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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Belle: "I really want to find a town with a decent library"
The Town: "This chick so crazy, she learned to read."
Beast: "Behold my enormous library"
Belle: "I will fuck the fur off your foreskin if you let me live here."
Gaston: "Books are scary, burn this place to the ground"
Twitter: "Belle is the bad guy"
Well, TBF she IS really into a furry - that makes all sorts of people a bit squeamish.
Skill issue
He's not a furry, he's a monster, making Belle a monsterfucker.
Her boyfriend turned back into a human, though. Maybe we should all chip in and get her a Bad Dragon gift card?
Is she really into furries, or is she just into monsterphelia?
Real furry, fine
Pretend furries in fursuits? That's the 2020's version of blackface. Y'all are going to have a difficult time once the real furries get political representation
LGBTQ+ are still having problems with that, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
I think the furries have an illuminati like presence and power over the modern world.
They control all our computer networks, security, and technology.
::reads through the lyrics to the song::
Hmm, she makes one comment about the town being poor and provincial, a couple about wanting more out of life, and then the rest of it is the towns folk saying she's "pretty but weird" and Gaston saying "she's mine."
I think this analysis stinks.
"There goes the baker, with his bread like always... the same old bread and rolls to selllll!" That's ONE you could point at as a jab. The poor, poor boulanger!
I don't think this is even a jab at the baker, she's just commenting on the malaise she feels at her life being the same everyday. Relatable honestly.
I'm in a "poor provincial town". Our bakers kick ass.
Yeah that's just being young. It would be weird if she wasn't feeling stifled by her surroundings.
What a loser baker, making the staple foods his community likes to eat, and selling them at consistent hours!
He needs to be out here inventing cronuts and shit.
I never got the 'i'm better then everyone else here' vibe out of that first song either. And if we did, that's still a long way off from creepy pushy rapist. Wow, I was really caught unawares by the high amount bad vibes gaston gives off.
Wanting more to life than can be found in a small town is a classic element of whimsy. And it still holds true today.
How many small towns die each year because none of the young people stay? The ones that aren't ghost towns yet at least have aging populations.
Growing up I remember everyone saying things like "There's nothing to do here, this county is boring, I want to move to a city." And then they go off to college and get a job and live in a city, and any time you visit your hometown (except for holidays), nobody you know is there because they all left as soon as they could. And anyone who still lives there is viewed as backwards, pathetic, or a failure.
But the people who stayed view the people who left as the crazy ones, because they're insular and haven't seen much of the outside would, and they don't like anything that conflicts with theirs worldview (read: the collective psychosis endemic to these small towns)
She said she's bored and Twitter heard that she thinks she's better then a whole town.
...only place...
If only that were true — it'd be great to compartmentalize all the trolls into just that box/site.
I mean isn't it standard in Disney princesses?
Anna in Frozen has a whole song about how castle will finally have "real people" when the party starts, while servants around her prepare for said party.
I always laugh at that scene! Like someone taught her how to socialize and read, and thought they were meaningfully impacting her life, but then Anna comes around singing, "I wish there were people, and not these lower life forms!"
🎵 Do you want to ~~build a snowman~~ see a peasant 🎵
🎵Have a dinner for idiots?🎵
Yeah, but she's right though. Gaston is psyched to be the biggest fish in their small pond town. Belle wants to be in a bigger pond. She aspires and yearns for more than her little town can ever offer her while everybody else is content to just exist as is. Gaston might not even be literate, yet he has the respect and adoration of pretty much everybody in town. Everybody thinks she's a fucking weirdo for reading books. She and her father are the town pariahs for growing brains, so it's kinda wild to criticize them for wanting something better than a town full of people who shit on them while worshipping a dumbass prettyboy.
Yeah but have you seen him eat eggs????
That man can eat so many eggs.
You're right but OP was saying that thinking this was thinking she's better than the town. It's one of those situations where a woman can't win because men are describing her actions. "Woman dreams of a life well lived" is the same as "Woman thinks town is beneath her" except hunting lodge chuds are describing her.
Only an illiterate jock would be upset that someone wants more than an illiterate jock.
Right? People who read into this have clearly never been the geek/nerd/weirdo who came from a small town. It's absolute hell, Belle was relatable as fuck.
Yeah, as someone who grew up in a conservative town and got bit by the travel bug, it's really relatable actually.
People absolutely do look down on you for not being content to just live a "normal life" (meaning "conform to the oppressive standards we impose on you as "normal."). They'll make fun of you for being intelligent ("brainiac"/"knowitall"/etc.), and even call you arrogant while worshipping the narcissists who happen to be into sports and machismo culture instead of books and knowledge.
And when you say you want to see the world, they act like you're arrogant/pretentious. "Oh, so you think you're better than the rest of us?" And they think it's unrealistic too. As if no one has ever left their hometown and built a life for themselves anywhere else. And they'll try to guilt you about it, like "so you're just going to abandon us?"
It's really exhausting, to be honest...
No one grills like Hank Hill Nor has skills like Hank Hill To sell propane and propane accessories like Hank Hill
You still won't find this month's Playboy centerfold in there, Gaston.
Wanting more than your current circumstance is not 'looking down' on your present circumstance in a negative way, it's just aspiring to more than you have.
For small minded people, that definitely can be the case and seem snobbish.
Belle.
The original Lemmite.
Beast is more attractive as a beast than as a pretty boy human. That's my unsolicited opinion, and you have to be nice to me because it's pride month.
Belle was right and she is one of the few Disney Princesses that is not just a horny teenage idiot following her hormones and getting her parents killed as a result
She was right tho.
It's a princess fantasy. All the female leads thinks they're better than where they start.
To be fair, any sapient creature would find it pretty upsetting to be among most humans.