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Fairy Tale Fix
by Fantastic Worlds Productions
Welcome to Fairy Tale Fix! A podcast for the modern maiden, clever lad, evil witch, frog prince, mischievous faerie, or what have you. Tune in every other Tuesday for fanciful tales between two friends.
Episodes
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131: Fairy Tale Babysitter’s Club
The Robber Bridegroom & The Magic Swan Geese and & The Unktomi, Two Widows, and the Red Plums Welcome to the worst Babysitter’s Club ever. Kelsey starts the episode off with what we think is a scary Halloween story with the German Brothers Grimm tale, The Robber Bridegroom, along with a Slavic...
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130: Prince Spinbutt
Prince Spinhead and Miss Snow White & Schippeitaro The seasonal wheel is turning and we’re bringing you some autumnal themes with Abbie’s Dutch story, Prince Spinhead and Miss Snow White. Kelsey brings just a hint of spooky season to the episode with the classic Japanese folk tale, Schippeitaro....
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129: Bad Person, Good Character
The Boy and the Dragon & The Dragon Princess We are keeping the dragon stories coming this week! Kelsey kicks off this episode with The Boy and the Dragon, likely originally by the Micmac and Blackfoot indigenous peoples of Canada, written down by Cyrus Macmillan. Abbie follows it up by taking us...
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128: We Have Two Problems Here
Stan Bolovan & Auld Cruivie We’re back, baby! Rested, hydrated, and ready to make all your dreams come true: specifically the Dragon and Scary Tree related ones. Abbie kicks things off with the Romanian tale of Stan Bolovan from RMS’s Book of Dragons, followed immediately by Kelsey’s telling of...
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PATREON PREVIEW Bonus Episode 18: The Justice Order
PATREON PREVIEW Bonus Episode 18: The Justice Order In this previous Patreon-exclusive bonus episode, coming soon to a theater near you is the tale of THE JUSTICE ORDER – Seven kickass strangers will band together to fight for what’s right in Germany of yore. Or that’s what Abbie and Kelsey wish...
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PATREON PREVIEW Bonus Episode 5: Witches Be Schemin’
The Donkey Lettuce & The Sun Takes An Oath In this previous Patreon-exclusive bonus episode, Kelsey reads The Donkey Lettuce that follows a sweet young hunter that finds out the hard way that witches always be schemin’. Meanwhile, Abbie tells us a really unsatisfying creationism story, The Sun...
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127: Kiss My Snake Face, Don’t Be Afraid
The Wedding of Mrs. Fox & The Leeshy Cat and The Snake’s Treasure Strap in for a Jumbo Sized #HotGoblinSummer kick off as Kelsey tells the unhinged Grimm’s fairy tale, The Wedding of Mrs. Fox, and then a listener recommendation from our favorite: Ruth Manning-Sanders, The Leeshy Cat. Abbie…
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126: A Serious Case of Gender
The Twelve Huntsmen & The Unicorn (“El Oricuerno”) A very happy Pride to you and yours! This episode is all about gender and kissing the people you want to, with a little vengeance sprinkled on top. Abbie recounts the Brothers’ Grimm tale of The Twelve Huntsman, which is a story about true love,...
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125: I Am Never Going To See A Merman feat. Madeleine Lammel
Yael & Mulwarra and The Weeping Mermaid of Loch Assynt & The Scottish Mermaid of Galloway For this MerMay episode, we’re joined by a very special guest, Madeleine Lammel, Abbie’s sibling! Madeleine tells us the most romantic fairy tale we’ve ever heard on the pod, the Australian tale Yael and...
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124: Hollywood, Are You Listening?? feat. Chadwick Heiberg
The Siren’s Hunger, The Sea Remembers, & Rake Up! It’s MerMay and we’re joined once again by our very own mystic siren, Chadwick Heiberg! Chadwick’s lifelong love of the sea brings two very satisfying mermaid tales (ha, get it?) for MerMay, starting with The Siren’s Hunger, where a familiar...
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123: Swordscaliber!
Romance! Bloodlust! Two Headed Giants! Three Headed Giants! Demons! Cool names! Kelsey tells the Cornish legend of Jack the Giant Killer this episode, and it is everything. And yet, it still needed the Fixtresses help to add Feminism/Lesbians/More Epicness/One crucial renaming. Good thing for all...
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120: Love Dem Kids
It's Irish fairy tale month (AKA the best time of the year)! Abbie reads an old Irish folk tale that's sure to bring a happy tear to your eye with The Spinners of Blessings. Then we take a sharp turn with Kelsey's dark Irish folk tale, The Abhartach, thought to be the inspiration for Bram…
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122: My Two Daddies
What's so funny? Find out this week on Fairy Tale Fix (spoiler alert; it's us) as Abbie reads us the Sicilian fairy tale The Laughing Apples as written by our favorite, Ruth Manning-Sanders. This is a long one so strap in!
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121: You’re Cool & Hot, and You’re Fired
The best month of the year concludes with a little of everything we love in Irish fairy tales (with one notable exception). Kelsey spins a yarn about why you shouldn’t fuck with faerie raths, and then how to trick them into leaving you alone with The Fairies’ Revenge and The Hurling Match. Abbie...
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119: It’s A Metaphor!
This week on Fairy Tale Fix, the horrors persist but so do we! Because we have to. Kelsey follows up on her promise to deliver some Chinese dragons in The Four Dragons, and then reads a short, truly WTF Chinese fairy tale The Magic Cask. Abbie reads a beautiful Russian tale we've both heard of…
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118: High Quality Nasty Horse Stories
Happy Lunar New Year! Abbie celebrates the onset of the Year of the Horse (her people!) with telling the tale of how the Chinese Zodiac came to be in the first place, followed up with a timeless horse trope here on Fairy Tale Fix with The Girl With The Horse’s Head (another excellent Chinese…
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117: Interspecies Elopement
We're back from our winter break to start off 2026 with a couple of fairy tales our wonderful listeners suggested! Kelsey reads the Japanese tale, The Cat's Elopement, and it's as adorable as you'd imagine. Next she regales the Portuguese fairy tale, The Enchanted Maiden, and it's not exactly the...
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116: An End To Nonsense
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Come gather around the yule log and listen to some holiday tales: one with a big dose of colonialism (boo) before our favorite sad bisexual Victorian boy (yay!), Hans Christian Andersen brings the mood up for a change. Abbie tells a Mexican Christmas…
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115: Old Jerkin’ It Johnson
Is anyone else having an existential crisis? No? Just us? Well strap in because it's real clear on Fairy Tale Fix this week! Kelsey tells a Swedish fairy tale about how we humans keep having to learn the same lesson of not allowing people to hoard wealth over and over again in The Barrel Bung....
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114: The Gaslighting Girl Boss of Yore
We love an unplanned theme! This week on Fairy Tale Fix, we're keeping busy with Abbie reading an Italian folk tale called The Man Who Only Came Out At Night, a story that's barely about that man at all. Kelsey then reads a Scottish fairy tale entitled A Box of Fairies, where a smitten young lad…
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113: WRONG! feat. Chadwick Heiberg
Our favorite nomadic gnome and spellbound storyteller is back for the third installment of his Baba Yaga series, we welcome Chadwick Heiberg back to Fairy Tale Fix! Chadwick reads his original fairy tale, The Road to Baba Yaga, and answers some very important questions we’ve had about our…
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112: Slay… Literally
It's Halloween season! Abbie kicks things off by telling us all about our childhood favorites; the Ouija Board Demon and Bloody Mary, followed by the terrifying English legend of Black Annis. Kelsey follows it up with a millennial Halloween favorite with more Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,...
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111: Rapunzel: Am I Pregante?
Kelsey takes inspiration from her trip into the woods and reads Rapunzel from the Brothers Grimm. Abbie follows it up with another tale about an old woman in Watching for the Milk Stealer from her Wise Women book. We also learn What Old Women Are Made Of – if you think you know the answer you’re...
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110: Hot Mermaid Shit
We're back at it again with some hot mermaid sh*! Kelsey tells a very mysterious tale we need all the details on about a Lorelai-esque baddie named Anna Mayala from The Turnip Princess while Abbie makes good on her promise and delivers two Palestinian tales of old women with The Old Woman Ghouleh...
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109: A Light Stabbing feat. Tish Black
Fairy Tale Fix has really hit the big time hosting our very first published fairy tale author: Tish Black! Tish reads the Fixtresses two of her fairy tale retellings that hit all the right catharsis notes for your feminine rage: Bone and Roan (hey that rhymes). Kelsey rounds out the episode with...
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108: Pew Pew
Spoiler alert: the fix is Free Palestine for the Palestinian folk tale of Speak Bird, Speak Again told by Abbie in this episode. Kelsey takes things to a lighter (right?) place with the Slavic tale of Baba Yaga and the Brave Youth.
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107: Bird Logic feat. Gisselle M. Ingan
MAKE WAY FOR OUR FAERIE OVERLORD! That’s right, this week the Fixtresses are joined by their dark mistress, their patron saint, their mysterious benefactor - the one and only Gisselle M. Ingan (cue air horns). Gisselle tells her very own original fairy tale - The Cloak of Rainbow Feathers (it’s...
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106: Wrap It Before You Tap It
Now usually we stan a wicked hussy, but for once we’re with the prince during Kelsey’s retelling of Hacon Grizzlebeard, a 1930’s screwball comedy masquerading as a Scandinavian fairy tale! Abbie follows up with The Magic Eagle, a Timotean (Venezuela) myth that honestly could use more shenanigans,...
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105: Back On Our Bullsh*t
Fairy Tale Fix is back! This week we thank our listeners for your patience as we navigate the loss of our good friend and podcast editor & producer, Dustin. We miss you dearly, buddy. Abbie reads a story that would have tickled him pink–Ride A Cockhorse to Banbury Cross, and follows it up with a...
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104: Billy The Don, Billy The Dean, Billy Supreme, Wisp King
It’s the end of Irish fairy tale month, and we've got two exciting tales to send it off in style! Abbie starts us off with Billy Duff and the Devil, a story about a lovable drunkard who gets up to all sorts of devilish mischief. Then, Kelsey sends us off with The Leprechaun's Trick, a proper…
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103: You’re Sucking All The Fun Out
Finally, it's our favorite time of the year – Irish fairy tale month! FOUR for the price of two!!! Turn down the lights and pretend it's raining because Kelsey tells two ghostly tales perfect for a dark and stormy night; Sheela-Na-Skean and The Dreamhouse. Then, Abbie follows it up with two very...
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102: The Crabfather
We are back this week with more shenanigans and WTF fairy tales for you! After a quick chat about our favorite mascots (AKA Crazy Crab who delights and horrifies), Abbie reads The Demon's Daughter, a tale that honestly could use a little more demon stuff in it. Kelsey then reads from her new book...
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101: Comment Neptune
Can we offer you some WTF Fairy Tales in these trying and completely precedented times? Abbie and Kelsey are in an altered state of multiple kinds after the winter break, as is the title character of the Punjabi fairy tale The Ruby Prince! The title character of China’s A Dragon’s Favor is chill…
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100: Cinderella: Let Her Die
Come celebrate with us as we bring you our 100th episode of Fairy Tale Fix! We mark this momentous occasion with the tale that's been told 100 million times and counting–the transformation queen, the midnight majesty, the bippity-boppiest of them all, Cinderella. Abbie reads the Brother's Grimm...
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99: Stop Using Your Brain
December is the time of year we all collectively reach the end of our mental ropes and get to stop thinking - but Kelsey clearly didn’t get the memo! Fairy tale architecture and the decisions of kings are questioned when Abbie reads the Greek tale of The Nine Doves, followed by Kelsey’s reading…
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98: What Would Skeletor Do?
Today’s episode brought to you by existential dread! Kelsey regales the overly sappy fairy tale The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde—but don’t worry, she’s got a delightfully unhinged fix for our collective mood. Meanwhile, Abbie shares the indigenous (most likely Haida) folk tale The Ogre, the Sun,...
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97: What A Team
It’s still spooky season in our hearts (and IRL apparently but let’s not focus on that)! Abbie regales three cautionary tales about traveling through bogs (which are always scary), and Kelsey recounts more millennial folklore with Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
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96: Snow White: The Scream You Scrumpt
It's Halloween–time for spooky forests, creepy disguises, and taking sweets from strangers. What better fairy tale than the classic Brothers Grimm Snow White & The Seven Dwarves?? In this episode, Kelsey retells the classic SW tale, and Abbie reads the somehow even more chilling politically…
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95: They Weren’t NOT Hot
Well, we've finally wandered through the forest enough to run into the same witch twice. After Abbie starts to read the same story Kelsey read last episode, she turns to a cold reading of Esben and the Witch by our favorite fairy tale queen Ruth Manning-Sanders. Then, Kelsey follows it up with a...
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94: Baba Yaga Goes New York (ft. Chadwick Heiberg)
A very spooky forest witch welcome to returning guest Chadwick Heiberg! Our time zone hopscotch playing woodland bard returns with the incredibly satisfying sequel to his original story Three Little Witches with the story of One Arm, Two Wings. After, Kelsey tells a tale simply named Baba Yaga -...
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93: Pretty = Good
New episode, same fairy tale nonsense about physical, traditional beauty being the most important thing about a femme presenting person. NOT ON ABBIE AND KELSEY’S WATCH! Hear how they fix the Eswatini legend of Nya-Nya Bulembu and the Portuguese tale of The Ugly Princess in this episode, and...
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92: Sounds Like Dwarf Slander
Before the folktale readings even begin, Kelsey and Abbie share stories from their misbegotten youths that are the opposite of fairy tale perfection. After the drama, Kelsey follows up with the classic Brothers Grimm tale of Snow White……..and Rose Red! Gotcha. Abbie finishes us off with a story...
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91: Pedantic Dolphin Girl
This week on Fairy Tale Fix: Abbie reads the monstrous tale of The Man Whale, a story that tells us who exactly are the most terrifying and treacherous of sea creatures (spoiler: it’s dead beat dads). Kelsey tells the Siberian tale of The Maiden Suvarna from the now-available Ruth Manning-Sanders…
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90: Doing Your Okayist
ROSES HAVE THORNS! Kelsey reads The Rose Elf from our favorite bisexual disaster, Hans Christian Andersen, which starts off like a true fairy tale and then takes a sharp turn toward horror story. Abbie gets argumentative and reads African folk tale The Contest of Riddles, giving listeners the...
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PATREON PREVIEW Bonus Episode 21: Relatable King
In this special Patreon preview, Abbie recites for Kelsey the 1680’s satirical poem The Dragon of Wantley, also known as A Farting Dragon Burlesque. Kelsey then regales her co-host with the tale of The Boy Who Wanted More Cheese. Both of these stories are exactly what they say on the tin, and…
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PATREON PREVIEW Bonus Episode 12: Good For Him
In this special Patreon preview, Abbie & Kelsey pick a couple of random fairy tales to read, and boy do these stories deliver! Kelsey discovers an incredible tale about an unreasonably confident man who has ALL the audacity in The Brave Little Tailor. Abbie brings the mood way down with Children…
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89: A Slow Burn
It's the end of MerMay, and wow, do we have one helluva story to end it with! Abbie cold reads a Cornish folk tale, The Mermaid's Vengeance, and it's a slow burn – you'll just have to trust the process. We're leaving on summer vacation for our #GretaGremlinSummer, but we'll be back in August. See...
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88: Fish Fitzgerald
Mermaids Ahoy! Kelsey kicks off MerMay 2024 with the Irish tale of Fish Fitzgerald…err…the Lady of Gollerus - about an unlucky merrow whose story was definitely written by a weird old man. Abbie follows up with the true Bangladeshi story of a Puri Enchantment, and we hope everyone’s doing ok.
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87: Bats!
Join us this week as Abbie cold reads a couple of obscure Brothers Grimm fairy tales, including The Castle of Murder and The Carpenter & The Turner. Kelsey cold reads a tale that a listener sent specifically for Kelsey to read to Abbie. Can you guess where this is going? That's right – this tale…
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86: She Kidnapped Me…Oh No
This week we finally learn the term “cold reading” thanks to our amazing Faerie Overlord and good friend, Giselle! Kelsey reads from a book discovered in her Little Free Library, posing the timeless question: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears. Meanwhile, Abbie treats us to a cold reading of a...
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How many episodes does Fairy Tale Fix have?
Fairy Tale Fix currently has 143 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Fairy Tale Fix about?
Welcome to Fairy Tale Fix! A podcast for the modern maiden, clever lad, evil witch, frog prince, mischievous faerie, or what have you. Tune in every other Tuesday for fanciful tales between two friends.
How often does Fairy Tale Fix release new episodes?
Fairy Tale Fix publishes regularly with 143 episodes available. Check the episode list for the typical release schedule.
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Fairy Tale Fix is created and hosted by Fantastic Worlds Productions.
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