#fairytales — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fairytales, aggregated by home.social.
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Check out this awesome video from @[email protected] over on Youtube. SO fun to see my world through someone else's eyes! Check it out: buff.ly/JS3HUHA #dnd #strangehollow #fantasyart #bestiary #artbook #creatureart #folklore #fairytales #worldbuilding
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Check out this awesome video from @[email protected] over on Youtube. SO fun to see my world through someone else's eyes! Check it out: buff.ly/JS3HUHA #dnd #strangehollow #fantasyart #bestiary #artbook #creatureart #folklore #fairytales #worldbuilding
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Check out this awesome video from @[email protected] over on Youtube. SO fun to see my world through someone else's eyes! Check it out: buff.ly/JS3HUHA #dnd #strangehollow #fantasyart #bestiary #artbook #creatureart #folklore #fairytales #worldbuilding
The Fantastical World Of Stran... -
Check out this awesome video from @[email protected] over on Youtube. SO fun to see my world through someone else's eyes! Check it out: buff.ly/JS3HUHA #dnd #strangehollow #fantasyart #bestiary #artbook #creatureart #folklore #fairytales #worldbuilding
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House of Salt & Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt) "Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short" Sale: $2.99 to $2.99 by Erin A. Craig Rating: 4.3/5 (7,639 Reviews) #fantasy #gothic #mystery #fairytales #booksky #books #romance
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Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered
https://storica.club/blog/pinocchio-in-italian/
#HackerNews #Pinocchio #Weirder #Story #Italian #Literature #FairyTales #Nostalgia
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In "Wise Women", Sharon Blackie & Angharad Wynne re-narrate a selection of European #folktales mostly from the British Isles on old hags, witches, grandmothers, fairy godmothers and other mature women, of middle age & beyond
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This #LiteraryStudies collection edited by Nicole Anae reads women in #menopause through the lens of #Ecocriticism
Covering a variety of topics (incl #menophobia ) & literary genres of #fiction & #autofiction - from #VictorianGothic & #fairytales to contemporary literature -
This #LiteraryStudies collection edited by Nicole Anae reads women in #menopause through the lens of #Ecocriticism
Covering a variety of topics (incl #menophobia ) & literary genres of #fiction & #autofiction - from #VictorianGothic & #fairytales to contemporary literature -
This #LiteraryStudies collection edited by Nicole Anae reads women in #menopause through the lens of #Ecocriticism
Covering a variety of topics (incl #menophobia ) & literary genres of #fiction & #autofiction - from #VictorianGothic & #fairytales to contemporary literature -
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The Original German vs. Popular TranslationsIn the original German text by the Brothers Grimm (1812), the Queen says:
"Spieglein, Spieglein, an der Wand, wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?"
When translated directly, it sounds like this:
Original/Literal: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"
The Disney Version: "Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?"
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Why people have been accidentally giving Einstein credit for this powerful quote about fairytales
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I was raised with #German #fairytales, and lessons on our #History. Thus, #HorrorMovies can't scare me anymore…
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Fairy Tales as Survival Stories: A Personal Tale
Author Dale M. Kushner delves into the importance of fairy tales as survival stories by looking at personal moments in her own life.
The post Fairy Tales as Survival Stories: A Personal Tale appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/fairy-tales-as-survival-stories-a-personal-tale#WriteBetterFiction #WritingTechniques #fairytales #storytelling #SurvivalStories
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My Husband, the Author! Zack has published his first two books--"Soda and the Ineffable Concoction," and "We, the Riffed," the first fiction, the second non-fiction. Both are available from Amazon and both are terrific! #author #authorship #writing #writinglife #rifftrax #wetheriffed #soda #sodaandtheineffableconcoction #amazon #amazonbooks #published #publishing #husband #fairytale #fairytales #fantasy #fantasies #reference #compendium #references #compendiums #book #books #booklover
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My Husband, the Author! Zack has published his first two books--"Soda and the Ineffable Concoction," and "We, the Riffed," the first fiction, the second non-fiction. Both are available from Amazon and both are terrific! #author #authorship #writing #writinglife #rifftrax #wetheriffed #soda #sodaandtheineffableconcoction #amazon #amazonbooks #published #publishing #husband #fairytale #fairytales #fantasy #fantasies #reference #compendium #references #compendiums #book #books #booklover
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My Husband, the Author! Zack has published his first two books--"Soda and the Ineffable Concoction," and "We, the Riffed," the first fiction, the second non-fiction. Both are available from Amazon and both are terrific! #author #authorship #writing #writinglife #rifftrax #wetheriffed #soda #sodaandtheineffableconcoction #amazon #amazonbooks #published #publishing #husband #fairytale #fairytales #fantasy #fantasies #reference #compendium #references #compendiums #book #books #booklover
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My Husband, the Author! Zack has published his first two books--"Soda and the Ineffable Concoction," and "We, the Riffed," the first fiction, the second non-fiction. Both are available from Amazon and both are terrific! #author #authorship #writing #writinglife #rifftrax #wetheriffed #soda #sodaandtheineffableconcoction #amazon #amazonbooks #published #publishing #husband #fairytale #fairytales #fantasy #fantasies #reference #compendium #references #compendiums #book #books #booklover
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My Husband, the Author! Zack has published his first two books--"Soda and the Ineffable Concoction," and "We, the Riffed," the first fiction, the second non-fiction. Both are available from Amazon and both are terrific! #author #authorship #writing #writinglife #rifftrax #wetheriffed #soda #sodaandtheineffableconcoction #amazon #amazonbooks #published #publishing #husband #fairytale #fairytales #fantasy #fantasies #reference #compendium #references #compendiums #book #books #booklover
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#ScribesAndMakers 23. Have #FairyTales influenced any of your creative work? Part 2
Chapter 72: Yakubyō-gami (疫病神) of KonbiniIdol: is full of delusional fairy tale renders.
“Take the apple, dearie, and make a wish.”
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#ScribesAndMakers 23. Have #FairyTales influenced any of your creative work? Part 2
Chapter 72: Yakubyō-gami (疫病神) of KonbiniIdol: is full of delusional fairy tale renders.
“Take the apple, dearie, and make a wish.”
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#ScribesAndMakers 23. Have #FairyTales influenced any of your creative work? Part 2
Chapter 72: Yakubyō-gami (疫病神) of KonbiniIdol: is full of delusional fairy tale renders.
“Take the apple, dearie, and make a wish.”
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#ScribesAndMakers 23. Have #FairyTales influenced any of your creative work? Part 2
Chapter 72: Yakubyō-gami (疫病神) of KonbiniIdol: is full of delusional fairy tale renders.
“Take the apple, dearie, and make a wish.”
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#ScribesAndMakers 23. Have #FairyTales influenced any of your creative work?
- Princess and the Pea:
- Stone Soup: Stone… Err, Knife Soup:
- Goldilocks: Goldilocks and Three Grim Fates:
- The Little Match Girl:
- Generic fairy tale: Saint Lilly Lillum of Charity:
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"#Jewish #writers have a long, time-honored tradition of spinning the fantastical, from the numerous Jewish #fairytales and #folktales that have been retold for generations to modern #stories that remix old legends into new worlds.
In recent years, a growing number of #fantasy #novels by Jewish #authors, rich with Jewish characters, themes, and cultural touchstones, have earned international acclaim well beyond what might once have been a more niche readership. Many Jewishly-inspired fantasy works have been recognized with prestigious #literary awards, and some have even leaped into #film and #television productions.
If you’re looking for the perfect #read to immerse yourself in another world, as the best fantasy reads can do, consider starting with some of these standout Jewish-inspired #books."
https://unpacked.media/jewish-fantasy-is-having-a-moment-start-with-these-6-books/
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Matsuri in Manila 2026: Honoring 70 Years of Japan-Philippines Diplomatic Ties
A jam-packed cultural crossover festival brings celebration of culture, music, and friendship as Matsuri in Manila 2026 marks the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and the Philippines. This summer outdoor festival will bring together artists, anime fans, cosplay enthusiasts, and cultural communities to deepen ties between the two nations. Inspired by traditional Japanese festivals, Matsuri in Manila 2026 features food and entertainment, including music performances, […] -
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Smugly & Scrufty
the #dogs of #ThisThatAndTheOther 🐉
a couple of my character sketches & a reminder that the #WebNovel is currently active & free to read (chapter 12 uploading soon!)
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How to Make the Impossible Possible: Cristina Campo on the Crucial Difference Between Hope and Trust
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/12/hope-trust-fairy-tales-campo/
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Hare and Hedgehog costume from a fairytale ball in Munich, Germany, 1862
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
It is a dangerous error to confound truth with matter-of-fact. Our life is governed not only by facts, but by hopes; the kind of truthfulness which sees nothing but facts is a prison for the human spirit. Dreams are only to be condemned when they are a lazy substitute for an effort to change reality; when they are an incentive, they are fulfilling a vital purpose in the incarnation of human ideals. To kill fancy in childhood is to make a slave to what exists, a creature tethered to earth and therefore unable to create heaven.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 2, ch. 5 “Play and Fancy” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #fairytales #childrensliterature #change #dreams #fact #hope #ideals #mundanity #progress #truth
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
It is a dangerous error to confound truth with matter-of-fact. Our life is governed not only by facts, but by hopes; the kind of truthfulness which sees nothing but facts is a prison for the human spirit. Dreams are only to be condemned when they are a lazy substitute for an effort to change reality; when they are an incentive, they are fulfilling a vital purpose in the incarnation of human ideals. To kill fancy in childhood is to make a slave to what exists, a creature tethered to earth and therefore unable to create heaven.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 2, ch. 5 “Play and Fancy” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #fairytales #childrensliterature #change #dreams #fact #hope #ideals #mundanity #progress #truth
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
It is a dangerous error to confound truth with matter-of-fact. Our life is governed not only by facts, but by hopes; the kind of truthfulness which sees nothing but facts is a prison for the human spirit. Dreams are only to be condemned when they are a lazy substitute for an effort to change reality; when they are an incentive, they are fulfilling a vital purpose in the incarnation of human ideals. To kill fancy in childhood is to make a slave to what exists, a creature tethered to earth and therefore unable to create heaven.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 2, ch. 5 “Play and Fancy” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #fairytales #childrensliterature #change #dreams #fact #hope #ideals #mundanity #progress #truth
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
It is a dangerous error to confound truth with matter-of-fact. Our life is governed not only by facts, but by hopes; the kind of truthfulness which sees nothing but facts is a prison for the human spirit. Dreams are only to be condemned when they are a lazy substitute for an effort to change reality; when they are an incentive, they are fulfilling a vital purpose in the incarnation of human ideals. To kill fancy in childhood is to make a slave to what exists, a creature tethered to earth and therefore unable to create heaven.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 2, ch. 5 “Play and Fancy” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #fairytales #childrensliterature #change #dreams #fact #hope #ideals #mundanity #progress #truth
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
It is a dangerous error to confound truth with matter-of-fact. Our life is governed not only by facts, but by hopes; the kind of truthfulness which sees nothing but facts is a prison for the human spirit. Dreams are only to be condemned when they are a lazy substitute for an effort to change reality; when they are an incentive, they are fulfilling a vital purpose in the incarnation of human ideals. To kill fancy in childhood is to make a slave to what exists, a creature tethered to earth and therefore unable to create heaven.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 2, ch. 5 “Play and Fancy” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #fairytales #childrensliterature #change #dreams #fact #hope #ideals #mundanity #progress #truth
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I’m offering a single session class on fairy tales to raise money for rent relief in my south Minneapolis neighborhood. When ICE occupied my street, they not only kidnapped and murdered, they kept people from their jobs. So even though the abductions have slowed (not stopped), many families face eviction because of lost income.
Fairy Tales and the Subversive Power of Collective Storytelling
4/16, 6-8pm central, zoom -
I’m offering a single session class on fairy tales to raise money for rent relief in my south Minneapolis neighborhood. When ICE occupied my street, they not only kidnapped and murdered, they kept people from their jobs. So even though the abductions have slowed (not stopped), many families face eviction because of lost income.
Fairy Tales and the Subversive Power of Collective Storytelling
4/16, 6-8pm central, zoom -
I’m offering a single session class on fairy tales to raise money for rent relief in my south Minneapolis neighborhood. When ICE occupied my street, they not only kidnapped and murdered, they kept people from their jobs. So even though the abductions have slowed (not stopped), many families face eviction because of lost income.
Fairy Tales and the Subversive Power of Collective Storytelling
4/16, 6-8pm central, zoom -
I’m offering a single session class on fairy tales to raise money for rent relief in my south Minneapolis neighborhood. When ICE occupied my street, they not only kidnapped and murdered, they kept people from their jobs. So even though the abductions have slowed (not stopped), many families face eviction because of lost income.
Fairy Tales and the Subversive Power of Collective Storytelling
4/16, 6-8pm central, zoom -
I’m offering a single session class on fairy tales to raise money for rent relief in my south Minneapolis neighborhood. When ICE occupied my street, they not only kidnapped and murdered, they kept people from their jobs. So even though the abductions have slowed (not stopped), many families face eviction because of lost income.
Fairy Tales and the Subversive Power of Collective Storytelling
4/16, 6-8pm central, zoom -
Blog/Review: Contemporary Stories are Failing Kids (And Adults)
One of the little-known facts about J.R.R. Tolkien was that he absolutely despised Disney. So great was his hatred of Disney that he described it as “vulgar,” said that Walt Disney was “a cheat,” and even said that, at times, the animation gave him nausea. The reason for this wasn’t because he had an arbitrary hatred for the mouse running around on screen. Rather his hatred of Disney was two-fold, beginning when he saw the 1937 adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in theaters with C.S. Lewis. For one thing, he saw it as a total bastardization of the original tale published by the Grimm Brothers that was made purely for money’s sake. For another thing, he disliked how the movie shied away from the grimness of the source material. The dark aspects of fairytales were something that Tolkien greatly appreciated, as he was a staunch believer that if a story for children couldn’t also be enjoyed by adults, then it wasn’t worth writing. In fact, in his essay, On Fairy Stories, he bemoaned the fact that in recent years, fairy tales have largely been associated with children, leading to their infantilization, something Disney’s adaptation of Snow White added to.
If Tolkien had only lived to see the slop being pushed on our kids, his already heartfelt disgust towards the infantilization of fairytales and stories in general would have turned into the fury of a thousand suns.
The contemporary fairytales being pushed on kids today are excessively childish. If they aren’t stories that are based on existing intellectual properties (such as any number of Disney-owned franchises) it’s online entertainment such as the stuff on Disney+. Just think about the last time that you saw a kids’ show that treated kids like they were capable of thinking for themselves, that treated them as having the potential to grow past their current mindset. Bluey is one such show from what I’ve heard, but many of the shows out there treat kids as kids. They don’t treat them as young humans who are gradually maturing, navigating the complexities of growing up.
As an example, think about the difference between Miss Rachel and Mr. Rogers. Miss Rachel is known for her infantilized online persona aimed at teaching kids various lessons about things (including Left-wing politics for some reason.) Meanwhile, Mr. Rogers spoke to young kids as an adult. He came at it not as though he was trying to be one of them, but as a wise grandfather. He reached both kids and adults, something that Miss Rachel can’t do.
A similar contrast can be found in stories today versus stories written in the past. Even if you go back 10-20 years, kids’ stories were a lot heavier than they are today and could be enjoyed by any age bracket. For example, How to Train Your Dragon came out in 2010, and, while it primarily targeted kids, it had themes in it that went a lot deeper than one would think. It dealt with themes of courage, family expectations, trying to navigate growing up, etc. At one point, Stoic straight-up disowns Hiccup. The second movie that came out in 2014 had some heavy themes in it. However, fast forward to today, and even the third HTTYD movie felt dumbed down compared to the previous ones. Look at the spin-off show on Hulu, and the contrast is even more stark.
Additionally, many of the stories targeted towards kids and adults nowadays have become soulless cash-grabs, often grifting off of pre-existing franchises. To make things worse, the morals they teach are few and far between, if there even are any.
One example of this is Pixar’s newest movie, Hoppers. While it doesn’t have anything blatantly objectionable in it, a deep dive into the morals taught in the story and the political messaging is disturbing. The YouTuber, Real-Life Fake Wizard did a deep dive into the messaging subtly hidden throughout the movie and not only does it justify the main character’s terrible behavior as a Greta Thunberg-like environmental activist, but it also justifies killing people for the sake of the state.
Remember this is a movie aimed towards children pushing an anti-human, Leftist agenda on them covered up with smiles and laughter.
On that note, one of the things that made stories in the past appealing to adults and children were the strong moral lessons that they taught and the characters overcoming bad situations. This was important as not only did these stories give children profound truths that they could be reminded of throughout life, but they also prepared them in some ways for the adult world. In that way, the stories got better as you grew up as you could now interpret them through a wiser, more experienced lens. Nowadays, however, our contemporary folklore is encountering a massive divide between kids’ stories and adult stories.
To illustrate this point, just recently I went to Walmart and checked out their book section with my mom. The kids’ section was a small area, with mainly coloring books and picture books based on various franchises, most of them owned by Disney. The rest of the book area was a handful of young adult novels such as The Hunger Games and a few Percy Jackson and the Olympians books scattered around (with the main one being the Nico x Will LGBTQ+ adventure) hidden amongst the books aimed towards adults.
Several of these books I recognized from the #booktube and #booktok community as having explicit content in them, with the most notable ones being the Court of Thorns and Roses series and the Fourth Wing series, both of which, I believe, have been banned in public schools. I also saw the sequel to the infamous book, Haunting Adeline, a book which has become known for its glorification of stalking, physical abuse, and rape (including penetration with a gun.)
I wish I was making this up. That isn’t even mentioning the trigger warning on the first page of the book.
This goes to show how not only have stories aimed towards kids lost the plot (often literally) of being appealing to children while also appealing to adults with the moral messaging and overall story, but the divide between adult literature and kids’ is growing vastly. Even with young adult novels intending to be the buffer zone between kids’ books and adult literature, you still often lack clear morals and a sense of good and evil. Often, you are even being exposed to – at best – softcore porn. These stories don’t help you grow up; they dumb you down by appealing not to a higher sense of morality, but to your base impulses.
While children’s literature used to be considered to be stories for adults told amongst the elders of the village that children were privy to, learning profound universal morals and values along the way, what could be considered as modern fairytales have lost the plot entirely. They have either become something to meet kids where they are at and, in some ways, keep them there, or their idea of adult doesn’t come from the morals within the tale, but rather the increasingly explicit lack thereof. In this way, neither kids nor adults are maturing by reading these tales. They’re only being corrupted to something animalistic.
Until next time,
M.J.
#Blog #BookReview #Books #Contemporary #Fairytales #Fantasy #fiction #Folktales #Kids #KidsShows #KidsStories #movies #OpinionPeice #Review #Stories #Writing -
Blog/Review: Contemporary Stories are Failing Kids (And Adults)
One of the little-known facts about J.R.R. Tolkien was that he absolutely despised Disney. So great was his hatred of Disney that he described it as “vulgar,” said that Walt Disney was “a cheat,” and even said that, at times, the animation gave him nausea. The reason for this wasn’t because he had an arbitrary hatred for the mouse running around on screen. Rather his hatred of Disney was two-fold, beginning when he saw the 1937 adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in theaters with C.S. Lewis. For one thing, he saw it as a total bastardization of the original tale published by the Grimm Brothers that was made purely for money’s sake. For another thing, he disliked how the movie shied away from the grimness of the source material. The dark aspects of fairytales were something that Tolkien greatly appreciated, as he was a staunch believer that if a story for children couldn’t also be enjoyed by adults, then it wasn’t worth writing. In fact, in his essay, On Fairy Stories, he bemoaned the fact that in recent years, fairy tales have largely been associated with children, leading to their infantilization, something Disney’s adaptation of Snow White added to.
If Tolkien had only lived to see the slop being pushed on our kids, his already heartfelt disgust towards the infantilization of fairytales and stories in general would have turned into the fury of a thousand suns.
The contemporary fairytales being pushed on kids today are excessively childish. If they aren’t stories that are based on existing intellectual properties (such as any number of Disney-owned franchises) it’s online entertainment such as the stuff on Disney+. Just think about the last time that you saw a kids’ show that treated kids like they were capable of thinking for themselves, that treated them as having the potential to grow past their current mindset. Bluey is one such show from what I’ve heard, but many of the shows out there treat kids as kids. They don’t treat them as young humans who are gradually maturing, navigating the complexities of growing up.
As an example, think about the difference between Miss Rachel and Mr. Rogers. Miss Rachel is known for her infantilized online persona aimed at teaching kids various lessons about things (including Left-wing politics for some reason.) Meanwhile, Mr. Rogers spoke to young kids as an adult. He came at it not as though he was trying to be one of them, but as a wise grandfather. He reached both kids and adults, something that Miss Rachel can’t do.
A similar contrast can be found in stories today versus stories written in the past. Even if you go back 10-20 years, kids’ stories were a lot heavier than they are today and could be enjoyed by any age bracket. For example, How to Train Your Dragon came out in 2010, and, while it primarily targeted kids, it had themes in it that went a lot deeper than one would think. It dealt with themes of courage, family expectations, trying to navigate growing up, etc. At one point, Stoic straight-up disowns Hiccup. The second movie that came out in 2014 had some heavy themes in it. However, fast forward to today, and even the third HTTYD movie felt dumbed down compared to the previous ones. Look at the spin-off show on Hulu, and the contrast is even more stark.
Additionally, many of the stories targeted towards kids and adults nowadays have become soulless cash-grabs, often grifting off of pre-existing franchises. To make things worse, the morals they teach are few and far between, if there even are any.
One example of this is Pixar’s newest movie, Hoppers. While it doesn’t have anything blatantly objectionable in it, a deep dive into the morals taught in the story and the political messaging is disturbing. The YouTuber, Real-Life Fake Wizard did a deep dive into the messaging subtly hidden throughout the movie and not only does it justify the main character’s terrible behavior as a Greta Thunberg-like environmental activist, but it also justifies killing people for the sake of the state.
Remember this is a movie aimed towards children pushing an anti-human, Leftist agenda on them covered up with smiles and laughter.
On that note, one of the things that made stories in the past appealing to adults and children were the strong moral lessons that they taught and the characters overcoming bad situations. This was important as not only did these stories give children profound truths that they could be reminded of throughout life, but they also prepared them in some ways for the adult world. In that way, the stories got better as you grew up as you could now interpret them through a wiser, more experienced lens. Nowadays, however, our contemporary folklore is encountering a massive divide between kids’ stories and adult stories.
To illustrate this point, just recently I went to Walmart and checked out their book section with my mom. The kids’ section was a small area, with mainly coloring books and picture books based on various franchises, most of them owned by Disney. The rest of the book area was a handful of young adult novels such as The Hunger Games and a few Percy Jackson and the Olympians books scattered around (with the main one being the Nico x Will LGBTQ+ adventure) hidden amongst the books aimed towards adults.
Several of these books I recognized from the #booktube and #booktok community as having explicit content in them, with the most notable ones being the Court of Thorns and Roses series and the Fourth Wing series, both of which, I believe, have been banned in public schools. I also saw the sequel to the infamous book, Haunting Adeline, a book which has become known for its glorification of stalking, physical abuse, and rape (including penetration with a gun.)
I wish I was making this up. That isn’t even mentioning the trigger warning on the first page of the book.
This goes to show how not only have stories aimed towards kids lost the plot (often literally) of being appealing to children while also appealing to adults with the moral messaging and overall story, but the divide between adult literature and kids’ is growing vastly. Even with young adult novels intending to be the buffer zone between kids’ books and adult literature, you still often lack clear morals and a sense of good and evil. Often, you are even being exposed to – at best – softcore porn. These stories don’t help you grow up; they dumb you down by appealing not to a higher sense of morality, but to your base impulses.
While children’s literature used to be considered to be stories for adults told amongst the elders of the village that children were privy to, learning profound universal morals and values along the way, what could be considered as modern fairytales have lost the plot entirely. They have either become something to meet kids where they are at and, in some ways, keep them there, or their idea of adult doesn’t come from the morals within the tale, but rather the increasingly explicit lack thereof. In this way, neither kids nor adults are maturing by reading these tales. They’re only being corrupted to something animalistic.
Until next time,
M.J.
#Blog #BookReview #Books #Contemporary #Fairytales #Fantasy #fiction #Folktales #Kids #KidsShows #KidsStories #movies #OpinionPeice #Review #Stories #Writing -
Blog/Review: Contemporary Stories are Failing Kids (And Adults)
One of the little-known facts about J.R.R. Tolkien was that he absolutely despised Disney. So great was his hatred of Disney that he described it as “vulgar,” said that Walt Disney was “a cheat,” and even said that, at times, the animation gave him nausea. The reason for this wasn’t because he had an arbitrary hatred for the mouse running around on screen. Rather his hatred of Disney was two-fold, beginning when he saw the 1937 adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in theaters with C.S. Lewis. For one thing, he saw it as a total bastardization of the original tale published by the Grimm Brothers that was made purely for money’s sake. For another thing, he disliked how the movie shied away from the grimness of the source material. The dark aspects of fairytales were something that Tolkien greatly appreciated, as he was a staunch believer that if a story for children couldn’t also be enjoyed by adults, then it wasn’t worth writing. In fact, in his essay, On Fairy Stories, he bemoaned the fact that in recent years, fairy tales have largely been associated with children, leading to their infantilization, something Disney’s adaptation of Snow White added to.
If Tolkien had only lived to see the slop being pushed on our kids, his already heartfelt disgust towards the infantilization of fairytales and stories in general would have turned into the fury of a thousand suns.
The contemporary fairytales being pushed on kids today are excessively childish. If they aren’t stories that are based on existing intellectual properties (such as any number of Disney-owned franchises) it’s online entertainment such as the stuff on Disney+. Just think about the last time that you saw a kids’ show that treated kids like they were capable of thinking for themselves, that treated them as having the potential to grow past their current mindset. Bluey is one such show from what I’ve heard, but many of the shows out there treat kids as kids. They don’t treat them as young humans who are gradually maturing, navigating the complexities of growing up.
As an example, think about the difference between Miss Rachel and Mr. Rogers. Miss Rachel is known for her infantilized online persona aimed at teaching kids various lessons about things (including Left-wing politics for some reason.) Meanwhile, Mr. Rogers spoke to young kids as an adult. He came at it not as though he was trying to be one of them, but as a wise grandfather. He reached both kids and adults, something that Miss Rachel can’t do.
A similar contrast can be found in stories today versus stories written in the past. Even if you go back 10-20 years, kids’ stories were a lot heavier than they are today and could be enjoyed by any age bracket. For example, How to Train Your Dragon came out in 2010, and, while it primarily targeted kids, it had themes in it that went a lot deeper than one would think. It dealt with themes of courage, family expectations, trying to navigate growing up, etc. At one point, Stoic straight-up disowns Hiccup. The second movie that came out in 2014 had some heavy themes in it. However, fast forward to today, and even the third HTTYD movie felt dumbed down compared to the previous ones. Look at the spin-off show on Hulu, and the contrast is even more stark.
Additionally, many of the stories targeted towards kids and adults nowadays have become soulless cash-grabs, often grifting off of pre-existing franchises. To make things worse, the morals they teach are few and far between, if there even are any.
One example of this is Pixar’s newest movie, Hoppers. While it doesn’t have anything blatantly objectionable in it, a deep dive into the morals taught in the story and the political messaging is disturbing. The YouTuber, Real-Life Fake Wizard did a deep dive into the messaging subtly hidden throughout the movie and not only does it justify the main character’s terrible behavior as a Greta Thunberg-like environmental activist, but it also justifies killing people for the sake of the state.
Remember this is a movie aimed towards children pushing an anti-human, Leftist agenda on them covered up with smiles and laughter.
On that note, one of the things that made stories in the past appealing to adults and children were the strong moral lessons that they taught and the characters overcoming bad situations. This was important as not only did these stories give children profound truths that they could be reminded of throughout life, but they also prepared them in some ways for the adult world. In that way, the stories got better as you grew up as you could now interpret them through a wiser, more experienced lens. Nowadays, however, our contemporary folklore is encountering a massive divide between kids’ stories and adult stories.
To illustrate this point, just recently I went to Walmart and checked out their book section with my mom. The kids’ section was a small area, with mainly coloring books and picture books based on various franchises, most of them owned by Disney. The rest of the book area was a handful of young adult novels such as The Hunger Games and a few Percy Jackson and the Olympians books scattered around (with the main one being the Nico x Will LGBTQ+ adventure) hidden amongst the books aimed towards adults.
Several of these books I recognized from the #booktube and #booktok community as having explicit content in them, with the most notable ones being the Court of Thorns and Roses series and the Fourth Wing series, both of which, I believe, have been banned in public schools. I also saw the sequel to the infamous book, Haunting Adeline, a book which has become known for its glorification of stalking, physical abuse, and rape (including penetration with a gun.)
I wish I was making this up. That isn’t even mentioning the trigger warning on the first page of the book.
This goes to show how not only have stories aimed towards kids lost the plot (often literally) of being appealing to children while also appealing to adults with the moral messaging and overall story, but the divide between adult literature and kids’ is growing vastly. Even with young adult novels intending to be the buffer zone between kids’ books and adult literature, you still often lack clear morals and a sense of good and evil. Often, you are even being exposed to – at best – softcore porn. These stories don’t help you grow up; they dumb you down by appealing not to a higher sense of morality, but to your base impulses.
While children’s literature used to be considered to be stories for adults told amongst the elders of the village that children were privy to, learning profound universal morals and values along the way, what could be considered as modern fairytales have lost the plot entirely. They have either become something to meet kids where they are at and, in some ways, keep them there, or their idea of adult doesn’t come from the morals within the tale, but rather the increasingly explicit lack thereof. In this way, neither kids nor adults are maturing by reading these tales. They’re only being corrupted to something animalistic.
Until next time,
M.J.
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Blog/Review: Contemporary Stories are Failing Kids (And Adults)
One of the little-known facts about J.R.R. Tolkien was that he absolutely despised Disney. So great was his hatred of Disney that he described it as “vulgar,” said that Walt Disney was “a cheat,” and even said that, at times, the animation gave him nausea. The reason for this wasn’t because he had an arbitrary hatred for the mouse running around on screen. Rather his hatred of Disney was two-fold, beginning when he saw the 1937 adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in theaters with C.S. Lewis. For one thing, he saw it as a total bastardization of the original tale published by the Grimm Brothers that was made purely for money’s sake. For another thing, he disliked how the movie shied away from the grimness of the source material. The dark aspects of fairytales were something that Tolkien greatly appreciated, as he was a staunch believer that if a story for children couldn’t also be enjoyed by adults, then it wasn’t worth writing. In fact, in his essay, On Fairy Stories, he bemoaned the fact that in recent years, fairy tales have largely been associated with children, leading to their infantilization, something Disney’s adaptation of Snow White added to.
If Tolkien had only lived to see the slop being pushed on our kids, his already heartfelt disgust towards the infantilization of fairytales and stories in general would have turned into the fury of a thousand suns.
The contemporary fairytales being pushed on kids today are excessively childish. If they aren’t stories that are based on existing intellectual properties (such as any number of Disney-owned franchises) it’s online entertainment such as the stuff on Disney+. Just think about the last time that you saw a kids’ show that treated kids like they were capable of thinking for themselves, that treated them as having the potential to grow past their current mindset. Bluey is one such show from what I’ve heard, but many of the shows out there treat kids as kids. They don’t treat them as young humans who are gradually maturing, navigating the complexities of growing up.
As an example, think about the difference between Miss Rachel and Mr. Rogers. Miss Rachel is known for her infantilized online persona aimed at teaching kids various lessons about things (including Left-wing politics for some reason.) Meanwhile, Mr. Rogers spoke to young kids as an adult. He came at it not as though he was trying to be one of them, but as a wise grandfather. He reached both kids and adults, something that Miss Rachel can’t do.
A similar contrast can be found in stories today versus stories written in the past. Even if you go back 10-20 years, kids’ stories were a lot heavier than they are today and could be enjoyed by any age bracket. For example, How to Train Your Dragon came out in 2010, and, while it primarily targeted kids, it had themes in it that went a lot deeper than one would think. It dealt with themes of courage, family expectations, trying to navigate growing up, etc. At one point, Stoic straight-up disowns Hiccup. The second movie that came out in 2014 had some heavy themes in it. However, fast forward to today, and even the third HTTYD movie felt dumbed down compared to the previous ones. Look at the spin-off show on Hulu, and the contrast is even more stark.
Additionally, many of the stories targeted towards kids and adults nowadays have become soulless cash-grabs, often grifting off of pre-existing franchises. To make things worse, the morals they teach are few and far between, if there even are any.
One example of this is Pixar’s newest movie, Hoppers. While it doesn’t have anything blatantly objectionable in it, a deep dive into the morals taught in the story and the political messaging is disturbing. The YouTuber, Real-Life Fake Wizard did a deep dive into the messaging subtly hidden throughout the movie and not only does it justify the main character’s terrible behavior as a Greta Thunberg-like environmental activist, but it also justifies killing people for the sake of the state.
Remember this is a movie aimed towards children pushing an anti-human, Leftist agenda on them covered up with smiles and laughter.
On that note, one of the things that made stories in the past appealing to adults and children were the strong moral lessons that they taught and the characters overcoming bad situations. This was important as not only did these stories give children profound truths that they could be reminded of throughout life, but they also prepared them in some ways for the adult world. In that way, the stories got better as you grew up as you could now interpret them through a wiser, more experienced lens. Nowadays, however, our contemporary folklore is encountering a massive divide between kids’ stories and adult stories.
To illustrate this point, just recently I went to Walmart and checked out their book section with my mom. The kids’ section was a small area, with mainly coloring books and picture books based on various franchises, most of them owned by Disney. The rest of the book area was a handful of young adult novels such as The Hunger Games and a few Percy Jackson and the Olympians books scattered around (with the main one being the Nico x Will LGBTQ+ adventure) hidden amongst the books aimed towards adults.
Several of these books I recognized from the #booktube and #booktok community as having explicit content in them, with the most notable ones being the Court of Thorns and Roses series and the Fourth Wing series, both of which, I believe, have been banned in public schools. I also saw the sequel to the infamous book, Haunting Adeline, a book which has become known for its glorification of stalking, physical abuse, and rape (including penetration with a gun.)
I wish I was making this up. That isn’t even mentioning the trigger warning on the first page of the book.
This goes to show how not only have stories aimed towards kids lost the plot (often literally) of being appealing to children while also appealing to adults with the moral messaging and overall story, but the divide between adult literature and kids’ is growing vastly. Even with young adult novels intending to be the buffer zone between kids’ books and adult literature, you still often lack clear morals and a sense of good and evil. Often, you are even being exposed to – at best – softcore porn. These stories don’t help you grow up; they dumb you down by appealing not to a higher sense of morality, but to your base impulses.
While children’s literature used to be considered to be stories for adults told amongst the elders of the village that children were privy to, learning profound universal morals and values along the way, what could be considered as modern fairytales have lost the plot entirely. They have either become something to meet kids where they are at and, in some ways, keep them there, or their idea of adult doesn’t come from the morals within the tale, but rather the increasingly explicit lack thereof. In this way, neither kids nor adults are maturing by reading these tales. They’re only being corrupted to something animalistic.
Until next time,
M.J.
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Blog/Review: Contemporary Stories are Failing Kids (And Adults)
One of the little-known facts about J.R.R. Tolkien was that he absolutely despised Disney. So great was his hatred of Disney that he described it as “vulgar,” said that Walt Disney was “a cheat,” and even said that, at times, the animation gave him nausea. The reason for this wasn’t because he had an arbitrary hatred for the mouse running around on screen. Rather his hatred of Disney was two-fold, beginning when he saw the 1937 adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in theaters with C.S. Lewis. For one thing, he saw it as a total bastardization of the original tale published by the Grimm Brothers that was made purely for money’s sake. For another thing, he disliked how the movie shied away from the grimness of the source material. The dark aspects of fairytales were something that Tolkien greatly appreciated, as he was a staunch believer that if a story for children couldn’t also be enjoyed by adults, then it wasn’t worth writing. In fact, in his essay, On Fairy Stories, he bemoaned the fact that in recent years, fairy tales have largely been associated with children, leading to their infantilization, something Disney’s adaptation of Snow White added to.
If Tolkien had only lived to see the slop being pushed on our kids, his already heartfelt disgust towards the infantilization of fairytales and stories in general would have turned into the fury of a thousand suns.
The contemporary fairytales being pushed on kids today are excessively childish. If they aren’t stories that are based on existing intellectual properties (such as any number of Disney-owned franchises) it’s online entertainment such as the stuff on Disney+. Just think about the last time that you saw a kids’ show that treated kids like they were capable of thinking for themselves, that treated them as having the potential to grow past their current mindset. Bluey is one such show from what I’ve heard, but many of the shows out there treat kids as kids. They don’t treat them as young humans who are gradually maturing, navigating the complexities of growing up.
As an example, think about the difference between Miss Rachel and Mr. Rogers. Miss Rachel is known for her infantilized online persona aimed at teaching kids various lessons about things (including Left-wing politics for some reason.) Meanwhile, Mr. Rogers spoke to young kids as an adult. He came at it not as though he was trying to be one of them, but as a wise grandfather. He reached both kids and adults, something that Miss Rachel can’t do.
A similar contrast can be found in stories today versus stories written in the past. Even if you go back 10-20 years, kids’ stories were a lot heavier than they are today and could be enjoyed by any age bracket. For example, How to Train Your Dragon came out in 2010, and, while it primarily targeted kids, it had themes in it that went a lot deeper than one would think. It dealt with themes of courage, family expectations, trying to navigate growing up, etc. At one point, Stoic straight-up disowns Hiccup. The second movie that came out in 2014 had some heavy themes in it. However, fast forward to today, and even the third HTTYD movie felt dumbed down compared to the previous ones. Look at the spin-off show on Hulu, and the contrast is even more stark.
Additionally, many of the stories targeted towards kids and adults nowadays have become soulless cash-grabs, often grifting off of pre-existing franchises. To make things worse, the morals they teach are few and far between, if there even are any.
One example of this is Pixar’s newest movie, Hoppers. While it doesn’t have anything blatantly objectionable in it, a deep dive into the morals taught in the story and the political messaging is disturbing. The YouTuber, Real-Life Fake Wizard did a deep dive into the messaging subtly hidden throughout the movie and not only does it justify the main character’s terrible behavior as a Greta Thunberg-like environmental activist, but it also justifies killing people for the sake of the state.
Remember this is a movie aimed towards children pushing an anti-human, Leftist agenda on them covered up with smiles and laughter.
On that note, one of the things that made stories in the past appealing to adults and children were the strong moral lessons that they taught and the characters overcoming bad situations. This was important as not only did these stories give children profound truths that they could be reminded of throughout life, but they also prepared them in some ways for the adult world. In that way, the stories got better as you grew up as you could now interpret them through a wiser, more experienced lens. Nowadays, however, our contemporary folklore is encountering a massive divide between kids’ stories and adult stories.
To illustrate this point, just recently I went to Walmart and checked out their book section with my mom. The kids’ section was a small area, with mainly coloring books and picture books based on various franchises, most of them owned by Disney. The rest of the book area was a handful of young adult novels such as The Hunger Games and a few Percy Jackson and the Olympians books scattered around (with the main one being the Nico x Will LGBTQ+ adventure) hidden amongst the books aimed towards adults.
Several of these books I recognized from the #booktube and #booktok community as having explicit content in them, with the most notable ones being the Court of Thorns and Roses series and the Fourth Wing series, both of which, I believe, have been banned in public schools. I also saw the sequel to the infamous book, Haunting Adeline, a book which has become known for its glorification of stalking, physical abuse, and rape (including penetration with a gun.)
I wish I was making this up. That isn’t even mentioning the trigger warning on the first page of the book.
This goes to show how not only have stories aimed towards kids lost the plot (often literally) of being appealing to children while also appealing to adults with the moral messaging and overall story, but the divide between adult literature and kids’ is growing vastly. Even with young adult novels intending to be the buffer zone between kids’ books and adult literature, you still often lack clear morals and a sense of good and evil. Often, you are even being exposed to – at best – softcore porn. These stories don’t help you grow up; they dumb you down by appealing not to a higher sense of morality, but to your base impulses.
While children’s literature used to be considered to be stories for adults told amongst the elders of the village that children were privy to, learning profound universal morals and values along the way, what could be considered as modern fairytales have lost the plot entirely. They have either become something to meet kids where they are at and, in some ways, keep them there, or their idea of adult doesn’t come from the morals within the tale, but rather the increasingly explicit lack thereof. In this way, neither kids nor adults are maturing by reading these tales. They’re only being corrupted to something animalistic.
Until next time,
M.J.
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📖 International Children's Book Day: Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
The Ugly Duckling, The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, The Emperor's New Clothes — timeless stories that shaped childhood imagination for generations. Andersen's fairy tales blend wonder with wisdom in ways that resonate with readers of all ages.
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#Fairies - how female sexuality was traditionally explored?
'Complex, dangerous, sexual beings': The centuries-old origins of current fairy fiction https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260331-the-centuries-old-origins-of-faerie-smut
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One incident in at least 28 years seems like a pretty good safety rate. It reads like the woman was doing the daftest thing possible one could imagine with a large wild animal - i.e literally using herself as bait to lure the poor confused creature away from the public area.
Are Germans no longer taught all those famous fairy tales when they're growing up?
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If you missed our live #Octocon Presents: @ce_murphy with Bone & Blood (a retelling of “Snow White, Rose Red”), you can still watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c9gk4LHVWE
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