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I had another Disney dream last night. I don’t dream about Disney every night, but such dreams are not uncommon either. This time, my mom and I were staying at a Disney hotel dedicated to all of the Franchise Princesses. Each Princess had her own floor. Pocahontas was on Floor 7. For some reason, I was too shy to request a room on Floor 7, even though that’s what I wanted. I kept trying to use deceit to sneak down to Floor 7 when she was otherwise preoccupied and look around. There were some Pocahontas memorabilia and decorations in the hallways, but somehow I felt unsatisfied. I’ve always been unsatisfied with the fact that Disney makes and sells very few Pocahontas merchandise. She receives so much less attention than all the other Disney princesses. Not only that, but the sequel is completely ignored in all Pocahontas merchandise save that one Pocahontas Barbie doll dressed in the Hunt Ball gown (they don’t even sell a Rolfe to accompany her! D:<).

My frustration has led me to get interested in certain crafts. As you all know, I’ve made a great deal of flat digital illustrations of Pocahontas. What’s if I tried something a little less flat? I looked into the Pocahontas Barbie dolls that are on sale online, and it occurred to me that even if I had the most poseable one, I’d still be unsatisfied. I want a Pocahontas doll that is completely poseable, with double-jointed knees, elbows, and torso, as well as jointed shoulders, hips, wrists, and ankles. But I don’t want just a Pocahontas doll. I want a Rolfe doll, a Nakoma doll, a John Smith doll, a Kekata doll, a Chief Powhatan doll, a Meeko doll, a Percy doll, a Flit doll, and even a Grandmother willow doll, and a bunch of random Powhatan warrior and women and children dolls as well. And all of them would have just as much poseability as the Pocahontas doll would. Their miniature clothes would be made out of authentic materials, too. And I would use flexible spring twigs to create the frames for miniature Powhatan doll wigwams, and then cover them with birchbark I’d harvested myself from some local trees in the spring. And then I would sew tiny reed mats and cover the huts with those.

And I would make tiny dugout canoes, tiny tanning animal hides (maybe mouse or squirrel) stretched out on a tiny frame, tiny mortar and pestles, itty-bitty baskets and fired clay pots. In short, if I had all the time in the world, I would make an entire Pocahontas doll village and set it up in my backyard in the spring. Then I would take artistic photos and post them on DeviantArt of different scenes with the dolls. And while I was at it, I would make one large wigwam, since I know how they are constructed after visiting the Jamestown museum. And maybe I’d spend a few days living in it just for the hell of it. I would also make a conglomeration of Pocahontas decorations and memorabilia by hand. I would paint my entire bedroom with scenes from Pocahontas. I would make a full-sized Pocahontas buckskin dress complete with a real turquoise, wampum, and seashell necklace matching the one Pocahontas wears in the movies. I would plant corn, beans, and squash in the early spring, construct a high-quality longbow with authentic arrows. I’d even get to work on a real dugout canoe, modeled after the one Pocahontas used in the movie. Hell, I would make an entire Powhatan village and maybe even live there, if I could.

Yes, if I had all the time in the world, I would do all of these things and much, much more. But, alas, in the modern era, time is always a factor and we cannot spend our lives doing nothing but pursuing recreational interests. Which reminds me. If the afterlife is really like what it was in What Dreams May Come (RIP Robbie Williams), then my heaven consists of the world of Disney’s Pocahontas (1995) minus the English interference. If anyone asks, that is a mere (and incomplete) summary of why Pocahontas is my favorite Disney Princess of all time and always will be. Ever since I was ten, I have loved this movie and I will love it until the day I die. Do any of you have similar feelings for Pocahontas or any of the other timeless Disney classics out there? If so, please tell me all about it in comments.