Well fuck, who gave out the tiaras, and why didn't anyone tell me?

[maveness]

Fic Challenge - Fairy Princess Style

Stupid bunny. So, some people have already received emails about this, but here's a fic challenge, inspired by one line in Rise Above by Dystopcia.

Hallucinations from rotten apples in Mrs Kent's pie.

And bam, we get "Ooohh, kryptonite laced apples. The havoc it would wreak."

And suddenly I'm thinking Snow White. A fairy tale done Smallville style. Where the fairy princesses aren't so perfect (hell they might in fact be princes) and it's a lot harder to discern who the evil witch is.

So I dare anyone and everyone to come up with their own Smallville version of a fairy tale. Obscure or mainstream. You can be practically verbatim, or use a plot loosely and twist it to meet your characters' needs. Whatever works. Just have fun and screw with their heads.

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And coincidentally, my Fairy Tale fic will be Snow White (since it is the one that inspired this madness). And oddly enough, the soundtrack I've mentally got going with it right now is "Die Another Day" by Madonna.

*nods* Twisted would be the appropriate term, correct?

Now to decide on who gets to be Snow White.

*pondering*

Comments

Fairywhutzit?

[paperbkryter.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Me likes this.

*adds to list of FICS TO WRITE*

Re: Fairywhutzit?

[maveness.livejournal.com]

You know what's really bad? I just did research for this! I'm a characterization person. Character analysis, anything that's short, sweet and about a character. Plot isn't such a big thing for me because I write in bursts. And research...I'm usually just too lazy.

Of course my research consisted of hunting for various versions of Snow White and the exact lyrics to Die Another Day. But still. There was effort.

Damn. And this considering I really, really wanted to finish my Red fic. Oh well.

Hee. And you're my third person I've suckered in!

Re: Fairywhutzit?

[paperbkryter.livejournal.com]

I just got finished researching. (high fives Mave the fellow research junkie) I'm going to do Sleeping Beauty. First line of the fairtale:

"There once was a king and queen who could have no children...."

Yeah-lo...

Re: Fairywhutzit?

[maveness.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, that just screams for a fic. The possibilities are so endless with fairy tales.

Re: Fairywhutzit?

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

Research rocks! I say, dig the research...

I wanna do Tam Lin (Oh I forbid you, farmboys all, with brown and curling hair, to come or go by Luthor Hall, for Alexander lives there..) and The Snow Queen, which, technically, are the same story... But I'm also tempted by Little Red Cap as well, 'cause the early versions of it are so much mroe fun (in the first version, Red tricks the worlf into killing himself) than the one you get in the last 80 years or so (with the woodsman). Ooooh! And did you all know that in Sleeping Beauty originally she got raped while sleeping, and wakes up to her twins suckling at her breast, not a lover's kiss? Talk about yet Disneyfication there....

And then there's the part where I'm, you know, a freak.

[plumsnickety.livejournal.com]

till I think of somehting better, I'm going to amuse myself with thoughts of Pete and Chloe playing at Hansel and Gretl (c'mon, my dad's name is Hans...I automatically go there) and Lionel as the Old Crone that likes to eat children.

God, I hope something better comes along. Maybe that once chinese fairy tale with the dumplings. That was always amusing.

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

hehehhe how about The Robber Bridegroom (sorta a Blue Beard thing)? Or Donkeyskin (which has creepy incest fun AND all the pretty dresses from Cinderella).

[plumsnickety.livejournal.com]

all hail Tara, queen of the obscure fairy tales!

and I thought the dumpling one was left field. :)

I swear we just need to download your brain into some sort of database. It's too packed with stuff to risk walking around with everyday for some brain snatcher to have a chance at.

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[taraljc.livejournal.com]

nah--I keep my brain on my bookshelf. Seriously, I went all crazy a few years ago and read 8 million fairy tales, revisionist fairy tales, and then there was that whole 10th Kingdom fandom thing, and it's just a fluke that I'm a total fairy tale and follore FREAK. Honest. I haven't actually cracked the Russian and Japanese anthologies yet...

Speaking of Chinese, how 'bout the Nightengale?

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[plumsnickety.livejournal.com]

lord tara with the obscure. I don't even know the name of the damn dumpling thing.

once again amazed at your fannish knowledge. but I remember plot a lot more than title, but then again if I remember anything for more than five seconds I count myself lucky. count me in the lower middle of the population on that one.

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[taraljc.livejournal.com]

There's an emporer who falls in love with the sound of the nightengale singing outside his window. The bird sings for his pleasure, and visits with him, and I think someone brings the EMporer a clockwork nightengale that takes his facy. The real bird flies off, brokenhearted. Then the emporer becomes ill and on his deathbed the bird comes back to sing for him again. I think thsi actually may be a Western fairy tale that's just set in Imperial China.

Well..

[paperbkryter.livejournal.com]

If I had Clark raped while he was sleeping, and he woke up with two babies suckin' on him, ya'll have me committed.

Grimm fairy tales were pretty grim in their original form. We've all be Disneized.

Something just popped into my head...

[chiri-chan.livejournal.com]

Chloe as Alice in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland"

Hm... "Chloe in Smallville" just doesn't have the same ring. *laughs*

[tiffanynichelle.livejournal.com]

Ooh, this whole thing sounds like a lot of fn. If I could actually finish a fic I'd love to join in. Next best thing? Enjoy the hell out of everyone else's work.

Oh and damn that Madonna! She's catchy as hell, lol.

[plumsnickety.livejournal.com]

By Jove, I think I've got it - Mave's FRACTURED FAIRY TALES CHALLENGE. Because you can never quote things from Rocky and Bullwinkle enough.

And I think I'm going to try the dumpling one first. Because, y'know "dumpling" is such a damn fun word to say. *g*

[maveness.livejournal.com]

Yes! I adore the Fractured Fairy Tales title. Perfect. Absolutely perfect.

Coincidentally, I went and found the Grimm version of Snow White. And I'm seriously thinking of making it Lana.

Cause Snow saw a very pretty comb and got mesmerized cause it was shiny. I kid you not. I read it and thought "ooohh shiny!" How perfect is that for Lana?

(And check out my pretty new icon! Isn't he lovely? I'm so loving my Jayne icon.)

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[plumsnickety.livejournal.com]

Love the icon, was going to say something but...well, saying it now. Much love for the Jayne.

Hey, Lana's a racoon! Okay, so I get distracted by shiny things too. Whatever. *g*

I'm really having fun with this dumpling thing. Chloe, Martha, Lex and much silliness. We can do silly right? Going home to write it tonight after the episode.