• MudMan
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    1591 month ago

    I… well, yes.

    I mean, normally these “adult hot take” things on children stories are forced to present a cynical joke, but… yeah no, that’s the entire point of the story. Like, that’s the plot. It’s what the movie is literally about.

    • @[email protected]
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      1161 month ago

      If you really want to get down to brass tacks about it, the movie was saying love can transcend appearance, not necessarily sex. Loving relationships don’t have to include gargling beast balls, so I’d say the adult hot take is still valid.

    • @[email protected]
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      229 days ago

      Belle discovering that she had a monster-fucker kink, mid-Stockholm Syndrome/Lima Syndrome tango, only to have that taken away from her at the last minute?

      You saw her face at the end of the movie, it wasn’t just surprise, it was disappointment! 😂

      Still, she and Beast working through their problems and having a healthy relationship after… well, the involuntary confinement thing was over.

    • *Tagger*
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      291 month ago

      In fairness Human Beast was the least handsome Disney prince they’ve ever drawn.

      • @[email protected]
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        151 month ago

        When we watched this as kids, my sister and I liked to joke about how the witch did him a favor.

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        29 days ago

        This scene was actually drawn hastily as the shot itself was done during the crunch period of production, at the very end of the deadline. Be Our Guest was so immensely, terribly complex that it took a small army of extremely talented artists to pull off!

        The pencil roughs of Beast’s human face were much more aesthetically pleasing, but it just didn’t translate to the finished cel.

        • *Tagger*
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          129 days ago

          That’s really fascinating and I didn’t know that! thanks

    • @[email protected]
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      201 month ago

      Even as a straight, young boy I was disappointed for her. I vividly remember announcing “but he’s MORE ugly now!” Somehow, none of the conservative, Christian adults in the room liked me saying that.

      • GratefullyGodless
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        161 month ago

        Yeah, he does give off unemployed actor/barrista who’s only going to need to sleep on your couch for a couple more nights because he’s got stuff lined up vibes.

    • Feyter
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      101 month ago

      Turned out, it wasn’t the happy end she was hoping for…

  • @[email protected]
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    491 month ago

    Well yeah. Did you see how he eats oatmeal? Now imagine that messy enthusiasm where it matters. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

      • @[email protected]
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        181 month ago

        I think people got mad at something she said about Avatar on twitter (the cartoon not the movie), and her anti-fandom reached a critical mass spreading around every single thing she’d ever said that could be interpreted uncharitably, and with her book out and her presence on Nebula secured she decided that being on YouTube was more trouble than its worth.

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        The less succinct version is that she was considered one of the OG progressive youtubers who gained a huge following and as a result has garnered a LOT of harassment over the years she was running. (Keep in mind she was at peak of her youtube career around the time of “Gamergate”) When she directed mild criticism towards the Disney movie “Raya and the Last Dragon” and how it was derivative of Avatar, I can’t remember the details but something about the way she made the comparison set her up to be attacked by online chuds pretending to be concerned progressives attacking her for being “anti-asian.”

        Lindsay Ellis was a champion of equality and diversity and the details were infuriatingly minor and stupid (which is why I can’t even remember it) but it was just the final straw and her mental health couldn’t handle any more threats, attacks and condemnations and she left Youtube other than doing some guest bits with other old-time Breadtubers and she still does work on Nebula.

        I fully get how even if you make a widely praised and well-received work, you will tend to fixate on the negative reviews the most, but this was the end of a long-term campaign to bully her off the internet and we can’t expect every content creator to have inhuman thick skin. That said, I wish she would have just got off Twitter and kept making content, we could use her more than ever.

  • @[email protected]
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    231 month ago

    But she knew that he was rich. So if you are ugly as heck you only need to be rich to get the beautiful girl. What a nice story to inspire the young.

    • @[email protected]
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      221 month ago

      Don’t forget the kidnapping and holding against their will! Gotta make sure they have time to realize just how rich you are.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 month ago

      You know she wanted to take the knot

      As a very happy knot-taker (bad dragon) she is not wrong to want that. It’s an EXPERIENCE.

      • @[email protected]
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        201 month ago

        I’ll add this along with “gargling beast balls” to the list of sentences I wasn’t expecting to read today.

  • Fontasia
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    161 month ago

    We don’t know what happened after they danced, but we do know she didn’t say I love you during.