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inheritance and other problems
Feb. 21st, 2025 11:53 pmWas trucking along on a story. Carefully setting up the laws and customs of the kingdoms to move the characters around.
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Beauty and the transformed-back Beast
Sep. 4th, 2023 04:52 pmI have read a number of complaints about the Beast turning back into a man at the end of the tale.
Most of them are simply contemptuous of the way he looks. Some, indeed, have obviously entirely reversed the moral of the tale, and are more turned on by the bestial form, and completely ignore the man inside it.
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Most of them are simply contemptuous of the way he looks. Some, indeed, have obviously entirely reversed the moral of the tale, and are more turned on by the bestial form, and completely ignore the man inside it.
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here comes the queen
May. 12th, 2023 11:50 pmAh, characters. There's one who's introduced to be cute and little and round out a happy ending to the first story. Being all wide-eyed with wonder at the notion of adoption.
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On reflection, death is only one facet of a major problem with superhero stories: change.
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Was once in a rip-roaring online discussion about whether superheroes should marry. After all, they risk their lives so often. Is it fair to marry with the awareness that you will quickly leave behind a widow? What if there are children? Should they be deprived of one parent? It's not actually like police, who would not be expect to be in a shootout every month.
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The Hero has met the Love Interest. Good, good, good, there are things that depend on this in the climax.
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love and the objective correlative
Aug. 2nd, 2022 09:33 pmBeing noticing some patterns in fannish shipping of characters -- including of characters who are canonically married to someone else. And is in love. And may even have kids.
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some do, some don't
Jun. 7th, 2022 10:48 pmThere are witches who turn women into sheep and have them killed so they can slip into their place in the family and be in a position to marry off their daughters to a prince. Or just jump at the chance to be a stepmother.
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enter the mother-in-law
Nov. 14th, 2021 11:13 pmThe evil mother-in-law gets less press than the wicked stepmother, and indeed, she did appear less in the folk source.
But she was pretty frequent.
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But she was pretty frequent.
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a sequel looms
Oct. 17th, 2021 08:18 pmHaven't even finished the first sequel, and it's suggesting a third story in the sequence.
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once upon a christening
Oct. 17th, 2021 04:00 pmA fairy who had not been invited showed up to the christening.
So she shows up and curses the princess to sleep for a century.
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So she shows up and curses the princess to sleep for a century.
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Roses, roses everywhere
Jun. 28th, 2021 10:30 pmSo how long did the hero woo the heroine if there were roses in bloom from beginning to end?
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