{"id":3454,"date":"2019-07-29T16:40:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T08:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2019-07-29T16:40:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T08:40:19","slug":"twisted-tales-the-princess-who-never-smiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=3454","title":{"rendered":"TWISTED TALES; the princess who never smiled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/the-princess-who-never-smiled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3455\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I actually quite like this tale and I&#8217;m surprised it hasn&#8217;t been adapted. It might be a little difficult unless you make it super dramatic, I suppose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>Twisted Tales<\/em> is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/The-Princess-Who-Never-Smiled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3456\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Featuring:<br>Adria Arjona as the Princess<br>Alex Meraz as the Humble Man<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It was a bitter thing for the Tsar her father to gaze at his doleful  daughter. He used to open his imperial palace to whoever would be his  guest. &#8220;Come,&#8221; he said, &#8220;come and try to enliven the Princess Without a  Smile: any one who succeeds shall gain her as his wife.&#8221; And as soon as  he had said this all folk thronged up at the gates of the palace,  driving up from all sides, coming on foot, Tsar\u00e9vichi and princes&#8217; sons,  <em>boy\u00e1rs<\/em> and noblemen, military folk and civil. Feasts were celebrated, rivers of mead flowed, and the Princess would not smile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/footer.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/footer.png 1010w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/footer-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/footer-768x304.png 768w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/footer-600x238.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"50\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pin-this-post.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pin-this-post.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pin-this-post-300x15.jpg 300w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pin-this-post-768x38.jpg 768w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pin-this-post-600x30.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/the-princess-who-never-smiled-pin.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3457\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually quite like this tale and I&#8217;m surprised it hasn&#8217;t been adapted. It might be a little difficult unless you make it super dramatic, I suppose. Twisted Tales is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. Featuring:Adria Arjona as the PrincessAlex Meraz as the Humble Man It was a bitter thing for the Tsar her father to gaze at his doleful daughter. He used to open his imperial palace to whoever would be his guest. &#8220;Come,&#8221; he said, &#8220;come and try to enliven the Princess Without a Smile: any one who succeeds shall gain her as his wife.&#8221; And as soon as he had said this all folk thronged up at the gates of the palace, driving up from all sides, coming on foot, Tsar\u00e9vichi and princes&#8217; sons, boy\u00e1rs and noblemen, military folk and civil. Feasts were celebrated, rivers of mead flowed, and the Princess would not smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[394,391,631],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twisted-tales","tag-fairytale-fancasts","tag-fancasts","tag-the-princess-who-never-smiled"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}