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had a dream that there was a thriving lego set resale community on my campus and buying/selling lego was called 'gargaling' because it was 'something gargamel would do' (?)

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Sorta a swap AU, where Brainy is human and Elizabeth is the mystical creature instead.

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I soo sorry clumsy

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FINALLY,MORE MODERN AU CONTENT!!!!!

HANDY AND JOKEY BEANSSSS!!!! @fluffypigeonsandowls COME HEREEEEE

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Oh boy

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Stargazing is fun, right?

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Modern day Smurfblossom + Human 🌸

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Accidental charisma

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S.B.I. VS The Masked Pie Smurfer these 3

this frame is so cute：

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WE ATE THE FREAKBOB MEAL AT 3AM.. HE SHOWED UP..

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I came across that old Smurfs sketch on Robot Chicken and couldn't resist.

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I’d like to hear your thoughts on all The Smurfs movies because why do they focus so much on Smurfette?? No offense to her but why do they do it? Is the target audience girls (says this as a girl who’s favorite is Clumsy) or is it just cuz she’s got the most unique backstory??

But yeah it just feels like the movies make Smurfette the main focus besides the 2011 movie focusing on Clumsy and I wish they’d try to balance it out more with the others k’know what I mean?

I've actually been thinking about writing a post about Smurfette in general for a while now, but I'd need the chance to sit down and really word it right, so this is not that post.

As you said, there's nothing inherently wrong with focusing on Smurfette, of course.

No, I don't think the target audience is girls - or at least, I don't think the sole target audience is girls, I think they want the movies to have a broad appeal across demographics (whether or not this is successful is another question entirely). i.e. they don't view smurfs as a "girl franchise" or anything like that. But they do want to appeal to girls as part of the target audience.

So I think there's this general perception that like, well, the fact that Smurfette is the only girl (yes there's Nanny and Sassette and so on but in general pop culture perception is what I mean) is seen as a sort of mistake, an original sin of the franchise and they're trying to rectify/reckon with that, because they figure that modern audiences won't really accept such an unbalanced gender ratio being glossed over without comment? So they give Smurfette more prominence/importance in the storyline to try and balance it out, in an attempt to broaden appeal and give this impression of girl-positivity.

But I think this is done in like... I think the perception of the smurfs franchise that they're drawing from is a bit surface-level? Smurfette is a smurf that stands out from everyone else at first glance for obvious reasons, so it feels like they're superficially honing in on that and her backstory without engaging in it or her character very deeply.

She was an important character with a unique backstory among the main characters of the original show too. But the movies just seem to come at it from a different angle, with extra baggage involved.

The gender politics and how they've changed over time in connection to her is soooo interesting to think about. Like, in her original iteration she was The Girl, and she liked Girly Things, her character was distinctive, she had hobbies and interests and so on, and she had the occasional episode where she angsted over her isolation in the gender department but that was never central to her character or anything

Now, in more modern iterations, others have pointed out that her emphasis on Femininity and Liking "Girly" Things has kinda been erased - because it's very easy to read sexism into such depictions, wherein presumably they don't want an audience to assume that such behaviours/interests would be prescriptive for all girls instead of just merely being another element of her characterisation if there isn't really much other female presence to offset such portrayals. The Lost Village girls do offset it, but Smurfette is still in a sort of awkward and unique position so there's probably fears that she would still come across that way, idk.

But then when you take away the femininity emphasis and stuff, like, that sort of erases her characterisation and makes her kind of generic, while still being The Girl, because the franchise still draws attention to her gender in an attempt at perceived girl-positivity, and if she's The Girl and nothing else then she's still just The Girl, bearing that title and "responsibility" just as much as Smurfette in the original series

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Kinda wild to me how in the Finance Smurf comic, well, naturally all of this was able to happen in the first place because Papa Smurf was sick and so had no say in whether money and capitalism should or shouldn't be introduced to the village, right? But when he gets better... instead of dismantling the money system he's just like... "Oh well too bad guess we're capitalists now" lol

Like he just goes along with it instead of stepping in.

I know he ultimately decides to wait it out and let the system dissolve on its own after seeing its negative effects, but initially he just seemed so chill to wake up to the entire village's way of life being so transformed, seemingly so ready to adjust/adapt to it :P

Like it seemed he was prepared to just let it stay that way permanently if he hadn't seen the downsides. Like yeah they all use money now what about it - even though he got no say and these changes took place without him initially

I'd expect him to react more strongly to it, so it was all so comparatively lowkey. I mean Papa coming back into the picture often stops whatever runaway plot is in motion in its tracks, but that wasn't the case here - he simply let it persist for a bit until it collapsed on its own.

& it was like.... So, it comes across as if the smurfs are just "playing at" using money, right? At least at the start, it's just like a fun game they're all experimenting with in Papa's absence. Obviously it starts going off the rails, then it's largely a case of inertia I think - individual miserable smurfs can't quite opt out from what's been set in motion. But I think the other component here isn't just Papa's lowkey (lack of) initial response but the fact that these changes get positioned with a supposed "legitimacy" that I wouldn't have expected by him: his little smurfs did/do have the power to transform their society in ways which he'll then abide by, despite his power/position as leader

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Brainy: I apologies that our...account has smurfed some posts. It's because of Dopey touching it,apparently.

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Winter Fan Art - Brainy Smurf is building a snowman of himself and he has the hat and glasses as well! Then Papa Smurf and The Smurfs are looking at Brainy’s Snowman how nice of him! For @gregbruhl