Wild Unicorn Herd

racebending:

feministdisney:

so I have a plane to catch to florida tomorrow and I definitely don’t have time now and perhaps for a while to answer the 15+ asks I got today (idk what my grandparents have in way of web connection for this week)

however, a couple people messaged me that Mulan’s page has been changed.   So give yourself a pat on the back; they’ve definitely heard the critique.   Honestly the fallback for all the princesses must have felt kind of intense because it’s (the princess page) no longer easily found through their mainpage like it was all last week when the released the designs.

So far, Mulan has been (re) re-designed,she’s definitely less pale and clearly white-washed than before.   They changed the dress (it actually looks like one that someone did a mockup of in photoshop), her lips seem more naturally colored, and her eyes now have a brown iris rather than blue highlighting.   Sorry time is limited and this is all I have time to post right now!   I would say it’s definitely an improvement though

(old design vs. movie design below)

Looks like Disney caught wind of fan rumblings…

searchingforknowledge:

thiscouldhavebeenfrozen:

appingo:

Imagine its the 1940s in a land that’s been considered almost untouched by time. Greenland, after the occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany, is forced to become self-reliant and bring itself to the world stage. After centuries of colonialism, Greenland had been forced into restrictive trading agreements with Denmark that hindered the Greenlanders that occupied the large island that was better known for its large ice sheets rather that the beauty that it really held. 

Greenlandic teenager Qila has been close to her friend, Malik, for as long as she could remember. The youngest child with several older brothers, snarky, inquisitive Qila learned how to hunt on the ice and in the waters from a young age. As she grows older, however, her mother has started to hold her back and her father states she’s too old to come along for a generally male activity. 

Malik, her quieter, calmer friend, doesn’t like hunting. He and Qila typically sneak out at nights into a kayak to weave in and out of glaciers and hunt for seals and whale, or further inland for reindeer. Life for them would’ve remained perfect if they kept their secret hunts as Qila in the lead and Malik as the companion. 

But the war changed things. Greenland had to defend itself. Even with help from America, it wasn’t enough. A small force was created to defend the Eastern coast, to keep an eye out for a German landing. Malik, more confident with the academic then the physical, still finds himself signing up in an attempt to prove himself and assure his family that he really was a ‘man’. He ends up leaving Qila alone, worried for his safety and bored with little to do and no friends to hunt with. 

The world gets colder in the following months. It isn’t unusual, but something felt sinister about it. The days grow shorter like they’re supposed to, ice covers the landscape, Qila pulls up her hood a bit more. And one day, while she’s staring out at the water, a raven bursts from the depths screeching about approaching darkness and storms. Once he realizes that a human is listening to her, the raven freezes, and lets out a nervous squeak.

Qila forces information out of the raven, who she soon names Prunaq—or duck fat—and discovers that the gods of her people are angry for being forgotten and ignored. Instead of facing them, Qila sets out across the land of Greenland to find her friend, and to save him.

this is an amazing concept.

An Inuit retellling would be amazing!

Oh my god this is fantastic!!!!!!

omggggg

• I’m still thinking about marydoodler’s awesome “Snow Queen” concept art and gaius-cassius-longinus’ post about Alaqai Beki
• because “The Snow Queen” was always my favourite Hans Christian Andersen story, it’s trippy and long and weird
• and thinking wouldn’t it be awesome if there was a version about a princess in medieval Mongolia (Gerda in the story isn’t a princess, but we want this girl to be a Disney Princess)
• the Snow Queen is actually the villain who kidnaps Kay and it would be kind of nice to have snow white symbolizing evil and death, instead of black, for once
• Gerda gets this totally bad-ass robber girl sidekick, wouldn’t it be great to have a girl sidekick
• as well as the talking reindeer sidekick
• wait, are there even reindeer in Mongolia?
• CLOSE ENOUGH
• the Northern Lights are a big part of it, but I don’t think it’s far north enough?
• WHATEVER, DISNEY MAGIC
• it’s interesting because in the original there’s no epic final battle, Gerda rescues Kay while the Snow Queen is away
• when she frees him with THE POWER OF HEART the pieces of ice rearrange themselves into the last word
• dunno how that’d work in a movie
• it’d be kind of awesome if it were, like, a storybook, like a webcomic, even if it can’t be a Disney movie
• anyway that’s what i’ve been thinking

thestoutorialist:

I’ve been tumbling primarily as a method of going “ooh shiny. Let me share.”  I’ve decided to be more intentional about who & what I’m reblogging.  Expect to see more dark skinned women, fatties, more gender variation, always more drag queens, and more superheroes who aren’t white.

I’ve been diving face first into reading YA books that have POC main characters and/or major characters who are POC.  The results are … mixed. Not because these stories can’t be awesome, but because more of us (POC) need to involved in the media created about us. Nothing about us without us.

It’s really clear when white authors put effort into making realistic POC characters or when they go “fuck it. Um. Lets have a hispanic girl in the series.  She was involved in gangs, shot some people, and then a nice white judge sealed her record and let her go.  Lets see she should have long braids, a tear drop tattoo and drop random spanish into conversations. Obviously she also a good dancer and will perform minor criminal activities the white chicks can’t.” 

This leaves me wondering does she identify as Latina, Chicana, or something else? Could she be Mestizo? Are there tejanos in her family? What about Dominican, Columbian, etc ancestry.  What cultures does this chick come form? Where does she live?

Most importantly, is the author really going to pretend a large public high school in LA will have exactly one student who is Latin@? OK then. (Daughters of the Moon, you are on notice)

Instead of that nonsense, I’m giving you <a href=”http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3463179-soul-enchilada”>Soul Enchilada by David Macinnis Gill</a> (link is to Good Reads) a YA novel whose lead is an afro-tejano young woman and her potential romance partner is a bruja in training. The story is solidly set in the land and culture of El Paso, TX.

There is snark, awesome cards, bantering, folk magic, the devil, Tejano culture, Coyote, and other delights like Supernatural INS (white vans and all). I loved this book and would gladly give this book to people.  Also kudos to the white author David Macinnis Gill for writing a great story which included people from diverse ethnic backgrounds. It’s easier to whinge than to make change, and I’m glad you did.

atlantic-sweatervest:

Right, even though Jazz Kings is neither my idea nor is it even a real television show yet, there’s a fancy (not just yet) new (definitely) tumblr for all things Jazz Kings related!

Jazz Kings is a fake tv show about the Harlem Renaissance, and the only things I’ve really contributed are quick character sketches and a quarter-finished story-boarding of the the trailer written by missturdle. But I’m gonna be posting the stuff I draw up for it to it on the blog.

So, if you love the 1920s and NYC and NYC in the 1920s, definitely go follow jazzkings.tumblr.com, yeh?

So. Meta.