Setting aside the gendered power differential inherent in real historical witch hunts (pretty sure it wasn’t all the rape victims in Salem getting together to burn the mayor), and the pathetic gall of men feeling hunted after millenniums of treating women like prey, I will let you guys have this one. Sure, if you insist, it’s a witch hunt. I’m a witch, and I’m hunting you.

Yes, This Is a Witch Hunt. I’m a Witch and I’m Hunting You. – The New York Times (via jasmined)

ShanaStoryteller’s Retold Fairytales Masterpost

shanastoryteller:

To be updated as new stories are added.
Last updated on: 10/16/2017

Prince Aladdin
A retelling of Aladdin. Jasmine becomes a powerful sorceress, and Aladdin becomes a true prince in a land far from Agrabah.

Cinderella: Redo
A retelling of Cinderella. The stepsisters and Cinderella band together to survive their mother’s abusive treatment.

General Li Mulan
A retelling of Mulan. Instead of going to war to save her father, Mulan is raised by her mother and grandmother and goes to war to secure a marriage with her wealthy classmate, Ping. Then she meets Shang.

he’s the beauty; she’s the beast
A retelling of The Beauty and the Beast. The witch wants to take control of the kingdom, but young Prince Adam won’t let her. So she curses him to be a beast on the inside, and with the ability to see people as they truly are. When arrogant, selfish Belle shows up at his door, he finds her hideous.

what’s a fire and how does it – what’s the word? – burn
A retelling of The Little Mermaid. Ariel discovers she has her own magical powers, and seeks out her grandmother
Amphitrite to learn how to control them.

look at me – i will never pass for a perfect bride 
A retelling of Mulan. Shang meets Mulan before the draft, and she’s already a great warrior trained by her father. When she shows up in his camp pretending to be a man, he keeps her secret.

my what a guy, gaston! 
A retelling of The Beauty and the Beast. Gaston is noble’s son who befriends the young Prince Adam, and falls in love with him. When he find out that a beast has killed the royal family and taken over the castle, he abandons his noble upbringing and becomes a hunter so that he can one day avenge the prince’s death.

the gifts of beauty and song
A retelling of Sleeping Beauty. Maleficent is the good fairy, and the three faeries that raise Aurora are the bad ones. They raise Aurora to be a dark, heartless fae. To save Aurora and the human realm, Maleficent steals Prince Philip and trades him to the Elf King for a young elf servant.

I wonder why each little bird has a someone to sing to
A retelling of Sleeping Beauty, and a companion piece to
the gifts of beauty and song. Human Prince Philip finds his place in the Elf Realm, and also falls in love with its prince, Eli.

they call her maid maleen
A retelling of Maid Maleen. Once the queen dies, the king can no longer stand to look at his daughter, the Princess Maleen. She becomes a servant in the palace, and her father remarries and has new children to take the throne. Then Prince Wolfgang visits the palace and falls for the opinionated servant who brings him his meals.

Princess Kaguya of the Moon
A retelling of The Tale of The Bamboo Cutter. Kaguya runs from her home of the moon to earth, where she becomes the beloved daughter of a bamboo cutter. She grows up beautiful, and princes from all across the land seek her hand. None of them make an impression, until the Emperor visits.

looking around here you think – sure, she’s got everything


A retelling of The Little Mermaid. Ariel is the prince of the Atlantica, and heir to the seven seas because the trident chose him when he was just a toddler. Except Ariel is actually a trans girl who’s worried the trident will reject her if it knows she’s a girl, since it rejected all of her sisters. first version here. 

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pauldierden:

As we shall see, the Suburban Gothic is a sub-genre concerned, first
and foremost, with playing upon the lingering suspicion that even the
most ordinary-looking neighbourhood, or house, or family, has something
to hide, and that no matter how calm and settled a place looks,
it is only ever a moment away from dramatic (and generally sinister)
incident. The trope of the peaceful-looking suburban house with a TERRIBLE
SECRET within is one so familiar as to have passed into cliché.
It reflects the fear that the rapid change in lifestyles and modes of living which took place in the 1950s and early 1960s caused irreparable
damage, not only to the landscape, but to the psychological state of the
people who moved into such new developments and broke with the
old patterns of existence. It owes much to the spate of, often vitriolic,
intellectual commentary that accompanied these changes and predicted
that terrible consequences would transpire: tellingly, the language and
imagery used by such commentators often owed much to the gothic

In the Suburban Gothic, one is almost always in more danger from the people in the house next door, or one’s own family, than from external threats. Horror here invariably begins at home, or at least very near to it,and in that sense the sub-genre continues the uneasy fascination with the connection between living environment and psychology which
helped reinvigorate the haunted house story in the mid-twentieth century.
Unlike the small town horror tales of Stephen King, in which the
danger invariably comes from a monstrous ‘Other’, here, it is one’s fellow
suburbanites, family members and personal decisions which pose
the most danger.

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averyangryfeminist:

pahnem:

vua2:

oh my god

everyone needs to see this video at least once in their life

I think my favorite thing about dogs is that they can, in fact, perceive the tone/mood of music, just as they can with human voices.

I think the best part about this is that there was an actual academic study done to find out what music dogs preferred, they set it up by kenneling dogs and figuring out which kind of music caused them to be more relaxed in the situation, and they found out that most dogs prefer soft rock and reggae. 

He probably really digs it.