#and it’s got bibble

[ifyouknowmenoyoudontbitch]

So I watched Barbie.

Barbie (2023) was a movie that attempted to discuss the intricate and complex issues that come with womanhood.

The way they tried to do this was show the patriarchy through the lens of a matriarchy, misandry instead of misogyny

Except it didn’t.

Women in a patriarchy are oppressed by the society simply for existing, if we aren’t straight up paid less we’re taxed for simply being a woman, like having to take maternity leave, or having to buy feminine products for a body function we have zero control over.

Not to mention the societal oppression via beauty and emotional standards. Women need to be beautiful and they need to be emotionally mature to “balance” the immature men. Our lives revolve around the idea of serving men if not physically then emotionally.

In Barbie the Kens aren’t oppressed, they’re forgotten about. The Barbie’s could not give less of a shit about the Ken’s

This is an idealized world for some women. Women are in power and not made to feel like they need to apologize for taking up space, this is framed as a good thing, because it is. For the Barbies.

Meanwhile the Kens are forgotten, the movie doesn’t say or do anything about this fact.

The Kens as a collective don’t do anything until Beach Ken gets upset because Barbie keeps rejecting him.

We don’t see Ken’s feelings at all past a single line where he moodily mocks Barbie where he imagines Barbie finally saying yes to his advances and he gets to fantasize about rejecting her.

As far as a society goes this still isn’t the greatest, a whole section of the population is made to feel lesser

In a good movie we would see what happens with the Kens, maybe they’re all sleeping on the ground outside or in cars or whatever. Because then we’d understand the unfairness that the Kens feel in this world since this is supposed to be a reverse image of our world. Or at least it’s supposed to be a women oriented idealized version of our world, where men aren’t exactly oppressed but they don’t matter at all to women.

Anyway that doesnt happen but Barbie gets fucked up and has to go to the real world, Ken comes along because he’s such a desperate Manlet for Barbies attention

This is where the movie starts trying to have a message.

Barbie goes to the real world and starts getting objectified for the first time, this makes her feel bad however Ken feels great at the attention.

All the movie does with Barbies objectification is put it on a pedestal and point to it, it doesn’t say anything we just get this feeling of uncomfortableness at Barbie getting her ass slapped and cat called.

This isn’t inherently bad, putting something on a pedestal and pointing could be good, but this is a movie. It’s supposed to do something; say something, and it didn’t.

We move on from her objectification pretty quickly, it’s there and then it’s gone again never to be spoken of.

There’s One really good scene.

When Barbie is sitting on the bench she has yet to know the societal expectations of women, she’s still living in Barbieland.

So when she sees an old woman for the first time and calls her beautiful it’s a lovely poignant scene because she doesn’t know that women who are old are no longer desirable. Barbie never cared about being desired so she’s able to see this woman as she is and not as who she is “expected” to be. She’s Beautiful.

And then she goes to the school and we have the scene where Sasha calls Barbie out on “putting back feminism” because of beauty standards and what not. This is a great scene that should set up a conversation about the double standard Barbie sets for girls.

She’s Barbie, she can be a doctor, or an astronaut, or the President. But she’ll always be beautiful, she’ll always be skinny, she’ll always have perfect hair and makeup.

They did not talk about this at all.

It was framed as Sasha being a bitchy teen and we then move into Barbie meeting Mattel.

The entire Mattel plot line made so little sense, maybe it was a metaphor for something but idk so I’m just gonna move past it. All it did was give us two chase scenes back to back and introduce us better to Sasha’s mother who I don’t remember the name of.

So Barbie and Mom and Sasha go back to Barbieland cause…idk? It’s not made clear but they go back because society is so hard and when they get back to Barbieland and see that it’s now Like Society they’re devastated, as they should be, their “perfect” society is ruined.

So this is where the movie tries to talk about the patriarchy.

They don’t.

The patriarchy is the Kens being stereotypical men and the women being servants.

The movie does not discuss the implications of this, it doesn’t talk about why women needed to serve men throughout history.

Because historically women had to serve men because otherwise they’d be destitute, homeless, beaten, or killed.

Barbie does not comment on this, it just goes “this is bad” and moves on, again putting what we women already know and telling us in extremely simplistic terms.

People keep saying it’s a critique on what the patriarchy does to men, and I suppose in a very very very simple way it does. When the Kens are singing to their Barbies and the Barbies make them jealous by talking to other Kens at the same time.

Even though this isn’t really a critique on how the patriarchy makes men worse, it’s a vague critique on jealousy and relationships, it could’ve gone deeper into how the patriarchy sets a standard for men’s behavior, act like this, don’t show this emotion, look like this, but it doesn’t.

The Barbies are able to be de-programmed from the Kendom by getting tiktok ranted to by Sasha’s Mom about the double standard women go through

We weren’t shown this double standard we were told, over and over again

In an extremely anticlimactic scene the Barbies are able to take over Barbieland again, the Ken’s are right back to where they started and barely anything changed except now they like, sort of acknowledge the Ken’s deserve better than being ignored.

Once the “patriarchy” is disabled the Ken’s don’t show anger or resentment, they just miss their Barbie and want to be friends again.

Even Ken himself didn’t want to be a patriarchal leader, he just wanted Barbie to notice and acknowledge him. He makes a comical comment about “it was hard Barbie”

How Ken, how was it hard? Was it hard because the patriarchy makes men disillusioned with their emotions, making their mental health worse because they refuse to seek help due to perceived weakness?

The plot of the movie is about Barbie and her human counterpart being connected, but even after find out Barbie is connected to Sasha’s mom and not Sasha we never get any scenes about that connection

Why was Mom sad? Why was she having existential thoughts about death? Why was she worried about cellulite? We don’t get that

We don’t get any scenes with Barbie coming to terms with “being a woman” she just cries

The movie ends with her becoming human but she doesn’t do anything meaningful.

The issue is also that this is only a single niche womens experience. This doesn’t talk about PoC women, or queer women.

The issue with trying to make a movie about girl-womanhood is that not even women truly know what that means.

How do you explain womanhood? Does being a woman mean you get catcalled? Does it mean periods? Does it mean feeling unsafe to walk down the street?

Is being a woman just to live in fear?

I feel like that’s an awful definition of womanhood, but I don’t think womanhood can be defined by a single experience. Being a woman is just being a woman. What that means is up to you.

That’s the message Barbie should’ve given us but it didn’t. It played the safe card to appease Hollywood and it marketed the hell out of it to make bank.

To be so clear. I do not give a fuck if you liked this movie. Some people like stupid things cause it’s cute or campy or easy. That’s fine. Barbie is fine. But it’s not the ultra feminist movie of the century.

I think you do yourself a disservice as a woman to think that a movie needs to be about feminist to be feminist. A movie shouldn’t have to tell you it’s message, it should be able to show you. And Barbie didn’t show me anything I didn’t already know.

[trees-be-drawing]

So… I actually started drawing ISAT characters like… a year ago?? Thanks to Jello’s streams of the game, but didn’t finish them until now.

Mirabelle was the only one I finished that year, and Isabeau and Odile were halfway done and were only finalized now.

But the main reason I stopped was mostly because I wasn’t happy with the way I drew Siffrin and Bonnie so I stopped there.

This was the original sketch of them I did a year ago:

Theres also so many good moments from the game I want to draw, but I know the moment I do, it’s gonna turn into a goddamn comic strip that will take up the entire page. I also didn’t want to just redraw the expressions in the game (no matter how good they really are) cuz I actually want to capture the fun and angsty moments in the game, without spoiling too much of it.

So if anyone can put down some good moments I could draw from any act, please write them down!! Id love to try to draw them!

[prythianpages]

LOLLLL bibble playing pranks on cassian, teaming up with azs shadows

Bibble with Cas:

Bibble with Az’s shadows:

Just imagine Az’s shadows twirling with Bibble here

[dorizard-art]

Elina ✨✨

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Okay, I just found out that historically Mary was between fourteen and fiteen yo when the archangel Gabriel gave her the pregnancy news. My whole Jesus is somewhat real on Good Omens so how did THAT conversation went made me actually more curious now because it's not only Good Omens Gabriel gives bonkers news to a human but Good Omens Gabriel gives bonkers news to a teenager.

[littlemut]

bibble’s literally every tumblrina’s spirit animal

[thesunoficaruss]

they can't ban tiktok because where else am I going to get notifications like this

[symerr]

this is definitely not caleb vatore he is my original character do not steal ty

[homohair]

HEAR ME OUT.

JOE BIBBLE/j 🤭🤭😍😍😘😘😘💗💗🤭🤭😘😘🤭💗🤭💗💗🤭😘🤭💗🤭😘😋😋🤭💗🤭😘🤭😘😘🤭

[sparkles-and-trash]

We’re back this year, baby!!

Very happy to report that one of the speakers came out with a new name and as «even more non-binary than last time» to cheers and applause from the audience

The Barbie panel is over and… that was insane???

There were so many people, people were turned away because it was full, and the two people doing the presentation barley expected anyone to come lmao

They were so funny tho, and had done very impressive research, and the whole audience agreed on the gay subtext 😌

They really had the whole lecture hall chant «all hail Bibble» really loudly by the end, so that was… certainly something!

All in all, truly a religious experience

[lolly-dolli]

Politically I am a hedonist and that means I think we should all work together to make the world better for everyone so we can all enjoy good food and quality bedsheets and arts and crafts and safe homes together

[benkeibear]

I actually write most my fics in @kenpachisbrat's chat because that takes the anxiety away. Plus she's the best hype woman ever 😭

[swiftbell]

tag game tagged by @protectoroffaeries

rules: shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people

1. Give and Take - Poor Man's Poison

2. Follow You - Bring Me The Horizon

3. Zoltraak - Evan Call

4. Thnks fr th Mmrs - Fall Out Boy

5. Arsonist's Lullabye - Hozier

6. GODS - NewJeans

7. Tough Love (The Villain's Lair) - PattyCake

8. DiE4u - Bring Me The Horizon

9. No Mercy (feat BlackGryph0n & LittleJayneyCake) - The Living Tombstone

10. You're Mine - Carpenter Brut

tagging: @ghibllionaire, @indigoire, @dizzygradespells, @sverigesradiop3, @chloe-elizabeth-price, @doorstoplord, @ronqueballe, @glonnvalleydruid, @lilythepurple, @winking-owl

[iwasforceedagainstmywill]

[17-todate]

🧼 links finally up!

Latest updates will be up in a few

🫧

[reubyanne]

no thought just batman humming the axolotl song to sleepy damian, and the whole batkids come curled around him.

bruce is a good singer, yes. the event when diana turned into a pig that made him have to sing on the stage to turn diana back is the proof.

now, damian, his youngest child, his love and joy, currently curled up on his chest, feeling sleepy but can't sleep yet. Bruce remembers this one song/lulaby that he accidentally hear on tiktok that barry play to make clark rest and it works. clark is sleeping peacefully while his injuries recovered.

"... there's an axolotl on a pink, stairs. is an axolotl supposed to be, there? if you asked an axolotl, if they'll be back tomorrow, a penguin waddles in and then the axolotl's gone.."

he gently pat damian's back, he can feel his son's steady heartbeat. he's falling asleep. bruce put down his tablet, leaning to the backrest. closing his eyes as he takes a rest.

"... there's an axolotl on a lawn, chair. is an axolotl supposed to be, there? if you asked an axolotl, if they'll be back tomorrow, a penguin waddles in and then the axolotl's gone.."

dick, tired from being Nightwing, come to bruce and damian, he's leaning to bruce, reminiscing his robin years. "don't mind me."

"... there's an axolotl on the front, door. is that what the welcome sign is there, for? if you ask an axolotl, if they'll be back tomorrow, a penguin waddles in and then they both sing you a song.."

Jason coming home, seeing dick and damian all rested around bruce that singing a lulaby, Jason chose to sit on the floor, rest his head to right bruce's thigh. Tim came after, he brought his laptop, looking tired as ever, seeing his siblings all curled up around the father, tim can't resist but to join them. he took the left side of bruce's thigh as he hugs the rest of bruce's leg.

cassandra comes in, seeing all the boys all getting around bruce, she took bruce's other side as he got damian to his chest. she rested her head to bruce's shoulder.

".. ribble robble, axolotl. bibble bobble penguin waddle. I'll see you.." bruce's yawning. "tomorrow.."

alfred smiled, seeing his son along with the grandkids, sleeping on the family couch. he took a pic and decided to get it printed tomorrow.

"have a nice rest, masters.." he said as he turned off the light and closed the door.