Your pets after you bring your phone out to film them doing something
A snack fishing game for children at a mall. The price to play is around 58-68 RMB (9-11 USD), depending on the child's height.
love this guy but he has got to stop storing his pills n powders in unmarked ziploc bags
Gävlebocken Gogoat
that is all
So you want to read… Russian Fairy Tales
You should, Russian fairy tales are great!
Where do I start?
Most collections of Russian fairy tales will come from the work of Alexander Afanasyev, a 19th century Russian ethnographer who collected almost 600 folk and fairy tales from across Russia. Tragically the full collection is rarely available in single editions in English, although all of his tales have been translated individually in smaller collections.
Rather confusingly, the other main collector of Russian fairy tales was also named Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin’s fairy tales were written later, and it was his work which popularised Russian folk stories both in Russia and the rest of the world. Most texts are shared between the two authors.
This means there can be a lot of variance across online versions, so it’s a good idea to start your reading with one site that has a lot of texts rather than trying to mix and match. Great Russian Gifts has a surprisingly in-depth and well-written collection.
Translations, Editions, and other Originals
These collections are largely a matter of personal preference in translation– I favour the Wheeler translations, and have a long weakness for Arthur Ransome’s children’s version, but if you want to be picking up as few books as possible to get a wide read, this Guterman edition is an excellent choice.
Theory and Analysis
An excellent study of Pushkin is available from A. D. P. Briggs. I would also recommend Oinas and Soudakoff’s The Study of Russian Folklore and Propp’s The Russian Folktale. For a more in-depth discussion of Russian folk literature, try Pierre Maranda’s Soviet Structural Follkloristics. Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson’s A Companion to the Fairy Tale is a more general look at the topic, but has excellent studies of Russian tradition.
The New York Times has published a write-up of Russian Fairy tales, whilst Artrusse provides an excellent look at Russian folk art and culture in several languages including Russian and English.
If you do want to try to look into the Russian language, you could make a good start with these free PDFs, or purchase the books in question here, here and here. This Youtuber also comes highly recommended.
Modern Interpretations
Mercedes Lackey’s Firebird adapts a number of Prince Ivan and the Firebird stories. Other modern novels include Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter, Entwined by Heather Dixon, The Shining Falcon by Josepha Sherman, and Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente.
There are some stunning Soviet-era film adaptations, including Vasilisa the Beautiful (1940), The Frog Princess (1954), Vasilisa the Beautiful (1977), The Magic Swan Geese (1949), Finest the Brave Falcon (1975), and Go There, Don’t Know Where (1966).
Do you like poems?
yes! my favorites are The Tiger and the unnamed werewolf fridge poem
for context these are the poems
also I almost forgot but the r/ambien Gives Us The Sleep post takes a completely serious third place in my favorite poems list:
and COMING IN HOT at NUMBER FOUR on my list, it's Fragment 147! an accidental poem created when the original parchment containing a text by Sappho was used to stop a wine jug more than 2,000 years ago- eventually the wine dissolved most of the parchment, leaving just a few words and BOY do they prove that the Universe has a sense of irony.
I COME TO YOU WITH AN IMPORTANT NEW ADDITION TO THE ACCIDENTAL POETRY LIST, FROM OUR VERY OWN TUMBLR DOT COM:
May I add some of my favorites? :
cannot believe ya'll waited this long to tell me about the DADDY brand of french sugar
Alternatives To Sleeping in Coffins
An Illustrated Guide For Vampires
1. Privacy Tent
2. Antique Chinese Wedding Bed
3. Victorian Box Bed
4. Canopy Bed
5. Full Body Wearable Blanket + Novelty Halloween Mask of Choice
6. Hyperrealistic Black Bear Sleeping Bag (with built in ‘Do Not Disturb’ feature)
7. Tinfoil Bodysuit (For maximized UV protection)
8. Blackout Curtains You Fucking Vampiric Dumbass
in conclusion why in fuck’s name are you sleeping in coffins to begin with you utter shitmuppets
Forward-facing eyes means they’re predators now
Love this professor Potato🥔🤓
Two words: Stingray skeletons.
oh my stars and garters
how have we been sleeping on ocean skeletons???
We need to awaken the ocean skeleton fandom. I mean what unholy-
Puffer Fish Skeleton
Butterfly Fish Skeleton
Moorish Idol Skeleton (aka the sexy fish from finding nemo)
longhorn cowfish
The puffer fish tho.
The Anglerfish Skeleton.
moth mouse
Growing Strong and Healthy ..... MINMO!!