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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[catlin.livejournal.com]

Cinderella was always the one that bothered me the most. I loved the story, but from the outlook of an abused child, her life struck home to much. The idea that her step sisters all put themselves through physical torture to try to have what was hers by rights, in the end maiming themselves, was a bit of a vindictive joy to the little girl in me.