#;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’

[johannestevans]

you know, one thing that i found extremely refreshing about the Barbie movie is how much it doesn't hate men or masculinity, and instead positions compulsory masculinity as similarly limiting and imprisoning as femininity when it's societally enforced

and i've been really surprised by how many people who have been going "this movie is anti-men, and that's GREAT" when like. it's not anti-men. it's opposed to patriarchy and toxic masculinity, but it extends a great deal of compassion to individual men

not just to magic ken and sugar daddy ken and allan and the other rejected kens, but even to stereotypical ken, who like. causes a lot of the problems in barbieland and leads it. it extends a great deal of empathy for his sense of powerlessness and loneliness

and it would have been very easy for the film to basically just call him an incel and punish him for what he's done by disenfranchising him even further, but it doesn't do that? it says, hey. you need more to your identity than your gender, and there's more to you than being str8

and that's exactly the same weight of the message communicated to barbie, that there's more to her identity than her gender, that there's more to her than her perfect appearance and performance

neither of them have to just be dolls

idk, i enjoyed it as a well-crafted film without finding it like, hugely artistically impactful on me, but that aspect of its gender commentary was incredibly refreshing, and far more nuanced than i'm used to expecting of cisgender creators

and i think it's a real shame for people to interpret that very carefully crafted arc for ken and the other kens and allan as "haha, this movie HATES men and thinks they're STINKY" when like. a lot of work was done to go beyond that sort of very easy reflexive hatred

[cak31ssuperi04]

Kith

[tragedynoir]

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[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.'

[golmorehotgirl]

Depression Cherry 🍒

[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.”

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

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

[meowunmeow]

If my ADHD allows it, I might just write Unfade Unluck: the [extremely warped] story as seen through Feng's shoujo filtered eyes where he is in a star crossed romance with Fuuko (she does not care about him outside of giving Shen and his sister a trauma-free life (he is in denial))

[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.

[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.”

[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

[keo6323]

matt deciding what his songs are about