About the Author
Satiricalifragilistic grew up during the Disney Renaissance, and The Little Mermaid was the first movie she ever saw in theaters at age 3. Her mother flatly refused to let her leave the theater when Ursula got huge and terrifying, and maybe that explains her troubled psyche.
While she'll admit to being an inveterate nitpicker, she firmly believes in loving a piece of art even while criticizing it, and in the importance of engaging critically with what she loves. She has special contempt for anyone who tries to claim the politics in Disney films don't matter because "they're just movies," because she knows exactly how much the Disney Canon influenced her little gradeschool self—for good and for ill!
She loves art, design, music, dancing, movies from Hollywood's Golden Age, and British comedy...expect a lot of these to turn up in her reviews and mashups!
So I watch a lot of Disney movies (you may
have noticed...), and you know what I can safely
say that absolutely no character has said, ever?
It may be hard for your settlers to remember how difficult
it was for people to talk about environmentalism back in the 1600s. And
because of both Governor Ratclifffe and Wiggins, in particular Wiggins,
we started a colonial conversation. When before, nobody would talk
about cutting down trees, nobody
wanted to do anything digging up earth, and that too is something that
I really
appreciate with Wiggins' very effective low-key advocacy, but it
penetrated
the public conscience, and colonists began saying, ‘Hey, we have to do
something about this too.'
at least the issue seems to have penetrated Wiggins'
conscience, so there's that...
...or...
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