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Dishonor on you! Dishonor on your cow!

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Lilo & Stitch is a great example of a story that has no villains. It has antagonists, sure, but most of them are well-meaning. The worst person in the film is that little shit Myrtle, but she’s not in the film that much anyway.

Since this post is getting traction I want to clarify how not-villainous the antagonists are:

  • The Grand Councilwoman is literally just responding to what she sees as a threat to the galaxy and is extremely reasonable.
  • Gantu is much the same. He’s a bit overzealous, yes, but he thinks he’s saving the galaxy from stitch.
  • Cobra Bubbles is literally just doing his job, he’s obviously not happy about it but he is doing what he feels is best for Lilo. And much like the Councilwoman, he is extremely reasonable.
  • Myrtle is, again, just a little shit. She’s a schoolyard bully and is truly small potatoes.
  • Jumba calls himself an “evil scientist,” but literally nothing supports that. His only onscreen crime is creating a bunch of Pokémon that have powers that will mildly inconvenience people and can be persuaded to be nice over the course of 22 - 90 minutes, to say nothing of himself seeing as he decides to change his ways at the softest bit of persuasion.
  • Pleakley is literally just gay.

The "villain" of Lilo and Stitch is, rather directly, societies and social systems that write people off and do not provide support and care.

It is obvious to the audience -- and deliberately presented this way by the film -- that it is better for Lilo to stay with her sister, even if her sister is a bit of a mess and not financially stable. Mr. Bubbles is not evil. He is there because he wants what's best for Lilo, and he is not unreasonable to think that the sister without a job who leaves the stove on and whose house nearly burned down two days later is not it. The solution is not to "defeat" Mr. Bubbles; the solution would be for society to help Nani succeed, rather than watch as she fails.

Similarly, no one provided any help to Stitch when he was created and discovered. They wrote him off as an abomination, something too dangerous to be destroyed. They weren't evil, and it wasn't unreasonable to think that the experiment created to be an agent of destruction would be better off scrapped. But what would have happened if they had at least tried?

Lilo and Stitch are two characters who were caught in systems that were cold, uncaring, and unsupportive, even if the people in them were not evil and were, in fact, just doing their best.

It's a movie about people who have been written off finding one another and building a found family where they can get and give the support and care they didn't get from the people with authority and I love it so much.

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🎉✨🎊❄️😄 Happy tenth anniversary, Frozen! 😄❄️🎊✨🎉

Wow, I honestly cannot believe ten years have now passed since Frozen came out! And who would have thought that before those ten years were up, Frozen would expand very rapidly into a franchise starting with a short and onto a feature length sequel with TWO more full length sequels currently being developed?!?!?! 😵😵😵

Although Frozen is not my #1 favorite Disney film ever (yes, this may come as a shock to many of you that you know me here on Tumblr), it's still in my top ten favorite Disney movies, and it is the primary reason I created my Tumblr account in the first place. On Tumblr, I've made lots of analyses and gif sets about Frozen and its sequels, both short and feature length. In doing so, I have made many friends on here who share my mutual love for Frozen, and even other Disney films. 😊

I am very proud to be a Frozen fan, and I am elated that my love for it, combined with many other fans' love for it, helped it grow into the franchise it has become. 😁😄

Thank you, Disney, for Frozen! ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

Released November 27, 2013.
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Happy 10th Anniversary, Frozen!!

Tho I've only been here since F2, Frozen fandom carried me through the pandemic and I've made lots of friends here. Thank you, Elsa and Anna. I love you both like you are real people.
It's nice to know there's more Frozen movies coming (3 and 4) but tbh I'm worried what the studio will do with my girls.
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Just in time for the 10th anniversary, here is an updated list of the current and future animated entries in the Frozen franchise! 🌻❄️

Yes, I excluded the LEGO Frozen Northern Lights shorts because they are not associated with the animated canon and a case can be made to exclude "At home with Olaf" and "Olaf presents" as well, but at least they all have the same style of animation (except the episode "Ice").

I wonder what the next two movies will be called 🤔 I hope they don't go with something as generic as "Frozen III" and "Frozen IV" but instead give the movies individual subtitles, or perhaps one common subtitle + "Part 1" and "Part 2".

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