#princesses

The Jellyfish and the Hermit Crab princesses by mairithetree

“I’m afraid to sting you if we dance together”

“Have no fear, my shell armor won’t feel a thing.”

And they waltzed together, swayed by the gentle waves

Have a good day folks!

Grace Kelly in publicity photos for To Catch a Thief (1955)

It was so much more, than a dream.

Mirror mirror

Hallelujah

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With the series now over, we want to explore answers to questions that were never answered.  

Today’s topic: Ooo Royalty and Gems of Power.  

1. How did the princesses receive their gems?
   
2. How does a Princess become a Princess?
3. How did monarchies become so popular in Ooo?
4. How do the elementals end up so close to each other? Do they gravitate towards each other?
   

There’s no correct or straightforward answer, so have fun with it!

oak23:

so-many-efforts:

explorerrowan:

aqueerkettleofish:

prismatic-bell:

dollsahoy:

oak23:

balljointsandlace:

oak23:

I hope im not just a blog you follow but also the only person with 100% correct opinions about the little mermaid

Dish those opinions, let’s hear it

My biggest issue is the absolute ice cold take of “Ariel gave up her life/voice for a boy” when the film repeatedly shows Ariel was preyed upon by Ursula. She was exploited and stalked by the literal antagonist of the film into making a really bad decision, especially when Ursula knew Ariel was at her most emotional and the least unable to reach out to her support network.

And the deal Ariel made was meant to be an impossible task that she was tricked into taking AND STILL Ariel was smart enough to almost achieve it if Ursula wasn’t playing dirty and directly interfering in with it all.

Ariel was absolutely a victim of manipulation and circumstance, and people who use this as an irredeemable flaw in her character act like they got big brain energy when their brains are smooth as fuck.

(not to mention she was 16)

Also?

URSULA is the one who says Ariel’s doing it all for the guy.

According to Ariel herself, what she wants is:

—to be where the people are

—to see dancing and walking

—to ask her questions about the human world and get answers

—to not live in the ocean

—to be part of the human world

—to explore the human world

WHERE DOES ERIC COME INTO ANY OF THIS?!

She wants to see a world she isn’t able to see! She wants to have adventures, not a boyfriend! What the hell!

I would argue that she was totally fine with the boyfriend, but Ursula was the one who forced it to be a priority.

AND ANOTHER THING

Her first impression of him is a dude who is both attractive, capable, and willing to jump back on to a burning ship to save his dog.

Later, dude climbs aboard a SHIPWRECK that’s caught in a WHIRLPOOL so that he can RAM IT into a 150-foot-tall MAGIC SEA MONSTER in order to save her.

It’s not like girl was settling.

Ariel is a field anthropologist. That she happened to fall in love with a member of the culture she was studying isn’t exactly a problem.

Can we talk about the correlation between Ariel losing her voice to her feeling unheard/spoken over to the point of hiding her interests in a cave? Because I feel like there’s a rich vein of discussion in there

She gave up her voice cuz she didn’t place value in it! The whole point of Ariel giving up her voice is a case of dramatic irony! Both Triton and Ursula only placed value in Ariel’s voice in relation to how it benefitted them, and Ariel didn’t realise how vital it was.

It’s why it’s so great Eric is attracted to her voice first and foremost. Not her looks, or her face, it’s her voice!

batneko:

cinderella marries the prince

and it’s… fine. The prince is great! They’re in love, he’s very sweet and passionate, writing her poems and songs, giving her anything she wants. The time she spends with her husband is great.

but cinderella is not royalty, her family was noble but she never spent time in those circles. She’s used to being busy, she’s used to cooking and cleaning and mending. There are hours, days, where she has nothing to do.

time passes. cinderella learns the fancy lady type of needlework. Learns to ride horses. Reads a lot.

as is normal for royalty at the time, they travel and are hosted by nobles or stay at castles owned by the king. But even that variety begins to become routine. The prince is distracted, there’s a lot of young women living and working on their route. Daughters of nobles. Younger and prettier with soft hands that have never done a day’s work.

cinderella needs something to spend her time on, and there’s a part of her thinking a couple-only trip might get her husband’s attention again, so she suggests making an old castle that’s fallen into disrepair their “project.” It was built in the time when castles were made to be defensible, so it’s quite sturdy, but it’s overgrown and secluded. The prince doesn’t know why his family stopped living there either. A hundred years ago it was their summer home.

so they go. And they work. And for a while it’s great! But when they leave for winter cinderella’s husband forgets her once again. cinderella resolves to make the best of her life and stop worrying about a man who has gotten what he wanted from her.

summer comes again and this time cinderella goes alone to the old castle (minus staff, of course, but cinderella manages to narrow it down to only repair workers and one maid). She can cook and clean and mend again, but this time it’s her own choice. She is happy.

this summer they make more progress on repairs. The workers say that most of it can be salvaged, except one tower that’s been completely overgrown with vines and briars. It will have to come down, eventually, but for now it can be safely ignored.

cinderella has more free time now. The old castle has a surprisingly untouched library, though time and moisture have damaged many of the books. Behind a collection of greek poetry cinderella finds an old diary. Very old, in fact, at least a hundred years. It’s rude to read a diary, of course, but whoever wrote this is long dead, and cinderella is bored, so…

from the description of activities the author looks to have been nobility. Maybe even a princess. She’s sensitive and sweet and smarter than she seems to realize. If circumstances had been different cinderella wishes they could have been friends…

after the summer ends cinderella returns to her husband. He’s spending a lot of time with a young musician and cinderella can’t even work up the energy to care. She does some research about the castle and the family she’s married into, finds out the name of the princess who wrote the diary.

aurora. Cursed and forgotten. She died young, they say, in a plague that also took out the castle staff and her own parents. Luckily they avoided a succession crisis, but not so lucky for the dead.

time passes. cinderella goes to the old castle again and again, even out of season. Soon enough all that remains to be done is the old tower, and the builders say they should tear it down and fill the gaps before it gets cold.

one night cinderella is restless. The princess from the diary had been fond of that tower, and cinderella is far more attached to a dead woman than she ought to be. She gets out of bed, reads by candlelight, and finally goes to walk the empty halls.

she finds herself going to the tower. Pushing past the vines that don’t seem so troublesome really. They almost part before her. The stairs are perfectly intact, the door at the top is already cracked open. As if she should have done this years ago, cinderella steps into aurora’s bedroom.

she’s as beautiful as the stories say. And sitting under her hands, crossed across her stomach as it rises and falls, is a book of greek poetry.

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years later, people will tell the story of cinderella as a cautionary one. Don’t seek above your station. Don’t marry for prestige. After all, a girl who grew up as a servant once married the crown prince, and disappeared after only three years. She ran away, they say, she couldn’t handle the lifestyle.

two old women who run a bookshop together agree with the lesson. Marrying for the wrong reasons never ends well. It’s best to wait for someone you have things in common with, shared interests.

or, failing that, the more linguistic of the two says, wait a decade or ten for someone to fall in love with you from your diary.

her partner laughs and hits her with the socks she is mending.

Mulan: *puts salt in Snow White’s coffee and hands it to her*

Snow White:*sips coffee*

Mulan:

Snow White: *drinks the whole cup*

Mulan: Hum… Didn’t the coffee taste weird?

Snow White: Well, yes. But I didn’t want to hurt your feelings, so I drank it all.

Mulan, tearing up: Oh… Okay-

*Tiana and Jasmine at the McDonald’sdrive-thru*

Tiana: I’ll have the 20 piece McNuggets with fries and… what did you want again?

Jasmine:You~*winks*

Tiana: Jasmine, there are three cars behind us, hurry the fuck up.

Elsa: What’s for dinner?

Rapunzel: I can’t tell you… It’s a soup-rise.

Elsa: Is it soup?

Rapunzel:Isoup-pouse it could be-

Elsa: Enough with the soup puns.

Rapunzel:*sigh* You never soup-port my jokes.

(…)

Elsa: It was fucking tacos.

Cinderella:*spots Mulan, Merida, Moana and Raya sitting on a bench*

Cinderella: Why do you guys look so uncomfortable?

Merida: Sit down with us, so we can tell you.

Cinderella: *sits down*

Mulan: This bench is freshly painted.

Cinderella:

Jasmine: Who would win in a fight between Merida and Pocahontas?

Rapunzel: I can’t answer that, Merida is my girlfriend.

Jasmine: So Pocahontas?

Rapunzel:Obviously.

Snow White: I really want Elsa to like me back.

Cinderella: You gotta use what God gave you.

Snow White: What did God give me?

Cinderella: Your beauty.

Aurora: That’s a weird way to call her ass, but sure.

Anna: Do you want a hug?

Elsa:No

Anna: Did you even hear what I said?

Elsa:Yes.

Anna: What did I say, then?

Elsa: “Do you want a hug?”

Anna: Well, if you insist.

Ariel: I don’t know if they’ll notice, but I slipped a little note in each of the Princesses bags to let them know I love them!

(…)

Moana, pulling out a 10 page letter: What the fuck-

Raya: What state did you live in?

Elsa:Anxiety.

Anna:Delusion.

Merida:Anger.

Jasmine:Perfection.

Mulan:China.

Bele: China’s a fucking country.

*Raya meeting Vanellope for the first time*

Raya:Awn,smol!

Vanellope: I’m not small!

Raya:Awnn,smolandangwy!

Vanellope: *screams and runs to Snow White*

Raya:Awwnnn!Smol,angwy and loud!

[Merida]HSUAHAUWHSUSUAUWU

[Pocahontas] what’s that?

[Anna] a keyboard smash

[Pocahontas] a what?

[Belle] it’s a way of expressing laughter

[Pocahontas] how do I do that?

[Anna] just press anything

[Pocahontas]7

[Anna]HAUSHAUAUAUUAUSUS

Vanellope: Those bumper cars were fun!

Belle: That was the parking lot, Vanellope!

Belle: Who in the world is teaching you to drive like a maniac?!

[Hans, texting Anna (his ex)] so true exie

[Anna] I don’t like this

Honeymaren: Hey… you know Elsa?

Ryder:Yep.

Honeymaren: I like her.

Ryder:Oh.

Honeymaren: But don’t say anything, please.

Ryder: Sure, sure. Don’t worry about it.

*Elsa walks in the room*

Ryder: DAMN, ELSA! YOU AIMED FOR THE HEAD BUT GOT HER RIGHT IN THE HEART-

Honeymaren:*smacking Ryder while he laughs uncontrollably*

Elsa:

Snow White: So, are you guys getting along with Namaari?

Nancy: Definitely! She is a little hot-headed, but nothing I can’t handle.

Jane: What about your girls and Raya?

Snow White: It’s good! Great!

Nancy:But…?

Snow White: Let’s just say she is a bit impulsive… especially around pretty girls.

Jane: How so?

Snow White: Well… ever since Raya joined us, she already got scamed three times and gave our credit-card informations to a cute barista from the mall.

Mulan: Merida, hide!

Merida:??

Mulan: Your etiquette teacher is here. Aren’t you absent today?

Merida: I am.

Mulan: Then hide, you idiot!

Merida: No, you hide! I told them you’re dead, that’s why I didn’t go to school today!

Cinderella: What were you two doing out so late?

Merida: We, hum-

Cinderella: Ten words, or else…

Moana, counting on her fingers:We. Threw. Punches. At. Some. People. In. A. Fight.

Cinderella: That’s only nine-

Merida, still counting:Bitch.