#representing princesses

[missmagicalelf]

Introducing my Disney princess queens 👑

#disney #disney princess #the little mermaid #beauty and the beast #tangled #mulan #belle #princess ariel #rapunzel #princess #representing princesses #childhood icons

[morgines]

I'm probably living in the neolithic since I can only make traditional art but I made fanart of some of my favorite scenes of Spy Wars by @clawedandcute !!!

#too bad the best part of this fic cannot be translated properly with images : Obi-Wan being accused of sleeping with everybody in the galaxy #the Padmé vs Satine fight was Epic I need to represent it better #I did NOT just spend hours studying concept art for Padmé's hairstyles. I wanted inspiration sleep was secondary #if you look closely on the second picture you can notice I don't know how to draw forks. and Anakin's padawan braid coming loose #I still haven't watched Satine's part in Clone Wars so I imagined she came to fight in full medieval princess attire. idk it fitted her #star wars #obi wan kenobi #padmé amidala #anakin skywalker

[salty-an-disco]

oh, gotta share this before I forger

Razor represents the very nature of your relationship with Shifty at its core. In its core, it’s a dance of blades, with you struggling against her relentless (and often unfair) attacks till you can either match up to her and join her in her dance, or you can humble her down and get to her heart.

In conclusion: Mutually Assured Destruction is the Leave as Gods ending, while The Empty Cup is the Leave as Mortals ending.

In Mutually Assured Destruction: you’ll get Stubborn no matter what. He’s your want to match up to the princess, to rise and meet her as an equal no matter how much you have to struggle to get there.

In The Empty Cup: it’s Contrarian. His your individuality, your want to break free from the roles and orders pushed on you, and through that, through throwing away the object that determined your role in this story, you can show her there are other avenues to explore.

Edit: I have done a goof and forgot it’s actually Hunted who you get in MAD no matter what LMAO. Still makes sense tho, as he’s our innate need to survive and adapt, always changing to match what she can throw our way. With his capability to observe and learn and try again, we can match the torrent of blades thrown our way and finally rise to meet her.

#slay the princess #stp meta #the razor #the shifting mound #voice of the stubborn #voice of the contrarian #Adversary and Eye of the Needle also represents something similar to this. but it’s more straightforward in the Razor #sal rambles

[h3artshapedkisses]

It’s the way you can tell most of the lesbian community are full of bi-hets just by how enraged they are by a lesbian saying she’s proud to have never kissed, dated or had sex with a man. Why are you offended by homosexuality? Shouldn’t you be happy for her? Hm..

Also I hate when the fauxbians who have never had sex with a man are like “I just never happened to have sex with a men because no man wanted me lolll I’m a gold star but ashamed to call myself one :((.” Like as very femme young woman who never has done anything even slightly romantic with a men but has had boys ask me to be their girlfriend and even male friends try to ask me for intimacy since a very young age, and has had to put her foot down and firmly say no ever single time, its so weird that they are deliberately erasing gold star’s life experiences to just being “ugly”. If you would have then you are a bisexual. Full stop.

#God we are so fucked #And the worst part about this is it isn’t even new like even older western butch lesbian are fake homosexuals who are just ugly bisexuals #And don’t fit into the male gaze #That’s why they cant imagine femme and conventially attractive women like me being gold star #To them gold star is ‘never got fucked by a man’ not never wanted to have any romance or intimacy with a man #Because if a man asked them out they would have said yes because they are bi #they can’t even began to imagine true female homosexuality that’s why they speak over us gold stars #This is why they either love wearing strap ons or getting strapped too(pillow princess or stone) i blame the older bid-hets once again #Cause they can’t imagine any sex without a dick because to them that is the most ideal form of sex #I am a gold star willingly you idiot not by accident dick lover #They also truly can’t imagine never once wanting to be with a man #To them its just a missed oportunity #Sorry this is so long but yea #Like I’m sorry but older lesbians who aren’t willingly gold star don’t represent me or stand for me #They don’t speak up for me or even want me in their spaces and i sure as hell don’t want them in mine

[thefiresofpompeii]

i hope ruby gets a well-that’s-alright-then-style notdeath. on the one hand it will make haters mad because oh no not another companion with an impermanent end (and i like to see haters mad) on the other it would require creativity to depict this in a new way + i love all the implications i love the dark fairytale quality of these companion exits i love my un-undead schrodinger’s women

with the way the legend of ruby sunday is titled… legends aren’t usually told about living people. legends are stories of the bygone past, of an age long since over, fictionalised and overgrown with folklore like barnacles sticking to an abandoned shell. there is such a thing as a living legend, but they’re exceedingly rare. the unmistakeable raven’s call in the 73 yards teaser, the trailer’s cut to fifteen crying alone after promising to cherry he’d protect her daughter… the foreshadowing is clear as day…

and yet. there’s one massive HOWEVER. ruby appears in s15: millie’s been spotted on set filming it. which leads me to believe — the doctor isn’t one to take the time travel route and revisit companions that in his future are genuinely dead. that would hurt too much, it would cause unnecessary trauma and could break the timeline. that must mean ruby stays alive in some way. ish. she’s alive and a legend and a mystery. girl-ballad girl-song girl-paradox

here she is, fading out.

p.s.: thesis statement on moffatgirls from the tags i left on somebody else’s post about charley pollard.. well it belongs here since it’s basically the semiotic hurricane swirling around ruby at the moment :)

#on a personal level what interests me about these characters is precisely what gets them labeled as being subject to #misogynistic writing by pop-feminist video-essayists. as an autistic girl* (*ish) however; i find female characters that #aren’t quite ‘normal people’; women who represent an idea or concept or are a puzzle to be solved or a manic pixie dream girl to be #more and in a way far more interesting than a girl-next-door-type universally relatable protagonist #they make for more nuanced stories with more symbolism and more layers of interpretation usually. why should there be realism in a #fantastical narrative? similarly i like characters that are haunting the narrative or dead before it began (big locked tomb fan if you #didn’t know) and like. not to be tvtropes but the lost lenore archetype. dead woman who spurs the hero on to recklessness or revenge. #i identify with that dead girl. the laura palmers of the world. set the story in motion without #necessarily having agency. maybe it’s something to do with my #constant background radiation of passive suicidality. in a fun whimsical way :) i would never kill myself but i don’t want to be a real #person. i want to be objectified but not necessarily in a k*nky s*xual way (that too) in a princess in a tower way #the ultimate femme fantasy innit? there’s something about it. hashtag problematic hashtag conforming to gender roles #10000 tags be upon ye #ruby sunday #millie gibson #doctor who #dw #steven moffat #clara oswald #fifteen #fifteenth doctor #twelveclara #amy pond #charley pollard #river song #donna noble #ncuti gatwa #doctor who meta #jamie.txt #haunting

[thewales]

#this is one of the reasons I don’t pay that much attention to social media and viral videos or tweets or whatever #social media and twitter especially does not represent the opinion of the world #and just because it looks bad there doesn’t mean it looks the same everywhere #real life is different children #the princess of wales

[wikitpowers]

Ash unfolded the paper. A jolt went through his body. He turned away quickly so that Jace and Sebastian, deep in conversation, wouldn't see his expression.

It was her, the strange human girl he's once seen in the Unseelie weapons room. Dark hair, eyes the colour of the sky he only partially remembered. A murder of crows circled in the sky behind her. Not a photograph, but a drawing, done with a wistful hand, a sense of love and longing emanating from the page. A name was scribbled in a corner: Drusilla Blackthorn.

Drusilla. She looked lonely, Ash thought, but determined as well, as if a hope lived behind those summer-blue eyes, a hope that could not be quenched by loss, a hope too strong to feel despair.

Ash's heart was pounding, though he could not have said why. Hastily, he folded the drawing and thrust it into his pocket.

there is literally nothing (and i mean nothing) that anyone could say that would convince me that ash doesn't have the biggest crush on dru blackthorn idfc.

LET ME TELL YOU this ain't platonic in the slightest, okay?

NOW FOR THOSE WHO HAVE TIME I WANNA ANALYSE THIS BC I HAVE ISSUES WELCOME

this one is for the folks who doubt morgenthorn will be endgame *peace out*

like the "her" being in italics is already sus enough because he's like "omg it's the pretty girl i saw that one time *blushes furiously*" and then he seems so pleased to finally know her name????? drusilla???? and then like examines the drawing so thoroughly it’s actually mental???? he thinks she’s the most gorgeous human to ever walk the earth (and he’s not wrong)

and to top it all off he’s all “hmmm my heart is beating kinda fast lolsies i wonder why” and then wait for it HE FUCKING TAKES THE DRAWING!!! LIKE HE FOLDS IT AND PUTS IT IN HIS POCKET BC OFC HE DOES!!!! HE HAS TO LOOK AT IT IN HIS FREE TIME U KNOW BC THAT’S WHAT U DO (when ur a freaking simp)!!! he is so so whipped already and twp hasn’t even been released pls i’m so far gone for them save me

dru is getting like properly thirsted over AND FUCKING RIGHTFULLY SO bc she’s an absolute goddess and we all know it… and ash is the drusilla blackthorn fanclub founder idc like god he is gonna have it SO bad for her in twp and guys when she finds out he kept the drawing all these years, i will simply evaporate out of existence

morgenthorn is gonna be my downfall mark my words

i can’t wait yay A N G S T😀

[pterodactyl screech]

#this has hardcore CRUSH written all over it #like this whole scene was sus to begin with #but then he proceeds to TAKE the drawing #like c'mon now #platonic my A$$ #this is true love #i can't wait for morgenthorn to have that enemies-to-lovers phase until ash is like u know what i actually wanna treat u like a princess #and worships the ground she walks on #ALSO #when he says “summer-blue eyes” it makes me think of the seasons of shadowhunters artwork and how dru is representing summer :'( #and ash is winter #so they're “opposites” and YET so whipped for each other and- #hashtag morgenthorn 4 life #ash morgenstern #drusilla blackthorn #dru blackthorn #dru x ash #morgenthorn #the dark artifices #the wicked powers #tda #twp #tsc

[gabs-magical-abs]

Hey kids, let grandabs teach you some old school Xena fandom vocab from the good old forum days!

Subtext: the ship name for Xena/Gabrielle

Subtexter: somebody who ships Xena/Gabrielle

YAXI: Yet Another Xena Inconsistency

Shipper: somebody who ships Xena / Ares

Horsetext: Xena/Argo crackship

Uber: fanfics where the characters are reincarnations / descendents of Xena and Gabrielle. Like an AU but with different character names

#xena warrior princess #xena #xena: warrior princess #xwp #i'm not even an OG fan #but i was around for the forums #xoc represent #and forums definitely preserve fandom culture a lot more than social media #also please feel free to add your own #i have definitely missed a lot #it's been like 13 years since I was last on the forums

[mecchantheotaku]

I realised something about Broken.

Patt of the reason he's so unhealthily devoted to the Princess is because he feels like she gives him purpose. Without her, he is nothing.

And if you played the whole game, you'll know that in a way, he's right.

#slay the princess #slay the princess spoilers #broken and tower's dynamic represents how LQ and SM need each other #but in a really dark and twisted way #because they need each other tower forces you to do whatever she says #and because they need each other broken won't stand for you disobeying her #it's actually really sad

[mw-draws]

The Light Dragon

#the legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #zelda fanart #loz totk #zelda totk #princess zelda #tears of the kindom fanart #totk fanart #the legend of zelda fanart #tloz fanart #artists on tumblr #link totk #totk link #It's n the greatest drawing ever #but I'm quite chuffed with it #I really did pour a lot of love into this piece ngl #esp the horns #like #i feel like this drawing and effort that went into it wholly represents #my love for the zelda series #defos more of this shit coming soon methinks #i’ve got ideas for a twilight princess pieces #hope yous like this

[eleanor-gray]

”That’s why I— that’s why you’re you” and “You don’t know how much I love— that” is my favorite category of lines.

#Also representative of both of the things delaying my homework #xena warrior princess #the 100 #It’s not even that hard I just can’t focus on anything except for MADE UP women in MADE UP relationships (tv show characters) #I can’t believe Xena died for me to procrastinate objectively easy assignments #(Not a spoiler as she dies constantly) #Also I’m approximately the same age as Gabrielle and Clarke #Meaning I should be getting into life-changing relationships with beautiful women who have deeply troubled pasts #And convincing them that love is the most powerful thing and also they should kill less people. I should NOT doing these evil things (hw) #Also I can’t believe I actually rewatched the 100 #I should know better #Alas #I was in the woods so I kept thinking about that one episode

[bruciemilf]

Havik: I serve no master. I hate everything and everyone,actually.

Kitana: :>

Havik:

Havik: god DAMN it

#havik doesn’t need to be fixed bc he was right the entire time #but every anarchist should get a pretty girlfriend out of the deal #also I’d serve Kitana too so— #I’m not immune to the rebel scoundrel/princess dynamic #it’s giving Han and leia #that shot of Han lifting Leia up like a cat but it’s kithavik #it’s about the forbidden love the ‘everything you represent i am against. so why. WHY do I burn for you so?’ #havik #kitana #mk1 #mk1 2023 #incorrect quotes

[tinygameroom]

Have we even talked about the trans implications of being a god of change...

Editing to add my tags and context

When I say 'incidental' at the beginning I'm saying it feels incidental and artificial and then go on to partially deconstruct the idea that it actually is incidental and give examples of why it's not. This is not a full analysis which is why the concept is not explored with the clarity and structure that that would imply, but I'm not actually calling gender irrelevant to the game because it's clearly an ongoing part of the text. I didn't intend this to get reblogged at all much less with responses to my tags, so any issues you have with my rambles are due to lack of clarity and finished thought, due to them being rambles, not a correct understanding of my actual point.

Anyway I think there's tons of interesting analysis to be done about how the game approaches gender, and I don't have the energy or interest to actually analyze about it right now which is why I was more just spitballing about it. What's most interesting to me tho is that contradiction where the Princess being perceived as a woman seemingly has nothing to do with anything, yet is ever present as a commentary on agency and perception, and how people who have experienced misogyny will connect with that. I am also fascinated by the Genderlessness/Genderfulness of the Shifting Mound as an entity of change, how she appears so very feminine but her entire philosophy rejects the idea of simple classification, etc.

As a transmasc nonbinary person the ideas of being perceived as female/feminine (and therefore feeble, innocent, alien, small, stupid, etc etc) and the idea of having a feminine role that doesn't quite or always fit me assumed by others despite that are ideas that resonate a lot. I have lots of thoughts and they're unorganized!

#slay the princess #i feel like gender is so incidental and aesthetically shallow in the game #it has at once no meaning and so much meaning #like the princess is never assumed incapable or deceiptful or weak or simple because she's implicitly a woman #and her being a woman is almost never remarked on #but it's there subtextually in how the narrator and we impose on her agency and she has to continually defend and insist on it #in how she represents an ideal and sometimes even an object #it's not as if there's intentional in universe sexism on the part of the player or the narrator #but they way they perceive and interact with the princess reflects real experiences #with misogyny and being perceived as female #but the princess and especially the shifting mound defies a lot of the perceptions put on her #with the shifting mound describing herself as abstract and fluid concepts and emphasizing change #she is everything #and she is so beyond small human ideas and roles even if she deigned to think of them #so the feminine princess is more than incidental #but ultimately inconsequential

[grendelsmilf]

also i think making the mundane guy version of pb a sweet, earnest baker who came up with the candy kingdom as a gimmick for his pastries instead of an arrogant stem bro with an IQ of a gazillion was a very good call. being a loner genius who thinks the miserable puzzle of existence can be solved through science and self-isolation is very a charming look on a woman (at least, i think so) but is almost always extremely insufferable when applied to a man.

#highlighting pb’s creativity meticulousness and skill without making him an insufferable mansplainer! good job #tbh i would probably still like pb if you took all the same traits but made her a man #because i love sokka and the overlap there is undeniable #but also if pb weren’t a woman so much of her character would be erased #so i wouldn’t love her NEARLY as much #being a woman and a lesbian and a princess and BRIGHT PINK is like. sooooo intergral to who she is and what she represents #other side of the ‘finn is ontologically cishet and white’ coin lol #her external identity is directly relevant to her internal identity is directly relevant to the shows themes #which is obviously just yknow. good writing #(great writing even) (the best!!!) #at ramblings

[ezlo-x]

Me when I do a connection between two of my characters 💥💥💥

#this is not the first time if I can find it i went on tangent abt #how the decayed master sword represents Ganondorf and the silent princess Sheik #i was exploding into a million pieces #and then said this cause we were talking abt giving hylians/sheikah/gerudo cool elf ears that are more animal sorta #then it came to me to say this 💥 #wuv this father n child dynamic uuuuuuu #tloz au txt

[multicolour-ink]

If Mario and Luigi were ones to ever get tattoos, no doubt that their first ones would be as tributes to each other.

A fierce red fire representating Mario, and a green lightning bolt representating Luigi; and they would be on their chests, close to their hearts ❤💚

Also both Bros would get tattoos to represent the princesses, Toad, and Yoshi, not to mention all the members of their family 💗

#i think that for the princesses they would be delicate designs representing both on each hand #while toad might be on the shoulder #their mama and papa on the arms etc #please don't tag as ship #mareach and luaisy of course #but not the bros ewww no #super mario #mario #luigi #unofficial mario movie stuff #mario bros #super mario bros #mareach #luaisy #princess peach #princess daisy #toad #mario family #tattoos