By now we have all seen Zootopia. An advanced animalistic world has a Utopia-type city (get it? Zoo-topia.. They thought long and hard about that one…) where the underdog Judy Hopps looks to prove her worth as the first bunny cop. The show is adorable, the characters are developed and funny and the best part is my 2 year-old will sit through the ENTIRE show without stirring.

You have my heart once again, Disney!

But we need to talk about Emmitt Otterton. It is never discussed how he has this second life full of naked yoga and crime bosses!

My…

Her name is Lucy. And this is her secret.

He had been her first love. She knew very well that no one approved of them being together. That was what made it so exciting. She was headstrong, as young girls always are. He was tall and confident, where all the men she had ever known had been short and flighty. He was the epitome of perfection.

In a moment he was gone, suddenly only a memory. Everyone had tried to warn her, but she had only reacted in anger. Now she could see they had clearly been right. …

He had wanted the squirrel’s home the moment he saw it.

It wasn’t merely that he was jealous. No, no. Jealous is too mild a word. He craved it. He longed for it. He hungered for the feeling of his paw on the shiny gold doorknob, opening the red hinged door knowing that the home was his own. Oh the comforts a home would bring such an unfortunate mouse as he. He had been trapped, chased and cornered his whole life but had somehow or another always escaped his captors. No one ever bothered the squirrel in hishome. Now the…

By the time the fourth of July comes around, we’ve all pretty much convinced ourselves that parades aren’t so bad. You think,

“My kids are older now. I learned from last year’s catastrophe. I’ll go early. I’ll bring better distractions. We’ll sit by someone who actually acknowledges our existence. We’ll eat a good breakfast before we go! I won’t smack a kid this year. I’ll have more patience!”

Wrong. All wrong. Yes your kids are older, but it will be just as bad as it has always been.

The main problem is we have this ideal image in our heads…

This is less of a “Dramatic Retelling” and more of a “Dramatic Continuation”. Because really, you can’t mess with The Sound of Music. I have always wondered what happened to Max! He helps them escape and then…what? Well I think Baroness Schraeder had something to do with it.

-Scarlette

Baroness Schraeder returned to Austria with rejection in her silk pocket. Captain Von Trapp had proposed to her, it was true, but then he had maliciously turned his back on her. Thankfully she was able to jump in at the last minute and break off the engagement first, but it still…

I guess you could say I was his shadow.

Everywhere he went, I was close behind. Half the mischief he made was my idea first. We were inseparable, but it was true that he could be seen as the leader of our group. In fact, there was no denying it. He had charisma that is not always seen in men and even more rarely found in boys, but he put them all the rest to shame. Something about him made people want to be around him.

For me it was love. I loved him since I’d first seen him. Love…

Have you ever wondered what was going on in the rest of the world while Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth were misunderstanding each other?

You’ll never guess what was going on in southern Africa.

Under the mask of wealth and Victorian manners, one young woman has kept an awful secret too long. It causes her father’s death and she escapes on a ship to southern Africa. With only her Regency upbringing as reference, she will encounter tribal dances, wild animal attacks and one handsome Captain who is the only one who knows her real name.

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Excerpts from In Spite of…