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[aliseadae]

Poll: What is your favorite folktale/fairytale/myth?

So. Various people are fundraising in various ways and I keep meaning to mention it here.

shadesong is running an auction to raise money so she can afford the surgery healing her cat's broken leg. Auction at kittycyborg.

wirewalking is raising money by selling delicious cookies, caramels, and books. Her house has accrued $30k of damage and she'd like to offset some of that cost.

amagiclantern wishes to work as a writer within education and communities. She needs money to help start this. Help her out! She's offering many a treat. Those who donate at least £10 will be entered to win delicious preserves!

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College is wonderful but busy! My time has been taken up by bunches of homework and classes but also friends! and clubs! and new people! The freshmen seem particularly excellent this year and I'm hoping we can get many of them involved in clubs.

This semester I'll likely be busy with ballroom! All the ballroom! I'm also learning a couple new things, such as Russian. Yay languages!

I've written a wee, wee, bit since arriving back here, but not much at all.

This year will likely be a good one, though this semester I miss quite a few friends who are abroad.

Besides your favorite folktale/fairytale/myth, does anyone have book recommendations? I keep running up against walls of "but what should I read next?" which feels absurd as there is indeed so much to read.

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[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

I'm sort of recommending kateelliott's Cold Magic to everyone, so :)

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Persephone.

I'm kind of curious what your reaction to Bradley Denton's short stories would be.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Read The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill.

I don't know if I have a favorite, but the myth I find myself retelling at the most grossly inappropriate times is how Skade got her husband. There's nothing like a gathering of someone else's elderly relatives to make me start telling it before I remember the bit where Loki's testicles get tied to the goat's beard.

[happy-mystic.livejournal.com]

I really like East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Ocelotl and the Parrot Girl...any variant on the Beauty and the Beast story. I like The Children of Liir, too, except for the sad ending.

I need to do more writing, too...laziness is not a good trait in writers, yet it seems to be prevalent in the ones I know...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I can't pick a favorite--I like lots. I like the twelve dancing princesses, I like the golden goose, I like the twelve swans and the snow queen, and bunches of others. How about you--what are some of the ones you like?

Mmm, ballroom dancing. I wish I'd learned to tango, back in the day (but I was too straitlaced, back in the day).

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

My favorite Grimm's fairy tale is either The Juniper Tree (supernatural deadly tiny songbird!) or Mother Holle (the one where the good sister finds another, more awesome, world down the well with talking trees and ovens and things). I am also fond of the story of Lilith (feminist version, not baby-eating monster version).

Have you read Mira Grant's Feed yet? I liked it.