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Transformation is often more about unlearning than learning

do you all see my vision here

The internet is such a beautiful haunted echoey warehouse

the christening scene is hilarious in the context of the rest of the movie and even more so the second movie where maleficent has a hard time giving a speech or fake niceties. which leads me to believe that her christening spiel was rehearsed to a fucking t. and just imagine it... like she's in her grove somewhere making finishing touches on the collar and trying on her platform boots (she's wearing platform boots it's semi-canon don't ask me) and under her breath recites the whole speech for the twentieth time... only to end up improvising the actual curse by choosing a spinning wheel because it was standing nearby and caught her eye... she's so silly i love her

no wait i do want to explain the footwear

"the faerie seemed to have grown taller" or maybe she's wearing knee-high platform buckle boots under that houppelande? that's what i saw in the line.

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Character idea that I had at some point: A dance teacher who had to give up his own highly promising career as a performer after an injury, and now makes his living giving lessons to children. He comes off as stern, serious, and frighteningly strict, and even some of the parents have a hard time believing that the kids genuinely like him and enjoy the lessons. Which, to be fair, are frightening to watch with no context of what this is about.

The children go through their practices with downright eerie, automation-like, coordinated synchrony, with stern and focused looks on their faces, while the teacher circles them, observing and correcting, brandishing his cane like a weapon and every once in a while dramatically lamenting about how "you little vermin can't do anything right", and occasionally the music stops and the only sounds coming from the studio are of kids running and screaming while their teacher bellows about teaching them a lesson.

This, however, is all just method. He started the first lesson with the children by proposing a game: How about they play flea circus, where he is the cruel evil ringmaster and they are all his poor suffering little fleas. One of the girls starts crying, protesting that she doesn't want to be a flea. Well, how about mice? Mice are cute. The children accept these terms, and ever since they've spent dance lessons playing Evil Circus.

For reasons beyond adult comprehension, children of a certain age really love playing pretend in a setting where everything is Dark And Horrible And The Worst, and Evil Mouse Circus is exactly that. And whenever he picks up that the kids are starting to get too genuinely nervous or agitated, that's when he goes "that's it I'm going to beat all of you" which is their cue to take a break to run around screaming, while he chases them. He won't catch them and isn't even trying to, the kids just need to let the nervous energy out.

It looks horrible to an outside observer, but the kids are having an excellent time playing circus mice.

apologist? not necessarily. explainer? perhaps. understander? intimately. enjoyer? greatly. sexualizer? frequently,

not to be boring but I like when evil characters…. well not become “redeemed,” more like they become domesticated. its just delightful when like an evil monstrous little bastard man goes from committing murder to getting mad someone misplaced their costco card or left the jar of mayo on the counter all day.

I just needed to preserve these tags. For reasons.

Rodarte Fall 2023

Life Drawing Theme: Maleficent!

i don't think i've ever attempted to draw og maleficent before

Thierry Mugler - Fall 1988 RTW

I ❤️ self-loathing characters, characters who struggle with monstrosity (either fearing or embracing it), characters who are so lonely, who have a gaping hole in their chest, who bottle up & repress their feelings, who claw their way up & have ambitions, who fall down & lose everything, who search for identity & purpose yet can’t see themselves outside of what others want from or expect of them, who are hurt & hurt others, who long & grieve, who lie & pretend. characters who are messy & flawed & human

I AM BEING BULLIED BY LOVE AND AFFECTION