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itsmeagan:

The original story of the little mermaid is that she must kill the prince in order to be human, and in the end, she loves him too much and kills herself instead.

The artwork is too great not to reblog. 

Ok, ok - important expansion: she only has to kill the Prince because the deal was if he fell in love with her she could be human forever, and he didn’t. By which I mean, he was a good person and genuinely nice to her, but he didn’t fall in love. He fell in love with someone else, also perfectly nice - not the seawitch in disguise, fu Disney. The Mermaid is told she can only return to the sea now if she kills the Prince. She goes into the room where he and his lover lie sleeping and they look so beautiful and happy together that she can’t do it.

That’s why she kills herself. And because it was a noble act she returns to sea as foam.

One moral of the story was that women shouldn’t fundamentally change who they are for love of a man, and in theory Han Christian Anderson wrote it for a ballerina with whom he fell in love. She was marrying someone else who wouldn’t let her dance.

I want this painted on my wall.

HCA’s heroines were tragic, but also incredibly progressive in her own right. There are reasons why the original telling of The Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen are among my favorite fairy tales.  I mean really, Gerda going and RESCUING Kai, on an epic journey of her own! A very early ‘Dude in Distress’ at a time where most tales had the girls in trouble. That said, this is a gorgeous painting of The Little Mermaid. Disney did okay with  it and i love the music, but i grew up reading the original tale over and over and over again, long before the movie came out. 

huh.

In one of the versions that I’ve seen, it was similar to these lines, but that mermaids originally didn’t have souls. But because she didn’t choose to take the prince’s life, she got to be a soul and more than sea foam.

I do like, however, the thoughts/discussions about change that the Little Mermaid has spawned, because the thing was Disney’s Ariel didn’t want to be who she was; she’d always loved things from beyond the sea. So, I mean, it’s a different sort of story for a different sort of audience, and one of the reasons why it’s been taken up by the transgender community.

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Under the same sky, dreaming the same dream. 

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