This is your reminder to keep boycotting Disney and pirate the PJO show if you really must 👍🏼 Having it as a source isn’t an excuse to fund oppressors, lets be better than that. — Percy Jackson (#☀️🔱, fictive)
THE OWL HOUSE AS A CLASSIC DISNEY RENAISSANCE STORY
-The hero is a young outcast caught between diverging possibilities/two different worlds, and their character arc centres around the question of where they truly belong.
-When a crisis arises in their personal lives and/or the world in which they live, those who society deems more worthy or more meaningful turn out to be inadequate and/or utterly evil.
-With the help of a wisecracking and colourful mentor, a handful of mischievous and marketable sidekicks, and their love interest, the hero steps up and, with the help of their own unique strengths, the hero overcomes Evil and lives happily ever after with their Beloved.
Now that the post is over 10k and my notes are straight-up unusable...
One thing I wish I'd spelled out more explicitly in the original post because I see this point getting lost on a lot of rebloggers who don't understand why the healthcare thing was such a big deal is like
The subtext I thought would be understood bc I lived back then but apparently has been lost today is that making sure queer employees and their partners had healthcare in the early 90s meant Disney was paying for a lot of AIDS treatment.
This is one reason fundie Christians were so upset and queer employees were so grateful. It's one reason why it was such a controversial decision. It was a major talking point amongst my family, who believed back then that AIDS was a punishment from God.
(Some still do, I think. We don't talk.)
I keep seeing people saying that Disney only chose that option "because of their bottom line" and it's like??? Were you listening??? Disney has been paying for that decision for literally decades, but they've stood by it.
Like... the 90s weren't like now! It wasn't profitable to cater to the queer population of the country back then. They weren't raking in money with this.
It's in no way a perfect company but I fully believe in criticizing people for the specific things they do wrong and praising them for the specific things they do right. Disney has fucked copyright, monopoly, and labor laws and I'm not about to defend that. But they are well known in FL for being friendly to both queer people and disabled people, and that is unambiguously a good thing.
(Like side note, I could talk about Disney and accessibility for days. I have traveled extensively while disabled and no one does it like Disney.)
I've had people reblogging the post like "I straight-up don't believe Disney is an industry leader in equal protections for queer employees" and it's like ??? do you think I just pulled this out of my ass? If you want more information, go look it up! You'll see that this is well-established history. It's not my fault y'all don't read! :|
Disney started a new subscription service where they send clowns to your house every night and you had to fight them. Not necessarily to the death, but to the point of defeat.
funniest corporate Pride pandering is the "Celebrate Pride!" section on D/sney Plus which has. glee. and a documentary about howard ashman. and that's it.
Also have to say, I love how hard the team is trying to fight to let me drop an f-bomb. Please just let me say fuck already, Mouse. It would be so funny. Just once. Just once, that's all I ask, let me say fuck, it'll be really cool and good, promise, I'm so good at saying fuck, please- Bill Cipher, again
apparently marvel are changing the title of the new Captain America movie from "New World Order." but it doesn't change the fact that they're introducing a Zionist hero to fight an allegedly Jewish villain (unless they've changed that since). i was excited to see Anthony Mackie as Cap but it still sounds like it'll be a weird pro-Zionist and somehow anti-semitic mess.
"You fall down to all fours and you heave and arch your back, which doubles in length. Your legs grow and thicken and all end in big, powerful hooves. Your neck stretches, your face stretches as though it were rubber. And you recover and stand up, proudly, on all four hooves. You have turned into a werehorse."