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    I’m no Disney expert but Belle is the only worthy Princess of the bunch

    She wanted to pursue knowledge, not a boy or just fun; she dropped everything to save her dad instead of causing his death or dethronement; she was fully aware how disgusting Gaston was regardless of appearance; she was seduced by books not riches; and yes, she was ready to ride the beast

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    Just like how Shek didn’t know that Fiona would turn into a SBBW ogre. He was prepared to wear an angry skinny white girl like a condom

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      Shrek 2 takes it further with Fiona actively choosing to let the magic wear off so her boy toy would turn back into an ogre rather than settle for a twunk rest of her life.

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    I wouldn’t blame Belle if she was disappointed and called it off.

    Tales can be cruel:

    And people underestimate big dommy furries:

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    That’s like, the moral of the whole movie is that she didn’t judge him for his appearance and wasn’t expecting a prince. I figured this was well known.

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      That’s the interpretation from the modern perspective on relationships. The tale is from a time where women (well, more like girls to be exact) were married off without any say of their own, and the tale was supposed to tell them “hey, we know the guy we’re forcing you to marry seems like a hairy monster, buuuuut if you can look past that he might be nice actually!”

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        But in the Disney movie which the picture is referencing, it’s not a forced marriage, which is the version I think most people think of.

        To me, the original tales all felt like the Murphy’s Law of storytelling. While they are the originals and are much more mature material, I honestly feel the vast majority of Disney adaptations (I’m talking classic 2d series run) are better at teaching the lessons to a modern audience than the original stories. Times change and art often reflects this.

        Sadly, the pendulum has swung too far the other way and we’re remaking material in a span of time that the lessons haven’t changed all that much. That’s why you can go back to pretty much all eras of film and get valuable lessons from it because the lessons all still apply. It’s just that much of a new medium.

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        I have to imagine there’s a meme or comic of Bella being all super excited ready to bang becoming disappointed once he transforms back into a human, but I wouldn’t know how to search for it without having to sift through piles of rule 34 to find one. I’m not brave enough.

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          Now that I think about it, I certainly was disappointed. He was a hot muscular beast until he turned into a cookie cutter long haired twink. Should have been a clue.

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      Now that you mention it, I wonder what that says about the shift of sexual morals. The original French tale was written in 1740.

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            For there’s no man in town half as manly,

            Perfect, a bear so-far-gone,

            You can ask each of Tom, Dick and Stanley,

            And they’ll tell you whose top they pre-fer to be on

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              Gaston has topped every willing villager behind the local tavern but i have zero problem believing he still intends to marry Belle and have 12 kids. He’s a hunting lodge bear but his sequel orientation is dominant. Doesn’t matter who.

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    Presumably she wasn’t just prepared to ride the beast, she actively wanted to be ruined by it.

    She was probably disappointed when the transition happened. She thought she was going to be raw-dogged by the monster.

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    Can’t find another source for this tweet from either Twitter or Reddit, but here’s a screenshot of this tweet by Twitter user @hiimbobbi:

    Personally, Belle was not fooling me or anyone. When the Beast changed into a human, I saw that look on her face. That was DISAPPOINTMENT.

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    TBF, the stories that Disney’s been strip-mining for generations’re crazy dark, originally.

    1. Sleeping Beauty woke to find she’d had two children, and now they were teens nearly as old as she was when she fell asleep. 🤮
    2. The Little Mermaid was double-crossed by a human princess last minute, and was turned into seafoam (died). 🥹
    3. ad nauseum…
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        They’re so clearly puritanical propaganda from way back that I’m consistently disappointed with modern society for slurping up Di$ney’s candy-coated versions that instill 99% of the same bullshit: stay at home forever, don’t defy your father/mother, royals are the magic cure-all, you’re born special (the world just doesn’t know it yet), etc.

        Between that steady stream of insidious hopium in the communal well and Religion® still holding global sway, I honestly have very little hope we’ll avoid extinction by our own hands, NGL. It’s not an if, it’s a when. 😄🫣😶