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once_upon_ficThis post is for telling others why they should totally read/write/request your favourite fairy-tales!
Here's a simple format to follow:
<b>Story Name</b>:
<b>Story link (OPTIONAL)</b>:
<b>What makes this tale awesome</b>:
Example:
Story Name: The Girl Who Became a Boy (Albanian Fairy Tale)
Story Link: http://www.albanianliterature.net/folktales/tale_07.html
What makes this tale awesome: Not only does it have the girl getting the girl, this caper-like story features a sassy talking horse and tax-evading snakes. Also the importance of mother and son relationships. This is different from the also nominated Violet Fairy Book version in that no one gets murdered and again, the snakes.
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Here's a simple format to follow:
<b>Story Name</b>:
<b>Story link (OPTIONAL)</b>:
<b>What makes this tale awesome</b>:
Example:
Story Name: The Girl Who Became a Boy (Albanian Fairy Tale)
Story Link: http://www.albanianliterature.net/folktales/tale_07.html
What makes this tale awesome: Not only does it have the girl getting the girl, this caper-like story features a sassy talking horse and tax-evading snakes. Also the importance of mother and son relationships. This is different from the also nominated Violet Fairy Book version in that no one gets murdered and again, the snakes.
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There seem to be no problems with the tagset, so sign ups may open early. No promises.
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Date: 2017-02-07 06:41 pm (UTC)Story link: http://japanlover.me/cool/kakkoii-information/the-legend-of-tokoyo-the-samurais-daughter/
What makes this tale awesome: Tokoyo, the titular samurai maiden, is all kinds of badass. She goes on a quest to find her wrongfully exiled father, saves a girl from being sacrificed to a cruel dragon, kills said dragon, and breaks a curse on the Emperor. And she does it all with courage, grace and style.
Story Name: King Lindorm
Story link: http://sacred-texts.com/neu/lfb/pi/pifb38.htm
What makes this tale awesome: Despite the title, most of the focus is on King Lindorm's queen, who breaks the curse on her husband (he was in the form of a giant snake for twenty years), endures three years of captivity with her two sons and exile into the wilderness with them with equal equanimity, and rides into a host of demons three nights running to retrieve a contract from Hell (the man who signed it having repented).
Story Name: The Death of Koschei the Deathless
Story link: http://sacred-texts.com/neu/lfb/re/refb06.htm
What makes this tale awesome: I'm fascinated by the characters. Prince Ivan lets his sisters choose who they'll marry (three shapeshifting rulers of birds, as it turns out), he himself falls for a warrior princess who has an evil immortal sorcerer as an enemy, and he ends up needing the help of the witch Baba Yaga to defeat said sorcerer. Ivan is compassionate to a fault, which creates many of his problems, but also provides the solutions to them. Oh, and he literally dies for his warrior princess...though his brothers-in-law know how to resurrect him, so he gets better.