#;muse| barbie

[umbranstilettos]

So you’re my contact?-David Martinez

“Are we talking about phones?”, Barbie gave him a confused look before she took out something from her dainty purse it was a toy phone opening it before some cheap speaker emitted a song from the 2000s. ‘AYE AYE AYE I’m your little butterfly green black and blue make the colors of the sky’

[cak31ssuperi04]

Kith

[tragedynoir]

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[kaitlinamberxo]

“This locket was supposed to take me home...but in my heart, I feel I’m already there.”

kaitlin's 100 favorite female muses — 62/100: Clara Stahlbaum

[turnippencil]

Narinder's house from a passage in chapter 1

'Even as a mortal, he is still in a field of his own creation. He just traded white for red, just like his robes.'

[umbranstilettos]

She was a living and breathing idea conceptualized by the greatest minds of Mattel—last thing she had to listen to was from an afterthought paired with her to make her appealing to the masses in the 1960s her name were in the frontlines being championed by women as far as what the history book in the dreamhouse had taught her about feminism. The moment that he tried to call out her behavior her foot pressed harder to the gas pedal while her hand bopped on the horns pretending that she had selective hearing from his speech about what she can and can’t do outside of Barbieland.

“Sorry—what was that? Didn’t I tell you that I know my way around the driver’s seat although we should talk about repainting the car if I’m going to be the one who’s always driving”, Propping down the pink sunglasses to her temples she glanced at him through her rosy tinted framed glasses. “There should be a tutorial in being the best Ken in the passenger seat somewhere, we’ll take notes from that sometime”

@umbranstilettos from here

“As if you could do better, you’re a Ken”, The doll spoke in an incredulous manner before she gave condescending pats to his cheek as if both chiding and reassuring a child who just asked a ridiculous question—God forbid if the Ken dolls get drivers license in Barbieland they’re always out kenning the other so she offered to drive firing all the afterburners as she speeded through dodging and weaving and then if there was traffic she went on the walkways she’d show him—she had a driving simulator game before. “You see either they make way for you, or you make the way yourself”, She glanced to his direction smiling.

She was a fast learner, this Barbie. He knew that from the beginning. She was also the most beautiful driver he had ever had. He wouldn't even make her wear a clown mask.

Her casual motion, however, made the Agent of Chaos blink hard, taken aback by her cocky behavior that made her earn an incredulous stare from him. Oh how quickly and easily he could snap her neck right that second and make that drive her final. The doll was getting too comfortable around him, too cozy. The question was — how long would he allow that.

“Listen— I don’t know what exactly the rules were in your uh, Barbiehouse, but here? It’s rude to talk like that to a guy who’s trying to give ya a compliment.”

[golmorehotgirl]

Depression Cherry 🍒

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

A Woman Painting a Man – Artemisia Gentileschi // Vision – Jacek Malczewski // Barbie (2023) – Directed by Greta Gerwig

[umbranstilettos]

“And I haven’t been driven around by a Ken either, and it feels so good not to do anything behind the wheel. EYES UP FRONT!”

Open starter that ANYONE is welcome to respond to!

“It’s been a while since I lost drove a human vehicle, but I used to do so all the time.  It’s just like riding a bike.”

[umbranstilettos]

“Hi, I’m Barbie”, She said introducing herself with jazz hands, her pageant like smile wide to the brim showing off pearly whites just as her mom taught her when she was growing up, she thought the real world would instantly recognize her especially the girls but much to her disappointment, all she got was snapped for wearing all pink, hands falling to her sides slumping down in a nearby bench in the park, hunched back by the weight of the news she’ll have to breakdown to the dreamhouse.

[citizenerased77]

didn't know i even needed this until i saw it.

[hwamatz]

Ateez as Barbie movies and Seonghwa would be twelve dancing princesses most definitely

[dailycupofcreativitea]

The Barbie movie but instead of Barbie it's Hatsune Miku

[cak31ssuperi04]

fun fact: Them

[kaitlinamberxo]

“Is beauty all that matters to you?”

kaitlin's 100 favorite female muses — 27/100: Odette

[meimi-haneoka]

Do you guys ever think about how many times CLAMP tiptoe around the word "death", in Clear Card? (you: what kind of question is that???)

Because it's an awful lot.

The actual verb 死ぬ (to die), the classical one, is never mentioned* to indicate "death", and I totally see the reasons why: mainly target and "world view" of the series (lord, if there's something I learned during these 8 years of observing the reactions from the JP fans is that the 世界観, the "world view" is EVERYTHING and if the authors dare doing something that goes against it, they won't forgive them. Especially for a series rooted deep in everybody's childhood).

* (Actually, it is used in chapter 43 in a funny skit with Kero, Suppy and Nakuru, where Kero says "I thought I would die!!!" because he's too embarrassed by the SyaoSaku scene he had to forcefully witness hidden in Sakura's bag 😂but it's a foolish scene)

I think the first time where they actually start to dangle it in our faces is in chapter 28, when they make Momo scream in panic: "If you rewind that far, the repercussions will be immesurable!!" and then Kaito confirming right after "Time magic shortens the caster's lifespan". 命を削る indeed means "to shorten one's lifespan", and what else does that mean, if not that he's killing himself little by little, by using time magic? Sure, magicians have a longer lifespan, but...

Another instance where they make us "sniff" the smell of death but they don't serve the actual meal is in chapter 33, when Kaito goes out in the garden to counter the attack coming from the Association. He condescendingly says 力不足と己の身が滅ぶのを恐れて, mocking them for not including time magic in their collective attack because they're afraid their power won't be enough and they'll literally wreck their bodies in the process. Kaito doesn't straight up say "they're afraid to die", but the verb 滅ぶ means "to perish, to be ruined, to be destroyed" and we all saw what effects time magic had on Kaito's body. He's basically calling them p*ssies, yes.

And excuse me, but the most apparent one....when Kaito (or the Clan) says multiple times "Her soul will break", should Akiho write on herself more power than her body can sustain....isn't that just a very generous way to avoid saying "Akiho WILL DIE" to not scare the young readers away? Because, think about it...if her soul breaks...what is left of her? What is left of Akiho, as we know her? Yes, just a shell, a corpse for use and consumption of the Association/Clan, exactly.

And what to say about the scene of chapter 41 when Nadeshiko is trying to mom-talk Kaito into reason and the guy answers "I guess it's because I'm getting closer to become the same kind of entity as you", meaning, a ghost??? Hence, he's basically saying "I'm about to die"? I always snicker when I read that part because I'm like "OH COME ON, CLAMP, MAKE HIM SAY THE WORD" 😂

Another instance where the characters dance around the concept of death is in chapter 51, when Momo gets to have this very mom-son talk with Kaito (yes, exactly, Kaito set into motion several mother figures throughout the story - Lilie, Momo, Nadeshiko herself - that should tell you SOMETHING). Momo is trying to make him understand that he's literally betted his life away when he made the contract with her, so that should give him an idea of how important this mission is to him, and for whom he's doing this for. She says "When you made the contract with me, you revealed your true name. We could say I hold your heart as magician in the palm of my hand". Here Momo is basically already mentioning the concept I've been saying time and time again when Kaito revealed his true name to Akiho in chapter 80: in CLAMP works, revealing your true name to someone is like placing the most vulnerable part of yourself in their hands. The "imagery" Momo suggests here is actually pretty disturbing: the word 心臓 (heart) is the one commonly used to indicate the actual organ, more than "heart as core of the emotions", and so what she's suggesting is that at any moment, without notice, she might close that hand and crush his heart, basically killing him. Of course Momo would never do that, but she wants to remind him of what damned situation he's put himself in, how far he went for the person he still isn't ready to recognize at this point of the story.

I think the closer they went to say the "forbidden word" was when Lilie in chapter 72 explained to Sakura the extent of her premonitory dreams: "I know things that will happen shortly ahead...things way far ahead in the future...and even things that will happen when I'll be gone".

Another instance where they TOTALLY dance around the real situation (that is, Kaito should've been dead-dead-dead by then) is in chapter 80 when Eriol explains to Akiho what Kaito had been doing: I'm not sure if it's Eriol who sugarcoated it in his speech, or Akiho herself while recounting it to Sakura, but she says "He messed with lots (of dangerous magic), so his condition wasn't supposed to be that good", another polite way to say "he should've been dead by now". In fact, what's keeping him alive is literally the fact that the pocket watch (and therefore, his time) is frozen for now.

And sometimes I wonder if the "unhappiness" or "grief" that Yelan foresaw for Sakura, in the eventuality she couldn't gain control of her own powers, included....death too....NAAAAAAAHHHH

(well, I mean, who didn't think of THAT when they made Kaito say that he could see Nadeshiko because he was close to dying?? Well knowing that Sakura could suddenly see her too?? they did that on purpose jfc)