#fairytale — Public Fediverse posts

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"The Pitch" or "Genesis." Oil Paint on two by three foot Board Canvas. 1995. #art #arting #artwork #artworks #painting #paintings #oilpainting #oilpaintings #oilpainter #oilpaint #workinginoils #arts #artistic #baseball #baseballplayer #baseballplayers #bible #thebible #pitch #genesis #booksofthebible #allegory #myth #mythology #fable #fables #favoritefables #fracturedfairytales #fairytale #fairytales #philosophy

"The Pitch" or "Genesis." Oil Paint on two by three foot Board Canvas. 1995. #art #arting #artwork #artworks #painting #paintings #oilpainting #oilpaintings #oilpainter #oilpaint #workinginoils #arts #artistic #baseball #baseballplayer #baseballplayers #bible #thebible #pitch #genesis #booksofthebible #allegory #myth #mythology #fable #fables #favoritefables #fracturedfairytales #fairytale #fairytales #philosophy

"The Pitch" or "Genesis." Oil Paint on two by three foot Board Canvas. 1995. #art #arting #artwork #artworks #painting #paintings #oilpainting #oilpaintings #oilpainter #oilpaint #workinginoils #arts #artistic #baseball #baseballplayer #baseballplayers #bible #thebible #pitch #genesis #booksofthebible #allegory #myth #mythology #fable #fables #favoritefables #fracturedfairytales #fairytale #fairytales #philosophy

"The Pitch" or "Genesis." Oil Paint on two by three foot Board Canvas. 1995. #art #arting #artwork #artworks #painting #paintings #oilpainting #oilpaintings #oilpainter #oilpaint #workinginoils #arts #artistic #baseball #baseballplayer #baseballplayers #bible #thebible #pitch #genesis #booksofthebible #allegory #myth #mythology #fable #fables #favoritefables #fracturedfairytales #fairytale #fairytales #philosophy

"The Pitch" or "Genesis." Oil Paint on two by three foot Board Canvas. 1995. #art #arting #artwork #artworks #painting #paintings #oilpainting #oilpaintings #oilpainter #oilpaint #workinginoils #arts #artistic #baseball #baseballplayer #baseballplayers #bible #thebible #pitch #genesis #booksofthebible #allegory #myth #mythology #fable #fables #favoritefables #fracturedfairytales #fairytale #fairytales #philosophy

Girl meets snail
‘Comic insects’, 1872
#art #fairytale #animalart
Via: https://archive.org/details/comicinsects00reid/page/30/mode/2up

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, 1894
#art #fairytale

Nvidia, the magical money tree 🌳, claims their $1 #investment grows $100 like mushrooms after rain 🍄. Meanwhile, Cloudflare's got the ultimate #security solution: block everyone from reading this financial fairy tale! 🙈✨
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Lottka-Kindertraume/pages/014-weeping-child/

Not 100% certain what is happening here, but i think the idea is the child (boy?) is crying in the first image. He reappears in the second a few pages later, being comforted by the Faerie Queen. The patch on his shorts (and maybe his bare feet) suggest poverty.

#faerie #FaerieTales #German #EugenKlimsch #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #fobo #boy #poverty #royalty #fairyTale #fairyQueen #unseelieCourt #sad #child

Mercer Mayer, illustration for ‘Amanda Dreaming’ by Barbara Wersba, 1973
#art #fairytale #dream
Via: https://archive.org/details/amandadreaming00wers

9/11: The "Official Story" Is a Fairy Tale for Adults

Two planes. Three buildings. A trillion-dollar accounting error. A passport that survived a fireball. If you believe the government's version, you'll believe anything.

Three Towers, Two Planes, One Impossible Physics Problem

Let's start with the simplest fact that no one in the mainstream media wants to explain: on September 11, 2001, two planes hit two buildings, but three buildings fell down.

World Trade Center Building 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was not hit by any plane. It suffered only minor fires and superficial damage. Yet at 5:20 PM that afternoon, it collapsed into its own footprint at virtually free-fall speed — the signature of a controlled demolition.

Building 7 housed the offices of the Secret Service, the CIA, and — most crucially — the US Securities and Exchange Commission. All the files for approximately 3,000 to 4,000 SEC cases, including the Enron scandal, were destroyed in that collapse.

Enron. The biggest corporate fraud in American history. The investigation files. Gone.

And what did the 9/11 Commission Report say about Building 7? Nothing. Not a single word.

If that doesn't make you pause, nothing will.

The "Pull It" Moment

Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the World Trade Center complex, gave an interview for a PBS documentary in which he described the decision-making on September 11. His words: "I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."

"Pull it."

In demolition industry terminology, "pull" means to bring a building down with explosives. Silverstein's spokesman later claimed he meant "pull the firefighters out" — but you don't "pull" firefighters. You pull buildings. And Building 7 came down in a textbook controlled demolition.

Six Weeks Before

Here's a detail that should have been on the front page of every newspaper: Larry Silverstein signed the lease for the World Trade Center just six weeks before 9/11.

Six weeks.

And what did he do almost immediately after signing that lease? He negotiated a massive insurance policy — $3.55 billion in coverage, with a clause specifically covering terrorism.

The previous insurance on the property was roughly half that amount. Silverstein reportedly insisted on the terrorism clause. And after the attacks, he went to court arguing that because two planes hit two towers, he should be paid twice — nearly $7 billion.

A man leases a property six weeks before its destruction, quadruples the insurance, adds terrorism coverage, and then argues for a double payout. In any other context, investigators would call that a motive.

The Mastermind in a Cave

The official story tells us that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged "mastermind" of 9/11, coordinated the entire operation from a cave in Afghanistan using a phone and a laptop.

A man on dialysis. In a cave. In one of the most remote regions on Earth. Directing the most sophisticated terrorist attack in history, coordinating 19 hijackers across the United States, managing flight schools, finances, and logistics — all from a cave.

Meanwhile, the hijackers allegedly brought down the World Trade Center with box cutters. Utility knives. Against trained pilots and crew. And they supposedly overpowered the passengers on four separate flights.

If you believe that, you also believe that a passport belonging to one of the hijackers — Satam al-Suqami — survived the fireball explosion that supposedly cremated him, flew out of his pocket, and landed intact on the street blocks away, ready to be found by investigators.

The bodies of hundreds of victims were never recovered. But the hijacker's passport? Pristine.

The President Who Knew

On the morning of September 11, President George W. Bush was at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, reading "The Pet Goat" to a group of second-graders.

He was informed that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. He stayed in the classroom for another five to seven minutes.

Later, in December 2001 and again in January 2002, Bush claimed he saw the first plane hit the tower on television before entering the classroom. "I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower," he said.

But here's the problem: no cameras were trained on the World Trade Center at the time of the first impact. No live footage of the first plane hitting the North Tower existed until much later. The first crash was not broadcast live.

So how did Bush see it?

Either he was lying, or he had prior knowledge. His spokesman later called it a "mistaken recollection".

A mistaken recollection about the most significant event of his presidency. Right.

The Pentagon: The Day Before and the Day Of

On September 10, 2001 — one day before the attacks — Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech at the Pentagon. In that speech, he admitted something extraordinary:

"According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."

$2.3 trillion. Missing. Unaccounted for. The day before the Pentagon was hit.

The following day, a plane — or something — struck the Pentagon. And the very section of the building that was hit? The area where the accounting and financial records were kept.

The missing money? The records that might have explained it? Destroyed.

Less than 48 hours after Rumsfeld admitted the Pentagon couldn't account for trillions, the evidence went up in flames. If you're a conspiracy theorist, that's not a coincidence. That's a cover-up.

No Plane, No Bodies, No Parts

The Pentagon is one of the most secure buildings on Earth. Cameras cover every inch of it. Multiple security cameras recorded the approach.

Not a single frame showing the plane hitting the Pentagon was released to the public for years. When footage was finally released in 2006, it was grainy, low-resolution, and showed nothing clearly identifiable as a Boeing 757.

The hole in the Pentagon was approximately five meters across — far too small for a 757 with a wingspan of nearly 38 meters. Conspiracy theorists pointed out that the lawn was clean after the attack, with no wing debris, no tail section, no engines.

At most plane crashes around the world, you find bodies, seats, luggage, engine parts, landing gear — debris scattered across a wide area. At the Pentagon, the official story claims the plane completely disintegrated on impact, vaporized by the heat of the explosion.

But if the plane vaporized, why were there no bodies? Why no plane parts? Why did witnesses describe a missile or a military aircraft?

And why did the government fight so hard to keep the footage secret?

The Dancing Israelis

On the morning of September 11, five men were arrested in Liberty State Park, New Jersey. They had been videotaping the attacks — and witnesses reported they were celebrating, "dancing" as the towers burned.

They worked for a company called Urban Moving Systems, which the FBI later determined was a Mossad front.

They were detained, interrogated, and eventually deported. The official explanation? They were just "celebrating" — nothing to see here.

But if five men with cameras and a Mossad cover company were positioned to film the attacks before they happened, that suggests foreknowledge. And foreknowledge suggests involvement.

The Passport and the Phone Call

We already mentioned the hijacker passport that survived the fireball. But let's add another detail.

The alleged hijackers were supposedly led by a man on dialysis in a cave who used a satellite phone and a laptop to coordinate everything.

But satellite phones in Afghanistan in 2001? Laptops in caves? The logistics are absurd. The 9/11 Commission itself found that the attacks were planned and executed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — a man who was later captured and waterboarded 183 times. The "intelligence" used to justify the Iraq War came from torture. And the CIA destroyed the tapes of those interrogations.

The evidence is gone. The "mastermind" was tortured into confession. And the American public was told to accept it.

What the 9/11 Commission Didn't Investigate

The 9/11 Commission was delayed, underfunded, and based on testimony extracted from torture.

It didn't mention Building 7. It didn't investigate who funded the attacks. It didn't examine Operation Able Danger, the military intelligence program that allegedly identified some of the hijackers before 9/11. It didn't look at the war games being conducted on the morning of 9/11 — simulations of hijacked planes flying into buildings — that were running at the exact same time as the real attacks.

President Bush and Vice President Cheney testified in secret, off the record, not under oath, and behind closed doors.

What were they hiding?

The Pattern

Two planes. Three buildings. A leaseholder with terrorism insurance. A president who "saw" a crash that wasn't broadcast. A Pentagon with $2.3 trillion missing. No plane footage. No bodies. No parts. A passport that survived a fireball. Five Israelis filming and celebrating. A commission that investigated nothing.

You don't have to have all the answers to know that the official story doesn't add up. You just have to be willing to look at the facts and ask the question that the mainstream media refuses to ask:

Who benefited?

The military-industrial complex got a blank check for endless war. The surveillance state got the PATRIOT Act. The financial crimes of Enron and others got buried in the rubble of Building 7. And the American people got a story — a story that falls apart the moment you examine it.

Two planes did not bring down three towers.

Wake up.

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Folklore read live!

Do you trust your mom?
Because this boy sure shouldn't.

Witness the worst mother in folklore LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/OonwtpROL_I

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When discussing fairy tales, be aware that there is a significant distinction between

1. fairy tales as folk tales, and
2. fairy tales as a literary genre.

Tales in the first category have a raw, chaotic energy and reflect the mindset of the rural peasantry. Tales in the second category are more "polished" and reflect the mindset and values of the urban bourgeoisie.

And, in fact, tales can move from the first category into the second. The #BrothersGrimm provide a perfect example of this - in their first edition of their famous "Children's and Household Tales", they published the tales pretty much as they heard them. But when they found financial success, they rewrote the tales again and again over the course of six subsequent editions to reflect their own moral views as well as the tastes of the urban middle and upper classes.

The tale of Rapunzel showcases this. In the first edition, Rapunzel unwittingly reveals that she has received a male visitor to the tower when her clothes become too tight - i.e. the prince has knocked her up, although she does not understand that this is what happened. In the seventh edition, she explicitly blurts out that a prince has been visiting her.

https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm012a.html

#FairyTale #folklore

Taking back gold from the Troll (2026).

I liked the giantess so much I decided to do more fairy tale / fantasy paintings. This time a little guy is hiding from a giant troll.

I might put together a portfolio and send to publishers. Problem is I'm not very good at coloring still. It's steadily getting better though.

#art #mastoart #illustration #fairytale #fantasyart #fantasy #rpg

And as always, for you blog connoseurs (is that how that is spelled?), I have a little bloggy update which gives you a sneak peek to what the other authors have to offer in Once Upon A Fairytale.

If you like these posts, please comment in them and let me know if you are interested in knowing more - because ya boi (non-binary) loves to yap. <3

Please share, and stay awsome. :D

https://ko-fi.com/post/Once-Upon-A-Fairytale--W-M-Dawson-K8H326DBXS

#Fairytale #Fantasy #Blog #art #Book #Books #BlogPost #Kofi #IndieAuthor #author

Do you hate AI, love discovering new indie authors, and love Fantasy stories that get DARK?

Then I suggest that you preorder Once Upon A Fairytale, an anthology that has all that (and you get to prove the power of Mastodon as THE place for us indies)!

Please share, so others too can find a good read for the fall season. <3

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Jättinna/Giantess/Jötunn B (2026).

I repainted this because it was popular, but the perspective on the hand was wrong and a few other things, ear, hairline. Also people remarked that the colors on the warrior were the hollywood version (grey/brown/drab) and I can't have that.

"The painting depicts a female giant (jättinna), picking up a viking warrior. Her name is Gerd (Gerðr) and was famed for her beauty. The God Frey fell in love with her.

The warrior is trying to tell her something important, but she is not very interested in the affairs of men..."

This one is for sale, and also I'm selling the previous one at a discount, €700 and €450.

#art #mastoart #illustration #fairytale #fantasy #fantasyart #vikings

Florence Mary Anderson, illustration for ‘The Land Where Stories Grow’, 1922
#art #fairytale

I Ran out of Breadcrumbs, 2026

#painting #mixedmedia #artwork #collage #fairytale

Jättinna/Giantess (icelandic: Jötunn) (2026).

The painting depicts a female giant (jättinna), picking up a viking warrior. Her name is Gerd (Gerðr) and was famed for her beauty. The God Frey fell in love with her.

The warrior is trying to tell her something important, but she is not very interested in the affairs of men...

I liked the sketch so much I got a bit carried a way and painted it before making sure the drawing was correct. So there are several technical problems with this drawing, perspective and so on. I still like it a lot and want to do more drawings in this style. There are also problems with the colors of the clothes, and the size of the giantess. Norse giants are not supposed to be nearly that big.

29.7x42 cm. India ink, gouache and watercolor on Arches 100% cotton paper.

This painting is for sale.

#art #mastoart #illustration #fairytale #fantasy #fantasyart #watercolor #illustrator #norse #mythology

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A quotation from Christy Hall

The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little mice to secretly finish the job while I am sleeping.

Christy Hall (contemp.) American playwright, screenwriter, film director
(Attributed)

More about this quote: wist.info/hall-christy/85823/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christyhall #allnighter #deadline #fairytale #magic #pressure #stress #timepressure

Everyone needs to update their fairytale lore. Apparently, Cinderella lives in Toronto now. 😁

#Toronto #FairyTale #Shoes

Charles Folkard: 'So Up She Went, Stair After Stair', 1949.
#FairytaleTuesday #fairytale #illustration #art

These are not the fairytales you grew up with...

https://books2read.com/u/bw6WJ9

Venture into a world of original fairytales, where magic causes chaos, villains threaten entire kingdoms and the hero is in for the fight of their life. Will they prevail? Or is their future looking grim?

Please share. <3 Thank you!

#preorder #books #Bookstodon #NoAI #FuckAI #Fantasy #Fairytale #Anthology #GrimDark

Of Folk and Fey is built on the common themes and archetypes of folklore, for a game with a true folklore feel - it's your own fairytale, but not like the Disney-fied versions. #rpgPdfSpotlight #rpgs #folklore #fairyTale #diceGoblinPress
https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/rpg-pdf-spotlight/rpg-pdf-spotlight-of-folk-and-fey?utm_source=mastodon

Franklin Booth, ‘Flying Islands Of The Night’, 1913
#art #fairytale #fantasy

Question for people who understand Aarne-Thompson-Uther.

Where can I find Thompson's motif B155 ("Location determined by halting of an animal") in Uther's "Types of International Folktales"?

Thanks! RT=🩷

@neerlandistiek, #folklore, #folktale, #fairytale

"Midnight for Cinderella." 1995. #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #photography #photographer #photographers #storytelling #story #midnight #fairytale #antique #antiques #antiqueclock #antiqueclocks #antiquecardtable #cardtable #figtree #figtrees #colonialhome #colonialhomes #victorianhome #victorianhomes #wallpaper #woodfloors #oakfloor #oakfloors #1990s

My fourth book 'Savage Strangehollow' is also in pre-order stage as it is still being completed! I funded this book on Kickstarter this year. Fulfilment is in February, you can pre order here: buff.ly/G5alCXt #fantasyart #fantasy #folklore #fairytale #artbook #book #books #xmasgift

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

Het is middag, je wil een uurtje klassieke muziek, maar radio 4, eh... radio klassiek heeft alleen maar veel gezeur en van alles behalve klassieke muziek, dan is misschien deze playlist iets voor jou 😉
De uitvoerenden, opnamedatum (iets wat presentatoren nog wel eens overslaan) staan er óók bij!

https://classicalspotify.blogspot.com/2024/01/so-you-want-classical-fairytale.html

#classical #classicalmusic #fairy #fairytale #fairies #klassiek #klassieken #klassiekemuziek #spotify #piano #orcestral