#Empire Mause

[lunastars21]

Happy Anniversary To Kirby Squeak Squad!

This game is wonderful, it’s not as impressive as other Kirby games, but it’s so simple and fun. I usually recommend it to new Kirby players as it’s very easy. (To me at least)

Plus this is the debut game of Daroach and his crew! All of them are wonderful and I hope they become playable again in a future Kirby game!

(This game is also at fault for making me create so many mice ocs lmao)

[jackhkeynes]

Lower Mendeva

Lower Mendeva (Borlish Mendeva Bassem /ˌmɛn.deˈva ˈba.sɛm/) is a geographical region comprising the southern section of the continent of Mendeva [North America], located west of the Mendevan Gulf [Gulf of Mexico]. The term sometimes also includes the islands of the Arcabil [Caribbean], which are located within said Gulf.

Contact between Lower Mendeva and the Vetomund [Old World] began in the late fifteenth century with merchant ships from the Morrack [Moroccan] New World Company (established by Malik Munir al-Hamdawi in 1463). In turn, traders therefrom encountered the peoples of the Arcabil, the Mashick [Aztec] Empire in Lower Mendeva, and further south the Tavancine [Incan] Empire in Cappatia [South America].

The region is predominated by the polity of Mashick [~Mexico], which stretches from coast to coast and so far north as to border Mivock [~California] in the west and Taisha [~Texas] in the east.

Many barrick [electric] innovations of the late Workshop period came out of Lower Mendeva, likely due to practical concerns around the rapid spread of wired post (there being little previous adoption of the flag-lamp steeplemesh in the region to displace).

By the late twentieth century, this region had become major exporters of foods such as mause [bananas] and amback [mangoes].

Many trade goods originated in Lower Mendeva, including billrod [cochineal] dye, shockle [chocolate], shadome [tomatoes] and tashban [vanilla].

[kittycomiclove]

Sorry I never meant to say that you called the company a saint, I did not expect you to answer me, I did not think it was right to say that.If I had known that I was going to answer I would have written a more respectful and serious commentary.

Although I know that mickey does not exist mickey before being the face of an empire something that is not bad if not the bad thing is how you manage it and how it is managed as I said mickey before being an empire mickey represented freedom in part of the story and not fomar criticize siertos conportamiemtos of the same conpañia example in the house of mause mickey criticizes and makes fun of the sencura something that many disney show suffered example gravity fall this sencura estreseba to the animators of difrentes fomas, in italy there is a panel where minnie and mickey criticize the purchase of the grammies and win one of them, something that made minnie and mickey angry disapproving this behavior disney is accused many times of buying the grammies and mickey used it as a way to criticize the company to the point that my opinion mickey represents the opposite nowadays. Well what is my point it is obvious that the person used mickey as a bad messenger something that is also not forgotten as much as it hurts me but you also have to see who the one who gives this type of messages ngetivos because you can not cross out all of the same thought.

I would like to say that what you are talking about is something very interesting but as I said normally I like to remember both the good and the bad to give a neutral point I hope I have given my point but I was surprised in part because the time I belonged to is something totally amazing but I hope my comment has been annoying.

Mickey Mouse is Gay

I'm working on research notes for my Hays Code video essay, and I'm reading The Celluloid Closet by Vito Russo. While reading, I came across this image:

[Image description: A screenshot from the ebook of The Celluloid Closet. It shows an old poster of Mickey Mouse playing a harp, with text that reads "always gay!" in large capital letters. Smaller text at the bottom reads "(C) Walt Disney Enterprises." The image is captioned with, "When the word gay meant happy and nothing else." End description.]

There was no immediate information about when or in what context this poster was produced, but since I live in Florida, where Disney was involved in the recent "Don't Say Gay" chaos, I felt compelled to go dig up more info.

That digging led me to a copy of Tinker Belles and Evil Queens, by Sean Griffin, which opens chapter 2 ("Mickey Mouse--Always Gay!") with the following:

In the midst of The Celluloid Closet, Vito Russo’s groundbreaking work on representations of homosexuals in American film, there appears a poster advertising Mickey Mouse cartoons. As a joyous Mickey plucks out a tune on a harp, the poster proclaims, “Always Gay!” Underneath this picture, Russo writes the caption “When the word ‘gay’ meant happy and nothing else.” Although Russo separates Mickey’s personality from the modern connotations of the word “gay,” linking the word “gay” with “homosexual” had begun in various homosexual communities during the 1930s. The word “gay” was used in these circles as a method of code to let others know that someone was “a member of the community” without declaring it to those who would physically or legally threaten them. Furthermore, although Walt and most (if not all) of his employees probably would not have known this new meaning to the word when they created the aforementioned poster in the 1930s, it seems that certain audience members were watching and enjoying Mickey’s “gaiety” in all its connotations.

This dynamic becomes more apparent when certain historical evidence suggests that the phrase “Mickey Mouse” itself was bandied about by some homosexuals as a code phrase. Gay and lesbian historian Allan Berube found a photograph of a gay bar in Berlin during the 1930s called “Mickey Mouse.” A lesbian hobo of the 1930s who went by the name Box-Car Bertha related to Dr. Ben L. Reitman in 1937 that a group of wealthy Chicago lesbians threw soirees called “Mickey Mouse’s party.” Bertha maintained contact with these women in order to borrow money, introducing herself by saying “I met you at Mickey Mouse’s party.”

With this evidence of the use of “Mickey Mouse” as a code phrase for homosexuality, seemingly benign uses of the name by homosexual figure take on heightened meaning. When openly gay songwriter Cole Porter wrote the lyrics for “You’re the Top” in the early 1930s, he included the line “You’re Mickey Mouse.” In The Gay Divorcee (1934), Betty Grable approaches Edward Everett Horton, who made a career out of playing the bumbling sissy in Hollywood films during the ’30s, and sings to him “You make me feel so Mickey Mousey.” Although what Grable’s character means by this is left open to interpretation, in context she seems to mean that Horton stirs some emotion within her. Yet, “Mickey Mousey” might have had a sly double meaning—especially when a flustered Horton responds to Grable’s assertion, “Well, no wonder!”

I've said before that completely writing off Disney media is a bad take, because Disney media has been very important in queer history. The corporation is evil, but the art has the talent and soul of countless skilled artists, many of whom are/were queer. Painting Disney media as across-the-board soulless and terrible erases the contributions of countless artists who were themselves exploited by the company.

There is such a long tradition of queer people slipping queerness under Disney's radar and into their classic films. I typically use Howard Ashman's work on The Little Mermaid as my go-to example of this, because The Little Mermaid is a very queer movie based on a very queer story by a very queer author.

So it's pretty wild to learn Mickey Mouse himself has been used as queer flagging!

For more info about Disney Queerness, I recommend the video essay "What Makes Disney Villains So Gay?" by Matt Baume, as well as the YouTube channel Dreamsounds.

(Also, if you want to support the production of my video essay about the Hays Code, you can pledge to my Patreon. I still have some texts to track down for research and might have to shell out to buy them.)