elsa and honeymaren are girlfriends. if it isn’t confirmed in frozen 3, we gays will raid disney.

When Elsa lets her hair down in Frozen II:

My straight™ friend: I wish I had hair like that.

Me, a bisexual™: I’m so gay right now. 

If frozen 2 has taught me anything besides an ethereal goddess riding a water horse across the ocean can in fact make you go through your bisexual awakening again,

It’s that’s

How powerful is that message, not only for children but for everyone.

As kids, we always get told through stories and movies that one day we will be saved, that there are people who will rescue us.

But in this movie, Elsa goes on a whole expedition to find out that there is no one else, it was never anyone else. She is the one she was desperately looking for, she is the one with the power to save herself and others. She is enough.

Hearing you are enough, hearing that you are the one who has the power to save yourself.

That’s so powerful, I can’t even explain.

As humans, are underestimate ourselves. But we are so strong, so smart, and we are more than enough.

You are the one you’ve been waiting for.

Some aroace Elsa text posts, with bonus bisexual Anna

Disney & LGBTQ+

I am a Disney shill, i'll admit it. Their musicals and animated features are all wonderful, and their acquired properties like Marvel and Star Wars are borderline obsessions of mine. But I have one major problem (other than their money grabbing).

I'm Bisexual. I grew up in LDS Utah, in the very heart of it. I have been driven to be suicidal multiple times in my teenage years for how awful the culture is here against gay people. I oftentimes escape into what Disney creates, but i'm beginning to feel really hurt by them.

They refuse to give the LGBTQ+ community any sort of decent representation. They will champion that their new film is "A milestone for representation" then make it a scene they can easily cut out. In the live-action Beauty and the Beast their "groundbreaking" representation was a two second scene of Lafou dancing with a man. Valkyrie from the MCU is supposedly Bisexual but Watiti was never allowed to do anything with that. Then in Endgame it was an inconsequential scene of an unnamed character. Then in Rise of Skywalker it was two background characters who kissed. Then they pushed their new Love, Simon show from Disney+ to Hulu. The best we have gotten from them is in Onward with the lesbian cop, but again a background character with nothing but a passing mention of it. Nothing of substance.

Not to be rude and downplay what these characters mean to people, because something is better than nothing, but it feels pandering to me. Finnpoe was supposed to be canon and it didn't happen because of Disney. They keep claiming they support this community, but they make only passing mentions of background characters that can easily be removed for foreign markets. By doing this Disney tells me they only care about money, not what their representation actually means, and so it feels hollow at best.

What's frustrating is they make and support really good stories about LGBTQ+ feelings! Elsa is a great example of being forced to be closeted for something she was born with. She is ashamed and withdrawn and has tons of self loathing, and throughout both Frozen movies she grows to accept herself.

Likewise, The Clone Wars does this very well too. Granted, Disney did not make a vast majority of this show, but they continue to market it and allowed Season 7 to be what they wanted, so it still means something. The way the Jedi Order represses love and relationships strikes such a cord with me. What it does to Anakin is so realistically damaging and reflects how I was raised. Kenobi getting over Satine and living celibate in that show reminds me of all the gay people who are "strong in the church" and are denied their natural feelings. These people are shown to me, saying "you can make God happy too by denying your feelings!" And it clearly shows that Kenobi's experience also negatively affects Anakin, if not subtly.

So the point is is that Disney has the writing chops to craft AMAZING LGBTQ+ stories, but they refuse to. To explain let me tell you a story. The new short on Disney+ called Out is about a gay man coming out to his parents. It's short, harmless, and is only a drop in the bucket of their huge catalog on that platform. But my best friend's religious family hated it anyway, would not shut up about how awful it is, how they are sick of having gay people shoved down their throats, how they can't hate gay people without being hated on, and her family even discussed it with her grandparents.

Disney catters to these people. These awful, bigoted, hateful people. They cater to them for money. They don't make actual representation because all they care about is the bottom line. And I know they are a company, but they have so much money they can afford to make less of a profit on a few movies to really give LGBTQ+ something special, because they have proved they can make and support stories that strike a cord like that. But they won't. They don't actually care about my experiences, or my pain, or the escape they offer me. They only care about my wallet.

I know the upcoming MCU films The Eternals and Thor: Love and Thunder are supposed to have more representation, but with their track record I am not holding my breath.

I suffer from Intrusive thoughts due to my OCD. I tend to say the mantra from Frozen, “Conceal, Don’t Feel.” I know that in the movie the phrase is somewhat harmful for Elsa, but for me it really helps me push back my OCD thoughts and tendencies.

Elsa from Frozen has OCD

Evidence: has intrusive thoughts preoccupied with hurting others with her powers and the compulsions include wearing gloves, repeating a phrase (conceal don't feel), and keeping herself a specific "safe" distance from others, especially Anna.

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In spite of what anyone else thinks, I truly do prefer Frozen II to Frozen. I love the themes, the music, the animation, and the story. I love the Scandinavian influences, being a Swedish woman myself. But more than all this, I love Elsa.

Elsa was in Frozen, to me, very bland and empty. She had strong traits but was not given time to shine. To me, Elsa had way too little time in the movie to feel like she deserved the love she received  and Let It Go never resonated with me. 

F2 makes up for this in spades. F2 made me adore Elsa.

As a woman in her mid 20s, having only found myself the past couple of years due to OCD, anxiety and depression - I recognize myself. In the older sister, struggling with anxiety and hiding her true self for years, I see me. The fact that she is given no overt romance to lead her towards self discovery, but that she has to accept and love herself as she is to be fulfilled - that speaks to me.

As a woman on the ace spectrum who always thought I was weird for not wanting to sleep around or pursue sex no strings attached, and who never felt I needed romantic love to be whole, Elsa speaks for me.

Not to say I would be sad if Elsa is gay, I’m all for that! Her being gay or not doesn’t take away from her character or from me relating to her. It’s her personality and her journey thus far that speaks to me, and I feel a kinship. I enjoy several other “Disney princesses”, but among the official ones, Elsa is the one I gravitate towards. Not because she’s pretty and blonde and has ice powers - but because she is much like me.

Confidence comes from within and from loving yourself. That’s why I love Elsa, especially in F2. Show Yourself is my anthem, I am the one I’ve been waiting for, and I sincerely hope everyone else will come to this conclusion sooner rather than later in their life. You’re not wrong for being single, for focusing on self care, for loving your family found or bio. 

"You can't just diagnose all your faves with obsessive compulsive disorder, it's unrealistic."

Can I just say how completely relatable Elsa is?

Sure, people might get a little frustrated when the song Let it Go belts out because of how many times they’ve heard it. It has been overplayed! But maybe there’s a good reason for it. That song too has a deeper message. One about letting go of the past, letting go of the traumas, the fear, all of it. Taking a step forward. But what she later learned, was it’s okay to surround yourself with others. You don’t have to be alone. You can be happy. Your life doesn’t have to be controlled by fear.

As a person who struggles (and has struggled) with PTSD and anxiety, among other issues like depression… etc, a Disney Princess…excuse me, Queen being an influence in regards to overcoming fear is just so relatable and special to me. A while back, I would make so many video edits with Elsa. I’m still super hyped to see Frozen 2 as well. We are not meant to be controlled, to be defeated by our problems we “are meant to CONQUER them.” Elsa overcomes her fears and finds peace. Maybe alone we can’t always do it, but with Christ, with outside support/awareness, and with friends/family we can. Everyone just needs a little more understanding and love.

Frozen means the WORLD to me. I see so much of my sister and my relationship in Anna and Elsa. I suffer from a type of OCD that made me terrified that I might somehow hurt my sister. I used to hide in my room a lot because the fear was so crippling. Just like Anna, my sister never left my side, even as we started getting a little distant. It hurt so much to feel that distance, so eventually I explained what was going on and she only became more determined to let me know she cares since then. Now, I’m doing better and we’re closer than ever. I love her with all my heart.

autistic ocd characters i am hugging you with my mind

My newest video essay is up! Check out my recap and thoughts on the initial draft of the PLL: The Perfectionists Pilot episode!

I’m rewatching PLL for the first time in two years and I absolutely howled at Emily telling Aria in the pilot that she almost didn’t recognise her because she didn’t have the two strands of pink hair anymore