People have been talking about Disney's quirky characters and why they don't work and while I agree, STOP PUTTING RAPUNZEL IN WITH THE GROUP OF CHARACTERS THAT DO NOT WORK.

She does. Fundamentally, Rapunzel is a quirky Disney character that works. For one simple reason: She's not quirky for the sake of being quirky.

Rapunzel is "quirky" because she has lived her entire life isolated in a tower, her only company being her 'mother' and Pascal. She has zero life experience. She has no friends. She knows nothing. Her being "quirky" is a direct result of never living in civilization and thus not knowing the social norms (ex. wearing shoes) something that we percieve as making someone 'quirky'

This "quirkiness" is used to show how she is naive to the world, and the movie does an amazing job playing into this while also showing that she's not just a 'quirky' naive little girl, she's also really bloody smart and competent when it comes to hitting people with a frying pan.

Her character is built on even more in the animated series -- Tangled Before Ever After -- She's still super 'quirky' and I will admit in a few episodes it's WAY too 'quirky' for my taste, but that's not her main character trait. After season 1 you don't see her as that one 'quirky' character, because that's not who she is. Unlike recent characters whose main personality trait is being different, that's not Rapunzel.

Current 'quirky' Disney characters do not work because that is their main character trait. Rapunzel is quirky, however that is not who she is. Please, for the love of god, stop lumping her in with 'quirk'y characters you dislike just because she is (most likely) the reason Disney went in this direction with newer characters.

With love, Someone whose favourite Disney princess is Rapunzel

Also this is a 2am rant post after seeing a thumbnail of a youtube video complaining about quirky Disney characters, so if I misspelled stuff or got info wrong sue me.

Can we see some helmet less Gate?

God I hope he looks as much as a prep school drama kid as I want him to

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still has some things to work out

it is hard to explain without sounding vain or stupid - but the more attractive others find you, the more you're allowed to do. the easier your life is.

i have been on both sides of this. i am queer and cuban. i grew up poor. for a long time i didn't know "how" to dress - and i still don't. i make my sister pick out any important outfits. i have adhd in spades: i was never "cool and quiet", i was the weird kid who didn't understand how "normal" people behave. i was bullied so hard that the "social outcasts" wouldn't even talk to me.

i got my teeth straightened. i cut my hair and learned how to style it. i got into makeup. it didn't matter, at first, if i actually liked what i was doing - it mattered how people responded to it. like a magic trick; the right dress and winged eyeliner and suddenly i was no longer too weird for all of it. i could wear the ugly pokemon shirt and it was just "ironic" or a "cute interest."

when i am seen as pretty, people listen. they laugh at my jokes. they allow me to be weird and a little spacey. i can trust that if i need something, people will generally help me. privilege suddenly rushes in: pretty does buy things. pretty people get treated more gently.

i am the same ugly little girl, is the thing. still odd. still not-quite-fitting-in. still scrambling. still angry and afraid and full of bad things. of course it became my obsession. of course i stopped eating. i had seen, in real time, the exact way it could change my life - simply always be perfect, and things can be easy. people will "overlook" all the other things. i used to have panic attacks at the idea others would see me without makeup - what would they think? even for a simple friend hangout, i'd spend a few hours getting ready. after all, it seemed so obvious to me: these people liked me because i was pretty.

i worry about how much i'm being a bad activist: i understand that "pretty" is determined by white, het, cis, able-bodied hegemonies. if i was really an ally, wouldn't i rally against all of this? recently there's been a "clean girl" trend which copies latinx aesthetics: dark slicked-back hair, hoop earrings. i almost never wear my hair like that; i can hear the middle school guidance counsellor advising me that i might fare better if i toned it down on the culture.

the problem is that i can take pretty on and off. that i have seen how different my life is on a day where i try and a day where i don't. i told my therapist i want to believe the difference is confidence, but it's not. and when you have seen it, you can't unsee it. it lives inside your brain. it rots there; taunting. i get rewarded for following the rules. i am punished for breaking them. end of story.

pretty people can get what they want. pretty people can feel confident without others asking where they got their nerve from. pretty people can be weird and different. pretty people get to have emotions; it's different when they get aggressive, it's pretty when they cry with frustration.

of course people care about this. of course it has crawled into you. of course you want to be seen as attractive. it's not vanity: it's self-preservation.

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sleepy gill and gill with the bubbled evil cat

okay unironically I love so much that porter is like this world SUCKS its BAD here and it HURTS you why do you care abt it!!! and literally every single bad kid is like ngl we just hate ur ass it does not matter what ur philosophy is

I'm again obsessed with this man

hi tumblr,,,, i give u , postal doe.

ignore the eye i was lazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😁😁😁😁😁😁

That Selkie Jason / (SEA CRITS) Au is very children's animated movie coded to me so I drew my brain rot.

Dick is the tween who hasn't discovered Hot Topic yet, just you wait, but thinks his brothers are Babies TM and can't be seen with them. Jason is going thru it with his "shit ass" older brother and baby Tim won't stop stalking his brothers wherever they go. I imagine they're like 13, 8, and 1/2ish,

As for their Sea Crit ids, Selkie Jason is king so he's a snowy baby. That Dick is an otter post changed my life so there he is.

I saw someone suggest that Tim should be a platypus which I would have drawn except I had already decided that he was gonna be a sea lion (they are very tim coded, big heads, droopy eyes, can probably skateboard etc) so there he is.

ps. if ur angsty him being a sea lion makes him even closer to jason and thus more threatening to Jay Emotionally.

I've drawn the boys all together because although I appreciate the angst I think the sibling trio trouble would be very fun, and stressful on Bruce who'd have to actually take care of three literal children at the same time.

y'all. canaries should stay above ground. and sam, our narrative canary, fell through the floor. he ignored the warnings, went to a dangerous place, and ended up below ground. he's literally doomed ://

Smile and wave tactic doesn’t seem to work on your new coworker, Darling, gotta come up with something else

I’m not yet that far into the game to know everything about these guys and their shared history but a scene where quirky yet manipulative scientist is unsuccessfully trying to befriend a field agent whose suspiciousness helps him survive seemed like a funny idea to me