We're all suffering here.

Dolls, fairy tales, a bit of witchery... Being a weird magical child at heart, I guess.

[rosehelle]

*ominous music plays*

Hi, I'm Roselle, and welcome to my corner of Hell.

I've been a writer for well over a decade, and I hated writing because I was under the impression that novels were the be-all and end-all of literature. For too long of a time, I didn't realize the most important thing as a writer who can't finish book-sized stories:

Fuck novels.

It was the greatest epiphany of my life. Not every writer has to or even should write a novel? There are other, vastly underrated forms of writing out there? I can write short stories? I CAN WRITE... ✨FAIRY TALES✨?

Yes, I write fairy tales. I also write the occasional fanfiction and am additionally working on this. And I am very content with my life choices.

I don't expect many people to be super interested in my work. I'm not here to try to get published eventually or to build a large following. I'm just putting myself out here so other whimsical weirdos can find me.

Things to know before you decide to follow:

I'm an adult. I don't post NSFW, so I don't mind if minors interact with me (no DMs, ofc), but I won't follow minors back. In fact, I'm highly unlikely to follow anyone back since it messes with my mental health. I prefer to keep a distance and bookmark blogs.

I'm a techno-optimist-leaning-realist. I'm not a doomer who believes the future is hopeless. If you post any "retvrn" nonsense or have reactionary views, go lick Duchamp's Fountain.

I don't tolerate dehumanizing, harassment, or those eager to engage in calling out. I am not here for drama. I am here for... actually, I have no idea. I am here.

Yes, I'm queer. You will have to embark on a quest and collect me ten thousand gold-toothed hens if you wish to learn more.

My ask box is open. If you're actually curious about me or my work for whatever unholy reason, feel free to send an ask. (I promise I'm not as grumpy as I seem.) Here are asks I've answered.

[le-poofe]

I wanted to do a palette swap type of thing to see what the Warners would look like in each others’ colors! But just recoloring the same drawing wasn’t enough, so I added some variety to their clothes! I love how they all turned out, though the pinks ended up being my favorite UvU

[vigilantsycamore]

Jack And The Beanstalk discourse is so funny because you've got centuries of people being all "he BROKE into someone's HOUSE, STOLE his stuff and KILLED him! how is this supposed to be the hero?!" and also people writing versions that make the giant more directly antagonistic towards Jack and his family and/or community early in the story to make Jack's actions seem more justified, but uh

The giant lives in a huge castle full of treasure and literally looks down on everyone. Jack's family is in the kind of financial situation where selling their one cow for some beans, while usually a very bad deal, is at least conceivable

Moral or not, can we think of any demographics that would have related to Jack and been cheering him on?

Maybe a demographic that made up the vast majority of pre-industrial Europe's population?

(Also, in the longer view, this story is believed to go all the way back to Proto-Indo-European times - "The Boy Who Steals The Ogre's Treasure" - and all available evidence suggests that in Proto-Indo-European society stealing from neighboring tribes was seen as an unambiguously good thing. If you break into someone's house and steal their shit, you're a hero providing for your family and undermining people who were probably your enemies already. About the only objection the average Proto-Indo-European would have had to Jack's actions would be the underhanded methods with which he carries out the theft, and that's a maybe)

[elbiotipo]

It's very interesting how big of a revolution will LLMs cause (and are already causing) in genetics and bioengineering since DNA and proteins are, for all intent and purposes, really really long words

[elbiotipo]

You can, very literally, fit the entire human genome in a .txt file. It's not the most efficient way to study it but you can

[elbiotipo]

It's so funny that people have such strong opinions on AI but every geneticist I meet is like "oh god finally. This thing does all the work for me. We will find the catgirl gene soon"

[elbiotipo]

And no this isn't just the specialized models like alphafold. You can ask Claude or Deepseek to make pipelines and bioinformatics stuff for you and they work.

[elbiotipo]

A good chunk of AI and LLM research actually comes directly from bioinformatics research. To find the catgirl gene.

[odmnd]

No technology is by default, evil.

The transformer architecture, and LLM’s have very valid and very benefical advantages for humanity. At the same time, however, the raging psychopats who control these companies have indeed completely abandoned their humanity, and removed themselves from the human condition completely.

To let these people decide the fate of the world and its future is utter and sheer madness and self destruction for mankind.

[elbiotipo]

I don't think they're raging pyschopaths or that they are deciding the fate of the world, let alone the destruction of humankind. I just think they want a lot of money and this stupid unequal (read, capitalist oligarch) economy is letting them get away with stupid things. LLMs are a great technology for research and yes, even entertainment. I just don't need them in every single thing I use and I don't need them to replace jobs that need a human touch.

[boozybadgeresq]

I have a very nice neighbor. He’s a conservative, not MAGA but conservative, dude. Older retired contractor, pretty laid back. Very friendly, always willing to help folks. Just a good guy all around.

When I broke my hip he mowed difficult parts of our yard just because he knew it was hard for my spouse, who is tiny and could not easily maneuver the lawnmower up some of the steeper slopes. We didn’t have to ask, he just knew the situation and took it upon himself to help.

Today when I was outside mowing he slid through the bushes between our property and apologized for not cutting his grass lately. His explanation was there are flowers coming up and he doesn’t want to cut them because the bees need them to survive. He said since the environment is getting worse it’s important to protect them, and he’d try to make sure to cut around the edges as much as he could.

Of course he then said he believes the environment is getting worse because both parties of the government have conspired to poison the atmosphere with chem trails and pulled out his phone to show me the pictures he took of some particularly egregious ones.

But still, he cares about the bees.

[partywithponies]

One of the most annoying genres of people on the internet are people who act like they believe science is one single monolithic thing. Like, you'll see an article saying something like "scientists studying the movement of tectonic plates", and then in the comments there'll be several smug people saying "smh why are scientists doing this instead of finding a cure for cancer", like. Why would a geologist be doing that.

[rosehelle]

Went to Lunar Faire! It's a whimsical event that, from spring through fall, takes place every new and full moon in New Jersey and sometimes New York. The theme was fairies and fairy tales. Out of all the stuff being sold, I only bought two things, one of which was edible. The commodification of witchcraft is strong here, but it's a lot of fun if you just pretend you're in a very different world. :P And there's plenty of creativity on display.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"no one reads or thinks anymore" type posts are so unserious. get off tumblr and chisel that into a stone tablet to match how old your specific brand of whining is

[dragon-in-a-fez]

tumblr should add a "what the fuck are you talking about" button alongside reply, like, and reblog. you click the what the fuck are you talking about button when op is on some discourse they brought back from another reality that no one on this earth has ever heard of. and if a post gets more what the fuck are you talking abouts than reblogs op gets muted for 12 hours

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

I had just this really vivid image of Yakko singing Tim Minchin songs

[rosehelle]

Unpopular opinion: I actually like Good Rafal. I prefer him to Evil Rafal, in fact. He was a prime example of wanting to make things right, but not being immune to the Good type of arrogance. Interestingly, Evil Rafal had his moments of love (for his brother that was enough to curb his lust for power), wisdom (his knowledge of Good, Evil, and everything in between, as well as his insight into other people), compassion (when he helped the Nevers discover their talents), and remorse (when he thought he'd killed James). I wouldn't say Rafal is the most unique character, but he's certainly multifaceted, and it's a shame we never got to see what the school could've become under his rule.

But I guess that's what happens when you make a deal with the Devil Storian.

[preciouslittletoonette]

Seeing the words "Disney" and "Brothers Grimm" in the same sentence has become such a trigger for me because I just know someone's about to spit some straight BULLSHIT 8 times outta 10 when those things are mentioned together.

A local radio station was talking about Cinderella yesterday morning and the guy was talking about Grimm's Cinderella and how the stepsisters were cutting off their heels in order to fit into the slipper. And then he said "He could see why Disney took that out" and I wanted to scream.

Do you know how many Disney movies are directly based on the Brothers Grimm tales?!

FOUR

Just FOUR

4 out of the 61 animated feature films they made so far - are Grimms Tales

Everything else is based on other versions written by other folktale collectors like Charles Perrault or are based on original literary novels.

[shaydystheshadowqueen]

you know what I'm bored

Every Walt Disney Animation Studios movie's original author in order of apperance (not including the live-action book-based movies like Something Wicked This Way Comes, Tom Sawyer, and Return To Oz and not including the short films):

Brothers Grimm (Snow White) Carlo Collodi (Pinocchio) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, various mythologies and traditions (Fantasia; The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Pastoral Symphony, Night On Bald Mountain) Felix Salten (Bambi) Ernest Thayer (Make Mine Music; Casey At The Bat) Sinclair Lewis, European folklore(Fun Fancy Free; Bongo, Mickey And The Beanstalk) Hardie Gramatky, Joyce Kilmer, American mythology (Melody Time; Little Toot, Trees, The Legend Of Johnny Appleseed, Pecos Bill) Kenneth Grahame, Washington Irving (The Adventures Of Ichabod and Mr. Toad) Charles Perrault (Cinderella)(and yes I know there's the Brothers Grimm version Aschenputtel but the wiki specifies that Disney's is the Charles version) Lewis Carrol (Alice In Wonderland) J.M.Barrie (Peter Pan) Ward Greene (Lady And The Tramp) Charles Perrault (Sleeping Beauty) (again I know there's the Brothers Grimm version but the wiki specifies that Disney's is the Charles version again) Dodie Smith (101 Dalmations) T.H.White (The Sword In The Stone) Rudyard Kippling (The Jungle Book) English folklore (Robin Hood) A.A.Millne (Winnie The Pooh) Daniel P. Mannix (The Fox And The Hound) Lloyd Alexander (The Black Cauldron) Eve Titus (The Great Mouse Detective) Charles Dickens (Oliver & Company) Hans Christian Anderson (The Little Mermaid) Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (Beauty And The Beast) Arabic folklore (Aladdin) William Shakesphere (Lion King) Victor Hugo (The Hunchback Of Notre Dame) Greek mythology (Hercules) Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan) Hans Christian Anderson, God Book Of Genesis (Fantasia 2000; Piano Concerto No. 2, Allegro, Opus 102 , Pomp and Circumstance) Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Planet) European folklore (Chicken Little) E.D. Baker (The Princess And The Frog) (Believe it or not yes this movie was based on a parody of the original Brothers Grimm story, not the Grimm story itself) Brother Grimm (Tangled) Hans Christian Anderson (Frozen)

So, ironically, Brothers Grimm wasn't even the biggest source for Disney (though you could argue with regard to the two Charles Perrault stories that Grimm later copied and the E. D. Baker parody "The Frog Princess" which was copied from Grimm), but Hans Christian Anderson, the writer of multiple fairy tales (two full WDAS movies with sequels, one Fantasia 2000 segment, two WDAS short animations {Ugly Duckling and Match Girl} and one which, while it didn't become a movie itself, inspired the new title of the previously Mark Twain inspired "Emperor Of The Sun" that would be remade as "The Emperor's New Groove") and who grew up with Arabian Nights (from which Aladdin comes from) and knew Charlies Dickens (the writer of Oliver Twist that became Oliver & Company)

I think that radio station and anyone else that says Disney and Brothers Grimm in the same sentence that isn't talking about Tangled or Snow White should have a swear jar where every time they do that they put a dollar in and 2 dollars if it's a Hans story and when it fills up they donate the money to the Hans Christian Anderson Museum and/or the Library Of Congress.

[ouidamforeman]

my hot take on the fantasy genre is that it's not inherently bad to do a medieval europe based fantasy world or really any european inspired fantasy world, in fact i like that stuff and think it can be very cool and while yeah definitely diversify the historical cultures the genre bases fantasy worlds on, that's always good and having european culture be the default for everything ever is bad, the problem here i never see anyone talk about is that people keep somehow making medieval and early modern europe boring as fuck and not understanding anything about it

[adarkrainbow]

I just want to take a small time to remind you that a lot of the things we know today to be true when it comes to the Grimm brothers' fairytales were not common knowledge until quite recently.

For a very, VERY long time it was commonly believed that they had never edited their stories or that at most they just changed mothers into stepmothers or slightly modified rhymes/titles, but that was it. Until a very, VERY recent time it was truly believed the Grimms had gotten their tales from old grandmas and peasant women of Germany. People had to have academical fights to defend that the Grimm fairytales were not purely "authentic pieces of folklore untouched by snobbish literature".

All that we know today as the "truth" about the Grimms has always been there, always been talked about - that they got their stories from a little group of bourgeois families, that they severely edited a lot of their stories, that it is not as "authentic folklore" as the actual research of later folklorists - but it was NOT common knowledge until recently, and it was not widely accepted as a "truth".

So truly, do not be surprised if you see these misconceptions in works that are not that-old, because they were deeply rooted in culture and very, VERY strong in peoples' minds.

[shaylalaloohoo]

[elbiotipo]

"george w bush helped"

do you think the current rise of right-wing thought could have been because of political and economical factors in the world's hegemonic superpower or was it cartoons

[elbiotipo]

sorry but it's so funny. "these cartoons ruined everything. I guess that the US president who started two wars, led the rebirth of right-wing thought in the United States and worldwide, and created ICE was also kind of bad though."

[quasi-normalcy]

Why are so many internet leftists prone to this sort of fetishism of tv shows (where I'm using "fetishism" in the traditional sense of attributing mystic qualities to innocuous objects)? Like, "Oh, young men are turning fascist because of South Park" as if it has nothing to do with, you know, fascist political movements parlaying unfulfilled and sexually frustrated young men into being defenders of an ailing capitalist system, as happened several times throughout the 20th century, including quite prominently in Germany more than 60 years before South Park debuted. "Oh, the Democratic Party is like that because of The West Wing" you're sure it has nothing to do with the decline of organised labour as a political force beginning in the 1970s?

Aren't we supposed to be the ones who believe in materialist analysis?

[dizzyghoast]

this is like, idk how much evidence i could shore up to support this, but my anecdotal and unrigorous opinion is that this is the result of taking a community whos primary focus is Media and Fandom and directing them towards politics.

Like, in my experience people have a tendency to overestimate the significance of their personal interests. Musicians will tell you that everything revolves around music. Capitalists will tell you everything revolves around capital. Mathematicians will tell you everything revolves around math (and okay theyre probably technically right but thats not the point here), and Media Studies people will tell you that everything revolves around media.

So like, its entirely unsurprising to me that the website populated primarily by big time Fandom people would get very very focused on how different problematic shows are actually the true source of all our political and social woes. And certainly such things are worthy of attention and critique, but there's. just kind of a lack of direction beyond that people should Care About Politics, and without that kind of direction people are gravitating towards what they understand

[whyenn-reader]

firm believer you can't be a ''good person''. too much niuance to life.

[whyenn-reader]

you can be good (adjective) but you cannot be good (identity)

[whyenn-reader]

if you think you are good (identity) you are more likely to cause harm as you don't consider yourself to be capable of it

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Cats and Kittens (1906) by Edgar S. Werner | Cats’ Nightmare (1890) by Louis Wain