I like corrupting fairytales. Especially the Disney versions because they make the fairytales so goshdarn saccharine I can hardly resist... ah... "tampering" with them...

First on my list is Snow White because there are so many things I want to mess with that story. In the original version, Snow White recovers from her eternal slumber when the dolts carrying her glass coffin stumbled, and the piece of apple lodged in her throat flies out, and whoopty-doo, she's alive and she and her prince ride off into the sunset happily ever after even though they know next to nothing about each other and hardly have any solid foundation to build their future relationship upon. And if that version wasn't bad enough, Disney mucks it up even further by adding a creepifying aspect to their relationship. The prince awakens her with a kiss, only he didn't know that she was under a spell and that a kiss of "true love" would save her. In other words, when he kissed her, he thought she was DEAD. God, how much of a creep would a guy have to be to kiss a dead girl, even if she was drop-dead gorgeous. I mean, if I go to a funeral, and it was an open casket, and the guy in there was insanely hot, I would NOT start making out with him. Because he is DEAD.

Also, in Disney's Snow White, I don't think she was particularly kind at all. She was dreadfully mocking and patronizing to Grumpy the dwarf. It was sad. And she let wild animals "clean" the house by having them lick the bowls. Does she even realize what else those animals lick, using those same tongues? Ick.

Next, in my humble opinion, the Disney version's queen is not nearly pretty enough to be adequate competition for being the "fairest of them all." I guess I understand that Disney didn't want her to be too pretty because in little brats' minds, villains are supposed to be ugly and terrible, but if the villains end up being too pretty, their brains would explode. Ach. Whatever. Well, the point is, I have absolutely no obligations to obey any unwritten rules, so prepare to be scandalized. Cue maniacal laughter.

I have more of the list, but I'm thinking I won't write about them until I have first chapters up.

So, please enjoy my mindless scribbles. If you can.

Oh right, and update rates will be sporadic at best. To be perfectly honest, Of Blood, Dirt, and Apples was my Nanowrimo story from last year. But it was a miserable failure. Well, failure in that I completely failed to achieve the final word count because I was too lazy or something. But anyway, I skipped around in my story, so now that I'm going over everything, I have to fill in some random gaps in the story, revise the weird grammar and fluffy bits, and write a whole lot more. But good news is, this story has the highest probability of being finished because I outlined the plot and have this weird character profile thing in my notebook. If I run out of juice, I'll probably refill from there. Yeah. But there's still a big chance that the plot bunnies will run away from me. So please bear with me.

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