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Amelia's collection of items from all around Poptropica

I actually don't know which island the skull tea is from. I forgot. Also this tea:

Could be this one:

Pop Rumpel Spiel (it’s technically a theory)

(AKA making sense of basically a walking plot device)

This is probably definitely reaching, but I’ve come to a personal conclusion that Poptropica’s Rumpelstiltskin is not a villain… in the game’s classic sense, to be specific.

Fairy Tale Island is populated by, uh, fairy tale characters and Rumpel (as far as we know) is a resident. All the characters on the island are living lives that are at least alluding to the stories (ex: Red is a 20something delivery woman instead of a little girl visiting her grandma). So in retrospect, Rumpelstiltskin is no different.

Shared traits in Rumplestiltskin portrayals carry over his finnicky nature from the original fairy tale. He’s an expert trickster who screws with the people’s lives, yet his defeat usually involves reciting his full name.

In a way, Rumpel is living like the other denizens of Fairy Tale Island by playing as the “villain”. By concept alone, he’s the designated “plot causer” which I’ll still chew him out for but besides the point. He’s doing what all Rumpelstiltskins do—mess with everyone.

Infamously, he’s the only villain to never be properly defeated. After the story of Fairy Tale Island, Rumpel is (currently) less of a threat and pretty much a recurring nuisance. Like an annoying cockroach you can’t seem to catch, once again he’s messing with the player’s need for catharsis.

So Rumpel isn’t a traditional Poptropica villain. What I mean by that is outside of pulling the strings to ruin everyone’s life, he’s technically not malicious. Because Rumpel is just like everyone else in his island, living up to his fairy tale counterpart. He’s an almighty trickster who manages to get away, because he’s Rumpelstiltskin.

*kicks open your door*

hey wanna hear a theory i made about poptropica during school?

Okay so, you know the original Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale? If not, go read it because i don't care enough to summarize.

Basically, i think the Red Queen is the miller's daughter from the og fairy tale, which would give her a reason to be trying to murder Rumpel, and also gives a reason for Baron to have been approached by the magic man back before she and him left or whatever

plastic boogie with Rumplestiltskin?

Come do the Plastic Boogie with Everyone's favorite Gremlin Man: Rumpelstiltskin! ↜₍^ -༝-^₎✨

*by live theatre i mean plays, musicals, operas, ballets, concert versions of musicals, staged readings, & things of that nature. EDIT: YES this includes amateur, local, kids, high school, & community theatre. almost every show i've seen has been local

if you want, list the names of the shows you've seen in the tags!

my top ten actors are barbie in her 2001-2015 movies

Barbie Fun Fact

The origin and meaning of the names of the protagonists of the Barbie movies.

(The Nutcracker - 2001) Clara: Originated from Latin, Clara means "bright", "clear", "luminous" and "illustrious".

(Rapunzel - 2002) Rapunzel: Its origin is uncertain, but some linguists believe that the name comes from the word “rampion”, which is a very nutritious edible vegetable/flower.

(Swan Lake - 2003) Odette: Of French and Germanic origin, Odette means "rich", "full of goods", "virtuous".

(The Princess and the Pauper - 2004) Anneliese: French origin, Anneliese is a combination of Anna and Liese, with Anna being a form of the Hebrew Channah, meaning "full of grace", and Liese being a German diminutive of Elisabeth "My God is an oath". (The Princess and the Pauper - 2004) Erika : It means "eternal sovereign", "rich in honor and glory" or "she who reigns like an eagle". Of Germanic origin.

(Fairytopia - 2005) Elina: This name apparently has several origins and meanings, I don't know exactly which one is right. Elina means "noble serpent", "nobility serpent", "little noble", "the glittering one, the resplendent one". The name came from the Latin Alina, Alyna, variants of Adelina, a name with two possibilities. In its Greek origin, it means "bright light". in hebrew it means "Life is given by God".

(Magic of Pegasus - 2005) Annika: of russian origin, Annika means "gracious", "full of grace"; “army” or “splendour”.

(Twelve dancing princesses - 2006) Genevieve: Of Celtic origin, Genevieve means "white and soft woman", "woman white as the foam of the sea"; "woman of good origins".

(Island Princess - 2007) Rosella: Of Italian origin, Rosella Means "rose" and "beautiful flower".

(Mariposa and her butterfly fairy friends - 2008) Mariposa: Of Spanish Latin origin, Mariposa means "Butterfly".

(The Diamond Castle - 2008) Liana: This name has two origins, Liana in Hebrew means "light", in French it means "God is an oath."

(A Carol Christmas - 2008) Eden: Of Hebrew origin, Eden means "person whose company is pleasant". In addition to alluding to the paradise of Eden.

(Three Musketeers - 2009) Corinne: Originating from Latin, Corinne means "daughter of the crown", it also comes from Greek origin meaning "virgin". In addition to the English and French origin "beautiful maiden".

(Mermaid Tale - 2010) Merliah: Means "mermaid", "girl from the sea", "beautiful sea", "moon of the ocean".

(Princess Charm School - 2011) Blair: Scottish gaelic origin, Blair means "plain", "meadow" or "field".

(The Princess and the Popstar - 2012) Victoria: Meaning "victory," Victoria is of Latin origin. (The Princess and the Popstar - 2012) Kiera:  It is an Anglicized version of "Ciara" and means "Little Dark One", besides that Keira is an anagram of Erika, referring to the character of princess and paupper.

(Pink Shoes - 2013) Kristyn: Of Scandinavian and latin origins, the meaning of Kristyn is "follower of Christ".

(The Pearl Princess - 2014) Lumina: Name of Slavic origin that means "sunshine", romanian word for sunshine.

(The Secret Door - 2014) Alexa: of Greek origin, mean "defender of man", “protector of humanity” or “she who wards off enemies”. (Rock N Royals - 2015) Courtney: It means "short nose", "little nose". This name originated from an English noble surname, derived from the French Courtenay. (Rock N Royals - 2015) Erika Juno: Erika we already know the meaning, but Juno means "youth", "queen of the gods" or "she who was born in June". Juno is a name of mythological origin, which originated from Latin.

(Princess Power - 2015) Kara: Of Italian origin, Kara means "beloved" or "dear,"

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Dungeon meshi has wonderful and thought out world building but the inherent creator bias still shows through sometimes in small funny ways

Golden child of fandom: Ringmaster Raven

Binary Bard and Director D: Tumblr sexymen

Dr. Hare and MVB: Meme sources

Shared wife: Black Widow

Local pest we feed: Rumpelstiltskin

All: Octavian

(I tried)

Yeah pretty much <3

I started this at 1:00 and now it's 4:00 XD

Honestly I wish the characters of Fairy Tale Island were expanded on more. The island already felt short and like an excuse plot to introduce Rumpelstiltskin + the Red Queen. Perhaps they wanted to skip through the fairy tales people already know, but that misses the point of the theme in the first place.

Like the ideas of “Cinderella moonlighting as a metal singer” and “Little Red Riding Hood as a 20something pizza delivery woman” are interesting, but they don’t use them to their extents. In my opinion, all the characters feel like sitting ducks compared to Rumpel (who comes off as a convenient “plot-causer” rather than a thought-out trickster).

We don’t get a lot of time to spend with the characters or the setting, which in my opinion makes the island feel very weak. And that’s extremely ironic, because it’s probably the most relevant to the game’s ongoing story.

The next set of tales I've read in Cinderella Tales from Around the World hail from Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Denmark.

*One Icelandic tale, which Heiner's book features in three variations, is The Story of Mjadveig, the Daughter of Mani, also known as Stepmother Story. The heroine, Mjadveig, is a princess, and after her mother dies, her father King Mani's advisors urge him to remarry. In a foreign land he finds a charming widow and marries her. But unbeknownst to him, both the new queen and her own daughter are evil giantesses magically disguised as humans, and depending on the retelling, they either abuse Mjadveig or tie her up and abandon her in the wilderness. But either way, Mjadveig has a dream at night in which her mother advises her to follow a certain path, and the next day she obeys and finds a little house, where she lives in safety. On the way there, or at some point when she goes out, she loses a shoe. Soon afterward, a prince arrives from another land, and he finds the shoe, is struck by its delicacy, and sets out to find the owner. The giantess queen lies that it's her own daughter's and secretly cuts her daughter's foot to make it fit, but of course a bird reveals the truth to the prince, and then he finds Mjadveig and falls in love with her. He forces the giantess stepsister to appear in her true form, then kills her and tricks her mother into eating her flesh. This causes the queen to reveal her own giantess form, and the prince kills her too.

**One of the three variants ends with Mjadveig's marriage, but in the other two, some time later, she meets her dead stepmother's sister, an equally wicked giantess. The new giantess magically takes Mjadveig's shape to replace her, and sends the real Mjadveig to her brother, a giant who imprisons her under the sea. But a herdsman and a dwarf ultimately rescue her and return her to her husband, and the giant and giantess are killed. (This is obviously similar to Gaelic versions like Fair, Brown, and Trembling.)

*The book also includes another Icelandic story, The Tale of How Three Damsels Went to Fetch Fire, though this is less of a Cinderella story and more of a "Kind and Unkind Girls" story combined with Beauty and the Beast. There are three sisters, and both of their parents spoil the older two but abuse the youngest. One day each sister in turn goes out to fetch fire, and each in turn comes to a cave where a hideous yet polite giant and his dog live. Of course the older two sisters behave badly, but the youngest is kind despite her fear. The giant turns out to be an enchanted prince whose spell the youngest girl breaks, and he marries her.

*There's also one story from the Faroe Islands, The Girl Who Got Meat and Clothes in the Mound. Again, this is really more of a "Kind and Unkind Girls" tale. An abused and starved stepdaughter finds an earthen mound containing a table with rich food, remembers to thank God in prayer before she eats, and later she finds elegant clothes inside the mound, which attract the attention of a prince, who marries her; but when her stepsister goes to the mound, she eats without praying, and gets nothing more.

*Now we move on to Denmark. There are many different Danish Cinderella stories, but most of them include similar motifs.

**Most Danish Cinderellas are abused by a stepmother and one or two stepsisters. But some give her two biological sisters who abuse her after their father's death. Still others have her run away from her stepfamily, or be left all alone in the world after her father dies, and become a servant at the prince's castle in the tradition of Donkeyskin/All-Kinds-of-Fur.

**Her magical helper is most often an animal – typically a dog, but sometimes a red calf, a cat, a dove, or in one version an eel in a pond. A few versions feature a dwarf, though, a few others have her mother rise from her grave to help her, one other has an old woman who gives her three linseeds that contain three beautiful dresses, and yet another has her her helped by a merman she meets when her sisters send her to catch a fish.

***The versions with the red calf are basically the same story as The Blue Bull from France – she and the calf run away together, the calf is killed but still grants her wishes in death, and the rest of the story is a Donkeyskin/All-Kinds-of-Fur variant.

**Sometimes she also receives finery and a coach from a tree, often a lime tree, which either her dog or her mother's spirit tells her will give them to her. Sometimes while the tree gives her the finery, the dog or other animal does her chores for her while she's gone.

**Some versions start out like Puss in Boots. The three sisters' father dies, and leaves all his property and money to the older two, but just a dog to the youngest. Then the two older sisters treat the youngest like a scullery maid, but the dog becomes her magical helper.

**The event she attends is nearly always church. Only two variants have a ball instead, and those two show obvious signs of being based on the Grimms' and Perrault's versions, not authentic folk versions.

**In many versions, when she goes to church, she chants "Light before! Darkness behind!" or some variation on it (sometimes with "Mist behind" instead). This ensures that no one who tries to follow her can see where she goes, either on the way or coming back.

**Almost all versions include the theme of the (step)sisters (or other ladies, in the Donkeyskin variants) cutting their feet to make the shoe fit, only for a bird to reveal the trick.

**In one version, after the prince has the church steps smeared with pitch and the heroine's shoe sticks, he also steals a ring from her finger just before she escapes. Thus all the ladies have to try on both the shoe and the ring: some can wear just the shoe, others just the ring, but none except the heroine fit both.

**Only three variants continue the story after the heroine's marriage, but none have her stepmother or sisters try to murder her. Instead it's her children who are endangered. In two, the magical helper – a dog in one, a strange man in the other – wants to take away her children as payment for his help, and the last part of the story becomes a version of Rumpelstiltskin. (Silly note: When I read these versions, I couldn't help but think of "Cinderumpelstiltskin" from The Stinky Cheese Man.) In the third, the stepmother throws each of the heroine's newborn babies into the pond. But the magical eel in the pond who helped her earlier brings them back – but only after he's been appeased with a gift of many bushels of salt, which she promised to give him earlier but then forgot.

Next country on the list: Sweden.

Quietly shutting the door of Grandpa's room behind him, Sollybot took a look inside his bag. His horn was inside, along with some snacky paper, some regular paper (not snacks), a fresh box of crayons, and his new stuffed animal. He also took a couple of books- one with a bunch of short stories that usually had fairies or evil queens in them, and the other about a boy who goes on an adventure but winds up on a ship full of pie rats. Grandpa hadn't finished reading that one to him yet but he could re-read it up to the part they left off at least. That seemed like enough to travel on. Beeping out a chipper tune, Sollybot headed to the door and stopped. No. There was one more thing. Grandpa had taught him how to fire the gun. He taught him how to aim steady and shoot carefully and to never fire unless he knew what he was shooting at and only if he had to. This isn't a toy, son, he'd said. This can hurt people or animals very badly, and you could hurt yourself or people you don't mean to if you don't know what you're doing. But you might run into a situation where you have to use it someday. Making a sound akin to a robotic 'gulp!', Sollybot took the shotgun with him too, clipping it onto his back. And so, with one backward glance, the little Sollybot with no name took his first steps out of Upward and into the wide world beyond.