[ SECRET POST #6105 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6105 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This secret comes off really willfully ignorant.

Do you give Ariel's name as much scrutiny?

Also, culturally speaking, be mindful of what respectability politics you're playing into with "trendy names".

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, I made this as a comment in reply to the person who made the tongue-in-cheek observation that nobody is annoyed about Ariel's name even though that wasn't her name originally in the fairytale in the "Secrets you don't want to make" thread (the main point was people discoursing about race changes when those aren't the only changes Disney themselves made.) I didn't actually want it to be made a secret, but I don't exactly mind so eh.

The thing about Ariel's name is that the setting is wholly fictional; an undersea mermaid kingdom does not exist in the real world, so no name is "unrealistic." So no, I don't care that she's named Ariel and wouldn't care if she'd been named Tiana, for that matter. The setting of The Princess and the Frog is real, and Tiana doesn't fit it for real. The other unrealistic elements are meant to be so (people turning into frogs, talking animals) but the name Tiana isn't meant to be taken as one of those. "Accept the impossible, but not the improbable" applies here.

[(Anonymous)]

Shhh, didn't you hear? As soon as a story has even a single fantastical element, expecting any kind of accuracy at all is suddenly unreasonable.

[(Anonymous)]

But as people have pointed out in this secret thread: Tiana is not inaccurate to the time period so OP, and the above anon, are in fact wrong with their nit-picking.

[(Anonymous)]

But OP feels in their feelings that Tiana is an unrealistic name. You know, unlike a 14th century French chick named Aurora.