Slightly random questions:

[lolabobs]

Re Supernatural:

I may know what a Tin Hat is. I may have a nodding acquaintance with the concept. But WHY are 'they' called Tin Hats specifically?

Re 'zine Feedback:

What does LOC actually stand for?

Re The Rule of three:

Why is it so strong?


Random Aside:

I know fairy tales are traditionally gruesome and have only been sanitised over time, but I was browsing hrough some Ladybird books the other day - (the 60s era)and they had Snow White choking on the apple and the dwarves keeping her in a glass coffin as she was 'so beautiful', then, after 'many days', a stray prince walks by, spots her and 'falls in love'. He then negotiates with the dwarves to take her dead body and coffin away with him!

Random Aside #2

I think these books are where some of my kinks came from!

Rapunzel - Prince falls from tower, is blinded in the fall and wanders bloody and starving (in the dessert for some reason!?) until she finds him and weeps tears to cure him.

Beauty and the Beast: Beauty pines away for her father and Beast lets her go home to ease her suffering. Beast pines away ("I'm starving myself to death")and Beauty comes back and weeps more healing tears over him.

Sleeping Beauty: Had pictures of the Prince, all bloody and scraped hacking his way through the fierce hedge to get to his princess.

hurt/comfort? blood?!!

Comments

[lolabobs.livejournal.com]

The sleeping beauty thing I thought I'd remembered it where the prince came across the coffin and was compelled to kiss her because of her beauty whereupon she wakened, not that he came along, saw a dead body and thought "Aha! I'll take that home with me"!

The rest that I quoted are all pretty standard I think. I love them very much, especially the illustrations in my books.

I have a much older book filled with much more graphic and damaging tales - I love them too!

[jekesta]

He steals her, and then drops her beautiful coffin, I think, and then finds out that she is NOT VERY DEAD, she just has some apple in her throat. Fairy tales are very very strange.

I have just scrolled back down to this post and realised that it is probably the reason I underlined titles in my own post. I hardly ever underline things. Yet today they seemed to be how posts went. This is not very pointful comment, but still.

[lolabobs.livejournal.com]

I've been browsing and it appears that yes, every version is the steal and drop the coffin one as opposed to whatever pretty sanitised version I had created for myself!

I am glad to have been influential in the making of your post in whatever fashion!