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beckoningforest:

concept: you awaken in the middle of the night in a beautiful manor, the canopy bed above you carved in delicate designs. the silk draping downwards blowing slightly from the opened window. the scent of the fireplace lingers in the room, wood still burning dimly mixed with the faint smell of perfume and clean cotton sheets. thunder rumbles in the distance, the sky dark. you rise to linger by the window and inhale the fresh rain. your skin prickles from the cold air. you are at ease with no burdens. you wait and listen for the storm to pass. 

What I say: The Phantom of the Opera did nothing wrong.
What I mean: The Phantom of the Opera admittedly did SEVERAL things wrong including kidnapping, blackmail, and murder, but he’s still a wonderfully developed and iconic literary figure and a really good allegory for the human condition and society’s effect on the individual vs. personal responsibility and the nature of sin and redemption.

Imagine this:
Instead of waiting in her tower, Rapunzel slices off her long, golden hair with a carving knife, and then uses it to climb down to freedom.
Just as she’s about to take the poison apple, Snow White sees the familiar wicked glow in the old lady’s eyes, and slashes the evil queen’s throat with a pair of sewing scissors.
Cinderella refuses everything but the glass slippers from her fairy godmother, crushes her stepmother’s windpipe under her heel, and the Prince falls madly in love with the mysterious girl who dons rags and blood-stained slippers.

Imagine this:
Persephone goes adventuring with weapons hidden under her dress.
Persephone climbs into the gaping chasm.
Or, Persephone uses her hands to carve a hole down to hell.
In none of these versions is Persephone’s body violated unless she asks Hades to hold her down with his horse-whips.
Not once does she hold out on eating the pomegranate, instead biting into it eagerly and relishing the juice running down her chin, staining it red.
In some of the stories, Hades never appears and Persephone rules the underworld with a crown of her own making.
In all of them, it is widely known that the name Persephone means Bringer of Destruction.

Imagine this:
Red Riding Hood marches from her grandmother’s house with a bloody wolf pelt.
Medusa rights the wrongs that have been done to her.
Eurydice breaks every muscle in her arms climbing out of the land of the dead.

Imagine this:
Girls are allowed to think dark thoughts, and be dark things.

Imagine this:
Instead of the dragon, it’s the princess with claws and fiery breath
who smashes her way from the confines of her castle
and swallows men whole.

‘Reinventing Rescuing,’ theappleppielifestyle. (via theappleppielifestyle)