#little red riding hood sisters grimm

[wolfpropaganda]

okay now list for me the top 5 character in this series you love

OOOH I WAS JUST ABOUT TO ASK YOU THAT!!!

I will HAVE to provide justifications for some of these so all of them get em

The Wolf

I considered not putting the Wolf here, but then an apparition of my childhood self materialized and stared at me with profound judgement. I like the Wolf because it’s one of the most straightforward characters in the series, and it’s involved in some of the best character moments as well. It drives SO MUCH of the plot without even being there, and when it does show up it’s so entertaining! Best quotes methinks

2. Sabrina

Sabrina is an EXCELLENT character stuck in a cyclic story with no actual acknowledgment of her true inner conflict. She’s fundamentally a good kid, but is put in TERRIBLE situations that constantly traumatize her while DEMANDING her best behavior, and she’s eleven years old. I care her!!! I really appreciate how a lot of us agree she is good even if she didn’t always act that way, and deserves better than what she got.

3. Baba Yaga

look what do you want from me. she’s cool. an icon, persay. I like characters that throw other characters off their rhythm and force them to acknowledge what they ACTUALLY prioritize and fear. She also has some great quotes, and I just think it’s funny how she trapped everyone in Ferryport Landing but is SO scary nobody gives her crap about it. we’re told it took THIRTY EVERAFTERS to kill her in the bad future. GIRLBOSS

4. Red

she’s so brave and I love how she was so warm towards Sabrina and the Grimms even tho it must have been a scary situation for her. She might have actually been MORE heroic than Sabrina in the last book because she INTENTIONALLY sacrificed herself to a dangerous magical entity, just to save someone she’d known for like… a few months. I wish she hadn’t had to do that, but things would have likely been way worse if she hadn’t. She’s good and sweet and also a really interesting character.

5. Mr. Canis

I have complicated feelings about him. He has these moments of kindness and insight, but a lot of the time it feels like he prioritizes the wrong things. As a kid i liked how he took responsibility for his anger and seemed to at least partly see Sabrina for who she really was (an intelligent but scared child trying to defend herself). I think his core of always stepping in to protect a child should have gotten more focus than his self-and-externally destructive side.

#had to fight a large dog to post this #sisters grimm #sisters grimm mb #my faves #the wolf sisters grimm #the big bad wolf sisters grimm #sabrina grimm #baba yaga sisters grimm #red sisters grimm #little red riding hood sisters grimm #mr canis #the sisters grimm

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 1A! MATCH 6 OUT OF 8

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Queen Red Riding Hood:

She's a girlboss who is sometimes a little vain but still loves her friends and will do anything to save her kingdom. Also she was in love with a guy since she was like 8 and he continuously rejected her, and then she found out he was in love with her archenemy. So yeah, she needs this.

She's kinda spoiled and high maintenance but gets better. I just think she's a fun character

i loved the land of stories series as a kid and i especially loved red because shes sooo full of herself and wears beautiful dresses and expensive jewelry and stuff (she became a queen lol) but also she does come to genuinely care for people and her friends and has a good heart (even if she does brag about it) she’s a very funny character x)

She’s a great example of how sudden fame and wealth at a young age can go to your head, and she gets great character development about it. She has an entire giant chamber in her castle full of baskets (it’s unfortunately quite flammable). My most favorite detail about her is when she finds a wolf pup in the woods, she assumes it’s a dog and names him Clawdius (yes, spelled like that). Everyone else knows it’s a wolf but no one wants to be the one to tell her. She learns the truth and gets over it and now Clawdius is her guard wolf. (Oh also she had the original Big Bad Wolf made into a winter coat, and that’s the original reason Clawdius came to her) I love her, she’s married to a giant frog man, she got elected queen, please vote for her.

Red Riding Hood:

She tamed the Jabberwocky and calls it "Kitty". She calls the Big Bad Wolf her "puppy". She's kind of really creepy.

#red riding poll #round 1 #round 1a #queen red riding hood #red riding hood #the land of stories #chris colfer #the sisters grimm #michael buckley #little red riding hood #polls #character polls #poll tournament #poll bracket #battle of middle grade books. at least i think sisters grimm is middle grade idk

[samosisland]

🎃☆*:.｡. a very GRIMM halloween .｡.:*☆🎃

#the sisters grimm #sisters grimm #sabrina grimm #daphne grimm #puck goodfellow #little red riding hood #fanart #studio ghibli #thought of this last year but didn't finish it in time #happy halloweeeeeeen

[viknikisbae]

thinking about puck and his relationship with the grimms again, god i love them so much

thinking of RED and mr canis and their relationship with the grimms as well

#sisters grimm #sisters grimm mb #puck #relda grimm #jake grimm #jacob grimm ii #mr canis #little red riding hood

[somewhat-bored]

*gasp* The Sisters Grimm!!! I loved Little Red Riding Hood in that, didn't you???

Yes!

I don’t remember much of the series, but I do remember the one picture of Little Red in the third(?) book scaring me half to death.

I found her to be both sad and terrifying.

#the sisters grimm #little red riding hood #loved mr. canis too #if one of your guardians isn't a werewolf dedicated to keeping you safe #are they even trying

[fieldofdaisiies]

In Love With A Fairytale

for my two year writing anniversary I planned on doing something special and something a little different, which will now be acotar x Grimm fairytales. thank you @ultadverb for the initial idea and @autumndreaming7 for being such a great help in developing the story lines etc. 💛💛💛

✥ Sleeping Beauty (Elain x Azriel) 🦋

When exploring the garden, young Elain meets a to her unknown malevolent old woman and stings herself on a rose and falls into an endless sleep, there is only one person who can help her, a male borne of shadows and darkness. he comes for her, but can he save the young woman's life and win her heart? (for Elriel month)

✥ Hansel & Gretel (Emerie x Morrigan) 🌶️

On a search for food that takes Emerie and her brother to the forest, the young woman does not expect to instead of food discover a witch who is not only absolutely intriguing, but also nothing like Emerie had imagined a witch to be.

✥ 12 Dancing Princesses (Nesta x Cassian) 🌫️ 🦋

The three sisters go dancing each night, lying to their father. The father is furious and wants to find out their secret, young men from the kingdom are tasked to discover their secret but all of them fail. Until one man, Cassian, returns from war. He walks through the woods, is gifted with a cloak of invisibility and can so secretly follow the three sister. What he does not expect is that in his attempt to discover their secret he slowly falls in love with the oldest of them. 

✥ Red Riding Hood (Elain x Lucien) 🌶️

On her way home from her sick aunt when the sun already starts to set Elain stumbles upon a fox. What she does not know is that this fox is a beautiful man who wants nothing more than lure into his fox’s burrow, wanting to show her all the pleasures their night together has to offer.

✥ Rapunzel (Gwyn x Azriel) 🦋

Escaping her haunting past Gwyneth saves herself in a tower that is locked from the inside without a chance to enter. In order to pass her time there she reads and sings. Her song is so enchanting that a young man is drawn there and keeps returning to the forest, but will she let him enter? Will he help her heal and live again? Or will he be just another whisper between the trees?

✥ Cindarella (Eris x Azriel) 🌫️

Newly crowned King Eris wants to bring about change and reform in the Autumn Kingdom, after his father, the late King Beron passed. He knows he can’t do this on his own so sets out to find the one and holds a ball, inviting every nobleman and woman to a masked ball to celebrate the kingdom and to find his intended. Azriel, who barely sees the light of day, living in his father’s dungeon and being treated as nothing more than a servant in the family household, hears there is to be a ball and longs to go and get lost in the music of the evening. Little does he know what the future holds? (for Azris week)

✥ The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs (Feyre x Rhysand) 🦋

The king is looking to marry, and Feyre’s father would do anything to ensure his youngest daughter - Feyre Archeron - will marry King Tamlin. The king  wants proof that she is worthy of wearing the crown and bearing him heirs, and so sets her a quest - to steal the three golden hairs from the devil. Feyre sets out on her quest for the Hewn City, unaware that the devil is already waiting for her arrival. What will Feyre find in the Hewn City, will she be able to outwit the devil or will she have to strike a bargain to get what she needs to save her family?

#elriel #elucien #gwynriel #azris #nessian #feysand #emorie #acotar #acosf #a court of thorns and roses #a court of silver flames #acotar au

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

actual propaganda for mr canis: do not read the sisters grimm. it's Really ableist. like (spoilers) they think little red riding hood is crazy and evil because the big bad wolf traumatized her but actually she's possessed (?) by a demon (??) that makes her crazy and evil (??? it's never explained how it works) and then there's a magic kazoo that BLOWS HER CRAZY OUT. AND THEY KEEP IT IN A JAR AND NOW SHE'S A NORMAL LITTLE GIRL.

^

#asks #not blorbo poll #propaganda?

[geekcavepodcast]

The Grimm Variations Trailer

Brother Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected fairy tales and wrote them into a book. One day, the brothers where telling a fairy tale to their younger beloved sister Charlotte. With a melancholy looks she asked "Do you suppose they really lived happily ever after?" Charlotte's versions of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Town Musicians of Bremen, and The Pied Piper of Hamelin turn out to be quite different than her brothers'.

The Grimm Variations features a screenplay by Michiko Yokote, animation by WIT Studios, music by Akira Miyagawa, and character concepts by CLAMP.

The Grimm Variations hit Netflix on April 17, 2024.

#the grimm variations #brothers grimm #grimm fairy tales #michiko yokote #wit studios #akira miyagawa #clamp #netflix #TGCLiz #Youtube

[aspoonofsugar]

Yang's Goldilocks is Beautiful

Scathing eyes ask that we be symmetrical, one sided and easily processed. Yet every misshapen spark's unseen beauty is greater than its would be judgement.

The Yellow Trailer - like all trailers - foreshadows Yang's arc on multiple levels and it gives some hints on how our Sunny Little Dragon's allusion is used in her story.

To be more specific, Yang's trailer can be read in 2 ways:

The Yellow Trailer is Goldilocks and the Three Bears in a nutshell: Yang enters the Bears' turf (their house), asks about Raven and then trashes the place. She fights 3 opponents: the Malachite twins (red and blue, so too hot and too cold) and Junior (The Baby Bear). After all the ruckus, Yang simply jumps from a window and disappears, like her literary counterpart.

The Yellow Trailer also contains a super condensed version of Snowhite and Red Rose: The Malachite Twins play Snowhite and Red Rose, a pair of sisters that befriend a Bear. The Malachites use discarded designs of Weiss and Ruby and fight side by side with Junior, whose name means Black Bear. Their fairy tale should end with the Bear becoming a Prince with a Golden Armor. However, here comes Yang to take central stage. She plays the part of the Golden Prince herself and defeats the bear-curse (Junior). In other words, she enters the Malachites' story and makes it hers.

These 2 readings are complementary and offer 2 interpretative keys to Yang's allusion. The first is rooted in Goldilocks' plot and gives us the recurring motifs of Yang's arc. It helps us understand where we currently are in Yang's fairy tale and how much we still have to cover. The second instead adds a meta-element that gives Yang's Goldilocks an even deeper meaning.

Here comes the 2 reading clues:

Yang's Goldilocks motifs are the too hot/too cold (the Malachites Twins) and the Baby Bear/Just Right (Junior). To be clear: to reach her just right Yang has to go through her hot/cold sides and face her inner beast (the Baby Bear), so that she can emerge as a Golden Prince.

Goldilocks enters a strangers' house and tries to fit in. Well, Yang does the same, but with others' fairy tales instead. This is why her trailer is the only one with 2 fairy tales instead than 1.

You aren't convinced by this last point, are you? And yet, it is a very easy point to prove. Let's consider, for example, Yang's flashback in Burning the Candle:

Yang: I waited for Dad to leave the house, put Ruby in a wagon, and headed out. I must’ve walked for hours. I had cuts and bruises, I was totally exhausted, but I wasn’t gonna let anything stop me. When we finally got there, I could barely stand, but I didn’t care; I had made it. And then I saw them. Those burning red eyes…

This memory is clearly key to Yang's character to the point it can be considered the beginning of her story. So, it is no surprise it has some similarities with her fairy tale. A rebellious little girl wanders in the woods and finds a mysterious wooden house. The child hopes she will find a place for her there, but she discovers soon it is home to 3 scary beasts.

However, something feels odd. For starters, the 3 Grimms Yang meets are not Ursai, as one would expect, but Beowolves. Secondly, Yang does not run away, like in Goldilocks, but is saved by her Uncle Qrow, a model Huntsman. So, Yang disobeys Tai and goes alone into the woods, she is almost eaten by Beowolves and is saved by a Huntsman. This isn't Goldilocks and The Three Bears. This is Little Red Riding Hood.

Wait, what? What does this all mean? Let's start from the very beginning...

ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD...

Once upon a time, there was Summer Rose's daughter. She lived happily with her little sister and was protected from evil beasts, be them wolves or bears alike. Then, something bad happened:

Yang: Her name was Summer Rose, and she was, like… Super-Mom: Baker of cookies and slayer of giant monsters. And then… one day she left for a mission and never came back.

Summer disappears and is revealed not to be Yang's biological mother. This is a double-layered trauma. On the one hand Summer not coming home triggers Yang's abandonement issues. On the other hand the discovery of Raven's existence just make them worse. Not 1, but 2 moms left Yang. Then, it must be Yang's fault. By the time of her expedition into the woods, Yang is clearly facing these very complex and painful emotions, that get metaphorically explored through a short version of Little Red Riding Hood. Let's analyze it, by considering these 3 elements:

The Mother Yang is looking for

Ruby - the real LRRH - being with Yang

The Big Bad Wolves Yang meets

1 - Who is Yang really looking for? She is searching for Raven, but unconsciously she wants to know why Summer left. This is why the scenario resembles LRRH more than Goldilocks. Yang is a child that has just lost her mother twice - both physically and psychologically.

In her mind, this double loss materializes in the form of 2 distinctive mothers: Summer who is missing and Raven who is tormenting Yang's mind. Yang's reaction is to go hunting for both.

2 - Yang puts a sleeping Ruby on a wagon and starts her journey. The scene describes how Summer's grief was handled in Yang's family:

Yang: Ruby was really torn up, but… I think she was still too young to really get what was going on, y'know? And my dad just kind of… shut down.

Tai is absent because he shut down, Ruby is unconscious because too little to understand what's happening (or so Yang thinks) and Yang starts her lonely pursue while trying to take care of her sister.

3 - Yang meets 3 Bewolves with burning red eyes. Here is where Little Red Riding Hood starts blending with Goldilocks and The Three Bears. Hood meets only 1 wolf (2 at most in some versions), while Yang meets 3 at the same time. 3 like the bears of her fairy tale.

At the same time, the motif of the eyes is very dear to LRRH:

"Oh, grandmother, what big eyes you have!"

However, the idea of 3 beasts seizing you up as different and unwelcomed is really Goldilocks-like. In the original story, the 3 bears find Goldilocks in their house and immediately condemn her behavior and attack her. She is a stranger, an outsider. She shouldn't be there. She brings chaos in their symmetrical world:

Scathing eyes (scathing eyes) That see things from only one side

So, the wolves' scary eyes become the bears' judgemental ones and Little Red Riding Hood is degraded into Goldilocks.

Wait, why degraded? I have nothing against Goldilocks, but it is often considered an imperfect fairy tale with no beginning nor conclusion. Where does Goldilocks come from and where does she go after the 3 Bears? There is no answer.

Goldilocks lacks an objective and a drive:

Yang: At least you two have something that drives you. I've just kinda of always, gone with the flow, y'know? And that's fine, I mean, that's who I am. I wanna be a Huntress, not really because I want to be a hero, but because I want the adventure. I want a life where I won't know what tomorrow will bring. And that'll be a good thing. Being a Huntress just happens to line up with that.

She is not like Little Red Riding Hood:

Yang: I'm not like Ruby, she's always wanted to be a Huntress. It's like she said, ever since she was a kid, she'd dreamt about being the heroes in the books. Helping people and saving the day, and never asking for anything else in return. Even when she couldn't fight, she knew that's what she wanted to do. That's why she trained so hard to get where she is today.

Yang's transformation into Goldilocks, then perfectly describes our girl's interiority and self-perception. She feels wrong, incomplete and asymmetrical. She isn't Summer's daughter, but Raven's. She isn't Little Red Riding Hood, but Goldilocks. The flashback in Burning the Candle simply gives an origin and an explanation to this unconscious feeling of inadequacy:

Yang: There we were: A toddler sleeping in the back of a wagon and a stupid girl too exhausted to even cry for help. We might as well have been served on a silver platter.

Yang is almost responsible for Ruby's death. This is why the red eyes imagery appears and sticks with Yang from here on out. After all, nobody thinks of Yang as unfitting or different, but Yang herself:

She is at the same time Goldilocks and the Bears judging her.

HERE COMES GOLDILOCKS!

Goldilocks and the Three Bears makes up the meat of Yang's story. Once again, the Yellow Trailer tells us how to interpret this fairy tale. There Yang is looking for Raven, but finds 3 downgraded versions of her teammates. The Malachites are Ruby and Weiss (Red Rose and Snowhite), while Junior is a Black Beast, just like Blake. This brings 2 considerations:

Whenever Yang fails to find Raven, she discovers one of her teammates instead. In the Yellow Trailer, Yang finds Ruby. At the Branwen Camp, she meets Weiss. When Raven runs away at the end of the Haven Battle, there is Blake waiting for Yang.

Ruby, Weiss and Blake are respectively the too hot (red), too cold (blue) and just right (red + blue = purple) of Yang's fairy tale.

Let's explore these patterns up until now, with a special focus on the Mistral Arc.

YANG AND RAVEN: TOO COLD, TOO HOT AND NEVER RIGHT

So far, Yang has tried to find Raven 3 times, which can be seen as a set of too cold, too hot and just right.

Too cold - As a child, Yang goes alone into the woods, but she is too weak to fight the Grimms waiting for her. She can only stare back frozen in fear.

Too hot - In the Yellow Trailer, Yang has grown strong enough. A douchebag flirts with her? She catches fire and punches him in the face. However, she still lacks knowledge of Raven's whereabouts.

Strength and Knowledge are the 2 ideas Raven has built her whole persona around:

Cinder: You know, I've heard so many stories about you, Raven. They say you're a cunning leader, that you're strong, that you're clever.

This is why Yang too has to prove she is strong and clever enough to find her mom. Third time is the charm and, as the gas station called Just Rite lets us know, things are finally just right for Yang and Raven to meet.

Just right:

Shay: Seriously. Not too bulky. Not too lean. You're… Yang: Just right. Yup. Like I said, I'm good.

Everything looks perfect, doesn't it? After being told twice she is too young:

Junior: Aren't you a little young to be in this club, Blondie?

Just Rite Bartender: Aren't you a little young to be drinking?

Yang is welcomed by her mom, who is ready to tell her all the truths adults have been hiding:

Raven: But I must admit that you've proven yourself. So any questions you have I'll be happy to answer.

After the Strawberry Sunrise of the trailer (too fancy) and the water bottle of the gas station (too plain), Raven offers her tea (just right), adding she likes it hot (just like Yang herself). And yet:

Yang refuses Raven's cup and chooses to leave her mom just after finding her.

Why is that so?

There are 2 thematic reasons. The 1st is about Yang and Raven's foiling, while the 2nd ties with Goldilocks and the Three Bears in general.

1 - Yang is too selfless, while Raven is too selfish

Let's compare these 2 scenes:

Raven: I'm giving you a choice. Stay here, with me, and I'll answer all your questions and more. We can have a fresh start. Or…you can go back to Qrow and join Ozpin's impossible war against Salem, and meet the same fate as so many others.

Yang: Because you're afraid of Salem!!! And if you thought having Maiden powers put a target on your back, imagine what she'll do when she finds out you have a Relic. She'll come after you with everything she has. Or she can come after me.

Yang and Raven are offered a choice. Yang must choose between Raven and Ruby. Raven between herself and Yang. Yang chooses her little sister and puts Ruby's safety before her own wishes. Raven instead chooses to survive even if it means Yang may die.

The end result is apparently the same. Both Yang and Raven leave through a window (a portal), like Goldilocks. However, their choices reveal 2 very different takes on the character. To be more specific, Raven plays the Little Old Woman to Yang's Goldilocks.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears is, in fact, a recent rewriting of an old fable, where a Little Old Woman enters the Bears's house to steal their food. In this version, the intruder isn't painted as a charming beautiful child, but as a greedy burglar only interested in stealing from the Bears. This fits Raven, a bandit who attacks towns and leaves them an easy prey for Grimms.

At the same time, Goldilocks' fairy tale may be the evolution of the Little Old Woman's fable, but it is not the same story. Similarly, Yang is Raven's daughter, but she isn't like her mother:

Yang: I'm not like you. I won't run.

Yang decides to write a brand new version of the story, which doesn't follow Raven's narrative. She chooses to become a Goldilocks that doesn't run. Not a Goldilocks who steals out of selfishness, but one who steps in out of selflessness.

2- Goldilocks and the Three Bears has no fairy-tale ending:

Yang: All of this endless death, because something bad happened to you once upon a time?! Nobody gets a fairy-tale ending!

Goldilocks runs away in the woods and doesn't have to face consequences for her behaviour. Similarly, the Bears do not really have to solve the mystery of this strange intruder. Who is the child? Where does she come from? They don't know and they don't care.

Goldilocks is ultimately a story of characters that run away from difficult things. In this way, though, they do not evolve and there is no proper closure. The central problem of Goldilocks's identity and of where she fits is left unsolved. Ironically, the famous "just right" is never found:

This time it was neither too hot nor too cold. It was just right and so delicious that she ate it all up. But she was too heavy for the little chair and it broke in pieces under her weight.

Even when the porridge tastes good, the chair breaks and Goldilocks falls.

The same goes for Yang and Raven in volume 5. Yang initially struggles to see Raven in her complexity (like the Bears), while Raven eventually runs away (like Goldilocks).

Most importantly, though, they both get a chance to choose the other, but don't. So, even if both heartbroken, they never find their "just right".

TEAM RWBY: HOT, COLD, JUST RIGHT

Ruby, Weiss and Blake are Yang's hot, cold and just right. This doesn't mean Ruby and Weiss are "wrong" for Yang, though. In reality, all 3 girls are necessary for Yang's arc, starting with her recovery after the Fall of Beacon.

Ruby is too hot: in volume 4 Yang is defeated and depressed. Her inner fire is out, which is why her hair (her flames) is in a pony-tail, restricted. For better or worse, Ruby is the reason why Yang pulls herself back together. The determination to find and protect her little sister is enough to fire Yang up and to start her recovery. This is also why the song Ignite focuses specifically on Yang jumping in the fray to protect Ruby (her family):

Usually I devastate This time, might annihilate Any minute now You're gonna rue our meeting Messing with my family Means that soon you're history The moments of your life are fleeting

Weiss is too cold: in volume 5 Yang deals with a lot of inner turmoil and is very easy to trigger. Be it Raven or Blake, her eyes are quick to turn red with anger. The one who manages to cool Yang down is Weiss. She is at Yang's side at the camp and checks on her well being several times. Later on, she is the one that helps Yang see things from a different perspective when it comes to Blake:

Weiss: You're right though. I don't know loneliness like you do. I have my own version. And, I'll bet Blake has her own version too.

Blake is the just right: Yang's journey in Mistral leads her to Blake. She has to face her demons, overcome Raven and reach her inner "just right" (balance) to find Blake once again. At the same time, Blake herself spells out what the "just right" is in volume 6.

Not too hot:

Blake: Hey, I'm not leaving. And if we ever see him again, I promise I'll be there. And I'll protect you. Yang: What? Blake: What? Yang: Forget it. Let's just head back.

Not too cold:

Adam: Heh, do you really believe that? Or are you just trying to scare me away so you won't have to die trying to protect her?

Just right:

Blake: She's not protecting me, Adam. And I'm not protecting her. We're protecting each other.

Ruby gives Yang love, warmth and inspiration, even after Summer's disappearance. Weiss cools Yang off and teaches her empathy better than Raven. Blake is ready to accept Yang in all her vulnerability and strength. Her teammates are the place Yang belongs to. Three people that have welcomed Yang. Three kind bears.

IS THE MISTRAL ARC'S "JUST RIGHT"... JUST RIGHT?

Yang's arc up until now has been the search for the "just right" both inside and outside.

Inside: Yang has learnt not to rely on her Semblance too much. After all, Burn is nothing, but a metaphorical representation of the "too hot" of her fairy tale. This is why Yang has had to reduce its use in order to find her just right. On a deeper level, she has had to face her anger towards Raven and Blake to see her 2 loved ones clearly, in all their contradictions. She has had to tone her emotions down, so that she could let go of her interiorized "scathing eyes".

Outside: she has restored her bonds with her teammates that right now are stronger than ever. In particular, her relationship with Blake has been progressing and, after Adam, they have grown even closer.

So, is everything done? Can Yang reach her happy ending provided that Salem doesn't destroy the world? Obviously, the answer is "not yet".

On the one hand it is clear Raven is bound to come back into the story, so that she and Yang can have some kind of closure. On the other hand Blake's resolution to stand beside Yang no matter what is beautiful, but has not really been tested, so far.

By this, I mean that Bumbleby's focus in the Mistral Arc has mostly seen Yang be there for Blake and help her complete her arc through defeating Adam. Sure, this has been an important development for Yang as well, but Blake has been interestingly absent from Yang's personal subplots, that have instead seen a major involvement by Ruby and Weiss. I wouldn't be surprised if this tendency were to be changed towards the end.

Let's briefly consider the 2 instances where Yang's Goldilocks has been alluded to directly: the Yellow Trailer and the Just Rite scene. The 2 situations are clear paralles. Yang is looking for Raven and she wants something to drink. However, there is a difference:

Yang: Strawberry Sunrise. No ice. Oh, and one of those little umbrellas.

Yang: A water. It's hot out.

The meaning is clear. In both situations Yang wants to find Raven, but the first one is the "too hot" (no ice) and it ends with Yang meeting Ruby, while the second is the "too cold" (water to cool down) and it ends with Yang meeting Weiss.

So, there might still be a "just right" scene in the future that involves Raven and Blake. If this is the case, it may offer proper closure to Yang and Raven's mother-daughter's relationship.

Blake may play a part in this by assisting Yang. Alternatively, she might support Yang when she faces the true issue at the root of her struggle: Summer Rose, LRRH's mother.

After all, Yang's story starts with Summer's disappearance, so it only makes sense that it ends with her return. She left as LRRH's mother and is probably going to come back as the Big Bad Wolf in some form, at least in Ruby's story. What about Yang, though? She isn't Little Red Riding Hood, so which form is Summer gonna take in her story? Well, she may very well be the Cursed Rose that brings out Yang's inner Beast.

... AND THEN THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Blake and Yang are each others' Beauty and the Beast. Blake's name can mean both black and white, so she is both shadow (beast) and light (beauty). She is the Beast that looks for redemption and the Beauty that temporary leaves the Beast.

What about Yang?

She too is Beauty and Beast, with her duality easily found in her fairy tale. She is a beauty that burns (Goldilocks) and a wounded beast (the Baby Bear). In this way, RWBY solves the mystery behind the character of Goldilocks. Who is Goldilocks? Just another story's Baby Bear, a child whose place in the world has been threatened. A child who has been looking where to fit since then.

Luckily for Yang, Blake is ready to take her in. When her inner beast, which is nothing, but her vulnerability, comes out, Blake will accept it and welcome her in their shared "happy ending". After all, Blake's fairy tale is the opposite of Yang's. Goldilocks has no resolution, while Beauty & Beast has a "happily ever after" that needs 2 people to be meaningful. This is why meta-narratively, Yang looks for a fairy-tale that can fit her, while Blake wants someone that can complete her story. This is why they are perfect for each other. Together, they make a tale as old as time. As old as the very beginning of our story:

Black the beast descends from shadows. Yellow beauty burns gold.

YELLOW BEAUTY BURNS GOLD

Yang's presentation line in Red Like Roses foreshadows her happy ending with Blake. Still, there is another deeper meaning to it, which is probably going to be the main theme of Yang's arc.

First of all, Yang is built on the idea of "hot". Our pun-loving girl is herself a pun on "hotness":

You're standing too close to a flame that's burning Hotter than the sun in the middle of July

She is introduced as an eye-candy hot girl. Then she is revealed as a ruthless and hot-blooded fighter. This is the dualism Ember Celica is built on: they appear as a pair of bracelets that transform into explosive gauntlets. Is that the root of Yang's character? There is more, which becomes clear the moment Yang loses an arm and becomes "asymmetrical".

What does Yang's "asymmetry" stands for? Once you think at her fairy tale and semblance, it becomes clear: Yang is "too hot". This is why she loses her arm, as well. She explodes in flames when she should have stayed cool, and loses a part of herself as a result. This is why her development is essentially... "her cooling down".

This process is shown also through her Semblance. When Yang uses Burn, her hair catches fire and her eyes go from purple to red. The symbolism is clear: she is usually the "just right" (purple), but her semblance makes her "too hot" (red). Her own semblance is a metaphor for Yang's inner asymmetry and unbalance. This is why she is the only one among her friends that has had to reduce the use of her semblance, instead of developing it.

Still, Semblances represent who people are, for better or worse. This is why a development that ends with a character simply repressing their Semblance is not gonna work. Burn will most likely evolve and affirm itself again in all its "hotness", in all its beauty:

Neon Katt: Ooh! Flashy eyes! Y'know, you're actually kinda pretty when you're angry.

When Yang uses her semblance she is beautiful. That is not just a physical attribute, but a thematic statement. There is beauty in Yang taking in the trauma and using it to grow stronger and protect her loved ones. There is beauty in her showing her emotions instead of keeping them hidden. Sure, she must pay attention not to "burn out" nor to let anger blind her. Still, there is value in her asymmetrical "too hot".

And here comes the final twist on Yang's fairy tale. Goldilocks and The Three Bears is a story that celebrates the "just right", but never finds it. Yang's story has her discover the "just right" does not really exist and that in itself is good. Because there are not "just right" people and then the rest. Everyone is asymmetrical and complex. Weiss seems cold, but has a lot of warmth inside. Ruby is Yang's little sister, but also her competent leader. Blake runs away, but she is also braver than anyone else. Raven and Tai's relationship may be hot/cold, but it still generated Yang, who is the "just right" (her purple eyes mix Raven's red and Tai's blue).

As a child (Goldilocks), Yang feels she doesn't fit, but as an adult (Blake's Burning Beauty) she realizes it is okay not to fit. After all, she is beautiful (hot) precisely because she burns gold:

Crash and burn (crash and burn) Some lessons are just hard to learn Scathing eyes (scathing eyes) That see things from only one side Yet every misshapen spark Suffers the judgment and pain But just as light conquers dark There's a beauty that's greater Than pure symmetry can contain So let's start the game!

Yang is the "too hot" of her fairy-tale and that in itself is "just right".

#rwby #yang xiao long #raven branwen #blake belladonna #bumbleby #rwby meta #rwby theory #my meta #once upon an allusion

[adarkrainbow]

To complement my previous post, here is for example the kind of classifications the Delarue-Tenèze offers concerning the most famous French fairytales.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

Tale-type N°333 (Delarue-Tenèze). Corresponds to the Aa-Th type 333, "The Glutton (Red Riding Hood)". Also corresponds to the Grimm fairytale "Rotkäppchen".

The elements of the tale:

Step 1, the presentation of the heroine. Usually it is a little girl named "Petit Chaperon rouge" (Little Red Chaperon), due to her headwear ; but sometimes she can have another name, or not be named at all. The little girl goes to her grandmother's house (or to someone else's house) - sometimes she is sent there by her mother, other times she wants to go there but her parents refuse at first before giving in. The little girl brings some food to her grandmother - it can be butter, cheese, milk, a "galette", a cake, bread, or others.

Step 2, The encounter with the wolf. The little girl meets the wolf (or another type of animal, or a person). The wolf asks her where she is going, and/or which of two possible paths she will take. Either the wolf takes the path that Little Red Riding Hood does not take, either the wolf actually purposefully chooses to take the shortest path.

Step 3, at the grandmother's house. The wolf arrives at the grandmother's house, learns how to open the door, eats the grandmother, puts her flesh and blood aside, puts on her clothes, and hides in her bed. The little girl than arrives ; she also learns how to open the door, she says she is hungry and thirsty, the wolf tells her to eat "meat and wine" (the flesh and blood of the grandmother). She eats and drink but either an animal or a voice tells the little girl what she is consuming. The little girl says that she is cold and/or sleepy. The wolf tells her to go to bed, the little girl undresses and asks where she must place each piece of clothing - the wolf tells her to throw the clothes in the fire - the little girl goes into the bed. The little girl expresses her surprise concerning the great arms, the great legs, the great ears, the great eyes, the hairy body (and potential other body parts), and finally the great teeth. The last answer of the wolf is always "The better to eat you", and it devours the child.

Step 4, the little girl flees, the wolf dies. If the wolf does not devour the child, the little girl rather asks to get out (usually to perform a "natural need", she leaves the house but attached by a string - she sets herself free from the string and goes home. If the tale continues, the wolf will hunt her down, and almost catch her before she gets home. And then, the wolf can be killed.

Commentary:

On all the versions collected, twenty oral versions do not have any relationship with any known literary or printed version of the tale. Two versions are basically copies of Perrault's tales that "returned to the tradition", and became once more oral tales thanks to the mass diffusion of the story ; and a dozen of them are actually mixed versions using both Perrault-inherited elements and elements from the "untouched" versions.

All in all, the "independant" or "mixed" versions, which clearly inherit from the original, pre-Perrault format of the tale, are located in a same geographical zone, between the Loire and the north side of the Alps - and going as far as North Italy and the Tyrol. All other versions are clearly inspired by or inheriting from Perrault's literary version - or from the version of the brothers Grimm. But the brothers Grimm version is itself nothing more than a descendant of Perrault's fairytale: comparing the two stories show the same additions, the same omissions, the same little details. On top of that, the source of the Grimm for their "Little Red Cap" was a woman of French descendant who mixed in her fairytales French and German traditions - she and her sister notably gave the brothers three more Perrault fairytales, and one fairytale by madame d'Aulnoy, which were included in the first edition of their work before being later deleted. If the brothers Grimm kept "Little Red Cap", it is because the modified ending, different from Perrault's made them believe it was a more Germanic version of the tale - in truth however, it is simply a copy-paste of the ending of an actual German fairytale, The Wolf and the Seven Goats/The Goat and the Seven Kids. Outside of the Grimm's text, "Little Red Riding Hood" is not actually part of the German oral tradition. By extension, this disproves all the interpretations of the "little girl escaping the wolf's belly" claiming it to be some sort of primitive motif predating Perrault.

By looking at the oral versions not influenced by Perrault, we notice for example that the red cap/red bonnet/red cape/red headwear of the little girl is a Perrault addition, that was not present originally. Again this disproves many interpretations of Little Red Riding Hood - such as those claiming the red cap means she is the embodiment of dawn, or the "queen of may". In fact, in many versions the little girl is not describe, and left unnamed.

The folk versions predating Perrault have the wolf ask the little girl "Which path do you take? The one of Pins or the one of Needles?". Variations exists: in langue d'oc versions (Southern France dialect) the choice is between the "path of small stones" and the "path of small thorns", and in Tyrol "the path of briars or the path of stones". However the question "Pins or Needles" stayed so strong and popular that in many post-Perrault versions, that basically copy-paste Perrault's text, the question was reintroduced (despite Perrault erasing it). The folkloric and popular versions are also deeply marked by the episode of the flesh and the blood offered as a meal to the little girl, with some cruel and gruesome variants - such as how sometimes the teeth of the grandmother stay within the meat, and the wolf has to explain them (in the Tyrol, the wolf says "it's rice", in the Abruzzes, the wolf says "it's beans").

Finally, most of the popular and folkloric versions of the tale end just like Perrault's version, with the wolf devouring the girl - with the rare exceptions of a version from the Morvan and another from the Amognes, which present a "happy ending": the little girl, understanding she is sharing the bed of a monster, pretends she needs to relieve herself outside. The monster lets her go out with a string or roped attached to her body, but once she is outside she sets herself free and flees.

CINDERELLA

Tale-type N°510 A (Delarue-Tenèze). Corresponds to the Aa-Th "Cinderella" type. Also corresponds to Basile's La gatta cennerentola, and Grimm's Aschenputtel, and Madame d'Aulnoy's Finette Cendron.

Elements of the tale:

Step 1, the persecuted heroine. The heroine has either one or two or several half-sisters/sisters, who are ugly and/or wicked. The heroine is mistreated by her stepmother, or by her own mother. The heroine always stays in the ashes of the hearth/is forced to do all the dirty work. The heroine is thus usually called "Cinderella" or a variation of this name ; though sometimes she has a different name, or no name at all.

Step 2, The magical help.

The heroine receives help from a benevolent being. The heroine will usually receive from her father, an object. Sometimes she asked for it, sometimes she did not, but her father stills gives her the object after he gave to her sisters/half-sisters what they asked. The Cinderella-character receives a magic wand, or a nut, or an almond, or a hazelnut. After this, the Cinderella-character stays at home while her sisters/half-sisters go to the ball or the mass, sometimes wearing the gifts of their father. Sometimes the heroine is told to stay home, or pretends to prefer staying home ; many tmes she is given an impossible task such as separating enormous amounts of grain or weaving too much thread. Sometimes the heroine has to keep an animal or some cattle.

If there is an "impossible task" at play, the heroine will be helped in these tasks by the benevolent being - or the tasks will be performed when she isn't here by the being. The being can be a fairy, or the Virgin Mary, and/or the girl's godmother. Other times, it is an animal that acts to reward the kindness of the heroine, and sometimes the "help" is simply the magic wand the girl received. If there is no "impossible task" at play, we jump straight to the heroine receiving from the benevolent being/creating with the magic wand/finding inside the received fruits, one or several magical dress. The dress can be "the color of the sun", or "the color of the moon", or "the color of the stars" or "the color of the sky", or "the color of night", or any kind of other color. And/or a whole carriage will come with it.

Step 3, encountering the prince. The heroine goes with her new gifts to the ball or the mass - she can go there only once, or twice, or three times (never four). The prince only has eyes for her and/or only dances with her, but sometimes she must go back before a determined hour. Once back home, the girl's sisters/halfsisters/step-mother/mother tell her of the "beautiful woman". Sometimes the heroine answers that the girl was just as beautiful as her, and is punished for this ; other times she claims she is happy for them, but couldn't see any of it since she is locked at home. Finally, after staying too late at their last encounter, the heroine loses while fleeing (or the prince/its guards steal from her) a shoe or a slipper made of glass or gold. The shoe is either given to the prince, or he picks it up himself, whle all the beautiful clothes of the heroine disappear and become rags.

Step 4, proof and wedding. The prince decides he will only marry the girl whose feet fits the shoe or slipper and thus either organizes a new ball to find her, or has all the women in the kingdom try it. After having been tried by all girls, and/or by the heroine's sister-figures, the shoe does not fit anyone (or does fit, but only by the women mutilating their feet). However, despite the objections of her sisters/mother/step-mother, the heroine also tries on the shoe, which perfectly fits her. She is thus recognized - or maybe she needs to show the other shoe - or maybe she needs to put on the beautiful clothes that go with the shoe.

If the step-mother/bad mother tries to substitue her own daughter to the heroine, the trick will be deounced, either by a little dog, either by a bird, and the prince will be informed that the heroine was hidden or trapped, in a vat or in a chest. Finally there is a happy marriage, and sometimes the sisters are forgiven - other times with the mother too.

Commentary:

I cannot actually give you the commentary here because Delarue and Tenèze decided to write a common commentary between three fairytale-types they deemed to be so much interwoven and intertwined it was hard to split them apart. Cinderella (510A), Donkey Skin (510B) and "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes" (511). Maybe if people want me to share it I'll do it one day, but for now I'll stay short and simple.

PUSS IN BOOTS

Fairytale-type N°545 (Delarue-Tenèze). Corresponds to Aa-Th "The Cat as Helper". Also corresponds to Straparole's "Constantine the Fortunate" and Basile's "Gagliuso".

Elements of the fairytale:

Step 1, the hero and his animal. The hero is a young poor man, a miller's son who owns a cat or received it as an inheritance by his dying father/mother, while his two older brothers got a better heritage. Or, the young man has as a neighbor a fox which is constantly eating his chickens.

Step 2, the animal at the king's. Seeing his master disappointed by his situation, or trying to thank the hero for being charitable, the animal captures various beasts, at different times, through various tricks (it can use a bag filled with food as a bait, or convince the animal that it will have a golden tail if it follows the cat to Paris). The animal than offers the animals to the king, as a gift from his master, that he names. The animal is rewarded, but refuses all reward for his master, who would have "no use of it". The animal then convinces the hero to follow him and undress, to throw himself into a river, and the animal might scratch its master. The animal calls the king out to help its master, pretending he was robbed. The king saves the master, has him dressed up, and sometimes offers his daughter as a bride.

Step 3, the domains of the hero. As the king and the princess want to see what the hero owns, the cat/fox goes before them and convinces reapers, shepherds, plowmen, etc... to claim that the fields, meadows, cattle, etc... belong to its master, under threat of abuse. Arriving at a beautiful castle, the animal persuades the inhabitants to save themselves from the king and his approaching army by hiding, sometimes in an oven, most of the time in a pile of hay. The animal then sets fire to the hay, pretending to create a bonfire, or to get rid of a rat infestation. Other times, the animal convinces the castle inhabitant(s) to use their shapeshiftng power, to turn into an animal as small as a mouse, that the cat devours. The cat's master becomes the owner of the castle, and gains the princess in marriage.

Step 4, the ungratefulness of the hero. The cat is promised a beautiful grave after its death, and to test its master pretends to be dead. The master then carelessly throw the "corpse" outside, and the animal denounces its master's ingratitude. If the story goes on, the animal plays dead a second time, and this time it is given a beautiful grave - but as a result, the animal ends up buried alive, unable to escape its own tomb (or not being allowed out of it).

Commentary:

The fairytale of "Puss in Boots" is actually a very popular and widespread fairytale all across Europe, and which reached countries such as Siberia, and India, from which it reached Indonesia and the Philippines. In France, while all the versions where the animal is a cat are influenced by Perrault, there are alternate, purely oral versions where the animal is a fox. These versions notably have a very "pretty" motif of the fox being golden, and tricking the animals it hunts by offering to make their tail golden. The "cat version" is only found in half of the French and Italian versions of the tale, and in a handful of Nordic ones, while the fox version is, beyond France and half of Italy, also found in Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Finland, Turkey, Mongolia, Russia and more.

Paul Delarue was of the opinion that Basile's version did not influence Perrault's text - however he did believe that the tale of Straparola had influenced Perrault's version, due to Straparole's fairytales having been translated in French between 1560 and 1572, and being well-known by Perrault's time. Despite the title of the type being "Puss in Boots", thanks to the enormous success of Perrault's version, the idea of the cat wearing boots seems to have been invented by Perrault and to not have existed before him.

The ending of Perrault's Puss in Boots, where the cat devours the transformed ogre, also seems to be an addition, or rather a "contamination" by other fairytales. It was influenced by the ending of the fairytale-type 325 "The Wizard and his apprentice", in which an apprentice sorcerer turned into a fox eats his master, turned into a seed. It seems to have also been inspired by the folk motif of the type 331, "The spirit (or the devil) in the bottle", in which a hero dares a genie or devil to turn into a small animal, and once it does so traps him in a bottle or a small container. By comparative study, the version of the tales where the cat gets rid of the castle's inhabitants by hiding them in a pile of hay to which it sets fire seems to be the "original" one, since it is found in identical ways across separate areas with strong cultural differences, and not printed source to have influenced them.

The added epilogue of the cat/fox dealing with its master's ingratitude is present in Basile's version, and characterizes some Turkish variants. As a final note, European versions have an habit of always inventing very fantastical, ridiculous or weird names for the master of the cat/fox.

#fairytales #fairy tales #fairytale analysis #delarue-tenèze #french fairytales #puss in boots #cinderella #fairytale classification #little red riding hood

[dykesynthezoid]

Also. Neverafter has quickly reminded me of my childhood Sisters Grimm obsession. Esp bc of Ylfa. The way it was handled in those books was kind of sanist, but still, 10 y old me got to read about red riding hood being an angry fucked up insane little werewolf girl in a children’s series and I’m so grateful

#red was and is my babygirl. #neverafter #dimension 20 #the sisters grimm #ylfa snorgelsson

[wolfpropaganda]

Red!

i'm still not quite sure how digital art works but Man I Like Colors. I've been pretty satisfied with their design for months, but it's tricky to transfer something into a different medium, especially when I'm new to it and I intentionally chose a weird pose and color scheme. Anyways, this is my take on Red! This design was made with comics in mind, and it comes with some changes to the character (because certain things don't work as well in a comic medium as they do in the written word, and personal choice). I'm not a fan of the "mental illness makes them evil" trope, so this version is more of a traditional possession scenario. This makes them more of an intentional villain, with logical motivations, but for ~reasons~ they still put on a facade of irrationality (which I think would up the drama in their interactions with Sabrina because she's definitely smart enough to catch on). I also thought it was weird how everyone was afraid of the original Red because she's... a mentally ill child? that seems to be a personal buckley thing. So I made this version an actual magical threat. It makes sense to me because we know they have a relative with magical ability, and I think I made a good choice for what kind of powers I gave them... but this post too big so I'm going back to my cave. might post about it later

#sisters grimm mb #sisters grimm #sisters grimm fanart #sisters grimm spoilers #red sisters grimm #little red riding hood sisters grimm #little red riding hood #character redesign #sisters grimm au #advice welcome because my current digital art methods are unhinged #krita

[4rainynite]

EAH Dorm Rooms Headcanon 7

Cedar & Cerise

Two righteous and creative Rebels coming up!

Cedar and Cerise are Rebels due to despite both having a "happily ever after", Cedar believes in and choice and knows most don't want to follow the road laid out for them, and Cerise is living proof that Headmaster Grimm's rules are nothing but a pile of lies. Both girls want to be true to themselves, making them perfect roommates.

Both girls found creative ways to express themselves, Cedar through her artwork and Cerise through sports. But, Cedar has participated in swimming activities in the books and Cerise loves to bake on her free times. So both teach each other a new thing about their hobby (they should've had Cedar painting with Cerise in the above image).

When Cerise and Cedar were getting fairest those were the only times we saw their rooms, layout of their dorm seems similiar to Lizzie and Duchess's. After rereading the books, I did get an idea of what their dorms may look like.

Cedar's side: Despite being the next Pinocchio Cedar can't lie. As an artist she uses her crafts to express herself.

This is the only image of Cedar's side we ever got in the show. Cedar appears to have a canopy bed and a double vanity that she lets Cerise use.

In the books Cedar is usual covered in paints fromher projects so it wouldn't surprise me if her walls, floor, and furniture had little paint fingerprints on them.

I can see Cedar bringing her own furniture from home or painting over the ones she's got from throne furnishing or thrift stores. Everything has a woody texture or has wood designs on it.

Cedar loves to paint, sketch, puppetry, etc. So, she most likely keeps her art supplies in her room. In the books it said she had a paint box where she keeps her paints and an easel.

Also, seeing how Cedar is a puppet her paints, sandpaper, and etc count as her beauty supplies.

Apperently, Cedar (and Blondie) were supposed to have jewelry boxes like Apple and Raven but were never made. It’s very artsy and it's a shame it was never made.

I can see Cedar framing her artwork on her side of the dorm. Having polaroid pictures of her family, friends, and etc hanging on acorn-shaped fairy lights. And a trash can full of sawdust from her projects and herself.

Cerise's side: As the future Red Riding Hood (and Big Bad Wolf), Cerise has two sides to her that are rarely shown, except to the people she trusts.

This is the only image of Cerise's side we ever got in the show. From what is shown Cerise has a deep woods nature theme to her room.

I do believe Cerise has a canopy bed, but it does not resemble the one in the second image.

With Cerise on many sports teams, she most likely has workout equipment like running shoes, weights, a yoga mat, etc.

Cerise would definitely have a dream catcher like her cousin Ramona (I know they're sisters in the show, and I'll explain why I made them cousins in another headcanon), also I think Cerise has Native American roots in her and is used to reflect her culture.

The middle flooring, wallpaper, and the second curtains are Cerise's.

In one of the quizzies on the website it said that Cerise's side of the room is most likely messy.

Once Cerise's wolf side is revealed she'll add more wolf motifs to her room (we saw that wolf painting). It won't be a wolf cave like Ramona's, but it would be a mixture of both worlds.

I don't know why, but I can picture her with a mini fridge with filled with energy drinks, jerky (can you put jerky in a fridge?), and her mother's pastries.

Also, Cerise travels via shadows so she might rarely use the door to her dorm. At first this freaked Cedar out, one moment she was somewhere else in school the next she's back in there dorm.

EVERAFTERROYAL @darth-alinart, @teatime-with-maddie @everafterhighcaps EAHWIKI ROYALREBELWIKI

#ever after high #eah #everafterhigh #ever after rebel #cerise hood #cedar wood #dorm room #my art

[megansanimelist]

Everything Else

Bartender: Glass of God

At Eden Hall, each glass has a story. A quiet bar lies tucked away in the streets of Tokyo, and it seems only the most desperate souls burdened by their own troubles manage to find its doors. But after a glass of God poured by the brilliant bartender Ryu, they leave renewed. Ryu has a gift—he knows how to soothe the soul with the perfect drink. Who will he meet next? (LiveChart)

Mysterious Disappearances

Sumireko Ogawa is a busty bookstore clerk who wants to become a novelist after some writing success in her youth. When strange occurrences start cropping up around the city, she teams up with her flirtatious co-worker Ren Adashino to look into them. But Ren is hiding a secret of his own! With their combined skills of occult knowledge, what will they discover as they investigate? (MyAnimeList)

Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master

The story is set in an alternate world called Yamauchi, ruled by the Yatagarasu clan, who are able to transform between human and crow forms. Yukiya, a beautiful and eccentric Yatagarasu boy, is chosen to serve the young prince. While encountering various events in the conspiracy-filled imperial court, he forms a strange master-servant relationship with the young prince. (MyAnimeList)

The Grimm Variations

Once upon a time, brothers Jacob and Wilhelm collected fairy tales from across the land and made them into a book. They also had a much younger sister, the innocent and curious Charlotte, who they loved very much. One day, while the brothers were telling Charlotte a fairy tale like usual, they saw that she had a somewhat melancholy look on her face. She asked them, "Do you suppose they really lived happily ever after?"

The pages of Grimms' Fairy Tales, written by Jacob and Wilhelm, are now presented from the unique perspective of Charlotte, who sees the stories quite differently from her brothers.

Episode 1: Cinderella

Episode 2: Little Red Riding Hood

Episode 3: Hansel and Gretel

Episode 4: The Elves and the Shoemaker

Episode 5: The Town Musicians of Bremen

Episode 6: Pied Piper of Hamelin

#the Raven anime ISN'T gay??? #won't stop me from pretending these pretty boys kiss each other #Bartender is super chill #I fell asleep watching it #which doesn't say much bc I fall asleep watching anime often lol #Mysterious Disappearances is interesting? ep 2 will have to impress me to keep it from getting dropped #also RIP the main character's spine from the 2 watermelons attached to her chest #Grimm Variations on Netflix is SO GOOD #episode 1 kept me so engaged and on the edge of my seat #spring 2024

[fairytale-poll]

Red Riding Poll Tournament Bracket!

Round 1:

Bugs Bunny (Windblown Hare) (Looney Tunes) vs. Aku (Samurai Jack)

Little Red Riding Hood (Monty Python) vs. Red Puckett (Hoodwinked!)

Red (Revolting Rhymes) vs. Little Red Riding Hood (Smile Precure)

Amy Lee (Evanescence) (Call Me When You're Sober MV) vs. Red Hood (Once Upon a Time in Space)

Akazukin (TAISHO x Alice) vs. Red Riding Hood (SINoALICE)

Queen Red Riding Hood (The Land of Stories) vs. Red Riding Hood (The Sisters Grimm)

Cerise Hood (Ever After High) vs. Little Dead Riding Hood (Clawdeen Wolf) (Monster High: Scarily Ever After)

Scarlet Benoit (The Lunar Chronicles) vs. Valerie (Red Riding Hood)

Little Red Ridinghood (Into the Woods) vs. Jenny (In the Forest, She Grew Fangs)

Little Red Riding Hood/Little Red Cap (Original Fairytale) vs. The Path sisters (i.e. Scarlet, Carmen, Ruby, Ginger, Rose, Robin) (The Path)

Ylfa Snorgelsson (Dimension 20: Neverafter) vs. Little Red Riding Hooded Mercenary (F-01-57) (Lobotomy Corporation)

Ruby Rose (RWBY) vs. Ruby Lucas (Once Upon a Time)

Yuyuko Tanaka (Shojo Kageki Revue Starlight) vs. Velouria (Fire Emblem Fates)

Akazukin (Otogi-Jushi Akazukin) vs. Elvira & Arabelle (Guardian Tales)

Chacha (Akazukin Chacha) vs. Grimm (The Hunters Guild: Red Hood)

Lisette (Ludwig Revolution) vs. Scarlet (The Red Hood)

Round 2:

Bugs Bunny (Windblown Hare) (Looney Tunes) vs. Red Puckett (Hoodwinked!)

Little Red Riding Hood (Smile Precure) vs. Red Hood (Once Upon a Time in Space)

Red Riding Hood (SINoALICE) vs. Queen Red Riding Hood (The Land of Stories)

Cerise Hood (Ever After High) vs. Scarlet Benoit (The Lunar Chronicles)

Little Red Ridinghood (Into the Woods) vs. Little Red Riding Hood/Little Red Cap (Original Fairytale)

Ylfa Snorgelsson (Dimension 20: Neverafter) vs. Ruby Rose (RWBY)

Yuyuko Tanaka (Shojo Kageki Revue Starlight) vs. Akazukin (Otogi-Jushi Akazukin)

Chacha (Akazukin Chacha) vs. Scarlet (The Red Hood)

Round 3:

Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes) (Wndblown Hare) vs. Red Hood (Once Upon a Time in Space)

Queen Red Riding Hood (The Land of Stories) vs. Cerise Hood (Ever After High)

Little Red Riding Hood/Little Red Cap (Original Fairytale) vs. Ylfa Snorgelsson (Dimension 20: Neverafter)

Yuyuko Tanaka (Shojo Kageki Revue Starlight) vs. Chacha (Akazukin Chacha)

Semi-Finals:

Red Hood (Once Upon a Time in Space) vs. Cerise Hood (Ever After High)

Ylfa Snorgelsson (Dimension 20: Neverafter) vs. Yuyuko Tanaka (Shojo Kageki Revue Starlight)

Finals:

Red Hood (Once Upon a Time in Space) vs. Ylfa Snorgelsson (Dimension 20: Neverafter)

Loser's Bracket:

(There is an error in the Loser's Bracket Image: Where it says Valerie (Red Riding Hood), it should say Velouria (Fire Emblem Fates) instead. I got mixed up with who made it in the Loser's Bracket when making the image. Too lazy to fix it.)

Little Red Riding Hooded Mercenary (F-01-57) (Lobotomy Corporation) vs. Red Puckett (Hoodwinked!)

Ruby Rose (RWBY) vs. Amy Lee (Evanescence) (Call Me When You're Sober MV)

Little Red Ridinghood (Into the Woods) vs. Bugs Bunny (Windblown Hare) (Looney Tunes)

Little Red Riding Hood/Little Red Cap (Original Fairytale) vs. Sasha as Little Red Riding Hood (Bratz: Kids Fairytales)

Lil' Red (Shrek 2) vs. Aku (Samurai Jack)

Little Dead Riding Hood (Clawdeen Wolf) (Monster High: Scarily Ever After) vs. Velouria (Fire Emblem Fates)

Queen Red Riding Hood (The Land of Stories) vs. The Path sisters (Scarlet, Carmen, Ruby, Ginger, Rose, and Robin)

Chacha (Akazukin Chacha) vs. Little Red Riding Hood (Monty Python)

Mod's Choice Bracket:

Sasha as Little Red Riding Hood (Bratz: Kids Fairy Tales) vs. Shang, Tao, and Paotze (Lon Po Po) vs. Lamb (Little Lamb) vs. Aku (Samurai Jack) vs. Amy Lee (Evanescence MV for "Call Me When You're Sober") vs. The Path sisters (Scarlet, Carmen, Ruby, Ginger, Rose, and Robin) vs. Lisette (Ludwig Revolution)vs. Red Puckett (Hoodwinked!) vs. Chacha (Akazukin Chacha)

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The Grimm Variations

!!SPOILER WARNING!!

Lately, I’ve enjoyed the trend of anthology mini-series. When I saw this one advertised on Netflix it intrigued me as Grimm’s Fairy Tales have always been a point of interest for me. This anthology anime takes 6 Grimm Brothers stories and twists them to create a psychological thriller. Each episode opened with seeing Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm interacting with their little sister Charlotte as she asks them about their latest story. That story then ends up being the source material for the episode. One of the cool things I found out about this show is that each episode had a different animating team behind it. I felt like this added to making each episode its own unique standalone. It was nice to see a mix of popular stories like ‘Cinderella’, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘Hansel and Gretel’, mixed with lesser known stories like ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’, ‘The Town Musicians of Bremen’ and ‘Pied Piper of Hamelin’. For me, this show started out very strong with their ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ episodes. These two episodes are definitely my favorites overall. Each taking a very interesting turn on the stories that one might not expect. They started to lose me a bit with ‘Hansel and Gretel’, though I enjoyed the concept they took with it. ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’ was my least favorite episode overall. It was the slowest paced of them all, and the modern day setting felt like it took too much away from the fantastical elements of these stories. I was the least familiar with the ‘Town Musicians of Bremen’ story, but upon some quick research before watching the episode I was able to make much more sense of the tale they were telling. Finally, ‘Pied Piper of Hamelin’ was the prettiest animation of them all, having animators who have worked for Ghibli films on the team. Overall, I’d say this show was great, and it would be a good rewatch during the spooky season.

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