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My Minecraft SOS Base...So Far!!! I love how our area has turned out so far, and I've got many more builds on the way...Unless we die and it becomes too expensive for our friends to revive me! Oh well...Let's not die and we'll be ok, RIGHT?! 🥹

One criticism that I’ve seen leveled at this is “why didn’t the La Bouffs just give Tiana the money?” The answer, I think, involves reading between the lines: Tiana didn’t want a handout. She wanted to work and earn her dream. And Charlotte, her friend, respected that.

Rewatched the Princess and the Frog yesterday and was surprised at how wholesome it was, and how lacking in preachiness given its setting (1920s America). Tiana's one social setback (when the real estate people promise a property she wanted to someone who could pay in cash) could have been construed as racism, poverty, or Tiana's youth/inexperience, and it's obviously not important which. On the whole, the story refuses to make caricatures of characters it could have done dirty: Lottie, who is completely believable as a spoiled socialite to this girl who grew up in New Orleans, is neither snobby nor cruel, but instead a generous friend with a heart of gold; Ray, a Cajun hick, is not stupid or mean-spirited the way too many characters with his accent are portrayed. Even the Disney prince, so often a shell for the princess to long for, gets a hint of a backstory to explain his fecklessness. It's quietly brilliant that a story about a frog not being what he seemed is filled with characters who are more than they appear to be on the surface. Bonus: this is a movie that's good to fathers. Both Tiana and Lottie have good dads, and the latter despite how easy it would have been to turn the sugar baron rich guy into someone stupid or spineless. Possibly the most surprising thing, especially in a modern children's movie, is that they don't rob Ray's sacrifice of meaning. They allow him to die heroically, and his sacrifice is accepted by Heaven (literally!), and that makes it possible for the audience to cry at the death of a delusional firefly. Icing on the cake: it's a parable about hard work mattering, but that it's family that makes the hard work worthwhile. Y'all, this is a sweet movie, much better than I remembered. I even forgive it for putting honey on beignets. What is that, seriously.🤣