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thetrashiestbaby · 10 months

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Mixed Melody!!!!!!!

I've spent the last week thinking about how black Ariel implies mixed Melody and as a mixed kid whose favorite Disney princess was Melody I've been losing my mind. Growing up I didn't get princess or even characters from shows or movies who looked like me so it makes me beyond happy to see the new generation being able to see themselves in what they watch, I know how much of a difference seeing a mixed melody would have made for me as a kid.

Representation matters <3

#mixed melody #the little mermaid #the little mermaid 2023 #the little mermaid fanart #the little mermaid melody #melody the little mermaid #the little mermaid 2: return to the sea #little mermaid #black ariel #representation matters #princess melody #the little mermaid 2 #live action little mermaid #trashbaby art

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foreverbaby25 · 1 year

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My Ariel

#halle bailey #the little mermaid #black ariel #ariel #black girl tumblr #black girl moodboard #honeycocoanut #beauty #black girl magic #black girl #black woman #fashion #black girl inspo #gorgeous #woc beauty #loc inspo #red carpet fashion

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caswensworld · 11 months

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Y’all keep talking about seeing Ursula’s daughter and Ariel’s daughter together

But I’m more interested in seeing Ursula and Triton’s daughters together

#descendants 4 #disney descendants #descendants #descendants 2 #the little mermaid #halle as ariel #black ariel #uma descendants #descendants uma #uma daughter of ursula

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b4mbied · 2 years

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i find it so rich that the same group of people who don’t care about the whitewashing of characters are suddenly angered by the new little mermaid. seeing comments saying how ariel's inaccurate, how scientifically she wouldn’t be black, hopping through hoops to avoid simply saying they don’t like black people.

that’s what it all boils down to. you never cared about the little mermaid till now. i highly doubt the whopping majority of you all haven’t touched the movie till now. this whole mess about “i don’t have anyone else to relate to. go woke go broke” is just a bunch of bullshit. say it, you don’t like black people.

ariel is a mermaid who combs her hair with a fork and calls a tobacco pipe a 'snarfblat'. ariel is a half fish with a jamaican crab as her royal guardian. ariel has a talking fish for a friend. ariel's race can be any race whatsoever, it still won’t change the fact that regardless of her race, her story will stay the same. nothing will change except the actress who plays her.

“well then let’s change tiana's race!” okay. do it. you’re gonna have to adjust everything about the princess and the frog though. you’re gonna have to change whatever adversity white tiana will face. because unlike ariel, tiana's race is crucial to her story.

do i agree that disney should make original black characters? yes. do you see me throwing an entire fit over a disney princess? no. in fact i’m more than appreciative of the little rep that i, a black girl, can get.

you guys don’t care about being represented, you guys care more about being entitled. everything has been for you, the world bends over backwards for you, you have more than enough representation. let black girls have this one. you'll be fine.

#bambi's thoughts #bambi's writing #bambi's angry #the little mermaid #ariel #halle bailey #racism #blackgirlbloggers #black ariel

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mermaidchansons · 2 years

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UGH! HER VOICE IS JUST SO BEAUTIFUL. I NEED THE FULL SONG.

See, y’all was making all that fuss about a black woman playing Ariel but guess tf what? We got someone who is a TRAINED vocalist, which is not much you can say for these other live action princess movies(yes, Beauty and The Beast, I’m looking at you).

Oh bitch, I’m obsessed.

#little mermaid #halle bailey #black ariel #d23 2022 #disney #live action

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drive-thruarchdemon · 2 years

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Hey Guys! Remember that Tumblr post where OP introduce Miles Morales to a little boy. And that little boy was excited and telling his mom 'Spiderman looks like me! Spiderman looks like me!"

Now thousands of little girls are having that same reaction on their favorite Disney Princess, "Ariel looks like me! Ariel looks like me!"

#halle bailey #p.m. seymour #little mermaid #black ariel #miles morales

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paddysnuffles · 11 months

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pretentious-art · 10 months

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i forgot to post this hehe

#ariel #the little mermaid #black ariel #mermaid #little mermaid #little mermaid fanart #disney #fanart #black mermaid #my art

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odara · 11 months

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New art and stickers available in my shop! So excited for these! 🧜🏾‍♀️🧜🏾‍♀️🧜🏾‍♀️

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bookdragonlibrary · 1 year

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The Little Mermaid origins

You all complaining about Ariel being Black but if you really want her to be accurate to the story, she should be male and gay (and maybe trans?)

Hans Christian Andersen was gay and wrote this fairy tale as a love declaration to his childhood friend who cannot love him back because his parents planned an arranged wedding with a woman (the end of the original fairy tale) and because gay couples couldn’t exist at his time. I ignore if the writer refered himself as feminine because he was gay (understand it as a bottom in that time) or because he was a transwoman.

In the fairy tale, the little mermaid suffers each step on Earth because her “legs” wasn’t made to walk. It’s a metaphor to show the painfulness to force yourself to be someone you’re not or the painfulness to live in a world that doesn’t accept you. With Hans might being trans, it could also be a metaphor for disphoria. In this case a gay person forcing themselves to be straight/being queer in a straight society. Living in the ocean could also be a metaphor of living hidden.

Also in the fairy tale, the merfolk doesn’t have a soul because they’re not human, that could be also another parallel with the gays who were considered as a sin against God by Christian people (and so, destined to go the Hell like you couldn’t go to Heaven without a soul).

So The Little Mermaid was an autobiography turned into a metaphoric tale.

PS: when Disney made this film, people were arguing about a blonde Ariel, because she couldn’t be a red hair and pretty --’ And now it’s fine, because we finally see red hair people as beautiful as the others.

So I assume people are sexist jerk no matter when?

Another thing to know: Halle Baily was choosen for her beautiful voice, you know a really important trait for Ariel character? As it was the thing she exchanged for her legs and how Eric recognised her? So for the dumb racist potatoes, if you don’t know the original fairy tale, at least know the first Disney one... --’

#the little mermaid #hans christian andersen #black ariel #analysis

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beppuccino · 2 years

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Part of your world

#art #digitalart #ocart #kenaart #kenschildren #blackartist #blacktober #blacktober2022 #halloween #black artist #blacktober 2022 #Character design #disney #disney character #ariel #the little mermaid #black ariel #mermaid #mermaid art

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sarcasticsweetlara · 5 months

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The people who complained about Halle Bailey being Ariel because the Little Mermaid is Danish forgot there are Black Danish people.

The people who think Snow White can not be portrayed by a latina actress think being Latino is a race when it is not and have forgotten there are even German descended latinos; and the ones who want Rachel Zegler just because she looks like the stereotypical Latino woman think that her skin tone is enough Latino representation.

Both are wrong

#snow white #princess ariel #the little mermaid #black danish people #white latino people #white latina snow white #white latino actress for snow white #latina women can play snow white #black ariel #black little mermaid #latino actresses can portray snow white #white latino women can portray snow white

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caswensworld · 1 year

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We’re already getting our African American Cinderella in Descendants, so it would be great to see our new African American Ariel (triple A). It would be great if her children were introduced in the next movie. The sequel to the first Descendants brought the sea element, I don’t see why the sequel to Descendants: The Rise of Red can’t

#disney descendants #descendants 4 #descendants the pocketwatch #descendants #disney descendants 4 #descendants 2 #descendants the rise of red #cinderella #black cinderella #brandy #halle bailey #disney ariel #princess ariel #black princess #black ariel #the little mermaid

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solitaryearthperson · 2 years

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I'm sick of hearing all this (racist) discourse over Halle playing Ariel so I just want anyone who is apparently in so much 'pain and agony and anger' over her playing this role to read this and see why your reason for feeling this way is really racist and stupid:

1. The reason: 'Scientifically a real mermaid wouldn't be black, so it doesn't make sense to have a black person play her.'

Ariel is a fictional character. If mermaids were real, they wouldn't look white either. In fact, they wouldn't even look human at all. This is such a stupid ass reason to dislike Halle playing this role.

2. The reason: 'This is cultural appropriation.'

This reason just screams ignorance. Mermaids do not only come from European cultures. Many cultures from all over the world has mermaid myths. In some cultures from Africa, there are mermaid deities. You don't have to be POC or specifically black to understand this. There are cultures besides white culture.

3. The reason: 'It's canon that Ariel is white since the story is based on a Dutch fairytale.'

This reason is incredibly stupid, since the original story is much darker than the one Disney tells.

4. The reason: 'She's not pretty enough.'

That's a flat out a lie. (Plus Ariel is a literal fucking cartoon character. Do you actually think anyone really looks exactly like a cartoon character in real life?)

5. The reason: 'She only got the role cuz she's black and Disney's trying to be woke.'

The director literally said that Halle was the best person at the audition. She earned the fucking role because she was amazing at her audition. (Please stop using the word 'woke'. Most of you racist, conservatives literally don't know what the hell the word means.)

6. The reason: 'Ariel was representation for all gingers.'

Halle still has red hair in the trailer and plenty of black kids with ginger hair is going to love seeing a black, ginger-haired princess on TV. (There are already ginger representation on TV for white kids anyway.)

7. The reason: 'Disney is making another live-action movie of a fairytale that's gonna suck.'

If this is your only reason, then why complain about it. Just don't look at it and ignore everything about it. You can't claim this is your only reason to complain about, but you didn't complain about Cruella, Beauty and The Beast, Maleficent or it's sequel.

8. The reason: 'Why not make Pocahontas, Mulan, etc. white?'

Pocahontas and Mulan are actual people in history. Even though Disney changed their stories for the movies, these two characters were actual real-life people.

9. The reason: 'If Ariel can be black, then Black Panther should be white.'

The fact that you automatically went to the character, Black Panther, and claimed that it can 'technically' be played by a white person shows you already know why that can never happen. Black Panther was the literal iconic hero for black people. He was a king of his own country that was never colonized and kept its culture. He wasn't connected in any way to a white character. He was the best REPRESENTATION for black kids, just like black Ariel will be great REPRESENTATION as well. White people always have good representation. People of color don't. Most of us are represented bad or as supporting characters to the main protagonists who are usually white.

10. The reason: 'Another black princess should have her own story.'

I understand there are black people who want another black princess that’s not based off another white princess. I truly do, but right now, we have finally a second black princess for young black kids to look up to and be excited about. As black people, as poc, we should be supporting this movie as much as we can.

#Black Ariel #Halle Bailey #The Little Mermaid #Halle as Ariel #This anger and discourse over this movie is so fucking stupid #Black Representation

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theemptyspacehelmet · 2 years

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While I get why people appreciate Ariel being cast as a black women, there’s always going to be a little part of me that’s going to be uncomfortable whenever they decide to change the race of a character from white to POC in these types of adaptations. Not because they aren’t “being true to the source” but because that’s what they believe diversity on television is— letting POC playing originally white characters.

This is also why the whole notion of “color-blind” casting will never make sense to me. Theoretically, that could never work out. Because you know what happens if you expect a screenwriter to write a story with characters whose races they have no idea will be casted as? They’ll turn to writing characters as the only race they know personally: their own. And considering 9 out of 10 times these writers turn out to be white, all you get is a cast of all races, playing characters who are written to be white. You can’t call that progress.

Sure, there’s nothing wrong with adding more diversity to classic works for the sake of progression, but I just feel like with big corporations like Disney, they only do it to pander to audiences and use it as a way to defend themselves when anybody tries to accuse them of racism. Not to right their wrongs. They think just by changing the races of their characters, somehow that’ll make everything right. But what they don’t realize is that when people ask for more POCs of screen, they mean they want to be able to see themselves in those characters. You can’t be colorblind to skin, that’s not the point. Whether you like it or not, one’s race and/or ethnicity has effect on their experiences and how they view the world. You just can’t ignore the fact that racism exists and try to pretend that the world on the screen is a place where none of that happens. We don’t go through life the same way and we want that fact to be acknowledged.

Take Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse for example. Miles Morales is considered great example diverse inclusion in adapted media because it’s not like the writers just took Peter Parker and turned him black— they wrote an entirely new character for Spiderman and not only made him black, but wrote his character in consideration of his race, which influenced his personality, home life, and his relationships with others. You don’t like Miles because he’s “Spiderman but black”, he’s “black Spiderman”. People see themselves in Miles and as a result, as Spiderman, who was previously on viewed as a white-only character.

When we ask for more diversity on screen, having us play originally white characters is not the solution. It’s a step forward, for sure, just not enough. We deserve our own characters; our own stories; from our own creators.

#POC #colorblind casting #the little mermaid 2022 #black ariel #disney #diversity on screen #spiderman: into the spiderverse #miles morales #ranting #just needed to get this out #marvel #not to say I'm against the casting choice just the intentions behind it #because we can always do better #pandering #I have more to say I just don't know how to type it without sounding like an ass #let pocs play character written to be pocs #diversity should be intentional not randomly picked

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theawkwardartist12 · 1 year

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Did a little piece of the new live action Little Mermaid with Halle Bailey’s Ariel for the racists who can’t accept a black Ariel even though she has no historical ethnic background like most Disney princesses 🥰

Grow up and get over it

#disney #disneyfanart #ariel #princess ariel #ariel the little mermaid #black ariel #art #artist #not my ariel #notmyariel #I’m posting it in those tags to annoy the racists #digitalart #digital art #the little mermaid #live action little mermaid

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