parking? no, validate ME.

“Ariel sold her voice for legs just because of a guy“

and i mean hell this has been talked about before in more depth than i can, but when people complain about how the ending was changed (the original fairytale does not give ariel a happy ending, she dies trying to protect the prince), i think about the fact that this was written by a gay man in the 1980s

Triton made escape a necessity. Once someone goes to the point of destroying your possessions in a violent rampage, there is no staying and sticking it out, there’s no safety. (And Ariel, even in Ursula’s lair, gave Triton more thought than he deserved at the time.) Nowhere in the ocean she could go and be safe. Everyone’s always ‘why don’t they just leave :|’ in abusive situations until the leaving is not something they find 100% worthy of approval.

there has been scholarly discussion about the idea that the og little mermaid story, where she dies at the end, was written as a queer allegory.

Ashman died of AIDs complications in 1991. He was diagnosed in 1988. While working on The Little Mermaid. There is no way to guess how many friends he lost to AIDs. I truly believe he didn’t just change the ending for queers in general but for himself and all of his late friends in particular. They fought to be themselves, fought to be loved and find love and live, and in the end, in The Little Mermaid, they get the happy ending they deserve. Love and marriage and the implication of long, happy life in front of them.

MXTX is so funny for making Hua Cheng