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⌈ Secret Post #5380 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Bleeh, I know the feeling. Fairy Tales are pretty much the basis of every and all story telling- but you could not be more completely right that the only thing a person or interpreter thinks to do these days is to make it as gritty and uncomfortable as possible.

Like, sure have a different interpretation /please!/, but not the same dark and pathetic shit everyone and their teenage angsty children came up with fifteen years ago, like really.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd really love some examples, especially of more recent works. I'm one of the anonymice upthread who's had no trouble finding non-dark-and-gritty fairy tale retellings to read, and in particular almost all of the dark and gritty retellings I can think of are from 20+ years ago, e.g. The Armless Maiden anthology edited by Terri Windling; some of the stories in Snow White, Blood Red and its sequel anthologies edited by Windling and Ellen Datlow; Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper; The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter; Deerskin by Robin McKinley.

(Also, the only one of the above books that I'd categorize as "dark and pathetic shit" is Beauty by Tepper. The rest are varying degrees of worth reading, imo, though of course the anthologies include some duds as virtually all anthologies do.)