#*pay for Disney+

[vendimeyers]

Finally caved and decided to watch the 2023 Doctor Who specials here’s my exact thoughts so far

[the-meme-monarch]

cinderella 1950 if it was good (they didn’t make a cat just fucking evil)

based on my talking here

[feelingmaxedout]

it’s actually so cruel that clarisse gets blamed for everything when all she wanted to do was be a good daughter for her father and make him proud, all the while ares couldn’t have cared about her any less :/

[letoscrawls]

she can't keep getting away with this

[tippifunandprose]

every time I read about this Disney vs DeSantis thing and the bit about how the agreement doesn't end “until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, king of England" all I can think about is some bumbling caper where the Florida government repeatedly tries to assassinate the entire royal family just to spite Disney

[chaoticvampirejedi]

*takes a deep breath*

When I was 7 years old I hated that Zack and Cody were no longer at the hotel. I didn't like the new show at first and belive me I was complaining about it for weeks.

And now you're telling me that the reason behind it was Disney's greed?

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Bob Iger saying all this while also being on basically billionaires vacation really should say something, holy shit.

[p-a-stelblood]

Alice in Wonderland Moodboard

[pftones3482]

I want to be excited for the live action Little Mermaid so badly

The Little Mermaid is my favorite Disney movie. Anyone who knows me knows I'm obsessed with mermaids as a whole and will watch any media that has them. Hell, I own my own tails and monofins. But every time I see a gif or a video for the new Little Mermaid, I cringe

(btw, this is NOT because of the casting. If you're against this movie because Ariel is black, you're a racist piece of shit and this post isn't for you)

My issue lies with the CGI. It just looks so FAKE. We've seen through the course of movies and TV shows that use it that CGI does not age well, and that's because technology is constantly improving. What was impressive in 2005 is not impressive in 2023 (Just look at Aquamarine, another movie about mermaids). And the CGI on Ariel and her sisters already looks fake and the movie isn't even out yet!

Compare this image from the trailer

To this screenshot from H20: Just Add Water (a TV show that came out in 2006):

You can see the details of the scales in the second image

The first image is flat. Sure, it's colorful, but it's flat. It's fake. Halle herself is the most beautiful and alive part of the image, because everything else is fake

The difference?

H20 had costume designers, ones specifically trained in mermaid tail making, HAND CRAFT every tail on the show. All of the scales were hand laid, all the tails molded to fit the actors/actresses perfectly, painted by hand

Let's even look at someone with no affiliation to TV or movies:

This is Mermaid Linden, a very well known (in the mermaid community) professional mermaid. You can tell her tail is not as high quality as the ones made for H20 (though it's still a VERY expensive tail) - but it still looks like it's a part of her. You can still see the details. Because professional mermaid tails are also all handmade and molded to fit each person. Even if they don't lay every individual scale, good professional mermaid tail makers are very meticulous about what they do.

This is what happens when Disney refuses to pay practical effects artists. We could have had beautiful, handmade tails that would look real on screen for decades to come and could be reused for promotional purposes - instead, they're underpaying and overworking their non-unionized employees to make CGI tails that don't even look real now.

(to be clear, I'm not shitting on the artists. As I said, they're being underpaid and overworked. This is not their fault)

And before anyone comes and says "But swimming in those is difficult!" Absolutely it is. You should never swim in a professional level tail (or even just fabric tails) without practice and training. Which Disney could have given the cast if they were willing to PAY people (the cast of H20 [a TV SHOW] literally learned how to be mermaids on set. It's been done before)

Disney's "Live Action" needs to be rebranded as "CGI with some real people tossed in" because that's all any of these remakes have been, and it's exhausting when I look at what we could have had.

[lancastrianwasian]

they're pushing the ben/chad agenda yes they told me themselves

[dystopyx-blog]

Somebody with 0 social awareness x someone with GOD LEVEL social awareness. 0 says/does stuff that baffles everyone else but God level is so in tune with everything and everyone that they just know exactly wth 0 is trying to communicate.

Was gonna make this a general like prompt thingie but then I thought....... jade x reader

Jade x autistic reader

Ohhhhh we're going back to Stuck in twst without meds because yes

Jade seems to just intuitively understand everything you do and say, not even from like studying you, he genuinely is just on that same wavelength as you. Like he may view floyd as derp face and Azul as anime², but he gets you. Like it's at the point where Like sometimes when you get frustrated failing to communicate you find yourself wishing he was there.

Floyd is similar but to a lesser extent, especially because sometimes he's not in the mood to translate for you and when he's in those moods you're basically just fucked sorry

[reality-detective]

A former graphic designer for Disney and Pixar, who worked on films like Ratatouille and The Incredibles, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for pedophilia, complicity in child r*pe, and human trafficking.

Bolhem Bouchiba, 59, was convicted by a French court for s*xually abusing children between 2012 and 2021, with hundreds of reported cases.

Bouchiba orchestrated the r*pe of children from the Philippines, watching the attacks live.

The victims were little girls aged 5 to 10.

[the-meme-monarch]

funny streamers i like have been 'playing' kingdom hearts union x and I haven't finished the vod yet but they're on some cinderella quests and i was overcome with Man I Should Watch Cinderella Again. i remember watching that movie all the time as a kid having such strong feelings about it (i am not paying for it as I watch it now)(I own the dvd)(am I watching it on the dvd? that's a secret I'll never tell) and I was having a good time before suddenly it ruined it bc I forgot and was reminded how they just made a cat evil for no reason. maybe the strong feelings were i hated it

[fara-arts]

I’m sorry but I love them 🧜🏾‍♀️

[aparrotandaqrow]

You know who I think about in far too much depth sometimes?

That little clock guy from Beauty and the Beast. Cogsworth.

This scene specifically. He is so proud of himself when he tells this joke. And he's so proud of the castle.

We see pretty explicitly in the film that the castle servants are lonely, and desperate for something new, after 10 years of the curse. But think about what the curse means for someone like Cogsworth, and what this little joke he tells implies.

He's so damn proud of the castle. He's so eager to take Belle on a tour, and tell her all about the castle's history, and not just its history, but its art history. And he's probably not the first of his family to serve in this castle; his family has probably lived and worked in this castle for generations. The heritage of the castle is as much his own family legacy as it is the Prince's.

He was so ready with that joke; it was a polished and rehearsed line. You get the sense this is a practiced tour; he gave it to dignitaries and guests frequently before the curse. And he hadn't had a chance to use it on anyone for ten years.

I dunno, I'm just struck by what it must have felt like for this man, for the curse to not only mean his physical transformation and confinement, and isolation from the outside world, but also to lose the ability to tell the story of his family home to guests from near and far. So much of his purpose was wrapped up in telling the castle's story, and for ten years he couldn't really do that—when all the other guests were transformed into representations of their purpose (brightening a room through entertainment, cleaning up, cooking, etc), all he can do is mark time, unable to tell his defining story.

And then Belle walks in, and he cannot resist but tell the stupidest fucking joke that he's been holding in for 10 years.

[thecoolsquirrel]

I personally am a fan of the papa crewel hcs and Vils just neat