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MUNDAY MEME |ACCEPTING|

♡:Your favourite film, book and television series.

Hahahahaaaaa you mean for this week? Leeet’s see-

tbh both the film and book are really being influenced atm by the trailer for Disney’s new live-action Beauty and the Beast, which reminded me exactly how much I still absolutely love the original animated movie with its snappy dialogue and amazing songs and beautiful soundtrack and Nerdy McSupernerd main character who gets a whole library from her boyfriend instead of flowers and a movie date. Holy fuck did I want to be Belle when I was a kid- not for the pretty dresses and animated furniture servants but for the super gothic castle and chance to fight wolves and some dude who’d just give me a library for not screaming and running away when he made this face

...Ahem.

As for the book, Robin McKinley’s Rose Daughter has been and probably always will be my favorite direct adaptation of the original fairy tale, partially for the lovely dreamlike tone that mingles surprisingly well with her pragmatic style of description, and partially because it’s one of the few versions I’ve read where the Beast’s tragic hubris comes not from his ego clashing with an equally egotistical (and possibly evil) fairy, but literally from a pissing contest with a local magician over who could reach the deepest secrets of the universe first. I’m serious.I lent this book away to someone years ago and not only never got it back, I’ve yet to find anywhere that has another copy- including arguably the largest bookstore in the world, and that breaks my freaking heart every time I think of it because I loved this book so much holy balls

For every “★” I get, I will post a fact about my characters.

Kuja more or less taught himself to read. While he got a basic education before Neirin took him from his hometown, it wasn’t until he spent two years in the Temple of the All-Seeing Eye in the city of Astrula that he made anything of it - he devoted painstaking hours to expanding his vocabulary, learning how to interpret the context of words, developing his reading comprehension and speed, etc. In fact, Kuja is almost entirely self-educated: his dauntingly impressive repertoire of skills (in spite of his young age) are nearly all self-taught. It’s one of the defining characteristics of his soul: the ability to pick up skills quickly and effectively.

[ FOR EVERY “★” I GET, I WILL POST A FACT ABOUT MY CHARACTERS. ]

★ - Kuja picks up the habit of drinking brandy directly after the Iifa Tree. He comes out of his near-death experience with a spine that has been power-healed poorly, and lives with chronic pain. He begins drinking as a direct result.

★ - Fun fact: Kuja has worn drag many times in his life, but he dislikes dresses. They get in the way, regardless of how elegant they can be. His preference, obviously, being no pants either.

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