In a nutshell: Lady & the Tramp says that there is value in loyalty to someone you love, regardless of how important you are to them—and so is Bolt.
The Lion King says you have an identity that you don't get to define for yourself; you only get to accept it or reject it; the sooner you accept it, the better off everything will be—and that's what Moana says (much more imperfectly,) too.
(now, The Lion King is really more epic in scale, and it's more about who a King's Son, a selfless leader, is supposed to be—while Moana shades itself waaay too much with notes of "everyone gets to make themselves whatever they want." But broad-strokes, Moana is still saying something very similar to the Lion King.)
Basically, Mufasa's ghost insisting to Simba that he is "more than what he has become" implies that, even though Simba chose to be a shaggy hippie hiding in the jungle, it was the wrong choice. He wasn't actually changing who he was—because he can't do that—he was just playing pretend. Warping and twisting and hiding his true identity under layers of denial and the illusion of "choice." And the fact that it's coming from his father, and that unique relationship where a son is a Little Version of the father, weaves a whole new intrinsic layer of Undeniable Identity Outside Yourself into it.
The more you look into that aspect of it, the more Moana's faults start to stand out. But they're not many, and like I said...broad-strokes, they have the same bones. Te Fiti had a true self she was forgetting, instead of the one she "chose." But, Moana tells Maui he makes himself whoever he wants to be. Anyway.
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Today (July 7 '23) is Bolt's 11th birthday! Happy birthday Bolt! He's half border collie, half Australian shepherd, all soft floof.
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My, here is something nice for my collection
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I was reading through my calvin and hobbes books and found my new favorite strip
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My mom took a picture of the kitties and Bolt was beginning to yawn so he ended up looking like this in the picture 😂😂😂
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asdfghjk im sorry but i am just dying of laughter at this
Edit: Feanor in the published silmarillion did not die fighting a Balrog, he died fighting MULTIPLE Balrogs.
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Also I'd just like to point out that Bolt is the modern Lady & the Tramp and Moana is the modern Lion King, pull on the thread if you don't understand why
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⭐️ Art piece I made about nostalgic media I enjoyed as a kid⭐️
Ft. pictures of my childhood cats ♥️
Also the lyrics are taken from Kids by MGMT but I changed “control yourself” to “enjoy yourself.” Mishearing lyrics is a child-like thing to do right?
Edit: (Yes this was inspired by Drawfee 😂)
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