Remember when Disney had a cute, disabled, poc mermaid?
When i was younger, one of my best friends was a deaf guyanese girl, and her fave princess was Ariel, mainly bc she related to her living without a voice (and her love of swimming)
When this episode aired, she cried and squawked and made sounds that were almost understandable… She saw herself as a mermaid, on tv, with her favourite character of all time
Representation matters, always, no matter what
gentle reminder that this shit was probably hand animated or used hand drawn cells and was probably DAMN expensive and time consuming so I don’t wanna hear SHIT about how it’d be too hard to animate all the movement in sign language to make deaf characters work dammit if u can spend all that time doing slow motion scenes you can animate sign language
U GOT IT?
Oh my gosh! I remember her! I think this was the only episode of the show I ever watched, but I never forgot it. I loved Gabriella’s little octopus friend who translated her signing for Ariel. He was just too sweet. I’m so happy right now! Bless this post!
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