agltaria

[agltaria]

Oh boy

[agltaria]

has anyone done the cocona sidequest in hsr because. oh my god.

[agltaria]

how does shanks manage to have some kind of sexual tension with every warlord in the sea whilst also having practically zero screen time. ramona-esque dilf of the east blue. luffy wants to be king of the pirates but is stuck sailing through the several deadly seas of his dad's evil exes. they see the straw hat and it activates their fight reflex. half-convinced that shanks gave it away with full knowledge of this

[agltaria]

our flag means death left, black sails right

[agltaria]

When someone mentions the queer pirate show (updated)

[agltaria]

Anyway Barbie sitting on a bench, just having cried for the first time and looking over at an old woman and very genuinely complimenting her beauty was such a lovely moment. Because not long before, Barbie was freaking out about cellulite. But here in the Real World, where everything is so much more complicated than she could have imagined, so much more painful, she looks over and sees a woman who has actually lived. Aging is a privilege not afforded to everybody, and this little old woman, with all these years and experiences inside her, quite happy and at peace and secure with herself (she knows she’s beautiful), represents what Barbie is only starting to understand, that real death is staying the same forever.

That’s why it’s so important that The Ghost Of Ruth Handler, a little old lady herself, is the one who guides her into real life. She warns Barbie that by choosing to live, she must by necessity die. But in keeping with the themes of growing up, of adulthood, of womanhood, Barbie now knows that you can’t ever really return to the version of yourself that didn’t know something. Children, most children anyway, don’t really understand death. Part of the emotional struggle of adolescence and young adulthood is having to come to grips with the inevitable fact that your parents will die someday, as will everyone you love, and you yourself. If you’re lucky, not for many years. But it will happen.

And I think that’s why the turning point is “do you guys ever think about dying?” That’s why it matters that the girl playing with Barbie and changing her is a middle-aged woman. Gloria is grappling with her own morality and stifled creativity and feeling her daughter slip away from her and looking back on those days of innocent joyful play and the thing is that it’s all so sweetly painfully joyously human that it changes Barbie.

There’s a maiden(s), mother(s), and crone(s) aspect at play, and Barbie is all three and none at all. She is Ruth’s daughter and she is at once old (64 this year) and young (a toy for children, sexless and innocent and optimistic). Sasha is her past and Gloria is her present and the old woman on the park bench, filled up with years and life and peace and joy, is her future.

Barbie chose to become human, but it was also never really a choice. You can’t un-know something, you can’t ever go backward, you can only go forward. Humans only have one ending. The only alternative to growing is dying. And death may be inevitable, but better later than sooner. The child must become the adult. The adult must become the elder. The elder must eventually die. And living all those years is a gift even when it’s painful and Barbie embraces it.

[agltaria]

i watched strange way of life in theatre today!! had a cowboy hat on along with a friend so the woman ushering us in immediately knew what we were there for HAHA

[agltaria]

sorry for the low quality pic i was just enjoying how fruity edgin looks in this while on my way out from watching a different movie

[agltaria]

xenk is what you get when you’re in a dnd group but you know there’s one person who really wants to join but is always busy so when they DO manage to join they’re in for one session, get to do a bunch of cool stuff so they can make the most of it then leave for the rest of the campaign

[agltaria]

[agltaria]

thinking about the implications of hadestown in the sandman…

[agltaria]

- fleabag / black sails

[agltaria]

[agltaria]

Father, into your hands I commend my spirit Father, into your hands Why have you forsaken me? In your eyes, forsaken me? In your thoughts, forsaken me? In your heart, forsaken me?

[agltaria]

MOON KNIGHT (2022) 1.04 🌙 The Tomb

[agltaria]

an unofficial exploration of which black sails and our flag means death characters would do best/worst in each others universes

characters who would crush it in a worldswap

Izzy - izzy wakes up every day and curses god that he doesn’t get to hang out with BS blackbeard, who would fucking hate Izzy. He’d call izzy a gross little pervert and izzy would have the best orgasm of his life about it

Ed - not saying he would crush it, but I think he would develop a big weird crush on flint and his clavichord and teakettles and it would be very funny for me personally

Silver - ya boy would CLEAN UP. whole new world of pirates here who don’t know his reputation for bullshit and genuinely believe in the power of friendship. scams for days

Anne Bonny - another clean sweep. no survivors. she and Jim exchange a stoic nod. would introduce much-needed lesbian biodiversity to the ofmd biome, like bringing wolves back to yellowstone

Flint - if i think about this too much i start crying 

Jack Rackham - would finally be appreciated as the fashion icon he is. also huge improvement over the will arnett version of jack. In general, would have a nice time and go home very refreshed

Characters who would not have a good time in a worldswap:

Charles “it’s gay to live in a house” Vane - sure he’s tough but can he survive getting dunked on constantly? Probably not.

Lucius - I think he’d get by alright actually but would HATE it and be very sulky

Stede - stabbed to death and corpse looted the second he sets foot in nassau, RIP 😔

[agltaria]

With a lot of the other stuff I’ve done, it’s just been a cameo or something short. You just walk [in and out] of one scene… Eking this out over the six episodes that I’m in, it was great to have the time to set up the relationship. We were building and building and building to that moment on the beach and yeah, it was really fun.

⤷ Taika Waititi for IndieWire