And OF COURSE there are pirates …
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #parody #kidlit #Childrensliterature #Davos #pirates
Why does the Little Mermaid feel like she's just stumbling through the plot not changing or learning anything or having any arc or agency of her own?
Because she's not the Little Mermaid. She's Ariel
Thank you for coming to my overly long and pretentious ramble about a fairy tale with a fucking mermaid in it from nearly two hundred years ago
#disney #boycottdisney #thelittlemermaid #hanschristianandersen #literature #fairytales
Lloyd Osbourne’s “Davos Press” enjoyed sufficient commercial success to pay Stevenson (very small) royalties. You can find scans of the originals on the National Library of Scotland website
https://digital.nls.uk/rlstevenson/browse/archive/99384212
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #parody #kidlit #Childrensliterature #Davos
And OF COURSE there are pirates …
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #parody #kidlit #Childrensliterature #Davos #pirates
Davos was also where Stevenson produced his MORAL EMBLEMS – a parody of Victorian didactic rhymes for children. His 12-year-old stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, printed the chapbooks on a toy printing press & hawked them around the sanatorium.
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #parody #kidlit #Childrensliterature #Davos
Lloyd Osbourne’s “Davos Press” enjoyed sufficient commercial success to pay Stevenson (very small) royalties. You can find scans of the originals on the National Library of Scotland website
https://digital.nls.uk/rlstevenson/browse/archive/99384212
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #parody #kidlit #Childrensliterature #Davos
Some good things have come from Davos …
“It was here that Robert Louis Stevenson overcame his writer’s block and finished Treasure Island; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started skiing in the Alps; and Thomas Mann thought of the idea for The Magic Mountain”
1/5
https://lithub.com/a-brief-literary-history-of-davos/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #SirArthurConanDoyle #Davos #writersblock #skiing #ThomasMann
Davos was also where Stevenson produced his MORAL EMBLEMS – a parody of Victorian didactic rhymes for children. His 12-year-old stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, printed the chapbooks on a toy printing press & hawked them around the sanatorium.
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #parody #kidlit #Childrensliterature #Davos
Some good things have come from Davos …
“It was here that Robert Louis Stevenson overcame his writer’s block and finished Treasure Island; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started skiing in the Alps; and Thomas Mann thought of the idea for The Magic Mountain”
1/5
https://lithub.com/a-brief-literary-history-of-davos/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #SirArthurConanDoyle #Davos #writersblock #skiing #ThomasMann
Well, anyway tldr
Why does the Sea-Witch feel oversimplified into a moustache-twirling villain now?
Because she's not the Sea-Witch. She's Ursula
Why does the Prince feel like he's not allowed to have flaws or honestly much of a personality or motives of his own at all, really?
Because he's not the Prince. He's Eric
#disney #boycottdisney #thelittlemermaid #hanschristianandersen #literature #fairytale
Why does the Little Mermaid feel like she's just stumbling through the plot not changing or learning anything or having any arc or agency of her own?
Because she's not the Little Mermaid. She's Ariel
Thank you for coming to my overly long and pretentious ramble about a fairy tale with a fucking mermaid in it from nearly two hundred years ago
#disney #boycottdisney #thelittlemermaid #hanschristianandersen #literature #fairytales
by the apparent sudden disappearance of his strange new friend overnight
to "ooh he wants to find love, but he doesn't feel quite ready, oh wait the story has to wrap up with a marriage so now he conveniently is"
#disney #boycottdisney #thelittlemermaid #hanschristianandersen #literature #fairytales
Well, anyway tldr
Why does the Sea-Witch feel oversimplified into a moustache-twirling villain now?
Because she's not the Sea-Witch. She's Ursula
Why does the Prince feel like he's not allowed to have flaws or honestly much of a personality or motives of his own at all, really?
Because he's not the Prince. He's Eric
#disney #boycottdisney #thelittlemermaid #hanschristianandersen #literature #fairytale
It just feels so dull to subsume a story like this into the "traditional hetero christian marriage good, everything else bad" Disney formula
Even the Prince feels flattened
He went from a generally well-meaning but painfully oblivious & often condescending guy who, not unlike the Sea-Witch is not malicious but ends up screwing her over bc he has his own motives & is left genuinely blindsided & devastated
#disney #boycottdisney #thelittlemermaid #hanschristianandersen #literature #fairytales
by the apparent sudden disappearance of his strange new friend overnight
to "ooh he wants to find love, but he doesn't feel quite ready, oh wait the story has to wrap up with a marriage so now he conveniently is"
#disney #boycottdisney #thelittlemermaid #hanschristianandersen #literature #fairytales
your relationships w men"
Where's the nuance?
It's like a whole ocean of depth has been dried up
At least Snow White, Cinderella & Sleeping Beauty had a clear bad guy in the original story
Why HERE?
Why did The Little Mermaid *specifically* need another "jealous older lesbian-coded evil woman vs pure quiet younger more hetero-coded good woman" plot which Disney had already done to death by that point?
#disney #boycottdisney #thelittlemermaid #hanschristianandersen #literature #fairytales
It just feels so dull to subsume a story like this into the "traditional hetero christian marriage good, everything else bad" Disney formula
Even the Prince feels flattened
He went from a generally well-meaning but painfully oblivious & often condescending guy who, not unlike the Sea-Witch is not malicious but ends up screwing her over bc he has his own motives & is left genuinely blindsided & devastated
#disney #boycottdisney #thelittlemermaid #hanschristianandersen #literature #fairytales
Ariel interacts with in the whole movie, too!
We really went from Littlest's final action in the story being to kiss the Prince's new bride on the forehead before ascending to heaven, a gesture of feminine solidarity & a blessing to be happy w him, towards a woman she barely even knows, despite every circumstance pitting them against each other
To..."other women are scary & predatory & will undermine
#disney #boycottdisney #thelittlemermaid #hanschristianandersen #literature #fairytales
your relationships w men"
Where's the nuance?
It's like a whole ocean of depth has been dried up
At least Snow White, Cinderella & Sleeping Beauty had a clear bad guy in the original story
Why HERE?
Why did The Little Mermaid *specifically* need another "jealous older lesbian-coded evil woman vs pure quiet younger more hetero-coded good woman" plot which Disney had already done to death by that point?
#disney #boycottdisney #thelittlemermaid #hanschristianandersen #literature #fairytales
Ariel interacts with in the whole movie, too!
We really went from Littlest's final action in the story being to kiss the Prince's new bride on the forehead before ascending to heaven, a gesture of feminine solidarity & a blessing to be happy w him, towards a woman she barely even knows, despite every circumstance pitting them against each other
To..."other women are scary & predatory & will undermine
#disney #boycottdisney #thelittlemermaid #hanschristianandersen #literature #fairytales
Sins of the Children (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/sins-of-the-children
#HackerNews #SinsOfTheChildren #AdrianTchaikovsky #SciFi #Literature #BookReview #HackerNews #AsteriskMag
Reading across books with Claude Code
https://pieterma.es/syntopic-reading-claude/
#HackerNews #Reading #Claude #Code #syntopic #reading #books #technology #innovation #literature
If a lion attacks
Stoop swiftly
Pick up two medium sized rock stones
And insert them deftly up his nostrils…
—Ivor Cutler, “Jungle Tip: Lion”
A poem / useful advice from LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING ROOM, vol. II (Methuen, 1984)
2/7
#Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler
“I have a harmonium and it’s going to explode in two minutes”
Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) – poet, singer, musician, songwriter, artist, humorist – was born #OTD, 15 Jan
In 2013, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4 celebrated his life & career:
1/7
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt
#Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler
If a lion attacks
Stoop swiftly
Pick up two medium sized rock stones
And insert them deftly up his nostrils…
—Ivor Cutler, “Jungle Tip: Lion”
A poem / useful advice from LIFE IN A SCOTCH SITTING ROOM, vol. II (Methuen, 1984)
2/7
#Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler
“I have a harmonium and it’s going to explode in two minutes”
Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) – poet, singer, musician, songwriter, artist, humorist – was born #OTD, 15 Jan
In 2013, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4 celebrated his life & career:
1/7
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt
#Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler
The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself from Pre-Conception Through Birth by Rachel Pepper #books #literature #dedication
"Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it."
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
Dame Agatha Christie died #OTD 50 years ago.
She wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie
Agatha Christie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451
"Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it."
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
Dame Agatha Christie died #OTD 50 years ago.
She wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie
Agatha Christie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451
