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Rating Comic-Exclusive Winx Transformations

There are currently 7 fairy transformations exclusive to the comics that range from “hey this is actually nice” to “why did they bother.” They only appear in one issue and for 2 panels (if that). I’ll go in order of appearance:

1. Magic of Sports

Rating: 2/10

They don’t even get a new outfit, they get wings added to their personalized, but nondescript, football (soccer) uniforms. The wings are the same for each girl; sharp, tear drop shapes with their signature colors. I wouldn’t dislike the fact they didn’t get new outfits if they each had their own sport (considering it’s the magic of “sports” not football) to represent that fit their personality. They do get some cute ponytails (barring Tecna for her short hair) and the uniforms aren’t impractical, so there’s that.

2. Magic of Food

Rating: 5/10

This transformation is in collaboration with Ricette a colori, a short form Italian cooking show that featured the Winx. There are some animated segments as well. I like the colors and the hairs are fantastic. The wings are nicely shaped but all the same. I wish each look was as good as Layla and Flora’s. Layla’s is a solid 7.

3. Travelix

Rating: 6/10

Most the points are earned from the wings. I wish they’d combine these with the time travel outfits in season 7. No, but seriously the wings are amazing. These should have been the Cosmix wings.

4. Magic of Joy

Rating: 7/10

A beautifully simple goddess look. Each girl has a different cut dress with their signature colors shared with the wings. The wings themselves, I wish they were more unique, maybe replace them with the Butterflix wings and the look would be complete. Major points for avoiding oversaturated color palettes. The hair could use something more, an accessory or a little more complexity, but that could be the lack of animation that gives it life.

5. Greenix

Rating: 3/10

A Lynphea based transformation, it gets points for the cultural outfit but the outfits and wings are exactly the same with different colors. The wings aren’t much to look at, I think they’re suppose to look like leaves but the geometric shapes kind of ruin that. The hair seems to be their normal cuts, unchanged. I like nature based transformations but this is too simple and same-y to be appealing. Tecna’s colors are the nicest.

6. Paintix

Rating: 4/10

The skirts are the best part the only thing really worth mentioning. I can’t help but like it though. Take the concept of rainbow, color, and art and run farther with it, you’d get something really fun. The wings are exactly the same with no color change. Wings are nice shape and size but so reminiscent of all the previous transformations that they aren’t worth any additional points.

7. Magic Rock

Rating: 0/10

If you’re not going to go full glam rock with the concept, what’s the point? The colors don’t do much for me. The outfits aren’t personalized or really at all good. All skirts and ponytails. The comic isn’t available online or translated so I don’t know the context but for some reason this isn’t Musa-focused. She doesn’t even get a spotlight, she all the way in the back. I think the wings are suppose to be soundwaves but look pretty bad. Just a poor showing all around. Worse with the new art style.

What are y’all’s thoughts?

So I heard @midnightstarlightwrites was talking about the necessity of a spanish disney princess, and I did some research.

And so here I have designed a princess based on a spanish fairytale called The Water Of Life 

I called her Valencia, meaning brave, because her three brothers basically died and she still went out after them? And succeeded where they failed? Cool dude right there.

#RON’s GOF hair appreciation gifset. 

romione in muggle aesthetic clothes; ✨

(references: some rupert and emma photoshoots).

At the end of season 3

Robin: We're just, uh.... *visibly hesitates* We're just friends.

This happens:

My Stobin ass:

Completed animation on the abandoned sequel to DISNEY PRINCESS ENCHANTED TALES. This second volume would’ve focused on Cinderella and Mulan. Its themes, as the first edition focused on following your dreams, would’ve emphasized being true and honest. The Cinderella portion followed a storyline of Cinderella preparing for the King’s return with a special surprise.

Sequels Disney wouldn’t dare to make #2

The Sleeping Beauty 2

from Perrault’s sequel to “The Sleeping Beauty”,

Main Reason: Anthropophagy

Queen Aurora and her twins, Dawn and Day, they’re almost eaten by their grand mother, 

@disney : Aurora and Samson joust spending some quality time together 🐎 See more in “5-Minite Girl Power Stories” from @DisneyBooks

So I've been doodling/editing some Maleficent pictures and I thought I show them off! My take on a backstory for Maleficent is taken from of thr early concepts for the Live Action movie, where she is an unwelcome outcast in the Fairy Court of her Aunt and Uncle as she is half-fairy and half demon.

I'm still working on the full concept, but I picture her growing up lonely with really only her birds and books for company, and she ends up falling under the sway of a Dark Fairy called Carabosse, who sees how much potential Maleficent (which would not be her birth name but I'm still deciding what that would be) has for magic and becomes her mentor --in a very Palpatine sort of way.

Also working on fleshing out the latter story of Maleficent and her human love interest Gavin, who I created as the father for my Canon Descendants take on Mal. Here's the first time they meet, when Maleficent finds him asleep on her castle stairs. (Also i know last time I drew them together I drew her without horns, ignore that, that was a dumb idea on my part, Maleficent deserves to have her awesome horns)

I also did this incredibly silly and non-canon doodle of them lounging and being pastoral and stuff cuz I loved the creepy saytr in the tree in the original and wanted to do a version with Maleficent's goon xD Maleficent would never ever be this soft or open about it--though you do get a good view of her ragged wings. (I have an idea that in my version she sacrifices them purposely when she joins the side of the Dark Arts but yeah)

Anyway, here's my doodles, hope you like them. Hopefully I'll have more when I've taped down Maleficent’s story to my satisfaction 👍

Sorry Canon Descendants TLM 3 is taking a while, it's been a long couple weeks in Real Life Land and I've been feeling a little burned out when it comes to working on longer stories, but I promise I'll try and finish it before the end of the month 😅

Till then I had some fun designing a Disney version of Swan Lake, designed from different Swan based Disney things, such as performers in parades and floats and such. So here's Odette:

Prince Siegfried

Baron Von Rothbart

And his daughter Odile

And here's some of the references/concept art I compiled to make them!

I also included a new character, who’s actually an old one from an earlier version of the Swan Lake plot before it was finalized into the one we know in the ballet, Odette’s evil step-mother, who seeks to harm her but cannnot as long as Odette wears her magical crown. So here’s Lady Esuvilda, the sister of Von Rothbart.

The plot I’ve thought of for this retelling would be a combo of the ideas from the original stepmother plot and the one we know and would go something like this:

"Many years ago, Odette’s father, Sir Hugh de Ledacouer met and fell in love with the beautiful swan maiden Avatta, the daughter of King Cobhame, a fairy King. Against her father's wishes, for he knew how fickle human men are, Avatta rejected her immortality and married Hugh, giving birth to Odette.

Soon after, Hugh betrayed Avatta with the Lady Esuvilda, causing her to die of a broken heart, as is the consequence of a fairy who has given up their immortality for a mortal. Sir Hugh married the Lady Esuvilda, and entranced by her he neglected his daughter. But such was her jealousy of Odette that she attempte to destroy the girl. When she was prevented from killing her by the magic of Odette’s grandfather--who gives her an enchanted crown to protect her from such attempts--Esuvilda turns to her brother, the enchanter Baron Von Rothbart.

Unable to harm the girl due to her magical crown, he could still trap her in the form of a Swan, (due to her Fairy heritage) until such a day as a mortal man would declare unwavering love for her--a stipulation added specifically to give her as little hope of release as possible, in the face of her father's betrayal of her mother.

Odette and her ladies in waiting who were also enchanted by Rothbart, manage to escape to an enchanted lake which her grandfather created high in the mountains, which allows them to turn back to humans at night if they’re on it. Rothbart, who stalks the edges of the Lake, covets Odette’s beauty, and seeks to find a way to steal her protective crown and claim her as his own."

And from there it would go pretty much how the Ballet goes, Seigfried finds the Swan Maidens, and being a shy young romantic falls in love with Odette very quickly, but Odette would be very hesitant to believe him or return his feelings due to her distrust of love after what happened to her mother, so Siegfried would really have to work hard to get her to trust him and see he's truly sincere in his feelings and desires to free her and the others.

I think I'd maybe make Odile a semi-reluctant assistant to her father and aunt. She doesn't really like them and they don't treat her well, in fact she gets along much better with the Swan Maidens (maybe one in particular) but she doesn't want to fully take their side as she's afraid of being on the other end of her father's wrath.

Odette probably gives up her magic crown willingly after she thinks Siegfried has betrayed her (Rothbart probably makes it look/sound like he chose Odile willingly) and decides to give it up so that she can die and so free her friends from the Swan spell as it's linked to her.

Of course this would be a Disney Movie so it'd be a happy ending but if HOND can go that dark so can this.

Little Mermaid Family Tree

Okay… so I did a lot of research for this and finally found all the information (I think)

Anyway, I was able to complete Ariel’s family tree by looking at the TV show, comics, and other books. 

The sisters all have boyfriends, but since Attina is the only one who got married, she gets to have her partner on the tree.

I also debated adding these 3 people as Eric’s mom, dad, and sister. They are from a book called The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s New Treasure and I find that the girl’s dad looks a lot like prince Eric. Unfortunately, it is not stated anywhere that they are related to Prince Eric, so I decided not to add them.

Anyway… hope you like it!!!

Ok!! Still have a couple of Disney Villain Backstories to do but thought I'd get started on the Godmothers Backstories!

So here's Flora Fauna and Merryweather:

They are Half fairies, the children of a fairy with a human man. They thus have fairy powers but still age, though much much more slowly than humans

Raised in the Fairy Court by their mother, the fairy Tranquility, who was a favored companion of the Fairy Queen Titania, and had power over Dreams, specifically prophetic ones. 

She was killed by the Dark Fairy Carabosse,  and the three orphaned half fairies were made Ladies in Waiting to Titania 

They are several hundred years older then Maleficent, who is the niece of Queen Titania 

Due to their status in the Fairy Court  they later became the royal caretakers of young Stefan, who was a human foundling raised in the Court as a foster child of the King and Queen

They helped him defeat Maleficent when he revealed her involvement with the Dark Arts, taught to her by the Dark Fairy Carabosse

This adventure earned Stefan his title of King when he wed the Princess Leah of Perceforet, and the fairies the titles of The Three Good Fairies, and they became the official Fairy Godmothers of his future children as well

They will eventually be asked to train future royal children by Aurora when she becomes the new Fairy Queen, in order to help find the child prophesied to help defeat the First Evil of the Everrealm

(Tranquility the Fairy of Dreams was a cut concept for one of the fairies that I thought sounded cool, so I brought her in)

(Thanks for your patience! Sorry it took so darn long, I got stuck on the ending, and didn't want to give up until I had figured it out. Its still a bit rough, it started to get rather complex with my larger DisneyVerse creeping in, but I hope it satisfies! )

So the Imp has come back to make good on Corinne’s last, unsettled payment she owns him, and of course he drops the bomb that he wants her baby daughter, which Corinne of course is not in anyway cool about.

It’s at this point that he reveals that all the other things he had her give up where tests to see just how far she was willing to go, giving up her mother’s treasured necklace, Henri’s ring, symbols of Love being more important then power and prestige. He’d had an eye on her for a while, and these tests were to see if she has the potential in her for for Dark Sorceress material and surprise —She totally does!

And she can’t really get on in moving up the Dark Sorceress ladder if she has a baby holding her back, so if she’ll just dump the kid for him to dispose of then she can come with him and get on with growing her dark magical powers, maybe even eventually elevating herself to the throne—

At which point Corinne cuts him off and declares she doesn’t want that at all! She just wants to live peacefully with Henri and their baby, she’s happy with the luck she’s had and doesn’t want more power, doesn’t want to be like the people she’s seen in Dior’s court, constantly scheming and backstabbing and never being actually happy.

The Imp’s face falls, golden eyes flashing with disappointment—and anger. Fine, if that’s how she feels, then she doesn’t have to join him in creating magical chaos. He’ll just keep to the original deal and take the baby, and she can stay and be happy with her boring human husband. They can always have another brat anyway right? If Henri still wants her after finding out she tradded their child to get where she is. She really should have read the fine print on that first bargin the made. But the Imp considers himself a merciful being, he’ll give her three days to think it over and change her mind

Left alone and horrified at the realization of all she has to lose, her family, her humanity, Corinne comes to a decision—to tell her Henri the truth and hope he can forgive her and help her save their child, for the baby’s sake if not for hers if he finds he can’t love her anymore.

But of course he can, he’s always been the best of the people in the court, and he’s not about to lose his beloved wife and child without a fight. The Imp said she had magic, powerful magic of her own. Couldn’t they use that magic to find a way to stop him?

And Corinne starts to feel hope. There's something in that. She might not be powerful enough to go toe to toe with the Imp, but if she could find a way to go around him? Find a weakness of his? She clutches a handful of star, the thing that had started this all off, and summons the magic to her, focusing on what the Imp had taught her into bringing it to the surface. A ball of gold begins to form, a string coming loose and shooting out the door, slithering off into the darkness. Hesitanting only as long as it takes to grab a weapon, the couple join hands and race after it, two Theseus's pursuing the Minator into the labyrinth...

They find their way to strange tumbled down structure in the middle of the forest. It looks abandoned enough, but both know looks can be decieving. They cautiously enter the ruin-- but not cautiously enough it seems. A dizzing burst of light explodes around them, and when they can see again, the Imp sits before them, chuckling darkly.

"What, did you expect to sneak up and find me dancing around the fire singing my True Name? "

Instantly the two find themselves bound by the very thread they'd followed, as the Imp continues to gloat and heckle them. Rage builds up inside Corinne, the same anger she's felt from feeling the neglect of her father, the contempt of the village and Dior and his court. And with the rage comes an idea. What had the Imp said about dancing about and...

"I want to make a new Deal" Corinne says sharply, cutting off the Imp mid taunt.

"Oh? And what is it you could possibly offer me now Dearie? Ready to join me and leave the little people and their little minds behind after all are you?"

"No, I still want to stay with Henri and my baby"

"Then I'm afraid you've nothing I want"

"I think I do..." Corinne whispers, taking hold of the thread of gold that binds her, the thread she herself had conjoured, meant to lead her to find a way to undo this creatures hold on her.

"I'm offering you my Magic"

The Imp's eyes blaze, despite his effort to appear as calm and unruffled as usual, and Corinne can see she's struck gold. "You said I've the potential for great power. I'm offering you that in exchange for leaving me and my husband and child in peace together, free from any harm or machinations you or yours might try. If you promise to leave us be, you may take my magic for yourself"

She twists the cord in her hand, and it shifts into a shining contract and quill, ready to be signed.

"Sign here, and all that potential, all that power is yours"

The Imp hesitates only a moment, greed winning out over caution, seeming not to notice the golden tendrils that flicker along the edges of the quill and contract and loop back into the coil still holding Henri trapped. With a grin of wicked glee he signs the contract with a flourish--

There's a crackle like lightning in the air, and now it's Corinne's turn to smile as the tendrils linking the quill and contract she'd conjured shine with power, looping around herself and the Imp and Henri--and the iron dagger Henri holds in his hand, the dagger that now bears the True Name of the Imp, "Rumplestiltskin"

"A little something for insurance" Corinne says, smirking at the wide eyed Rumplestiltskin. "Iron cannot be touched by the Fay, and so this name can never be erased. If you ever try to break this contract, or if you ever try to touch anyone I care about again, this dagger will be your undoing. You really should have read the fine print"

For a moment there's an unbearable tension, and then Rumplestiltskin laughs, darkly, wildly. "Oh well played Dearie, well played. Well far be it from me to break the bounds of a contract. I'll be on my way then, but remember--all magic comes with a price. You've paid for our original contract with yours, but you've made a powerful enemy as well. I may not be able to harm you three, but I hope you don't plan on having any other children anytime soon. Enjoy your Happily Ever After while it lasts..."

And then with another flash, he's gone.

And they do enjoy it. They raise their daughter and begin to grow old together, and while there is some sadness that they can not risk having another child, they find that their daughter Regine is enough for them. And for several years all is well.

What happens after that is another story...

Background Bonus Stuff:

Why does Rumplestiltskin deal in babies in the DisneyVerse? Well, long ago a prophecy was made that a Child born of Common Blood raised Royal would be the undoing of the Demon Queen and all her ilk, from whom Rumplestiltskin was of the lineage. He and his family took this to mean a child born from a commoner and a royal. So anytime there's such a child one of them pops up to try and prevent the child from reaching their full potential, influencing events either directly or from the shadows.

Rumplestiltskin prefers corruption over destruction, and turns the children he takes into people unfit to combat the forces of evil, if he cannot turn them fully. All information our couple could have learned if they'd bothered to ask the young woman he'd delivered to be Dior's wife...

(A certain magic mirror that holds the soul of Rumplestiltskin's father tried to help a vain queen destroy a beautiful dark haired princess several centuries ago, and will pop up again to give two sisters in a frozen kingdom some trouble in a few centuries to come. )

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Joseph Quinn as Eddie Munson in Stranger Things 4.

“No one was nice to us. No one except for Eddie.”

Okay but you know the dynamic I wanted in Season 5 that we won’t get now for multiple reasons?

Eddie and Max.

I wanted Eddie and Max, after realizing they’re practically neighbors, to start looking out for each other. I wanted Eddie to wave to Max when he sees her out feeding her dog, and for Max to wave to Eddie when he’s out smoking or working on his van. For Max to run out of her trailer one morning to see she’s missed the bus…only to have Eddie roll up blasting Metallica, crank down his window, and say “need a ride, Red?”.

I wanted Eddie, when he’s purging old cassettes out of his collection, to put a box together and bring it over to Max’s trailer, and subsequently get her into heavy metal (and Corroded Coffin). I wanted Eddie and Wayne to know what nights Max’s mom worked late, and invite her to dinner so she doesn’t have to eat alone. I wanted Eddie, when he notices the annoying RV couple talking shit about Max’s mom while Max is in the next yard over and can clearly hear everything, to walk directly up to them later and say “you have a problem with Max Mayfield, then you have a problem with me, understand? And that’s not something you want”. Eddie doesn’t think Max sees him do it or hears any of what he said, but when he knocks on her door a few nights later to invite her to weekly dinner, she bolts out of it and runs straight into his arms…and he knows.

Max Mayfield needed an older brother who wasn’t an asshole, and Eddie Munson always wanted a little sister.

"We kind of stitched [Eddie's vest] so it would look like he did it himself ... We added a belt buckle that has a handcuff on it ... We gave him a chain on the leather of his jacket, like maybe the zipper broke, and he tried to close it. So we really focused on little details."