I was watching Captain America: Winter Soldier and I had a wondering, do you think there were Hydra agents working as like, janitors, and the SHIELD janitors also had to fight their old friends. like Captain America’s blowin up airships in the sky and meanwhile Randy and Jeff are goin at it with mops
We’ve all seen that Gothel makes Rapunzel come to her for hugs, but today I realized it goes deeper than that. Gothel doesn’t want Rapunzel showing physical affection unless she has been given specific permission. Opening her arms is that unspoken permission.
For example, towards the beginning, when she’s reminding Gothel that it’s her birthday tomorrow, she grabs her arm in exuberance. Gothel is put out and then pries Rapunzel’s hands off her arm, all the while pretending she doesn’t remember (or care) that her birthday - something Rapunzel is extremely excited about - is fast approaching.
She also uses Rapunzel’s need for physical affection, deliberately taunting and “teaching” her with it by pretending to offer it, then taking it away immediately.
The first bazzilionty times I saw this movie, I always assumed Rapunzel was relieved to see Gothel towards the end of Mother Knows Best just because she was scared.
But now I realize it’s not only because she’s scared, but because Gothel is now giving Rapunzel permission to seek the creature comfort of physical contact that she so desperately needs after the gamut of fear she’s run.
Eugene, on the other hand, starts showing physical affection as soon as he starts feeling any affection for Rapunzel at all. He uses it as a comfort. Yet Rapunzel keeps her hands to herself.
It continues when he gives her the little flag, touching the small of her back in an affectionate way. But her hands (and attention) are full at this moment.
In fact, the first time she realizes she’s touching him, and he’s touching her, and there’s affection and enjoyment buzzing between them, she’s the first to pull away.
She’s alarmed at first, then apologetic and sheepish. Sorry I was touching you, Eugene. And he politely takes a step back, tuned in to her discomfort and giving her a little more space.
But that is why the moment on the boat is so important, and why Rapunzel has the reaction she does.
In taking Rapunzel’s hand, out of the blue (as far as she can tell), it’s sending her a clear message that he feels the same about her that she does about him, and that physical affection is both alright and wanted. That he will seek out her attention in a way Gothel never has. And from this moment on, she touches him often, holding hands for the rest of the song, brushing his hair from his face as he lay dying, and never letting go of his head, even after he’d died in her arms. Not to mention kissing him when he lives again, holding hands on the balcony while they wait for her parents and end-of-movie smooching.
Question: Where you around when Aquald/Kaldur was first introduced? Because I was, and I remember people calling him “Blaqualad” from the second his face appeared on the promo.
Not to mention many people had said he was going to die by the end of the season anyway. He was either hated or ignored once the show started, and once he took the position of leadership, a VERY popular trope was that he would die a glorious death so that Robin could take his “rightful place” as head of the team.
There are plenty of other examples. Take the hatred Miles Morales got (and still gets) even though both he and Peter have been able to exist together.
Take the hatred Riri Williams got during her introduction.
Most people are more than happy to erase Duke Thomas as one of Bruce Wayne’s “kids” despite the fact that he’s an original character who isn’t taking anyone’s mantel.
Cyborg has been criticized as “not belonging” to the Justice League since the beginning of New 52. Hell, if anything, ya’ll should be happy that Cyborg’s there, because now they don’t have to racebend a white person. But, nope.
Then there was Rue from the Hunger Games (played by Amandla Stenberg) who was black in both the movie and the source material, and yet people still went to twitter to express how they “couldn’t sympathize” with her anymore.
We’ve got Michael Burhnam, who’ll be leading the new Star Trek series and people are pissed off about a Black woman in the lead role.
Let’s not forget how the Star Wars fandom felt about having a “Black Stormtrooper” before anyone knew anything about who John Boyega was even playing.
If you were in the Glee fandom, you’ll probably remember how much shit Mercedes got for being just as ambitious as the rest of the Glee kids. And then of course, there were the people saying she didn’t “deserve” Sam Evans.
And then there’s the entire cast of The Get Down that is routinely slept on.
There are the people who demonize T’challa and call him selfish for wanting to Avenge his father (who by the way was the acting monarch of a nation, so T’challa’s quest for answers was also a way of preventing a political fallout.)
And I haven’t even mentioned Sam Wilson, James Rhodes, Mike Peterson, Luke Cage, John Stewart, Amanda Waller, Ben Sisko, or Ororo Munroe. I’ll give you a hint…all of those characters are crapped on and held to a ridiculously high standard that white characters aren’t held to.. .
So, instead of saying “Make your own original characters” instead, ya’ll can just say, “I don’t want Black people in my stories”
set in the 90s but there were 0 (zero) chokers or butterfly clips explain to me This
“Parvati scowled and removed a large ornamental butterfly from the end of her plait” (pg. 247, The Goblet of Fire)
I want to imagine that some fan got so heated over this post that they literally went through every single book, page by page, until they found something to fire back with.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
