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samsdisneydiary · 1 year
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360° Disney Wish Tour | Upper Decks | Grand Hall | Wipe up, down, left or right see all the magic!
Take a 360° Disney Tour of Disney Cruise Lines’s Latest Ship, The Disney Wish. We’ll start on the Upper Deck and end up in the Grand Hall. As you explore the tour from the Upper Decks to the Grand Hall, look all around you. Swipe Up, Down, Left, or Right to see all the fantastic sights! Start Planning Your next Walt Disney World Adventure today with Touringplans.com
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frozenwolftemplar · 11 months
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Couple of songs from 'Wish' dropped and I have thoughts (and an overuse of italics and ellipses):
I love 'This Wish!!!!' Everything about it is just so...Disney!!! From that classic 'I want' song feel to the instrumentals to the vocals to the way it thrums with those rolling drumbeats as it mounts and builds to its sweeping climax...Stunning. Epic. Grand. Majestic. Everything I want out of a centerpiece song in a Disney animated musical. It is clear they're building their Oscar 'Best Song' campaign around this one, and it is worthy!
'This is the Thanks I get?!'....uh...I kinda...don't love it. I mean, it's a well-constructed song and all, and I know they're going for the 'seems like a good guy and maybe he was once but he's going down a dark dark spiral and definitely isn't one anymore' thing with him, but...I dunno...I'm just not feeling it (or maybe I'm not feeling Chris Pine's performance?). I'm sure it suits the character (or at least the facade he puts on for the kingdom) and maybe it's better in context, but I guess I'm just not into the 'super-bouncy-villain-song' thing. Simply put, it's no 'Poor Unfortunate Souls' or 'Mother Knows Best Reprise.'
(still pulling for him to be thrown off a cliff, though 😁)
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i cant tell if its just one person repeatedly sending me anonymous asks about boats, but to whomever you may be, thank you shckskxkskd
im having so much fun like the most recent one is just giving me an excuse to shit talk cruise ships. thats my dream job, buddy, i cant wait to tell you about how much i hate the disney wish
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zephsomething · 2 years
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I don’t know if it’s because I’m older or if it’s something about how they built this ship or what but man I cannot stop feeling the rocking as we move. I’ve got my sea legs fine but there’s always the subtle movement around my head that’s the motion of sailing. I’m not a huge fan
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disneyrover · 1 month
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Automatic Gratiuities on Disney Cruise Line Explained Easily!
What is automatic gratuities on Disney Cruise Line? We explain it simply and easily! (and even make a Jungle Cruise reference!)
Automatic gratuities on cruises is a fairly common trend nowadays. It’s an added convenience to guests so there’s one less thing to worry about during your cruise. It also serves as a “job well done” to the dining staff and your stateroom attendant for their hard work and personalized service. Disney Cruise Line created their own process for guests when it comes to automatic gratuities on your…
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bloomingonionbitch · 1 year
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obviously didn't reply because....with what??? but i totally want to see the flow chart of all possible responses i could have sent.
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enterthedisneyverse · 2 years
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Countdown is on: my goal is to have my travel video for my trip to Florida last week queued up for Monday. While waiting for the Disney Wish video, check out my embarkation day on the Disney Dream last May.
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disneytva · 4 months
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Variety Interviews Ayo Davis, Meredith Roberts And Emily Hart On Disney Television Animation's 40th Anniversary And What To Expect On From The Past, Present And Future
40 years ago, Disney TVA was founded on the heels of challenging outcomes with features “The Fox and the Hound” and “The Black Cauldron.”
Initially, Disney TVA was restricted from using established Disney legacy characters, but nevertheless had huge successes with new shows like “The Wuzzles” and “Adventures of the Gummi Bears,” both of which became popular in syndication. As time went on, DTVA was able to use its limited rights to create shows like “DuckTales” and “TaleSpin,” which featured Disney characters. Today, the slate has evolved to include shows that travel across Disney’s streaming, linear and digital platforms, including Disney+, Disney Channel, Disney Junior and the Disney Parks
Over the 40 years of the studio has collaborated with Walt Disney Imagineering to bring beloved Disney Afternoon characters to the parks as well Mickey And Minnie's Runaway Railway and AquaMouse for the Disney Wish and Disney Treasure cruises from the Disney Cruise & Ships Line as well collaborating with Disney Yellow Two Shoes Team to redesing some heritage characters for the WDW Passholder Magnets.
Disney TVA characters also have gone to the realm of live action. In 2019 Disney Channel brought Kim Possible to the live action world as a Disney Channel Original Movie in 2019. In Spring 2022, Walt Disney Studios brought Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers to a new generation of fans trought a meta-driven live action/animated hybrid film which won an Primetime Emmy Award for Best Feature Film.
In April 2024, it was announced that Kiara from The Lion King II: Simba's Pride created at Disney TVA will make her live action debut on the motion capture/computer animated film "Mufasa The Lion King" with the character being voiced by Blue Ivy Carter. In Fall 2023, it was announced that Blumhouse Television and Atomic Monster where developing a live action reboot of Gargoyles for Disney+.
The future of the studio looks bright as the studio is slated to debut it's 100th show overall "StuGo" in 2025, as well new interations of beloved classics like The Proud Family, Phineas And Ferb, Sofia The First and Darkwing Duck trought revivals,reboots and spin-offs in the coming years with early talks of new interations of TaleSpin, Kim Possible and Recess since Early 2023.
“We have a wildly diverse development slate because we don’t have a house style,” says Meredith Roberts, executive vice president, television animation, Disney Branded Television and CEO of Disney Television Animation “Our styles are creator-driven, so that allows for real support of the artist or creator to fulfill his or her vision. Anything is possible, whether it's CGI. (“Monsters at Work”), hand-drawn 2D (“Big City Greens”,"Primos","Hailey's On It!"), rig-based 2D (“Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur”,"Kiff") and stop-motion (“Mickey Saves Christmas”,"Rhona Who Lives By The River".). Roberts continues, “We really try and solve all the problems and develop it. We look at the scripts and the story arcs. Every project has to have a strategy behind it that will complement the slate and separate it from other things. Each project has a distinct swim lane to attract an audience. And we’ve learned to meet the kids where they are, in terms of streaming and YouTube.”
Co-viewing, the viewership that happens when adults sit down to watch a DTVA show with the kids in their lives, is part of the studio’s secret sauce and long-term strategy. Many of the shows are written with jokes and plot points for both audiences so both groups will return.
“We double down on the kids and family space,” says Roberts. “We’re not just dipping a toe in the water. We’re diving in. I think we’ve seen a lot of churn with the competition, who just don’t have the patience to develop and are for this audience, which is a very specialized kid audience and co-view audience.” ("The Witchverse", "Rhona Who Lives By The River","InterCats","Fantasy Sports") Roberts reflects: “I think one of the things I’m most proud of is how stable Disney TVA has been for the last 40 years despite a lot of outside churn of the animation industry. Many of our crews feel that Disney is their forever home. I think the excitement they have to illustrate and create with this brand has been terrific because it’s harder to be funny and clean. And nowhere are we tearing down people to get that laugh. I think that’s the beauty of a Disney animated show.”
DTVA also sought to meet kids where they are by making their audience — which is made up of the most diverse generation in history — feel seen, with series such as “Elena of Avalor,” which featured Disney’s first Latina princess, and “The Proud Family,” franchise focused on the life of a teenage Black girl.
“We do have an amazing insights team that are constantly in the field, giving us general information about how kids are watching content, what they’re into,” Emily Hart (VP of Current and Development - Disney Junior) says. “Some of those things are evolving, as we know the ways kids consume content is changing. But there are some universal truths about kids, and it’s great to have that reinforced. Kids still like a lot of the same things that we like. So, there’s a combination that we’re always tracking with every new idea, and we do pilot testing. We get to sit down and talk about the content, and we invite our creators in so they can see the kids talking about it because they’re the audience and they’re the truest test of if the story is going to work.”
Ayo Davis, president of the Disney Branded Television and VP of Current and Development at Disney Television Animation says the division is a “driving force” for memorable kids and family entertainment.
“All of us at Disney Branded Television are so proud of the studio’s 40-year legacy as it continues to entertain future generations with shows like ‘Kiff,’ ‘Big City Greens’ and ‘Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 2.0" --- Davis says.
Those creators who come to DTVA often stay for a long time, partnering with the studio on a variety of different projects or expanding on a hit and reimagining it for the next generation of viewers. “The Proud Family” was a standout in 2001 on Disney Channel. Creator and executive producer Bruce W. Smith is now working on the Emmy-winning “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,” which is based on the original series. The show follows Penny Proud as she navigates family life and her own childhood.
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“Being at Disney TVA has allowed me to realize all my artistic dreams,” says Bruce W. Smith. “As a kid, you always have hopes, thoughts, dreams, ideas and characters that can help lay out those ideas in your head. Disney has allowed me to really tap into my creative instinct, at the end of the day, you have to learn how to trust yourself. Meredith Roberts has been a true shepherd for me in all of this, allowing me to stretch my wings. Because of her belief in me and my ideas, she’s really allowed me to blossom as an artist. All that happened at DTVA.”
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“They really seem to be a place that welcomes your ideas,” Dan Povenmire says of Disney TVA. “They want to find people with real strong ideas of the stories they want to tell, and then they let them tell those stories for the most part. They seem to put storytelling and characters over anything. With [‘Phineas and Ferb’], we would write jokes for the kids and the adults in the room because we knew the adults would be there too. We were just careful not to do any double entendres.”
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frozen10fanzine · 6 months
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Frozen Through the Years
Yearly Spotlight: 2022
Written by @secretsofthestorymakers
In 2022, some further expansion of the Frozen franchise came through other Disney properties.
Frozen characters were included in the story of Disney Mirrorverse, an alternate universe/crossover role playing game featuring many Disney and Pixar characters. In July, the Disney Wish cruise ship sailed for the first time, featuring Arendelle: A Frozen Dining Adventure. This immersive character dining experience brings guests into the world of Frozen with a royal dinner to celebrate Anna and Kristoff’s engagement.
In books, 2022 brought new editions of both La Bibliothéque Rose series and the Histoires d’Arendelle books, two series of fairly short stories written in French. In July, Polar Nights - a chapter book set after Frozen II - was released. It explores the story of one particular myth in Arendelle and what happens when the past comes back to haunt Elsa and Anna.
As it had been several years since the release of Frozen II, and as the 10th anniversary of the original film was approaching, fans wondered what could be next for the franchise.
Stay Tuned for More
👆🏻 Click above if you want to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Frozen. The due date is April 12, 2024.
We look forward to seeing your memories ❄️
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agentsofmarvel · 11 months
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i know i’m a marvel account, but i also post little things from other fandoms. as it is frozen’s 10th anniversary, ten frozen authors wrote “all is found”, a book filled with ten short stories that take place within different times in the frozen franchise.
so due to my hyperfixation of anything frozen, and my desperate need for more frozen content, i will be
over analyzing “all is found” and breaking down each story for details and references !! (part one!)
spoilers ahead ⚠️
Anna and the Silver Skates
Author: Diana Peterfreund
this first story takes place during anna and elsa’s childhood, probably less than five years after anna and elsa were separated.
elsa secretly leaves anna a pair of their mothers old ice skates as anna couldn’t find her own (and spent hours trying to skate with cloths tied to her boots).
this inspires anna to secretly leave the castle to enter a skating competition in disguise, as she hasn’t been to the village since before the gates were closed.
anna needs a disguise, but cannot find anything, so elsa (without anna knowing again) sneaks her some of her mother’s old clothes.
anna successfully sneaks out to the village and joins the competition. elsa, being so worried about anna sneaking out, causes problems with her magic, so iduna invites her to watch the festival with her from the royal carriage.
elsa agrees, hoping to distract iduna from seeing anna. but while they’re watching the race, anna’s disguise comes off and iduna catches her. instead of being mad, iduna lets anna have fun.
iduna later explains she feels bad that anna had to sneak out because she is so desperate for interaction, and promises to talk to agnarr about stopping the isolation.
we know from the movies that this never happens though, and i wonder what would have happened if this plan had actually went through.
other facts: this story claims that elsa never spoke back to anna when they were separated (anna would speak to elsa’s door, but elsa would never respond).
there’s no other big references i caught other than some quick nods to iduna and agnarr’s childhoods together in Dangerous Secrets.
my rating: 4/5 ⭐️
(this is going to be the longest story explanation, i didn’t know how else to write it)
Engaging Anna and Kristoff
Author: Jen Calonita (author of Conceal Don’t Feel & Polar Nights)
this story takes place after frozen 2, and tells the story of elsa trying to plan an engagement party for anna and kristoff.
she hires oaken, who tries to make the party fit for a queen, along with asking the trolls to help, who try to make it a troll engagement party.
so they go back and forth trying to outdo each others decorations and elsa finally convinces them to do a bit of both to represent both anna and kristoff.
meanwhile, anna and kristoff are trying to keep each other busy both thinking their distracting each other for different surprises.
they’re so many little details from other frozen novels and frozen properties!!
oaken’s party service is a reference from the arendelle dinner experience aboard the disney wish cruise ship
my favorite reference came from a list of bakeries anna and kristoff had to pick up cookies from as a distraction. blodget’s and the waffle brothers have both been mentioned in other frozen books, the olsen’s could be a reference from olaf’s frozen adventure, and tomally’s is a reference to the family that raised anna in Conceal Don’t Feel.
my rating: 3.5/5 ⭐️
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samsdisneydiary · 2 years
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Dining on the Disney Wish | Sneak Peek from Making the Disney Wish streaming on Disney+ February 17, 2023
Dining meets storytelling aboard the Disney Wish. Long before the Disney Wish set sail, Imagineers, food and beverage managers, and chefs from around the world were designing restaurants, planning and testing out menus, and concocting one-of-a-kind drinks. What does it take to feed 4,000 guests and 1,500 crew on a floating castle on the sea hundreds of miles from shore? Making the Wish: Disney’s…
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theblueeyedbelle · 1 year
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I hate having to tag the new movie ‘Disney Wish’. Just ‘Wish’ is too vague, but ‘Disney Wish’ sounds like I’m posting about the cruise ship.
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what is it about cruise ships that you find ugly? like are there any specific ones you hate or is it just all of them?
okay so ive been puzzling over to how to answer this for A While™ because:
theres so many ugly cruise ships i would love to roast, and theres a part of me that wants to make a sideblog about it a la @mcmansionhell but for cruise ships
i am autistic and this is my special interest and i also want to infodump about ship design conventions
theres also really pretty oceanliners like the ss france that got converted into cruise ships where the magical girl transformation sequence malfunctioned badly.
its not always just like the exterior thats badly designed, theres both Awful design inside the ship like the disney wish, and Awful business plans and conduct like the epirotiki lines
...but, thats a lot.
so instead, ive settled on four exterior design issues that i think you can see in a lot of cruise ships even if you dont know shit about ships.
this is by no means an exhaustive list but just some common observations that you will see in 97% of cruise ships.
im also gonna include an example ship for each and also further examples when needed.
so without further ado:
1. your ship looks like a bus and a ferry had an unholy love affair that ended with a baby neither wanted.
as an example of this anchor-christ, may i introduce you to the celebrity edge
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something about the stern (back) just reminds me of diamond busses here in the uk while the bow (front) has a distinctly ferry-like look.
the super-structure that you see peaking above the spaceship-bridge on the bow is giving me double-decker bus energy.
the orange viewing box elevator thingy gives construction site energy, but also gives me public transport vibes? like i can just see something similar being added on buses with no explanation and we'd all just be like i guess buses are getting the budget silicon valley treatment.
further, celebrity edge has relatively sharp angles at the stern and bow. if you look at a lot of ocean liners, youll see shallower sweeping angles curving down, while a lot of cruise ships will have these sharper angles (though by angles, i mean curves still) or just will stop at the stern:
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[Image ID: collage with five ships. In the top left corner, there are two images with the profiles of the SS France and the SS Andrea Doria. In the top right, there is the stern of the MSC Meraviglia. Bottom left: the stern of the Costa Deliziosa. Bottom right: stern of the Norwegian Epic]
though not pictured above, the rms queen mary actually earned her title at the miss pacific ocean competition where a cruise ship will never win because theyre just too ugly.
but my point is that the abrupt ending of superstructure and ship at the stern looks like a bus. it just does.
there is also like "this is just a block of flats" energy with the costa deliziosa, but thats getting into the next point:
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2. oh no gang, billy bear misplaced his msc seaside hotel and now its floating out to sea on a barge! can you help him?
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yes this is a butlins reference, what are you gonna do about it? call a red coat on me?
the msc seaside is one of many cruise ships where it looks like someone put a hotel on a barge... which is what a cruise ship actually is.
like, they are barely ships. anyone who says theyre going on a cruise to explore the ocean is trying to buff out their tinder bio. while cruise ships technically can sail across oceans, they dont. their journeys are incredibly short they sail very close to land, avoid any rough weather and its mandatory for all of their captains to have a north american blue grouse fursona.
and thats all because a cruise ship is hotel complex on a barge. its purpose is not to sail far because its just a hotel. there are multiple swimming pools and restaurants and night clubs and fucking rollercoasters on some of them. you can buy souvenirs, you can go do yoga, you can get a massage and as long as your surname doesnt end with a double n, you can put your kid into the available childcare.
forget sending the british army to pontins during covid, lets send them to pontoons!
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hotels on barges are the most common version youll see, but there are other variations which include:
chopping mall 2: carnivore cruises
the 2006 remake of the anchor-christ: abargements/if youre renting in a block of flats on a barge, do you pay rent to a waterlord or is your landlord firmly stood on ground?
the happiest place on earth: disneywater!
the entire shenanigans going on with the freedom ship which i do not have time or energy to get into right now, so lets all just calm and down and take a breath and...
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...3. close your eyes, imagine, feel it. youre on a cruise ship, the ovation of the seas; its an early august night and petrichor deluges the air. the skies above you glisten, a whirlpool of colour illuminated by hundreds of tiny flecks of light. youre alone on the deck, standing at the stern with your arms precariously balanced on the barrier as you turn your attention to the ocean below. its dark, the gentle waves nearly imperceptible yet bar the bone-white crests against the hull. you watch, captivated, listening to the ocean sing its terrible song. yet then somewhere behind you, the mellow thud of hoofs on the wooden deck weaves between the waves and the melody. you look up, lock eyes, feel a hurricane surround you as he stares back, do you remember to count his fingers?
so, you might have noticed that a lot of modern cruise ships, especially the bigger ones, look like some check-mark tech-bro on the bird app used an ai to steal the work of naval architects, photographers, artists, etc. to generate "their own design" for a cruise ship.
the example i chose for this was the ovation of the seas:
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the super-structure has copy and paste vibes. the ship also looks like its lurching forward to attack me but thats beside the point.
one of the issues the designers for these ships - i would say naval architects but cruise lines sometimes choose someone for head of design who is not a naval architect and has never been on a ship before for shits, giggles and profits- run into is that its really difficult to make a long blank wall look good.
if youve ever made a house in the sims, youve probably ran into this yourself. youre happily building your house and it looks really good at the front and the back, but the side of it is just a wall and adding windows is giving copy and paste vibes.
my trick for this is either fake chimney, add an extra small popout, vines everywhere or hide it with trees, but these are not viable options for a cruise ship.
trust me, i checked:
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hence, we end up with very long ships where its just ctrl c ctrl v for 300+ metres.
so how do you fix this?
well, idk maybe you could take notes from any of the longer ocean liners built in recent history.
you know, like the ss united states or the rms queen mary 2 or the ss michelangelo or the ss normandie or the mv kungsholm or the ss principe perfeito:
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now im not saying all of these liners are the most beautiful boats ever; theyre not. as much as i adore her, queen mary 2 is a little ugly. most of them even have an element of copy and paste.
but none of them feel ai-generated. and a lot of them look really really pretty. you can tell that they were designed by human beings.
because the naval architects and naval designers who knew what they were doing. weve got clever use of colours, gorgeous use of curves and sweeping lines that balance out all the design elements. the sameness is broken up when possible, and the ship has focal points designed within to catch your eye.
and all of them have beautiful bows. most ocean liners had/have noticeable bows due to functionality; they needed sharp bows to cut through waves because they were crossing the ocean every week. and so extra care would be taken to both make the bow work for its function and also, look really fucking cool.
the ss normandie specifically has a unique bow shape and structure designed by vladimir yourkevitch, a russian naval architect who had emigrated to france after the russian revolution.
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the bow is slanted and looks almost clipper-like. theres this clear bulbous bulb (thats the wrong term but the bit at the bottom) beneath the waterline. this design is matched with a slim hull designed to be hydrodynamic, which made her a very fast ship.
she and the rms queen mary fought over the blue ribband for several years before ww2 broke out. [x][x]
its a little wibbly-wobbly-looking but it gives her a very distinct profile and she just looks really cool. you dont notice the repeating pattern of windows on the super structure because of how striking her entire design is.
and well, there has been attempts to capture this with cruise ships.
they run into problems with it though because their bows are not designed the way ocean liners' bows were because a cruise ship does not need to cut through waves. itd be really weird if you were in a fancy restaurant and you were giving a steak knife for your caesar salad.
so what else can you do to make your bow look so beautiful her kissing booth would be sold out all weekend?
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4. your bow art is ugly. it is ugly. it is really ugly. please stop putting art on your bow. it is all ugly.
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yeah.
take a moment .
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its okay.
i promise
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shes not real.
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you can breathe.
take another breath.
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youre okay.
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are you scrolled far down enough that you cant see her anymore?
yeah so that was the aidanova. probably the worst bow art i have ever encountered but im yet to encounter any bow art that isnt awful.
pride of america is terrible; caribbean princess' is just completely out of place; norwegian prima is the epitome of "what the fuck?"; majestic princess' makes the ship look naked somehow.
now i will concede that a lot of bow art is probably aimed at children because family cruises are a thing, but i wont concede that it changes anything.
the bow art is still ugly and i struggle to see how it would be appealing to a child. like engaging children is more than just throwing some bright colours and patterns on a canvas? children are smarter than that and even in my joking post making fun of cruise ships, im not gonna stand for the way we invalidate the personhood of children. theyre not things to be distracted with simple solutions.
weirdly the aidanovas is the one id be less harsh about in terms of engaging children because there is more to dig into like a boat version of thomas the tank engine or like how do boat body work? the art isnt surface level.
but its still just ugly. the shape of the bow does not compliment the face and the change in colour in the eyes is very distracting.
tbh, if youre gonna do bow art, youve got two options that arent awful:
actually aim it at kids in a way thats not just surface level look at bright colour braxter. have focus groups with kids, gets their feedback, have kids contribute. respect the intelligence and personhood of kids.
just go all out. balls to the fucking wall, just break every damn rule in the book and apply every technique your art teacher hated. the ship is gonna be ugly anyway, make it fun ugly. camp is in. pantomime it up in this bitch!
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and anyway, that concludes my "brief" answer to this question 👍
btw if you would follow a blog that just trashes cruise ships because of how ugly they are, please tell me because like, if enough people would enjoy it to make the effort worth it, i Will do it.
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disneyrover · 4 months
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caspianthegeek · 2 years
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You know, I've posted this photo before but I don't think anyone besides some of my closest friends got the story behind it.
This photo was taken aboard the Disney Wish due to a special invite for work, and I was exceedingly excited to be back on a boat again. So excited, in fact, that I did as I usually do and packed a couple of cosplays and of course the robe just in case.
Then I caught COVID, despite testing negative before boarding and being fully vaccinated.
I found out that when you have COVID on a cruise ship they sometimes send you to a special little COVID ward where you're locked in your room by the simple expediency of they take your room key so that you cannot wander the ship (not that I was in any shape to wander, nor would have risked exposing others). But I lost my balcony to sit on.
And so from this little porthole, I begrudgingly watched us dock at Castaway Cay and I sulked as only I can that I was missing out on the little bit of rare time I could have had in Caribbean waters. I was one of those people that COVID hit reasonably hard, so I felt horrid but in between waves of exhaustion, I dragged out my bird robe and wig and stubbornly balanced my cell phone in a drinking glass and tried to sort out the best angle for a photo. Racing the clock to sundown on the last night of the cruise because I knew the lighting would be wrong if it were full dark outside.
That's what this little photo was born of. Frustration and not a small bit of loneliness (because isolation sucks). And pure Caspian-level stubbornness.
It's one of the more beautiful cosplay photos I've managed to snag of me. It's hard being the photography friend and also the cosplayer, because my photos of me are never quite what I imagine because I know how I would take them. But this one? It came out exactly as I wanted, despite the goofiest set up I've quite possibly ever used. And I really like the photo, despite how it came about <3
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king-magnifico-haven · 7 months
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I love how some children have said they don’t think Magnifico is evil. I’d love to see a poll of any number of children being asked if they think he’s a villain. Some may even prefer him to Asha, which would be hilarious to find out.
It’s fantastic how some kids can see he’s not really the Big Bad. He’s more of a character that got brainwashed by the Big Bad.
And no one cared enough to save him.
No one cared enough to be the Anna to his Elsa. There wasn’t any ‘true love overcomes all’ for Magnifico. If there had been I wouldn’t feel the need to put him in an OC x Canon ship.
But Disney gave this movie the same name as one of its cruise ships. I’ve seen a post on here mention far better titles for the movie than ‘Wish’.
So can we really be surprised? If they didn’t care enough to give it more of a unique title, can we be surprised by a PTSD victim being turned into a villain when all he needed was someone to ask him ‘are you alright, King Magnifico?’
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