out of curiosity..

[hotness007]

would everyone post their favorite fairy tale growing up? it doesn't have to be well known or a disney movie or anything like that..it can be completely obscure and something i've never, ever heard of...i'm just really interested. thanks.

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[elf_chic_arwen]

hrmmmm favourite childhood fairytale, eh?? that takes me back like, super far... haha ;p uuuuumm.... hrm. ::ponder ponder ponder:: well, I really loved the Land Before Time when I was a little kid... and I love love loved the Lion King too. Still do ;) Those aren't really fairytales though, are they?? heh. I also liked Sleeping Beauty - that's kind of a fairy tale, yes? :D Probably one of my more favourite Disney-based-on-actual-fairytales movies ;)

[hotness007]

thanks colure!! :) i love all those too. sleeping beauty is what i would consider a "fairy tale" i think...but the others are great. sleeping beauty is one of my abs. favs too :D :D i've seen the play and the ballet and everything...i just love it. i was traumatized when i learned the real story disney interpreted is much darker and rather profane :o/ as are most original fairy tales. anyway, thanks.

[elf_chic_arwen]

hehe welcome! anytime :D oh wow!!! you've seen lots of sleeping beauty stuff, that's awesome!! I've only seen the movie...*sigh* ;) ohhhhh yeah see I haven't learned the bad stuff about my favourite fairytales, so I am as yet untainted :D hehe what'd you need it for anyway, just out of curiosity?

[hotness007]

hehe, yea, the movie's good; i was just looking more for tales in literature (which that one originally is; so it's all cool).
well, i came across a picture from one of my favs as a child that i'd forgotten about (the twelve dancing princesses) and it kind of inspired me to write (which is a huge deal b/c not only have i had MAJOR writer's block for almost a week now, but i haven't written anything creatively for pleasure all semester) and i got to thinking about how fairy tales were such a big part of my life and one of the reasons that i originally wanted to be an author..so i kind of just wanted to know, to hear some suggestions for good ones i haven't read and remember some that i'd forgotten. that's basically it :)

[sugershell]

I liked Cinderella. I like the idea of the girl with nothing getting a happy ending and being content through it all.

Or, oh, i remember a specific tale being cute and was reminded of it when seeing Joe's play the other night. The story of the boy and the jellyfish--where a boy was throwing jellyfish back into the water. A man inquires as to why he's doing that because it wont make a difference since there are so many. The boy throws one into the water and says "it made a difference to that one."

I always thought that one was cute.

[hotness007]

thanks babe. cinderella's cool too, yo.
the boy and the jellyfish was more kind of what i was looking for..ones i'd not heard or loved in my childhood and forgotten. i don't believe i know this story, so i'll have to look it up. sounds great. gracias.

[myyellowtshirt]

Well let's see. The first thing fairytale oriented I can really remember is /Into the Woods/ (although its not really a fairy tale in and of itself the baker and his wife was an original tale invented for the show.. That would have to be my favorite. Other good ones:

the ORIGINAL Cinderella (not the disney, also not really kid friendly)
the Asanti the Spider stories (I don't remeber if the name of the spider is correct but I know it started with an A)

[hotness007]

thank you gorgeous. i will have to look all of those up.

[hotness007]

is it anansi, maybe?