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do you remember that beautiful quote recited at the end of the film the shape of water, directed by guillermo del toro, when the lovers embrace underwater?
here’s a truly fascinating article written by a librarian who researched the original writer of this poem and fell down a rabbit hole. i encourage everyone to give it a look!
a wild rabbit, 2015
(source: naver blog post by the photographer mu_gung)
我爱你，但我会永远更爱自己
∩^ω^∩
I will marry a man who loves me and can provide for me abundantly. I will marry a man who inquires about my thoughts, feelings, and ideas regularly and genuinely. I will marry a man who gives me everything I want. I will marry a man who gives me free reign of his finances. I will marry a man who gives me a life where nothing is unattainable. I will marry a man that my family loves. I will marry a man who treats my friends as if they are his friends. I will marry a man who is proud to call himself my husband. I will marry a man with whom I can communicate with clearly and openly. I will marry a man that makes me smile as I’m falling asleep. I will marry a man that makes me want to be the best version of myself. I will marry a man who buys me everything I want because he understands this is what makes me happy.
Thoughts, everybody??
Babes in the Woods by Harley Weir
Vice Magazine Vol.7 No.8, 2009
Live fast. Die young. Be wild, and have fun.
ride (monologue), lana del rey
besties… 😳😃
Ngl college application season is dawning on me, I’m both incredibly nervous and excited
“If there is ever, even for a fleeting moment, a tiny voice in your head, and that tiny voice is telling you, "I deserve better", listen to her. That’s your partner. That’s your real, true love. And if you betray her long enough, you will lose her.” You (S03E10)
Mt Yoshino - Nara, Japan
love saying weird things to men right off the bat as my way of seeing if they’re about it or not
i can be obsessed with romance and also be totally fine on my own it’s called having depth and dimension and being in denial
I hope I find someone that loves me the same way Stephen Colbert loves his wife ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
I’m tired of hearing people say “Disney’s Cinderella is sanitized. In the original tale, the stepsisters cut off parts of their feet to make the slipper fit and get their eyes pecked out by birds in the end.”
I understand this mistake. I’m sure a lot of people buy copies of the complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales, see their tale of Aschenputtel translated as “Cinderella”, and assume what they’re reading is the “original” version of the tale. Or else they see Into the Woods and make the same assumption, because Sondheim and Lapine chose to base their Cinderella plot line on the Grimms’ Aschenputtel instead of on the more familiar version. It’s an understandable mistake. But I’m still tired of seeing it.
The Brothers Grimm didn’t originate the story of Cinderella. Their version, where there is no fairy godmother, the heroine gets her elegant clothes from a tree on her mother’s grave, and where yes, the stepsisters do cut off parts of their feet and get their eyes pecked out in the end, is not the “original.” Nor did Disney create the familiar version with the fairy godmother, the pumpkin coach, and the lack of any foot-cutting or eye-pecking.
If you really want the “original” version of the story, you’d have to go back to the 1st century Greco-Egyptian legend of Rhodopis. That tale is just this: “A Greek courtesan is bathing one day, when an eagle snatches up her sandal and carries it to the Pharaoh of Egypt. The Pharaoh searches for the owner of the sandal, finds her and makes her his queen.”
Or, if you want the first version of the entire plot, with a stepdaughter reduced to servitude by her stepmother, a special event that she’s forbidden to attend, fine clothes and shoes given to her by magic so she can attend, and her royal future husband finding her shoe after she loses it while running away, then it’s the Chinese tale of Ye Xian you’re looking for. In that version, she gets her clothes from the bones of a fish that was her only friend until her stepmother caught it and ate it.
But if you want the Cinderella story that Disney’s film was directly based on, then the version you want is the version by the French author Charles Perrault. His Cendrillon is the Cinderella story that became the best known in the Western world. His version features the fairy godmother, the pumpkin turned into a coach, mice into horses, etc, and no blood or grisly punishments for anyone. It was published in 1697. The Brothers Grimm’s Aschenputtel, with the tree on the grave, the foot-cutting, etc. was first published in 1812.
The Grimms’ grisly-edged version might feel older and more primitive while Perrault’s pretty version feels like a sanitized retelling, but such isn’t the case. They’re just two different countries’ variations on the tale, French and German, and Perrault’s is older. Nor is the Disney film sanitized. It’s based on Perrault.
unbuttoning anything for someone is… incredibly intimate and cinematographical, oscar worthy to say the least
what's a little ritualistic bleeding between friends
Michael Kirkham (British, 1971) - Untitled (2015)
badtz-maru/hana-maru
ig: pink.n.z