Much delayed status update, and some links
Jul 10th, 2008 by Joe
Hello all!
I hope everyone has enjoyed our June issue - the July issue is getting close to finalization. We don’t have an exact date yet, but we are planning on some time roughly the middle of the month.
I know things have been quiet here – with Peta away and me working on grad school (Atmospheric physics will eat up a lot of valuable fairy and folk tale time if you let it) the blog has been untended…
“Today’s” links cover Selma Blair (Cruel Intentions, Hellboy) talking about the fairy tales she loves, drama in Marburg (source of many famous tales) and previews of two new fairy tale related video games that will be appearing in the near future.
Those links:
[Hellboy II star Selma Blair] told website Parade.com: “I did love being surrounded by monsters and I guess it goes back to my childhood. I loved fairy tales when I was growing up – ‘Aesop’s Fables’, ‘Grimm’s Fairytales’. I was a big fan of ‘The Little Matchstick Girl’. ”
Selma admits she preferred darker stories because she is fascinated by death.
She added: “I loved the ones that ended badly. I still have such a fascination with death. One of the first dreams I remember having as a child, I was saving my father from a burning house. I have a very morbid fascination with death and dead things. But I see the beauty in it.”
The university town of Marburg is where the Brothers Grimm collected many of their fairy tales, and the cobbled streets and medieval buildings look like they could have come straight out of one of their illustrated children’s books.
Now, following the approval of a new law, the quaint red-tiled roofs may soon have to be adorned with solar panels and the usually genteel residents are up in arms.
Fairy tale town of Marburg up in arms
Secondhand Lands is the massively multiplayer online game set in a parody fairytale world. There will be none of those pansy elves or cantankerous dwarves in this land. Our heroes are comprised of the Wolves and the Sheep who have pledged their undying allegiance to Bo Peep or Little Red Riding Hood. Well, perhaps not undying…
Secondhand Lands – A fairytale parody MMO
When you look at the root of most fairy tales, you’ll find some very dark things. Most stories have been given the Disney treatment or lightened up in some other way. Imagine if you could bring the darkness back to these tales? That’s the basic idea behind American McGee’s Grimm, an upcoming episodic game that’s coming to GameTap on July 31.
