shining-magically:

margotkim:

Any story claiming to be a deconstruction of fairy tales but has nothing to offer except new types of violence, more explicit sex, and a general attitude of “lol happy endings aren’t real” is like. such a cultural waste of time tbh

know what actually is a good deconstruction of a fairy tale? Shrek. It fucks up just about everything in a normal fairy tale and still manages to have a happy ending with a good message and never once has to be ‘gritty’ or ‘dark’. It’s actually really well done.

Reblogging for the first part, I’m not that into Shrek.

I once, and only once, saw someone suggest that Little Red
Riding hood represents the sunrise/set and the Wolf is the night, and I want to
live in a world where this is explored as often as the sexual possibilities are.