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#fairytales

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moonlightmyst
"The #Death of #Innocence", 2012

Yet another old #photomanipulation and #digitalartwork that I am moving from #deviantart onto #Pixelfed. #GoodbyeDeviantart #hellopixelfed

#snowwhite #art #fairytales #darkart #darkfairytales #fantasyart #digitalart #creativetoots #pixelfedart

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Simon Roy Hughes 🍄

I read the attached article for a bit – at least until things began to fall apart.

"some researchers argue that [H. C. Andersen] used his storytelling to describe his autistic experience […]."

I accept the proposition; some people have wondered if Andersen might have been autistic. OK.

"No wonder I've been drawn to Andersen's tales long before realizing, as an adult, my own autistic characteristics."

Again, I accept the premise; the author is one of these people who have wondered if Andersen might have been autistic, so for the rest of the article, he is autistic. Again, OK. Andersen may certainly be read as such.

The evidence of Andersen's autism the author presents is a link to a 20-page article published by the College English Association (i.e. not a psychiatry, psychology, or even a pedagogical publication), which begins in a rather sophomoric manner:

"Everyone knows the story of how "The Ugly Duckling" was different, and therefore mistreated by the other little ducks"

The presentation of bullying thus takes the bullies' perspective: "You're different and deserved to be picked on as a consequence." The reason anyone is bullied has nothing to do with that person, however, but with a deficiency of the bully: people are bullied, not because they are different, but because there are bullies in the world. (This distinction is important for the mental well-being of the victim.)

But leaving that aside, let's return to the psychology article.

I continued to read the author's valid interpretations of Andersen's fairy tales, until I reached her conclusion on "The Emperor's New Clothes."

"The dysfunction Andersen depicted in "The Emperor's New Clothes" [the child speaking up, drawing attention to the emperor's nakedness] mirrors what happens in groups without honest neurodivergent perspectives."

And that's when I stopped reading, for in this one sentence, the author has implied a number of things:

1. The child in the story is neuro-divergent or at least represents neuro-divergence
2. Neuro-nondivergent people are apparently incapable of direct honesty
3. Neuro-divergent people are honest.

I meet a lot of different people in my line of work – some with diagnoses, some without. Some of these people are nearly always honest, but most are less so. Neuro-divergence has little–to–nothing to do with the level of honesty. All the circles in an illustrative Venn diagram would intersect, but none wholly.

So let me counter the conclusion of the bit of the article I read: neuro-divergence is not a moral issue, and attempting to make it such would be dishonest.

psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/po

(The remainer of the article breaks off at an incongruous angle.)

Psychology TodayAutistic Creativity: It's So Much More Than Fairy TalesYour favorite childhood stories likely came from an autistic mind. Research confirms what Andersen's tales imply: Autistic brains may excel at many forms of creativity and meaning-making.
#Fairytales#HansChristianAndersen#Autism
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Alx 🐈

My little mermaid having her spring bath in the virtual wall of the Bologna Children Book fair!
I suffer from a gigantic imposter syndrome about children illustrations, so it took me a lot of determination to finally decide to submit it to such a high-profile event.

And it feels so good to see it there!
bolognachildrensbookfair.com/f

Watercolour drawing of a blue mermaid daydreaming in a red bowl with kintsugi marks underwater, framed on the left by a red coral branch. The mermaid has very long turquoise hair that fall out of the bowl and she is resting her head on her forearms, while looking up. Her body is not visible inside the bowl, and only her fishtail is out at the other end of the bowl. Blue gradients background, darkening around the mermaid, emphasising her silhouette.
Screenshot of the Bologna Children Book Fair gallery with a thumbnail of my mermaid drawing in the middle surrounded by many other illustrations.
#illustration#BolognaChildrenBookFair#mermaid
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Simon Roy Hughes 🍄

The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe. The most comprehensive edition ever. The whole collection appears for the first time in English.

Paperback editions, or .pdf files for less than half the price. Details here: norwegianfolktales.net/books/t

#norwegianfolktales #norwegianlegends #folklore #folklorethursday #folktales @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday #bookstodon

The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe in three volumes, against the background of the Aurora borealis.
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Simon Roy Hughes 🍄

Hans Christian Andersen: “Nissen hos Spekhøkeren” (1852).

Susanna Mary Paull: “The Goblin and the Huckster” (1867).

Hans Lien Brækstad: “The Brownie at the Butterman’s” (1900).

Jean Hersholt: “The Goblin and the Grocer" (1949).

Me, a foreign-born Norwegian speaker, wading in: “Ah, easy! ‘The nisse visits the killer whale’” (probably not forthcoming).

#Andersen #HansChristianAndersen #folklore #folklorethursday @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday #bookstodon

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Simon Roy Hughes 🍄

I have uploaded .pdf copies of both editions of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe to ko-fi, where they are now available for purchase at less-than-half the cost of the Amazon paperback books.

Details and links on my Website here:

norwegianfolktales.net/books/t

I think you should choose the annotated edition; here’s what you get:

1. Three chunky volumes (815 pages, 617 pages, and 665 pages).

2. Original prefaces from eight editions.

3. Jørgen Moe’s substantial introduction to the folktales, in which he discusses the origins of folk narratives, and how the Norwegian material exemplifies his ideas.

4. All 122 folktales Asbjørnsen & Moe published during their careers.

5. 28 hulder tales and folk legends, a genre Asbjørnsen defined, in which he embeds the legends of the hidden folk.

6. Approximately 350 illustrations by some of the most accomplished artists Norway has known, including Hans Gude, Erik Werenskiold and Theodor Kittelsen.

7. Asbjørnsen & Moe’s notes on the folktales, which detail the variant(s) the collectors used to compose each folktale, sketch out other variants they collected, and compare the Norwegian folktales with similar traditions from other regions.

8. Newly-researched editor’s notes, which identify the collector responsible for the composition of each text, give collection data, including tale type, geographical origin, collector, informant, and date of collection, sketch biographical details of informants, where known, give previous publication and translation details, trace historical and literary sources, and draw attention to points of particular interest.

9. Editor’s prefaces to each volume, which trace the publication history of the original volumes represented, as well as previous translations.

10. Comprehensive – perhaps even exhaustive – bibliographies to each volume.

#norwegianfolktales #norwegianlegends #folklore #folklorethursday #folktales @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday #bookstodon

All of my books, including The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe.
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sven_md

spongebob got them at mrs. puff's boating-school too

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Simon Roy Hughes 🍄

Ilmarinen the Smith Goes Courting

Ilmarinen the Blacksmith never grew tired of hammering. One day, as he was putting some iron in the forge, a maiden came to his smithy. She stood upon the threshold and called out to the Blacksmith: “If you knew what I have to tell you, Ilmarinen the Blacksmith, you’d not put that iron in your forge.”

Read the whole #folktale, which is inspired by #Kalevala, on this #KalevalaDay.

norwegianfolktales.net/folklor

#folktales #legends #folklore #nordic #folklorethursday @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday

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