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Beauty and the Beast, a tale that teaches us to look past a person's exterior (no matter how rough and 'beastly') and instead see the person inside. The Disney adaptation shows this through the contrast between the traditionally "handsome" and hunky Gaston who has a cruel, self centred and self serving, brutish personality and the monstrous and fear inspiring exterior of The Beast who is actually internally sweet, vulnerable and sensitive to the emotions of those he cares for. Revealing Beast to actually be the "Prince Charming" of the story and that you should not judge a book by it's cover *cough cough Disney, don't you're being just a

I'm pretty sure everyone has the occasional morbid thought, like when you're walking down a dark alleyway late at night and your brain goes "Hmm I might die down here". Well, every time I cut my nails my brain does this: "Oh no, don't cut your nails! If you get murdered they won't be able to collect a DNA sample form under your nails (cause they'll be too stubby to actually scratch anyone) and then they'll never find your killer!" but then the logic centre of my brain half wakes up and goes: "Stop being stupid, you probably won't get murdered... and besides you can just bite 'em for a sample." ;P Goddamnit brain, I didn't see you worryi

I've never really been overtly concerned with popularity, as a child I rather sought the concept of cool and those who were so called "popular" seemed to be perceived by others as this elusive cool which I sought. However, funnily enough I never quite seemed to manage it. Until, sometime between the ages of 12 and 13 I had an epiphany of sorts (well, as much of an epiphany as a tween can have); I started to consider what I really thought was cool, and it turned out the people I had been trying to emulate weren't (by my standards) cool. When I truly thought about it the type of people I truly admired and truly wished to be like (even fro