#misskittythinks

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God, the Dessendre siblings.

Your big sister doesn't recognize you. Your mother's eldest daughter Painted her over. She attacks you if you go near her. You miss her. She doesn't know to miss you.

Your little sister can't speak and hides her face and you love her. She is beautiful behind the mask your mother forces her to wear. She hides her face in your father's chest.

Your little sister is hell-bent on killing your father because he killed her brother, but he didn't kill you. She doesn't know you. She knew you before you were created. You know her. You have never met her. You would die for her. You have died for her. She would die for you. You have to stop her from dying for you.

You’re her big brother but your little sister is dead. She’s your little sister but her big brother is dead. She killed your little sister. She is your little sister and she killed herself but she also killed a stranger. She didn’t let you say goodbye. You get to yell at her for not letting you say goodbye to her. This is a privilege. She apologizes. It doesn't change anything. She killed herself and you wish you could kill yourself. You’re jealous your little sister got to die. You’re jealous your little sister gets to live. She killed herself and she won't kill you.

You're her big brother and she dies in your arms even though she's not your little sister and you died before her anyway. Her death is slower than your little sister's, so you get to speak to her. You get to tell her everything will be okay. You never got to tell your little sister everthing will be okay before she died. You weren't able to hold your little sister when she died. You held and rocked your little sister when she died.

Your parents had two daughters and one son. Two daughters and one son died in that canvas but their eldest daughter didn't. She wasn't there when you or your sisters died. You're her little brother. She doesn't grieve for you. She grieves for her little brother. Both your little sisters are dead, but your big sister doesn't grieve for them. She has her little sister within arm's reach.

There are seven Dessendre siblings. Three of them are you. One is dead. Two are alive. There are three Dessendre siblings. There were only ever three Dessendre siblings.

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I know I think about the worldbuilding implications of children's movies too much, and certainly more than the writers did, but Disney's Descendants no. 3's ending was just unforgivable. Descendants no. 1 characterized the core four's villain parents as variously abusive, and explicitly showed the core four being terrified of their parents. And then? After the bridge connects Auradon to the Isle of the Lost? The core four excitedly run towards the Isle to see their canonically abusive parents?? How hard is it to remember what happened literally two movies ago.

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It's so funny that Hiram Lodge could (and does) leave prison at any time because he built and owns it, but instead he does everything in his not inconsiderable power to ruin Veronica and Hermione's lives as revenge for them putting him in prison (which again, he can leave at any time)

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Insane that I can have the same critique for Disney's Zombies movies as Wicked For Good. Like, I have been on this soapbox for years, and you think you can sneak that shit by me by painting it green??

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My Heated Rivalry experience was entirely omg who CARES about toxic Ilya and Shane I want my COFFEE SHOP AU BOYS BACK

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Disney's Z.O.M.B.I.E.S is the movie series ever. Z.O.M.B.I.E.S stands for nothing. The zombie apocalypse was like twenty years ago and only happened in this town and only because someone spilled lime soda in a power plant (because zombies are green, geddit?). The first one is the thinnest allegory for segregation ever with zombies as stand-ins for black poeple. The second one is the thinnest allegory for settler-indigenous people relations ever with werewolves representing the indigenous people. The third one is aliens. Vampires become canon in the epilogue montage of the third. Zombies have green hair and gray skin. The makeup department visibly gives up on the gray skin in movie one. Races are colour-coded by their clothing. Zombies' names all have 'z' in them. Werewolves' names all have 'w' in them. Aliens' names all start with A. The writers couldn't figure out how to build the world and setting naturally, so the two main characters regularly break the fourth wall to explain what's going on to us and never acknowledge it to themselves or each other. It's a musical. They keep the sounds of the dancer's feet hitting the ground as part of the percussion of the songs.

It's also so full of trauma and potential angst that is never developed or approached sideways with a ten-foot pole. Zombies getting more rights hinges on one teenager's performance in the high school football team because humans only care about what use they can extract from the zombies. Zombies are legally 'mostly dead', live in a ghetto, and their access to food and clothes is controlled by the local government. The main human is a quarter-alien and would be an outcast because of her white hair if she didn't wear wigs. This is treated as an equal struggle. The main human's mom is half-alien and knows her daughter struggles with where she belongs, and never tells her that they're aliens in the same boat.

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In a world of redeemed villains and tragic backstories, you've gotta respect Riverdale's Hiram Lodge. He's evil. He knows he's evil. He does not care. He has beef with his daughter's sixteen-year-old boyfriend and does not treat this beef any differently than his mob rivals. Framed for murder. Tries to murder with his bare hands. Beat to shit. Hiram Lodge is a cartoon villain and never repents. King shit.

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I am a little miffed at the lives the Riverdale writers' room gave our gang in ch. 137, because they don't match up with the characters.

You want me to believe that Jughead Jones - our Jughead Jones who remembers everything, every dark, depraved thing that happened in Riverdale - doesn't become an investigative journalist? He knows information gathering techniques from the twenty-first century, practiced them since he was a teen, knows about every government scandal of the twentieth century, and the plight of the Uktena. You think Jughead from seasons 1-6 could sit on his hands with 1960s era racism/sexism/homophobia? Absolutely not.

You're telling me Betty Cooper, who now remembers everything from seasons 1-6, including her 2023 FBI training, doesn't want to use that knowledge to save lives? She should have revolutionized the FBI, taken it by storm, and brought it up to her standard as best she could with the technology available to her. The term "serial killer" only began to be a thing in the 70s, imagine the lives she could save by not waiting for the cishet-white-male FBI to pull their heads out of their asses.

Now Toni I can believe, but I don't think she'd leave Black Athena to be just a high school magazine. Of all the people who became publishers, I think Toni makes the most sense and it just burns that she didn't become what Betty and Jughead apparently did.

Having said all that, I do think they could have done something interesting with the gang's fame and Angel Tabitha's command to bend towards justice.

Jughead's Madhouse Magazine, Bend Your Mind She Says Magazine, Towards the Future Black Athena, Justice in Technicolour

(Justice in Technicolour could also be for Veronica's movie studio, but the film industry moved on from technicolour in the 60s, so it would be less fitting.)