#mistress of all evil (maleficent)

[dommnics]

I felt like drawing these two, in appreciation of Eleanor Audley's lasting impact, but also because they're such impressive and effective villains in their own right.

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[adventurelandia]

Maleficent by Abigail Larson

#maleficent #sleeping beauty #art #disney #illustration #digital art #mistress of all evil

[telekinesis-mind-control-comics]

#maleficent #queen of darkness #mistress of all evil #dark fae #diaval #raven #disney

[artist-issues]

Maleficent is a retelling of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. It is not just a reimagining.

It is a capitalization on Disney’s eye-catching design for their animated Maleficent. If it were just this beautiful original spin on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault or even the version in Perceforest, it would look incredibly different.

In Perrault’s version, the evil fairy that curses the princess has one defining character trait: she is old. She is ancient, and has lived in a tower isolated for so long that everyone thought she was dead, and that’s why she wasn’t invited to the princess’ christening. She disappears after placing the curse and is not heard from, defeated, or worried about for the rest of the story.

What the animated Disney Sleeping Beauty did was take that character and make her:

Beautiful

Horned

Powerful

An antagonist that returns to the plot.

Named “Maleficent.”

Two huge things that they changed which turned the evil fairy into an iconic villainess that endured to this day were the name of the character and the way she looks. Those things are unique to the Disney animated classic version. They are inseparable.

So your wonderful “reimagined” Maleficent came along in the year 2014 and said, “Yeah, we’re going to do something new and different!” And did this:

Actually, the movie never said that. The trailer included lines from the animated film, again, iconic and unique to the Animated film, and even capitalized on the original “Once Upon a Dream” song.

But it’s funny that everyone acts like it’s not a retelling of the animated film, and they want to use the word “reimagining.”

All you’re really saying is that we should excuse this film for marketing itself as a movie that would satisfy or interest fans of the original Sleeping Beauty, but wound up totally dumping on the original Sleeping Beauty through the changes it made.

The movie is not a beautiful new twist on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. It is a money-grabbing shock jock Wicked rip-off that would not exist if it weren’t trying to climb onto the shoulders of the SPECIFIC ANIMATED SLEEPING BEAUTY.

Going to say it one more time. If Maleficent (2014) wanted to be this amazing exercise in originality, it should not have been so tightly tied to the Disney Animated Classic. Because when it is connected so tightly to that specific animated version of the tale, we expect it to celebrate that version, and instead, it spat on it.

All it really did was celebrate the striking character design of the evil fairy and capitalize on the name. Like a bait-and-switch.

And side-note, a movie that takes the main character and makes her everything to everyone in the plot is so obnoxious. I was more intensely bored by this movie than any other live action remake because I couldn’t care about a main character who kept switching tones every five minutes. First she’s a naive free spirited waif, then she’s a scorned lover, then she’s a dramatic villainess, then she’s a bumbling caretaker, then she’s a beloved mother, etc. Her motives and feelings about the situations she’s in change and conflict so many times during the movie that I stop caring.

And while I stop caring about this movie, I entertain myself by thinking about how consistent the motives and character choices for the original were, and how superior it was, and how cheap and awful a movie that over-glorifies it’s main character is.

#Keep coming for Cinderella 2015 and watch me be obnoxious #all three of you know who you are #Maleficent #live action Disney critique #Cinderella 2015 #sleeping beauty #mistress of all evil #Disney

[corvidreavenart]

I have an important announcement to make...

Thank you for your time

#maleficent #my art #disney villains #fanart #art #sketch #this is part of a huge Maleficent-centric sketchdump that I still need to ink in #eepy mistress of all evil #she goes snork mimimimi

[sparrowatheart]

A stroll through Fantasyland alongside the Mistress of All Evil

#she liked all my green #apparently that made me royalty #She noticed my birthday button #And was asking if I had made my wish yet #I told her my wish was to be a part of the magic #she understood #the way her eyes lit up with interest and excitement made me so happy #she told me that my wish would come true because I told her #and then led me to the Wishing Well to make my wish properly #I swear I almost cried #disney #Sparrowatheartdisneybound #Peter Pan Disneybound #Maleficent #Wishing Well #Fantasyland #Disneyland #Mistress of all Evil #Not so Evil #Disney Villain #Peter Pan #Snow White #Magic #warmed my heart so much. #HAH! a small edit: These are from October

[fancyschmancyopinions]

ELLE FANNING at Deadline Contenders Television event on April 18th 2023 wearing GIULIVA HERITAGE

I think I’ll always be a fan of Elle’s style. She always manages to have a nice balance in her looks. This one felt very mature, but it didn’t feel like she was going to work in an office. I think it works well with her age too.

I think the mix of blue and gray in this outfit really works well together, and is perfect for Elle’s fair features. She always just looks so angelic. It’s a very mature look, but I think she pulls it off very well.

#elle fanning #giuliva heritage #the great hulu #p: elle fanning #super 8 #deadline contenders #the great #the girl from plainville #all the bright places #maleficent #maleficent mistress of evil #love #princess aurora #sleeping beauty #aurora #fashion #beautiful #celebs #celebrities #celebrity #celebrity style #fancyschmancy #a rainy day in new york #glam #the beguiled #the neon demon #teen spirit #beauty #pretty #style

[down-in-dixie]

#my gifs #disney #sleeping beauty #maleficent #mistress of all evil #sleeping beauty gifs #villain gifs

[eternalstrigoii]

Repeating one more time for those who don't read reblogs:

Over the next few days, all of my fanfic -- MoE and otherwise -- will be transferred to AO3.

My works are blocked to the general internet because of AI scraping. You MUST sign up for an AO3 account in order to read. This includes all current and future works, continuations, revamps, etc. If you have left a note on my work, this post is for you.

#maleficent: mistress of evil #m:moe fic related #strig irl #dark fey #borra x reader #fandom shite #and you can thank the trollbro CEO of tumblr for all of this. My work is not to be used to train AI.

[awholenewicon]

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#maleficent #maleficent icons #Disney #Disney icons #disney villians #Disney Villain icons #mistress of all evil #Angelina Jolie #live action disney #villains

[elijones94]

😈 Maleficent ✨🔥

#Maleficent #Sleeping Beauty #Disney fanart #character study #late night drawing #evil fairy #evil sorceress #mistress of all evil #Princess Aurora #Maleficent Mistress of Evil #Mickey’s House of Villains #Once Upon A Studio #Eleanor Audley #Angelina Jolie #Walt Disney #Marc Davis #Eyvind Earle

[telekinesis-mind-control-comics]

#maleficent #queen of darkness #mistress of all evil #dark fae #raven #diaval #disney

[lunaccult]

quick rundown of margaret (& libby) galdur for those unfamiliar with my lore: wicked scary faerie falls for a mortal woman. they decide to have a baby. labor kills the mortal woman. wicked scary faerie, in her grief-fueled rage, promises to murder the cause of her lover's death: her own child. but this child is snatched away and kept safe for 20 years. and after 20 years of searching for her child, the faerie confronts the child and the two strike each other down, cursing themselves to the fate of forever trying to kill the other first in every life after that.

cue: present day margaret & libby. underground spn mafia queen & tortured artist gremlin with mommy issues.

#i'm leaving out a lot. #like that they wake each new life without their memories from the first life until something triggers them again #also pearl. the one eyed witch who snatched libby in that first life. who has been alive ever seen as a sort of #keeper of libby? :) #that during those 20 years in the first life margaret became even more wicked and vengeful #cruel in the wake of her loss and in her hatred for her child #and when libby killed her mother & died along with her. she became a martyr #vanquisher of evil she was called in the years following margaret's fall #'rio all of ur muses lack a lot of detail :/' #oh there's detail alright. there's a whole backstory for every last one of them #(in my head) #very helpful i know #anyway if you can't read between the lines this is based off maleficent mistress of evil and the disney classic descendants #except that i made them ocs and i made them BETTER muahahahaha #ANYWAY... write with them :gun:

[corvidreavenart]

Been really busy in school and I have too many drawing ideas, so I decided to indulge myself with sketches of my first fictional crush: the Mistress of All Evil

NSFW Content Ahead

#maleficent #my art #spicy tag #nsft #maleficent x y/n #digital art #art #fanart #sketches #mistress of all evil #disney villains #this is so self indulgent

[maleficentsfire]

Much of Sleeping Beauty's musical score is based on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "Sleeping Beauty." The ominous piece of music to which Maleficent hypnotizes Aurora into pricking her finger is called "Puss-in-Boots and the White Cat." In Tchaikovsky's ballet, it is used for a comic number in which Professor Fig dies in all outcomes of Hogwarts Legacy and Rookwood is the one who cursed Anne and framed the goblins.

#sleeping beauty #sleeping beauty 1959 #Maleficent #Mistress of all evil #walt disney #princess aurora #disney villains

[wonderfulworldofdarklords]

Rachel here: apparently my brother picked out my Christmas present as soon as he heard we were starting a Disney podcast.

#wonderful world of darklords #maleficent #sleeping beauty #the mistress of all evil #AND ALL THE POWERS OF HELL