Pandora's World

I'm afraid my train of thought has left the station.

[writingdose]

this used to be a common knowledge

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[nondelphic]

do i write because i love words or because it’s the only way i know how to safely unspool my longing without setting anything on fire. unclear.

[pawberri]

Lunar new year is coming up so I drew this based on the beautiful fat horse sculpture in nanjing

[catholicapothecary]

[britta-perry]

[freedominwickedness]

In medieval culture, an event like a royal christening is not a private party; it’s the public social event of the year. To not invite any person of rank to such an event is a deadly insult.

Maleficent is certainly someone you wouldn’t want at a party, but she’s also someone powerful enough that only a fool would ever dare treat her with such blatant disrespect. The only way the King and Queen could possibly have gotten away with not inviting Maleficent was to not invite any of the fairies at all; inviting the other fairies and excluding her is explicitly taking sides in the conflict between the fairy factions.

Which means they made themselves her sworn enemies, and she responded by treating them as such from then on. If you actually get into analyzing the social dynamics of the scene, it’s very clear that Maleficent was willing to show mercy at first by giving the King and Queen a chance to apologize for their disrespect to her. She doesn’t curse Aurora until after she gives them that chance and they throw it back in her face with further disrespect.

And yeah, if the King and Queen had done the properly respectful thing and invited her, Maleficent would have given Aurora a scary awesome present. Moreover so would the other fairies, because at that point both sides would be using it as an opportunity to show off and one-up each other. What they gave her before Maleficent showed up was basically just trivial party favors by fairy standards.

[fuckyeahwomenprotesting]

How do you know so much about the social dynamics of medieval fairies

[catsbrew-blogs]

That is none of your business is it sir

[vangoghcore]

by rajasuokasper

[princesslilymay]

[doll-babyx]

[thecollectibles]

Art by Sebastian Luca

[morteraphan]

Sleeping with Ghosts [oc, 2021]

[northirish]

Shipping update: Your parcel has been torn asunder by ravenous hogs

[peppermint-3]

me when im in a situation

[yutaan]

Rabbit on the moon.

This’ll be for sale at FAN EXPO in TORONTO from AUGUST 22 - 25TH!!!!!

[yoannlossel]

"Les Jardins de Nuit" (censored version) - Mixed media: colored pencils, pastels, ink, and gold leaf on paper. I created this artwork in 2020 for my book Forgotten Gods.

[sexybritishllama]

he was a dangerous crow boy whose job it was to destroy plastic. she was a girl. can i make it any more obvious

[sophsun1]

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) dir. Wolfgang Reitherman & John Lounsbery

[tenderlypressed]