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familyagrestefanblog · 7 months

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Someday, I swear, someday...

Someday I will write down why not just the story of Cinderella but especially the dynamic between Cinderella, her evil stepmother and stepsisters is one of the most important stories that has lasted thousands of years for a VERY GOOD REASON

Not just regarding child abuse, feminist literature and literature of female (coded) life experiences

But one of the most important stories PERIOD.

SOMEDAY I will fucking explain why Adrien and Gabriel are a brilliant and extremely important depiction of that story, and a phenomenal gender swapped variation of it for modern feminist story-telling that is very much breaking some grounds. If only Marinette's own girlboss 'knight in shining armor' narrative wouldn't constantly undermine that, making them seem "lesser" bc Adrien is "just" her little damsel she will save "easily" because we can't allow for her to be seen as anything else but one of the "STRONG" modern female heros.

SOMEDAY I will explain why Cinderella and Lady Tremaine are NOT fucking jokes and outdated female (coded) archetypes to be laughed at for how "weak and backwards" they are, but if well utilized one of the most raw and gut-wrenching archetypes of the non-romantic interplay of love vs hatred that grabs you by the most intimit connection a human can have and potentially breaks down the very root of who you are and why.

I will fucking explain why despite how misogynistic our society is, Cinderella and Lady Tremaine are still one of the most iconic protagonist and villain pairs in all of fiction and will continue doing so for many ages to come.

Why Cinderella, no matter how much society will tear her down, will never stop rising from her ashes victoriously. And why Lady Tremaine, no matter how underutilized and slandered she's depicted, will never ever stop dominating 99% of any other villain she's put against.

Both entirely without special powers, status, or whatever. Just through their very presence and dynamic.

I swear to God this fandom...

#keeping up with the agrestes #Sexism in ml #And it's Fandom #The Cinderella story #Cinderella and Lady Tremaine are NOT an insignificant little trope #It speaks for how misogynistic our society is that while Lady Tremaine is still one of the most iconic villains of all time #She's STILL horrifically underutilized in her potential #Just like Cinderella #The Disney remake is actually the closest version to perfection I've seen yet and THIS one remake I 100% support #It's by far the best one #And holy SHIT that Lady Tremaine was phenomenally utilized #And I'm so MAD that Adrien and Gabriel are such an amazing depiction of this #But Miraculous own girlboss narrative for Marinette actively works AGAINST it #miraculous ladybug #miraculous #adrien agreste #gabriel agreste #ml fandom critical

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haha-you-thought · 5 months

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WHY IS CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY SO FIIIIIIIINNNNNNEEEEEEE

#chad michael murray #tristan dugray #gilmore girls #Austin Ames #the Cinderella story #one tree hill #lucas scott #PLEASE GOD PLEASE #I NEED THIS MAN #I WANT TO HAVE HIS CHILDREN #FUCKING DO ANYTHING YIU WANT TO ME SIR #PLEASE #I BEG #ANYTHING FOR YOU BOOKIE

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urstrulyygigi · 10 months

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fav shows & movies in pink 🎀

#girlblogging #pink #coquette #lana del ray #moesha #clueless #legally blonde #the cinderella story

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keirahknightley · 18 days

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Costume appreciation series: Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998) dir Andy Tennant

Costume Design by Jenny Beavan

+bonus

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stydixa · 5 months

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A CINDERELLA STORY (2004) Dir. Mark Rosman

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dollster · 3 months

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me after acting like it didn’t matter to me

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marzipanandminutiae · 3 months

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WAIT WAIT WAIT

YOU'RE TELLING ME

THE TITLE CARD FROM CINDERELLA (1950) EXPLICITLY SAYS IT'S BASED ON THE PERRAULT VERSION OF THE STORY???

WE COULD HAVE AVOIDED ALL THE SANCTIMONIOUS EDGELORDS SMARMING ABOUT HOW "well Disney toned it down; the One True Grimms' Original akschully has blood and no fairy and feet getting cut up, so there" IF THEY HAD JUST

BOTHERED TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE MOVIE AND THEN GOOGLE "PERRAULT CINDERELLA???"

excuse me I need to go scream into a pillow

(I'm not saying Ashenputtel isn't possibly older as a folktale than its 1812 publication date in the Grimms' book, but Perrault's version was published in the 1690s. so...)

#fairytales #folktales #cinderella #disney #charles perrault #the brothers grimm #and if you're obsessed with originality. the earliest recorded version of the story is like a paragraph long and completely bloodless #'there was a lovely courtesan. an eagle carried one of her sandals to Pharaoh. he used it to find her and married her. The End."#(Rhodopis if you want to look it up)

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simplymanuela · 8 months

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I offered you the world, and at the first test of honor, I betrayed your trust. Please, Danielle. Say it again. I'm sorry. No. The part where you said my name.

Ever After (1998)