Twisted Tales

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    TWISTED TALES; rapunzel

    I realise there is actually the villain of the story – Mother Gothel, or the Enchantress, depending on your source material – but I couldn’t be bothered to cast her. I was far too enamoured by the couple. Twisted Tales is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. Featuring: Shay Mitchell as Rapunzel Michael B. Jordan as the Prince In her anger she clutched Rapunzel’s beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground. And she was so pitiless…

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    TWISTED TALES || the little mermaid

    As far as I know, in the original tale, the characters were never named, so I gave them the names they had in the animation. If this were ever a movie, I’d say it was a mix between the original tale and the animation, taking elements from both. Twisted Tales is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. Feautring: Meagan Rath as Ariel Daniel Henney as Eric Octavia Spencer as Ursula Michelle Yeoh as Vanessa Oh, did not the youngest sister listen eagerly to all these descriptions? and afterwards, when she stood at the open window looking up through the dark blue…

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    TWISTED TALES || cinderella

    As much as I love the recent movie because Lily James and Richard Madden are quite brilliant, I would love (another) diverse take on Cinderella. The 1997 musical version of it remains one of my favourites because the story is amazing, the music is wonderful, and the cast is just perfect. Twisted Tales is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. Featuring: Jessica Lucas as Cinderella Godfrey Gao as the Prince Melissa Ponzio as the Fairy Godmother Tia Carrere as the Stepmother She rose hastily, and flew away like a startled fawn. The prince attempted to follow her, but she was too…

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    TWISTED TALES || beauty and the beast

    Not going to lie, the reason I started this series of photosets was because the image of this particular Belle would not leave me. And, well, it spawned a lot of fancasts. Twisted Tales is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. Featuring: Angel Coulby as Belle Sendhil Ramamurthy as the Beast Every evening Beast paid her a visit, and talked to her, during supper, very rationally, with plain good common sense, but never with what the world calls wit; and Beauty daily discovered some valuable qualifications in the monster, and seeing him often had so accustomed her to his deformity, that,…

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    TWISTED TALES || snow white

    This is the first of the second of the two new features I am starting on my blog. These are not going to involve much preface, but as a recap: Twisted Tales is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. Featuring; Rinko Kikuchi as Snow White Ming Na Wen as the Queen Aldis Hodge as the Prince But hardly had she a bit of it in her mouth than she fell down dead. Then the Queen looked at her with a dreadful look, and laughed aloud and said, “White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony-wood! this time the dwarfs cannot…

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    TWISTED TALES || RACEBENT ROMCOMS

    I’ve been considering posting this new feature over here for a while, and some time ago, I held a poll on Twitter about whether or not to do so. I got a resounding “Yes!” from the few people who responded so I guess we’re doing this. What is this? Twisted Tales started off as a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. It started when the casting of Beauty And The Beast was announced, and sort of spiralled from there. I have been posting the photosets on Tumblr for a while now, and have more in the planning stages, and am always taking…