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Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in a way we expect.
Me: So what did you think of my novel?
My publisher: I thought it sucked--
Me: --you right in with its world-building and pages turning suspense? Yeah, I'm pretty proud of it.
My publisher: No, I mean that it blows
Me: --you right away with its clever plot twists and realistic characters!
My publisher: No! It bites! Your novel bites!
Me: Yes, I too thought that the satire was pretty biting, even if I do say so mys--
My publisher: Stop it! No! I mean it was bad! And not "bad" as in "good," "bad" as in "I would rather eat a bucket of dingleberries than read it again." Bad! It was terrible! It was an awful, terrible novel!
Me: Oh.
Me:...
Me: So, you think it would make a better Major Motion Picture then?
My publisher: Just get the fuck out of my office.
REBLOG THE CHRISTMAS OTTER IN 10 SECONDS FOR BOUNTIFUL GIFTS AND A MERRY CHRISTMAS
I would have reblogged this without the hope of bountiful gifts and a merry christmas
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countdown to series four // day 02 - tbb flashback
We must feedâŠ
Can I just sayâŠthrowback OTPâŠlook at how cute these two are and how much fun theyâre having together? THESE TWO FOREVER.Â
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As requested, moodboard inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyleâs Sherlock Holmes stories.
countdown to series four // day 12 - favourite supporting character:Â sherlockâs mind
S H E R L O C K - series 3 | The point Iâm trying to make is that I am the most unpleasant, rude, ignorant and all-round obnoxious arsehole that anyone could possibly have the misfortune to meet. I am dismissive of the virtuous, unaware of the beautiful, and uncomprehending in the face of the happy. So if I didnât understand I was being asked to be best man, it is because I never expected to be anybodyâs best friend. Certainly not the best friend of the bravest and kindest and wisest human being I have ever had the good fortune of knowing.

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do you ever get overwhelmed by the amount of history in the world that you donât know
Yes. #shakespeare
When I moved to London my grandmother immediately started asking about whether I had a sexy new English boyfriend yet, so I told her I was seeing an older man named Bill but things were complicated because he and his wife were separated but not divorced and he had a few kids off living with her and long story short itâs been almost a year and she still thinks Shakespeare is my sugardaddy
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The Little Mermaid
Mermaids are popular lately. I guess that makes now as good a time as any to talk about Hans Christian Andersenâs The Little Mermaid.
Which desperately needs to be talked about. Seriously, the situation is dire.
Everyone knows the Disney version, which I happen to like very much, but itâs a different story, about different things. Starting with the Disney version, weâre all sort of trained to see Prince Charming as the only possible happy ending.
Most people also know that in Andersenâs version, the mermaid dies in the end. And this is where things get difficult. First, there are a lot of picture books that end with her dying, and they have Andersenâs name on the front, and naturally everyone assumes theyâre telling the original story. If you read a twenty page picture book that was just the Disney story condensed, until suddenly it ended with death, you did not read the original.
Also, thereâs this idea going around that she committed suicide because the prince didnât love her. That is not what happened at all, and I donât know how the rumor got started, but it really bugs me.
So Iâve got a collection of Andersenâs fairy tales in front of me right now, and Iâm actually really frustrated because the title page doesnât name a translator, but itâs got 47 of his stories in it, and my dad bought it in Germany. The Little Mermaid is 35 pages without illustrations, I have done my research, and Iâm completely sure itâs the real, full story.
The mermaidâs got a bunch of sisters. Theyâre all kind of interested in our world, because theyâre not allowed to go to the surface until they reach a certain age. But the novelty wears off for the others. Our mermaid, much like Ariel, is a little obsessed. Already, this is about more than a cute boy. The mortal world is something that fascinated her long before she met the cute boy.
And then she saves his life. And sheâs got a crush on him. Itâs bad. She spies on him a lot. Her sisters help her find his house. But she doesnât actually do anything. Days pass. Maybe weeks. Probably weeks. And then she talks to her grandma, and finds out that although they have much shorter lifespans, humans have immortal souls.
This is important. The Little Mermaid is part of a large group of folk and fairy tales with this same basic idea. Humanoid creatures that are not human have human rationality, but lack immortal souls. Itâs terrible, because they have the ability to understand exactly what theyâre missing. So these creaturesâfairies, elves, trolls, assorted sea beingsâhave one shot at a soul. Some stories say you only have to marry a human, others say you have to bear his children (sucks to be a merman, I guess).
Sheâs been obsessed with humanity forever, and sheâs totally in love with this guy. But itâs not until she learns about the soul that she does anything. This is about the boy, yeah, but itâs also about the soul, and in the long run the soul is more important.
So she goes to the sea witchâwho, by the way, warns her that this is stupid. And the deal is that she can become a human (which will be intensely painful), in exchange for her tongue (she cuts it out), and if he marries her, she gets the soul. If he marries no one, presumably she lives a normal human life, and dies in thirty or forty years with no soul. (The text really isnât clear here.) But if he marries someone else, then she dies and turns into sea foam (which sounds weird but apparently itâs what all mermaids do when they die). Really, itâs a pretty generous deadline for a witch.
The prince finds her naked on the beach and takes her home, like a stray dog or something. A lot like a stray dog. Seriously. Letâs look at this relationship.
Everyone was enchanted by her, especially the prince, who called her his little foundlingâŠThe prince said she was to stay with him forever, and she was allowed to sleep outside his door on a velvet cushion.
A velvet cushion. Wow. Talk about your healthy romantic relationships. Not a bedroom. Not a bed. She is allowed to sleep on a cushion in the hallway.
What a privilege. I am so jealous.
Next, he has some boysâ clothes made for her so they can ride horses together.
Is she his pet? Is she is little brother? I have no idea. When I told my mom the story, she said, âSo basically what he wants is a pet friend.â I think that sums up the situation pretty nicely.
But wait, thereâs more.
Day by day the prince grew fonder of her. He loved her the way one loves a dear, good child, but to make her his wife did not occur to him at all.
âOf course I love you best,â said the prince, âforâŠYou are devoted to me, and you resemble a young girl I once saw but will certainly never find againâŠShe was the only one I could love in this world. But you look like herâŠand so good fortune has sent you to me. We shall never be parted!â
Then his parents want him to go meet a princess. He tells the mermaid:
âI cannot love her. She doesnât look like the beautiful girl in the temple, whom you resemble. If I should ever choose a bride, you would be the more likely one, my mute little foundling with the sparkling eyes!â
And this is where it gets really interesting:
And he kissed her rosy mouth, played with her long hair, and rested his head upon her heart, which dreamed of mortal happiness and an immortal soul.
Which sheâs never gonna get. Why? Because this guyâs a loser.
You give a girl a nice little doggy bed. You treat her like a boy. You talk to her like a child. You tell her you love someone else. And what do you do next? You kiss her.
This is not Prince Eric. This is not Disney. Reading this story, I donât want her to end up with this prince. Thatâs not a happy ending at all. He doesnât even treat her like a person, and she deserves so much better.
So the prince goes and meets this princess. And the princess ends up being the girl that he loves from the temple. (He thinks she saved his life. Actually it was the mermaid. Iâm really curious about what would have happened if heâd learned the truth.)
Heâs going to marry her immediately. The deal with the witch says our mermaid dies the first morning after the wedding. She holds the brideâs train. She participates in the wedding thatâs going to kill her, because sheâs a sweet person who really loves this guy who treats her like a pet, and it is devastating.
Her sisters are also really sweet. They made a deal with the sea witch, too. In exchange for all of their hair, they get a knife, and they tell our mermaid:
Before the sun rises, you must plunge it into the princeâs heart! And when his warm blood spatters your feet, they will grow together into a fishtail, and you will become a mermaid again and can sink down into the water to us, and live your three hundred years before you turn into the lifeless, salty sea foam.
His life for a do over. Iâd totally take that deal.
Maybe not. But I have a long list of fictional people I would like to slap, stab, or strangle, and he is definitely on it.
Anyway, the little mermaid is a much better person than me, and sheâs not gonna kill this guy. She jumps into the sea. I think this is where people get the suicide idea, but the sun is just coming up now. Sheâs about to turn into sea foam, and being a very considerate sort of person, sheâs going to do it in the water, so no one has to clean her up. She is literally seconds away from a natural death. Sheâs not killing herself. Knowing that sheâs going to die regardless, she is choosing a place to die in.
And itâs quote time.
Once more she gazed at the prince with dimming eyes, then plunged from the ship down into the sea. And she felt her body dissolving into foam.
Now the sun rose out of the sea. The mild, warm rays fell on the deathly cold sea foam, and the little mermaid did not feel deathâŠshe saw the clear sun, and up above her floated hundreds of lovely transparent creaturesâŠThe little mermaid saw that she had a body like theirs. It rose higher and higher out of the foam.
So she becomes a Daughter of the Air. Daughters of the Air create their own souls with good deeds. It takes about three hundred years. So basically she gets to hang around for the length of her normal mermaid lifespan, and then sheâll have a soul and she can go to Heaven. Also she gets to talk again. This is not actually a tragic ending. She wins. She gets the soul. She doesnât get the prince, but I have a feeling the Daughters of the Air are gonna treat her a lot better than he did, so who cares? Sheâs going to Heaven.
Now at the very end Andersen mentions that if the Daughters fly past a naughty child, theyâll get another year added to their 300, but mostly this seems to be a scare tactic for young readers, so letâs just focus on the happy part where the little mermaid does technically die, but also gets eternal life.
Also, if you want to read more of this type of story, where marriage=soul, you should totally check out Undine, by Friedrich de la Motte FouquĂ©. It was written before The Little Mermaid, it also involves a sea person, itâs much more painful, itâs a little more explicitly religious, and it is absolutely beautiful. Also itâs free online, and George MacDonald Approved:
Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale ⊠of all fairytales I know, I think Undine the most beautiful.

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