this tweet understands me
Thank you TumblrBot for reccomending me this beautiful page!!!
Ah, I was starving for Beauty and the Beast content with the prince in his human form and here you are like Lumiere giving me a feast with your beautiful beautiful beautiful fanarts.
You’re a fantastic artists! Thank you for your work ❤️
Aaaahh!! Thank you!! That's so sweet🥺🥺🥺😭💖💖 So glad you like my art!!💖
But yo, the Prince deserves more love🤧🥺🥺
Forgot to post this here😪 I couldn't sleep so I made a rough paintin' of my main man🥀
A piece of wax dripped from the candle in front of him. As he stared at it, he noticed a copy of Romeo and Juliet lying out on a nearby table. "I know this book,“ he said as he held it to the light. “It’s one of Belle’s favourites.” A smile formed on his face at the memories of her reading it to him. “For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo.“ The bookkeeper stared at the Prince curiously. "Do you have feelings for her?" "What?” “You heard me. You come from nowhere just to see her. You stand up to her suitor. You know the name of her favourite book. Did you come here because you care for her?”
The Prince put the book down, hesitating with his response. “Yes. But—”
“Say no more.” The old man waved a hand in front of him. “I am willing to offer you a room in my shop tonight. But only on the condition that you’ll help me get Belle out of here.”
(Excerpt from Chapter 8 of A Prince in Disguise, which explores an AU where the newly redeemed Beast/Prince saves Belle from an unwilling marriage to Gaston without revealing his true identity. Artwork courtesy of the very talented @drawnby27emilys)
Just two french ppl having a staring competition
God-mermaid hugs her emotional support bookworm.
*Hugs her mermaid goddess gf back and picks her up to twirl her around*
All her life, Belle had longed for excitement and adventure, but now it glared at her through many pairs of yellow eyes between herself and Phillipe, daring her to follow through.
The poor horse didn't deserve such a fate, especially when it was her own fault for taking him so deep into the woods. Not to mention that in many ways, Phillipe was her oldest friend. Sacrificing him to sate her curiosity about the strange creatures laying siege to the village and her newfound... abilities had never been part of the plan. No, she hadn't agreed to accept these strange powers and the responsibilities with them just to let her horse get eaten by wolves.
Clenching the staff in her hand, Belle murmured an incantation and the rose set into the head of it began to glow.
With a wordless yell she slammed the staff down into the ground and large briar-like vines burst out of the earth around Phillipe to surround him in a protective thorny dome.
At the same time, several wolves sprang forward to attack and Belle found herself having to let loose several blasts of raw magic in quick succession. And yet it never seemed to be enough for even as some wolves fell back, others surged forward while their brethren recovered.
She could keep them back for a short time, but magic was draining to cast and she'd already used a decent amount just to protect Phillipe, she wasn't sure if she had enough energy to conjure and maintain another shield for herself.
Barely had that thought crossed her mind when her calf exploded in pain and she whirled around with a cry to find the source; a wolf had managed to circle around to attack her from behind where it had bitten her leg.
Perhaps because of the agony, the blast she let loose as she swung her staff around was stronger than she expected and it sent the wolf back several feet where it lay motionless in the snow.
In a less tense moment she might have been able to regret the use of violence, but the wolves were closing in again and she was tired and in pain and vastly outnumbered.
Her wounded leg trembled and buckled under her, and her heart pounded in her throat. So this was it then, this was how it would end. Alone in the woods with even magic failing her. A poor excuse for an adventurer indeed.
One of the wolves crouched down and Belle could only close her eyes and pray.
it's a broke take to act like belle was let down when prince adam broke the spell in batb like yeah she's a monsterfucker icon or whatever but the whole point is that she loves him for who he is not bc she's secretly a furry
Finally made my own version of Beauty and the Beast. Combining all my favourite elements from different versions.
Man vs. Monster
As I said in my essay “Through a Mirror Darkly”, Gaston is an evil counterpart to the Beast. In fact, he is virtually the first Disney Villain to be a well-rounded character and have many similarities, and some simultaneous distinct differences, with his protagonist enemy.
- Both are blue-eyed males who are selfish, impatient, disrespectful, rude, irritable, spoiled, quick-tempered, stubborn, aggressive, and entitled in personality.
- Both are or regarded as the leaders of a location in which they have a group of followers. The Beast is the prince of his castle and lives there with his servants, while Gaston is more-or-less the leader of the village where he lives alongside many other villagers.
- Both are approached by elderly people who ask for their help, but they kick out those people instead of helping them.
- Both want to use Belle for their own selfish interests. The Beast wants her to help him break his curse and Gaston wants to make her his trophy wife and personal slave.
- Both face rejection from Belle after they treat her poorly, and become furious afterwards. She refuses Gaston’s marriage proposal and later refuses to eat dinner with the Beast.
However, Gaston and the Beast show noteworthy differences in terms of character development as the movie unfolds.
- The Beast starts off as a monster in not just looks, but in personality and behavior. Like a feral animal, he walks (and even runs) on all four limbs, leaps across large spaces, growls, roars, and shouts at the top of his lungs when angered, and has a very short temper that constantly gets the best of him when he is impatient, frustrated, and annoyed. Even his incomplete wardrobe, with his lack of a shirt, raggedy breeches, and torn cape, shows just how far he has descended from human to monster since being cursed. Although he wants to break his curse by falling in love and being loved in return, the Beast’s dual nature makes him truly uncertain that he can ever become human again. He is greatly ashamed of the monstrous aspect of himself, as it serves as a reminder of both what he had done and what he had become. Thus, he believes no woman would ever love him or see him as anything but a monster due to his appearance and temper. In his first attempt to charm Belle to break the spell, the Beast comes on too strongly when he harshly orders her to have dinner with him, saying it’s not a request. After she refuses, he furiously makes threats of breaking down her door and weakly tries to use good manners until he ultimately declares that she can’t eat at all if she doesn’t eat with him. However, after he saves Belle from the wolves and she heals his wounded arm, the Beast begins to change into a more civilized, mature individual, which shows how he gradually regains his humanity. He starts walking upright more regularly and relearns table manners after initially trying to eat very sloppily and without cutlery. He gives Belle his library, encourages her to read since it’s what she loves, and delights in listening to her read stories. Even his wardrobe undergoes a significant change, as he discards his tattered cape and pants for a greater variety of formal attire, including collared shirts, a blue cape (instead of the red one), and jackets and vests with gold trimmings that show his princely rank. The Beast’s changes are most prominently shown in his personality, as he becomes a more disciplined, gentle, kind, selfless being. He learns to respect Belle, treats her as equal, and much better than he previously did, and genuinely falls in love with her for her intelligence and independence. The Beast’s love for Belle is conclusively proven when he allows her to leave so she can help her lost father, since he takes her feelings and needs into account before his own, even though time is running out for him to break the spell.
- Likewise, Gaston starts off as a man, albeit a very flawed one. He prides himself on his good looks, great strength, and skills as a hunter that he believes he is the best man around. His traits have made him think that he can never do any wrong or be refused by anyone for anything, especially by beautiful women. Gaston’s love for himself borders on an incredibly toxic degree of vanity, narcissism, and egotism. Everyone in town likes and respects him, especially all of the young, single women who love him just for his good looks. As a result, Gaston believes that no woman could ever NOT love him…but the only woman on whom he has his sights is also the only one who is completely disinterested in him: Belle. He lusts after Belle and wants to marry her purely for her beauty, since he believes her being the most beautiful woman in town alone makes her the best, and so he believes he alone deserves her for being “the best”. However, Gaston’s attempts to charm and seduce Belle always fail due to his sexist, conceited, crass behavior. He always comes on too strongly by using force towards her and shows zero respect for her personal space, since he believes that women are inferior to men, and therefore he treats Belle as if he is her superior and tries to make her to do everything he wants her to do. Simultaneously, Gaston insults her love of literature and her gender when he makes misogynistic remarks about it being wrong for women to read since they shouldn’t be smart or get ideas. He further disrespects her space and also her personal property when he forcefully takes her book out of her hands, dirties it (on two separate occasions), and attempts to body block her every time she tries to move away from him and get it back, just to make her stop reading. Following Belle’s rejection of his marriage proposal, out of his own arrogance and pride, Gaston refuses to change his toxic masculine ways to properly win her love. Instead, he decides to force her to marry him using deception and manipulation. Though Gaston does wear a formal suit once, which is when he makes his preposterous proposal (because he foolishly believes he is going to marry Belle on the spot), he does not act like a well-mannered gentleman at all while wearing it. In his prior scene and all of his succeeding scenes, he always wears his bright red tunic, which hints at his refusal to change. Gaston’s growing obsession with Belle and jealousy over her love for the Beast consumes him that he becomes a deranged, barbaric, murderous monster by the film’s third act.
Similarly, the people around them act as the antithesis of each other.
- Although the servants are objects based on the fact that the Beast has always treated them as such, they act like people because they have their own different, separate personalities and are capable of thinking and acting independently. Though they fear the Beast’s ferocious temper, they do not let their fear make them mindlessly obey every command he gives them. The servants frequently give him advice and tell him what he needs to hear, especially how he can improve himself to win Belle’s heart and break the spell. Even though they want Belle’s help to lift the curse, the servants never force her to do anything. Instead, they take a true shine to her after she gives up her freedom for that of her father. They make her feel welcome in the castle as much as they can, accepting her and treating her as one of them. After ten years of being enchanted, the servants are eager for and embrace change (though not just to regain their human forms by breaking the spell), which is another reason why they accept Belle.
- On the other hand, the villagers, especially LeFou and the Bimbettes, are people, but act like objects (which is exactly how Gaston views them) because they all have the exact same personalities and absolutely no ability to act or think independently. It is also because they blindly admire and respect Gaston purely for his handsome appearance, brute physical strength, and hunting skills that they are completely oblivious (or just don’t care) to how flawed he really is in personality. Their admiration of him is so preposterously great that the villagers only ever tell Gaston things that he wants to hear rather than what he needs to hear. A perfect example is when they sing “Gaston” regarding how great and perfect he is, praising him for his flaws and bad habits instead of correcting them and suggesting how he can improve himself in order to win Belle’s heart following his proposal rejection. The villagers also shun Belle and treat her as an outcast for being so unconventional and different from the rest of them, including with her love of literature and lack of admiration for Gaston. Since they are content with the status quo of all of them and their lives being exactly the same every single day, the townspeople fear and reject change, which is another reason why they don’t accept Belle and only deem her as “odd”.
Fittingly, during the climax, when Gaston and the Beast battle on the castle tower, it’s a man vs. monster fight, but not the kind one may think. The Beast looks like a monster, but fights with patience and manly wits, while Gaston looks like a man, but fights like a savage, bloodthirsty beast. In fact, the two are further shown to be mirror images of one another by wearing clothes of the opposite colors (showing who is good and who is evil): the Beast wears a blue shirt and his red cape, while Gaston wears his red shirt and a blue cape.
As the two fight, Gaston continuously taunts the Beast over his appearance, but pushes the final button when he declares that Belle belongs to him and could never love a monster like the Beast. Enraged at this, the Beast overpowers Gaston and holds him by the throat as he prepares to drop him. But when Gaston drops his pride and pathetically begs for mercy, the Beast realizes that Gaston is the very monster he would have become if it wasn’t for Belle. Wanting to be better than Gaston for the sake of himself and for Belle, especially because by now he has come so close to breaking his curse, the Beast reluctantly spares Gaston and angrily yet calmly tells him to get out of his castle.
And in the end, true love finally prevails. Gaston dies as the monster he truly is, while the Beast’s curse finally breaks, and he and Belle get their happy ending. 😁😊❤️
I want adventure in the great, wide somewhere
I want it more than I can tell!
And for once, it might be grand
To have someone understand
I want so much more than they’ve got planned
((reading batb fanfiction as a Belle rper really is just *starts reading fic* "oh she would not fucking say that" *clicks on another fic* "she would nOT FUCKING SAY THAT" *clicks on another fic* "SHE WOULD NOT-"))
FIVE TIPS FOR WRITING BETTER ROLEPLAY REPLIES struggling to get interactions? try incorporating these tips into your replies!
- use the five senses. sight, smell, touch, hearing, taste. where are your muses currently standing? what does the air smell like? are there birds chirping or people walking by? is there a battle in the distance? does the wooden floor beneath them creak when they walk? is the other muse wearing cologne or perfume? describe the world around them in vivid detail and paint a picture of their environment. this will help your writing partner envision the space.
- don't keep everything internal. your muse's internal commentary is important, of course, but when an entire reply is only their inner thoughts, it doesn't give your writing partner anything to go on (unless their character can read minds). make sure you add action, story progression, or character movement in a reply, or provide enough dialogue for the other muse to respond to.
- end your reply with a question. at the very end of your reply, have your muse ask the other character a question, or pepper a few questions throughout the reply. this gives the other writer a perfect jumping off point for their response.
- incorporate npcs and other things happening nearby. maybe your muses are in a library, and the librarian won't stop shushing them. maybe your muse gets a call from their best friend in the middle of the conversation with horrible news. maybe your muses are in a hotel room, and they hear a noisy party in the room next door. your muses aren't the only two people in the universe - expand upon it with details and breathe further life into this world. it makes things so much more fun.
- don't forget the other muse. i think we all struggle with this one the most. we get so caught up describing our own muse and their own thoughts and actions that we forget they're interacting with someone else. try describing the other character's stance or facial expression, the way they cross their arms. maybe their makeup is really beautiful. maybe their hair is nice. maybe they smell really bad. maybe the last time your muses interacted, they had a big fight. don't take up your entire reply talking about your muse only; talk about the other character. give the other writer something to smile about and comment on - "i loved what your muse noticed about mine! i loved their observations! they were so right!" make the other writer feel seen. this is a great way to show them you're reading their replies, loving their writing, and noticing little details about their muse.
((The thing is I WANT to come back, i do, but even if I didn't have a full time job, the extra tasks that come with living on your own without having people to share chores with, and social commitments to keep me sane, this website is harder to use as a rp platform now than it was five years ago.
Even something like reblogging an ask meme from the source now takes extra steps. And that's not even getting into trimming and formatting threads. And now notifications are screwy and either tells you there's activity on your posts when there isn't or doesn't tell you when there IS an interaction with your posts.
And none of this touches on how emotionally draining it is to have to sometimes tell people that I don't think we're compatible rp partners bc I'm inherently a people pleaser and have a very hard time telling people "no"
Should I just archive this blog and start afresh? Or move to a different platform entirely? idk but its something I might need to mull over))