#queen else

[onecentwriter]

didn't think i'd be writing Frozen angst in 2024 but here i am wondering why elsa doesn't think she has a cold in that one frozen short, which i thought was weird because every kid gets colds, right? and then i thought well maybe she's had colds before, in fact, maybe before her body adjusted to being permanently frigid she got them all the time but her parents were a) afraid of her and b) uneducated about magic so they thought it was just a symptom. and elsa had to fight through the illnesses every time, alone in her room for weeks and this is one of the reasons she started to think of her abilities as a curse, because if they made her sick and being sick made her family stay away from her even more than they already did, that maybe she was a monster and maybe it was for the better that she stayed out of everyone's lives.

[deeply-unserious-fellow]

Y'know, I've said this before and idk how common a misconception this is anymore, but the act of true love that saves Anna in Frozen is NOT Elsa hugging her corpse. The act of true love that thawed Anna's frozen heart was throwing herself in front of Elsa, fully prepared to die so her sister could live. The cursed individual must preform the act of true love, not have it preformed towards them. I've seen a lot of people complain about how Olaf tending the fire so Anna wouldn't freeze to death right then and there should've counted, but it didn't because again, Anna had to preform The Act. I do wish somebody in-universe pointed that out at some point but fuckin- whatever it's whatever. I think the movie should've dug into that concept a little more, really, because it speaks to the fact that, no matter how hard you try to change someone with a *metaphorical* frozen heart, in the end, it's really up to them wether they change their ways or not

I find it ironic and honestly kind of cruel, in a meta-sense, that Anna, arguably the most love-filled person in the entire movie, had to be cursed like that. Usually, in fairytales, that kind of curse would be put on somebody deemed incapable of love by the curser. It's why the Beast in Beauty & the Beast is cursed, and I uh. I can't really think of any other examples off the top of my head but I think you get the point. Anna didn't need to learn that lesson, though. I don't think she even REALIZED she needed to preform the act of true love until after the events of the movie, if at all. It is, once again, a very interesting concept that I wish the movie dug into a little more. I've said it before and I'll say it again: FROZEN NEEDED MORE TIME TO TELL ITS STORY IN A SATISFYING WAY. The writers present so many genuinely interesting concepts, one after another, and then barely scratch the surface of their potential because they're too busy trying to keep the plot going. It's really frustrating.

I uh. Don't remember where I was going with this. Eeeehhhhhh fUCK IT this is my blog I can ramble about whatever I want lmao

Edit: So, upon rewatched the movie the other day, it turns out Olaf DOES point out that Anna was the one who preformed the act of true love, and in a way that was just obvious enough that it makes you wonder how anybody missed it, but just subtle enough that at the same time I can kinda see why? Idk Im writing this at fuckin 3am my thoughts are a fucking mess...

[mk-wizard]

Frozen Review: The case for Hans of the Seven Isles

Hi. I always wanted to do a review of the game changing film Frozen which is Disney’s adaptation of the Snow Queen. I’m also going to keep it brief because everything great about it has already been said. Queen Elsa, Princess Anna, Kristoff, Olaf and even Sven the reindeer are all great loveable quirky characters. I even like Hans! And as a woman who has a sister who I am close with, this movie hits a note with me.

However, I also need to confess that as much as I love it and always will, there was always something about this fantastic story that was... off. And that is what I am going to talk about and I’m afraid while it the one flaw it has, it brings it down a lot. And it took me years to detect what it was and it wasn’t until I watched a review by Aldone (link below) on Prince Hans that I had my “eureka” moment.

Prince Hans should NOT have been the villain because him being a twist villain makes no sense. Nothing about his actions, gestures, decisions or even his character showed any subtle hint that he was a bad guy all along. When he meets Anna and watches her as he leaves, he looks genuinely smitten. When he introduces himself to Elsa, he is a gentleman even when she rejects him and doesn’t argue with her at all. His backstory of never having been loved by his brothers and father though still having his mother’s love sets him up to knowing what loneliness and at the same time, being loved feels like. When Elsa accidentally brings down an eternal winter, he isn’t the one to label Elsa as a monster (the Duke of Weseltown is) and is more concerned about the well being of the people. And even when he captures Elsa, he doesn’t kill her. He just locks her up. That moment where he is revealed to have been evil all along and plotting against the two sisters makes no sense when you look at everything in before. It’s like they weren’t even the same guy. In fact, Frozen didn’t need to pick someone to be a villain because it already had one: Queen Elsa.

I know that sounds contradictory to how she is especially when you compare her to what she was going to be like, but by making her as good as gold, she is in fact already the best twist villain there is in Disney lore. And it’s funny that people joke that her and Wreck-It Ralph would make a great couple because she IS just like Ralph. She really is just misunderstood.

I am also aware that everything I mentioned can also be interpreted as subtle hints to being evil, but for a twist villain to work, they have to make you suspicious. Nothing about Hans translates as suspicious and if he was meant to be interpreted that way, I am very much afraid that it was not well done. I speak as an artist, the way the hints were presented was all wrong I also speak as someone who knows what the red flags in a guy look like. The prince doesn’t have any of them.

Also, the Duke Weseltown is the perfect foil to Elsa as a bad guy who really is bad. He embodies those who jump to the conclusion that those who are different are evil, dangerous, broken or all of the above because they’re either ignorant or opportunistic. Yet underneath it all, they are very weak, pathetic and spiteful.

So there was really no need to make Hans evil at all. I could even argue that it would have even more valuable to girls if Hans was good, but just not the one. A relationship can fail while the two people involved are both still good. The whole theme of Frozen is misunderstanding and letting go of the things in your life that bring you pain. In my mind, Hans had to understand that he doesn’t need to look for love so desperately nor does he have to settle for the lack of love he gets at home. People will take a liking to him naturally when he is just his good kind self and even then, it takes time and some people just aren’t compatible with him in any way. That and it is perfectly fine to select who you want to keep in your life.

I know that Hans is meant to be the guy we’re supposed hate, but... seeing all his flaws as a twist villain just makes me feel bad for him. He is a great character who was put in the wrong role and it’s something I see happen all too often. A lot of great characters who should have been good guys go bad out of nowhere and that sours the story or the flipside happens (I’m looking at you Vegita from Dragon Ball).

Now, I’m not saying Frozen is ruined now that I identified it’s flaw. I just don’t think it’s a perfect movie. Like I said, the entire theme of Frozen was misunderstanding and the point of clearing misunderstandings is that usually, there is no bad guy. Just good people who made mistakes.

Overall, I can finally rate Frozen appropriately as a 6/10. It’s a good but not great story though you can still learn even from its mistake which is not every story needs a great big bad. It started strong, but it could have ended better.

Here is the video by Aldone who made me pinpoint the flaw in the film.

Anyway, this is all my opinion. Thank you for listening and as always, stay safe.

PS: I will not review Frozen 2 because I didn’t like it at all and I don’t find it right to review a film I can’t say anything nice about.

[varpusvaras]

I think that instead of being super apprehensive about Jason and him dating Roy, Oliver should take one look at him and then one look at Bruce and go oh, I'm about to be so annoying.

Oliver starts being so nice to Jason. So nice. Inviting him to family dinners. Giving him both his hero communications and personal phone number and telling him to call whenever he needs something. He gives him new tech and keeps updating his weapons and armor. He helps with missions and clean up and says nothing if Jason is a little rough, apart from patting him on the back and saying good job. He starts keeping his picture inside his wallet and has other pictures of Jason, Roy and Lian framed in the house and tells everyone about him. He starts calling him son-in-law first and then just son and then calls him a Harper and eventually a Queen.

At first it was just to annoy Bruce, but after the first time he tells Jason that he did a good job and Jason starts to tear up a little, Oliver goes oh no, oh I'm actually doing this now. This my boy now. I don't care if he and Roy break up or something, this is my boy now.

Bruce still thinks he's just doing it for the sole purpose of pissing him off, though, and he is so fucking mad. The Justice League meetings have turned into a Cold War zone.

Bruce starts to being so nice to Jason as well, forcing himself to ignore some of the more outrageous things Jason does, and Jason is so, so fucking confused.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Gaston is such a funny choice for a disney villain. everyone else is a ruthless despot or a dark sorcerer being evil on purpose. and then there's just this guy, the village asshole

[stylish-fish]

I've seen this a lot

[muchmorethanmoney]

HUGE DAY FOR GAY PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!

[drulalovescas]

THE biggest Casgirls in Supernatural

These three had impeccable taste

[arundolyn]

everybody shut up

dizzy narwhal

[monochrome-genesis]

‘Golden One, who earned your wrath?’

[zairaalbereo]

Captain James Flint — serval years late, but hopefully not too many doubloons short.

Or in other news, I finally watched Black Sails, predictably for anyone who ever knew me fell in love, and ever since, have been trying to do Flint’s vibe of “stoic while simultaneously looking pained, amused, exasperated and about three seconds from murderous” justice.

[on-the-clear-blue]

So yall know that the League of Assassin's are like, an eco terrorist thing right? Well I just had this idea.

Sam, coming into Danny's room and just face planting on his bed: Ugh...

Danny, who was sleeping, awoken as his friend who had gone missing 6 moths ago flopped onto of him: OH SWEET-NOCTURN IF THIS ISNT REAL I AM GONING TO SOUP YOY SO HARD...

Sam, reaching up and slapping her hand on his mouth:Shhh, less screaming, more sleeping, escaping murder cults takes more energy than I thought.

Sam produces to pass out and sleep for three days straight.

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Tucker, lookingnup from his PDA: so...you joined what you thought was a peaceful protest and some how ended up in a eco terrorist death cult of assassins? I mean...shit now I have to do something interesting...

Danny, choking on his drink: Nuh uh, your the normal one Tuck, I died and now have a magical girl transformation and Sam got kidnapped by ninjas and somehow even more bad ass, you...you can still get out of this and just be a normal person.

Sam, nodding sadly: Yeah...don't conform to our standards Tucker, be your true, weak little boney self.

Tucker, sniffing:I am so going to not do that.

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Just the idea that Sam not only got League training but also got out is hilarious to me, like yeah, that is the kinda bs that would happen.

Alsoni can just see her dropping random lore shit.

Sam, bored as the boys study: Did you know thst the Demon Head dunks himself in corrupted ecto? Yeah it's gnarly man, didn't taste good.

Danny, going to speak before pausing and thinking, before sighing:Yeah I would have licked it too.

Tucker, frowning as he finishes his "Evil invention-enator": You both have so many issues.

---

Sam, trying to teach Danny the basic league hand to hand:Come on dude! It's not that hard!

Danny, falling flat on his ass after not even touching Sam: Ow ow ow...fuck yeah it kinda is!

Sam, rolling her eyes: If not only the Demon Heads six year old grandson can learn but also Ellie? You can too.

Danny, mutterinf under his breath before pausing completely:ELLIE? What was she doing with a murder cult? I thought she learnt her lesson after the last one!

Sam, shrugging before putting kicking at Danny on the floor: I don't know she was following a guy around who was catatonic, said something about being angry at him for not answering her pen pal messages or whatever, I was more busy training to really care...like you should be doing!

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Years later Sam is joining Danny and Tucker in Gotham, Tucker because he was scouted by both WE and Lexcorp, he wanted to choose the evil company because poorer work place regulations and the likely hood of him getting a powerbost was much higher, but was bullied by his friends/partners into choosing WE.

Sam, coming to the R&D labs late one night bringing Tucker dinner so he doesn't starve working a late shift, blinking as she sees a short boy sneaking out of the lab: Biraeam? (Sprout in Arabic) what are you doing here.

Damian, blinking right back, experimental tech Bruce has yet to clear for the field clutched under one arm and the blueprints for a new type of explosive batarang in the other: Manson...I-I could ask you the same.

Sam, raising an eyebrow and staring down Damian: bringing dinner to my husband...who works here...and I can only think that you do not. So I ask that you put those things you have down and tell your bastard of a grandfather not to step back in this place.

Damian, eyes squinting, he hadn't been around his grandfather for ages at this point but still felt offended at her tone: I don't think I will.

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An epic fight produces where they both try not and spill/destroy the things that they are carrying until either Tucker or Tim find them and explain everything.

The everlasting Trio gets invited over for dinner (mostly because Bruce is a paranoid bastard and dislikes thst one of his employees is dateing/ is partners with an ex-LoA member) and it's a bit of just pointing at each other and shit

Sam, slamming her hands down on the table as she stands: Kindly Mr Wanye, Shut the fuck up, I know your batman, we all fucking know it so if you are going to try and interrogate us at least do it properly!

Danny, sipping his wine: I mean...I-I didn't know but I um...haven't been paying much attention to the bat dude...Rag man is cooler.

Sam, glaring:And you! Fucking Ragman? You can do so much better.

Danny, offended for his hero: Oi! He does good work!

Bruce, frowning as this night has gotten away from him: He kills people.

Sam, waving over at Bruce: Exactly!

Danny, rolling his eyes: Exactly she says, while having a kill count that's still growing, Exactly she says when she was the one that pushed that oil tycoon off the 50th floor.

Sam wincing,: Maybe not in front of batman babe?

Danny, looking over to Bruce that is looking ready to fight: Shit...imma call Tuck and tell him to start packing...

[chalkrub]

new guyyy whom i love from a design trade

he's a demigod cimera knight who was brutally defeated and then spared by a tyrant queen, with the caveat that she cut off his goat head and uses it as a hostage to keep him loyal to her. unfortunate but what are you gonna do

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 345

Let it be known that none of them actually expected the idiots’ of the week’s ritual to work. The summoning hadn’t worked for literal centuries- everyone knew it had been sealed away, presumably forever!

(Of course they had no way to know that in the Infinite Realms actually used the term forever as a measurement of time, what with how time itself wasn’t particularly linear within. And to beings that could hypothetically live for eternity? Forever was a nice vacation time really) 

So maybe they hadn’t been exactly focused on stopping the ritual as much as they could of been, and by the time they realized it was working, well, it’d been a bit too late then. So yes, mistakes had perhaps in fact, been made. 

First had come the chill, the cold of the ground as your body was lowered down, the cold of your blood dripping from your living corpse. Then came the shadows, the darkness creeping along their vision as their soul slipped from their body. Followed by boiling heat, flames scorching through their flesh and tearing from their chests like a blade piercing their hearts. 

The form that emerged was massive, a cloak dripping crimson fluttering in the wind of an unseen battlefield, verdant flames licking at the air and causing the surrounding shadows to writhe. A dark growl echoed through the building, the stone below them shaking while deathly green eyes glowered down at the living with utter contempt. 

“Do any of you imbeciles know how long it takes to get ghostlings to sleep-” 

[cozylittleartblog]

i now understand how certain people felt when harpy eda was revealed 😳

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