• MudMan
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    1653 days ago

    I… well, yes.

    I mean, normally these “adult hot take” things on children stories are forced to present a cynical joke, but… yeah no, that’s the entire point of the story. Like, that’s the plot. It’s what the movie is literally about.

    • @GalacticGrapefruit
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      21 day ago

      Belle discovering that she had a monster-fucker kink, mid-Stockholm Syndrome/Lima Syndrome tango, only to have that taken away from her at the last minute?

      You saw her face at the end of the movie, it wasn’t just surprise, it was disappointment! 😂

      Still, she and Beast working through their problems and having a healthy relationship after… well, the involuntary confinement thing was over.

    • @[email protected]
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      1163 days ago

      If you really want to get down to brass tacks about it, the movie was saying love can transcend appearance, not necessarily sex. Loving relationships don’t have to include gargling beast balls, so I’d say the adult hot take is still valid.

      • MudMan
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        353 days ago

        I don’t know, that’s very clearly romantic love they’re talking about throughout the whole thing. The entire point of the curse is making the Beast ugly so he’d have to be nice to get some, and she certainly didn’t get into that dress to friendzone him.

        You made me go check, the curse demands that he “learn to love another, and earn HER love in return”. I don’t think beloved drinking buddies would have cut it. This is not subtext, it’s the text.

        • @A_Union_of_Kobolds
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          343 days ago

          I mean yes but asexuals exist and we can feel romantic love too

          Disney in general shows very clearly only romantic love

      • @Lightsong
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        173 days ago

        I did not expect to read that particular sentence when I got up this morning.

        • @SLVRDRGN
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          11 day ago

          So it did help you get up then?

      • @[email protected]
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        113 days ago

        Brass tacks. 🤔 Always would have assumed brass tax, but now I know. Funny how I’ve probably never seen those two words written together in over 40 years.

      • @ByteJunk
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        Sex can transcend appearance much easier than love can.

        My argument: as a shepherd, would you realistically consider any of your sheep as a love interest?

        I rest my case.