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BELLE (2013)

dir. amma asante

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thanks for the shoutout!

Looking for more people interested in Gaston (or batb at all lol)

So many blogs I find haven't been active in a long time 🥲

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LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE (2014) dir. Christophe Gans

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Striped imberline Robe à la française, c. 1750 France

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UNBELIEVABLY GOOD NEWS

My fifth book releases in a little over two hours asdfghjkl

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You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.

not because it's bad or anything but because if you do it even once you're going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life

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finally went to a Disney park and guess who was fucking there

my boys.

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my boys.

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This links to a wheel with nearly a hundred fic tropes for plots, settings, and more. Spin it twice.

This could also work with art inspiration, but the buttons only allow for so many characters on them. And please do ramble in the tags! I'm going to have no idea what most of you are talking about, and it's going to be great.

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The problem w writing fiction is that you'll be like tee-hee I'm going to write a story about a fucked up little scenario that's got nothing to do with anything in real life, just some pure messed up nonsense, and then you finish it and take a step back and go aw rats I made a metaphor again

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Remember when Dev Patel and Gugu Mbatha-Raw starred in beauty and the beast together? oh right that was only in my head. guards. send in the guillotines

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man I SUCK at endings but this ….kinda fucks, tbh

beauty and the beast au where belle’s dad is the one that breaks the spell by loving the beast like the son he never had

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the problem of fandom reducing characters who are women and/or people of colour to sexist/racist stereotypes is definitely aggravated by the fact that a lot of fans simply do not pay very much attention to these characters in the first place then subconsciously paper over the gaps in their perception with things they’ve been culturally conditioned to believe are true about people in the same category as said character

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Beauty and the Beast (1991)

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I don't write fanfic, but if I did I would write a fanfic for Beauty and the Beast where anyone who enters the castle automatically becomes an enchanted object under the rules of the curse. Including Belle.

Throw out the falling in love part, at least at first. I want a version of Beauty and the Beast where the beast learns to start valuing his servants and Belle for more than their mere utility to him. I want him to start realizing that underneath each of their jobs, all of his orders they obey without (much) question, each of them is actually a person with thoughts and feelings like him. Probably Belle is helpful with this, but not in the saccharine way she is in all the mid-movie stories Disney comes out with. I need her to yell at him and call him a conceited little bitch boy or something.

I want the castle to wake up one day and one of the enchanted objects, with no explanation, is now back to being a person again. Probably it's Mrs. Potts, let's be real, but all her children are still teacups so it's not...great? Everyone is trying to figure out what she did to break the spell, but they don't realize the one whose heart is changing is the beast. All the enchanted objects become obsessed with figuring out the solution, trying a bunch of cockamamie and vaguely superstitious things to become free of the curse as well. This makes the castle much less formal and even speeds up the process of the beast realizing they are more than mere objects in his castle. Lumiere becomes a person before Cogsworth does and lords it over him for a whole day. All of the teacups change back into children at once and take to climbing on top of the beast like he's an enormous teddy bear jungle gym.

It takes a long time for Belle to wake up changed back to her original form. After all, the beast kind of knew all of these other people before, when they were his servants in his youth. But for all he cares, Belle has been a pepper mill since birth. Still, the beast is learning how to listen to people and see their inherent value, and when you give her some respect, Belle has a lot to say.

And in the end, the beast thought he was learning to love other people and respect their humanity as much as he selfishly loved himself, but as he comes to cherish the people who now surround him, he realizes he has never truly loved himself. He cannot become a man until he reckons with the shortcomings of the boy he once was, and how they hurt everyone around him. He cannot become a man until he is willing to see the beast that he truly was all along, and to love not just his humanity but even that beast. It is only when he recognizes that he will be a beast forever - full of failings and sin and mistakes - that he can wake up a man again.

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Me when a character starts experiencing an agonizingly, Horrifically, painful transformation :

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“Beauty and the Beast” by Anne and Janet Grahame Johnstone