I didn’t think I underestimated Michael Cera but after seeing Barbie somehow I did. My shining star Michael Cera. MY Allan.
If I came back to MY Barbie dream house and it was a mojo dojo casa house, I wouldn’t even be depression Barbie, I’d be murder Barbie bc I beheaded all the kens.
Wait, it got better.
He does this a lot, to my deep surprise in undergrad:
For reference, the reason nobody likes this book and you can press tofu with it is that it’s about 1600 pages long.
It’s also, by all accounts, the origin of Cousin Throckmorton
If Taylor Swift used her power for good she would be such a great stochastic terrorist. She would post on Instagram "Hey guys, Tay here. Just wanted to say that whoever delivers me the head of Ron DeSantis on a platter will get free Eras Tour tickets. #ShadeNeverMadeAnybodyLessGay." It would be at her doorstep in two hours.
I love puppets but I ESPECIALLY love puppets that are asymmetrical because of like. the shape of the hand controlling them. their heads are a lil lopsided and their mouths quirk to the side when they open. this type of character design is so inscrutably charming to me
Since Roy canonically goes out to gay bars with the yoga moms, I think it would be hilarious if he and Colin ran into each other one night before Colin came out to the team
The realest part of the Barbie Movie was when Barbie was like "okay but what if this hurts his feelings? what if this makes him sad? :(" after Ken stole her house, stole her car, and stole her agency, because as a woman you still have to second guess everything you do on the assessment of whether it might hurt a man's feelings.
And then that apprehension was proven right one million times over by the entire Conservative Internet Manosphere pissing and shitting and screaming themselves hoarse over Barbie daring to hurt a man's feelings.
BOMBSHELL (2019) dir. Jay Roach THE GRAY MAN (2022) dir. Joe Russo and Anthony Russo
I’ve been digitizing old home videos and there’s something about noticing an item in those videos I still use today, and realizing just how long my family has had it.
The pet hair brush on the floor next to my mom, who’s pregnant with me, after having just used it the other day to brush our cats.
The old boots my mom is wearing, and knowing that I used them 14 years later for a cosplay.
The coasters I’m playing with as a not-quite-one-year-old, and knowing I brought one from the very same set to my college apartment, there on my desk under my cup of water.
The cork board hanging in my older brother’s bedroom when he was two, and turning around to see it leaned up against the wall in my bedroom.
there’s a certain kind of… indescribable reverence for the mundane. The Constants. it makes me wonder what things will stick around for another 25 years.
Tumblr skews young, so let me just share this.
The worst thing you can do in a job is not be bad at something. It's to say you are great at something while being bad at something. If you need to improve and you're upfront that you're not the best, people will probably help or teach or explain. They will sympathize when you get put on a task you're not qualified for.
If you claim to be awesome at something when you demonstrably suck at it, all of that good will and sympathy is gone and it will not come back.
Confident is good. Stand up for yourself, know your skills.
But the other side of this is to Know your Faults.
This message brought to you by the 23yo who bragged about how he was great at X and had the best program for it, and I spent the weekend doing his job for him because he is so so bad at it, and only about 5% of what he did is salvageable.
On the other hand, saying "I know enough about [x] to look up the things I don't know how to do" is a legitimate and valid skill level to proclaim. Like even just knowing to say that, knowing the concept that you could look up things you don't know how to do, that you are capable of independent learning, is huge. So for those anxious about whether or not they know enough, "I know enough about [x] to look up the things I don't know how to do" is a great way to show familiarity without proclaiming expertise.
Excellent addition. One really common thing is that young/new employees know the programs well, but they don’t know the details of the task. So. Other great sentences that are versions of not knowing stuff but sounding confident.
“I’ve done this sort of thing before, but never here/with you.”
“I know the program I need to use, but I’ve never done this before. Let me get started, and see what I can figure out on my own.”
“Do you have a copy of a previous version of (thing) I can use as reference?”
“Luckily I am very fast in this program, so if I do this totally wrong, we can at least catch it fast.”
“I’m going to put together a very rough version and come talk to you. I don’t want to waste the time getting into details if I’m doing it wrong.”
And it is always always valid to say:
“Okay, I have never done that. If you want me to try, I can. I want to learn this, but I might not be the right person for it.”
The Barbie movie isn't about girl power. It's not about how women can do everything they set their mind to. It's about how sometimes women are tired and average and that has to be okay too, because you don't have to do everything to be worth anything. (And that this is also true of men.)
Allan acknowledges the narrators voice, saying that he’s confused about how there’s only one Allan. This means he hears the narrator and understands what she says.
Later in the movie, when Barbie is crying about how she isn’t pretty anymore, the narrator cuts in to say as a note to the movie creators that Margot Robbie was probably not the best casting choice to make that point. Allan, able to hear and understand the creators voice must have heard this and therefore must know that he is in a movie.
When he is attempting to escape barbieland, Allan pulls a bunch of fighting moves out of nowhere, fighting off several Kens despite the Kens being the stereotype of a strong atheletic guy and Allan being Micheal Cera. It is my hypothesis that this power and strength comes from Allan being aware he is in a movie and therefore, like in a lucid dream, able to manipulate his reality in order to pull off feats like taking on five Kens at once (in a fight). In this essay I will-
