There is this French philosopher I really love, Simone Weil, who died during WWII. She was a truly pure soul and she loved old tales from Perrault or the brothers Grimm for the popular and practical wisdom they contained. But whenever I have tried to read some on my own or reading them to my son, I could never get into them because of their simplistic structure and of the fact that you've seen them a thousand times in songs, cartoons, movies and so on.
But this, this was truly horrifying. I could feel so deeply the danger of the predator (the fact that despite their own history of horror and the fact that they are in a way also victims, once they get their eyes onto their prey, they really become the unstoppable stuff of nightmares), the risk the heroine is facing and the tragedy of it all.
This is a little scary, a good trick with a story everyone knows the endings to. It is a pity that there was no plausible way to kill Bleid with an ax.
No fusappointment here. If by splice you mean editing audio together, it’s super easy really. I bet you’d figure it out in 10 minutes if you gave it a shot. I think Garage Band does it well. I used to use Audacity a lot (it’s open source and free) https://www.audacityteam.org/ (If you mean something else tho… ignore me, ha ha ha)
Such a good adaptation of the fairytale & broadcasts the fact that autistic girls are 2-3 times more likely to deal with these f*ckass predators - this needs to grace more people’s feeds!! ❤️
I read this story first, and enjoyed it so much I decided to listen to the reading. I think it’s a nice job overall actually; one constructive (I hope) comment to the writer is to maybe read a little more slowly. It was fine as it was but I think if I hadn’t read before listening, I might have had some trouble following everything.
Regarding the actual story, I think this is a well written and very imaginative modern age interpretation of the tale, so kudos!!
Out of the first 10 results I got for "selfies": 6 had both eyes in the light, 1 had both eyes in the shade, 3 had one of each.
For "autistic selfies": 6 had both eyes in the light, 2 had both eyes in the shade, 2 had one of each.
However, while "autistic selfies" mostly turned up, well, what it says, "selfies" mostly had stock photos rather than actual self-portraits, and thus a lot of deliberate elaborate showing off with uneven lighting.
I did not google "autistic selfies", I just applied your diagnostic criteria to the selfies in my phone. Horrifying results. 10/10
sorry king 😭
There is this French philosopher I really love, Simone Weil, who died during WWII. She was a truly pure soul and she loved old tales from Perrault or the brothers Grimm for the popular and practical wisdom they contained. But whenever I have tried to read some on my own or reading them to my son, I could never get into them because of their simplistic structure and of the fact that you've seen them a thousand times in songs, cartoons, movies and so on.
But this, this was truly horrifying. I could feel so deeply the danger of the predator (the fact that despite their own history of horror and the fact that they are in a way also victims, once they get their eyes onto their prey, they really become the unstoppable stuff of nightmares), the risk the heroine is facing and the tragedy of it all.
Thanks a lot for this story, this was great art.
This is a little scary, a good trick with a story everyone knows the endings to. It is a pity that there was no plausible way to kill Bleid with an ax.
sympop regency novel when?! this was great
☺️🎉
The epigraph, should be "que" and not "queue", which means "tail".
hon hon hon i knew someone would correct me on that but i ptomise you whether it's correct or not that is how perrault published it in 1697
Oh yeah that doesn't actually surprise me, French spelling was wild in the 17th century.
Deliberate pun on "tail" (hehe penis) probably?
Woah you record the audio version yourself!
Normally I read you, but this one came out as I was starting lunch so I hit the audio button.
I'm used to the robot voice that Substack does but yours started and I was like: "This is a robot voice I haven't heard before?"
But then later i was like: Oh yeah this is real, woah I didn't know anyone did that!
urgh youre gonna be so fusappointed i did multiple tales & couldnt get any that were good all the way thru & dont know how to splice
fwiw i've gotten paid to do voiceover and while the Real Pros can just do it straight, this is how i do it too 😂
No fusappointment here. If by splice you mean editing audio together, it’s super easy really. I bet you’d figure it out in 10 minutes if you gave it a shot. I think Garage Band does it well. I used to use Audacity a lot (it’s open source and free) https://www.audacityteam.org/ (If you mean something else tho… ignore me, ha ha ha)
Such a good adaptation of the fairytale & broadcasts the fact that autistic girls are 2-3 times more likely to deal with these f*ckass predators - this needs to grace more people’s feeds!! ❤️
I loved everything about this story: the mix of fairytale with a modern autistic girl, the stream of consciousness and the art 🤩🤩🤩
I read this story first, and enjoyed it so much I decided to listen to the reading. I think it’s a nice job overall actually; one constructive (I hope) comment to the writer is to maybe read a little more slowly. It was fine as it was but I think if I hadn’t read before listening, I might have had some trouble following everything.
Regarding the actual story, I think this is a well written and very imaginative modern age interpretation of the tale, so kudos!!
"Handicapped in mimetic desire..."
Woof this hurts, it's like you're simultaneously the most enlightened person in the room but also the most vulnerable.
totally hypnotised me. thanks for the trip x
Out of the first 10 results I got for "selfies": 6 had both eyes in the light, 1 had both eyes in the shade, 3 had one of each.
For "autistic selfies": 6 had both eyes in the light, 2 had both eyes in the shade, 2 had one of each.
However, while "autistic selfies" mostly turned up, well, what it says, "selfies" mostly had stock photos rather than actual self-portraits, and thus a lot of deliberate elaborate showing off with uneven lighting.
> the friend’s usual helper, her older brother
Should be "their older brother" I think?
It's very good.
haha, fucking Bleidd. Love it.
BLEIDD i cracked myself up naming him
as you should, I was chuckling on the plane here reading it
So this is about Brent?