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toxic, older-boyfriend simon riley...

tw: dubcon, alcohol use, manipulation

older-boyfriend simon was, and is a horrible influence on you. he's always smoking, offering your religious and modest mother if she wanted a cigarette. they gave you an ultimatum; simon or them. simon, of course, didn't want to lose his pretty, naïve plaything. corrupting your mind so that you denied them and cuddled up to him, lighting his cigarette for him and kissing his cheek tenderly.

but god, he was so cold and stoic. you were his girlfriend, for heaven's sake! usually ignored or brushed off, keeping up the façade of a cold, older man around you. and it only left you needy for his attention, usually dressing up in barely any clothes and bending over for him with tears in your eyes. all through desperation.

and his fuckings? he was ruthless. ploughing and fucking you into the mattress, his fat and lengthy cock stretching you out, impaling you and leaving you slobbering and crying all over yourself, feeling filthy the harder he went. the alcohol he poured into your mouth took your mind off of it though, right? leaving you numb and sore and even more of an emotional wreck for simon to rile up and manipulate further. :(

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I’m tired of hearing people say “Disney’s Cinderella is sanitized. In the original tale, the stepsisters cut off parts of their feet to make the slipper fit and get their eyes pecked out by birds in the end.”

I understand this mistake. I’m sure a lot of people buy copies of the complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales, see their tale of Aschenputtel translated as “Cinderella”, and assume what they’re reading is the “original” version of the tale. Or else they see Into the Woods and make the same assumption, because Sondheim and Lapine chose to base their Cinderella plot line on the Grimms’ Aschenputtel instead of on the more familiar version. It’s an understandable mistake. But I’m still tired of seeing it.

The Brothers Grimm didn’t originate the story of Cinderella. Their version, where there is no fairy godmother, the heroine gets her elegant clothes from a tree on her mother’s grave, and where yes, the stepsisters do cut off parts of their feet and get their eyes pecked out in the end, is not the “original.” Nor did Disney create the familiar version with the fairy godmother, the pumpkin coach, and the lack of any foot-cutting or eye-pecking.

If you really want the “original” version of the story, you’d have to go back to the 1st century Greco-Egyptian legend of Rhodopis. That tale is just this: “A Greek courtesan is bathing one day, when an eagle snatches up her sandal and carries it to the Pharaoh of Egypt. The Pharaoh searches for the owner of the sandal, finds her and makes her his queen.”

Or, if you want the first version of the entire plot, with a stepdaughter reduced to servitude by her stepmother, a special event that she’s forbidden to attend, fine clothes and shoes given to her by magic so she can attend, and her royal future husband finding her shoe after she loses it while running away, then it’s the Chinese tale of Ye Xian you’re looking for. In that version, she gets her clothes from the bones of a fish that was her only friend until her stepmother caught it and ate it.

But if you want the Cinderella story that Disney’s film was directly based on, then the version you want is the version by the French author Charles Perrault. His Cendrillon is the Cinderella story that became the best known in the Western world. His version features the fairy godmother, the pumpkin turned into a coach, mice into horses, etc, and no blood or grisly punishments for anyone. It was published in 1697. The Brothers Grimm’s Aschenputtel, with the tree on the grave, the foot-cutting, etc. was first published in 1812.

The Grimms’ grisly-edged version might feel older and more primitive while Perrault’s pretty version feels like a sanitized retelling, but such isn’t the case. They’re just two different countries’ variations on the tale, French and German, and Perrault’s is older. Nor is the Disney film sanitized. It’s based on Perrault.

los angeles, california.  march 2021

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