I’m no Disney expert but Belle is the only worthy Princess of the bunch
She wanted to pursue knowledge, not a boy or just fun; she dropped everything to save her dad instead of causing his death or dethronement; she was fully aware how disgusting Gaston was regardless of appearance; she was seduced by books not riches; and yes, she was ready to ride the beast
And then she founded the company “Bad Dragon”
lol spot on
I guess it’s good that she took a Chance on him.
Well it can’t have hurt that the beast owned a magical castle.
yes but she would have left given the chance after knowing about the magic castle
At first yes, but then it grew on her.
I think it was the gigantic free library
To me I felt like Belle had Stockholm syndrome
Stockholm Syndrome isn’t an actual thing, fyi. It has never been recognized as a condition and never been diagnosed. The entire thing was an attempt to dismiss valid reactions to police incompetence.
Controversy and debate about whether the condition exists for literal hostages in a violent/deadly situation is a step removed from talking about whether people become irrationally attached to manipulative romantic/sexual partners, and stay despite all rationality pointing towards leaving.
I don’t know if Stockholm Syndrome exists for hostages held at gunpoint. But I do know that plenty of people have behaved irrationally about attachment to abusive people in their lives. And we don’t have to call that particular condition Stockholm Syndrome, but your argument doesn’t really disprove the topic of this discussion.
your argument doesn’t really disprove the topic of this discussion.
Topic of Discussion
I don’t know if Stockholm Syndrome exists for hostages held at gunpoint.
Stockholm syndrome doesn’t require being held at gun point.
The real issue is people behaving irrationally according to you. If you were in this situation, you would done the rational thing. Therefore, they must be irrational. They are, I’m part, to blame for their situation.
But this is all predicted on your value system and not theirs. Stockholm syndrome doesn’t take into account their story and what convinced them to behave the way they did. It a heavy hand that decontextualizes events and removes victims agency. Accounting for these may still reveal something worth addressing for a smaller subset of victims who are trauma bonded, but it should patiently and diligently center and empower the voices of victims and not dismiss them as irrational
Belle and the beast never really existed either so maybe she did have it!
Wow what a read! TIL. Thank you for this
If he’s verbally abusive, violent, and keeps you locked up as a prisoner, he isn’t necessarily evil.
You can change him! Just be patient, accept him, and love him!
I like the take in Phantom of the Opera better here. At first you expect it to be a beauty and the beast romantic story but Christine rejects the phantom not because of his appearance but because his soul is just as ugly as his exterior.
Don’t research the sequel.
Naveen was more of a Princess than Tiana
That’s not a fun fact, that is the entier story…
And like a million Rule 34’s
I wouldn’t blame Belle if she was disappointed and called it off.
Tales can be cruel:
And people underestimate big dommy furries:
This comic is neither left-right or right-left orientation and that should be punishable by death.
Idk man. When I read it it only makes sense left-right.
It’s meant to be read upper left, bottom left, upper right, bottom right. So I guess that is technically still read left-right.
I guess that seam in the middle means it’s originally two pages.
When I watch Mulan, I shut it off before the reveal and pretend that Mulan never gets outed. I am so thirsty for gay trans man romance :(
The reboot we deserve.
I wonder if it would be easy to do a cut of the movie so that’s what happens.
I can’t be the only one who was disappointed when the beast turned into generic inbred royal twink?
Not a real man like Gaston
Gaston had years of practice sucking down liquid protein too
Noooo oooooone sucks like Gaston, no one fucks like Gaston, no one’s dick’s as incredibly thick as Gaston
For there’s no man in town half as manly,
Perfect, a bear so-far-gone,
You can ask each of Tom, Dick and Stanley,
And they’ll tell you whose top they pre-fer to be on
Gaston has topped every willing villager behind the local tavern but i have zero problem believing he still intends to marry Belle and have 12 kids. He’s a hunting lodge bear but his sequel orientation is dominant. Doesn’t matter who.
Presumably she wasn’t just prepared to ride the beast, she actively wanted to be ruined by it.
She was probably disappointed when the transition happened. She thought she was going to be raw-dogged by the monster.
Jerk off before you write your comment next time.
You can’t tell me what to do. You’re not my mom.
I’ll ask her to tell you next time I come over.
So you’re saying you have a sub fetish where your mom is the Dom? Or is that mommy complex?
Look, some of us are monster fuckers and you’ll have to deal with it.
“I just wish he kept his knotted beast dick…”
Yeah but he was rich
Didn’t peg Belle for being a gold digger though.
Books were a luxury
TBF, the stories that Disney’s been strip-mining for generations’re crazy dark, originally.
- Sleeping Beauty woke to find she’d had two children, and now they were teens nearly as old as she was when she fell asleep. 🤮
- The Little Mermaid was double-crossed by a human princess last minute, and was turned into seafoam (died). 🥹
- ad nauseum…
I have a book of the originals that I just haven’t sat down to read yet. I need to
They’re so clearly puritanical propaganda from way back that I’m consistently disappointed with modern society for slurping up Di$ney’s candy-coated versions that instill 99% of the same bullshit: stay at home forever, don’t defy your father/mother, royals are the magic cure-all, you’re born special (the world just doesn’t know it yet), etc.
Between that steady stream of insidious hopium in the communal well and Religion® still holding global sway, I honestly have very little hope we’ll avoid extinction by our own hands, NGL. It’s not an if, it’s a when. 😄🫣😶
Can’t find another source for this tweet from either Twitter or Reddit, but here’s a screenshot of this tweet by Twitter user
@hiimbobbi:Personally, Belle was not fooling me or anyone. When the Beast changed into a human, I saw that look on her face. That was DISAPPOINTMENT.
That’s literally the universal, “Oh my God, I’m going to vomit” face.
??? Isn’t that the whole point of the story ? How is that a fun fact?
Maybe it’s a similar situation like here (oglaf nsfw comic):
https://www.oglaf.com/herp/She didnt sign up for some random human, if she wanted that she could have had Gaston.
She was probably pretty disappointed, too. Ew!
“No offense, honey, but do you think perhaps if I went back to that witch and asked real nice she could turn you back, but this time because you were good not because you were evil”
TFW no filthy rich furry bf
Hey, no one said it was anything more than romantic. You don’t have to fuck anything that moves.
He was better as the beast.
