These Books Among Us

It's been a while, right? I'm just giving you a quick update! Life has been super hectic so I haven't really gotten around to doing much creatively, unfortunately. But, good news! I am going to try to schedule more time in for writing both for here and for my own fiction works. Let me know if you would want to read any snippets of those! I think that's all for now! XOXO Dana

Hello again! Since this month I am on the theme of Fairy Tales, I thought I would continue from book adaptations to television and movies. Below are going to be some that I have seen along with the ways they are adapted and the genres they come from. Let's start off with television, shall we. I think the most obvious adaptation as of late is ABC's Once Upon a Time. One cool thing about this is that it is on the channel owned by Disney, so they can use licensed characters without any repercussions. That was both a blessing and a curse. This show started back in 2011 and started off as a show set in the modern world where a town is full of fairy tale characters who are trapped in our universe by a curse of the evil queen. Now this show was really fun for the first few seasons. The cameos of the other fairy tale characters was really cool and the introduction of the new villains was well done. The later seasons, however, I was not as big of a fan of. Once they started having f

Hey everyone! Welcome to the new year! This year I am going to try to incorporate themes into my weekly posts for every month. So let's see how well that goes, shall we? To get us started, let's get in the mindset of fairy tales.   If you are like me, you love fairy tales. They were told to you when you were growing up, turned into awesome animated films, and probably taught you lessons about right and wrong, right? Well, same with me. Most people grow up on the Disney versions of these stories. They are often filled with happily ever afters, the villains getting their just desserts (killed-they get killed), and some variant of the animal side kick being embarrassed at the new couple kissing at the end of the film. But the original tales were a lot darker. Most of them had very heavy themes throughout and very graphic violence for being something to share with children. And that was the point, back when these were first circulated. They were to scare children into