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I think the team are all from different cultures btw
Like they're all dwarves, but they(to me) obviously come from different backgrounds and such. Places with different social expectations and ways of communicating.
Like an accent or the use of slang. They're all speaking the same language, but the details can get lost if you aren't in the know.
Like. Idk. Gunner comes from a place where being stoic is seen as the norm. Not much emotional availability, but a very heavy emphasis is placed on caring for your community and protecting your family. He was raised to take care of others and sacrifice his needs for the good of the group. This made it hard to accept that sometimes he would need help. Thankfully being with the team has opened his eyes, and while he still works tirelessly to protect those he loves, he knows sometimes he needs someone to lean on.
Engie comes from a place where the dwarves are friendly and hospitable. Very calm and open, and being a capable, self-sufficient dwarf who helps your comrades is seen as the ideal. He was raised to treat everyone like family and to be polite and kind-hearted. He still holds onto his more wholesome values of course, but has learned that sometimes being harsh has its place.
Scout comes from an area where friendly roughhousing is very common, along with jabbing at your friends in a joking way. Being self-sufficient is expected, and being a well-rounded dwarf with the ability to take care of yourself and others is ideal. He was raised to carry his weight but always be ready to help others with their load. This has led to him being hyperfocused on being helpful to others while completely refusing anything in return, viewing it as weak. Over time he's gotten over it, mostly thanks to the team, and will now readily jabber on until he gets what he needs.
Driller is from somewhere. I have no idea where it would be, and I don't think there's a whole culture of dwarves out there that act like him. I think he spent a lot of his life alone and doesn't really understand how others work. That leads him to overanalyze how other dwarves act from an outside and then interact based on how he operates. Basically he thinks everyone processes things exactly how he does, and he has trouble remembering that the dwarves around him may not enjoy the same things he does. This led to the team perceiving him as unnerving and aggressive, which although true, doesn't fully encapsulate his person. He enjoys roughhousing that borders on actual fighting, he likes quiet and darkness and warmth, and doesn't realize that not everyone shares that. So he bites and burns and bombs, stands in dark, quiet places and ambushes others with his unnerving silence. He doesn't mean any malice, not really, he's just showing his care in his own unconventional way. It's taken a long time, but over the many years he's worked for DRG, the team has managed to show him how they operate, which makes for less uncomfortable situations. He still blows up Scout though. Some things don't change.
They're all from different places and have had different experiences in life, and they've all had different amounts of time to work on it. It wasn't always easy, but they're all in agreement that doing things together is much better than trying to go forward alone. Through thick and thin, through the fighting and the peaceful times, they've vowed to stick together, to support each other. And for that, they're the strongest dwarves around.
#just some of my personal headcanons for like#behavioral stuff?#how they act.#I was mainly thinking about Driller#because i firmly believe he shows his love through what most would see as signs of aggression#he loves violently#and then i asked myself#“why?”#and now we're here.#idk if anyone will agree or even care#but i wanted to share#so here#have some dwarves#<3#deep rock galactic#drg#drgposting#rock and stone#driller#driller drg#gunner#gunner drg#engineer#engineer drg#scout#scout drg#can you tell Driller is my fav yet?#hes my babygirl#oh also#deep rock gaylactic
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OK Brennan, if you aren't gonna let me have Aelwyn posted up in the manor at all times, having her use her dramatic villain skills to protect Adaine before going off to teach middle schoolers is the next best thing I could have hoped for. What a mental image--Ms. "I Came Here To Fuck" teaching cantrips to eleven-year-olds. Wild.
#dimension 20#dimension 20 spoilers#fantasy high#fantasy high spoilers#d20#d20 spoilers#aelwyn abernant#NEMESIS WARD#I'm obsessed with the concept#also I always headcanonned aelwyn as going CPS but middle school teacher is SOOOO good#God I hope they crash a class at some point#can you imagine her having to protect a class of kids from some end of the world bullshit?#I can only dream#you think she's teaching at the school the child dwarves they beat up go to?#Oakshield I think?
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I’ve discovered my favorite genre of Bagginshield art is where Thorin is a lovesick idiot who is Losing It and Bilbo is unbothered or oblivious to Thorin’s suffering LMAO
#thorin oakenshield#bilbo baggins#bagginshield#if anyone has more please send it to me I have like four rn#I know I made a post a while back talking about how I wish there were more posts that focused on each of their lives outside of each other#and I still stand by that but I also can’t deny the fun in a Important Dwarf like Thorin turning into an idiot around Bilbo#tbh this works even platonically. this guy has friends bc he’s lucky not bc he’s actually friendly#so I can imagine becoming friends with Bilbo is like ‘fuck now I have to be nice bc he WILL actually leave. uh. oh god’#love men who are grouchy and offputting <3#and Bilbo is oblivious not as a flaw but bc he’s just not wired that way and he’s just accepting that Thorin is weird#bc he has no basis of which to assume he isn’t just Like That sometimes same way the dwarves don’t know shit abt hobbits#and it’s not as like. Bilbo being extremely innocent either he’s just not thinking about it LMAO#and Bilbo Also doesn’t have a ton of friends (different reasons but he IS also grouchy and petty) and he’s just ‘?? ok’#they’re both fucking stupid and everyone around them is dying and in anguish#I particularly enjoy when a character who is emotionally constipated and stoic and whatever just starts losing it#not even necessarily in a sappy or angsty way just. those emotions gotta come out eventually#so for a guy like Thorin who takes himself seriously and is very closed off emotionally it’s fun to just imagine that facade cracking#meanwhile Bilbo is just like ‘you ok??’#Bilbo himself has some emotional issues so it’s double the entertainment
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How about side by side with a friend?
Aye, I can do that.
#fanart#lotr fanart#lotr#legolas#legolas lotr#gimli son of gloin#gimli#lotr gimli#legolas x gimli#implied anyways#woodland elves#dwarves#headcanon that woodland elves have deer ears#cause I think it’s cute and expressive#also the idea of Lego coming back home after the war with dwarven style like beads and piercing and a sense of good ale is so fun#gives his dad a heart attack that his son adopted dwarf styles#Gimli adopts some floral and woodland looks too let’s be real#Gloinbis also dying from the change don’t worry#tomcat draws#like and/or reblog!#okay now byyyeee#the hobbit#the hobbit fanart
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Lobelia & Bilbo Siblings AU🍋🍀 + Lobelia's laketown garb🍋🐳
please love them🙏😔
#the hobbit#baggins siblings au#bilbo baggins#lobelia (sackville) baggins#Belladonna & Bungo's beloved children❤#one of them has her eyes on your silver set#the other is willing to face dragons cuz a hot dwarf told him to#together they are Thee Best Burglars✨(that Gandalf can afford)#each time i read a slightly positive lobelia-bilbo interaction i am like#but what if they grew up together👀#all the sibling shenanigans aside i think having lobelia with him (some kind of family like all the dwarves) during the quest#would be good for bilbo#yeh this are all i got for this au now👍
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Ok, so Noldolantë, "The Fall of the Noldor" is a lament composed by Maglor about what happened before, during and after First Kinslaying at Alqualondë. It's such a good song that it's played regularly in Aman and Valar listen to it often (I swear, I swear it was in the Silmarillion I just can't find it now).
It's also a more or less common fanon that Maglor continues writing Noldolante through the whole First Age. Makes sense - it's about fall of the Noldor, and Noldor did a lot of falling back then.
Headcannon time: So my first thought was that Noldolante must a long, long, long epic of a song. So it probably has many parts, right? Iliad has 24 books/parts, somehow I think Noldolante would be at least just as long, and there are longer epics. And again, just like Iliad, unless you're a scholar, in the daily life you don't really listen to/read the whole thing, just reread and repeat the most dramatic fragments. What I'm trying to impress upon you all is that the story would have different segments, or chapters, if you will.
And if Maglor continues to write the story during the FA, there would absolutely be a moment in the lament where the OG Noldolante becomes Noldolante 2, and even Noldolante 3. There may be the same musical motif or something, I decided that Maglor IS that good of a bard to keep it all consistent enough so you know it's all the same story, but the style changes a lot - it's been 400 years in the making, let The Music Elf have fun!
So, Point 1: Many, Many Parts, basically Maglor's FA WIP
My second thought was that, while Feanor invented his alphabet, elves learned their history mostly through oral tradition aka songs and spoken stories. Noldolante is definitely a historical record, where a historical event was archived for future generations.
(It was a also a way to deal with grief, guilt and blame Maglor and all Noldor have faced regarding First Kinslaying - free therapy! But that's not what this post is about)
Archived.
My 2.5 thought was that Noldolante isn't just recallings of how pretty and horrified the beach looked during the murdering or how mad and sorrowful the sea was at everyone during the voyage or even how awesome and charismatic Feanor looked during his speeches that every single Noldo was ready to fight Morgoth barehanded in his name - no, this is a record of who killed who, who got killed by whom, and how.
Noldor and Teleri knew each other (were friends, even!) before the First Kinslaying, so I'm confident that after a lot of interviews, detective work, and cross-referencing, Maglor could and would create a very good... name list. Practically every Noldo and Teler present during First Kinslaying would get a stanza in a song, more if he killed someone, most if he killed many people. Killers and killed would show up twice, first in a fragment listing the killers and their victims, then in a part listing the victims and their murderers. Basically it's the same thing twice, but from different POVs. With when, where and how included.
(It was seen to be in bad taste to compare kills during Maglor's Regency, when most of his interview-part work happened. People did it anyway. There were a Saddest Kill, Funniest Kill, and Weirdest Kill discusions. There was a Tier List. These were weird times to be a Feanorian Noldo.)
(It WAS in Bad Taste, but at least people talked about it. I cannot stress enough how much free therapy this lament provided)
(Little did they know, when Teleri started getting reembodied in Aman, they had very similar discussions, but more in a "I can't believe he killed me like THAT" way. Long, long, long after the First Age. Noldolante is a gift that keeps giving)
So, Maglor had all the historical grith and no common shame to create a "We Killed All These People And We Feel Bad About It" banger of a song, and every Noldo had a very personal reason to at least remember the fragments they are in. It's a hit on a scale never seen before.
(I'm not sure how to tackle the issue of Nolofinweans and Arafinweans learning about Noldolante after crossing the Ice. But there were discussions. There was anger, there was "????", there was controversy. Basically, the song got bigger and bigger rep no matter what your opinion on it was. By the time of Mereth Aderthad it was an important cultural and political piece and at least Fingon's forces were included in the main song. It had parodies.)
Point 2: Archive Function/Kill count storage. Cultural phenomen, every Noldo included
This is where my personal nonsense begins: Main Noldolante was done, there was nothing more to say about First Kinslaying, all killings and deaths were well documented.
But the Siege started. And the Noldor kept dying.
It was less dramatic than it sounded - between the big battles the siege was maintained, but orc raids also happened and sometimes one to few Noldor died in skirmishes. The legal procedure was to document the death of a fellow elf and send a word to king Fingolfin. The cultural procedure, technically started by Feranorians but adapted by many more, was to send the name, common characteristics and cause of death to Maglor's Gap. After few months, King Fingolfin would send reinforcements, short condolences and financial compensation if they had family. After few months, family of an elf would also receive a personal lament for them and a place for them in a Noldolante.
Yes, every lament Maglor created in that time was technically part of the Noldolante. Noldolante 1.5, if you will. Laments make in that time were very customized, and simpler than Noldolante Main, but were still considered a part of the same song. Of course, nobody was expected to know and remember laments for every single Noldo, younger Noldor born in Beleriand could even only know fragments about their family members. Only Maglor would ever know Noldolante in full, but it was understood that everyone had their place in The Song.
The results of Great Battles were harder to document, but Maglor did that. Of course, Dagor Bragollach was hard on him personally, but he worked his way through.
(High King Fingon forbade creating laments for his father. There were no songs for Fingolfin. Apart from in Noldolante, of course. Of course. Maglor did not share the lament with anyone, but he sat long hours and many nights with a blank paper before him, looking at the candle flame and thinking of the past and the future. The song unsung, but there)
Nirnaeth was... Maglor was never more hated and more approached at the same time than then. Still, Noldolante grew and grew, as if people knew the end was near.
It was Second Kinslaying that destroyed the myth of Maglor's song. Feanorians didn't know the Sindar they killed, but surely, they couldn't just left their names unmentioned like they did with orcs? So, Noldor talked, but the battle happened in caves - it wasn't uncommon to find dead bodies in empty rooms, with no witnesses to what happened. Surviving Sindar didn't want to share any names, even when Maglor strong-armed some into talking with him, and good for them. Maglor made a big lament anyway. Maglor, wild, with no shame and dead brothers, with legacy crumbling around him. Noldolante, with holes.
After Third Kinslaying, Noldor didn't want to talk. Lament for Sirion didn't have any names. Clearly, songs weren't a way to go anymore, it was always about live witnesses. And so Maglor raised the twins.
Lament for Maedhros was sung repeatedly. There was no one to hear it.
Point 3: Only Maglor knows Noldolante in full. But that doesn't matter, because everyone knows the important part: the Noldolante is finished. The Star of Hope rises in the West and the story goes on. The Fall has ended.
#silm#silmarillion#noldolante#maglor#yet another post that went in different direction than I planned#started with meta went into headcannon and ended with fanfic angst#I wanted to end it with crack!!!#I mean. I mean#it all makes kind of some sense if we're talking about elves here#but guys Noldor had Men and Dwarves as allies#Maglor would want them in his Historical Record song#I think with Dwarves they would mainly refuse when he asked them if they wanted a part in Noldolante#so maybe he would only get some allies and personal friends of Maedhros in#but Men#guys Men. they would agree and they would make lists and it would become Clown City so fast#but Sons of Feanor aren't known for their ability of knowing when to quit#so Maglor has a Noldolante 3.0 Standard Version with 254 Parts that has Elves and an Occasional Dwarf Only#and Special Version Noldolante Deluxe Extra Edition with 547398134 Parts that includes Men#everyone is included you don't have to die in battle#all common causes of death have a dedicated jingle to them#to the point you know a man's cause of death after 3 notes#these parts of Noldolante well the music bit actually survived into the Fourth Age#the words are gone but the music is played at funerals in some places#The Noldolante Main survived only in parodies though#actually Finished Noldolante is a very good thing huh#as in no more Fall of The Noldor#they can finally catch some break#I believe that during Maglor's Regency Era all Noldor did was Processing. and breeding horses.#Noldolante? more like Maglor Finally Discovers Shame: A Story#I think some personal revelations on legacy and connections between children and life's works would be made
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Sketches of Dís from March that I never uploaded (oops) .
#dís#yes I hc Dís is a lot taller than Thorin#but it's also because I hc that dwarrowdams are often some of the tallest dwarves around#lady dís#princess dís#prince dís#my art#the hobbit#tolkien#lotr#dwarves#the lord of the rings#durin's folk#dwarrowdam#longbeards#thorin oakenshield#the royal line of durin#there is so much stuff I have just sitting on my computer lmao#my sketches#Mr.Kida Tolkien AU
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Caranthir at the annual Feanorian strategy meeting: You know, we could just chuck it all and turn to piracy. It would be a LOT easier.
#silmarillion#tolkien#incorrect quotes#caranthir#Source: girl genius#I really have a need for a girl genius silmarillion crossover AU thing in my life but I have no idea what it would entail#Feanor as a Heterodyne adjacent spark is self explanatory#Eol would be messing around with some kind of mind control#Elrond with his sentient city and army of feral modified soldiers loyal to the house that created them#Immortality can be explained by some sparks being very good at revivification techniques in this AU#Dwarves are also sparks but not ones that specialise in that particular vein of biology and don’t really see the appeal#with the exception of Durin’s consciousness transferal (using ethically sourced volunteers)#Elrond/Gil Galad/Celebrian would be the equivalent of the Overpowered Triumvirate
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Bilbo and his dwarves
#bilbo baggins#thorin oakenshield#bagginshield#hobbit#lotr#my art#my uni mate wanted to see some dwarves bc he saw me doodling Bilbo so now we have this#I’m figuring out how to give them all unique shapes so they are easier to draw#thorin is by far the most difficult.#why is his design so normal. I can’t extravagante for shit here
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*talking about how to deal with the magical monsters during halloweek*
Yuu: Leona, call your brother. We need to borrow Cheka. Does anyone else have any young children we can borrow?
*Everyone else, confused*
- The Next Day -
Cheka, wailing: why are you ruinin the pirate ship! I really wanted ta see it!!!
Magicam Monsters: *panicking because they're being recorded and shamed for making a kid cry*
Ruggie: this is fucking genius
Leona: *proud af of his future mate girlfriend and nephew*
#also featuring kalim's young siblings who love some drama#and guest appearance of Neige and the dwarves#who need only cute disguides and a bit of motivation from neige#to cause havok#hastag Magicam Monsters Ruining Halloween for the babies quickly starts to go viral#they all become the heroes of the haloween party and are treated like kings as thanks#also someone spiked the punch#a drunk neige and tipsy rook might have been pictured making out#twisted wonderland#disney twst#twst#twst headcanons
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DUNMESH STYLE STUDY with my ocs.. !!?!??? !
this was rly rly fun i think more ppl should make room in their hearts for daydream hour obsession
#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#style study#ocs#daydream hour#bryony#molly#qamar#noemi#frederick#nat#comment ur fav versions of them if u have any#im such a sucker for dwarves but i learned the gnomes were also easily a runner up#ps i gave some of the girlies beards bc of that one page of ryoko kui sketches#it hurts my heart that none of the recurring characters followed that style bc just imagine#feminist loss. im still crying
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Maybe Disney needs to try taking on a fairytale they haven't done yet. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy more original stories like Raya and the Last Dragon and Encanto that as far as I'm aware don't originate from any particular legend (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong tho). Those are fun. Exploring different magical concepts like dragons and the miracle is awesome.
But that being said, I think Disney needs to go back to its roots and do a fairytale. Something with a princess and a big bad that comes from an existing legend. That's (generally) where Disney excels. That's why people love Disney. Little Mermaid? Classic. Beauty and the Beast? Classic. Princess and the Frog? Classic. Cinderella? Classic. Snow White? Classic. Really, I just think Disney does what Disney does best when they're taking a story that already exists and turning it into a beautiful piece of animation with a gentle, kind soul at the center of it, maybe with a different little spin like setting the Frog Prince story in 1920s New Orleans or having Beauty's father be an inventor. Little touches like that to make the story uniquely Disney, but with a solid basis in a folk narrative that touches something deep and instinctual inside most people.
Give me a girl who's cursed. A girl who either falls prey to evil or makes a deal with it, and whose sweetheart fights for her like Aurora or who does the brave thing and sacrifices to fix it like Ariel.
Give me a girl who's trapped. A girl whose family keeps her down or who just hasn't found where she fits yet, who stays kind despite her troubles like Cinderella or who finds her own alternative way out like Belle.
Heck, even a weird-ass thing like Shakespeare But Lions would be welcome. That's such a Disney thing to do, taking a story like Hamlet and filling it with whimsy and giving it a happy ending. Plus, Simba is one of the strongest protagonists and learns one of the best lessons in all of Disney fight me.
(I'm not going to count Frozen in the folk story group because the departure from the original was so wild I don't think it deserves to count. I love Elsa with my entire soul but I would also die to see Disney do a proper version of the Snow Queen fairytale.)
Look, my point is that I'd like to see something that really makes Disney dig a little deeper and recapture the spark of its classics. Because as much as I enjoy stuff like Tangled and Frozen and Moana (I've watched all of them loads of times and I cry about them consistently) they don't come to mind as Disney classics for me. Maybe that's just me. Maybe it simply hasn't been enough time. Maybe it's the difference in the animation. Speaking of that, however, I would actually love to see a Disney movie done in a 2D style again; I don't think 3D has any inherent superiority and I'd love to see what Disney could do with a 2D movie now. And there are so many folk stories in the world, surely there must be one that Disney can bring to life the way it used to. They haven't retold every story that's been told already.
Am I being a little picky? Probably. But I'd love to see something that reminds me of the Disney classics where a gentle person with a courageous core has their life touched by magic, faces an obstacle, and has a happy ending. Something that's not a variation on "X needs to be saved" but a specific character longing for a specific thing and either doing what they think is necessary to get it (like Tiana and Ariel) or giving it up for the sake of someone else, but getting a happy ending nonetheless (like Belle and Simba). Also a clear-cut badguy who gets to be absolutely cunty and evil about it with no peculiar twist.
I'd like to see something Classic Disney again.
#whew that was long am winded#I was just having some thoughts#might talk about Disney movies more on here I love Disney so much#comparative analysis of brave frozen 2 and lion king anyone?#I'll do it I swear I will#anyway!#🎶let's get down the business🎶#🎶to tag. the post🎶#disney#disney movies#disney animation#disney classics#cinderella#beauty and the beast#the little mermaid#the princess and the frog#sleeping beauty#snow white and the seven dwarves#the lion king#ariel#aurora#tiana#simba#belle#(wanting to slap the princesses whose names are the same as their stories rn lol)#snow white#disney princesses#2d animation#(my beloved)#seriously I really want that it serves
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also. tbh. a little disappointed it seems like taash is Also going to be from the qun, or at least a very recent defect. i was hoping we’d get to see more vashoth characters
#at this point it feels like a concept they made up for adaar/whatever qunari pcs for this one#this is something i’ve noticed recently where it’s like. nonhuman cultures feel like they’re being. what’s the word#reducing them all down to one culture#seeing this especially with elves bc we haven’t really spent time in an alienage since tabris#arianni and merrill are both dalish transplants. but alienages have their own culture#there’s elves whose ancestors were never in the dales. there’s elves who lived in the dales who never joined the dalish#but we don’t really get a whole lot about that#like. it’s very cool to have two dalish companions but i’m a little disappointed they’re the only elven companions yk#god. i could write a whole other post about elves#seeing this a little bit with dwarves too bc in harding’s v&v episode she brought up the stone a bunch#which i’ve already mentioned. could be an insight into surfacer culture that hasn’t assimilated into the chantry#or it could just be that they went ‘uhhh dwarf so they’re all the same’#i’m of two minds about varric’s beard for the same reason bc it was an intentional choice to have him be clean shaven#and maybe he’s gone through some offscreen character development. or it could be this again#it seems like a similar thing that happens to characters of color like#if they’re not white it’s either them or their parents who came from rivain/antiva/tevinter (thinking vivienne duncan isabela etc)#everyone needs an excuse for why they are where they are. except for white humans bc that doesn’t NEED an explanation. is how it comes acros#mine#taash
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я не знаю, когда доделаю кучу задуманных мемов, так что пощу этот отдельно
#the 7d#queen delightful#hildy gloom#my art#Hildy says#“you have seven entities sitting there in the form of a little gnomes. I'm going to clean it up [and] put it away”#I'll try to explain this meme#it was a TV program with some psychic stuff#one woman called there with a problem#and the psychic guy told her these words (with one entity instead of seven)#it's just so funny#also dwarves are traditionally translated as gnomes in rus lang
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rumbelle + the raven king (a french fairytale) au moodboard
#the text is strange but it’s the only english version i could find🤔#it's basically eros and psyche#but with a green and one-eyed father#(no idea why he is green and has only one eye but i like the part where the raven king pecks his eye out)#(big fan of rumple's violence against moe lol)#and with singing grass#(no questions here)#rumple might not even be a raven#just cursed#but it would be nice if belle had to find him among lookalike birds#(it's not in the story I just really like this trope)#also we can have ruby the wolf#EQ who has rumple's dagger#and some dwarves why not#and a happy ending of course#something like that#rumbelle#rumbelle moodboard#not only mice but also moodboards#rumbelle+fairytales moodboards#my rumbelle things#my things
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In my humble opinion, the successful retellings of Snow White take the relationship between Snow and the Wicked Queen and really dig into why the queen is so desperate to be beautiful and why Snow is still the fairest because of her kindness.
My favorite examples of this are Gail Carson Levine's Fairest, and the movie Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarves. In both of these retellings, Snow White is conventionally unattractive. And how society views Snow White in these stories is drastically different from how they view the Wicked Queen. There is a privilege to being beautiful. Both Snow White and the Wicked Queen know this. But the Wicked Queen will do anything to have that privilege--that power--over her subjects. Whether it's to use her beauty to manipulate people or because she's desperate for love is what makes her such an interesting character. Snow White, on the other hand, gets a taste of how people would treat her if she was conventionally attractive, at least in these stories. And when she realizes that people are finally able to appreciate her or praise her or HELP HER because of her looks, she's forced to ask herself the question whether she'll choose to keep being "beautiful" or if she'll go back to being herself because society's definition of beauty isn't worth the cost.
Snow White and the Wicked Queen are foils. They represent how conventional beauty standards can pressure woman and pit them against each other. They represent how a mother, related by blood or not, can become jealous because the simple act of growing older makes her less attractive than her daughter in society's eyes and that means she's going to be treated differently as a result.
All this to say, if you turn Snow White's story into Snow White becomes a "Strong Independent Female Who Doesn't Need Any Prince And Is Growing Into the Leader She was Born to Be" then you lose that commentary about what true beauty is. You lose the chance to ask what makes someone the fairest and why. If you aren't asking why the Wicked Queen wants to be the fairest to the point of having a huntsman cut out a child's heart, then you're missing out on the entire point of the fairy tale.
#rose and rambles#sorry ive been seeing all the clips of the new snow white live action commentary and like#there's a lot to talk about#there's a lot to get into#ive already read and reblogged before someone here talking about how the prince kissing snow#isn't some stalker moment but like his attempt to fulfill his promises to Snow#and we can get into purity standards and virgin girls vs mothers Who Have Def Had Sex#because in the disney movie it's love's FIRST kiss that wakes up Snow#not true love#true love's kiss belongs to Aurora and Ariel#but anyway my point here is the story isn't really about the prince and snow as much as it is about snow and her step mother#if you really want to make a statement about snow white then you have to acknowledge what it's saying about beauty#and you as the writer/artist/ect have to decide what you want to say about beauty#anyway i shall not apologize for the length of this and you should watch Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarves PLEASE#Snow realizing people are only willing to help her find her father when she's skinny IS HEARTBREAKING AND GETS ME EVERY TIME
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