she doesn't know. oh my god she doesn't know that in two decades dozens of people will be debating the ass size of a silly little man that came from her head
(this is Shannon Messenger in 2000. yeah I know if you look it up it says she was born in 1990-91 so she'd theoretically only be 10 but I've double checked several times and places this is 100% from 2000. she's never disclosed it herself and the internet is lying about her birthday. this photo is from May, 2000. i can show my work)
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I can't get it right
I can't get you out of my mind
I said I was not gonna make anymore BATB content... I'm making more... featuring that AU with Lumiere I mentioned which involves Forte
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listen. i love bruce springsteen. i love ethel cain. american teenager is not the new born to run. it is not born to run if it was written by a bi trans woman instead of a cis man. they are two very different songs in terms of sound and tone, and even theme-wise they run parallel to each other rather than down the same road.
a lot of ethel's music draws from/can be compared to a lot of bruce's songs, especially on his nebraska album, but i'm not seeing where people are getting the born to run comparisons from. if anything, american teenager reminds me of born in the usa if it was sung by the narrator's next-door-neighbor, a secondhand account of the suffering springsteen explores in first person in born in the usa.
also like. both of these songs can stand on their own just fine. a thing can be good on it's own without being compared to another thing.
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still thinking about peter pan and wendy
i really did genuinely enjoy a lot of the movie and thought that the majority of the updates they made to the story felt not just natural but necessary
and the biggest thing that i feel this adaptation gets right is something i haven't really seen in any other version of the story: the protagonist is wendy
not peter, regardless of what the title says
it's absolutely, unequivocally, indisputably about wendy
this is her story. her adventure. her journey. and the movie never loses sight of that for a single moment.
the other characters exist to serve her character growth, which revolves around her fear of change: peter is what happens when you refuse to evolve past childhood; hook is what happens when you let resentment stunt your growth in adulthood; and tiger lily is what happens when you accept change as a natural part of life and a chance to determine your own future (aka you become extremely cool). it's through interacting with all of these people that wendy finds a resolution to her fears.
and honestly i think recontexualizing these characters in this way is really brilliant. it feels like a logical evolution of the source material, as though the pieces were meant to fit together like this all along. and i for one find it refreshing.
hhhhhhhhh and like i feel like there's so much more that could be said and analyzed in regard to neverland itself as a metaphor for escapism, the place you run to when you want time to stop, where the story quite literally never changes, and again how this relates to wendy's desire to retreat into the fantasies of her childhood as a coping mechanism for her anxieties. but i don't have the mental capacity for that right now so i'm going to stop now
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disney call prince adam by his actual name instead of continuing to dehumanize him by only ever calling him 'the beast' when the entire point of his story was how he grew and changed and turned from a shitty spoiled prince who was horrible to everyone around him into a person capable of compassion and empathy and giving love and receiving love and became a good person challenge, level: impossible, apparently
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Are you still doing the asking about batb headcanons? If so what are some lumipapa headcanons you got?
Lmao yes my batb headcanon asks are always open, *cough* *cough* even when I go off the deep end about a different hyperfixation...
Lumiere is a soft touch. It is very easy to win him over with puppy eyes, on the rare occasion he wouldn't tell the kids yes right away.
Lum likes to be the fun parent, but he also gets a little jealous when the kids feel more comfortable going to his partners for more serious stuff instead of him. He never lets that jealousy show in front of them, but he spends a lot of time thinking about what he can do to bridge that gap.
Ok technically before he's a dad, but Lum becomes the biggest worrier ever when preparing for a baby on the way. No, he doesn't get much better after the first time.
I have more specific thoughts relating to some very very au fan kids, but this is the general stuff that I think still applies lol!
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