You spend your life building walls and then someone tears them down in a matter of moments is one of my favourite tropes in stories (and one of the worst things to happen in real life).
Beauty and the Beast fluff based on the new anime ‘Belle’. I don’t know anything about this film aside from the trailers but I’m already excited, I loved the same studio/director’s ‘Wolf Children’ and ‘Summer Wars’ so this should be good.
I just finished that “As Old As Time” book this morning so perhaps I haven’t yet had the time to fully digest it but right now it feels like I both loved it and it made me feel a bit uncomfortable. Uncomfortable in the sense that a fandom is a hivemind and nearly everything in it I had seen or read before in some form or another, realised by a fan artist or writer. It read like a strange amalgam of the author’s own concepts and the ideas thrown out by the BatB fandom for years. It’s what happens with relatively limited source material, there is only so much you can do with the main characters stuck in a castle surrounded by enchanted objects and a curse... yet at the same time every speck of a reiteration of the same story still makes me insanely happy so I loved it.
Another Beauty and the Beast mini comic for funsies. I can’t be the only one who every time when visiting old castles and manors has to fight to resist the urge to roll back the carpets and do slides in the enormous rooms. I can only imagine it was something children living in those houses had to be repeatedly told not to do. See also: sliding down bannisters.
p.s. Belle did not forget about the book
#beauty and the beast 2017#disney#beauty and the beast#belle#beast#fan comic#honestly#the bit with beast taking a bath in the animated was just.. funny#but a live action giant furry dude without a shirt was just a bit weird#spoilers#especially because the way they had modeled him he had these big defined muscles despite being hairy as feck#and.. that's just.. not.. how muscles would appear... it just looked really cheesy okay
For twenty years the BatB fandom has been rusting, needing so much more than dusting and now suddenly there is SO MUCH GOODNESS I LOVE IT.
Oh yeah Inktober is on and one of these years I will do it properly but this is not that year. Winsor&Newton inks.
Occupational hazards of reading
Sketchbook cuties
Similar thing happened when me and my sis first came across a chess set. Actual rules were really boring after that.
So I noticed a link on my facebook feed the other day to some Disney princess gift tags. "Hurray!" I thought, and went to see. Oh my gosh some of them are so cute (dat Ariel) and then some are just.. ehh.. cop out lazy? Belle gets the rose in the glass dome? It's not even hers. Tiana is a frog ... again... so idk I have to make some BatB tags of my own. Tianas to follow and Dressember to resume shortly.
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These are gorgeous! I would frame the gaston one.
Oh wouldyalookatthat someone was kind enough to make a photoset of some of my older Beauty and the Beast fan arts. I'm a bit rubbish at curating my own work so it's nice sometimes to see others sum it up for me.
I wish I could change the deviantart link in the original post to my tumblr though, I so rarely check up on dA anymore.
Fairy Tales for Twenty-somethings is one of my favourite tumblrs ever, Tim Manley's rendition of Beauty and the Beast is delightful (even if in itself a little shallow). I couldn't stop myself from making a quick Disney crossover.
Beauty and the Beast had been dating for a while now, and Beauty knew it was time for the Beast to meet her friends. But she was a little nervous. All her friends had these superhot boyfriends who worked in finance or modeled for J.Crew or whatever. The Beast was, well, the Beast liked to play Xbox in his underwear. And he was really into his fantasy football team. Beauty loved the Beast for who he was, she really did, but her friends were shallow and judgmental. “Maybe you should get some new friends,” Siri advised.
sketchbook fluff... digital colours quickly while kids nap