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Damsel Does What Disney Couldn't
I don't want to write about films or shows often because I'm not big on them. I also worried I might spill too much info while talking about it. However, I felt this one was too good to be silent about.
The premise is a princess fights a dragon.
Something.... I don't think has been done before. Maybe. Not sure if it's the first but it certainly feels like the first.
I'm going off everything that was from the trailer to avoid spoiling the movie since it just recently came out. Unsurprisingly, they put quite a bit in the trailer. That's the thing to do these days. Jam all the action bits in the trailer and hope the audience stays awake for the slow bits.
However, there's quite a bit of action left over after the trailer. Such as the princess exploring the caves and running from the dragon.
That's right, THE PRINCESS RUNS AWAY FROM THE DRAGON BECAUSE THAT IS THE OBVIOUS AND LOGICAL THING TO DO. Had she just picked up a sword and go head in for a fight, this would have been another Disney "empowered" strong woman sludge.
Thankfully, it's not and the princess uses her intelligence rather than magic deus ex machina and actually struggles while planning her escape from the dragon. Yes, ESCAPE, because that is what any normal person would do. Let's not forget this is a girl who expected to be married to a prince (for political reasons) and was tricked into being a dragon's dinner.
So yeah, Elodie (the princess, I'm done writing 'the princess' so often) manages to get her wedding dress torn up and hides in a cave with a map made by the previous princesses the dragon roasted over the century. Which help Elodie find a path to her escape.
A good chunk of this film is Elodie fumbling around the caves up and down, climbing chasms and running from dragon fire. It sounds like it would be boring but the film does it in a way that makes it all intense and fun to watch.
But after she escapes, OH NO, her sister gets set up to be sacrificed! So Elodie jumps back in the dragon's lair to get her sister out. This is where she does fight the dragon but she works with her strengths, which is her intelligence and strategizing skills. Never thought I'd see a modern movie give a girl a brain instead of a mcguffic to solve her problems.
Elodie is hands down the best female character we've been given in a long time and it's high time we got her. She's not physically strong like a man. She's emotionally and mentally strong, being able to confront terrible monsters, forgive bad decisions or mistakes, and having the courage to save her sister. THIS is what people have been begging for in female characters for years!
Hopefully, this is the start of better female character and not a jump into more stories of women fighting giant monsters ignoring the entire moral behind the story.
There's a megaton of stuff I left out for the sake of spoilers not being spilled.
The point I wanted to get across was that Damsel is a really good film that I highly recommend ... if you have Netflix already. Never going to condone purchasing streaming "service" just for a single show or film. I demand variety with that kind of thing!
#damsel netflix#damsel in distress#opinion not a review#damsel 2024#princess elodie#netflix damsel#there's a dragon in it
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#comics#artists on tumblr#dragons#foolfortune#i've been thinking about what if dragons were common household pests in wales#and thought it would be nice if they had somewhere safe to go#trap and release sort of deal
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I love making a gag character for D&D, forgetting they’re just a gag character, and then take a step back to look at the original ref
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In mine and many other east Asian cultures, the dragon traditionally symbolises things like power, wealth and strength (imperial symbol and all)
I think we often forget that in the story of the Great Race, the dragon came in fifth because it'd stopped to give people rain. Then it'd stopped again to push a rabbit adrift on a log across the wide river so it reached the shore safely (that's why the Rabbit year comes before the Dragon).
Dragons aren't meant to just be powerful - they are meant to do good with such power, and to help those in need.
So in this lunar new year, I hope you gain more power, so that you might be able to help others. I pray you have abundant resources so you may give to yourself and those around you. I wish you courage, endurance, kindness and generosity, for yourself and your people.
I hope you, and I, will be rain givers, life preservers, joy bringers.
I hope we will be dragons.
Extremely belated postscript that should have been here far earlier:
Free Palestine, Free Sudan, Free Congo 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩
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I really like dungeon meshi, so take this bit of propaganda
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Knowledge Revenge.
#dungeon meshi#chilchuk tims#senshi#Somewhat of an unofficial sequel to the Dragon Comic. I promise I have more versatility in my jokes. I just had to take this opportunity.#Senshi is pretty much a recluse. I think he would know a few of these 'gottems' but not all.#Chilchuck would know gottems that are nearly lost to time. The deep cuts. The ones that you fall for because they are that obscure.#I would also like to take a moment to confess that after the last comic in which I posed a gottem -#I fell victim to a Mind Goblin Attack. I was thoroughly got. I will be on higher alert this time.#So NOBODY be funny in the tags. I am gullible and I like to share things with my friends. Who are *ruthless*.#I have a mild resistance to Vicious Mockery at this point but I can only take so much.#Happy Thistle Thursday Everyone! See you next week!
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Dragon harpy chimera birdy FALIN!! I love her
#falin touden#falin dungeon meshi#dungeon meshi#dunmeshi#i need to practice drawing her moreee#her normal dragon form is so hard to fit into my preferred compositions rip
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Finally made a sheng reference! Now I won't make tiny continuity mistakes!
#art#artists on tumblr#artist#artists#oc#ocs#oc - sheng#satyr#satyr oc#satyricon#dnd satyr#ranger#oc reference#reference sheet#reference#dnd#dnd art#dnd oc#dnd character#dndads#dungeons and dragons#dnd5e#fantasy#fantasy art#my art#myart
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The real reason your sapient dragon character needs a "rider":
Dragons on the wing are vulnerable to being mobbed by smaller, more agile flyers, particularly in your large rear blind spot, like a bird of prey being mobbed by crows. Having a human armed with a long spear perched on your back helps to dissuade anyone from getting any funny ideas.
Breath weapons are impressive enough on the ground, but in flight they're really only good for strafing stationary targets; trying to use your breath weapon in an aerial dogfight is a good way to get fire up your nose. A real fight calls for sterner measures – and, concomitantly, a crew to aim and reload the cannons.
In today's competitive world, it's not enough to devour a flock of sheep and call it a day if you want to keep your edge. You're accompanied at all times by a qualified personal alchemist tasked with carefully regulating your internal furnace to ensure peak performance, and sometimes you even listen to them.
No dragon of any quality would be caught dead without their valet. It's not as though you can announce your numerous long-winded titles yourself when introductions are called for, can you? You suppose next you'll be expected to pick up the spoils of your conquests yourself, like a common brigand. Perish the thought!
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He's doing very important research
( @caps-clever-girl thank you for the hilarious tags, I giggled out loud when I saw them)
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#httyd#how to train your dragon#httyd fanart#httyd toothless#gravity falls#gravity falls fanart#gravity falls ford#stanford pines#this isn't the first time someone has stuck their head in toothless' mouth#funnily enough#he was prepared this time around#Ad Astra AU
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Both kinds of Bioware girls got a lot of rep at the 2024 VMAs
#mass effect#dragon age#bioware#sabrina carpenter#chappell roan#gaming#vmas 2024#mtv vmas#samcarpenters
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Down in the dungeon, where hunger resides 🩸
I wanted to make a dungeon meshi fanart for a while, and man, I love Falin, so here we go
I hope you like it :)
#fanart#dungeon meshi#anime#falin#manga#dragon#chimera falin#tragones y mazmorras#dungeon#dnd#fantasy#senshi#laios#izutsumi#marcille#chilchuck#hunger#art#illustration#artists on tumblr#dungeon meshi fanart#tw blood#tw nonsexual nudity#delicious in dungeon
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