They matter because they gripped us tight and raised us from our perditions, they solemnly swore to stick with us as long as we remained loyal to them, they took us on remarkable adventures and showed us everyone is important, they showed us anyone can be a hero, anyone can be a symbol of hope, it’s okay to be smart, to notice things, and to need someone, they gave us a home
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The original story of the little mermaid is that she must kill the prince in order to be human, and in the end, she loves him too much and kills herself instead.
The artwork is too great not to reblog.
Ok, ok - important expansion: she only has to kill the Prince because the deal was if he fell in love with her she could be human forever, and he didn’t. By which I mean, he was a good person and genuinely nice to her, but he didn’t fall in love. He fell in love with someone else, also perfectly nice - not the seawitch in disguise, fu Disney. The Mermaid is told she can only return to the sea now if she kills the Prince. She goes into the room where he and his lover lie sleeping and they look so beautiful and happy together that she can’t do it.
That’s why she kills herself. And because it was a noble act she returns to sea as foam.
One moral of the story was that women shouldn’t fundamentally change who they are for love of a man, and in theory Han Christian Anderson wrote it for a ballerina with whom he fell in love. She was marrying someone else who wouldn’t let her dance.
I want this painted on my wall.
Much better than the Disney version…
nothing is better than Disney, how dare you
This is a better version for adults, you can’t expect children to understand that depth and moral behind the story.
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