start breakin' bricks, wet nips

Just a boy in his twenties trying to figure out life. No luck so far.

[termagax]

"is sabrina destroying feminism or is she empowering women" i think shes having sex

[termagax]

sometimes women just do things

[solidsnake]

got eaten up with 3 words

[hofessorx]

you coming back to tell us here

[throwbackblr]

[slettebak]

I can't believe we're learning this info

[maladaptations]

i wish i never saw this. now you all have to see it too

[brostateexam]

[bigfrozensix]

“Ariel sold her voice for legs just because of a guy“

Meanwhile Ariel with legs;

Ariel already loved the human world long before meeting Eric (you don’t get a collection like hers overnight) and when she finally got a chance to explore it, she took it.

Ursula made it more about Eric than Ariel ever did.

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

[atalana]

and i mean hell this has been talked about before in more depth than i can, but when people complain about how the ending was changed (the original fairytale does not give ariel a happy ending, she dies trying to protect the prince), i think about the fact that this was written by a gay man in the 1980s

and i think it’s entirely valid (and gives her an extremely strong connection to the queer community) to change the story so she doesn’t die because of who she loves

[starlitskvader]

Triton made escape a necessity. Once someone goes to the point of destroying your possessions in a violent rampage, there is no staying and sticking it out, there’s no safety. (And Ariel, even in Ursula’s lair, gave Triton more thought than he deserved at the time.) Nowhere in the ocean she could go and be safe. Everyone’s always ‘why don’t they just leave :|’ in abusive situations until the leaving is not something they find 100% worthy of approval.

Ursula made it about Eric. She didn’t have to. Ariel had to get out from under Triton’s thumb, it could have been literally anything. Ursula took advantage of a desperate victim for her own agenda. Realistic predatory behavior toward a vulnerable person.

And also

There’s always the ‘Eric didn’t want her until she was silent and meek’ criticism - FIRST OF ALL he started out looking for a woman who wasn’t silent, and second of all what part of the carriage driving bit (or any of her other actions on land) is meek, exactly?

People above have noted the queer subtext. Now, on the subject of Ariel being willing to leave her family, aside from the baseline ‘this is an abusive environment and she was not safe there’ angle I already mentioned, consider: Ariel’s father made it clear he would stop at nothing to crush and tear down who she was and replace it with what he wanted her to be. Now - what demographic might that resonate with? And given Ashman’s involvement, do you think that was a coincidence?

[tokidokifish]

there has been scholarly discussion about the idea that the og little mermaid story, where she dies at the end, was written as a queer allegory.

so taking that into account… there is something very touching about taking this story from hans christian andersen from beyond the grave and being like “things are different now. they get to be happy. she gets to live.”

[my-random--thoughts-deactivated]

[sponsoredbyadhd]

[regal-bones]

Holy ground

[aroace-polyshow]

honestly i never thought the phrase “i want that twink obliterated” was like a sexual thing. like when i read the phrase i imagine “a meteor like the one that killed the dinosaurs is summoned from the heavens and hits the twink in question” type situation

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Wait, it's a sex thing? I've always assumed it was a supervillain giving his henchman orders to destroy the lithe young hero invading his evil lair.

[hobbular]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Yes exactly!

[theprimeministerofamerica]

[midnightcowg1rl-deactivated2020]

[deathgasmic]

men have those slutty veins in their hands and expect you not to lose a lil focus

[virgomoon-deactivated20240514]

decode by paramore

[cozycryptidcorner]

it's always either "roman aesthetic" or "greek aesthetic" or "medieval aesthetic" there's NO appreciation for Byzantine era fashion or architecture. fuck you.

[cozycryptidcorner]

Be serious. Did you think this was medieval or Roman? Did you?

[pnfoutofcontext]

[nick-nellson]

DERRY GIRLS 2.03 The Concert

[guerrillatech]

[simariethehawk]

and hilariously that is not why it is called that.

It is the circle of the bears cause of ursa major and ursa minor, and the circle without bears cause ya'know opposite part of the sky.

We lucked right into that one....

[nerdfighterwhatevernumbers]

#so what you’re saying is#the stars dictate whether bears do or do not exist in places

[team-bear-arms-deactivated20220]

Astrology is real but only for predicting where bears will be

[the-tired-tenor]

Bears do not travel to places they cannot see their gods

[hugtheteadrinkthekitten]

I've seen this post before but it only just occurred to me that there might be some sort of underlying reason that "places where bears are" and "places where people name stars after bears" overlap.

[thememedaddy]