lion-for-a-mouth:

I think that its strange that she’s paired up with Marina and the Diamonds because Marina purposely portrays female archetypes to tell other women that there’s nothing wrong with living through your ego from a feminist pro-woman standpoint AND in order to simultaneously show girls that its silly to live your life vicariously through it. Its essentially satire. The twist is that a good chunk of her fanbase takes her lyrics seriously. 

When she’s paired with Lana, a lot of people do it because its a breath of fresh air for a woman in this generation to say that its “okay” to have your head shoved up your own ass and be vain and egotistical. But at the same time, where Marina’s portrayal is purely satirical, Lana’s isn’t. 

I think I went at least 6-7 months playing Lana Del Rey’s songs on blast and they all essentially say the same thing - 

“I want to be pretty, rich, and live my life receiving the love and validation that I can’t seek in myself.” In this single Gods and Monsters where this lyric originates, it boils down to that kind of mentality. If I’m in a sultry or lovelorn mood, I can listen to her music. 

But if you listen to it because you somehow relate to her incessant need for validation, there’s a psychological problem that needs to be discussed with it. Even Lana said at one point that if people didn’t approve of her she’d probably become an alcoholic. 

Yet 13 - 32 year olds worship her as some illustrious goddess that should be praised about her openness about her vanity and her pseudo-emotional fragility? 

TLDR ; Ya’ll got issues. 

lipsredasroses:

getinthehandbasket:

disneyismyescape:

pixiedust-paycheck:

typette:

seriously, guys! 

here’s my final answer. No more PMs!

You tell ‘em, red!

OMG THIS. 

I THINK I’M GOING TO CRY

Except Merida is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER. She doesn’t have feelings, emotions, or a personality independent of her creator(s). She is what she was presented as in the movie. If Disney presents us suddenly with an entirely new Merida, they’ve changed the character originally presented.

Yeah, I’m all for letting Merida be who she is. But because she’s not a living, sentient individual, we have to go by the source material for our reference as to “who she is”. And that source material is the movie.

Not true to the movie = not true to Merida’s original character.

I don’t buy that the redesign is not true to her character. The redesign is essentially a blend of  her original dress and the dress she wore at the end of the movie. I agree that altering her body was a huge problem and I agree with those critiques. However the critiques of her dress and hair I don’t get. She did not like her light blue dress because she could not breath/move around. Merida’s redesign dress is a mix of her final dress and original blue dress. Neither of those dresses she minded. She was not anti-dresses, which is why those critiques confuse me. Also, Merida is more than her bow and arrow. People complaining that she needs to be shown with them makes no sense to me. If people only see her as her bow and arrow, they really did miss the point of the movie.