Stronger Than You

#Happy Labor Day to Shrek I guess

I was working on this one drawing but got confused with costumes, so I decided to quickly draw some references for myself.

✨So please, welcome to the ball✨:

Princess Shrek🍃

and Princess Charming🌹

Here's what I'm thinking: both Princesses came to the ball in their best historically inspired dresses with their grand skirts and everything, but the rest of the time they are rocking their casual outfits: Princess Charming wearing her mini-skirt-like tunic, and Princess Shrek wearing her little pants and a shirt with a vest over it.

More Princess Shrek and Princess Charming here

DONKËË Some Shrek fanarts! I'm making a sketchbook zine compiling my shrek drawings to sell at cons, and I hadn't drawn the main three yet because?? I'm insane apparently??? So I threw these together! Also I MAY have watched Shrek 1 and 2 while drawing these, and I MAY have reignited the Shrek brainrot, whoopsie!

I think "they don't even have X" is one of those memes that's actually funnier in its original context than in anything that's been done with it subsequently. Like, in its original context, this is a joke about a man who has lived his entire adult life alone in a swamp cold-reading the atmosphere of a corporate workplace and deciding that appealing to the receptionist's sense of working-class solidarity is going to get him in the door, and it fucking works.

okay u can make fun of Shrek all you want but if u don’t think they were the most beautiful fucking movies ever then ur wrong

#Happy Labor Day to Shrek I guess

Not to be that person but I feel like sometimes Shrek being so memeable prevents people from seeing how truly revolutionary and radical the first two films really were. A children’s fairy tale that argues that no, ugliness does not mean bad and beautiful does not mean good. A fairy tale that argues that everyone deserves love, even those cast out of the margins of society. A fairy tale that dares to have a female protagonist not be conventionally attractive or helpless. A fairy tale that argues that love does not happen at first sight, but is grown through mutual respect and interest. That’s pretty fucking sick if you ask me

okay but real talk Princess Fiona being 'ugly' and burping and eating gross food and accidentally singing so hard she killed a bird and even as a human just looking like a normal ass person and not a stunning gorgeous perfect princess??

fucking radical to child me who was always called ugly and gross by other kids, she was actually a princess I could identify with and relate to, and she was never demonised for these things, they weren't flaws, that was just how she was and that was okay

I watched that movie on repeat and that part at the end where she's an ogre and says 'I don't understand, I'm supposed to be beautiful' and Shrek says 'but you ARE beautiful' it changed my fucking life

it changed my entire worldview it changed the entire definition of beauty to me

I love the memes but fuck yes we should acknowledge what this movie meant to some of us who had never seen a movie buck every Disney trope like that and change the standard

and also Shrek 2 was a cinematic masterpiece with one of the greatest movie scores of all time with the most LIT AS FUCK climax of any movie ever and I will die on this hill thank you

every single villain with minions would be utterly fucked if the heroes just introduced them to the concept of workers’ unions

While that Shrek scene is one of the best, I do feel some villains would survive the unionizing. Gru, for one, would have been fine even as a bad guy since he was still a good boss. Megamind would absolutely let Minion unionize, even if the union was just Minion.

Roxanne: A union?

Megamind: Yes, we’re very forward-thinking in this organization - very cognizant of workers’ rights.

Roxanne: But the point of a union is collective bargaining, and Minion is-

Megamind: Look, I weighed the costs and benefits, and if you want to have a three-hour debate about this, you do it.

Heinz Doofenshmirtz’s backup dancers are canonically unionized iirc

Not to be that person but I feel like sometimes Shrek being so memeable prevents people from seeing how truly revolutionary and radical the first two films really were. A children’s fairy tale that argues that no, ugliness does not mean bad and beautiful does not mean good. A fairy tale that argues that everyone deserves love, even those cast out of the margins of society. A fairy tale that dares to have a female protagonist not be conventionally attractive or helpless. A fairy tale that argues that love does not happen at first sight, but is grown through mutual respect and interest. That’s pretty fucking sick if you ask me

okay but real talk Princess Fiona being 'ugly' and burping and eating gross food and accidentally singing so hard she killed a bird and even as a human just looking like a normal ass person and not a stunning gorgeous perfect princess??

fucking radical to child me who was always called ugly and gross by other kids, she was actually a princess I could identify with and relate to, and she was never demonised for these things, they weren't flaws, that was just how she was and that was okay

I watched that movie on repeat and that part at the end where she's an ogre and says 'I don't understand, I'm supposed to be beautiful' and Shrek says 'but you ARE beautiful' it changed my fucking life

it changed my entire worldview it changed the entire definition of beauty to me

I love the memes but fuck yes we should acknowledge what this movie meant to some of us who had never seen a movie buck every Disney trope like that and change the standard

and also Shrek 2 was a cinematic masterpiece with one of the greatest movie scores of all time with the most LIT AS FUCK climax of any movie ever and I will die on this hill thank you

SHREK 2 (2004)

I’m only just realizing thst the “Catnip” is likely planted. Look st the movement of the cops hand in the second gif. Looks more like he’s passing it from hand to hand

In the second gifset you can even see the bag underneath the armour so yeah its v much planted

SHREK 2 (2004) dir. Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon  Holding Out for a Hero performed by Jennifer Saunders as the Fairy Godmother

no offence but imagine spending your whole childhood being forced into this perfect image of who you were supposed to be, until you fixated on the person you would grow up into– and more importantly, the person you would grow up to marry.  knowing that your parents have a plan for you and for your future, and having no aspirations more than growing up to be that perfect person and make your parents proud. but then discovering that a part of you is considered very ugly by your parents, and everyone else you know, and by the world at large. so then, imagine that your parents’ plan to banish this ugliness from you is to imprison you. and they lock you up and finally, the person that comes to save you is nothing like what they expected or like what you imagined when you were young, but the person has those same qualities that you, at first, consider ugly because that’s what you’ve been told your whole life. and they think the parts of you that your parents revered aren’t your best parts, they LIKE you at your ‘ugliest’. fortunately, you like them back and find them genuinely charming. so you settle down and build a life together, but your parents find out that you’re seeing someone new and since they still have this image of you as their beautiful child who will grow up to live a perfect cookie-cutter storybook life, they want to meet you and your partner. so you bring your partner (who is understandably anxious and upset) to meet them and your parents are so surprised and dismayed and disappointed and rude, but not just to your partner, to you. because they don’t like that you’ve embraced yourself, they think that by accepting your true nature and falling in love with someone who resembles and thinks like you, you have become hideous. your partner is unwilling to accommodate your parents which upsets you because even though you’re now an adult, the trauma of being locked up and growing up in such strict circumstances has instilled a deep need for you to still impress your parents. you wish that your partner looked more like you, but when you communicate this wish, everything goes terribly wrong. so you wake up the next morning only to find out that the person you fell in love with has disappeared, and that you now look just like you did before you transformed. someone else appears and claims to be your partner, and they look just like you imagined when you were young, but you can’t accept this new truth. you know there’s something wrong with them, but nobody else believes you. your partner swears up and down that they are who they say they are, and that they love you, and your parents don’t put up too much of a fuss because they love this perfect new version of your partner and of you so much more. and just as you think you’re losing your mind and you might just have to run away before you get trapped in this new nightmare, your actual partner shows up on a noble steed, with a dancing cat played by antonio banderas, and your partner defeats prince charming and the donkey and the cat sing living la vida loca. would that be fucked up or what

full offense but any song in shrek 2 is a fucking bop

we need to talk about shrek more

“the cover is never as good as the origi–”

life imitates art

spotted this graffiti in an outhouse in canada