frankensteinsmomster:

rosalarian:

dropofrum:

shining-magically:

margotkim:

Any story claiming to be a deconstruction of fairy tales but has nothing to offer except new types of violence, more explicit sex, and a general attitude of “lol happy endings aren’t real” is like. such a cultural waste of time tbh

know what actually is a good deconstruction of a fairy tale? Shrek. It fucks up just about everything in a normal fairy tale and still manages to have a happy ending with a good message and never once has to be ‘gritty’ or ‘dark’. It’s actually really well done.

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”

- Ursula LeGuin, ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’

In dark times such as these, it is absolutely revolutionary to be happy.

@pictures-and-rambles I feel likethis is relevant to the conversation we were having earlier about being tired of gritty realism.

(via frankenbolt)

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