Fairy tales still have a great deal of reverberance , but modern life involve less battle on hogback and more inactive - aggressive Facebooking . With that in mind , TumblrFairy Tales for Twenty - Somethingshas rewrite classical fable and fairy taradiddle for the multiplication that engages in epic lounge - surfing quests , has trade wizard mirrors for Siri , and only encounters wolf in bars .
Fairy Tales for Twenty - Somethingsputs ingenious forward-looking spin on fairy tales , using tales of princesses and talking animals to poke at relationship job , career goals , social media , and disconnect with the world . The account are sometimes biting , but more often they ’re a bit distressing . Here are a few case :
The crazy thing is that eventually even Alice began to doubt whether what she ’d seen down the rabbit hole had ever really survive . And it did n’t make her sad , there was nothing to a fault spectacular about it , it was just that now she understood how the world actually do work .
But then she was tagged in a pic by an honest-to-god admirer , by the White Rabbit . It was a faded mental picture of her and the Cheshire Cat , and , wow , it just bring her right back .
After pulling the brand from the stone but before becoming B. B. King , Arthur extend on a cross - country road trip / vision pursuit . He crashed on friend ’ couch or , on a few nights , the back seat of his car . He went to Burning Man , stayed in the mint of Montana for a few weeks , and learn to build up a cigar - box seat guitar from some guy on the street in New Orleans .
When he at last arrived home , a wiser man , he thought , “ That crap was awesome . I got ta see a way to do that all the metre . ”
The hare get a high - power chore in the tech industry directly out of college , whlie the tortoise move around the nation by train just writing in his journal and thinking . Finally the tortoise got a big book deal for a memoir he wrote and when he post about it on Facebook he thought , I knew I ’d outshine that fucker in the ending .
More recently , they ’ve started bring original artwork , such as the piece up top , which illustrate this short , forgetful write up :
Thumbelina never got much big but she did get her own reality TV show , so that ’s cool .
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