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![]() ![]() ![]() Guess what I love? Retold Fairy Tales. Read em, write em, put em in a stew. I treasure them when they’re well done. Ah, that last part’s the rub, ain’t it? Well done. So let’s see what you chucklefucks can do with old as balls story elements. Pick a fairy tale. Perrault, Grimm, Anderson, etc.—you hopefully know the drat classics (and if you don’t you’re on the internet, so Google that poo poo). If you don’t/won’t pick one or want to take your chances with what I can give, I’ll pick it for you. I know some obscure poo poo. Once someone takes a story it and all its variants are off the table, so move fast. You are to then take two to three (and no more) well known elements from that story and use it in your entry. So if you pick, say, Cinderella? You can pick the glass slipper, the midnight deadline, birds pecking the stepsister’s eyes out, mice, and/or many other things in the story. And don’t Disneyfy this poo poo. If you pick Snow White and write about some bastard named Doc or Grumpy, that’s fanfic and you can suck a poison apple rear end in a top hat and die. I want the semi-classic stories, none of this Tangled Frozen House of Mouse nonsense. Things that are not Fairy Tales (including but not limited to): Epics, Poems, Myths, Just So Stories, Aesop's Fables, Fantasy Novels, The Wizard of Oz. Don't game the system. And to try and get actual stories out of you like swords out of stones (bee tee dubs, that's not a fairy tale), your story must either travel in a line—be at a different place at the end than at the beginning—or a circle—end near the same place it started, but with some significant, detectable change. No: erotica, GoogleDocs, poetry, fanfic, or funky word tricks that put the Head Judge’s vision at stake. 1550 words to turn these frogs into princes or these princes into frogs. Magic at the ready. Signups end: 11:59 p.m. Friday, Jan 30th, Pacific Standard Time Stories in by: 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Feb 1st, PST Three Good Fairies: Nethilia SaddestRhino Your Sledgehammer Story Weavers: leekster: The Bronze Ring ZeBourgeoisie: Little Brother and Little Sister Capntastic: Bearskin Crab Destroyer: The Girl Without Hands Ironic Twist: Vasilisa the Beautiful Screaming Idiot: Jack and the Beanstalk Pete Zah: The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids ![]() thehomemaster: King Thrushbeard Djeser: Puss in Boots curlingiron: The Golden Bird Savagely_Random: The Emperor's New Clothes SadisTech: The Dirty Shepardess Fumblemouse: The Fisherman and His Wife Grizzled Patriarch: Our Lady's Child/Mary's Child hotsoupdinner: The Juniper Tree docbeard: Godfather Death kurona_bright: The Death of the Little Hen Mercedes: Little Red Riding Hood Drone Incognito: Hansel and Gretel crabrock: One-Eye, Two Eyes, and Three Eyes newtestleper: King Goldenlocks Chairchucker: Aladdin Benny Profane: The Steadfast Tin Soldier Entenzahn: Thumbelina A Classy Ghost: The Bremen Town Musicians HopperUK: Sleeping Beauty Tyrannosaurus: The Princess and the Pea ExtraNoise: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Echo Cian: Koschei the Deathless Dr. Kloctopussy: Beauty and the Beast ![]() December Octopodes: The Red Shoes Schneider Heim: The Goose Girl Benny the Snake: The Lawyer and the Devil asap-salafi: Pied Piper of Hamelin Nethilia fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Feb 1, 2015 |
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I'm in. Uh I'd like to use Beowulf. Unless that isn't fairy tale enough.
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leekster posted:I'm in. Not a Fairy Tale, that's an Epic.
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In, and because I'm feeling dicey choose the tale for me.
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Nethilia posted:Not a Fairy Tale, that's an Epic. I choose The Bronze Ring. An Arabic Fairy Tale.
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ZeBourgeoisie posted:In, and because I'm feeling dicey choose the tale for me. Little Brother and Little Sister
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In with The King of Elfland's Daughter
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That's a novel, not a fairy tale. Roll again.
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Nethilia posted:That's a novel, not a fairy tale. Roll again. It's a long fairytale.
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In and requesting a fairy tale from a judge.
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In with Vasilisa the Beautiful.
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Capntastic posted:It's a long fairytale. It's a novel. Roll again. Crab Destroyer posted:In and requesting a fairy tale from a judge. The Girl Without Hands
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In, with Jack and the Beanstalk.
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In more with Bearskin
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In with a ![]() Conjure me a tale.
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Pete Zah posted:In with a The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids.
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Crab Destroyer posted:In and requesting a fairy tale from a judge. Me too, please. This one sounds fun.
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thehomemaster posted:Me too, please. This one sounds fun. King Thrushbeard.
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So since Broenheim was gracious enough to offer me a line-by-line, I'm gonna pay it forward. Who wants a Bennycrit?
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Ok, I'm in, hit me.
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In. Puss In Boots.
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curlingiron posted:Ok, I'm in, hit me. The Golden Bird
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curlingiron posted:Ok, I'm in, hit me.
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In with The Emperor's New Clothes.
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In with The Dirty Shepherdess no get your mind out of the gutter it is intended literally
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In - please provide me with a tale to rip the entrails out of and wear in an unfashionable style.
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Fumblemouse posted:In - please provide me with a tale to rip the entrails out of and wear in an unfashionable style. The Fisherman and His Wife
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In. Let's see what you've got.
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In and requesting a fairy tale.
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Gonna have to sit this week out. Will take Mr. crabrock's line-by-line. It's amazing how poo poo can one get without a DH. I want to get better so I could purchase an avatar one day and keep it! Plus, the whole getting better thing.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:In. Let's see what you've got. Our Lady's Child/Mary's Child
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hotsoupdinner posted:In and requesting a fairy tale. The Juniper Tree
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In, with Godfather Death
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kurona_bright posted:I'm in for this week. Could you give me a fairy tale? The Death of the Little Hen
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In with little red riding hood
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I've been lurking this thread for ages, and I think it's about time that I get in. In with Hansel and Gretel.
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chit me with chor best chot
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In King Goldenlocks http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/king-goldenlocks-a-newly-translated-fairy-tale
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# ? Feb 7, 2025 22:19 |
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in with peter pan
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