[aschenbroedel]

never ever getting over snow immediately recognising the evil queen disguised as a teenage girl through a low quality livestream out of the corner of her eye like not even looking at the screen and mira is like half a kilometre away from the camera doing tricks on a dragon and it takes snow literally one second to identify her because i guess the evil queens flight patterns are ingrained in snow deeply enough that she is able to identify them in mira even weakened by years in mirror prison

[myal7878]

I think about them a lot 🥹

[myal7878]

I like him a normal amount🥀

[gothmoth-is-dead]

you wake up and it's still 2014

[flutterdash]

Raven Queen parentification allegory could be so real if EAH were to engage with the concept of the fairytale Evil Queen being Snow White's stepmother in any real capacity. Which it generally does not but I think about it sometimes

Pov there is a girl who is your peer, but every adult in your life expects that you will take on the role of her mother. (They do not actually expect that you will be a successful or good mother, and see it as a matter of due course that you will have to be punished for this failing.) But you never asked for any of this and are just a kid like her with ambitions of your own- sometimes you resent her for how little responsibility is put upon her, and how much hope she has for her future (for which yours is being sacrificed). And then you kick yourself for that resentment, because letting yourself feel it feels like proving everyone right about you, and like failing her, just like how your own mother failed hers. (Which of course is to say, how your own mother failed you.)

[tapiorcas]

i started drawing this yesterday without even realising it was the eah anniversary omggg i loved this show growing up

[thelilylav]

The Good King and Evil Queen are so interesting conceptually because they’re so fundamentally different and yet. And yet.

And I think about Raven wondering if her mother was like her when she was young, and the small parts of EQ we got to see in the Class of Classics comic, and I wonder. Because the haunting thing about the two of them is how unnecessary they are. He’s her second husband, who she married after her fairy tale already played out. She could have married an evil king, or a villain of some other story, but she chose him.

Likewise, he chose her! He didn’t need to, he didn’t have to follow down that path and condemn himself to the marriage but he saw something in this evil, conniving, maniacal queen that spoke to him and made him consider staying.

There’s this completely empty period of time between the EQ going on her rampage and the end of her story where the two would have married, and it just makes me wonder. Was there a time where she considered changing? Was there a part of her she buried that only he could bring forward? Is that why she still asks Raven about him to this day? Was there a time between stories and wars and rebellions where the two were happy?

We will never know, but I like to think there was. That, for even just the briefest moment, an evil queen and good king got a moment of peace away from their world of extremes to simply exist in the middle.

[pontipines]

There's a very interesting line of dialogue in "The Unfairest of All" that occurs between Apple and her mother, in which Snow White says: "Everyone needs a smile and a friend, whether they know it or not. (The Evil Queen) Her most of all, I think. I blame myself a little.”

Snow White in the books is a very different person than in the series, kinder, and characterized by a specific emotion- regret! A little further down, she says, "What if I'd been a friend to her? That wasn't part of the story, but nothing says I couldn't have tried"

This makes me wonder: what if Snow White wasn't the only one who thought of it? After all, all of Raven's peers know that her father is the Good King, so her kindness is excessive. So what if (in view of the second marriage) it wasn't an arranged marriage to try to CONTAIN the evil queen? What if, at the time, the idea had been to marry EQ to a docile person who could "infect" her? Maybe peraphs on Snow sudgestion in an attempt of helping her?

[emcart]

verity + kettricken 😭

[withapple]

Briar wip i never finished

[thebestestbat]

the point of cloth mother is to fuck wire mother like crazy

[thebestestbat]

🔥🔥🔥

[eveydeevey]

Perks of being without sin:

Free to cast stones just whenever

[pontipines]

Some fun things I noticed in EAH that might be unintentionally references to the original stories:

The choice to have Hopper as Briar's suitor makes sense on two levels. First, because in the Grimm version, a frog announces Beauty's birth. Second, the Grimm version's frog prince fails to win the princess's heart. In both cases, there's a genetic component to Hopper's attraction to her.

Cedar in one episode said "The branch of my family" Pinocchio, in Collodi's story, is indeed born from a magical tree.

Blondie claims her family has royal blood: this is technically true! The Story of (princess) Pretty Goldilocks is a real fairy tale by Madame D'Anuloy. Not only that, but Goldilocks's lover is named Charming.

Holly has a lion cub, and says that pet lions are common in their kingdom—in Basile's version of Rapunzel, she's able to summon a lion by planting a seed.

In Alice Through the Looking Glass, one of the Queen of Hearts's servants is Ugly Duchess, owner of the Cheshire Cat. It makes sense, then, that Duchess is Lizzie's roommate and Kitty's friend.

In Alexander Dumas's "Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves," which is the text usually referred to when adapting Robin Hood, it is said that despite being only sixteen years old, Robin looks older: This match with Sparrow design! He is the only boy with a beard, and in fact he seems older than the other boys despite being their peers.

[marascomics]

Based on a scene from this chapter of my malora fic on ao3

[kittyenthusiast]

like mother like daughter

[acorvodaughter]

let's sleep with mama

[brawltogethernow]

Hey, your situationship is being mind controlled. ...Why did you nod confidently and pull out your chapstick.

[pontipines]

Not to make it all "fairy tales are about grooming" like I usually do, buuuuuuuut Epic Winter would have been much better if there had been a grooming (i'm being drammatic ofc).

So the Snow Queen is actually the classic Snow Queen, and Daring takes on Kyle's role, and the girls have to save him before the queen marries him. And yes, the Snow Queen is an adult. She's considerably older than Daring, like in her forties, and he's just eighteen.

And like, the party is made up of Darling, Dexter, Raven, Apple, Lizzie, and Faybelle: Dexter and Raven are in the same group so they can discuss both their relationship and the fact that Dexter always thought he should be the prince "to be saved," and now Daring is the double failure of the family. Similarly, Darling and Apple, for the same reason + being both canonical victims of molestation, might empathize. Faybelle decides to go to seek redemption from last time, and Lizzie decides to accompany her since she still cares about Daring despite everything (maybe she's the one who saves him).

[nocnitsa]