*arrives way late but so not fashionably to the party*
Mikael Hart wrote:Aha, I'm surprised you recognized the movie! I remember when Wally first hit the theater, and all I could think of was that he looked like the Short Circuit robot. Johnny 5?
Oh, I have Beauty too; not sure about the Robin Hood one, though. I really liked her version of Sleeping Beauty.
I remember reading a lot of Gail Carson Levine too --she did pretty good with Ella Enchanted, but I'm less impressed with her other stories.
"Number Five IS ALIVE!" XD
I haven't read the Sleeping Beauty version. And I do like the 'Ella Enchanted' book, but the movie is ugh.
Firn wrote:I don't think I have ever read anyone's take on Fairy tales or faily tale characters. But since I always found the originals to be rather gross and scary, it wasn't ever really tempting. I feel like a lot of people in other countries think of the Disney characters first when it comes to fairytales, or at least of some interpretation similar to it, but since the Brothers Grimm were German, every kid (at least when I was a child) gets to read the originals as a child and they are really not kind stories. They were written mostly to scare children into good behavior and usually have some really cruel twist to it. Like in Rapunzel the prince actually falls down the tower when he attempts to climb it and there are rose bushes with thorns underneat the tower and the thorns poke out his eyes. Or in Cinderella her step-sisters cut off their toes so they can fit in her shoe and stuff like this. It was always rather scary and I never enjoyed the stories as a child. Seriously, if books had an age restriction, they would be at least PG 12, or even PG 16 as back when I was a child, movies were rated much stricter than they are now.
I'm one of the few who doesn't think of the Disney stories first. I really disliked them as a young adult, because they told the story wrong. lol. Cinderella has always been a favourite story for me, though, even though in my mother's version the stepmother enforced order with a whip. 0_0 I like Cameron Dokey's YA novelization better. The stepmother is a good guy. And a lovely lady. I don't think I'd have minded having her for a mom. LOL The author tries to figure out a way to make love on first sight not so stupid, too. I also kind of like Cameron Dokey's version of Beauty and the Beast, though it's VERY close in tropes to Robin McKinley's and to that new live action Disney thing, which seems to have also taken a lot from Robin McKinley's.
Mikael Hart wrote:Btw, I read the NPC info again, and I've gotta say, you've expanded the cast quite nicely! I really like the variety of characters that you've come up with. Also very curious about getting to know more about our little princess Walla. D:
I haven't looked at those yet, but I saw where Firn has posted the evolution pictures of the characters. They look really nice now. And yesterday I had an amusing mental image of the wuffel girl with her boss in a glomp hug and him flailing and yelling that she'd ruined his buahaha. Yes, I am weird.
Firn wrote:I am glad you like them. I am say I don't get to do as much with our NPCs as I liked to, because I would love to include them more in some site's features. Where you here for last Halloween Event? I think we had some pretty neat Wuffel action going on there. I was rather proud of that event.
I don't do hollowbean (not mocking it, that's what ET calls it) personally, but that dress from last year? My avatar still wears it often. And part of what makes me love it so much is that someone on another game got nearly the same idea and made a very similar dress, so two of my avatars can dress in a similar way! I love it when great minds think alike, so to speak. That's not sucking up, it's a quote. lol
Firn wrote:I think my favorite fairy tale is the Little Mermaid. Though,
of course, in the original the prince marries the human princess and the little mermaid dissolves into sea foam.
But I had a really pretty children book with amazing drawings in it. I think that was why I liked it, despite the sad story. And at least it was just sad, and not gross, like Grimm Fairy tales.
I liked the original version. And also the one where the mermaid became some sort of sun fairy/guardian angel. I didn't like the Disney one at all. Well, other than the cook chasing Sebastian around. Poor Sebastian. And I've wound up with a RP Ursula.
jacobgrey wrote:I think my favourite fairy tale growing was the Three Billy Goats Gruff 8D I just really liked doing the voices. At one point my parents couldn't stop me from yelling out "Who's that trip trapping up my stairs?!" whenever we were near stairs and someone was walking up them XD
I used to play the mama goat when I was small. There were only three children in my family back then.
Many of you guys had such careful parents. I knew all about death and guts from early childhood. (animal butchering, and also a dad with NO patience for pets). I'm a little jelly! lol
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