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ROUND 2!

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I always thought it was weird that Rapunzel could use the decay incantation after Cass took the moon stone and absorbed its powers. But when Rapunzel uses the decay spell to free Quirin, you see streaks of Rapunzel's golden hair shining through her black hair! Like the moon powers have been weakened. The other time she uses the decay spell that doesn't happen. Maybe her sun magic lessened the destruction of the decay to not kill Quirin or melt Varian's hands shown by her blonde hair peaking out.

No, that's literally not what's happening. The colored streaks in Rapunzel's hair are related to the energy she's absorbing.

This is when she first uses it (absorbing nothing in particular, just sort of everything, undirected). Just the color of the Moonstone magic, in general.

This is her absorbing the energy from Hector Tiri.

And this is her freeing Quirin, aka absorbing the amber.

Also, Cassandra didn't take the Moonstone powers that Rapunzel had been given. Her hair is still unbreakable in season 3. That's a Moonstone power. So of course she can still use the Reverse Incantation.

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Ah, sweet! I don't know that I'd call it "lost," given that you can watch all of S1 on YouTube and the whole series (and pilot movie) on Disney+, but it's still not very well known.

(Also, I don't know the availability of the Latin Spanish dub.)

So this series is practically lost media...

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Yo 😎

Explain to me why I am so honored today.

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Tangled is so perfect, and I don't need a remake.

I mean, who agrees with this?

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Complaining about how Eugene cut Rapunzel’s hair is so booooooooooooooooooooooooo 🍅🍅🍅🍅

It looks so cute and hair is often cut to let go of the past and embracing change so trimming her ends wouldn’t be so dramatic not to mention he was literally stabbed and dying

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You’re my best buddy, bud, don’t ever change

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Between the paintings from art school I will post small pictures with different cartoon. I still paint much better with paints. Let's start with Rapunzel 💛💜.

Do you like the series?

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See, this is why I like fandoms... We take the smallest scrap and see how it informs our existing character biases. 😂

So I get why in Happiness Is they made Varian Rapunzel’s fear- and I like that detail. I like that they show he and that whole experience genuinely traumatized her.

But the wasted Gothel potential makes me wanna cry….

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I feel like the point they were trying to make with both the greatest desires and the greatest fears was that these were the most immediate desires and fears.

Eugene's greatest desire is to get off the island (a boat), be respected* (captain of the boat), and idolized/desired (his face for the figurehead).

We all know that Rapunzel's homesickeness isn't her biggest desire overall. Hell, that's in direct competition to her currently living her greatest dream -- seeing the world and having adventure. So, Varian/her family being in danger being her biggest current fear makes sense, especially in combination with her being homesick. What she really, really wants is to make sure that her family and kingdom are safe.

But, I also agree with you that they didn't usually take the opportunity to dig deeper in this series. They showed Rapunzel's still-existing trauma in "Pascal's Story," and again in "The Quest for Varian," but then they make it less and less, like a lifetime of trauma can be cured in just a few months/years with a couple moments of closure.

*Even in-series Eugene knows that he's not respected as a character.

So I get why in Happiness Is they made Varian Rapunzel’s fear- and I like that detail. I like that they show he and that whole experience genuinely traumatized her.

But the wasted Gothel potential makes me wanna cry….

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OMG I love it😂

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Whenever people mention platonic make friendships in media, I immediately think of Lance and Eugene.

Like, fuck yes it’s my boys who would never fuck eachother but still love eachother so much and they didn’t even come from the same womb

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are you able to say why rootbound got pushed back to july 2026? the tangled fandom is so excited for it lol!

I'm so glad to hear y'all are excited, I am too!! As a professional gossip-hound, I am sad to report the delay is nothing juicy—the short answer is there were some business shuffles with Disney's publishing arm that led to a LOT of books getting rescheduled. For the folks who want the nitty-gritty, I'll drop that under the cut!

So the unsung wheels of publishing are printing (the process and logistics of printing thousands of copies of one (1) book at time) and distribution (the process of moving enough copies from the printer to various bookstores to meet demand.)

There are a limited number of mass printing facilities worldwide, and hundreds of books published every year, so that alone means publishers have to schedule their books to go to print far in advance. Factor in shipping (especially if the books are printed overseas), authors running late, books being "crashed" (the publisher pays a LOT to skip the queue so a book can sell ASAP), the chaos of tariffs impacting material costs.... the further out you can schedule, the better.

Now distribution, that's its own set of logistics. And it's not unusual for a publisher to actually contract with another publisher to handle their distribution—for example, Bloomsbury has been distributed by Macmillan for a while, at least in the US. It just costs less to pay Macmillan to share services than to try to set up and manage their own distribution. Similarly, Disney Publishing had a distribution agreement with Penguin Random House, where PRH's distribution systems also handled Disney books.

Emphasis on 'had'!

This past May, PRH and Disney announced a HUGE licensing deal. This means instead of JUST handling distribution, PRH would be taking over the entire process for all the titles they'd licensed, editorial, printing, you name it, for the Disney tie-in books. But as you can imagine, that means hiring more staff to handle the additional load for editorial, marketing and publicity, production, etc. It also means they need to figure out where and when to print all these books, and also WHEN they can release them for best impact.

On the author side, we could tell there was some sort of shakeup in the works as far back as last fall, because huge layoffs were hitting at every level. My editor Flannery put in a herculean effort to make sure I got the last of my substantive editorial notes before she was let go. As a result, Rootbound is more or less done! The final stage remaining is called pass pages, where the text is laid out in a PDF as it'll look in the book, and I do a final read and make any cosmetic tweaks. Then it ought to go to print!

You might be reading this with some degree of horror at how little control it seems I have over this process, but frankly, that is typical of publishing. Stuff gets announced and changed for books all the time, and it's not a reflection on the work, it's a reflection on an unpredictable market with a lot of variables. Here are a handful of reasons I've seen release dates changed:

A major bookstore selected it for a monthly book club

A major book box would do a special edition, but for a different month

A major retailer would order a SIGNIFICANT quantity of copies up front... IF the release date was changed

To sync up with the release of a UK edition

Wanting more time to pitch a book for things like book club picks, special editions, retailer buy-in, etc.

The author is running extremely late and/or turning in an unprintable manuscript

COVID! Just covid.

The publisher acquired a different book they a) think will compete for the same market and b) sell better, so they give the new book the more favorable release date

The publisher has beef with the author and has scheduled the book for a terrible release date on purpose (not me, and I will not elaborate)

So all in all, I'm happy for Rootbound's delay to be for utterly boring reasons, haha. While I would have loved for it to go out into the world sooner, it gives PRH's team more time to make the most of the launch. And honestly, having release dates shift on me quite a bit, this may not even be the final change. All I can promise is I'll keep you updated as best I can!

(Before anyone asks, I do not currently know of any special editions planned, that doesn't mean there won't be any, but if there are, I won't be able to talk about them until they're announced!)

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So, it's been long enough that I think I can say this on the internet now:

That isn't how the episode was supposed to go. That isn't how Ricky wrote it. But when the executive producer pitched it, he only relayed, like, the first half of the episode, and that's what got approved, so that was what had to be made. Ricky sent me the original script and... yeah. The second half did a lot more to make Cassandra redeemable for the circumstances.

Wreck was supposed to be using ye olde magical steroids, because he couldn't handle losing, but overdosing turned him into a rampaging hulk-like monster, and they had to stop him before he started seriously hurting people.

I'd post the whole thing if it wasn't given to me in confidence, so I don't have permission to do that. And unfortunately, because we got what we got instead of what was written, that's what's canon to the series.

But yeah, as the episode is, Cassandra doesn't apologize to Rapunzel, even after Rapunzel apologizes to her.

I hate Challenge of the Brave so much that I like to think that Cass or Rapunzel dreamt the whole thing and it didn’t actually happen like that 😭.

Cass is ridiculously out of character, with her sabotaging Rapunzel on purpose, and being mean/aggressive towards her, in a way never happens again with “normal Cass”.

In the previous ep Cass was helping Eugene, standing up to and calling out her father’s unfairness, and furthermore, she wasn’t jealous of Eugene getting an opportunity that she’d always wanted. She was skeptical of course, but she was never jealous of him and tried to help him, so her being so jealous of Rapunzel winning a stupid competition over her makes no sense.

Also…why is she obsessing over a random child’s approval in the episode? Huh? What?

If you like this episode and think it works that’s really cool and I think you can see something that I can’t.

I think for it to work, it should’ve been the first one after What the Hair. Although having said that, it still doesn’t make much sense being placed there, because in What the Hair Cass is trying to help Rapunzel.

Cass is not a perfect character, she can be mean, she can be rude, she can be snarky, jealous, aggressive at times, etc., but these traits don’t make her a bad person, she always has good traits and does good things to balance it out, like a real person. But in this episode only, she behaves really poorly, doesn’t really second guess herself and doesn’t do too much to make up for it. Correct me if I’m wrong, but she does she even apologise? 😕

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Portrait of Rapunzel 'cause why not? She's giving me Chris Sanders vibes here.

Rapunzel (C) Disney

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Have you heard of "Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel" ?

It's not Tangled, but it almost seems like it borrowed from Tangled. Making the prince into a thief instead, except the thief Jack is the one not charmed by Rapunzel, instead of the other way around. And "Witch" (The Gothel-like character) is apparently nice and protects her, except reviews say she later learns it's Stockholm Syndrome or some such.

I'm just wondering has anyone heard of or read this before, and how much did it derive?

I've heard the title, but I've never looked into it at all.