[ SECRET POST #2925 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2925 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[lb_lee]

Beauty and the Beast. As a wee freakchild, I always found reassurance that no matter what kind of weirdo you were, you could still find a love.

That said, even when I was a tiny, I always felt the ending was a total cop-out. Even now, I read adaptations of Beauty and the Beast with the intent of finding one where the Beast doesn't change back and he and his lady live happily ever after.

(Anons, now is the time for you to make your recs, if you got any! I've already hit Robin McKinley's Rose Daughter, Susan Miller's Beauty, and Mercedes Lackey's The Fire Rose, which so far is my favorite. BUT I HUNGER FOR MOAR.)

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[feotakahari]

Not an adaptation, but Slightly Damned discusses the myth: http://www.sdamned.com/comic/11082009/

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[lb_lee]

Thanks! Yup, that basically sums up my problems with the conventional story.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[philstar22]

What I'd like is some versions where it is the reverse: he's handsome and she's the beast.

I do remember reading an erotic version once where he did change into the prince, but she missed the beast and didn't really like the prince.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[lb_lee]

I would like that! And more same-sex versions too. The one you mention... that sounds like Francesca Lia Block's version. She had it in a book of short stories I think, The Rose and the Beast maybe?

...honestly, eesh, that fable is the most obvious choice for a transition metaphor I've ever seen.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[feotakahari]

I checked TV Tropes. It looks like the Vorkosigan Saga did something like that, in a short story called Labyrinth.

Re: Favorite Fairy Tale

[diet_poison]

oooh I would totally read that. (the gender-swap one)