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derangedrhythms · 4 months

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Midwinter – invincible, immaculate.

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from ‘The Snow Child’

#angela carter #the bloody chamber and other stories #the snow child #prose #winter

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aseaofquotes · 3 months

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Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child

#Eowyn Ivey #The Snow Child #belief #explanations

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princess-ibri · 1 year

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So!! I think I've finally figured out how I'd chose to being Concept Art Elsa into my DisneyVerse. Ive wanted to for a while as I really liked her design and the more spunky vibe we got from her. So here we go!

I always try to use an actual fairytale base for things in my DisneyVerse when I can, so I've based her new backstory off of a couple of wintery stories, the Russian fairytale Father Frost, and a different Snow Child story then most think of, where a woman apparently gains a child by swallowing a snow flake--which is where this story begins:

Once upon a time a Merchant's wife, who had longed for a child for many years but never been blessed with her wish, happened to swallow a snow flake while staying in Arendelle for some months while her husband traveled. Unbeknownst to the woman, this was on one of the days when the former Queen Elsa was visiting her old home and entertaining with her magical snow--snow which had unknowingly created Life before...

9 months later, the Merchant's Wife gave birth to a child with skin as white as snow, hsir as black as a winter's night, and eyes as blue as the deepest ice. And though she was always much colder than a child should be, the deepest chill never seemed to bother her in the slightest, and she loved nothing more then to spend hours playing in the snow when winter came.

Unfortunately the woman was not so blessed, and one winter in the child's third year she took ill from ataying out with the child in the old and so died, leaving the merchant alone to raise a child he was never sure or not was his, and either way he felt had cost him his wife, and so gained his ire. He married again a few years later, to a wealthy woman with a daughter of her own, with skin like a peach and hair like sunshine, everything the Snow Child was not, and who gained all the affection of their parents, leaving the Snow Child to be neglected and shunned.

But the Snow Child had a secret, she not only felt more at home out in the snow than in a house before a fire, but she found she could control the snow as well. Sending gusts where she would and calming or increasing it according to her moods. For a few years she was able to hide her powers, but eventually her step-sister discovered her secret, and told her mother.

The woman, who had never cared for her strange step-daughter, now feared the child as a witch, and conspired to be rid of her once and for all.

The next time the family traveled together on a journey, the woman sent the Snow Child out in the dead od night under the pretext of an errand, and before the child could return packed up and moved the family out of the town, leaving the child alone and abandoned in the snow and the darkness as a storm swept in.

But she was not alone for long...

For that night the Snow Queen Elsa traveled in the storm, and she saw the child left out alone, ragged and bare footed. She swept down to save the child from freezing to death--only to find that the child didn't appear troubled at all by the cold surrounding her. The Snow Queen came closer, and sensed something of her own power surrounding this strange child left in the snow, and she knew then she could not simply take her to the nearest kind villager to be tended to...

And so the Snow Child came under the care of the Snow Queen. She was given the run of the magical ice palace where the rest of the Snow Queen's creations dwelled, where she was the most content and where she could learn to harness her powers under the Snow Queen's tutelage and watchful care...

So yeah! Thats the set up for my story for Dark Haired Elsa, who I'm thinking of calling Flykra, which means Snowflake in Old Norse according to the internet x)

I see her as being a very feisty and outspoken child as soon as she actually feels safe to be so, and a bit of a handful for Elsa who really never expected to be anything more then the Cool Aunt to Anna's kids. I think she and Elsa get along fairly well overall but there's definitely tension that comes up from both of their past trauma's bouncing up against eachother. Especially as Flykra hits her teenage years and her powers start to grow even more.

But there's a lot of love between all the family still, and Flykra loves getting to hangout with her new cousins and the Northhuldra and the trolls and just getting into good clean trouble now and then.

I'm definitely seeing this concept art by Claire Keane as Asta and Flykra hanging out now x)

(This would all start a couple of years after my Frozen 3 idea. So my DisneyVerse Frozen Franchise Timeline would go

Frozen - 1843

Frozen 2 -1846

Frozen 3/Frozen the Series - 1847

The Snow Child - 1866 (Flykra is 17)

East of the Sun West of the Moon - 1870 (Asta is 18)

The Snow Queen--1950s

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saintsenara · 1 year

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the snow child

merope gaunt/tom riddle sr. teen | 3k words read here | author's notes here

#asenora fics #merope gaunt x tom riddle sr #merope gaunt #tom riddle sr #the snow child

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cannondisabledcharacters · 5 months

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Today's disabled character of the day is Jake from The Snow Child, who suffered a traumatic injury and uses a mobility aid

Requested by Anon

[Image Description: Cover of the book The Snow Child. It features a small child hiding behind a tree and watching a red fox. The forest is all birch trees and cover in snow. The child has long white hair. They are wearing a long blue jacket, brown fur hat, and red mittens. The fox is also partial hiding behind a tree.]

#trauma injury character #mobility aid character #The Snow Child #The Snow Child Jack #disabled character of the day

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freshlybrewedbookreviews · 4 months

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All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses. It was the flutter of moth wings on glass and the promise of river nymphs in the dappled creek beds. It was the smell of oak trees on the summer evening she fell in love, and the way dawn threw itself across the cow pond and turned the water to light.

Eowyn Ivey (The Snow Child)

#The Snow Child #Eowyn Ivey

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melxncholyman · 11 days

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RED + WHITE: The Snow Child - Angela Carter // The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

#web weaving #ohhhh ms walters we're really in it now #the picture of dorian gray #angela carter #the snow child #oscar wilde #gothic literature

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mythosblogging · 1 year

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Frosty the Snowman – ‘a jolly happy soul, with a corn cob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal’ – is far from the first or last tale of a figure made from snow who becomes animated by mysterious means. Throughout the world, there are stories of snow people – women, men and children – coming to life before melting away. In the Snow Child an elderly couple, desperate for a child, make themselves one out of snow.

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#Mythos #Mythology #Myths and Legends #Mythos Articles #Mythos Retellings #In Summary #The Snow Child #Fairy Tales #Fairytales #Winter #Winter Stories #Magic #Magic and Enchantments #Wishes

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desdasiwrites · 1 year

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– Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child

#book quote of the day #eowyn ivey #the snow child #fairy tale retelling #Christmas reading #cozy reads #Alaskan wilderness #historical fiction #winter aesthetic #book quotes #book recommendations

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readingbooksinisrael · 10 months

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about the fairy tale retellings post I just reblogged

fairytale cores for me:

Rapunzel

mc is trapped by parent (figure)

mc is saved but then has to also save their savior

something about mc’s physical traits helps them escape

there is wandering in a wilderness/strange place

The Snow Child/Snegerouchka

a child appears (under weird circumstances?)

loving people take them in

the child disappears at some point

there are themes of winter/coldness and spring/flowering/rebirth

Cinderella

mc is abused and neglected

mc is denied going to something important that they need special attire for

they gain the attire, go, and meet an important person

fear of recognition makes them run away

the important person finds something they dropped when they ran and uses it to find them

#i'll probably add to this #fairy tales #fairy tale retellings #rapunzel #the snow child #cinderella

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wehavewords · 2 years

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“There, along her delicate rib cage…there, against her beating heart…there, he was lost.”

Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child

#wehavewords #Eowyn Ivey #The Snow Child #words #quotes #life quotes #life #quotes about life #true words #book inspiration #book quotes #love #quotes about love

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miithridatism · 2 years

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It was beautiful, Mabel knew, but it was a beauty that ripped you open and scored you clean so that you were left helpless and exposed, if you lived at all.

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

#the snow child #eowyn ivey #books #quotes

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pachimation · 4 months

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❄️ winter wonderland ❄️

#genshin impact #childe #tartaglia #my art #zero thoughts head empty just thinking of childe playing in the snow like i do every year

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saintsenara · 1 year

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the snow child merope gaunt/tom riddle sr. teen | 3k words

the potion merope gives him is not instantaneous. she does not want mad, burning passion, which is over in moments. she wants a lifetime of devotion. after all, she believes herself to be in love with him.

once upon a time, there was a girl who wished for a child with hair as black as a raven's wing, and skin as white as snow, and eyes as red as blood.

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this piece - the first work in cautionary tales for young witches, a collection of harry potter-themed folk- and fairy-tale retellings - was written during an unseasonably cold snap, which is the best sort of weather for telling horror stories.

its inspiration - and the source of its title - is angela carter’s own the snow child, from her short-story collection the bloody chamber. carter’s version of the tale has lent its central, ominous colour-scheme to this story - the black of a raven’s wing, the white of snow, and the red of blood.

it has also lent its theme of jealousy. our heroine here is cecilia - tom riddle sr.’s girlfriend - who is one of those incidental characters (she says a grand total of two things in half-blood prince) that i’m inexplicably obsessed with. i just can’t help but wonder what she, like the elder riddles and the rest of tom’s friends, thought when he disappeared with merope and wasn’t heard from for months.

i also think she makes - with her conventional attractiveness and upper-class background - an excellent rival to merope, whose physical and social distance from tom (even before magic is brought into the equation) is profound.

this is a less charitable merope than i usually write, but there is no doubt that - in her extra-creepy form as she is here - she’s the perfect main character for folk horror. indeed, the whole story of her and tom is made for the genre: little hangleton - too-quiet and bucolic, with the gaunt shack lurking on the horizon - is the ideal location for a tale of rising terror, as the hunters on hangleton moor fail to realise that one of their number is being hunted himself. other bits of foreshadowing - the yew tree on the riddles’ property, the ruby ring shown off at a new year’s eve party - and of folklore - the blackthorn trees which surround the gaunt shack have a reputation in britain and ireland for being trees of ill-omen, associated with witches, illness, and death - add to that sense of the inevitable.

the riddles are also the ideal folk horror victims because they think themselves rational. tom rejects the village superstition about the gaunts - unlike cecilia, who comes to believe in magic and manages to survive the whole experience relatively unscathed as a result - and, therefore, finds himself in the guise of the person in the story most at risk from the magical world: the person who considers himself to clever to believe in it and who does not notice the potion shimmering in the water merope offers him.

tom sr. is - in all my writing - very like his son. he loves to be adored, he is cruel and imperious, he hates being wrong, he is distressed to be thought mad. in this story, he even has his son’s dark eyes - which, normally, i think he inherits from merope. it should, then, not be a surprise that - like many other people whose lives his son will ruin - the thing that upends his life is a potion which causes insatiable thirst and results, in the end, in him living a half-life as little more than an animated corpse.

#asenora fics #merope gaunt x tom riddle sr #merope gaunt #tom riddle sr #folk horror #to read in a snowstorm #the snow child

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scuffedgrannysblog · 10 months

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The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

A couple craft a life for themselves in the wilds of Alaska but long for a child - and then miraculously, one appears. But who is she?

There is something of the fairytale and myth about Eowyn Ivey’s books which I am innately drawn to and The Snow Child encapsulates this feeling of the magic and the mysterious unknowns in the world around us to great effect, with Jack and Mabel’s life in the Alaskan wilderness. Ivey teeters just this side of the credible to craft a story of longing, hardship, friendship, loss and magic. Mabel…

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#Alaska #American fiction #Book Review #Eowyn Ivey #Faina #fairy tale #Good read #Rachel Deeming #scuffed granny #Scuffed Granny Reviews #The Snow Child

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nataliedecorsair · 7 months

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Comic about a werewolf child Gotta learn how to howl More comics on my Patreon

#werewolf #child #werewolf child #werewolf woman #woman #comic #illustration #art #artists on tumblr #winter #full moon #snow #natalie de corsair #nataliedecorsair

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