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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival => Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board => Topic started by: teartracks on February 24, 2008, 02:34:10 AM

Title: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: teartracks on February 24, 2008, 02:34:10 AM: Hi everyone,

It is DailyMail's idea, but she gave me permission to use it.

If you were a famous character from a children's book, and or cartoon, who would you be?

tt
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: Leah on February 24, 2008, 07:34:16 AM: Hi TT,

Just to clarify so as I am clear with this interesting thread;

are you referring to identifying ourself with a Character to reflect who we were in our FOO and/or Nrelationship?

OR

Who would we wish to identify ourself with now for some reason or another, in respect to the Character portrayal?

Thanks, and hope you have a most blessed Sunday.

Love, Leah
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: reallyME on February 24, 2008, 09:23:32 AM: I would be Cinderella.

She was mistreated, abused, had to watch others get what she wanted at first...but in the end SHE got to be the princess, not her abusers who tricked, ridiculed, belittled, mistreated, silenced and ignored her.
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: Certain Hope on February 24, 2008, 09:27:13 AM: Hey, tt...

I'm that guy who woke up after the very long snooze... can't remember his name... lol.

Carolyn
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: DailyMail on February 24, 2008, 09:29:06 AM: Cinderella was a beautiful character, poignant in her unwillingness to fight against the wicked others, she simply fought to improve herself. She probably best fits that addage "the best revenge is to live well". She was also a loner, an orphan. After having read Clarissa Pinkola Estes book, I can't think of Cinderella without also thinking of the Little Matchstick Girl (another sad little orphan girl) who tried feebly to improve her situation but died a lonely but sweet angelic death. Pinkola Estes draws the folklore connection between the two. Cinderella is who the Matchstick girl was supposed to be, the quiet, demure, gentle champion.
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: reallyME on February 24, 2008, 09:32:45 AM: ok, skip that then...I'm not quiet or demure at all and I DO fight injustice. I'm no matchstick girl...maybe I'm more like Helen of Troy...although, she wasn't really a cartoon was she. :)
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: DailyMail on February 24, 2008, 09:37:33 AM: no, no skipping!!!

She's a beautiful character that obviously resonates with you. There's obviously something valuable and meaningful in YOU that identified with her, even if it's not how you feel you are right now.
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: Leah on February 24, 2008, 09:49:04 AM: I would have chosen Cinderella (I created a thread a month ago re: Cinderella spirit).

So I will choose Pollyanna.

How I made it through my "Cinderella" childhood, and actually adulthood too! Was with a Pollyanna outlook on life.

Glad to see and accept with a grateful heart any small thing of beauty and grace that happened in my life.

I was frequently abused for being resilient and expressing myself in such a way, with a smile an inner joy, of gladness.

Leah x
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: DailyMail on February 24, 2008, 10:04:32 AM: I've had a few favourites in my lifetime. As a child I LOVED Hansel. I loved hearing my mom reading that fairytale to me over and over again, from the original Grimms edition (not the Disney-fied one) where the wicked witch died in the end (Grimms were always so grim, it seemed there was always SOMEONE dying).

When I was 11 I kept rereading this novel about a child detective who could decode messages and solve mysteries. I wish I could remember the book, I'd love to buy a used copy for my son.

5 or 6 years ago I identified with the Velveteen Rabbit (a friend from a 12 step group gave it to me as a birthday gift). Being loved into life mirrored my having been healed by people who loved and cared about me (I touched on that in another thread).

But these days, its The Maxx, an adult cartoon character that was briefly on MTV about 15 years ago. He's a (I think schizophrenic or schizoid) homeless man, living on the fringes of society, who has a heart of gold, and in his mind is a hulking, overpowering muscle-bound gentle giant with huge fangs who fights the evil demons away from his social worker in a beautiful artistic landscape/jungle). It's an incredible, heart wrenching 6 or 8 episodes if you ever get a chance to see it.

Anyway, there's a mixure there of being an orphan and warrior, homeless and victorious, misunderstood and loveable.

These are all archetypes I think, powerful symbols of who we are historically and who we believe we can become. Powerful images Cinderella and Pollyanna...and?
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: Leah on February 24, 2008, 10:19:59 AM: Anyway, there's a mixure there of being an orphan and warrior, homeless and victorious, misunderstood and loveable.

Hi Daily,

I don't know The Maxx. BUT, I do like the above mixture, very much so, and resonate, completely as a whole person.

I loved my visits to the local library as a child and read every fairy tale and fable available. Yes, upon reflection, the Grimm Brothers faily tales were rather grim!

These are all archetypes I think, powerful symbols of who we are historically and who we believe we can become. Powerful images Cinderella and Pollyanna...and?

.... Cinderella and Pollyanna .... and I became a Doormat !! :)

But, not anymore, thankfully.

Love, Leah
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: DailyMail on February 24, 2008, 10:40:32 AM: Cinderella could have crumbled....she could have died of abroken heart or withered away scrubbing those cold floors, being physically and emotionally neglected, but she knew love from someone somewhere enough to love herself OUT of her misery.

she was no doormat, she was stealthy without knowing it.
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: DailyMail on February 24, 2008, 12:12:41 PM: a kindred spirit I see ;)
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: DailyMail on February 24, 2008, 03:03:22 PM: Lollie, I read that book to my son a couple times, but years ago, would you describe Edmund to me just to refresh an old woman's bad memory?
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: Leah on February 24, 2008, 03:14:25 PM: Cartoon character ... I love sunny Tweey Pie :)
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: DailyMail on February 24, 2008, 03:26:26 PM: haha! Tweety Pie, merrily foiling the predator's plans...he had cute feet too!
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: DailyMail on February 24, 2008, 05:11:43 PM: Lollie, thanks. Yes my bell has been rung!

Besee,
no it wasnt Harriet the Spy. It wasn't a popular book, I got it from the school library and read the whole thing at once when home with the flu.

thanks though.
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: Lupita on February 24, 2008, 06:51:10 PM: Tom and Jerry were always fighting, bat on heads, braking legs, yikes, Popeye always bitting Brutus, the Coyote and the Bip bip, roadrunner, so much violence!!!!!

I hate cartoons. Sorry.
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: Hopalong on February 25, 2008, 01:51:51 AM: Wilbur.
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: DailyMail on February 25, 2008, 05:51:41 AM: who's Wilbur? Charlotte's web?
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: lighter on February 25, 2008, 11:15:39 AM: The comic books we were exposed to were really dark ones, lol.... my Grandparent's let us buy whatever we wanted over summer holiday's stay with them.

0ther than that we had romper room and the headless horseman and the easter bunny......

Dark Shadows was my favorite tv program.

Jeez... I guess I'm dating myself here, lol.

So... if you asked me when I was a child, I prolly would have said Vampirella..... bc she was the only female character.

All the others were zombies and downed skeletal fighter pilot or slow mishapen science experiements gone wrong: /

If you ask me now? I'd say I'd like to be...... hmmmmm.

I don't think I'd like to be any of them, really.

Maybe Poison Ivy, but with Charlotte's (of the web) common sense and Wonder Woman's drive to do good acts in the world.

I guess I could have said Wonder Woman but..... then you'd picture me working for the justice system... rounding up bad guys and handing them over to the, supposed, good guys.
\
I don't much care for ithe justice system right now so..... I can picture Poison Ivy mopping up the bad guys in the system and righting some wrongs done by people in positions of authority. Cleaning house and setting some of the unfair rules straight. ::nod::

Ya, that's it.

And I look good in green, lol.
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: DailyMail on February 25, 2008, 11:20:38 AM: I remember Vampirella VERY WELL! I have some of the old cover art on my home PC.

She and Poison Ivy are SEXXAY..and no shrinking violets!

rowrrr
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: lighter on February 25, 2008, 11:39:03 AM: Yup yup yup..... that's the Vampirella I remember too, lol.
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: DailyMail on February 25, 2008, 12:00:39 PM: oh well, I'll reveal some of my not-so-goodness...I found them all sexxay way back then, I still find them sexy now...not the goth boys and girls so much, as the uber masculine, uber-assertive, dangerous, familiar-with-the-darkside types.

HOWEVER (oh please make sure I get to include this qualifier)...I lust after them from afar now after having been nearly destroyed by one such N.
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: lighter on February 25, 2008, 12:08:52 PM: I liked the Frodo Baggins trilogy too, lol.

The movies were amazing.

I guess I'd be the Elf Queen if I had to choose there. She could see the future and she was very very scary when she wanted to be. I guess I yearn for the ability to defend myself..... have always yearned for that, though my nature is nurturing and protective.

When my husband choked me.... I couldn't have defended myself.... after all those years of learning how to cause physical trauma..... I couldn't hurt someone I love, even if he was going to kill me.

That's a weakness, IMO.

A character flaw.

Does nothing for me, in the scheme of "survival of the fittest" real world life.

Did you read the Hobbit in highschool?
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: Hopalong on February 25, 2008, 03:06:25 PM: Yup...Wilbur the little pig who so wanted a friend.

xo
Hops
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: DailyMail on February 25, 2008, 03:08:07 PM: Hopalong :) :) :)

have you found many?
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: Hopalong on February 25, 2008, 03:37:36 PM: Thanks for asking, DM...yes, I do have good friends.

But I'm still lonely. I'd like a mate.

I am very affectionate, have noone to touch much. Haven't made love in over 3 years. (Don't miss HIM, though!)

This is a chapter in which my long isolation of 10 years as my Nmother's live-in caregiver may be slowwwly coming to an end. I find myself feeling a little berserk now and then.

xo
Hops
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: lighter on February 25, 2008, 05:22:23 PM: Aww, Hops... I say we have a ritual to send those wishes into the universe.

Make a list of the most important things you want in a mate.....

everything.

Even the smallest things are important.

Then we'll meet in the circle under a new moon.... light the fire.... and dance.

Of course, that's exactly what I did before I met my H: /

Can't say enought about being specific on that list; )
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: DailyMail on February 25, 2008, 05:56:32 PM: oh, what was it I just saw or heard over the weekend about making your romantic wishlist, the 100 things you wanted in your next mate, even down to the colour of his socks...wait, was it here on this forum?
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: lighter on February 25, 2008, 06:09:04 PM: I think specifying the color of his socks wouldn't be going overboard, lol. ::nodding::
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: Gabben on February 25, 2008, 06:51:54 PM: Road Runner
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: Leah on February 25, 2008, 06:55:52 PM: I don't mind the color of the socks - I just don't do washing em :)
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: dandylife on February 25, 2008, 09:04:09 PM: The kid in "OH the Places You'll Go" by Dr. Seuss

"You have brains in your head,

You have feet in your shoes,

You can steer yourself

any direction you choose,

You're on your own. You know what you know.

And YOU'RE the guy who'll decide where you go."

Dandylife
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: teartracks on February 25, 2008, 09:08:48 PM: Hi everyone,

I thought it might be fun to bring this link forward since it was about fairy tales:

http://www.voicelessness.com/disc3//index.php?topic=5557.0

tt

Edit in:

This was my entry back then. For newbies, that was when PhoenixRising was Shunned.

Hi Shunned,

What an interesting approach to self examination!

That Troll under the bridge in The Billy Goats Gruff scared the living daylights out of me. I never made the connection between my love of goats to that tale til now. I guess it must have convinced me that goats were clever survivors.
Title: Re: If you were a famous character from children's book, catoon, Who would you be?
Post by: gratitude28 on February 26, 2008, 07:44:01 AM: I loved Daphne in Scooby Doo because she was so stylish and she solved mysteries. I also loved a series called the Three Investigators and wanted to be one of them. They had a hidden mystery center that no one knew about. And the Wonder Twins... anyone remember them???????
Love, Beth