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Post by Aphelyon on Apr 28, 2018 21:12:30 GMT -5
For a while I've been interested in the idea of rewriting classic, Disney-style fairy tales, while changing some of the major details of the original stories. The precise nature of what is actually changed can vary quite a lot- anything from gender or role changes to minor setting changes to genre changes. For example, what if the Beast was a woman, and Beauty was a man? What if Cinderalla took place in the late 1800s instead of medieval times? What if The Little Mermaid was a sci-fi story instead of fantasy? Or, what if it was minor things, like some of the details- like plot events, curses, and the like- being just slightly different? How would these things affect the story?
Of course, this isn't just reserved to Disney princesses and European fairy tales. If you know any interesting folk tales from other cultures, I'd be interested in shaking those up as well. However, the idea is mostly to produce sort of a... new take on a well known story or story trope. Thus, if the story isn't fairly well-known, it won't be as interesting to change. Another thing to note is that this is a shake-up of well-worn traditional fairy tales- things like Grimm's fairy tales and such. So, new Disney (and related) fairy tales like Frozen and Moana (as much as I love the latter) don't count.
Would anyone be interested in something like this? Sorry I don't have more detailed plots planned, but I figured a lot of people have changes to fairy tales they thought might be cool so I thought I'd let them have a say before coming up with anything concrete lol.
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Post by OceansMelody on Apr 30, 2018 21:27:34 GMT -5
This is definitely intriguing... I would have to think for a moment how I would alter a traditional tale, but I like this idea.)
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Post by Aphelyon on May 3, 2018 16:27:21 GMT -5
Hey sorry for my absence! I'm out of state right now with some friends I haven't been able to spend much time with for a long time. In any case, I'm glad you're interested! Any preferences or ideas?
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Post by . on May 3, 2018 16:32:10 GMT -5
I'd be interested as well if you're still accepting! This is a cool concept
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Post by Aphelyon on May 3, 2018 18:10:34 GMT -5
Sure why not :)
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Post by . on May 3, 2018 19:04:40 GMT -5
Great is there any one in particular you wanted to do? And did you want to plan here or in PM or a new thread?
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Post by Aphelyon on May 4, 2018 12:21:42 GMT -5
Hmm. No I don't really have any particular preferences. And either- whichever you prefer.
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Post by . on May 4, 2018 12:51:14 GMT -5
I'd prefer PM if that's cool with you. And I've got a few ideas that we might be able to work with. Let me just dig them out
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Post by Aphelyon on May 4, 2018 13:30:50 GMT -5
Yep, sounds good! We can talk about it here or PM, whichever you prefer.
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Post by Aphelyon on May 4, 2018 21:20:44 GMT -5
Hm. Well, it's looking like Pop and I may be doing a variation of Cinderella, so probably not that. Other than that, I don't really have anything major in mind at the moment.
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