In Which I Post A Meme - DVD Commentary

[zelda_queen]

Yoinked from gehayi!



Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

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Comments

Re: Part 2

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Actually, the wine-and-milk mixture exists and was very popular in medieval times. It was considered a treat, in fact. And it's still served nowadays as a dessert.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posset

And I remember that fairy tale! I always loved the Egyptian princess and I love Zelda of the Moon being just as cunning and subtle as she was.

Re: Part 2

[zelda-queen.livejournal.com]

I never knew that was what possets were! Thanks for the info. I feel much better about that, now. ^_^

And thanks! I remember you said you liked that one. :) It always was one of my favorites, because it was one of the few "different" ones (not the standard stories like Cinderella or Snow White) that I was read as a kid. That, Tatterhood, and the story about the Phoenix, the Golden Horse, and the Porcelain Maiden.

Re: Part 2

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I don't know The Phoenix, the Golden Horse and the Porcelain Maiden.

Favorite stories of mine:

The Prince and His Three Fates (Egypt)
The Bad Wishers (Paraguay) (The first link shows the frontpiece of the book that contains the story)
The Tale of the Name of the Tree (Bantu)
Master of All Masters (Scotland)
Tikki Tikki Tembo (China)
Katie Crackernuts (England) (notable in that the two stepsisters love each other)
The Death of Koshchei the Deathless (Russia)
The Bremen Town Musicians (Germany)
The Ugly Duckling (Denmark)
Baba Yaga (Russia)
Bluejay Visits the Ghosts (Chinook)
The Water of Life (Catalan--and features a very resourceful sister)
The Princess in the Chest (Denmark--kind of a cross between a fairy tale and a ghost story)
Prince Darling (I'm not sure of the origin, but I think it's French)
The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok (Brittany--and features a resourceful heroine)

I had a real thing for sad stories from Japan:

Oshidori
Yuki-Onna (The Lady of the Snows
The Story of Aoyagi

And--though Kipling's not popular these days--I grew up hearing Sterling Holloway reading the Just So Stories on LPs. These stories taught me so much about the sound of language. My favorites:

The Elephant's Child ('Satiable curiosity. And "the great, grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees.")
The Cat Who Walks By Himself ("...and all places are alike to him.")
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

Also, this isn't counting in the various mythologies I grew up reading.

So one Grimm, one Andersen...and non-traditional everything else.