every time a new animated movie comes out, i go 'thank god for into the spiderverse' despite there being no correlation between the two movies

Weiner dog wearing armor at the Michigan Renaissance Festival (2002)

Weiner dog wearing armor at the Michigan Renaissance Festival (2002)

𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚝Ｉᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇɴᴀɪꜱꜱᴀɴᴄᴇ (1989 - 1999)

these two are so interesting to me

characters belong to @canisalbus

I was half asleep and thinking about all the stories like She’s The Man and Mulan (1999) where a woman dresses up like a man in order to do something ManlyTM and how they all inevitably fall in love with the masculinity of it all while still being women (or not, I guess, fiction is flexible and gender is more so)

and I went “give me a man who chooses to dress as a woman instead of resorting to violence. Give me a man who, in finding femininity and softness, can find himself. Give me a man who chooses kindness and love over war and aggression, but the only way he can do so is finding solace in the feminine. Not because femininity is inherently softer, but because society has told him as such. Give me a man who, through trial and error, finds himself learning to love the traditional women’s tasks he’s been clumsily attempting. Give me a man who could never truly fit in with other men, and the women around him protect him and love him unconditionally. Give me a man who cannot stand for himself at first, and then rises stronger together with the people who took him in”

And I realized that “give me a man who dresses as a woman in order to avoid going to war” is just. Achilles. And I want that classically animated movie now. I don’t even care if it’s sanitized like the Disney Renaissance Mulan or Hercules, in fact I’d enjoy that. I want Achilles to choose kindness and love and beauty over the war he never wanted to fight. I want a lighthearted, playful version of Achilles where there’s a happy ending. I know it’s a tragedy, but so were a lot of things that got animated at the time (not even Disney, Anastasia and Quest for Camelot come to mind as well) and I think he and Patroclus can have a happily ever after, too

I also want it to be gay, but I think that goes without saying

mirrors.

i was listening to end of beginning by djo and thought 'oh thats literally them' lmao. the line "another version of me" struck a chord.

The 90s/early 2000s was the best Disney era for male protagonists

This isn't all of them, but these were the best of them, imo. And this is just the characters; how I felt about their movies varies. I hope more Disney films in the future feature male leads--especially musicals!

renaissance!Aziraphale (and Crowley). yeah, codpiece and snake and all. accessorized as hell. you know he would serve

Feuilles de Choux with Stag, c. 1550-1570. Unknown Flemish. Wool and silk.

and i'm so grateful to you, i have lived my whole life through empty as the sky, never knowing why....lost forever if i never knew you.

Hellooo okay so I don’t know if you know this book, but I’ve been going through my childhood books at my parent’s house and I found it, remembered how much I loved it, and at the same time couldn’t stop thinking about you dogs.

It’s the book “Lotsa De Casha” by Madonna (you know. The one.)

Wait, look, I took some photos:

It’s probably just the long nose and fancy gowns but I love the art style and had to think of you :3

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Animals wearing medieval armor

“She laughs like God”

𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚝Ｉᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏꜱᴛ-ʀᴇɴᴀɪꜱꜱᴀɴᴄᴇ [ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴍᴇɴᴛᴀʟ] ᴇʀᴀ (2000 - 2008)

Edward realistically had to throw up on his wedding day. what else can he do? he's up there on that bridal party table, center of attention, eating his first meal as a married man with his wife, plates are like $100000 per head so it's too suspicious to not eat, PLUS you know those wedding guests are doing some clinkety clink clink action on their glasses to get Edward & Bella to kiss like every 5 mins. never a moment's peace! it's all a constant ruse! & when all was said & done my man was probably up there in an airplane lavatory 30,000 feet in the air on his way to Rio just blowing chunks of chicken cordon bleu & wedding cake thinking it was still the best day of his life. fucking lol