I have acquired a new meme format:
lou wilson has two characters:
- bad decisionsTM, no wisdom, "the ball is rolling up" the ball is not rolling up, overconfident in skills they do not have, theatre kid/rich kid/both
- "too old for this shit", wise and tired, the Dad Of The PartyTM, only thing keeping the rest of the party from a TPK, shames the villain for being a bad person
and he plays them both so well
Brennan to the Questing Queens: Buddy Bear won't die! He just might be dispelled. It's okay!
Brennan to the Intrepid Heroes: I'm gonna kill that dog 🙃🙃🙃
move over, star wars, this is the best parent reveal
In Unsleeping City and Fantasy High, while Brennan was being the bad guys and all that, there was still a level of, like, cooperation and camaraderie between him and the Intrepid Heroes. It felt like they all were, amidst the conflict and all that, working together to have a great adventure and tell a cool story.
Crown of Candy is straight up antagonistic. Brennan is very deliberately trying to kill them all.
I love it
I just couldn’t resist the urge to draw something based on this by @samthecookielord 😂 Isn’t that comforting 😂
Ken was more than an antagonist/villain but a representation/metaphor for all the sweet boys in our lives who eventually grew up to be misogynistic men. Who take more than they’ll ever give. They are the boys who felt under-appreciated and unloved and found validation from Andrew Tate podcasts.
A lot of women if not all can relate to that on some level. Son. Brother. Friend. Cousin. Nephew. Uncle. It happens so much more than we want to think about. It’s so prevalent and sad that despite everything Ken did, Barbie apologized to him and received no apology in return.
Barbie Land was far kinder than Kendom. The Barbies were dismissive about the Kens, yes, but they were always treated kindly and with some decorum. Kendom literally made the Barbies their servants designed to cater to their every whim. Just look at that. And even then, Barbie apologized. President Barbie gave them a (admittedly low) position in the courts as a token of good will. A fairly realistic take right there but so sad considering the harm they’d done.
He stole her dreamhouse. He stole Barbie’s dreamhouse. And she apologized for hurting him.
Ken's greatest suffering came from being a beta orbiter in the friendzone. From not being taken seriously by the person whose attention he believed he needed to validate his own existence. He was never exploited or degraded or dehumanized. He was never subjected to malice or sadism or violence. He was not raped. He was not objectified. The Barbies always treated him with respect (kindness, goodwill), but not with Respect (gravitas, adulation, obsequiousness).
This is truly the worst fate many men can imagine. This is what they mean when they absurdly complain that women have all the power in society, that feminism has gone too far. Men are lonely, men feel unwanted, men feel disposable, men feel unneeded, men feel unimportant, men feel disRespected.
Meanwhile, Barbie is sexually assaulted within five minutes of entering the Real World. She unapologetically hits back because she has not yet been taught that women who hit back are punished. And then she is the one who gets arrested, not the man who assaulted her. In her mugshot, her face shows a mixture of bewilderment and violation. Ken, on the other hand, is beaming. He is oblivious, blissfully unaware of sexual violence.
Because while the Kens never perpetrate such acts, they have also never been victimized in this way. The "plight" of Kens in Barbieland, the one lamented and dreaded by the incels and the Andrew Tate fans, is in no way analogous to the realities of what women experience under patriarchy. It's not even close.
Even without any knowledge of sexual violence, Ken should be attuned the obvious discomfort of the woman he proclaims to be in love with. To the fact that someone has just harmed her. That she is being stared at with an undertone of violence. But he isn't. Because even in his state of innocence, even when he is supposedly HER accessory, he still sees her as a thing first and a person second. Ken's wooing of Barbie is about his desire to obtain and possess her to validate himself and give himself purpose. It is not about her as a person at all. So, while she is upset and confused after being assaulted, he is grinning his face off because he has found an alternative source of validation in patriarchy and is thereby freed of whatever self-serving incentive he once felt to have any concern for her well-being at all.
every time my bf says “for the time being” i respond with “for the time bean” and then we say “all hail the time bean” and carry on the conversation like nothing happened
Anonymous asked:
DUDE I MENTIONED TO MY GRANDMA THAT I WAS REALLY ENJOYING THE BOOK I WAS READING AND SHE ASKED ME TO SEND IT TO HER IM READING YAOI WHAT DO I DO
send her a book you've already read and enjoyed that's not yaoi so that you can keep pace and answer questions if she decides to read it too
send her the yaoi. we can make a fujoshi of your grandma yet
I'm changing my answer. do what starredforest said, anon.
Guy who’s only ever seen Rocky Horror Picture Show watching his second movie with the word “horror” on the cover.
I think we all can identify the source of the robins’ sass
#this is not even an incorrect quote they literally said this to Bruce’s face it’s so savage
you ever think about how the twins destroying the Hutt presence on Tatooine avenged a grandmother they'd never even met