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Tweak says, "Happy hour!"

salad_barbarian (salad_barbarian) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-04 03:14:00

Current location:	beside the power of grayskull
Current mood:	cheerful
Current music:	The futurama theme
Entry tags:	creator: greg dean, in-joke: context is for the weak, in-joke: wtf, medium: webcomic, title: menage a 3, title: real life comics

Greetings I bring you novelty and entertainment!
I come bearing two webcomics. The first is presented without context for we are so strong that we don't need it. Right?

The recent news of Disney buying Marvel reminded me of this:

Remember people keep writing those Spike Spiegel, Spike (from BTVS), Spike Lee, and Spike Jonze (with or without his city slickers) slash fics. They may earn you a lot of money some day!

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(Anonymous)
2009-09-04 01:18 pm UTC (link)

The Little Mermaid is not a folktale. It was created by Hans Christian Andersen, mostly out of whole cloth. And the "strong and moral message" is, to me, an example of a kind of morality that I very much hope is dead (very much about scaring children, for instance).

Really, I can't see what is so incredibly good about the original fairy tales, from some sort of artistic or Bob forbid moral perspective. That includes original creators like Andersen as well as people who worked with existing fairy tales like Perrault and the brothers Grimm (and usually reworked in in the process - something which has been done with stories from the dawn of time).

Erik

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stig
2009-09-04 04:07 pm UTC (link)

What you fail to appreciate is that the original tales and their variants are as much a reflection of the culture around them as Greek Myths are of Ancient Greece, and in comparison the twee, sweetened Disney versions seem like terrible perversions.

Consider the Little Mermaid. It has within it strong themes related to maturity and the female puberty, as well as a central argument: the juxtaposition of one's own selfish desires against a purer morality. Rather than kill the Prince for herself, the Mermaid chooses to let him be happy, and for that sacrifice is carried up to heaven; to that extent, the villain of the story is not the Sea-Witch, who is a simple means to an end, but the Mermaid herself, forced to choose between happiness or a greater good - in this case, compassionate love. Juxtapose this against the syrupy simplistic black-and-white morals of Disney's adaptation, and you see that it actually encuorages selfish behaviour and rejection of one's own culture and roots!

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