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[avrelia]

I am still reading the fairytales anthologies – with various success. Sometimes I get incredibly annoyed, and start systematizing all the vices of the retelling – too literal, to outlandish, too plain, too stylized, too politically correct, too gore, too Sleeping Beauty, too high-brow, too boring… But then I come across a tale that either of above (except for the last one,) and it is great fun.

Pure magic.

In fact, I think there was a fairytale exactly about it. Only with princes instead of stories. ;)

The last find: “Three Dwarves and 2000 Maniacs,” by Don Webb in the Black Swan, White Raven. Its cheerful insanity won me over.

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Fun with names: Utah names. Apparently, it is a cultural thing, and I am not mocking cultures – even when they allow for names like Evol and Thermos. But my view on appropriate names is very discriminating, so I cannot judge. Still, funny.