The Pros and Cons of the "Fairy Tale Romance"
Image description: Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip dancing together in the Disney animated classic, Sleeping Beauty . Many Disney films are based on fairy tales, and in turn, they inspired countless tropes inspired by their take on adventure and romance. Today, I'm focusing on the idea of the "fairy tale" romance in our media and our society, both the good and the bad. S omething that I have always found interesting as an AroAce fangirl analyzing media is the idea of a marketable romance in various forms of media. Naturally, when you say the word “romance” to different people, they’re all going to have different ideas of what that should ideally look like for any number of reasons. Sometimes, this differs depending on medium, since the romance you read about in a book, for instance, is going to be very different than one you see in a television series or a movie, both of which in turn are very different from the kind of romance you might experience when playing a role...
