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Unfortunately, Rose killing Jack just meant he joined the spirits in the Veil. The Veil that Ace, due to its magic and being blessed by Ares, can see into.

She unintentionally made it so that Jack could follow them back to Auradon and just keep tormenting it

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Rose; "I could fix him." Good for you, I guess, but I could be the one thing in this world he's truly afraid of

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Celia Facilier; daughter of the shadow man (i imagine her to be 16 here)

i don’t see enough of her, I’m fixing that. design inspired by @harriyanna​‘s progenies Freddie Facilier :3 

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Okay, I don't hate these outfits. I can even maybe see a real person wearing Red's outfit (Chloe's I can't really see someone wearing in real life but I'm giving a pass because she's a fantasy princess.) Red having pigtails is slightly weird to me but I'm currently rocking the swoop fringe so I can't judge, and it looks like Chloe's edges are done better (the two swirls and two sequins thing was super weird. I'm sorry, but it was.)

Actually, all of these outfits do look better, more like the original series, things people might actually wear. So props to the costume designers for that. It even looks like Kylie and Malia are closer to their normal skin tones (can't tell with the actresses for Pink and Hazel yet, or for any of the guys,) which is great.

The costumes stepped up, thank the gods.

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ALADDIN (2019)

dir. guy ritchie

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Birb is so right, tho. You're a blessing to the writing community as a whole and I think about your characters every day

I had a hugelong answer to this but Tumblr hates fun and deleted that and I forgot all of the stuff I was going to say. Sorry about that.

Thank you so, so, so much. It's taken me a few days to get to this purely because I wanted to keep it at the top of my ask box where I can easily find it and see it at any point because it makes me so happy. I love seeing that people like my writing, that my writing has an impact on people, that's why I post, and you guys make this hobby infinitely more fun by proving that people like my writing and that my writing has an impact. It makes me feel every bit as accomplished as my grandpa (NYT Bestselling Author, you could say that writing is in my blood.)

Just, beyond expression, beyond words, thank you.

(And don't worry, I got the Hunger Games ask, the answer is just extremely long and I have to re-type all of it. It's actually funny because I was considering making a new Hunger Games AU thing.)

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By the way, I told my therapist about the whole Aryan thing. She agrees with us that at best, the name is extraordinarily tone-deaf considering the target audience (American children) and the current political climate.

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Maverick shows up to an event wearing a "Met God, She's Black" shirt and refuses to elaborate.

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Since Descendants is the most popular Disney Originals franchise to date, I think it’s only fine to remind everyone that all 3 movies have pitted WOCs (specifically Black girls; plus Indigenous in Audrey’s case since her actress is also part Indigenous Canadian) against the Highty Mighty White Girl Mal, and people seems to be more okay with it than they should.

Descendants 1 not being the most glaring, but it still villified Audrey for being skeptical against Mal, like it’s not just making Audrey a morally gray character oh no - the girl was in ANTAGONIST territory for DARING to question our poor misunderstood White Protag. Mal stole her boyfriend via drugging-adjacent and the guy is still Mal’s LI for the rest of the trilogy (which is Y I K E S on its own), and we don’t see her getting villified or suffer consequences for it???? Descendants 2 has a darker-skinned Black girl as the main Big Bad despite having a similar character to “first half of the first movie” Mal, and Descendants 3 straight-up made Audrey the villain, so that’s fun to see ig.

And sure, they did try to “justify” them in the end of the second and third one, because it’s Disney™, of course they would. But that did NOTHING to help their case because they deliberately had these characters be WOC and then, what, make them villains??? You can argue that “Oh but Evie’s actress is also a WOC!! And Jay’s Indigenous as well!! And AND Carlos is Black!!” Okay??? That…….. doesn’t better Disney’s choices of making their antags not-ethnically-ambiguous Black girls??? In Uma’s case a darker-skinned Black girl????? Sure they tried to introduce another lesser-ambiguous Black girl into the protag’s side in the third one but her significance is……. not much, so don’t try to tell me that Disney “cast the best actresses for the roles” when said roles are written to be like THAT. I know what’s up, and I’m TIRED of it.

Another point I want to make and I don’t think anyone talked about this yet, but despite all of Disney’s efforts to be more diverse in this franchise it’s still very much a White Girl story. Mal’s the ONLY White character in the main cast, and she’s front and center of most if not all of the conflicts, she has the most impact in each movie and the center’s just on her for far more than the rest of the cast, which is made up of all POC. Similar to SPOP - this is an issue that needs to be addressed: how a White Girl is still leading a diverse cast and have the medium masked itself as being so “equal” and “woke” but in actuality is playing The White Protag and her Band Of Color all over again. I honestly think that if they wanted to make Uma and Audrey WOCs, they should’ve cast Mal as a Black girl - a dark-skinned, non-ambiguous Black girl who is the “main character” for once. Yeah Mal started off as a “bad guy”, but they’re doing this thing where the bad guys turned good, the “bad guy” protags get redeemed and fleshed out with characters arcs and became the people we’re supposed to root for anyways, so it wouldn’t make a difference to cast her as a Black girl. Carlos’ Black, so why not Mal too??

Not the most important point, but I also found it absolutely HILARIOUS that they tried to give Mal a “prejudiced because of associated stereotypes” narrative in the first movie and the one attacking her is a Black woman (Audrey’s maternal grandma, who is Black btw). White creators just LOVE to make real issues against POC into a “what if the roles are reversed” thing don’t they??

Also it’s pretty fucked up that a significant motivator for said Black antags is a White guy. It’s not THE motivation but it is a serious one in terms of narrative. Like have we not seen enough stories where the EVIIILLLL WOC is threatening to destroy a White girl’s relationship????? We don’t need a popular aimed-at-young-people franchise to further this ideal but…….. here we are.

So yeah Disney is as Fake Woke as ever, what else is new??

~Mod L

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Maverick winds up with several different father figures and at least five different mother figures. She already has a mom and dad she loves dearly and a father she's starting to get to know, but adults can sense that she needs as many positive relationships with adult role models as she can get so people keep adopting her.

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Oh, thank the gods, I can post again. I lost all of my progress on those asks I was working on because Tumblr hates fun and me having it, so those will take a while longer

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Desire lost it laughing when they heard people thought Destiny was Maverick's father. Puh-lease, as if Destiny could ever produce a kid as cool as Maverick. No, it's Desire's son (they consider themselves Maverick's father because they're Mim's father and Maverick is basically a clone of Mim) who's about to change the world. Get it right.

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DESCENDANTS REDRAW!!!!🍎✨

I'm making an AU while I have free time 😼👍

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Soulmark AU – Audrey

This is now your problem.

Audrey made it to the port just in time, just before the yacht hosting cotillion leaves – goodness knows whose idea it was, anyway! Do they know nothing about being fashionably late?

Presumably, they don’t; Audrey scoffs at the tip of her heels peeking from under her skirt. She was forced to wear her shortest heels, would you believe it?

The audacity of these people.

At least the decorations are somewhat passable, she muses as she waits to be announced to the room – boat. Whatever. And she would have done a better job with it, anyway, she will have you know.

Still waiting, she stretches her hands out in a way that would show off her newly manicured nails were she not wearing gloves, not that she regrets the money spent, though. A lady always looks her best, even if there is no one to see.

And the gloves, well, those are non-negotiable, Audrey is afraid. She can’t just risk touching someone like that, touching someone and getting a mark and not knowing whose mark it was – that’s what she says, anyway.

It’s better than explaining the deep shame she feels about her lack of soulmate, the fear–

She hears two deep thuds and the door opening, her name and title being announced for anyone to hear, and forces a perfect smile on her face.

Barely anyone looks as she descends.

It shouldn’t be like this. It shouldn’t.

She should walk these stairs with Ben at her side, with their soulmark proudly displayed – That would make her grandmother happy. That would make her happy, right?

Instead, Audrey keeps the pleasant smile on her face as she mingles with the crowd, running her finger absentmindedly over a seam in her glove.

A ringlet of hair managed to escape her updo; she pushes it behind her ear.

(That’s how Ruby got her mark, isn’t it? That boy of hers pushed her hair back and his fingers came back stained.)

She should go fix her hair.

She doesn’t want to talk with any of these people anyway.

And not because all they ever want to talk about are soulmates. Who and when and how perfect will they be when they finally– Audrey weaves through the crowd carefully towards the powder room, careful not to avoid eye contact completely but not to maintain it too long. That’d make people want to talk with her, and she simply isn’t feeling it; she notes Chad and Evie in the crowd and decides to take a detour. She isn’t feeling that radioactive-waste-level toxicity either.

She almost scoffs at the thought. Still, the two of them: Even Chad has a soulmate. Even the Evil Queen’s daughter – who, if Audrey were even remotely in the mood to say so, isn’t nowhere near as bad as her mother – but fuck, even Evil Queen’s daughter has a soulmate.

And Audrey doesn’t.

Isn’t sure if she wants one.

Good God, what is wrong with her?

She freezes at her spot and purges those thoughts from her head as they announce the King’s arrival. She smiles then, practiced, and claps politely as she welcomes her childhood friend and her king.

(He’s still without a mark too – Maleficent’s daughter isn’t over the Villainous prejudices she was raised with, and he is too kind to push her. Or so they claim.)

Ben descends the stairs, thus making it okay for Audrey to stop paying attention and to get away from here, at least for a moment. The fanfares sound again.

Audrey scoffs internally: She and Chad are here, and no one else has the fucking position to appear later than the King. How embarassing of them.

(She would tell no one that in that moment, she searched the crowds for Mal, hoping against her better raising that the fae was making a scene of herself yet again.Unfortunately, she was not.)

To the celebratory music, in enters a strange dark-skinned girl with her hair braided and held up and – most notably – of vivid turquoise colour. She is wearing a mermaid-cut dress in a shade that complements her hair and gold pieces in such a style no princess would be caught wearing it.

A Villain child, then.

A Villain’s daughter with her elbow-high gloves – not unlike Audrey’s own – and with a bright smile that doesn’t reach her eyes. They’re matching in that regard, too.

Audrey averts her eyes.

She doesn’t want to look. Not as Ben proclaims her Lady of the Court, as he says he loves her in a way he never did to Audrey. She doesn’t want to look.

Still, her hands clutched over her breastbone, the scene unfolds: „I’d do anything for her.“ and „No, Ben, this isn’t you!“ from Mal, who says she loves him, in her high high gloves and heavy dress, who ran from him not a week ago.

„Show them your gift for me–“ sweet words from the girl in teal, her body language tense, „Now!“

„I – Yes, as my gift for Uma, I will remove the Barrier once and for all!“ Audrey presses her eyes closed. Maybe she will be better off in a word where no one expects perfect, fairytale love from her. For that thought, maybe – she will fit right in with the freed Villains, won’t she?

Except for, when she opens her eyes, the Barrier isn’t cracked, no inferno has been unleashed upon the land.

The girl, Uma, she stands at the railing, jumping off, off–

As if anyone would care for a Villain’s daughter. Masked and unloved. She jumps and Ben reaches after her, too good for his own good.

„Ben, no,“ Audrey says then. She hates she says it just the same as Mal.

„No, I– This isn’t the way. Mal. Uma. Listen to me–“

Great, and he is ignoring her again. Audrey isn’t sure why she bothered.

She huffs and turns at the ocean instead, where the waves stir and crash. Audrey never once loses her balance as Uma reappears, creature of tales with eight tentacles that could sink the yacht if she wanted. Honestly, a cotillion ball on a ship– Audrey knew that was a bad idea.

Oh, and Mal is a dragon now.

But Audrey doesn’t look at that.

She looks at Uma, and the mark on her hand.

She presses her nails deep enough into her palms to hurt even over the fabric.

Uma had lost her gloves in the transformation, and there, on her arm – a soulmark.

A soulmark.

Something deep inside Audrey shatters as Uma kisses her wrist and disappears under the waves.

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You're right about the fact making fictional Colombia part of fictional USA is really fucked up but the villains of Encanto, the reason Alma and her family got displaced, aren't colonizers.

The movie takes place around 1950, the colonization of the Americas began around 1500. What we see in the love isn't colonization, it's the Colombian internal armed conflict, that began around that time and it's still present to this day.

It could also be the Thousand Days' War (1899-1902) since the movie is highly based off of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (great book by the way, a must read) and that's where the book is set.

Either way, no colonizers here.

Okay, thank the gods it's not as bad as I thought. Still bad, making fictional Colombia (and as Colombia is referenced several times, the Colombian flag shows up a lot, and there's a lot of Colombian cultural things in the movie, the setting is likely still Colombia, just a fictional town in Colombia) part of a colonial superpower considering the history, but as least they aren't going "Yeah, this woman who was displaced by settler violence and whose husband was murdered by colonizers, she willingly joined a white colonialist and imperialist superpower." At least it's not as bad as that.

I mean, I like that Encanto is showing up because it means that Alma is letting the world back in, not as terrified of the outside as she once was, and that she's trying to rejoin the world in a positive way (them rejoining the world was kind of hinted at with the mountain, which remained broken, making it easier for them to leave and others to enter,) but her joining Auradon isn't the right way to go about it. Allies, sure, maybe, perhaps a trade agreement, but her joining them makes no sense for Alma as a character (she would probably still want to lead just so she can make sure the best interests of her people are being seen to, I doubt she would trust an outsider with that or that the people of her village would be happy about her trusting an outsider with that,) she wouldn't hand over the reigns to someone who has absolutely zero experience with her people (their culture, their values, their beliefs, and them as people since I've no doubt she knows everyone in that town personally, they're likely a very close-knit community with open communication with the leader and running that from a palace far away is not going to work) and who hates magic, which saved the lives of everyone in the Encanto, saved Alma's life, protected them for so many years, and that her family are all blessed with so that they can protect their people from anything like what drove Alma from her home happening again. Beast is not right to lead the Encanto and she would see that. If she joined after Ben became king I could understand that slightly more, but Ben has to be a very different ruler from what the Encanto is used to, what they need. He's a king, Alma's a matriarch. Their leadership roles and styles are too different for her to let Ben take over for her. No, if she was retiring, she'd give the role to one of her children or to Mirabel. Not Ben.

At least Encanto almost up with the timeline. The movie, assuming Pedro died in 1950, would take place in 2000, so if RoR takes place in 2025, I guess Luisa could have a school-age son. But I object strongly to giving him superstrength. Do Dolores, Antonio, and Camilo control the weather? Can Isabela, Mirabel, and Luisa heal people? No. They all have their own unique gifts (even Mirabel, I think, because I think she was chosen to be the next matriarch like Alma because Alma won't live forever, and she just doesn't have power because Alma doesn't have power either,) they don't inherit gifts from their parents beyond inheriting the fact that they will get a gift. Heck, their gifts don't even have something to do with what their parents could do. The closest thing I would accept is Luis (who needs a new name because no other parents gave their children derivitive names so why would Luisa) being very tall built like a stack of bricks like Luisa is, but that's all. Be creative and give him a new gift. And give him two siblings who each represent part of a trifecta (Pepa, Julieta, and Bruno being past, present, and future non-respectively, Isa, Mira, and Luisa being beauty, brains, and brawn, and Dolores, Camilo, and Antonio being "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil) like the creators of Encanto intended

I do have your other asks, just so you know, the answers are just taking a while and also, thank you so much

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Being in any fandom:

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Got that Chloe Charming cookbook doll off of eBay. Review is going to need to wait ten minutes because I have to melt a bathbomb to get the key to get her out of the box (technically should only be six minutes but I refuse to stir this bizarrely-scented foam for a full six minutes) and maybe I have no sense of whimsy, but I loathe that.

It also could be that no where was it warned on the product that the mini bathbomb was scented (90% it's lavender, which gives me migraines, even better,) so maybe I'm just unhappy about that