So I Was Making My Mom Watch Encanto Because Im Actually Obsessed Now, And She Made The Most Obvious

so I was making my mom watch Encanto because I’m actually obsessed now, and she made the most obvious most glorious point about mirabels gift. It’s like mirabel didn’t rlly get a gift at the end, she just brought the magic back but there was no animal talk or super strength. I thought that was fine and cool because Mirabel saved them so she’s still the greatest. But then my mom said “oh it’s because she’s taking over grandmas position” Abuela didn’t have her own gift she carried the miracle, so it’s being passed on to Mirabel so they can keep the Encanto!!! Was this obvious?? Maybe. Or maybe it’s an epiphany. Either way it makes the movie 10x better for me.

I’m becoming a marvel fan…

Started watching them “in order” and I’m mclovin it. I already saw like maybe 4 movies but now that I’m finally going through all of them and really seeing the story come together I’m obsessed. So yeah, to all marvel fans, I have joined your ranks. Thanks for having me

A version of the ugly duckling, but it actually is a goose and instead of growing up to be a beautiful swan and proving the other ducks wrong, it grows up to be a goose and chomps on all the ducks with its goose teeth.

Judge and you shall be judged.

This post just put in on words Oml

L + ratio + you only consume media to interact with the fandom + no critical thinking + no understanding of the themes + you force characters into tropes they don't fit into + you only care about shipping

when the url matches perfectly,,,

Soulmates.

I love being on riordan hate tumblr. I love all his series growing up, and as I’ve gotten older it feels more and more like he took something we loved and shit on it. When in reality we’re just better able to analyze the shitty writing/author that was already there. Similar to Harry Potter with JK the authors of these books no longer have claims to their stories.

being egyptian and reading the kane chronicles is so wild because it says that the egyptian gods migrate to wherever the center of western civilization is, implying that ancient egypt was a western civilization or that egypt's a was, and not an is. like why is this non-white civilization which manifests today in a real life country supposedly a western civilization but the actual people whose heritage is tied to that civilization are excluded from it? why is a white british woman (a WHITE BRITISH WOMAN!) the living incarnation of isis - the mother of egypt? there's no cultural nuance. there's no consideration. the image of the egyptian mother, through isis or otherwise, is something so fucking important in egyptian culture, and to have it represented by a british woman - a descendant of those who bastardized and stole our heritage- is just insane to me. perhaps an interesting analysis of post colonial egypt in a meta sense, but that's for egyptian artists to dissect, not riordan. and that's only one thing. egypt - the actual egypt from which everything in the series originates) in that series is so mocked. i remember at some point sadie and walt are walking through egypt and mock the fact that since the arabic language has no "p", they pronounce pepsi as bebsi. no respect. the very foundation of this series is based in racism, in colonial thinking, and, ultimately, white supremacy. why is zia, the only actual egyptian in the main cast, so irrelevant? so quiet and without agency? in a meta way, she's like egypt itself. i just wanted to bring this to light since a lot of rr crit focuses on the racism and homophobia present in pjo and hoo and mcga and toa- perfectly valid criticisms that are well deserved - but barely anyone talks about the inherent colonialist and racist foundations of the entirety of the kane chronicles, which is why i wanted to bring it to light. enjoy the series if you want, i'm not saying you're not allowed, but as long as we're criticizing riordan, let's criticize everything.