#daisybalance

[swordandstars]

[swordandstars]

This one’s for my fave girl.

[swordandstars]

I. Once upon a time a woman never got married, but had many fulfilling relationships, a job that kept her comfortable, an apartment that she got to decorate just for her, and hobbies that stimulated her mind. The End.

From this excellent and thought provoking little piece over at The Hairpin, "Six Fairy Tales for the Modern Woman".

The comments make it even better.

I'll admit to being torn about this when I first read it. Hell, I'll admit to not even really getting the piece when I read it through the first time. To me, fairy tales are little bon bons of bitterness. They're stupid stories we tell ourselves about the things we'll never really have (love, money, happiness) and exist only to set us up for crushing disappointment. But after I started reading the comments I realized that there were people out there living their own versions of these fairy tales. And other people started sharing their own. I sat with that for a long time, and I'm still thinking it over, I'm coming closer to the idea that maybe these modern fairy tales are achievable, and a little aspirational.

Though I'm still really of the Paramore school of thought about all of this: