let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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cherry valley forever
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
$LAYYYTER
macklin celebrini has autism
Xuebing Du
occasionally subtle
Show & Tell
NASA
bliss lane
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
Noah Kahan
todays bird
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
Kiana Khansmith
noise dept.
taylor price
almost home
YOU ARE THE REASON
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@traditionalartist
Masterlist
DC:
2 single dads Clark & Bruce (SuperBat)
AF!Clark & slice-of-life!Bruce (SuperBat)
Secret-Masseur!Bruce (SuperBat)
DC × Marvel:
Popstar!Tim & ghost-singer!Peter (Red Spider)
Figure skating Red Spider
That's all for now!! Will be adding more in the future...
Peter trying to open up to the Batfamily while hiding that he is Spider-Man by saying increasingly incriminating shit like:
______
“I mean,” Peter said with a shrug, “I used to sell pictures of myself for money. Maybe I should do it again.”
Tim nearly choked on his drink.
Steph blinked. “...What kind of pictures?”
Peter snorted. “The kind people paid stupid amounts for if I got caught in the middle of things.”
Duke’s eyes widened in horror.
Peter kept going, blissfully unaware.
“I mean, it wasn’t THAT bad. My... uh... sponsor made sure I was taken care of.”
Tim stared. “Your… sponsor.”
“Yeah,” Peter said casually. “Found me when I was fourteen.”
Dick’s voice exploded through the still-active phone call Tim had forgotten to hang up.
“WHAT.”
“Honestly, he kinda ghosted me after he was done with me though.”
Steph made a strangled noise somewhere between sympathy and fury.
Duke looked physically ill.
“To be fair,” Peter continued, “I DID crash his—”
He stopped.
“...Uh. I mean, I was involved in a plane crash. Uh. His plane.” Peter rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. “He felt bad afterward and offered me a deal which i turned down?”
“What kind of deal?” Duke whispered.
Peter froze for a second too long before replying, “...An internship?”
Nobody believed him.
Not even remotely.
“After he died I spiraled a little,” Peter continued quietly. “Trusted the wrong guy.”
Tim’s stomach dropped.
Peter rubbed at his face tiredly.
“And then he uploaded a video of me to the internet.”
Jason’s voice immediately cut through Dick’s phone speaker, where he had been listening in on.
“HE WHAT?”
Steph slapped both hands over her mouth.
Duke looked ready to commit murder.
Tim had gone eerily still in the way Bruce usually did.
Peter noticed the silence and finally started looking uncertain.
Determining he should probably just finish the story, he continued, “I tried to fix it, but I screwed everything up and lost everyone.”
The room fell into horrified silence.
Peter looked around. Realized far too late that he had completely obliterated the mood. And promptly panicked.
“ANYWAY,” he announced way too loudly, “I’m broke again. Maybe I should start selling pics again, hahaha—”
“ABSOLUTELY NOT,” Duke said instantly.
“No,” Tim agreed immediately.
Somewhere on the other end of the line, Dick had gone suspiciously quiet with a darkened expression over his face that spelt trouble for the people that hurt his family, and Jason didn't feel like stopping him anytime soon.
And Peter....
Well, let's just say, maybe it might have been better for him if they found out he was Spider-Man.
THIS IS FUCKING GOLD
Plus the fact the Bats are dramatic and always expect the worse plus Peter's luck and lack of... wording while explaining himself – We ALL saw all the misunderstandings this being can cause independently of age, universe or whatever — It wouldn't be far fetched to expect they would actually go around and start trying hunting people down that doesn't even exist in their universe.
@idontwannafilloutajobapplication
tagged by @ireadmorethantalk!!
steal a prized possession from my goblin cave ahem i mean my bedroom
14 pound weighted blanket (gray)
Uncle Iroh Funko Pop
Don Quixote print
TXT “Starkissed” CD w/ Beomgyu and Hyuka photocards
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition “Jane Eyre”
Stray Kids DominATE jacket (black)
heap of piano sheet music
ice skates
LEGO Creator typewriter
@evaiswritingg @potatogunson @mallowmeltmiasma @ghost-bison @thepoetsandtheplays @masterofdumbassery @muffin-man2311 @justanotherstar002
Had to go with the Don Quixote print
take something from my evil lair
huge doctor who collection (action figures, comics, books, cds...)
cretacious-themed terrarium
earthenware jesus sculpture
projector light
evil cat
box of dark secrets
cd player + cd collection
cool light bulb i can control from my phone (colour, intensity, atmosphere)
I tag: @basmathgirl @polarity-undisturbed @addiemilfgomery @snowhopper79 @farewell-wanderlust7 @orbiten @abootstrapparadox
Thank you for tagging me @ghost-bison 💖
please steal one of my bedroom possessions
Snoopy soft toy
Framed sketch of David Tennant, by Pollyanna Pickering
Leather pencil case from Berlin
Portable watercolour easel & box
Catherine Tate in a Warhammer story audio CD
Paperback copy of the latest Thursday Murder Club book by Richard Osman
My Samsung Galaxy tablet
Gizmo from Gremlins sleep mask
Collection of clip-on earrings & costume jewellery
I tag: @lookmomitsmytmblr, @ageless-aislynn, @memsevpersonal, @teashadephoenix, @melodyandpond, @nico-di-angelfish, @trashboatprince, @giff4088, @deeneedsaname
yayyyyyy
Take my stuff
shelf of sketchbooks (finished)
basket of thrifted sweaters for unraveling
Woefully unfilled scripture journal
Zuko & Katara funko pops on my shelf
Amigurumi Doctor & Donna on my desk
Nana’s copy of Pride & Prejudice
Dog walking Fanny Pack
Collection of markers
3ds + weird assortment of games
Tagging @stardust948 @yapaholique @winterpeta1s
Thanks for the tag @lookmomitsmytmblr ❤️
Take my stuff
Giant strawberry duck plushie
box of crayons
model of a pirate ship
straw sunhat from the Bahamas
Pink Nintendo DS handheld console
Poster of the ATLA world map
stack of unused notebooks
humpback whales earrings
bouquet of fake sunflowers and pink peonies
Tags @wingchunwaterbender @janadoesstuffwrong @imjustheretoseetheprivateblogs @queencantaloupe @shirebarbie
@waterfire1848 and anyone else who wants to do it
Thanks for the tag @stardust948
Take my stuff
My copy of Michael Crichton's Congo
My rain gear
a yellow legal pad with a bunch of movies I want to watch written on it
The Tom Waits album Real Gone
A pair of black crocs
A brown-ish folding table
Justice League Lunchbox
Black Hydraflow Cup
A fake plant my mom bought
I tag @d0vegum @firstdove15 @ayukaze @gaymergal @botanicalbard @traditionalartist @desi-pluto @jeizet @dragonzlayerx12 & anybody who sees this and wants to do it
Thank you for tagging me @imjustheretoseetheprivateblogs ✨️💖✨️👑✨️
Take something from my bedroom
My big Mickey Mouse plushie
CLAMP manga series - X/1999, CCS, TRC, xxxHOLiC, Kobato., etc.
Hardcover Disney books series - Villains, Meant to Be, Queen's Council, etc.
Bandai Castle Craft Collection model kit - Cinderella
2 Mickey Mouse nuiMOs plushies
Re-ment miniature foods
12 Sakura Gelly Roll Stardust pens
Sleeping Beauty storybook replica journal
3 BBW PocketBac Holders - Snow White, Aurora & Life's a Fairytale
A stash of snacks - potato chips, biscuits, cookies, etc.
Tagging @peter-parking-lot @onewholeagarjelly @supaserajupiter @myndless88 @superman-creampieing-batman @awhoreintheory @touchofhemlocktea @dimblrtrake @takuyalovesdisney @chiplin & anyone else who wants to participate 😃😄😁
Age-reversed Damian, Tim, Jason, Dick.
fan art
REBLOG IF IT IS OKAY TO COME INTO YOUR INBOX AND SAY THE RANDOMEST SHIT I CAN THINK OF BECAUSE I REALLY WANT TO INTERACT WITH YOU.
Ten People You'd Like to Get to Know Better Game
I was tagged by @nanachiichan, thank you for the tag! ♡
✩ last song: Genesis - Invisible Touch
✩ currently watching: Ted Lasso; Go for it, Nakamura!
✩ current obsession: Free!; Kuroko's Basketball (sports anime in general, but these two especially ♡)
✩ currently reading: Blue Lock manga
✩ currently working on: getting better at drawing (trying different coloring styles, practicing anatomy, etc.)
✩ last google search: Kise Ryouta; I'm working on a drawing for his birthday that's coming up, and I was looking for references :)
tagging (no pressure!): @chosenreblog @ghostigirl00 @euyrdice @katsurolle @okkottsus @igrab @atsushilikesna @ghostbkg @thelaughingmagician @baubasaur
Feel free to ignore if you don't want to do it, or you've already been tagged! ♡
Thank you so much for tagging me! I love love love tag and ask games! Since I don't know if all my friends would be fine with getting tagged here you'll find the mutuals down below that I know would probably be okay with it
✩ last song: Big Time Rush - Invisible
✩ currently watching: SWAT & Jessica Jones
✩ current obsession: Kuroko's Basketball, Blue Lock, Haikyuu, Windy City Series & SWAT
✩ currently reading: Idk yet still need to decide on my summer TBR (you can add me on bookie @ melisas.next.chapter)
✩ currently working on: getting my life together & writing a KnB inspired interconnected sports romance series
✩ last google search: dark auburn hair | I'm trying to find natural hair colours for the GoM boys (minus Atsushi plus Kagami and Kuroko)
☆tagging (no pressure!): @wsknbfanaccnt @sleepzonesworld @evelhak
Hi! Thank you for the tag @chosenimagine. <3 Your project sounds wild!
✩ last song: Betty by Taylor Swift - sang it in karaoke last night.
✩ currently watching: Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Besette. It's really surprisingly good, nothing I ever would have picked myself or even heard of, I know nothing about these people... but I'm staying with a friend over the summer, and she keeps me in the straight and normie loop. (And I try to explain to her what fanfiction is.)
✩ current obsession: Ballet vlogs, scrambled tofu, vanilla oat milk, observing my friend's erratic love life, enjoying the summer open-mindedly and having Experiences, living more in the here and now than in my head.
✩ currently reading: Wicked... <3 finally started again on the books I had to drop last year/early this year because life kept getting in the way. Never been able to sustain multitasking well.
✩ currently working on: Finishing the current part of my fic series and finally getting these idiots out of high school after doing this for nearly a decade lmao, trying to get everything out of having better health for the moment so I'm especially focused on ballet, doing some psychology studies as fast (slow) as bureaucracy allows in my situation, and trying to get the last book in my fantasy series going in the next couple of months (so I'm mostly in the thinking phase).
✩ last google search: A nightclub my friend wants to go to tonight. (I've never danced at a club in my life, so, maybe tonight. I'm clearly at that point in ND life where you start trying things you couldn't because they were forced upon you, and you were chronically overwhelmed, but when you've recovered enough and can do things in your own terms with the accommodations you need, it's a different story.)
tags if you would like and sorry if you've done this a million times: @pumpkaboochucker, @womankisservermouth, @lylakoi, @myndless88, @misfitmiska, @padmsanakin, @active-mind-15
Thanks for the tag, @evelhak! ^_^ I do enjoy these little games.
✩ last song: Haruka Sakura's character song, Aim for.
✩ currently watching: Nothing at the moment, but I did recently finish watching a Korean drama with my dad and sister called Teach You A Lesson. It was pretty good.
✩ current obsession: The SuoSaku ship from WIND BREAKER and the Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream game.
✩ currently reading: Various SuoSaku fanfics.
✩ currently working on: Nothing at the moment.
✩ last google search: Youtube, lol.
Tagging: @temperatezone, @dolce-tenebra-toscana, @galemilker, @ithegodot, @traditionalartist, and anyone else who would like to participate. ^_^
Thanks for the tag @myndless88!!
⭐️ Last song: 僕たちは戦わない by AKB48
⭐️ Currently watching: "Kusunoki's Garden of Gods" on Ani-One Asia & "Marriagetoxin" on Muse Asia. Both series are available for free on YouTube.
⭐️ Current obsession: DC × Marvel fics, especially the ones with the "Peter Parker/Spider-Man is Dick Grayson/Nightwing's Biological Son" trope ✨️💖✨️💖✨️💖✨️
⭐️ Currently reading: Red shadows over Gotham by SolarFlareX
⭐️ Currently working on: Nothing at the moment.
⭐️ Last Google search: Bandai Namco Saizeriya Miniature Collection - I LOVE collecting food miniatures (especially the ones made by Re-ment & some made by Kenelephant), though I have none of the Saizeriya series at the moment.
Tagging (no pressure!): @awhoreintheory @peter-parking-lot @superman-creampieing-batman @supaserajupiter @broken-synchronicity @onewholeagarjelly @nigaki @touchofhemlocktea @itsbatkingcazzle & anyone else who want to participate!! 😃😄😁
so uh tagging game
The last fictional character in your photo library, is the person you gonna sit next to in a 8 hour flight!
OHHH EMU?? Not bad
tags(sorry weh): @teto-teto505, @veilofpoe, @loftedlow, @arsonistic-carp-0-2, @pompomme4, @never-end1ng-m1sery, @mxnihil + OPEN TAGS
Does my oc count? She'd be alright to sit next to...
@veryhungrycaterpillar-official @verysillything @iliketoeatair @blankblackbox1 @writers-offical @penny-offical @nico-di-angelo-offical @mentally-wolfed @dyingpen-offical @radiant-sunlight-angel @musiclly–declined @manicali @the-evil-skull @radioactive-gem @shardbound @energywaste @kerosiiniviini + open tags
your oc is really pretty!!
i guess im sitting next to one of my ocs too (she's the sweetest, the flight wouldn't be bad at all)
@psyche-official + open tagssssss
oh cool hang on
oh..........crap......well that'll be an interesting flight
@abrickofanticipation @acreatureinyourwalls @axylcalcorcipher @blondeofficial @bisexual-kitkat-offical @calcium-is-screaming @caffeineaddictedandindecisive @evyyy77 @fluidlee @gardenofpebbless @gingerr-offical @genderfluiddisaster @library-of-hell @lwstere @melucia @opossum-on-heroin-offical @pond-scum-offical @pickledoesthetumbling @ray-ofiight @thedamsolangelofan @thevillainisalwaysthebest @two-minutes-five-minutes-ago @thedeadskincellsonyourpillow @winterinkspill
it was Caine, what did y'all expect
@marbled-pulse and open tags :3
Excellent. I possess 5 fingers on each hand so I'm happy with this.
also tagging @marbled-pulse because I don't want to hijack @/evyyy77
@deepredsquid @raynilikescats @kevindaydayiseveryday + open tags
oops i genuinely didn’t see when @evyyy77 tagged me </3
ummm does this count as caine or bubble??? if it’s bubble i’m so screwed i could NOT put up with him for so long. if its caine then it’d probably be fun as long as he’s not crashing out like in episode 8
@vs-vapor @ilovebugs99 @caine-the-chair-smacker @alastormooseboi @zekehasarrived @kreechurthecrazykat + open tags :3
also @the-voices-speak cause i wanna be annoying /silly
oh? not bad... considering i lowk have a crush on him or whatever
@theberd1225 @cat-sword @ground--bird + open tags :33
My first try on the design of a character in my bf's game. Definitely not the final one, I believe. His name is Ekko btw
I think I'll survive
open tags
uhhh hmm.
it's gamzee (x2)
I KNOW THERE'S MULTIPLE OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS BUT THERE'S TWO GAMZEES AND THEY'RE THE MOST PROMINENT ONES SO
open tags
UHM. I DONT FUCKING KNOW??
it’s either my sona YIFA or just @muffinstuffins11 . idfk and idrc.
@jaedyn-here @theannoyingparasite @lyricamaxing @askthesonnellin0s
CAINE!!!! IM 110% DRAWING BEES AND ALL THAT WITH HIM
@jaedyn-here @oz4rtful @sleepy-k0i @nylesfuckingdies @nyxhunter-9010 @igisarus @askthenoli @ask-mafioso @star-shootingz
Nyx: “Depends on if OCs count, cause if so that’s literally just my sona in a mafia family. If not then that’ll be interesting cause it’s both Griefer and Hatred Builder man from Blocktales.”
Oh, who is you?
Bro is NOT Lord God almighty.
I just hope her ahh doesn't cry as I have to treat her like I'm her mom...
@vinylv1 @khrystenapofficial @insert-the-4thwall-entity @thecyberneticozian @gmvofficial @lololily75 @anettedasillybilly
WHOAAA YES MAMA YES
(Fanart not mine)
@blairefrances @sentient-car-hell @haileycakesworld @gerydabirb @hopperdoodles @jozieyobun
Oh I’m so plotting Tim’s demise with him
@sentient-car-hell @dearlycervine @smartdreamer @dragonkilatness @strawberry-hii @skillfullymoltenbehemoth @fuckingmonsterjammed @temmie-temmie and those who see it and want to join
I'll say this, miles tails prower
@number-1-spud-fan @laura-the-yellow-cat @aly-and-her-friends @aqwertyjjw-1208 @chippkamuri @megamanzerov20 @sammanthathegay @thejotatoblog
idk if I should be concerned or happy
I think hed die in the folds of the seat
@ryuuhusbando @akamushiiiii @blablablasphemy @hotdog-puppy @haruharuharumiii @tacomommy @shslcyuutie @fishoffortune @finnie-imjustkyukurarin and open taggssszzzzz
im sitting next to gay psychotherapists..yippee..
(yes the art is mine)
@blleehhh @cyradelkissing @cru5h-cascades @maybe-arisu @ceilingfanofdoom + open tags (you don't need to do this if you don't want to btw)
ZUCKER!!! YESSS!!! :DDD
@ruinationz @aclockworkcolei @ilivefordarcy @alterrune + open tags!
Right. I asked @goldenhydreigon47 about Goodra. I was wondering why this thing was here.
She'd be adorable, so...sure, why not?
Tags (no pressure btw): @blossomaaoc @flowerbarrel @johnlocsin-johnyakuza @goldenhydreigon47 @ligknight @hermitrad @echotooth @frog-man-alt @sailorsplatoon @novanack @capt-sievert @icilarastudios
Sorry I didn't realize I was tagged in this till later
Anyways
Seems I'm next to Stay Gold who just left the Backrooms, so I suppose hearing their tales about it and Golshi's antics wouldn't be half bad.
Tagging: @theleastgothgoth @idkbruvok @bunnyloveslovino @johnlocsin-johnyakuza @baltimore-belle @fruit-tea
i think it would be pretty pleasant
@eclipsed-lunala @corvid-dance @8bit-tincan @itsalwayslavender
We stay winning
@sadcabbagetheyofthelake @invalidchecksum @bewareoffauves @rose-of-rubicon
Besides the logistics of getting an 8 foot tall telepathic horse man into a plane comforts, I think we chill
@drewpdrop @the-thing-of-worms @be-gentle-with-littluns
Maya and Phoenix would be pretty calm, but I would have to worry about impromptu murder accusations
@monsterfucker-research-wizard @akronus-has-thoughts @queerbuwan
Yeah I think I'd be just fine.
@fruitcakebro @the-thing-of-worms @drewpdrop
HAHAHA, MY SEATMATE IS MY ART OF WESLEY WESTON-
Yeah, I think we'll get along swimmingly. Thanks for the tag, bro.
@milkymiks @feral-asexual-possum @touchofhemlocktea
Not bad if not much for conversation
@nevion @dirtycombatboots @nigaki
This is going to be a very pleasant flight.
@luckycloverease @joekitsu @batmanfrnoclickbait @gotham-blight @supermans-babygirl-bruce
I'm going to be so cozy with my malewife 😩
@superman-creampieing-batman @supermansemotionalsupportbatussy @starry-eyed-princesss
UGH fuck you Rav I should've been the one to use that pic of him, you're always stealing my shit
Anyways I'm gonna cuddle this cutie all the way to my destination<33
@butterflywordsmith @traditionalartist @chiplin @lovecatdolls @urk-m @vanta-bat @occasionalauthoring
I'm about to have the best flight of my life 🎵
@myndless88 @onewholeagarjelly @awhoreintheory @supaserajupiter @broken-synchronicity @peter-parking-lot @jyvyy @sourkreem @egophiliac & open tags~
I needed this drag. Let’s change guys and not look back
working out your brain is a must!!
• hydrate it by drinking lots of water
• eat dark chocolate and blueberries and walnuts and salmon and other foods high in antioxidants!!
• play little brain games on your phone; I like wordconenct! anything that makes you think!
• read books. It’s simple but necessary. Even better - join a book club, or read with a friend, so you can have discussions after. This will improve your reading comprehension.
• do puzzles - it doesnt have to be sudoku, I love playing Beat Saber on the Oculus Rift because it makes my brain have to match colorful patterns to physical movements very quickly!
• learn a new dance - even a tik tok trendy dance. Learning new dance moves are proven to strengthen synapses!!
• go bird watching, or foraging, or anything outdoors that requires you to explore pattern recognition and visual searching
• watch a movie with the intent of analysis - this is best done with a cinephile friend!! talk about tropes and symbolism and character growth
• cross stitch, or sew, or do anything that requires matching nimble hand movements to patterns
• play or learn an instrument!
• develop a consistent sleep schedule (or as close to consistent as you can get!)
• when eating, try to identify the ingredients and flavors you’re perceiving!
I hope this helps :)
I like how this went from me feeling like “hm why is this attacking me 🤨” at first, but feeling grateful seeing an added guide on a genuine expansion on a “ how to” work out the brain. This genuinely helps a bunch. People find solace in doing activities that get them through life by doing said activities of phone/tv or if that’s all they’ve ever known in their life to get them through things + etc tho. However, this was very impt to point out. Slowly beginning incorporating things to work the brain in ones own time.
legs tutorial
a female-centric tutorial for legs <3
we start with bones.
as you can see, the femur juts out, and there's a gap between it and the iliac crest-- this forms what ppl know as "hip dips". some women don't have them.
here's some legs with different fat and muscle contents for comparison
but why are they *shaped* like that? (I hear u ask). well, muscles. muscles can Bulge or Wrap. Think of it as a garter on a thigh-- the thigh bulges, the garter wraps. the thigh then bulges gloriously around it.
here are some simplified representations of the important muscle groups in the leg.
the gracilis/abductor magnus is the "inner thigh". it bulges.
the rectus femoris is a part of the massive bulges we see on muscular legs. it's the middle one
the vastus medialis and vastus lateralis are muscles on the lower inside and outside of your thigh, and are the other bulges you see on muscular legs
the sartorius originates at the hip and wraps around the rectus femoris to terminate at the medial femur (inner knee-ish). it's the garter in this example-- it causes those bulging muscles to squish in the inner thigh.
the anterior tibialis and some other muscles wrap around the shin area.
the gastrocnemius is what we know as the calf. it's the meat of your lower leg, the bulging muscle we all think of when we think "calf"
DISNEY LADIES + THE SOB™
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Mulan (1998) Aladdin (1992) Alice in Wonderland (1951) Beauty and the Beast (1991) The Little Mermaid (1989) Peter Pan (1953) Cinderella (1950) Sleeping Beauty (1959) Pocahontas (1995)
Luis Camnitzer - The Photograph (1981)
The Screenshot (2014)
The Reblog (2014)
Bahahahaha love this
The Unnecessary Comment (2014)
The Revival (2026)
The Expanding Reblog Map (2026)
I wanna know what people assume about me because of my tumblr.
Put an assumption in my ask. I’ll confirm or dispute it. I’m not gonna be mean or anything, I’m just very interested.
not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally
what mutual is prev
my liege lord
my loyal knight
my wise wizard
my evil advisor
my brother in arms
my lady muse
my wild mermaid friend
my fellow alchemist
my dashing rapscallion
my monstrous foe
I made an art/anatomy tutorial about birds! I hope people will find it helpful!
I never liked those posts that reduce the Disney princesses to “girl who overacts about something and dramatically flings herself down and bawls” (super popular in the early 10’s and somehow that’s how a shocking majority view the classics now) but after an Aladdin (1992) rewatch, it’s especially egregious that they ever included Jasmine in that.
This part. This is the part I’m talking about
This is not a woman falling to pieces because her father won’t let her marry a man she just met.
This is a woman born to a life she has very little say in. She has never had a genuine friend (besides a tiger). She is facing a marriage to a man she doesn’t know and doesn’t like but duty (and the law) demands it. So she took a risk, ran away, ran to a world she doesn’t know or understand and when she landed in trouble (serious, serious trouble) a stranger came to her aid. She finally (finally!) made a real connection with someone but they didn’t get much time together before the guards showed up and she had to reveal who she was.
This moment when she’s crying her heart out? It comes after she’s been told that the first person she ever connected with, the first person to be genuinely interested in her for who she is and not what she is, the first real friend she has ever made, was executed… because of her.
She believes a good, innocent person has lost their life because of her actions, and what’s more, it brings home the reality for her that she cannot have a normal life or normal relationships, because see the consequences one little attempt wrought?
I actually love this trope. People treat crying like some kind of moral failure. Boys shouldn't cry, girls *can* cry, but that's also what makes them inferior. If this is not an example of toxic masculity, I don't know what is.
Crying is normal. Even if it's over something trivial. We all face a lot of struggles in their lives, whether we acknowledge it or not. Something minor might end up breaking the camel's back.
Anyway, here's one of my favorite scenes in Beauty and the Beast:
Belle's reaction is completely understandable. I think Mrs. Potts put it best: "The girl lost her father and her freedom all in one day." That's not overreacting!
Thank you so much for adding Belle!
Really, none of the classic princesses deserve the misinterpretation.
Cinderella?
Again, this is not after someone told her “yOu CaN’t MaRrY a MaN yOu JuSt MeT”—this is after she went to great lengths to get ready for the ball, adhering to the intentionally difficult (meant to be impossible) stipulations set by her abusive step-mother for her to be allowed to attend (when really she was invited and had as much right as the others to attend). She made that dress (I can’t recall off the top of my head if the classic animated version was also her mother’s old dress she restyled or not but still, she put in a ton of work on top of all the extra house work) and what did her step-family do? They tore to shreds while she was wearing it. Of course she’s lost hope: it’s the final straw after years and years of doggedly remaining optimistic despite constant harsh treatment.
Let’s go to another favourite: Mulan.
Mulan’s just had the worst day.
She tried her hardest to live up to her family’s and her society’s expectations and vision of a perfect bride but she failed. Not only did it go wrong, but she was publicly humiliated by the Matchmaker—by extension, humiliating her family.
Granted, her family has been kind and sympathetic about the whole thing. Her father even goes to encourage her, assuring her of his unconditional love for her and his confidence that she’ll get it right next time.
She’s just beginning to smile when the drums pound and news of war reaches their village. Her father—her beloved father who’s already a veteran and lives with a disability—is expected as the only male in their family to suit up and head out in the morning.
Mulan can’t help. Nothing she says will be listened to and she can’t take his place (until, of course, she thinks of a way to do so which this moment of crying it out in the rain leads to—score one for having a good cry and clearing your head).
There’s of course more. Take any princess’ dramatic crying momentTM and review the context and I’ll bet you’ll see it’s never as trivial as some have framed it. And, yes, like prev pointed out, it’s this awful thing of people believing boys can’t cry and girls can but then they can never be taken seriously.
Crying is healthy. And crying in response to emotional distress is totally normal. Writers and storytellers across the ages have understood it and portrayed it.
Has anybody added Ariel already?
She didn't deserve to see the things that she held dearly destroyed right before her eyes by her own father. No, it wasn't just about the cute guy she just met. Her family had never approved of her interests and she felt so isolated that she hid them away. Just collecting random stuff that she felt oddly inspired by. Then Triton obliterated it. Her memories, all the care she put into organizing it and keeping it safe—gone. He couldn't accept her passion because it didn't align with his beliefs, so he destroyed it. The ultimate rejection from a parent, the very people who are supposed to love you and make you feel safe.
My girl deserved—which she ultimately got in the end—but still.
Let's take a sec to mention Aurora.
Or Briar Rose, who she thought she was.
She's not just crying because her aunts/the three fairies told her she couldn't be with this guy she just met. She's crying because she just found out her entire life is a lie. She's not a simple peasant girl living with her eccentric aunties, she's a princess. She's a princess of a kingdom she knows little about, has parents she's never met, she's going to go see them today, they're going to leave their little cottage to go to this castle she doesn't even remember, meet people she can't remember... The 'hunter' she met in the woods? She can't keep visiting him after all, she's a princess and has to leave everything about this life behind her today
and on top of all of that, it is her goddamn birthday when she learns all this.
Snow White didn't collapse prettily somewhere, she tripped and fell while running for her life and was too scared/exhausted to get back up.
She's a young woman who was reduced to a servant in her own home by her abusive stepmother, and who knows how long the abuse was going on before her father died, and then one day she's told she can wear a nice dress again and go out with the huntsman to pick flowers. Happy day! She's finally being given a day off! She's leaving the castle! She's going to see the flowers, to be among nature! How wonderful! She has a wonderful time, she comforts a baby bird... huh. That's an awfully long shadow behind her........
So she turns around and the huntsman is standing over her with his knife out to stab her. That alone would be traumatizing to anyone, but then even as he can't do it he tells her that her stepmother has ordered her killed. Her stepmom is no longer satisfied with demeaning her and keeping her as a servant, she wants her dead. So he shouts for her to run, run and never come back, and while she's running in a panic through a forest she's never been in before, trying to comprehend and make sense of what she was just told and what nearly happened to her, her own terror makes everything look monstrous, scaring her even worse.
She's completely justified in just lying there and crying after she's finally lost her footing and collapsed, she has had a horrible last half hour on top of years of abuse.
I fucking love this panel- 🫶🏻
