duchessgirl

i don’t think they ever even mention the concept of money in ever after high but im currently up thinking about the financial ramifications of blondie trying to keep up with her royal friends in terms of consumption…saving up for weeks to get a new dress and by the time she’s made enough the one she wanted is already out of style…never being a blue to invite her friends over because she feels ashamed living in a little cozy cabin rather than a full castle with staff…having to decide between upgrading a microphone for her radio show and going out with her friends on the weekends. much to think about.

some of the character designs in EAH are genuinely so strange if you think about them too much? imagine hair being such a big part of your identity that you wear hairbrush shaped EARRINGS

eah will always do something like drop crazy, earth-shattering, lore-bending pieces of world building thays adds 100+ new implications by having it in the writing on some back of a bookmark in a doll that was only released for one week and just never mention it again.

shannon hale is so insanely good at details it makes me go a little feral like:D that bit in the short story book where ashlynn hears about a boy hanging up a birdhouse and like. ofc we KNOW its hunter but she develops both their characters and why they end up liking each other without having any of them ever meet. we can see why they get along despite their differences because deep down they’re both very gentle and kind people who enjoy helping animals— ashylnn doesn’t see hunter, but she hears of the boy who hangs up the birdhouse because she’s helping animals in the forest and they’re chatting away about him. and she notices that he tries very hard not to be noticed, that his steps were soundless and that if she were anyone else she wouldn’t have noticed him, only it was hard to sneak up on her bc she could understand animals. and she respects this as much as she can; she tries to only see who he is after the robins talk about the birdhouse, but she can’t catch him before he goes. all she sees is the birdhouse that he made, and she’s the one who helps the baby birds get up to the house. and again, they never meet, but their respective acts of kindness allow them to sort of cross paths anyway, and in the end they kind of work on this project together without ever even meeting one another. and i think it’s really beautiful that hale thought to pair them together because their destiny really is all about goodness and kindness; cinderella who endures and toils and remains kind and the huntsman who spares a young girl’s life and helps her escape like OKAY. okay