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Yes, the Prince should have let the Enchantress inside

Time for another Disney Beauty and the Beast 1991 rant, because I'm feeling real salty today.

I'm tired of seeing people saying the Enchantress was awful for cursing the Prince because he was a child and shouldn't let strangers inside his house.

No. He 100% should have let her inside.

First of all, he probably wasn't a child. The only evidence he was a child is Howard Ashman's "10 years we've been rusting" lyric because Howard wanted him to be a kid. The two directors of the film wanted him to be like late teens, and all other evidence in the film points to that. So, he has no canonical age at which he was cursed. (And no, him being a kid in Enchanted Christmas doesn't count as canon within the context of BatB 1991 and analyzing the original prologue.)

BUT HEY EVEN IF he was a child, you're mistakenly thinking of him as an ordinary child in modern times and the castle as a modern ordinary house. Neither of those things make any sense. He wasn't just some kid, he was a prince, a leader, a guardian for his people that he was supposed to protect, no matter his age. The castle was his home, yes, but it was much more than that, practically a public place, for his subjects to gather. Any of his subjects should be able to come there and ask to enter.

BUT HEY EVEN IF he was a modern child in a modern house who was taught about "stranger danger," remember that there were dozens if not hundreds of adults in the house with him. He wasn't home alone, nor did he live in a modern normal neighborhood. If you live in the middle of nowhere with no shelter anywhere else for miles, just a forest full of deadly wolves and bears and who knows what other scary shit, and a frail old lady comes to your house at night in the freezing cold, and asks nicely to come in, because she is 100% guaranteed to die if she doesn't, and there are like 87 adults around to make sure she doesn't get up to any mischief inside your house, and you have tons of space and food for her, are you honestly telling me you'd be cool with your kid turning her away to die? No! You would have wanted your kid to let her in and your servants to take care of her. It doesn't matter that you don't know her. You don't go around committing manslaughter when you can save someone's life with zero risk, cost, or inconvenience to yourself.

It was so fucking cruel and sadistic for the Prince to turn her away. There was literally no reason to do it, absolutely zero downside to letting her in. Any halfway decent person would have let her in. Hell, even a dick like Gaston would have let her in. It would be insane for anyone to turn her away in modern times, let alone back then, let alone if you're her fucking leader who has a responsibility for her well-being.

You can still debate whether that horrific mistake was enough to warrant getting cursed over (though we know from the prologue it wasn't a one-off, but I digress), but you cannot debate that it wasn't a horrific mistake. It was. It was dead wrong. Period. And the Prince was a complete sack of shit for doing it, child or no.

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Those "modern fairy tales where the princess saves herself" types of books not only misrepresent the gender roles in fairy tales (there are tons of stories where girls get to save the day), but they fundamentally misunderstand the entire genre.

Fairy tales aren't about saving yourself.

These aren't epic myths or heroic legends about the great warriors who slay every monster in their path because they're so awesome. Fairy tales are almost always about ordinary, even incompetent, people who get thrown into strange situations where they only succeed because of the help of others.

It's not a gendered thing. The boy who goes off to seek his fortune is usually the dim-witted third son whose older brothers are the strong, smart ones. The third son succeeds because he is kind to the magical helpers who then complete the tasks for him--and the exact same thing happens when a girl is the main character.

The characters in a fairy tale rarely succeed because they embrace their own strength and take their own path. Much more often, they are told step-by-step what to do, and they succeed because they obey--respecting the wisdom of others.

The core virtue of a fairy tale is not pride, but humility. It's not a story about the strong, but those who are weak, small, helpless. The people who can't do it all on their own, but can recognize the worth and wisdom of others.

Turning this story into a "girl power" (or even a "boy power") story warps it into something that is fundamentally the opposite of a fairy tale, and it has nothing to do with the gender of the main character.

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Everyone has missed the point

The thing that is so aggravating to me is that in this modern day of movies, people (or at least people in the movie industry) have become afraid of soft women.

In the new live action of Snow White something I noticed in the trailer is that she is going to raise an army of some kind and take back the kingdom from the evil queen. Which, is not in the original cartoon. (I don't mind twists like that in a retelling of a classic story --- Mirror Mirror for example. But it doesn't have a place in a Disney Movie remake, which is supposed to stay true to the original.)

Making Snow White give the Queen what she deserves, or raising an army to fight her or anything like that is missing the point of the story.

The two princesses I see called "backward" or their stories are "misogynistic" or "dated" are Snow White and Cinderella. I see people saying that Cinderella is weak because she was "saved by the prince." Which, she wasn't. But that's a point for another post, but even if she is, why is that a bad thing?

Anyways, Snow White and Cinderella's strength come from their softness. They are strong, because they are gentle. And in fact, I believe Cinderella is the strongest disney princess there is.

To be able to remain kind, gentle and loving amidst terrible abuse and suffering is far stronger than a girlboss who can "take back the kingdom!" with her sheer will and snarky attitude. It's easy to be rude, it's easy to slap them or fight back. It's hard to be kind to them.

Of course, good triumphing over evil is something we want to see in stories. However, Snow White's story is not about taking back the kingdom. The story is about her goodness, and the queen's wickedness. Snow White is not a warrior, and that's okay.

And in the end Snow White is triumphant, not because she saved herself. But because her kindness made her loveable to all who knew her, and the queen lost in the end because of her own wickedness. Snow White didn't get revenge, or stick it to her. She died by her own wickedness.

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mmmm yes let's not consider how the Lilo and Stitch remake is literal governmental propaganda mmmmm foster care is NOT a terrible system that almost always ends in tragedy mmmmm the new narrative was NOT formated for it to happen (she alwayyyys wanted to be a marine biologist and to do studies outside of hawaii even tho it would be better for her to stay there yesss) mmmmmm noooo the og movie did NOT have any message about colonisation and assimilation through Nani's refusal to leave Lilo nooo it was never springled in throughout the whole movie what are you talking about mmmm funny alien go brrrrr mmmm merchandisiiiiing *gasp*

MORE MERCHANDISING

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I hate when I see people say "all might should have died" because. ew no that would be such a bad story. you're telling me you saw the narrative ask the question "can someone who is accustomed to providing for people in a certain way live in a world where they can no longer do that?" and you wanted the answer to be "no they should all die" like that's crazy. you're crazy. do you realize you sound crazy. did "you can live. you can be here" and "promise me you'll live" mean Nothing to you people!?!

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These couple of months have been a whirlwind of emotions and cheerful chaos. Paladin Toshi will soon be on nanny duty, I think he will like it!

🖤✨

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As they save All Might, what if we get a continuation of this visual?

Credits and Bonus below the cut

‘The path he chose.’

Posted with Permission

Artist: Aqilah_exe2

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Hurry up little man!

I recently create a vgen profile, I’m about to finish college and will start working on commissions again! It would help me a lot if u check it

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Me and the bad bitch father figure I pulled by being autistic

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hey just for the record, if you’re on r/ao3 and keep running into these kinds of comments on bookmark related posts — it’s not a good take. calling someone’s writing “slop” and saying it deserves criticism for being bad BECAUSE it’s posted publicly might seem like a nuanced take, but I promise it isn’t.

yes, sometimes us writers get a little too obsessed over a cryptic comment or bookmark; no, that doesn’t actually mean the solution is to say whatever you want in them because authors “deserve” your honesty. 

I know we’re in a touchy time for readers and writers, but comments like these are NOT kind, refreshing, or nuanced. they’re just kind of mean and discouraging.

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'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

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I know we all have our separate peeves about pride & prejudice adaptations but my biggest one is the fact that adaptations that modernize the story change Mr Darcy's first name to William or Will (or Mark). LET HIM HAVE HIS AWKWARD CLUNKY SUPPOSED TO BE A SURNAME NAME. IT'S fucking FUNNY. my girl Jane KNEW what she was doin to this man. She said lemme make the ultimate sexyman and oh his name is FITZWILLIAM.

All of that aside, I think it'd be kinda cool to make his first name a minor plot point in a modern adaptation. Who the hell goes by "Fitzwilliam"? Well, this guy, who is named after his maternal family who comes from a line of earls. This guy fucking insists on sticking with Fitz-fucking-william because he's soooo proud of his aristocratic roots. Mr Darcy is that guy, ok. Please let him be that guy. Please let him be the hot but obnoxious rich boy that Jane Austen intended him to be.

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What a man.

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Okay but self aware red flag All Might. He has so many tendencies. He wants to keep you to himself, he wants to intimidate anyone who breathes near you, he wants to make sure you can never leave him.

But he's self aware to the point where he overcorrects and acts like he doesn't have a jealous bone in his body...until you push his buttons just right.

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very silly lil guys

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Jane Austen gives us good people with a marriage built on love and respect, but also the much funnier alternative of really terrible people with a marriage built on love and respect.

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