new metric for media literacy for film bros is if they understand the barbie movie.
the kens are first presented as accessories to their barbies and it's pointed out loud that they don't even have places to stay in barbieland. one of the barbies straight up asks "wait, where do the kens stay?". they're just arm candy made to look pretty and cool while the barbies run their world.
but that's fucked up!!! the film presents it as fucked up! that's why ken screams "YOU FAILED ME!" and why he is insecure in the first place because he wanted to be respected and seen as a person, not someone who only exists in relation to someone else. should he have done what he did? no!!! that's why it's part of the conflict! the root of both of their breakdowns was in their society in that the barbies are supposed to be perfect and the kens exist in relation to them! it's barbie and ken. he was a footnote. that's why barbie apologizes to him in the end and tells him he can be himself. she doesn't have to exist by some set of rules and neither does he! it's barbie and it's ken! sure, the resolution to the whole barbieland issue wasn't perfect, BUT KEN'S WHOLE ARC IS ABOUT HOW THEIR WORLD FAILED MEN. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS MOVIE WAS 'WOMEN GOOD MAN BAD'. WHAT ABOUT THE NUANCE
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haven't drawn for a while, have just been finishing on rendering commissions so just wanted to dust myself off and draw my boy again, finally.. am hoping to submit this one for something, but im gonna have to change the left arm and/or raised leg - my clarity's been off for several months..
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Every month or so, as I perform my daily tasks and live my life as best I can, my mind is assailed, unprovoked, by the remembrance of the time that George R. R. Martin claimed Jamie Lannister could beat Aragorn in a sword fight, after which I am rendered blind, deaf, and babbling by incandescent rage for roughly thirty seconds. After that I'm fine again. Until next month.
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Pocnatural Cultural Exchange Day 1 - Food. (headcanon under cut)
this is gonna be a bit of a jumbled mess so bear with me.
Ok so I'm reimagining Sam and Dean as half-Gujarati, with their mom being Indian and Jain, and their dad being white. For background, you all can read more about the Jain diet here, but basically it's strict lacto-vegetarism (no animal products except milk) and no root vegetables such as potatoes and onion. A decent amount of Jains in the West do become vegan, but it's not a requirement. Before you start wondering, the food still tastes great and the cuisine evolved without the need of these ingredients.
Here, as Dean did grow up somewhat with his mother in his early years, he remembers and misses her. For this reason, he adheres strictly to the diet, learning to cook via blogs on the internet and cookbooks, doing his best to substitute ingredients. Sam, on the other hand, doesn't really care about all this as he doesn't remember his mother at all. So he does not follow the rules of eating, and has no issue eating whatever John puts in front of him. John does his best to accommodate Dean's eating (he understands as he also misses his wife), but he sometimes forgets, and when that happens Dean goes to bed hungry.
When Dean and Sam reconnect and travel on the road, Sam always makes sure to buy food that Dean can eat and Dean shares stories about his mother in return. Sam, the lore nerd, goes to the library to find out more about his heritage, especially the parts that Dean doesn't know or cannot remember, and in doing so he feels closer to his mother who he never really met.
Eventually Mary does come back, and when she does, the three of them grow closer by cooking and sharing meals together. Also she doesn't die here again btw, this is a happy ending.
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I think literally the funniest part of the epilogue was when i walked past Charles mucking out the stalls he said "look at me, working the white man's land for no pay" and John was like "if you need money i can get you money" i could FEEL him squirming. S Tier trolling from Charles Smith
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Sorry for being negative, I’m just a bit disappointed that after looking through the Earthspark Optimus tags on and off on different occasions weeks apart, it seems like the only thing the fandom has to say about ES Optimus is finger snaps and dad jokes. :/ (And also a handful of people already trying to frame him as a bad person lmao)
Watch for it, when more episodes of Earthspark come out and a conflict with GHOST inevitably arises, people are going to be raging at Optimus for being “stupid” or “self-righteous” or “blind” for working with GHOST and start calling Megatron and/or the Decepticons right about everything because they spent so long focusing on “haha funny dad Optimus” that they forgot about the other parts of Optimus’ character like... idk, not wanting to colonize planets? Not wanting to start wars with entire species that didn’t want to be involved in the war in the first place? Being willing to make compromises even at risk to himself and his own because he wants to treat everyone fairly?
Idk I guess I’m just a bit salty because it genuinely seems like all this fandom wants is “funny dad Optimus” and nothing else. Like you will give them funny dad Optimus who’s ALSO complex and morally gray but people will only ever talk about the former part. And then when Optimus inevitably makes a mistake and bad things happen, people are probably going to treat him as if he’s stupid or an asshole when he ends up not being the Perfect Unproblematic Fave that people seemingly want him to be.
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🍓 - What allergies or intolerances do your Muses have? How do they handle them? Is it something potentially dangerous or just inconvenient? How do they avoid triggering these intolerances?
Random Headcanons (Tagging @themckaytriarchy and @smilingmxsk since you asked the same things!)
Copperhead doesn't have much in the way of allergies! Thanks to strong stomach acids, he can eat just about anything but tough, leafy greens aren't food he enjoys consuming nor does his body approve. Sure, he can eat them if there's nothing else but he won't gain the same nutritional benefits as a regular human would, his snake-like physiology being able to subsist happily on a carnivorous diet.
While Copperhead loves fruit, certain fruits are harder to enjoy due to the structure of his teeth. Apples are by far one of the hardest to bite into since his fangs are made for piercing flesh, not fruits and apples... well, they're hard and crunchy, and the core is so unpleasant what with the pips and internal structure surrounding them. Better to just cut them up and swallow the slices down that way, though the cronch still eludes him.
Foods that smell or taste very strongly can be quite offensive since like all snakes, Copperhead's tongue is highly sensitive. He can tolerate and even enjoy spices but there are limits to what he can handle and if it tastes bad just by walking into the room, there's no way he's putting it into his mouth.
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