🧜🏽‍♀️ Trading Soul for Silverware: The Tragic Joy of The Little Mermaid Beautiful animation, unforgettable music — and a devastating message hiding in plain sight

Today’s Disney Renaissance rewatch: The Little Mermaid 🧜🏽‍♀️

Gorgeous film. Tight pacing. Absolute bangers.

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#LittleMermaid #VoiceIsIdentity #CulturalAssimilation #QueerReading #UrsulaWasRight #SubstackDrop

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Today I rewatched The Little Mermaid — and dug deep.

It’s not just a coming-of-age story.
It’s a tale of assimilation, queerness, white saviors, and the price of a voice.

Ursula was right.
Ariel was punished for difference.
And the final song? It’s a lie.

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They couldn’t let Ariel save the day.
Couldn’t let Triton grow.

So the white prince grabs a human ship and kills the queer sea witch with it.

A nice man.
A colonial machine.
A dead outsider.

That’s your “happy ending.”

#DisneyCritique #UrsulaWasRight #WhiteSaviorEnergy #AssimilationTale