{"id":36861,"date":"2011-11-30T21:19:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/11\/30\/nudityandnerdery-scifitwin-ariel-with-legs\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T22:20:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T22:20:24","slug":"nudityandnerdery-scifitwin-ariel-with-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/11\/30\/nudityandnerdery-scifitwin-ariel-with-legs\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-36861 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/11\/30\/nudityandnerdery-scifitwin-ariel-with-legs\/attachment\/36862\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_luqbjvJPN01r4b0vyo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_luqbjvJPN01r4b0vyo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_luqbjvJPN01r4b0vyo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/nudityandnerdery.tumblr.com\/post\/13558155931\/scifitwin-ariel-with-legs-has-been-my\">nudityandnerdery<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/scifitwin.tumblr.com\/post\/13551354556\/ariel-with-legs-has-been-my-daughters-dream\">scifitwin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ariel with legs has been my daughter\u2019s dream princess forever. When we went to Disney World Ariel was her target. If she didn\u2019t see Ariel with legs then the entire trip would be a bust and she would never believe in anything again.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily I knew where to find her (you work on a Disney website for over a decade and that kind of happens)\u2014at a character meal in EPCOT. People mock people like me for liking Disney. They don\u2019t get it, and that\u2019s fine. They have a cynical view of Disney that, frankly, I understand.<\/p>\n<p>But when my daughter, who was well past the age of believing that this was actually the animated character come to life, saw Ariel with legs her eyes widened with glee. She started bouncing with excitement and when Ariel came over to talk with her my daughter blurted out, \u201cDo you like my socks?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All week long she had been wearing ocean-themed socks in case she met Ariel. My daughter and Ariel then had a fast-paced conversation about the merits of socks with seahorses on them. Ariel signed the autograph book, posed for a photo, hugged my daughter and stole a fork from our table as she left.<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing is, being the angry, bitter, cynical jerk I am it should be second nature to mock this sort of thing. And you may want to as well. But you\u2019re wrong.<\/p>\n<p>We all knew that this wasn\u2019t\u00a0<em>real<\/em>.\u00a0But magic does exist, and it does require you to believe. You have to want magic to exist. But it\u2019s not spells or illusions or charms. It\u2019s having that ability to live in a moment and allow it to be what it is and nothing more. \u00a0That wasn\u2019t an actress talking to my daughter at that moment. For that brief moment, it really was Ariel sharing her love for the sea with a little girl. And that moment was real because we let go and simply enjoyed it. No strings, no cynicism, no justifications, just the knowledge that sometimes it\u2019s okay to immerse yourself in a fantasy. And <em>that<\/em> was magic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>^^^^<br \/>The world needs more moments like this.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>this is kind of how I feel about everything. like entertainment (most especially TV shows and video games) and religion.<\/p>\n<p>if you need the magic, you will find the magic, or else you will make the magic, and it will keep you alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nudityandnerdery: scifitwin: Ariel with legs has been my daughter\u2019s dream princess forever. When we went to Disney World Ariel was her target. If she didn\u2019t see Ariel with legs then the entire trip would be a bust and she would never believe in anything again. Luckily I knew where to find her (you work on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/11\/30\/nudityandnerdery-scifitwin-ariel-with-legs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[370],"class_list":["post-36861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beautiful","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36863,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36861\/revisions\/36863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}