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Watching Tale of Tales felt like being reunited with fragments of myself I didn't know I'd lost until they were stitched together again in the shape of three intersected, ouroboric tales that are gruesome, libidinous and unflinchingly cruel. They're Angela Carter by way of Panna a netvor in the style of Tarsem Singh, Guillermo Del Toro, and Neil Jordan at their moodiest, they're how the original fairy tales were supposed to be told. I long for stories like this, for modern, fairy tale storytelling to not only hark back to its pernicious origins but adorn those glittering slippers, at the ready for the pedorthic chopping block. And often authors/directors promise these things, tease the grisly and unspeakable, but inevitably fail to deliver from fear of tapping into that ugly, blasphemous wellspring and offending the increasingly prudish masses, laving them sanitised and editorialised. And when you do this, you rob them of their humanity, of their relatability, but Tale of Tales doesn't do this, instead embracing the grim allegories these stories should and always have tried to convey, because when you strip back the film's glossy, contrasty-hued veneer, what's left but:


š Ivy Owens, Scandalized
movie star romance
childhood bff’s big brother
interracial couple
plucky reporter x sweater boy heartthrob
single POV
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š Eris Adderly, Bass-Ackwards
workplace romance
copulative coercion
grumpy introvert daddy x prickly blonde cat
he falls first
dual POV
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š B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller
sleepless in seattle vibes
hopeless romantic x jaded sweater boy
forced proximity
a leap of love
dual POV
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š Tessa Bailey, The Sweetest Fix
sugar bomb
lust at first sight
v-day shenanigans
broadway manic pixie dream girl x grumpy antisocial baker
dual POV
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š Jessica Joyce, A Risk Worth Taking
christmas romance
three night forever stand
snowed in seduction
stay or go?
single POV
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š Mazey Eddings, Lizzie Blake’s Best Mistake
sunshine chaos gremlin x awkward sweater boy
accidental pregnancy trope
two night forever stand
ADHD rep
dual POV
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š Roxie Noir, Reign
PTSD rep
royal romance
interracial couple
gremlin american menace x sovereign slavic smoke-show
dual POV
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š Kali Decker, Starf**ker
grizzly daddy actor x dtf screenwriter brat
celebrity romance
bisexual rep
kinkmates
dual POV
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š Talia Hibbert, A Girl Like Her
autism / domestic violence rep
interracial couple
neighbourly nookie
pyjama-clad grumpy nerd x captain america golden retriever
dual POV
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š Tessa Bailey, Heat Stroke
mlm romance
gay-awakening / secret dating
summer seduction
brainy storm cloud x sunshine golden retriever
dual POV
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š Hannah Bonam-Young, People Watching
sunshine flirt-monster x grumpy wallflower
bisexual / chronic illness rep
small town romance
hurt / comfort
dual POV
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š Adriana Anders, Dom-Com
kink-lite
office romance
sex, secrets & stationery
sunshine subby brat x stern brunch dom
dual POV
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š Kathryn Nolan, High Heat
baseball poly mfm romance
love at first pitch
forced proximity
sir & his brats
single POV
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š Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love
enemies to endgame
unstated autism / ED rep
STEM workplace romance
prickly black cat x c*ntstruck sweater boy
dual POV
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š Sarah T. Dubb, Honey Bee Mine
feisty bee whisperer x reformed bad boy sweetheart
small town romance
will you bee mine?
do-over dalliance
dual POV
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š Tessa Bailey, Mouth to Mouth
my job is beach
summer seduction
love at first near accident
bookworm introvert babe x bad boy alpha-mallow
dual POV
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š Sierra Simone, Saint
reformed playboy novice x sweater boy journo
forced proximity / second chance / bbbff
mlm interracial romance
sex, sanity & sacrament
dual-ish POV
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š KT Hoffman, The Prospects
adhd / anxiety rep
trans mlm romance
sportsball entanglement
sunshine menace x anxious sweater boy
single POV
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š Alexandra Vasti, Ladies in Hating
ladies of letters, lust & love
the haunting of hottie house
prickly darling x arch sweetheart
wlw historical paranormal romance
dual POV
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š Alison Cochrun, The Charm Offensive
depression / anxiety / panic disorder / real OCD rep
hopeless romantic puppy x anxious cinnabun nerd
mlm demisexual interracial romance
forced proximity
dual POV
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š Tessa Bailey, S’more of You
camp carousing
mutual yearning
dramatics and miscommunications
prankster sunshine brat x grumpy nature nerd
dual POV
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š Anita Kelly, Love & Other Disasters
chaotic ray of sunshine x grumpy storm cloud
non-binary romance
talk foody to me
pansexual rep
dual POV
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š Kali Decker, Nepo Baby
bisexual rep
age gap desi romance
one night to forever stand
ingƩnue nepo brat x seasoned actor daddy
dual POV
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š Sally Thorne, Rosie and the Dreamboat
cinnamon roll fireman x plant gremlin
jokes & therapy sesh
sunshine & hot mess
love at first voice?
single POV
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Bonus fanart for KT Hoffman's, The Prospects by Sarah Corrente:




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