12MoF: This Is The End

Previously on 12 Months of Frozen:
Prologue
March: The One Where Elsa and Anna Send a Lot of Letters
April: The One Where Elsa is the Snowman NO WAIT HEAR ME OUT
May: The One Where The Snow Queen Isn't Elsa. Also, Lesbians.
June: I Go It Old School, Take Two
July: A Wild Kristoff Appears
August: The One Where Elsa is an Accidental Kidnapper
September: The One With the Curse
October: The Other One With the Curse
November: The Curse, 3.0
December: One More Curse for the Road
January, better: Whatever, Let's Just Talk About People's Feelings

I meant to start this one earlier, so I could actually finish in February instead of March. I didn't. (But I did start on the last day of February.) I would apologize, ducklings, but I can't actually bring myself to be sorry. There have been a lot more... ups and downs, I suppose, during the past few weeks, and the problem with the up bits is that you feel like you can do lots of things but only a few things seem important, and the problem with the down bits is that you feel like you can't do anything and nothing seems important.

So it's March, now. I think we'll all live.

For this month I wanted to bring us back around to the beginning; I've done a lot of experimenting over the past few months, straying further and further from the original movie, but there were some things in Frozen that I thought could've been more interesting, and I explored them a little in my original posts, but there was always a story it seemed like I had left too late to give the proper attention to. But this is the last month, and even if I've still left it too late, as per usual, this is really the last opportunity.


Also, sidenote, actress/musician Zendaya showed up at the Oscars looking stunning in a white dress and ever since, I keep visualizing her as Elsa, so here, have a pic:

AP Images

And the dreadlocks whipping around in the ice and wind would be AMAZING.

Anyway.

12MoF: Eleven-point-five, or: "Whatever, let's just talk about people's feelings."

Previously on 12 Months of Frozen:
Prologue
March: The One Where Elsa and Anna Send a Lot of Letters
April: The One Where Elsa is the Snowman NO WAIT HEAR ME OUT
May: The One Where The Snow Queen Isn't Elsa. Also, Lesbians.
June: I Go It Old School, Take Two
July: A Wild Kristoff Appears
August: The One Where Elsa is an Accidental Kidnapper
September: The One With the Curse
October: The Other One With the Curse
November: The Curse, 3.0
December: One More Curse for the Road
January, part the first: The Eleventh Hour, or, The One Where Anna Has Powers Too

I did realise, somewhere in the middle of those last few paragraphs, that I had a better way to structure my 11th month plot (I would call it my January plot, but let's be real, that one was posted on Feb 1 and my ostensible December story was posted on January 3, so) and that was was as a YA novel.

As it happens, I'm a big fan of YA novels, so maybe that's partially my own comfort zones showing. It could be a miniseries/show, maybe, as long as that show is okay with having a ton of flashbacks. Lost and OUaT level flashbacks.

So this is a rewrite, basically, of eleven-point-zero, aka the mess that I posted on Sunday. I'm not always a perfectionist when it comes to this series, but I really couldn't let that one stand.

12MoF: The Eleventh Hour (...Month)

Previously on 12 Months of Frozen:
Prologue
March: The One Where Elsa and Anna Send a Lot of Letters
April: The One Where Elsa is the Snowman NO WAIT HEAR ME OUT
May: The One Where The Snow Queen Isn't Elsa. Also, Lesbians.
June: I Go It Old School, Take Two
July: A Wild Kristoff Appears
August: The One Where Elsa is an Accidental Kidnapper
September: The One With the Curse
October: The Other One With the Curse
November: The Curse, 3.0
December: One More Curse for the Road

It's the eleventh month, guys. Just one more month to go. Lord knows what I'll do after this is done.

Fun fact, guys: this month is a mess. Just. A mess. I don't recommend it. The best I can say is that it has interesting moments and I could probably tighten it up into slightly less of a mess? Maybe I'll try that sometime later.

12MoF: One more curse for the road

Previously on 12 Months of Frozen:
Prologue
March: The One Where Elsa and Anna Send a Lot of Letters
April: The One Where Elsa is the Snowman NO WAIT HEAR ME OUT
May: The One Where The Snow Queen Isn't Elsa. Also, Lesbians.
June: I Go It Old School, Take Two
July: A Wild Kristoff Appears
August: The One Where Elsa is an Accidental Kidnapper
September: The One With the Curse
October: The Other One With the Curse
November: The Curse, 3.0

I did, actually, consider writing a non-curse episode this month. (Last month.) Really I did. There was going to be Betrayal, and Daring Escapes, and Other Powers, and Exciting Magic Ice Communication, and all sorts of other exciting things, but I still need a little more time to work the details out on that one. Also, I like curses. Obviously.

12MoF: The Curse, 3.0

Previously on 12 Months of Frozen:
Prologue
March: The One Where Elsa and Anna Send a Lot of Letters
April: The One Where Elsa is the Snowman NO WAIT HEAR ME OUT
May: The One Where The Snow Queen Isn't Elsa. Also, Lesbians.
June: I Go It Old School, Take Two
July: A Wild Kristoff Appears
August: The One Where Elsa is an Accidental Kidnapper
September: The One With the Curse
October: The Other One With the Curse

So it turns out I really like curses. WHATEVER. YOU DON'T OWN ME.

Credit where credit is due: like half of this idea is entirely because of my sister, who very kindly let me bounce ideas off her over the course of our entire four-hour bus ride back home and (FOR ONCE) (just kidding) (mostly) was very helpfully like "Yeah, you cooooould do that... or maybe instead you could do this other thing that actually makes sense." THANKS BABE YOU'RE THE BEST.

This month we get The Curse 3: Now With Actual Villains! This is very exciting for all of us, since I am generally reasonably miserable with villains. This is also very exciting because I get to talk about how much the patriarchy sucks; I know you're all obviously looking forward to that.

Will there be more curses in upcoming months? MAYBE. WHATEVER. YOU DON'T OWN ME.

kenneth libbrecht over at snowcrystals.com

12MoF: The Other One With the Curse (aka, rom-com Frozen)

Previously on 12 Months of Frozen:
Prologue
March: The One Where Elsa and Anna Send a Lot of Letters
April: The One Where Elsa is the Snowman NO WAIT HEAR ME OUT
May: The One Where The Snow Queen Isn't Elsa. Also, Lesbians.
June: I Go It Old School, Take Two
July: A Wild Kristoff Appears
August: The One Where Elsa is an Accidental Kidnapper
September: The One With the Curse

As you may have noticed, dear readers, I am all about reusing themes from previous months in slightly different ways. Innovation is not the be-all end-all of creativity, here. I mean, I'm not in the "there are only really two stories in the world" camp, because that seems a bit... delusional (I mean, even if you're saying there are only two genres in the world, action and romance, you're missing out on things like the classic literary genre of "white dudes doing exactly nothing and then, presumably, dying eventually," which I have been informed is very important to people who are not me) but many glorious things have come out of people reworking and reinterpreting tropes and story elements with a long, long history behind them.

tl;dr look whatever this just has some stuff in it that didn't make sense in last month's version so I gave it its own month, okay.

[Edit: Okay, I SWEAR I meant to do this before the last day of the month. I started it like a week ago and everything. And yet! Somehow here we are again. Alas.]

[Edit 2: Also, then Halloween happened. Specifically, Halloweentown 2 and the fact that I had to drag myself out to Brooklyn. In case you're curious, although this was planned beforehand, most of it was written on the 2 train, which I guess is one argument for long commutes.]

[Not an edit but just so you know, this is the ROM-COM-IEST THING I HAVE EVER WRITTEN.]

12MoF: The One With the Curse

Previously on 12 Months of Frozen:
Prologue
March: The One Where Elsa and Anna Send a Lot of Letters
April: The One Where Elsa is the Snowman NO WAIT HEAR ME OUT
May: The One Where The Snow Queen Isn't Elsa. Also, Lesbians.
June: I Go It Old School, Take Two
July: A Wild Kristoff Appears
August: The One Where Elsa is an Accidental Kidnapper

Somewhere outside my room, Roommate A (as opposed to Roommate 1) is talking about falling down the rabbit hole that is the Mexican Revolution. I have no idea what that means.

Anyway! Hurry up and get beneath the cut tag, nerds; this month, we're talking curses.

Picture of ice crystals shamelessly yoinked from Steve Truett's website. But hey, I'm crediting.