The fall of little red ridding hood

In the long distant age of fable there dwelt, happy and secure, a woodman and his family. The house which he inhabited was built on the outskirts of a great forest, and was well appointed though small and unpretentious. His wife was an excellent woman of good heart and of meager capacity. His mother-in-law, harmless, but not unforgotten, dragged out her old age on the remote side of the forest. His only daughter, whose vivacity seemed to illumine her surroundings, and whose charm was felt by all with equal intensity, had just entered on her thirteenth year; and it is the purpose of this work to describe, with as much exactitude as possible, those circumstances which had so direct a bearing on her life, and which were ultimately the cause of her dissolution.

Abstract

Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), a modernist innovator in the art of life-writing and the author of Eminent Victorians (1918), is not known to have had any interest in fairy tales. A previously unpublished 1897 manuscript in the British Library, however, suggests the role that his engagement with them played in his development as a theorist of historiography and an artist in biography. "The Decline and Fall of Little Red Riding Hood" shows the stylistic and ideological influence of Edward Gibbon, Charles Perrault, and the Brothers Grimm.

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One of Jay Naylor's more story-oriented pornographic comics, The Rise And Fall Of Little Red Riding Hood began as a semi-spinoff of Naylor's other porn series, Huckleberry Ann, the first chapter originally established the storyline as a bedtime story being told by that series' main character, Mary Ann, a Hotter and Sexier take on Little Red Riding Hood in which Red is heading to her boyfriend, Pablo's house, to have sex with him. A wolf smells her scent and immediately becomes infatuated with her. Arriving at Pablo's house before Red does, the wolf ties him up and puts on his clothes, believing that Red would confuse him for Pablo. Of course, she immediately recognizes the wolf, but has sex with him anyway. The second chapter involves Red and Pablo being initiated into the wolf tribe via lots of sex (in Pablo's case, he is turned into a form that wolves find more appealing). The fourth chapter breaks from the previously established narrative, and is instead told from the point of view in a future where wolves are slowly taking over the world.

This, as you might imagine, is not to be read in public.

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• All Women Are Lustful
• Author Appeal: There are lots of shots of womens' derrieres, or of their tongues hanging out and eyes rolled up during sex.
  • Contrast the amount of detail Naylor draws genitalia versus the detail of the entire rest of the comic in his pornfolios.
• Baby Factory: Once the third chapter gets going most of the females from that point on become this.
• Big Badass Wolf
• Break The Badass: The Paladin is quickly established as a strong character who is willing to defend their kingdom against the wolf threat. But only a few pages later they are subdued and forced to observe as human women willingly mate with wolves. Even observing one particular girl as she's actually impregnated. All the more upsetting to them is that they had no idea things had gotten so bad. By the end of the chapter they have been completely corrupted and willing to serve the wolf gods like all the other women.
• Expanded Universe: In later stories such as "Rise of the Wolf Queen" and "Cottonwine Field Notes" it's revealed that the wolves were defeated and sent back into the woods by the humans, though several human female and hermaphrodite cultists followed with them. It's also revealed that other animal tribes use cottonwine as well such as the horses, rabbits and pigs.
  • In "Rise of the Wolf Queen", the female Paladin rehabilitates from her cottonwine addiction and is called by Red to ask for help. It turns out that after the battle with the humans, the tribes split. While some wolves were willing to welcome into their folds as equals, others wanted to keep them as slaves. Knowing this could result in a war that would result in the deaths of her people, Red asks the Paladin and a teenage wolf girl to get rid of those who want to enslave the humans. They succeed, and decide to travel the world together.
  • In "Cottonwine Field Notes", it's revealed that maybe wolves and humans have secretly been with each other for at least a hundred years.
• Face Heel Turn: Though it's not clearly explained whether The Queen is being influenced by the Cottonwine potion or if she just willingly betrays the kingdom. The fact that she becomes pregnant by a wolf warrior and conceives the intended heir that will be a wolf once born clearly shows she's not exactly fighting on the human side any more.
• Fan Disservice: Many fans expected Pablo to join in and fuck the female members of the wolf tribe; instead he is merely enticed to perform cunnilingus on the females, and is slowly turned into a shemale as punishment for being human.
• Fantastic Drug: The Cottonwine potion, that is not actually called by that name until another story set in the same universe, is this to the point that any female that is exposed to it almost instantly becomes submissive and willing to do whatever the wolves want them too. This usually leads to them getting pregnant and expanding the wolf population.
• Fetish Fuel: The above scene, among members of the Transformation fetishist community.
• Furry Fandom
• Half-Human Hybrid: Played with, while the human females do get pregnant by the wolves the implied superiority of their genes simply does not allow for any human traits to be visible on said child. This is completely evident from Red Riding Hood's child who looks exactly like a wolf.
• Hotter and Sexier
• Humans Are Morons: The wolf thinks that Red wouldn't notice the difference between him and Pablo if he wore Pablo's clothes, because he believes that humans are of lower intelligence than wolves.
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Its Not Porn Its Art: Somewhat subverted. Naylor's adult comics are explicitly pornographic, but many have commented as to the high quality of the art and stories. Your Mileage May Vary.
• Plot With Porn
• Yiff

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