ITS FINALLY HERE!!! We put all our hearts into this story and I really hope everyone can read and enjoy it!! 🥺🦋💕💕💕
Wow I miss them*
*OCs that only exist in my brain at all times and nowhere else
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“Nobody:
Girls that bullied goth kids in high school:”
Attached images are of Taylor Swift, a white woman with sunglasses, blonde hair, a black tank top reading “this is my fight song”, and green shorts. She is wearing a leather bondage harness. It is backwards.
my favorite genre of humor is alt text being just completely factual and somehow reading the image for filth
when you are a god and a father and you create a religion around yourself, what happens to your followers, your sheep, your children, when you die? just pray they die with you.
Re: Barbie feminism discourse: It's obviously ridiculous to expect that the film was going to give us a Shulamith Firestone treatise or something, but it's also weird to me how many people who do understand that still seem to be underselling what it does do with its feminist themes? I was surprised by the movie because what it had to say really wasn't just "pop feminism." It's critical of the way that companies that are run by men (including Mattel itself) sell female empowerment while still denying women power in concrete ways. It discusses patriarchy as a systemic problem that no one individual woman can solve, but something that can be chipped away at through collective action. Much of Ken's arc is essentially a gender-flipped examination of the way that patriarchy, and particularly the way that it encourages women to compete with each other over men and discourages us from finding a larger purpose outside of who men want us to be, keeps women down and keeps us feeling inadequate -- while also connecting that to concrete examples of that from the real world via America Ferrera's character. Not only is it the most radical movie we could expect from Mattel but it's a strong feminist statement even by the standards of other movies. The reason shitty men are getting as panicked about it as they are is because it did in fact say something that was genuinely threatening to them, and in a film that is going to be watched by a much wider audience of people than usually go to see movies about feminism. Idk, guys, as someone who feels confident saying I've read way more radical feminist theory than most people Discoursing Online: I see literally no reason for feminists to be upset or even "measured" about this one.
There are multiple people in the notes saying the movie left “unexamined” things it very much did examine: it just never explicitly said them, it didn’t include them in one of Gloria’s monologues. This is what I mean about these being “shallow, surface” readings. You guys are acting like the only stuff that “counts” in the film is what is stated word-for-word in dialogue. You’re ignoring anything that the film (like every film) expected the viewers to connect the dots on by themselves, anything that might be suggested by a part of the filmmaking apparatus other than scripted dialogue (for instance, the visual language or acting choices or sound or even like, actions that aren't talking), any subtext rather than blatant text. "It didn't examine the way Kens are just gender-inverted Barbies" what did you think was the fucking point of Ken's arc you doofus? It's not that you're being negative about a movie I like, it's these takes are not even really engaging with it at all, and if you find that such a struggle to do with a Barbie movie then you really, really need to take some time to educate yourself about media studies beyond Cinema Sins-style Internet garbage that teaches you that negative takes are automatically more "thoughtful" than positive ones and the goal of media analysis is to prove yourself to be "smarter" and "more feminist" than Greta Gerwig rather than to try to meet each work of art where it is.
It's bad feminism as well, because among all the media studies you're not reading is over half a century of feminist film and media theory. Start with Laura Mulvey's groundbreaking essays about the male gaze (a term you're all using wrong too) and work from there. Also, maybe if you read more feminist media theory and criticism you'd also recognize the problems with the disproportionate amount of energy we spend picking apart movies like this while letting openly misogynistic works by men slide or treating those comments like a "sidenote." (One of the people in the notes phrased this as "I just have a lot of issues with Greta Gerwig" and yeah, perhaps that's part of the problem!) I'm open to feminist critique of the film, but I've yet to see one that really goes beyond "well it's pink and the Barbies were feminine ergo it must be pop feminism, let's not actually look at any of the film's actual ideas at all and certainly don't ask me to define what 'pop feminism' actually is" on this website or other social media. I'd love to see a really robust critical engagement with it, but everything I'm seeing so far like that is from people praising the movie. If you have one of those that is less positive, write it! If you've read one that you think is good, please link me to it! But from what I'm seeing online and especially on Tumblr, y'all not only aren't doing that, you don't even have the toolbox for it. You'd do well to try to assemble that toolbox first before firing off hot takes, is all I'm saying.
Anyway, it's not actually a fault of a film that it expects users to use their brains and not just consume it passively if they want to get the full experience. A lot of movies, not just this one, are designed so that they can be enjoyed both ways: but if you're going to claim it's not doing "enough" of something you do need to actually engage with everything it's doing, not just the surface stuff.
Bitches be like ‘I’m so tired and sleepy’ and then stay up doing hyperfixtation shit for the next 5 hours
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it strikes me as odd that all this research into the "mediterranean diet" was not accompanied by equally extensive research into the "mediterannean healthcare system"
Also the original research into the Mediterranean diet was performed over Lent, did not mention this, also involves just asking people what they have eaten over the last week which is a notoriously bad method, and then also mysteriously excluded half of the countries analyzed because they didn't fit the trendline of more fat equals more heart disease.
reddit removed two of my posts from r/crochet because I was “encouraging illegal activity.”
Which. Fair. I was explaining how easy it is to steal from Hobby Lobby.
They don’t have door sensors or barcodes, and I believe their overall security camera coverage is fake or shit.
You see, when barcodes were invented, evangelicals were convinced it was the sign of the devil (or government tracking; hard to tell). The point is, Hobby Lobby doesn’t have bar codes to this day because the devil could jump in your belly button.
And if you don’t have barcodes, you CAN’T have door sensors because the devil could jump right up a vagina, and you could get impregnated with the antichrist, and Hobby Lobby would have to make a very difficult choice about their anti-contraception views.
Oh, and they knowingly stole a fuckton of ancient artifacts, and the money they paid for those (not all stealing is just taking; sometimes money changes hands) funded fucking ISIS.
So. If you’re intellectually curious. You can steal from Hobby Lobby REALLY EASILY.
i just want to have a conversation with whatever gay intern is running the saw twitter account.
if Candice has a picture phone why did she never just take a photo of what phineas and ferb were doing and text it to her mom
if she did this doofenshmirtz would just be like you see perry the platypus i sold my old computer at the pawn shop but i forgot to delete all those embarrassing photos from the christmas party, which is why i’ve invented the pixel-replacinator! and then as candace is going to text her mom the photo the phone gets hit with the beam and she looks down and she’s just texted her mom a photo of doofenshmirtz in a sexy elf costume or smth. candace can never fucking win the universe bends to facilitate her psychological torment
i need a movie where daniel craig and cillian murphy play a lesbian couple
do you see the vision
I clearly don't but I still get it