Barbie Spoilers:

I woke up in the middle of the night with the realization that Barbie initially sets off on a mission to cheer up the 'girl' who was having the existential, 'weird', thoughts but at some point, she abandons the "cheering up" part of that mission. Barbie meets Gloria and her daughter, and she realizes that Gloria was the one who had those thoughts, but there's never a scene where she tries to get Gloria to change her attitude. Barbie sat in that park and she came to terms with her own emotions, and as the movie went on, she continued to experience the ups and downs of being human, of being a woman, and in doing so, she validated Gloria's feelings. Gloria didn't need to change, she didn't need to stop having these thoughts and emotions. She was completely valid having her own existential feelings and processing her feelings through Barbie, like so many people do.

barbie is not an "anti man" movie at all. it's so obvious to me that the kens were written like idiots not to call all men idiots (well... maybe a little) but instead to show how easy it is for someone to get taken advantage of. it's important to remember that while the barbies and kens are played by and written as adults, they function in the real world and overarching narrative as adolescents that don't know very much about the world.

reading ken as a young boy, he's initially nice to the girls around him (if insecure, lonely, and feeling pretty disrespected) but as soon as he steps into the real world, he sees all these men who feel very secure in their masculinity and self-assured, and he wants that for himself. he falls into the trap of the patriarchy much like a lot of young boys in real life fall into extremist right wing ideologies. but ken's insecurity never really goes away, it just gets covered with faux fur and headbands and country music. it's why he cries and admits to barbie that leading was hard. he never really wanted to hurt the barbies at all, he just wanted to feel confident and accepted by everyone, but especially barbie.

ken was never the problem by himself. he wasn't made into the world hating women. he was manipulated and turned into a misogynist by society.

Barbie (2023) ✦ Dir. Greta Gerwig

obsessed with Her.

The Barbie Movie.

A small, non-comprehensive list of things that stood out to me (spoilers? Kind of?)

I work at a movie theater.

And personally? To be in the tickets booth, and see young girls, teenagers, adult women, coming in to see Barbie,

the most highlighter pink outfits, some of them coming in with the dolls they’re dressed as, laughing to each other, cheering for each other,

to see the men they’re coming to see it with, dressed in pink, cheering them on, taking their pictures with smiles and cheers in the lobby at the photo op

touches something so deep in me

I can’t say any nuances of the movie that haven’t already been said, but like, fuck man, love is so deep and so kind and to be able to see glimpses of it from behind my little ticket desk makes me a little less nihilistic.

Working at a movie theatre and a male coworker being like ugh all these guys being forced to dress as Ken for their girlfriends but every couple I see is just beautiful excited girls and their absolutely adoring boyfriends looking at them glowing in the sunlight from the theatre sunroof in the popcorn line and like

This is why you don't have a girlfriend man. Men in fact love and adore their partners wake up we love men sound in their masculinity

thou doth shred it drawing prompt from the wife: Medieval Pro Skater 1533

I spent so much of my life romanticizing the Great and Powerful Enormity of the Sea, reading about the salt and the sweat of the sailors straining to haul the sails or anchor while dreading the monsters in the cold, icy deep fathoms below…and now you tell me that a fathom is only 6 feet deep -

Six feet is still more than enough for a grave.

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For every fathom you descend into the ocean the pressure around you increases. By five fathoms down you’re experiencing two atmospheres of pressure. At about ten fathoms, a human can no longer survive on their own, and must have supplemental oxygen to continue their descent. With specialized diving gear, we can go to perhaps 60 fathoms under our own power. By that depth, even the clearest waters are dark. Perhaps one percent of visible light remains, mostly in the blue range. The water is blues and greys around you, shadowy like the last minutes before nightfall. The water below is darker still, impenetrable. But life still lurks beneath you, in the untold fathoms of the darkest sea, in an environment so hostile even our machines struggle to reach them.

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Got that neurodivergent dog in me that barks violently at all aspects of Across the Spiderverse

I feel so sad whenever I see people talk about being late to make fanart..

This isnt school + fanart doesn't have a due date + fandom doesn't expire + your art will have its place in the world + i love you

this thing went viral on tiktok

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse + text posts

Actually begging everyone who watches Across the Spiderverse to learn the difference between "villain" & "Antagonist"

They are not the same thing-

Miguel is an *antagonist* because he is making obstacles for Miles who is the *protagonist*

Miguel isn't a Villain. The Spot is the Villain.

Are his methods the best? No. But ultimately his actions are not self serving, he *is* trying to protect people!

He's not a Villain!!!! He's an antagonist!!!! Stop calling him a villain, these words are not the same!!!!!

them ! look at them ! so cool ! their redesigns are so epic ! absolutely in love with the passion and love that went into these characters in this film !

and also just their change !! like how much they are the /same/ but how much they have grown up as well bc of the stuff they are gone through and seen and just !!! ahhhh !!!

ugh i love this movie and just all of it this animation team and everyone involved deserves all the praise they are getting !!

Miles Morales’ fuck you speech to Miguel had so many deeper layers because one of the storyline is Miles’ parents are basically dealing with the fact that their son is growing up and how he wants to do this awesome things but the movie doesn’t hide away from the fact that growing up Afro Latino and wanting to do amazing things isn’t easy, especially when Miles’ Mom voiced her concern about how she needs miles to protect himself because black and brown people are always told they don’t belong and all that so when Miles told Miguel that he wasn’t going to do his plan and he is Spiderman despite what Miguel says, it is a beautiful metaphor of how black and brown people don’t NEED to belong in a space that don’t want them, They don’t need to listen to the big guy up top because they belong whatever the fuck they want to be at and it is beautiful that Miles stands up to Miguel, the head guy in charge, because it is saying that Black and Brown people have to stand up for themselves against the head guy in charge, especially if they are in your way

And to my black ass, that’s *chefs kiss*