I wish Dreamwidth were more active in general. I tried the "If you build it, they will come," method a couple of times, and both times it mostly fizzled. I'm still trying to keep Queerly Beloved going out of pure stubbornness, but I'll admit it's an uphill battle, and one of the main reasons I want to be able to queue stuff on Dreamwidth.

Yeah, they had some seriously hardcore propaganda going; I was lucky enough to be exposed to some foreign versions of at least a few of the tales when growing up (Cinderella in particular), so I knew they weren't the only versions of all of the tales, but I caught enough of the "Everyone was angry about all the gory bits in the original Grimm Bros version so they cut them out" business to buy that they had a more authentic version of the European tellings, at least. I am glad to have since learned otherwise!

😂 What an excellent way to put it!