#tangled (franchise)

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I don’t know that “male gaze” is used entirely correctly in this book, but it’s at least used more correctly than the totally wrong “male gaze is when woman sexy” definition that tends to be thrown around online.

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This is going pretty well so far. I like the idea to have a framing device so that it echos how Eugene is narrating the story to an audience in the original.

One thing that I think is kind of funny, though, is that in the real world, we only found out Arianna and Frederic’s names through Tangled the Series, but there are things even within the prologue that don’t mesh with that. Now, the real world reason is, well, it’s only as canon as the Little Mermaid or Aladdin or Hercules shows were back in the 90s, so the author doesn’t have to hold herself to the “Mother Gothel was in a demon cult” stuff from the show. But I’d like to believe that the narrator (Brendan) just only caught their names in passing while his sister watched the show once and does not know anything else about it.

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Starting another Disney book I got for Christmas. This time it’s What Once Was Mine, the Twisted Tale novel about Rapunzel. I have no idea if I’ll get ANY headcanons from this one, but at least I don’t have to be endlessly frustrated since it's an AU instead of just noncanon, so changes are to be expected instead of just randomly betraying an entire character arc for no reason (cough Bravely cough Mother Knows Best cough).

(I read Mother Knows Best some years ago and I’ll have to rant about it on here someday because oh my gosh it was so bad)