listen its about the last unicorn being fundamentally no different from the harpy and feeling more compassion for her than she does the trapped animals or the humans trapped by circumstance. it's about haggard grabbing the unicorn only once she has become human enough for him to drag her down and realise her eyes are empty. it's about schmendrick and the magic that lives in him more than he wields it, it's about "never run from anything immortal, it attracts their attention" while walking slowly from an unspeakable horror devouring an old woman, it's about "how dare you come to me now, when I am this?". it's about the unicorns staying in the water until they can't anymore, until the castle crumbles and the one unicorn who is different from the others now - she lowers her horn and she digs her hooves in and she stands her ground for a dear, dead boy. it's about the trade of immortality between schmendrick and the unicorn, it's about stories needing to be told, it's about lir loving the unicorn enough to know that she cannot stay with him, and to let her would be to do her a disservice.

it's about "your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. i would tear myself to pieces to call you once by your name." it's about regret.

(it's also about little 5 year old me renting the movie from the library whenever i could and watching it on loop for hours. it's about just how much this story has shaped me and my understanding of storytelling.)

Updated my Last Unicorn piece.

where have you been? where have you been?

from the last unicorn (rankin & bass, 1982)

bunches of the last unicorn doodles (mostly schmendrick exploration)

last unicorn yuri

This was an easy list to do

28 or 29, Molly Grue & The Unicorn?

oh, you stayed--you stayed...

Got to introduce a fellow trans gal to The Last Unicorn and she asked for no spoilers going in, so she faced the Molly Grue scene completely unprepared and had a good cry about it. I love how that scene resonates so hard for trans girls, it's so good

WOKE the last unicorn

lady ASEXUALthea schMENKISSINGdrick moLOVINGWOMENy grue prince LOVINGMEN king faggard

An angry little beetle / The last unicorn

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A Molly Grue and Lady Amalthea diptych cosplay

I've been working on some tiny watercolor paintings (about 3.5 x 5 inch in size); these are four from The Last Unicorn (Amalthea & Molly Grue are old ones, but I painted the Sad Bois recently).

These two again!

JUST SOME GUY: ROUND 1

Connecticut Clark (Flork of Cows) vs. Molly Grue (The Last Unicorn)

Reasons provided for Connecticut Clark:

his ENTIRE thing is that he's just some normal guy

its his entire reason for existing

3rd happiest man in Connecticut wym?

Reasons provided for Molly Grue:

Molly is the camp cook for a bunch of outlaws, she's a normal person surrounded by a bumbling magician, a unicorn, a king, and a prince.

There is nothing special about her. She is in a wonderful fantasy setting, friends with a wizard and a unicorn, and she is just Molly. Not young, not pretty, not magical or talented. She just is.

A selection of Molly Grue ships.