Shrek 2, While A Cinematic Masterpiece, Is Also An Interesting Look At Queerness And Comp Het.

Shrek 2, while a cinematic masterpiece, is also an interesting look at queerness and comp het.

Fiona is married so it's time to reunite with her parents. But instead of marrying a prince, she's married to an ogre. Not just that, but she's also an ogre. (Yes everyone knew she would sometimes be an ogre but that was when she was a child, she didn't know she would be an ogre for the rest of her life, and besides once she met the right prince she would stop being an ogre. She was supposed to stop being an ogre.)

But okay they're both ogres. We can still ask about when they'll have children because even if they're ogres they can still have kids, right? That's what married princes and princesses do so naturally that's what everyone does. Even if ogres might not be great parents (I've heard that ogres eat their young, is that something you people do?) it's still something that should be discussed.

And okay you can stay in Fiona's childhood bedroom filled with all the reminders that hey, everyone thought she was just a princess and princesses marry princes. Her toys left out from the last time she played with them. The prince slays the ogre. The princess offers a token of gratitude for slaying the ogre. Fiona wrote Mrs. Fiona Charming a million times in her diary because what else was she supposed to grow up to be?

And Harold you have to fix this, your country can't be ruled by ogres. You were unfit to rule when you were a frog but I changed you, I made you better, I made you a prince. You know how this works. Think of your daughter's safety.

Shrek goes to the Fairy Godmother and oh honey, ogres don't live happily ever after. It's just not done. It hasn't happened in all of fairy tale history. You have to change the both of you to be happy. You have to present as a prince and a princess. It will be better. You'll fit in better that way. You'll be accepted that way.

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1 year ago

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Lyric Guesser Sites? Nada.

Google? Nope.

A shame bc I think the songs kinda firem

We Know That All Good People Need To Slug It Out.

We know that all good people need to slug it out.

I wanted to make a full animatic or smth to this song but I think I lost the plot so I just made these instead.

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mechalamity

1 year ago

Getting our top scientists on this

I was gonna say alphys/undyne/mad mew mew but that only has 1... Rip Sapphic throuple 😔

everyone stop talking WHAT do you MEAN only 1 fic?????????????

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dbz so true gohan

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mechalamity

1 year ago

AU where Namekian fusion works with most species but also is still permanent.

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mechalamity

10 months ago

a drawing of mad mew mew from undertale. she is wearing a short cream-colored sleeveless dress with lace trimming, a pale yellow ribbon just below the bust, and a slightly longer yellow skirt underneath. she also has pale yellow ribbons tying her pigtails up, and white stockings on her legs with criss-crossing pink ribbons along with pink-red shoes. she is skipping happily and slightly turned to smile and wink at the viewer.

maddie !

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mechalamity

11 months ago

thinking about sans' first lines of dialogue. Like, making assumptions of where this story is going:

Imagine youre just some dude, working on some science shit with this guy you know, related to darkness and timelines and crazy spacetime shit like that. Then your boss gets vaporized across all of reality and you get trapped in another parallel universe where you are imprisoned underground.

The machine you took to get here is broke as fuck, you cant fix it, the way this world functions is different than where you're from so they cant even help you get back with your machine. You talk to the royal scientist about this shit and shes just like "I dont know anything about darkness but we're researching this stuff called Determination that affects time in some way, maybe that will help?" And you work with her and figure out the timeline you are currently inhabiting keeps getting shifted around and some anomaly keeps starting and ending timelines and there's basically nothing we can really do about it. So you fully give up, you're not getting back to your reality, you're not getting out of this cave, you're not getting out of this timeloop. You spend your days eating greasy food, making bad jokes at the comedy club, and trying your hardest to give your brother a happy life. Plus, you met this person you really like behind this sealed door and she asked you to protect any human that leaves that place. So now theres an extra thing you gotta worry about.

And now. On top of all this shit. Coming out of this door that has never opened ever. A human, filled with this Determination shit you've researched, key to freeing everyone, has walked right out of that door.

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