You know what I don’t even care if the little mermaid doesn’t do well in theaters. Fuck the haters, I’m going to cherish this movie forever. I cried the first time I watched it, the second, and I will cry the third. I will cry when I watch it with my daughters knowing that they will get to grow up with the black mermaid that their mother dreamed of seeing on tv. I genuinely wanted this movie to be something for everyone to enjoy, but if people want to be racist about it that’s ok too. Maybe it is only for the little black girls who dreamed of being mermaids. Imma be excited and proud and flaunt it all the same.
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What, what, WHAT?? Am I-- seeing things? Is this a glitch? Or did we, actually, somehow, get the old layout back???
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this isn’t even about my evil agenda anymore I actually just need to hear your dissertation on voltron/klance x first love late spring
you do evil things to my dick and balls. i hope you know that.
first love / late spring is a very keith-core song, but i think it also applies to both keith and lance... but more specifically, FL/LS is keith pre-relationship, and then FL/LS is lance once they have already started dating.
i'm obsessed with that one interview of mitski where she explained that she wrote this song while she was experiencing her vulnerable first love... and first love is vulnerable. you simultaneously reap the rewards of being known but at the same time, you've now let someone else know you, and now you have to trust them to take care of you. and it's so vulnerable. it's more naked than being naked. and it's so difficult as well because now you're learning a brand new way you can be hurt.
so keith, pre-relationship... he's pining for lance and he is MISERABLE. he's lost control! he feels like he's being consumed by the enormity of his feelings. he's eight years old and small and never asked for this, he never wanted to know he could feel this way. he just wants lance to fucking go already. keith wants to spit vitriol and blame and shame and drive lance away so that when lance leaves him (and he will leave him, like everyone else has), then at least it will be on keith's own terms for once. and keith doesn't, he refuses, to say how he feels. he'll spitefully choke on his confession until it suffocates him. he doesn't want to know what lance might say.
but he also is afraid of lance's reaction because... if lance gives him even a sliver of ground, if there's even a promise of a chance -- keith will fold instantly. he will jump into this love headfirst. he'll do anything if it will make lance stay with him.
and then lance, mid-established relationship... things with keith are perfect, everything is going great, so why does lance feel so anxious all the time? why does he feel so scared when keith looks at him like he's his whole world? maybe the problem is lance. because what they have is real. because he's pretty sure keith is it for him. and that terrifies lance. because lance, deep down, knows he's going to screw this up. and it's not just his heart on the line; he's also going to hurt keith.
keith smiles at him and lance feels sick to his stomach. he wants to tell keith that they might be happy right now, but eventually, lance is going to ruin this. he wants to warn keith that lance is going to break his heart one day.
lance isn't always so negative about himself. during the day, it's easy to let himself be buoyed and enveloped by his feelings for keith. he loves being in love with keith. because the love is real. it's real, and it's there, and that matters. but at night, all those poisonous insecurities and anxieties rear their ugly head, and lance finds himself standing on a ledge over a drop. lance daydreams about spending the rest of his life with keith; lance has never felt so young and small.
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for real though shout out to everyone writing spicy headcanons and scenarios
it makes my life as an asexual writer who can't imagine sexy scenes for shit but still wants to write angsty sexual-tension-through-the-roof scenes so much easier
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the key issue i personally have with ghostbat as a ship is that i dont actually ship them. i never want to see them get together. if they do then they HAVE to and i mean HAVE TO break up horrifically and toxically in an emotionally violent explosion. i would rather put them in my little mental petri dish and delicately put samples together to grow in little bacterial chambers. i do not want them to thrive i want them to ROT. if you see a longfic made by me tagged with ghostbat i am either dead or lying to you because god as my witness they are NOT getting together on my watch no sir
that being said i love the fanart. slay on gang minhkhoa khan you better fuck that old man
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I've spent the past few months working as the costume director for the little mermaid musical at the school. It was my first time doing anything like this and I felt very out of my depth but I'm so, so happy with what we put on stage, especially with our time and skill constraints. Things we made: mermaids, Ariel's wedding dress, Sebastian's coat, and Ursula's skirt panels, along with a few other bits and bobs (bonnets, Triton's cape, etc)
I'll put some process thoughts and more pictures below the cut
I'm most proud of the mermaids; I designed, patterned, fit, and sewed them all myself (with some student help of course.) I'm particularly pleased with the designs because they had to be simple enough for students just learning to sew but also evoke a very specific vibe. I also wanted the outfits to be cute and something high school kids would actually want to wear because the fish tail skirts are often tacky as hell.
So the crop top and finned bell bottoms keep the mermaid vibe while keeping it up to date. It also helped we had relatively high quality, well styled wigs (I gave the hair team free reign over the styling and they all ended up SO CUTE those girls are so good at hair) but all the girls ended up LOVING the costumes, they all said they felt really good in them and it was the first time most of them were actually excited to wear a costume. And today they all begged to keep them which is the biggest compliment of all tbh
Of course I had lots of help from community members and if I could go back in time and do things differently I would, but that's experience babey! I made lots of mistakes and had to adapt on the fly, nothing was perfect but everything was successful. The cast was also very talented, so everything synergized into a great show overall.
I have more thoughts but .. later..
tldr: I'm very proud and I learned a lot
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