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.)
Barbie (2023) really had Barbie say “hey. I know the reason you hurt me is because I hurt you. I’m sorry I hurt you, because you didn’t deserve that. I know you are a better person than this, and you are fully capable of being that person. I can’t change the past, and I don’t think we can be in each other’s lives anymore without hurting each other, but i am sorry and I want you to be happy. I want you to find your identity and love yourself and live.” and then she realizes she’s also talking about herself.
she’s saying “I deserve to live. We both deserve to live.” it is one of the kindest things I have ever seen done to someone and to themselves in any piece of media ever
this was the only thing i thought about during his conversation with barbie
“This train ride is wild, yeah? How are you feeling, Midoriya?”
“It’s…..an exciting commute today”
Before Barbenheimer, there was “Apocalypse in Pink,” the August 1983 theme of fashion/culture magazine SPECTAGORIA. The issue’s controversial imagery of Barbie-esque models attempting to stay gorgeous and glamorous amidst nuclear annihilation sought to, in the words of editor/photographer Sera Clairmont, “revel in the morbid absurdity of the new American condition,” an “anxiety vibrating underneath all our plastic smiles.”
“It’s The Hot Pink Cold War,” Clairmont wrote in her introduction. “It’s ‘Material Girl’ on the radio and ‘WarGames’ at the drive-in. It’s ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ interrupted by the emergency broadcast signal. We’re told to look sexy, dress fashionable, make money, and spend money, but be sure we’re just the right amount of terrified about the bomb. Get that Malibu dream home, keep working on that perfect body, sip cocktails by the pool in your little pink bikini and watching the stocks go up — but STAY VIGILANT! and for God’s sake vote Republican, because that dream home could melt into a pink plastic inferno at any given moment. Just don’t stop smiling as the blast liquefies your skin into bubbling ooze like a Barbie doll in a microwave - it’s bad for the economy.”
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"Aroace barbie exists” I say into the mic.
The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.
"She’s right," they say. I look for the owner of the voice. There in the 2nd row stands: Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie
Yeah, if you're looking for me I'll be holed up in my gremlin hideout rewatching the new ep on repeat. _Holy shit_
I fucking adore Queen Bee's character design and the way she interacts with others. And the fact that they got Kesha on board oh my god yessssss
Toga is super confirmed as bisexual
And what does that mean? (Apart from making togachako more canon)
That Horikoshi will probably end bakudeku in a subtle way like holding hands after the war.
But I don't think we'll get a kiss lmao
I like how Bee is concerned for Blitzø because she can feel his “aura” coming off from him, and knows that at the moment, he isn’t being gluttonous.
She realized that he isn’t indulging to have fun, he’s drinking to forget his problems, which is more pride than gluttony. Pride isn’t her sin, so it’s natural for her to be concerned.
Aziraphale and Crowley do have different mirrors :).
