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Learn more about my MFA film on my website.

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Many folktales throughout different cultures feature a heroine being given the impossible task of sorting through grains/seeds– whether that be picking them from the ashes, from between each other, or from their rotting counterparts.

In this task, she often does as much as she can before submitting to a higher power, whether that power recognizes her virtue or she directly asks for help varies based on the culture and tale.

Featured are eight such tales, most of which can be categorized into “Snake Bride” (ATU 425) type tales or “Cinderella” (Both often ATU 510 in the folklore index– Cinderellas are specifically ATU 510A)

The circle puts them in no particular order, as “origins”  and lineages are muddied, and many of the current incarnations have been influenced by each other, though Ye Xian is the oldest known “complete” version of Cinderella.

Snake Brides:

Psyche, Eros and Psyche (Greco-Roman)

Sukkia, The Snake’s Bride (India)

Donan Sampakang Tale about Gansaļangi and Donan Sampakang (Indonesian)

Cinderellas:

Aschenputtel (German)

Tam, Tấm and Cám (Vietnam)

Unnamed Heroine The Wonderful Birch (Finish & Slavic)

Ye Xian (Chinese)

Neither (ATU 480B– Stepmother and Stepdaughter)

Vasilisa, Vasilisa the Wise (or Beautiful) (Slavic)

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It has been a delight for this piece, which I put so much work into to go tumblr-viral (by my standards at least!)-- I've loved seeing the delight at folks who are pleased at seeing one of their cultural figures, and to learn more about the heroines who face this trope who I did not include on this phenakistoscope:

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#And then we Romanian people have harap alb who was helped by an army of ants and bees#Mă omoară bacul se vede?

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Many folktales throughout different cultures feature a heroine being given the impossible task of sorting through grains/seeds– whether that be picking them from the ashes, from between each other, or from their rotting counterparts.

In this task, she often does as much as she can before submitting to a higher power, whether that power recognizes her virtue or she directly asks for help varies based on the culture and tale.

Featured are eight such tales, most of which can be categorized into “Snake Bride” (ATU 425) type tales or “Cinderella” (Both often ATU 510 in the folklore index– Cinderellas are specifically ATU 510A)

The circle puts them in no particular order, as “origins”  and lineages are muddied, and many of the current incarnations have been influenced by each other, though Ye Xian is the oldest known “complete” version of Cinderella.

Snake Brides:

Psyche, Eros and Psyche (Greco-Roman)

Sukkia, The Snake’s Bride (India)

Donan Sampakang Tale about Gansaļangi and Donan Sampakang (Indonesian)

Cinderellas:

Aschenputtel (German)

Tam, Tấm and Cám (Vietnam)

Unnamed Heroine The Wonderful Birch (Finish & Slavic)

Ye Xian (Chinese)

Neither (ATU 480B– Stepmother and Stepdaughter)

Vasilisa, Vasilisa the Wise (or Beautiful) (Slavic)

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@seananmcguire this seems in your wheelhouse

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Hi to the person who tagged @seananmcguire? I love her books I didn't know she had a tumblr. let me know if she's ever looking to hire an artist.

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Details from my installation Awake (2024) follow the website to check out the poems!

Materials:

English Ivy

String Lights

Artifical Vines

Lawn Chairs

acrylic paint

recycled plastic

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Some stills from my WIP project for my MFA, Dreaming

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The Fox Fairy/Spirit has a lot of variations throughout East Asia. I chose to base mine off the Huli Jing, and Tang dynasty dress. The shapeshifting, predominately female nine tailed fox also takes the form of a Kistune in Japan and Kumiho in Korea.

One of my favourite interpretations of this being is Good Hunting, the short story by Ken Liu (though not the Love, Death, and Robots inspired short animation! :( )

Original art by me! More phenakistoscopes on my page.

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the Selkie-- a well known celtic myth of shape-shifting beings, often women, who can only return to the water in their sealskins.

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Many folktales throughout different cultures feature a heroine being given the impossible task of sorting through grains/seeds-- whether that be picking them from the ashes, from between each other, or from their rotting counterparts.

In this task, she often does as much as she can before submitting to a higher power, whether that power recognizes her virtue or she directly asks for help varies based on the culture and tale.

Featured are eight such tales, most of which can be categorized into “Snake Bride” (ATU 425) type tales or “Cinderella” (Both often ATU 510 in the folklore index-- Cinderellas are specifically ATU 510A)

The circle puts them in no particular order, as “origins”  and lineages are muddied, and many of the current incarnations have been influenced by each other, though Ye Xian is the oldest known “complete” version of Cinderella.

Snake Brides:

Psyche, Eros and Psyche (Greco-Roman)

Sukkia, The Snake’s Bride (India)

Donan Sampakang Tale about Gansaļangi and Donan Sampakang (Indonesian)

Cinderellas:

Aschenputtel (German)

Tam, Tấm and Cám (Vietnam)

Unnamed Heroine The Wonderful Birch (Finish & Slavic)

Ye Xian (Chinese)

Neither (ATU 480B-- Stepmother and Stepdaughter)

Vasilisa, Vasilisa the Wise (or Beautiful) (Slavic)

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Among a myriad of overwhelming smells-- cold vomit and hot asphalt, the turtle smells something cool and fresh.

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The dawn rises on a carnival

Our turtle is a long way from the Lake

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The lights point towards the city.... 

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Annual old homestuck fanart repost

Happy 4.13.2023!

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Pt 1-- Baby turtles are often distracted by city lights and head towards highways and cities when they hatch. This usually proves deadly-- they are crushed by cars or attacked by predators as they head in the wrong direction! What do you think will happen to our turtle?

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Tumblr didn’t like the GIF version, so hopefully the video will loop nicely.

The manananggal is a type of Aswang. She is a vampire who splits her body in half at night. The top half hunts while the bottom half seeks shelter.

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The animation I did on the record from this post was finally posted online by the ladies who did the workshop with us! I’m really happy with how mine turned out, technically my first traditional animation!

The star/face is inspired by a motif of Georges Melies, one of my favourite filmmakers.

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Really pleased one of my first animations ever is getting so much love but I wanted to share that I’ve done some other record animations recently!

(an HD reshoot of the old one)

I have a third record animation but tumblr isn’t letting me load it, going to compress it again SOON.

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The animation I did on the record from this post was finally posted online by the ladies who did the workshop with us! I’m really happy with how mine turned out, technically my first traditional animation!

The star/face is inspired by a motif of Georges Melies, one of my favourite filmmakers.

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Everyone reblogging this all of a sudden I literally just shot an HD version

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reshot this animation while I was set up! Meilies inspired.