Anastasia and Drizella can do better and deserve better
I feel sorry for Anastasia and Drizella in The Villains Lair by PattyCake Productions. Yes, they are selfish, petty and shallow but they don’t know any better.
They seem to have been raised in isolation. They only had each other, their mother who shaped their world view and their step-sister Cinderella, who they were encouraged to mistreat. They didn’t have friends and were raised with high expectations placed on them.
Cinderella wasn’t the only one Lady Tremain was abusive to. She was just as abusive to her own daughters. However, Anastasia and Drizella can’t even recognise it because she abused them in a different way.
In their minds, she only wants the best for them. That’s why she always pushed them to be perfect. It couldn’t possibly be that her expectations are too high and they’ll never be able to live up to them no matter what, right?
Anastasia and Drizella don’t even get to be on the same side. They always have to compete and, because of that, they are constantly putting each other down.
They fawn over both Hans and Gaston (they can do better) but it’s always both Anastasia and Drizella fighting over one of them at a time. They never consider each trying to impress one man each. It has to be a competition because that’s all they’ve ever known. Whoever ‘wins’ is the better person and the other is a failure.
Lady Tremain told her daughters they had to be perfect and marry well. That’s what they’re trying to do. They will literally argue about who should get to marry a man who’s singing about how women are inferior and should be willing to change everything about themselves to please a potential husband.
Anastasia and Drizella don’t have any hobbies, skills or friends. They want to be rich and married to someone important. Outside of that, there have no interests.
The only time Anastasia and Drizella get to be on the same side is when they are against someone else. They get to hate other people, like Cinderella, more than they hate each other and that’s the closest they get to a sisterly bond.
Lady Tremain does not love her daughters. She sees them as pawns to help her climb the social ladder. She’s sung, in front of them, about how her perfect home is one where’s she’s all alone.
However, she was more obviously cruel to Cinderella and she didn’t make Anastasia and Drizella servants in their own home so she couldn’t really mean that. She must only have meant a home without Cinderella, not without them. She loves them, right?
Anastasia and Drizella are stuck surrounded by villains, with no role models and an emotionally abusive mother. They aren’t happy but, in their minds, that is all Cinderella’s fault. They don’t even realise how messed up their world view is and unless they can get out, they probably never will because they’ve never known anything else.
Almost all of hooks moments in villains lair by pattycake productions, sorry that its pretty choppy but idk. There are more funny moments from they're live stream but that made it like 10 min long so i scraped it. Hope it's not that bad.
Please watch Villain’s Lair by Pattycake productions
We got:
Original songs in most episodes
Cameos of B-Tier villains like Madame Medusa and McLeach
A bit of homoerotic subtext (in my opinion)
Seeing the villains’ side of the coin, how some of them were mistreated and snapped, how some still see themselves as the hero
A whole song of some of the dude villains (Hans, Gaston, etc) blaming women for their problems and being sexist until Maleficent comes in and starts talking about how a man was at fault in her story
Another song about the parent villains (Lady Tremaine, Mother Gothel, etc) singing about how their kids were brats
A CGI SCAR IN AN EPISODE
The Queen of Hearts being hilariously crazy
Drizella and Anastasia Tremaine fighting over Gaston and Hans-
The only cheery song in the whole series is about the sidekicks
The Grade A acting and singing and production in general
They actually include Claude Frollo, who is usually forgotten
Ok, but imagine Villain/Henchman/Assassin Whumpee being found by the heroes while they raided Supervillain Whumper's lair and they take Whumpee into custody. They don't handcuff Whumpee because they aren't fighting back (either too injured or in shock) but as they lead Whumpee out of the lair, Whumpee stops.
"Did you find them?"
"Find who?"
Whumpee pulls away from them and goes deeper into the lair. Every time the heroes grab them, they get more and more distressed, saying that they can't leave. They won't leave. After a minute, they start screaming out a name that the heroes don't recognize.
Just as one of the heroes goes to knock Whumpee out, they see a child crawl out from under the stairs and run straight for Whumpee who drops to their knees and hugs the child tightly, shushing their cries and whispering soft, comforting words. "Shh, it's ok. Mommy/Daddy is here. I'm ok. We're ok. it's ok. Shh."
The perfect villain's lair is in Dunmore Head, Kilbaha, Kilrush, Co. Clare, Ireland. It has 4bds, 4ba, €9,75M / $10.505M. Notice the helipad, b/c villains always need a helicopter for a getaway.
It has a huge courtyard out front.
This entrance hall leads to 2 more doors.
That open to another entrance hall with a large niche and a fireplace.
Then another 2 doors with leaded glass.
Open to a stunning dining room. Look at the shine on that floor and the gorgeous ceiling.
On the other side of the fireplace there's a sitting room.
The kitchen doesn't even look like a kitchen. It's very sparse, too.
The primary bedroom has a sitting area with a fireplace.
The closet has a sliding ladder. I can see that there's a reflection in the floor, but it also looks like it could be trap door.
Very nice shower room.
Here's a kitchenette.
And, that opens to a hall with stairs.
Look at the crossover on the 2nd floor.
Plus, there's also another level.
Lovely bedroom with an arched ceiling, fireplace and a door to a deck.
Lovely large shower room. The baths look the same.
There's also a beautiful elevator.
The uppermost floor.
Another kitchen.
Table outside of the wine cellar.
Wow, a super clean indoor pool room that doesn't look like it's ever been used. The water is filled up to the brim.
I want to talk about The Villains Lair by PattyCake Productions. It’s so good!
If you haven’t watched it, this is what it’s about-
The Disney animated villains have teamed up and are living in Evil Queen’s castle. They are all unhappy about how their stories ended and are either looking for revenge or a way to rewrite the story.
All the villains look amazing and are so well characterised.
The first epsiode is above. If you like it and it sounds interesting, then go watch the series! You can watch it all here.
so i saw this old-ish post about an au centering around a villain lewis and a hero arthur,,, and i. may have gotten attached to it,, dkdndkdjs. so i decided to make some edits + doodles based on it!! i also really wanna make a lil oneshot about it as well,, but uh... whether or not i actually follow through on that, we'll see,, skdjsojdks.