Happy Birthday, Jacob Grimm

[filkertom]

On this date in 1785. He became famous for being transformed by cosmic rays into the Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed...






... Sorry. Wrong guy. This Grimm, and his brother Wilhelm, collected Grimm's Fairy Tales.

Different approach from normal: What fairy tales bug you the most? For me, trying to describe the plot of Rumplestiltskin is like trying to describe the plot of The Rocky Horror Show. It makes absolutely no frickin' sense at all.

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[ladystarblade.livejournal.com]

Eh, the fairy tale that gives me the heebies is the original "Little Mermaid." I know that Hans Christian Andersen's responsible for that one, but it messed with me something fierce. I hadn't read the story before I saw the movie, so I went into the story thinking it was happy like the movie...hahahah, I was so wrong. Cutting out tongues, walking on knives...hell, it ends with a suicide!

That warped my 10 year old mind...then people wonder why I turned out this way, LOL.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the warp. I was well aware of the story (I was also 29) when I saw the Disney movie, and I was impressed with how they handled it. I still think HCA was a sadistic bastard with a grudge against kids. His "tales" are as gruesome as anything Hollywood's put out in the past thirty years.

[ladystarblade.livejournal.com]

One of my most treasured books is an 1888 edition of HCA's tales, and wow, I can't look at fairy tales in the same way again.

And I was warped long before I tripped across this stuff, LOL!

[fuuberry.livejournal.com]

Frell, I was warped by a cartoon of The Little Mermaid when I was a kid. It was a Japanese one, and they included the bits about every step being painful and the dagger. This was after I'd seen the Disney version, but at the point where I'd already read the Grimm version of Cinderella, and I was bloody terrified to see what else was left out.