The Thirteenth Fairy

[umpteenth-gail.livejournal.com]

I have fallen behind on my reading again, not caught up with the board as I have been laid low with a virus for a week. I'm still weak, but now believe I'll be back at work on Monday.

During one of my fever-dreams, I somehow managed to think of Aunt Agatha as the thirteenth fairy. She was being especially hateful to poor Bertie and someone - a young woman, I think - remarked that she was just like the thirteenth fairy. This is absurd as with her background, Agatha would never have been caught airing her dirty linen in public. But it was just a dream. Sadly, I don't remember how she reacted to the remark and would have loved to. I suppose I was trying to amuse myself by thinking of interesting things when all I could do was lie in bed.

Occasionally I think of her as Aunt Hagatha - another little crossover reference there (Pokemon).

Thinking about the thirteenth fairy especially, more than Hagatha, puts silly ideas into my head. Just how many 'interesting' crossovers does one fandom need?

(mopes off again)

Comments

[umpteenth-gail.livejournal.com]

LOL, thank you! I am better, though still weak. But I am still interested in the thirteenth fairy idea. If only I could write fic, I would write it! I feel from what I have read, not just PG but other works, women like Aunt Agatha badly needed to be told what they were really like. I have a theory that she was sold into an arranged marriage, as a woman of her time could not have a life of her own, who knows what she wanted? and became bitter as gall and wormwood as a result. It's an interesting idea. What do we really know about Bertie's relatives? Not much, all things considered.

[toodlepipsigner.livejournal.com]

It is an interesting theory. I confess I know relatively little about the Thirteenth Fairy. What is it?

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Hi. The Thirteenth Fairy is the one who curses Sleeping Beauty at her ceremony of presentation (I suppose it could be described; sort of like a christening party). (See lawnnun's charming story beginning further down in the comments to this post.)

[toodlepipsigner.livejournal.com]

Ah! Just so. The extent of my Sleeping Beauty knowledge is entirely Disney, regretably. Thanks for that ^^, makes more sense now.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Love your icon. :-)

Disney, while delightful, is definitely not the original Grimm's. :-) The latter are, well, much more *grim*. Cinderella, for example. If I remmember correctly, at the end, her stepmother is sentenced to dance in red-hot iron shoes until she drops dead. And the stepsisters each chop off parts of their feet to make the shoe fit (one the toes, the other the heel) -- in both cases, the Prince brings them back as the blood dripping from the shoes is discovered on the journey to the palace. Grisly, no?

[toodlepipsigner.livejournal.com]

That much about Cinderella I actually knew! Hehe it's so horrid yet delightfully so. I'll have to look into the Grimm's version. Seems more interesting anyway :)
(and, why thank you ^^ MPHG ftw.)

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

MPHG!! Yes, definitely FTW. \o/

You can probably find used Grimm's Fairy Tales books on the cheap just about anywhere.

And I agree -- delightfully, *deliciously* horrid. :-)