this july i will finally stop running away & i will befriend solitude & sit outside in the sun with her

NEVER MIND NO MORE SOLITUDE NO MORE SOLITUDE PLEASE NO MORE I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF IT

calm down ronan stop being needy ronan get yourself together ronan youre always the car crash ronan

Illustration from Todd Freeman’s book : “Cynthia and the Unicorn” illustrated by Leonard Weisgard, 1967

our home should have colours and flowers. daisy sims hilditch / christine atkins / stephen darbishire / marie-louise roosevelt pierrepont

immortality through not being incapable of death but by coming back to life after you die no matter what is such a cool power like it’s just so fucking metal. you can rip me apart if you want, i’ll rise from my own viscera and all you’ll have done is piss me off

i cant even think of many good examples of characters with this power… like theres time loop stuff and that’s its own thing but im talkin someone who gets killed and just re-assembles on the spot no time fuckery. on some miss fortune shit. idk it just seems so cool especially like, because it would fucking suck to have that power! idk i’d love to see a character whose whole thing is just repeatedly exploding themselves simply because they can and there are no consequences in order to do whatever it is they need to do. but also kind of fucking hating their job. theres probably a great example of this archetype in something i’ve seen/read/played and enjoyed but am completely forgetting rn

Flask, USSR. A ceramic flask fearing the faces of Belka and Strelka, who survived an orbital flight three years after Laika's flight.

Angel Chen, Fall 2022

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nothing unsettles me more than like a good fic on ao3 with no opening notes and no end notes. nothing but story. who are you? where are you writing from. are you ok. who hurt you

#i click onto the author’s dashboard and open all their other fics looking for notes on them#they are all similarly blank#i go to the author profile. it tells me the author joined in 2014 and nothing else#they have no bookmarks. they have one gift and it’s a bts fic from orphan_account. none of their own fics are bts fics.#this fic has altered me. i leave an unhinged comment then bookmark it and go stare out the window // via @elegantlyloquacious

having edgy ocs is soooo embarassing like yeah this is johnny... he.. kills people... yeah with a knife and theres blood and stuff yeah... sorry i know...

they hate me for my girlish whimsy and for my pathological degree of avoidant behavior

Mad that she cant afford botox really innit

you will never escape the labyrinth

i really am annoyed by people’s analysis of the scene with the old woman in barbie being that barbie finds her beautiful because she was never taught aging isn’t beautiful when she LITERALLY hated cellulite on sight and was disgusted by it and is going to the real world so that she DOESN’T age or change. it’s the exact same way people talked abt that enchanted gifset on here for years (you know the one). the scene where barbie tells the woman she’s beautiful comes immediately after she has seen humanity in its mundanity, in its highs and its lows and she is so moved by how much someone can feel when they are not living in a candy-coated dream world and when she sees the older woman she has a realization that if she wants this, she has to want all of it, and it is so worth it. she can get rid of the cellulite and the wrinkles and go back to being pretty and pink and perfect but now that she has seen how beautiful and terrible it can be to be human she can’t say no to that, and the proof of living a long and worthwhile life is beautiful to her.

Ken's progression OUT of color

This is kinda a cornplate thought that I had nowhere else to put but I love how in the Barbie movie(SPOILERS), Ryan Gosling's Ken's outfits symbolically showcase his "descent" into full patriarchy mode over time.

At the beginning of the film Ken's beach outfit (his default) has an equal balance of pink and blue. Pink is obviously Barbie's color, and shows Ken as fitting well into the femininity and style of Barbieland, while blue could be argued to be Ken's color (a scene later when he's especially confident features him wearing all denim blue, and the stereotypical gender of these colors, especially when found in kid's toys, supports these basic binaries as associated with these colors).

When Ken decides to leave Barbieland with Barbie to delve into the outside world, his color scheme goes full pink, desperate enough to be with Barbie that his attire reflects how dependent his identity is on hers at this stage.

However, it isn't long before Ken's exploration of the real world leads him to exciting new discoveries about the patriarchy and what it can do for him. Here he is introduced to a newfound sense of self independent from barbie, and while he still carries a pink scarf around his neck, the rest of his outfit has devolved into black and white while hers has remained colorful. As he pursues this new-to-him idea further, his worldview is becoming less unique, pretty, and vibrant(in addition to becoming much more masculine).

It is only his scarf that ties him to Barbie now, and upon making the choice not to follow her to Mattel, he becomes fully independent, losing the scarf and any trace of pink in his attire the next time we see him in his mojo dojo casa house coat and beach off outfit underneath.

In his most masculine moment during "Just Ken", he and the other Kens all wear a uniform of the most traditionally male ben shapiro outfit ever: A T-Shirt, belt, and dress pants. All black(and no white either to contrast like the previous 2 outfits). It's fitting that the Kens, in their destructive warpath, imagine themselves as perfectly cleaned up yet violently masculine dancers in their heads, their outfits devoid of all of the flair and character of Barbieland.

(excuse the shitty picture) After Ken has his little self-growth moment, his new sweatshirt reflects the changed and much more balanced man he has become, much more accepting of himself and a life where he can co-exist with Barbie without being with her. This outfit is again an almost perfect balance of pink and blue, both sides of Ken now a bit more at peace, his colors not pushed out by the LITERALLY black hole of toxic masculinity.

The color scheme also matches the roller blading outfit, so perhaps it shows a somewhat intermediary stage of Ken's development wherein he is still attached to and at peace with Barbieland, but where he is starting to become more independent as well. anyway these are all fun and i genuinely have no fucking idea why Mattel didn't cash in on literally making dolls of all the characters and their outfits these would be so fun to own

I find the fact that the Barbie movie is simultaneously being criticized by the right as “too radical”, and criticized by the left as “too nice to men” and/or “too pandering”, quite funny, given that America’s WHOLE SPEECH was about how, no matter what women (like the director of the Barbie movie) do, it will simultaneously always be too little and too much.

Barbie + Blonde Male Fragility Reviews (insp):

best thing about uncle iroh is that if you pay attention he is actually just as much of an idiot as zuko but has just mastered the art of coming across as a wise old man. the even better thing is that zuko is the only one on the planet who somewhat realizes this and no one would ever believe him because he's zuko

like uncle iroh 100% does dumb shit on purpose sometimes to get people to underestimate him and keep zuko from capturing the avatar, but other times he just, and i cannot emphasize this enough, does impulsive dumb shit for no reason other than the fact that terminal stupid presumably runs in the royal family's blood

uncle: "you never think things through, prince zuko!"

also uncle:

#no wonder zuko was constantly frothing at the mouth! he's the only one who knows the truth!#god just imagine the number of times people have seen zuko yelling at iroh#and assumed zuko was just being mean#when zuko was actually yelling at his uncle for wasting all their money bartering with pirates AGAIN#everyone assumes iroh is babysitting zuko but really they're pingponging responsibility back and forth#and zuko at least has the excuse of being 16#anyway I love Uncle Hypocrite so much; funniest motherfucker on the planet (via OP)

the world is so beautiful but it would be slightly more beautiful if i could cook rice with my mind