All of them? I should have known that you would have. :-)
That's the second time someone has spoken of the land of Disney. Natasha told me of the princesses there and their animal companions. Do all these stories take place there, or were they crafted in that land?
There's someone on the network that would like to find all of them as well as a place to watch them. I figured if I could not help with the latter I could at least ask about the former.
Do you own them yourself or know where she might find them?
And ...if you don't mind, what are they about? Are they anything like The Never Ending Story?
[ All of this is really never anything Cisco expected to explain in his life, but he's happy to help if he can. ]
okay so here's the scoop:
walt disney was the name of a guy. a writer. he ran a company that made animated movies - not like the neverending story, with actors in costumes and sets, but sequences of drawings that look like they're moving. so he made a whole lotta films, and the most famous ones are almost all about princesses - like cinderella. and they got really popular, so at a certain point he decided to make an amusement park themed around the fictional stuff in his own movies.
so like, disneyland isn't a place like westeros or central city, where i'm from. it's a park. the princesses aren't real and they don't live there - though they pay people to dress up like the princesses so the little kids will think they are real and get excited and get pictures with them. families bring their kids to have fun. there are little games to play, sweets to buy, rides (sort of... mechanical devices that spin you around for fun), fake castles, gardens, that kind of thing. that's 'disneyland'.
i don't have any of them but i've gotten pretty good at finding dvds here. if you want i can look around for them and let you know?
it's been a while since i've seen some of these so this is just like a rough idea
cinderella - girl lives with her abusive stepmother and two horrible stepsisters. there's a huge ball and every girl in the kingdom is invited, except cinderella's stepmom stop her from going. until her fairy godmother turns up, gives her a sweet dress and glass shoes that'll stick around only until midnight. she goes to the ball, she and the prince fall in love, but then it's midnight and she runs out. except she loses a shoe, so the prince goes around until he finds the girl who fits the glass shoe, and then they get married.
sleeping beauty - there's a princess who gets cursed so that when she turns 16 she'll prick her finger on a spinning wheel and fall into a magic sleep until her true love kisses her. she gets raised in the woods by three fairy ladies and makes lots of animal friends because she's lonely as shit. she meets a guy who she doesn't realize is this prince she's been engaged to since she was born. on her 16th birthday she touches a spinning wheel and falls asleep until the princes fights his way past a dragon and kisses her.
rapunzel - ok i'm gonna level with you, i saw this one while I was babysitting my nieces at a big family party, so i was pretty distracted and don't remember a whole lot. there's a girl with hair that's like 100 feet long and also it's magic. she grows up locked in a tower by an evil woman claiming to be her mother, until she gets free and has adventures? i think she is a princess, too.
alice in wonderland - no princesses in this one. just a girl who falls asleep and dreams she goes to a place called 'wonderland' where everything is totally bizarre. kinda like here, except way stranger. she meets odd people who do odd things.
princess and the frog - this one's about a girl who is a waitress but saving up to open her own restaurant. there's a prince from a far away land who gets turned into a frog by an evil sorcerer, and then the princes turns the waitress into a frog by accident too. they have adventures and eventually fall in love, and both of them get turned back into humans again.
So Disney is a bard, in the broadest sense, known mostly for his tales of princesses, some of whom are so beloved there's a whole carnival for them, full of ferris wheels and rolling coasters and houses of fun. And the lies are white lies, meant to be harmless, like telling your sister that if she doesn't pick up her clothes that grumpkins will carry them off.
Maybe not that last example, but I think I understand.
Half of them are love stories.
:-/
But three of five have adventures.
There's someone on the network asking about them. I thought since you have so many movies you would be the obvious choice for asking. And the best one to know where to look if you didn't have them.
I'd give them back when they'd finished, you have my word.
actually i think all of them are love stories except alice in wonderland, because she's like 10 years old.
i'm honored. come to me with your movie questions whenever. i'll be your movie guru.
yeah, he writes romance novels. 'the notebook' is the only one i've heard of though. they made it into a movie that's pretty famous. i would say my friend caitlin made me watch it but that would be a lie. i made her watch it.
( why the :/, arya said you were a fan of romance stuff??? or was that a phase and she just isn't letting you live it down? )
[ 'Just now' - so something had happened. She'd been dumped or gotten her heart broken. Cisco's been there. ]
i'm sorry sansa i didn't mean to bum you out. 😰 do you need someone to talk to? i've been told i am a very good listener. and i've had plenty of days when thinking about that kind of story made ME want to throw things, too. PLENTY.
It's all right. You had no way of knowing, and it was me who wanted to know about all of the Disneys.
I believe that. You are very good at explaining things, both to me and to Jon and especially to Arya, and it must come from having listened to what was asked, or in some cases just knowing what to say before it's even asked. That's a real gift.
I've talked so much I don't know what there is even left to say. (But that doesn't seem stop me from repeating it to the point of... well, even my crow is saying things now.) It might be nice to bend a new ear. If you're really not busy with something else.
Snowballs are better for throwing. (Though tossing little glass angels was strangely satisfying as well, but snow is less dangerous.)
[ He had been working on coding a new app, but working and too busy to talk are two very different things. ]
yeah glass is better for the catharsis but i would definitely recommend protective eyewear at the very least if you are gonna do it again. did you know in my world they recently started having these places where you can pay a little money and go in and smash stuff? plates and whatever else. it's pretty genius if you ask me.
If you liked someone as more than a friend, and that person paid you high compliments, and was very gallant and very, very charming, and always seemed pleased to see you, would you have cause to think they returned your feelings?
What if they were, upon reflection, this way with others as well? Genuinely, I mean.
safety goggles are a bit like glasses but designed to specifically keep things from getting in your eyes
we could look for it, you wanted?
hmm, that's a tricky one. it's really hard to tell if someone's into you, especially if you've got a crush and you think you might just be seeing what you wanna see.
if you like this person, and you trust them, you should just ask. 'cause maybe they like you but they're too shy to bring it up. sometimes even people who seem really friendly and outgoing are shy about that kind of stuff. and worst case scenario, they don't return your feelings, and you can keep being friends without the uncertainty, and make room for someone else in your affections.
It's too late for that. I thought I'd been clear, and I thought he was
I thought we were
We were not. His heart belongs to someone else.
I was friends with the both of them.
I'm angry and I'm sad and I miss him and I don't want to see him at all and I like him very much. But it doesn't matter how much I like him when he doesn't like me.
Maybe if I were a boy he'd like me better
I would like to look. I think it might do me good to break things.
I have something for you, besides. In exchange for the glasses.
[ Wow, there sure is a whole lot to unpack there. ]
😔
i'm really sorry to hear that. i know how much it sucks - i've been down that road before. hell, when i was your age i practically lived on that road.
[ There's more to say - reassurances, talk about different sexualities she probably didn't have access to in Westeros, reassurances that she'll find a nice boy some day. But all of that is best delivered in person, in a soft voice, and not over text. So he sticks to setting up plans to be able to do so. ]
let's look for a room like that. or somewhere with breakable stuff at least. i'll grab some lab goggles. if we don't find each other in 15 minutes, text me back.
cinderella is legit, i think you would like it. and maybe it's just being raised on them, but i feel like disney movies are always a great way to bond and make new friends.
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That's the second time someone has spoken of the land of Disney. Natasha told me of the princesses there and their animal companions. Do all these stories take place there, or were they crafted in that land?
There's someone on the network that would like to find all of them as well as a place to watch them. I figured if I could not help with the latter I could at least ask about the former.
Do you own them yourself or know where she might find them?
And ...if you don't mind, what are they about? Are they anything like The Never Ending Story?
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okay so here's the scoop:
walt disney was the name of a guy. a writer. he ran a company that made animated movies - not like the neverending story, with actors in costumes and sets, but sequences of drawings that look like they're moving. so he made a whole lotta films, and the most famous ones are almost all about princesses - like cinderella. and they got really popular, so at a certain point he decided to make an amusement park themed around the fictional stuff in his own movies.
so like, disneyland isn't a place like westeros or central city, where i'm from. it's a park. the princesses aren't real and they don't live there - though they pay people to dress up like the princesses so the little kids will think they are real and get excited and get pictures with them. families bring their kids to have fun. there are little games to play, sweets to buy, rides (sort of... mechanical devices that spin you around for fun), fake castles, gardens, that kind of thing. that's 'disneyland'.
i don't have any of them but i've gotten pretty good at finding dvds here. if you want i can look around for them and let you know?
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cinderella - girl lives with her abusive stepmother and two horrible stepsisters. there's a huge ball and every girl in the kingdom is invited, except cinderella's stepmom stop her from going. until her fairy godmother turns up, gives her a sweet dress and glass shoes that'll stick around only until midnight. she goes to the ball, she and the prince fall in love, but then it's midnight and she runs out. except she loses a shoe, so the prince goes around until he finds the girl who fits the glass shoe, and then they get married.
sleeping beauty - there's a princess who gets cursed so that when she turns 16 she'll prick her finger on a spinning wheel and fall into a magic sleep until her true love kisses her. she gets raised in the woods by three fairy ladies and makes lots of animal friends because she's lonely as shit. she meets a guy who she doesn't realize is this prince she's been engaged to since she was born. on her 16th birthday she touches a spinning wheel and falls asleep until the princes fights his way past a dragon and kisses her.
rapunzel - ok i'm gonna level with you, i saw this one while I was babysitting my nieces at a big family party, so i was pretty distracted and don't remember a whole lot. there's a girl with hair that's like 100 feet long and also it's magic. she grows up locked in a tower by an evil woman claiming to be her mother, until she gets free and has adventures? i think she is a princess, too.
alice in wonderland - no princesses in this one. just a girl who falls asleep and dreams she goes to a place called 'wonderland' where everything is totally bizarre. kinda like here, except way stranger. she meets odd people who do odd things.
princess and the frog - this one's about a girl who is a waitress but saving up to open her own restaurant. there's a prince from a far away land who gets turned into a frog by an evil sorcerer, and then the princes turns the waitress into a frog by accident too. they have adventures and eventually fall in love, and both of them get turned back into humans again.
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Maybe not that last example, but I think I understand.
Half of them are love stories.
:-/
But three of five have adventures.
There's someone on the network asking about them. I thought since you have so many movies you would be the obvious choice for asking. And the best one to know where to look if you didn't have them.
I'd give them back when they'd finished, you have my word.
Does Nicholas Sparks tell love stories too?
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actually i think all of them are love stories except alice in wonderland, because she's like 10 years old.
i'm honored. come to me with your movie questions whenever. i'll be your movie guru.
yeah, he writes romance novels. 'the notebook' is the only one i've heard of though. they made it into a movie that's pretty famous. i would say my friend caitlin made me watch it but that would be a lie. i made her watch it.
( why the :/, arya said you were a fan of romance stuff??? or was that a phase and she just isn't letting you live it down? )
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And she tells it true, it was all I thought about once.
It's all I'm thinking about now, but it's made me cross and sad and ???? :/ :??? :(
DDDD:
:x
I
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i'm sorry sansa i didn't mean to bum you out. 😰
do you need someone to talk to? i've been told i am a very good listener.
and i've had plenty of days when thinking about that kind of story made ME want to throw things, too. PLENTY.
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I believe that. You are very good at explaining things, both to me and to Jon and especially to Arya, and it must come from having listened to what was asked, or in some cases just knowing what to say before it's even asked. That's a real gift.
I've talked so much I don't know what there is even left to say. (But that doesn't seem stop me from repeating it to the point of... well, even my crow is saying things now.) It might be nice to bend a new ear. If you're really not busy with something else.
Snowballs are better for throwing. (Though tossing little glass angels was strangely satisfying as well, but snow is less dangerous.)
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[ He had been working on coding a new app, but working and too busy to talk are two very different things. ]
yeah glass is better for the catharsis but i would definitely recommend protective eyewear at the very least if you are gonna do it again. did you know in my world they recently started having these places where you can pay a little money and go in and smash stuff? plates and whatever else. it's pretty genius if you ask me.
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I'd be willing to bet there's a room like that here, only it won't make you pay.
(...with coin.)
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What if they were, upon reflection, this way with others as well? Genuinely, I mean.
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we could look for it, you wanted?
hmm, that's a tricky one. it's really hard to tell if someone's into you, especially if you've got a crush and you think you might just be seeing what you wanna see.
if you like this person, and you trust them, you should just ask. 'cause maybe they like you but they're too shy to bring it up. sometimes even people who seem really friendly and outgoing are shy about that kind of stuff. and worst case scenario, they don't return your feelings, and you can keep being friends without the uncertainty, and make room for someone else in your affections.
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It's too late for that. I thought I'd been clear, and I thought he was
I thought we were
We were not. His heart belongs to someone else.
I was friends with the both of them.
I'm angry and I'm sad and I miss him and I don't want to see him at all and I like him very much. But it doesn't matter how much I like him when he doesn't like me.
Maybe if I were a boy he'd like me better
I would like to look. I think it might do me good to break things.
I have something for you, besides. In exchange for the glasses.
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😔
i'm really sorry to hear that. i know how much it sucks - i've been down that road before. hell, when i was your age i practically lived on that road.
[ There's more to say - reassurances, talk about different sexualities she probably didn't have access to in Westeros, reassurances that she'll find a nice boy some day. But all of that is best delivered in person, in a soft voice, and not over text. So he sticks to setting up plans to be able to do so. ]
let's look for a room like that. or somewhere with breakable stuff at least. i'll grab some lab goggles. if we don't find each other in 15 minutes, text me back.
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Cinderella. That's the one "missmystic" wanted most (she's not really a mystic, it's more of a title)
Her name is Caroline.
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cinderella is legit, i think you would like it. and maybe it's just being raised on them, but i feel like disney movies are always a great way to bond and make new friends.
i'll keep my eyes out for a copy.