It's Epiphany!

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The Feast of Epiphany on January 6th marks the day the wise men showed up to bask in the glory that was Mary's twelve-day-old baby, Jesus Christ. It also traditionally marks the very end of the Christmas season (yesterday was the twelfth day of Christmas), and is the very last day you can give a Christmas preset without it being technically late. (In fact among some Catholic families today, it's a tradition to wait for Epiphany for Christmas presents, adding almost two weeks of sales to the shopping season, on the grounds of "Baby Jesus had to wait for his presents; so do you.")

And I wouldn't really know about any of that if Disney hadn't written a damn song about the holiday-- in Medieval France, this would've been the Feast of Fools. This was a real thing. ... Probably without the pole dancing.

So, here are my not-quite-late presents to you guys.

1. The Front-Laced Lady (83 simple kirtles for assorted body shapes based on Sherahbim's Lady gown)
2. Du Lac Revisited (Du Lac tunics for CM, and cotehardies for Maxis CF Aquilegia's Androgyny AF, AM, TF, and TM)
3. Bundles of Joy (my first offering of non-default infant clothes) PLEASE NOTE: Sexyfeet smocks and diapers seem to have fallen prey to Mediafire's nonsense. I have submitted a ticket but their 24-hour turnaround time is not so very fast at all. Please be patient, I'm trying to fix it (as even when I re-upload with different file names, they get taken back down)
4. Cross-Pollination (Cocomama and Kittylynn's Plantsim content smushed together like chocolate and peanut butter)
5. Baby Steps (82 toddler kirtles with Aligeth textures, plus bonuses)
6. Home is his Castle (48 mostly-Maxis recolors of Buggybooz's Nooks and Niches)
7. Scraps Post (the bits and bobs that didn't really fit into larger posts. No in-game pics.)

Only seven posts, but there's a LOT of content in them.

Please let me know if I screwed up any links anywhere-- I've been through everything repeatedly, but fresh eyes are always good.

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You are so lucky I don't know if (how) to add a GIF to a comment or you'd be staring at a spazzing Lottie LeBouf right now. Weekend. Made.

I'll go through & comment for each thing I personally picked up, but let this be my blanket statement of serious appreciation of your generous time, effort, and gifts.

^_^

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Same way you add any image to a comment. < img src="URL.GOES.HERE" > but remove the spaces keeping the pointy brackets at a safe distance. *grins*

Thank you so much, and you're welcome-- I hope you find something you can use!

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So I'm still going post by post making comments on what I grabbed -because me and multiple conversations- but here:


There's a self-joke on why I use Lottie, even though I am usually quieter, not blonde, and not as pink.

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They all come to my inbox, it's all good. And Lottie does look thrilled this morning. (Hey look, another Disney movie with a Catholic holiday prominently featured! With French, even!)

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Oh, I could go on a long diatribe about everything I love from The Princess and the Frog (It's one of the few newer Disney movies on my top shelf right next to the most precious Beauty and the Beast and Mulan. Tangled left me thoroughly underwhelmed and disliked most the songs.) Speaking of songs- Hunchback had the best soundtrack of the Disney Animated Renaissance, y/y?

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I think I was lucky to spend my late childhood riding the wave of the Disney Renaissance-- The Little Mermaid came out when I was ten, and so THAT was amazing (only movie I ever saw more than once in theatres. Four times. Frequently with the much-coveted My Own Money), and then Hunchback came out the summer before my senior year of high school. The school did an annual Disney variety show at the time. I got to be Quasimodo's mother in Bells of Notre Dame (my first year of choir class, so I was still a shaky soloist-- but I was good enough to get chased around with a Stunt Baby and then die onstage). It was awesome.

Hunchback has an amazing soundtrack. (I have a soft spot for Hercules, too, but a) omg Hades and b) Meg = first Disney heroine I could just BOOM sing along with no trying to sing in a higher register than feels natural and WHAT a song and c) Mythology nerdery.)

Really, Hunchback, Hercules, and Gargoyles are the things that get me squeeing, in terms of Disney.

(I didn't pay to see Tangled in theatres, but I thought it was pretty cute when I saw the DVD. Course, Rapunzel has a few personality traits in common with a roleplay character I've been playing since... Uh, I think we decided to give her parents a daughter sometime in 2005, and after watching Tangled I kept wanting to try to cross it over with How To Train Your Dragon and apparently create in my head a CGI world of absolutely ludicrous natural beauty.)

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Oh- the animation on the hair in that movie is amazing- that trying to do 3-D animated fur or hair? HARD. But some of the songs even made me whince, none of the caharcters felt new (And the Frollo/Quasimodo controlling false parent figure was better done). Just, not impressed, and I wanted so badly when I first heard about it. Plus, read lots of YA novels based off Rapunzel (And hey, best Rapunzel princess expy is so Luthien. ) About the only truly clever thing I thought was the explanation for the hair as magic, and thus the length, and all around that was very smart story-building.

I was...3/4 when Little Mermaid came out, it was my first or second VHS and I watched it on repeat. Saw all the Disney movies up through...Atlantis, in theaters each year they came out.

I love some more than others, didn't really dislike most. Hunchback was one that I grew to love more and more as I grew older. My hearts forever to Belle because as a quiet, outcast brunette with brown eyes who loved to read more than anything and always moving to a new town -I was Belle and she was my princess. And Little Mermaid, Lion King, Aladdin, Mulan. Hercules was middle-high on my list (and even at that age the making Hades the villian and Greek myth mashup bugged me a tad, but the pop culture sillyness and fun and the sass of Meg and Phil was great.) I never cared much for Pocahantus. - Plus that was the year we had the class trip to Jamestown and Colonial Williamsburg. Eye teeth for the animated movie of Sacagewea instead.
Oooh, can't sing worth a copper nickel- but I loved to play-act that part of "Bells of Notre Dame."

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The dynamic is a little different when it's a false mother instead of a false father, and that moment when Gothel finds Rapunzel missing is, even if you know it's as bad as it is because Rapunzel is unwittingly keeping Gothel alive, a perfect moment of the panic any parent feels when they can't find their child. In that moment, Gothel's own honest reactions let me want to believe that nobody could spend eighteen years pretending to be someone's mother without actually ending up feeling some variation of love for them. ... (Also Frollo never lied to Quasimodo about who his parents were (at least as far as Frollo's own prejudices allowed). Gothel controlled Rapunzel because she was terrified of losing her; Frollo controlled Quasimodo because he was repulsed by a) his own guilt and b) the poor kid's unfortunate head.) It's just different enough that I won't complain about it-- especially since I really liked Atlantis the first time I saw that movie, when it was called Stargate.

Although it probably says something that the stand-out parts of the movie, for me, have little to no dialogue-- Gothel's missing-child panic, the moments with Rapunzel's parents, the date/festival montage.

For most of the Disney Renaissance, each movie that came out displaced the last as my favorite. Aladdin is still way, way up there on the list, but... that's... actually got more to do with the direct-to-video sequels and the animated series. I know, I know, sequels are made of evil, but Aladdin had the FIRST of them, storywise still one of the best of them, and the animated series gave a LOT of time for character development alongside adventure stories and ridiculous puns, so yes, of course I completely want my Aladdin TV series DVD box set now, please and thank you, Disney. (And my Hercules TV series box set, while you're at it.)

I had some qualms about Hades-as-villain, but like with Gothel, I liked his motivation and how it dovetailed with a story I heard about how the first three Olympian gods chose their domains (Zeus went first and chose the sky because he thought it was full of amazing secrets, Poseidon went second and chose the sea because unlike the sky, it really is full of stuff, and they left the underworld to Hades, knowing he would've chosen it for himself anyway-- but not giving him a chance to choose). After a couple thousand years of feeling like nobody wants you around and watching mythology's own Divine Frat Boy party it up, cheat on his wife (which Hades only did ONCE in the myths, to prove he could when he was mocked about it), and generally just sort of coast by, the god with the mind keen enough to organize an entire afterlife might could just get a little bit jealous and start trying to figure out how he could take the big chair for himself. So it was believable enough within the confines of the story to be myth-inspired.

That and James Woods is amazing.

I won't knock Pocahontas, because one thing I respect about the casting there (and in Mulan, but with Chinese folk instead) is that Disney cast Native Americans as Native Americans, even though it was all voice-acting and so a race-lift doesn't really matter THAT much. I know it bends the hell out of history, but it's a positive portrayal of Native Americans... and amusingly, if the REAL John Smith had heard the Disney version, he would totally have claimed that was the honest truth. That was the kind of short, balding, red-haired explorer he was-- he went awesome places and saw and did awesome things, and then he went home and told everybody how much MORE awesome and more like a story with a coherent plot it really was.

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We've derailed this into a Disney discussion, haven't we?

It's the 'more-serious-tone dramatic-romance' of Pocahontas - plus 'ello, that is not tidewater Virginia, let me die laughing, malaria swamp- but I do like that they didn't deny that the story rests on the knowledge that it wasn't going to stay 'epic true forever Romance' between John Smith and Pocahontas (and Mulan's cast was as much American-Japanese and Philiphino, but yes, the voice acting choice were nice. Like how 'Last of the Mohicans' cast Russel Means and Eric Swhweig as the dad and Uncas...) Oh, balding, short real John Smith... As a reflection of the 'American Mythos' version of Pocahontas -started by Mister Smith's stories- the movie is a good representation.

James Woods was best part of the movie.
Baby heget read Greek myth picture books and picked out two favorite tales from the get-go: Hermes's first day alive and stealing cattle, and the myth of Persephone. Always been very sympathetic to Hades, and to protrayals that show Persephone less of the victim and more willing participant- she did become a near equal of Hera as queen of one of the three realms, one she ruled with equal power as her spouse. As for 'cheating' incident, as Greek muths allow you your own fan-fiction, it's the mint plant just-so myth. Because with its misty-cool-freshness anything with a 'cold' taste was pegged by the ancients as death-contected. But yes, resentful former-oldest son makes sense.
But really, I love neutral death figures- which is what he was. Respected, feared for the natural fact of life, but not repulsive.

Which- heget is going to sit on herself before she starts yabbering on about The Silmarillion and Mandos and the 'Gift of Man' and the philosophy and heart-wrench of "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth" on death, mortality, what happens to the soul, doomed lovers... oh crap, making myself cry.


Happier thoughts... Aladdin TV series was the best! (0kay, others like the Little Mermaid and the Hercules and Tale Spin were good too). Sadira is still my favorite minor Disney character.

Half the problem with Gothel in Tangled was I was watching it soon after Kung Fu Panda II- and if you don't love Mr. Ping as the example of adopted parent perfection and scream at the screen that Po was his son, yeah, I have no words for you. I believed Gothel's honest love for Rapunzel- but also the emotional abuse. And in the end I missed any quiet moment where Rapunzel mourned her mother, which I wanted to see. But again- I spent the movie waiting for the songs to get over with as quickly as possible. Which is a bad sign. (I liked the Yodelling song in Home on the Range and I watch all the Barbie movies with my sister. Bad.)

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It's my DW. I can't help derail a thread on my own site. This comment thread is officially Disney Nerd Friendly!

I have no idea what tidewater Virginia looks like. I'm from California-- Hollywood tells me that everywhere in the US and parts of the rest of the world looks exactly like home. ... But now I wonder if that isn't part of why Disney and Pixar keep doing things like sending animators to Hawaii and New Orleans and Paris and other such exotic locales, so they can get the backgrounds looking right instead of just pretty.

And I think you hit the nail on the head with 'American Mythos.' Yes, these were totally real historical people and their life stories were somewhat different and England didn't descend on the New World looking for gold so much as timber and land, but the folklore is important, too. The folklore is how people get interested in the history, especially at a young age. (Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.)

Hades and Persephone was always one of my favorites, too. (And baby Hermes, but then I'm a Gemini and he rules that sign. I'm also fond of the birth of Dionysus (moral: Hedge your bets when someone says 'will you do me one favor?') and the start of the Trojan War, with Eris and the apple and Zeus very gracefully saying, "Oh I am SO not stepping in this. Let's find a mortal.") The Disney version... well, you're seeing Hades long after he's been pushed past the point where he snaps. But being Hades, he doesn't immediately arm up for godwar and go punch Zeus in his stupid cloud-gathering face; like the organizer he is, he starts in on a long-term plan. (Which is why there's no Disney's Persephone. I like to think she would've talked him down.)

Neutral death figures ARE the most fun. That's the central focus of the Cult of the Reaper in my game (IE, the Secret Society). The Reaper isn't some terrible monster, he's just a faithful servant tirelessly doing a rather unhappy job at the Lady's behest. And he's a skeleton because the Lady likes skeletons. Because I'm the Lady. They're my Sims and I reserve the right to make up my own religious system.

I love Sadira! I also love Mozenrath. I don't ship them, but I love them. ... If I had to pick a favorite third-tier character from a Disney animated series, however, my other two favorite options are Bushroot from Darkwing Duck (... may be partly responsible for my love of Plantsims) and Puck from Gargoyles.

I've only seen Kung-Fu Panda II, and... yes. There are lots of ways to be somebody's parent. (Have you seen Thor? Compare adoptive parents Mr. Ping, Mother Gothel, Movie!Odin, and Movie!Frigga. But brace for feels.) I hear you loud and clear on the emotional abuse from Gothel-- she was deliberately making Rapunzel afraid to leave her (although possibly not too deliberately belittling her. It does just seem like she's got a really biting sense of humor instead of being part of an eighteen year plan to make Rapunzel think that if her mother who loves her is this mean, surely the uncaring world out there will be WORSE). The kingdom of Corona is in for an interesting succession, given the heir apparent and her chosen consort. And Rapunzel probably has a really pissed-off cousin somewhere. As far as mourning Gothel... I wish they'd made a little time to show us that, instead of 'oh no Mother oh no Eugene whoa special effects' and straight to the silent reunion with the silent bioparents.

I've never seen Home on the Range, but we got a villain song CD in Disneyland this October that has it on there (I got it for Every Little Piece because I've always liked that one, and Friends on the Other Side because Keith David, but actually I think my favorite on the whole CD is Snuff Out The Light. "I don't remember this from Emperor's New Groove," my brother said. "Maybe it was cut, maybe it was from a sequel or something, I don't know. It's Eartha Kitt singing about putting out the sun, does it matter where it's from?" I replied), and I was pleasantly surprised at how sing-able it is, even if there are a couple of weird moments for me in it. (I'm trying to get out of the fat-shaming thing, and I am not entirely sure where a villain whose XXXXL chaps are celebrated in song falls on the scale of body-positive to body-negative.)

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I lived right outside Annapolis, Maryland for four years- and as said actually visited Williamsburg and the Jamestown reconstruction (It was about a mile or so from the real site because on-going archealogical dig). So while I will say Appaliachian Mountians are dramatic and gorgeous- especially the Cumberland Gap- Jamestown was founded on the bit of swampland Pohatawan's empire (and those English settlers had the misfortune of picking the one area on the Eastern Seaboard where the Native population has recovered -remember the exposure to European diseases had just swept through North America and there are estimates that put the population extinction in the 90%- and was carving out a strong nation of conquest through the area. Bravo, Virginia Co.) In a word- geography = flat. (And the folkloric reason Pocahontas was such a figure in American mythos was her conversion to Christianity...)

On the true to location-ness: that's one of the best things about Lilo and Stitch. And the making-of background info in Lion King and Mulan where they point out parts of the film that came from the location scouting (That song Rafiki sings? Silly song sung by their guides and the children when in Kenya. Flags along the Great Wall and fluttering before the stampede scene? Yep. And the hair styles of the other girls in the matchmatching scene actually came from period architectural details...)

Emperor's New Groove was once a very different film. And Eartha Kitt is a boss.

My sis and I had summer-long quips about 'Odin's School of Parenting', with appearances by John Winchester and others. (I love Thor. Even if I have to adopt the headcanon that this pair of Thor and Loki are actually named for 'older dead red-head brother Thor' and 'we don't really talk about him uncle Loki'. Which would totally fit the 'have no plan on how to divulge family history' parenting style of movie!Frigg and Odin)

Oh boy- biting and sarcastic senses of humor that turn like wolves after a lame pack memeber and other internal issues of living with a dysfunctional family... I know. I'll spare any details- but the only point my holidays felt like the holiday season was when I was sobbing upstairs because of fallout from the first of not-the-last family fight I sat through. And I tend to graviate to characters in those dysfunction-junctions just as much as I love stable family supportive love stories.
Brave, for an example of an excellent parent-child relationship film. All my sympathies were with the mom, even when I could see Merida's frustrations.

Rapunzel's bio-parents? Okay, feeling flat here, give me more. Because, yeah, the political reprocussions are the most interesting part. And Eugene was raised by his momma Chel and two daddies Tulio and Miguel. I think it was Max the doghorse that broke me.

Now I do want to start gushing about the finer points of Princess and Frog....

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That's... okay, that Pocahontas achieved noteriety among white folk for converting to Christianity has some steep unfortunate implications, but as long as I'm using TV Tropes vocabulary, it's also sorta fair for its day. (It's not fair, lemme just spit that out there right now. But humans do a really good impression of panicky herd animals when exposed to stuff we aren't used to.) These were people who believed that if you didn't convert to Christianity once you knew about it, you were damned for sure. That the pretty little princess was willing to convert was a big deal on the scale of proving Native Americans weren't (trope language warning again) an Always Chaotic Evil race.

White people can be pretty stupid. (Said the white girl.)

Large swaths of Agrabah were based on real-world locations, too. Less so the palace, but I don't think that much Disney royalty lives in actually historically accurate or architecturally plausible castles and palaces. (Prince Charming might get away with it, because their clothing puts them at the 'palaces are fine, we don't need to brace for siege engines' end of the housing spectrum.)

That headcanon is not unworkable. I feel worse for Frigga than for Odin-- Renee Russo put such... sad relief into the Frigga-and-Loki scene that I feel like she's always wanted to be honest with her children, but can't, because Odin forbade it and because she's Frigga and already knew she wouldn't. (Although my own headcanon, mythology aside, is that black-haired Loki figured out at least seven hundred years ago that his bronze-haired parents probably couldn't have pulled off that particular genetic trick.) ... You know, your headcanon means that adopted-Loki gets all the backlash from the stuff Uncle Loki is actually famous for and would make him a /d/ sensation today-- Sleipnir, Fenrir, Hel, eight years as a milkmaid... ... Maybe they don't talk about Uncle Loki because he's the one who dressed Thor up as Freyja to steal Mjolnir back again?

Yeah, my Christmas Eve tradition now that I'm an adult is to spend it at home, alone, wearing whatever I want, eating whatever I want, and not getting yelled at even once. It's an awesome tradition. So I hear you on dysfunctional families. I actually haven't seen Brave, though-- I was all excited from the trailers (and I still want ALL THE HATS), but when more of the plot came to light I got a little frustrated. Why does it always have to be magic, Family Entertainment? Can't we find some way BESIDES turning people into bears to move the plot forward? (Originally I thought Rebellious Archer-Princess Merida ran away from home, encountered a raging bear, killed the raging bear, discovered the bear was a mother with cubs, and then there were lessons in Responsibility and animal shennanigans.) I'll admit I'm also a little bit tired of the Rebellious Princess trope. Dear Disney, I would like to see one princess born and raised who, in her initial appearance, appears to give a crap about her kingdom and/or people and/or political responsibilities. Because the last one of the ten official Disney Princesses I can think of who knew she was a princess (which discounts Aurora and Rapunzel) but was born of the blood royal (sorry, Cinderella, Belle, and Mulan) and DIDN'T rebel in some story-driving way... was Snow White. Who ran for her life in a story-driving way.

Ariel is a major offender, but Ariel has six sisters, so her running away isn't exactly kingdom-threatening. Jasmine, on the other hand, is apparently her father's sole heir (and ohhh the headcanon I have about that). I love Jasmine. I love her a LOT. I know she's sixteen (at the END of her movie) and teenagers' brains aren't finished growing yet, which tips their risk/reward balances heavily toward 'this will get SO MANY YouTube hits.' But her scarpering puts the succession in jeopardy.

The scenes with her bio-parents were good for me because... okay, words. Words are a thing. Because I kind of liked the artistic decision to keep them silent (like Philip and Aurora never say a word after she finds out she's a princess and he finds Maleficent standing where his pretty peasant girl should be), because their expressions and interactions made it obvious that not only did they love and support each other very much, even after eighteen years they never completely gave up hope. They send those lanterns up every single year not knowing if they're lighting a beacon or a memorial. They're a big purple wall of silent, sad, loving hope. ... And that hope, that knowing that there are Good Parents, that she should have had good parents is... a sort of reward for Rapunzel, really. I mean, at the end of the story, she's got her freedom, she's got her man, she's got her lizard, she's got a dashing white charger, she's got a pretty frickin' secure tower, and she's got that very expensive crown. She and Eugene (Fitzherbert. So who's Herbert, that's what I'd like to know) could have sold the tiara, bought that private island Eugene's always wanted, and spent the rest of their days having exploratory sex on a great big pile of money. But she's seen the "lantern thing for the lost princess," and she knows that somebody out there wants her, even without knowing her.

That's why I like Rapunzel's parents. That eighteen years of not giving up hope, even when it was hard. I mean, in Into The Woods, when Mother Gothel showed up to claim Rapunzel in exchange for rampion, the Baker's mother died and the Baker's father ran the hell away to go live in the woods and narrate part-time. Hope can be a hell of a struggle.

If it weren't for Eugene's Sad Orphanage Origin Story, I would totally back you on his parents. Totally. But I don't want a sad ending to Road to El Dorado, so I fear I can't back you on that one. (Having to leave your small child at a foreign orphanage and go on the run from whatever counts as a sad ending.)

Keith David is one of the finer points. Mmm, Goliath. (Even if he was acting more like Thailog.)

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I studied American colonial history (see, clothing dump-18th century-example of), so yeah.... Attitudes...


See- that's what feared about Brave from the descriptions -ugh, rebellious tomboy princess- and the movie gives her the point about arranged marriages right this sec for her not good, but at least for me the movie comes firmly down on the side of the mom teaching how to lead a country and history and- trying not to spoil, but watch it for Elinor, not Merida.

I have so many Disney fan art where they attempt to give a more definate time period... Fun.

Nah- Tulio and Miguel and Chel adopt him out of the orphanage. Then he leaves them to go do his own thing, spread his wings for a bit. They get the royal invitation in the mail a few monthes/years later. "What has he been up to?"

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And that's a fair point about arranged marriages, but it's still... I would like to have one Disney princess who demonstrates knowledge that she is intrinsically involved in the political process. In her movie, not in her animated series (Jasmine) or in a direct-to-video sequel (Pocahontas). I know it's crazy-stupid of me, that people like to see princesses doing crazy things for love or freedom or love of freedom, but it's never just entertainment, you know? The only Disney future queen I can think of who stands up for her country and/or people and tries to act for the greater good instead of following her heart or trying to simply escape her situation... is Nala. ... Basically I think I want to watch a princess say "I'm not marrying any of them, because I love this kingdom to put one of those dipshits on the throne."

... So, apparently I want a movie about Hatshepsut or Elizabeth I as princesses. *facepalms*

Ahem. More definite time periods for Disney stuffs, you say?

Oh, so that way we still get the juicy story of just exactly who this mysterious Herbert is, too! I like it.

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Exactly. To all things.
(And seriously, watch Brave. Because, actually, that is sort of what her speech rejecting the suitors is. Except it isn't something 'just rejecting the suitors speech'.)

And yes- that is one of the series I have saved in a folder that is half tolkien art and half disney princesses or sailor moon in period clothing (w/ a tiny bit of Austen). I call it my "inspiration reference folder" aka pretty art, let's be honest.

FitzHerbert, so we have a good clue how Eugene ends up in a orphanage. But as I said- this is honestly the most thought I've put into Tangled. The movie really did as much for me as Emperor's New GrooveGroove.

Hey- I loved Princess Elionwy- and the book series more, for all that in the movie you don't hear about her kingdom you don't get the sense that she was running away or rebelling against anything internally. Talk about obscure.


Oh, I love to make happier AU explanations for stories. The problem with doomed couples only reunited in the afterlife being one of my story-telling hooks -as I was chatting about at the forum- and the dearest one to my heart is one of those doomed before it had a chance to begin and doesn't even have the 'reunited in the afterlife possiblity'... When you have those, almost as a coping mechanism, you learn to make "that happier world where things worked out a little better".
Like our family joke of, "No, no. Palpatine was eaten by the Zillo Beast. Anakin quits the order, never such a thing as Vader. Happy endings la-la-la-covering-my-ears; you still get the awkward family dinner where Leia brings new boyfriend Han and Dad is all "Where is your brother? He's late" aka Cloud City....


It's that classic trope problem of the princess never upgrading to Queen.

Kida? Is she the only one I can think of?


And I keep forgetting to type out half the points I want to make each time and sending off on tangents.

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Thank you for everything! I don't play a medieval game, but I play enough of a rustic/backwoods type aesthetic to download as much as your stuff I can feasibly shoehorn in there.

Anyway, regardless of if I think I can download it or not, I read all your posts because I like how you write them (Puns! Learning stuff! Someone talking about A Thing They Are Knowledgeable About and Interested In! Quotes! Mythology!)

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I get so incredibly super flattered whenever anyone tells me they like to read my ad copy even if they don't download my content. So flattered. Thank you so much for that-- I always hope I can bring across how interesting I find history and mythology and all the assorted random research I end up putting into my game. It does my poor nerdy heart good to hear that people are enjoying that aspect of this blog, too.