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    • pseudo
      4·
      6 个月前

      It looks like it has a dress in the color of the night, covered in stars, shining like it was lighted by the moon. I feel like I’m seeing what dress got Peau d’âne !

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
        1·
        6 个月前

        Yes, I always think it looks like deep space!

        Donkey skin?! I have never heard of this! I know what I will be investigating this morning!

        • pseudo
          2·
          6 个月前

          Never? It is a classic french fairytale and the french and english speaking country share so many of them.

          A king, gone crazy after the death of his wife, see his beautiful and sweet daughter like the only one worthy to be he’s new bride. To counter his project she ask for gift impossible to found :

          • a dress in the color of the time. But he made it and gave it to her
          • a dress in the color of the sun. But he made a dress so full of gold and fine cloth it shine like the sun and gave it to her.
          • a dress like the night and the shining moon. He gave it again.

          So she ask for his most previous good the skik of the donkey that make the fortune of the kingdom as it is pooping gold. But the king skin the precious donkey and gave it to her. That night the princess draped in a dress in the color of the night, hidden under a donkey skin run away from the castle and find a place as a servant in a farm in the next kingdom. People mock that poor servant who do the worst job and is dressed everyday in a disgusting donkey skin.

          Later, she meet a prince. He fell in love. She reveals her true identity and make up with his father whose mind has fortunatly cleared up. They live happy ever after. You know how ends a fairy tale. That’s not the interesting part.

          • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
            1·
            6 个月前

            I saw this was one of Grimm’s Fairytale Classics, an anime picked up by North America’s Nickelodean network as cheap programming in the 80s. They tell it as the coat of many colors, though they acknowledge it as skins very quickly. Watching it, it didn’t seem totally new to me, but I don’t recall this story, so I may have seen it once. They didn’t play a lot of them for being too dark, and some I remember only seeing once and then a small few got many more replays because they were mostly talking animals deemed not scary, so this may have been a one time only thing for me when I was very young.

            I linked the video if you want to see it. I always loved the opening theme song!

            The creepy king is not so fun. Kids’ stories were sure different back then! It’s a creepy story as an adult now, yet interesting as a fan of creepy movies overall. I’m glad you shared with me!

            • pseudo
              2·
              5 个月前

              How dare they erase the donkey skin?! The major point of the story and they change it to something stupide and totally useless.
              The dubbling is horrible by the way. Especially the actor playing the prince. Were all cartoons like that?

              • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
                2·
                5 个月前

                Well they are primarily European tales of various origin translated to Japanese, and then back to English.

                Foreign animation was common back then as it was cheap to buy and then just very sloppily dubbed. Most dubs up until probably around 2000 are famously low quality and bad acting because animation wasn’t treated as something anything but elementary school kids watched.

                Nowadays it’s pretty good and some dubs are equal or in a handful of cases better than the original voice casts. But this show is definitely not, it’s just something fun I remember from when I was small.

                • pseudo
                  2·
                  5 个月前

                  Most dubs up until probably around 2000 are famously low quality and bad acting

                  Funny. At the same time we had master peace of dubbling in France. A few weird things because the adaptation didn’t always fully grasp the cultural context but a lot of artistic liberty as well.

    • pseudo
      2·
      6 个月前

      Frizzy with soft eyes… My heart is melting. But I can’t vote for you sweet heart (T_T) I really don’t want to…

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        6 个月前

        I think this owl looks to be the most huggable owl there is! Plus it is making big comebacks from extinction in parts of Europe. It’s a pretty darn good owl…

        • pseudo
          3·
          6 个月前

          it is making big comebacks from extinction in parts of Europe.

          Nice to hear! I’m all for more of it around me. Althought I may be to southern.

    • pseudo
      3·
      6 个月前

      This year I want a big owl to win. Eagle owl would be perfect (of course) but fishing owls are great options too!

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        6 个月前

        This and Eurasian Eagle are the 2 most massive owls. Their sizes can overlap making big EEOs heavier than small BFOs, but a large BFO will be heavier and larger than a large EEO normally.

        Great Grey is longer than either, but it’s due to the GGs tail. Like a tall building that adds an antenna 😁

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
        6·
        6 个月前

        I love Blakey, but I feel I can never do it justice in this because it’s so hard to find pics of it.

        It can’t just not be in the contest, it’s the biggest owl in the world and it catches fish. That’s peak owl. But it’s just in such a small area that is dangerous for humans. Without new pics, I don’t know how its score will improve.

        Here is a rare massively bassy “uhu” for you though.