Category: Comfort Characters
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The Comfort Character Diaries: Peter Rabbit (and friends).
Tomorrow we celebrate Beatrix Potter’s birthday. The beloved children’s author who put animals and the natural beauty of the countryside at the very heart of her work. As someone who called Cumbria home for many years herself, I find great fondness in revisiting the many animal tales for a slice of homely nostalgia. Peter Rabbit…
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The Comfort Character Diaries: Piglet (Winnie the Pooh).
Like most, the Hundred Acre wood friends have been by my side since childhood. There’s no mistaking that warming friendship and comfort which A.A. Milne created when he wrote this world. There’s a lot of speculation and theories surrounding the characters themselves, as to whether or not they each symbolise a mental illness or disorder…
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The Comfort Character Diaries: Merida (Brave).
It’s Pixar’s chance to steal the spotlight for this week’s post, as tomorrow celebrates the anniversary of Brave’s premier in the UK. Crazy to believe its been thirteen years since its release! I always believe Brave to be one of the ‘forgotten’ stories of Pixar. It’s no surprise when contended with the likes of Toy…
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The Comfort Character Diaries: Bolt (Bolt).
Today marks 17 years since the release of Disney’s Animation Bolt in the UK: an anniversary I know many wouldn’t pay much attention to, yet one I want to use to use as an excuse to share another instalment of my comfort character diaries. Unlike the previous entries, however, this one isn’t a person I…
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The Comfort Character Diaries: Alice (Alice in Wonderland).
This week we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the second instalment of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland – Through the Looking Glass – and what a better tribute than that of an Alice analysis – (try saying that out loud haha!) Now most of my comfort characters are ones I can relate to on a…
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The Comfort Character Diaries: Wendy Darling (Peter Pan).
With tomorrow being the 3rd anniversary of the Peter Pan & Wendy live action movie by Disney+, it felt a fitting time to showcase another comfort character of mine – that of Wendy Darling. There’s a lot that can be analysed of the other characters too of course, and perhaps we’ll start with those, though…
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The Comfort Character Diaries: Elsa (Frozen).
They’re opening up the gates! It’s the weekend which finally saw the official opening of World of Frozen at Disneyland Paris. And whilst I don’t have any immediate plans for another Disney trip just yet, I’m just as happy to soak up all the excitement from my socials instead. For a film which holds a…