#sneeuwwitje

[lepetitdragonvert]

Sneeuwwitje /Snow White

1906

Artist : Wilhelmina Drupsteen (1880-1966)

[studiotriggerfan397]

We've all seen adaptations of fairy tales where "True Love's Kiss" is the key to conquering evil, but in the original tales...the solutions are far more random and usually pretty messed up.

For instance, in the story that inspired Sleeping Beauty called "Sun, Moon, and Talia", there's no heroic prince who slays a dragon and rescues the princess. Instead, there's a king who forces himself on Sleeping Beauty while she's unconscious, impregnates her, then after she gives birth in her sleep, one of the twins tries to nurse from her finger and sucks out the splinter from the cursed spinning wheel.

In the Grimm Brother's Snow White, the prince falls in love with her corpse and buys it off the dwarves. Then, a few weeks later, one of the prince's servants gets tired of hauling the glass coffin around. So he opens it up and takes out his frustration by smacking Snow White in the back, dislodging the poison apple that was stuck in her throat.

The best example might be The Frog Prince story though. In the original tale, the princess doesn't kiss the frog to break the spell. She actually throws him against the wall and in another version, she literally chops off his head.

What did I tell you?

[xxlisagamerxx]

sketching with @dididems !

[eftelingfotos]

[yarapara]

Hello! Would people be interested in Stickers? I might give it a shot and so far these are the characters but I might add two more! Not sure who they will be yet…

Please let me know if you are interested in them!

[minarachelle]

De Efteling, the Netherlands - 2015

[kaboutercrazy]

I had the strangest realisation this summer!

... But before that; Yes, hi! - I apparently sometimes post here still despite my 2018 hyperfixation of Studio 100 being rather cooled off nowadays. It still comes back from time to time. I swear, when you’ve been hyperfixating on something hard enough it never truly leaves you, it just sleeps until you feed it again!

Anyways!

I remember when I watched their Sneeuwwitje musical for the first time back in 2018 and the incredible idea that got stuck with me that Thyssen’s role as Aime acted very similarly to the original Aimé. Remember?

Still with me? Good!

I was re-watching the musical this summer (or, actually, I was listening to the songs and just saw all the scenes with Aimé in them because the rest of the musical is shockingly boring - There, I said it!) and it just hit me, suddenly; The queen calls him struisvogel (ostrich) at one point to mock him:

... And as I was doing a fanart as a quick warmup one day- ;

- I realised that he is indeed covered in feathers! (Don’t ask me how I’ve missed that before, I must’ve been blinded by his expressive beautiful eyes or something-) This opened up a new revolutionary idea in my head (wow that sounded way more serious than it actually is); What if the character of Aimé is just modeled after a butler bird, similar to Zazu from the Lion King?

But!! If that is the case!

... Does that mean that Aimé - the actor - is acting in a birdlike manner in many of his roles?

Is Aimé a bird?

[mydisneycollection]

Sneeuwwitje en de Zeven Dwergen read-along CD and booklet Dutch

I bought this at a thrift store in my home town a couple years back.