Entrance Pt.2

14 days to crab day

This “Pride Month,” we as Christians should strive to ignore it all entirely. Attention (negative as much as positive) is what these people are seeking, so you’re feeding their egos and fueling their persecution complex by making memes about how all gays are going to Hell or virtue signaling about how much you hate rainbow-encrusted merch. A lot of the “appeal” of Pride Month comes from the controversy that makes its rounds in Christian and conservative media outlets each year; it’s practically part of the LGBT holiday tradition to cry about da evil homophobes, and it’s not Pride Month without having a “struggle” of some kind for activists to “fight” against. Just don’t give them any attention.

The roads would have been a mess right after the Snap. Just think: you're driving down the road, stuck in traffic cuz everyone needs to get home while the aliens attack, when half the drivers are suddenly gone. Cars are going out of control at 55mph at least on the freeways/highways. Doctors disappearing mid operation. Ovens and candles still on then the owners get snapped, starting fires. Single mothers who get snapped but their baby/small kids don't. The snap would have been worse than 50% fatal.

I'm so tired of people saying that the Prince from Snow White is a creep for kissing Snow White when he thought she was dead.

People act as if he put his tongue down her throat while she looks like a regular corpse.

Maybe I'm just more comfortable with death because of my upbringing.

There's a European tradition that you would kiss dead people goodbye. You would also wait with a dying person because dying alone was one of the most horrible ways to die.

In Poland, you would spend three days with the dead body of your relative in the house so family and friends have time to say goodbyes. We even have pictures of family members in coffins, so we could remember them.

Yeah, it's a very post-modern, historically, culturally-small-minded way to look at it.

Specifically in this movie (which is a fairy tale's fairy tale) people just...totally ignore the scene where The Prince is introduced.

Seriously and truthfully, BECAUSE the Prince only takes action in three scenes of the movie, you HAVE to take all three of them very very seriously. Because thats all there is to know about him. That's how fairy tales work: lots of information hiding under very brief, simple snippets of information. It's called nuance.

Anyway.

The Prince kisses Snow White as a culmination of their promised love for each other.

First scene he's in, he falls in love with her because of her obvious purity and he overhears her longing for someone to love her. Then she runs away because she's not sure of him, and doesn't know him. But he sings his part of the song, which is all about how he has just one heart to give, one devotion to spend, and he's choosing to give it and spend it on her if she'll have him.

And she will have him. How do we know? She sends a kiss to him on the dove. That's how the exchange ends; that's how she responds, and that's why he leaves satisfied. It's their engagement scene. They're promising their hearts to each other.

Fast-forward, the Queen messes up what might have been the natural follow-through of that engagement which is marriage by trying to kill Snow White, she's living in the woods, but she won't forget the Prince and wholeheartedly believes he'll come find her.

And the very next thing we hear about him is that he keeps his promise. He's got one heart, one love, one devotion, and it's promised to Snow White, and he will not stop searching for her. When he finds her, he's returning her kiss from their engagement scene. He thinks she's dead, but he has to finish his quest anyway. This is him, trying to keep his promise even if she's dead; he's trying to fulfill the exchange they had when they saw each other last.

It's ridiculous to assume that she needed to be awake and alive to give permission for him to kiss her; it's ignorant of the whole relationship, symbolic and literal, between these two fairy tale characters. She already sent him her kiss and her heart; he already promised to claim it; he's fulfilling the promise in that scene.

Crazy postmodern people, don't know how to take in a story. Not everything gets to have your socio-cultural lens imposed upon it.

It's amazing how Fellowship of the Ring, a movie released in 2001, has scenes that are in extreme darkness (like the giant squid fight at the gates of Moria) and I can still easily tell what is going on. It's amazing how Fellowship of the Ring, which once again is from the year 2001, has quiet dialogue scenes and loud action scenes and yet I do not constantly have to mess with the volume to hear what is being said and avoid having my ears blown out, respectively. Why is this remarkable again

Accomplishes...? What? He's a dumb "comedian" who wants attention. Fight his ideas. Ignore him. Don't give him the power you're giving him. You've made him famous by reacting to his "joke". Are you wanting to accomplish murder? Are you wanting to accomplish property damage? You want to commit a crime against an idiot who said words? I hope you get caught and end up in jail then. Doxxing never leads to anything good and by encouraging it you are encouraging violence. Against a guy who said words. Grow up. Be better.

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the next time someone wants to argue about "what is a woman", i'll just send them this post honestly

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Hot take: Hylia's first hero isn't another Link, or "First" as we call him in LU. It's the same Link from SkSw, it's Sky!

Because he and Zelda/Sun travelled to the distant past and there Zelda turns Link's sword into the true Master Sword and makes his triforce symbol show the triforce symbol, officially choosing him as her hero. And the final battle takes place in the past, so in the past Hylia's chosen hero defeats Demise.

The wing ceremony, with Hylia choosing a hero, is a reference to Zelda choosing Sky himself in the distant past :)