Just Prompts: Fairy Tales (9/26 -- 10/9)

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What’s your favorite Fairy Tale? Why?

Anyone who knows me knows I take a very dim view of faeries and the like these days. They’re NOT how they’re portrayed in most of these stories. If a Fae takes a liking to you, what you want to do is run. Not that it’ll help. . . .

Of course, given that I’m stuck in an alternate reality, perhaps I’m being unfair. Anyone want to give me examples of more pleasant, Disney-like Fae?

(And if you must know, as a child I was fond of “Sleeping Beauty.” I always wondered if someone could really sleep a hundred years without aging. Makes me wonder now if some Fae tried it)

Comments

[clanoftheswords.livejournal.com]

Did I ever tell you about my uncle? He is/was a bit of a buff when it came to the written word, and he made it a point that I got some education on the subject while I was living with him, mythology, literature, Shakespeare and so on. So, yeah, I've heard some of the older stories at some point.

As for my favorite story, I'd have to go with Puss In Boots.

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Ah, I see! That's nice. Though I hope you weren't too young when he told you about some of them. A few of the older stories I heard were -- well, you probably know.

Ah, Puss In Boots. I liked that one too. Though being a dog person from a young age, I always wondered why it was always cats that got starring roles in these stories. Do you think a Dog in Boots could have accomplished all Puss did?

[clanoftheswords.livejournal.com]

Don't worry - he waited. But this was long before I really considered the idea of anything like faeries/psychics/etc actually being real, so...

Maybe, maybe not. A good chunk of the story relies on the tricks he uses, something you probably wouldn't see as much of out of a dog, I think.

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Heh, good. And yeah, same for me. Of course, the Victorian and Disney-era fairies hardly prepared me for the real thing.

I don't know. Maybe it's just because I've been a dog owner for so long, but it seems to me that, sometimes, dogs don't get the respect cats do in these tales. Cats are depicted as so crafty and clever. I've known some pretty smart dogs in my time. Not to mention the wolves. . . .