#batbweek 2024

Since the first year Beauty and the Beast Week theme was plants and the second year theme was animals, I wanted to take this World Environment Day to celebrate the beautiful works of our many BatB Week participants! They've helped make our world a little bit more lovely with each creation they put out there.

Belle, Beast (and Chip!) reading the nominees for Best Animated Short at the 1992 Academy Awards.

As far as I know, Disney's original Beauty and the Beast is the only animated film to receive a Best Picture nomination, when there was no such category for animated films at the time.

I still believe it's part of the reason that category exists now.

For Venus Fly Trap Day of @beauty-beast-week, please enjoy these angsty text post memes.

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A moodboard of Belle x Beast with the themes of Day 6: Bamboo (growth, luck, strength, speed, size difference…).

I actually got this idea at school, but I thought it'd be cool to design Lumiere and cogsworth as the couple from the game 'it takes two' since there's a dandelion on the front cover of the game 😭😭😭

Initial design idea sheets that I made for then as well:

Fandom: Beauty and the Beast (2017) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Beast/Belle (Disney) Characters: Belle (Disney), Beast (Disney), Beast's Servants (Disney) Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt No Comfort, Dubious Consent, Body Horror, Communication Failure, the google docs title was MOUNTAIN GOATS NO CHILDREN.MP3 and the tumblr tag was 'the divorce fic', just so you know what you're getting yourselves into, Inspired by Dimension20 Neverafter, Unhappy Ending, self-dehumanisation in the form of technically having an, unnamed main character - Freeform

Summary:

"Didn’t your romances ever talk about what happens after the hero and heroine get married? Did you honestly think that our relationship would be the same as it was when I wasn’t even human?”

“Would that be so bad?!" Belle cries out, her eyes wild.

Taken aback, he straightens up.

“I only mean – we disagreed, of course, and with the way things started of course we fought. But it was never like this, back then.”

The fight goes out of him, like a soap bubble finally succumbing to the laws of physics and popping. “What are we doing, Belle?” he asks, with a rough exhale. “We love each other. We shouldn’t be fighting – at least, not like this."

“Yes,” she says quietly. “You’re right. We love each other.”

Since the theme this week is "In the Garden," I thought what better time to make concept art for Heartflowers! Heartflowers is a hanahaki-inspired au originally created by @fizzy-dizz in which Adam is cursed to have roses growing inside him, and the rest of the staff are cursed with external plant growth that reflects their emotional state.

Lumiere's flowers are daffodils. Daffodils represent joy and vitality, and their cup-like shape imitates the look of Lumiere's candles in his canon design. However, the narcissus flower—named for the Greek legend of a man who fell in love with his own reflection in a lake and drowned—is also a kind of daffodil. Lumiere's flowers grow larger and cover more of his body (especially his face) when he acts selfishly and when he hides his true feelings behind a veil of optimism.

He watched her for another moment with an expression she hadn’t quite figured out yet. His face seemed neutral except for his eyes, which were bright and staring at her intently. This time his tail was moving, catlike as it slowly swept the ground behind him. Belle had never seen it move like that, and the sight made her insides tremble with desire.

She found this a bit alarming.

Read it here!

Link to Chapter 1

Story synopsis: Years of abuse have left Belle empty; years of solitude have left the Beast hopeless. But while it’s far too late to break the curse, it isn’t too late to heal. And it's never too late to find the one who's been waiting for you.

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