I love the “it would solve all of the kingdom’s problems if we just made everyone a princess!” joke from Twisted, because it’s the perfect representation of the Princess’s character. ‘Making everyone a princess’ sounds stupid. ‘Princess’ is a specific, gendered individual title to start with, and taken at face value, it just seems like she’s saying just bestowing a royal title on everyone without actually changing anything about societal structures would magically force everyone to treat each other as equals, or as she puts it, “be nice”. She’s inarticulate. It’s a very immature and simplistic phrasing.
But then you realize that Ja’far never let her fully explain this idea before dismissing it, so she could have worked out the legal logistics of effecting real practical change - and during her reign she evidently does, since the policy successfully ensures all citizens are treated equally.
And then you realize why it’s so successful. ‘Making everyone a princess’ really just means recognizing that everyone innately deserves as much respect, kindness and autonomy as a member of royalty. That’s exactly what the Magic Kingdom needs. This is a country with an absolute monarchy, rampant political corruption, stark socioeconomic division, an excessively cruel legal system and widespread literal slavery when she inherits it. She gets rid of all of those problems because she refuses to compromise on basic ethics! Politicians, employers, landlords, law enforcement, prison staff, family members - nobody is allowed to mistreat their princess. You can’t financially exploit your princess. You can’t discriminate against your princess. You can’t deny your princess control over the governing of her country. You can’t own her as property. You can’t deny her proper legal representation. The implementation may glossed over, but the concept is sound!
In the beginning this character said “I just want to be free so badly! You slaves could never understand this feeling!” At the end she enshrines in law that human rights are universal, fundamental and inalienable and sovereignty resides in the people, i.e. the foundation of modern democracy.
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Old art, new format!
Made a paint by numbers for myself to keep track of which colour goes where because I know I would have messed it up otherwise.
Fun to see how this turns out.... I custom mixed the blues. I think 2 and 3 may end up being too similar, but it should still get the effect I wanted for the most part.
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what time is appropriate for getting in line for a smallerish show? like I know for big bands people get there like the day before so they can get to the barrier but I’m seeing creeper in just over a week and I’m planning on getting in line at 1 so I can get barrier but is that too early???? is that too late????? am I gonna look insane if I’m standing outside the venue 6 hours before doors or is that okay??????????
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LIFE UPDATE !! <3
GUYSYSUGYVFUICHJOPSHIGUFYDUIHWOSPCIJOHIGUFYSGUHIJOCD IM GOING TO UNIVERSITY THIS SEPTEMBERRRRRRRRR TO STUDY MEDICINEEEEE
TWO YEARS. TWO YEARS OF PAIN WENT INTO THIS OH MY GODDDDDDD I CANT BELIEVE I MADE IT
I STILL REMEMBER MY GERMAN TEACHERS SAYING NO WHEN I ASKED TO BE PREDICTED A*. I REMEMBER GETTING B IN MY BIOLOGY END OF YEAR AND CRYING MY EYES OUT THINKING I COULDNT APPLY ANYMORE. I REMEMBER THE DISAPPOINTMENT EVERY SINGLE TIME I PUSHED HARD FOR CHEMISTRY BUT DIDNT PUSH HARD ENOUGH NONE OF IT MATTERS ANYMORE IM FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Frustrating! Local weirdo hallucinates an entire song in between micro dosing dreams that persists even after getting up to check and see if it's still on the playlist they left it on (it was) (the song is not on this playlist) (history reveals that the tab was on this playlist the entire time) and the lyrics pertained to one of their kintypes but now it's gone and they will never hear it again
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re: prev post, the 'fascist' label doesn't really apply in this case but that is why i don't fuck with all the 'lesbian spuffy' 'woman-coded spike' shit. if you've been around my blog long enough you know i love spike but that man is a horrid little misogynist. he is not woman-coded or lesbian-coded or a babygirl he just sucks. please fellow spike fans accept this fact!!!
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New Royal's music is all done, it needs a sound and some ambience but otherwise that aspect is fully done.
the only thing really left is the portraits. which, sadly, takes the most time out of anything to do and i'm officially burnt out.
i'm going to take a few days off from working on NR and do some regular AFR comic work and Angel's Lullaby coding. i'm hoping I can get back into New Royals and get it done this week. sucks i'm the only real thing stopping it from being out noooow auughghghh
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I was rewatching episode one of Daredevil (2015 TV show) because it brings me joy and I only just decided to pay attention to what's written in Japanese at the end on the map Nobu looks at. There's this building circled in Hell's kitchen, and on it is written, in this fancy handwriting, 黒空. And I'm ashamed of myself because I took four entire years of Japanese, but it still took me a little while (plugging that into Jisho, actually, shameful) to realise... That's just black + sky. They just wrote black sky on there. How did I not spot that immediately. How did I not know from my first watch. Four years of Japanese! I should remember those two basic kanji! Thank fuck my high school teacher can't see me right now, she would be disappointed.
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