Frozen

I do believe that I'm seeing the beginnings of a drought- and if I had any doubts about global warming then I'm a firm believe now. See when people talk about cities being flooded due to water levels rising, I don't give that much of a shit because I'm not getting flooded any time soon- and it's due to happen "in the next decade" but I figure someone would've done something about it by then. Put me in 35 degree heat for over a week, however, and all of a sudden I'm an advocate for saving the trees.

Anyway, the weather's not going to improve any time soon- so I'm just sitting home watching TV/reading. I started reading The Wiseman's Fear- like I promised my friend I would. I always knew it would be beautiful- but I never got around to reading it. Needless to say, I'm now completely hooked- and I'll definitely be able to finish the book before I have to leave for uni. See I don't think the e-reader was a terrible investment- it weighs like, less than my actual books, and I can store sooo many novels on there.

I better shut up about my reading though, since I titled the blog post "Frozen". Not that I'm actually frozen, but I mean the Disney movie. It was a bit of a sensation- as far as the internet went, so I watched it and it kind of destroyed my childhood. I kind of get where Disney is trying to go with the "you can't marry someone you've just met in a day" theme- maybe it's to protect the innocent children or whatever- but I swear a part of me died inside. If you haven't watched the movie, I'm going to spoil it big time now, so stop reading if you care about that sort of thing.

Basically it's your typical Disney movie with magic and curses and singing and whatever the fuck else Disney does. The young princess meets and handsome prince, they sing a duet together, and it's so beautiful- she says she's going to marry him. Then towards the end she needs a true love's kiss, so she goes to the prince- and the prince is all "NOPE I'M SORRY I DON'T LOVE YOU, I ONLY WANTED TO MARRY YOU FOR YOUR INHERITANCE". I was kind of stunned- and I was like "wow wtf am I watching, real life? This isn't meant to happen in a fucking Disney movie".

So yeah I'm super-sad that Disney is trending more towards reality. The closest they ever got was Enchanted, and that was like my favourite Disney movie ever still- because even though the guy was all "you can't marry someone you just met" it still kinda worked out in the end. Man, if it takes the characters in Disney more than one try to find true love, you know finding love in real life is going to be near-impossible. I'm already the type of person who's more inclined to question "does love really exist", and when even pure fantasy is crushed like that, it's really disheartening.

I guess it's strange how I read stuff about betrayal and death all day and I'm okay, but watching a Disney movie trend towards real life tears me up inside. Maybe I should just go back to watching Tom and Jerry- even when someone dies they get revived the next episode... Like it never happened.