"Child friendly: Murder. Cannibalism. Forcing people to dance in heated iron shoes so that their feet are ruined forever. Not child friendly: Young girls surviving dangerous situations."
One of these things is not like the other? Talk about a mixed message. It makes me think how people are under the misconception that the Bible is child-friendly.
I've been following your exploration of these Snow White stories with fascination, all this time, and it just occurred to me to mention something you might not be familiar with. Have you ever heard of interactive fiction? It's a bit like the choose-your-own adventure books, where you enter actions into a prompt to cause the story to unfold.
Anyway, Emily Short wrote, in collaboration with others, a multiple-ending story based on Snow White that's fascinating--"Alabaster"--where Snow White is anything but passive and engaged in an extended dialogue with you, as the huntsman. You need software to play it, and if you've never played IF, it's a bit of a learning curve, but the story that unfolds is creepy and unusual.
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Date: 2012-03-31 01:47 am (UTC)"Child friendly: Murder. Cannibalism. Forcing people to dance in heated iron shoes so that their feet are ruined forever.
Not child friendly: Young girls surviving dangerous situations."
One of these things is not like the other? Talk about a mixed message. It makes me think how people are under the misconception that the Bible is child-friendly.
I've been following your exploration of these Snow White stories with fascination, all this time, and it just occurred to me to mention something you might not be familiar with. Have you ever heard of interactive fiction? It's a bit like the choose-your-own adventure books, where you enter actions into a prompt to cause the story to unfold.
Anyway, Emily Short wrote, in collaboration with others, a multiple-ending story based on Snow White that's fascinating--"Alabaster"--where Snow White is anything but passive and engaged in an extended dialogue with you, as the huntsman. You need software to play it, and if you've never played IF, it's a bit of a learning curve, but the story that unfolds is creepy and unusual.