Shoutout at the knockoff movies that I grew up with. Like. In my teenage years I couldn’t figure out WHY everyone would be like “AnAsTaSiA iS bEtTeR tHaN aNy DiSneY pRinCeSs.” And I was like ? that movie was SO bad. The animation is nowhere near as good as Disney, not even close. The story was STUPID and the characters were unlikable. People would FIGHT ME on this and tell me what a good movie Anastasia was and I would be like “I watched it a bunch of times as a kid because I had the VHS, I never liked it.”
Then one day I was arguing with a friend about it and he was like “I just don’t get how you don’t like it! The story’s so good, and you love princess movies.”
And I was like “For the last time the story is NOT good. That train scene was the worst thing I’ve ever seen.”
And he was like “train scene? When they’re fleeing the capital?”
So I’m like “I don’t remember why they’re on a train but I remember she ate too much or something and the guy she was with made fun of her for it.”
NATURALLY this raised some questions, such as, “what on earth are you talking about NostalgicFun” and “she didn’t eat on the train what’s wrong with you”
So I double down like “NO she definitely ate on the train. I think the instruments made some kind of remark about it too and I always felt bad for her because she was hungry.”
“……………..The instruments,,,,?”
“Yeah? Her parents were turned into instruments, duh.”
And that’s how I discovered I grew up watching some bizarre knockoff Anastasia movie where her family was turned into instruments
also apparently this company did a whole line of Disney/Fox/Dreamworks copycat movies such as “The Secret of Mulan” and “The Secret of Hunchback.” And while they’re admittedly…charming? I’m not sure I’d use the word “good.”
I will never be over or stop thinking about Karkat eating birds. It was such a brief little moment. Its never explained. No one ever comments on it or sees it in canon. Just a boy and his raw unplucked hummingbirds over a roaring fire immediately after being ejected from a 3 year meteor trip.
