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Erotic Adventures in Faerie:
Lady Vidia's Disney Cavalcade
An ongoing project of Lady Vidia’s, which started the day she walked in on her daughter Sovanna…
(More movies will be added as Lady Vidia goes through them, hopefully with many cameo appearances from various characters…)
Prologue
Dina’s notes:
And thus, Lady Vidia’s Disney Cavalcade got its start!
Just because I know people are going to ask… Sovanna’s tablet has an impossibly long battery life because it’s enchanted. There aren’t a lot of outlets or charging opportunities at Dewberry Grove, so any electronics there has been enchanted and altered to last for a LONG time. As for how she has an Internet connection while in Faerie… that might be covered in a later comic. Whether or not she actually paid for a Disney+ subscription, though? Eeeeeeh… I more than suspect she’s leeching off someone else’s…
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Lady Vidia’s commentary:
“Nice mix of cute and spooky… I may be humming that ‘Heigh-Ho’ song for a long time… but honestly, that Queen should just have spared herself a lot of trouble if she’d asked me and not the Mirror. I thought she was much more attractive than Snow White, at least before she ruined it by turning herself into an old hag. The moral of the story should be, always ask for a second opinion. Or at least, if you have a magic mirror, don’t ask it questions you don’t want to know the answers to. I can easily think of a better use for such mirrors…”
Dina’s notes;
The Spirit of the Magic Mirror is played by Ethereal, a character from Project Eryss. I spent some time looking at the movie to find a good reference for the Magic Mirror’s chamber, but ended up taking some liberties… for example, the original Magic Mirror had Zodiac signs all around it. Lady Vidia’s version, of course, instead have silhouettes of people fucking.
Pinocchio (1940)
Lady Vidia’s commentary:
“Great visuals and nice songs… and there’s something adorable about that innocent puppet wandering into all the dangers and not knowing any better… the cricket was too preachy, though. And I don’t know who that Blue Fairy was, but she did NOT take proper advantage of the situation, I would have been far more hands-on.”
Dina’s notes;
I actually wrote more of the song, but it turned out to be a little too much to include all of it in the pic, so I decided to just have the first two verses. But here’s the song in full:
I’m on your strings, I’m deep in trance,
You make me sing, you make me dance,
No free will, as you can see,
With strings controlling me.
Just pull my strings, and I obey,
Whenever Mistress wants to play,
In your thrall is where I’ll be,
With strings controlling me.
Way-hey, it’s all okay,
Mindlessness is what I crave.
Deep in your trance I’ll stay,
Now that I’m a puppet-slave.
I’ve got no mind, I’ve got no will,
Without your strings I just lie still.
Obedience is liberty,
I love your strings on me.
The girl playing Pinocchio is nobody in particular. This was the first drawing I ever made, even before I thought about making this a series.
Fantasia (1940)
Lady Vidia’s commentary:
“Were humans in the 1940s so opposed to music that they had to disguise concertos as animated movies? …That would explain a few things, actually. Anyway, this movie seems to have been somewhat of a rush job… the silly animators were so pressed for time that they forgot to draw nipples on the topless centaurettes… but for what it was, it wasn’t bad. That sorcerer was just asking for trouble, though. If he’d just kept the apprentice under mind control, he wouldn’t have had his study flooded.”
Dina’s notes:
I always thought The Sorcerer’s Apprentice was one of the weaker parts of Fantasia (and the role didn’t really fit Mickey at all), so I did ponder making this refer to a different segment… but damn it, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is THE iconic segment for this movie. Sure, people will talk about the scariness of the Chernabog from Night on Bald Mountain, or maybe even the racist caricatures that had to be edited out of The Pastorial Symphony… but what everyone REMEMBERS is Mickey Mouse in the red robes and blue magic hat commanding walking brooms.
One thing I noticed when going through the segment to get an idea for backgrounds… The Sorcerer’s Apprentize has some of the DULLEST, BLANDEST backgrounds ever seen in a Disney film. A barren stone wall, a barren stone floor, a couple of barren stone staircases, a well that appears to be outside, and… a vat? I don’t know. The sorcerer Yen Sid has one barren wooden desk and one chair… and that’s it. We don’t even know if he lives in a house, or a tower, or his parent’s basement, or a dungeon, because there’s absolutely no detail. In the end I had to look elsewhere for references… the moon-and-star-shaped windows I went with is from Yen Sid’s tower in Kingdom Hearts 2.
The Apprentice is played by Holly Blackthorne, though you might not recognize her in that get-up and with her flame mark covered… but really, if Lady Vidia hadn’t covered up the flame mark, Holly’s supernatural luck would have saved her.
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