‘Brave’: Merida remains the girl you know and love — EXCLUSIVE | EW.com

molly23:

Twelve days and over 200,000 virtual signatures later (including Cinderella Ate My Daughterauthor Peggy Ornstein and Snow White and the Huntsman actress Lily Cole) reports started to surface that the Disney Store had quietly taken down all banner images of the thinner, more glamorous Merida, and replaced them with the familiar freckled-face and wild-haired version that we got to know in the film. And petitioners were clear that they wanted it to remain that way.

Okay, guys, now that we’ve fixed the whole “Sexed Up Princess Merida” thing (and congrats on that, everyone), is it too late to get to work on the fact that Mulan’s canonical “princess” outfit is STILL her “being dragged unwittingly to the matchmaker” outfit? the outfit in which she sings her whole Want Song about playing a socially constructed role vs. letting down her family? Like, I get that that movie came out in 1998 and that Reddit and Tumblr literally did not exist for us to complain about it and band together, but can we just retroactively get on that?

Mulan getting put into and subsequently shedding the matchmaker costume is kind of a big thematic thing in the movie; the same has been said recently for the frizz in Merida’s hair, or her freckles, or her figure, etc etc. Messing up the matchmaker deal is the start of Mulan’s personal journey in which she learns that she’s kind of an outsider when roleplaying either as woman or as a man, but feels most as home (and gets the most shit done) when she acts as comes naturally to her. So it’s still WAY depressing that the goddamned MATCHMAKER OUTFIT is the official Disneyland Costume Person outfit for Mulan.

We’ve got years of backlogged pre-Tumblr outrage to get out of our system, people. Let’s charge!

adventures in blunderland: Describe yourself in 3 television characters...

aliceandstuff:

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doctorhighfive:

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bronxcheer:

doyourwardance:

dyinggod:

Hank Hill, Tina Belcher, Larry David.

Louise Belcher, Elaine Benes, Brenda Walsh

Gene Belcher, Artie the producer, Laura the receptionist.

Peggy Olson, Hannah Horvath, Jeremy (Sports Night)

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RiYL: Episode 004: John Roderick

riylcast:

I’m glad, of course, that the world decided not to end back in December. If if had, however, I’d like to think that, wherever I ended up, I’d take some solace in the idea that John Hodgman was surviving somewhere, slightly worse for wear, but otherwise unscathed, subsisting primarily on…