#simba’s rambles

[simbaurl]

being at disney world is crazy because… nobody knows im simba the lion king

#simba’s rambles #roar tag #fictionkin #otherkin #therian

[meraki-yao]

Ok after that Lion King rant I'm here to add a part two of my Firstprince Simba Nala parallel because BOY DO I LOVE FINDING PARALLELS

We have the Bedroom Eyes TM

and then there's pouncing

(the lion king gif is a little slower than it actually is in the movie but you get the idea, also in the video Simba makes a ... sound when he hits the ground which baby me didn't not notice but 19.5 year old me noticed and ... doesn't know what to think)

And then we have... yeah I don't know how to name this one but you see the point

gif from tylerposey

Well I'm happy to know that my taste in ships has never ever changed 😂

#rwrb #red white and royal blue #rwrb movie #taylor zakhar perez #nicholas galitzine #alex claremont diaz #henry hanover stuart fox #henry fox mountchristen windsor #firstprince #rwrb parallels #rwrb rambles #the lion king 1994 #simba #nala #simba x nala #finding all the gifs took me way too much time

[yonemurishiroku]

Jason definitely bites Nico's cheek at some point I stand by what I said.

#after nico settles down he gains some meat and his cheeks just fill out and it's bitable. excuse u Jason's just a wolfboi #Feral or not Jason definitely bites his cheek at least ONCE #sometimes he just 'gnaw' at it like playfully i mean #it doesn't hurt as much as it tickles/ is messy tho. like when u bite at a baby's cheeks. this time he does leave a tooth print bc nico's s #is just so pale. hazel sees it. sees him doing it and the print after and flips bc 'wth jason??". but nico thinks it's cute #ya know that mental image of jason holding nico up by the armpit like freaking simba and then bite his cheek #im dead bye #nico di angelo #pjo #hoo #toa #yone rambling #percy jackson and the olympians #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo #jason grace #jasico #platonic jasico

[slxthserenade]

In a modern AU, Claude would call Dimitri ‘Simba’ and Dimitri would call Claude ‘Bambi’.

#fe3h #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #claude von riegan #dimiclaude #no but also tell me dimitri wouldn’t be a simba kinnie #father died because of a trusted family member #was excited to be king until the Accident #strayed from his goals and duties onto a path that isn’t his #brought back on track by the suffering of his people although he doesn’t consider himself worthy as king #becomes a great king ! #claude gave him a whole personality analysis on why he calls him simba #dimitri’s reasoning was that claude likes deer and bambi is cute #al rambling

[theriu]

The Lion King but in the ocean. Simba and fam are orcas. The hyenas are sharks (just as unfairly maligned). Zazoo is a parrotfish and Rafiki is a goofy octopus. Scar has a wicked scar from a boat propeller. Mufasa dies after pushing his son out of the path of the international yacht race.

#the lion king #the orca king #simba #timon and pumbaa #cant decide what timon and pumba should be someone clever think of something funny #random #river rambles

[simbasomba]

*sighhh* I wanna post more about my ocs and their lore but I feel like their lore is unfinished so I’m too embarrassed to post it *sighhhhhhh*

#sigh. #bitter rambles!! #Simba ramblez!! #sighs dejectedly while looking to the floor shoulders drooping and dragging my feet as I walk #sob

[wind-becomes-lightning]

Mufasa voice: Listen, my son, fandom should only be experienced through a highly curated timeline and friends in specified discord servers.

Simba voice: But what about tumblr character and ship tags or twitter threads?

Mufasa voice: Never go there.

#nisi rambles #THE DEEPER YOU GO THE MORE MONSTERS YOU WILL FIND #STAY IN THE LIGHT SIMBA STAY IN THE LIGHT #ITS NOT GOING TO BE FUN TO FIND WHAT YOU MIGHT FIND MY SON

[larsisfrommars]

Simba Is A Good Dad, to BOTH his Cubs, Actually.

So I’m about to rant about some shit that nobody is gonna care about considering it’s about an almost 20 year old movie and a cartoon that’s technically over(?) but I need to get it out of my system

One of the coldest takes (in my opinion) on the internet I’ve seen since dabbling in the TLK/TLG fandom is that Simba isn’t a good dad to Kiara, hypothetically compared to Kion his younger son especially.

Granted he’s not a perfect dad, nobody is, and I mean, he’s got some big shoes to fill regarding Mufasa as a king and as a father. Then again, we never got the chance to see him really mess up because he never had the chance to see Simba grow up or the challenges that come with that tragically.

But like, Kiara is like under 10 years old at the TLK2. He’s protective of her then, sends Timone and Pumbaa to watch her (like Sarabi sent Zazu, not really that different).

She deliberately loses them and almost gets eaten by crocodiles and encounters someone who very well might’ve killed/kidnapped her given the opportunity, Zira.

Then the scene that follows mirrors the scene from TLK where his father chastised him for putting himself in unnecessary danger and gives him a narratively potent lesson about the Circle of Life.

He overreacts a bit at the prospect of Kiara being out in danger. But the thing is he doesn’t do it for no reason. Yes there’s past trauma there from his childhood, but because of the Outlanders the Pridelands aren’t as safe as they were when Simba was a cub.

Kiara doesn’t look for trouble, trouble finds her because there are factions willing and able to exploit the fact she’s Simba’s only heir (especially with Kion absent). Both times Kiara went out on her own the Outlanders used her against him and she almost died the first time. Even though he freaks out initially and is like “no more hunts for you!” he still lets her go out alone with Kovu.

He doesn’t know what the audience (or Kiara) knows about Kovu. His worst fears were confirmed and his reaction to Zira (and seemingly Kovu as well) using Kiara to get to him was to protect her. He’s ultimately in the wrong and is stubborn, but he does learn in the end and apologizes to Kovu for misjudging him instead of doubling down. He’s an okay dad and becomes a better one by the end of the film.

So how does this relate to Kion? Well the arguement I’ve seen is Simba not being as protective/showing favoritism to Kion over Kiara in TLG.

I strongly disagree. I think Kiara and Kion are very different children with very different responsibilities. Plus by TLG they’re both older than Simba or Kiara at the beginning of their films.

Kiara is princess regent, the next in line to the Pridelands throne, this a bigger target than Kion, a bigger target who also has more complex responsibilities.

In the TLG pilot, Simba is about as overprotective and mistrustful of Kion as he’d been with Kiara, he still lets him play, he’s an older cub and isn’t alone (because Bunga).

Then it turns out Kion has the Roar of The Elders, and has an entire group of friends he’s assembled and travels with. Not only does tradition (something Simba holds in VERY high regard) demand his son lead The Lion Guard, he also has a group of friends who can and do protect him. He’s not going around all alone with no protection (be it ancestral gifts or allies) picking fights with Hyenas just because he wants to.

I’m almost certain that had Kiara been the one with the Roar of The Elders, Simba would have a hard time justifying keeping her cooped up. And as we can see, Kiara isn’t quite as cooped up (even in TLK2) as people tend to project.

They’re different kids with different needs, personalities, and Royal duties. Simba, in my opinion, reacts pretty reasonably (if not perfectly) to each of those individual cubs given the circumstances. Parenting isn’t easy, especially if you’ve got trauma and there’s a lot at stake.

TL:DR, cut Simba a break, he’s doing his best, and his best really isn’t all that bad, damn.

#the lion king #the lion king 2 simba's pride #the lion guard #tlk #tlk2 #tlg #simba #Kiara lion king #Kion lion king #Disney #meta #meta analysis #character analysis #disney meta #disney analysis #Lars rambles

[aashiqui-aashiqui]

anyone wanna see a cat

#my rambles #shoutout to my family friends i love their cat and i just met simba

[judasisgayriot]

literally so glad I don’t have twitter or tiktok… if I’m meant to see something I’ll see it on tumblr as god intended

#sounds scary out there. that’s tiktok simba you must never go there #anni rambles

[life-in-toontown]

Y’know one tiny nitpick that I feel conflicted again in The Lion King 2 is the design of Kovu’s scar

Like of course it’s obvious why they decided to make it look like Scar’s scar (lol) and I do love that they did that…buuuuut at the same time it bothers me that considering how Zira slashed him, there’s no way he would just have one single scar like that.

I’ve seen fans draw redesigns where he has multiple scars on his eye that look more accurate to what scars from being slashed by a lion would look like and I’ve considered drawing him like that from now on but at the same time I love the symbolism behind him having the same Scar that Scar had…auuuuggghhh

#like that part during his exile where he looks at his reflection in the water and it changes to scar is just *chefs kiss* #anyway sorry for rambling about a dumb lion king nitpick I randomly remembered at 4 in the morning #disney #the lion king #the lion king 2 #the lion king 2: simba's pride #kovu

[simbaurl]

ive gotta get a job again so i can fund my tlk merch spending addiction

#I LOVE COLLECTING !!!!!!! #but also i need to save money for IMPORTANT THINGS #what do you mean i cant have 30 plushies of myself #and buy as many pins and toys as i want #simba’s rambles

[meraki-yao]

I just realized this moment in RWRB:

has the same energy as this moment in the original Lion King

(couldn't find a GIF for the first part of the Lion King scene where Simba drags Nala into the water but yeah you get the idea)

Like, nearly the same thing happens, Alex/Simba pranks Henry/Nala by getting them wet in one way or another, they both come up laughing, and Henry/Nala affectionately shoves Alex/Simba

And oh my God I think that's so freaking adorable, especially since Simba and Nala was like, my first ship ever (I watched the original Lion King on repeat everyday as a kid to the point where I could quote nearly every line)

#rwrb #red white and royal blue #rwrb movie #firstprince #alex claremont diaz #taylor zakhar perez #henry fox mountchristen windsor #henry hanover stuart fox #nicholas galitzine #the lion king #the lion king 1994 #simba #nala #simba and nala #rwrb thoughts #rwrb rambles #parallels #this is so cute come on #the two pairs dynamic don't parallel #but i wonder if i can find more paralleling moments #seriously I stand by this but lion king is a god tier animation movie

[devilsrecreation]

#ain’t no way piga would let his son get brainwashed into trying to assasinate Simba #he’d actually be on kiburi’s side up until that point tbh #oc rambling #oc #tlg #the lion guard

[princekirijo]

I can live happy now I finally saw The Lion King musical :']

#i mean i could die happy too but im trying to be more positive 🫡 #but god it was amazing #it was the west end version too but they're doing shows in dublin atm #i got the tickets as a birthday present :] me and my mam went to see it #and omfg #i cried within the first two minutes 💀 tlk is so special to me 🚶 #but man the costumes the dancing the choreography EVERYTHING #they were all phenomenal singers too the dude playing mufasa was incredible #and nala doing shadowland (i think that was the name of the song i hadn't heard it before) #and god the remember who you are seen was incredible #the mix of costumes and puppets as well... i could ramble about this muscial for hours... #everything i hoped it would be and more #i think my fav scene was the he lives in you (both mufasa and simba scene + the remember who you are versions) and endless night #i was always sad in the film that adult simba never got his own solo number but he did this time and boy did he deliver :']

[simbasomba]

“So it’s your state test today, who’s excited-!” No one

#bitter rambles!! #simba ramblez!! #i’m going to explode #gonna kill someone