✨Julia✨

But it clogged at the bottom of her throat. Her lips remained sealed together, not moving as her mind echoed them louder as he smoothed down her blonde hair. It felt right. Yet, she couldn’t push it out. The fear in her gut pulling it back down before she could spew it up in a nervous jumble.

happy holidays everyone! 

Maleficent is certainly someone you wouldn’t want at a party, but she’s also someone powerful enough that only a fool would ever dare treat her with such blatant disrespect. The only way the King and Queen could possibly have gotten away with not inviting Maleficent was to not invite any of the fairies at all; inviting the other fairies and excluding her is explicitly taking sides in the conflict between the fairy factions.

Which means they made themselves her sworn enemies, and she responded by treating them as such from then on. If you actually get into analyzing the social dynamics of the scene, it’s very clear that Maleficent was willing to show mercy at first by giving the King and Queen a chance to apologize for their disrespect to her. She doesn’t curse Aurora until after she gives them that chance and they throw it back in her face with further disrespect.

Growing up I had a book of these types of fairy tales, and in the book I have the bad fairy wasn’t purposefully not invited. Her invitation got misplaced. I’m not sure if that’s true of the original Sleeping Beauty or not, but having this be an intentional move in the Disney movie makes a huge difference on Maleficent’s character and really does give her sound motive for her actions.

Furthermore, I’d like to note that while the queen does later ask Maleficent, “Then you aren’t offended, your Excellency?”, the King and Queen don’t say anything else to say that Maleficent was purposefully excluded. It’s Merryweather who does. Merryweather shouldn’t have had anything to do with the invitation process, shouldn’t have any control on who gets excluded, and shouldn’t know what the King and Queen’s intentions were.