I am Dot

[ooppo]

I remember one time I got INSANELY high off of edibles while playing Among Us, and it quickly became apparent to the other players online. I forget how honestly but literally anything "sus" I did was ignored by everyone because I was so fucking high. I tested this theory by standing in front of a body and the person that actually reported it didn't even mention me. The funniest part was when I was trying to do wires, I kept fucking up over and over again, so I was just standing in front of wires for actual minutes trying to figure it out. A small crowd of players gathered around me to watch and would get mad every time someone reported a body or emergency meeting because "she's never going to get her tasks done if you keep interrupting them." I don't think anyone cared about winning at that point, they just wanted to see the high crew mate succeed in her tasks.

[nu-sinfiltro]

👑👑👑 WIP baby charming siblings lol (hoping to get this done before christmas) 👑👑👑

[sodiumvaporss]

i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember

[omtai]

When you are brutally losing at chess implore your opponent to look inwards its called the little pony gambit

[pontipines]

Ok,but wanna ear MY personal theory on why Apple is blonde insted of black haired,and how Destiny works? Consider this:

My idea Is that of fate/destiny in Ever After as a sentient force, being sick of being made to repeat itself so it acts out increasingly ironic ways that force those who benefit from its repetition to stumble. We know from the books that fate isn't a fixed force but is malleable. In fact, the book shows Raven that she won't fulfill the destiny of the classic "evil queen," but rather, she will specifically live her mother's life, complete with an invasion of the kingdom. Even if we watch the show, things seem malleable, so much so that Darling's kiss awakens Apple even though Daring IS indeed her Prince Charming. Therefore, my opinion is that fate exists, but it is a sentient and fluid force, not dictated by the Storybook of Legends. in fact, the opposite is the opposite: Grimm's Destiny system is an aberration.

Hence Apple—I have a lot of opinions about Apple birth dynamic,but regarding the hair topic: I belive that, as in other versions of Snow White, black hair isn't just genetics, but the "Queen's wish" is needed to ensure it. However, given the power the White family holds at the time the story takes place, Snow White decided not to do so—and that's when fate took its course, punishing their hybris with Apple blonde hair.

I think this personal principle also applies to other kids like Dexter who mysteriously has brown hair, Blondie's straight hair, or Lizzie's lack of a birthmark. And theirs is probably not the only generation that has suffered this.

[rosabunnie]

more ever after high thoughts

[pontipines]

It's a small thing, but I appreciated the fact that in Kiss and Spell, Ginger's "high-school heavyweights" weren't Apple and Rave, but Briar and Faybelle. From a narrative symmetry standpoint, they're much more fitting for Ginger's problem, namely her difficulty fitting in and the subtext of being an immigrant girl.

On the one hand, there's Briar, who is canonically the school's Hit Girl, loudly popular, and who contrasts well with Ginger's socially awkward nature. This is also thanks to the Hopper issue—Briar is the ideal to which the losers (Ginger and Hopper) aspire, but which she rejects (without malice, of course).

On the other hand, Faybelle is perfect as a foil for Ginger because she embraces her destiny...and therefore also rejects Ginger because, from her perspective, she's betraying their community. He treats her badly and his mother, but there is also a certain sense of interest in his words (Ginger×Faybelle as Needy×Jennifer in Jennifer's Body, see the vision!!!)

And even if the story ultimately (unfortunately) lapses into "let's get Hopper," it's nice that Ginger at the end of the book doesn't choose either path, but has her own circle with Blondie and Humphrey who are a truly mixed group of royalty, commoners, and rebels.

[pontipines]

APPLE×BEAUTY PROPAGANDA! Blondie's lockpicking skills are so powerful, she can even open Apple's closet!

Briar 100% had a "good luck, babe" moment when Apple and Daring became official. Anyway, I hope you like these two doomed lesbians as much as I do <3

[pontipines]

I mentioned this before, but I have a lot of brain worms about the nomenclature in EAH,from a in-universe prospective. First of all, from a canonical point of view we know thanks to the Charmings' grandfather that the characters actually have both proper names and fairy-tale titles,

Besides the fact that I likebthat it's a bit like Dragonball where each clan is recognized by a thematic name; it gives that sense of "modern fantasy",and i have my theory about how they choose the name;the whole "why name your daughter Apple/Briar if it's killed you" thing makes a lot more sense in-universe. I mean, Snow White's poisoned apple is a symbol of legitimacy at this point in the story; Snow White says it clearly in the second book, "I wasn't afraid when I was poisoned," and it makes perfect sense that "Apple" has become a White household name. For them, the apple isn't an object of death, but rather the portkey to officially becoming queen. And i like to think that it was a legittimate act of hybris from White family,as a mockery of the Evil Queen. Ditto for Briar. While more tragic, I think the Beauty family actually sees the rose garden of thorns as something positive.

[writergracethepanda]

I'm just imagining the relief EAH characters must have felt when they realized what the end of strict destinies would mean for them, specifically in regards to having kids. Some people would feel relief, because they don't have to have kids they don't want anymore. Some might be glad that they can now have kids for the right reasons, and not because they must continue their stories' lineage. Some might realize for the first time that they do actually want kids when they didn't before, because they didn't want to have kids in a world where they'd be forced into a role they didn't want. Like with everything, they now have a choice when it comes to having kids. It's so so important.

[whateverafteriguess]

this is one of my favorite images of them. the sillies

[pontipines]

Since Raven and Apple aren't the only one with mommy issues,there you have: A thorough list of all parenting issues based on what we know from both the shows and the books

Feel free to ask me the reasoning behind it if you have any questions (it's the funniest part).

[whateverafteriguess]

thinking about that one scene in tuota where red is telling raven about her story and she gets so happy talking about badwolf. like she never gets to talk about him with anyone, let alone say she has a husband. under the circumstances, they’re still so in love after all this time and it’s so heartwarming

[class-of-classics-blog]

* Badwolf's first day at work at Ever After High*

Grimm: And that would be all for now. Any questions?

Badwolf: When is the earliest I can retire?

[tattypoo]

i feel like EAH should've explored the idea that older variants of fairytales are considered the "ancestors" to the current gen.

Then you could reference how in many Snow White variants, including the original Grimm, the Evil Queen is Snow White's biological mother, not stepmother

you could have Apple having to confront the fact that she's pushing Raven into a destiny her own family once suffered: Snow Whites having to abandon their happily ever afters and be forcibly turned into Evil Queens and try to kill their daughters

[theotherbackgrounder]

“So you know the thing that Ever After High is said to be a show about the children of fairytale characters, meanwhile Disney had a show called Descendants. But in actuality, Descendants was a show about the children of Fairytale characters, meanwhile the story of Ever After High was about the descendants of fairytale characters…”

[thelilylav]

Okay guys, I'm doing it. I'm officially on break, which means I have time to do a full rant about Apple's Royally Ever After doll and what it says about her character! Now, if you're lucky enough to not know what this fuckass doll looks like, I'll show you:

Fun fact, for years this was the only Apple doll I owned until I got big girl money and could buy myself her core doll. For those who don't know, the Royally Ever After doll is supposed to show characters after they have completed their destinies.

But here's the issue; this doll doesn't look like Apple White. Like, at all. Which, I fear, is actually proving a very good point about Apple's relationship with her destiny. When I originally got this doll, I remember being very confused because this doll didn't look anything like Apple. It shows her having completed her destiny, but she doesn't look happy. According to Apple in both the books and show, she should be the happiest she's ever been now that she's completed her fate, but her doll doesn’t look happy at all. In fact, I’d say it’s the only Apple doll that actually looks angry.

Not to mention the style is all wrong for Apple. Her character is very cohesive in the way she’s styled, and this goes for her dolls as well. They very consistently have low (often sweetheart) necklines, a poofed skirt and a lot of red in the palette. White is her accent colour, it’s not the main colour in most of her outfits, so having it be so absent feels strange. Her hair is straight, which it just… isn’t. She has curly hair, and always does. Her dragon games doll may have straight hair, but even in the special she had curly hair. It’s an odd choice to make. The mermaid skirt feels weird compared to her usual puffy skirts where at most she has a dropped waist. Not to mention the eyelashes being weirdly emphasized and the gold collar.

Oh, the collar. That’s what really gets me about this outfit, because it’s such a characteristically un-Apple like thing to wear. However, there is someone else who wears a collar that looks almost identical to the one she has on, someone who is a lot more known for her mermaid skirts, someone who never got a Royally Ever After despite being the other main character in the show.

For a character not present in this doll line, Raven truly has a way of haunting this design. And I think that’s the point.

For all Apple’s posturing about destiny and how much she wants to be the next Snow White, time and time again we see that she doesn’t actually want to follow through on her story. She just wants the happy ending, without having to go through the conflict with Raven. She consistently treats Raven being evil as a fun character quirk that will go away with the end of their story, but we the audience know this isn’t the case, and I think this doll really shows how Apple’s worldview would have shattered upon following through with her destiny. Ironically, the doll Apple’s Royally Ever After doll looks most like is SDCC Raven, where she’s in her Evil Queen attire.

Apple after her destiny isn’t happy, she’s haunted. This whole doll reeks of longing for a friendship that no longer exists, and a shattered belief in a destiny that wasn’t as happy an ending as she thought it would be.

To quote wicked, there’s a kind of a sort of cost and a couple of things get lost.

[pontipines]

"Apple would have hated her fate." THAT'S WHAT I WAS SAYING! Or rather, I believe there's a profound difference between Apple's Destiny on paper and what she actually wants by signing that hateful book. Unfortunately, this nuance was lost in the show, but in the books, it's clear that Apple was raised to be a QUEEN, the kind of monarch who rules, not the stereotypical "fairytale princess." In fact, she's always caught brooding and studing what the best actions are for a ruler, unlike, for example, Briar or Ashlynn*, who don't seem to have been raised to rule but only to "play the part."

And to be fair, this is one of Apple's redeeming qualities: She is actually the one with the better leadership skills of the two protagonists (something that Raven develops throughout the books,even tho Raven has better class consciousness). The problem is that I think the further Apple went, the more she would have realized the heavy social rules that plague their world, and that even though she's the least subject to them, since she's like... the most privileged person in the kingdom, second only to Grimm himself, she would still have paid the price. Because she would have realized that she MUST marry Daring even after realizing she doesn't love him (the kiss would have worked because they both signed, but they still wouldn't have fallen in love), that maybe having children isn't exactly her calling, that her dwarf "friends" don't know her the way Briar and Blondie did, and that she can't live with them anymore because one is in a coma and the other is a commoner, so social class has divided them. That not only her life, but the lives of so many other people have gotten worse since they signed.**