three days ago I got an ao3 subscription update email and the author’s note on the chapter said they’d come back and written chapter ten SIXTEEN YEARS after chapter nine was published, so, never fear to hit that subscribe button folks
It took Stephen King 26 YEARS to write the next chapter of one of his Dark Tower books
LEAVE THAT COMMENT. Even if the fic is old. You never know who’s listening, or if your words are exactly the little push that author needs to take a trip down memory lane and remember all the wonderful things that inspired them to write the fic in the first place. Think about it, Reader. YOU could be the person that RESURRECTS THAT FIC!
someone pointed out that disney’s cinderella has no ears and I can’t stop thinking about it
how does the headband stay on
There you go mate.
Are you happy?
I have no memory of happiness, not the slimmest reminder, even the faintest shadow of joy escapes me, slips out the windows and runs away with the wind and I, wretch that I am–I do not give chase. For there is naught left in my heart to spur on the chase.
I thought maybe this was just a single piece of poorly drawn art, but guess what!
Gaud’s right. She puts on the headband and her ears disappear.
She does HAVE them:
It’s just her normal hairstyle falls down over them.
But once she’s got a full updo, they vanish.
What the fuck.
Her hairstyle seems like it’s a take on the victory roll, which is appropriate to the time period the movie came out (also, unfriendly reminder she was a redhead in a white dress, not a blonde in a blue one).
But the victory roll emphatically does not cover the ears.
And while headpieces similar to this that covered the ears DID exist and were at one point fashionable…
They were from the 1400s-1500s. (This is, obviously, a modern recreation. DuckDuckGo is being a butt and I can’t find appropriate era-correct portraits.)
Cinderella is set in the 1870s, insofar as it has any specific time period, and when its costuming is anachronistic (which is often), it’s almost entirely drawn from the late 40s, the time period when the movie was being worked on. Not to mention the ballgowns are like….the one thing that is 99% CORRECT. (Yes, even the fact that Cinderella’s is glittery. We have many examples of shiny gowns from this time period, and early glitters in the form of glass, beetle wings, and beads were already known.) So the idea that they’d randomly slap a Middle Ages headdress on there is…
I don’t buy it, is what I’m saying.
Magical vanishing ears. What the fuck.
I have a solution to propose! remember how in The Little Mermaid, Ursula took Ariel’s voice, as the cost of granting her wish? And that there is an established history of fairies collecting human body parts (i.e. the tooth fairy)?
The fairy godmother took Cinderella’s ears, is what I’m saying. payment for services rendered.
