#yeah i totally get this
“I think if I didn’t think about it too much, I would be making music or putting out music constantly. But I’m also aware that I’m a total control freak and I want everything to be perfect. So the idea of like, ‘oh I made these four songs, I’m just gonna put out an LP, cause I made it’ it’s just not how I think of it.”— Harry talking about making music for Apple Music
no more girlboss cinderella. society has progressed past the need for girlboss cinderella
was asked for context so listen. istg every Cinderella story since like. the 90s? 80s? for fucking ever has been “noooo Cinderella is a #badass who don’t need no man we promise” because, I don’t know, someone made fun of the fact she “needs a man to save her” and that escalated to the point where we can’t have the original story anymore?
Am I saying “we need to stick to the original story every time” no of course not, but like. It’s the fact that people are reinterpreting something that isn’t there. Cinderella isn’t about “woman needs man to save her” it’s about “an abused girl who has no way to escape her horrible home life remains nice and hopeful and eventually her kindness pays its way back to her even if the fucking universe has to send her a fairy just to give her a night off and start a domino effect that ends with her being happy and safe.”
Every Cinderella remake or retelling nowadays is about how she doesn’t need a man and can rescue herself, or about how her falling in love with the prince too fast was a mistake and he’s actually a dick, and it’s just clearly missing the point. It just. I honestly feel like most, if not all of the people misinterpreting the story never had to grow up in a toxic home environment that you literally cannot escape because there is no system in place that can help you, and you dream that one day all your problems would get magically solved with a wave of a wand and a few singing mice. Cinderella didn’t dream of getting married she dreamed of being happy, marriage just happened to come with that. She dreamed of not being abused 24/7 in a situation she couldn’t escape from and despite being treated like garbage since she was a child she remained a good fucking person and that’s why she gets rewarded at the end.
Girlboss Cinderella remakes are fine in small doses but when it’s like, every fucking Cinderella I see I just get so pissed because clearly some people never got over their “fairytales bad” edgy phase and Cinderella’s gotta deal with it.
Okay so this blew the FUCK up and I’d like to address some questions in the notes:
- No, I do not hate Gail Carson Levine’s book Ella Enchanted that is a masterpiece
- No, I do not like the 2015 Disney Cinderella remake that film is a two-hour middle finger to the 1950s film stop recommending it to me
- @everyone saying “what about a Cinderella where she gets rescued by a found family instead of a love interest” first of all yes, second of all Matilda
#i don’t understand the thing at all because she literally made herself a dress and was gonna go all on her own#and then the godmother (a woman) fixed it for her when her family ruined it#and then she got herself out for a night of fun#and then yeah the prince was like hey you’re really great do you want to live with me#but she saved HERSELF#i’ve always wondered what story everyone else is watching (fierycavalier) <–this is why we always read her tags, folks
