#1958 Barbie

[miniventures-photographed]

When Bubblecut already reminds you of a grandmother, and then you find an outfit that gives her church lady vibes 😅

[textingtroublesanswers]

blu engie... if your names ken... would that make blu solly barbie? :>

There is something going on behind his goggles, it's a 50/50 chance that it's not something good.

"John!"

"Yes, sweetheart?"

"Who in Sam Hill is Barbie?"

John shrugs.

[candyredterezii]

The doll collecting so far ...

[omgthatdress]

One of my fave 1958 Barbie looks is "Barbie Q." Not only is it just cute (those accessories are daaaarling!) it's also a reflection of the new symbol of American middle-class prosperity: the back yard!

With the move out into the suburbs, back yards created a revolution in how Americans could meet and socialize. Srsly I love 1950s back yard kitsch SO MUCH.

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Ann Smyrner (Reptilicus, Code 7 Victim 5)— A Danish born actress who mostly starred in German and Austrian movies during the 60s, in a few of them alongside Lex Barker. Because of her figure and blonde hair she was sadly often cast in the role of the naive sexbomb and to be a nice sight for the male audience. But she was capable of way more and was a good actress which can be seen in the movies where she does have a bigger role. One of her best movies is a comedic crime movie based on the comics about "Bild Lilli" (inspiration for Barbie) in which she uses her good looks and effect on men to her own advantage to investigate in a murder case. Which is absolutely wonderful because she's not only extremely beautiful but at the same tine extremely confident, cunning and witty. She's definitely one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen in my whole life. Just look at her!

Susan Strasberg (Stage Struck, The Cobweb)— In Stage Struck (1958) she performs Annabel Lee and the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet and there are no words for how mesmerizing she is while doing it (I wish I could find a clip of it to show you!)

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut]

Ann Smyrner:

[jstor]

Happy Barbie Week Thursday! Here's a Barbie from 1958 and accoutrements from the '60s. We haven't read her book "How to Design Your Own Fashion" (the print is so tiny!), so we did our best in picking her outfit, but the Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa on JSTOR has more choices if you're feeling creative! All open access, too, so it's free for everyone.

[elastijubilee]

2024:

Beauty and the Beast (1946, French foreign language)

The Color Purple (2023)

Time Bandits (1981)

Mean Girls (2024)

Repulsion (1965)

The Uninvited (1944)

Rumble Fish (1983)

Alien (1979)

A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Taiwanese foreign language)

Tess (1979)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Aliens (1986)

Idiocracy (2006)

Looker (1981)

Alien 3 (1992)

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

Inside Out 2 (2024)

Super Capers (2011)

Deadpool and Wolverine (2024)

Twisters (2024)

Westworld (1973)

Borderlands (2024)

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

Shocker (1989)

Trick or Treat (1986)

Jaws (1975)

The Wild Robot (2024)

The Thing (1982)

Alien Resurrection (1997)

Late Night with the Devil (2023)

Jennifer's Body (2009)

Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021)

Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

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So, I decided in 2019 to keep track of every movie I'd watched for the first time each year moving forward. This year has been my biggest year!

Movies I watched for the first time in 2023:

Glass Onion (2022)

X (2022)

Pearl (2022)

The Witch (2015)

Fright Night (2011)

The Lighthouse (2019)

Knock at the Cabin (2023)

The Northman (2022)

Hereditary (2018)

Midsommar (2019)

Men (2022)

Saint Maude (2020)

The Wolfman (1941)

Psycho (1960)

The Birds (1963)

Vertigo (1958)

Psycho (1998)

Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 (2023)

Suspiria (2018)

Rosemary's Baby (2014 made-for-tv 2-parter)

Poltergeist (2015)

Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

ANOES 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

ANOES 4: The Dream Master (1988)

ANOES 5: The Dream Child (1989)

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

Friday the 13th (1980)

It Follows (2014)

The Flash (2023)

Oppenheimer (2023)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)

The Little Mermaid (2023)

The Red Shoes (1948)

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

The Blob (1988)

Paint (2023)

Mafia Mama (2023)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Uncut Gems (2019)

The Green Knight (2019)

The Last Airbender (2010)

The Dark Crystal (1982)

The Fog (1980)

They Live (1988)

Office Space (1999)

Fifty Shades Freed (2018)

Teen Titans Go to the Movies (2018)

John Wick Ch. 1 (2014)

Super Mario Bros (2023)

Muppets From Space (1999)

Scream 6 (2023)

12 Monkeys (1995)

Bottoms (2023)

Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)

The Craft (1996, fully through)

I Married a Witch (1942)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, French foreign language)

Friday the 13th, Part 2 (1981)

Barbie (2023)

The Boy and the Heron (2023)

The Color Purple (1985)

Violent Night (2022)

The Stepford Wives (1975)

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2022:

Staten Island Summer (2015)

Nobody's Child (1986)

This is Spinal Tap (1984)

Shawn of the Dead (2004)

The Wiz (1978)

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

Licorice Pizza (2021)

Fifty Shades of Gray (2015)

Fifty Shades Darker (2017)

Cyrano (2021)

The King and I (1956)

Carrie (2013)

Carrie (2002, made-for-tv)

The Batman (2022)

Firestarter (1984)

Frozen 2 (2019)

The Fury (1978)

Firestarter (2022)

The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)

The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022)

The Deadzone (1983)

Sparring Partner (2022, short)

My Fair Lady (1964)

The Untouchables (1987)

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

The Black Phone (2022)

Barbarian (2022)

Nope (2022)

Flashdance (1983)

Crimes of the Heart (1987)

Don't Worry Darling (2022)

The Exorcist (1973)

Child's Play (1988)

Scream 3 (2003)

Scream 5 (2022)

The Fablemans (2022)

Halloween (1978)

Black Panther (2018)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

Return to Oz (1985)

Newsies (1992)

National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)

National Lampoon's Las Vegas Vacation (1997)

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2021:

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

Dark Phoenix (2019)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

The Wolverine (2013)

Logan (2017)

Deadpool (2016)

Deadpool 2 (2018)

Watchmen (2009)

Wonder Woman (2017)

Aquaman (2018)

Shazam! (2019)

X-Men: New Mutants (2020)

Cruella (2021)

Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

The Suicide Squad (2021)

Reminiscence (2021)

My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising (2019)

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (2018)

My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)

Dune (2021)

Poltergeist (1982)

The Babadook (2014)

A Silent Voice (2016)

Rockdog (2016)

Rockdog 2: Rock Around the Park (2021)

Lion King (2019)

Terminator (1984)

Hot Fuzz (2007)

West Side Story (2021)

Spiderman: Homecoming (2017)

Spiderman: Far From Home (2019)

Spiderman: No Way Home (2021)

Looper (2012)

Brick (2005)

Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Back to the Future Part III (1990)

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2020:

Mr. Mom (1983)

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Pretty Baby (1978)

Private Benjamin (1980)

The Color of Pomegranates (1969, foreign language)

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Cunningham (2020, documentary)

And Then We Danced (2019, Georgian foreign language)

The Young Girls of Rochetfort (1967, French foreign language)

Love on a Leash (2011)

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999, fully through)

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002, fully through)

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Blazing Saddles (1974)

The Producers (1967)

Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog (2007)

Death Becomes Her (1992)

Captain Underpants (2017)

X-Men (2000, fully through)

X-Men 2 (2003)

Dust in the Wind (1986)

Phantasm (1978)

The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

I Eat Your Flesh (1971)

Serenity (2005)

Juice (2017, short, Indian foreign language)

Earth (1998, Indian foreign language)

Protocol (1984)

Voices Within: The Many Lives of Trudy Chase (1990, 4 hr full version)

Clue (1985)

Unleashed (2016)

Fright Night (1985)

Moll Flanders (1996, BBC 2-parter)

Parasite (2019)

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)

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2019:

Irreconcilable Differences (1984)

The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)

A Very Brady Sequel (1996)

Frozen Assets (1992)

Knives Out (2019)

Doctor Sleep (2019)

Santa Claus With Muscles (1996)

Jack Frost (1997, dog sh*t horror)

Home (?, Indian foreign language film)

The Greatest Showman (2017)

Pinjar (2003, Indian foreign language)

Interstellar (2014)

Shock and Censorship (1993)

The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

Beetlejuice (1988)

Gypsy (1962)

The Shape of Water (2017)

The Favorite (2018)

A Small Circle of Friends (1980)

A League of Their Own (1992)

Shock Treatment (1981)

Empire of the Sun (1987)

[bitter69uk]

Died on this day: voluptuous mid-20th century actress and pin-up Anita Ekberg (29 September 1931 - 11 January 2015). In the fifties, the statuesque Swedish sex goddess reigned alongside peers Mamie Van Doren, Jayne Mansfield and Diana Dors as one of atomic-era Hollywood’s preeminent glamour queens. By the early sixties, Ekberg was triumphing in Europe, splashing in the Trevi fountain alongside Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini’s visionary masterpieces La Dolce Vita (1960) and later Boccaccio ’70 (1962). (Fellini was perhaps the only director who knew how to properly utilize her charms). But as a connoisseur of cinematic perversity, I love Ekberg at her gloriously wooden best in the serial killer shocker Screaming Mimi (1958) and later bargain basement Eurotrash horror movies Fangs of the Living Dead (1969) and Killer Nun (1979). (I still haven’t seen the promising-sounding The French Sex Murders (1972)). Even in these indignities, as author Sam Staggs puts it, Ekberg “can steal any scene just by standing still.” In 1999 the BBC made a documentary about Ekberg, capturing her craggy temperamental monstre sacré later years. She clearly relished trashing her erstwhile rivals. (Asked about Sophia Loren, she replies, “Who is that?” On Brigitte Bardot: “she was pretty. You can’t say beautiful. She was – how you say? – very “Barbie.””). After gossip columnist extraordinaire Michael Musto experienced the brunt of her diva’s wrath in 1999, he rechristened her “Anita Yecch-berg.” Still, you can’t help but love her – Anita Ekberg made the world a more glamorous place.

[ineffablyrandom]

December 1, 2023

Hindi ako magsasabi ng happy first of December kase di happy ang first of December ng madaming tao ngayon.

Break na ba lahat? Heartbroken na ba ulit lahat?

Tangina ng KathNiel. 11 years. Hayop. Ang sakit sa puso. Hindi ako solid KathNiel fan. But I admired Kathryn even before ma-team up siya kay DJ. I watched Mara Clara and her movies with Julia Montes. I remember me and my family went to the mall and may mall show pala si Kathryn Bernardo, that was the first time I saw her in person. Napakagandang bata. You know I spent my teenage years and growing up watching Kathryn also grew up and spent her teenage years in the limelight. It was such a blow you know, I knew it even before they announced it on IG pero iba pa din talaga. Ewan ko ba. Hahahahaha. Siguro kase it hits a little too close to home. My highschool bestfriend (the one na lagi kong kasama mag travel. Yes. Barbie. My bestfriend since we were 14) recently broke up with her highschool sweetheart last October. And 11 years din sila. I had a fair share of my heart being broken and it was so hard moving on sa 2 year relationship, paano pa kaya 11 years? It is so hard seeing my bestfriend cry and second guess herself now and the best I can offer is me being with her through the journey of being broken, moving on, and healing. So really, I can't imagine now what they are going through especially they were the biggest love team in the industry. And I can't put my shoes in their shoes, but it's just so heartbreaking.

To my best friend. I was with her when she and her ex boyfriend started their love story when we were in highschool. I was with her when she texted me that he's breaking up with her. I was with her the moment she asked me to come because they just broke up. And I will always be with here through the painful journey of acceptance, moving on, and healing. I love you barbieeeee! Kaya natin to!

Anyway, sorry. But here's me nagpapa-cute. Because I am in my late 20s and I miss random selfies in my phone. And ang heavy ng feelings kanina pa. Timing na binabasa ko tong The Versions of Us - the idea that there are moments when our lives might have turned out differently, the tiny factors or decisions that could determine our fate, and the precarious nature of the foundations upon which we build our lives.

Context/Summary

Eva and Jim are nineteen and students at Cambridge in 1958 when their paths first cross. Jim is walking along a lane when a woman approaching him on a bicycle swerves to avoid a dog. What happens next will determine the rest of their lives. We follow three different versions of their future – together, and apart – as their love story takes on different incarnations, twisting and turning to the conclusion in the present day.

It's all of the what ifs and what might have been. All the "in an alternate universes" that left us wondering. And this book is giving me a kind of closure right now in my own kind of way, of the things that could have happened when I chose or didn't choose a different path. And I guess even if I think about it long and hard enough, I will never know. I think I wrote something before along the lines of "I crave for something/someone I've lost. Something/someone I could not have. I miss my old self or my unlived life. It's such a mystery to me." And this life is so profound, that you want to toy with the idea of something out there, that there is a different versions of us living the life we wanted or living the life we ought to have, different from the life we are having now. Somehow you wish that the different versions of you have those genuine happiness that seems so hard to find.

[why-bull-the-fashion-demon]

movies I watched in 2023

(taking a cue from @stenka-razin)

-January

The Power of the Dog (2021, dir. Jane Campion)

Love, Simon (2018, dir. Greg Berlant)

Gamer (2009, dir. Brian Taylor & Mark Neveldine)

Men (2022, dir. Alex Garland)

The Menu (2022, dir. Mark Mylod)

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013, dir. Jim Jarmusch)

The Dead Don’t Die (2019, dir. Jim Jarmusch)

-February

A Touch of Sin (2013, dir. Jia Zhangke)

Lost Girls & Love Hotels (2020, dir. William Olsson)

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008, dir. Peter Sollett)

In the Mood for Love (2000, dir. Wong Kar-Wai)

The Woman King (2022, dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood)

Charlie’s Angels (2000, dir. McG)

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, dir. Tsai Ming-Liang)

Nope (2022, dir. Jordan Peele)

-March

Ash is Purest White (2018, dir. Jia Zhangke)

Shoplifters (2018, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)

Three (2016, dir. Johnnie To)

Nobody (2021, dir. Ilya Naishuller)

Charlie’s Angels (2019, dir. Elizabeth Banks)

The Wonderland (2019, dir. Keiichi Hara)

-April

Rebels of the Neon God (1992, dir. Tsai Ming-Liang)

Tetris (2023, dir. Jon S. Baird)

There’s Something About Mary (1998, dir. Bobby and Peter Farrely)

The Whale (2022, dir. Darren Aronofsky)

The Fabelmans (2022, dir. Steven Spielberg)

Throw Down (2004, dir. Johnnie To)

Tár (2022, dir. Todd Field)

Yi Yi (2000, dir. Edward Yang)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022, dir. Ryan Coogler)

Catch .44 (2011, dir. Aaron Harvey)

-May

Spaceballs (1987, dir. Mel Brooks)

Bottle Rocket (1996, dir. Wes Anderson)

An Autumn Afternoon (1962, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania (2023, dir. Peyton Reed)

Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023, dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley)

-June

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)

Good Morning (1959, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

Casino Royale (2006, dir. Martin Campbell)

Quantum of Solace (2008, dir. Marc Forster)

Skyfall (2012, dir. Sam Mendes)

Spectre 2015, dir. Sam Mendes)

No Time To Die (2021, dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga)

Octopussy (1983, dir. John Glen)

GoldenEye (1995, dir. Martin Campbell)

First Reformed (2017, dir. Paul Schrader)

-July

Zoolander (2001, dir. Ben Stiller)

The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022, dir. Masato Jinbo)

Mainstream (2020, dir. Gia Coppola)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005, dir. Tim Burton)

Equinox Flower (1958, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

You Only Live Twice (1967, dir. Lewis Gilbert)

-August

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 (2023, dir. James Gunn)

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019, dir. Lee Won-tae)

Leap Year (2010, dir. Anand Tucker)

The Worst Person in the World (2021, dir. Joachim Trier)

Palm Springs (2020, dir. Max Barbakow)

Days (2020, dir. Tsai Ming-liang)

Kindergarten Cop (1990, dir. Ivan Reitman)

Barbie (2023, dir. Greta Gerwig)

Babylon (2022, dir. Damien Chazelle)

Shin Godzilla (2016, dir. Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi)

The Flash (2023, dir. Andy Muschietti)

-September

Asteroid City (2023, dir. Wes Anderson)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023, dir. Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic)

The Little Mermaid (2023, dir. Rob Marshall)

Mulan (2020, dir. Niki Caro)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, dir. Wes Craven)

Fitzcarraldo (1982, dir. Werner Herzog)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022, dir. Halina Reijn)

Frances Ha (2012, dir. Noah Baumbach)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003, dir. Peter Weir)

A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985, dir. Jack Sholder)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987, dir. Chuck Russell)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988, dir. Renny Harlin)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989, dir. Stephen Hopkins)

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991, dir. Rachel Talalay)

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994, dir. Wes Craven)

Renfield (2023, dir. Chris McKay)

Theater Camp (2023, dir. Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman)

Shiva Baby (2020, dir. Emma Seligman)

-October

Friday the 13th (1980, dir. Sean S. Cunningham)

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981, dir. Steve Miner)

Friday the 13th - Part III (1982, dir. Steve Miner)

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984, dir. Joseph Zito)

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985, dir. Danny Steinmann)

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986, dir. Tom McLoughlin)

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988, dir. John Carl Beuchler)

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989, dir. Rob Hedden)

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993, dir. Adam Marcus)

Jason X (2001, dir. James Isaac)

Freddy vs. Jason (2003, dir. Ronny Yu)

Friday the 13th (2009, dir. Marcus Nispel)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010, dir. Samuel Bayer)

Easy A (2010, dir. Will Gluck)

Saw (2004, dir. James Wan)

Saw II (2005, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw III (2006, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw IV (2007, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw V (2008, dir. David Hackl)

Saw VI (2009, dir. Kevin Greutert)

Saw: The Final Chapter (2010, dir. Kevin Greutert)

A History of Violence (2005, dir. David Cronenberg)

Infinity Pool (2023, dir. Brandon Cronenberg)

Dracula 2000 (2000, dir. Patrick Lussier)

Mean Girls (2004, dir. Mark Waters)

Jennifer’s Body (2009, dir. Karyn Kusama)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, dir. Werner Herzog)

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979, dir. Werner Herzog)

-November

Murder on the Orient Express (2017, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

Death on the Nile (2022, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

A Haunting in Venice (2023, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023, dir. André Øvredal)

Samurai Reincarnation (1981, dir. Kinji Fukasaku)

Legally Blonde (2001, dir. Robert Luketic)

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019, dir. Katt Shea)

The Last Duel (2021, dir. Ridley Scott)

Paint Your Wagon (1969, dir. Joshua Logan)

Thanksgiving (2023, dir. Eli Roth)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006, dir. David Frankel)

Shogun’s Shadow (1989, dir. Yasuo Furuhata)

The Conjuring (2013, dir. James Wan)

Win A Date With Tad Hamilton (2004, dir. Robert Luketic)

The Conjuring 2 (2016, dir. James Wan)

The Nun (2018, dir. Corin Hardy)

Le Samouraï (1967, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)

-December

The Nun II (2023, dir. Michael Chaves)

Bottoms (2023, dir. Emma Seligman)

Annabelle (2014, dir. John R. Leonetti)

Gran Turismo (2023, dir. Neill Blomkamp)

Battles Without Honor And Humanity (1973, dir. Kinji Fukasaku)

Jigsaw (2017, dir. The Spierig Brothers)

Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw X (2023, dir. Kevin Greutert)

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (2023, dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, et. al.)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023, dir. Jeff Rowe)

Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny (2023, dir. James Mangold)

Air Doll (2009, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)

The End of Summer (1961, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

Air (2023, dir. Ben Affleck)

No Hard Feelings (2023, dir. Gene Stupnitsky)

Oppenheimer (2023, dir. Christopher Nolan)

Yakuza Wolf (1972, dir. Ryuichi Takamori)

Yakuza: Like A Dragon (2007, dir. Takashi Miike)

Spencer (2021, dir. Pablo Larraín)

Moneyball (2011, dir. Bennett Miller)

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023, dir. Steve Caple, Jr.)

Knights of the Zodiac (2023, dir. Tomek Baginski)

Dragonball Evolution (2009, dir. James Wong)

[firespirited]

Ok let's talk about the vintage dolls the ones for whom I bought the bundle. I won't necessarily be keeping them but I really wanted to experience a few of them in hand. Nothing really prepares you for this:

Or the chaos gremlin energy of this

The brown eyed Steffie was my main reason here and she's a Quick Curl Kelley from 1973, her hair was horrid to cut and horrid to remove and felt like handling a teeny tiny cactus: not enough to hurt but enough to feel like you might get a splinter.

The rooting patterns on Midge 1963 and Todd 1965 defy logic

Midge's mold looks more african american than Christie/Julia. I'm shocked it was only use for Christie once https://fashiondollz.de/1958-midge-face-2/#!gallery-393-6708. I thought I'd hate it, i've never found Midge to be cute but she's delightful in 3D, the blue eyes with their dot pupils don't work but there's character in the way the smile is built in working in tandem with the heavy lids.

The tan (and blotchy) Steffie is Hawaiian Barbie from 1975, after ten years of manufacturing they perfected the swirl rooting + parting if not yet natural hairlines.

So we have Skooter with greened eye area and Ricky from 1963

Tutti 1967 + Todd 1966 who are quite yellow toned.

I thought ken's eyebrows were damaged but they're supposed to be "cut" to look bushy he's Ken 1976 Now Look

Blonde Midge from 1963 (mold date 1958, they waited to release her) she's heavily discoloured to a greenish tan.

The Steffies are: quick curl kelley 1973 and 1975 hawaii (blotching)

There's a 1973 sunshine family doll and this gal, she has discolouration across her forehead, no markings and i'm pretty sure she goes on an adult body. anyone know who she is? (thankyou to @myemuisemo who pointed me towards Hasbro dolly darlings) I superglued sunshine family and this one who were slashed across the necks

[strictlyfavorites]

PIC 1 - Hefner at work with secretary Cynthia Maddox in Chicago, 1958

PIC 2 - Hugh Hefner and his girlfriend and playmate Barbi Benton at Playboy Mansion West in 1970

PIC 3 - Hugh Hefner and his Playmate girlfriend Barbi Benton whom he dated from 1969 - 1976

PIC 4 - Hugh Hefner working in Chicago as John Dean testifies at the Watergate hearings in 1973

[imagitory]

So I realize I'm late to talking about this, but...

Although I personally find Snow White (2024) to be just as pointless as all of the other recent Disney live action remakes -- even the ones I think have some value like The Little Mermaid (2023) -- I haven't hated everything I've heard about it. I really like Greta Gerwig's work overall -- I mean, heck, she worked on that recent Barbie movie that everyone's gone gaga for, and I also loved her take on Little Women. Gal Gadot is a striking choice for the Evil Queen. Even Rachel Ziegler herself I had no problem with, considering she previously was in the remake of West Side Story playing Maria, which means she has the vocal range to perform the role of Snow, unlike some of the other actors chosen to play the leads in these remakes. *side-eyes the hell out of Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, and Mena Massaud*

That being said...I hope Snow White (2024) does finally spark a real conversation about how to truly embrace a film's legacy. Because here's the thing -- there are issues one can point out with the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that could be addressed in a new adaptation. The Prince is woefully underdeveloped as a character, to the point that the Dwarfs honestly are the real heroes of the story. You could give the Dwarfs more depth and backstory, so as to give the actors playing them more to work with. (As much as Peter Dinklage’s comments about the original Seven Dwarfs were controversial and arguably resulted in other actors with dwarfism being shut out of the parts, I would like to write roles that can really showcase these actors’ abilities outside of comedy, so they like Dinklage can score more roles besides just as fairy tale Dwarfs.) And Snow is a bit young to be thinking about a committed romantic relationship if she's truly 14, let alone a romance with a full-grown man.

Even with these critiques, though, the idea that this film is somehow antiquated and unrelatable to modern audiences because it came out in 1937 is just flat-out not true. This film has been re-released to theaters seven times since its initial release, oftentimes when Disney was in financial trouble. 1944? Used to raise revenue during WWII when Disney was only able to release pro-American propaganda projects. 1952? Three years before Walt's expensive Disneyland project was opened. 1958? One year before one of Walt's most expensive films, Sleeping Beauty, was released. 1967? One year after Walt's death and arguably the beginning of Disney's "Dark Age." 1983? In the midst of Disney's "Dark Age" -- it wouldn't release another animated film until two years later, and that film was The Black Cauldron. 1987? Once again in the midst of Disney's Dark Age -- Disney's hand-drawn animation studio was on its last legs, with its heroic release of The Little Mermaid still two years away. Even Snow White's final release in 1993 made it the very first film to be entirely scanned to digital, restored, and then re-recorded to film. And every single time it came back to theaters, this film made bank. It was profitable every single time, even after over fifty years. And this doesn't even touch the home video/DVD/Blu-Ray or streaming markets.

On a personal note, I recently unearthed an old home movie of myself at age three, on Christmas. I was so excited about one particular present I'd received that I wouldn't let go of it for a good chunk of the home movie. You want to know what that gift was? A VHS copy of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which had only just been put out on home video two months prior. My mum presumes that I'd known Snow White only as one of our storybooks and/or as a CD, and I was so, so excited to finally get to watch the full movie. The following year at a dance recital, I was asked to talk about myself, and when asked about my favorite movie, I boldly said Snow White, and when I was asked who my favorite dwarf was, without skipping a beat I said, "Grumpy!" This is all -- for the record -- coming from a child who was never as much into romance as magic, music, and adventure and would eventually come out as asexual (though still romantic) as an adult. I certainly never saw the original Snow White as just being about waiting for a Prince or True Love's Kiss. I saw it as being about a girl who has to go through some really scary stuff, but gets through it by being kind and befriending creatures and people who help her, and the wicked woman who takes her jealousy out on her and ultimately pays the price for choosing cruelty over kindness. And I don't think I was the only one who saw the story that way.

I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with taking a new angle on a classic story, let alone offering good-faith criticism to an older, classic film. But I think the best way to honor Snow White's legacy is not to just take the original film and rip it apart in order to prop up a "new and improved" version. I look at how Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio doesn't take pot-shots at Disney's Pinocchio, or how the multiple TV movie productions of Rodgers' and Hammerstein's Cinderella or the film Ever After don't take cheap shots at Disney's animated film. Sure, I think one would be foolish to act like those filmmakers weren't at least somewhat inspired by Disney's work in places -- the 1997 version of R&H's Cinderella was even produced by Disney -- but they still did their own thing, often taking a completely different direction than Disney's film in places, even despite any possible inspiration. They didn't try to copy Disney's work. They didn't try to "fix" these already beloved films. They just tried to stand on their own merits. They told the original story the way they wanted to tell it, with their own characters, plots, music, themes, and distinctive tone, rather than take someone else’s adaptation of the material and pick and choose what they wanted to copy from it so as to leech off that adaptation’s fanbase. And I truly wish more Disney "remakes" would do that, as opposed to taking these pre-established films and then either ripping them apart and putting them back together Frankenstein-style or adding a whole bunch of insubstantial, fluffy whipped cream to an already perfect sundae. Then maybe we could have two special, unique films to enjoy as two separate entities -- the way we can enjoy films like Disney's Peter Pan and Peter Pan (2003), or Tangled and Barbie as Rapunzel, or (most relevantly of all) Disney's Cinderella and Rodgers' and Hammerstein's Cinderella simultaneously -- rather than having to act like we're "fixing" or even "replacing" old classics that a lot of people still really love and Disney clearly doesn't want to stop marketing.

[nedxnancy]

Barbie (2023) and Nancy Drew (1959)

I have to put this under a read-more because it's gonna talk about the way Barbie (2023) ends.

I went to see the movie today, and I couldn't help thinking about Ned and Ken.

There are a lot of similarities between Nancy Drew and Barbie (in fact, if somehow that ever actually happened, a Barbie modeled on Nancy Drew instead of just general Detective Barbie or Spy Barbie, I would lose it. Lose. It. A friend made me some vintage-inspired-Nancy-Drew Barbie outfits and I LOVE THEM.) - Barbie is allowed agency and high-profile careers and all the importance, although, as the film points out, Stereotypical Barbie exists only to be pretty and blank.

(I also didn't realize until drafting this post that the Nancy Drew revisions, removing racial stereotypes and streamlining/shortening the plots from the 1932-1958 books, which began in 1959, started the same year Barbie was introduced.)

My Barbies were always involved in crime plots. Evil Barbie was blackmailing people and trying to steal their boyfriends. It was like a reality show in my Barbie townhouse. My Kens (who were outnumbered by a significant ratio) were pretty much always just accessories, either literal or figurative.

Nancy Drew is on the cusp of adulthood and has no stated money-earning career, much like Stereotypical Barbie. She loves mysteries and is an amateur detective, but it's very clear that she is not professional, is not paid for her work, and would be unable to operate as an amateur detective were her father unable to bankroll her activities.

Ned, like Ken, exists without Nancy—but also has no job. Ken does "beach," but performs no function there. (The film aside that Ken's domestic sphere, the Mojo Dojo Casa House, sells like hotcakes, is fascinating: masculine-coded toys seem to have castles or Batcaves for "homes," and are heroes or rescuers or doers in some sense; Ken is allowed to just be a horse enthusiast who also loves full-length fur coats. Ken doesn't sit in the Pink [White] House being absolute ruler all day.) Ned is a college student who plays sports but also isn't employed beyond temporary summer jobs. To the viewer/reader, Ned does functionally disappear without the context of Nancy. Nancy defines Ned's life.

a yellowed-paper heart imagines Ned without Nancy, much like Ken, but in the story Ned recognizes that Nancy has been made to never return his affections; he has agency, where she is bound by the decisions of her creator. Ned seeks meaning in reality but it's to escape the pain of knowing his love won't and can't be requited. He gets to be his own main character for a while, but recognizes that the lack remains.

Ned can't return. But Ken does. Ken comes off as kind of incel in the last part of the film, but he also freely admits early on that even if he did "stay over" at Barbie's house, he's not sure what that would actually mean. He's hurt that his feelings aren't returned, not that Barbie is denying him (functionally impossible) sex.

I think it's very easy to read Nancy Drew, especially original Mystery Stories, 1932-1979, Nancy Drew, as asexual. She can't return Ned's feelings because she hasn't been given the capacity. She does feel warmly toward him, he is her favorite escort, but her priority is always her mysteries, and for the most part Ned has no interest in interfering with that, because the excitement of her mysteries is part of what he loves about her.

I think it's really interesting to read Barbie as asexual too, although the film makes the point that Barbie lacks functional genitalia (until the end, anyway). Becoming a "real woman" doesn't make Barbie attracted to Ken. Stereotypical Barbie can't be married Barbie because that isn't a universal goal.

You can argue that Nancy Drew is niche; she's not stereotypical Barbie. But Nancy Drew also breaks gender norms in a few different ways while reinforcing others, and just like Stereotypical Barbie, Nancy calls the shots in her relationship.

Ned doesn't exist only for Nancy's gaze, even though he very obviously hints that he wants to marry her eventually. Ken wants to make a home with Barbie partially because Kens just don't have homes in Barbieland. Ned, were he to change his mind and seek another partner, is presented as a very attractive guy.

In the movie, the ways the Kens perform a lot for and with each other was fascinating. The Barbies interact with each other; Kens are temporary distractions from the work. Nancy and her friends interact with each other; Ned and his friends are around to serve as muscle in dangerous situations, crew sailboats, and call the cops before returning to their summer jobs. In that way, Ned does have a role, where Ken is shut out.

(This is also ignoring the Kens who clearly DID have careers, or at least the wardrobe to imply them. Those Kens always seemed niche, though. Doctor Ken was a thing. Otherwise, Ken comes dressed appropriately to accompany the corresponding Barbie on an adventure.)

Nancy Drew can't end. Barbie can't end. They were written to survive and be and read ourselves into. Marriage/relationships aren't the goal we all have - and even if they were, we aren't all straight - so the characters can't have that, but that doesn't mean that they, that Barbie, can't be people, adults, complete.

It's just interesting to think about.

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Films I've watched in 2024.

(This list will be continously updated. For a masterpost of the previous two years, see this post.)

Click on the titles below to see the post.

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January:

🎬 Barbie (2023) - Greta Gerwig

🎬 "Adjø solidaritet" (1985) - Wam & Vennerød

🎬 "Fröken April" (1958) - Göran Gentele

🎬 "Ansiktet" (1958) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Kvinnors väntan" (1952) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Det sjunde inseglet" (1957) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Höstsonaten" (1978) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Riten" (1969) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Helmer og Sigurdson: Mareritt ved midtsommer" (1980) - Knut Andersen

🎬 "Ronja Rövardotter" (1984) - Tage Danielsson

🎬 "Efter repetitionen" (1984) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Vargtimmen" (1968) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Ocean's 8" (2018) - Gary Ross.

🎬 "Searching for Ingmar Bergman" (2018) - Margarethe von Trotta

🎬 "Skönheten och Odjuret" (1991) - Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise"

🎬 "Seks personer søker en forfatter" (1992) - Pål Løkkeberg

🎬 "Helmer og Sigurdson: Septembermordet" (1980) - Nandor Hamza

🎬 "The Magic Flute" (1995) - Valeriy Ugarov

🎬 "Galgemannen" (1983) - Magne Bleness

🎬 "Making of Autumn Sonata" (1978) - Ingmar Bergman and Arne Carlsson

🎬 "Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain" (2001) - Jean-Pierre Jeunet

🎬 "Lån meg din kone" (1958) - Edith Carlmar

February:

🎬 "Drive" (2010) - Nicolas Winding Refn

🎬 "Blue Valentine" (2010) - Derek Cianfrance

🎬 "Helmer og Sigurdson: Spøkelsesbussen" (1980) - Pål Bang-Hansen

🎬 "The Breakfast Club" (1985) - John Hughes

🎬 "Carnal Knowledge" (1971) - Mike Nichols

March:

🎬 "The Making of the Producers Album" (2001)

🎬 "Harold and Maude" (1970) - Hal Ashby

🎬 "The Princess Bride" (1988) - Rob Reiner

🎬 "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" (1992) - David Lynch (The Extended Blue Rose fancut)

🎬 "Mødrekupé" (1969) - Magne Bleness

🎬 "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994) - Mike Newell

🎬 "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris" (2022) - Anthony Fabian

🎬 "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" (1971) - Robert Stephenson

🎬 "Leve sitt liv" (1982) - Wam&Vennerød

🎬 "Line" (1961) - Nils Reinhardt Christensen

🎬 "Venner" (1960) - Tancred Ibsen

🎬 "Stimulantia" (1967)

April:

🎬 "ShakespeaRe-Told: The Taming of the Shrew" (2005) - David Richards

🎬 "Flash Gordon" (1980) - Mike Hodges

May:

🎬 "Soldat Bom" (1948) - Lars-Eric Kjellgren

🎬 "Tänk, om jag gifter mig med prästen" (1941) - Ivar Johansson

🎬 "Cruel Intentions" (1999) - Roger Kumble

🎬 "9 to 5" (1980) - Colin Higgins

🎬 "Larmar och gör sig till" (1997) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Presumed Innocent" (1990) - Alan J. Pakula

🎬 "Bergman Island" (2004) - Marie Nyreröd

🎬 "I Bergmans regi" (2003) - Torbjörn Ehrnvall

🎬 "Saraband" (2003) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Tystnad! Tagning! Trollflöjten!" (1975) - Katinka Faragó & Måns Reuterswärd

🎬 "Castaway" (1986) - Nicolas Roeg

🎬 "Lisztomania" (1975) - Ken Russell

🎬 "Alice in Wonderland" (1999) - Nick Willing

🎬 "America's Sweethearts" (2001) - Joe Roth

June:

🎬 "Valentino" (1977) - Ken Russell

🎬 "Georgy Girl" (1966) - Silvio Narizzano

🎬 "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (1967) - George Roy Hill

🎬 "Prêt‐à‐porter" (1994) - Robert Altman

July:

🎬 "La Piscine" (1969) - Jacques Deray

🎬 "Anna Lans" (1943) - Rune Carlsten

🎬 "The Turning Point" (1977) - Herbert Ross

🎬 "Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort" (1988) - José Pinheiro

🎬 "Le Battant" (1980) - Alain Delon

🎬 "Wit" (2001) - Mike Nichols

🎬 "Plein Soleil" (1960) - René Clément

🎬 "The Girl on a Motorcycle" (1968) - Jack Cardiff

August:

🎬 "Die Hard With a Vengeance" (1995) - John McTiernan

🎬 "L'inconnue de Hong-Kong" (1963) - Jacques Poitrenaud

🎬 "Vingar kring fyren" (1938) - Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius

🎬 "Women in Love" (1969) - Ken Russell

🎬 "John Gabriel Borkman" (1978) - Per Bronken

🎬 "Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell" (1999) - Tom Kinnimont and Peter O'Toole

🎬 "Mrs. Dalloway" (1997) - Marleen Gorris

🎬 "Fant" (1937) - Tancred Ibsen

September:

🎬 "Gjest Baardsen" (1939) - Tancred Ibsen

🎬 "Kong Lear" (1985) - Per Bronken

October:

🎬 "Voldtekt" (1971) - Anja Breien

🎬 "Bryllupsfesten" (1989) - Wam&Vennerød

🎬 "Columbus ankomst" (1986) - Per Bronken

🎬 "Toralv Maurstad: En lek med livet på scenen" (1993)

🎬 "Hvem har bestemt..!?" (1978) - Petter Vennerød

🎬 "Fleabag" (2019, NT Live) - Tony Grech-Smith & Vicky Jones

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

my year in review (data/stats/numbers)

this year, mental illness kicked my ass until it didn't (when fabba came back), and then about a week ago, it started kicking my ass again. i wish i had spent more of the year escaping into art. 2023 was the first year in a while, i feel, that has had this low numbers.

part of that is because my special interest in the 2000s emo scene was reawakened by fob's return, so much of my year was spent re-obsessing over them. rediscovering a bunch of music that made me happy ages 12-15, a time period full of suicidal ideation. my suicidal thoughts and impulses were slain, once again, by the fabbaboos like champions in an arena. 'are you not entertained?' and all that.

(the only 're-'s i am counting are film re-watches, so no album re-listens are counted in that. so a bunch of the stuff i did this year is not being counted! i actually listened to a lot more music than i have catalogued here, i just don't personally log re-listens in my physical media log, so they aren't counted here.)

another part of this is that i spent so much of the year working on my own projects, working on myself, and trying to manage my mental illnesses. i quit drugs and wanting to kill myself! i'm learning spanish! i'm graduating in a few months! this is not an apology; i just prefer to do a lot more stuff to distract me from all the horribleness in my life </3.

this is a (hopefully) complete-ish log of stuff i did this year bc i like number and data and keeping logs because i have an intense, immense fear of lack of permanence/forgetting/losing things because i have lost and forgotten so much stuff in my life 😁😁😁

this is going to get long, so i'm putting it under a cut.

movies watched: 54

top 10 best movies, loosely ranked best to worst:

the revenge of frankenstein (1958) (re-watch) (5 stars)

moustachette (2009) (re-watch) (5 stars)

a field in england (2013) (5 stars)

barbie (2023) (5 stars)

the curse of frankenstein (1957) (re-watch) (5 stars)

spider-man: across the spider-verse (2023) (5 stars)

how to get ahead in advertising (1989) (5 stars)

field of dreams (1989) (5 stars)

the boy and the heron (2023) (4.5 stars)

withnail & i (1987) (4.5 stars)

die hard (1988) (4.5 stars)

honorable mentions: akira (1988), his girl friday (1940), juno (2007), guardians of the galaxy vol. 3 (2023), a clockwork orange (1971)

top 5 worst films, loosely ranked worst to best:

black jack (1981) (2 stars)

lust for a vampire (1971) (2 stars)

some may live (1967) (3 stars)

renfield (2023) (3 stars)

men at work (1990) (3 stars)

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i don't really watch that much television, so i'm not logging it here. i did watch a bunch of tv, but not enough to really warrant a wrapped.

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books read: 7 (+3 issues of do a powerbomb) (+ part of great expectations by charles dickens, but i haven't finished it yet 🥰)

ranked, best to worst:

gray by pete wentz, james montgomery (4.5 stars)

landline by rainbow rowell (4.5 stars)

the last command by timothy zahn (4.5 stars)

the secret diary of laura palmer by jennifer lynch (4 stars)

attachments by rainbow rowell (4 stars)

specter of the past by timothy zahn (3.5 stars)

do a powerbomb by daniel warren johnson (first three issues, 3.5 average stars)

death star by steve perry, michael reaves (2 stars)

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i still haven't received my spotify wrapped in full because it won't load all the way through, so that is going to have to wait. but i am an album listener through and through, so here are some album stats!

i'm only counting albums that are new to me/i previously hadn't listened to all the way through, so this doesn't count re-listens :/

this also IS counting eps.

albums listened to: 29

top 10 albums, best to worst:

soul punk (2011) by patrick stump (5 stars)

so much (for) stardust (2023) by fall out boy (5 stars)

purple rain (1984) by prince (5 stars)

hot mess (2009) by cobra starship (5 stars)

transgender dysphoria blues (2014) by against me! (5 stars)

can't buy a thrill (1972) by steely dan (5 stars)

like vines (2006) by the hush sound (5 stars)

bleed american (2001) by jimmy eat world (5 stars)

this is why (2023) by paramore (4.5)

flamboyant (2019) by dorian electra (4.5 stars)

honorable mentions: where sleeplessness is rest from nightmares (2001) by arma angelus; the land is inhospitable and so are we (2023) by mitski; old world underground, where are you now? (2003) by metric; phantomime (ep) (2023) by ghost; sempiternal (2013) by bring me the horizon

loosely ordered, non-exhaustive 10 of my favorite new-to-me songs:

fake out by fall out boy

run dry (x heart x fingers) / cryptozoology by patrick stump

love from the other side by fall out boy

thick skull by paramore

so much (for) stardust by fall out boy

allie by patrick stump

bleed american by jimmy eat world

i would die 4 u by prince (there would be more prince on this list, but i had listened to much of purple rain already, so!)

you're not in on the joke by cobra starship

to feel no more bitterness forever by arma angelus

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personal project wrapped!

poems: 37

the bc wip: 6146 words (daily writing streak not broken since i started it 😁)

the mi wip: 836 words

the epdb wip: 1697 words

other stuff: ???

i've written too many songs/scraps of songs to count those.

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10 favorite real world things + stuff i'm grateful/proud that happened:

got hardcore back into fall out boy !

saw fall out boy live !

saw ghost live !

sobered up and became straight edge !

overcame suicidal urges (kinda) !

have been learning how to read music and play piano better !

went to the pmu !

read 'gray' by pete wentz !

curbed my righteous anger / learned to cope with anger better !

have been learning spanish !

honorable mentions: learning to be a better friend, have been keeping up a writing streak with the bc wip + haven't missed a single day since i started, started the mi wip, have been putting myself out there more, doing things scared, writing a shit ton of poetry + sharing it, got clandestine merch, keeping to my dietary restrictions, recovering from onychotillomania!