Episode 41: Ogre-gasm
We’re taking you the right way for a smackbottom in this week’s epsiode topic: Ogres. Journey with us into the swamp as we explore the fairy tale origins, before diving into romancing ogres in video games and literature. Sarah watches the entire Shrekverse, and Jess explores the absolutely cursed library of ogre fan fiction available on AO3. Grab your donkey, ready your quest, and hit play now!
I just won the bride lottery!
Except I don’t want to go to Earth, marry some spoiled rich kid, and live in the lap of luxury. That’s someone else’s dream, not mine. My life is here on Stars’ End, farming cheeka silk and breathing fresh mountain air.
There’s only one thing to do: I pack my gear, say a temporary goodbye to my beloved cheekas, and set out into the great unknown. I only need to survive until my twenty-fifth birthday before I’m too old to be a colony bride.
The only way there is through land marked Here Be Ogres, but nobody has seen one in years. Surely, I can’t have phenomenally craptastic luck back-to-back, right?
The Shrek Verse
Shrek 1: A mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess for the lord in order to get his land back.
Shrek 2: Shrek and Fiona travel to the Kingdom of Far Far Away, where Fiona's parents are King and Queen, to celebrate their marriage. When they arrive, they find they are not as welcome as they thought they would be.
Shrek 3: Reluctantly designated as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away, Shrek hatches a plan to install the rebellious Artie as the new king while Princess Fiona tries to fend off a coup d'état by the jilted Prince Charming.
Shrek 4: Rumpelstiltskin tricks a mid-life crisis burdened Shrek into allowing himself to be erased from existence and cast in a dark alternate timeline where Rumpelstiltskin rules supreme.
Cursed AO3 of the Week:
Shrek and Mr. Krabs
https://archiveofourown.org/works/62268487
Shrek and Gru from Despicable Me
https://archiveofourown.org/works/4311006
Shrek and Harry Styles
https://archiveofourown.org/works/37962148
Shrek and Lord Farquaad
https://archiveofourown.org/works/54037918
Shrek and Kermit
https://archiveofourown.org/works/29700813/chapters/73038081
Shrek and Gordon Ramsey
https://archiveofourown.org/works/46921240
Shrek and Spongebob
https://archiveofourown.org/works/31299719/chapters/77383394
Shrek and Mr. Clean
https://archiveofourown.org/works/34563964
Shrek and Sonic
https://archiveofourown.org/works/52483729
Shrek and Pennywise
https://archiveofourown.org/works/54420799
Shrek and Dracula from Hotel Transylvania
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39759321
