Fairy tales reimagined for the 21st century.

A Tumblr called fairy tales for twentysomethings has reimagined classic fairy tales for the 21st century crowd.

You say they're funny because they're different. I say they're funny because----oh, my god I'm so depressed.

the ugly duckling always felt gross compared to everyone else. but then she got instagram and there’s this one filter that makes her look awesome.

sleeping beauty wasn’t waking up till noon or even later. “i guess i’m depressed,” she told a friend. the friend took her out to a big party that night and sleeping beauty got a little drunk and made out with a cute prince on a couch. it was pretty great. the next morning, she woke up early, took some aspirin, and headed out to enjoy the day.

hansel and gretel got entry-level jobs at a major corporation run by an old witch. the witch said she wanted to give them more vacation days but there was just too much work to get done. one day, hansel and gretel were like, “fuck this,” and they pushed their boss out her office window. then they got jobs as bartenders and snuck sips of whiskey all day.

snow white had lost her infatuation with the prince. they only had sex maybe once a week now, and even when they did it was eh. she found herself looking at photos of ryan gosling online, remembering when she felt about the prince how she felt looking at him.
but the prince loves me, she thought. and if i were with ryan gosling he’d be prettier than me and that wouldn’t be cool at all.

The hare got a high-powered job in the tech industry straight out of college, whlie the tortoise traveled the country by train just writing in his journal and thinking. Finally the tortoise got a big book deal for a memoir he wrote and when he posted about it on Facebook he thought, I knew I’d outshine that fucker in the end.

Sleeping Beauty was lying in bed checking Facebook from her phone, just feeling so completely alone in her depression. Then she came across a post from an acquaintance about how sad he was, it was a darkness that made him feel like nobody could ever understand how he felt. “Is there anyone else who feels this way?” he asked.

She felt a sense of relief wash over her, a little bit of joy, and thought, At least I’m not so sad I wrote about it on Facebook.




All photos/stories: fairytalesfor20somethings.tumblr.com