You managed it after all, Bowler! Hold on, that's a while?
Well done. I liked it. The definition of a inappropriate gift?
Well done. I liked it. The definition of a inappropriate gift?
For books e.g. the two(!) Beauty and the Beast retellings by Robin Mckinley, Beauty and Rose Daughter. Or her other re-telling Deerskin, based on the fairy tale Donkeyskin*.
Or a bit less middle-European, East by Edith Pattou or Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George, both based on the same old Norwegian fairy-tale.
All worthy books (although I was disappointed in McKinley's Deerskin because it seemed as though she was writing one story in the first half -- which gave me chills -- and another in the second, and Jessica Day George always seems to adapt a bit too freely for my personal taste) but I doubt we'll convince anyone to read even one novel for research.
And what it will come down to in the end is what the voters think "fairytale fantasy" means.
But hey! At least I got to fangirl some stuff.
Errr, sorry, but stuff like Robin Hood, the King Arthur stories, or the Nibelungen etc are not fairy tales.
It's more like Little Red Riding Hood fighting a dragon.
Gary said:Anyway, Karn, you are such a drama queen. Every month, " I'm getting nothing on this one: I hate the theme: My creative juices have gone on holiday etc, etc..."
and they have to write out the definition of 'challenge' a hundred times on the blackboard.
Robin Hood is Folklore, which is so close to fairytales they are almost one and the same. I'll stand by my comment.
It may be more of a stretch, but I also look at Princess Bride like stuff when I think Fairy Tale. They don't need the fairy's just the atmosphere, and points can be argued until kingdom come about what is truly what.
I won't provide any links, but Robin Hood is a classic in Fairy Tale stories.
I don't have a blackboard.
I don't have a blackboard.
Actually, originally I was thinking on the Jethro Tull song "Pussy Willow" for this, but I wound up putting up what I did. I realized that even if it were allowed to post credited chunks of song it would take up far too much valuable word count to do so.