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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-01-25 03:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #2580 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2580 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-01-25 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope, it was a ballerina he was in love with. That's why the original Little Mermaid is a ballet.

(Anonymous) 2014-01-26 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
I do remember that from the (EXCELLENT) Hans Christian Anderson movie...why did I think it was to a man?

*googles* ah! It's a theory from some historian dude. "Rictor Norton, in My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries, theorizes that The Little Mermaid was written as a love letter by Hans Christian Andersen to Edvard Collin. This is based on a letter Andersen wrote to Collin, upon hearing of Collin’s engagement to a young woman, around the same time that the Little Mermaid was written. Andersen wrote ”I languish for you as for a pretty Calabrian wench... my sentiments for you are those of a woman. The femininity of my nature and our friendship must remain a mystery.”[11] Norton interprets this as a declaration of Andersen's homosexual love for Collin."
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[personal profile] arcadiaego 2014-01-26 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Anderson does seem to have been bisexual, if for bisexual we're saying 'obsessively in love with people without ever actually doing anything sensible about it'. The ballerina was one, but there were others.