Ashputtel.

So I’ve decided that I’m going to start off every post with a picture taken with my brand new camera now! (: Hopefully, my photography skills will eventually improve to the stage that I am snapping Tumblr-worthy photographs. I want to be able to take inspiring photos. I will need to develop this innate sense for the correct position and stuff. I hope I do!

Anyway, what have I been up to? Oh, just reading that book above and realising how creepy fairy tales really are. Honestly! Okay, like the Grimms’ version of Snow White is called Snow-drop and in this story, the girl is EIGHT YEARS OLD when her step-mother tried to kill her. So yeah, the same things happen where she ate the poisonous apple and fell into a coma and the prince saw her and fell in love with her and married her. The thing is the story didn’t specify exactly when they married because she fell into a coma when she was EIGHT. It just says that she is asleep for “a while”. So assuming that she’s growing while she’s sleeping, the dwarves would have to bathe her and change her clothes (wait, do you think she gets her period while asleep?!) and trim her nails and cut her hair.

However, considering the fact that they think she’s dead, they probably wouldn’t do such things. Hence if she has been growing while sleeping, the sight the prince would have seen would be a girl with fingernails worthy of the Guiness Book of World Records and not a vision of beauty. Oh and she would stink. A lot. However, if “a while” is taken to mean that she slept for say, a few weeks, holy eff, the prince is a pedophile! Shudder. Okay, maybe I’m thinking too much but the other fairy tales are downright disturbing as well.

Like Ashputtel, their version of Cinderella. Yeah, the step-sisters are beautiful in this version but their feet are still too big to fit into the slipper. So what did their mother want the first sister to do when it was her turn? Cut her toe off. Too bad the prince discovered the trick, when a bird in a tree sang a song about how the prince should look down and see the freaking blood freaking streaming from his bride’s foot. So it came to the second sister. What did she do? Stuff her foot in ’til it bled. Yeah, really innocent stuff, Cinderella.

Basically, fairy tales are quite fucked up. Oh, my childhood…