#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.

[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

[thesunoficarus1]

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

[homohair]

HEAR ME OUT.

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

[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

[entirelysein-e]

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

[symerr]

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

[17-todate]

🧼 links finally up!

Latest updates will be up in a few

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[crisp-sweet-pink-lady]

Dear lord, there's two of them...

[sunny44]

Co-parenting (Part 3)

Pairing: Carlos Sainz x ex!reader

Warnings: medical center, cuts…

Summary: Co-parenting is never easy but y/n never thought it would be so hard.

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Max and I haven't been able to go on that date yet. The first time, he had to cancel because he had to go to Milton Keynes for a meeting, and the second time, I had to cancel because Maeve and I got sick and I didn't want to go and risk getting him sick too.

But after several weeks we finally managed to schedule a day, and it would be today. Maeve is going to spend the whole weekend with Carlos, which would be great because even if he hadn't, I would keep my promise to introduce them only if it was someone I knew would stay in my life longer.

But he was late, and I was getting nervous because I had asked Carlos to pick her up at seven because Max would come to pick me up at seven-thirty. And besides not wanting Carlos to see him, obviously, I didn't want Maeve to see him either.

I heard knocks on the door and ran there to see Carlos.

"I know, I know, I'm late and I'm sorry. I had to wait for the plumber to fix a pipe that was flooding my apartment and he was late, and then I got stuck in traffic, and..."

"It's okay, just hurry up." I shouted for Maeve to come quickly and handed him the backpacks.

"Why the rush and why are you all dressed up?"

At that moment, Max parked, and I panicked. He got out of the car and was smiling until he saw Carlos and stopped smiling.

"Why is he here?" I didn't know what to say. "Are you going out with him? Is that why you wanted me to leave quickly? So that I wouldn't see you going out with Verstappen?"

"It's not because of that."

"Then why?" I didn't say anything. "Answer my fucking question."

"I didn't want Maeve to see, okay? Because I stick to our agreements, she doesn't need to know that I'm going out with someone, and neither do you."

"But why him?"

"Because he invited me and I wanted to." He laughed. "Look, I don't have to give you any explanations. Focus on taking care of our daughter and I’ll deal with my live life ok?" At that moment, she appeared.

"Sorry, I couldn't find Mr. Bibbles." She said, hugging her stuffed rabbit. "Can we go Daddy?"

"Yes baby." He picked her up, and they went to the front, and luckily Max had returned to his car when Carlos passed with Maeve in his arms.

"I'm sorry; I didn't know he would be here."

"It's okay, he was supposed to arrive earlier but got delayed. Neither you nor he were supposed to see each other.”

“You didn’t want him to know that you were going out with me?”

“Carlos and I have an agreement about relationships and I didn’t want him nor Maeve to know about it right now.”

"What kind of agreement?"

“We don't introduce anyone to Maeve without the other being aware, and not with a short amount of time in the relationship, you know? We don't want to put someone in her life just for that person to leave without explanation."

"I understand."

"Our separation was amicable but also difficult; she was small and doesn't remember, but she doesn't quite understand why her friends at school have parents together and she's the only one who doesn't."

"It's okay, you don't need to explain to me." He says kindly. "I can imagine how difficult it is to raise a child, and I also understand what it's like to be the child of divorced parents; I know you're doing the best you can for her."

"Thank you."

"Well, shall we go to our date? They say the third time's the charm." I laughed and went inside to grab my purse and my phone, locked the house and went to his car.

...

The date was great; he made me laugh a lot, and I hadn't had that much fun in a long time.

I felt light, and I felt like I could be myself without being defined only as Carlos's ex or as a mother; I could be myself again.

"Just a minute." My phone started ringing, and I saw it was Carlos. "Hello?"

"I'm sorry; I took my eyes off her for 1 minute, and..." I immediately got up.

"What happened?"

"Maeve and I are at the hospital."

"Which hospital?" I grabbed my purse and started walking towards the exit, and Max came along.

…

“What happened?"

"She was on the couch with me watching a movie and she asked me for a juice box when I went to get it, she started jumping on the couch and when I heard a loud noise, I went back, and she had fallen and hit her head on the table." He spoke quickly. "I'm really sorry; I..."

"It's okay."

"It's not; she cut her head and had to get stitches. I'm a terrible father."

"Carlos, stop." He looked at me. "These things happen; kids jump on things, they fall, and they get hurt, so stop blaming yourself."

"I was just so scared, and..." I hugged him.

"It's okay, everything will be fine." He hugged me back and relaxed. "What did the doctor say?"

"That it wasn't anything serious and that I did the right thing by bringing her as soon as possible; it could have been worse if she had fallen asleep after hitting her head."

"Okay, let's go in." He went in, and I turned to Max. "I'm sorry for ruining our night."

"You didn't ruin anything; our night was perfect."

"Except when I switched back to mom mode."

"Your daughter got hurt, and you did what any worried mother would do."

"Thank you for bringing me here too."

"You're welcome." He smiled. "I would love to go out again. If you want, of course."

"I would love to. I'll send you a message, and we'll make plans."

"Perfect." He said goodbye, and I went into the room.

"Mommy." I went to her and kissed her forehead.

"Hi, sweetheart, how are you feeling?"

"My head hurts and I'm very sleepy." She gave a little smile and blinked her eyes very slowly.

"It's okay, you can sleep again." I pulled the blanket up to cover her more, and she closed her eyes and was soon asleep, and I sat next to him on the couch there.

"How was your date?"

"We don't need to talk about that."

"I know, it was just a question."

"Let's just focus on her well-being and forget about today." He agreed, and we fell into silence.

And that's how we spent the night at the hospital until we could leave the next morning.

Bonus scene!

“What a wonderful night”

Tag list: @ietss @lightdragonrayne @asplarklysoul @xoscar03 @smdrl @shobaes @evans-dejong @cocoxoxo69 @ggaslyp1 @bingewatche @loaves4me @justdreamersdream @alinacecee

Guys, the names with a line on top is because I couldn’t tag

[strawbeelemonade]

PLATONIC HEADCANNONS: being miles morales best friend but your also a bit insane (Part 2!)

i'm gonna try to remember to start specifying when something is intended to be platonic or romantic.

🕷- I was literally unable to cram everything I wanted to say in the first one.

🕷- Miles is really only comfortable showing you his drawings.

🕷- He's an incredibly awkward guy, but the words come so easily when he hangs out with you. he doesn't choke up like he does with other people at school.

🕷- When he gets his powers his first instinct is to call you. He’s literally halfway through punching your number into the keypad until he stops and decides against it. He knows your number off by heart now.

🕷- You appear and disappear like a ghost its so random.

🕷- Honest to god, he lowkey thought you were homeless until you invited him over to watch Barbie Mermaidia.

🕷- “Bibble is so me.”

🕷- He’s the only person you let over at your place. its small and in the basement of an old apartment complex. the landlord couldn’t get anyone to pay to live there. you live alone.

🕷- You struck a deal, and they let you crash there as long as rent was on time and you fixed their washing machine for free.

🕷- Miles asked how you got to live there for so cheap. You tell him it’s because someone died on the couch he was sitting on.

🕷- He sits on the floor.

🕷- Miles is so eager to share his new powers with someone.

🕷- No seriously, between all the stress and lying and anxiety its nice to let himself get excited about it. To let himself have fun and see what he can do.

🕷- You guys TOTALLY video tape him trying out his new powers for the first time.

🕷- I can imagine you finding an abandoned alleyway on some random ass street after school and filming Miles Trying to do a backflip LMAO.

🕷- You gotta fish him out of a trashcan after he tries to spider climb up the wall.

🕷- You know that thing where a group of friends duck tapes one of their friends to a wall for fun? You get miles to do that to you.

🕷- You guys can’t stop laughing, The best memories of your lives are in those videos.

🕷- He’ll take you up to the top of buildings to show you the graffiti art he painted!! he’ll let you sign it off with a dick and balls or a heart if you want. You guys do homework up there together as well.

🕷- ’M & (Y/I) were here’ has been painted on every available surface of New York.

🕷- You both have the bright idea to hop on his back and go web slinging around the neighbourhood. He can carry you easily.

🕷- Miles decides If you don’t tell him to slow down, then he’s not going fast enough.

🕷- You NEVER tell him to slow down.

🕷- “Faster!!!“

🕷- Now that he’s got super strength he can put you in an inescapable headlock, he doesn’t do it too tight but he holds you there until you tap out.

🕷- He takes you to the coolest spots with the best views.

🕷- You regularly cover for him.

🕷- “We were at Jamba Juice the whole time officer I swear.”

🕷- Miles side eyes you knowing damn well he was no where NEAR a Jamba Juice.

🕷- ’Thanks’ he’d mouth.

🕷- You and Petter B will get along like a house on fire.

🕷- While Miles is extremely unimpressed by him, you don’t seem to care about any pre-existing expectations one might have when you think of the guy behind the mask of Spider-Man, your cracking jokes and feeding your pet rat a couple of French fries while the three of you sit in the diner, planning your next moves carefully.

🕷- Peter B can tell you’re a good kid. He’s at an age where a lot of your batshit tendencies don’t really faze him as long as your not hurting yourself.

🕷- Speaking of which.

🕷- When him and Miles get the chance to talk alone he warns him that he needs to be careful.

🕷- He tells him that normal relationships aren’t possible anymore. And stresses to him what a life like this can mean for your loved ones. especially since you found out his secret. This line of work isn’t just dangerous for Miles, but for you as well.

🕷- Miles is a little shaken after the conversation, no matter how gently Peter tries to put it. But what he’s implying is clear. He tries to shake it off and enjoy the time you both spend together. He won’t admit to himself that Peter is right just yet.

🕷- It’s just so easy to tell you everything and rely on you.

🕷- There will be a moment sometime in the future when reality sets in, but for now Miles makes the same mistake every Spider-Man does.

🕷- He has a best friend. :(

🕷- On the other hand, Peter comes to the staggering realisation that your actually extremely prone to accidents and danger all on your own. And he appropriately does a complete 180 from ‘casually distant bum-uncle' to ‘I am your dad now’.

🕷- It’s Nothing personal, kid. now stop trying to get in the middle of fights with dangerous criminals and let the adult— or at least the guys with super strength, stamina, speed and resilience— handle it.

🕷- He demands you stay out of the crossfire, but, to no one’s surprise you don’t listen.

🕷- You’re willing to throw yourself in front of Miles to shield him from anything, much to your best friends terror.

🕷- You hold your own surprisingly well against opponents that would be considered reasonable threats otherwise. You’re resourceful, grabbing anything and everything you can get your hands on. you get a terrifying look in your eye.

🕷- No matter how impressed Peter is, He will slingshot you around with his web-shooters to propel you out of the way of oncoming attacks. He will do this for both of you, but feels the need to do it less for Miles. He knows he can take what’s on the other end of the punch. But No matter how untouchable you make yourself out to be, you can’t.

🕷- “Do I want kids?”

🕷- He takes you on as his responsibility just as much as he does Miles.

🕷- Spider-Gwen also looks out for you in battle.

🕷- She’s more laid back, and even a little suave about it too.

🕷- She secretly wishes she had someone like you in her universe. What she wouldn’t give to decompress with you after a long day of patrolling New York.

🕷- She’s actually the most normal about you having a pet rat. You know, the one you grabbed out of a garbage can in a subway station. Yeah, That rat.

🕷- Miles watches you both get along like a house on fire and just quietly falls behind you both since he’s not sure what to do or say.

🕷- He’s so awkward, poor guy.

🕷- Your tendency to go off for days at a time ignites everyone’s curiosity. it’s a concerning habit, and Gwen even endeavours to follow you to see where you disappear to so often.

🕷- She’s unsuccessful.

🕷- It's never said out loud, but when she’s facing the one-way ticket home she finds herself wanting to stay just a bit longer. Not just for Miles, but for you to… She wonders what you’ll get up to while she’s gone.

🕷- …

🕷- Peter Porker vibes with you so hard.

🕷- no wait don’t scroll away wait

🕷- he WILL gift you the freakishly large cartoon mallet. Sorry, but miles didn’t appreciate it for what it was.

🕷- He would be cracking jokes and doing bits with you through out the whole goddamn movie.

🕷- Miles can usually let you do your own thing without sparing a second glance, but the looney tunes laws of physics that Porker exhibits WILL rub off on you at least a little.

🕷- It’s contagious. And when you start flattening eachother into to perfect discs it freaks everyone out a little.

🕷- He’s got enough to worry about in the plot,,, Damn,,

🕷- Spider Noir teaches you how to throw a good punch

🕷- in exchange you let him mess with your phone as much as he wants

🕷- "how the hell do you work this thing?"

🕷- He likes you, he thinks you got a lot of guts.

🕷- You were actually the one to design Miles’ suit. He took inspiration from one of your drawings in your school notebook.

🕷- You've always believed in him, and that made him believe in himself too.

[punkitt-is-here]

hi my name is bibble, a couple days ago i was at antony's house and i was like haha who drew this horse on your friend whiteboard? it looks like someone i've been following for ages? do you know who punkitt is? and he was like yeah punkitt drew that and i felt like i got slapped with a fish LOL. the furry fandom is so small it's awesome. hiiii

LMFAOOOOOOO HIIIII antony rocks love that dude

[lilmaravilla]

Barbie with a Sassy Boyfriend (E42! Miles Morales x Reader)

warnings: not edited. a few curse words and a small humorous argument will be present in this story. please let me know if there are any mistakes. miles can be a little sassy and dramatic. summary: you had asked miles to watch the barbie movies but through text he told you no. literally sassy miles finally agrees to watch the movies with you

being in a relationship with miles meant cute dates, cute love letters (mostly from you) and all the cute stuff that most couples do. though, there were also arguments like every other couple that were either serious or just plain full of sass. one thing to know, Miles is part of the sassy boyfriend apocalypse.

currently, you were being a victim of his sassy ass arguments at the moment and all because he didn't want to watch a barbie movie with you nor have a barbie movie marathon. here you were standing in the middle of the mall, with your friends waiting on you, aggressively typing on your phone. this boy didn't want to watch those "weird girly ass movies with no plot" according to him.

mami u know i don't want to watch them weird girly movies with no plot.

nah, don't be disrespecting elina and bibble like that! >:(

WHO? ma what is u on about bro? u know i ain't about that

SO NOW I'M BRO??? :o well, congratulations. i'm CRYING. you made me CRY!

baby

no. now is not the time for pet names. outta here with that.

nah i'm calling u a baby i'm insulting u

oh fr? like that? in that case. . . yo forehead big as shit with them braids

don't hate me cuz u ain't me ;) im sexy and i know it ma and it ain't my fault u don't got good taste

you stared at your phone completely dumbfounded. there's no way miles is this sassy. you have confirmed you're a victim of the sassy boyfriend apocalypse.

჻ღཾཿ༉ ༘჻ღཾཿ༉ ༘჻ღཾཿ༉ ༘჻ღཾཿ჻ღཾཿ༉ ༘჻ღཾཿ༉ ༘჻ღཾཿ༉ ༘჻ღཾཿ჻ღཾཿ༉ ༘჻

"nah, my homie bibble ain't do shit. he ain't touch no damn burbuja. como me molesta esa sirena," miles spoke, eyes glued to the screen. somehow miles had agreed to watch mermaidia with you after you called him an uncultured swine.

"just keep watching the movie," you rolled your eyes and chuckled at how entertained he was by the movie.

"aight my bad. sorry you don't like my voice," he joked, causing you to roll your eyes again.

there was a comfortable silence until you spoke up.

"can we dress you up as bibble?"

"don't push it, ma."

჻ღཾཿ༉ ༘჻ღཾཿ༉ ༘჻ღཾཿ༉ ༘჻ღཾཿ჻ღཾཿ༉ ༘჻ღཾཿ༉ ༘჻ღཾཿ༉ ༘჻ღཾཿ჻ღཾཿ༉ ༘჻

author's note: i got the messages idea from this meme. also, this is the first time i write a story with Earth 42 Miles so please let me know if there is anything i can change. if you have any requests then please let me know! thank you <3