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Madame Levesque’s fairy tales: The Invisible Prince

I’ll actually begin with “Le Prince invisible” (The invisible Prince) due to it being the lesser-known of the two.

A few preliminary notes:

# This fairytale is quite long (which fits how the “classic French fairytale” was actually more fantasy novel-like than what Perrault actually wrote), so I’ll break it down into sub-parts I’ll invent myself

# You might be surprised upon finding several elements from Greco-Roman mythology, but it is normal - it is another feature of the “classic French fairytale” to use or reuse mythological elements (the Greco-Roman myth was seen as the ancestor of the fairytale, so this explains that - I’ll make a full post later)

# One of the things with Madame Levesque is that, as a “second wave” storyteller, she decided to not just write traditional fairytales - she actually decided to play and twist the typical fairytale formula. This is obvious in her two fairy tales, which have some unusual features for the genre - here, in this case, she decides to depict a... “fairytale of failure”, let’s say. A fairytale where the hero actually keeps failing at everything, and all the usual solutions of problems used in other fairytales just fall flat.

I) Once upon a time...

Once upon a time, there was a fairy who ruled over the four elements. Since she had four sons, she decided to offer each of them the power to rule over one of the four. To her eldest son she gave the “noblest element”, fire : he was an active, intelligent prince with a bright imagination. To her second son, she gave earth because, while he wasn’t very lively or fast, he still balanced it with a bit of wisdom and prudence (not a lot, but still a bit). The third one was barbaric and savage, a monstrous giant, and to “hide his flaws to the world” she offered him to rule over the seas. As for the fourth, he got the air: he was an “unequal” prince, constantly driven by his emotions (not just emotions, “passions”, which at the time meant “strong and violent emotions”), and who always very easily got carried away.

The fairy-mother knew that her fourth son was destined to be unhappy due to love, so to protect him, she raised him in the hatred of women - she spent his youth telling him of many stories of princes who had great misfortunes because of love, she described love as a poison to avoid. Since the Prince of Air was also passionate about hunting, the fairy-mother create for him a beautiful palace in the middle of a vast forest (she created the forest too, and filled it with animals from the “four corners of the world”). The Prince of Air spent his life in his palace and forest, constantly hunting the animals around, or forcing them into races, or battling them to death...

But despite all of the fairy-mother’s work, “nature couldn’t be changed”. One day, the fairy-mother had to go away for very important business, and she told the Prince of Air not to leave his palace while she was gone (because she felt a disaster would happen to him otherwise). But the Prince of Air was bored and disobeyed. He ordered his servants, the “aerial spirits” (they are later called “genies”) to carry him away to the realm next to his own. The neighbor-realm was the Island of Roses, where it is a perpetual spring without any winter. The Prince of the Genies was amazed at all he saw there (for example he had never seen the sea before), but he was particularly striken by the beauty of a young maiden. Forgetting all of her mother’s teachings, he became madly in love, and used his powers to snatch the girl away to his own palace. There was just one problem... this girl was Rosalie, the daughter of the king of the Island of Roses.

Said king became grief-striken, as she was her only child (and it is said that, while he was sad not to have a son, he found comfort in her beauty and wisdom). He spends his days crying and lamenting the loss of his daughter, until a mysterious young prince at his court offers him to help - a princely newcomer nobody actually really knows, but who offers to bring back the ravished daughter if he can be allowed to marry her. The king accepts the bargain and the mysterious prince goes on his adventures...

II) The real hero

You see, this is the first twist of Madame Levesque: due to the story opening on the Prince of the Genies, we are led to think he is the hero of the tale... But no, he is actually the antagonist. This new prince right here is the titular “Invisible Prince” and the actual hero of the tale.

And at this moment we actually get a “flashback” to the life of the Invisible Prince before his arrival in the story. This hero is the son of the king of the Island of Gold. This is an island entirely covered in a big city where everything is made of gold, from house-walls to street-pavements. The walls guarding it are covered in sculpted depictions of the “fable” (that’s how French called Greco-Roman myths back then), from Jupiter’s childhood and the fall of the Titans to the stories of Psyche and Proserpina ; and in the heart of the city is a huge temple dedicated to its patron-god, Plutus (the embodiment of wealth and riches). Plutus also regularly gives oracles to the city - and on the birth of the young prince, Plutus delivered a terrifying oracle. He predicted that the “winds, the sea and the earth” would be against the prince, become his enemies and wage war against him - he also predicted of the prince fighting a giant to save a woman, only to fall into a deep abyss, and to end up in a “palace of flames”. No need to tell you, the king is greatly worried about this.

Hopefully, there was at the court a fairy, which is the protectress of the Island of Gold, and she tried to help the prince by soothing his fate. To protect him against his future perils, she gifted him with a magical stone, which would make him invisible if he placed it in his mouth. The only catch is that, as long as the stone is used, one cannot speak. This is why he is the “Invisible Prince” with the power to become invisible whenever he wants.

Growing up, the boy decided to explore the world, see if the other lands were as rich and sumptuous as his father’s. However his very first sea-travel ended up in a shipwreck. He got enslaved by a barbarian nation, but hopefully escaped thanks to the invisibility-stone, hoped in a new ship, and ended up at the Island of Roses a few months before the disappearance of Rosalie. There he stayed at the king’s court, and fell in love with the princess as soon as he saw her (the narration insist on how incredibly beautiful she is). When she was ravished he became as grief-striken as the king, but ultimately decided to obey what his love commanded him to do: go save the girl, even though he knew he couldn’t possibly win against a “demigod”.

III) At the palace of the Genie Prince

The Invisible Prince begins his quest, and even discovers the thick and dark forest where the Genie Prince resides. He finds the palace and, using his invisibility power, explores it. It is empty, but somptuous and we are given long detailed descriptions of the many riches and beauties in it (typical of a “classic French fairytale”), though the Invisible Prince doesn’t care in the least for it as he is only interested in finding Rosalie. After wandering through many courtyards, halls, and statues-filled gardens, the Invisible Prince finally finds Rosalie, in a discussion with the Genie Prince. The Genie Prince convinces her to forgive him for his kidnapping, because he only acted “out of love” - but Rosalie tells him that, because he took her away from her father, she will always hate and despise him, no matter what powers and riches he shows her in hope of gaining her love.

The Invisible Prince spends the night at the palace, no knowing how to help Rosalie. All he can do is write for her a love poem that he leaves by her bedside, and that she finds in the morning. The next day, the Genie Prince must leave (he joins his brothers in a yearly summon at his mother’s side) and so the Invisible Prince decides to act... BUT he wants to make sure first that Rosalie truly dislikes the Genie Prince, and truly wants to escape. So, still invisible, he writes poems directly in front of her (she is amazed at seeing the quill move on its own) and they have a discussion through poem-writing. Rosalie mistakes the invisible spirit (who claims he is in love with her) for one of the genies serving the Prince, and while she admits she doesn’t like the Genie Prince, she also declines the genie-servant’s love. Because she confesses that she is already in love, with a beautiful mysterious stranger who arrived at her father’s court a few months ago... The Invisible Prince, joyful, becomes visible and the two talk for hours, sharing their love and stories, and deciding how they should escape.

The problem is that there is only one invisibility stone, for one person. Hopefully, the fairy of the Island of Gold makes seasonal visits to the king’s court, and her next visit is for very soon - the plan is for the prince to return to his island, ask the fairy a new invisibility stone, return to the Genie palace and then the two could escape. They part and...

IV) The first failure

... and the perfect plan fails, because the prince on his way back gets lost in the woods, meaning he arrives just a few days late AFTER the fairy’s visit, and now has to wait three whole months for the next season. Stressed out, he decides to immediately return to the palace of the Genies, and save his princess another way - when, on his way through a forest, he sees a gigantic, monstrous oak open up.

The Invisible Prince hides, and sees two men appearing out of the oak for a stroll. One is actually the Earth Prince from the beginning of the tale, who is actually the Prince of the Gnomes, while the other is his best friend and confident (we’ll only know his name at the end of the tale, Lisistrate, mineral-pun). The Prince of the Gnome, not knowing he is spied on, complains about how he fell in love with a princess named Argentine upon seeing her bathe in the woods one hot summer, and he can’t stop thinking about her. But he is sad because he knows she will never love him. How does he knows? He has three magical cabinets in his palace: the Cabinets of Time. Each has a mirror which show respectively the past, the present and the future - and upon looking at the mirror of the future, the Gnome Prince saw Argentine would only ever dislike and reject him.

Now the Invisible Prince is quite happy at this news because Argentine is actually his sister (Argentine is a female name based on “argent”, which means “silver”, so she would be Silverina, a name fitting for a princess of the “Gold Island”), and he hopes to maybe bargain something with the Gnome Prince, you know get his favor somehow by playing on his love for his sister... (But it actually never happens, as Madame Levesque quickly drops this). Rather, the Invisible Prince spies on the Gnome Prince and his magical oak (he regularly comes out of it for strolls through the wood). He spies enough to learn how to open the oak, and he explores what lies beyond the magical tree - a riches-filled underworld, a luxuruous underground palace (again, lot of descriptions of riches). The Invisible Prince also finds the Cabinet of Times - but he cannot use the one of the future, since the Gnome Prince locked it up after his nasty experience.

So the Invisible Prince rather uses the ones of the past and present to get news of Rosalie (and regularly visits to these Cabinets allow him to wait and endure the three months of “inactivity” while waiting for the fairy’s return). And he is quite distraught to see that, while Rosalie is faithful to him, keeps waiting (and keeps with her the love poems he wrote for her), the Genie Prince is growing more threatening and rageful as time passes by, regularly getting angry at Rosalie, and now locking her in her rooms and forbidding her to leave until she loves him.

More determined than ever to save her, he finally gets from the fairy a second invisibility stone, and rushes back to the Genie palace to save Rosalie only for...

V) The second failure

... Only for him to find it empty. No one in the palace. Despaired, he resists the urge to kill himself (typical of classical romance heroes at the time, suicide was often brought up), and returns to the Cabinets of Time. There he learns that the Prince of the Genies actually discovered one of the love-poems of the Invisible Prince, and became furious upon learning he had a loved rival. So, what he did was remove the princess from his original palace and place her in a new one - a castle at the top of a very high mountain (so high it pierces the clouds). There everything is made of clear crystal, so he can spie on her constantly, and he has her guarded by genies days and nights.

The prince decides to immediately sail to the mountain he saw in the Cabinets’ mirrors. But yet another violent storm causes another shipwreck, and he ends up on a completely different island... Now this passage is actually not relevant to the plot, and is only a poetic digression that was very typical of the fairytales of the time, a sort of “surrealistic moral-teaching moment”. Get ready, it becomes WEIRD.

The prince ends up on a island, where horrible screams can be heard alongside delightful songs. The prince makes himself invisible and explores the island. He finds a gate guarded by two yellow, fire-breathing dragons. Getting past them, he ends up in a maze-like forest, a vegetal labyrinth, where there are lots of... hands. Hands coming out of the ground, with golden bracelets on it - bracelets with names written on them. The prince then discovers two corpses, freshly dead (they’re still hot) - two men who apparently strangled each-other to death with silk ribbons the color of fire. They also wear the strange golden bracelets with names on them. The invisible prince buries them, but immediately their hands come out of the ground... The invisible prince later discovers another living human, a man who is constantly crying and sighing, wandering aimlessly through the labyrinth with a silk ribbon. The hero follows him, and when the crying man meets another wandering crying man, the two embrace each other in tears before strangling each other with their silk-ribbons.

No need to tell you the hero is weirded out by all this, and leaves the labyrinth. He then discovers a beautiful park filled with happy music, a delightful garden where couples dance, rest together and talk pleasantly. And spying on their conversations he discovers what this place is: it is The Island of the Lovers. The place he is in is the Park of the Happy Lovers, but the other half of the island is the Maze of the Despaired Lovers. This half of the island belongs to the Fairy of Despair, who summons there the men who were betrayed by their unfaithful lovers and who wish for death. She then puts them through the perverse ritual the protagonist saw: the Fairy locks them in this enormous maze where they wander for a long time, with nothing but a silk ribbon, and a golden bracelet on which their name is written alongside the one of their unfaithful lover. When one victim finally meets another, they then kill each other - and even when buried, their hands come out of the ground to forever commemorate the betrayal of love...

No need to tell you, the protagonist doesn’t stay by the Maze, but he also cannot stay at the Park, which makes him too sad, so for days and days he cries and thinks by the shores of the island, wondering how he can possibly get back to Rosalie.

VI) The second palace of the Genie Prince

One day however, as he is by the beach (without his invisibility stone), the prince sees the sea open up before him. A woman is running away, screaming, hunted down by a giant. The prince takes his weapons and tries to attack the giant - but the giant touches him with a magic wand that immobilizes him. The giant then takes back the screaming woman, goes back into the sea, and orders tritons to chain up the prince and drag him behind.

As you can guess, this is the ruler of the seas, the giant-brother of the Genie Prince and Gnome Prince. The giant takes the protagonist to his underwater world - which is actually a series of dark forests and deep abysses haunted by ugly and frightening sea-monsters. It is noted that the magic wand, on top of a temporary paralysis, also gave the protagonist the power to breathe and live under water. There, the giant chains the protagonist to a rock - and there are many more men and women kept chained there. It is apparently the giant’s pleasure to take all those that die at sea, and chain them in his domain to later be able to torment them better. One day, the giant orders a few men (including the protagonist) to be unchained, because he wants to fight them (you know, gladiator-style), but as soon as he is unchained the prince uses his invisibility stone to escape.

Wandering through the under-sea world, he finally manages to get out of the ocean - right at the feet of the mountain he was seeking! He quickly runs to the top of the mountain and sneaks into the palace. There he finds Rosalie, but there is a problem... He has to warn her of his presence, since she cannot see him - but he cannot be too obvious, since she is under a constant surveillance, and if the Genie Prince ever learned of this, he would take her away to “another corner of the world”. Hopefully, the prince notices on her own her lover’s presence - because she notes that his breath fogs up the crystals of which the palace is made. So she then plays nice with the Genie Prince, becoming much kinder with him in exchange of being allowed to stroll a bit through the castle on her own. The Prince agrees - but as soon as she can, she receives the second invisibility stone from her lover, and they both escape.

VII) The third failure

But who says there’s going to be a happy ending to this tale?

As soon as the Genie Prince sees his prisoner disappear, he dispatches all of the genies at the four corners of the world to find him back. The couple of protagonists escape down the mountain, holding hands... But at one point end up letting go of each other’s hands. Which is problematic since they are still invisible, and while invisible cannot talk to each other. If they ever became visible again, the genies would immediately spot them... The princess, searching for her lover, ends up in a forest, and she decides to stay there, graving in the various tree trunks messages for the Invisible Prince, telling her she is here. However one of the genies sees these messages and warns his ruler: the Prince of the Air quickly arrives to the forest, uses his magic to guess where the princess is, and takes her away by tying her with a silk ribbon (yes, like those of the Fairy of Despair, there is a clear theme here) before dragging her away through the airs... RIGHT AS THE INVISIBLE PRINCE ARRIVES IN THE WOODS!

The protagonist sees his beloved ravished for the third time by the Genie Prince, and there he again seriously considers suicide as everything seems to be going for the worst, and no matter what he does he fails. However, he still has one hope: the Cabinet of Times, which could help him know where she is. So he begins to make his way back.

VIII) The Golden Fountain

As he makes his way back he passes by a forest, and there finds a temple guarded by two great lions. Using his invisibility stone he enters, and finds two things. A child sleeping behind a curtain, and a great book on an altar. The child is actually “Love” (as in Cupid/Eros), and the prince complains of how this “cruel god” spends his time sleeping and resting while ordinary folks suffer due to what he puts them through - but he ultimately decides not to wake him up. He prefers to go by the great book - which as it turns out is the “Register of the Lovers”. In it, he finds the info that Rosalie is kept by the Genie Prince into a deep chasm, that can only be reached by the Golden Fountain.

Leaving the temple of Love, the prince wonders how he is going to find this mysterious Golden Fountain when - guess who comes back? It’s the Gnome Prince and his best pal! Spying on their conversations, he learns that the Gnome Prince managed to get closer to princess Silverina by hostings parties and entertainments for her, amusing and entertaining her - but recently, it became clear she fell in love. Despaired, the Gnome Prince decides to use the Golden Fountain to discover who his rival is: you see, the Golden Fountain is surrounded by sands of gold, and if one drop of its water is thrown at the sand, the name of the romantic rival of the asker will be revealed. The Invisible Prince follows the Gnome royalty to the Golden Fountain, and there the Gnome Prince discovers that the one Silverina is in love with is... Prince Flame. Yep, his brother, and the fourth of the quartet. He is so shocked that he faints in the arms of his best friend.

Meanwhile the Invisible Prince plunges into the deep fountain - remember, he can breathe under water thanks to the sea-giant’s wand. At the bottom of the fountain he founds a door, which leads to the top of a mountain. Going down the mountain, he finds a rock, to which is tied a silk ribbon... Immediately recognizing the ribbon, the Invisible Prince breaks it - and immediately he feels a hand reaching his. It was indeed Rosalie tied to this rock with the magical ribbon - ever since she was kidnapped, she refused to remove the invisibility stone despite the Genie Prince’s best attempts at making her visible again.

The two invisible lovers go back to the top of the mountain, back to the magical door... But there’s a problem. The door leads to the bottom of the Golden Fountain, and while the prince can breathe under water, the princess cannot... The two are stuck. So they wait by the side of a stream, weeping and sighing, invisible and unable to talk to each other, merely hugging - because the Genie Prince, upon discovering the girl is gone, caused a huge storm that is currently sweeping the world around them, wind blowings and clouds raging for days and days...

IX) The happy end

Until one day, swirls of fires and spirals of flame come down from the sky and cause a huge, burning heat-wave, scorching enough to have the water from the stream AND from the Golden Fountain to just disappear. The water being gone, the lovers go through the door, climb out of the Fountain and escape, returning to the Gold Island. Yeah!

... Only to discover that Argentine/Silverina is gone. She was kidnapped to - by the jealous Prince of the Gnomes, who couldn’t stand that she loved another. The Flame Prince, which now lives on the Gold Islands (he stays in the gardens of the King, where he first met Silverina and spent time with her), is so furious he decides to burn down the entire world - the huge storm of fire that saved the heroes was caused by his fury. The Invisible Prince, seeing how he can solve it all, goes to the Flame Prince and explains to him he can help...

Since he knows the magical oak that leads to the Gnome Prince’s underground realm, and how to open it, the Invisible Prince teaches the way to the Flame Prince. The Flame Prince then quickly saves Silverina from his brother’s prison, and everybody returns happily to the Gold Island. The Flame Prince is so happy that he decides to take Silverina, the Invisible Prince and Rosalie in a realm where the Prince of the Genies and the Prince of the Gnomes are powerless... So they could live their love happily ever after.

X) The true end

Another twist of the formula by madame Levesque: the same way she opened the fairytale with a side-story not concerning the actual protagonist, she closes the narrative with another side-story, this time focusing on Silverina.

She marries the Flame Prince, and becomes the Flame Princess. A few days after the wedding, the Flame Prince decides to take her somewhere secret... He takes her to a dark, underground tunnel, to an even darker place lit by a single lamp, and there he opens a trapdoor and basically throws Silverina in it (well, he rather jumps with her). The narrative points out anybody would be very scared at this point, but Silverina trust in her prince out of pure love.

They land in a shining and luminous cabinet, where there are two crystal urns. The Flame Prince explains that these are his two most precious treasures, items given to him by fate itself. Now that he is married to her, he wants her to share them with him, and he asks her to choose which urn she wants.

One is the urn containing the Flame of Life - one spark can make an old man young again, and if the Fire ever escaped, it would make all men immortal. The second urn is the Fire of Love. The princess chooses the second urn. In her own words, “What good life would be if I ever lost your heart? By choosing the Fire of Love, I am sure of your eternal faithfulness, and I will never fear your indifference”. The narrative points out that, when she chose the second urn, the “blind god” (aka Cupid/Eros) lost all powers over love - and now it is the Flame Princess that rules over this emotion, only “opening the urn” to those that please her.

The end.

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cjbolan · 10 months

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Up to Chapter Six of “Fairy Tale”. Not gonna lie this story moves at a much slower pace than I’m accustomed to. Maybe it’s just me and I’m used to reading more action-packed books where the plot moves at a rapid pace. So this book is something new and hopefully by the end in a good way. As usual Radar and Mr. Bowditch are the best parts of the story. They have the most distinctive personalities and each chapter we always learn something new about them ! With the frequent mentions of Charlie watching YouTube … did YouTube pay Stephen King to write this book 😆? Calling it now, the “BB”s are gonna be gold ✨.

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newsintheshell · 2 years

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Il progetto si basa su un concept di Hiroyuki Nakao e P.I.C.S (Oddtaxi); la regia e la sceneggiatura sono a cura di Hiroyasu Aoki (Hero Mask).

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Rewatching season 1 and finished ep.6 today. I'm BLOWN away that from where we are in episode 6 that by the end of episode 8, Carmy wants Sydney to be his CDC and right-hand girl.

So, here's a recap. in Ep. 6 Sydney is zealously trying to convince Carmy to let her add a new dish to the menu and the to-go menu. Despite him repeatedly asking her to discuss it later, Syd keeps going, and he has to go into boss mode, basically telling her that her prior employers described her as talented but impatient and VERY GREEN. He promises to consider her suggestions, but he also wants to enjoy the relative peace they've finally established at The Beef.

Then later she presents him with the dish, this time considerately asking him if it's a good time to try it. He does calling it tremendous, but the sauce is a little tight. It's also not perfect and it's not there yet...Her face is cracked, but she soldiers on. Later he apologizes if he was " being sh***** earlier (he wasn't imo). Sydney answers, "It's all good" and he asks, "Yeah?" and she confirms they're good. Baby boy doesn't go around apologizing to even Natalie unless she confronts him.

Anyways...episode 7 is the to-go debacle, Sydney quitting in the middle of it, and then returning at the end of episode 8. This is when Carmy decides that this impatient and VERY GREEN young woman will be the CDC of his restaurant, The Bear, the dream he wanted to share with Mikey.

Yes, Sydney helped a lot with getting The Beef running more smoothly, but this is his dream since forever and his $$ on the line. Why not keep her as the sous when he has access to an elite culinary network? Someone might be willing to take a risk now that he's opening The Bear. Heck, he could even use ZipRecruiter. Either Chris Storer & Co. are writing a fairy-tale where a successful, award-winning, Michelin-retaining male chef will put all his trust in a significantly less experienced, stubborn female chef he's known for maybe a 3-6 months tops OR this man is at least subconsciously down bad for Sydney.

Like if this stays platonic, this is the most Disney-fied unrealistic platonic partnership I've ever seen. We love these characters for how real and flawed they are, but that decision is hard to swallow unless there's something complicated underneath.

#sydcarmy #the bear #yeah platonic is more realistic for sure #sydney x carmy #carmy the bear #carmen berzatto #carmy berzatto #syd adamu #sydney adamu #be for real #the bear fx

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03/03/2024 Twitter Space Recap (1/2)

Martin & Kyle did a twitter space (with a late appearance of Eva) in the earliest hours of the day on the 3rd, here's a recap of what they talked about then:

-Kyle brings up that he wants to do a charity stream for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund! He says Him, Martin, Coral, and Eva would be there playing Lethal Company. He says he plans to do this "sometime this month".

-Martin describes the 'Walten Dog Saga', saying that first the family got Carlitos, who was Sophie's dog, and everybody loved him, but then one day in 1968, they're playing and then Carlitos gets run over. And it's so tragic that they're like, 'no more dogs!', until one day in 1973 Jack runs into this homeless street dog and brings him home, and names him Jaimito, and they have him for a few months before he bites Edd's arm and "almost gives him rabies", so Jack just gives the dog to Susan, and the one week that she has this dog is like the worst week of her life. He pees everywhere, he tears up her furniture, and after a week of that he just peacefully dies while Susan is out of the house.

-Martin says that aspects of episode 5 are inspired by some of the leaked stuff he's seen from Joker 2. "It's a very fairy-tale, unreliable narrator kind of episode."

-Martin spitballs his "perfect idea for a Walten Files game", a PS1-style game where you work as a Bon's Burger's employee, "in the kitchen at 3am making burgers", fixing up orders to be delivered (by another employee, I'm assuming? He mentions 'a guy with a motorcycle', so I think this is what he means. Like pizza delivery.) He talks about how the supply closet would be on the other side of the restaurant, so whenever you run out of ingredients you'd have to walk all the way over there and back in the dark. He says it'd be really funny if there wasn't even anything supernatural in it.

-Martin talks about how it really bothers him when people say or imply that, because The Walten Files takes place in the time period it does, it would be more accurate or make more sense for his characters to be bigoted. He brings up a specific instance where someone asked him how the other BSI employees would treat Chris. "The point that this person was making is that it would make sense for the team to be racist, and I was like 'No, it doesn't make sense! That shouldn't happen, it shouldn't be a thing!'" He goes on to say... "And then it was shit like, [mockingly] 'Why are Sophie and Jenny a couple if it was the 1980s?' and it's like, gay people existed in the 1980s!"

"It's just like, just because something was the thing back then, doesn't mean the characters should do a very bad and harmful thing, y'know? It's a really stupid mindset, in my opinion."

-Kyle talks about this genuinely really funny Showstoppers Halloween special idea he had a long time ago, where the Showstoppers are really excited for the holiday, but for some reason Bon has never heard of Halloween before, and the other Showstoppers have to explain it to him, telling him about costumes and trick-or-treating and everything. And it culminates with them going up to somebody's doorstep to trick-or-treat, and all the Showstoppers are telling Bon that he should go first since he's the newbie, and when he knocks on the door some lady answers, going "Hello! How are-" and then she looks up in horror. And the shot reverses to show like a full, "hyper-realistic" Scary Animatronic Bon looming over to her, with a Text-To-Speech voice going "Trick.... Or.... Treat."

-Martin talks about his own funny showstoppers idea, where Bon, for some inexplicable reason, has the feeling that he is dying. and he spends the whole episode trying to make amends with people and be nice to his friends, like 'I don't hate you, Banny, I really care about you,' 'Boozoo, you can have Bon's Burgers when I'm gone, because you're my friend and I trust you,' etc. And at the end of the episode you find out he just had a tummy ache, and he was being really dramatic about it.

-After some related banter, Martin jokes that it'd be funny if Jack was at a table eating with the rest of the 'Bunny Smiles family', and out of the blue he goes, like, 'I've got a tummy ache! :(' in a really high-pitched voice. Eva, who had joined the space a while earlier, jokes that his normal voice is just him faking it, and the high-pitched voice is what he actually sounds like.

-They talk about various Godzilla movies for a while, and Martin brings up how he really enjoyed the way Minus One managed to connect the narrative between its human and its monster characters, and how that's something he thinks a lot of other monster movies and horror films fail to do.

"Y'know, it's funny, because when I wrote The Walten Files, I always had the idea that like, there are two parts of the story? Part one, which is like, the human drama, and Edd and Molly, and the crash. And then part two, which has more to do with the animatronics and the place itself. And you have this feeling where there's going to be a moment where those two parts connect and link to each other, and I think that's something you gotta have in, like, horror movies, where- it- you can't just like, make up characters, and just put them in the existing world and have them exist, and then just sit around waiting for the killer to appear, y'know?"

-Eva brings up an incident that's been happening in the Walten Files community on Twitter, where some people have been getting some flack over headcanoning members of The Showstoppers as Black. Martin gets really incensed talked about how much this bothers him, saying "I saw that, it's so fucking stupid. If you- It's just common sense! If you look at someone going 'Hey, I think this character would be Black, I headcanon this character as black,' and you go, like 'I'm not comfortable with that,' what the fuck do you mean? How? That's so weird! And that's what I'm saying, it's like, how does it effect the story in any way that would be negative to you? Like, the only way you would be against that, is if you were like, racist. And it's like, huh? And I think, a lot of people bring up the argument that, 'Ah, but this character is clearly intended to be White,' and it's like, who cares! Who gives a shit? Like, that's not, like a valid argument to go against someone for doing something like that. It would be very different if, for example, someone looked at Chris and went, like, 'What if he was White?', it's very different. The context of that is very different, than just headcanoning a character as Black, y'know? That's completely fine and normal. Why would you be against that, that's so weird."

"I find it even funnier, because, from what it looked like, it was because someone said they headcanon Sha as Black, and it's like, that makes so much sense! I mean, like, I think that if Sha had a human design, she'd definitely not- she wouldn't be white... again, if you're against headcanons like that, you- you're not welcome here."

-"We end this stream saying these few words: Headcanoning characters as people of color is great, supporting Palestine is great, uh, being a Zionist is Bad! Being a racist is bad! And if you like Godzilla: I will give you a kiss on the head. Muah!"

___ They ended up holding another Space much later the same day, which I've decided to cover in a separate post, because it's twice as long as this one, and a lot more of the conversation in it was Walten Files-Centric, so the recap will take way longer to write.

#the walten files #twitter space recap #I'm heading right to bed after posting this laalala #I promise I'll write the Big Long recap tomorrow... I can do it...

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Dark found family

(3 am brainrot got to me please help)

we’ve established that Charlie kinda does figure out that this is wrong and stuff, and there’s a fairy tale quest with the overlords getting all the keys throughout hell. And the overlords get to the hotel and each and every one of the hotel gang (Angel Dust, Vaggie, Husk, Niffty) just gives up their key because they know that this is WRONG. What if Charlie does the same thing and that’s what gets the overlords to kinda sorta forgive her. (But then they did an entire quest for nothing! NOTHING!) cue song apology (this is actually a recap of all their (Charlie and Lucifer’s) war crimes) (I feel this would be cannon for Charlie) (maybe not) so yeah. They go to the DOOR™️ and instead of inserting all the keys together because that would take a while and time is of the essence, they do Charlie’s instead. Because the DOOR™️ was probably made by Lucifer, and he’s probably (most likely) want to know if it was being opened with a key. So he has this feature where the DOOR™️ tells him if it’s being open, and if so, who’s key? Well, he’d definitely gonna know if the overlords are there cause who else is gonna use 20 different keys to open the DOOR™️??? Not him or Charlie! SO ANYWAYS (I’m getting off track ;-;) they use Charlie’s key cause A) it’s faster B) “Charlie” (the rescue group) visiting alastor is most likely normal behavior for her so Lucifer wouldn’t really suspect it.

So they enter the room and I see like three options here:

A) Alastor isn’t there.

Lucifer figured it out somehow (I don’t know how yet) and took Alastor away, probably to the royal palace to the ROOM™️ of that one ask where Lucifer takes Alastor to a room without windows or doors and there was a pantry with all the food he needs and the ceiling of the ROOM™️ is a false sky. ANYWAYS main takeaways here is that Lucifer knows, took Alastor away, and there is big boss fight right here right now. I don’t think they would win, so either Charlie talks him out of his decision or she doesn’t. Either way, people get hurt, just a matter of whether Charlie can convince Lucifer to let them live. (He’s killing them all for the crime of trying to take away his Alastor) (gods that felt wrong to type) I don’t think Lucifer would kill Charlie though, she’s a part of his family (family in italics to show importance) he would kill the overlords and anyone else tho. (Didn’t I already kinda allude to that?)

B) Alastor is there.

They see Alastor and it’s really heart breaking how detached he is, he probably doesn’t even realize they’re there (I don’t know anything about severe mental catonia) (is that how you spell it???) ANYWAYS (I’m so off track) perhaps there is an arguement with Charlie because while they knew what was happening, (maybe they didn’t know the full extent, after all, they only know that Alastor hasn’t been out in a while, and whatever Vox can scrape up in that one ask where he calls an overlord meeting with a giant cork board with red yarn and ANYWAYS) it’s different seeing it up close. I think they might spend valuable time arguing (mainly just everyone going after Charlie and Charlie doesn’t really have anything to defend herself) until someone stops them. (probably Zestial or Carmilla, they are maybe most likely to keep a level head in this situation, but then again, they really cared about Alastor, and I think this would break them to see him this way) They stop the arguing (verbal attack) against Charlie because they don’t have a lot of time and they should be using it getting Alastor out of here. I think they (those who can) try to teleport out but they can’t because Lucifer knows that they are there by now (the arguing was so loud, and he’s not the type to leave his beloved alone for long (possessiveness)) and did some sort of magical magic spell. Cue fight. (Look up at A) Alastor is not there for details).

C). Alastor is dead.

they were too late in trying to get to him and they see his dead body just lying there.

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#hazbin hotel #alastor #nunalastor asks #dark found family #chill lute fuck #dark forced family

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songs in c3e60: peregrine (timestamps from the ad-free version. does not include the generic combat music. “a wizard’s tournament” is the recap song.)

Shock at the Dock - 14:05

The Purge - 17:24 (loops)

Bronzebeard Baddies - 25:34

Conspiracy in the Clouds - 33:56

A Fate Refused - 35:38

The Valiant Ol' Cobb - 40:54

Mothership - 42:12

Spearmint & Tea Leaves - 44:46

A Fairy Remembers - 47:07

Demigod - 49:48

Escape from Smuggler's Bounty - 56:45

Escape from Smuggler's Bounty - 57:59

Demigod - 1:00:42

royalty free metal song - 1:02:21

Bahumia Theme - 1:03:39

Conspiracy in the Clouds - 1:08:59

Spearmint & Tea Leaves - 1:10:09

Bahumia Theme - 1:12:29

A Fairy Remembers - 1:15:58

The Fairy - 1:19:24

The Twinkling Lights of Galaderon - 1:22:16

The Posse - 1:23:19

A Tale's End - 1:26:16

Home is Where the Hearth Is (instrumental ver) - 1:27:39

Home is Where the Hearth Is - 1:31:28 - (clipped here!)

context for each song + notes under the cut!

Shock at the Dock - 14:05 - Callie gets hit with the anti-spell blast

The Purge - 17:24 (loops) - Alexandrite's first lair action and the submarine exploding from the ice

Bronzebeard Baddies - 25:34 - Alexandrite shifts into giant Gowan/Scorpion form

Conspiracy in the Clouds - 33:56 - Nat 1 for the village / Nat 20 for Alexandrite

A Fate Refused - 35:38 - Sol shoots a flare to let the village know they're fighting

The Valiant Ol' Cobb - 40:54 - Alexandrite crits on Calder / He saves from the poison

Mothership - 42:12 - Alexandrite's lair action earthquake

Spearmint & Tea Leaves - 44:46 - Callie offers to help the village, Calder says no, and Garrosh offers aid

A Fairy Remembers - 47:07 - Calder takes a leap of faith and and fuses the swords

Demigod - 49:48 - Alexandrite expands into a giant mass of people

Escape from Smuggler's Bounty - 56:45 - Kenna inspires Calder by calling him Giant Heart

Escape from Smuggler's Bounty - 57:59 - Calder crits for the Ice Knife vs the zombies

Demigod - 1:00:42 - Alexandrite's turn

royalty free metal song - 1:02:21 - Sol Silvery Barbs on Alexandrite

Bahumia Theme - 1:03:39 - Calder opens the gate

Conspiracy in the Clouds - 1:08:59 - Licorice goes down, Calder falls

Spearmint & Tea Leaves - 1:10:09 - Calder falling, at peace, and Callie saving him

Bahumia Theme - 1:12:29 - Callie crits and kills Alexandrite

A Fairy Remembers - 1:15:58 - Alexandrite is defeated

The Fairy - 1:19:24 - Albin arrives

The Twinkling Lights of Galaderon - 1:22:16 - Calder + Gowan talk

The Posse - 1:23:19 - Gregor defending the town

A Tale's End - 1:26:16 - Celebration in the village

Home is Where the Hearth Is (instrumental ver) - 1:27:39 - Callie plays a fey song in front of the rift

Home is Where the Hearth Is - 1:31:28 - Emily sings us out!

Notes: The metal song at 1:02:21 is one that murph uses a lot for badass moments, so i'm calling it out even though it's royalty free New Song: Home is Where the Hearth Is (lyrical version, the instrumental was used in ep 57) Unlisted in the Credits: Mothership

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I was scrolling thru some of ur older beanstalked stuff and I think the whole concept of Vine!Jack is hella cool. Could u maybe recap the lore on him? 👉🏾👈🏾

Vine is basically just Jack but from an alternate universe where he didn't take as well to the news he was Bookmarked. He is basically the villain AU version of Jack. I call him Vine because it is a mouthful always saying "Evil Jack" and he has so much to him he also serves as his own character from time to time.

Some deep creation lore is that Vine kind of comes from the concept of the original fairy tale of Jack and the Beanstalk where the OG Jack can be viewed as a good guy or a bad guy. The Jack we have in Beanstalked follows the good guy approach since when I first read the tale as a kid, I always saw the original Jack as a protagonist. However, there's a lot of morally grey ground in that fable so many can easily view the fairy tale character as an antagonist and more of a trickster instead of a "good boy".

Deeper lore under cut

For the in canon lore of this AU, Vine is what happens when Jack is so fed up and angry with suddenly being forced into becoming Bookmarked that he just swallows the beans instead of planting them. This leads to the magic inside of them reacting with his body which nearly kills him. Thankfully, or unfortunately, Nevermore discovers Jack on his last legs and decides to help him under the condition he works for her. She gives him a real good sell on writing his own story and not abiding by the rules of some ancient omnipotent book.

Jack agrees and he is saved, resulting in him gaining vine abilities and even the power to grow beanstalks at will raging from small to massive. His eyes also shift to being his Slayer mode green by default.

With Nevermore acting in sorts as his fairy godmother instead of Oriana, the one we have in canon, Jack is a lot less of the oblivious goof we are used to and is more sly and up to a fight for the fun of it. He is willing to help others but for a price-whether it be gold, goods, or favors.

In this AU-Jack is one of the most dangerous members of Nevermore's little henchmen group because he is very tricky and his ability for controlling vines and giant beanstalks means he can literally change the battle field however he sees fit. He isn't completely heartless though as he still has some of the farm boy we know and love in him. Those he are closes to are the only ones who see his green eyes shift back to gold.

In this AU, his relationship with Nana is full of tension as he is a flirt towards her. She ain't with him being a smart ass but she does feel an allure to him when he is being genuine. She's about the only one who sees his softer golden eyed side the most.

#my art #vine #ask: vine #jack #ask: jack #beanstalked #ask: beanstalked

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talesaftertea · 9 months

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5. The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids

This week I am reading and reacting to the 5th Brother's Grimm fairy tale about a wolf attempting to eat a goat family.

We will see some questionable disguise choices, a game of goat hide and seek, and some family fun arts and crafts.

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An old mother goat has seven kids. She needs to go the forest to get food (what, is the store there or something?). She warns her kids that the wolf might try to eat them and he is a master of disguise except for his rough voice and black feet.

Sure enough, the wolf knocks on their door pretending to be their mom but the kids recognize his rough voice and tell the faker to leave. The wolf then eats a lump of chalk(???) to make his voice soft. (WHAT. Is this a thing?? I need to look this up…)

Continue reading on my website blog here.

#fairy tale #fairy tales #brothers grimm #fairy tale reaction #fairy tale recap #grimm brothers #the wolf and the seven little kids #goats #wolf

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nalyra-dreaming · 12 days

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Haven’t watched the episode yet but I saw that Armand and Lestat’s encounter was described as consensual by Armand. While in TVL (which I wasn’t able to finish bc life got in the way, hopefully will soon) from what I heard, it is literally described as r-word, as well in TVA.

And Lestat got so mad that he almost beated Armand til death.

I’m just…not sure how to feel about that?

... that will be in the next episode I bet, and I BET Armand will make that a little fairy tale version.

I think we will only get to the ... let's say "full" version in s3.

Because what we know already of this season is that they are not going to show the whole backstory, nor Armand's whole backstory (there simply is too much there).

And so what we will get now is Armand's recap, told for a certain effect. At this point in the interview that will be ... interesting^^.

#Anonymous #ask nalyra #iwtv s2 #iwtv #amc iwtv #interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire s2 #amc interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire amc #iwtv amc #lesmand #armand #lestat de lioncourt

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chosetherose · 3 months

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White Horse / Coney Island

Recap: Taylor sung a mashup of White Horse and Coney Island. She sang White Horse first then delved into Coney Island at the bridge which starts off:

Were you waiting at our old spot/ In the tree line by the gold clock/ Did I leave you hanging every single day?/ Were you standing in the hallway/ With a big cake, happy birthday/ Did I paint your bluest skies the darkest gray?/ A universe away

I don’t have to tell you all this mashup is loaded with symbolism at a time when the discourse here, within the last 24-48 hours leading up to the show, has been rife with frustration and disappointment.

White Horse is sort of symbolic of a savior failing to swoop in and save the day because it’s too late. Look what she has said about the song in the past:

"It talks about falling in love and the fairy tales that you are going to have with this person, and then there is that moment where you realize that it is not going to happen. That moment is the most earth shattering moment…I'm coming to this realization that this is not a fairy tale at all -- this is real life."

And many of us have said we think Coney Island is an apology song written to Kaylors.

So my gut reaction to this mashup makes me feel like it’s some sort of apology for not being our savior right now.

I must admit I was very busy yesterday and am not totally caught up on my feed. I understand the frustration in general though. It’s maddening to receive hints for years that something will get better but it never does. And then you realize that the people sending the hints probably knew this but wanted to keep you hanging on for their benefit. Now we are flooded with new puzzles to solve but our ears are still ringing from the boy who cried wolf so many times before.

I get that things behind the scenes are probably tangled to a degree we don’t even realize. But it stinks to be played with. We spend our time on here with love in our hearts.

If I’m not totally delusional and this Sydney N1 mash up really is some sort of message to us, I appreciate Taylor using her platform to connect.

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totally-not-here-for-the-smut · 9 months

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would love to hear how the M6 handle an apprentice with a hypersomnia disorder 💛💛 someone who struggles with a lot of excessive sleepiness but really tries to push through it

Oooh, thanks for the prompt, I love it! As you didn't specify the spicy level, I'll assign ♤♡◇♧ randomly to the characters

Cracking my knuckles because it's something that hits home// The spicyness key is ◇neutral/random/funny,♡romantic/physical affection, ♧fluff/light smut,♤big dongs

So here it comes ~~~

~The hypersomniac apprentice~

~♡~

As soon as you open up to her about it, Nadia has you treated for your sleep disorder right away. Julian is sent for, and he has your treatment started by having you to keep a diary to track your sleeping, eating and exercising habits, dreams, mood, and of course any periodic cycles you may have. When he gave you the little red-line notebook, you saw an idea twinkling in Nadia's eyes, but forgot to investigate further. Shortly after, you started noticing that the palace staff you interact the most all had a tiny jade-green, golden ruled notebook with them. You wanted to ask her about it this afternoon while having tea on the veranda, but you had one of your hypersomnia episodes. When you wake up, Nadia brushes your hair from your sleepy face, greeting you with a smile. "I hope your sleep has been refreshing", she says, "in the meantime, I kept some notes for you". She handles you one of those little green notebooks that is filled, to you surprise, with little useful notes about what were you two talking about it, your immediate future agenda, the time you spent asleep and a little recap of everything that has happened.

You meet her loving gaze, speechless. "I recall how embarrassing was to ask people to fill me in on what happened during my long sleep", she explains. "I felt so cut out on the world, confused and distressed". She brushes your hand. "I made sure you will never feel as lost as I did".

~◇~

You really did try to push through this episode. Lucio looked so caught up in the game you were playing, so genuinely happy. You didn't want to let him down... but you see, trying to push through hypersomnia is awful it truly is folks, worst thing and hardly possible. Your eyelids are heavy and your neck isn't holding your head anymore. You try to rest your head against the sofa to avoid the telltale head-falling...

...but when you wake up you realize it wasn't a good idea. The lights are down, the room empty, and Lucio...? Nowhere to be seen. Your heart shrinks with guilt. You will have to apologize to him.

"Not many people know this, but Lucio has troubles sleeping. Eventually, the weight of his deeds fell upon him, robbing him of his sleep. At the beginning he started using narcotics to fall asleep, but Julian caught him immediately and made sure to put a hasty end on the dangerous habit.

Now Lucio slips into your bedroom with some dumb excuse ("thought you wanted some water" "hey, I had this WILD dream" "I'm horny") just to lay with you as you fall asleep. Watching your serene face as you sleep helps him to soothe his sleepless nights and find some kind of peace."

If you weren't so worried about letting him down, you would have put the pieces together and understood why he let you sleep -why he always lets you sleep.

~◇~

Portia knows about it, and find it so damn cute! Being the little mischievous fairy she is, she always puts you into situations where you will have troubles staying awake. This includes

getting the two of you seat for the opera in Nadia's box -this means you're next to her- and exchange giggling gazes with Asra. The three of you are the perfect partner in crime, but little did you know that you are their favorite victim.

Going stargazing with you and Muriel -he tells the BEST constellation tales and she knows that you love them and would give the world to stay awake - but joke's on her this time, for Muriel adores when his voices coddle you to sleep

Inviting you gardening in warm afternoons after some rich lunch, where she has an hard times refraining from laughing at your attempts to resist the sleep.

Today though, you realize she's doing it on purpose. In your hand there's a bunch of drawings she did of your cutest sleeping poses -they're on napkins, reciepts, grocery lists and god forbid Portia is this book from Nadia's library?!

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I'll put the spicier ones (Julian, Muriel, Asra) in a reblog [THIS ONE] I'll flag as adult content :) you can alway find them from the Masterlist

Disclaimer: please remember that hypersomnia is a legit disorder that should be addressed by any means you have at hand. Don't get fooled by the "manageable" face it has: it may be caused by many underlying issues, from moderate avoidant anxiety to much more serious things. There's nothing wrong with choosing to live with it or thinking it's cute (i have it and i do), but if you do experience it, love yourself and investigate its causes! Remember, as an human being you're entitled to health.

#the arcana #the arcana game #nadia satrinava #nadia the arcana #countess nadia #asra the magician #arcana fanfic #julian devorak #the arcana smut #muriel arcana #lucio x mc #lucio morgasson #portia devorak #arcana muriel #muriel smut

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