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NASA
Peter Solarz
Misplaced Lens Cap
Sade Olutola
Today's Document
Monterey Bay Aquarium
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year

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Stranger Things
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Game of Thrones Daily
trying on a metaphor
todays bird
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"

@theartofmadeline
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Wolf’s Defining Shots
101 Dalmatians (1961)
Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.
We are working a con, walking the razor’s edge. On one side, gold. On the other side… painful, agonizing failure!
I’m like a shooting star
I’ve come so far
I can’t go back to where I used to be
huh? oh, i’m not a princess. i’m a waitress.
Darling. Could you, like, chill for a sec?
Freaky Friday (2003), dir. Mark Waters
for hayley.
childhood movies: the parent trap (1998) dir. nancy meyers
“so if your mom is my mom and my dad is your dad and we’re both born on october 11th, then you and i are like sisters.” “sisters? hallie, we’re like twins!”
DisneyDaily’s Top 10 Animated Films: 1/10 Moana
There comes a day when you’re gonna look around and realize happiness is where you are.
I wrote a college paper once about gender dynamics in Disney films, and part dealt with the emphasis of androgyny in this film. Mulan is an outsider and unsure of her position of the world when she is adhering to both a total feminine role (the matchmaking scene) and a total masculine role (disguised as a male soldier) and it’s only when she’s able to embrace both sides that she is able to fully showcase her abilities and ultimately save the day.
The entire climax, from climbing the poles using sashes, counting on Shan Yu’s complete dismissal of women to get the Emperor to safety, to this scene where she literally uses a symbol of womanhood (within the movie at least) to disarm the villain of his symbol of masculinity and beat him at his own game, shows Mulan relying on the aspects of her femininity that she has grown up adhering to and adapting the tactical knowledge and fighting skills that she learned disguised as a male soldier to those aspects. The result is a unique and innovative view of the world and her course of action that leads her to save the day when the male soldiers failed and the women wouldn’t even have been allowed to try.
This commentary is so curious to me because it’s such an excellent example of white/western cultural bias in portrayals of other cultures. Because fans by themselves are a gender neutral object in Ancient China, especially the large type that Mulan uses in this particular scene is actually masculine if you must code it historically, and in Chinese hands would be used as a tool to support her masculinity and not the other way around. These paper fans are used in general by (male) scholars and artists who decorate its surface with art and calligraphy. It is a symbol of (masculine) intellectual power and the intellectual elite. And if you look to Asian martial arts films, they are a common and almost exclusive weapon of men.
Yet the movie takes this deeply cultural object and either willingly or ignorantly makes it an object of womanhood or femininity. To the extent of my knowledge, this is mostly reflective of western social history. And draws from the coquettish ways Georgian? Ladies would use the fan to signal their romantic interest and all the history and influence around it. The equivalent object for the Chinese lady would in fact be the handkerchief, or a hairstick if you want something pointy.
And it’s all the more curious because at the end of the day it’s a western depiction of a foreign story made for western consumption. It is not a story made by and for Chinese little girls, but to empower and inspire those in the West. Which provides the context for the above (excellent) analysis. It does not need to fully take Chinese history into context because it was never made for us, despite being explicitly about us.
Xiangyuan Jie’s watercolor backgrounds for Lilo & Stitch (2002)
look! the moonlight shows us for what we really are. we are not among the living, and so we cannot die — but neither are we dead.
Jack’s one of the nine pirate lords. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
@usergif 1 year celebration: shuffle challenge day 3: color manipulation | typography | blorbo
“Oh yes, the past can hurt. But from the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”
The Lion King (1994) dir. Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff
get to know me meme: 4/10 animated movies → tarzan (1999) “The dream is gone, but then there’s hope.”