#bubchietalks

[bubchie]

Just curious. What happened to the snowball that hit Hans in Frozen Fever? Will that be shown in your artwork? I don’t think Hans is going to forget about that moment anytime soon. I certainly won’t.

[bubchie]

(sorry i broke your ask so we had to screenshot it lolol)

thank you!! that’s so sweet of you to say! no one really understands why hans is our favorite either, i imagine in part because it’s more the byproduct of a lot of frustration and nitpicking rather than satisfaction with his actual character. 😅

explanation under the cut regarding this

i think part of the issue with hans is that a lot of what makes him compelling kind of lacks self awareness or intention within the actual text of the movies. there are a lot of paralleled struggles throughout the character arcs of the first movie (i.e. destructive coping mechanisms to deal with isolation/ostracization) that are only magnified every time they expand his backstory… and yet he’s the only one exempt from a compassionate examination of that struggle.

to us that kind of suggests an incomplete or conditional understanding of some of the themes present in their own movie, which is a problem totally unrelated to his function as the antagonist. he could have been every bit as “unredeemable” while still being a cohesive part of the film’s thesis had they made him lean more tragic rather than turning him into this victim-hating reverse-cinderella where the punchline is that he’s sent BACK to his abusive family and we as the audience are expected to vindictively cheer at his fate. it sucks for obvious reasons hence our desire to explore alternative narrative conclusions 😒

it’s not our intention to ignore or excuse the problematic traits of his character (we are not of the belief that he didn’t want to do the things he did) but more to expand the themes of the first movie so that he’s included in a more nuanced version of that discussion.

anyway sorry for the rant. thank you again for the ask, we hope our interpretation does your boy justice! 🥺💖

[bubchie]

Hey! Just wanted to say I really admire your character designs for the brothers. They all look like they could absolutely be related but the also all read as distinct individuals! It's great!

thank you so much!! we had a blast designing the brothers, our process was more or less to put hans in front of a bunch of funhouse mirrors and make them embody different flavors of bully haha. definitely a highlight of this project 🥰

we'll be posting a concept dump that has their full designs tomorrow!

[bubchie]

hi new followers! thanks so much for your support and enthusiasm about our first post! we’re really pleasantly surprised by the response and interactivity from the fandom and we’re excited to share more.

for anyone wondering, we’re two hobbyist artists in their early 20s (you can direct questions to bub or chie if you can figure out who’s who lololol) and we’ve been developing this project since december of last year. we’ve been friends for a long time and have worked on our art and storytelling through a variety of projects and fandoms, but for whatever reason frozen is the one that stuck. 

for more information about what this project is and what to expect from our blog’s contents, please check our about page! 

text posts will be tagged as #bubchietalks, our general art tag is #bubchieart, the tag for our project is #ice cube recipe, and other fan artist’s work will be under #other’s art.

the first of an ongoing series of illustrations will be coming soon. cheers! :^) 

[bubchie]

Hello :) first i wanted to tell i love your art it is truly awesome^^ all of this is very exciting 😍 any chance to have some design for the king and the queen of the southern isles or they are both already dead by the very start of your story ? 🙂

hello! thank you so much for your kind words!! unfortunately only the king has a very minor role in our story (mention only) with no on-screen appearances. that said, we’d like to do more environment/prop designs eventually, which could include some family portraits with designs for the parents. thank you for your interest! :^)

[bubchie]

The Frozen 2 filmmakers should look upon your works and despair.😭

aaah thank you!! you guys have been incredibly sweet and we're so flattered by everyone's interest! we weren't fans of frozen 2 either  though it should probably be clarified that it isn't our intention to imagine an alternate sequel so much as a continuous spin-off (we like the fake credibility of cooperating with canon even if it's obnoxious lol. 😒) we also started this project well before either of us saw the sequel!

[bubchie]

Hi! I wanted to thank you for your work! I love your art and it somehow makes me feel like the old frozen days

thank you, that's sweet of you!! we're definitely trying to recapture some of the energy and charisma of the first movie, but it's also been a goal of ours to imbue it with more classic disney renaissance vibes in general through a very character driven story. it's been a ton of fun and we're so glad you're enjoying it! 🥰

[bubchie]

Do you have instagram !!

not currently! we actually started there but found we were having issues being seen, and the aspect ratio of our illustrations was a poor fit for the website’s formatting requirements. if there’s enough interest we might consider revisiting the idea but for now we’ll probably just hang out here