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Apologies
It had been my intention to have this site publically up and running on the 1st of this month. However, due to a serious illness in the family, this plan has had to be laid aside. Simeli Mountain will appear in it's entirety, but at this time there is no specific date. I'm aiming for the tenth, but who knows what will happen between now and then. At home here we can only take the situation moment by moment.
Be rest assured, though, Simeli Mountain shall be posted, along with Simmie illustrations, as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience, and understanding.
Introduction
A Brief Word About This Site
It was never my intention, when I began playing The Sims in September of 2004, to construct a Sims Fairytale website. However, this is what has transpired. In following this lead, I consciously decided that this fairytale site should be slanted more to the stories in their original format than the watered down, cotton candy form they have be given over the course of the last two hundred years or so. Therefore, the reader will find the stories to contain anything from child abuse, bestiality to even death. It is highly recommended that young children not be permitted to read these stories. Parental discretion is advised. Please do not email me about any disagreement with the adult content of this site; the reader has been given fair warning. As an aide for the reader or parent, in the table of contents each story is followed by a rating, in parenthesis, that has been adopted from the film industry's movie rating system.
Most of the stories portrayed are taken from the
collection of the Brothers Grimm. Other
stories, though, will periodically appear from other authors, such as The
Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen and The Beauty and the Beast. These are not Disney stories and
Disney-style Sims will not be used in the illustrations.
About the Brothers Grimm and their collection of fairytales
The following is the opening paragraph of an excellent essay written by Elizabeth Dalton.
Originally intended for adults, the Kinder- und
Hausmarchen (Children's and Household Stories) of the Brothers Grimm has
become not only the world's most important collection of folk and fairy tales,
but also the central work in the literary culture of childhood. Paradoxically, the tales have been
criticized ever since they first appeared as inappropriate for children - too
frank about sex, too violent, too dark.
The Grimms themselves began censoring the sex as they brought out
successive editions, and subsequent editors and translators have continued the
process, modifying the violence as well.
But the darkness remains. MORE
Dalton, Elizabeth.
Introduction "Grimm's Fairy Tales" Barnes&Noble Classics, New York,
New York, 2003.
Elizabeth Dalton is Professor of English and Comparative
Literature at Bernard College. She has
published fiction and Criticism in The New Yorker and The New York
Times Book Review.
Favorite Links
A Great Big Thank You to all of the wonderfully gifted creators of Sim1 Objects and Skins. Without your talent and creative drive the visual basis for this site would not have been possible... or even considered. Unfortunately I have no idea who exactly I have pulled what items from, however, with the following links, any interested party can find the items used in the illustrations. Do know that some of the sites used were pay sites, such as SimSnobs and SimFreaks.
Bunny Wuffle's Cultural History Foundation
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E-mail address:
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revised: 3 APRIL 2005