The Professor and His Starters by sponzar
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(Source: gamefreaksnz)
cotton light balls
(i grounded myself from drawing, to see if i could cool my head because i always seem to be doodling or drawing so often i was afraid that would somehow end up making me sadder, but it has been physically painful to the point last night i dreamed i was doing it…………………………
also a biggggg thank you for all your kind messages and comments regarding the post i made yesterday!! i certainly wasn’t expecting such big responses so i wanted to thank you all again! to those i could message back, and to the anons a big hug as well ♥ /___\)
Snow White from Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs is strong. She is feminists favorite punching bag, right after Aurora but at least every once in awhile someone will come to Aurora’s defense. Snow (and Cinderella frankly) are seen as what is wrong with the Disney princesses. Snow likes cute animals, cooking, cleaning, and a useless dwarf. She befriends seven strange men who end up saving her in the end. Dude, the prince just comes and kisses her. She is stereotypically feminine. She doesn’t go fight for her country. She doesn’t prevent a war from breaking out. Girl is nice to every single person she meets, even the woman who tried to kill her. She felt bad that she scared the animals when they found her crying in the woods. She is kind hearted. She wants to help everyone she meets. Her looking out for others is what got her killed.
All of that being said does not make her weak. Sure, she is a bit naive but she lived a rather sheltered life. The queen had her locked away doing chores all day. When she found out the queen wanted her killed, instead of standing in the field looking at the huntsman, she fucking ran. She ran away to protect herself. She left an abusive home (she lived with the queen in her castle). When she met the dwarfs, she bargained with them so they wouldn’t kick her out. She ran that house. She put the dwarves and animals to work. She was very sweet but she was also the head bitch in charge. Even Grumpy didn’t try to backtalk her.
The fact she needed the dwarfs and animals to save her doesn’t make her weak. Saving yourself is more than just killing the enemy. It is about surviving, which Snow White did. She may not know how to throw a punch, shoot an arrow, or save her country, that doesn’t make her weak. Not every woman can defeat their demons/enemies on their own. Some of them need help from their friends, which the dwarfs and animals were to Snow, to defeat their enemy and that doesn’t make them weak.
Also, girls who prefer Snow White to Merida are not weak or “too girly.” There is no such thing as being “too girly.” Not all girls are going to relate to Merida and that is okay. Not all girls are going to like Snow White. Some girls like both characters. There is nothing wrong with girls liking the classic Disney princesses. There is nothing wrong with girls preferring the newer princesses. What is a problem is when people try to deem what princesses are “good” or “bad.”
Honestly, bravo. This is one of the best posts I’ve seen on tumblr. I hate that people think Snow is weak because she doesn’t perform heroic acts and, like you said, is traditionally feminine.
She managed to escape from the Evil Queen, make the best out of the situation in the woods and befriended the dwarves, and eventually found her Prince and her happily ever after. There is nothing wrong with that.
100% agree. I wish someone did this with every Disney princess that people shit on. I wish someone talked about how Aurora had one of the most fabulous days of her life and met a wonderful guy (let’s be honest here, Prince Phillip is great) with her adorable woodland creature friends (who given her isolation in the woods for her safety were possibly her only friends besides her fairies) and then was told that she had to give it up for her betrothal. And it kills her to do so because hey she really likes this guy, but she gives up her own happiness to marry some prince for her kingdom (that she just found out about). I love Aurora.
Not to mention that she has been told not to talk to anyone outside her and the faeries (and the animals ofc), but she takes a huge risk by talking to a stranger. He is super awesome, but he could have been someone who wanted to kill her. She went out of her comfort zone to talk to this guy. Something a lot of us (including me) have trouble doing. It may not be saving China, but goddammit, not everyone needs to save a country in order to be brave, adventurous and strong.
This is everything I have ever wanted in a photo set ever.
Followed a friend’s suggestion to add moonlight behind her.
A different kind of Cinderella
I wanted to play the Pokemon fusion thing…
And I made a
creepy pokemon from hellCutails~
Yesterday my mom posted a picture on Facebook of my 5 year old brother Sam wearing a pair of shoes he picked out for his first day of preschool.
She explained to him in the store that they were really made for girls. Sam then told her that he didn’t care and that “ninjas can wear pink shoes too.”
Sam went to preschool and got several compliments on his new shoes. Not one kid said anything negative toward him about it.However, my mom received about 20 comments on the photo from various family members saying how “wrong” it is and how “things like this will affect him socially” and, put most eloquently by my great aunt, “that shit will turn him gay.”
My mom then deleted the photo and told Sam that he can wear whatever he wants to preschool, that it’s his decision. If he wants to wear pink shoes, he can wear pink shoes.
Sam then explained to her that he didn’t like them because they were pink, he liked them because they were “made out of zebras” and zebras are his favorite animal :)
What does it say about society when a group of adults could stand to take a lesson in humanity from a class of preschoolers?
