saw that genderbent post going around tumblr and wanted to do some of my own //*=*//!!!
Oh my, Tiana makes a handsome prince, wow!
Ok but this is one of my favorite Disney endings because they decided to be happy together as frogs rather than try and find a way to be human and by finding that happiness they got to be humans again like that is rad as hell thank you Disney
And then she got her restaurant and he worked there too. He didn’t give her the restaurant she earned it and she got her dream through hard work. There wasn’t this moment of, “Now that she’s a princess she will magically get what she wants with a blink of an eye,” it was like, “Hey look she got her restaurant because she kept trying and has skills,” and it’s not like it’s his restaurant or he bought it and gave it to her it was like, “Nope, all hers, and he’s serving tables and supporting her because he loves her, she’s in charge of the place and he accepts that.”
This is why I love Tiana so much :) I mean yeah I went in with my biased OMG BLACK PRINCESS WOOT but then after seeing the movie it was like “Oh snap she’s amazing and he’s amazing and everything is amazing!”
“OH MY GOD FROZEN DISNEY ONLY EVER DOES MOVIES ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE THEY’RE SO RACIST I HATE THEM”
Disney only does movies about white people.
It’s disgusting
How they never have
any people of color
from any other cultures
And they totally glorify the white man
And totally marginalize their plights
And overall refuses to give children of color characters to relate to
Those racist bastards.
Oh look a couple of characters of color sprinkled in a sea of whiteness! Some even come with their own racial stereotypes! Good for you Disney! Good for you Disney Fans for finding these! Now us minorities will shut up with our scraps!
OMG 8 out of 53 movies this is great!!!
Disney fans out there trying it again.wow, scraps is a really good way to put it.
i sighed while scrolling over this post.
Actually, I sighted the 8 movies I could think of off the top of my head ;D There’s more than just eight, but the point of the matter here isn’t about the number of POC represented but rather the fact that they are. The claim that POC have no place in Disney is outright bullshit; It’s just the ramblings of a angry tumblr user. While the number of white characters outweighs those of color, it does not invalidate the existence of those who are, nor the fact that number is growing. Another thing to note is that -while being white, there are many variants and different cultures in the white category- that have been represented, too. Just because a character is white does not mean they don’t have an ethnicity, a culture or are less of a person. Disney tends to take many of it’s film adaptations from European fairy tales, hence why Germany, France, Italy, ect have been the focus of their early work. After conquering many of the classic fairytales, Disney began to tackle it’s own takes on stories and that’s when we say them take different ethnic twists on things. ALSO, upon getting ownership of the Marvel franchise, DISNEY had made changes to casting within the Avengers/co series such as recasting white characters like War Machine/James to be POC instead of the original white characters depicted in the comics.
Furthermore, no one ever said Disney didn’t have a majority of white characters; That does not equate racism though; Many of the POC appearing in Disney movies have been doing so over the last 25 years; The company is making the effort to include other races because of the change in times and the idea that more people need some representations. Instead of throwing a tantrum over “NOT ENOUGH” why not celebrate the prevalence that POC are taking in Disney and the fact those numbers are GROWING? Does the feeling of blogging angerly and having a reason to yell make it worth ignoring the good in things? In fact, another thing to note is that -of all the companies that produce high budget children’s entertainment, Disney has represented the most varied number of ethnicities in their films-.
LET’S MAKE A LIST HERE IN WHICH POC ARE PRESENT AND HAVE MAJOR ROLES:
- Aladdin
- Mulan
That is ELEVEN of FIFTY THREE. Now, that sounds like a small number, but that’s TWENTY PERCENT. Twenty Percent of Disney’s movies feature POC as main characters, and considering that is a company that began production in 1937 and made 23 of their 53 movies BEFORE 1980, That’s not a bad fucking number.
The problem isn’t Disney or the lack of POC in their movies, it’s that people want a reason to be mad. People need to feel like there’s something to fight/boycott and blog about so they have some sense of importance in their lives.
Exactly this. The fact that I can walk into a store and see a person of color standing in the line up of Disney Princess is great. That wasn’t the case when I was a little girl, but now this generation of girls have that, and that’s amazing. It’s called progression. They’re making progress. They’re trying. No one said it would happen overnight, but at least they’re trying. When I cosplay as Tiana I get recognized just as quickly as any other Disney princess. People recognize her and love her, and that’s great.
Also, I’m going to say something that no one wants to admit to, but even when we do get a person of color, people complain about how that character is portrayed. So that makes it discouraging to even try, you know? For example:
Person A: Ugh the Disney princesses always wish on a star they never fight for what they want they need a prince to save them and they’re always white this needs to stop!
Disney: Here’s Tiana. She’s black, she doesn’t wish on a star, she knows that it takes hard work to get what she wants, and she gets it at the end of the movie. Also, her prince is working at her dream restaurant, she created it herself, with her own two hands, she worked hard, she did it. She’s not working at his place he’s working at her place she’s in charge. Isn’t that great?
Person A: Ugh why does the black princess have to work hard why can’t she wish for what she wants like the white princesses got to do that’s so not fair. Such a stereotype the black princess has to be strong and independent and not dream for her dreams to come true. And furthermore she was a frog the whole time so racist.
It’s a double-edged sword, and it gets frustrating to see this argument of, “We want more people of color,” then when a company makes an attempt it’s scrutinized and picked apart and apparently they’re doing it wrong. So you want them to try, but then you hate when they try.
Our Christmas set up this year. My dad made me this beautiful Disney princess set up with the houses and princess figures and stuff (he painted the houses and everything) and we decided that getting a small cute tree and putting our Jack Frost figures on it would be a good set up for the holidays.
She caught us at Daisho Con!
Check us out at Daisho! Team Belle, Tiana, and Lottie <3 AKA, “The Powerpuff Girls of Disney,” as my friend called us ^^
Goofy is a widower whose only family and reminder of his wife is his son Max.
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STOP I’M LITERALLY CRYING RIGHT NOW
Remember that time Disney made this really great father and son movie that revolved around the character you least expected to get so deep? Remember when we all got emotional over a character who’s canon name is “Goofy,” because I remember.
Took a quick photo as Aurora at Youmacon :)
Reblogging because why not >.>
Filed under people I want to take cosplay pictures with someday <3
Princesses do the Rococo part III.
I had this as a sketch sitting on my desk since summer and finally found the time to finish it. Before someone asks, Mulan’s colour scheme is picked from the outfit she wore at the end of the film in and not the pink matchmaker scene dress.
The first Rococo princesses Belle, Jasmine and Ariel can be found here and second with Snow White, Cinderella and Aurora here. This leaves Merida and Anna/Elsa (presuming Disney sticks to their plan to add them both to the official line up) left to do.
Oh no Tiana’s dress is pretty oh god! *__*
What the fuck? Whitewashing? It’s a danish fairy tale! You can’t just throw in diversity for the sake of it. It has to make sense, thats like if people were like “Why are there only Chinese people in Mulan?” Because it takes place in fucking China before anyone immigrated there!
THANK YOU
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“typical light hair, fair skinned, blue eyes" The only other Disney princesses that fits that description all the way would be Cinderella and Aurora. The only other one close is Rapunzel. Disney does extremely well with making the animated princesses fit the time period and area they are from. Let me show you a thing.
Alright this is Snow White. The whole reason this is her name is because her skin was as white as the fucking snow. She had hair as black as a raven. And lips as red as a rose. Snow White was originally a GERMAN fairytale. Ya know what color they are in Germany? White….
Now this bitch right here is Cinderella. This movie was made in 1950. Ya know what was going on in 1950? Segregation. So I doubt that in 1950 they would make some black fairytale princess considering Walt Disney was white and all the employees at Disney were white, and I’m sorry but in the 1950’s all the white people were racists. Yes, Walt Disney was fucking racist. But that’s because of when he grew up and how things were. He was actually a pretty loving and kind man and I’m sure that he would’ve had an open mind to ending segregation if he had grew up different. FYI Cinderella is French. French people be white.
This chick right here. Her name is Aurora. Her movie was made in 1969. There were still racist little bastards then. But ya know what, she’s also freaking French. And in her original fairytale her hair was the color of sunshine gold, and lips that shamed the red red rose.
Now meet Ariel. She is often times many people’s favorite cause she’s fun and quirky and her hair looks like a fucking fire truck. Her fairytale is Danish. Danish people are white. The Danish fairytale though? It’s actually based off of stories sailors told of seeing this girl with bright red hair and the tail of a fish. Idk, but have you ever seen a naturally red headed black woman. Cause I haven’t….Now Belle here is the frenchiest of the French. Her story is actually based in France. Not just a nice fairytale that was made in France. Again, French people are white. But you see light hair on her. No. She is brunette! And she has brown eyes. Nuff said.
Now this…. this is Jasmine. She is not white, she does not have light hair, and she does not have light eyes. She is brown. And beautifully so. And she’s not so sweet and fragile either. She is independent and don’t need no man.She is Arabic and she looks like it. I don’t see any white washing here. See this is where white washing would ACTUALLY come into play. If they made Princess Jasmine, based off of Princess Badroulbadour from an Arabic folk tale, and made her white. A white girl in Agrabah. Nope.
My personal favorite. Pocahontas. Again. No white washing. She is nice and brown, and has nice Indian features. Thing about her? She was a real lady. In fact her sequel actually told her story better than the first one.
Meet mulan. She’s Chinese. She saved China. Nuff said.
This lovely lady is Tiana. She made a lot of ground as being the first black Disney Princess. She was from New Orleans. She’s american. This movie was based in the 1920’s and they did her right because she was a waitress, working 3 jobs just to make a few dollars a day. She lived in the slums/the ghetto with all the other colored folk. They kept it right to the time period they were representing but they also made her fa-boo!
Now this chicky is my girl punzy. She is the first Disney Princess since 1991 that was white. I think 20 years time is a good amount of time to bring in another white Princess. Disney had wanted to do Rapunzel for a long time. She’s one of the classic fairytale princesses. Everyone know who this chick was, but there was no Disney movie about her. The reason why they didn’t she make her movie in the 90’s was because she was white. She was just another, golden haired, fair skinned, damsel in distress. I am soooo happy they waited on this one too. Cause after being in the works for so long they took this story about a chick with long hair being rescued by a Prince, and they made her this barefoot, rebellious, bad-ass, sweetheart, that was magical and already a Princess. In fact her “prince” wasn’t a prince. He was a thief. And the coolest thing, so that she wasn’t just a typical blonde princess, they cut off her hair and it turned brown. So now she’s this edgy but sweet brunette, short-haired, girl. Also, the original fairytale is German, so Disney stayed true to it’s roots and kept her in a German setting.
This is Princess Merida. She is Scottish. Technically white. But still not just some American accent, blonde, white girl. She made a big leap in the Princess world because unlike all the others who are all strong too, she didn’t even find love in the movie. Who knows, maybe they’ll make a sequel a few years later where she’s older and more grown up and she gets married. Fun fact, Brave is loosely based around Scottish folklore of King Fergus.
So yeah, white washing would be if they made the beautiful ethnic ladies here just white. Alot of fairytales come from mainly white countries. Disney is just trying to tell a good story. Maybe they should look more into some Arabic fairytales, maybe some African ones. But all they’re doing is staying true to stories and lands.I love you.
OKAY
THIS HAS COME ACROSS MY DASH LIKE 8 TIMES AND EVERYONE HAS BEEN UNRESERVEDLY AGREEING WITH THE COMMENTS AND I JUST NEED TO
-deep breath-
I agree that ‘whitewashing’ was not the correct term to use, because that refers to making characters who are already not white, white.
However
THERE WERE PEOPLE OF COLOR IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE.
THERE WERE, IN FACT, A LOT OF VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF COLOR IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE.
THE FACT THAT THE SETTING IS A FANTASY VERSION OF A MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN COUNTRY DOES NOT EXCUSE A LACK OF DIVERSITY AND WE NEED TO STOP SAYING IT DOES.
also i’m p sure medieval europe didn’t have ridiculously punchable animated snowmen but that sure didn’t stop Disney from putting one in the movie
THANK YOU FOR THE LAST COMMENT.
Look, people—so long as Disney continues to NOT look into stories/fairy tales/legends and pointedly AVOID having most of their lineup be anything other than Caucasian royalty with some token exceptions, it will be ONE BILLION PERCENT OKAY for people to re-imagine them as being more diverse.
Fuck you and good night.
Also there are black French people… like I see what the poster was trying to do but there are black French people. Not all French people have white skin. Black is a skin color and there are a lot of ethnic groups that have it. I just made this point a little while ago in regards to Sailor Moon and how someone thought an artist was making her black and taking away the fact that she’s Japanese. There can be black Japanese people. Hell, in the manga, Sailor Pluto has dark skin. I think people are getting "skin color” and “ethnicity” mixed up. There is a difference.
Also you can’t say that there’s no black French people then say “Tiana is from New Orleans” in the same sentence because isn’t there a French Quarter in New Orleans?
