'Twas a Dark and Stormy night...

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So, I have signed up for dark_fest, and here are the prompts I'm going to write:

Any fairy tale, Prince Charming/any, all those tales where Prince Charming rescues the princess? All different pincesses; all the same prince.

The Hunger Games, Katniss/Peeta, Katniss refuses to have kids, Peeta really, really, wants one.

This is what I need your help with:

If you've read The Hunger Games, do you think they'd have birth control? What sort?

As for the first prompt, a POLL:

[Poll #1675870]

Basically: campaign for your favorite princesses. I'm wondering which ones I should include. If you can make a case for why a non-traditional fairy tale princess should be included, I am all ears.

Also: I'm thinking of writing the fairy tale fic in verse. Is that a bad idea? :/


(Pardon me a moment while I pitch a fit. FLIPPING SNOW STORM! I was going to see the Decemberists tomorrow night, and now I'm not. The show has been POSTPONED. For when, you say? FOR WHEN? April 22nd. THE DAY I AM SEEING THE PIXIES. Mother F'er.)

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[katyscarlett76.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I have a favourite princess, totally not down with the damsel in distress needs a man to save her thing, despite that being my nickname (because my parents spoil me, not through material means just by doing stuff for me, and because when I first started work I never made the tea, lol). But I loved Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty and still do. But if you're not going strictly off classic fairytale princesses then the best princess ever has got to be PRINCESS LEIA!!! She's who I wanted to be as a kid!

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I do love Princess Leia! But the prompt is for fairytale fandom, and so I don't think she'll count for my story.

I'm not a big fan of the Disneyfied princesses, either. However, I love classic fairy tales, not so much because I identify with the characters, but because I absolutely don't. They're a window into another world, one with different dangers and different values than those we have now. I love dissecting the stories, and speculating about what they were really about.