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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[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.