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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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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.

Is "The Three Spinners" the one about the very ugly ladies who come to help the prince's young bride spin the massive amount of flax she is supposed to work up, on the condition that she invites them to her wedding feast? And when they show up at the feast, the grateful bride treats them very courteously, but the prince is horrified, and rudely asks them how they got to be so ugly? And they explain that it was from spinning, so the prince decrees that his bride will never have to spin again.

That's the one. It's hilarious, and kinda the flip side to Rumpelstiltskin and all those stories where the girl not being able to spin gold or silk or whatever out of straw almost loses her her kid/her head.

I am so mad about people who have their old copies of books.

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