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chipmunkwarcry replied to your post “I have a problem with my current Disney essays project and it’s that,...”

I don’t know what your criteria is for the ya books, but you could go with some older fairy tale retellings. There is Gail Carson Levine or Shannon Hale as well as a line of books by various ya authors that was released in the 80s/90s.

These ones. https://www.goodreads.com/series/49798

Oh never mind. I just realized you meant books like the twisted tales series Disney has been commissioning

Well, fml, I didn’t know about those twisted tales, I had no idea they existed. Damn you, Disney, making me read Descendants wasn’t enough, now there’s this. At least there isn’t a Snow White one yet but apparently there’s a Beauty & the Beast one so that’s gonna have to go on the list. Thanks for letting me know! 

As for my criteria, at this point the non-Disney re-tellings I’m picking are based on either offering something entirely different that serves my line of analysis (in the case of The Beast, for example, I want to include Barbara Walker’s Ugly and the Beast and possibly Angela Carter’s Bloody Chamber, because Blue Beard is included in my analysis for reasons complicated to explain right now but trust me, it makes sense in context) and ones that are incredibly popular to the point of becoming new beacons of re-tellings, whether I like that or not (in the case of the Evil Queen from Snow White, I’m going with The Lunar Chronicles and I think that if I had to pick just one from the ya re-tellings of B&B that are a thing atm it’d have to be the one by Sarah J Maas, because it’s the most popular one by far right now, and it isn’t Beastly, so there’s that, I’m not sure about the rest of the options because I’m intrigued about the one with a trans Belle, but the lead character Beast apparently is absolutely terrible and undeserving of redemption as far as 95% of the GR comments are concerned, so...). 

I read Ella Enchanted and The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine, I really liked them (especially Bamarre, amazing book), but so far I haven’t come across one of hers that fit the characters I’m working with right now. I did however come across a B&B re-telling by Juliet Marillier, and I’ve read a really good re-telling of The Six Swans by her (I read the 2 first books of Sevenwaters, I should finish that series) but I don’t know how relevant it may be to pick her books from the bunch of options when they aren’t either overwhelmingly different or very popular. It’s tough. 

I’m keeping the non-Disney re-tellings to a minimum for this, though, because my work is mainly Disney-based, but in order to include comparisons, offering a few non-Disney things (not just books, films and shows as well, you bet I’m not going to do a Beast analysis and leave out Ron Perlman’s Vincent in the 1987 tv series, that’d be criminal) can help see the evolution more. But, to narrow them down, I think I’m gonna go with a couple re-tellings and pick from both plot and popularity among readers, at this point. I think that’s the best I could do. 

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chipmunkwarcry replied to your post “buddy, I am well aware that pride and prejudice has way too many...”

Seeing this, I have to ask! Have you seen the one from the 30s or 40s with Lawrence Olivier as Mr.Darcy?

Oh, the costumes on that one are SO inappropriate for the period it’s ridiculous lmao I saw it ages ago, but I should totally watch it again because I don’t even remember if I saw it throughout, now that I think of it. I remember Olivier’s Darcy felt weird to me. 

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chipmunkwarcry replied to your post “I’m finding it very difficult to get through Shadow and Bone so I hope...”

Having just read the Six of Crows duology, it is amazing. I haven't read the Grisha trilogy but I've heard many mixed reviews about. I'm going to read it, but my primary motivation is I want to learn more about the Grisha powers. Best of luck! Hopefully it gets better. :)

I’m more and more convinced that this person did Grisha to tick all the YA boxes and then did the other one freely and without that limitation, because I can’t fathom how someone who wrote this can write something as good as what everyone’s making Six of Crows up to be. I’m dying here, but I’ll pull through because I read The Lunar Chronicles so I owe this a chance. Maybe it surprises me and by book 3 every cliche exploads into nothing. Be mindful about: YA cliches, love triangles, a protag who thinks she’s ugly because she’s “thin and has brown hair” (which seems to give her leeway to make 2 fat pejorative comments in 2 subsequent pages plus a fat joke by her bestie), her hating on “other girls” because “she’s not like them” and her being a special snowflake because of course she has powers. 

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chipmunkwarcry replied to your post: I just discovered there’s a series of ...

There is also a mystery series similar to what you described except about baking not crochet. It also has recipes in the book.

omg really?? well, recipes on a bakery mystery makes a bit more sense than recipes in a crochet mystery but it doesn't make it any less bizarre lol Have you read the baking one?

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whale, i'm finally all caught up on ava's demon! :)

and i got erik into it too! :D

danielle would be proud haha

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Have you ever licked a lampost in the winter? *Sends hugs from texas* :D

omg bless

Have YOU ever licked a lampost in the winter?

*hugs you back tightly*

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Wow.... You gonna die Tiffany. Good thing you live in Maine and plane tickets are expensive. :P

...wait sorry what?? o_o

i am mildly confused right now what are you referring to lmao

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I've been tagged~

rule one: post the rules

rule two: answer the 11 questions asked then make 11 new ones

rule three: tag 11 people and link them to this post

rule four: let them know you tagged them

1) would you rather meet a person you follow or a person following you? Hmm... I'd much prefer to meet a mutual follower, but I suppose that's not what the question's asking... xD I'd probably like to meet a person I follow. 

2) which ficitonal tv show or movie you’d like to be real? Hmm... That's a tough one. I kinda wanna say Supernatural, but that'd be kinda dangerous... but at the same time, it'd be good to know that pretty much every fan of the show would be a hunter (or able to at least defend themselves).  For movie, I'd probably go with any of the X-Men movies (I'd say any Marvel movie, but that's too general I think).

3) ballet or burlesque?  Fun fact: I did ballet for several years as a child. Like, four years old to about... 7? I think? But, personally I think burlesque is much more entertaining.

4) how many languages do you know? I know English, Vietnamese (though I'm a little rusty), and a decent amount of Japanese. :D

5) how manyy languages do you know how to curse in? Two? xD 

6) what is your dream URL and if yours is already it then what is the meaning behind your URL? Um... while I'm happy with my current url, I'd have to say my dream url is Fanged. c:

7) do you know that there’s a country called Palestine that is under military occupation known as Israel for over 60 years and there are actually buses specified for people who are not Israeli?  Uh... now I do! I mean, I was kinda in the know about it, but not much--just kinda bits and pieces.

8) what’s your ultimate dream that you absolutely need to come true? I want to be a published author! Yeah! :P

9) what is the thing you’re most good at? I am not particularly skilled in any one thing, but instead I consider myself a Jack-of-all-trades. But... if I had to pick one thing exactly, I'd have to say that I have a unique skill with musical instruments. I can pretty much pick up any musical instrument (besides the drums) and learn how to play it rather quickly compared to others who might take longer to learn its ins and outs.

10) if you could be friends with a fictional character dead or alive who would it be? Oh man... Gabriel from Supernatural! I think we'd be great friends and we'd prank the hell outta everyone and just share a buncha good laughs. :3

11) what is your idea of a good life? One that is not necessarily perfect, but is one that is full of happiness.  Idk I'm stupid distracted right now lol

11 new questions:

1) Do you believe in soulmates?

2) What is your guilty pleasure?

3) What is your favourite book?

4) If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?

5) Your dream car?

6) If you could only drink one type of drink besides water for the rest of your life, what would it be?

7) Is there someone you would move across the country or world for?

8) Would you marry your best friend?

9) If you could live anywhere in the world without having to worry about money, where would you live?

10) Dogs or cats?

11) Besides blogging, what is your favourite thing to do when you have free time?