Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

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adrianestpierre:

Gaston really is the most terrifying Disney villain because he could be anyone in the world.

Later he convinces the whole town to set up his wedding with the knowledge that the would-be bride would be thrown into it. Everyone finds his creepy-ass tactics as cute and “boys will be boys” esque. So yeah, he is terrifying.

Yeah, the truly scary thing about Beauty and the Beast isn’t that Gaston exists, but that society fucking loves him. People who deride the movie by saying it’s about Stockholm Syndrome are ignoring that it’s actually about the various ways that truly decent people get othered by society. People don’t trust the Beast because of the way he looks, which only feeds his anger issues and pushes him further away. Gaston isn’t the only one who criticizes Belle for being bookish, either; the whole town says there must be something wrong with her. And her father gets carted off to a mental asylum for being just a little eccentric.

Howard Ashman, who collaborated on the film’s score and had a huge influence on the movie’s story and themes, was a gay man who died of AIDS shortly after work on the film was completed. If you watch the film with that in mind, the message of it becomes clear. Gaston demonstrates that bullies are rewarded and beloved by society as long as they possess a certain set of characteristics, while nice people who don’t are ostracized. The love story between Belle and the Beast is about them finding solace in each other after society rejects them both.

Notice how the Beast reacts when the whole town comes for him. He’s not angry, he’s sad. He’s tired. And he almost gives up because he has nothing to live for. But then he sees that Belle has come back for him, and suddenly he does. In the original fairy tale, the Beast asks Belle to marry him every night, and the spell is broken when she accepts. In the Disney movie, he waits for her to love him, because he cannot love himself. That’s how badly being ostracized from society and told that you’re a monster all your life can fuck with your head and make you stop seeing yourself as human.

Society rewards the bullies because we’ve been brought up to believe that their victims don’t belong. That if someone doesn’t fit in, then they have to be put in their place, or destroyed. And this movie demonstrates that this line of thinking is wrong. It’s so much deeper than a standard “be yourself” message, and that’s why it’s one of my favorite Disney movies.

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astrid-v:

hi-everyone-this-is-anna:

grounderbellamy:

grounderbellamy:

I have to say something about this gifset, because people completely misunderstood why I giffed it. Everyone tagging this “anti Ward” and calling him a “serial killer” as if this scene proves how horrible he always was. Indeed, I made this gifset to show how Ward had always been this deadly and lethal, it wasn’t a new trait of the “true” Hydra traitor Ward.

People liked to woobify him in season 1 and view him as a grumpy kitty with a gun, when the reality of the situation was that Ward was a specialist. He was trained to be as lethal and deadly as possible by S.H.I.E.L.D. (remember that he went into the Academy as a young man—YES, he attended the Operations academy and was trained by S.H.I.E.L.D.) And he is good at his job. But people conveniently forgot this fact, and then were suddenly horrified when his true allegiances were revealed, as if he had SUDDENLY become a killer and wasn’t one all along (hint: he always was and the show never hid this fact from us!) Him playing board games with the Team and scrunching his face never took away this part of him.

However, the most important thing to understand with this gifset: Ward asks Coulson if he wants him to cross off the Rising Tied. Ward is not mentally impaired, he knows what is proper social etiquette and what is appropriate to say/ask. If Ward is offering to assassinate someone for Coulson, it means THAT WAS PART OF HIS JOB. THIS SCENE IS EVIDENCE THAT WARD HAD CROSSED PEOPLE OFF FOR S.H.I.E.L.D. BEFORE. What you cannot see is Maria Hill’s reaction to Ward’s statement—which is no reaction. This is not weird for her because Ward is simply asking about a legitimate part of his job.

I made this gifset because once Ward was revealed as Hydra, everyone hated him and called him a serial killer because he killed the people that Hydra told him to. And yet, he did the same for S.H.I.E.L.D. No one had a problem with Ward’s murdering when it was done in the name of S.H.I.E.L.D.

And that is ultimately my issue with the hypocrisy of this fandom. Perhaps I shouldn’t have tried to be cute with the reaction gif, because now everyone is misunderstanding and falling victim to their own hypocrisy.

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Yes, that!

On the same note, no one has a problem with Coulson & Co killing in the name of Shield. Where was the outrage when Coulson stormed the Guest House and had two guards shot that were only doing their job (and allied to Shield). Where was the moral outrage when Skye assassinated Donnie in cold blood.

How much blood do you think May has on her hands. Or Lance Hunter, the mercenary. Do you kid yourself into believing their victims all deserved it and it were all morally justified killings?

And I’m a huge Clint and Natasha fan but fandom really tends to romanticize their jobs, or forget what the word “assassin” really means. You lie and you kill in the service of liars and killers.

This fandom is full of hypocrites.

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commanderholly:

becausebirds:

Apparently owls melt in direct sunlight.

I can’t even handle this

No wonder they’re nocturnal.

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