When Sea Becomes Sky

Based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid

"She cast one more lingering, half-fainting glance at the prince, and then threw herself from the ship into the sea, and thought her body was dissolving into foam. The sun rose above the waves, and his warm rays fell on the cold foam of the little mermaid, who did not feel as if she were dying. She saw the bright sun, and all around her floated hundreds of transparent beautiful beings; she could see through them the white sails of the ship, and the red clouds in the sky; their speech was melodious, but too ethereal to be heard by mortal ears, as they were also unseen by mortal eyes. The little mermaid perceived that she had a body like theirs, and that she continued to rise higher and higher out of the foam. 'Where am I?' asked she, and her voice sounded ethereal, as the voice of those who were with her; no earthly music could imitate it.

'Among the daughters of the air,' answered one of them. ...The little mermaid lifted her glorified eyes towards the sun, and felt them, for the first time, filling with tears"  Hans Christian Andersen

I made this for a contest on DeviantArt

To get the full effect of this piece I suggest reading the original tale :3
And to all of you that are to lazy to do so let me explain what's going on:

In the original story, the little mermaid falls in love with a prince, saves him from drowning, gets a sea witch to give her legs in exchange for her voice and then goes of to try and make him fall in love with her.
However~!
It causes great pain for the little mermaid to walk, and dance, etc. but because the prince loves to see her dance, she dances for him every night.
Unfortunately, besides her best efforts, the Prince ends up falling in love with another girl, who he believes saved him from drowning. He marries her, and the mermaid's heart is broken and she is doomed to turn into sea foam.The mermaid's' sisters find her and give her a dagger they got from the sea witch in exchange for their long hair. If the mermaid kills the Prince and his bride she will be able to return to be a mermaid.

But the mermaid loves the prince too much and is too pure of heart. She throws the dagger into the sea and jumps in the ocean to die and become sea foam.She is however saved by the Daughters of the Air and is allowed to become one of them, and after 300 years as one she will gain an immortal soul and go to heaven.


I think original version of this story, not the sugarcoated disney version, is beautiful heartbreaking tale.
 I LOVE IT :3

And, as you can see I chose illustrate the scene in which the mermaid is turning into sea foam but is saved by the air spirits.

I highly recommend that everyone read the original story.
You won't regret it.
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Also, if interested, you can purchase a print of this through DeviantArt :3
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Kid explains to Principal

He he he 'kay so this next poem is a bit...uhm strange...and uhm borderline inappropriate xD
I had to write a narration poem in class with a partner. My partner was Rachel, a friend of mine. She's really nice :3 Well what we basically had to do was tell a fairy tale from a different perspective/point-of-view. This poem is basically what i thought of right away when she gave us the assignment and i remembered this fairy tale (I'm not telling which it is, you can figure it out :) ). Ha ha ha. Then I just ranted to poor Rachel and then she added in some details as i frantically wrote it all down xD Today I read it to class, people were quite shocked ha ha ha. I'm starting to worry my teacher a bit, 'specially after I read Mary in class too. I feel sorry for Rachel though, now they think she's as messed up as I am. Sorry Rachel! :D  Well anyways here's the poem! (BTW hope no one is insulted by this poem in anyway :3 )

Kid explaining to Principal

by FE and Rachel S.

So I was walkin' through the woods

playin' hookie,

when I saw this chick

in a glass case thing!

An' she was surrounded

by these midget dudes!!

Well so, the first thing

that came to my mind

was

GANG RAPE!

So I did the only logical

thing I could do!

I grabbed a big branch,

and started whacking them with it!

An' they were flailing

an' screamin'

but I couldn't hear what

they were screamin'

since I was listenin' t' my ipod.

An' besides you can't trust

midget thugs...

or is it politicians y'can't trust?

I always get those two mixed up...

Well anyways!

Out of nowhere,

this tall dude

with tights an' a cape

jumped out!

(well he was tall compared t' the midgets)

An' he started suckin'

the chick's face off!

So naturally,

I whacked that foo' !

Well after all that,

I was just standin'

in the woods

with a bunch of

 unconscious bodies

all around me.

An' since I didn't know

what else to do

I called the cops!

Unfortunately I forgot

I was supposed to be in school.

So the cops brought me here,

an' now here I am

explainin' everythin'

to you Mr. Principal!

... Hope you liked it xD...

yea this is exactly what first came to mind when i thought of Snow White, and a "different" point-of-view xD

I swear there is nothing wrong with me (or Rachel, Rachel is totally normal) I just have a very strange imagination :3