Lassiefae

COMMISSIONS OPEN The gay dude is right I am a failure 🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ minors dni

[lassie-farce]

Hi! This is a blog i use to post on any stuff I enjoy. Any pronouns are okay. The only rule is no hate. I welcome discussion or just general feeling of abnormality over the shows we love <3

My asks are open, with kindness please!

Hope you enjoy!

[beesmygod]

[steals your baby immediately after his birth][raises him][trains him in the ways of an ancient martial art invented by cormorant fishers in 700 ad for 13 years][enters him in a tournament][he loses in 4 rounds] ok whatever. you can have him back

[afcroyjamie]

[64mpg]

displays my agonies online for free

[gl0wf1shhhguy]

Lovingly taps your carapace

[acegender]

explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

[bigbigbigtruck]

1978 chevrolet malibu station wagon

[seafooms]

2 fish sometimes 3

[lassie-farce]

whatever skews the narrative the most

[autumnwoodsdreamer]

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?

[notlikeothernurses]

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!

[autumnwoodsdreamer]

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.

[afcroyjamie]

[lassie-farce]

european cultural dishes… sweet summer children, ted’s an american. there’s a good chance that somewhere in his house there’s a 1000pc bottle of ibuprofen

[lassie-farce]

you ever feel so alone it claws at you like a gnawing hole in your chest

[lassie-farce]

sometimes i think about the first time the story of the princess and the pea… a little child, laying in bed, bothered by a little pea or a feather or a stitch in her nightgown

and her mother bowing over her, brushing the hair off her rosy face and telling the story how there was a girl much like her, who wouldn’t be able to sleep if a pea was under her comforter

and people wouldn’t believe her until one day she found herself in a castle and couldn’t sleep yet again

but it was because she was a princess all along, and deserved to sleep in the softest feathers and not have to deal with squeaky boots

[henstomper]

imposter syndrome is so funny like fuuuuck i hope nobody finds out im tricking people into thinking im competent by knowing things and doing them

[lassie-farce]

​not leaving this in the tags

[utopians]

Being unemployed allows you to access an alternate 'shadow world' beneath our own populated only by retirees

[lassie-farce]

and the extremely few third spaces that don’t require you to spend money

[lassie-farce]

cmon abc you know what your fans want

give us s3 of galavant

[theconcealedweapon]

Progressives: "The government should make sure everyone has housing and healthcare."

MAGA: "Hitler also wanted the government to do things! You're just like Hitler!"

Progressives: "People shouldn't use slurs."

MAGA: "Hitler also believed that some things shouldn't be said! You're just like Hitler!"

Progressives: "Children should be taught to be kind to others."

MAGA: "Hitler also had ideas of what children should be taught! You're just like Hitler!"

[lassie-farce]

meanwhile, the concetration camps ice detention centers keep existing

[rusticfurnace]

that one peter krause image

[vulpes-aestatis]

Baby sphinx trying to be like mama and waylaying travelers, but all its riddles are completely non-sensical like the ones a 1st grader would tell

[thecactifindahome]

[castiean]

you would think tedtrent would prefer sitting with ted to trent's left so there's no dominant hand interference but it's actually the other way around so when they bump hands, they can smile at each other like goobers