#Anna Madrigal

[deramin2]

Anna Madrigal (Tales of the City) is the most character. She's trans in the 1970s. She's the kind of landlady that hates most landlords and dotes on her tenants like her children. She grows weed and gives a baggie to every new tenant and smokes with them in her parlor with fancy snacks. She dresses in gorgeous clothes. She's was raised in a brothel. She's a rock for her queer San Francisco community and someone they can always go to for help. She helps snoopy sheltered Ohio straight girls achieve sexual liberation, keeps gay boys out of too much trouble, and falls in reciprocated love with straight men. She makes sure bad people get what's coming to them but fuckups get another chance.

Armistead Maupin really hit it out of the park with her. Still can't believe this story was first printed in the newspaper. And Olympia Dukakis was so great in the role for television. We can look back now and say a trans actor would be better, but in 1993 they were totally shut out of the industry and I'm grateful they didn't cast a man like everyone else did at the time.

[manicpixistonergirl]

can’t stop thinking about my frontal lobe developing & my ennui for everyday existence slowly but surely being replaced by a reverence for the beauty in the mundane

[queerographies]

[Una vera signora][Armistead Maupin]

Il ritorno di Mona Ramsey: nuove avventure a San Francisco e nelle Cotswolds Titolo: Una vera signoraScritto da: Armistead MaupinTitolo originale: Mona of the ManorTradotto da: Andrea BortoloniEdito da: Playground libriAnno: 2024Pagine: 256ISBN: 9788899452629 La trama di Una vera signora di Armistead Maupin Il decimo – e lungamente atteso – romanzo del ciclo de “I racconti di San Francisco”,…

[thequeereview]

Book Review: Mona of the Manor by Armistead Maupin ★★★★★

A decade after the publication of The Days of Anna Madrigal, Armistead Maupin returns to his beloved Tales of the City with a delectably satisfying new addition—the tenth book in the series—Mona of the Manor. Transporting us to Gloucestershire, England in 1993, we’re reunited with Mona in her late forties, ten years after she became Lady Roughhton as the not-so-blushing mail-order bride of Lord…

[lenbryant]

"There's hope." From 1992. Armistead Maupin and his Tales of the City.

[themattress]

Why are these Disney heroines "adorkable"?

Rapunzel (Tangled): Because she was raised in isolation her entire life. She doesn't have a clue about the outside world or social graces or other people besides her "mother" in general. But she's extremely eager to learn and eager to please, not to mention is a pent-up ball of energy waiting to run wild, which leads to her adorkability. It makes perfect narrative sense.

Anna (Frozen): While not as badly as Rapunzel, she was also raised in isolation for much of her life, largely having to rely on the books in her castle library to teach her about the world and things such as proper etiquette, life skills and romance. But real life is not a book, so when she actually has to do these things, she often flounders due to her nervousness, excitement or inexperience, which leads to her adorkability. It makes perfect narrative sense.

Moana (Moana): From early in her life, she was raised under a very strict set of rules and instilled with a strong sense of responsibility, which is at odds with her instinctive desire to break these rules and her fears that she isn't up to the challenge her responsibilities pose. All of this pent-up stress she carries within her will often cause her to explode with emotion at the slightest provocation, which leads to her adorkability. It makes perfect narrative sense.

Mirabel (Encanto): As a young child, she failed to receive a special gift and room the same way the rest of her family did. Now feeling like the failure of the family, Mirabel's coping mechanism became trying to make herself as extravagant and quirky as possible. She's an incredibly "Try Hard" person, which leads to her adorkability. It makes perfect narrative sense.

Asha (Wish): Um.....well, she.....yeah, I got nothing. There is no narrative justification here.

Disney doesn't have an Adorkable Problem. Just an Asha Problem.

[secondary-colorentimy]

idgaf i love the quirky girl apocalypse like god forbid a girl has some fun !!!!

[jonasemanuelhp]

Isabela & Elsa

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[in-a-castle]

A List of Disney Characters I Will Always Defend

Anna: The way a lot of you come after her and nitpick her behavior pisses me off, especially because so many of you refuse to acknowledge she’s traumatized. Because through the perspective that she was traumatized, a lot of her behavior makes a lot of sense.

The Madrigals: All of them. Every single one. Even Abuela. This isn’t to say I will defend all of their behavior, because they all caused each other trauma- that’s the whole point of the movie. However, acknowledging that it was trauma that caused the pain, and that none of them are actually “villains” is something I wished more people did.

Aladdin: Well, against some criticisms. Not all. Again, I am not going to sit here and defend everything he did. The lying and trying to trick a princess into marrying him is fucked up, but alot of critiques of him are just… classist? “I can’t believe Jasmine married a low-life thief!” He was literally stealing to survive, which was explicitly stated in the film, in the same way Jasmine stole an apple to feed starving children.

Cinderella: Well all of the classic princesses, but mostly Cinderella, because the amount of victim blaming I have seen towards her is disgusting. She wasn’t “too weak” to defend herself. She was in an abusive situation, had no money to leave or anywhere to go.

Asha: Asha was right, you guys are just too attracted to Magnifico to realize what he was doing was bad. Every ounce of hatred of this character has completely misrepresented the events of the film or have just been extremely nitpicky.

Ariel: For the last time, she never exchanged her voice for a man, she exchanged her voice to explore land- something she always wanted to do.

[quirkydisneyprincesses]

Not saying all Disney Princesses should have the same personality, but I can’t help but have an itching feeling that a lot of the pushback against “quirky” and “adorkable” princesses is rooted in at least some form of misogyny. I mean, what? Girls can’t be socially awkward? Is that what you’re saying?

[capturingdisney]

[synergysilhouette]

No group of films has made me so emotional

That moment when you realize things can never be the same...and you strive to make it better than it was. Obviously I mostly picked moments that were sad, but the fact that I got so wrapped up in a film to care about it means that the storytellers (plus the animators, voice actors, sound editors, lighting staff, etc.) did an amazing job.

[where-our-stories-start]

[jacarandaaaas]

so I watched this video and whilst it does bring up some valid points I have to heavily disagree with how mirabel was mentioned

she’s only mentioned maybe twice and referred to by Jared’s description of “imperfect weird and quirky” leaving out the obvious “deeply emotional and empathetic” that often follows that in the official description.

whilst she explains a lot about how moana, Anna and rapunzel act mirabel just seemed like a “let’s add her in because it says quirky” what everyone forgets is mirabel as a character is insecure. like extremely insecure to the point she values a candle over her own life. her “adorkableness” is a facade, a front, something she uses to try seem interesting to ppl and to hide her true feelings of inadequacy and failure that she’s had for a decade.

also worth mentioning whilst I agree with some of the heroines not taking dangerous or stressful situations seriously, mirabel definetly does. Even something as minor as the failed proposal dinner you see her not cracking jokes but desperate to explain that it’s not her fault. You see several times she risks her own life not because she was told to “save the miracle” but because she herself chooses to. You also see mirabel push away her own feelings to comfort other people and she takes it seriously!

she’s a smart girl! she’s clumsy because her dads clumsy not because it makes her “cute”. In fact I would also argue whilst for a lot of these characters they are likable to people around them for this reason mirabel is not. The townspeople keep rubbing her biggest insecurity in her face and she’s told to stay out of the way constantly. Like half of this movie was mirabel being scrutinized for just being herself!

I do agree with some points in the video but like if you’re going to have miss madrigal in the thumbnail I would assume she would have been a big talking point like asha and rapunzel were

[nerdasaurus1200]

It warms my heart how much the Disney princesses look like their moms