“Cinderella” by Anastasia Arushanova
a list of favorite fairytale adaptations:
Malá mořská víla (The Little Mermaid), Czechoslovakia, 1976
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The Ghost Town of Belchite | Spain (by David Martin Castán)
Between August 24 and September 7, 1937, loyalist Spanish Republican and rebel General Franco’s forces in the Spanish Civil War fought the Battle of Belchite in and around the town. After 1939 a new village of Belchite was built adjacent to the ruins of the old, which remain a ghost town as a memorial to the war.
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Mitts
1830s
These mitts, reaching to just below the bend of the elbow, have a geometric knit pattern and they are decorated with shiny beads. Because they allow fingers to be freely moved, mitts are more functional than gloves. They became popular in the late 18th century. Some fashion plates of the period depict women embroidering or reading when wearing such mitts.
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alright listen up fuckers. we talk a lot about Jim and Spock and Uhura, but right now I feel the need to bring up this sexy badass lovemuffin stud. this fantastic specimen of man is Captain (Lieutenant in TOS) Hikaru Sulu, played by the ever lovely George Takei (who deserves a goddamn medal for being the best person ever, but that’s a topic for another day).
y’all better respect this man, you feel me? not only was he the most bamf pilot this side of the Federation, but he was also a brilliant astrophysicist and a strategic genius. that’s right. he was a strategic genius, just like Kirk. he even went on to captain his own vessel, the USS Excelsior, after serving on the Enterprise for many years. and he did a damn good job of it too.
in his spare time, Sulu practiced botany, judo, and fencing. because when you are as fucking suave as Sulu you don’t give a crap what people think. you do whatever the fuck you want and dare people to give you shit about it. (and if they ever did, he’d cut their ass with his pointy sword and judo chop the fucker in the back of the head all while caring for some of the universe’s rarest plants with a hand so gentle it makes clouds weep with envy.)
he was extremely loyal, resourceful, compassionate, fucking hilarious, and calm under pressure. you only wish you were as cool as Hikaru Sulu, okay? if there was anyone that you wanted on your zombie apocalypse team, it’d be him.
now I want y’all to drill this knowledge into your skulls so that whenever you hear the term bamf or badass, I want you to automatically think of Hikaru Sulu.
that man practically invented debonair.
so have some goddamn respect.
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1930’s Teen Delinquents
When I was a teenager my mother found my grandmother’s (her mother) school scrapbook. It included things like photos, notes, and a two page spread of every demerit she ever received over the course of her formal education. Each of them set aside with little tags like she was so fucking proud of them. They were all for things like, “Unladylike behavior” or, “Skirt too short” or, “refuses to listen to authority”. I loved that spread so much.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was Jane Russell’s only film with Marilyn Monroe. They got along well. Russell called Monroe “Blondie” and was often the only person on the set who could coax Monroe out of her trailer to begin the day’s filming.
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Posters in Washington State Capitol claim gun laws are just like anti-gay discrimination. Just no.
