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My policy, unless otherwise noted, is 'do whatever you want as long as you credit everyone whose work is involved and don't break their policies.' Usually, someone whose meshes, textures, actions, coding, or templates I've used has 'no paysites' somewhere in their policy, so it's probably a good idea to assume, well, no paysites.
Re: Guess what, it's heget's spirit animal
Date: 2013-01-07 01:35 am (UTC)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.)