(via This Very Funny Comic Perfectly Captures the Big Differences Between Generations)

amuseoffyre:

nothingeverlost:

leupagus:

fuckyeahwomenprotesting2:

freedominwickedness:

In medieval culture, an event like a royal christening is not a private party; it’s the public social event of the year. To not invite any person of rank to such an event is a deadly insult.

Maleficent is certainly someone you wouldn’t want at a party, but she’s also someone powerful enough that only a fool would ever dare treat her with such blatant disrespect. The only way the King and Queen could possibly have gotten away with not inviting Maleficent was to not invite any of the fairies at all; inviting the other fairies and excluding her is explicitly taking sides in the conflict between the fairy factions.

Which means they made themselves her sworn enemies, and she responded by treating them as such from then on. If you actually get into analyzing the social dynamics of the scene, it’s very clear that Maleficent was willing to show mercy at first by giving the King and Queen a chance to apologize for their disrespect to her. She doesn’t curse Aurora until after she gives them that chance and they throw it back in her face with further disrespect.

And yeah, if the King and Queen had done the properly respectful thing and invited her, Maleficent would have given Aurora a scary awesome present. Moreover so would the other fairies, because at that point both sides would be using it as an opportunity to show off and one-up each other. What they gave her before Maleficent showed up was basically just trivial party favors by fairy standards.

How do you know so much about the social dynamics of medieval fairies

YEP. In the original versions, the only difference between the three “good” fairies and the “bad” fairy (who I don’t think even had names?) was that the bad one wasn’t invited – in other words, she wasn’t any more good or evil, she just got (accidentally, I believe) excluded from the festivities and in a fit of pique cursed the baby.

From the medieval perspective, those four fairies were all exactly alike – the blue or pink ones would’ve cursed the baby just the same if they hadn’t been invited.

But yeah, sign me up for the AU where they did invite Maleficent and she not only gives Aurora an awesome present but becomes a mentor and they end up ruling all the land with an iron fist.

Or something.

This is beautiful! It makes me so happy. I get so upset when people say Maleficent was just evil or in a snit for not being invited.

As I recall, the reason she wasn’t invited was because the Royal Family had run out of golden dishes for honoured guests. Rather than embarrass themselves by having an honoured guest eat off a less-fancy plate, and thus putting into place a hierarchy of honoured guests, for some level of political sense, it was better to have someone just not asked to come instead of having one honoured guest being treated lower in station than the others. Of course, if said uninvited guest found out, she would not be happy, but still… King and Queen made a bad call based on dishes, and did something even more insulting than offer her a tin plate.

supremeoutcast:

I strongly disagree with anyone who says Maleficent isn’t the best Disney villain. No singing, no dancing, no long expositions about her plans, no tolerance for bumbling comedy sidekicks (she electrocutes a whole room full of minions when she finds out they’ve fucked up and spent the last few years searching for a baby), just outright malicious intent.

I mean let’s take a look at her motivations compared to other popular Disney villains:

SCAR – Wanted to become King. 

URSULA – Wanted to rule the seas.

WICKED QUEEN – Wanted to rule as the most beautiful woman in the land.

JAFAR – Wanted to rule in the Sultan’s place and/or obtain ultimate power.

Maleficient, by contrast, didn’t want any of that. She didn’t want more power. She didn’t want fame. She didn’t want to rule. She just wanted to raise hell. This is the woman who decided that every newborn child in the kingdom should die and that the land should be covered in darkness for one reason – SHE WASN’T INVITED TO A MOTHERFUCKING PARTY.

That’s right, the evil bitch basically condemned an entire kingdom to die at her hands because she didn’t get invited to a christening.

This is not a woman with a motivation. She cannot be reasoned with. Her actions cannot be rationalized. She is evil for the fun of being evil, not because she wants something.

THAT, my friends, is the ultimate villain. One who knows they’re evil and LOVES it. 

cantpronounce:

unpopuler:

IM DYING

This is singlehandedly the best thing I’ve ever seen on this website

Clockmaker or terrorist?

Is this an horologists fixing/building a clock with his grandson watching him, or is this a terrorist teaching the next generation how to make a bomb?