about how Snow White and the Huntsman looks like a hard femme wet dream?

Because.  Yes please.

rabbi-vole replied to your post: For what it’s worth?

“they’re basically sociopaths!” nope, just selfish. ASPD is something entirely different. please be careful about flinging those terms around!

From my mac’s dictionary (So, not the greatest): Sociopath - “A person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience.”

That’s how they acted.  I do apologize if anyone took offense.  However, I didn’t use that term lightly.  I said “basically” because they don’t have the same social structure as humans, and therefore wouldn’t have the same ideas of personality and mentality.  I don’t use words lightly.  I just don’t.

Selfish:  ”(of a person, action, or motive) Lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one’s own personal profit or pleasure.”

That works, too.  But does it really explain the mermaids who just “Wanted to drown” Wendy?  Forgive me if I’m getting my movies mixed up.  Selfishness typically doesn’t go hand-in-hand with actively wishing bad things upon others?  There was no personal profit or pleasure there except for taking pleasure in another’s death.  We don’t typically think that when we think “selfish”.

Maybe “psychopathic”?  

EDIT:  Sorry, I forgot the context -

 They exchange children, force human women to bear their children, and lure people away from their families.  Sometimes they do it by calling out in the distance so people die in the moors and sometimes they just invite people to their fairy lands where they party and drink until they realize that like a hundred years passed back in the human realm.  They’re basically sociopaths!

I feel like it’s something more than selfish simply because they seem to go out of their way (Beyond personal profit and pleasure) to fuck with humans.  There seems to be a distinct lack on conscience.  But because sociopathy is a specific, psychological term, I’m inclined to agree with you.  Although I’d like to point out once again that I said “basically”…

EDIT 2:  What’s so difficult about analyzing mythology like this is that so much of it is a direct depiction of humanity’s fears and misunderstandings.  It’s hard to treat it as an isolated piece of literature.  You can’t just look at the description I wrote about fairy tales without considering human nature.  Fairy tales and mythology are only a reflection of the very best and worst of humanity.  People with personality disorders aren’t bad, but they’re misunderstood.  We see the behavior of the mentally ill and those with personality disorders portrayed in certain mythologies.  Especially fae mythology.

I’m not trying to excuse my use of the word, I’m just explaining the difficulty in analyzing mythology without acknowledging human behavior.

bathearst:

Is there a good retell of Beauty and the Beast — or not even a retelling but something the least bit similar-ish — where the Beast is a lady??

Because, dang, there are an awful lot of SCARY MAN + BEAUTIFUL LADY WHO WILL SAVE HIM narratives (thinking about Un monstre à Paris/A Monster in Paris…

This isn’t a movie, but I read a great version of Beauty and the Beast in a collection of retold fairy tales.  The Beast wasn’t deformed or anything, but she was very mysterious and wore a mask and I think no one actually knew she was a woman.  I think that might have been the twist, but oh well.  

I’ll edit this post once I remember the book. 

ETA:  I’m pretty sure it was in Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue.  That would make sense, seeing as how she’s a pretty vocal lesbian author.  Either way, I love that collection.

delladilly:

tastykake:

Regina Spektor writing Broadway musical

johnny-crash:

panda21595:

powerlesbian:

AND IT IS GOING TO BE A MODERN RETELLING OF SLEEPING BEAUTY

WHAT WHAT WHAT OH MY GOD

SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN

Regina Spektor + Retold fairy tales

Excuse me, I think I have something in my eye.

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