if you line up all of the "Princess Movies," from Snow White to Moana, you can identify the specific five-year period in which everybody at Disney started going to some very specific types of therapists
sleeping beauty is what happened when a handful of the writers and animators were taking acid by the time beauty and the beast rolls around you can start seeing the influence of SSRIs and maybe the absence of nicotine
tweeting about Disney gets worse replies than tweeting about Taylor Swift lmao
guys, creative types in Hollywood were absolutely interested in psychedelics in the 50s the 60s didn't start in the 60s any more than you were born yesterday https://x.com/selentelechia/st...
@selentelechia the fixation of fantasy went from falling in love to having your parents apologize to you
@___frye not just that storytelling goes from archetypal to mundane, or something not sure how to articulate it
@selentelechia I read the entire Pirates/Sexless Disney thread (and eigen’s Cinderella thread) over the phone to a friend in a writer’s room at Disney just now and it really fucked him up hearing it all laid so bare
@driftwoodvitae oh gosh
@selentelechia I’m so here for all the mommy/daddy issues movies though I need as many as I can get
@shad0w_fax I appreciate you owning this as a preference 💪
@selentelechia u can also pinpoint when the aids crisis happens and we lose a couple of the gay icons who had absolutely lethal pens and weren’t afraid to bully executives
@kaekaecurtis oh gosh that one hadn't occurred to me, do you have names I could look up?
@selentelechia Does Fantasia count as a Princess movie?
@AlexCaswen not in the official sense no
@selentelechia What type?
@Claudius3600 by tangled, IFS (imo)
@selentelechia What about lead poisoning?
@teapotlaw81 quite possibly a factor
@selentelechia What makes therapy better than the alternatives? Is there something about the license they have and what they have to do to get and keep it?
@MikeStirner I don't know I don't really care about that
@selentelechia therapy bad bc disney movie
@saintlaurent08 Did I say that at all?
@selentelechia pre-kingdom hearts post-kingdom hearts
@selentelechia Princess and the frog was the last good one and that was in accident
@selentelechia The Lion King is the Sopranos from the perspective of AJ.
@selentelechia The Moana - Frozen - Coco - Encanto - Turning Red run of generational trauma 💀😭