#Until only the sanded-down smoothed-out disney-approved stories remain in people's minds

[g-g-freak]

I'm gonna go ahead and do a personal ramble here because I've had a grudge against Disney and Marvel for their assimilations of culture since I was 8. I've got memories of railing against Thor in the Marvel comics being tall, blond, and cleanshaven when I'd always known him to be ginger, stocky, and hairy. I'd always disliked Disney's little mermaid for utterly subsuming Hans Christian Andersen's work with the little mermaid now having red hair, a name, and multiple quippy sidekicks, with the witch actively sabotaging the little mermaid instead of just, being a witch granting wishes with a heavy cost. It felt like Disney/marvel were constantly asserting their versions of the characters as the only true version of them, and I hated that, especially when they merged and upped the marketing even harder. Disney attempting to patent Dia de muertos was unsurprising to me mostly because I've already been a fuming little mythology kid, and it's good to see that people are noticing the same things I've railed about for nearly two decades.