Tag: fairy tales
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Let’s Talk Tropes: Happily Ever Afters
I’m not sure when happy endings fell out of fashion, but I do know that present-day narratives generally strive for a distorted concept of realism where the grittier and darker it is, the more “realistic” it is. At the very least, this is the case for fantasy novels, so much so that the concept of…
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Book Review: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
I think it’s somewhat ironic, after discussing parts to whole when contemplating a book’s goodness, that I’ve stumbled across a book that just won’t give me an answer. What is good in it is well-planned and cross-referenced in a way that makes it feel like you’re solving a mystery, and books like that tend to…
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Soldier Heart (A Cinderella Retelling)
A Nubikian Fairy Tale Once upon a time, in a far away land, a young boy named Cero watched by his mother’s sickbed as she passed to an unshakable illness. His father was much aggrieved, but young Cero needed a mother if he was to grow up strong. So within the year, Cero’s father had…
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The Confined Magic of Disney
Fairy tales are a complicated beast. We tell the stories because they are filled with magic, and Disney has long given its female viewers some characters to look up to. If there’s no magic, there’s no tale. If we are not in awe of flying carpets or talking lions or biscuits that make you suddenly…
Katie Bachelder 