Disney Rapunzel - Tumblr Posts

Sorry, but I hate how Disney just decides to make everyone look like Rapunzel instead of modeling characters that actually look distinguishable.

Like seriously there are so many beautiful women out there:

Really dark skinned women

Albino women

Women with vitiligo (I added this guy too because he looks sick)

Women with unconventional (yet beautiful) facial features

Women with noses that don’t fit in the beauty standards:

Women with acne, feckles, birthmarks, scars, etc

Women with different eyebrows (or none!)

And there is honestly so much more I could add, but this post is getting long, it is a shame Disney doesn´t want variety. If you take a look at their concept art, there is some creativity, like Asha´s original pointy chin, but then they just ignore it and change the final draft to look like Rapunzel.

At this point representation isn´t even the main problem, cause if it depends on Disney they will make princesses of all etnicities that can be capitalized but all will look like frickin Rapunzel.

I know that there are many tumblr posts already talking about Disney's Rapunzel and how she traumatized she is, how terrible Mother Gothel is, etc etc. Or how Disney's Tangled is a perfect representation of gaslighting and emotional abuse, etc etc.

I want to add my observation. Anyone noticed how small her dress fits her?

She's a growing woman, but her long sleeves are too short for her arms and her petticoat sticks out of her skirt.

I was gonna point out that her skirt is too short for historical accuracy but then I rewatched the Kingdom Dance/ visit scene. All the villager women have skirts that are either above the ankles, like Rapunzel, or modestly ground-length. All their sleeves are either short puffs, rolled up, or modestly long wrist-length. BUt never Rapunzel's length.

I'm not gonna critique historical accuracy on fashion or pinpoint what time era the movie takes place in. That's not my expertise.

But I can clearly tell that it's not the correct size.

There may be a chance that Mother Gothel wanted to limit the budget of what they have, so Rapunzel made do with scraps of fabric and her sewing skills.

I propose some headcanons. (I personally don't think the Tangled Series as the same universe because of some continuity errors on the location of the flower. The main thing that bugged me was the boat ride in the movie beginning, which contradicted with a night's worth horse ride to a mountain in the series' pilot.)

After Rapunzel came back to the castle and got adjusted to her new home and long-lost family. Her family introduced her to the latest fashion. They try to buy her some new dresses. She still sews so they buy her some fabrics.

THey had to tell her that her dress is too small and such. So Maybe she sews herself a new dress that's comfortable enough for her and of proper fitting. If she wants her sleeves shorter, that's fine. But now she knows what's supposed to be the correct size for her.

She ROCKS with freckles. This should be canon fr

Gave Rapunzel more freckles because yaaaasss!! (>w<)

Did the same with Anna a while back.