2 + 6 + 8 for the fairy tale ask game 💖
2) You know the Faerie Queen is holding her ball at dawn. What dress do you wear to seduce her? (Description or photo)
a dress made of a thousand silver and black butterflies on my naked skin.
6) What stayed with you most from the fairytales you enjoyed as a child? Can be a quote, a detail, a character, a moral or a whole story ark.
that magic and tragedy always come together.
“Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.” - The Little Mermaid, Andersen.
8) What poem would a kind-hearted mortal have to recite to entice you into revealing yourself to them?
“Una candida cerva sopra l’erba
verde m’apparve, con duo corna d’oro,
fra due riviere, all’ombra d’un alloro,
levando ’l sole a la stagione acerba.
Era sua vista sí dolce superba,
ch’i’ lasciai per seguirla ogni lavoro:
come l’avaro che ’n cercar tesoro
con diletto l’affanno disacerba.
" Nessun mi tocchi - al bel collo d’intorno
scritto avea di diamanti et di topazi - :
libera farmi al mio Cesare parve ".
Et era ’l sol già vòlto al mezzo giorno,
gli occhi miei stanchi di mirar, non sazi,
quand’io caddi ne l’acqua, et ella sparve.” - Petrarca
this is the original poem that inspired wyatt’s famous “whoso list to hount”, that is its (very free) translation. the original petrarca’s poem is quite different tho - and in my opinion much more beautiful. forgive my rough translation:
“A white doe upon the viridescent grass
to me appeared, with a pair of gilded horns,
between two hills, in a laurel’s shadow,
while the sun was rising and spring was born.
It was such a lovely, superb sight
that to follow her all labors i had left:
as the avaricious one that, in searching for treasures,
with bliss every trouble soothes.
“No one dare to touch me - around the fair neck
written she had with diamonds and topazes - :
free my Caesar loved to make me”.
And the sun was already turned at mid-day,
those eyes of mine tired to admire, yet not sated,
when I fell into the waters, and she disappeared.”
FAIRY TALE INSPIRED ASK GAME
