#i have feelings about the BCU

[asmolbirb]

Barbie movie tier list: part 3!

We're in the home stretch now! Just 10 more movies until I'm caught up to the newest release. You can find part 1 of the tier list here and part 2 here.

Barbie & Her Sisters in a Puppy Chase (2016): F tier. Mattel really said "Barbie can be anything, including a negligent caretaker!" With 8 talking animals (why!!!) and a complete disregard for shot consistency, this movie is only rescued from a "literal dogshit" rating by the rather sweet climactic moment where Barbie admits that sometimes even she doesn't know what to do.

Barbie: Video Game Hero (2017): D tier. This whole movie felt like a fever dream, honestly. The blocky animation style was kinda cute, and the BGM was nice at times, and one of the characters did say "noob", so...... minimal points for that, I suppose?

Barbie: Dolphin Magic (2017): C tier. The thing that really sucks about Mattel phasing out the "Barbie as" movies in favor of casting her only as herself is that Barbie is no longer allowed to experience any change, lest her character development cause complications for future films in the BCU. This means Barbie is fundamentally unable to play a pivotal (or even active) role in her own movies, and is instead relegated to the sidelines of some other character's A plot -- and yet, to bill the movie as a Barbie movie, Barbie must be given some requisite amount of screentime, which comes at the expense of the A plot's development. As a result, these movies are left feeling stale and underdeveloped, with no stakes and no commitment to the story being told, and Barbie: Dolphin Magic is no exception. No doubt the mermaid crystal given to Barbie by Isla will vanish into the ether between this movie and the next, and Barbie will continue to fret over whether or not she has the right to agency over her own choices. The kleptomaniac crab D plot was pretty funny, though.

Barbie Princess Adventure (2020): A tier. See, Mattel, you can still make awesome Barbie movies if you just full send it! With fun songs, lovely friendships, a meaningful message, and a sweetly awkward Ken, this movie is a worthy homage to the original Princess and the Pauper that nevertheless possesses its own charming identity.

Barbie & Chelsea: The Lost Birthday (2021): D tier. Was this a good movie? No. Was this a fun movie? Also no. Were the songs at least passable? Well, actually.....absolutely not. But there were some highly amusing characters with unique designs, and the silly little gags throughout (like the weird vegan DJ and the beach vampire) did make me chuckle!

Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams (2021): D tier. I begrudgingly appreciate the lack of talking animals, but this was such an absolute nothing-burger contrivance of a movie that I find myself hard pressed to give it points for that. There was no reason this needed to be set in NYC given it did not portray any NYC culture; there was no reason Brooklyn Barbie needed to also be named Barbie; there was no reason for literally anything that happened at any point in the movie! The only redeeming quality of this movie is the pigeons, which were fucking adorable.

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sick for it

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[ghoulchurch]

dump

[enigmaticpink]

I wonder how my great great great grandma who was born in 1907 and died before even my mom was born would feel to know that in 2024 there's a cat named after her. Like to know that her own great granddaughter who she only ever known as a little girl, would as a 65 year old woman, adopt a cat and think like...'she reminds me of my great grandmother who's been gone longer now than I ever knew her.'

[fideidefenswhore]

the downfall and execution of a tudor queen (2023) / the boleyns: a scandalous family (2021) / the king's pearl: henry viii and his daughter mary (2017), melita thomas / anne boleyn (tv miniseries 2021) / the mirror and the light (2024) / elizabeth (1998)

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hey guys does anybody know whats the date today

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everyone im rlly close too that doesnt dabble in ttyd does not rlly follow this acc so im rambling here

for some reason i feel like maybe there was a time when vivian had a different name that was given to her, one she didint like . or i think that could be a thing

and the thought of her constant uphill battle of confusion and then wanting to try something different. asking for this change and it being a huge problem. that internalized self hate stuff blossoming

and when she finally gets past that goalpost of wanting the name "vivian" granted, she feels relief and feels like maybe shes doing something right. but of course theres the whole. 1 step forward 2 steps back thing thats happening. so while she mightve gone forward theres always pushback from beldam and her own self doubt

and the past just manifests in her guilt about if shes right. even though its so clear and through , and the end of the tunnel is so close, theres doubt that lingers, even if she cant remember it to the fullest extent of what it used to be

(and yes im going insane bcus of this song. im going crazy.its literally her)

this can also apply to the chimera au .. people who dont care about that stop reading here im getting autism about it

the whole. becoming something you arent to do the bidding of another , but this time its worse and youve lost yourself.sure she had control of herself before but the only thing keeping her loyal to her sisters was the guilt and familial aspect. all it took was mario being kind to her and understanding to break free from that

but as a chimera shes entirely out of control, being a puppet for something far worse than beldam could ever be. she isnt vivian anymore, but meerly a shadow puppet for the queen. now, she has no choice

sure, maybe she retains some personality .. but now she belongs to the enemy. becoming something she isnt against her will after discovering something about herself so crucial just makes me fall to my knees honestly. the irony of it all

[the-clay-quarters]

this feels like I'm entering my guys into the comunal dating sim lmao

I could ramble about so many bits of this but right off the bat:

the star signs are fairly arbitrary / not actually related to horoscopes

no clue what the auras are supposed to be, so those are just associated colours

if you can't read the text, the songs are: "Someone New" by Hozier, "Stella" by Cereus Bright, and "First Time" by Hozier. two Hozier songs was an accident but it works

flowers are: green dahlias, generic white flowers, and forget-me-nots

original template here

also, specific song lyrics ⬇️ (mostly the bridges/choruses, + the first verse of First Time)

Pembroke: Someone New - Hozier

Silverstein: Stella - Cereus Bright

Vincent: First Time - Hozier

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Just a fuckton variety of Skip n Norm doodles. *points* I like the sluge…

[trentskis]

scream just did a terrifying* thing (asked my boss if it was possible to raise my wages)

[phoenix-before-the-flame]

hello I’d love to hear about natsu. do you have any thoughts abt what he was like before we (and lucy) meet him in fairy tail? like with growing up in the guild and all that

You were the first one in here but I literally had to let your ask marinate in my head longer to answer it properly lol.

So we don't know much about Natsu's childhood, whether it be pre-guild with Igneel or pre- main story when he joined the guild apart from a spare handful of moments and facts, these being:

Makarov was evidently the one to find him.

That god forsaken scene of the others laughin at him for not being able to read.

His moments with Gildarts as a kid

Macao being a teacher to him at some point who taught him to use his fire other than to burn things ( hello Natsu vs Erigor )

Finding and raising Happy with his bestie Lisanna

He never officially formed a team with anyone in the guild before the main story.

I think I might be missing a spare few but you get the idea.

For a main character we know scarcely little about him. His thoughts, his views. Zero. Which honestly for such a long running series is so odd to not even get a peek at what's goin on in his head.

There's nothing absolutely solid about his past that we can get to use to dig into his head. Save for the fact that he loves his friends and his family.

Across the board for a lot of his moments in his past we know he's got a lotta love to give. He loves his Dad, he loves Happy, he loves his guild. But just because you have something doesn't mean you know how to work with it.

He loves Igneel. Igneel disappeared. And that forced him into a denial of his dad being dead so strong that up until present in the main story he still desperately searches for him even when the other slayers had accepted it. ( And i'm almost sure he got laughed at for over the years. Can you imagine? Saying your looking for a dragon in a dragonless world?)

He loves his friends. But I think after that damning moment (which honestly I think is a moment really early is his joining the guild. Like he hadn't gotten to know em 100% yet) of them laughing at him he clams up about certain things.

Any moment of vulnerability he could have with them down the line is tossed out to avoid something like that happening down the line.

Lisanna (lisanna, lisanna ilu. I should draw u more.) was a blessing in that she was working on getting those walls down and she was close! Then her incident happened and he clammed up again even fucking harder than before!

Man this is such a long winded way to answer your question but I think growing up in the guild for Natsu, I think as much as he loves everyone- and he does! He loves em all! Even the mfers who piss him off sometimes- I think even though he was there with everyone he didn't feel as though he could open up (or well risk opening up tbh) to them. So he played along to make things in general easier going forward. (Whether intentional or not is up in the air)

So whatever perceptions everyone had of him he rolled with it. He's a lil bit dumb, he's loud, he's inattentive, etc. He doesn't deny what's said about him. Hell he might even play it up. He just doesn't do anything to break the perception as time went on. And since no one really dug like Lisanna did there was no reason to break it.

So he grew up in the guild as the happy go lucky loner. Nothin more and supposedly, nothing less.

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ilia is such a sad character ill be so real. pour a glass for yet another victim lost to nintendo love interest-ification

[kraviolis]

on paper gustholomule is basically just mountain dew but in my head its a sweet sparkling red wine with notes of cherries and oak

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wow thank you so much

[fideidefenswhore]

If only Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon counted in Catholic eyes, does this mean Mary wouldn't theoretically consider any of his other wives 'real' stepmothers, as such? If she did, how would she rationalise defying the Pope's will, whilst upholding the papal authority to sanction the marriage of her parents?

She probably never did, based on the wording of that Act in question. Her attitude towards papal authority during her own reign was...contradictory in other ways, however.

[thegempage]

i don't feel like looking for it rn bcus of the mood i find myself in but i need to like. tattoo that post about wishing your mind would be kinder to you and then remembering that you have to do that on my fucking eyelids.