The Hangout Thread of the girly girls, khaki warriors, and obvious obsessions

[disneygirl520]

I hate how I wake up earlier on vacation than I do at home.

 

[I Am What I Am]

my vacation motto is "stay up late, sleep even later"

 

[scarscar93]

I can't remember my family ever going on a vacation that didn't involve visiting family in some capacity.

like why couldn't we ever be normal and go to actually get away

 

[disneygirl520]

my vacation motto is "stay up late, sleep even later"

That's my motto at home. Here I have to get up and do stuff lol.

 

[I Am What I Am]

i can't decide if having my hair in braids makes me look more like Laura Ingalls or Wednesday Addams

 

[disneygirl520]

Are my brother and I actually getting along?!

 

[disneygirl520]

Only took us 19 years

 

[I Am What I Am]

fun fact about Atlantis: Mr. Whitmore has colecanth in his fish tank, a species which was thought to have gone extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period and was discovered to still be around in 1938.

The film takes place in 1914

 

[I Am What I Am]

also, Atlantean is an actual and fully functional language

 

[I Am What I Am]

it does bother me when people say "ARIEL GAVE UP EVERYTHING FOR A MAN" because that's really not what happens?

Ariel desires to be human long before she ever even saw Eric. In fact, the biggest demonstration of this, Part of Your World, happens before Eric. The film does conflate her wish to be human with Eric rather early on in the film, unfortunately, which i believe to be the biggest reason that the "she changed everything for a man!" argument comes up.

personally, i believe that up until about Kiss the Girl, Eric was just a symbol for Ariel. He embodied everything she believed/knew about the human world and her desire to be with him ("but Daddy, I love him!") was more about her desire/love of the human world as opposed to actual love for him. (of course, i also believe she was attracted to him on a superficial level at that time too so that's also icing on the cake)

I also believe that Ariel would have taken the contract with Ursula even if she'd never seen Eric. I don't think she'd have taken it just whenever, but if she and Triton had a fight, absolutely. Just like in the film, where the catalyst of her decision was not Eric, but Trition destroying her treasured possessions and, in her mind, dooming her to a life of unhappiness under the sea.

long story short, Ariel's decision to become human was not the result of meeting Eric, as he was merely another reason in a long list of reasons she had to become human. Ultimately, I think Ariel's story is one about how the thing that will make you happiest and your family will sometimes come into conflict, and you will have to make a difficult choice regarding both. The resolution of Ariel's story also shows that you can make it work, as she resolves the conflict and gets that what will make her happiest (being a human) and her family (showing her father that humans aren't all bad and uniting the two worlds)

 

[I Am What I Am]

i just wrote an essay on the little mermaid I AM SO SORRY

 

[tiffaneeee]

what is this

 

[disneygirl520]

Someone keeps throwing green paint on some of the monuments here. Really?

 

[grandfloluver]

Okay so tanner from teen beach movie was on days of our lives?! Why did I not notice this

 

[MickeyisBeast]

Someone keeps throwing green paint on some of the monuments here. Really?

Wow, seriously?

I actually had to write an essay for one of my AP exams about monuments and vandalism was one of my topics. It's astonishing how many people vandalize monuments and memorials in America..

 

[grandfloluver]

I have like a little fan club at church made up of 5-8 year old girls, and we were talking about teen beach movie last week, and they all are in love with tanner haha well, except one who still thinks boys are a no no. But, I got her to agree Ross Lynch was cute, so I felt accomplished

 

[grandfloluver]

There is this one 5 year old girl who I babysit, and she says my name like hay-nah. She's the funniest child I have ever met...and looks like boo from monsters inc

 

[LondonUnderground]

Finally made it to Boston. I feel like I never left

 

[LondonUnderground]

Someone keeps throwing green paint on some of the monuments here. Really?

Yeah we saw the green paint on the Lincoln memorial and when we went to Georgetown yesterday we found out the national cathedral was closed because someone threw green paint on the organ pipes. Plus yesterday evening we found out there was green paint on the statue outside the smithsonian castle on the mall smh

 

[I Am What I Am]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PSO0lCO3TIg


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