The Critical Fairy Blog
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The Discourse on Disney's Snow White (2025)
March 21 (or earlier, depending on where you live) marked the realise of Disney’s latest live-action remake, this one of Snow White (1937), the first animated feature film made in colour and sound. No huge expectations there, I’m sure.
Ma...
Cynical Storyteller's List of Favourite Fairy Tale Retellings and Adaptations
Back in November 2022, I put out a list of retellings and adaptations — across various forms of media — of around forty European fairy tales. Looking back, it was an ambitious idea but ultimately a flawed one. One obvious problem was that t...
Moving Forward...
This is not a goodbye post. This is simply a long overdue post explaining what I’ve been doing, why I haven’t posted on this Substack, and what I’m going to do moving forward. I’m fully aware I’m not the most productive person when it comes...
Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics: A Retrospective
I have loved fairy tales for as long as I can remember. It started (and quite frankly continues) with illustrated books of fairy tales. Just like how most children would pester their caregivers for the newest toys, would pester mine for the...
The Little Mermaid is Not (Just) an LGBT+ Story
Before I delve into this needlessly polarising topic, I need to address a few things. “The Little Mermaid” (Andersen’s story) is my favourite fairy tale. In fact, I originally wanted to write an essay on why this is my favourite fairy tale....
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Just your average fairy tale lover, trying to save an increasingly polarized world by sharing European tales and occasionally blurting out random opinions for all to see. May be too brutally honest for some people.
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