Imagine Hating Black Friday. Imagine Hearing:

Made (my first ever!!) moodboards for my Smosh Death God AU!! Starring:

Spencer and Angela as two twins, trapped on opposite sides of The Veil Between Worlds

Ian as Pastor Hecox of the Church of the Ravenkeeper

Anthony as The Ravenkeeper, the God of Death

Damien as The Scythe, the Herald of Mechanical Death

Arasha as The Cypress, the Herald of Violent Death

Jackie as The Constellation, the Herald of Environmental Death

Tommy as The Will, the Herald of Natural Death

(More moodboards will probably be coming soon! They’re so freakin fun to make!!)

Ok- so I have been scrolling through posts for Cinderella’s Castle like a crazy person. Like you do.

Most of the posts are people squealing over their favorite bit currently, or just in general how much they loved it.

However-

Every one in 20 posts has someone expressing disappointment, and finding it lack luster.

It seems like you either are salivating over how good it was, or bored, and annoyed no one else was.

The main complaint seems to be “the characters are flat compared to other shows.”

As someone obsessed with fairytale fantasy, I just needed to come on here and say…

No duh.

Fairytales are not about the character as a person. They are about the person as a symbol/theme. Any detail about them suddenly humanizes them and makes them that much more relatable. But they are never, I repeat, NEVER, a fully realized person. Even in more modern fairytale adaptations, you don’t come for the character, you come for the story as a whole, and stay for the character’s “vibe” that allows you to create elaborate back ground details in fanfiction. The whole appeal of a fairytale is “less is more.”

Ella was raised as a Lady. She likes to paint. She sees herself as brave and tough, and wants to stop evil even if it kills her. She is clever and kind and has dreams. She is utterly practical in accomplishing her goals. She loves her family and friends deeply.

That is all we know.

We don’t know her favorite color, or if she’s a jazz girl, or even what she wanted out of life before this all happened, only that she misses her family.

That is the POINT. Ella, the cinder girl, the girl of ashes, is EVERY YOUNG GIRL WHO IS RAISED IN ABUSE. That is why the tale of Cinderella exists. So grandmothers and mothers could instill in children the deep knowledge that they deserve more, can survive, and do it without letting it break them.

Cinderella is someone you know because she is not pinned down with details. She just is.

Every character in a fairytale is that.

The stepmother is the abuser.

The Troll is a ruling class not from here.

The Princeton a fairytale is an escape and a stamp of approval of your morals. Not his own person. He is Deux Ex Machina. The fact that he HAS a personality here and it is awful is a subversion and holding up Ella’s personal determination over higher approval. She doesn’t need someone else’s approval to prove she is doing the right thing- she knows it, and holds it like the starlight in her hand. And that is GLORIOUS.

The Griswald sisters are a show of how even when you are utterly destroyed by evil, the fact that you were bright, and good, and true MEANS SOMETHING and still helps make the world better.

The frog knight is kindness repaid, and to not judge by appearances.

The mouse squire is that willingness to do something, even if you don’t have the skills, is important. Is worth something. (I saw someone talking about Crumb serving no perpose because he did not effect the plot. Of course he didn’t. The point of him is that he was WILLING, and that alone made her life better. And whimsy. Sometimes in genre, a thing is just for “vibes” and that’s what makes it genre. You cannot have fantasy without whimsy. He be whimsy.)

Even Tadius is a newer symbol of the “faithful servant.” Who does he serve? The Prince? The people? By following orders, or by using his wits?

And the Fairy Godmother. There is so much happening there, I could do a whole TedTalk. But basically, the fairy godmother is Help. It is offered help. She offers it because Cinderella was kind and had an anger in her screaming for justice. The fairygodmother in any story shows up to reward a virtue that the mc takes for granted. They don’t feel worth of the help, are even inclined to turn it down. The point of Cinderella is you TAKE THE HELP. Pride be damned, self worth be damned, you take it and you USE it to make things RIGHT.

The point is this:

A fairytale is about the themes. It is ABOUT the message. It is ABOUT how older themes get changed to fit modern understanding and turn into new themes.

What they did with ash and fire and starlight was incredible. The fact that they brought Fairy Godmother back to the Fairy who is a Mother Goddess was breathtaking because it made Cinderella’s quest for justice holy, not just empowered.

These characters are not flat. They are given thier depth by their role and themes rather than by the plot or personal details.

If you were bored by this, you don’t like fairytales. You may enjoy some of the trappings, but would like it better in a fantasy styled romance or drama, which is not the same thing.

This is not “connecting to humanity by connecting to a character not you.”

This is “connecting to something deeper and more than all of us put together through the use of symbology.”

Maybe that ain’t for you. Maybe you prefer to explore all this plane has to offer. That’s totally an acceptable preference. But don’t come in here and call it a bad show. It’s just not your genre.

(Also, since ya’ll seem to call out Hatchetfield stuff too- maybe you just don’t like genre centric stories 🤷🏻‍♀️)

"y'all are weird about damangela" no, but y'all are weird about people that don't like damangela.

“y’all are weird about people that don’t like damangela” no y’all are weird about people who LIKE damangela. That’s the only reason why there’s any discourse in the first place. idc if you don’t like damangela if you just move about your day when you see damangela content. I’m not trying to make people like them if they just don’t vibe with them. I care when you spread hate for no reason. If I don’t like a ship, I simply ignore it and scroll past when I see it, not bring it up just to make fun of it every chance I get.

Just Angela batting her eyes at Damien

NICK AND LAUREN MY BELOVED!! Underrated friendship fr! Their bit about her directing and him being too tired is so funny 😭

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP!! ALEXA ITS HAPPENING!! THE APOTHEOSIS IS UPON US RAHHH 🦅🦅

I just realized that BOTH of Damien and Angela's reddit stories were posted in July so that means we're gonna get Damien and Angela back on the couch and get another Reddit Stories in July!

Ok but DAMANGELA 2T1L WHEN??? 😩

"you guys are not normal about damangela" yes but not in the way you all are insinuating. i rotate them in my brain like a rotisserie chicken when i need to calm down. try it. it's freeing. do not be limited to the confines of normalcy.

oh so you just make fun of people who enjoy this dynamic just to be assholes?? You get joy from making fun of people you dgaf about?? Sounds like you give a fuck to me idk. You have made no inclination that you hate on damangela because of its shippers. Not ONCE have I seen anyone say "I like them but I just don't see why people ship them." You guys have literally said that they have no dynamic and mocked people who just enjoy them point blank. Not only that but you have said that Angela hates Damien and implied that there was something dark and sinister going on there. Idc if you were joking, joking about someone maybe being creepy/harmful to someone is problematic as hell.

I wish I could see what the original tweet this person was replying to said but alas they are private. I wouldn't be surprised if they were hating/complaining about me though honestly. Because I've been going off on this all week lmao.

The fact that one of smoshtwt's main sources of joy and entertainment is bullying and ragebaiting apparently is so sad honestly. Like you and your 15 big twitter accounts are hating on a dynamic because *checks notes* 2 or 3 people ship them and are being very chill and normal about it? Ok yeah sure. I loveeee shaming people for no reason!! It's sooo fun and normal!!! I'm still a 10 year old girl! Like literally haven't seen this type of behavior since I was in like 5th or 6th grade 😭 and most of these people are adults too like it's so embarrassing 💀

and yes I know I'm being embarrassing by reacting and responding to it all too, but I've been witnessing them do this for over a year. I'm tired.