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⌈ Secret Post #2596 ⌋

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[The Croods]


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[Elementary]


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[Final Fantasy XIII]


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[SCP Foundation]


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[Philip Seymour Hoffman]


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[Twin Peaks]


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[Richard Armitage]


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[Reign]


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[The Hobbit]


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[Hunger Games]


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[Don't Hug Me I'm Scared]


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[Teen Wolf]


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[Panic! at The Disco/Dallon Weekes]















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Fairy Tales and Fables

[kaijinscendre]

Do any of yall have any fairy tales and fables you grew up loving?

I have one called, "The Talking Eggs," by Robert D. San Souchi. It is a Southern fairytale which is probably why I loved it so much (not as many of those). It is about two sisters (one hard working and sweet, the other lazy and mean) and what happens when they meet an old lady with magical powers. I am seriously thinking of buying the book from Amazon for nostalgia purposes.

I also loved Aesop's Fables and one story called the Twelve Dancing Princesses. A book of fairy tales I had described the trees from the story so beautifully, I am sad they are not real!

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[dethtoll]

My very first words -- after months of doctors telling mom I'd never talk -- were "FEE FI FO FUM I SMELL THE BLOOD OF AN ENGLISHMAN" so there's that.

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[(Anonymous)]

Oh my gosh, I read that book at school and loved it when I was little, but I could never find it again because I'd forgotten the name and author. Now I know, thanks!

But that reminds me that there was another story (it probably counts as a fable) I loved and still can't find again. It's about a family with lots of kids who all get turned into household objects and foods by an evil/trickster something or other, and the mother comes home and has to guess which thing is which child before they can be turned back into themselves.

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[intrigueing]

I had a book of the Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales that I read and re-read since I was like, six. I think I graduated from picture books to real reading with that book. I had a ton of faves from that one.

From Hans Christian Andersen: The Nightingale, The Fir Tree, The Snow Queen, The Little Mermaid.

From Charles Perrault: Puss in Boots, The Wonderful Sheep and East of the Sun, West of the Moon.

Tatterhood.

The Paper Bag Princess.

So many others.

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[(Anonymous)]

I love Sleeping Beauty and I don't really know why, other than to blame the gorgeousness of the Disney version for heavily influencing me as a child. There are at least three retellings of the story in my head waiting to spring to life once I work out the best way to tell them.

(Also, I am totally stalking this thread. My current fic is all about fairy tales coming to life, and I need subplot ideas.)

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[(Anonymous)]

I always loved The Six Swans.

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[making_excuses]

I grew up with the depressing stories of H.C Andersen and so on, so my favorites were The Little Mermaid, The Little Match Girl, The Little Princess* and also the stories about Askeladden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askeladden)

I can probably still retell these, because I was told them over and over again, and then I started reading them myself which reminds me I need to read my collected H.C Andersen books again.

*There was a trend in my favourite fairy tales it seems, girls having an awful life/time then mostly dying, wonder what a shrink would make of that...

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[(Anonymous)]

Ooh yay i love fairytales!

I read all the Grimm's fairytales growing up, and the Hans Christian Andersen ones.

We also had books on Norse mythology, Scottish mythology, and Russian mythology. I think my favourite was the tale of Baba Yaga, and Vasilisa the snow girl.

We were also lucky enough to have a book on Indigenous Australian myths & folklore. I remember a story about ice giants roaming the land, and another one about how, after someone dies, you have to avoid mentioning them for a certain period of time, otherwise their spirit will stick around. There was also the tale of the seven sisters (the Pleiades constellation) and the Milky Way.

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[littlestbirds]

I loved all kinds of fairy tales, but especially this book:

I found a used copy a few months ago and it made me stupidly happy.

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[ibbity]

I liked the Grimm Brothers' "The Juniper Tree" and "The Robber Bridegroom." I was a morbid little kid.

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[iceyred]

My mother has a big coffee table book about gnomes. I love that book. She also had The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks. http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Mandarin-Ducks-Puffin-Unicorn/dp/0780756355

I read her copy of Aesop over and over again. 'The Oak and the Reed,' 'The North Wind and the Sun,' and 'The Ant and the Grasshopper' are my favorites.

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[inkdust]

My favorite was The Elves and the Shoemaker. So happy!

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[misty_anon]

I loved The Twelve Dancing Princesses when I was a kid. I disagreed with the ending though. I was convinced the soldier would marry the youngest princess, so him choosing the eldest made me peeved. When I was older, I realised that the princesses stayed silent while all those who failed to guess got beheaded. I could never look at the story the same way again.

I also have a deep love for Cinderella and the ton of movie versions there are out there. My favourites of those are "The Slipper and the Rose" and "The Glass Slipper".

Hans Christian Andersen's stories usually made me cry, especially The Little Matchgirl.

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[mekkio]

The Pied Piper

Though I like to think that the Piper stole this kids to take them to another town that had honest but childless folk and that those kids flourished there.

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[al28894]

Puteri Gunung Ledang. It's a story about a princess of Java was arranged to wed the Sultan of Malacca. However, she said that she would marry anyone who does her requests, one of which is a bowl of the sultan's son. In the end, she revealed that it was all a trick; those requests were to see if the sultan really is a good and wise ruler as he says (he's not). Seeing that her puropse is now ruined, she retreated to Gunung Ledang (Mount Opir today) and it's said the she still roams to forests there...

I always loved the story when I was a kid. :D

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[(Anonymous)]

For me it was "The Boy Who Drew Cats." I didn't realize until much later that probably, the reason I loved it was because the hero's salvation is doing the thing that gets him in trouble everywhere else.

No doubt for related reasons I also really like "The Boy Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was."

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[fingalsanteater]

The Snow Queen
One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes

That one where the girl lives in a colony of cats. I forget the name.

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[(Anonymous)]

I really liked Rabbit and the Clay Men, which is, I believe, Native American and talks about the greed in mens hearts.

Basically, Rabbit makes the Clay Man because he is lonely, and he teaches the Clay Man how to steal food, and land, and other mens wives, and thinks it's all in good fun. But then Clay Man tries to steal everything in the whole world and Rabbit tries to call the Clay Man back, but he realizes too late he made the Clay Man without ears, and the Clay Man destroys and steals everything for himself, leaving Rabbit alone again and this time with nothing.

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[(Anonymous)]

Hans Christian Andersen's The Tinder Box, partly because of the descriptions of the three dogs (one had eyes as big as teacups, the second had eyes as big as mill-wheels, and the third had eyes as big as towers!), and partly because my grandma had a very large painting of a sort of montage of most of his more popular stories and I particularly liked the pair of eyes staring out of the hollow tree!

Also East of the Sun and West of the Moon. I loved that one. There was a YA book written fairly recently that retells the story in a brilliant way and I love that too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_(Durst_book)

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[tabaqui]

The Goose Girl! My all-time favorite fairytale, though gods knows why, it's gruesome. Also the Snow Queen.

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[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god

Someone else that knows the "Talking Eggs". Holy shit, I used to love that book. Even if it freaked my mom out.

I always loved fairy tales. Collected them like bugs when I was kid and I still do. I still have my fancy Grimm Fairy Book and my Anderson book. My mom used to read Aesop's Fables to me.

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[(Anonymous)]

When I hit puberty, puberty beat me with the ugly stick so I identified a lot more with the Beasts in Beauty and the Beast type stuff than with Beauty, and read every version I could get my hands on. As a little kid I had--still have, actually-- a beautifully illustrated edition of some of Andersen's stories, so when I was about eight and the school librarian was reading us "The Little Mermaid" everyone was asking about Ariel and Eric and I'm an obnoxious know-it-all so I told them that the little mermaid killed herself so she didn't have to kill her prince, and everyone started crying and freaking out. I think I freaked the librarian out too, especially since she wasn't reading the Disney adaptation and had to explain to all these traumatized kids that yes, she died. I also had an illustrated The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde. Some of his stuff gave the Grimm brothers a run for their money in the creepy department. "The Young King" scared the shit out of little me--and if I'm honest, it still does. I never remember the happy(ish) ending, just the soon to be crowned king's nightmares. I liked The Wild Swans, The Singing Springing Lark, Puss in Boots, and The Three Spinners.

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[(Anonymous)]

I've always loved White-Bear-King-Valemon, a traditional Norwegian fairy tale. I actually love a lot of Norwegian fairy tales, which I think is in large part due to listening to our Princess Märtha Louise reading them on television when I was a kid. I remember her to be a really good storyteller.

Also some H.C. Andersen stories, like the Tinderbox and The Wild Swans.

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[(Anonymous)]

Hm, not sure if it counts, but the first thing that came to mind was Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.