#disney nakoma

[elvisqueso]

Pocahontas refusing to confide in Nakoma.

Pocahontas (1995)

rambling lil' meta under the cut

i've been thinking a lot about pocahontas's relationship with nakoma and what kind of friends they really are in the context of the film. when we meet them both, pocahontas is elevated and nakoma is in a boat far below her, shouting up to reach her. i think nakoma is always reaching for pocahontas and pocahontas will only reach back sometimes. it's a pretty unbalanced friendship, when you look at it, and i wonder why nakoma remains the main point of contact in the community for pocahontas besides her father. perhaps it's because they're similar ages. maybe they're childhood friends who just got so used to each other that the one may take the other for granted.

pocahontas never confides in nakoma, and you gotta wonder why. even their first interaction has pocahontas demurring when she answers that she was up on the cliff thinking. thinking about what? She doesn't say, but she doesn't refute nakoma's assumptions.

and nakoma...what does she get out of this friendship? maybe she's just used to trailing after pocahontas this way, maybe she just doesn't have another friend, or she thinks pocahontas needs her.

nakoma is sort of a foil for thomas, who trails after john smith like a starry-eyed fanboy with an intense para-social relationship perspective. nakoma also is the active participant in the friendship, not pocahontas. nakoma fills in the gaps of their relationship with assumptions and guesswork, because pocahontas is so reticent, so hesitant to share of herself that nakoma Has to. and when pocahontas's seclusion goes too far, when she fails to confide in nakoma some of the most essential elements of what she intends, nakoma has to fill in the gaps again. and when she does it's Not Good, and her solution is to send their strongest warrior (a man with affection for pocahontas, who might keep her secrets if she needs him to) to try and save her friend. and then it all blows up in their faces and a man lies dead in the water for it.

every relationship in the movie is so tragic like brO—

[kmixon]

4 movies have human friends 😲 CALL THE COPS 👮‍♀️ EVER THE MOVES THEY HAD FRIENDS WHO'S ARE HUMAN THEY MADE MONEY 💰 UNRUFFLED HUMAN FRIENDS

Raya bad messages 😕 less Raya had friends. All females have humans friends let them have them😑

[lucielovekj]

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[kabishkat19]

Disney NextGen🌽

Dekoda (17)

[masterbadyl]

Ask your friend what iconic disney supporting character you are

[disneyfemslash]

[unicornlandsposts]

[synergysilhouette]

I need future Disney female protagonists to have personalities like these girls

Note: not saying I want them to be sexualized like some of the women on this list, nor am I saying I want them to be involved in dubious situations (Meg's relationship with Hercules will always be scarring to me because of that).

[thingsasbarcodes]

Pocahontas (1995)

[incorrectdisney-meea]

Nancy: Where's Charlotte?

Honeymaren: *remembers that Charlotte got her head stuck in a tuba after Nancy told her to not touch it, and that she's supposed to cover for Nakoma and Namaari as they work together to get Charlotte's head out of the tuba while Audrey comes back with the tools to help*

Honeymaren: Who's Charlotte?

[mlc-raspberry]

LOOT AT HOW GORGEOUS THEY ARE!!! OMG I LOVE THEM! 🦝🪶🌸

! art is not mine i found it on pinterest !

[elvisqueso]

Pocahontas (1995): 3 times Pocahontas is compared to her mother + 1 time she's recognized on her own merits.

rambling lil meta under the cut

see, what's crazy about this whole situation is that it makes me wonder what exactly pocahontas's mom was like to have left such a massive impression on literally everyone in their community? there's that outright statement that "yeah, your mom's spirit is in the wind, basically, and our people venerate her as a spiritual guide (at the very least)." we know that she's the main connection between pocahontas and grandmother willow, and there's an implication in there that whatever leadership role she held in the village is expected to fall on pocahontas's shoulders someday.

i am so convinced that this role is some kind of spiritual leader/shaman position. wise-woman, priestess, whatever it's called. we don't see anyone else besides kekata performing any kind of spiritual rites, and even he isn't seen acting in direct contact with spiritual entities. kekata has to perform chants, provide offerings, and use a medium. pocahontas can just fuckign. talk to the things. how is she doing that? why isn't anyone else really able to do that? john smith could talk with grandmother willow but would he be able to if pocahontas wasn't there (i actually think he could but that's a different post)? has she ever done that for literally anybody else? nakoma never mentions grandmother willow. nobody mentions grandmother willow. apparently, the only two people who knew about her before pocahontas brought her new bf over was pocahontas and her mom.

i'm losing track of myself here, but the point is pocahontas is Highly aware of the ghost she's expected to live up to. and it sucks. and there's a lot more to her character arc about this but the eventual come-around to accepting that she has a responsibility to be more than herself and more than her mother's ghost is so heartbreaking because it also meant she had to let go of her soulmate at the same time so i c ry

[magic-belodie]

Last Friday, I got a drawing table. And today I made a drawing on it of Pocahontas and Nakoma.

[elijones94]

🍂🍃 I haven’t drawn Pocahontas in a long time. Last year or the year before around Christmas time, I did a sketch of Pocahontas in preparation for a series of drawings. My plan was to include her with Ariel and Rapunzel (two other characters animated by Glen Keane) in Christmas attire. Unfortunately, those drawings didn’t come to be due to lack of time. Still, tonight felt like a good time to revisit and refine what might have been. 🍁🍂🍃

[joethetoonfanandoutcast]

Favorite Yuri Crack Pairings

Though I'm still a Christian and prefer the usual pairing-up way, I admit there are some same-sex pairs I'm into, though they're mostly female.

They are as listed, without any ranking for favorites:

1. Nature Dog x Gwendolyn (Nature Cat)

I still prefer Nature Dog with Gwendolyn's brother though.

2. Jasmine x Esmeralda (Aladdin/The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

3. Tiana x Charlotte (The Princess and the Frog)

4. Aliyah-Din x Jasmine (Scooby-Doo's Arabian Nights/Aladdin)

5. Yum-Yum x Jasmine (The Thief and the Cobbler/Aladdin)

6. Georgette x Rita (Oliver & Company)

I still prefer Rita with Dodger and an older Oliver though.

7. Maid Marian x Jasmine (Robin Hood/Aladdin)

8. Maid Marian x Rebecca Cunningham (Robin Hood/Talespin)

9. Pocahontas x Nakoma

10. Kida x Chel (Atlantis: The Lost Empire/The Road to El Droado)

11. Lola Bunny x Penelope Pussycat (Looney Tunes)

12. Ash x Nooshy (Sing 2)

13. Porsha Crystal x Ash (Sing 2)

14. Nooshy x Porsha Crystal (Sing 2; at least one of these pairings should happen in a future installment)

and

15. Zelda x Dixie (The Fox and the Hound 2; I find it even better than CashxDixie)

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Toon Edits: Molly Millions