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Rapunzel
Retelling the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale in 1983 on Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre starring Shelley Duvall as Rapunzel, Jeff Bridges as the Prince and, and Gena Rowlands as the Witch. Narrated by Roddy McDowall. Written by David Wyles. Directed by Gilbert Cates.
#ShelleyDuvall #Rapunzel, #JeffBridges #GenaRowlands #ShelleyDuvallsFaerieTaleTheatre #faerietalethearte #brothersgrimm #fairytale #tv #tvshow #allstarcast #evilwitch #theprince #greatmomentsontv
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Greek mythology retellings by Greek authors via bookriot https://share.google/25rWHNvCr5uAH5Vvl
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A decent retelling of the #Nuremberg trials from director #JamesVanderbilt. The standout here is #RussellCrowe as #HermannGöring
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29567915/reference/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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Feeling Starry-Eyed: A Fairytale Retelling You Won’t Want to Miss
This historical fantasy novel blends themes of Cinderella and The Little Mermaid with a beautiful love story.
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Announcing RWHServers for WHMCS: PAYG #VPS & Dedicated Server Reselling
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Announcing RWHServers for WHMCS: PAYG #VPS & Dedicated Server Reselling
Rad Web Hosting is proud to announce the official release of RWHServers, a powerful new #WHMCS module that enables hosting providers, web agencies, MSPs, and entrepreneurs to instantly resell VPS and Dedicated Servers using a flexible Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) infrastructure model.
RWHServers brings automated infrastructure provisioning directly into ...
Continued 👉 https://blog.radwebhosting.com/announcing-rwhservers-for-whmcs-payg-vps-dedicated-server-reselling/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon.social #dedicatedserver #api #reseller -
Announcing RWHServers for WHMCS: PAYG #VPS & Dedicated Server Reselling
Rad Web Hosting is proud to announce the official release of RWHServers, a powerful new #WHMCS module that enables hosting providers, web agencies, MSPs, and entrepreneurs to instantly resell VPS and Dedicated Servers using a flexible Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) infrastructure model.
RWHServers brings automated infrastructure provisioning directly into ...
Continued 👉 https://blog.radwebhosting.com/announcing-rwhservers-for-whmcs-payg-vps-dedicated-server-reselling/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon.social #dedicatedserver #api #reseller -
Explaining arbitrage: Arbitrage is buying advertising traffic or inventory at one price and reselling it higher, a practice spanning search, programmatic supply and agency deals. https://ppc.land/arbitrage/ #Arbitrage #Advertising #PPC #DigitalMarketing #ProgrammaticAdvertising
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CW: Article: Grïgnyr the Ecordian by Geoff Bottone
I read Grïgnyr the Ecordian, Geoff Bottone's retelling of infamously-terrible fantasy novella The Eye of Argon. Which I hadn't read when I started, so I needed to read that first. Bottone's version is an enormous improvement... and that's an incredible achievement.
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Exclusive Cover Reveal: Cynthia Pelayo’s IT CAME FROM NEVERLAND Is A Twisted Retelling Of A Classic Childhood Tale
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🇩🇪 Boney M. "Rasputin" – 1978
Boney M.'s exuberant retelling of the life of Grigori Rasputin became one of the group's signature songs and despite being a huge international hit, "Rasputin" was not performed by Boney M. during their 1978 concerts in the Soviet Union. The authorities considered the song too politically sensitive...
#boneym #disco #eurodisco #70smusic #dance #pop #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowlistening
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🇩🇪 Boney M. "Rasputin" – 1978
Boney M.'s exuberant retelling of the life of Grigori Rasputin became one of the group's signature songs and despite being a huge international hit, "Rasputin" was not performed by Boney M. during their 1978 concerts in the Soviet Union. The authorities considered the song too politically sensitive...
#boneym #disco #eurodisco #70smusic #dance #pop #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowlistening
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🇩🇪 Boney M. "Rasputin" – 1978
Boney M.'s exuberant retelling of the life of Grigori Rasputin became one of the group's signature songs and despite being a huge international hit, "Rasputin" was not performed by Boney M. during their 1978 concerts in the Soviet Union. The authorities considered the song too politically sensitive...
#boneym #disco #eurodisco #70smusic #dance #pop #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowlistening
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🇩🇪 Boney M. "Rasputin" – 1978
Boney M.'s exuberant retelling of the life of Grigori Rasputin became one of the group's signature songs and despite being a huge international hit, "Rasputin" was not performed by Boney M. during their 1978 concerts in the Soviet Union. The authorities considered the song too politically sensitive...
#boneym #disco #eurodisco #70smusic #dance #pop #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowlistening
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🇩🇪 Boney M. "Rasputin" – 1978
Boney M.'s exuberant retelling of the life of Grigori Rasputin became one of the group's signature songs and despite being a huge international hit, "Rasputin" was not performed by Boney M. during their 1978 concerts in the Soviet Union. The authorities considered the song too politically sensitive...
#boneym #disco #eurodisco #70smusic #dance #pop #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowlistening
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CW: The Hobbit PJ movies fan edit spoilers
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Watching a fan edited version of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit .... retellings.(See, I can be nice.)
"The Hobbit- Ultimate Book Edit | Full Movie"
I've read the book so it's pretty easy to follow.
Unlike PJ's releases this Edit only rarely crosses the bounds into "what utter tripe" so I'm more generous to the Edit when it does. (As if Beorn would let strangers remain in his house unvetted and alive. 😬
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person?
[Pourquoi faut-il que nous ayons assez de mémoire pour retenir jusqu’aux moindres particularités de ce qui nous est arrivé, et que nous n’en ayons pas assez pour nous souvenir combien de fois nous les avons contées à une même personne?]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶313 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #anecdote #memory #raconteur #recall #recollection #repeating #repetition #retelling #storytelling
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Book Review: The Witch Queen by Heather Walter
The Witch Queen served with apples, because what Snow White retelling would be complete without apples?
Title: The Witch Queen (Crimson Crown #2)
Author: Heather Walter
Publisher: Del Rey
Publication date: August 11, 2026
Genre: Fantasy
The Witch Queen is the second in the Crimson Crown duology, a retelling of Snow White from the Evil Queen’s perspective. Where the first book set up who Ayleth is, where she comes from, and how she gains the crown, The Witch Queen follows Ayleth as she tries to get her revenge on the witches that scorned her while dealing with a stepdaughter trying to reclaim her crown. This was long, and sometimes it felt a little too stuffed, but it wove a wonderful story between Ayleth and Blodwyn, harkening back to the fairy tale without feeling out of place or forced.
Three years after the events of the first book, Ayleth has a tenuous rule over the kingdom. The witches have fled to a neighboring kingdom, escaping Ayleth and her shadowy Huntsman, who would take their magic from them, leaving them as little more than shells. Blodwyn has been sent to her Aunt Margaret, her father’s sister, to recover from illness and grief. But now war with the neighboring kingdom has shifted tides, and Ayleth needs Margaret’s forces if she’s to win. So she invites Margaret back home, but is unprepared when Margaret brings Blodwyn with her. She’s even more caught off guard when Blodwyn declares she’s returned to call for Braxos’ Trials. If Blodwyn successfully passes all three tests, she’ll take her rightful crown, and Ayleth will no longer be the prophesied queen she believes she is. When Gavin, son of one of the most powerful and influential courtiers, also declares he’ll take part, Ayleth sees an opening, and takes it. But, as the trials unfold and Ayleth’s doom seems certain, the kingdom is attacked by an unknown force bent on destroying them all.
There’s a lot going on in The Witch Queen. It’s a long, almost winding story, following Ayleth’s path to the end while weaving in elements of Snow White’s story. Because of the length of this book, nothing is ever rushed, and it was actually quite fun to read, but there is a lot stuffed into this. There’s the tension between Ayleth and Blodwyn, the scheming aunt who was never given any attention as a princess, a tentative blooming relationship between Blodwyn and Gavin, the witches who want to destroy Ayleth, the looming battle with the neighboring kingdom, the fractured romance between Ayleth and Jacquetta, and a long-dead princess seemingly come back to wreck havoc in her quest for revenge. Somehow, it all worked. I enjoyed this book. I enjoyed the conclusion to the Evil Queen’s story. I thought it did a lovely job of painting the Evil Queen in a sympathetic light, and I loved the way the story ended. But, looking back, it felt like it was doing a little too much, turning this into a story of villain after villain after villain. It felt like the Evil Queen, the villain in the Snow White story, was just a victim and not a villain at all.
The story was framed around the trials, which made it feel easier to digest. There are these three trials Blodwyn and her fellow male contenders must go through, each dealing with a different aspect of ruling. In between is a lot of down time, presumably for the contenders to prepare for the next test, but mostly so the rest of the story can unfold. I often felt a little stuck in the weeds with Ayleth. With so much going on, she has to split her attention. She’s fighting battles on so many fronts. Someone always seems to be out to get her. But the trials kept the story neat and orderly, which I appreciated. They also highlighted the tension between Ayleth and Blodwyn, and their separate romantic pursuits. I liked the clear direction, I liked the stakes they represented, and it made it easier to deal with all the other things going on at the same time.
I adored Ayleth and Blodwyn. Their relationship has some very nice touches in the first book, and I loved seeing how the three years apart didn’t really help them. It was prickly here, but, since both of them get to tell their stories, it’s easy to see there’s still some care between them. Despite how close in age they were, there is a glimmer of a stepmother-stepdaughter relationship where they want to care about and love each other because they both were so ignored, but their assumptions about each other and the secrets between them keep getting in the way. But, when they did work together, they were lovely and I loved it. It was nice to see both of them grow over the course of the story, though I also struggled with Blodwyn being sixteen; there were times when she felt older and times when she felt younger, and it just made it difficult for me to pin her down.
At first, I loved all the villainry. After all, this is supposed to be a retelling from the villain’s perspective. Except Ayleth is less a villain and more someone who just wants to be accepted and loved for who she is, just like Blodwyn and Margaret. These three women were quite powerful, and they showed just how powerful they are in a male-dominated world, which was wonderful to see. But everyone seemed to be a villain. Everyone seemed to be scheming. One villain would pop up, but then it’s eventually explained and everything is fine. And then another villain will pop up, and the cycle would repeat. There were so many villains, so many people scheming. Eventually, it felt a little over the top and I could have done with one or two fewer villains.
The Witch Queen is a fantastic story of villains. It’s just the main villain is more of a hurting heart than a villain while everyone else around her is either evil or scheming or both. It made the story a little bloated and, eventually, a little annoying. But I liked the ups and downs between Ayleth and Blodwyn, I liked how The Witch Queen showed just how powerful women are if they’re bold enough to claim it, and I liked how the Snow White elements were neatly woven in instead of forced.
How many cups of tea will you need?
4 cups
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Why is this desirable or necessary? Are we fresh out of stories to tell? Are the “content creators” in Hollywood so desperate for eyeballs that they’ll vomit up any IP of the past, hoping to exploit nostalgia while delivering another boring ass retelling of a story that somehow evades everything anyone enjoyed about said story?
#creativity #tv #carrie #pathetic #usculture #latecapitalism #conservativescantmakeculture
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The Best SF/F Books of the Year So Far
You'll find fantasy horror blends, samurai space opera, romantic retellings, and more in the best science fiction and fantasy of 2026 so far.
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A Touch of Darkness (Hades x Persephone Saga Book 1) “You will worship me, and I won't even have to order you.” Sale: $15.99 to $1.99 by Scarlett St. Clair Rating: 4.4/5 (45,067 Reviews) #Romance #Fantasy #Mythology #Retelling #Hades #Persephone #BookTok #Books #BookSky
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Everyone should take a moment to appreciate just how absolutely wild the #RankinBass #Christmas specials actually are.
Like, these aren't just retellings, they have deep lore, with all sorts of wild stuff going on. Like, in #Rudolph's origin story alone, he winds up with #Frosty's family on the "Isle of Misfit Toys", then has to return to rescue his childhood girlfriend from a yeti, which ends up getting all of its teeth pulled out by some guy who trains it to bend candy canes or something?? It's been a bit since I watched that one in particular, but it has less deviation than the most of them... "Christmas in July" has Jack Frost and evil wizards and ancient goddesses and shit, all because Rudolph and Frosty wanted to watch fireworks with the family.
They were asked to make a 1-hour TV special off of some one minute songs about Frosty and Rudolph, and delivered this simarillan level errata next to "not being evil is easy: just put one foot in front of the other."
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I just signed a book contract with Inanna Publications! Aether and Ego is a Jules Verne-meets-Jane Austen steampunk retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in space in the 1840s. It will come out in autumn 2026.
📚🪐 #BookAnnouncement #AetherAndEgo #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #bookstodon 💙📚
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It's Exelauno day! Celebrate #marchforth by watching The Warriors, a faithful retelling of a surprisingly good story from classical text called the Anabasis (literally the Getting-the-hell-out-of-Dodge).
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It's December 14th, my yearly tradition of taking a holiday story or song and doing a queer retelling. Now, this year I intended Upon the Midnight Queer, but… well.
Take “Walking in a Winter Wonderland,” then add Giancarlo Herrera and Hannah Schooner’s amazing performance on “A Day (or Two) Ago” from Upon the Midnight Queer audiobook, which coincided at a bakery and inspired this year’s offering—which is also a sequel.
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We need #SmartSolutions to retail theft that are not based on increasing penalties. SB1144 by state senator Nancy Skinner was signed into law and limits the reselling of stolen goods online by suspending or banning sellers suspected of selling stolen goods. Californians United for a Responsible Budget helps push for this kind of 21st century approach to #PublicSafety.
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CW: What I’m reading; The Silence of the Girls
Have you read #TheSilenceOfTheGirls by #PatBarker? I’m only about 5 years late! I don’t know how I missed it, but saw the sequel in a ‘best of 2022’ round up (also now on my list)
I LOVED this - a feminist retelling of the Iliad, from the perspective of Briseis (Achilles’ ‘prize’ & ‘bed slave’)
#WhatImReading #BookRecommendations
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/22/silence-of-the-girls-pat-barker-book-review-iliad
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Accidental Education - An Exercise In The Random @accidentaleducationblog.wordpress.com@accidentaleducationblog.wordpress.com ·Review: Wolf’s Belly by John August
August, John. (2026). Wolf's Belly. Roaring Book Press. Ok! *slaps hands, then rubs them together* Where to start with this one? So, the publisher's description calls this a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. Ok. Sure. In so much as there is a girl, who ends up with a red cape, and has a grandmother, and they get eaten by a wolf. That's kinda where the similarity ends. In this case, the protagonist's name is Lu. Lu has a bunch of siblings who have all done fantastic things. One […]https://accidentaleducationblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/26/review-wolfs-belly-by-john-august/
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#books #historic fiction #unwanted people #nevil_shute #Edmund G. Love
I just reread A Town Called Alice, which a Nevil Shute online group will caht about Sunday. The first third or so of the novel describes a death march by women and childrenmade prisoners by the Japanese in WWII Sumatra (fictively relocated to Malaya). While a very dufferent story, in tone and history, I was struck by the curious parallel with Love's A Shipment of Tarts, a retelling of the repeated (but not deadly) relocation of sex workers by American authorities during an earlier war. -
Candarian – Trepanación Review By TymeMe Saco Un Ojo Records has fast become one of my favorite death metal labels, signing bands whose music sates my sickened sweet tooth and reeks with the dirty, rotten, filthy, stinking, rich stench of death! Warranted tags that also describe Costa Rica’s newest OSDM export and Me Saco Un Ojo rosterlings, Candarian. Inspired by early 90s death metal, guitarist Christopher G. De Haan and bassist/vocalist José Pablo Phillips (Astriferous) birthed Candarian in 2020, gigging extensively throughout their local scene on the strength of a handful of songs that would eventually end up on their 2022 demo, Stagnant Livor Mortis—a meaty morsel of moldy maleficence. Four years further down the cemetery path with tandem label partner Memento Mori in tow and that charmingly grotesque Grant Hatfield cover art in hand, Candarian prepare to dump their debut bucket of blood, Trepanación, on you, and the heads of unsuspecting prom queens everywhere. Having precariously lived through the original 90s death metal wave, I was curious to see whether Candarian would have any fresh ideas to offer. Is Trepanación the death shroud I’ll cozily wrap myself up in on a cold night, or will it have me praying for someone to strap me down and drill a hole in my skull, too?
Candarian peddle in plague-laden, gore-soaked, horror-themed OSDM, with Trepanación serving up steaming bowls of slop bloated with chunks of Incantation and Autopsy. Not entirely original perhaps, but still not a bad place from which to draw inspiration, especially if well executed. Which Candarian does, sans feats of technical wizardry, as De Haan and fellow string-slayer Felipe Tencio (Astriferous) opt instead to perform ear-hole surgery with a Golgothan bag full of rusty, tremoloed riffs, serrated squealies, and mangled, meat-hammered chugs (“Altars and Ancestors”). On drums stretched taut with human skin, blunt force butcher Pablo Umaña keeps the Candarian brain-drill from boring any errant head holes while Phillips, whose bass lines lurk and gurgle below like blood-clogged lungs (“Psychosurgery Ecstasy”) and whose cavernous bellows strike a very John McEntee chord, rounds out the cadaverous quartet. It’s clear these Ticos know death metal.
Candarian muscles their way through Trepanación with biceps built on strongwriting. Shifts in tone and pace within tracks are written with alacrity and performed with a transitional maturity that never feels forced or too abrupt. Basking in beams of light cast by “The Ibex Moon,”1 the ghoulishly fun “Zombie Miscarriage” morphs smoothly from down-tuned tremolo-monstrous riffs over lumbering double-bass rolls to drunkenly swerving doom chords and mid-paced chug ‘n squeals, all punctuated by Phillips’ rancorous roars. Another limb retaining some viably meaty moments is “Relinquished Viscera,” its sluggish, Morbificated opening riffs acquiescing easily to speedier harmonic leads and oft-used pus-pinching harmonics. The last of my odious shoutouts goes to album closer “Vilipendio del Cadaver”2 which sweats Mental Funeral-filled beads of ichor as it trudges and stomps a path filled with doomy goodness, Sabbathian trills, and a swingy section that could give “In the Grip of Winter” a run for its money.
Candarian hit the nail on the head of 90s death metal. Paying tribute to their influences without sounding overtly derivative and accomplishing this through a production that maintains just the right amount of rawness to stay menacing without devolving into the overly cloudy, reverberant depths of early cavern-core. Manageably brief, with a runtime barely cresting 33 minutes, Trepanación tends to feel longer than it is, thanks in part to all the inter-song twists and turns and to four of the seven tracks exceeding the 5-minute mark. Not a major knock, but it was something I felt on all my play-throughs. Working most against them, without having done anything egregiously bad or exceptionally good, is Candarian’s throwback “no more but no less” approach, as this can only take them so far. Which also reinforces guidance I once received from one wizened, hairy primate related to scoring death metal of this ilk.If you’re ever in the mood for better than passable, old-school, filthy death metal, the Me Saco Un Ojo roster—Cryptworm, Invictus, Phrenelith, Ossuary, Diabolizer and many more among them—does not disappoint. Candarian, a band I’ll certainly be keeping tabs on, is another fine addition, and you could do a lot worse than spend an afternoon or three getting skull fucked by Trepanación.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
#2026 #30 #Apr26 #Autopsy #Candarian #CostaRicanMetal #DeathMetal #Incantation #MeSacoUnOjoRecords #MementoMori #Morbific #Review #Trepanación
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320kbps mp3
Label: Me Saco Un Ojo | Memento Mori
Websites: Bandcamp | Instagram
Releases Worldwide: April 27th, 2026