#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.

[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

[monochrome-genesis]

‘Golden One, who earned your wrath?’

[clarisimart]

Everything about The book of Bill and Journal 3 and Stanford Pines' backstory fascinate me, because WDYM the lore and backstory for this children's show where two siblings have Scooby-Doo style mystery adventures all summer and there are multiple gags about the town making it legal to marry animals, is a Sci-fi psychological magnus archives/return to night vale style horror about one isolated barely restrained mad scientist with good intentions and a list of baggage a mile long who gets into metaphorical (and maybe literal(!!!!!)) bed with what is basically an eldritch horror-beyond-human-comprehension being, literally worships and devotes himself to that horror as his god at times, and sorta even loves him, until he realizes that the god he made his house and body into an an altar for is not a benevolent one, and he tries to severe ties with him.

But it's too late, the god is equally as obssessed with him, he made a home of his mind, and he's not letting him go, and even though the horror might even love him back, and in a twist it might even be the one of the most horrifying cases of the "one fell first, one fell harder" trope, it is still cruel and not above unleashing torment on his former devotee to get what he wants.

And then looking back on the scientist life, you also see that he's been haunted by symbols of what would become his god and betrayer literally since birth.

AND WDYM THE WHOLE THING IS (rightly, because it's a children's show and they are not the main characters) BARELY HINTED IN THE SHOW

I AM BITING THE DRYWALL

someone give me a horror podcast about Ford's time with Bill and later his life dimension hopping is what I'm saying

[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-” 

[arundolyn]

everybody shut up

dizzy narwhal

[cozylittleartblog]

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

prints here

[dearabsolutelynoone]

I cried. I threw up. I shook. I climbed the walls. I cried some more. I tore my hair out. I saw the light. I was on the brink of death. And I cried even more. Charlotte and George were everything and then some. Like my brain chemistry has been permanently altered. I will never be the same. Every time I think about them I’m launched into a brand new mental breakdown. I don’t know how I will recover from this.

[sofiaruelle]

Idk if your avoiding spoilers or not but when I saw Sam's winter glow up I immediately got excited to see your reaction to it

Hahahah nope not avoiding any spoilers. I am living vicariously through people playing because the update is not available for the ipad yet. 😭😭😭

Samson Samsonite Sammy Sam Sam boi. Looking saur baby gorl 💅 with his lil beanie. I'm mostly surprised he was able to fit all that hair underneath his hat hahaha. Also can't help it but also draw his other 2/3s.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]