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By the light of the moon - a short fairy tale

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    Apos
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    I wrote this story a few years ago in French. I had it printed out and found it in an old box while cleaning. I used ChatGPT this week to help with the translation. DALL-E 3 generated the image...

    I wrote this story a few years ago in French. I had it printed out and found it in an old box while cleaning. I used ChatGPT this week to help with the translation. DALL-E 3 generated the image for me.

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      Onion_Cry_Time
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      What about all the other toads, what happened to them? Such a cliffhanger.

      What about all the other toads, what happened to them? Such a cliffhanger.

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        Apos
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        There was a great feast and a lot of laughter. Some of them went back to their families deciding that the housing market wasn't for them. A lot of them gained the ability to lick their own nose...

        There was a great feast and a lot of laughter. Some of them went back to their families deciding that the housing market wasn't for them. A lot of them gained the ability to lick their own nose and elbow so they banded together and went to work at the circus to put on shows all over the world.

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          Onion_Cry_Time
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          So they turned back into their human forms but kept longer tongues? I think that's the story here. Hundreds of lost souls that couldn't provide the moon were changed back to their human forms. I...

          So they turned back into their human forms but kept longer tongues? I think that's the story here. Hundreds of lost souls that couldn't provide the moon were changed back to their human forms.

          I kinda don't care about the prince and princess or their kids. The whole story of we just met and are now married trope was way over done 40 years ago. Reminds me of those reality shows where people compete to get married.

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          1. Apos
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            I don't think it's overdone. It's just a general trope of fairy tales. This one is a mashup of a lot of other ones. There are elements of Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Frog Prince, Rumpelstiltskin,...

            I don't think it's overdone. It's just a general trope of fairy tales. This one is a mashup of a lot of other ones. There are elements of Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Frog Prince, Rumpelstiltskin, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, The Little Mermaid, Fairy Godmother and more.

            Fairy tales aren't meant to be taken too seriously. They are usually magical, idealized, or extremely happy.

            https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FairyTale

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