I do sometimes write fanfiction, and I hope to write more in the future. I am currently in a lot of different fandoms (and they constantly change), but one of my main ones is Hermitcraft/Life Series/Vampires SMP (this includes more SMPs but wtv), really anything Minecraft. And also!! smosh & sfth & tdi &,,,,
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Like that story isn’t about an ugly duckling that grew up sexy, it’s a fucking swan was judged as a duck and hated itself as a duck until it found out it wasn’t a duck and stopped trying to be a duck.
The actual ducks in the neighborhood were probably still looking around at perfectly normal swans like “damn, look at those busted ass ducks”
although a lot of adaptations skip over this and sanitise it to the point where the message is apparently meant to read "you'll be forgiven for being born wrong, if you turn out thin and white and pretty!" - there's a lot going on in the original. For one thing, most adaptations present him as a wild animal, but the Ugly Duckling is born into captivity, into a society that mimics upper-class pretensions, which is why he's declared 'ugly'. His mother is loving and very generous at first - hatching him despite the inconvenient incubation period, and defending him firmly - but after the other domestic animals (including a higher-class dominant one) point out what a burden he is, she turns on her child. Previously, she genuinely appeared to like him.
And a thing that's missed, while kid's abridged adaptations miss out on the rest of the point, is that the Ugly Duckling decides he can't live like this and leaves the farmyard; he goes into the wild himself. In the various passages in which people try to keep him as a pet, or a duck, it's hammered home again and again that this does not make a good pet. there is nothing in him that suits being a domestic animal.
one of the particular parts that makes you go "sweet jesus, hans christian andersen" is where the wild geese rock up and are nice to the young swan, not quite recognising him as a swan but saying they're pretty into whatever weird vibe he has (is this a sort of queer recognition thing? we are told, explicitly, that the wild geese are both male, and they definitely say "you're so ugly it's hot - come with us" - given HCA, it might be) and then they're, you know, instantly shot dead. Because that's what happens to wild geese. They like your vibe and try to take you with them, and even offer to teach you how to flirt - and then you see exactly what happens to them. And then every encounter from there, from the old woman who attempts to keep him - a very satirical and funny passage - to the young family who genuinely attempt to save his life (but he's too fundamentally panicked and awkward to reciprocate their kindness, and explodes out of their house in a social catastrophe) the story hammers in: not only are you a terrible duck, but you just aren't MEANT to live with people. You're closer to the things they kill than the things they keep.
but yeah, adaptations miss this often: you have to go out into the wild to save your own life. you may die in the wild, and you WILL die where you are. nobody comes to save you - and nobody really could have, when you were younger - but ultimately, mate, you just aren't a very good pet. Of the list of "attributes of a domestic animal" you really suck, in detail, at all of them.
so it's very telling to me that the good ending is the one where he is a wild animal - but more importantly, a WILD SWAN.
Not killed. (like a wild goose).
Not kept. (like a duck).
but a secret third thing, that swans - of few creatures - get. they get admired and they get paid and they get LEFT ALONE. they have a position in relation to humanity, and it is BEING A LOVELY SWAN OVER THERE.
I saw some notes saying "oh wow I need to look up the original." It's very easy! It's here: The Ugly Duckling, by Hans Christian Andersen on Project Gutenberg. It is 3500 words or so and free.
The Ugly Duckling isn't a "fairy tale" or a fable. It didn't emerge from the collective unconscious - it didn't come from nowhere. It's an original work. Andersen wrote it in 1843. It didn't exist before he came up with it. the translation I linked above was translated in 1930.
like many HCA stories (The Little Mermaid, The Snow Queen) it's out of copyright and has pretty images, so it gets mined frequently as a free text - you can always republish a cheap Ugly Duckling, and don't have to pay an author. So people tend to just read and remember the various abridged versions. as a result, they think about it like a fairy tale - a sort of ambiguous, detached, floating thing that belongs to everyone and can mean everything. fairy tales - loose cultural fragments - can be hammered to suit any moral, or handwaved to be about anything, and then when you get bored of them, you can "twist" them a different way. Maybe it's about this. maybe it's about that. I read it as being about beauty. I read it as being about me. I don't like the politics. Today King Arthur is going to be Roman. Tomorrow Sleeping Beauty will wake up by herself. it doesn't really matter. And that's grand! that's what fairy tales have become - they are the people's mental property - they're to be played with.
But The Ugly Duckling isn't a fairy tale. it's a single sad, weird queer guy from a while ago, trying to tell you something personal about himself. maybe he isn't communicating clearly, maybe he's too weird, maybe you don't like it, maybe it annoys you - but <TheUglyDuckling> DOES have meaning and intention.
"I think the moral is this / I think the moral is that" - do try reading it first though! do try reading the whole thing first.
Thank you Angela Giarratana for being loud and annoying and hot as fuck. As another bitch who is loud and annoying and hot as fuck I appreciate you representing my culture.
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Item: Cadillac of Confusion; allows wielded to cast indecision upon targets when the engine is revved, making them unable to determine their next move.
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what a beautiful time of year everyone is growing veegtables for me spacifically, one problem though you need to make fences shorter im sure its a mistake but i cant reach some of them
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im sure we all LOVE pauls "never!!" in the remount (I KNOW I FUCKING DO!!) especially his reaction afterwards, but i also love the HIVES reaction (even if theyre only slightly seen in these shots)
Look at them! theyre overjoyed!! his voice FINALLY in tune with them is quite literally music to their ears!
hey guys I got another one. silveraxe/shatter duo this time because I am so cool and swagalicious. idk. I was rereading one of my posts and added something in and then realize I can just. make a post about it so.
ep 7, Abolish and Owen literally just talk while the flames are burning the town walls around them. now fast forward to ep 8 and Owen is letting Abolish cure him, showing Abolish his past, trusting him with "curing" him. Abolish is giving Owen a choice, sharing his past, knowing Owen can decide what he wants for himself. Ep 7 is kinda like the walls around them burned down. They talk to eachother multiple times after that (AND BEFORE!), sharing pieces about themselves they couldn't normally. They let their guards down,,,
I've decided to rewatch the curing of Owen and. warning long ass list so I'm putting a spoiler thing here because it's long.
1) Owen comes to him to get cured. He trusts him.
2) they share clothes- I mean. Abolish gives him his chestplate,,,
3) Abolish was trying to piece together what Owen said?? like he stayed up thinking about him,,,???
4) Owen immediately opens up. like. he was fast with ngl,,,
5) Abolish picking apart Owen as he talks about his story, knowing him well enough to know his reasoning behind things......
6) "hey bro your dead boyfriend might've helped my dead family we should kiss I mean. I can help you." totally real thing said btw,,
7) opens up to Owen back??? Literally tells him about the org?? like...... he didn't do that with anyone besides Legs. No joke.
8) "...My choice?" (as soon as Owen says it), "Your choice." C'MON. LOOK AT THEM. PEOPLE. GET A GRIP AND LOOK AT THEM. STUDY THEM. PLEASE. SEE WHAT I SEE.
okay 8 points for 8 ep haha get it. get it. anyways I was kinda like nobody ever talks about the chat in ep 7 and how it can mean both literally and figuratively that they are letting their walls down for eachother. like ep 8 they are spilling so many secrets to eachother cmon.
okay wait one more thing, in Abolish's pov, because Owen chose to do it at sunrise, could you just, for a moment, imagine a world in where Owen just looks so pretty during that scene with the light reflecting off of him that Abolish almost forgets what he was about to do? Can you imagine that.
