#are they the kids of fairy tales or what?

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

“And anyway, just to sum all this up with anon’s original post about Monaco: I am fully expecting the BRF to give the Sussexes the Monaco treatment if there’s ever a divorce. All the footage will be scrubbed. All the articles will be sanitized, if not scrubbed outright.” Color me intrigued! Two questions: 1) what do YOU think happened with Charlene? I’ve vaguely followed but hearing about the tears has got my interest piqued. 2) what articles would be scrubbed? Positive or negative?

My theory about the Monaco wedding is that I think Charlene found out Albert wasn't so totally forthcoming about his past relationships, how many children he had, and how involved he planned to remain in their lives. My feeling is that she was spun a fairy tale of "you can fix him" and learned it was all lies just before the wedding.

I do think there's some truth she tried to leave shortly before the wedding but was somehow stopped, and I think she did have her passports taken, as some of the gossip that has leaked out claim, so I do feel like she's trapped in a terrible situation. (And part of me wonders if perhaps Meghan co-opted this narrative from Charlene as her own with her claims to Oprah that the BRF took her passports and kept her from leaving. There was quite a bit of gossip about Charlene's situation that Meghan would have been familiar with, even if only in a pop culture context.)

I'm not sure that I fully believe Monaco's claim in 2021 that Charlene suffered an ENT infection and required such a significant recovery that she couldn't travel; my suspicions are that it possibly was also a mental health crisis. I must admit, I was completely expecting a divorce narrative to emerge from that - or, if not divorce then a separation where Charlene is in South Africa, Albert remains in Monaco, and the children go back and forth. And perhaps Charlene's long stay in Souh Africa following her ENT infection/surgery was an attempt to negotiate terms of the separation but when it became clear that Albert was not going to let go of the kids, she had no choice but to come back and I think they now have an agreement in place where he lets her do her own thing as long as she shows up the handful of times each year that they need to play happy families.

Anyway, as for scrubbing the Sussex coverage - my theory is I think everything will go. The positive stories will be spun into attack pieces villainizing Meghan. The negative stories will be sanitized to be sympathetic to Harry. I think the BRF will try to take down all the "official" videos from accounts like their own official social media, the BBC, etc. - similar to how they pulled down footage from The Queen's funeral or the 1969 documentary - and make it archival on request only. It's going to be subtle, though. It's not going to be an overnight transformation; I think we'd see some of the older stories about Meghan misbehaving coming back up in a "see, the rot was always there" campaign feeding into a larger overhaul...kind of like a reverse Operation PB.

Of course, the caveat is that this is only under a King Charles, since Charles wants to rehabilitate Harry in whatever way he can to have him come home. If it happened under a King William, I think we can still expect the attack pieces on Meghan, but I doubt we'd see any effort to clean up Harry's side of the mess.

#ask #brf #monaco royal family #theories

[delphoxqueen]

I swear every year I have to think “Hey, didn’t I have this weird fever dream where there was a rip-off of Ever After High but like with a fortieth of the budget, and the dolls barely existed, and Cinderella/Snow White/Sleeping Beauty were made into bimbos?

And then I look it up and nope- it’s real.

What is this??!??

What even are those FACES-

Anyway, back to forgetting this existed 8 years ago.

#fairy tales #fairy tale high #monsterhigh #monster high #ever after high #WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS #why?! #WHY DOES TINKER BELL HAVE OSTRICH LEGS #WHY DO THESE HAVE OUTFITS I WOULD MAKE IN MY STORIES WHEN I WAS LIKE TWELVE #also why are the animated outfits completely different from the dolls? #what is the lore? #are they the kids of fairy tales or what? #the actual fairy tale characters? #bitches who are just like “damn I’m in a Cinderella mood? #but what have they done to you Tink? #like descendants wasn’t my cup of tea but damn they look like masterpieces compared to this #worst part is these are probably like $5000 each just because no one liked them when they came out #WHY IS RAPUNZEL A FUCKING COUNTRY MUSIC STAR?! #WHY DOES BELLE LOOK LIKE SHE’s ABOUT TO MAKE A MEAN ‘I’m not like other girls’ post?! #why does tinker bell have wings but Ariel has legs? #why does only one girl wear a crown? #the AGGRESSIVE AMOUNT OF STRIPES I SWEAR #oddly enough I like Snow White’s hooker boots #this legit looks like a parody of girls toys #do NOT look up the Wish Factory pitch #it’s terrifying #WHY DID THEY MAKE FUCKING KITES?! #WHY SO MUCH EMPHASIS ON SWIMGEAR?

[freaky-flawless]

New headcanon just dropped!!!

#monster high #monster high fanart #toralei stripe #puss in boots #can you guys guess what movie i saw after work yesterday??? #absolute masterpiece!!! #thats her daaaadddddd!! #she's the daughter he didn't know he had cuz he's such a playboy!!!! #and an outlaw #he'd probably be an eah character since he's from a fairy tale #so theres an alternate universe out there where toralei grew up in that dimension instead #truthfully i know fuck all about eah for all i know there already is a puss in boots kid #i have so many thoughts about this ahhhhh #id in alt!!

[undreaming-fanfiction]

Play It Out (2)

Part 1

Eddie turned around and immediately let out a sound like a leaking party balloon when the corset dug into his sides. "Yeaaaah...that's not ideal."

Steve scoffed and ran his hand through his impressive mane. His...really, really impressive mane. Eddie thought he would have previously noticed if Steve's hair was this big, but apparently he hadn't. Or there was something very different...very wrong. Steve hasn't noticed yet. "You think? I can't believe that we survived another dimension, mind battling shit, monsters with no faces and a giant fucking smoke spider, and then we get what, sucked into a haunted VHS for kids?" He sighed deeply and shook his head. "Can it get any worse?"

"Um..." Eddie gave a nervous chuckle, staring above Steve's eyes, where the head shaking revealed...something. "I think it just has." Reaching out, he removed Steve's hands from that incredibly fluffy hair and ran his own fingers through it, seeking with his fingertips until... "Yeah, so...um. Were you by any chance hiding horns in that Hawkins-famous hairdo or are these new?"

The look of horror on Steve's face was priceless. "Oh you've got to be kidding me." Steve rushed to the nearest window to examine his reflection. And sure enough, a pair of impressive horns was peeking from the rich brown waves, not large enough to be visible all the way but enough to make him look like a... "Hey Eddie? Did you see what fairy tales were on that tape?"

Eddie, crumpled in his yellow gold dress on the ground and currently battling with the high heels that were firmly secured around his ankles, shook his head. "Nah, man. Not that I'd be able to tell. My old man wasn't exactly the 'bedtime story' type. But since I'm wearing the worst clothes in the history of humankind and some supernatural asshole twisted my hair into a bun, I'd say I'm a princess." He shook his head, valiantly tugging on the sparkly shoe. "The stuff I never thought I'd say."

"Great. Because surprise, my parents weren't big on fairy tales either. So we're going in blind again, how do you even survive in this...whatever this is, if we don't know what story it is?" Steve finally abandoned touching his horns and unsuccessfully tried to comb his hair over them. It only made them stand out more and if Eddie wasn't engaged in a battle of his life with an ankle strap, he would have laughed. He finally managed to tug both of his shoes off and flung them to the distance, bending at the waist to stand up, when he winced in pain.

"I think I broke a bone," wheezed Eddie and clutched his side. The smooth fabric of the corset was cool under his fingers and he frowned in disgust. Why the fuck was he the one in yellow when the color made him look like a scrawny canary? Meanwhile Steve was made for this bright yellow shiny monstrosity.

"What..." Steve looked horrified and immediately supported him, gently touching his abdomen, feeling a strange lump. "Shit, Eddie, that's bad, does it hurt?"

Eddie bit his lip, nodding. "Like a motherfucker," he muttered and pointed towards his back. "Can you get rid of this crap? Untie the corset? Like, five minutes ago?"

"Oh. Yeah, sure." His fingers quickly worked the corset open and gently tugged it loose, along with the upper part of the dress.

"Thank fuck." Eddie tore the offending piece of clothing from his chest, glaring daggers at it. It took him a while to notice that Steve was staring at his bare chest, concerned and...maybe a little flustered? Eddie would have liked to think so, but now he was too busy taking deep breaths. Small waists were overrated. "See anything you like, Harrington?"

Steve blinked, eyes still glued to Eddie's body. "What? Oh, no- well yes, but...sorry, what were you..." He took a step closer and gently laid his fingers onto Eddie's rib cage. "Where's that broken bone?"

"Uh...here?" Eddie waved the untied corset in Steve's face and, realizing the misunderstanding, laughed out loud. "Don't look at me like that, it was serious. Have you ever had a piece of plastic break and stab you right in your insides? Cheap clothes for a cheap fairy tale, I tell you!"

Steve visibly relaxed but he still punched his shoulder before adopting the oh so familiar angry mother stance. "Seriously, Munson, couldn't you have been a bit more specific? Just a little bit? Never scare me like that again, you hear me, I was this close to carrying you-"

His tirade was cut short by Eddie leaning into him and pressing his palm over Steve's mouth. They stood face to face, Eddie still with his hair tied back and only in the frilly white pantalettes since he managed to slip out of the skirt too. And maybe it would have been awkward, but Eddie's dark eyes were open wide as he leaned next to Steve's ear and whispered: "So, I don't want to freak you out even more, but I'm quiiite convinced a teacup just walked through the door."

Steve rolled his eyes and, when Eddie's hand didn't move, actually licked his palm. "Don't be ridiculous. It probably just rolled off a table or something," he said as Eddie nearly shrieked and proceeded to wipe his hand on the white fabric. "Maybe you haven't heard, but teacups can't walk-"

He was preparing to say more, to chastise Eddie for his ridiculous ideas. But then the door opened again and so did Steve's mouth, hanging open in comical surprise as a round teapot wobbled inside the door, rattling and calling in a high voice: "Dusty! Dusty, where did you go?"

Eddie crossed his arms and scoffed. "Yeah, Steve. Continue, I'm all ears about stuff that," he formed quotation marks in the air, "isn't possible."

Tag list: @f1ct1onwh0re @gregre369 @estrellami-1 @awkwardgravity1, @stevesworldxx, @swimmingbirdrunningrock, @eboyawstenn, @theseaofdespair @mightbeasleep

#steddie #steddie drabble #steve harrington #eddie munson #stranger things drabble #stranger things #and before you tell me there wouldn't be multiple movies on a single VHS #imagine like 30-40 min long shortened fairy tales for kids #as a series #also yes I know Beauty and the beast came out later #but guess what #this low budget version has talking stuff in the castle and yellow dresses too #because I said so #there

[brown-little-robin]

what is UP everyone I just finished my very first one-shot fic EVER!!

#is my homework done NO #did I go to the studio today NO #but yesterday I got to bed 45 minutes earlier than I have been (oh glorious Sleep highly recommend) and today I was POSSESSED #with the spirit of Shigeo Kageyama's mother #I kid you not: I came up with this fanfic idea at 12:15 last night right as I drifted off to sleep #and I got up ate breakfast and banged this whole fanfic out in 4 hours. what HAPPENED to me man #me???? FINISHING a fic??? in ONE GO???? #MORE LIKELY THAN YOU THINK (APPARENTLY) #my homework will be fine btw #I am using the remaining time in my day (since I'm not going to the studio... sigh... I do feel bad about that actually) #to Clean My Room and get up to speed on my russian fairy tales class #nothing is due tonight anyway and having a clean room will put me in a better headspace to do more schoolwork next week! #MP100 happened to me...... Category 7 MP100 Moment

[quietwingsinthesky]

i do love canon amy & rory but god, does some part of me wish they really had gone with the idea of the doctor picking up a child as a companion (and then later, that child’s best friend with a huge crush on her.) with the rest of the season really not changing at all, except now it’s amelia pond with an angel in her head killing her and lost alone in the woods. it’s little rory who dies and is forgotten and becomes a toy soldier. if this is going to be a fairy tale, then let it be one. children have never been safe in fairy tales.

#it wouldn’t have to change any of the actual plot of the season. except MAYBE amy’s choice but even then i think amy’s choice would be the #one episode where they should be adults. if only for the half where they live in a village in that dream. #because that’s the kind of future that children would dream up. they live in a little cottage and nothing ever goes wrong and their best #friend visits them all the time even though they’ve grown up. #they aren’t actually adults there just children with an idea of what they should be as adults and acting accordingly #and it would still end the same way. #but idk its just. rory’s 2000 years waiting for amy inside the pandorica is already tragic. yes. #now imagine its a kid. a kid in a little roman soldier helmet who will never grow up. who will not leave his best friend. #he loves her and she’s more important than the whole universe and that sort of love is supposed to MEAN something in a fairy tale! #its supposed to melt the ice out of hearts and transform people from stone. #and what that love means here. is that he will have to wait 2000 years. a child and a box. #little rory and the amelia who followed the doctor’s letters to the pandorica. and she doesn’t recognize him again. #and amelia in the pandorica… 2000 years a child trapped in a small box waiting to be rescued. #s5 is already fucked for them but it could be worse. it could be so much worse. #and it would make the doctor choosing to take her place in the pandorica to save the universe later even better. #because who else but the doctor would put the fate of the universe on the shoulders of two children and realize much too late what a #monstrous thing he’d done. and still have to hope. have to hope. that amelia would remember him fondly enough to bring him back to reality. #the logistics of all of this would have been a pain lmao. child labor laws in acting and all that. #BUT. hypothetically. it would have slapped. #doctor who #amy pond #rory williams #<- also this entire time ive been referring to him in my head as rory pond so much that i fuckin. forgot his actual last name. #and then like if you want them to be adults in s6 or whatever you can just timeskip to them getting married and still have amelia remember #the doctor there. it would work. it would. #amelia pond au

[fallingbyjuleecruise]

every day i think about the ansur plot in act 3 could've actually had emotional weight if larian studios gave a shit about wyll. damn.

#like the whole gauntlet is about expressing the type of heroism that wyll has striven for his entire life. #the way the quest is so prototypical in it's fairy tale sensibility of the honest and true hero awaking a dragon under the city and - #saving the day and he goes through this whole gauntlet that's a test of how well he ascribes to the ideals of balduran and his father - #and everything he ever clung to to validate himself to himself after being coerced into mizora's deal as a 17 year old kid and then - #he succeeds! he passes the tests! only to find that ansur (literally named answer) is an undead abomination you have to put down #like it's SO SAD. and to me a big part of his story is accepting who HE is. seeing himself outside of his deal w mizora or what his father #wanted him to be and the fact that wyll isn't allowed to have a big emotional reaction to the ansur situation is so annoying #in fact wyll doesn't EVER get to have an emotional reaction to anything bc larian studios doesn't care enough to flesh his story out - #despite giving him one of the most interesting ideas for a character in the game! like act 3 should be WYLL'S act! he's so tied into - #everyone important in that act that it's actually a crime that he's sidelined the most there and he doesn't have enough vocal fans - #that larian studios will ever care enough to patch his story or add anything like they did for karlach or astarion. it's so dumb. #and it sucks that the writers don't recognize wyll's abuse bc his abuser is a hot devil lady. what she does to him is sick. god. #anyway. whatever. #baldur's gate 3 #my posts #.txt

[ghostsinthecellar]

#charlie babbles #NEW FRIENDS #also Friend and her kids got me one of those ceramic christmas trees but it's a halloween one and a jack-o-lantern nightlight #and I got a goblincore coloring book and stephen king's fairy tale and a new laptop table!! #and a gift card that I will take a full year to decide what to use for I'm sure #wheeee crimmus #AND THE COMPLETE STEVEN UNIVERSE DVD SET

[penguinofspades]

So I've just realized something:

In The Lord's Animals and the Devil's God chooses wolves as his animals.

The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the Wolf to be his dog, but he had forgotten the goat.

We're also told that God can summon the wolves to devour things.

This distressed him, so that in his goodness and mercy he summoned the wolves, who soon tore in pieces the goats that went there.

If we wanna count all of the Grimm's Fairytales in the same universe then that could make God responsible for the wolves in tales like Little Red Cap/Little Red Riding Hood, The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids and The Wolf and the Fox.

#grimm fairy tales #fairytales #fairytale #fairy tales #fairy tale #The Lord's Animals and the Devil's #Little Red Cap #Little Red Riding Hood #The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids #The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats #The Wolf and the Fox #I mean it would fit with how the Virgin Mary is such a terrible person in Mary's Child/Our Lady's Child #God #The Devil #What if

[timey-fandom-stuff]

... I really gotta stop coming up with wildly ambitious AU ideas.

#my posts #HEAD IN HANDS. #it's a much darker flavored Deltarune AU. similar vibes to Lynxgriffin's Eldritchrune. everything and everyone is terrifying #but it's fae and grimm's fairy tales instead of demons. #like. DANGEROUS fae. don't give strangers your name. #a world where magic is real and it hunts you in the night. #i'm currently calling it 'Changeling AU' and it's a bit unhinged #the 'kris' of that world is a fae changeling that was abandoned after their parents realized they weren't really their child :') #so the Dreemurrs took them in... even knowing what they are. #meanwhile the real HUMAN Kris was being raised by fae in the Other World so they're BOTH very weird and feral #i haven't figured out all the details but i know they find each other because the human Kris escaped and is trying to get home #while the changeling Kris is trying to figure out these strange and terrifying doorways that are appearing around town #not really realizing what's going on and that someone on the other side is knock knock knocking... :) they want out. #and of course i'm sure that goes MEGA bad because Kris realizes they were /replaced/ and this THING took their life #because they don't Get that Changelings have no idea they're not human and have no ill intentions. they're just Weird #the Changelings of this AU are meant to be a 'gift' by the fae; a 'perfect' child born from hopes and dreams for the future #they're very uncanny but don't have much magical ability on their own and are the closest to human that fae can get #since they're a fae specifically born from human feelings. it makes them a bit of a halfling in a sense. #Changeling Kris might even be actively benevolent... having witnessed Dess getting Taken and wanting to rescue her... #they just weren't expecting to find TWO lost kids in the dark. #anyway. it's a hellish AU and i'll probably never complete it #but god i just needed to ramble for a sec there lol #ROLLS AWAY BACK INTO THE VOID

[diamondnokouzai]

people always read fractured fairy tales like ‘ooh its about SEX its about DANGER’ like yeah no shit thats what the original was about. dummy.

#.din #.txt #when fracturing a fairy tale study the classics. gail carson levine. the frog princess (book). things such as these. #fairy tales that have been fractured for the consumption of children are more creative than the ones fractured for adults. #like you cant just be like 'BOO SURPRISE SEX' in a kids book. but thats what happens all too often in adult fractured fairy tales. #did once read a good fractured fairy tale involving snow white going to look for her dad. that was cool.

[fictionadventurer]

I know Cardinal's Map is fake but I'm obsessed with the idea of it so much

Me too! And the worse part is that I like the fake version so much that it feels like I've already read it, so there's no way to make a real version that could live up to it. At best, it would be an inferior adaptation.

Even if I get past that, and try to think of how one could adapt it, I realize just how little actually exists of the story; I've got two character names and a basic premise, but no idea what the portal fantasy world is like or what the plot of the story would actually be. Plus, Cardinal's portal fantasy would show up as passages of a book-within-a-book, which would nicely maintain the Imaginary Book Recs atmosphere, but would require one to make up a whole other book with its own literary style (because even if we only see pieces of it, we'd have to know what happens). The book is a nice little daydream, but turning it into an actual story would require so much work, only to wind up with something that wouldn't live up to the book as it exists in my imagination, and that makes me sad.

#answered asks #imaginary books recs #cardinal's map #yesterday i was stuck in a 'i want to write but can't write anything' mood #which combined with an 'i'm just a fanfic writer and not an author because all my ideas are fairy tale retellings' mood #which made me upset that i have no original ideas #but then i'm like 'i do have cardinal's map' #and i did do a half hour or so of daydreaming what it would look like if i tried to adapt it into a version that i could write #pick a more familiar setting and maybe drop the mc's grad school background so i wouldn't have to worry as much about getting things wrong #but even then i ran into the roadblock of 'you've got nothing kid' #a moodboard and a one-paragraph summary do not a book make #no matter how much my imagination pretends that they do

[blitzythefanvergentpitsterthings]

Ok but like the weather getting bad whenever Ruby is sad(too in her head/not distracted by everything going on???) She has more effect on the place than the others yikes that's not gonna end well

#rwby #who are we kidding none of this will end well #rwby spoilers #rwby vol9 #rwby vol9 spoilers #much more the Grimm fairy tales than anything else #see what i did there #i am crying at 1:45am #not me hitching my entire mental health on the development of this volume oops

[extreme-technicality]

“Sure hope the magical entity that can see through every mirror in existence is enjoying the show” I say as I do some dumb shit at my reflection

#technical talks #for context I read this fantasy series when I was a kid called the sisters grimm series and basically the premise was #‘what if every fairy tale the brothers grimm collected were real and based off of real magic beings’ #and without going into too much detail the big bad of the series was a magic creature who could see through every mirror #and could send ppl through them #but I remember this one scene towards the end of the series with the protag Sabrina in the bbeg’s main lair #looking at the walls and floor absolutely COVERED in mirror shards #and through the mirrors were just scenes of people doing shit #shaving. practicing speeches. brushing their teeth. doodling. just everyday people doing everyday shit #(and when I got older obvs I could think of. ahem. Other Things to do in a mirror. but I digress) #and I’ve never fucking forgotten that scene so every time I rant at my reflection in the bathroom or make weird faces at myself I think #the above post

[oldtvandcomics]

Honestly, if there is just one advice I can give to people who have children: Look, if you can keep them away from screens as much as possible, that would be ideal, but if you do have to give them their own devices, please consider spending some time looking on the Internet for the actual good children’s content. Mostly older media, which you can easily find and it’s free. You just need to know where to look.

#thinking about Jonathan Thomas And His Christmas On The Moon for seasonal reasons #damn that was SWEET! #the kind of thing you actually want to share with kids because you feel that they will learn something from it #that 'something' being mostly silly word games #which given the age of the target audience? #is like the best possible thing you'd want them to learn anyway #I'm also in a fairy tale mood #the amount of classic fairy tale collections you can get from the Internet! #It took me like #two clicks to get to two original Perrault collections #no not 'original' sorry #'classic' might be a better word? #with colorful illustrations and all #I ended up reading Arany László's fairy tale collection instead #guess where I got that one... #I don't really consume media aimed at children specifically #so no idea what today's stuff looks like #but don't tell me that Disney + can compare to a bunch of classic children's books downloaded from the Internet and dumped on the tablet #I know FOR A FACT that it can not compare to the Hungarian Fairy Tales cartoon I used to watch as a child #which oh look #is completely on YouTube WITH ENGLISH DUB #you branch out into subtitle territory and you will get EVEN MORE great animation #because sure Disney has got nice stuff #BUT HAVE YOU SEEN THE SOVIET ANIMATED FAIRY TALE MOVIES #wow this rant got long #the only thing I regret about not having any children is that I won't be able to share this stuff with them #so please do it for me? #fairy tales #movies #parenting

[gutter--trash]

Scottish fairytale The Black Bull of Norroway but it’s a fun buddy-journey full of shenanigans

#I used to like this story when I was a kid and I was feeling nostalgic yesterday I guess so like #I drew a cow lol #so did I literally just have a thought like…what if instead of an intimidating black bull it was a dorky belted Galloway? #YES BECAUSE THEY ARE ADORABLE #also hello hi I took a leave of absence because I had art block for like a month #im back on my bullshit now tho I guess #fairy tale #Scottish fairytale #fairy tales #fairytale retellings #fairy tale retelling #scottish folklore