What’s with the newfound fear of little girls wanting to be princesses?
If your five-year-old starts saying she wants to be a princess, tell her ‘princess’ is a political position and that she has a responsibility to look out for her kingdom. Say you’ll be her royal advisor and help her improve her stuffed animal subjects’ standard of living.
See THAT’S how you empower little girls. Not by taking away something they like, but showing them how what they like can be empowering.
twilight but bella is accidentally super stoned every time edward does something weird and supernatural so she never actually notices or figures it out by herself, but she points it out every time and scares the hell out of him
the cullens have had several code reds, all because edward’s new lab partner keeps brushing up against him unintentionally and going “woah, dude. you’re like, super cold”
eventually, after months of them hanging out and her repeatedly missing key things he gradually makes more and more obvious
he is literally sitting underneath the sun and sparkling, and she just squints at him, gives him a silly thumbs up, and then a high five shortly after
he just gives up and tells her
edward being so fed up with keeping the secret from bella so they’re lounging in the sun, with edward just waiting for it to click, for her to realise that he’s not human.
bella spends so long looking at him with edward completely frozen in place, waiting to see what her reaction will be. he’s prepared for fear in her eyes, for her to scream, to distance herself from him or possibly run away. what he is not prepared for is her lazily trailing her finger down the length of his forearm and breathing out a single word. “pretty.”
she then falls back on the grass with her eyes closed enjoying the sun but edward is so outraged that he springs to his feet, not even bothering to move at a human pace and throws her words back in her face as if they were an affront. “pretty?? bella, this is the skin of a killer.”
bella just snorts, barely opening her eyes to look at him “okay, edgelord,” there’s a lazy smile on her face but she doesn’t even bother to sit up before she continues, “edward, seriously, that’s the skin of every teenage girl in the 90s and i admire your bravery in attempting to bring back body glitter but don’t oversell it.”
The real problem with books-turned-movies isn’t “omg they didn’t include every single word in the book” it’s “omg they completely overlooked the main theme, threw out any significant allegories, took away all the emotional pull, an turned it into a boring action movie with a love triangle in it”
the hunger games is a really good example bc on the base textual level of stuff like what happens and the order of events they got it mostly right but they also
whitewashed half or more of the cast
removed multiple canonical disabilities in main characters
marketed it as a love triangle
basically did literally everything the villains of the book did which made it super fucking obvious
14th January 2019
Reblogged From broody-creampuffs
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