#Lily and the lion

[princess-ibri]

I'd like to know; how do you think Don Bluth's Beauty and the Beast would have turned out? I wish everyone would have been able to watch it. Just what would have been though I am not really into this Beast's design maybe the Baboon design that Disney turned down?

Hey! Thank you for your patience I wanted to have time to give this ask a proper reply, with some pictures. Overall I think it would have done well in the way of becoming a cult classic, full of beautiful images and plenty of nightmare fuel but rather cluttered in the way that most Don Bluth films tend to be, something that definitely adds to their charm but keeps them from becoming as popular as the more streamlined Disney Renaissance movies they were competing with at the time.

In terms of plot I feel like it would have taken a lot of influence from the 1946 Jean Cocteau BatB movie, as well as some influences from the original Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve version, along with some of The Grimm Brothers and Abhorsen and Moe’s “The Singing Springing Lark/Lily and the Lion/East of the Sun West of the Moon” bits, as I will explain below.

I think the Cocteau influences would have been seen most in the primary look/atmosphere of the film, we can see a lot of his dark dreamlike Romantic influences in the clothing and set design of this poster in particular. The Beast and Belle’s clothes could have come straight out of the 1946 film.

This dark dreamlike atmosphere of that film would have worked quite well with Bluth’s style of filmography which tended towards that sort of Fever Dream Unreality in many ways. But of course we also have the abundance of side characters with their own small arcs (and animal sidekicks inexplicably wearing clothes) in the mix as well. We get most of our information about them and the themes of the film from this page:

From this we gain the main theme of the film ‘a thing must be loved before it is loveable’, and several names of our animal/fairy sidekicks. Below we can see Beauty with Nan the clairvoyant dog, with Otto the escape artist lizard on top of Nan. The bird on her finger could be Max the bird detective in a more realistic design then the one with him in the large hat, or possibly just a random bird to go with the random squirrels. Wether these characters would have been true animals with quirky traits or people transformed like the Beast I don’t know, though with Bluth’s other films to go off of I tend to believe they were likely just funky animals who would have used their skills to try and help Beauty unravel the mystery of the Beast and his cursed castle.

Try as I might I couldn’t find any depictions of the King Bats that were mentioned (fairly sure I have Queen Livia and the Wee Beasties though, we’ll get to that in a moment) so I wonder if they were later replaced with these wolves? They sound like they would have e been aligned with the villain in any case.

Here’s where we get to the ‘Singing Springing Lark/Lily and the Lion/East of the Sun West of the Moon’ influences I think would have been in the film. As we can see in the picture below we have Beauty and a very much human prince fleeing from the wolves on Pegusus back— in these versions of the BatB story the heroine is forced to go on a journey to rescue the prince from an evil princess, after his Beast initial curse is broken. She is usually aided by the Wind, riding its back to go and find him, and in the Grimm version the pair escape via Gryphon. It’s not to hard to imagine Don Bluth deciding to swap out a Gryphon for a more majestic and recognizable looking Pegasus for his lovers to escape on once they’ve been reunited.

And of course we have the villain of our story, who I’m pretty sure is meant to be this Queen Livia. I mean look at this lady, all deathly pale and decked out in villainous green, pretty sure that a crown on her head as well. In the original Villeneuve version the Prince is cursed into a Beast by a wicked fairy after he refuses to marry her, I could totally see this woman cursing people left and right. Add that to how the Prince in the sketch version below seems to be facing off against this sinister looking woman’s head and I think it’s a good guess to say that Bluth’s BatB would have had a similar premise.

I’ve also pulled out charters I’m very sure are meant to be Beauty’s father and sisters (the smaller head by the Father possibly being a sketch of their mother?) once more pointing to following the old traditional tale where Beauty is faced with opposition from her sisters as well.

We’ve also got a lot of sketches of what I’m assuming are the Wee Beasties, who are 1000% precursors to the Jitterbugs we later see in Thumbelina, along with some more butterfly like fairies, who could possibly be grouped in as a prettier type of Wee Beastie or just be fairies.

So yeah, I think it overall would have followed the tone of the Cocteau film, with some added animal and fairy sidekick shenanigans as Beauty tries to discover the secret of the Beast, eventually culminating in her discovering he’s been cursed by the evil Queen Livia who seeks to marry him. The climax would be that after Beauty has broken the Beat spell by professing her love he’s whisked away by Livia to her wolf guarded home base, and Beauty and her friends have to rescue him and defeat the evil Queen once and for all, with her and the Prince escaping via Pegasus to ride off into their happily ever after (oh and with his mask I’m thinking maybe Livia gives a masked ball or something to celebrate her wedding with the Prince and Beauty crashes it).

Per the Beasts design I dont really. Ind it so much. It is a bit close to the Disney one but honestly I still preorder a composite Beast over one based solely in one animal sorry 😅 But I did find some alternatives designs for him for you!

Some of these are straight up goblin-y I love it 😆

#don bluth #beauty and the beast #concept art #non disney #jean cocteau #Gabrielle Susanne de Villeneuve #east of the sun and west of the moon #the singing springing lark #Lily and the lion #animation #Don Bluth BatB #BatB #fairy tales #fairy tale adaptation #thumbelina

[fairytalemovies]

Bodo Wolf as prince Andreas in Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot (1979) and as prince Leonhard in Der Prinz hinter den sieben Meeren (1982).

Rest in peace, Bodo Wolf (1944-2023)

#schneeweißchen und rosenrot #snow white and rose red #der prinz hinter den sieben meeren #the prince beyond the seven seas #lily and the lion #the lady and the lion #the singing springing lark #the singing soaring lark

[marerittmarit]

There’s a lot of money in a lemonade stand around these parts!

#ace attorney #ace attorney investigations #miles edgeworth #kay faraday #trucy wright #comic for dadworthzine! #lion lilies zine #my art #MarArt

[lepetitdragonvert]

Tales from Tennyson told by Nora Chesson

Source : archive.org

1900

Artist : Frances Brundage

The Lily Maid

#alfred lord tennyson #alfred tennyson #1800 #the lily maid #lilies #lily #maid #arthurian legend #arthurian mythology #arthurian literature #children's literature #children's books #vintage illustration #old illustration #shield #bouclier #écu #lady #middle age #moyen âge #medieval #white flowers #flowers #lion #armoiries #crest #lis #lys #frances brundage

[sorenphelps]

Most Random Disney Classic AU Marauders for @polaroidcats

i wanted to draw them as animals and decided to go for The Lion King as none of them is canonically a lion, too bad it would make zero sense in TLK lore and actual biology-wise🤷🏻‍♀️ but thats why it’s an AU

#james potter #sirius black #remus lupin #harry potter #peter pettigrew #lily evans #severus snape #the lion king #disney au #fanart #art by lau #lau draws with a tablet

[weirdtinkerbellversion]

Dec 16. Prompt: Holiday. Word count: 141. @wolfstarmicrofic

“Pad! Moon! Wake. Up!”

Harry is jumping on their bed at an ungodly hour. Remus squints to see that it’s 6:00AM and it’s still dark outside. He nudges Sirius with his elbow under the covers.

“Before sunrise, he’s your godson,” he mumbles to his husband.

Sirius smiles and, without opening his eyes, wraps his arm around Harry’s little waist so he falls between them, and starts kissing him all over his face and hair so fast.

“Pad, stooppp. We need to get up. It’s chri’mas! There’s presents from Santa!”

He wriggles out of his godfather’s arms and starts bouncing again.

“Get. Up.”

“We’re coming, prongslet.”

They may be tired from setting up the presents all night (and being woken up so early) but they wouldn’t have it any other way. Creating happy holiday memories with Harry was all that mattered.

#Wolfstar raising Harry #A little background sadness about Lily and James not being there but they’re great goddads #Reference to a Lion King scene #Wolfstar #Wolfstar microfic

[phantomgrimalkin]

Remus nodded, hesitating before he returned the hug, and James gripped him tighter. 

“You remember, in fourth year, when we had the heat wave and you lot teased me for wearing long sleeves?” Remus asked against his shoulder.

“Yeah,” James said, puzzled. 

Remus gave a small huff of a laugh and James could hear the smile in his voice, “I had to use so many cooling charms. Regulus always wore silver rings, and we'd study together, and our hands would brush or he'd touch my arm and… and I didn't want him to stop, but the silver…”

“Oh, Moony…” James said with a soft laugh, thinking back a few years, when Remus was considerably more gangly and awkward, imagining him casting cooling charms just to let some boy touch his arm. 

“And I couldn't really ask for advice because how many people in Hogwarts wore a dozen real silver rings at all times?” Remus added.

“Oh, Merlin, I remember…” James said, “You did ask, vaguely, and I thought whoever it was… I told you to sit on the other side from the ring and look for times they weren't wearing any.”

Remus nodded.

“I have never seen Regulus without rings,” James groaned, breaking the hug so he could look at Remus.

“Not in public, no,” Remus agreed.

“Ugh, our poor Moony. How did that go?” James asked fondly, trying to remember. How had all of this happened under his nose? 

Remus looked down and blushed, “In our fifth year, he started wearing gold. A few months later he brought up that he knew I was a werewolf.”

James went very still, and looked at his friend for a long moment as those words sank in. He hadn’t paid enough attention to Regulus to notice when he’d changed from silver to gold. Truthfully, he hadn’t realized the wizard had until just now. 

James sucked in a breath, “That… that should have been when we accepted him.”

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#remus lupin #harry potter fanfiction #marauders #sirius black #regulus black #moonwater #regulus x remus #james potter #peter pettigrew #good peter pettigrew #lily evans #jilypad #jily #prongsfoot #heart of the lion

[rookflower]

Potential Thunderclan deputy candidates!

#watch it be none of these guys lmao #warrior cats #warriors #wc #thunderclan #lionblaze #ivypool #twigbranch #cinderheart #lilyheart #sparkpelt #spotfur #ivy is the obvious fandom favourite choice but im.. hesitant about it #personally my money is otherwise on twig or lily but i would like cinderheart a lot #and sparkpelt deserves something for all the bullshit writing she's put up with this arc #id like spotfur the most but she seems the least likely cause shes never had an apprentice #cant do lionblaze again... im not strong enough... (tho he could be an interesting conflict source maybe possibly idk?) #anyways! i need to redesign lion + twig again sometime bc lion just looks like pissed off brackenfur and i still dont like this twig design

[piratedllama-art]

Lion Lily Lore 🌺

Acrylic on canvas board

#piratedllama art #art #painting #acrylic #traditional art #tiger lily #lion skull #vulture culture #skull #animal skull #realism #acrylic painting #flowers

[remuslupininskirts]

I need Wolfstar recs! Please. I can never find good fics.

Wait give me a minute to compile.

*Me takes ages to get list then forgets about ask by accident*

Me: shit.

Okay here we go

Storms and stress

Sirius is a student at durmstrang and comes to hogwarts then meets the boys

Forever is a state of mind

Deaf dance choreographer remus with young teddy meets make-up artist sirius.

Red, White & Royal Annoyance

Rwrb au for wolfstar (the garden kiss)

Siriusly? The moon!? Okay i went through a period of really liking social media aus so this is another

Countermoves

Hunger games au.

Literally read anything by athenowl and you should be good so hears some of their other stuffs

Axe and sword

Royal au -athenowl

The secret garden

A secret garden au -athenowl

Okay i will stop with the athenowl love now

Turn on my charm

Oh wait another fuckin YouTuber au i promise i dont have a problem

.You’re my kaleidoscope

Raising teddy au after he was left on remus’s doorstep. James and sirius step up to the plate to help

The kitchens

Will you accept another royal au?

OKAY AND THE BEST FOR LAST. MY FAVOURITE SHIP AND SUB-FANDOM

Sweater weather

Ice hockey au. It has the best fandom ever around it with loads of other fics.

My favourites being written by @/fruitcoops

Who may or may not also be athenowl

Their fics are just crazy good okay.

#remus lupin #wolfstar #sirius black #remus x sirius #james potter #harry potter #hp marauders #james x lily #jily #rem’s asks #sweater weather lumosinlove #lumosinlove #coast to coast lumosinlove #the cubs #gryffindor lions #coops #finn o'hara #leo knut #logan tremblay #alex o’hara #regulus black #kasey winters #natalie darcy #o’darwin

[livingforcoopsandoknutzy]

o'knutzy week day 3: cookout

credit to @lumosinlove

@oknutzyweek2023 <3

team cookouts

remus, dumo (celeste), and leo are in charge of the main courses because they're voted best chefs

james and lily along with dorcas and marlene typically bring desserts

everyone else either brings drinks or snacks

sirius and regulus are always in charge of getting the alcohol (no one really knows why it just kinds happens)

there's lots of dancing and lots of karaoke 

lily and james DEMOLISH dancing queen

leo and reg are reigning champions of karaoke night with their killer queen

logan and remus always end up having too many drinks even though they swear they aren't drinking 

every cookout brings a new level of peace to everyone

a sense is family a majority of them have lacked

they're always held at dumo's house and more often than not most of the teams ends up sleeping over

either because they drank too much or simply because no one wants the night to end

they have these cookouts at the end of every month and for every holiday

#lumosinlove #sweater weather #logan tremblay #finn o'hara #leo knut #dumo #pascal dumais #celeste dumais #remus lupin #sirius black #regulus black and leo knut #regulus black #james potter #lily evans #dorcas meadowes #marlene mckinnon #kasey winter #talker #gryffindor lions #o'knutzy

[fairytalemovies]

#der prinz hinter den sieben meeren #the prince beyond the seven seas #the lady and the lion #the singing soaring lark #the singing springing lark #lily and the lion

[marerittmarit]

What if Miles Edgeworth: Investigations was a Saturday morning newspaper strip?

Part 1/3 of my contribution to @dadworthzine !

#ace attorney #ace attorney investigations #miles edgeworth #kay faraday #sebastian debeste #lion lilies zine #MarArt

[mallml]

Fifth year at the Hogwarts Adventuring Academy

#severus snape #lily evans #hp #hpdndau #stuff i made #lily was a monk from day one #one of her housemates keeps pestering her #to join their lions only adventuring party #sev tells her that an all martial group #is a tpk waiting to happen #he still hasnt declared an adventuring class #he just keeps showing up #in the most unexpected courses

[i-love-a-lot-of-things-a-bunch]

Some trio shots!

#fairy tail #ft #lucy heartfilia #gray fullbuster #loke #leo the lion #erza scarlet #evergreen #bickslow #fried justine #freed justine #wendy marvell #Michelle lobster #imitatia #gonzalez #happy fairy tail #happy the exceed #panther lily #panther lily fairy tail #lily the exceed #sammy fairy tail #Samuel the exceed #Aquarius #aquarius fairy tail #natsu dragneel #erigor fairy tail #by the way when I say trio I mean three people in a shot not all of them are actual friend or partner trios🙃

[phantomgrimalkin]

After the conversations yesterday, Lily was warming up to Regulus, who responded with his usual polite caution. They were able to have a conversation over breakfast about Margaret Atwood, with Regulus very carefully asking about how misogyny plays out in muggle society and Lily enthusiastically launching into a discussion on it that Remus could mostly keep up with and that left the other three wizards absolutely lost.

Remus was mostly optimistic that the trip to the bookstore would help to further smooth things over between Lily and Regulus. He accepted that it would end up costing more than he could process, but was making progress on making peace with the wealth disparity between his own upbringing and the Blacks.

What Remus had not counted on was that Lily would gang up with Regulus and teach him how to wheedle what Remus actually wanted out of the werewolf. Lily had settled far more easily into being spoiled by James and Sirius, and was unexpectedly committed to helping Remus learn to relax and enjoy having a wealthy partner. 

The trip quickly turned into Remus blushing and fumbling while his first friend and fiance joined forces to convince him that it didn’t matter that his old-when-he-got-it copy of the Silmarillion wasn’t falling apart yet, he was allowed to want and get the illustrated edition.

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#remus lupin #harry potter fanfiction #marauders #sirius black #regulus black #moonwater #regulus x remus #lily evans #james potter #peter pettigrew #good peter pettigrew #heart of the lion