#I LOVE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST ROMANCES
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I know monster romance books are known for their smut (nothing wrong with that) but...what happened to heart wrenching romance that gives you the butferflies?
#i just want a monster to love and be loved!#smut is ok but i miss the romance#monster romance#beauty and the beast#writeblr#writers on tumblr
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Fantasy Romance Films Everybody Should Watch
Meet Joe Black (1998) dir. Martin Brest
Girl falls in love with the angel of death…
Stardust (2007) dir. Matthew Vaughn
Boy falls in love with a fallen star…
La Belle et la Bête (2014) dir. Christophe Gans
Girl falls in love with a beast…
I Am Dragon (2015) dir. Indar Dzhendubaev
Girl falls in love with a dragon…
White Snake (2019) dir. Jiakang Huang
Boy falls in love with a demon…
#meet joe black#stardust#beauty and the beast#la belle et la bête#i am dragon#white snake#fantasy#romance films#drama films#love stories#films#movies
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I feel like road trips with Claire in The Beast would be pretty fun :)
#claire needs more love 😤😤#i think her blue eyeshadow in-game is sooo pretty and I wanted to emphasize it here#claire is honestly such a beautiful character#I wish we could have romanced her but I understand why we couldnt (narratively)#claire russell#cyberpunk 2077#cyberpunk 2077 fanart#cp2077#cp77#my art#digital art#idk how to draw the insides of cars so if it looks wonky im sorry#the beast#thorton mackinaw “beast”#bishiart
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Beauty and the Beast narrator: She transformed him into a hideous beast
Me who thinks the Beast is hot:
#I was rewatching beauty and the beast#and i love the prologue but everytime they say hideous beast I'm like 👀👀👀 lol#beauty and the beast#the beast#disney#monster romance
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ROSABELLA BEAUTY!!
(September 4th!) 🦁🌹❤️
#I love her and she deserved more time#also her romance with daring could've gone so much better imo#i hate how they were written so much#BUT ENOUGH NEGITIVITY IT'S HER DAY!!#her#rosabella beauty#epic winter#eah#ever after high#happy birthday#fictional birthday#fictional birthdays#i chose a lion to maybe?? represent the beast#it's a little weird i know
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Four movies that defined your childhood (a trend I saw on twitter) —these are mine. WBU?
#Garret from Quest For Camelot was the love of my life#and people wonder why I love monster romance so much after Beauty and the Beast molded me#el dorado#beauty and the beast#quest for camelot#please tell me the thief and the cobbler isn’t come fever dream I made up in my youth#miguel and tulio#tulio and miguel#mighty and powerful gods
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I’ve said this before but it’s fascinating to me how, in my opinion, a big reason why Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991) works so well as an updated adaptation is because it swapped the core narrative parallel from Cupid & Psyche (like Villeneuve and Beaumont had) for Pride and Prejudice.
The wildest part is that I’ve never seen, in any of the books, dvds, interviews, notes or memorabilia I’ve ever collected, anyone from the production mention P&P as a direct reference, not Linda Woolverton, not Brenda Chapman, not Trousdale or Wise, and idk if I haven’t been looking hard enough, if it’s just me thinking this, if they're not aware they did it or if it was all Howard and he passed away before being able to give an interview about it.
What I mean is, narratively-wise, B&B ditches the narrative structure of Cupid & Psyche that most fairy tales under the category of “animal bridegroom” tend to use and, instead, follows the P&P structure to a T, while filling in the gaps with its own characterization or elements from its predecessors (like Gaston coming from the Cocteau film, which is mentioned as a big inspiration many times).
P&P works with points of inflection for character development, because it’s a character driven novel in which the leads are changed and developed through their interactions, whether directly or indirectly, with each other.
A Big point of inflection for Elizabeth and Darcy is the moment things reach it’s lowest point of decline: Darcy’s first proposal. In B&B this is mirrored through the West Wing scene. I could draw parallels of both and go into massive detail, but I don’t wanna make this post longer than it is already.
The second point is the olive branch that starts mending the path and serves as a more honest communication: in P&P it’s Darcy’s letter and in B&B it’s the mutual rescue from the wolves.
The third is the start of the mending process, which in P&P becomes clear in the Pemberley visit and in B&B happens through song, mostly in Something There and Beauty and the Beast. Again, could talk in length about this, but I’ll refrain.
The fourth is the separation, which in P&P happens through Lydia running away with Whickham and in B&B is because Maurice is lost in the woods. In P&P, Darcy finds Lydia and Whickham and pays in secret to save the Bennet’s name for Elizabeth’s sake and in B&B the Beast tells Belle to leave the castle, not letting her know that her leaving would condemn him to remain as a Beast forever.
This is a very important point of comparison to me because this moment, the moment in which Beauty leaves the castle, is the key point in common from both fairy tales to Cupid & Psyche.
Like in other fairy tales inspired by it (d’Aulnoy’s Green Serpent, for example), the leading lady breaks her promise and has to rescue the man she condemns and loves. The Beast asks her to come back, she doesn’t (for similar yet distinctly different reasons in either version) and finds him on his death bed upon finally returning, so she saves him.
In 1991′s B&B though, there is no promise to break, there are no conditions for Belle, she’s free to go and the Beast does not expect her to come back at all. This removes any blame from Belle, which she had in the other versions, while still giving her the agency to save the Beast at the end, something that she does, in this version, without knowing that she could.
The saving isn’t an attempt to mend a wrong she did but something that happens unknowingly, she was never aware of the conditions of the curse or her power in all of it, nor did the Beast expect her to love him back. Both Belle and the Beast think he’s dying. He’s happy to see her one last time, she’s sad to lose him. And then, she saves him.
This “no conditions” moment erases the promise and relates the Beast more to Darcy’s secret actions, not meant to win Elizabeth over but because he cares for her truly; and Belle’s feelings are her own, not influenced by any sense of guilt or responsibility, much like Elizabeth’s.
The fifth is the ultimate conflict, which is meant to separate but has the opposite effect and brings them together. In P&P, it’s Catherine De Bourg's visit to threaten Elizabeth and in B&B is Gaston’s raid to the castle to kill the Beast.
The sixth and final is the declaration of true feelings or, more precisely, the leading lady’s moment to accept hers, given that Darcy claims his feelings have not changed and the Beast has already declared his love to the audience’s eyes.
So, what I find most fascinating (aside from the fact that I love both stories) is how in the 1700s, there was a premise to follow in a myth and in the 1990s the premise to follow became (unknowingly? knowingly? coincidentally?) an 1800s novel, which became as much of a narrative footprint as myths of old. We keep telling stories that carry something of other stories we were nurtured by and I think that’s a really cool aspect of storytelling.
#beauty and the beast#pride and prejudice#beauty and the beast 1991#fairy tales#luly rambles#long post#as an added note#I think this is why my aro ass can love these stories#because it's not really about romance#but about character development
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is it pronounced I love you or
*You cannot ever be certain of those you love that they will not hurt you, even loving you * I did need someone, but I did not know it until now * will you call me? I will come. Whatever I am doing will remain undone, and I will come to you * I choose to come to you. It makes a difference. one day you will find out how good it is to have someone who chooses to come when you call * I would have died on your hearth * I had a thing I wanted to stay alive for* “I know: you never asked me to love you. Well, I do love you, and I am troubled, and I will stay*
the forgotten beasts of eld, Patricia McKillip
#The forgotten beasts of eld#high fantasy#fantasy quotes#patricia mckillip#romance#beautiful words#i love you#book quotes#lovers#soulmates#forever and always#literature#classic academia
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Everybody watch this movie and become obsessed like me.
#passione d'amore#passion of love#fosca#giorgio#fosca x giorgio#are my erik x christine#sorry sondheim i love u but the movie is 100000 times better than his musical#once you see d'obici/giraudeau as foscaxgiorgio#they ruin those roles for anyone else#ettore scola#obsession#romance#creepy#reverse beauty and the beast#playlists#valeria d'obici#bernard giraudeau#Spotify#passion
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Belle & Beast from the Disney Princess book: My Book of Everything - Stories, Stickers, Coloring and Activities (2017) [✩]
#belle#beauty and the beast#beast#disney#activity book#book#kid's book#children's book#love#couple#romance#kidcore#rose#not really nostalgia...I just love disney art from storybooks haha#thought this one was cute#mp
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2022 reads // twitter thread
Violet Made of Thorns
YA fantasy romance about a royal prophet and the cursed prince she saved when they were children
fairytale worldbulding, a magical cursed wood,
#Violet Made of Thorns#aroaessidhe 2022 reads#well.#WITH THE CAVEAT THAT I KNOW I AM NOT THE TARGET AUDIENCE………..this was terrible im sorry#literally just based around a attempt at enemies to lovers that has 0 substance or chemistry. like it’s stupid.#all the fairy tale aspects were interesting and i would have liked that to be more of a thing. like cinderella/rapunzel/beauty and the beast#narrative aspects in there as if it’s a mashup retelling. more emphasis of that could have been cool!#i was also interested in some of the raya (briar? whats her name) plot#but no it's just this weird focus on this prince she '''hates'''' even though it's supremely obvious it's trying to say they're in love with#each other - which is played as some reveal#she calls him princey all the time which just took me out of it sajdhgjs and random modern language which didn't feel like it fit#the love interest’s characterisation was so inconsistent#like i kept mixing him up with the friend#dante is the only person with sense. camilla….maybe#also i saw the author say she’s ace and you could read the mc as ace and i just want to know in what world because i do not know how you cou#could read as ace. the closest thing is she’s like “i don’t have time for romance” (implied because nobody would love her)#which is. not ace. every 5 minutes she’s mentioning how attractive the dude is#i would have dnf’d if i werent listening to the audiobook so whatever#tho......again. emily woo zeller's Love Interest Dude Voice is. not good. i think i need to skip audiobooks narrated by her#sorry#(well FLF was fine? maybe it's just the last 2 i've heard)
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JUST HAD THE BIGGEST FUCKING SEROTONIN BOOST BECAUSE I WAS LIKE "hm, i wonder if disney is going to make more hand drawn movies?" SO I GOOGLED IT AND YES THE FUCK THEY ARE (PROBABLY- i hope to god this isn't clickbait because if it is i'll cry)
#I AM FUCKING HYPED MAN#I LOVE HAND DRAWN MOVIES SO FUCKING MCUH#beauty and the beast stole my heart years ago ill bffr#princess and the frog is tied with it tbf#but HOLY FUCKING SHIT#i hope they do more romance movies i hope i fucking PRAY THEY DO MORE ROMANCE#im a sucker for that shit#[ dr speaks ]
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5, 19, and 20.
😌❤️ Incredibly concise. My ADHD caboose could never. I appreciate you.
5. Favorite form of potato
Savoury Squirrel Bakes - a recipe from the official Redwall cookbook, which I received when I was like 8. It involves potatoes, cheese, and chives all rolled in egg and then breadcrumbs and then baked. Ridiculously delicious.
19. The veggie you dislike the most
PEAS. They’re wretched. They have no place in my kitchen.
20. Favorite Disney princess movie
So, putting my burning hatred for Disney as a company aside - how could you ask me to make this choice??? There are so many different feelings pulling me toward different ones. FINE. I guess I’ll say Beauty and the Beast. But I want you to know that I almost added a read more so I could explain why Pocahontas and Frozen 2 were very strong contenders and it’s going into my tags anyway.
Ask me more weirdly specific and unrelated questions!
#asks#ask game#anon#LOOK#beauty and the beast appeals to me because Belle is the princess most like me in basically every way#I even ended up with a big grumpy husband and I love him to pieces#that library she gets? dream come true.#but I also grew up on a lot of acres and with a big yearning in my chest and Pocahontas just called to me in a way that is hard to explain#I have a very close and personal relationship with nature that comes from spending a lot of time outside barefoot climbing trees and wading#through creeks and YEARNING for something that is unattainable#and I was gonna say Frozen but the reason I love the Frozen movies is because of Elsa and I think the 2nd movie really captured what I love#I’m ace and I don’t often crave representation but seeing her on that journey and realizing at the end that she was calling to herself…#Elsa was the first princess (queen - whatever) to not have a love interest and to actually make some very good points on that matter#and seeing her whole and complete and fulfilled by embracing herself rather than someone else was breathtaking to me#she is the one most likely to make me cry because I feel so seen#in another lifetime I would’ve settled down in a qpr with my 2 besties and been completely content#I have a lot of love and I love to share it but idk that I need romance so much as I love companionship#I do love my husband tho and am very content with our life 🥰❤️
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My upcoming DnD character is going to take inspiration from Brienne of Tarth, among other characters/things, and everytime I consider how desperate a contingent of the population is to paint Brienne as just "unconventionally attractive" I make my character a little uglier out of spite.
#not kem#dnd#pathfinder#pendragon rpg#gonna give her a full beauty and the beast romance#and shes the beast#i love her#lowri
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Rant incoming
I feel like the problem with a lot of Disney's live action remakes (and arguably Wish) is they're trying to appeal to a crowd that no longer exists, namely the people who used to claim that the Disney Princesses were sexist.
All the interviews tend to include, "Well she's not chasing a MAN anymore" which...almost no one sees the princesses like that, anymore. Virtually NO ONE still believes the princesses are man-chasing sexist caricatures of women.
Cinderella is now hailed as an abuse victim who stayed strong long enough to get help to get out of her situation. Anyone who says she should have saved herself is basically regarded as a victim blamer. And it's very clear in the film she wasn't looking to marry the prince, she just wanted a night off. She was the only one who wasn't in line to meet him. She didn't find out she met the prince until he went looking for her!
Snow White is now hailed for her negotiation skills, ability to calm down after extreme stress (she had a moment of panic and had to cry for a bit, but who wouldn't after finding out The Queen hired someone to kill you?), and ability to take charge of a house of adult men. And again, she was an abuse victim, this time trying to escape ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS. While she dreamed of her prince, it was secondary to her main goal of SURVIVAL. There are also entire video essays about how Snow White gave hope to people during The Great Depression.
Everyone acknowledges that Ariel wanted to be human BEFORE meeting Eric. We all know she was a nerd hyperfixating on humans, and also standing up to her prejudiced father.
We understand Sleeping Beauty wasn't the main character, the Three Good Fairies were, AND PHILLIP WOULD NEVER HAVE BEATEN MALEFICENT WITHOUT THEM! He literally depended on them! WOMEN SAVED THE DAY! But even then, is it really such a sin for a girl to fantasize about romance and fall for someone with corny pickup lines?
We all understand Jasmine just wanted someone to treat her LIKE A PERSON. She rejected every Prince before Aladdin because they treated her like a prize. So why did they need her to want to be Sultan? How did that make her more feminist when she already wanted to be treated like an equal and have a say in her future? Is it only empowering if you want a career in politics?
We admire that Belle, despite living in a judgemental village, was kind to everyone (even though she found the village life dull), and her story teaches girls that the guy everyone else loves isn't always a good guy. What's sexist about teaching girls about red flags? And she didn't start being nice to The Beast until he started treating her with respect and kindness.
Do I really NEED to defend Mulan or Tiana? I think they speak for themselves.
Rapunzel was yet another abuse victim who just needed a little help to get out of her bad situation. In this case, she also needed to learn that she was an abuse victim, and that what Mother Gothel did WASN'T normal, much like many victims of gaslighting.
And don't get me started on the non-princess animals.
Perdita had a healthy relationship with Pongo to the point she was open to express her pregnancy fears to him, and was ready to TEAR APART Cruella's goons for daring to touch her puppies as well as adopting the other puppies. Like, she was so ferocious the goons mistook her for a hyena! She's basically that "I AM THAT GIRL'S MOTHER!" scene from SpyXFamily if Yor were a dog. She and her husband were a TEAM.....but they made a Cruella live action to turn her into a girlboss?! The literal animal abuser!? THAT'S the woman you wanted to put on a pedestal when Perdita was RIGHT THERE!?
Duchess kept her kittens calm after they had been catnapped and was classy as heck. Nice to everyone regardless of social class during a time period where that was uncommon.
Lady stood up to Tramp when she believed he had abandoned her and didn't really care about her. She found out he was a heartbreaker and was like, "Nuh uh. No. You are not doing that to me! You put me through enough."
Miss Bianca from The Rescuers was IN CHARGE the whole movie, and was willing to risk life and limb to save an innocent child. THAT TINY MOUSE TOOK ON ALLIGATORS! And she picked Bernard to accompany her because he was the only one who wasn't ogling her. And then in the sequel SHE DID IT ALL AGAIN! I wish I were as brave as her.
Like, the public haven't accused these ladies of being sexist caricatures since 2014 (Actresses and actors don't count, they're out of touch like the rest of Hollywood) yet Disney is operating under the assumption that the public still thinks that way, hence all the "sHe'S nOt AfTeR a MaN iN ThIs VeRsIOn" talk.
The live action remakes are trying to attract an audience that doesn't really exist much, anymore, and back when it did exist, was comprised mainly of people who didn't actually watch the films. The Disney princesses are no longer seen as sexist, and feminine qualities are no longer seen as weak or undesirable.
#the rescuers#disney#101 dalmatians#perdita#miss bianca#rapunzel#tangled#princess and the frog#tiana#the three good fairies#flora#merriweather#fauna#snow white#sleeping beauty#Cinderella#ariel#the little mermaid#beauty and the beast#belle#aristocats#duchess#lady and the tramp#jasmine#aladdin#long#wish
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Your au's for Ghost have me absolutely feral, specially now that I found the viking content. I'm a sucker for big cold man with a sweet angel for a wife 🥺
There's just so much angst potential, imagine the wife was this doe eyes lady that dreamt of love and read all the sweet fairy tales just to end up married to a brute that thing romance is dumb. Then she tries to make their relationship work in a more traditional sense but the attempts fail 🥺🥺🥺
It could be very angsty or a beauty and the beast type of situation where he tries his best for wifey.
beauty and the beast yes please and thank you or alternatively: lady and the tramp
c/w: fluff, mentions of smut, i’m bad at writing romance leave me alone i’m heartless
he’s always known you as his wife. from the second price dropped you in his lap like a stray kitten, mumbles of clan alliances and blah blah blah. you didn’t really have an opinion nor say about the whole situation. but you didn’t seem displeased with the arrangement your father made with price
it never really clicked in his brain that before you were his wife, you were once a little girl with a head full of dreams. hopes of growing up and finding a good man. one who will whisper sweet nothings in your ear at night, building a home and family with you, treat you like the darling thing that you are
and now here you are, the other half of this viscous soldier. a man who has never known a gentle touch in his life. his romantic experiences consist of going to the brothel and picking the first woman he sees to relieve the stress of battle. he never planned on taking a wife nor starting a family
you never complained. not once. even when he shut down your attempts at affection. you took it on the chin and moved on. perhaps you understood that you could definitely have it worse. simon is by no means a good man. but he certainly isn’t a cruel one either
he’s never laid a disrespectful hand on you. never allowed anyone to treat you as anything other than his wife. the same can’t be said for a lot of women put into these kinds of arrangements
he started to figure you out in bed one night. after being intimate together, he was sat up in bed, candlelight illuminating his sweaty chest as he pants to catch his breath. a flask of ale in his hand as he gulps it down
your form is splayed out in his lap, your legs tangled with those thick tree trunks he calls thighs. the covers are bunched up around you, barely concealing your naked bodies to anyone who might decide to intrude
it never makes him jump when he feels your nails dig into his back and claw down the muscle when he fucks you. or when your teeth bite down on his shoulder to cover your moans when he hikes up your skirt in the dark alley behind a tavern. but when your fingers gentle dance over the scars and tattoos littering his sweaty skin, he feels the hairs on the nape of his neck stand up
goosebumps prickle up and down his body when your lips graze over the large scar slashed across his burly chest, tongue flicking out ever so slightly to taste the sweat resting there,
"what're you doin'?" he grunts out, taking another sip of the ale. your eyes flick up to him, almost surprised that he's actually talking to you. you shrug your shoulders lightly, cheeks heating up slightly from his blunt acknowledgement of your affections
“appreciating what was gifted to me by the gods. your body is a blessing, husband…” you whisper so quietly he almost didn’t hear it. but he did
you considered him a gift. a blessing, even. from the gods themselves. simon almost wanted to laugh. another part wanted to tell you to stop, stop with these childish fantasies. but it soon made sense why you never gave up your attempts of coaxing approval from a man so afraid to love
somewhere, deep down inside of you. that little girl is pleading with you, begging you to make her dreams of finding true love come to life. telling you that you’re the only one who can do it. without you, she has no hope
perhaps it can’t hurt to indulge you. just this once.
#mw2#cod mw2#ghost#simon ghost riley#simon riley#simon riley x reader#ghost x reader#simon ghost x reader#simon ghost riley x reader#ghost simon riley#ghost call of duty#simon riley x you#simon riley smut#viking!simon
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