people will see gross ships where the woman fixes the bad abusive boy or w/e and say “oh just like Beauty and the Beast” but y’all fail to realize Belle didn’t fix Beast. She’s not sitting there screaming about how “I know there’s good in you!!!!!!!” after he does something horrible. She’s not making it her goal to change him. Beast changes because he actively wants to become a better man. Belle is just existing around him and he’s like “hmm I wanna do something nice for her. I wanna learn how to read, and relearn how to eat properly so I don’t gross her out, and wear clothes properly instead of just ripped capes,” like he’s actually trying to be better, which is why the story works. Kyle Ron is not that. Edwin Cullen is not that. They’ll never have what The Prince has babes I’m sorry.
people keep thinking they’re writing the Beast as their love interest, when they’re actually writing a horrible, awful AU of the story where Belle leaves the Beast’s corpse rotting on the rooftop, and cheerfully marries Gaston
If the Love Interest Character has not taken initiative to improve themselves as a person by the end of the story, then the story is not using this plot arc. Paraphrasing another comment I’ve seen about this general topic, the Beast turning human at the end was not Belle’s reward for sticking with an asshole long enough to ‘fix’ him - it was his reward for pushing himself through personal growth and no longer being an asshole.
Belle didn’t love him in spite of his anger issues and violent outbursts. He, and the curse was quite explicit about this, earned her love by fixing his shitty personality. The only reason he had a chance after he scared her off with his destructive tantrum was because he had gotten injured protecting her from the wolves and her conscious and humanity wouldn’t let her leave him to possibly die. If he hadn’t been hurt, she’d have gone. She almost did anyway.
He realized that a temper isn’t an excuse for cruelty after Belle showed a bit of her own temper, then gently thanked him for saving her, since she has enough self control to chill out when the argument is done and isn’t too proud to give credit where it’s due.
He respected her for helping him and not backing down (I’m convinced respect is what he “never felt… about anyone”, not love. Not yet). He found being kind has a dopamine kick that aggression just doesn’t provide (library). She doesn’t look down on him for being illiterate, which he was embarrassed about, and started teaching him because by that point they had become friends. He probably would have let her go then if she’d asked, and been spared the broken heart by letting her go after he’d fallen completely.
Remember, folks, BATB takes place over several months. It starts early Autumn; she changes places with her father in later autumn, leaves the first time in winter— probably not that late in the season since the lake wasn’t completely frozen— and returns home when the thaw is setting in (no snow during the mob scene).
While feeding my fish I made a comment to my mom how one is getting a lil chubby and she suggested that maybe the fish was pregnant, but I had to break the news to her that both fish in the tank were boys and she goes “well maybe they’re gay, Natalie, did you think about that?” and I swear her tone was so perfectly condescending and Knowing™ that for a split second I actually felt bad for judging my fish’s relationship before I was like
most big herbivores are, frankly. if you have a pretty steady supply of food and don’t have to worry about missing a hunt and starving to death, you can afford to throw your weight around more and generally be more aggressive!
that’s why the most dangerous big animals in the world are almost all herbivores.
this is also why walking right up to these things in Jurassic Park would have been a fantastically bad idea
Sauropods would be fucking TERRIFYING and it annoys the hell out of me that media constantly portrays them as passive and harmless. That Indominus from Jurassic World would have been SLAUGHTERED against an Apatosaurus, let alone a whole HERD of them
Sauropods in general were recently discovered to have spikes (think like an iguana) and possibly bony clubs on their tails, which they could possibly whip at supersonic speeds. Apatosaurus was even more fucked up than an average sauropod, having an incredibly thick neck that it probably used to fight like giraffes do, and hooked spines lining the underside to make the blows do even more damage. If that fake-ass albino hybrid motherfucker from JW tried to take out a herd of real Apatosaurus is would’ve been absolutely ripped apart, bulletproof armor or no
Some scientists think that diplodocids like apatosaurus could whip their tails so fast that it’d create a sonic boom capable of straight-up killing a human from the sound alone at point-blank range.
over the last several months, we have been implementing a protocol to eliminate karybelle the sheltie’s barking surrounding her mealtimes. we have accomplished this by initially introducing an alternate activity during prep time (stuffed kong) and religiously giving her a time out gated in the yard if she stops that activity to bark, thus delaying her dinner until she’s quiet. this has been extremely successful; she’s gone from barking literally 100+ times during meal prep to barking 0 times, and only occasionally slips up. the behavior she has chosen to replace her meal-prep-screaming (after all, that energy has to go somewhere) is frantically - but silently - running circles around the coffee table to finally slam into a perfect down-stay as her bowl is set down.
this evening as the food was coming out, karybelle seamlessly slipped into her silent circling routine. except after a couple of reps, she abruptly changed course, yeeted herself out the dog door, barked once, and immediately jumped back in to resume her circling.
if that isn’t a demonstration of crystal clear understanding of criteria, i…don’t know what is lmao
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