#mouse rants

[thinks-to-thought]

welcome to today’s episode of “is there actually a bug crawling on me or is it just sensory issues?” /lh

[thecowboymouse]

This is probably me being a hater and I don't want to ruin anyone's whimsy but I genuinely hate how Danny Phantom has taken over a chunk of DC content on this website. Especially the John Constantine tag

I don't even know how this DC x DP crossover happened or why but it's genuinely making it so hard to navigate the tags of my favorite characters cause all of the top and recent posts include that ghost twink

[little-mouse-adventures]

lol how do i tell my sister-in-law, who is currently complaining about this, that the reason none of her siblings or sibling-in-laws comment on the pics of her kids that she puts in the family chat is because her eldest (2.5yrs) was born in the height of covid and while she wanted to keep him safe, all she did was ensure that no one was allowed close to him (legit have never hugged/ held him, save for 5 min when he was 3weeks old and she had to pee), so now the kid has no rapport with anyone other than his mother and grandfather and will actively ignore everyone else, and her youngest is 4.5 months old and i've met him like twice. like, i'm sorry, but you have done nothing to encourage a relationship between your children and their relatives - going so far as to actively not include us in anything related to the kids (can't make name suggestions, never invites us over, actively hid that she was pregnant the second time around till she was 5.5 months in, started packing up her own child's little family birthday party when we pulled in the driveway because we arrived a bit later than she wanted after only telling us the plan for the evening that morning), and now you're cross we don't fawn over your kids? especially when you post about a dozen pics a day? there are people i follow on instagram who post pics of their kids, and i feel about the same level of reaction to those pics as i do to the pics of my own nephews because i have about the same level of interaction! but we can't say that because my SIL is one of those always-the-victim people who doesn't see herself as being part of the problem.

[boabel]

this is so shit i need [remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health] mouse bites to live

[jameswilsonsupremacy]

my fav tattoo place is doing a flash sale for mental health awareness and so they’re doing $20 tattoos if you get a semi colon, or a pause symbol, or the word love. They had sheets of options but you could also bring your own. I got others too bc duh but here you go house md fandom here is my new fav tattoo

the tattoo artist: “this is a cool font! any specific reason you brought this one?”

me: “okay so it sounds silly”

[hoaxghost]

ive been so sick past week but seeing the new disney trailer for Wish awoke something petty inside of me. So petty I went bout redesigning the protagonists look cause I’m sorry but her outfit...? Kinda bland. Wanted to try adding lil bit more ‘oomph’ to the design.

[isdisorigionalenoughforyou]

yknow sometimes i think about how mr seawatt gaming parkourcivilization only got to where he was by leveraging his knowledge of obscure rules and mechanics and keeping all his cards close to his heart. how he clearly only got to where he originally was in the 1st movie by making himself useful with amethyst blocks and brewing stand jumps. and how it all crumbled because evbo 360-ed all over his carefully laid plans but really, his undoing was his own hubris.

and he's shit at parkour

[rockrosethistle]

who is the april white guy ⁉️ the people are dying to know

I'm so glad the people are invested.

I am happy to report that this month's white guys is...*drumroll*... The Woods, as portrayed by Joey Richter in the upcoming musical, Cinderella's Castle

(January) (February) (March)

I am also happy to report that as of now, I will be accepting nominations for future white guys of the future months. So if you have a white guy you'd like to celebrate by having me print out and post on my office's billboard, my asks are open

Tune in next month for more exciting white guys

[femslashspuffy]

Wilson sees house say please leave I'm not going to drag you into this you've lied to the cops enough already I won't push this any further than it's already gone

And then he makes a point to include House in his alibi. He pays a guy off to stand with the cane and scream across the room at him I feel sick

[thinks-to-thought]

something i feel like people who aren’t ND don’t really understand is how much we care so so so deeply about things. not just our special interests and hyperfixations but also little things that we find, small experiences, things we see, and people (especially). like sometimes i absolutely love with all my heart til it hurts n i feel like im gonna explode and it almost is a shame that other people sometimes just don’t.

[sweettjrose]

To be honest I always felt like one of the biggest tragedies that happened to Mickey Mouse is how he tends to be treated less of a character and more of a mascot for Disney.

And to be honest, Disney really is to blame here. I can't really blame people for seeing Mickey as a shallow boring mascot when their only exposure to him is him smiling on a t-shirt or coffee mug or maybe seeing an extremely sanitized version on a pre-school cartoon.

As someone who loves cartoon characters, I like to see them get to be themselves. And while a lot of other cartoons fade into obscurity, Mickey has a unique fate where he is still here but him as a character tends to fade instead. We were lucky to get the Rudish cartoons which helped breath life into him and really show that he can be a fun character even if it is a more exaggerated version of him. But it seems like that era is starting to end and I am not sure what will come afterwards.

And with earlier versions of him going into Public Domain soon, I know that we are going to see quite a few takes of him. I know many of those takes are coming from people who see Mickey as a stand in for all of the bad things Disney do and will probably portray him as an evil capitalist or some kind of monster. Which is whatever, I'm not going to be upset about people making their own art on their own feelings (though personally I think the joke got old after everyone tried to copy South Park and Simpsons for the millionth time in a row).

But I also feel like this is a chance to reclaim Mickey as return him as a character. Let him get to be a character with flaws and goals and not just a smiling face on merchandise. It would be nice to get some official Disney projects too. But if Disney won't, we can do it ourselves.

[little-mouse-adventures]

few things irritate me more than being in a building with windows all around the outside walls and still needing to open my weather app to see if it’s raining because whoever designed this place decided none of the cubicles deserved direct sight line to the Outside World, and every. single. window. is behind a closed door and wall making up the offices of people who aren’t even in the office half the time.

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

fictional girls who should have been gay

Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck, from the 2004 "Micky, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers" animated movie.

The situation: GAY

Princess and lady-in-waiting. Is there anything more intimate and potentially gay than a girl and the girl who she specifically keeps around just to officially hang out with? I don't care I love it.

they are the most romantic thing in this movie

Their introduction scene is Minnie sighing over her future love (hypothetical and male and not necessarily royal) while blowing flower petals in Daisy's face

Daisy has reservations

but when Minnie is explaining True Love to her (while they hold hands and twirl around the room)

Minnie says she'll know her true love because she'll hear music (sentimental music is now playing) and they'll make her laugh- AND THEN DAISY LAUGHS

she starts saying that sounds silly...

but Minnie looks at her, and flutters her eyes at her...

and Daisy just MELTS. She clasps her hands over her heart and switches to sighing that that sounds lovely...

who drew and directed that and didn't notice how much it looks like Daisy just fell in love with Minnie. hey. I want to know

did they realize they could've had Daisy staring at something else?

a painting of young lovers. a couple passing by the window. even the sad bedraggled flower Minnie had been using for a game of he-loves-me-he-loves-me-not

(i cannot get over how the flower wilts the last time we see it, right after Minnie says "trust me Daisy, I'll know him, when I see him)

(I understand it's meant to be like, oh look the flower looks like Micky now she'll know him when she sees him- but it could also look like HER, Minnie is talking to Daisy about true love and knowing it when it's there but oh the IRONY if Daisy was in love with HER while she says that!!! With Minnie having no idea!!!!)

anyway

how about just not have Minnie flutter her eyelashes at Daisy like that

have HER not be looking at Daisy when she's talking about true love

anything. anything else would have worked better

Well apparently none of those options occurred to the film makers because these girls are supposed to be STRAIGHT somehow

(Minnie, princess of prolonged held eye contact)

(and Daisy, lady of keeps having to look away when Minnie is staring at her Like That)

Moments later, after a montage of Minnie strolling around the gardens dreaming of love (to the tune of a song about young love), an attempt on her life is thwarted by DAISY asking her to come over for a moment, moving Minnie out of the path of a falling safe meant to crush her

(by the way, holy heck it feels honestly scary. it just. DROPS)

The song lyric leading up to Daisy calling out for Minnie is "Your first your only love~! Love so-" (can't hear properly)

Minnie being willing to leave her daydreams of love for Daisy no questions asked is what saves her actual literal life I'm sorry but again why did they think having Daisy being the reason she lives was so important. This is a Micky Mouse cartoon legit just have Minnie stand up on her own and wander out of harm's way or get distracted by a flower or something but NOOOOO it's DAISY who unknowingly gets her out of danger, it's Minnie listening to her that saves her. ARGH IT COULD HAVE MEANT SO MUCH BUT

Minnie has actual whole conversations with Daisy. Actual. Talking. Sharing of thoughts and opinions. Chances to see their personalities and how they play off each other.

Princess Minnie, the slightly head in the clouds princess, and Daisy, grounded and a bit dry

Minnie: He loves me. He loves me… a lot. He loves me. He loves me even moooore. He loves me...

Daisy: Pardon me, Your Highness… (blows some free-floating petals off her face) you‘re, kinda mangling that flower.

like there's this set up for Minnie being rebellious enough to reject tradition and rules, being annoyed at them for cramping her style

Daisy: This, fantasy man- (the exasperation on those two words XD), d'you happen to know if he's royalty?

Minnie: Does it matter?

Daisy, breathlessly: Well, as you know, someone of your, royal stature, needs to be courted by a gentleman of royal blood.

Minnie: What a royal pain.

It's supposed to be about getting with a commoner instead, but... HMM I WONDER WHAT OTHER SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS MINNIE COULD BREAK.

A gentleman of royal blood? Well what if it's not! A gentleman!!

Minnie: Daisy, I can't marry someone I'm not in love with.

Daisy: You want love? Buy a dog.

the delicious set up as Daisy as jaded and practical BUT moments later she can't help herself with Minnie, she can't ruin Minnie's little happy bubble, she can't keep pushing Minnie away from her dream

When Minnie gazes at her all warm and mushy, Daisy has to giggle and admit that the idea of a true love who makes you laugh is just Lovely, actually

she says, while staring back at Minnie

WRITERS I WANT TO TALK WITH YOU I JUST WANT TO CHAT

but anyway, they have a flow, a rapport, they play off each other and clearly care about each other and, meanwhile, M e a n w h i l e

meanwhile, nearly all the time Minnie spends "being in love" with Micky is done in silent daydream episodes where they float on clouds and stuff. They get a montage of vague cute stuff. It's a whole lot of Nothing. Very pretty! But nothing

They see each other and it's supposed to be love at first sight. Whee. I'd find it cute if Minnie didn't already have someone and Micky wasn't mostly focused on being a good Musketeer. What do they give each other? They hardly even TALK! At the end of the movie I still have no idea how they'd get through a simple conversation! As a crush sure it reads fine- but true love? Where? When????

MOMENTS after meeting and "falling for" Micky, Minnie is yelling at him and his friends, furious because they accidently attacked Daisy thinking she was a threat

wow good job showing us Minnie's priorities here. Good job showing us she cares about Daisy

good job not using that to let her and Micky like, talk, or anything

Daisy, meanwhile, spends the whole movie with 0% interest in Donald at all, nothing but burns and scorn, only getting with him in the last moments literally just because why not

As in that's honestly the reason the movie gives. Not that she likes him. Just. Why not.

my eye is twitching

MINNIE LOVES THE IDEA OF A FORBIDDON LOVE!

SHE SAYS, SHE SAYS-

Minnie: Our love is, forbidden?

Daisy: Bin-go~

Minnie: A forbidden love? How romantic...!

girl you've had 1 (ONE) interaction with "the little one" like props to you for liking a short king but hey, heeey, this is so not selling the love vibes ok

GUESS WHAT OTHER LOVE WOULD BE FORBIDDEN

HMM I WONDER

Minnie: Look, Daisy. Mickey and I have the same last name!

Daisy: Well, it must be destiny. Good thing destiny doesn’t control my love life.

(daisy being practical jaded or daisy using code for 'yeeeah, im prim and proper in everything else, but im going against the flow when it comes to romance)

Minnie: What do you mean?

Daisy: Well, look at me! If it did, I’d get stuck with Mister… (squawking and babbling)

Minnie & Daisy: (laughing together)

hey remember how Minnie laughed when Micky rolled a nat 0 trying to untie her and the narrator was like "Oh he made her laugh! It must be love!"

remember when Daisy makes Minnie laugh with a Donald Duck impersonation? While they were in bed together??

NARRATOR IF A LAUGH IS ALL IT TAKES THEN CHIME IN PLEASE

Do You Remember when Micky and co failed and Minnie was kidnapped by badguys and Micky had a moment of slump before getting his second wind? Was he motivated by thoughts of his True Love? Was he thinking of Minnie when he decided not to give up on saving her??

NO.

he was looking at his friends being sad.

He encourages himself thinking about how the captain of the guard chose him and his friends to be musketeers

No Mention Of Minnie At All, Aside From A Quest To Be Cleared

wow much love such devotion

The point of Micky's story is him wanting to be a Musketeer. The emotional climax is always between him and his two friends. THE ROMANCE IS SO WEIRD IT DOES NOTHING AND COMES FROM NOTHING AND GOES NOWHERE.

Minnie has no character growth no obstacles nothing to do. she was ready to throw tradition aside for the man of her dreams the moment we saw her-

IMAGINE the crunchiness if she had either a moment of "wait actually, i think he's cute but this isn't love" OR "hey wait all this time I've been dreaming of a guy maybe it's not a guy though? Tee hee let's destroy some more social norms!"

(don't for the love of all things bring up lines of succession this is alternate universe france in the 1600-1700's there is a Lot To Gloss Over Okay)

And Daisy is RIGHT THERE.

Not interested in guys! Sighing over Minnie! Staying with her throughout the whole movie because apparently you can't kidnap the princess without her lady in waiting!

RAAAGH. I know, I know Disney and gay don't mix, especially in 2004- but why why why why did they think Minnie had to be with Micky in this one? Why did they make the emptiest crush ever instead of just letting Minnie and Daisy chill up on the throne dais together? IM IN PAIN EVERY TIME I REWATCH THIS.

tldr: Daisy was in love with princess Minnie, and if Minnie had known she's the exact sort of rebel princess to just marry her lady-in-waiting like a boss

[zombified-hoglin]

as a gridoc and xtho enjoyer I have a suggestion:

Both couples have been together for a pretty long time. Neither are very open about it though, just by preference. At first it was kind of unintentional but at some point someone started keeping track of how many times Xisuma and Etho had accidentally dropped a hint that they’re together and then grian and doc got added and it’s spiraled since then.

so imagine some hypothetical hermit just chilling in the shopping district. and they end up starting a conversation with Xisuma and Etho. And say ethos like ‘yeah and when I was cooking Xisuma dinner last night’ and from like 6 feet away iskall, who had previously been sitting on a bench unnoticed, whips out a chalkboard from an unknown location. And then several seconds of panic gesturing go on (well, etho and Xisuma are , iskall seems pretty calm to be honest) before Iskall gives a sad expression and the chalkboard disappears (where is he putting an entire chalkboard??)

grian and doc have been crushing it since s10 started. Xisuma and Etho were decimating them for the entirety of the buttercups thing in s9 tho

(additional thing: another couple ends up on the blackboard without their knowledge as a sorta putting a random guy in the Olympics to show how good the Olympic athletes are thing)

Holy shit anon your brain is so big and wrinkly /pos

Now I want to write a fic from the perspective of Iskall who's somehow the only perceptive enough person on the server to realize that Xtho is a thing since like s7 but it was confirmed in s8 (hard not to notice when your roommate is gone most nights and coming back like he doesn't smell like someone else's cologne and is wearing a jacket that is very clearly not his)

I'd imagine that gridoc has been flirting for years since Grian joined but only got together more recently and who are they not to brag about the other being a great partner

I'm having a hard time thinking of what couple on the server would be normal enough about the other to be used as the control group, but maybe a Mumbo pairing or False/Gem?

It ends with either another hermit finding the whiteboard and asking Iskall what the fuck or Etho finding it and deciding that he needs to step up his game

[opencharacters]

I think one of the fundamental problems with how people perceive the public domain is that its not characters they now own but "other companies big and small can now use these characters' there's like a separation between them and the idea of companies as content creators. To them its the job of companies to create content for them to consume. Therefore when they see stuff that disappoints them like a mickey mouse slasher film, they feel as though "they" should make better content. Consumerism has warped people's perception of themselves as potential creators.

[churrothezanyrabbit]

just a random thing bc i am pretty sure ppl have thought so before:

mickey and mortimer are not brothers. mickey and oswald are brothers.

like stfu

shipping mickey and mortimer is okay but NOT mickey and oswald

GET IT THROUGH UR FOOKIN HEADS

inc3st bad p3dophilia bad z0ophilia bad

gay good straight good trans good

easy peasy

as a mortimick shipper (otp btw) i personally want to find the locations of those who say mick n mort are brothers bc YOU’RE ONLY SAYING THAT CUZ UR HOMOPHOBIC like STFU if you don’t like the ship just say you don’t like it stfu jsdghrh3dnn don’t make up false information to get a kick outta ppl

if you ship mick n oz without knowing they’re canonically siblings (canonically) then learn and realize that’s bad

if you ship them KNOWING they’re brothers then, disrespectfully, get the hell out 😀👉🚪/srs/neg

thank you for coming to my ted talk

p.s.

don’t get mickey and oswald confused how the hell-

look at this shit

how the actual hell do you get these confused with each other

yes they’re brothers and they look a little similar but oswald is a RABBIT with LONG RABBIT EARS and mickey is a MOUSE with ROUND MOUSE EARS

KNOW THE GODDAMN DIFFERENCE