ANIMATION ON DISNEY+ USA - AUGUST 2023
MOVIES
-Rio 4/8
-Cinderella – 4K Restored Version 25/8
SPECIALS
-LEGO Disney Princess: The Castle Quest 18/8
SERIES
-Kiff S1 E16-E19 2/8
-Star Wars : Young Jedi Adventures S1 E7-E12 2/8
-Hamster & Gretel S1 E20-23 16/8
-Playdate with Winnie The Pooh E1-E6 18/8
-Chip ‘n’ Dale: Park Life S2 E7-E12 30/8
SHORTS
-Me & Winnie The Pooh 18/8
-How Not to Draw Shorts 2/8
-Chibi Tiny Tales Season 3 9/8
-Disney Junior Wonderful World of Songs 16/8
-Banyard Olympics 11/8
-Donald's Cousin Gus 11/8
-Donald's Nephews 11/8
-The Flying Jalopy 11/8
-Goofy And Wilbur 11/8
-Mickey's Steam Roller 11/8
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On the topic of the monarchist animals I'm just really curious. What makes the winnie pooh real animals bourgeois? It's not like they own much more than the others. Do they just have bourgeois energy?
(In reference to my addition on this post; https://www.tumblr.com/elodieunderglass/748488762087047168/hold-on-lets-do-this-properly-paddington)
In the post I state that none of the stuffed/toy animals in the Winnie the Pooh series are monarchists, but that the real animals are bourgeoisie. Obviously this is tongue in cheek, but it’s still politically interesting to me because nobody ever reads Winnie the Pooh as an actual book. They just draw depressed Disney Eeyore and think they’ve done something.
Owl and Rabbit are real wild animals that live in the Hundred Acre Wood. The other characters in the story are Christopher Robin’s stuffed animals.
The “real” animals (reasonably) consider themselves to be separate from the stuffed ones, but where it becomes unreasonable is how they assume superiority and how they use this to exert authority.
(A charming response about how the stuffed animals view this: Piglet points out that Rabbit is both clever and Has Brain, and Pooh replies that this is why Rabbit “doesn’t understand anything.”)
Owl is characterised by being a bit of a fraud. The stuffed animals respect him for his presumed education and literacy, but even a preschooler understands that Owl can’t actually read. he actively deceives the other characters in order to maintain a higher social status over them. (Actually, Rabbit’s the most literate character in the Wood.) Owl gains relatively little advantage from this status, apart from his belief that he is superior and the pleasure in everyone deferring to him. A notable theme throughout the written series involves characters approaching Owl for advice, based on his self-made reputation of being wise and thoughtful, and him giving explicitly bad advice, rather than admit that he has no idea how to help. Also, they forcibly give him someone else’s house, in such a way that the actual possessor of the house (Piglet) feels he can’t speak up. Pooh immediately offers to Piglet that he move in with him, which even as a kid felt like an incredibly unsatisfactory solution to having the shyest character’s actual house given away to the character who casually lies about everything just to feel superior.
Rabbit is a grown-ass adult real wild animal. He is the social leader of a massively large family and an extended group of hangers-on (he has fifteen or seventeen close relatives, and the extended Friends-and-Relations are a sort of army); he is the only actually literate person in the narrative, so it is understandable that he feels this (although he also believes Owl can read.) literacy and Brain are considered very important in the Wood.
Rabbit believes in his own superiority and believes himself to serve as a sort of cadet to Christopher Robin. In the series Christopher Robin is the ultimate judge, and a kindly ruler; Rabbit positions himself constantly at Christopher Robin’s right hand and wants to be his enforcer. Christopher Robin, who is five and a fairly distracted God, does not really enforce anything. This does not stop Rabbit from trying to organise the entire Wood. It’s frequently mentioned that Rabbit wants to feel important, he wants to be the Boss. A beautiful, beautiful commentary on his character is when he wakes up feeling “important, as if everything depending on him… it was a Captainish sort of day, when everybody said “Yes Rabbit” and “No Rabbit” and waited until he had told them.” Fantastic!
However, we can see where this leads him. In the first book Rabbit is shown being hostile and actively anti-foreign in his approach to other people. When kanga and roo arrive in the forest - sanctioned by Christopher Robin who has received new toys - Rabbit instantly says they have to get rid of them. Like there is NO friendship in Rabbit’s heart here. There is no “god has placed a new friend in the wood so we have to get on with it.”
Rabbit’s anti-immigration stances are funny, and in-character, and shown by the narrative to be wrong and unfair. But they’re pretty unleashed.
His plan is to kidnap the baby and hold it hostage until the mother agrees to “leave the forest forever and never return.”
This is not a normal response to a new character. It is in fact fucking unhinged. Coming from the most normal-adult real animal in the story, it comes out of nowhere. “We have to eliminate them instantly. Take the baby hostage, blackmail the parent and deport them” Rabbit these are war crimes.
Anyway it’s all very heartwarming as Rabbit learns that he likes Baby Roo. (Their relationship grows warmer as Baby Roo says “yes rabbit” and “no rabbit” better than anyone else.) We never really learn why Rabbit is so violently anti-immigration that he instantly jumps to doing crimes, but it’s possible that he doesn’t like the threat to the status quo. Baby Roo, by deferring politely, thus turns out to be a valuable social inferior for Rabbit’s power base.
But in the next book we also get another new character introduction: Tigger. rabbit does not like tigger. In fact, he stops visiting Roo because Tigger lives with them. Rabbit, frustrated by Tigger’s bounciness, also decides to deliberately trick and bully Tigger in order to make him “small and sorry.” The fact that this comically backfires on Rabbit is part of the Pooh-lore storytelling style, of course, but it’s still something obvious even to the preschool audience - that isn’t how you treat your friends.
In conclusion, due to their hoarding of (social) capital and behaviors that prop up an unjustly unequal social system, I think the real animals in Winnie the Pooh are a bit bougie.
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Rating the tf2 texture maps while I take a break from drawing
Sniper
8/10
His lips became beautiful honestly but he has the eyes of a petco fancy mouse. Looks like he gets colds really easily
Spy
10/10
Stingrays are my favorite animal!
Soldier
5/10
He's still handsome but this does make him look like winnie the pooh. Just don't wake him up, he needs his rest
Scout
10/10
Still handsome! I never noticed his beautiful picture day side part before. someone please give him a big rainbow lollipop
Heavy
9/10
I don't know how he can be even more handsome when he's been peeled but here we are. Those cheekbones don't take a day off. I had to knock off a point because he kind of looks like that skin lady from Doctor Who
Demoman
7/10
Demoman but wide-... No. He's just not demoman without his eyepatch. Also I think I know where his missing eye went. It was grafted to the side of his neck
Engineer
10/10
EHEHAHHAHAHAHA. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAA LOOKAT HIM AHAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAAAAA
Medic
0/10
How did this happen? he looks like his soul's been freed by the sweet touch of death.
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