#modern!disney

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

The more "empowered" Disney tries to write their heroines as, the less interesting and charismatic they become, ironically.

#disney #disney heroines #txt #@ disney: can y'all pls go back to writing women like people again? #ironically though disney heroines have gradually become a punching back for their asses #specifically the princess characters. they have been more disrespected and disregarded than any other set of characters #i mean they will put all that ✊🏼 bullshit with them and have a phrase like “be strong and brave” #but then be completely missing the point of their original stories and characters #i mean the ralph breaks the internet scene highlights how low they think of them in the modern era #modern disney is waging a war on disney princesses. they are trying to distort what made them so special and shift focuses

[ghostpainters]

Little Mermaids at the Laundromat 

I saw a lot of other artists drawing both versions of Ariel and I thought it looked like fun. So, I made some funky, silly art with bright colors. TBH, The Little Mermaid was never my favorite story, but the aesthetic of the 1989 was really gorgeous. I’m excited to see all the new designs and art in the new film with Halle Bailey.

#little mermaid #the little mermaid #ariel #princess ariel #disney's the little mermaid #modern au #casual fashion #flounder and sebastian #the little mermaid 2023 #casualwear #mermaids #mermaid style #mermaid fashion #best friends

[animasmagic]

#tron #disney #games #vintage gaming #animasmagic #afrofuturistic #afrofuturism #ancient #electronic #gamer #gamers #afrocentric #afro futurism #modern #electric

[hairmetal666]

au where Steve is a famous Disney kid and Eddie is a teenaged singer-songwriter. They get pushed together at events because they're close in age, but they just quietly dislike each other.

Steve's got a new show starting, a spinoff of the one that made him a household name. They hire a newcomer, Robin Buckley, to play his best friend and the two quickly become BFF in real life.

The show runs for two seasons but when it comes time to renegotiate contracts, neither star is interested. They're older now, ready to live life on their terms and not the company's, or in Steve's case, his parents.

As soon as the finale airs, Robin and Steve celebrate by going to a gay club. A few weeks later, an interview is released where Steve comes out as bi and talks about how his parents mistreated him; how they worked with the network to pressure him to be a perfect "all-American" kid even off screen.

Meanwhile, Eddie's an impossible level of famous. He's had number-one hits, won a Grammy, headlined an arena tour, achieved every dream he had for himself as a kid growing up in a trailer park in Indiana. He's not shocked by the news that Steve is leaving Hollywood, but he's flabbergasted that the guy isn't straight. When Eddie reads the interview, he gets this weird pang in his chest, almost like regret. But he never even liked Steve.

Steve isn't in the news again and Eddie doesn't think of him for a long time.

Steve goes to college. He loves it. Not because he's great in his classes, or anything, but because he's free to be himself for the first time. He makes friends and goes to parties and relaxes. He and Robin share an apartment.

After a few semesters, Steve decides to take a couple of theater classes, and is quickly cast in campus productions. In the vague anonymity of college theater he rediscovers his love of acting. No one has expectations of him, no one forces him to perform. He graduates and slowly starts appearing in small roles in Indie films, gathering critical acclaim. He feels good. Happy. Hopeful.

Eddie is blissfully unaware of Steve's career resurgence, experiencing his own musical highpoints, until the day where he's scrolling Twitter, sees a Variety headline that's getting a bunch of attention, "Steve Harrington in talks to star in Max Mayfield's first film." Eddie's livid.

"Maxine, what the fuck?" He growls when she answers his call.

They grew up together in the same Indiana trailer park. When she moved to Hollywood to start a career as a screenwriter, Eddie was by her side. And when her first script wound up on the Black List, his involvement on the soundtrack and original songs sealed her production deal.

She gives a long suffering sigh. "Munson," she grumbles. "I know you have a weird history with this guy, but I swear he's the right choice."

"He's a stuck up rich boy who's never been in trouble in his life."

"He's changed."

"Doubtful," Eddie sneers.

"Look. I'll set-up a meeting. Come hang out and you'll see what I mean." Before she hangs up she adds, "Call me Maxine again and I'll end you."

They invite Harrington to Eddie's recording studio. His hopes are not high for this meeting, so he's already a little thrown when Steve Harrington walks in, all grown up. He's in a crimson sweater, tight jeans, hair grown long so that it flops around his face in tousled waves that actually look genuine, windswept and golden. Eddie's eyes instinctively trace the scatter of moles on Harrington's face and neck, a pang of something hitting deep in his gut. Fuck, this dude is beautiful.

"Harrington," he greets, sticks out his hand. Eddie barely hears the answering, "Munson," because instead of a handshake, Harrington pulls Eddie in for a hug. Muscles bunch under the sleeves of the sweater, against Eddie's chest, and he's assaulted by the scent of cedar and sunshine and Steve. Eddie's not prepared for any of this.

They make small talk, Harrington sharing about going to college, falling in love with theater, Robin Buckley who he calls his soulmate. Eddie's head rings with how wrong he was about this guy; the pretty kid he grew up alongside who seemed to have the world in his hands. Max was right, he's perfect. Except.

"Let's get down to it, Harrington," Eddie says. Can't bring himself to call him Steve yet, feels that will somehow change everything and he's not ready. "I'll admit that Mayfield had the right idea about you, but can you sing? Play guitar? You have to perform my music, dude. That's not a small ask."

Harrington smirks, asks for a guitar. He gets it settled across his lap before he speaks. "I started taking piano lessons when I was 4. Voice and guitar at 7."

Eddie belatedly recalls that Harrington's parents were the worst kind of stage-parents, pushing their cute kid to perform even as he sobbed about wanting to play soccer with his friends instead of going to auditions. He has a moment of shame that he forgets as the other man begins to play. It's one of Eddie's biggest hits, a ballad about a teenaged broken heart from a kid whose name he can't even remember.

Harrington's hair flops in a swoop over his forehead, his fingers move across the strings with ease, skill. His voice is a rasp, close mimic to Eddie's own, but not quite deep enough. Goosebumps spread across Eddie's arms, his neck, and warmth pools low in his gut.

Steve finishes the song, looks up, cheeks glowing pink, honey eyes bright. Eddie's fucking gone for this guy. He wants so badly he might choke on it.

"Good?" Steve asks.

Eddie's embarrassed suddenly. Unsure. He tugs at his hair. "Yeah," he laughs. "Good."

He reaches out to take the guitar, the one Steve's already handing to him, and their hands brush. Eddie flushes. Their eyes meet and Steve smiles. Eddie's thoughts are consumed with the desire to kiss his plush pink mouth.

"You wanna get dinner? Just you and me?" Steve asks.

"Yeah, Steve," he laughs. "I'd love to."

🎬🎸🎬🎸

Fifteen Months Later

"Former Teen Heartthrobs Make Love Connection?"

Fans of musician Eddie Munson and former child star, Steve Harrington, were in for the surprise of their lives last night as the men arrived together for the premier of Harrington's new movie, Small Town Sins, written by up-and-coming screenwriter Max Mayfield, featuring original music by Munson. While Harrington's performance and the movie itself are garnering quite a bit of positive buzz, it's being overshadowed by gossip about Harrington and Munson's budding romance. They walked the red carpet together, pausing for photos as a duo, holding hands and flirting. When asked for confirmation of their relationship, Munson answered, 'we're bros,' before winking and pulling Harrington close.

There's a TikTok video embedded below the article, showing the men being interviewed on the red carpet. Their arms are loosely around each others' waists, and when their eyes meet they catch and hang for a beat.

"So, longtime fans of both of yours are going feral online right now because of the rumors that you two used to hate each other. Is there any truth to that?" An off-camera voice asks.

The men laugh. "We've always been great friends," Eddie answers.

"Eddie thought I was stuck up," Steve giggles.

"I did not." Eddie slaps at Steve, who gives him an affectionate smile.

"Liar," Steve answers.

Eddie leans into the camera like he's telling a secret. "Harrington here was afraid of me."

"Fuck off, I was not." They wrestle around for a couple of seconds.

Steve shrugs Eddie off, straightening his suit jacket. "Okay, maybe I was a little intimidated back then, but then this morning you found a pretty rock and cried about it."

Eddie shrieks, swatting at Steve until someone in a black suit and name tag shoos them down the red carpet.

Eddie walks off first, so he misses Steve withdrawing a hand from his pocket and saying, "Still have the rock, though." He flashes the red, grey, blue striped stone at the camera.

His gaze drifts away, landing somewhere in the distance, hazel eyes soft and heart-wrenchingly fond.

#steddie #steve x eddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #modern au #former child star steve harrington #disney kid steve harrington #musician eddie munson #steve and eddie are famous #getting together #fluff #falling in love #robin buckley #max mayfield #robin was steve's costar #max is a screenwriter #eddie cries about pretty rocks and gives them to steve #steve keeps them all #ficlet #one shot #steve and robin are platonic soulmates in every universe

[oomles]

This headline is so funny to me like... imagine any producer of anything ever outright saying to the press "I don't think the sequel we're making is as good at the first, sorry :("

#good thing we have such amazing sequels from modern disney including #*checks notes* frozen 2 and ralph breaks the internet #i love the world of zootopia but the first movie is aging like milk and have little to no faith in this gjdfjsbfbs #disney #zootopia

[starsha-stardust]

with all the negativity Disney's wish has received lately it genuinely feels like people are just looking to hate one something. Disney gets critiqued for not making original stories. So They make a princess fairytale movie. Disney gets critiqued for not having evil Disney villains. They give it an evil Disney villain. Disney gets critiqued for having overcomplicated plots. They make a sweet little movie about wishing on stars. But then it's "too safe" the villains evilness is "forced" and the movie is "self indulgent" for all its references even tho it's literally Disney's 100th anniversary movie.

Do y'all just not know how to enjoy things like a classic Disney fairytale movie without only seeing what you'd rather it be? Wish was a fun, sweet, cute little movie but because it's not the greatest film they've ever made it's a "disappointment"? Idk it feels like Wish is being held to a way higher standard then all of their other films from the last 5 years and after seeing the film I just don't see what's got y'all this upset.

#and to be upfront I do not like Disney as a company #But Wish was just a good movie to me being a classic fairytale and I think it's actually refreshing to not be too deep and modern for once #King Magnifico is the best Disney villain in 12 years yet everyone just wants to complain #Wish #Disney wish #Wish movie #princess asha #Disney

[the-overanalyst]

science vs. art is not the real conflict.

science is the study of reality. it just exists. it has no agenda. technological progress is the natural way of the world, it has been for thousands of years.

the real conflict is between art and business. which one gets to harness science for its own ends?

the frustrating thing about our current era is not that science is rising. it's that business is rising and carrying science up with it ever further away from art.

#anti capitalism #anti ai #ai #wga strike #support the wga #wga solidarity #capitalism #economy #science #social justice #modernism #disney

[laynore-x]

I dreamed of Mirabel in the same outfit and pose. So here she is 🙌💙🧡

#encanto #encanto fanart #encanto movie #my art #encanto art #mirabel madrigal #mirabel encanto #mirabel madrigal fanart #camilo madrigal #camilo encanto #encanto modern au #new outifts #disney encanto #madrigal family #the twinsss

[ashipiko]

!!! took some inspo from an ashace suggestion (TY SOUS!!!) and ended up w this doodle page 🫶

THEY JUST GOT A LITTLE SIDETRACKED (ace didn’t study at all)

do you like Ace’s drawings <3 my fave is 🥺🔪 epel

#modern clothing date out ashace is also on my mind #might be next?? WE’LL SEE???? #all suggestions were so cute I’m turning them round and round in my head #ashace #ashi tamadai #twstshi #ace trappola #ace trappola x yuu #ace trappola x oc #twst yume #twst #twst oc #twst yuu #disney twst #twst wonderland #twst ace #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland oc #ashipiko draws ♪ #on the verge of passing out 🫶 I think I got all tags tho……… #twst oc x canon #OK THERE #I THINK #on waiy first years #epel felmier #deuce spade #jack howl #sebek zigvolt #cameos!

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔖𝔨𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔬𝔫 𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢 (յգշգ) 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔡𝔲𝔠𝔢𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔡𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔚𝔞𝔩𝔱 𝔇𝔦𝔰𝔫𝔢𝔶 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔪𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔘𝔟 ℑ𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔨𝔰.

#The Skeleton Dance #1929 #20's #20s #Silly Symphony animated short #The Skeleton Dance (1929) #Walt Disney #human skeletons #human skeletons dance #modern film example of medieval European danse macabre #danse macabre #memento mori #skulls #skull #skeletons #my gif #gifs #my edit #edit

[theborgchives]

More twst au stuff haii

#modern shroud au #twst #idia shroud #ortho shroud #hades disney #disney villians #twisted wonderland #artists on tumblr #izzyboolaart

[donbasoliya]

#disney #artistontumbler #ukrainian artist #укртумбочка #artwork #sketch #ukraine #illustration #vintage #modern #retro #fanart #treasure planet #original character #original art #fyp #tumblr fyp #happy new year

[ilovetvtoons]

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!!! 🦃

#disney #disney tva #nickelodeon #nicktoons #disney tva shows #cartoons #animation #2d animation #big city greens #chibi tiny tales #amphibia #rugrats #rocko's modern life #the loud house #ducktales 2017 #gravity falls #hey arnold #thanksgiving #happy thanksgiving #thanksgiving 2023 #happy thanksgiving 2023

[comradekatara]

[in modern au] katara asks sokka if he wants to watch that’s so raven with her and sokka readily agrees bc he thinks it’s gonna be a show about corvids, but of course he is sorely disappointed. he then ruins katara’s viewing experience by spending the entire time ranting about how a children’s program shouldn’t be in the business of deluding young, impressionable kids into believing in psychics. katara’s like “oh my god it’s just a disney channel tv show, no one actually thinks that it’s real.” to which sokka’s just like “well you believe in astrology. so. case in point.”

#she never invites him to watch anything made by disney ever again #modern au #katara #sokka #katara&sokka

[chelledoggo]

emotional support boy squad 💖

#disney #dreamworks #nintendo #nickelodeon #101 dalmatian street #oswald the lucky rabbit #figment #puss in boots #super mario odyssey #zootopia #bluey #rocko's modern life #the bad guys #mother 3 #deepak dalmatian #perrito #bandit heeler #cappy #nick wilde #mr wolf #boney #comfort characters

[angelshizuka]

I honestly don't give a fuck about "um, well, actually Star Boy was never meant to be Asha's love interest" (also friendly reminder that Star Boy looking like Sabino was a POSSIBLE version, not THE version, so that's not an argument).

Because 1. intention or not, I will die on the hill Star Boy SHOULD have been Asha's love interest, because it's been WAY too damn long since WDAS has done a proper romance (that's not a side-plot), and a movie CLAIMING to "go back to their roots" would've been the PERFECT opportunity for it.

And 2. even if it was literally never Disney's intention (because this company is currently run by the most creatively brain-dead people in media), I still don't give a fuck. Because us having fun with the Star Boy concept isn't just "what Disney had planned at one point" and more "Disney had their chance with Star Boy, but they fucked it up (by deleting him) so now it's our turn".

#''claiming'' is in caps because nothing in this movie went back to Disney's roots (in the right way) #it's like they took all the bad things about old Disney and all the bad things about modern Disney and made a movie out of it #disney wish #wish #wish 2023 #wish movie #asha #star #star boy #disney #personal