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Suddenly bursting back into fandom✌️

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I've just been taken over by a different fandom and I'm doing a second blog.

[pinkiemachine]

Disney Princes Fan Art…

Edit: Prince Charming is leading the support group—as in, he’s helping the others get through this. And yes, Aladdin should be there. He wished to be a prince, but that was a superficial wish. He doesn’t know how to be Sultan. And he was nervous about it. Did you watch the movie?

[whereismyhat5678]

I have a confession to make.

And you can bash me all you want about it. BUT I STAND FIRM ✊✊

*clears throat*

I’ve had a crush on all of these men.💀

Edit: HOLD YOUR HORSES- I forgot at least 2 ✌️ I fixed it now!

[fandom-official]

The Walt Disney Company turns 100 today ✨

What's been your favorite decade so far?

[artist-issues]

It isn’t all the filmmaker’s fault that all we’re getting is second-rate remakes and sequels to franchises that should’ve been left alone a long time ago.

We don’t have a clear idea of why we like the things we like. So we don’t clearly communicate why we like the things we like. So it’s no wonder Hollywood keeps getting your favorite movies and their characters wrong. The fans don’t even know why they like what they like.

When Genie is set free in the original Aladdin, that moment was impactful, and you remembered it all through childhood. When Luke tosses the lightsaber away and says “I am a Jedi, like my father before me,” it was impactful, and you remembered it.

But did you stop and analyze why? What made those moments, and those stories, impactful?

Did you say, “Genie wished to be free for the whole movie, and he was always trying to tell Aladdin about how freedom only comes from trusting, and he was learning to trust Al himself, and Aladdin finally DID trust Jasmine to still want him even if he wasn’t rich, so he set Genie free in the most satisfying way!”

Did you say, “Luke spent all previous movies rushing into fights, and trying to control everything to save the ones he loves, but when he finally has his enemy at his mercy and is at the height of his power, he realizes that being a Jedi isn’t rushing and fighting and controlling; it’s having faith in the good and throwing your opportunity for control away.”

Did you think through and appreciate that stuff? The values? The point of the whole story, and how the characters act as pillars holding that point up? The good and the bad things that they embody?

No. Not out loud. Because we don’t think critically anymore. We just go “what’s this? Entertain me. Oooh, I felt something! Good! Next!”

The why behind what you like is the only value in liking anything.

But we don’t look objectively at the “why.” We don’t dwell on the “why.” If we dwell on anything, it’s to superimpose ourselves or whatever we like onto the characters.

You think Barbie was hyping feminism because you like feminism, and because you felt things during Barbie. You write fanfiction about Eddie Munson that has nothing to do with what Eddie Munson actually is as a character—because you like love stories, and you felt some compelling emotions when you saw Eddie Munson onscreen, so you’ve decided that those things should go together. You take something that made you feel emotions while you watched the canon material, then you don’t bother to process those emotions or what made the canon material compelling. You just slap whatever you already think you like onto something that made you feel, whether it had anything to do with what you like or not.

You eat the apple and benefit from it without knowing, at all, what nutrients are inside. Then when someone offers you crap and tells you it’s apple-flavored, you wonder why you’re not feeling the same way afterward.

Then you misdiagnose. You say “no, I don’t wonder why I’m not feeling the same—it’s because the CGI in live-action remakes suck!” Okay, great, so they’ll get better CGI. And it’ll still suck. Because that was never the problem, just like the reasons you liked the movie were never the reasons it actually impacted you in the first place.

Figure out. WHY. You like what you like. Figure out if it’s because the stories said what their creators objectively intended for them to say—or if you like the story in spite of that, not because of that.

Then open your mouth about it. It is worth it.

[jinxthejubilee]

I need to share this, someone else noticed that with the exception of Ms. Scatter who is the host, Farja is the only recruit who has a slight change in her appearance and those are her earrings. In total there are 4 and they are very cute, I have seen some fanarts and comics that I don't know if they are fan theories or are based on things that the characters would have said in the presentations, but apparently they are gifts from Jafar for Farja. Would not it be cute? Of all her earrings, which one do you like the most?

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Aww! That's actually adorable. I did mention in my last ask that Jafar and Iago had a relatively good relationship. So, the idea of Jafar gifting something to Faja, well intentioned or not, wouldn't actually be as out-of-character as some would think.

As for the earrings themselves, they're all beautiful, honestly. But my favorite is the first one, it has some character to it.

Thanks for letting me know about this! I love mini facts about these guys that I sometimes miss.

[dragonsruby]

You mean to tell me that Marvel Comics published an issue of the Aladdin comic series where Aladdin and Jasmine swapped bodies, and THE FANDOM IS NORMAL ABOUT IT????

"You big blue boob..."

~ Aladdin (or Jasmine), "Trading Places," 1995

[princesssarisa]

For some people, fictional characters who lie about their identity seem to be a particular berserk button. At least it is among Disney fans; they seem to be harder on characters who do it than those characters really deserve.

For example, Disney's Aladdin. Yes, it's wrong that he lies about his identity and masquerades as Prince Ali. It's portrayed as wrong and he apologizes for it in the end. But when fans call him a "compulsive liar" or claim that his love story with Jasmine is toxic because it's "all based on a lie," aren't they going a little too far? First of all, he's clearly not a compulsive liar. He doesn't lie all the time, or just for fun; he does it because he loves Jasmine and she's required by law to marry only a prince. As for the popular claim that "their whole relationship is based on a lie," I think that would only be true if Jasmine fell in love with him because she thought he was a prince. But she doesn't. She first meets him as a street rat and she likes him then. When he tries to affect a different, "princely" personality as Prince Ali, she disdains him as just another pompous stuffed shirt like all the other princes who have courted her. She only falls for "Ali" when he shows her his true personality again. The fact that he still hides his true identity from her is wrong, but it's not some horrible advantage-taking, the way some fans portray it. To me, that claim seems just as faulty as "Beauty and the Beast is about Stockholm Syndrome"!

Or how about the fans of Mulan who insist that Shang does nothing wrong by dismissing Mulan after the reveal of her gender and refusing to believe her about the Huns' survival. "It's not because she's a woman," they say, "it's because she lied to everyone and joined the army illegally." Never mind that she only did it to save her father's life, or that the law is clearly unjust – Shang himself already went against it by sparing her life after the reveal – or that Mulan is the one responsible for the victory for which Shang and the other soldiers are being celebrated, yet getting no credit. Shang and the other soldiers' expressions show that they feel guilty and torn about this, both before and after Mulan arrives. Shang clearly feels pangs of conscience when Mulan says "You said you'd trust Ping. Why is Mulan any different?" So why do some fans bend over backwards to defend him and implicitly shame Mulan for disguising herself?

Does anyone else have any thoughts on this subject?

[raywhite28]

Tails and Knuckles in this Aladdin (kinda) AU

will draw Amy and Rouge soon <3

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[racetrackmybeloved]

actual disney princess kara lindsay singing watch what happens, king of new york and other disney songs at broadway con 🥺

[kanerallels]

I know if no one else got me, the Sabezra fandom got me

[cartoondrawer]

Disney Villain rare pair?!? (You know what this is inspired off of..) What are we calling this ship by the way? I don’t think it has a name..

[random-dragon-exe]

Something I find interesting is that even though Wreck it Ralph is a modern video game based Disney movie, they still managed to play around with a few common Disney tropes.

For example, a protagonist who's a social outsider/outcast for things outside of their control:

Who gets told off about his status:

An usurper to a throne:

Not to mention, the villain transformation. (King Candy transforms into a cybug like Maleficent into a dragon or other villains with transformations)

A rightful ruler kept from the throne:

A couple that gets married at the end:

Maybe it's just me, but I like how even though there's no actual magic involved they found a way to interweave different tropes by using modern technology into a single, cohesive narrative.