So my story actually has quite a bit of a fractured modern fairytale inspiration where we start with the cliches (a prince charming, a rags to riches damsel/princess, an evil queen who is the prince's mother) but then it all diverges. The prince is paralyzed, the queen is actually a business woman 'queen' who loves the rags-to-riches damsel/princess to bits, and what happens when a "Prince Charming Complex" shatters?
If you have stories that revolving around diverging from or retelling fairytales, or characters becoming super sane and realizing they live in stories, share them here
This is a bit of a teaser for our new series! literally the whole story revolves around fairy tales
Coming out in june!
Once upon a time... stop. Resting easy in the palm of the clock, when hours were long and days were short, and snow fell like autumn leaves on the asphalt. Once upon a time, not. There lived a silent prince âlocked behind a wall of glass. But then the enchantment starts to crack.
Aha! I see it now. That's a fantastic parallel you've achieved in the story (quite like Joyce's Ulysses, if I might say so.)
With The Adventures of Zovhara Ashfrost I don't have any parallels, but not many people know this: this novel is actualy a prequel to a bigger epic novel. Now that one may have some parallel to once of the greatest fairytales of all: The Legend of King Arthur. Ahaaa I hope I achieve that lol.
Fingers crossed I'm rooting you on! What is Joyce's Ulysses?
You mean you see the fairy tale ideas in Damsel in the Red Dress now? Thank you for the compliment, though I don't know the reference.
Oh sorry I wasn't clear. The book Ulysses by modernist write James Joyce is a story in a modern setting but with parallels to the epic Odysseus
I meant that I never realised the inspiration and cliches that 'Damsel in the Red Dress' with respect to modern fairytales, The prince charming, the princess, etc. I like when stories draw parallels to other things. It's quite an aha! moment.
Same, it's another one of my ideas I added adding depth to the idea/plot as it went. I like there to be parallels and cross references. That's why there are so many references to literature and poetry in the story as well. I think they help ideas to keep coming back and make the story seem fuller, and envelope the readers more. (Something I learned writing short stories and add to my other writing is that bringing back reoccurring ideas ties the story together and helps it to feel profound and complete regardless of length)
And cool. Not me being to anti-learned to understand my own compliment lol
There's also the hope, at least for me, is that after we're long gone and a literature expert digs up our novels in the future, they might have a read and associate parallels and conclude that we were in fact great authors of our times
Just like we do to works of Shakespeare or Chaucer lel
We may BE the great authors of our time, we won't know until our time is over
I'm working on a weekly webcomic about discovering what the webcomic is about. A meditation on art and webcomics themselves
Very much so breaking the fairy tale, prince, dragon/witch (srry), princess, wicked step sisters? (srry again, they're not really sisters but yk)
It debuts in June, you'll see what i mean lol
Silly side stories from my series, Raikiri.
Main series here.Somehow canon, yet they don't acnolage the 4th wall anymore. Seems like that would be a useful skill.
New Chapter Update of comic
Webcomic Infinite Strike
Check out my WebcomicRomance, drama, Fantasy (technically the build up to a yandere) Infinite Strike on Webtoons and on tapas.
I tend to subscribe to those who subscribe to me, especially when I see Likes and comments.I have no preference for the genre. I tend to find any genre okay. But it's up to your story and art to keep me captivated. You'll know about my interest when you see me commenting on your novel/comic.
Mine initially looks like the traditional light-good and dark-bad, but it's not. In fact, many tropes are broken and calls out the red flags many fairy tales are in fact guilty of condoning.
There are so many red flags in the princess stories we grew up watching if we think about it. "The Little Mermaid" is one giant red flag
More fairy tale inspired ideas coming up soon. but not that soon. like Aslan calls all times soon soon
My story "Every Day is Beautiful With You". It breaks a fairy tale in the way that a lot of things are based on fairy tales. One of the main characters' names is Yuki, which means "Snow", which is meant to be a play on "Snow White". He works in a drag bar called "Cinderella Bar". The owner of the bar has the drag name "Briar Rose" (you know, as in "Sleeping Beauty"). The drag queens who work in the bar are all "queens" in the fairy tale. There is a semi-villain, who's name is Cham and he often competes with Yuki for the attention of Briar Rose, who's real name is Tata. It's alright though, because Yuki is in a relationship with Tata and all Cham can really do is bark up the wrong tree. There's lots of fairy tale references throughout, and I'm planning for more. Even the way Yuki was spirited away into this world of drag is like Alice in Wonderland, as he was found one day by Tata out of the blue and invited to the bar, where he never left.