#mouse of a time

[imperceiveable]

[lennythereviewer]

My favorite Kingdom Hearts fact is that one of the biggest plot-holes that Nomura has never been able to meaningfully retcon or write his way out, a plot-hole so big that it fundamentally breaks the very rules the series is written on...

Is the existence of Steamboat Willie

Let me explain for the uninitiated:

In Kingdom Hearts 2, there’s a small detour in the story involving Maleficent trying to invade Disney Castle, the home of King Mickey. She can’t step foot in the castle due to an artefact of pure light that wards off darkness locked in the basement.

Pete, who is working for Maleficent, opens a door into the past (Before Disney Castle, this land was known as Timeless River) and decides to remove the artifact from it’s place in time so it won’t be there to stop them from getting in.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy chase Pete into the past thanks to another magic door provided by Merlin, and through some shenanigans involving old cartoons and teaming up with Pete’s past-self, they lock the door the villains are using, and return the artefact to it’s proper place so it can exist in the present.

You with me so far? Pretty straightforward-ish time-travel plot right?

Here’s where it goes off the rails.

Time travel would go on to become a staple of Kingdom Hearts going forward and would come with a very strict set of rules over how it operates:

1. You can only travel to a point in time where a version of yourself exists

2. You basically give up your body to do so, and travel as a disembodied soul unless you have a vessel to inhabit

3. You can’t alter the past in a meaningful way, what’s going to happen will happen

4. You lose your memories of said trip once you return, but your actions could leave a lingering instinct on your other self that could influence their decisions

“Wait” you may be thinking “Why should anyone go through all those hoops? Wasn’t time travel super simple that first time?”

And you’d be totally right, because the existence of Timeless River completely renders all of these rules and restrictions meaningless. 

There is no version of Sora that existed in Timeless River before he step foot there, everyone kept their bodies, the trio and Pete were able to mess with the timeline as freely as they pleased, and they all very much remember their trip.��

Nomura has never been able to meaningfully explain this super simple, easy way of time travel and the more convoluted method co-existing other than a cheap-throwaway line from one of the villains saying that Merlin “broke the rules” 

The hilarious part about this line is that it implies that PETE of all characters is actually more powerful than the actual villain of the series, because Pete opened a door into Timeless River through sheer willpower and nostalgia for “the good old days”

But the all-knowing chess-master of a villain who had an evil plan several decades in the making with countless moving parts and contingencies to account for had to use the roundabout, more complicated method of time travel where a lot could go wrong.

Pete though? Dude just casually broke all the rules of time travel because he felt like it. He's just built different.

TL;DR: Steamboat Willie breaks Kingdom Hearts lore in half, Pete is more powerful than Master Xehanort, and I fucking love this beautiful trainwreck of a series you guys it means so much to me

I love Kingdom hearts so much.

[girlboyburger]

[crystal-mouse]

"This Pon Farr could've been an email" - @bagginsgotdabooty

[omnybus]

EVERYBODYS FEELIN FINE CUZ ITS PARTY TIME

[tawnysoup]

two new critters just dropped

[onesnoopyaday]

snoopy.exe 💻⌨🖱

Snoopy #10

11/10/2024

[thunderc1an]

And after many moons, with your sacrifice still plaguing your mind, you once again become a mother

[pixlokita]

I saw the Epic Mickey beta trailer and felt so robbed so I decided to make my own concepts of the game 😤 and then @pekoeboo was also losing it so we came up with a bunch of concepts, the heart being a stabilizer was her idea ;-; and she helped with that fourth pose :’>

Disney how could u take the edge away from us … Disney when I catch you Disney, Disney when I catch you…

[maureen2musings]

julianradwildlife

[elodieunderglass]

Bear (7) was attempting to craft a paper crown but broke down in tears because it wasn’t going the way they’d envisioned it. They haven’t done that for a long time. Trained to express their emotions from an early age, they could only choke out: “I don’t know what emotion this is!”

Bug, 4, said with an air of 😎: ha! I know that emotion! I feel like THAT all the time.

Bear: I’m so unhappy and I don’t know WHY!

Bug, to me: it’s true. But I don’t cry about it. 💅

Me: (speechless)

Me: well bear. Would you like a marshmallow

Bear: marshmallow can’t fix this

Me: ok what will

Bear, weeping: playing Lego The Hobbit and feeling THOSE feelings instead!!!!

Me: …………

Me: well we all feel that way sometimes

Bear: but I’ve had too much TV today

Me: um…..

Bear: but the only cure for my feelings would be BEING IN THE SHIRE

Me, helpless in the face of such articulations: okay but your siblings have to play too

Bug: I have to play too 😈

Bear, weeping: Bug is so bad at it and always kills me (and I lose all the gold)

Bug: it’s true 😈 I like being thorin and killing you with SWORDS (and stealing gold)

Me: bug please don’t kill your sibling so much????

Bug: no 😎

Me: oh my god bug 😱

Me: also mouse HAS to play with the dummy controller and you have to pretend they are actually playing okay

Bear, weeping inconsolably, but as if a light has broken through their grief: ok

All three of them (play Lego The Hobbit)

[skullsemi]

We all know that they were the ones really in charge at the House of Mouse, right?

[jugglejerk]

*shaking* who are these guys..

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

[ruubesz-draws]

Later...

(Shimo is a prankster)

Ghidorah every time Godzilla gets a new enemy.

True frienemies right there!

I was going to make a Godzilla animatic of this exact scene but discarded the idea later (wasn't sure whether we were allowed to use the audio without getting a copyright strike idk)

I LOVE the Mickey Mouse Shorts lol