his situation. After he published a story, he gained several benefactors (including the king) who paid for his meager education; in 1833, he received a small travel grant from the king, and he set out for Italy and elsewhere in Europe. By 1835 he was writing fairy tales for children, and by 1837, many of his best-known tales had been written, including The Little Mermaid, the Emperor's New Clothes, Thumbelina, and The Princess and the Pea. By the early 1840s his reputation was well established. The Danish government eventually paid him an annual stipend as a 'national treasure', and he continued to write and publish plays, novels, poems, a book of travel sketches, and more fairy tales until his death at age 70 in 1875.

In all, Andersen wrote 156 stories, most of which were based on his own ideas rather than existing folk tales. His writing style was simple and direct, so the stories could be read aloud. Many of his stories reflected conditions of his early life. A common thread was the outsider who wants to be understood and accepted for himself as he is. Many of his characters were very poor, and they had to try to overcome great odds. A famous Andersen story that combines those two threads is The Ugly Duckling. The last sentence of that story is: 'Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, "I never dreamed of such happiness as this while I was the despised ugly duckling!"'

(Leila L’Abate)

#stories #reading and writing #Leila L'Abate #Hans Christian Anderson

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

I am a poor girl and me life it is sad

For it's once I was courted by a rakish a young man

Well it's once I was a-courted by a night, noon, and day

Ah, but now my love has left me and he's gone far away

Oh, me love he's a bandsman and his fingers long and small

He plays on the pipes sweetest music of all

With his red rosy cheeks, love, and his dark rolling eye

While there's breath in my body, I will love my fine boy

And there's something that tells me that me love won't be long,

And it more often tells me that my love won't live long

So then let them all be talking, let them say what they will

While there's breath in my body, I will love my love still.

Ah, for love it is a killing; did you ever feel the pain?

But I've a bunch of green ribbons my love to adorn

And if ever he comes back to me I will I will crown my love's joy

And I'll kiss those fond lips of me darling fine boy.

art: Gordon Robinson, "She plucked with her own soft hands the ugly stinging-nettles". From "The Wild Swans" in Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales, (1917). cr: elephantadvice

lyrics: "I Am A Poor Girl", trad. Irish & Scottish folk, as sung by Peta Webb. cr: mainlynorfolk

#peta webb #gordon robinson #irish folk music #scottish folk music #folk songs #folk lyrics #lyrics #lyrics and art #art and lyrics #art #illustration #illustrations #childrens illustration #the golden age of illustration #golden age of illustration #the wild swans #hans christian anderson #fairy tale art #fairy tale illustration #20th century illustration #20th century art #e

[brave-symphonia]

Honestly, there's some pretty thoughtful stuff here about being a writer, how sometimes you write stuff for yourself, and sometimes you write stuff because you feel you must.

And he immediately turns around and claims that he wrote it because he found writing a tragic story funny and is happy to proclaim to the sky "die normies".

Anderson is certainly...interesting.

#zack plays video games #zack plays fate ccc #hans christian anderson #ccc route

[extantformoflife]

personally I would love to become seafoam after I die. rip to the littlest mermaid but-

#i just think itd be pretty cool #extanttalks #the little mermaid #the littlest mermaid #hans christian anderson #im back on my bullshit #my bullshit being. making bad meme posts about timeless classica #fairy tales #i mean like i get the message of the original #but also i think maybe. seafoam isnt that bad. all things considered.

[fictional-birthdays]

Happy Birthday, Hans Christian Andersen! (Fate/Extra)

#hans christian anderson #hans christian anderson fate #fate extra #birthday #april 2

[thebibi]

Nay, like the "Ugly Duck" of my friend Hans Andersen, he be no duck-thought at all, but a big swan-thought that sail nobly on big wings, when the time come for him to try them.

You've heard of children's tales turning sinister by horror stories but The Ugly Duckling?! Now THAT'S a new one!

#dracula daily #hans christian anderson #the ugly duckling #abraham van helsing #thebibi on vampirez

[emuanon34]

Watching this on my sister’s friend’s vhs tape back in elementary was how I found out The Little Mermaid had a depressing ending.

I used to hate the ending and my child mind wanted to travel back in time to stop who ever made this dumb decision. I’ve matured from that childish fantasy and now understand why Hans Christian Andersen wrote the ending the way it is, we’ve come a long way for queer rights.

#Little Mermaid #The Little Mermaid #Hans Christian Anderson #Mermaid #Mermaids #Fairytale #Fairytales

[vestisornata]

"the red shoes"

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vivienne westwood red label s14 ready-to-wear

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#fashion #vivienne westwood #runway #couture #haute couture #ready to wear #vivienne westwood red label #red label #s14 #vivienne westwood s14 #classical #hans christian anderson #red shoes #lily cole

[springtimebat]

All the assholes complaining about Halle Bailey in The Little Mermaid really need to have a King Triton arc. He's the character who changed the most in that story, funnily enough.

#the little mermaid #little mermaid 2023 #disney #hans christian anderson #not even getting into the gay and trans readings of the story which are probably way more interesting than the movie is gonna be #reboots #I had a weird dream last night that the first 20 something minutes of the movie are from Sebastian's POV and just explain their backstory #if it starts with Ariel's mom dying again and explaining Triton's racism away I'm gonna scream

[healed1337]

Tom Hanks month 2 - Splash

Tom Hanks month 2 – Splash

For this week’s look into Tom Hanks’s early career, I was split between this movie and Big. Both are comedies with a touch of romance. Both are also movies that helped propel him into stardom. As much as I remember enjoying Big a long time ago when I first saw it, I chose Splash for three reasons. One, the mere existence of Splash actually delayed a movie I’ve talked about on this blog before,…

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#brian grazer #comedy #comedy movie #daryl hannah #disney #eugene levy #fairy tale #hans christian anderson #john candy #mermaids #movie review #movies #new york city #roger ebert #romance #romantic comedy #ron howard #saturn awards #splash #tom hanks #touchstone pictures

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Edward Gorey

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“If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.” ― Hans Christian Andersen

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“Can you not see," I said, "that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nature essentially incredible? Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is—what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problem of the modern novel is—what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.” ― G.K. Chesterton

#G.K.Chesterton #quotes #Hans Christian Anderson #Edward Gorey #fairy tales #stories #illustration

[kcwells94]

Senpai...let's just say, these two have history.

#fate grand order #yu mei ren #sessyoin kiara #hans christian anderson