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Aug. 10th, 2008 01:49 amI have got to stop letting the weekends fuck up my sleeping habits.
Anyway. I am awake, should be asleep, so you peeps get to listen to me ramble.
Want to do a fairytale. Would like to do several. Have not done them in awhile, so to write at least one would be nice, before I throw myself back into Robin Hood, Midnight, and Weathermage.
The one predominantly on my mind at the moment are:
And I do believe that is enough torture for one night, and I am going to try once more to go sleepy.
Anyway. I am awake, should be asleep, so you peeps get to listen to me ramble.
Want to do a fairytale. Would like to do several. Have not done them in awhile, so to write at least one would be nice, before I throw myself back into Robin Hood, Midnight, and Weathermage.
The one predominantly on my mind at the moment are:
- The Emperor's New Clothes
Certain elements of this one would be fun, certain aspects would be annoying as bloody fuck. This fairytale is a good one for toying with the 'what happens after' concept. In the tradition tale, it is a child who points out that the emperor is, in fact, naked. What might have become of that child? - Little Red Riding Hood
This one would be pretty simple. The most frequent way to retell this one, at least in my experience, is to make RRH male instead of female, up the age to legal, and give him either the hunter or the wolf. Yes, much like Emperor, I think the true fun might be with the 'what comes after'. Who is the hunter, and what else does he get up to, and what happens after he helps grandma and the dumbass granddaughter? - The Little Mermaid
I tried to start this one tonight, but mermaids make no fucking sense, and trying and failing to work out a handful of details succeeded only in annoying the fuck out of me. But, again, the after the main story is what interests me. A running theme tonight, hmm. But, still. In the original version of the tale, the little mermaid dies (and can't go to heaven b/c, not being human, she doesn't have a soul, and so must earn one by doing good deeds as a spirit and then maybe god will let her have one *rolls eyes*). I thought somewhere b/t Hans Christian Anderson and Disney might be more fun, with the little mermaid simply going missing, and someone sent to find her. Then the story pisssed me off, so it's not getting written anytime soon. I hadn't figure out the LI anyway. - The Pied Piper
I would love to figure out a suitable way to retell this one. Sadly, no idea has yet sprung to mind. I'm sort of sick of the Piper being some sort of uber broken character who has zomg powers and whatnot. And the townspeople always kinda irked me too - no reason was ever given for their mass stupidity. I mean, people can be dumb and cruel and shit, but it seems to me a town that plagued by rats would gladly hand over the money in the end. I dunno, there's something there, but I haven't yet been smart enough to see what it is. - Cinderall-type
I can't help it. I love masques, sekkret identities, pining from afar, all of it. I could write a million such stories and never grow bored. Sadly, that doesn't mean everyone wants to read it a million times, and it's already been done to death by myself and two million other people. So, I will probably keep the ideas just in my head, but they're always there.
And I do believe that is enough torture for one night, and I am going to try once more to go sleepy.
