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backtothesea asked me:

I'd love to hear any of your favorite myths, fairy tales or urban legends.




Beauty & The Beast

I wish I could say something else, but Beauty and the Beast is the fairy tale that I read multiple versions of and it was (and honestly, may still be) my favorite Disney movie.

I’m not thrilled about this choice because Once Upon A Time really kind of ruined my feelings about that fairy tale. I’ve never denied that there are some really negative elements to the Beauty and the Beast story, but Once’s interpretation made it hard for me to see anything else.

That said, this post made me realize I really need to read the original (and fuck yes, for a citable, sole female author) and I just read Cruel Beauty (and I need to reread Robin McKinely's Beauty), so hopefully that will help remove the dirty, guilty sting I presently feel at liking B&B.

Moving on, this isn’t a specific legend, but I freaking love stories of friendly ghosts, e.g. Casper, Phantom Dennis, that one comic about the dude who falls for the ghost haunting his house.

I also love urban legends of all sorts – ‘aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the light’ (still pissed at Supernatural for screwing their adaptation of this up, among many other reasons) and the vanishing hitchhiker are two of my favs. I also feel like my enjoyment of serial killer fiction and road trip fic are related to this.

ETA: I put on the B&B soundtrack while I was getting this ready to post and ended up singing along and waving my arms dramatically between typing. Yep, definitely my fav disney movie.