*ahem*

But really @tsuncoon a Rock Dog Frozen AU?

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Frozen 2 ripped off Rock Dog.

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disney concept art: the most beautiful dynamic original thing i have ever seen

disney finished project: rubber same face minimalism regurgitated plots 

concept art:

final version:

What makes me so mad is that snow queen is such a lovely tale and there was an evil mirror that shattered and froze the queen’s heart. So the first thing the newly evil queen does is PLUNGE THE KINGDOM INTO ETERNAL WINTER.

And the kid Anna is based off of is actually this sweet peasant girl who is rescuing her best friend whom everyone else thought drowned and whom no one cared for because mirror shards got in his eyes and he only saw beauty in snowflakes while everything else was just disgustingly foul to him. Except he didn’t drown because he was whisked away by the snow queen.

Like this girl gives her shoes to the river to find out he didn’t drown. Her hair ribbons to the birds to find out who took him. Works her hands raw to get to him and has to suffer a mental breakdown because she got SO FUCKING CLOSE to saving him and he won’t even look at her because he wants to solve this puzzle the snow queen gave him.

And then her sobbing wakes him up and he cries and washes the shards from his eyes and the fact that she saved him is enough to melt the snow queens heart and she brings spring back to the kingdom.

Wow Frozen really is some weak shit

Let’s not forget Gerda’s journey takes her along a long road that includes meetings with multiple women, many of them old, most of whom are not evil witches but wise women who aid her in her quest. She’s also at one point held captive by a bandit princess who swaps clothes with her and insists on sleeping in the same bed and routinely threatens her with a knife, but she eventually lets Gerda go with a magic talking reindeer she was also holding captive. The bandit princess cries because goddamn Gerda you’re so NICE and PRETTY and BRAVE and you clearly care about this stupid guy I GUESS and I can’t bear it just GO ok just GO and also you better fucking take care of her reindeer or I will CUT YOU.

The story is full of interesting complex women of many ages and magical talking animals and it’s a real shame we didn’t get an adaptation closer to the original ‘cause it’s really cool. 

hey good news about the adaption:

There was a Soviet animated movie from 1957, that doesn’t brush over any of the things you just listed.

You get Gerda on her journey, meeting all of those people that both hinder her quest and help her, with older women from different regions of northern europe, as well as several princesses who aid her

also the art style and animation is absolutely gorgeous and I always feel like it’s a shame that older Soviet animation is barely recognized around the world 

you can see the entire thing with english subtitles here

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I’m certain I’ve seen the soviet one dubbed in english before. I loved it.

The 1998-2003 cartoon, The Fairytaler, a show telling all of H.C. Andersen’s most famous (and not so famous) stories - it’s really good plz check it out, also had a 2-parter episode telling of The Snow Queen that also covers the story in pretty great detail, tho it’s compressed into an hour of runtime.

and then there’s an animated movie from 1995 I watched as a kid, tho I don’t remember if it was any good

I would like to draw attention to Russia’s Wizart animation studio, which is just now screening the 4th movie in their series of Snow Queen movies, which are all very lovely, I have to say.

The first one was marketed like a Frozen ripoff when it was actually in production and released (2012) before Disney’s version (2013). They might not be as polished or even consistent with their bizarre established canon, but I like them, at least.

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I feel like Rock Dog should be on there somewhere for February,

Also, I have hopes for Sheep and Wolves and Animal Crackers.

DISCOMFORT

What the fuck kind of designs are these. No seriously what the fuck is this.

whimsy-princess AND FOR OUR NEXT ANIMATED ADVENTURE….

Look they already made matching icons for our wolf pack!   I think they just need flower crowns. 

This is Three Pigs and a Baby, isn't it? The movie has a better concept that Alpha and Omega, but I'll admit the designs are odd. There's more effort put in overall though- it'll make you think differently about the fairy tale.

Human screentime of Disney PoC characters in 3 of the last 6 PoC-lead WDAS films

*sips her tea*

Everyone who has ever been turned into an animal in a Disney movie was done so, because they needed to learn a lesson. Tiana was working herself to the bone, then had the one thing she was working for, ripped away from her. She needed to learn that life is full of situations one cannot control. She learned that taking some time to reevaluate what’s really important to her, not to others, is good for her and that sometimes what you want isn’t what you need. 

Kuzco was a selfish little prick who was willing to not only boot HIS subjects off of THEIR land, but was going to offer them nothing in return for… 

It took him being thrown from his comfort zone and into the lives he was planning to ruin from his selfishness, to knock some sense into him. He was extremely stubborn and it took him nearly the whole movie to actually understand that, due to his selfishness and insensitivity toward others, people who had more resources than him, were out to kill him.  (Not to mention that Yzma was turned into a cat. After using and abusing Kronk, treating Kuzco’s subjects with distain, and attempting to kill her previous employer.) 

Naveen was willing to do anything (originally thinking of marry a woman he’s never met before, but then being convinced that voodoo would have a “no strings attached” solution for his money problems) just to be free to travel and romance any gal he’d take an interest in.  He was turned into a frog and had to reevaluate how he responded to others. He found out that he didn’t need an extravagant lifestyle, just to be happy. He also learned that hard work can be really rewarding. 

Kenai lost his eldest brother and was thrown into a vengeful rage. He wanted vengeance at the cost of a child’s mother. He was then turned into a bear from his transactions and had to learn to see things from another’s perspective. It was only after he corrected his behavior and learned to let go, that he was allowed to be a human again.  But, here’s the important part, he chose to remain a bear, so he could take care of his new family.  

Are we noticing a pattern here?  When someone needs to learn a perspective changing lesson, they’re turned into an animal, because that couldn’t be further from what they’re used to.  They were all given the choice to change back or remain the animal they were turned into.  So, with all of this in mind, here’s my final example. 

From what we know, it took this idiot years to learn how to properly interact with others and treat them as equal. From what’s been said in the other Beauty and the Beast films, it’s to be assumed he’d been cursed for nearly 10 years. 

these people reach for the stars

Also kuzco got an entire show of him being (mostly) human

Oh look at that 

MOTHER

FUCKING

SJWS have too much fucking free time 

People try so hard to be offended

I reblogged this post before without these comments and I was like ‘’reblog or not? I don’t agree but whatever’’ thank you for making it so much better.

and of course they didn’t count the poc characters that didn’t turn into animals like Mulan, Lilo, Pocahontas,..

not to mention, even if Kuzco or Kenai were animals the majority for their shows, and Tiana, a fair proportion of background characters (an in the formers; all background characters) were non-white people

Here's the post chain I was talking about.

Human screentime of Disney PoC characters in 3 of the last 6 PoC-lead WDAS films

*sips her tea*

Wait…are there any cartoons where the main white character turns into an animal for most of the movie? Like I’m genuinely asking, I’m blanking on this…

Rock-a-Doodle (1991) Beauty and the Beast (also 1991) both white protagonists, with much LESS screen time AS humans than these examples here.

Perhaps also could mention the Sword in the Stone (1963) as Wart spends a good amount of the second act switching between several animals. The thing about metamorphosis is that it is an ingrained and highly common trope of storytelling- you honestly see it everywhere, especially in mythology and fairy tales- what stories get commonly translated into animated movies? That's right: myths and fairy tales. I'm not saying there's nothing wrong with having a poc main character that doesn't have much screen time as their human self- that's a disturbing trend, it's true, but the stories themselves don't deserve to be disgraced or dismissed because of it. I wish the other post that was reblogged into this chain was here, they put things much more eloquently than I could.