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

[clockwork_doc]

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

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

Goodness.

I had no idea that there was a variety to them. I never paid much attention to the more organized big-God religions.

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

Me either. Learning about these kind was a bit of a shock. Though apparently they're not the kind to serve any God or Devil. Like I said, human subspecies. (Makes your head hurt after a while, doesn't it?)

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

Urgh, yeah. So it's a case of something being named after another thing it superficially resembles?

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

Something like that, I suppose. Makes about as much sense as anything else.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

Ha, sense. These places seem designed to send logic whimpering into a cave.

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Logic has no place in these worlds.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

I manage to turn myself blue from eating a pepper. One of my friends suggest the best way to undo it would be eating a nonLOLed pepper.

It worked.

God.

[clockwork-doc.livejournal.com]

Life is just full of surprises.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

Yes. Stupid, stupid surprises.