[honeybee-arts]

- Walk With Me -

a little Tangled fancomic that addresses anger in a deeper way than the show did, also giving Cass some much-needed therapeutic talks with a [healthy] mother figure. Never done a comic before, and there are a couple of typos and i winged absolutely everything, hope y’all enjoy ✌️ ☀️ 🌑 💛 🤍

[spooky-activity]

They’re looking at hot cocoa recipes

[thereinart]

A tribute to Cassandra, her anger gives me life. 

Please don’t repost.

Also on instagram and twitter : thereinalulu 

[emkini]

Rapunzel stop being gay and focus on your painting dammit

[sheerakk]

No explanation

[sixthvices]

this woman dispenses the spikes compared to her you are nothing

[pxart123]

[bestworstcase]

also i think we as a fandom should just stop with canardist and the monkey in a turban thing like there is nothing about them that is not overtly racist we do not need to be casually reproducing it in fanworks like… can we all just collectively agree to figure out a different way to handle demanitus. even if it’s just he’s still a dumbass who yeeted his soul into a monkey but without the part where he wears a turban and exclusively appears in the company of a racist caricature

[bestworstcase]

@erazonpo3

I think related is that we should acknowledge the way in which villains like Gothel or Andrew are seen by fans as ugly when. From a purely visual standpoint they absolutely are not. racist and antisemetic coding of villains and eurocentric beauty standards go hand in hand and we shouldn’t ignore that

yea absolutely

esp when, separate from the issue of racist and antisemitic coding, the series has a huge problem with the Othering of “ugliness”/deviations from those eurocentric beauty standards eg friedborg, the way the unfeminine appearance of minor female “ruffian” characters is framed as grotesque or weird, etc. we do not need to be doubling down on that by adding, “oh yeah, and the two racially-coded villains who are treated as attractive in-universe are hideous”

[bestworstcase]

thinking about how the separatists were portrayed in rapunzel’s revenge like hrmmmmm don’t like that

[bestworstcase]

like if your entire main cast is a bunch of skinny conventionally attractive white people except for (1) the funny black man with no character development over the course of three seasons and (2) the cryptic but wise(?) asian woman who gets no character development and then gets written out of the story altogether until she’s brought in as a voiceless, mind controlled pawn at the eleventh hour to raise the stakes then maybe you should reconsider tossing in a group of villains who are completely irrelevant to the plot and act like SJW strawmen and are demonized for fighting back against the imperialist kingdom that destroyed their nation and also look like this: 

and this goes double if the villain and redemption arcs of two of your white mains is premised on the argument that punitive justice and incarceration in particular are bad and people who commit crimes should be treated with respect and compassion and given second chances but this group of villains just gets thrown in jail and left to rot despite having the most sympathetic motives of any villain in the entire series

[bestworstcase]

tangled has ALWAYS had issues with this. there are zero people of color in the film, not even as background extras… but gothel, the villainous evil “mother” figure who kidnaps and abuses a child, is heavily jewish-coded and progresses further and further into antisemitic caricature territory the more she ages (and the more overtly evil she becomes).

the series does add a handful of people of color in as background extras, so there was like… an attempt… to correct for the sea of white people in the film. and there’s xavier, though he’s literally just a variant on the magical black man trope (wise; knows lots of lore; exists to dispense exposition and advice to the white mains) and done dirty just as lance is.

and then there’s like…

there’s fernanda, a one-off side character who’s just… a distasteful romani stereotype which then gets blown out of the water in season two with madam canardist the overtly racist romani caricature and her pet monkey in a turban.

and let’s not forget that the series design of gothel emphasizes her jewish-coded features significantly more than the film, while her daughter—a “good” character—is depicted with straighter hair (wavy rather than curly) and the round, small-upturned-nose disney sameface. like. like.

but the saporians feel like the most egregious case because of the surrounding context; they’re an oppressed people fighting to reclaim their heritage from their conquerers and the series belittles and vilifies them for it and that would be an uncomfortable narrative even if they were white. but for them to be designed this way makes it so much worse and like, hello??

[bestworstcase]

#its about time people have talked about the *actual* problems in the show #why did these writers/artists/etc choose these designs? these stereotypes? #what does that say about the lessage of the series as a whole? (from @6vapemaster9)

relatedly we have things like the ingvarr women being designed with heavy inspiration from iranian women and traditional persian clothing styles but then sb else on the creative team made the decision to make them pale and blonde with the result that this trio of minor characters are largely perceived by the fandom as scandinavian. at some point in the design process, someone decided that these characters who were consciously designed as women of color needed to be pale and, in two out of three cases, blonde. why?

i’m hardly the first person to talk about any of this but it is frustrating to see these conversations… happen and then peter out again and get glossed over, or only brought up in cynical bids to give a garnish of legitimacy to petty unrelated fandom drama

[gelstertherealgel]

Decided to color an old sketch I made when first watching the series

[mikartisa]

happy pride month to this lesbian

[spooky-activity]

Oh golly, it’s Zhan Tiri! *insert surprised pikachu meme*

Pages 89-92

[midnightlie]

⭐️✨⭐️✨⭐️✨⭐️✨

[moguum]

can’t stopp won’t stop drawing him m

[toriburger]

🌺🌴☀️

[gayuglydog]

Like DAYS after you posted the comic abt cass bathing w daggers, i edited it to make it an animal crossing joke and ive kinda been wanting to show you? Would that be okay? I dont know how I'd send it to you though afjsjsh

oh yeah sure id be down to check it out! if u dont have it anywhere u can attach to this post i think?

[tangledincassandra]

I want you and the rest of the world to know that I come second to NO ONE.