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December 31, 2022 - January 5, 2023
The Dark Fairy’s castle was eerily silhouetted against a tempestuous sky by a magnificent spiral of glowing green mist.
“Like many of us, Maleficent, those loathsome sisters were unable to think clearly when their family was in peril.”
family was capable of causing more harm than anyone. Family was true heartbreak. They could rip out your heart like no one else. They could destroy your spirit and leave you alone in the tangled depths of despair. Family could ruin you, more than a lover might, and surely more than even the dearest of friends could. Family could hold its power over you.
She honestly didn’t know what was worse: living her life in the dream world, or living in a world where everyone lied to her.
The fairies called her Maleficent. They had named her after Saturn, because of its unfavorable influence, and after Mars, a malicious god known to cause destruction and war. For that was what the fairies saw in her future: malice, devastation, and conflict.
Why do witches always put young girls to sleep in these stories?
“Besides, what is a fairy without wings if not a witch,
Practically every princess in peril has been saved by Love’s First Kiss! For goodness’ sake, between witches and fairies, can’t we think of something more original?
Why must a young girl need a man to save her? Why can’t a princess fight for her own life, break her own curse? Why must it always be a prince?
I want to kill Prince Phillip on principle, just so we don’t have yet one more prince kissing some helpless sleeping girl, making her feel like...
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Her name is Aurora, for she is my shining light in the darkness.’”
wanted you to care for her. I wanted you to have the very best parts of me so that you could have your daughter back, but you gave her away!
