i know this is just one post on tumblr but i am BEGGING people who can to be loud about strange world.

it is so fucking unfair for disney to not properly promote this movie at all and for it to bomb so badly in theaters like it’s doing just because it actually had genuinely good poc and queer rep! i am SEETHING about how they intentionally set it up to fail and i can’t imagine how the people who worked on the movie feel!

please be loud about it! please go see it if you can, tell your friends to see it, post about it on social media, get it trending, get as many people to see it as possible!

let the idiots at the top know we WANT better representation in movies!

it’s transparently obvious that they did zero promotion on this movie. my entire twitter timeline was people going “I’ve never heard of this until today?” plus a movie theater employee confirming they never saw any attempt to promote the movie:

After drowning in Encanto and Turning Red and Lightyear promos, and getting a decent amount of Raya promos - all films with prominent characters of color, including black women in Lightyear’s case - it kind of seems like a specific slight to the one movie featuring an unmissable black/white interracial marriage and a biracial queer lead who, spoilers! actually gets an (also interracial!) romance on-screen.

I’m sure tumblr will be quick to attribute Disney’s mistreatment of the film to the cute teen m/m subplot, but don’t sleep on the interracial relationship aspect - it’s not a fluke that the Respect for Marriage Act had to insist on protections for both same-sex marriage and interracial marriage. It’s both! It’s both.

Even looking to Disney’s most famous interracial relationship that features a black person - namely Tiana and Naveen - they followed the same pattern as the movie Hitch famously did, by making the black character’s love interest neither black nor white - black/black is seen as making the whole movie a “black movie,” i.e. alienating white audiences, while black/white would be even more of a source of controversy than a black princess alone had been.

Now here we are, over a decade later, and Disney’s still scared to promote a movie where one protagonist is in a black/white marriage and the other protagonist is that guy’s biracial kid.

Radio ads, huh? You know… the one type of ad where you can’t see what the characters look like.

i have seen promo spots on disney plus but they ONLY SHOWED THE MALE CHARACTERS and did not at all give us any story beats like, idk what this is ABOUT

Rating Disney Horse Designs

Cyril Proudbottom (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad) 2/10 His vacant eyes and grotesque proportions disturb me

The Headless Horseman’s Horse (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad) 7/10 Stunning. Very dramatic. Powerful look. 

Major (Cinderella) 4/10 Cyril Proudbottom’s more distinguished cousin. 

Samson (Sleeping Beauty)  3/10 There’s something not right about his face. I don’t trust him. 

Captain (One Hundred and One Dalmatians- movie)  5/10 A solid design. Friend shaped. 

Captain (I don’t know- some 101 Dalmatians tv show it looks like)  -30/10 Kill it now before it destroys us all. 

Frou-Frou (Aristocats)  7/10 A perfect genteel lady. Loses points for inconsistency in the animation. 

Philippe (Beauty and the Beast) 8/10 I’d trust this horse with my life

Achilles (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) 6/10 Respectable. Handsome. 

Snowball (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) 10/10 The DRAMA. The expression somewhere between “evil” and “hasn’t slept in 4 days”. The HAIR. Perfection. Exactly the type of horse I’ll ride when I turn evil.

Pegasus (Hercules) 6/10 A fun design, lot’s of personality. But kinda gives off Frat Boy energy. 

Baby Pegasus (Hercules) 11/10 I’d die for him. 

Khan (Mulan)  10/10 Look at those absurd proportions– the tiny legs and the huge barrel chest- amazing. 

Bullseye (Toy Story 2-4)  4/10 Is he cute? yes. But as someone who has owned many toy horses in her life, this is not a toy horse I would be pleased with. 

This Bullseye Toy I found looking for a movie picture of Bullseye -100/10 This thing IS cursed and we will probably all die for having seen it. But I’m taking you all down with me. 

Buck (Home on the Range)  2/10 No matter what picture, no matter what expression, you look at this horse and just KNOW he would be so unpleasant to talk to. 

Blessedly, there is no horse in Chicken Little. 

Destiny (Enchanted)  5/10 This is a Barbie horse and I swear I owned it. 

Maximus (Tangled) 7/10 A good design but too much dogness. 

Angus (Brave) 15/10 Everything that’s good in a horse. 

Sitron (Frozen) 11/10 He deserves so much better than Hans. Look at his kind eyes. This is a horse that will treat you right. This horse is the anti-Hans. 

Nokk (Frozen 2)  20/10 WATER HORSE WATER HORSE WATER HORSE WATER HORSE!

This Horse I Assume Bruno Stole (Encanto) 9/10 He’s only there very briefly and I can’t even find a decent picture but he’s a very nice horse. 

I had to look this up. I HAD TO. And Frollo’s horse IS named Snowball.

WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK.

the baby unicorns from fantasia (1940)

100/10, absolutely perfect in every way

the pegasus babies and their parents from fantasia (1940)

400/10, somehow even MORE perfect bc they are ALSO BABY BIRBS, we see they will grow up like cats from stubby little goofballs to graceful majestic angels

this one unicorn shielding the littler ones from the storm

1000/10, they are SO GOOD

the centuarettes from fantasia

7/10, extremely horny barbie girls, wbich is accurate to greek myths and teenagers generally, and they are historically accurate small horses, but they lose points for being caught in traditional gender roles and the fact they had slaves in the original cut, oops

the centaur bros from fantasia

11/10, himbo kings, extremely horny, gentlemanly courtship, did not own slaves, just perfect beefcake boys out with the lads

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991)

“Don’t you see? She’s the one. The girl we have been waiting for. She has come to break the spell!”

wait why does beast's human form look exactly like tarzan

is tarzan just belle and beast doing roleplay

I watched Robin Hood (Also The Jungle Book, but thats beside the point) last night and now I can't stop hearing Prince John's little 'Aha aha''s in my head all day XD

Disney stiffs writer

Alan Dean Foster is an sf legend - a writer who produced a shelf of original novels but also made a reputation novelizing movies and TV from Star Wars to Aliens, turning out books that transcended quickie adaptations, becoming beloved bestsellers in their own right.

Disney now owns a bunch of these books, thanks to their acquisitions of Lucas and Fox, and these books continue to sell briskly. Disney not only isn’t paying Foster any royalties for these books - they’re refusing to even issue him royalty statements.

https://www.sfwa.org/2020/11/18/disney-must-pay/

Disney has blackholed Foster’s agents and lawyers, and also the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA); to the extent that they have communicated with him, they have espoused a radical (jaw dropping) copyright theory.

This is Disney’s theory: When they bought Lucas and Fox, they acquired the copyright licenses that enabled them to sell the Foster’s books - but not the liability, the legal obligation to pay him for his books.

As SFWA president Mary Robinette Kowal says, this theory could absolutely upend the nature of copyright itself. Any publisher that wanted to go on making money from an author without paying them could simply sell the rights to a sister company, which then denies any obligations.

Foster brought his case to SFWA’s grievance committee - a group that has worked on my behalf in the past, extracting a fee from a multinational publisher that commissioned and accepted a story from me but then offered an odious and unacceptable contract they refused to amend.

Usually griefcom work happens in the background: a SFWA member goes to griefcom, griefcom goes to the publisher, the publisher settles. This is the first time in more than a decade that SFWA has gone public with a complaint.

To be fair, Disney DID offer to meet with Foster, but demanded that he sign an NDA PRIOR to any negotiation. This is Not Normal. Sometimes the OUTCOME of a negotiation is confidential, but you don’t go into a negotiation under NDA.

Disney appears to be taking a page from the private equity fund that acquired Taylor Swift’s masters from the cartoonish villain Scooter Braun, who refused to meet with her without an NDA.

https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1328471874318311425

Foster’s case is a gross injustice. He has cancer and his wife is ill. He wrote these books, Disney bought them. They’re making money from them. They owe him money. Period.

But beyond the individual injustice being visited upon Foster, Kowal and SFWA worry that this represents a suite of new, corporate anti-writer tactics: flipping assets without liabilities, refusing to talk about it without an NDA.

You can follow Foster’s case with the #DisneyMustPay hashtag. If you’re a writer facing similar tactics (even if you’re not a SFWA member), they’re seeking your story, via this form:

https://airtable.com/shrr2S8rs4pcokske

Broke: Disney should make 2D movies again

Woke: Disney should be dissolved and their assets and resources redistributed, partly opening up more room for other artists or groups thereof to have a chance against a near monopolistic studio

— The Slow Death of Hollywood

So answer is yes we do want an Indian Cinderella next

Why the hell not? What’s wrong with POC in any fairytale, so long as it isn’t racist? Learn to look past skin.

Give me the Indian Cinderella!! Yesssss

Sounds good to me!

They already remade Cinderella… I don’t think they’re going to again it was the only flop of the bunch so far… 

They probably will in another 70 years when their copyright starts to run out. That’s one of the big reasons why they’re doing remakes… So they can keep making money in the originals and everything to do with them even if these new ones suck.

That copyright story is bogus @feminismandmedia

Disney’s copyrights only extend to their specific works and not their concepts.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2019/04/09/why-disneys-remakes-dont-rest-its-copyright/

And in any case, pretty much all “Disney princess” films, including Cinderella are based on fairy tales that were in the public domain long before Walt Disney was even born.

Still, give us an Indian CInderella, Disney!

I hope they do give an Indian Cinderella! I guess I’ll have to look into the whole copyright thing because I was taught differently in my cyber crime class and Disney/remakes was brought up. Specifically Dumbo so I guess I need to do more reading + send stuff to my professor :3

Mod Bethany

if Gilbert Gottfried isn’t voicing this slamming power bottom then what are we even doing here

this screenshot leaves out the best part of the character design

guy fieri couture

I think we’re not seeing the bigger picture here which is that Disney has a dating sim app, if Iago is in it then who the fuck else is in it

I cannot stress this enough, but, what the fuck

the disney gay dads triumvirate

Opposites attract dads, bond over show-tunes, their son, and avoiding near death situations

flaming (lol) bisexual Frenchman and uptight British guy who raise their bratty man-child ward and get so annoyed at each other they get married

college roommates that lived together so long it just sort of happened 

raise street urchins for no reason other than seeing them and being like ‘??? you don’t have a place to stay?? that’s fucked up, come home with us’

Pumba and Timon were my first otp. 6 year old me watched their cartoon show and was like 900% sure they were married.

bonus useless gay uncles

Every woman in every Disney/Pixar movie in the past decade has the exact same face

So when I saw this picture for the new Pixar movie Inside Out,

at first I thought the characters were three women and two aliens, but after seeing the trailer I realized the purple and red things were supposed to be dudes. After tracing their faces, I figured out why I was so weirded out: 

The two male characters have extremely distinctive face shapes, while the three female characters basically have the exact same shape; round with a small nose.

Now everyone has read about the Elsa/Anna/Rapunzel face debate, but I wanted to see just how far this face thing went. And boy does it go far.

I took pictures of both male and female characters from recent Disney/Pixar movies:

And then traced both of them. Look at the diversity of male face shapes:

AND THE ABSOLUTE FUCKING RIDICULOUSNESS THAT IS SHOWN HERE:

WHAT

THE

FUCK

Just take a second to scroll up and look back at the original pictures in case you think I’m joking. 

Apparently every Disney woman is a clone/direct descendant of some primordial creature with huge round cheeks and a disturbingly small nose, because there is no other explanation (yes there is(it’s lazy sexism)) for the incredible lack of diversity among these female faces.

DISNEY.

WHY DOES EVERY WOMAN THAT YOU HAVE CREATED IN THE LAST DECADE HAVE THE EXACT SAME FACE SHAPE? AND DON’T TELL ME IT’S BECAUSE WOMEN ARE HARDER TO ANIMATE. STOP ASSUMING EVERY WOMAN HAS A ROUND BABY FACE AND A SHORT CUTE BABY NOSE. YOU CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS. GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER. 

TL;DR: Boys in animated movies have faces that are square, round, skinny, fat, alien-looking, handsome, and ugly. The only face that girls get to have is some round snub-nosed baby face. That’s not right.

I lined up the noses once more to drive home a point.

This is what annoys me most with Disney/Pixar. It reinforces the idea that men can be charismatic in various ways, but women need to conform to one narrow model to be considered beautiful. 

dreamworks often has this problem too (look at the women in httyd) which leads me to believe animators genuinely find noses and chins as a concept unattractive. which is just. really weird. we’re headed towards a platonic ideal woman where her face is completely flat

BEHOLD

THE “IDEAL” WOMAN

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They’re making a sequel to Enchanted with the the original cast 😭

2019 is good actually

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