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It’s time to heat things up! 🔥🐺

#DARKASTLE CONTENT???? FUCK YES #LUDWIG MY BELOVED #curse of darkastle #codk #king ludwig #dark ride #busch gardens williamsburg #bgw

Me: I need one of my comfort films

Also me: *proceeds to watch the 2013 Evil Dead and yell “Eric you stupid bastard” every three minutes*

#it helps tho #evil dead #evil dead 2013

masochismustango

– I’ve studied you. And all your weaknesses are known to me!

I’ve FINALLY prepared a new full drawing again after all this time and this little achievement can’t not make me happy! And it’s also the first time to me when I draw a fanart as a some kind of birthday present for the portrayed character in it.

I’m very grateful to @feel-the-fire for telling me about Wapol and his no less wonderful henchmen, Chess and Kuromarimo. And it is Chess’ confirmed birthday by the way! Since I’ve fallen again for the unpopular, but very charismatic and charming villains (that are rumoured to be Russians! Wapol even has Russian accent in one of the English dubs. And personally I interpret KM as a mixed one, though that’s a far different story), I suppose it’s my duty as well to create more for the media and characters like these, especially when it’s their birthday. c:

The sentence Chess’ telling is in Russian due to the reason stated above and it’s lovely when I have a chance to portray my unique looking fellow countrymen and spread more love and recognition for the as well!

The drawing of the Drum Trio’s coming soon too (I wanna hope so, at least), but now…

Happy birthday, Chess! You’re loved! 🎂 🩵

Anyway, hope you like it and have some cake or other yummy food to celebrate Chessy’s B-Day! 🍰🍭🥂

p.s. version without the text bubble

#CHESSSSSSSSSS #friend’s art #Chess op #one piece #drum island #drum island arc

bigfrozensix

“Ariel sold her voice for legs just because of a guy“

Meanwhile Ariel with legs;

Ariel already loved the human world long before meeting Eric (you don’t get a collection like hers overnight) and when she finally got a chance to explore it, she took it.

Ursula made it more about Eric than Ariel ever did.

gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe

atalana

and i mean hell this has been talked about before in more depth than i can, but when people complain about how the ending was changed (the original fairytale does not give ariel a happy ending, she dies trying to protect the prince), i think about the fact that this was written by a gay man in the 1980s

and i think it’s entirely valid (and gives her an extremely strong connection to the queer community) to change the story so she doesn’t die because of who she loves

starlitskvader

Triton made escape a necessity. Once someone goes to the point of destroying your possessions in a violent rampage, there is no staying and sticking it out, there’s no safety. (And Ariel, even in Ursula’s lair, gave Triton more thought than he deserved at the time.) Nowhere in the ocean she could go and be safe. Everyone’s always ‘why don’t they just leave :|’ in abusive situations until the leaving is not something they find 100% worthy of approval.

Ursula made it about Eric. She didn’t have to. Ariel had to get out from under Triton’s thumb, it could have been literally anything. Ursula took advantage of a desperate victim for her own agenda. Realistic predatory behavior toward a vulnerable person.

And also

There’s always the ‘Eric didn’t want her until she was silent and meek’ criticism - FIRST OF ALL he started out looking for a woman who wasn’t silent, and second of all what part of the carriage driving bit (or any of her other actions on land) is meek, exactly?

People above have noted the queer subtext. Now, on the subject of Ariel being willing to leave her family, aside from the baseline ‘this is an abusive environment and she was not safe there’ angle I already mentioned, consider: Ariel’s father made it clear he would stop at nothing to crush and tear down who she was and replace it with what he wanted her to be. Now - what demographic might that resonate with? And given Ashman’s involvement, do you think that was a coincidence?

tokidokifish

there has been scholarly discussion about the idea that the og little mermaid story, where she dies at the end, was written as a queer allegory.

so taking that into account… there is something very touching about taking this story from hans christian andersen from beyond the grave and being like “things are different now. they get to be happy. she gets to live.”

ruffboi-mags

also in re: “Eric didn’t want her until she was silent and meek” the meek part’s been discussed but can we please talk about how when he first met her he thought she wasn’t the girl with the voice that he was trying to find and was disappointed, but that he slowly fell for her anyway? He’d explicitly wanted Ariel WITH her voice, but came to love her without it.

tuulikki

The bit about Howard Ashman being queer is finally giving me some glimmer of understanding of why the teenaged girl mermaid is named “Ariel.” Because, although the Disney movie single-handedly changed popular perception thereafter, Ariel is a boy’s name. Howard Ashman absolutely knew that.

(Ariel in Shakespeare’s The Tempest also has male pronouns, in case anyone was struggling to remember.)

#I hate the sheer stupidity of people #see what happens when you over analyze and have no basic literacy #ironically all this ariel/tlm hate is just making me love it more #the little mermaid #tlm #ariel #princess ariel