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Chapter Count: 20/?
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Word Count: 95 876
Me: oh, honey.
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fanfic author: yeah, so here's a oneshot... just wanted to play around with an idea...
me: (looks at chapter count)
Chapter Count: 20/?
Me: (looks at word count)
Word Count: 95 876
Me: oh, honey.
I never liked those posts that reduce the Disney princesses to “girl who overacts about something and dramatically flings herself down and bawls” (super popular in the early 10’s and somehow that’s how a shocking majority view the classics now) but after an Aladdin (1992) rewatch, it’s especially egregious that they ever included Jasmine in that.
This part. This is the part I’m talking about
This is not a woman falling to pieces because her father won’t let her marry a man she just met.
This is a woman born to a life she has very little say in. She has never had a genuine friend (besides a tiger). She is facing a marriage to a man she doesn’t know and doesn’t like but duty (and the law) demands it. So she took a risk, ran away, ran to a world she doesn’t know or understand and when she landed in trouble (serious, serious trouble) a stranger came to her aid. She finally (finally!) made a real connection with someone but they didn’t get much time together before the guards showed up and she had to reveal who she was.
This moment when she’s crying her heart out? It comes after she’s been told that the first person she ever connected with, the first person to be genuinely interested in her for who she is and not what she is, the first real friend she has ever made, was executed… because of her.
She believes a good, innocent person has lost their life because of her actions, and what’s more, it brings home the reality for her that she cannot have a normal life or normal relationships, because see the consequences one little attempt wrought?
I actually love this trope. People treat crying like some kind of moral failure. Boys shouldn't cry, girls *can* cry, but that's also what makes them inferior. If this is not an example of toxic masculity, I don't know what is.
Crying is normal. Even if it's over something trivial. We all face a lot of struggles in their lives, whether we acknowledge it or not. Something minor might end up breaking the camel's back.
Anyway, here's one of my favorite scenes in Beauty and the Beast:
Belle's reaction is completely understandable. I think Mrs. Potts put it best: "The girl lost her father and her freedom all in one day." That's not overreacting!
Thank you so much for adding Belle!
Really, none of the classic princesses deserve the misinterpretation.
Cinderella?
Again, this is not after someone told her “yOu CaN’t MaRrY a MaN yOu JuSt MeT”—this is after she went to great lengths to get ready for the ball, adhering to the intentionally difficult (meant to be impossible) stipulations set by her abusive step-mother for her to be allowed to attend (when really she was invited and had as much right as the others to attend). She made that dress (I can’t recall off the top of my head if the classic animated version was also her mother’s old dress she restyled or not but still, she put in a ton of work on top of all the extra house work) and what did her step-family do? They tore to shreds while she was wearing it. Of course she’s lost hope: it’s the final straw after years and years of doggedly remaining optimistic despite constant harsh treatment.
Let’s go to another favourite: Mulan.
Mulan’s just had the worst day.
She tried her hardest to live up to her family’s and her society’s expectations and vision of a perfect bride but she failed. Not only did it go wrong, but she was publicly humiliated by the Matchmaker—by extension, humiliating her family.
Granted, her family has been kind and sympathetic about the whole thing. Her father even goes to encourage her, assuring her of his unconditional love for her and his confidence that she’ll get it right next time.
She’s just beginning to smile when the drums pound and news of war reaches their village. Her father—her beloved father who’s already a veteran and lives with a disability—is expected as the only male in their family to suit up and head out in the morning.
Mulan can’t help. Nothing she says will be listened to and she can’t take his place (until, of course, she thinks of a way to do so which this moment of crying it out in the rain leads to—score one for having a good cry and clearing your head).
There’s of course more. Take any princess’ dramatic crying momentTM and review the context and I’ll bet you’ll see it’s never as trivial as some have framed it. And, yes, like prev pointed out, it’s this awful thing of people believing boys can’t cry and girls can but then they can never be taken seriously.
Crying is healthy. And crying in response to emotional distress is totally normal. Writers and storytellers across the ages have understood it and portrayed it.
Has anybody added Ariel already?
She didn't deserve to see the things that she held dearly destroyed right before her eyes by her own father. No, it wasn't just about the cute guy she just met. Her family had never approved of her interests and she felt so isolated that she hid them away. Just collecting random stuff that she felt oddly inspired by. Then Triton obliterated it. Her memories, all the care she put into organizing it and keeping it safe—gone. He couldn't accept her passion because it didn't align with his beliefs, so he destroyed it. The ultimate rejection from a parent, the very people who are supposed to love you and make you feel safe.
My girl deserved—which she ultimately got in the end—but still.
Shane Hollander: Time for bed.
Arthur Pike: Chompy says that I can stay up as long as I want, and YOU need to die.
Shane Hollander:
Shane Hollander: What the heck, Chompy-
Ilya Rozanov: Say something romantic?
Shane Hollander: I love you, you asshole.
Shane Hollander: (sniffs) Do you smell something…?
Hayden Pike: It’s orange juice. My kids need to be more careful at breakfast.
Shane Hollander: I love talking to young kids. No adult is ever going to ask me what my 3rd favorite dinosaur is.
Shane Hollander: Kiss my ass!
Ilya Rozanov: Is not most romantic invitation I’ve ever gotten. Oddly enough, not least either.
Ilya Rozanov: I have no parental figures telling me not to wrestle bears.
Yuna Hollander: It’s me, actually. Yeah, I am that figure. I’m telling you now: Do not wrestle bears.
Ilya Rozanov: So, here we are… officially on a date. Romantic date…
Shane Hollander: Yes, we are. No longer hiding… Dating.
Ilya Rozanov: …The outfit Rose helped you pick out. It looks nice.
Shane Hollander: Oh, thanks. You also got a haircut… At some point in your life, I’m sure, that’s not your baby hair. That would be crazy. But, uh, you look very nice.
Ilya Rozanov: Grazie.
Shane Hollander: Do you speak Italian?
Ilya Rozanov: …No.
Shane Hollander: Oh. Uh… Sorry. I know it’s ridiculous because we’ve been together for a decade, but I’m feeling a little awkward.
Ilya Rozanov: (relieved) Yeah, me too.
Shane Hollander: Yes, I am furious. But I’m sure as hell not going to waste it on a useless fistfight. I’m going to mine it, save it, and when we play those dicks, I am going to use every bit of it to take them down.
Luca Haas: I wish I knew how to use that hate-fu.
Ilya Rozanov: I watched Anya chase her tail for 10 minutes and thought “Wow, dogs are so easily entertained”.
Ilya Rozanov: Then I realized I just watched Anya chase her tail for 10 minutes.
Shane Hollander: Well, my social anxiety is getting the best of me. I’m taking a walk. Bye.
Ilya Rozanov: Hollander, wait for me, I want to come, too!
Because I will almost always give a favourite character an allergy as a quick source of whup and/or angst, myShane is allergic to coconut.
lina you ARE an honourary canadian
Young: I’ll have you know that I am very fit! You’d be surprised to know how many pushups I can do!
Luca Haas: Do tell.
Young: …All of them!
Ilya Rozanov: You okay?
Shane Hollander: (teared up) Yeah, it was just these onions-
Ilya Rozanov: (to the onions) What the fuck did you say to my boyfriend?
happy pride month !!