#waiting on a miracle

[the-great-wheatley-tragedy]

Wheating on a miracle.

[gamerbearmira]

Waiting on Our Miracle

Finished….hm….simply the thumbnail. Dunno if I’ll put it on YouTube. You know they be striking folks 😭

ANYWAYYYYY start to finish, this took me roughly 6.5 hours. About an hour per character, give or take a few minutes obviously. Initially I was only gonna do what was in the original animatic, but decided I wanted to at least a half body of every grandkid. Dunno why 😭

I’m actually pretty proud of did this though! I don’t render as often as I should (especially my ocs they need some love…) but for what it is, I think it’s not too bad.

Should I render more?? I mean I’d like to but I just dunno which aus lmaoooo plus it took me forever

ALSO NOTE UH. Some of you may have seen the bug au drawings. Those are what I call “comic rendered”. They typically don’t have as much detail, specifically in the lighting and shading. These drawings are fully rendered.

[jacarandaaaas]

the scrapped waiting on a miracle reprise would have fit so well here

everyday I wonder what the reprise would be like. like imagine a version of woam where mirabel is literally at rock bottom after thinking shes ruined everything

[wings-of-sapphire]

Someone animate Vaggie singing Waiting on a Miracle about being an angel

[hilsonisthecure]

me: i love the best friends to lovers trope

david shore:

[mochimogalina]

Long time no see! I finally watched Encanto recently and loved it, so here’s the Mariposa gal and some doodley drawings for fun :DDD 

[flyawaymind]

Waiting on a Miracle

I’m sure someone has probably said this better, but I just re (re re re re re re re re re) watched Encanto and had an epiphany during the song, Waiting on a Miracle.

Everything that Mirabel lists in that song? All those things she “can’t do?”

She does them, one by one, over the course of the movie. Everything she lists, whether it’s some power she wishes she had or something in her life that she wants to change, it all happens. Check it out:

The most obvious part, and what I noticed first, is how she describes the Gifts.

-I can’t move the mountains

-I can’t make the flowers bloom

-I can’t heal what’s broken

-Can’t control the morning rain or a hurricane

The language here is deliberate, and although it’s easy to write it off as lyricism or poetic phrasing for the sake of the song, this is a list of things that are caused or influenced by Mirabel’s actions in the movie. The crack down the center of town causes the mountains to split in two, Isabela’s power reaches its full potential during What Else Can I Do, and at the end of the movie Mirabel plays a big part in healing the rifts in the family. The part about the weather is less obvious, but because Pepa’s mood is tied to her Gift, I’d argue that there were probably some weird weather fluctuations when Mirabel gets Pepa to finally talk about Bruno. Mira also expertly avoids a storm by rephrasing her question about Bruno’s Gift and causes Pepa to hit Camilo with lightning when she bumps into the wall, but those are more situational than results of deliberate actions.

In other parts of the song, Mirabel talks about the things in her life that she wishes would change and things she wants to change about herself.

-I can’t take another night up in my room, waiting on a miracle

-Can’t keep down the unspoken invisible pain

-Always walking alone, always wanting for more

-Like I’m still at that door longing to shine like all of you shine

-Show this family something new

-Who I am inside, so what do I do?

The night after Antonio’s party Mirabel is lying in her room, presumably alone for the first time since Antonio was old enough to be away from Pepa for the night. She can’t sleep, and it isn’t a huge leap to conclude that she’s waiting for something to happen, whether it’s for the cracks to appear again, or for someone in her family to come talk to her, or even for the candle to finally give her a Gift because Antonio got one and maybe the magic was just a little bit delayed. The movie could have ended right there, except then Mirabel gets up. She decides to take action and comes up with a plan, no longer content to just wait for a miracle to change her life.

Everything that happens after that is related to her and her family’s catharsis and self-actualization. She stops pretending she’s ok and indirectly tells her family how hard she’s been trying to earn Alma’s love when she realizes that they’ve all been doing the same thing, and that none of it will ever be enough. Mirabel cries and screams and yells at Alma, stomping her feet and making it very clear that she isn’t content with keeping her pain hidden away. By that point the audience knows that Mirabel isn’t the only one who feels this way. Almost everyone in the family feels like they’ve been walking alone, and everyone wants to shine as bright as they think the others do. This includes Agustin and Felix: “It was easy to feel… un-ceptional.”

When the movie concludes, Mirabel’s the one who brings them all together. She reunites Bruno with their family, shows Alma the effects of her actions, and then brings about changes. She teaches the family a new way to shine, and that they’re brighter when they work together. She’s the one who opens the door, both figuratively and literally, and as she walks up to put the doorknob in place her family tells her that they finally see her as she is.

Mirabel might not have the same kind of magic, but she’s able to do everything that her magical family members can do, and more. Everything she does is laid out in Waiting on a Miracle, presented in such a way that it seems like Mirabel is hoping for something impossible. That’s something the movie teaches us: that people are often more capable than they think they are, and when everyone comes together to work toward a goal, nothing’s actually impossible.

[twilight-zoned-out]

Do you think Bruno heard Mirabel singing Waiting on a Miracle and just...had this realization that he’d spent ten years hiding to try and protect her from being ostracized and he still ultimately failed?

Do you think Casita had that same realization when Mirabel left the party, and that’s why it only started to really break apart around then?

[boog-how]

Omg Freddy Madrigal

[kitttttchaos]

Everyone says Surface Pressure is the oldest daughter anthem, and I LOVE Luisa, but I want to cry when I hear Isabela say “I never wanted to marry him! I was doing it for the family!” or “What could I do if I just knew it didn’t need to be perfect? It just needed to be? And they’d let me be?”

Granted, I want to cry when Mirabel sings Waiting on a Miracle too. I feel like it’s safe to say there was definitely an oldest daughter involved in the writing of this gorgeous film somewhere.

[yellowcry]

Gotta be one of my favourite lyrics

(translating Ukranian WOAM now! It's just so... Ladder, go hug your sister!)

[spinnysocks]

Waiting on a Miracle from Encanto is so Kion coded

omggg wait wait wait this is making my heart hurt 😭

imagine that's how he feels though, separated from his family?? maybe feeling that he can't live up to what his father wants? that he's never doing good enough? or maybe it's more about living up to the legacy of his ancestors, since the guard hasn't been around since scar? feeling like he needs to constantly prove that he'll never be like scar? god all of those are so sad

i did not expect kion angst but i'm here for it

[gamerbearmira]

Uhhh Lulu and Tonio

Y’all these took me TWO HOURS. AND I STILL HAVE THE OTHER FOUR….well now two because I’m editing this after finishing Camilo and Mirabel. No sneak peek of doe 👹👹

Imma see it through tho 💪💪 I gotta get this done, trust.

[jacarandaaaas]

“Oh someone posted a clip of waiting on a miracle on tiktok I wonder what the comments-

media literacy is DEAD.

[forthewoolfy]

I just think ‘Waiting on a Miracle’ is such a fitting Volo song...

[mypieceofculture]

Disney Heroine Aesthetics // Mirabel

The truth is, gift or no gift, I am just as special as the rest of my family.

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