#cygnets

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Tiana Should Have Been Odette

In which I continue to be bitter as hell that Disney's 2D animation and its Classic Princess machine closed out on The Princess and the Frog rather than shooting for a cinematic last hurrah in the vein of Cinderella or Beauty and the Beast to give us a Louisiana rendition of Swan Lake with a barely tweaked Tiana design and more cool character possibilities.

Case in point, another doll character design you dropped the ball on, Mickey:

Could have given Facilier (Rothbart) a hot goth flapper daughter. But no.

AND MORE DOLLS CHARACTERS:

Cygnets! You would have had a whole flock of cygnets!

Jazz and classical score fusions!

Full Fantasia majesty going on in the style and sound and story!

But no!

I feel in my bones that the Rodent will get around to Swan Lake eventually. But damn it, I would have loved Disney's old 2D crew making something special before they closed the doors, especially with the backdrop of the bayou and its sundry swans. Hand-painted scenery, the 1920s music and dance scene spliced into the ballet, a built-in reason to have more prominent girls in the cast with showy transformations back and forth between the winged silhouettes, the intrigue of the false beloved role swapping from Naveen (Siegfried) to Tiana (Odette) and Odile, a climax of birds in flight and magic fights by the water...

Sigh.

BONUS: Design comparison

2020:

2025:

If you let unreasonable bitterness over a children's movie come to a simmer, your art improves. How about that.

Ko-Fi is here if you're interested in some art of your own, with or without griping about princesses

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tumbfor - Swan and cygnets

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A black swan keeps a close eye on its cygnets at Kuğulu Park, Ankara, Turkey

Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

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I love how swans carry their babies, don't you? Charming 😊😍

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Mute Swans Hallstatt, Austria

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A swan couple I met yesterday and their seven babies

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Just some fluffy little cygnets. Taken at Sandhill Lake, June 2024.

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If you can't make it to the park/lake/ocean/etc. for whatever reason (spoons, energy, accessibility, etc.), I hope you can enjoy the bird videos I've been taking in the park this spring thus far :)

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