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I'm waiting for the disney adaptation (infosec.pub)
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TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana_Simziana

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 months ago

In the Aarne–Thompson–Uther  folktale classification system, the story and its variants count as tale type 514, "The Shift in Sex". Scholars often interpret them as tales of transgender identity and transition.

TIL that there is something like a "tale type xyz".