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From Andrew Lang’s illustrated “Fairy Tale Books” to Disney’s cartoon fairy tale movies to even modern, “edgy” adaptations like the ABC drama “Once Upon a Time.” most fairy-tale depictions show stereotypical heterosexual, homogenous, white couples.  Through these drawings, I reconstruct these relationships, depicting different races, body-types ranging from thin to muscular to curvy (and most importantly) ladies loving ladies.

Beauty and the Beast is re-imagined in a fantasy feudal Japan, where the beast is a horned, tattooed demonness seducing a beautiful princess.  The Little Mermaid is set in Regency era Europe, and the mermaid* is rescuing a dark-skinned lady.    Finally Cinderella, a 19th century girl dressed in a man’s suit, charms the princess, represented as a colored lady of the house, in a waltz on the dance floor.

Though all the drawings have “historical” basis (Heian Japan, European Regency, American Civil War), each drawing has a fantastical or historically inaccurate element to it — the demonness tattooed with modern Yakuza/gangster tats, the dark-skinned Regency girl, the Civil War era black high-society lady.  These inaccuracies were included so that a variety of races could be inserted into historical images.  Once I committed to wanting to depict various races in sometimes stereotypically Western settings, I decided that I would include something “inaccurate” in each drawing to unify them.

*My thoughts on mermaids: mermaids should have strong backs, big arms, and amazing six packs.  If anyone used her upper body that much just to get around from place to place, I’d expect her to have huge, huge arms.  So I made sure to give my blonde, generic mermaid nice buff arms. 

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Vendors and performers filled every possible space. Candied apples were sold on one corner next to a group of people in very simple drama masks, enacting a scary scene. More creatures enjoyed treats and watched the shows. Stands offered free candy to trick-or-treaters. A group of bird-like women had drawn quite a crowd. A skeleton man mimed stabbing a skeleton woman in a shower. Imps ran under foot, biting at ankles and snatching whatever they could. Everyone knew Jack. There were no mirrors in sight. Jack and Wendy ate fried pumpkin pie on a step and watched a group of zombies reciting a poem. Her spirits were already lifting. A murder of ravens were hopping forward, hopeful to grab at crumbs. Jack tossed them a few, and they cawed a chorus of nevermores before flying off to new marks. Part One Part Two Part Three

Vendors and performers filled every possible space. Candied apples were sold on one corner next to a group of people in very simple drama masks, enacting a scary scene. More creatures enjoyed treats and watched the shows. Stands offered free candy to trick-or-treaters. A group of bird-like women had drawn quite a crowd. A skeleton man mimed stabbing a skeleton woman in a shower. Imps ran under foot, biting at ankles and snatching whatever they could. Everyone knew Jack. There were no mirrors in sight.

Jack and Wendy ate fried pumpkin pie on a step and watched a group of zombies reciting a poem. Her spirits were already lifting. A murder of ravens were hopping forward, hopeful to grab at crumbs. Jack tossed them a few, and they cawed a chorus of nevermores before flying off to new marks.

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gothicegg: Vendors and performers filled every possible space. Candied apples were sold on one corner next to a group of people in very simple drama masks, enacting a scary scene. More creatures enjoyed treats and watched the shows. Stands offered free candy to trick-or-treaters. A group of bird-like women had drawn quite a crowd. A skeleton man mimed stabbing a skeleton woman in a shower. Imps ran under foot, biting at ankles and snatching whatever they could. Everyone knew Jack. There were no mirrors in sight. Jack and Wendy ate fried pumpkin pie on a step and watched a group of zombies reciting a poem. Her spirits were already lifting. A murder of ravens were hopping forward, hopeful to grab at crumbs. Jack tossed them a few, and they cawed a chorus of nevermores before flying off to new marks. Part One Part Two Part Three a reminder that i wrote a little story for halloween and it would make my heart a-flutter if you decided to read it.

gothicegg:

Vendors and performers filled every possible space. Candied apples were sold on one corner next to a group of people in very simple drama masks, enacting a scary scene. More creatures enjoyed treats and watched the shows. Stands offered free candy to trick-or-treaters. A group of bird-like women had drawn quite a crowd. A skeleton man mimed stabbing a skeleton woman in a shower. Imps ran under foot, biting at ankles and snatching whatever they could. Everyone knew Jack. There were no mirrors in sight.

Jack and Wendy ate fried pumpkin pie on a step and watched a group of zombies reciting a poem. Her spirits were already lifting. A murder of ravens were hopping forward, hopeful to grab at crumbs. Jack tossed them a few, and they cawed a chorus of nevermores before flying off to new marks.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

a reminder that i wrote a little story for halloween and it would make my heart a-flutter if you decided to read it.

Filed under a halloween story halloween pumpkins pumpkin pie ravens skeletons ghosts dancing skeletons mermaid lake monster black cat grey women werewolf witches