#lilo 2023

[louuthesunflower]

What can I say…

[batshaped]

stitch & max

(comm for an anonymous genius)

[alcottts]

love love love the bond between a little girl and her weird doll

[artist-issues]

If you actually hate how Rachel Zegler disrespects the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, do not go see or stream the remake.

If you actually hate how Disney has turned the Lilo & Stitch live-action into a bad statement about race, do not go see or stream it.

If you actually believe that the original The Little Mermaid was perfect and needed no adjustments, and Eric was not a bland prince, do not go see or stream the remake.

If you actually thought that Emma Watson misread and mishandled the role of Belle, who, in the original, was expertly characterized, do not go see or stream the remake.

If you actually believe that the Genie wanted to be free, and Aladdin learned to trust, and Jasmine taught them both how, while the Live Action version ruined that, do not go see or stream the remake.

If you actually believe that the original Lion King movie was perfect and needed no bland NatGeoWild embellishment, do not go see or stream the remake.

If you actually believe that the Cinderella (2015) movie was a good remake, go out and buy the DVD—and then don’t go see and stream the other remakes.

Don’t do it. They don’t read our tumblr rants or watch our rage reels, but they count how many of us go see the new stuff. And they count our money as it goes into their bank account to fund the next one. And they count the time we spend on their streaming services. Teach them that we have standards, and the standards aren’t spectacle, and you can’t just buy us with soulless puppets of our favorite movies.

When you’re tempted to go hear the soundtrack play and listen to the dialogue you miss, just go watch the original. That’s what you really love.

#NotMyDisney alienated me with these last few movies, so I’m not playing the games anymore. Make movies for me, as if I’m the smart child you raised on good movies, or else I won’t go see them. If you guys want me, I’ll be waiting for the day that the Live Action Remake comes out, and then immediately streaming the original on Disney+.

Let ‘em measure how many seats are filled in their theaters, versus how many streams of the originals are playing on the same day.

[reejindeed]

Whenever I’m sad I try imagining explaining homophobia and transphobia to Jumba and Pleakley.

Happy Pride everybody.

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Lilo And Stitch #01 (2023)

Art by David Nakayama

[itspkuwu]

MERRY CHRISTMAS CN-NICK-DISNEY-WB FANS!!!!!! ❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚

[chokkokat-art]

Linktober 2023 day 11 - ☠️ Monsters/Beasts ☠️

[lunadove]

Night Court 2023 Summary

Abby: Dad, now that you’re gone, I need a father figure. Maybe an angel? Yeah, that’s it! Send me an angel! The nicest angel you have!

Dan: *emerges from the smoking wreckage of his life, laughing hysterically*

[alphashley14]

Ashley’s art 2023! 👩‍🎨

(10 of my favorites anyway, thank you Tumblr image limit lol)

I love seeing how much I’ve improved this year and I can’t wait to get even better in 2024! 💪🎨✍️

[disney-is-mylife]

Okay, sooooo I tweaked the rules from my last poll, mainly due to the fact that Cute Animal Sidekicks diminish..... preeeeetty significantly in the 21st century. Oh, there's definitely cute animals, but also cute/funny robots, aliens, magical creatures, etc etc....

But I still did at least keep to these rules:

NO Animal-Only or Animal-Dominated Movies (that means NO Dinosaur, Chicken Little, Zootopia; also Wreck-It Ralph since they're video game characters)

If there are mostly animals, the protagonist MUST BE/BECOME HUMAN (ie, Brother Bear & Princess and the Frog)

Okay, yes, I made Bolt the exception because honestly, that film does not get enough love dbkjsdkfs

Happy voting! ❤

Disney 20th Century Animal Sidekick Poll!!

Disney 20th Century (Other) Animal Sidekick Poll!!

Disney "Magical" Companion Poll!!

Disney (Other) "Magical" Companions Poll!!

[experimentkc]

Happy Leroy Day! 🔴👿👽

The last of the experiment-focused days of Stitch Week is all about Stitch's red-furred twin brother! Will he ever get a chance to get out of Galactic Prison and Dr. Hämsterviel's influence someday? Unlikely, but at least we got some fan art from today and the past year for him!

All images above are linked to their original sources. Please give them likes and favorites over on their original pages and follow the artists.

First and second images by ZUNDAMOTI2002 (629 Day image, unwanted petting image)

Third image by @psychedelic-lemur (source)

Fourth image by @kingspadille (source)

Fifth image by @vanillabean-bunny/@breakneck-blur (source), who's brought the whole gang together for a group shot!

[life-in-toontown]

Scrump walked so Weird Barbie could run

[gaiakoraidon]

The spooky day has finally arrived, so here's to a spooky and fun filled Halloween this year! The collage features a very festive Zera and some of my favorites getting into the Halloween spirit: Luffy, Tanjiro, Stitch, Toothless, and Sonic the Werehog. I'm actually dressing out this year as Tony Tony Chopper from One Piece with my dad dressing out as Jigsaw from the Saw movies for tomorrow; I'll be posting pictures too! It's gonna be a frightfully good night that's for sure! Happy Halloween 2023 everyone!!

[artist-issues]

And another thing—the whole premise of Asha’s motivation, her whole character, is that she believes the people of Rosas deserve “more” than what Magnifico is giving them.

And I’ve already made posts about how that’s already kind of lame, because the movie doesn’t give you a good look at the citizens of Rosas really “suffering” because of Magnifico. They’re not all dull, or diffident, or zombies or anything. So she’s not really rescuing them from anything too bad, in that sense.

But that’s not the point of this post.

The point of this post is that Asha believes all the wishes in Rosas deserve the chance to come true, because she believes that all the intentions of the people in Rosas are basically good…she believes they’re all basically good people.

All their wishes are, therefore, good, harmless wishes.

But that’s so boring. And untrue. Not all wishes are good! Very few of the things we choose to wish for are the best things we could choose to wish for. And even less of the things people wish for are what they actually need.

Wish makes a lame attempt at the end, with the clunky Peter-Pan background character, to suggest that what the people of Rosas were missing was a work ethic to achieve their dreams, and collaborate with others, themselves. But it’s lame. And still not compelling. Because not everybody has good wishes. In fact, almost ALL of Disney’s best stories are about a character wishing for something that isn’t completely good for them. I already made a post that was kind of about this, but seriously. Having characters who want something, then discover that something is not so good for them, or something else would be even better, is one of Disney’s trademark tools for making compelling characters and adventures.

Flynn, in Tangled, just wanted to live a life of ease where nobody could bother him or take anything from him. And you know, he’s an orphan. They explained why he has that bad wish, because of his life and the circumstances that made him how he is—so we understand. We don’t hate him for having a bad wish. We get it. But then it’s wonderful to watch him learn to wish for something better! That’s a big chunk of the story! Just like how Rapunzel wished to see the floating lights, because it meant exploring and understanding the world. Not a bad wish, but not everything she could’ve had. Love, with Flynn, was an even better wish.

You could do this with villains, too, as the opposite. You can say,

Gaston had a bad wish. He wished to have Belle, simply because she was the most beautiful girl in town and he felt like he “deserved” her as the most beautiful man in town—and didn’t want to settle for second-best. And he has plenty of evidence to look at in order to recognize that his wish is bad, it’s not good for anyone including him—he has Belle’s selfless love for her father, the Beast’s refusal to fight back, and other adoring girls who would love to have him. But he won’t let it go. He won’t give up his wish or change it to something good—because he won’t acknowledge that it’s bad. So you have a great villain.

You get lots of great villains that way. Having bad wishes, but refusing to give them up. I mean, every Disney villain has a dream too, you guys realize that? And Disney had no problem saying “some wishes are bad” then. So they had strong characters with believable motivations/performances and a gripping story. Plus, actual impactful morals.

Stitch realizing his wish to destroy is bad, and changing it to a wish for family, like what Lilo and Nani have.

Clayton wishing he could “conquer” Africa, right down to selling its most fearsome creatures, right down to refusing to give up in a fight with Tarzan and winding up getting killed for it.

Hercules changing his wish from being a god to being on earth with Meg, because that’s a better fulfillment of his previous wish, which was just to find where he belongs.

Cruella refusing to change or give up her bad wish for a fur-skinned coat made from the pelts of the pets of the friends who insulted her.

The fairies continually giving up their wishes to do what’s best for Aurora and the kingdom—they give up their magic when it fails to undo Maleficent’s curse, then they give Aurora herself back to her real parents even though they’ve loved her, then they put the whole kingdom full of their friends to sleep to spare them the heartbreak of losing Aurora.

I mean, you could think of this as Part II of my earlier post, but what I’m saying is, Wish doesn’t acknowledge one of the most fundamental things about Disney stories: wishes aren’t always good, and they’re not always good for the people making them.

I get that Magnifico was taking away the chance for Rosas to find that out for themselves. No character in Rosas gets to go on their own journey of “is my wish worth getting.” But basing a movie off of that set them up for a boring movie. The whole concept of forgetting the wish you have, but it was probably good/harmless, makes the characters stop being characters, and the story super bland.

The only character that has a wish that he tries to make come true and has to choose to either keep or let go of is Magnifico—and his wish is “maintain absolute power.” Not even the Evil Queen had a wish that was that one-dimensional and bland—at least she had something personal in there. Magnifico doesn’t have a backstory or a personality that hints at a backstory which would explain his being a control-freak. He just has a burnt tapestry hanging on a wall that he sometimes glances at and says super vaguely, “nobody should ever have to live with their wish not coming true!” What wish, Magnifico? What did you wish for that you didn’t get? Say something that makes you real to me, or else I don’t care. Like everything else in this movie.

[thatrandomartistjaviarts]

Combining these drawings into one post cause I don’t have much to say other than I wanted to draw them