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“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

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I mean, don’t know if it helps matters at all, but given how the events progressed (Day of Hearts before the Goodwill Grab in Season 3, when they came about in opposite order in Season 1), it actually suggests that two years passed after Season 2 before Eugene reached his 26th birthday, which would actually make him (he believed) about the same age as Cass when he met Rapunzel for the first time. An 18-year-old dating a 22-year-old isn’t…ideal, in our culture, but it’s certainly not as problematical as an 18-year-old dating a 26-year-old.

Not the same business at all for Varian and Cassandra. (But hey, they do actually have quite a strong and rather sweet friendship…you know, before one nearly crushes the other to death and then the other knocks out, kidnaps, drugs, and imprisons the first in a cage fifty storeys above the ground. Things after that might be a little awkward no matter what you do.)

I've seen it floating around that Eugene was supposed to be 26 at the release of the movie???

I WONDER WHY THEY CHANGED THAT. NOT LIKE A 26YO DATING AN 18YO IS VERY VERY GROSS. If they hadn't changed Eugene's age to be 23 (early season 1 age) I wouldn't be a fan of new dream! Because that's super gross! I'm still a little iffy about 18 x 23, but at least it's not an 8 year age gap. You shouldn't date someone THAT MUCH OLDER THAN YOU until you're at least 25 (because that's when your brain fully develops)

STOP USING NEW DREAM TO SUPPORT CASSARIAN

Edit: Eugene is actually 24 in season one (since we find out he's a year older than he thought) but I wanna make it clear that he didn't know he was that old, and I'm still iffy about the 5 year age gap that he thought he had. By the time Eugene finds out he's 26 Rapunzel is already 20 (turning 21 later season 3) I'd like to reiterate that it's still not 8 years, and Rapunzel is an ADULT when they met.

Varian is 14, and Cass is 22. Which is much worse.

#rapunzel's tangled adventure #new dream #rapunzel #eugene fitzherbert #age difference #tangled cassandra #tangled varian

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: send them off on the VAT7K journey. Not just one young adult on his own, but an entire small family. (Bonus points if you can convince Quirin to come along, but it can still work if you don’t.) Which gives one entirely new reasons for each of them to think they’re the leader: Varian’s the alchemist (and has a raccoon), Angry and Catalina have the most current wilderness expertise (and one of them is a werewolf), Cassandra has the most combat experience (and an owl), Lance is the most widely travelled (and is quite likely the oldest)…and then throw Yong and Hugo and Nuru into the mix and watch the (very, very literal) fireworks.

@Disney, who told you we want a live action Rapunzel movie? We don’t. We want a Tangled: the Series spinoff where Lance, Cassandra, Varian, Kiera, and Catalina are, for some reason, forced to form a team. At the start, each individual member is CONVINCED that they either are the team’s leader, or should be the team’s leader. For that reason (and just the team roster in general, if we’re being honest), chaos and shenanigans ensue, along with a great plot (that I currently can’t come up with)/character development/the team eventually developing a sibling-esque vibe.

#vat7k #tangled varian #tangled catalina #tangled kiera #tts angry #lance strongbow #tts cassandra #vat7k au #hugo vat7k #yong vat7k #nuru vat7k #tangled the series #rapunzel's tangled adventure

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My take on a look for adult Varian!! bc I hate the old one I made for him and totally scrapped it hshsjs

alsooo heres a lil age up scale for reference

age 18 design belongs to kritterart (Kaitlyn Ritter), and the 14/16 designs belong to Ben Balistreri

pls dont repost anywhere outside of Tumblr without my permission !!

#tangled varian #varian the alchemist #tangled the series #rapunzel's tangled adventure #varian tangled

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You know the worst part about that scene? That particular scene where Eugene is saddened about the loss of his former identity and not sure who he is, because another piece of himself is being stripped away? It’s that Rapunzel, Rapunzel who has been supportive and caring throughout the series (and definitely within the movie), when answering him, doesn’t manage to include the fact that, no, he is his own man. He just happens to be a man who is defined by making amends for a past life, convincing people to be better than they were, rescuing (saving) princesses from towers. A man whose greatest weakness isn’t his selfishness, like Flynn Rider’s, but his compassion. Who cares what the Pub Thugs think of him—Rapunzel knows how much Eugene Fitzherbert is worth compared to Flynn Rider. And so does Lance, and Angry and Catalina, and her parents, and Pascal and Max, and the orphans of Corona (and isn’t that one heck of a big thing, Eugene doing his best to make sure nobody else becomes a criminal like he was?). The new Flynn Rider is just someone else taking the wrong path—someone Eugene can show there’s a better way, because he chose to find one himself.

A chance to further the times when the show has actually genuinely been empowering, and, well, they kind of blew it.

It’s not like it’s not allowed for Rapunzel to comfort Eugene, she did that any number of times in the first season and vice versa. I guess they were trying to showcase how “hardcore” she’d become, or even just how hard because of what happened with Cassandra (although did they ever acknowledge that? Noooooooo). But it’s a missed opportunity to see firsthand the compassion that Rapunzel continues to be valued for, instead of a blunt reminder of the harm done by Flynn and how Eugene can help make up for that now. And the harm was done. Genuinely. But honestly, lass, it’s a terrible idea to bring up to someone you love (who managed to completely reform) how bad their old ways were and suggesting they could make up for it now, without mentioning how far they’ve actually come. Reverse the situation, ma’am, see how comfortable you’d feel.

I feel like Eugene as a character is really underrated. I think his was one of my most favourite point of views, and it was really interesting, but they didn’t expand on it. There were only like 3 episodes where he even mentioned how lost he felt, and those were really short scenes, but damn, some of the good shit.

Things like “Flynn Rider was the closest thing to an identity I ever had. Sure, I was on the wrong side of the law, but I was my own man. In Corona, I’m just Rapunzel’s incredibly attractive boyfriend.”

I really really want to see more of that. Even if it’s in songs like Everything I Ever Thought I Knew, I wan’t to see more of him as his own person.

Before y’all call me out saying ‘but the bonding episodes he had with his father’ or whatever, I meant I would like to know his feelings a little bit more. (I am beyond grateful for the bonding episodes btw)

#tangled #rapunzles tangled adventure #tangled the series #kvetching #yes I know #I do that a lot #rapunzel #eugene fitzherbert #flynn rider

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Here, here!

On this, our second FitzFriday here are some great things people should know about Eugene. Some common misconceptions cleared up: 

His name is Eugene Fitzherbert. Not Flynn Rider. Not Horace. Eugene. 

He’s not ‘lazy and stupid’, he’s clever and motivated- Just not motivated by the same things as other characters.

He’s not just Rapunzel’s Boyfriend. He’s her confidant, her best friend, her back up and her Captain of the Guard.

He’s often the comic relief but that doesn’t make him a non-essential character nor does it mean his contributions aren’t worthwhile. Or that he can’t or shouldn’t be taken seriously. 

He’s vain but he’s not shallow.

He has earned everything he has accomplished by the end of RTA. He has grown, learned, taught, compromised and sacrificed for his friends, his family and for the people of Corona. He didn’t get anything handed to him because of proximity to Rapunzel or because she ‘settled’ for the first man she met. He gave his all and was rewarded in kind for being a good person.

He’s a certified good boi. 

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I get why people are upset about this. And that’s their circumstances speaking. But there’s another side to it as well. I’ve been on both of them.

I got lucky. I have accommodations for my disability. But I also know that, from the outside, what I go through every day is something most people can’t imagine for themselves, and shouldn’t ever have to. And everyone’s human. Nobody’s capable of changing the whole world by themselves. All they can offer is what they can spare.

So when I’m told by people who can’t give me accommodation that I’m braver than I think I am, or more resilient than I believe myself to be…maybe it’s true, maybe it isn’t. But it’s all they can physically do, unless I ask otherwise. It’s an offering saying, “If I could take this on for you I would, but I can’t and I feel useless about it.” And that means there’s an opening there, to seek other help in ways that I think they can give. Do I always ask? No. Can they always give? Depends. But knowing that someone’s made the offer means knowing someone else is trying to put themselves in my shoes, and doesn’t want me to be hurting, and is feeling defeated that they can’t help…that’s not exactly bad.

Concrete solutions to problems are essential, and those have to be sought out. But there’s no malice in people being unable to help and admitting it through a compliment. All it means is that they care.

You are so brave and an inspiration to us all!

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Okay, here’s an odd idea for those in the Tangled fandom--specifically the series and I don’t know how many folk know about this plot line despite the series being long over, so spoilers just in case. (And I’ve finally figured out how to mark spoilers, too!)

Cassandra being Gothel’s daughter? Really, that was…strange. Not, per se, because it was impossible (although I have no idea what continuous use of the Sundrop over hundreds of years does for fertility), but because it seemed so very out of character. I mean, why? How? Why would Gothel, who as we can see is vain and while manipulative doesn’t seem to enjoy the company other people beyond their acting as being living mirrors, seek out someone with whom to have a child? Why would she choose to have a child in the first place instead of discretely removing it? It’s not like it wouldn’t be a heck of a lot of work, and she wouldn’t even get anything really effective out of it--unlike with Rapunzel, where she got basically unlimited access to the Sundrop for eighteen years, not to mention a lot of domestic servitude.

Well, maybe there was something she could get out of it.

We saw in the movie that the aging process seemed to be speeding up by the time Gothel reached her 380s. That Gothel seemed to be losing the effects of the flower at an increasingly rapid rate. And that would have played on her mind a bit, perhaps. Surely she must have considered the possibility that the Sundrop would be taken? That she could potentially lose access to it for a time, and that she’d be risking not only her beauty but her very life by doing so?

So what better way to ensure her continued existence than a backup?

Create a Cassandra--maybe through some form of seduction, maybe through magic, heck, maybe just taking someone else’s baby daughter and reconfiguring her physical and internal structure (at least the kidnapping part has a precedent). Add water, food, and time, until she’s at an age where she’s not young enough to be seen as a child but not old enough to feel like an adult. Then, when the time is right…take the body. Beauty restored--a few touches might be needed but of course she’ll be beautiful, darling, she’s my replica. Age no longer an issue--continued use of the Sundrop at a similar rate might mean Cassandra’s body could last for millennia, not just centuries. Magic…might take a while to get it back, but after a little training it should be relatively simple. And then Gothel goes on, living her life through her daughter’s body like a puppet-master speaking through a marionette.

Cassandra, not just as a person who adores her mother, but as the body which Gothel will eventually reside within. A homunculus. A wind-up doll, who will in time be put back on the shelf when Gothel has what she needs.

(And who knows? Maybe she might have thought to try the same with Rapunzel when she came of age. I mean, she’d lose some of her beauty, obviously, but wouldn’t it be worth it to be the living embodiment of the flower that keeps her effectively immortal?)

#tangled #rapunzel's tangled adventure #gothel #cassandra #tts cassandra #tts gothel #homunculus #speculation #not my most optimistic idea ever #scariest? I'll leave that up to you

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(So I’m on a bit of a Tangled craze at the moment. Be patient with me, folks.)

There are…a lot of things wrong with the third season. The whole arc with Cassandra being the main one, but also the issue of whether Rapunzel’s parents are fit to rule (because they basically seem to just be sitting on the sidelines instead of doing any actual governance, which we never really got to see Arianna do), how to explain the disappearance of the other characters at the end, Lance’s increased clowning around, Eugene’s very real fears and insecurities being put aside for jokes, and a fair few others. There were also a few things I really enjoyed: the expanded arcs with Angry and Red, Varian’s redemption and place in the light, the whole treasure hunt (yes, I know, but I have a soft spot for it), even Edmund getting a bit more involved because the man was literally trying to make sure his son had a better life while being unable to leave his kingdom even if he failed miserably for a huge chunk of that time.

But one thing I’m not per se upset about–annoyed, yes, but not upset–is the treatment of Faith.

No, not that it’s fair. Rapunzel’s new lady-in-waiting can’t be expected to be Cassandra, and Rapunzel was making it rather uncomfortable for her. She’s not the daughter of a guard, she’s a lower-class girl seeking the best option she has and trying to be good at it because there’s no other way around it. When Eugene points out that Rapunzel’s trying to find a proxy for her lost friend, he is absolutely bang on the nose. Even if the series doesn’t support that claim, he’s still right.

But that doesn’t mean Rapunzel’s wrong per se. It means she’s got more than a few biases to work through.

Rapunzel was stuck most of her life in one place, with one human (eh) and one chameleon to keep her company. She did the cleaning and dressmaking and cooking for herself, it was part of her upkeep of the Tower. These are things that I honestly believe she can’t quite imagine anyone dedicating themselves to full-time, certainly not for another person. She was incapable of treating Cass like anything but a friend, rather than a servant, for most of the series. And the strong likelihood is that, given time, Faith might come to be an essential element of life in the castle. Not for the adventures, per se, because the poor lass just seems to want to be safe and secure and maybe now that the kingdom isn't being threatened by a madwoman (and Cassandra) Rapunzel will actually have some time to figure out how to fit Faith into her life. All she needs is someone to speak up for her–or better yet the opportunity to speak up for herself without being petrified that this will lose her her job.

And that’s the sad part. They could have done this. All the pieces are there. Eugene’s set up the stage for Rapunzel to take the step. She just…didn’t. Or couldn’t. Because sometimes people just don’t act in the way that would help them, make them feel better. Sometimes, Rapunzel Knows Best.

(And that, given that she had one parent who could have served as the model for the dictionary definition of narcissist, is likely to happen even in the nicest of people.)

It’s a habit she’s going to have to un-learn. But there’s time. And acknowledging her flaws but giving her a chance to do better? If they can find a way to do that, sometime? That’s going to make for one heck of a story.

I dunno. What say you?

#tangled #rapunzel's tangled adventure #rapunzel #faith #cassandra #eugene #corona #tangled the series #tts #it's not a hard fix #it could be done so so easily

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Many thanks indeed!

Unfortunately no, the Coven of the Alchemists is more a personal idea than anything else. Not entirely sure how alchemy was going to work in the Seven Kingdoms, aside from the fact that it seems to be linked a) to the seven Elements in medieval alchemy instead of the modern periodic table (which seemed to be more Varian’s style), and b) to be more intensely and intricately linked into magic. Which…I mean, kudos to them for exploring that a bit more, but that does make Varian a bit of a hypocrite for preferring science to magic. Or possibly a bit elitist? I dunno. Either way, I prefer to keep them at least a little separate. Not sure how closely anything I might write would tie into the earlier ideas (although again, even though they contradict some of the stuff from TTS the planning behind them is remarkable).

…aaaanyway. Pardon the rambling.

I know there are many people in the TTS fandom who love Rapunzel and Eugene’s relationships with Cassandra, Lance, Varian, Kiera, and Catalina.

But if they’re all supposedly such good friends of Rapunzel and Eugene, then why would they miss their wedding? Yes, the “Tangled Ever After” short was created before the series, BUT THE CREATORS OF THE SHOW KNEW THIS IN ADVANCE. We even saw them add some fun elements foreshadowing the wedding in the series. “Return of the King” was all about continuity and preparation for the wedding. They gave us a half-hearted explanation for the Stabbington Brothers’ appearance, and revealed that King Edmund gave Eugene the sash he wears in the short. If the creators could think of all this, than why couldn’t they be bothered to give reasons for the absences of Rapunzel and Eugene’s friends?

Yes, Cassandra left Corona to find her destiny, which explains her absence, but what about Varian, the Royal Engineer of Corona? Or Lance, Eugene’s childhood best friend? As his daughters, Kiera and Catalina would have gone to the wedding with him.

As fitting as a job like Royal Engineer is for Varian, and as sweet as it is that Lance adopted the girls, none of these endings explain why these characters aren’t at the wedding.

Yes, everyone can just say something along the lines of “you just don’t see them,” but there have been other TV series’ in the past where OC’s were created in series’ that bridge a time gap, and their absences in sequels were accounted for.

In The Lion Guard fandom, over half of the fandom questioned as to whether The Lion Guard was canon to The Lion King 1 & 2 because the characters that appeared in The Lion Guard were OCs, who never appeared or were even mentioned in the second Lion King movie.

However, when season 3 came along, the writers were able to explain the absence of all the original characters and tied in the series with The Lion King 2 in the series finale. Even in “Aladdin and the King of Theives”, they included cameos of the characters from Aladdin the Series at Aladdin and Jasmine’s wedding.

Now, it’s been confirmed that Tangled the Series is canon to both Tangled and Tangled Ever After, so I’m not questioning as to whether TTS is canon or not, but the fact that the creator couldn’t be bothered to explain the absences of the characters is poor writing. Continuity is important when writing series’ that bridge time gaps.

I know that there are times when creators screw up, and I know that they’re only humans who make mistakes, like all of us. Although, taking into account the poor writing of Tangled the series as a whole, this only confirms to me that the only character they truly cared to develop was Cassandra. That is why she was the only one who was given an explanation. Varian, Lance, and the girls, however? They just weren’t cared about enough. Varian was just a mechanical character, Lance was just a comic relief, and Kiera and Catalina were just there to parallel Rapunzel and Cassandra.

Shame.

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Been thinking about this a lot, and there is a way to fix it. But only just.

And the answer to that is, pull out Varian and the Seven Kingdoms but with a twist.

Because maybe Varian does have a Destiny somewhere else. Maybe he’s got to come to terms with the fact that he’s got two sides of his heritage, the Brotherhood and the Covens of the Alchemists. Maybe Cass comes back to help, maybe not, but regardless, Kiera and Catalina aren’t about to let their new big brother go out into the world without them. (“V, you got nervous at Deadman’s Curve. You think you’re gonna survive without us for five minutes?”) Lance has one or two things to do himself, but mostly he’s pulled into it by the girls. Not that he minds. Ruddiger is naturally along for the ride regardless.

The wedding is trickier. If the rest of the family was out on a journey of self-discovery, wouldn’t it be a bit selfish to leave the lovebirds out of things? Yes. Yes it would. Just as it would be selfish not to invite them to the wedding. But perhaps the answer is…they don’t. Maybe the wedding we saw is just the public one. They certainly didn’t seem to do too much in the way of vows, although perhaps that was just bad editing. Maybe it’s just the public wedding–and the first one, the proper one, was family-only. The whole family. So that’s done, the Thieves and the Alchemist set off on their way, Rapunzel and Eugene have their wedding in the castle church…but they don’t stay for much more than cake. They’ve got a high-speed balloon to get ready for in the morning.

What, miss out on another adventure?

I know there are many people in the TTS fandom who love Rapunzel and Eugene’s relationships with Cassandra, Lance, Varian, Kiera, and Catalina.

But if they’re all supposedly such good friends of Rapunzel and Eugene, then why would they miss their wedding? Yes, the “Tangled Ever After” short was created before the series, BUT THE CREATORS OF THE SHOW KNEW THIS IN ADVANCE. We even saw them add some fun elements foreshadowing the wedding in the series. “Return of the King” was all about continuity and preparation for the wedding. They gave us a half-hearted explanation for the Stabbington Brothers’ appearance, and revealed that King Edmund gave Eugene the sash he wears in the short. If the creators could think of all this, than why couldn’t they be bothered to give reasons for the absences of Rapunzel and Eugene’s friends?

Yes, Cassandra left Corona to find her destiny, which explains her absence, but what about Varian, the Royal Engineer of Corona? Or Lance, Eugene’s childhood best friend? As his daughters, Kiera and Catalina would have gone to the wedding with him.

As fitting as a job like Royal Engineer is for Varian, and as sweet as it is that Lance adopted the girls, none of these endings explain why these characters aren’t at the wedding.

Yes, everyone can just say something along the lines of “you just don’t see them,” but there have been other TV series’ in the past where OC’s were created in series’ that bridge a time gap, and their absences in sequels were accounted for.

In The Lion Guard fandom, over half of the fandom questioned as to whether The Lion Guard was canon to The Lion King 1 & 2 because the characters that appeared in The Lion Guard were OCs, who never appeared or were even mentioned in the second Lion King movie.

However, when season 3 came along, the writers were able to explain the absence of all the original characters and tied in the series with The Lion King 2 in the series finale. Even in “Aladdin and the King of Theives”, they included cameos of the characters from Aladdin the Series at Aladdin and Jasmine’s wedding.

Now, it’s been confirmed that Tangled the Series is canon to both Tangled and Tangled Ever After, so I’m not questioning as to whether TTS is canon or not, but the fact that the creator couldn’t be bothered to explain the absences of the characters is poor writing. Continuity is important when writing series’ that bridge time gaps.

I know that there are times when creators screw up, and I know that they’re only humans who make mistakes, like all of us. Although, taking into account the poor writing of Tangled the series as a whole, this only confirms to me that the only character they truly cared to develop was Cassandra. That is why she was the only one who was given an explanation. Varian, Lance, and the girls, however? They just weren’t cared about enough. Varian was just a mechanical character, Lance was just a comic relief, and Kiera and Catalina were just there to parallel Rapunzel and Cassandra.

Shame.

#varian and the seven kingdoms #tangled #tangled the series #varian #lance #catalina #kiera #tts red and angry #ruddiger #rapunzel #eugene fitzherbert #fix-it #because seriously #they were going to do a whole spinoff for Varian and ignore all the friends he'd made along the way? #come ON people #two birds one stone

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Don’t know if anyone’s done one of these before…

Behold, a map of Vesper, the fantasy continent wherein lie the Seven Kingdoms as named in Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure, as well as a reference or two to the known world of Frozen!*

*Some artistic license in areas relating to geography, ecology, climatology, and politics. Map approximately 4,000km wide at its longest point, and about 1,300km tall.

For public use! Anyone interested in a writeup?

#tangled #rapunzel's tangled adventure #tangled the series #rapunzel #corona #frozen #arendelle #elsa

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You know what, this started as an idea from a rant, but now I’m curious. Artistic side of Tumblr, what would an Inuit version of the Little Mermaid (not Ariel per se but definitely the Little Mermaid) look like?

#the little mermaid #hans christen anderson #disney the little mermaid #inuit mythology #denmark #multicultural #diversity #infinite diversity in infinite combinations #request

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Three words for you, Hollywood: diversity within diversity.

Remind me again why in modern shows and movies, places like Medieval or Renaissance Europe are shown as these incredibly mixed places with people from all over living there, but whenever one visits a version of other parts of the world the races are incredibly homogenous? I mean, how exactly is it “better” than the format of old with maybe one race per country except that it maybe makes it easier to find people of certain races to play the part—completely unnecessary in animation, I might add? And yes, Disney, to thee I do look.

Maybe, just maybe, go for nuance. I don’t mean like bringing in African-American singers and Jewish waitresses and Mexican piñatas in The (definitively Incan) Emperor’s New Groove (although, in that film’s defence, none of those things detracted from the fantastic quality of the film itself). I’d like to see a version of Mulan where they bring in actual Mongolian actors, or Tanka boat people, or maybe some African-Chinese (who’ve actively been there since the 7th Century when they were brought in as slaves, which kept up for, what, 500 years at least?). I’d like to see a version of Aladdin with Indians, Arabians, Persians, Berbers, Zanj, maybe even some European-descent Mamluks (instead of the only “white” guy being some inbred Scandinavian moron). You want to make the Little Mermaid a minority race, Disney? Go for it. But maybe have it make sense in the context of, you know, Denmark. Which in this case means making said mermaid part of the largest minority group in the country—i.e., Turkish. Or, heck, try the Inuit, because you might have actually found a few in the region about the same time as Andersen wrote the story. Actually screw your damn heads onto your necks and do the research and make it creative. Don’t just pander for cash grabs—regardless of how many folk lap it up because the idea of people from elsewhere being diverse at home just doesn’t occur to people.

Seriously. If you want to commit to diversity, commit. Learn about the incredibly rich and multifaceted aspects of cultures all across the world. Don’t just assume the rest of the planet is going to correspond to some impression of racial diversity in 21st-Century North America.

Ironically enough, you know what’s a great example of this? Phineas and Ferb. All taking place in the US, true. But if I remember correctly, Swampy and Dan based some of the composition of Danville’s population off that of an actual city in California they both knew. And there are subtleties. Maybe not many—Baljeet is almost generically North Indian—but a surprising amount for the time and place and it shows. And there’s no put-downs based on race—anyone can be of any colour and creed and hold any position. The Fireside Girls come from all over. Dr. Hirano and Dr. Underwood are just that, doctors who happen to be a) women and b) Japanese/African-American respectively. They don’t need to make anyone more or less intelligent by default, because everyone is capable, and even if the story centres around an Irish-American boy and his English brother it’s as much a story of Danville as it is theirs. (Plus, Perry—you can’t get further away than a platypus and they make it work.)

Learn from these Creators, Disney.

There is nothing wrong with diverse diversity.

(Or as the Vulcans might put it, infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Because there is so much beautiful wonderful complexity in this world and all of it deserves a chance to be in the spotlight.)

#phineas and ferb #Disney #disney aladdin #disney mulan #live action remake #the little mermaid #diversity #infinite diversity in infinite combinations #what a motto #the emperor’s new groove

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So it’s my first attempt at writing for this Story. Hope it goes well!

#tangled the series #tangled #cassandra tangled #cassandra tts #captain of the guard #mother gothel

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Quick Doof/Christmas Headcanon!

(Literally just popped into my head)

Okay so, when Heinz was a kid, he never got any gifts or visits from ‘Santa’. Not because he was good or bad, but because he was just ‘Heinz’, at least that’s what his parents said. But, because he was allowed to have treats and (at least for that part of the year) was treated like part of the family, Christmas became okay. After a few years, Heinz just accepted that he just wasn’t supposed to get presents.

When Heinz dated Charlene, he always gave her great gifts. The usual flowers, expensive things like jewelry or small non-evil inventions, and occasionally the less-extravagant gifts like coupons to her favorite restaurants, salons or activities. No matter what it was, Doof always presented her with a present on her birthday, or one of the gift-required holidays. As for Charlene, she always just gave Heinz a check or cash. Not because she didn’t care, but because it was easier. If Heinz needed anything, he would find it in some obscure place or website or just build it himself. Same with material for his ‘projects’, she had no idea what he needed or where to get it. So, checks or cash it was, which was just fine with Heinz.

This continued for years, even after they got married and had Vanessa. When Christmas time came, all the gifts came unwrapped and were just baby clothes and small toys, stuff a baby couldn’t really remember or care about within a day. When Vanessa was around three or four years old, since it would be the first Christmas she remembered and one she would actually get to unwrap the presents for, Heinz got to work on a Automatic-Wrapping-Inator while Charlene took care of the Christmas shopping.

After getting all the other gifts, Charlene decides to get Heinz a few things. He never asked for anything, but she thought it would be a nice little surprise. She got him a new tool set, a purple sweater and a gift card for his favorite sweets shop (because homemade almond brittle). She got them wrapped at the store, and hid them in the car until she could put them under the tree without Heinz noticing.

Christmas morning came, and Heinz was the second one up after Vanessa. “Come on, Charlene. You two have presents to open.” She corrected him, saying he had gifts too, and of course he was shocked. “I get gifts?” Once she confirmed it, Heinz raced down stairs like an excited five year old. Rather than join his wife on the couch sipping coffee and trying to stay awake or take pictures, he was sitting right along side his daughter, tearing the wrapping paper off his presents. Charlene of course was amused by all of this, and she couldn’t help but smile at her family. When Heinz finished, he thanked her, looking so happy and about to cry.

That night, Heinz told her about how that day was the first time he got a real wrapped-and-tied-with-a-bow present. Charlene almost didn’t believe it, she couldn’t believe his parents could be so cruel. But whether or not she believed, Charlene did decide that from that day on she would get Heinz a Christmas present. No matter how many or how few, big or small, he would get something. And for the next three years, all three Doofenshmirtzs had something to open. Even a couple years after the divorce, Charlene would still mail him a small gift, and eventually just a Christmas card with his alimony check. 

But it didn’t mean that Heinz stopped getting presents, because he still had Vanessa, and eventually Perry and Norm and even some of the guys from LOVE MUFFIN (though it was usually a joke gift).

Even so, Heinz will always remember and treasure his first real Christmas presents, and who gave them to him. 

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Reblog and put in the tags which minor character(s) you fell in love with despite very little screentime, plot significance, or canon information and is just 90% headcanon and projection

#plo koon #shaak ti #kuiil #amanda lopez #varian tts #kiera and catalina #(okay the last four aren’t exactly minor but still) #ziard (the dragon prince) #stacy hirano #pakku #ta ming #lady ursa #mycroft holmes #lu tze #the abbot #urn and didactylos #the bursar #chicha emperor’s new groove #wow that’s a lot of tags