#look it may not LOOK more impressive bc i went from painting and elaborate lines to whatever my artstyle is now but what

[limielle]

never give up! or something to that effect (left is 2023, right is 2021 www)

[phoenixfire-thewizardgoddess]

trying to work out the logistics of the dream i had last night/this morning

it was so elaborate, and yet a little nonsensical

the location switched between secret base with hidden provisions in a below storage area we weren’t allowed in (all white and weirdly clean), an auditorium styled thing but set outside in a muddy sort of field (stage at the base), and a weird train/dressing area/holding area

it didn’t make a great deal of sense.

to start with, the part i think was first, is that we were on a generic porch, it was like a boring wooden house with white paint and a low-set wooden verandah. i don’t think we ever went inside. i couldn’t tell you how it relates to the location of the other places, it’s confusing even though i was ‘there’ so to speak. there was a sparse, strange spray of grass under the porch and extending just beyond. it lead to the side, where the ground rose up into an open muddy tunnel type of location.

i was not alone, but at the time i think there was only two to three other young people there, mostly guys i think. we were being shuffled around by a woman, she was tall, pale, thin, dark hair and a deep purple dress; it was such a distinct look, and now it’s messy and muddled. maybe she had a headset, but i can’t recall clearly. she sometimes had a clipboard that morphed into an ipad style item, she was responsible for assigning us places and controlling whatever this thing was.

it was some sort of talent show, almost. but there were so many of us, everyone had numbers. they ruled everything, the numbers. your order, your items. mine was a higher number, meaning i was either towards the end or the middle. can’t recall if it was in the hundreds or thousands. it was a barcode we wore either on our skin or on a chip beneath it, not sure.

i know we were talking amongst ourselves; people and creatures are moving around us, some are other numbered, mostly the others are Adult!adults, who are carrying things or moving items about. It seemed important, perhaps related to the auditorium. We occasionally went to this outside auditorium, all those nice seats filling with human and other alike, fancy plush bootyholders in the middle of what was basically a muddy hillside. it was an odd juxtaposition, and yet it made total sense.

then we were back on the porch, and we were hungry. we talked it over. 

two of the boys wanted to explore, and they left; their absence lied about when the Woman came back, searching for us. I think she took us in numerical order. but she must have been getting others from alternate locations, because the gap between our numbers was significant in most cases. And it took her ages.

well, after waiting a while, watching, formulating a plan, i go to look for the missing, and for some food. the place is as large and white and devoid of life as that Infinite IKEA SCP game, the corridors huge and apparently sloping downwards, no shelves. it took some time, but somehow white shifted to grey, which grew deeper the further down you went. at a certain point, it shifted back again, and shelves seemed to rise from the floor, or perhaps you simply only noticed them the closer you got. they were not straight lines, but curvy, white, no harsh edges and the tops looked like the floor from above. they had food and clothes and all manner of items stacked on them, in them, and i think i had some but took more for the others. 

they missing ones weren’t in sight. 

the Woman in Purple was displeased to find me down there, apparently one of the moving creature workers had dobbed me in or something along that line. she took me to wait in the auditorium, up the back. waiting, waiting, waiting. 

then my number came up, and she ushered me to a sort of strange train car? it was definitely moving but we never got on a train. she walked me through one car, then the next, all of them full of dudes or male-identifying monsters. then at the very, very last carriage, girls and female-identifying monsters. it was bizarre.

the room was like half the size of all the others. it was like a nightmare in yellowy-tan architecture. there was an old, white bathtub crammed to one side and more than a few of the girls were sitting along the lip. by the door, two old looking dunnies, side by side with no doors or curtains bc who doesn’t wanna take a piss holding hands with your best buddy? there was maybe a mirror or cupboard opposite the tub. 

everyone was friendly, but only i was asking why the heck there were so many of us crammed in this tiny-ass space, when the train cars from before had like five dudes maximum to a carriage? others got annoyed, i think we eventually just left, several shrieking modesty-trying-to-protecting dudes later, we were at the auditorium again.

this time we’re dragged off again, and taken to a dressing room. which is open to the elements and not so much a room as a flat area of earth with large metal cylinders pressed against one another in different sizes/shapes/degree of function.

some were more open like a thick, metallic privacy partition, others were enclosed and more spherical, others were huge, some small, some steamed, some were silent but occupied. the Woman was there, she was saying something about how they were individual, meeting the needs of their numbered. they shifted into more elaborate scenes if you stared, like someone showering or someone using a mirror, or someone floating wide-eyed in green gelatinous liquid, or someone flossing their fangs with barbed wire, or someone being slowly spun around in a sphere full of lavender steam, etc.

you’d think there’d be dozens or thousands in this space, and you got that impression, but somehow despite the fact i was a member of a ragtag group of random numbered people, our numbered chambers/pods/whatever you called them... were pretty much close. i waved and tried to speak to a pod we passed bc one of the missing dudes was there, he was showering, but not with water. it was a sort of pinkypurple liquid that hissed and pitted the metal around him though the flesh that could be seen (upper torso, face, arms) was unharmed. he may not have been human.

he seemed cheerful, excited, pointed out a pod in the distance where the other guy was. so that tied up that random dream plothole nicely. they were still aliveish.

boys and girls are shuffled through the labyrinth of pods and sent into the appropriate one, then left, some start automatically, some seem to have technicians. there’s no reason for them other than the avowed purpose of ‘getting you ready’ with was not elaborated upon. 

mine was down the end of an aisle, large and sandwiched between already-occupied others. i know i was sent in, there was a few words i didn’t catch, the door was shut, and then darkness and an angry hiss... like something deflating. and then the next part that can be recalled is being all but dragged to the stage, limbs figuring out they existed again, to be queued behind others waiting their turn. someone is on stage, a magic act perhaps? i couldn’t see, just hear.

and then i woke up questioning what the everloving fuck any of this was.

[izloveshorses]

Alrighty so while I’m thinking about it here’s basically every element from Beauty and the Beast that I adored

can I say how surreal it was to be in a theater packed with young girls of all ages wearing yellow dresses with their Belle barbies 

not to mention all the adults and people my age who’ve been singing Be Our Guest for eternity were all so excited 

it was almost like when The Force Awakens came out and Star Wars was alive again and everyone, old and new generations of fans, gathered together.... ya know what I’m talking about? where everyone in the room is buzzing with anticipation

the CGI wasn’t as terrible as y’all thought, y’all need to have a little faith sometimes lol

the casting was excellent!!

i know people have mixed feelings about Emma Watson playing Belle but I honestly wouldn’t have casted it any other way. She’s always been a women’s rights activist, a bookworm and a thinker, and a strong role model for young girls. and her favorite princess was always Belle I mean come on. and her singing voice was so incredible!! that was what I was most looking forward to in this movie and it did not disappoint

she also said in a buzzfeed interview that she imagines Belle would open the Beast’s library to the public and start a school!!! How rad is that?? HEADCANON ACCEPTED 

shout out to Dan Stevens for waltzing in 10 inch stilts while wearing a 40 pound body suit 

ok Luke Evans and Josh Gad must’ve thought they were in Dirty Dancing because they had the time of their lives

and Luke was pretty attractive. just sayin

overall, the cast was really diverse! not one but two interracial couples! and in general there were a lot of poc in the village featuring a wonderfully sweet librarian dude

Everything about Belle’s character was fantastic I’m not kidding

i think the town had such a consistent routine that she could precisely time when the morning rush started?

despite the village blatantly gossiping about her she was still so nice and polite to everyone

so??? much??? sass??? it was unreal??? When Gaston asked why she wouldn’t go out to dinner with him he assumed she had plans but she was just like “No...” and she didn’t even explain further how freakin savage she shot that boy down

(a few more examples bc this girl was on fire) “Why would I be startled? I’m talking to a candle” and “Is that a joke? are you making jokes now?” and my fav “’Maybe you just haven’t met the right man?’ ‘It’s a small village Gaston, I’ve met them all’”

this is Elizabeth Bennet level Jane Austen would be proud

they touched on how women were expected to have kids in their late teens/early 20s and she’s like “screw that” yeah girl smash that patriarchy

how on earth did it take me 17 years to realize she’s considered odd because she’s the only literate girl in the whole village???????? how did I, a history buff obsessed with the French Revolution, never make that connection before???? this isn’t specific to the new film but still I applaud it good job disney

she was an inventor!!! i don’t know if i’ve ever been happier than when i saw her solving equations and tinkering and making a washing machine so she can read and get chores done simultaneously. emma totally had something to do with this decision absolutely no doubt

she doesn’t ride her horse sidesaddle and that was like a huge faux pas for ladies back then (again, smashing the patriarchy one step at a time)

SHE WAS TEACHING ANOTHER SMOL GIRL HOW TO READ!!! THAT’S SO IMPORTANT AND PRECIOUS I’VE BEEN UNABLE TO THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE SINCE THAT MOMENT

she planned to escape the castle from the beginning and was really creative about it, and no matter what she always found some sort of weapon lying around lol (a random stick, a chair, a pitcher Belle what would you do with that) but she was always prepared to defend herself with somewhat of a plan and attempt at thinking ahead

She was really curious about the curse and asked questions about it to figure out this mystery herself

she was always problem-solving and trying to find a solution to situations and that was so cool girls need to see that strong female leads aren’t always the ones that can fight, but girls with wit and bravery

there was lots of nice background info on characters that otherwise wouldn’t exist, like Belle’s mom’s death, why Maurice chose to stay in that boring village and Adam’s dad being a jerk and turning him into a monster (no pun intended)

Mrs Potts giving us a reason why the entire castle was cursed, not just Adam. They didn’t do anything to stop Adam’s dad from corrupting him and man that’s some heavy stuff

I feel like each character, especially the servants, were so much richer and stronger and more complex, and the stakes were higher bc each time a rose petal fell they became less and less human

even the enchantress had a name and she was gorgeous?

they went pretty dark in this one... like something caused that tree to fall in Maurice’s path and back into an upright position. the wolves wouldn’t cross the gates because of some boundary. the way the whole castle shuddered with each drop of a pedal. i could go on... and the added character depth really helped that dark stuff too

THE MUSIC!!!! WAS SO GOOD!!! I’ve had the album on repeat for.... four days now and I’m not sick of it yet?? please send help

seriously, they did an amazing job. it was perfectly balanced w both old an new songs, and neither of them overshadowed the other. each song got it’s spotlight, they honored the old ones while including new original ones that were awesome (cough forevermore cough cough)

Gaaaaaastonnnnnnnnnnnn omg that sequence was awesome. honestly i think everyone in the theater tapped their foot when he was stomping and dancing on the tabletops

Belle was really good too to me because i’m a nerd for that set design

Days in the Sun is extremely underrated!! but yes, Forevermore is breathtaking it’s growing on me more and more each day

lots of rotating cinematography and spinning i’m a nerd i love it

the costume and set design.... holy crAP it’s stunning

i read somewhere that Belle’s casual getup has large pockets for her books and she has part of her skirt pinned up so she can ride Philipe easier and that’s beautiful

each scene was packed with tiny details that most movie makers overlook and I’m so impressed???? not just visually but there were so many sounds that truly made it feel real like in the village I’d occasionally hear a crying baby or a dog barking or just constant chatter and that’s stuff you’d expect to hear in a crowded village square

the little twinkling lights during the ballroom dance was probably my favorite i may have cried

No one ever say anything bad about Belle’s dress again IT WAS SO GORGEOUS it floated across the floor like a bundle of sunshine

and there were so many details in that scene? did anybody notice her gold earrings she wore they were wonderful

her hairstyles throughout the whole movie were so cute (esp at the end with that updo!! and that pretty flower dress I need it)

the historical accuracies??? unreal??

so much baroque architecture with all of the elaborate gold designs ahhh i love it

half of it looked like a rococo painting, the other half a neoclassicism painting

girls weren’t allowed to be educated so that’s why Belle was hated so much--and so cool--and ohhhh my mind is blown why did i not understand this until now

lol a giant chunk of France was illiterate at the time too so LeFou realizing that halfway through trying to spell Gaston was hilarious

actually the mob song in general is scarily accurate. what starts with a small discomfort turns into irrational fear which turns into extremism in crowds and they did the stupidest things like “hey there’s a monster that we’ve never seen or heard of and it’s never attacked us before but LETS KILL IT” seriously the French loved mobs

they included a lot more intimate moments w Belle and the Beast to build up their relationship more carefully 

Belle almost in tears when she was in that library because honestly same girl

my favorite moment in the entire movie, although small, was when they were in the library during “Something There” and she just kept grabbing book after book and he was walking behind her holding this massive stack that was so cute

honorable mentions: when the Beast shook his head like the horse omg. and I freaking cackled when he threw that giant snowball at her face

when they were in Paris, and Belle figured out that her mother died of the plague and she said “let’s go home”

she just rode off while still wearing her ball dress

“no time to change gotta go save my pa i’m keeping this btw”

and then she strips down to her undergarments because they’re about to go after Adam and that’s the final straw nobody messes with him under her watch she has to save him and, sorry, but she won’t let a big bulky dress get in the way of that despite how beautiful it is

Belle participated in the climax fight scene she was not taking any of Gaston’s crap

and then Adam was like “stay there I’m coming” and she completely ignored him so she could step in if he needed her

“I am not a Beast”

the transformation scenes were amazing

LeFou’s character arc was surprisingly great! and I support him and his boyfriend

that one growl at the end... you know the one... I’m very confused why was that so sexy is that bad

there were so many moments where i got goosebumps and sudden tears from the swelling of the orchestra or a certain chilling line and i was just so moved by this movie

in every showing that i went to there was a massive applause from the crowd and i love it you deserve it disney

I'm running out of adjectives

There was hardly an aspect that I disliked. Maybe more of Mrs Potts would’ve been nice, maybe Belle asking Adam to grow a beard was a little strange, maybe Ewan could work on his French accent a little more (don’t get me wrong I love this man but it could use a little more work... other than that his acting was superb). my complaints stop there! I honestly loved this film so much and I’d been pumped since I first heard about it back in 2015. It didn’t disappoint! that means a lot coming from a person who had insanely high expectations for it.