The human body's response to HRT is actually admirable in the sheer indifference. Just pure I Don't Give A Shit, I Just Fucking Work Here compliance to the new instructions. You can get testosterone injected straight into your body and it doesn't even question where that shit came from, coming back from a coffee break and just going
"Okay, everything seems to be in ord- oh fuck now what? Oh huh. Alright fine. New orders came in, cancel the menstrual cycle. Dig up the genetic balding patterns from somewhere, I don't fucking know they're buried somewhere in the dna. I'm greenlighting the growing-hair-on-your-toes thing. Yeah just cancel the ongoing maintenance processes, new orders came in so this is apparently what we're doing now."
genuinely i think a big problem with science education is we spend too much time in high school telling students DNA is like, the Magical Essence of an Organism.
dna is mostly just instructions for building proteins, and not very persuasive ones at that. it sits in the nucleus of the cell, and what happens after RNA transcription isn't any of its business. this is a good thing! it means we can override it sometimes when we need to (and when we know how). but a lot of rhetoric around DNA (and therefore gender and sex and morphological freedom in general) treats it like this Platonic sorcery that must be obeyed, lest we incur the wrath of the gods. and it's nothing so special!
Total stranger on the phone who weâve never spoken to before: I have power of attorney over the CEO of this corporation and we are a customer of yours. Please change the administrator password on the server to XXXXX
My boss, putting on white grease paint and a red wig: Oh, of course! Letâs do it quickly so that youâll want to keep working with us since youâre going to be making business decisions!
Me: I would sell you to satan for one corn chip and Iâm allergic to corn but before you do this maybe you should call someone who is actually on our contact list for our customer and see if theyâve ever heard of this stranger.
My boss, looking through a selection of shoes that honk when you walk: Oh, but she said that it was very important that none of the employees know what was happening because theyâre making staffing changes.
Me: As your lawyer I recommend that you just call a single one of our contacts and see if theyâve ever heard of her name.
My boss, shoving all of our technicians into a VW beetle: Youâre not my lawyer.
Me: HOW THE FUCK WOULD YOU KNOW? I COULD BE! YOU SHOULD MAYBE CHECK ON THAT.
Security firms that are hired to check the security of banks will often use the following tactic: They will walk up to the teller in a suit with their ID badge and a clipboard and go:
âHello I am [name] from [security firm] weâve been hired to verify the security of the facility I need to see your computers.â
âErmâŠIâll have to verify that with my managers.â
âCongratulations, you have just passed the security verification.â [Scribbles on clipboard] âBut in all seriousness I do need to verify your security so I need to see your computers.â
âSocial engineeringâ is a way too fancy word for what it is. I know a guy (not personally) who broke several people out of prison by essentially writing âGreetings, please release this person, signed, whoever the judge isâ on a piece of paper and faxing it there. Because no one would have a fax machine in their own house I guess.
Flossing is without doubt one of the most annoying things in the world because your dentist is CORRECT it will fix MOST OF YOUR ORAL HEALTH AND HYGIENE CONCERNS BEFORE THEY BECOME PROBLEMS and if indeed you think youâre doing it enough NO YOU ARE NOT but itâs also such a pain in the hole to actually do
For those who don't know: Ikumi Nakamura is the woman who was senior artist on Bayonetta, and designed the titular character along with Hideki Kamiya. Their greatest moment of bonding was over their insistence that Bayonetta keep her glasses on at all times.
Nakamura cannot go to horny jail. She is the warden.
all the rights that come with marriage you should be able to have without marriage btw. you should be able to designate a person who can visit you in the hospital regardless of your relationship to that person.
People in the notes are saying "You can!" referring just to the hospital visitation part, and sure (depending). But people should have access to ALL of the benefits of marriage without needing to be married.
You should be able to add anyone you want on your health insurance plan.
You should be able to sponsor the visa of anyone you choose to move to your home country.
You should be able to name anyone you choose as the legal-from-birth legal coparent of any child you give birth to.
You should be able to apply for student aid on your own at any age.
And yes, yes, ideally healthcare and college should be free, international migration should be unrestricted, and the entire concept of legal parenthood should be rewritten from the ground up. But right now we're talking about marriage benefits.
"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?
This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.
I've never really used this app before, or if I have it don't remember it. I might be doing it wrong.
@docholligay I saw a post on Instagram from your Tumblr. What qualifies as a decent box mix for cake???
This is so funny, I love that you came and found me from people yoinking my post onto instagram ahaha. I think it's been reposted everywhere at this point, and I can't get TOO mad--the tips I mention are OLD OLD grandma tips, I did not invent them I was taught them.
Anyway, to your actual question: Out of stuff you can readily get in stores pretty much anywhere in the US, I like Duncan Hines for white or yellow cakes, and Pillsbury Moist for chocolate. Betty Crocker shrinkflated and only has 13 oz in its box mixes, it's dead to me and I won't buy it.
Another bonus tip: If you want to make a strawberry, lemon, etc cake do NOT buy the flavored box mix. Just do it yourself with a white cake mix. I have never found a flavored cake mix that isn't fucking TERRIBLE.
this technically is true but I think this also perfectly encapsulates why I am inherently distrustful of like. ââcozyââ âturn your brain offâ fiction lmfao. like okay WHO gets to turn their brain off and who has to suffer through bigoted caricatures of themselves while everyone else is having cozy silly no brain time đ
they've been arguing about malgendering on twitter so here's the truth from me, the arbiter of truth (jk but ive been talking about malgendering long before it became a popular buzzword and heres my understanding of it)
malgendering is a form of transphobia wherein a transphobic person uses their victim's correct gender to harass or demean them. it is meant to be the inverse of misgendering, where a transphobe uses the victim's incorrect gender to harass or demean them.
misgendering towards trans women can be as simple as "youre a man." but malgendering is more insidious, like someone saying "you really are a girl" when she makes a mistake in order to insult her intelligence. the phrase "you really are a girl" is positive when removed from the context of the trans woman making a mistake and the transphobe's sarcastic tone that implies shes stupid in an misogynistic way.
if a trans man does something like standing up for himself against an unfair situation or asks for better accommodations/treatment, and a transphobe wants to use that to imply he is selfish and entitled, they might say "trans men really are men" which again, is a true statement on its own. but in the context of the situation, its clear the transphobe is using the stereotypical worst qualities of men to insult and undermine someone's very identity.
malgendering can be any severity of harm, just like misgendering. my mom slipping up in the first months of my transition and accidentally calling me "she", and a bigot shouting "YOURE A WOMAN YOULL NEVER BE A MAN" at me are both examples of misgendering, but one is much worse than the other and its the same with malgendering. being told "trans men are the men of the trans community" as an insult is annoying and rude but not a big deal. however, right now ICE is torturing trans men in concentration camps by forcing them to do pointless and grueling labor. and when they become exhausted, theyre told "I thought you were a man. if youre really a man this should be easy for you" these are both examples of malgendering. one is a microaggression, the other is literal torture.
malgendering happens equally to both trans men and trans women, its not something that is unique to anyone because it is a form of transphobia. the strategy is that if a transphobe tries to make a trans persons life as their true gender so miserable and unsafe, detransitioning seems like the safer and happier option. its psychological torment, moreso than the plain and obvious insult of intentional misgendering. so dont let it happen, call it out when you see it and dont be fooled by transphobes trying to erase the context and be like "what!! what i said was true!"
im just saying if disney wants to make a disney princess crossover now is the perfect time to do it because mirabelâs reaction to everything is the funniest thing you could possibly give to us
like sheâs in elsaâs special magic glacier house and sheâs like âwow our encanto has never gotten this much snow. when my tia pepa makes it it really only makes a little pile before she calms downâ and elsaâs like âiâm sorry when your tia pepa does whatâ
mirabel is thrown by absolutely nothing in the entire disneyverse except the talking snowman. he walks up and says âhiâ and she does exactly what anna did: screams and kicks his head off
I am very concerned for the women who won't end up passing these tests (not even only trans women, if there are any, but also intersex women) because it's going to be made public and they are going to be harassed. It's such a horrible move by the wta. They, as always, don't care about their players' safety.
Ok, I just have to interject here because if youâve heard anything about this movie, you know that Disney did NOT know how to market it and really sold it as a family-friendly romp (hence the George Constanta gargoyle). Kid-friendly publicity up the wazoo. Hand puppets from Burger King.
I was six years old when Hunchback came out. My mother took me to the movie theater in the mall to see it, and they had set up a giant Notre Dame display in the middle of the mall, where every half hour or so a group of performers would sing the Feast of Fools while multicolored confetti rained down on the crowd. It was the most colorful, manically enthusiastic thing Iâd ever seen. THEN, I was brought into the theater and witnessed the darkest film about a crisis of faith and lust that ever inflicted on a first grader.
I have no memory of what I thought of the film. What I DO remember is wandering listlessly through the confetti in the mall after the fact in a complete daze, having an existential crisis, while my mother asked what was wrong because she was convinced there was something medically wrong with me.
To reiterate, one of my first, most vivid memories is being emotionally scarred by this movie.
I was afraid for a minute that I had misrepresented my childhood experience, and there doesnât appear to be any photo or video record of the mall tour, but there are several articles talking about the over-the-top pageantry of it all. It doesnât look like the performers actually sang, but my god, to be a six year old standing in front of a two-story Notre Dame replica with a working bell that spouts confetti when you ring it???
the thing that I think just blows me away about the cruella movie (and what blew me away when I heard they were even making one) is that it is utterly impossible to make her sympathetic gracefully. like, her original motivations were at least understandable, but fundamentally impossible to sympathize with.
rich woman wants a coat that will make a statement. dalmatians have striking and unique coats. adult dog coats are too coarse, puppies have soft coats. therefore, puppies are best choice to make coat out of. tries to buy puppies from acquaintance. gets refused. time for petty revenge.
boom, easy. there's the entirety of cruella's character, and there's nothing wrong with that. unfortunately for all of us, Disney doesn't agree.
Cruella (the movie) is clearly trying to follow in the footsteps of Maleficent's success, but the inherent problem is that cruella de vil lacks the same malleability of character. maleficent had a lot of unknowns about her motivations, primarily "what happened to make her hold a grudge?", which is a GREAT start to a story.
cruella never had that question. cruella never needed to ask that question. she wanted a coat, and had no regard for animal welfare. there's no inquiry there, there's no mystery. "Oh what made her not care about animals?" unfortunate news flash, a lot of people don't actually care about animal welfare to begin with. also im pretty sure way back in the 60s when the original movie came out, they weren't even sure dogs could feel pain. so really, Roger and Anita were the weirdos here.
so with all of that rattling in my skull, the fact that they made cruella's backstory revolve around her mother being assassinated by dogs is just so unnecessary. also how do you have a protracted chase without anyone intervening? how do you miss a bunch of snarling, barking dogs dashing across the yard and just stand there? there's so much genuinely bad writing, and I am just confused as to why
there are much better candidates to make the next Maleficent. Ursula would be interesting, because there isn't actually a whole lot of backstory other than "She's a horrible witch with a grudge against the regent," which is literally the identical starting point as maleficent. plus, merfolk are in vogue again.
Captain Hook is an immediate smash hit, because his backstory is already there, and you can build up this huge tragedy of him being a lost boy who got too old, and escaped Peter Pan trying to kill him and spent his life rescuing other lost boys before they could also be murdered.
hell, I'd even rather watch a movie about Jafar, because I would love to watch a movie about a bright-eyed and eager advisor becoming increasingly jaded and angry at his boss' childish antics and seeming complete disregard for the wellbeing of his subjects and slowly having it consume him. which is a characterization I totally pulled out of my ass but once again, jafar totally lacks a backstory so I get to do as I please.
wow, three better movies, and they required less thought than trying to figure out how to make a dog killer sympathetic.
#ok but also#focusing on the Dalmatian angle of cruella was the wrong way to go#dalmations specifically never shouldâve even been a major part. not even dogs really#it shouldâve been about the fashion industry. how her obsession with fashion and wealth and marketing herself drove her down the path of#becoming so ruthless and obsessed that she would do anything. including murdering a bunch of puppies just for a coat#that would make a statement and get her fame.#like if they HAD to do cruella. it shouldâve been about that. someone going so far for wealth and power that they lose all humanity rather#than just a generic âtraumatic event made her evilâ
If you want to make Cruella sympathetic you focus on the coat. Because it was ALWAYS about the coat. Itâs about FASHION.
What the fuck made this woman so obsessed with FASHION that sheâd violate the trust and boundaries of Anita, her friend from college, and for all intents and purposes the only social connection in her life? What the fuck happened to her? The dogs have fuck all to do with it.
Cruellaâs sympathetic roots are not in the goddamn dogs. She was a fashionista who worked in furs. Remember she bought those other 99 dogs legally and if sheâd killed them humanely itâd have been awful and probably a crime (idk 1960s animal rights laws) but not villainous. Animals, including dogs, are killed for their meat, skin and fur every day. Itâs not buying animals for slaughter thatâs shocking.
No Cruella is a villain because she BROKE INTO HER BEST FRIENDâS HOUSE AND STOLE HER PETS over an outfit she wanted so bad she couldnât take no for a fucking answer.
And they could have come up with 101 heartrending or compelling or desperate reasons that she could not let go of this obsession with the perfect fur coat if they wanted to make her sympathetic. They could have dug deep into pathology of a lonely self-isolating woman with boundary issues and no idea how to maintain meaningful connections with anything but objects and her business.
But they didnât. They - and everyone else- keeps plucking the low hanging fruit that is âooh puppy killerâ and ignoring that the true villainy begins when a person chose to throwaway relationships away for an obsession she canât ever sate.
I am absolutely seething about what Disney just did to Bobby Driscoll again 54 years after he was buried a John Doe (his corpse was found by two children playing an abandoned tenement buildingâhis death date is actually unknown and the date given is the day he was instead found) in an unmarked mass grave in Hart Islandâs potters field (not identified for a year until his mother pressured Roy O. Disney to make the NYPD care enough to match his fingerprints) where he still is surrounded by prisoners and unidentified vagrants (literally referred to as the âpoor, unable and unwantedâ on a sign)âŠ
And 69 years after they fired him by letting him read it in a gossip column. Walt had his secretary call security on him and he was thrown out of the building crying at 16 years old (near his birthdayâhe was 14-15 during Peter Panâs production). The film was #1 at the box office and in release for two weeks when he was fired. Thereâs also a rumor that Howard Hughes was also pressuring the firing, as he absolutely loathed child actors in general, and was in charge of RKO.
Bobby was the voice and rotoscoped character model for the titular Peter Pan. He was also in Song of the South, Melody Time, So Dear to My Heart and Treasure Island. His live-action movies literally saved the Disney company from total bankruptcy in the â40s. He was the very first actor ever signed to the company. He was only one of twelve child actors to ever receive a Juvenile Oscar (with such company as Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Temple, Margaret O'Brien and Hayley Mills) for his performances in 1948/9âs The Window and So Dear to My Heart. And for the record, Walt didnât treat Adriana Caselotti (Snow White) much better, to the point where he denied her the ability to ever get work with her voice ever again. Itâs just that Bobby is possibly the most horrific ending of a child actor ever in Disneyâs history (there are many).
Disney just made Peter Pan the villain in the new Chip ân Dale abortion that gives the animated character Bobbyâs actual backstory (this is not an evil Peter Pan take based on the book and not in any way comparable to Once Upon a Time!) of being an actor fired for hitting puberty and having acne. Thatâs not Peterâs backstory; thatâs Bobbyâs. And itâs too specific to be a coincidence. They drew a character, who was drawn unmistakably with the actorâs real features and acting performance, as a middle-aged, fat man, despite the fact that he died at 31 and Peterâs voice basically was his post-pubescent adult voice. They made him a hideous monster aged far past an age he ever reached.
The film also ends with the character incarcerated, which happens to be yet another thing from the manâs real life. By his own words, he was raped in prison. His spiral on drugs sent him to Chino, which didnât happen until he was bullied mercilessly in public school after being pulled from the actor kidsâ school (he also had stage parents who beat him and locked him in a closet to the point that Disney had earlier stepped in to send him to live with costar Luana Pattenâs family as a childâthere are also allegations he was molested while working at Disney) when Disney basically ended any chance of steady work. He was a straight-A student prior.
Iâve been telling this story every chance Iâve gotten for nearly two decades. Few today know who he is, because Disney does everything to keep the story hidden and him forgotten. Bobby is not a Disney Legend, despite fans lobbying for decades. The Peter Pan DVD/Blu-ray avoids mentioning him as much as they can. Another one of his films is de facto banned.
That Disney just pulled this with a disgusting, sick joke that laughs at his backstory and misfortune, then turns him into an irredeemable villain in a plot that essentially turns themselves into the victims of copyright theft (theyâre responsible for lobbying to get copyright law extended indefinitely). So, in other words, Disney has framed themselves as the victim of a heartlessly-fired child actor who died tragically instead of the villain and framed themselves as the victim yet again.
If thereâs any silver lining, itâs that Twitter and social media just learned about him for the first time because of outrage over Disney spitting on this dead manâs unmarked grave yet again. I knew this story decades ago (I had a Peter Pan obsession). Undoubtedly, nobody working on this stupid film was with the company 70 years ago and most were likely not even alive when he died, but somebody there had the bright idea to put the biographical data of a person Disney has spent decades trying to make everyone forget as a villain origin story.
âI have found that memories are not very useful. I was carried on a silver platter and then dumped into the garbage can.â -Bobby Driscoll
Sharing this again because I didnât realize the depth of how much the film pulled from his life, having not watched it myself. The fact that they seem to have even used the acne thing specifically and apparently used some of Driscollâs own words against him (âgetting thrown into the trashâ)âŠthis keeps getting worse and worse and part of me needs to watch it to see how bad it gets butâŠugh. This is just sickening.
i love how we see Simba overcorrecting for his own childhood, how Kiara can recite lessons on the circle of life at the same age when Mufasa was just starting to introduce the idea to Simba
i love how Kiara is already so aware of the responsibility she'll have as ruler that, when cub Simba was bragging "I'm gonna be king of pride rock" and singing "Oh I just can't WAIT to be king!", Kiara, his daughter, who he's been raising to not make (or suffer) any of his own mistakes, instead says "But what if I don't want to be queen? It's no fun..." and sings "If there's so much I must be, can I still just be me, the way I am?"
I love how we see this PAY OFF at the end, when Kiara's sense of responsibility means she never once thinks of running off into the sunset with Kovu, no, of course she has to go back, of course she has to try reuniting both of their prides-
And maybe that's also some of Nala's spirit shining through her daughter, but really, Kiara is so much like Simba in all other ways (including her terrible pouncing, her thirst for adventure, her rule breaking) it really just feels like this is who Simba might have been if Mufasa hadn't been so confident he'd be around for his son so much longer, if Mufasa had focused more on preparing Simba for what the circle of life really means-
At The Same Time, even though it's good for the pride lands and the outlanders in the end, there's something tragic in comparing Simba and Kiara as cubs
how confident and carefree Simba got to be, how stifled and resigned Kiara ending up being, how she didn't get that kind of childhood at all thanks to her father's fear that it might be suddenly cut short, so much of Simba's talks with cub Kiara are warnings or lectures-
(when we see her play pouncing she's doing it on her own, contrast that with Mufasa and cub Simba playing together, contrast that to Simba's restraining paw scooping up his young daughter and keeping her in place)
-and even as an adult she ends up singing about how "I may not be brave, or strong, or smart" like this is more than just not being self-centered, this is depressing as heck, this girl doesn't think she's good at ANYTHING
(Timon you are not helping)
(I understand you might still be traumatized by your first meet-and-almost-eat with her mom and be worried about disappointing or hurting your adopted lion son if his cub gets hurt under your watch, but please, stop)
dear gods she never ever got to be herself without being held to the same standard as the great kings of the past
(except for when she snuck off on her own and got have a little adventure with Kovu, which she got through as HERSELF, not a princess, just a cub swatting at crocodiles and jumping on their gaping mouths just in time to save her new friend from getting eaten)
(meanwhile, Simba doesn't even acknowledge (or even hear???) her sad little line in their song together, he goes on talking about life lessons and leadership and she's the daughter of a king they are one, good, great, Simba your daughter is Distressed)
and that could have driven such a wedge between her and Simba, that could have pushed her into wanting escape and independence more than anything
except, she knows he's feeling THE SAME THING too
and we know she knows because when she wants to hurt him, to jar him, to criticize him for exiling Kovu while claiming he's doing it to follow in his father's paw prints, she tells him
"You will never be Mufasa!"
This is her fear, that she'll never be enough to be a good queen, this is also her fear, that the only way to be a good ruler is to stop being yourself
And it's what she rejects the moment she pulls a Nala and runs from pride rock alone- not to get help, but to give it- and when she returns to confront Simba with the wisdom she's learned, using the words he taught her
She looks at him, finally confident in who she is (with her back turned to the outlanders, defending them from her pride, "my father says to never turn your back on an outsider!" but she has grown since then)
she says "A wise king once told me" (Simba listen to yourself)
she says "we are one" (listen to the part of me that I learned from you)
"I didn't understand him then. Now I do" (Listen to me, now)
she says something that is true about pride landers and out landers, about Simba and Zira, about Kovu and Simba
"Them? Us. Look at them, they are us. What differences do you see?"
(between the desperation of lions on a starving land, dead loved ones, the thirst for revenge, children following in their parent's pawprints, to be so blinded by your own pain (fear, shame) that the pain of others fades away)
she asks him not to be a great king, but to see himself in them, these 'outsiders', and then to be himself in answer
And Simba listens
He looks at the daughter who had the same fear as him (Simba, who looked for guidance in the stars, saying "My father would never-" who Nala also understood so well, "Oh my Simba, you want so much to walk the path expected of you."), he looks at Kiara, who also feared that she couldn't be enough, as herself
Only... she isn't afraid anymore. She is a queen already, smart enough to find wisdom, brave enough to speak it, strong when she has to be
(he was so afraid of losing her but she had the chance to run and she came back, she came back and she is asking him, just once, to please finally-)
He listens to her. The clouds part.
We can feel Mufasa watching over them.
We look into Simba's eyes as he sees this (recall the same pattern of clouds and gazing when Mufasa told his son "you have forgotten who you are, and so you have forgotten me" and to "remember who you are")
The words Simba says as he accepts Kiara's wisdom "It's time to put the past behind us"
The lesson he learned from Timon and Pumba, this time used not to run from responsibility and pain but to face it, this hard part of his past that IS part of him
And the fact that even with all the reasons in the world to want Scar dead he still didn't want to be like him, he didn't want to kill his own uncle
(Mufasa never wanted to kill his brother, even as openly resentful and threatening though Scar was. There, the shock and horror in Mufasa's eyes as his brother betrays him- Mufasa never would have- Mufasa could have killed him any time before now, but he-)
Simba gave Scar the chance of mercy. Now, he gives it again. His daughter, his refection, his pride, has reminded him.
He looks at Kiara and he find himself in her.
He finds his father in her.
Great Kings of the past and present, great Queen of the future- Three generations and the choice of who they wish to be, and how that guides them into kindess, into mercy, into healing more harms than they cause.
Kiara speaks. Simba listens. Mufasa lives on in them
....
...then the contrast, sudden, stark, painful, of a daughter who speaks and a parent who does not listen
(Their enemy no longer wants to fight, no longer IS their enemy-)
(Zira's smirk as she condemns her own daughter to death)
and the point hammered home, as the outlanders turn in disgust from their leader, that they were never evil
The point that the 'evil' which doomed Scar and Zira and Nuka (drove them on, single minded, into danger, into death) was a simple choice they all had faced. The simple question not everyone asks
Who are you?
Will you close yourself off to everyone and everything that does not feed your own conviction? Ignore anything that doesn't further your own goals?
(Nuka was loved for what he was, even if his mother never showed it. But his brother spoke up for him, his sister looked out for him, his pride all mourned him- he never needed to be the "chosen one")
(Scar was not the great king he thought he was, all around him is proof of his failure, the pridelands barren and empty, and his chance to do better, lead the lions from pride rock, make a new life- but it was never about being a good king to others. "I am the king, I can do whatever I want"- Simba's cubhood song, echoed in a lion who never learned better. Simba's offer of mercy, to let Scar escape with his life, thrown back in Simba's face (Nala's trick of always throwing off the lions who leap on her, here mirrored, saving Simba's life) and Scar, always thinking of himself, killed by his own self serving words and the hyenas he was so quick to betray)
(Zira wanting revenge for her pain, for Scar, wanting Nuka's death to be the last time Simba hurts her- Losing her daughter, because she will not stop the fight, losing her follows, because she would killed her daughter for refusing to fight... losing her life, swatting at the helping paw held out to her, only wanting to cause pain, only causing her own pain instead)
Will you cling desperately to what you have, or what you think you are owed, even when another way is offered?
Or will you listen.
(Vitani, so loyal to her mother, so vicious in her battles- Kovu's confused look as she changes her choice, choosing peace, Kiara's answering smile)
Will you see yourself in others and use that wisdom to decide who you want to be...
(Kiara, Simba, Mufasa- remember, remember)
...or who you do not want to be?
(the rest of the outlanders turning away from Zira. Their disgust at a mother who would kill her own child. The choice to leave her behind)
(the ending of the war)
I love lion king 2
it's the kind of sequel that makes me love the original more than i did before, it's so good it makes the first one even BETTER than it was on it's own
it makes the first movie sadder to re-watch
seeing how unprepared Simba really was. How Vitani proves that Scar had another way out
seeing Mufasa with his son, giving him a wonderful childhood, unaware of how has Simba will have to grow up- how long it will take him- the nightmares still haunting him- the gap between Simba and his own child thanks to his fears, his shames- (Mufasa's spirit, making leaves dancing as little tiny Kiara playfully swats at them) -Mufasa raising his son with no idea how much pain it will cause his granddaughter when Simba tries to make up for it...
...seeing all that, and knowing it still turns out okay
i wouldn't enjoy lion king 1 half as much without Simba's Pride. They fit together
i love them i love them i love them both
(also i am Gay and kiara is WOW)
(also also vitani too)
( also also also the fact that i just wanted to wrap kovu in blankets and never let anyone hurt him meanwhile he was everyone else's crush-> hmmm i wonder why that was....)
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