#juliet grimm

[jellysmudge]

Do you think Nick has ever had to get a rabies shot from the amount of times Juliet tells him not to fuck around with the raccoons outside and how he clearly does not listen

#nick burkhardt #grimm nbc #grimm #juliet silverton #nbc grimm #juliet: why do you have scratches and bite marks on you #nick flashing back to trying to grab a raccoon after she told him not to: im having an affair

[swedishwatermelon]

my fave fairy tale/folk tale retellings:

thorn by intisar khanani (retelling of the goose girl legend)

the guinevere deception by kiersten white (retelling of the classic arthurian legend)

these violent delights by chloe gong (romeo & juliet retelling but in shanghai)

the book of lost things by john connolly (a mashup of many fairy tales in one world)

because you love to hate me by amerie (13 short stories from the villain's perspective)

sistersong by lucy holland (retelling of the folk ballad 'the twa sisters')

how to be eaten by maria adelmann (classic fairy tale characters in a trauma support group)

tangleweed & brine by deirdre sullivan (feminist retelling of princesses & heroines from the brothers grimm)

warm bodies by isaac marion (romeo & juliet except romeo is a zombie in a post-apocalyptic world)

cinderella is dead by kalynn bayron (retelling of cinderella but queer & feminist)

#fairy tale retelling #fairy tales #folk tales #brothers grimm #book reccs #book recommendations #chloe gong #these violent delights #shakespeare #cinderella #the goose girl #arthur pendragon #romeo and juliet #the twa sisters #short stories #merlin #literature

[theinnermostsanctum]

rewatching s1e1 and Nick is so chill when he starts “hallucinating” wesen.

He’s like: damn thats crazy anyways… gotta focus on my proposal✨💎

#S1E1 #nbc grimm #grimm #rewatching the grimm pilot #also how come i never clocked that hank calling him romeo was bc.. juliet

[junipum]

ayo just found evan peters in an episode of house (s5ep9) aka the hostage ep! ive found a few other actors from other shows over the years too hehe (charlie from spn, finn wolfhard, sean renard from grimm, the obvious lin manuel miranda, maybe a few more idfk)

#house md #gregory house #this isn't important in any way #i just thought it was interesting #also wasn't juliet from grimm also in an episode??? #i swear i remember her in a hospital bed that wasn't cat scratch related

[bookdork1]

its just that. i love every single main character. so. much.

#grimm #they're all so wonderful #monroe and rosalee and hank andnick and adalind and wu and juliet and i havent even gotten to truble yet and renard in his own special way #lol

[marchtothefuckingsea]

why are half of the people in grimm backstabbers

#eve #literally almost everyone has stabbed someone else in the back at some poi t #grimm #ands grimm ramblings #nbc grimm #talking about renard #and adalind #and juliet #whoops sorry i mean #and then that klaustreich hank kind of went out with #anyways basically everyone

[justmoreocs-writing]

‘I hate this,’ Wu complained, tugging at the headband Mickey Mouse ears perched on the top of his head.

‘No you don’t,’ S.J. practically sang, carefully winding her hair up into a messy bun. Her own costume of Cinderella before the ball was easy enough to source, and she’d even got a little dirt on her face from chasing down a suspect earlier in the day.

‘It could be worse,’ Munroe said, carefully tucking a pocket watch into his vest pocket. The white rabbit ears he was wearing brought a smirk to S.J.’s face. The White Rabbit had felt fitting for their resident clock fanatic, even if he seemed to be having difficulty seeing the funny side to it all.

‘Are people even going to know?’ Nick asked, slinging his satchel over his back.

‘I think they’ll realise we’re together.’ Juliette looked stunning as Rapunzel, the short dark wig she was wearing easier to deal with than the carpet of hair S.J. had originally suggested. ‘And I doubt many people go to this thing as Disney characters.’

‘Wasn’t that the point? To stand out?’ Rosalee asked from her seat at the table. In her blue dress and white apron, it was easy to tell she was dressed as Belle. S.J. had half wanted to suggest she went as the Beast, but didn’t think full Wesen for the party was a good idea; she’d barely kept the suggestion back, however.

A knock on the door drew all attention that way. It was only a cursory warning before Hank opened it and stepped inside.

‘Who are you?’ Wu asked, indignation obvious behind his voice.

‘The guy from Enchanted,’ Hank said, smoothing down the lapels of his suit jacket. ‘The one who asks about all the singing.’

S.J. scoffed and couldn’t hide her smirk. Perhaps she should suggest group costumes more often in future.

#Repost #Made By Me #Halloween Challenge 2019 #Grimm OCs #Childhood Promises #Police Officer Sarah Jane Jackson #Sarah Jane Jackson #S.J. Jackson #S.J. Jackson & Drew Wu #S.J. Jackson & Monroe #S.J. Jackson & Rosalee Calvert #S.J. Jackson & Nick Burkhardt #S.J. Jackson & Juliet Silverton #S.J. Jackson & Hank Griffin

[v-akarai]

References in Servamp

Arabian mythology

Jinn. Ch. 16

Greek mythology

Elpis. Ch. 75

Moirai. Ch. 108

Pandora. Ch. 130

Pygmalion. Ch. 123

Pandora's Box. Ch. 97

Japanese mythology

Gashadokuro. Ch. 129

Kitsune. Ch. 3

Raijin. Ch. 85

Norse mythology

Baldr. Ch. 39

Freya. Ch. 65

Frey. Ch. 131

Gleipnir. Ch. 101

Hati. Ch. 91, 131

Hod. Ch. 39

Hliðskjálf. Ch. 96

Idunn. Ch. 65

Loki. Ch. 15

Mimir. Ch. 29

Mjölnir. Ch. 53

Ragnarök. Ch. 101, 122, 131

Sigurd. Ch. 101

Thor. Ch. 41

Yggdrasil. Ch. 42

Biblical references

Abel. Ch. 8

Adam. Ch. 128

Boaz and Jachin. Ch. 42

Eden. Ch. 21

Eve. Ch. 1

John the Baptist. Ch.122

Lucifer. Ch. 135

Nod. Ch. 29, events

Hinduism

Asura. Ch. 57.5, 89.

Tarot

The Fool - Mahiru. Ch. 50

I. The Magician – Night trio. Ch. 41

II. The High Priestess – Mikuni. Ch. 42

V. The Hierophant - Shuhei. Ch. 77

X. Wheel of Fortune - Junichiro. Ch. 53

XII. The Hanged Man - Tsurugi. Ch. 50

XV. The Devil – Shamrock. Ch. 72

XVI. The Tower - Touma. Ch. 47

XVII. The Star - Iduna. Ch. 73

XVIII. The Moon - Yumikage. Ch. 69

Literary references

 "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Lewis Carroll. Ch. 3, 4, 7, 19, 98, 122. Misono, Lily, Dodo, Mitsuki, Yamane, Hattori, Mikuni, Bad B and Good B.

"As You Like It" William Shakespeare. Ch. 10, 38.5. Mikuni's spell.

"My Fair Lady" English nursery rhyme. Ch. 10 Mikuni's spell.

"Dracula" Bram Stoker. Ch. 12, 30. Hugh.

"Romeo and Juliet" William Shakespeare. Ch. 23, 34. Hyde, Ophelia.

"Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Ch. 29 Johannes.

"Through the Looking-Glass" Lewis Carroll. Ch. 29, events. Mikuni, Johannes.

"Julius Caesar" William Shakespeare. Ch. 23 Hyde.

"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Robert Stevenson. Ch. 23, 37. Hyde, Licht.

"Macbeth" William Shakespeare. Ch. 24, 31. Kuro, Saint Germain, Mahiru.

"Night on the Galactic Railroad" Kenji Miyazawa. Ch. 26. Higan.

"The Little Prince" Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Ch 30, 67. Kuro, Mahiru, Sloth demon, Gear, probably Jeje.

"Hamlet" William Shakespeare. Ch. 33, 34. Hyde, Ophelia.

"The Phantom of the Opera" Gaston Leroux. Ch. 36 Licht and Hyde technique.

"Peter and Wendy" James Barry. Ch. 44, 56, 74. Tsurugi, Touma, Mahiru.

"Ring a Ring o' Roses" nursery rhyme. Ch. 53 Junichiro's spell.

“Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens” James Barry. Ch. 53, 75. Tsurugi, Touma.

"Death in Venice" Thomas Mann. Ch. 55 Gilbert technique.

"Total Eclipse" a play by Christopher Hampton. Ch. 55 Rayscent's technique.

"The Morning of the Last Farewell" Kenji Miyazawa. Ch. 57.5 Tsubaki.

"Spring and Asura" Kenji Miyazawa. Ch. 57.5 Tsubaki.

"The Catcher in the Rye" Jerome Salinger. Ch. 62 Shuhei.

"Four and Twenty Blackbirds" Agatha Christie. Ch. 62 Shuhei's spell.

"Metamorphosis" Franz Kafka. Ch. 62 Shamrock technique.

“The Nighhawk's Star” Kenji Miyazawa. Ch. 62, 76. Shamrock technique.

"Rock-a-bye Baby" an English lullaby. Ch. 70 Touma's spell.

“Schlafe, mein Prinzchen, schlaf ein” lullaby. Ch. 70 Touma's spell.

"Who Killed Cock Robin" an English nursery rhyme. Ch. 70 Yumikage's spell.

"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" Lyman Frank Baum. Ch. 70, 88. Tsukimitsu brothers’ spells.

"Daddy-Long-Legs" Jean Webster. Ch. 74. Dark Night Trio, Touma.

"The Divine Comedy" Dante Alighieri. Ch. 118, 120, 121. Niccolo, Ildio, Gluttony demon.

“A Brute's Love” (人でなしの恋) Edogawa Rampo. Ch. 122 Mikuni, Lily.

"Coppelia" ballet Leo Delibes. Chapter 122 Mikuni, Lily.

"Salome" Oscar Wilde. Ch. 122 Mikuni, Lily.

"Turandot" opera by Giacomo Puccini based on the play by Carlo Gozzi. Ch. 129. Lily's technique.

"The Tempest" William Shakespeare. Ch. 131. Licht and Hyde.

"The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway. Ch. 134 Hugh.

"Flowers for Algernon" Daniel Keyes. Ch. 135 Hugh.

"Jane Eyre" Charlotte Brontë. Ch. 136. Hokaze.

"Madama Butterfly" opera by Giacomo Puccini. Ch. 136. Lily.

"Hansel and Gretel" the Brothers Grimm. Ch. 140. Faust and Otogiri.

Music

"Für Elise" by Ludwig van Beethoven. Ch. 34

"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by Johann Sebastian Bach. Ch. 125

Movies

"It's a Wonderful Life" (1946). Ch. 131

"Life is Beautiful" (1997). Ch. 131

I believe this list can be expanded. Somewhere I’ve written only chaps when some reference was mentioned for the first time and omitted all further mentions.

Special thanks to hello-vampire-kitty, joydoesathing and passmeabook, because some works wouldn’t be included in the list without their observations.

#servamp

[chickenstrangers]

I knew Our Skyy was gonna give us something to chew on with the architecture/engineering plays plot but this was so good!

I have talked extensively (too much?) about the Romeo and Juliet/Kwan and Riam framework in Bad Buddy, but the new plays fit really well into the themes I explored there. Bad Buddy uses two literary tragedies to explicitly create an optimistic and revisionist story of queer possibility and queer futurity.

The original show follows the story of Romeo and Juliet and Kwan and Riam (Plae Kao). As I wrote before, Bad Buddy uses multiple moments of crises (the outing, the gun shot, and the fake breakup) that specifically emulate these stories but subverts them so that tragedy is averted.

Most relevant for Our Skyy 2, the time jump between episodes 11 and 12, reflects a revised version of Juliet's faked death. While in the play, Juliet fakes her own death and Romeo is deceived, in Bad Buddy, Pat and Pran are both in on the trick, pretending to be dead (broken up) to the outside world while continuing to be together. So this is the moment in time where we find ourselves now.

But now we bring in two additional literary references (yes, one of them is P'Aof's own show, but I am treating it as a literary text in its own right). Both of these texts nuance the original Romeo and Juliet story line.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is a fairy tale. Unlike Romeo and Juliet, it has a happy ending, even in the Grimm version. But just like in Romeo and Juliet, it has a false death when Snow White eats the poisoned apple. Just as in Shakespeare's play, people believe her to be dead, putting her in a coffin.

If we take the time gap in episode 11 and 12 as the scene when Juliet has taken the poison and appears dead, these two episodes take place in a very liminal moment between life and death. Like Juliet, Pat and Pran give the appearance of death (that they have broken up), but they are both in on the deception.

The death motif continues into the Snow White allusions as well. They explicitly discuss Snow White's coffin, with Pran playacting as dead. The show is deliberately bringing focus to this part of the story. The four year gap takes place during both Juliet and Snow White's false deaths.

It's also significant how Snow White is buried. She still looks so alive that the dwarves cannot bear to bury her in the earth; instead they put her in a glass coffin. Here she can be seen in her state of death. The glass coffin is analogous to the glass closet that Pran and Pat are in. Many people know or at least strongly suspect that they're in a relationship. Even in the Bad Buddy finale, we see that the parents know even if they're not ready to acknowledge it yet. Pat and Pran are both Snow White, pretending to be dead, their false death on display.

And then we have the A Tale of a Thousand Stars play, which we learn is based on a true story and written by Tian, so presumably it follows the events of the show.

ATOTS is also not a tragedy, but it too inhabits a liminal space, playing with the idea of life and death. Tian nearly dies at the beginning of the series due to heart failure, but like Juliet and Snow White's, it is a false death.

Tian's story is about learning to live again, learning to not feel guilty for his life. He gets a second chance at life, but in his chest beats the heart of a dead girl. Throughout ATOTS, Tian's mortality is a looming question, as he keeps pushing himself harder than someone who just had a heart transplant really should. But being in the mountains is the first time Tian gets to really feel alive.

All of these stories are about death to an extent. Romeo and Juliet and Plae Kao end in both the lovers' deaths. Bad Buddy the series subverts these deaths, refusing to end in tragedy. Now in Our Skyy, we see Bad Buddy specifically aligning itself with stories that have happy endings. Even in this illusion of death, Pat and Pran are living.

I talked before about genre awareness in Bad Buddy, and especially episode 12 is about Pat and Pran taking control of their own narrative, choosing to not become Romeo and Juliet or Kwan and Riam. They break the fourth wall when they narrate in voiceover how they have been dating in secret. This is the exact same voiceover that is used at the start of Our Skyy! Pat and Pran get to tell their own story, subvert the genre conventions of tragedy and romance, and live their life as they want to.

And now we have Tian and Phupha telling their own story as well. Tian apparently wrote it down, and a central tension surrounds whether or not to give away the rights to their narrative, wanting whoever else tells it to tell it with care. Both these shows are about the characters taking control of their own stories, queering the narrative.

When given the choice about which stories to tell, which plays to put on, this time Pat and Pran don't want to tell a tragedy. They want to tell a romance.

#bad buddy #our skyy 2 #bad buddy meta #a tale of a thousand stars #our skyy 2 x bad buddy #thinking thoughts #a tale of thousand stars

[the---hermit]

Current reads.

26|04|2023

Last day of rest, today there would have technically been class, but I decided to skip and get one more day of rest. The professor uploads the recordings of the lectures, so I won't have any issues. I repressed my will to plan and think about studying for one more day, and starting from tomorrow I will figure out a new routine to fit this second half of the semester. Today before going to my therapist I went to the bookstore to look for a book that I did not find, and so I got Juliet Marillier's Daughter Of The Forest, which is a fantasy novel set in medieval Ireland inspired both by celtic mythology and one of Grimm's fairytales. I don't know much about this book, only when I got home I realized this is part of a series (I am going into this as if it were a stand alone, I don't have enough energies to be thinking about a new series tbh). The Irish setting and the mythology inspo was enough for me to pick this up. I also thought it might fuel me to do a bit more in terms of my Irish studies, so we'll see.

Productivity and self care:

slept in

read first thing in the morning

didn't procrastinate washing my hair

wore a nice outfit (and even got compliments on it)

had my monthly therapy session

got myself a new book

had a chill day

practiced Irish on duolingo (I have currently paused the new stuff to do a big review of all the previous units, and I think I will start scheduling more regular reviews in the future)

reorganized my tbr shelf (it was starting to be boring so I piled up some books and left others standing)

wrote the first draft of a reading challenge update

📖: The Lottery And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson (the last couple of stories I read didn't really work for me for some reason? Maybe I am just not in the right mood for short stories I don't know), Daughter Of The Forest by Juliet Marillier

#studyblr #studyinspo #uniblr #university #book #bookblr #currently reading #book cover #book spines #journal #studying #productivity #productive day #self care #knife gang #journaling #student life #mine #the---hermit

[jellysmudge]

I make playlists for songs that remind me of characters and this is mine for Nick Burkhardt:

#‘bbg’ stands for ‘babygirl’ #all my character playlists have titles and pictures that oly make sense to me #this picture is a screenshot from a jerma phasmaphobia vlog #not sharing the username cuz some of yall are MEAN about music #nick burkhardt #grimm #grimm nbc #nbc grimm #monroe grimm #hank griffin #sean renard #rosalee calvert #juliet silverton

[no-1-rosalind-lang-apologist]

What classic children’s books (like the magic tree house, box car children, babysitters club; etc) would the ss characters have grown up reading in modern day?

This is solely based on ones that I'm familiar with, and my mom didn't let me read a lot of very normal things for odd reasons. (Not bad reasons just odd. It's a long story.) So. Disclaimer. Also some of these are a little older this has mostly just become books that they would have read in elementary/middle school and liked.

Juliette: Not a book but she either hated Gnomeo and Juliet and said that Juliet stole her name or she loved it and was obsessed with it. As for books? Nancy Drew.

Roma: Wanted to read Rainbow Magic Fairies so bad but his dad wouldn't let him because his dad is a dick. Land of Stories maybe? Series of Unfortunate Events.

Benedikt: Spiderwick Chronicles. Frog and Toad.

Marshall: Animorphs. Also definitely a Percy Jackson kid. Goosebumps. Geronimo Stilton. Read Twilight at 11 or something and was traumatized.

Rosalind: Dork Diaries, Rainbow Magic Fairies. Sisters Grimm.

Celia: Horse girl books because I thought about it for some reason idk and I think she would have had a horse girl phase. Also the idea of her being able to read Melissa or something like that makes me very happy.

Alisa: Series of Unfortunate Events. City of Ember. Warrior Cats. I Survived. Artemis Fowl. Elatsoe.

Orion: Rainbow Magic Fairies, Fugde. Also anything Oliver read because he looked up to Oliver a lot. He read Magisterium in middle school and 100% thought Cal and Aaron were gay for each other.

Oliver: The One and Only Ivan (and various other horrible sad middle grade books that are really really good and make you cry). Also Alan Gratz books. Carl Hiaasen books maybe?

Phoebe: Deeply unfortunate KOTLC phase and was definitely a Linhella shipper. She and Silas were both weirdly obsessed with The Spider and the Fly when they were little and it freaked Orion out. She read Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World in middle school and was a sobbing mess.

Silas: I'm claiming him as a Magic Treehouse kid. Also Mr. Lemoncello's Library. Ivy and Bean. The Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus books made him irrationally angry. Also you cannot tell me that 7 year old Silas did not sit there meticulously searching through Where's Waldo books for hours. Series of Unfortunate Events.

#so what if i said all of the autistic people wouldve loved series of unfortunate events #sue me #chloe gong #secret shanghai #these violent delights #tvd #foul lady fortune #flf #juliette cai #roma montagov #benedikt montagov #marshall seo #rosalind lang #celia lang #alisa montagova #orion hong #oliver hong #phoebe hong #silas wu

[theinnermostsanctum]

i need more grimm episodes with juliet ✨ doing science 🧪 🧬 🧫 ✨

#juliet silverton #grimm #pls i wish the show would’ve had some more eps where she uncovered the science behind certain wesen #nbc grimm

[bookdork1]

i cant remember when hank and juliet find out about the grimm world and its driving me crazy, especially how in the dark hank still is lol. i really thought it happened like midway through season 1 but actually its not til the end of the season that hank even starts asking questions!

#and like i vaguely think juliet finds out after the poisoning thing???? but no thats not right bc renard is all manipulative and shit #i actually ahvent rewatched since season 5 aired which is when i binge watched seasons 1-4 #so going back and watching all the old ones especially is like whaaaaat i dont remember that! #like no one says the word wesen until ep 11!!!!! that's crazy! #anyways i love this show #grimm

[princesssarisa]

Comments about "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" that can and should coexist

I think these comments address every feminist complaint I've ever read about the 1937 Disney classic, though I don't know if they'll all be "addressed" in the live-action remake or not.

"It's an old-fashioned convention for a fictional young girl's dreams to revolve around romance, based in the outdated, patriarchal idea that love and marriage are what female lives 'naturally' revolve around and should revolve around. It's only appropriate that more 'modern,' 'feminist' heroines have different wishes and goals."

and

"For a lonely, abused orphan like Snow White, whose only apparent friends at the beginning are birds, it's perfectly natural that she should dream of love."

"Love at First Sight isn't realistic, to portray it in modern media is out of fashion, and in real life, it would be ridiculous at best and disturbing at worst for a young man to just notice a pretty girl singing alone in a courtyard and promptly climb over the wall and sing a love song to her."

and

"Love at First Sight is a storytelling convention, and children can see it in fairy tales without assuming it's real. It won't make your daughter instantly run off with a cute stranger. Snow White and the Prince's romance isn't meant to be realistic – it's a simple, old-fashioned, idealized Romeo and Juliet-style romance, and we should feel free to enjoy it as such."

"Modern feminism doesn't like damsels in distress. It's only natural that in today's media, heroines should show more strength in the face of danger than they did in 1930s media."

and

"It's perfectly natural for Snow White to be petrified with fear when the Huntsman is about to kill her – instead of, say, trying to fight back – and frantic with terror as she runs through the dark forest. Not because 'girls are weak,' but because she's so young. A boy in the same situation would have just as much right to be terrified. Besides, after her initial terror passes, she proves remarkably resilient as she comforts herself by befriending the animals and singing a song. Not all strength looks 'tough,' after all."

"The original Grimms' tale and the 1937 film's emphasis on Snow White's cleaning and cooking reflects an outdated, patriarchal model of ideal femininity. It's probably best for a modern retelling to at least slightly downplay it, or omit it altogether."

and

"There's absolutely nothing wrong with having a nurturing personality and favoring domestic skills, regardless of gender. It's perfectly fine that as an individual, Snow White enjoys cooking and uses songs and imagination to make housework fun. Especially because of the Cinderella-like life her stepmother forced her into – domestic work is the main skill that she's learned, and it's all she has to offer the dwarfs in exchange for staying in their house."

"The 1937 Snow White is a bit too much of a 'mother hen' to the dwarfs, in a way that arguably borders on ableism. In a modern reimagining, she should remember that they're her elders, not children, and give them due respect."

and

"It's endearing to watch Snow White cajole, gently scold, and tease the dwarfs, and to gain power over a household of seven men in her own soft way."

"As the Queen's only (step)child, Snow White is presumably the heir to the throne. Retellings focuses on her coming into her own as a leader, leading a rebellion against the Queen, and finally becoming queen herself in the end are valid. So are retellings where the Queen is only Snow White's regent and wants to kill her not just for her beauty, but to keep the throne for herself."

and

"Snow White doesn't need to be a leader and her storyline doesn't need to be political in any way. That's not what the tale is about."

"Someday My Prince Will Come isn't a modern feminist song, just like I'm Wishing isn't one. It's out of fashion for a heroine's dreams to revolve around romantic love. The emphasis on the Prince coming to Snow White also places her in a passive role, rather than letting her be active like a more modern heroine and search for him."

and

"Someday My Prince Will Come gets a bad rap. Snow White isn't fantasizing about a prince she's never met. She loves him already, and is singing of her undying hope that they'll meet again, even though it seems unlikely that they will. Nor does she center her whole life around her dreams of him. Apart from the song and her wish on the "wishing apple," she never even mentions him after their meeting: as much as she loves him, she doesn't waste time pining for him, but moves on with her life while holding onto her faith that they'll reunite. Nor can she go looking for him herself, because she's in hiding from the Queen, so of course she dreams that he'll come to her."

"Snow White is painfully naïve to trust the Witch, and to let her in the house and take food from her despite having been warned repeatedly to beware of strangers. This earns her no points as a role model. It's no wonder that modern adaptations tend to make her 'smarter,' and either (a) have the Queen take the shape of someone she already knows and trusts, or (b) have her know the apple is poisoned, but eat it as a self-sacrifice to save the dwarfs' lives or some such thing, or (c) rewrite the story's climax to cut the poisoning altogether."

and

"Snow White isn't stupid, she's just naïve because she's young, and the Witch takes advantage of her kindness and her love. Despite knowing better, she can't bear to refuse a frail old woman's pleas to let her rest in the house. Then when she's told that the apple grants wishes and will bring the Prince to her, when she's been dreaming of him so ardently and still has no way of knowing if they'll meet again, she can't resist. It's a fatal mistake, but aren't heroines allowed to make mistakes? Must she be a role model in every moment? Why can't it be poignant that the Witch takes advantage of her youthful innocence and tender heart to mislead her?"

"The trope of the male hero saving the heroine was overused and outdated long ago. It makes sense for a modern retelling of Snow White to find some way or other for Snow White to save herself."

and

"The Prince waking Snow White isn't a particularly glaring case of 'boy rescues girl.' It's just a matter of love conquering evil. The Prince doesn't do any 'manly' act of heroism; all he does is give Snow White a kiss that he doesn't even know will revive her."

"The Prince kissing the seemingly-dead Snow White's lips has earned so much controversy over the years that it should be no surprise when modern retellings avoid it."

and

"The Prince's kiss isn't 'necrophilia' or 'non-consensual.' He's just giving his 'dead' beloved a sad, affectionate farewell. In later movies, is Belle being 'necrophiliac' or 'non-consensual' when she lays her head on the Beast's lifeless chest while declaring her love, or is Elsa when she hugs Anna's ice statue form in grief? This is no different."

"The Queen can be seen as a misogynistic figure, first of all by vilifying a woman in power, secondly because petty vanity is her motive, and any possible sympathetic explanation for why she's so desperate to be the fairest in the land (e.g. because society ties women's worth too much to their beauty) is ignored. It's understandable that a modern retelling should try to make her a more nuanced figure."

and

"The Queen is still one of Disney's most terrifying villains, despite being the first. She doesn't need more 'depth' or 'nuance' to be an outstanding character."

"Snow White is a passive character in both the original Grimms' tale and the Disney film. She's defined more by what happens to her and how other people feel about her than by anything she does. So of course modern retellings will tend to find ways to make her a more active player and give her more agency."

and

"A character doesn't need to be 'active' or have constant 'agency' to be a good character. We push for heroines to have 'agency' because women have too often been forced to be passive and rely on men, but for an individual character, in and of herself, 'active' doesn't need to be the rule. In the Grimms' tale, Snow White is passive because she's more of a symbol of youth and beauty than a real person: the real (villain) protagonist is the Queen. And in the Disney film, where Snow White is more of a person and more clearly the protagonist, what she does is be warm, friendly, and full of life and joy. In this way she earns others' love, and love saves her life. For some of us, this is wish-fulfillment and central to the story's appeal. Snow White is threatened with the Queen's terrible hatred, but just by being herself she earns a bounty of love, and love proves stronger than hate."

#disney #snow white and the seven dwarfs #snow white #feminism #commentary #defense

[come-along-pond]

OC VALENTINES CHALLENGE 2024. day seven - february 13th. FORBIDDEN LOVE

Coretta June and Anakin Skywalker. I mean who was better for this than literal Jedi.

"I wish I knew you Back when we were both small I wish I knew you But I have gotten too tall" - sinner, the last dinner party

Romeo and Juliet, Maria and Tony, even Coriolanus and Lucy Gray– all star-crossed lovers who took a chance despite their love being forbidden. Today, we sympathize with those lovers that nobody loves (at least in the canon of their stories).

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