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"The emotional themes [of 1989] are not about devastation or pining or, you know, ‘I can’t live without you’. Because I’ve learnt, after 18 months of being single, that I can live without anyone. And, of course, there are going to be songs about love. But it’s not to the level of complete and utter chaotic devastation that you saw on Red. I don’t think I could make that album twice. I don’t think I would ever want to."
In medieval culture, an event like a royal christening is not a private party; it’s the public social event of the year. To not invite any person of rank to such an event is a deadly insult.
Maleficent is certainly someone you wouldn’t want at a party, but she’s also someone powerful enough that only a fool would ever dare treat her with such blatant disrespect. The only way the King and Queen could possibly have gotten away with not inviting Maleficent was to not invite any of the fairies at all; inviting the other fairies and excluding her is explicitly taking sides in the conflict between the fairy factions.
Which means they made themselves her sworn enemies, and she responded by treating them as such from then on. If you actually get into analyzing the social dynamics of the scene, it’s very clear that Maleficent was willing to show mercy at first by giving the King and Queen a chance to apologize for their disrespect to her. She doesn’t curse Aurora until after she gives them that chance and they throw it back in her face with further disrespect.
And yeah, if the King and Queen had done the properly respectful thing and invited her, Maleficent would have given Aurora a scary awesome present. Moreover so would the other fairies, because at that point both sides would be using it as an opportunity to show off and one-up each other. What they gave her before Maleficent showed up was basically just trivial party favors by fairy standards.
How do you know so much about the social dynamics of medieval fairies
How don’t you
tonight for dinner: happiness with trouble on the side
AU MEME | Disney Princesses [fairytale series]
Rose (Sleeping Beauty/Aurora), the girl who dreamed of adventure and her dream came true once she found her prince charming who would save her life many times over. Martha (Princess Tiana), who never wanted the easy way out and learned that love wasn’t an easy thing to come by. However when she least expected it, she could have both love and a career and only then would she find true happiness. Donna (Megara), the sarcastic woman who never wanted a man’s help. Yet when she comes across a God, she finds out it’s not that bad to have a best friend by her side. Amy (Princess Merida), the young girl who thought running away from her future would be an easy thing, but in the end she found out she was the only one to control her destiny and with that came the good and bad things she must conquer through. Clara (Belle/Beauty), the misfit beauty who only ever wanted to cross to distant lands. Even when she comes across a “beast” she only sees him as a man who needs a helping hand.
[inspiration]
Scars On 45 // Heart On Fire
- EW.com (via alexandra-sloan)
MARK AND LEXIE MOMENT PER EPISODE: 5.12
MARK: Mrs. Shepherd’s coming? To Seattle? LEXIE: So? MARK: So that woman practically raised me, taught me right from wrong, and if she found out that I was.. with you, that we were.. You’re Meredith Grey’s little sister. You are forbidden fruit. You are 25. You’re a fetus. LEXIE: 24. I skipped third grade. MARK: I feel dirty.
