#The Barbie Movie sucked

[dogboy-butch]

I cant believe people are pretending the Barbie Movie was good.

[r0semultiverse]

Like music to my ears

[1hellofacookie]

Her job

is...

Beach?

and kissing women

kenjoy

[iwasbored777]

Don't you just love it when actors are respectful and don't shit on somebody else's work and that makes them ten times cooler?

[be-my-totino]

writing prompt for any barbie x gloria fic writers out there

barbie and sasha are out somewhere and someone calls barbie a milf, barbie asks sasha what that means and not wanting to possibly upset her in public sasha lies and says it stands for 'mom id like to be friends with' (or something it doesnt matter) and when they get home barbie calls gloria a milf, gloria in shock asks if she knows what it means and barbie tells her what sasha said and gloria laughs, she sees barbies confusion and tells her it stands for mom id like to fuck, and without missing a beat barbie says that still makes you a milf and gloria dies

bonus points if they kiss and if el esposo de gloria doesnt exist

[evansbby]

my opinion on the Blake lively situation

[meteorherd]

mentioned one of THE most famous linguistic psychologists ever in my GRADUATE LEVEL psych class during discussion and everyone looked at me like i was crazy, asked me who the fuck that was, and proceeded to start talking about tiktok and taylor swift. girl it’s so fucking over

[watanabes-cum-dump]

I saw someone somewhere say that not all the Aphrodite kids are “conventionally” attractive AND I WILL STAND BY THAT!!!!

Because yes!!! They’re not all white and skinny there’s gotta be some variety. They’re the children of the goddess of love and beauty, self love is a given. Confidence makes the most beautiful people.

Like even if some of them have braces or acne or whatever, I know they’re all beautiful and charming like it’s the vibes you know? People try so hard to make braces seem awkward but some of the prettiest girls I know have braces and they LOVE to laugh and show them off.

I also just know the Aphrodite boys are ACTUALLY CLEAN. They all actually wear chapstick, put on deodorant, brush their teeth and T A K E B A T H S. Nothing is more attractive than a man that actually washes his ass let me tell you.

What makes all the Aphrodite kids beautiful is that they’re all confident, there’s no way all of them have pretty baby blues or the metabolism of fucking cheetahs. And I just know they’re supportive like come on. Hot bitches don’t gate keep

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

i do not care how well written that disabled main character is if you do not have a single visibly disabled extra in the background.

[deathberi]

Meet our Barbie and Kens! ✨

[lesbianfakir]

I could write a three hour video essay on tutu and gender but I really love how a show in a genre that’s primarily targeted towards girls explores how expectations of masculinity can traumatize young boys.

This is shown with Fakir especially. While the text never explicitly attributes his behavior to his gender, his arc over the course of the show is quintessentially informed by toxic gender roles. This got long and I have a lot of thoughts so I'm gonna put it under a readmore:

Fakir has one unchanging goal for the duration of the show: he wants to keep the people he loves safe. But outside elements twist this motivation into an identity. He is suffocating under the weight of a person he has never been and can never be no matter how hard he tries to mold himself.

Much of his personality is likely a direct result of circumstance. We are shown multiple times that when he feels in his element he’s inclined to a gentle disposition (ie how he acts with Duck as a duck or with Raetsel). As a young child especially he appears earnest and naive, his already innate desire to protect blinding him to the cruelty of the world. However, this sweeter side is near overwritten by the cold, domineering personality that characterizes his early appearances in the show.

We can infer that without the trauma inflicted on him by the story Fakir would have retained much more of this gentler personality as he grew up. Instead, his desire to protect others is twisted and warped by fear, becoming a desire to control.

Even before having his life upended, Fakir wanted to to take the weight of protecting the entire town all upon himself. He sees a true hero as someone who stands on his own without help.

So how does this tie into gender? Fakir deliberately crushes his "weaker" side--the earnest, sensitive young boy in the favor of a tough persona. He particularly views emotions as a weakness. It's notable that in one of the most iconic scenes in the show, Fakir has a breakdown over someone seeing him crying. This simple display of human emotion is enough to completely shatter the image he has constructed for himself. Fakir's harsh, impossible standards for himself are rooted in toxic masculinity, in the idea that men--real men--are never visibly sad or scared.

Immediately after losing everything as a child, Fakir was given a new source of hope and pride: the role of the Knight. He, of course, built his whole identity around this role. The Knight, like the Prince is expected to protect others without fear. This can be read as analogous to how men struggle under the expectation to be the protectors and the breadwinners, expected to take pain and hardship upon themselves so those under their care may live a comfortable life. However, the story's knight is doomed from the start: a failed protector. Fakir is growing up under literal impossible standards. He's meant to give everything and crumble under that weight without achieving anything.

It's worth noting that the Princesses' roles are meant to revolve seeking affection from men while the men's roles are colored by violence. Contrast the Knight and Princess Tutu who are both destined to accomplish nothing and be forgotten: while Tutu gracefully dissolves into a speck of light, the Knight is gruesomely torn apart. Here, masculinity becomes inextricably linked to violence in Drosselmeyer's world.

For as long as Fakir tries to be a knight worthy of the story he is confined by a toxic gender role. A protector relies on the idea of a weaker subset of person--the protected. Even without malicious intent, this strips agency. Fakir ignores Mytho's wishes all for the sake of "keeping him safe." Likewise Duck doesn't' want Fakir's protection. In several episodes she begs him to give up on fighting and search for peaceable solutions.

Even though neither Duck nor Mytho ask for Fakir to fight for them he feels personally responsible for their safety to the point his entire self esteem rests on his ability to protect them. Despite his guarded exterior, two of the three times he breaks down crying are because Duck got hurt --due to his own incompetence in his eyes.

Fakir can only grow as a person when he stops placing everything on his own shoulders. For all he clings to the sword his real strengths are found outside of battle. He only saves Duck by opening up to her in his first display of willing vulnerability.

By the end of the series he has entered a genuine partnership with Duck. Rather than a one-sided relationship where he sees himself as her protector, he writes her story and trusts her to guide herself through it. This is in direct opposition to the masculine ideals he clung so hard to. The knight and the prince --his role models--are both meant to be self-sufficient in the original fairytale. Instead, Fakir is able to be a vulnerable boy who gets scared and hurt--and doesn't need to hide it--but has friends he can rely on when times are tough.

Fakir's arc doesn't involve him becoming more feminine, necessarily, but it does show him breaking free of the standards placed on his shoulders by toxic masculinity. He was never meant to be a fighter; that was an unfair role he was forced into. At the end of the show Fakir was achieved his freedom. He isn't a knight. He isn't a protector. He isn't personally responsible for the lives of those he loves. He's just Fakir.

[ryan-gooseing]

curse you tumblr, now I have to shorten my hard work

[yesterdayiwrote]

People shitting on Ryan Gosling's Oscar nom annoy me... Yes, it's horribly ironic given the message of the film, and both Greta and Margot getting snubbed shows exactly what the Academy still thinks about film made by women, starring women, predominantly for women...

But genuine, straight up comedy roles are SO rarely recognised, and often so much harder to pull off than people realise. Enough genuinely GOOD actors have absolutely stunk in comedy roles by now to prove that point, but Ryan absolutely ate that part up and idk that it would have worked quite as well with someone else as Ken. He got it spot on. I'm bored of Oscar acting noms going to identikit drama roles every year?!

[rinnzzzz-art]

These movies are two sides of the same coin if you squint:

[neverthrive]

Had to do the barbie and Ken mugshot prompt

My boyfriend thinks I suck at drawing Chris Pratt

[hieronymph]

Margot Robbie's pipeline of being over sexualized and objectified in her earlier movies -> genuinely having fun with crafting character relevant looks for her current movies and their press tours

...is something that I cherish a lot.