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Streaming companies are the landlords of media. You will rent in perpetuity, and never actually own anything.

Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care

Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck

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It’s just. It’s very important to me that the way that Mirabel saved her family wasn’t by catching the candle in time before it was snuffed out.

Mirabel saved her family not by undoing the prophecy, nor by gaining the gift of her own she’d always wanted, but by this: Offering empathy, words of affirmation, and a hug.

With Luisa, with Isabela, and then with Abuela, we see this continual pattern of relational healing: Mirabel meets them where they are, finally seeing the world through their eyes for the first time. (Luisa’s breaking under tremendous stress, Isabela’s stifled growth from perfectionism, Abuela’s lifelong wail of grief after losing Pedro.) She then verbally validates what they’re going through, and they hug, and they now know that she sees them and loves them still. It’s just so gentle and kind and good.

And even though she does all this, beginning her family’s journey towards healing, Casita falls anyway– because it has to. It has to fall in order for the family to see themselves, and their brokenness, for what they truly are. No more gifts, no more glamour. The miracle that had initially been their refuge became their tomb over time, because Abuela idolized it and lost sight of what was most important: Her family whom she’d been given the miracle to protect.

It’s so significant that the magic doesn’t get salvaged just in the nick of time– no, it has to die and be reborn in order to truly be saved. Like Mirabel says, “we need a new foundation”. And the family has to build that new, better foundation from the ground up, together, in order to learn how to thrive with their magic instead of living burdened by it.

And it would be so, so tempting for Mirabel to delight in her family losing their gifts and finally being on her level. After the way she’s felt overshadowed and forgotten all those years, it would be justified. But she doesn’t do that, not even a little bit, because Mirabel Madrigal is “patient and steadfast and steady”, and she loves her family even more than she longs for her own gift. And that just– wow. What strength of character this girl has.

The family is right, in the end– the real gift, the real miracle, is Mirabel and her soft heart and incredible capacity for empathy.

Mirabel is such a lovely character and I’m still so delighted by her and her story. What a creative and beautiful portrayal of intergenerational trauma and healing.

If you said yes to the first 3 please explain in the tags what animal it was and what was the damage

thinking about pinocchio makes me feverish so

I feel like pinocchio's trust in the stepmother is largely contributed to him never having had a maternal figure before her, and although I feel like that's obviously a big part of it, I also think - how could pinocchio *not* trust the stepmother when she fits into his world ? and I'm not even referring to her world eating shit, I mean she does not differ so greatly from what he's already been taught to be fundamental truths. He can only be manipulated with things that are self-indulgent, so he doesn't recognise what she does as manipulation. Bad things will happen to him if he goes against authority, and it will have been deserved. He was taught his instincts are inherently selfish and he shouldn't listen to them. The only difference between her cruelty and the cruelty of the world he knows is that she's given him the means to defend himself.

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It’s that typical story all over again: you are a princess. You get kidnapped, some random guy saves you, and then your father gets you married to him. No. Not this Time. You have watched a million versions of the same random guy beat a demon and become your husband even though you don’t love him, so this time, you kill the demon. You kill your father, the king. It doesn’t matter to you… After all, he’s only a program in the video game that is your life. 

You will stop at nothing to break this game.