idk why young people knotting is seen as a loser or antisocial thing tbh when i do it in public people seem happy to see it and sometimes they even stop to talk to me about it it’s genuinely swret. okay now before i press post i want it to be known i noticed the typo just in the nick of time but decided to leave it anyway for the same reason some people keep the bullet that killed them as a memento of what couldve been for the rest of their lives
I’m watching Sleeping Beauty with subtitles and hearing aids for the first time and HOLY SHIT.
THIS IS WHAT I WAS MISSING???
They’re actually singing words when Aurora gets her gifts?? Not just sounds??
The sparkly noises when the fairies use their wands…
Oh, I love the fairies.
(I was Fauna as a kid, vague and always dressed in green)
… the little goblin henchmen have lines. Like, I knew they did? But I couldn’t understand them.
They have creaky deep little voices and I love them. 🥺
FAUNA FOLDED IN THE EGGS AND THEY CRACKED WHEN SHE LEANT ON THEM THATS THE FUCKING JOKE
THE OWL HOOTS.
I… I didn’t know that Aurora sings more than Once Upon a Dream.
Like, she has a little soprano solo beforehand…? I just thought she wandered about.
(Also side note, Phillip is hilarious and adorable and I’m gonna cosplay him)
The fairies are using their magic again and I am experiencing childlike wonder.
I FORGOT ABOUT THE FUCKING MINSTREL
Holy shit, holy shit the spinning wheel scene and the music.
I’m actually jumping and gasping and the back cellars ECHO
There’s a song. With words. When they’re putting people to sleep.
My fucking heroes.
Now I know why I wanted to be a knight.
Sorry didn’t liveblog the dragon fight because I was a four year old boy again.
Ok, I’m crying a little bit.
We had this film on REPEAT when I was a little kid and when I think of “Disney of my childhood” it’s Sleeping Beauty followed by Snow White, Alice in Wonderland, and Emperor’s New Groove so I am stupidly delighted that not only does it stand the test of my 21 years of memory, but 65 years since it was made.
Even happier after years of seeing this film get bashed by the internet over Aurora having “no agency” and few lines. She’s so expressive! She knows what she wants! Phillip wouldn’t have gotten anywhere without the fairies! The majority of speaking lines in this film have to belong to women!
Genuinely haven’t been this glued to a story in ages.
I’m sorry but if there is one thing the Tumblr left needs crucially, it’s the ability to celebrate.
I remember when marriage equality was called and there were waves of rainbows and love wins posts. When we successfully defeated Donald Trump, there was lukewarm relief, a reminder that you were only allowed one or maybe two days to celebrate and then it was back to work. That is if you were even a good person for voting Biden. We never did settle if he was better than Trump. (We did.). We didn’t celebrate student loan debt relief or any of the accomplishments of the Biden administration, or any of the times Trump was blocked, or other countries succeeding in keeping fascists out of office. Who cares if we had successes? It’s not good enough. Back to work!
And this anti-celebratory attitude stretches back to the past. On the 100th anniversary of female suffrage in America, we were reminded that not all women had the vote and so we weren’t allowed to celebrate. The only post I saw about Juneteenth was reminding us that there were enslaved people who were killed instead of freed and therefore celebrating the end of chattel slavery was wrong, and besides, we have prison labor so nothing really changed or got better and there’s nothing to celebrate anyway. Trans Day of Visibility comes with Trans Day of Remembrance so that people don’t fill the tags with hate crimes and death. So on and so forth. Nothing gets better. Nothing changes. Back to work!
So of course when we have a major setback, we fall apart and have to start frantic damage control. Frantic discourse ensues over how much people are allowed to unplug before it becomes bad and selfish. Yes, maybe you can have this one day off Mr. Cratchit but you better be here and miserable early the next morning. Like abusive bosses always insisting you squeeze out more, more, more, and any achievement is just proof you were lazy the other times and impetus for more work.
If we are never allowed to acknowledge any of our victories, how are we supposed to survive our defeats?
Good post, and as you touched upon, the problem is that celebration is seen as some kind of intentional ignoring of some issue. I remember when marriage equality became the law of the land and there were posts like, “Umm there are a bunch of states that still have these other discriminatory laws sooo it’s problematic if you’re celebrating right now :/“ This is an example of what tumblr does best: whatsboutism, and accusing people of malice so the person pointing the finger looks Socially Aware and righteous. It’s ridiculous for someone to go, “oh you’re celebrating A? BUT WHAT ABOUT B???” But people do it all the time, and they often do it as a cynical way to make themselves look good, like “see how much more enlightened I am because I’m pointing out that people are still suffering while you’re being ignorant by being happy?”
It both keeps everybody miserable, and it’s not actually enlightened at all. I remember so clearly when we defeated Trump, and there were posts with thousands of notes literally on the day the election was called scolding us for being happy. I hated those posts then, and considering the outright despair I’ve seen over the past 3 weeks since his re-election, I hate them more now. When people are shamed into not celebrating wins, the message becomes “these wins aren’t actually THAT important”, and then people take everything for granted until it’s too late. Again, I’m thinking of people who reblogged “don’t celebrate Trump losing!” posts getting a rude awakening 4 years later when he won again.
Sorry for the rambling, OP, but people on here seriously need to stop acting like we can’t celebrate when good things happen! And no one ever says that every problem on earth is solved now because x win happened, so people need to stop being dishonest with their “you’re ignoring B by celebrating A.”
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