#rb barbie

[lastflowerofyourhouse]

i hope tazmuir goes full-on uncanny valley with alecto. i hope her eyes are a little too big and her nose is a little too small and her limbs are just a little too long. i don't just want her to be weird as a person i want her to be actively disconcerting to look at. i want nona's "i'm not used to having bones" energy to be compounded by the fact that actually genuinely looking like a barbie doll would be about 10× more awkward in the limbs and spine. i want her to be incapable of smiling without making people shudder.

[lastflowerofyourhouse]

also the use of the plastic doll to embody the earth. which was being killed by pollution and climate change. something something about how john started out trying to save it and ended up being the thing that killed it, and then the body he made to keep it safe was another symbol of its destruction.

I wish the take I see most often on hollywood barbie alecto wasn't that john chose that because he wanted a sex symbol because it's missing out on a lot of thematic resonance about how john cannot help but return to frameworks of western imperialism and even at the moment he is seeking comfort in his childhood he ends up with one the symbols of western capitalism and how that relates to him recreating the same systems that harmed him and were destroying the world when he becomes god

[napalmzombie]

nostalgia | PNGs

[cute-as-buttons]

barbie is for the girls who grew up playing with barbies. it's for the girls who didn't. it's for the girls who aren't girls anymore. it's for girls who feel trapped by how rigged society is against them. it's for girls who grew up hating the colour pink because it was girly. it's for the girls - the people who were taught that any show of femininity, anything even associated with it made you weak. it's for the boys who don't realise the system is rigged against them as well. it's for the mothers who pushed down and locked up the weird and dark and crazy parts of themselves. it's for the people who love barbie, and hate her.

it's a love letter.

[lastflowerofyourhouse]

all of this absolutely checks out textually speaking, but i'm a little caught on something. if they're looking for the pieces of alecto, why have they never descended on the ninth house? she's been there since anastasia's day, and surely the simple fact of being buried isn't enough to hide her. and if the tomb were warded somehow, then why wouldn't they just do that to the mithraem? what keeps the RBs away from the ninth?

I’m sorry but you all aren’t listening, lyctorhood itself is not the “indelible sin” and you can pry this theory from my cold dead hands, honestly, maybe not even then. TazMuir herself could not dissuade me until she explicitly tells me otherwise. My proof for this you ask? Pyrrha’s conversation with Varun in NtN chapter 9.

But let’s backtrack for a second. John has stated that the resurrection beasts are after him and the lyctors for committing the indelible sin of lyctorhood, and as such the lyctors can never return to the Dominican System for fear of drawing the RBs back to the Nine Houses. I’ve never believed this was true given the fact that John is always the greatest common denominator when it comes to the presence of an RB and there’s no mention of an RB going after a lone lyctor. Sure, lyctors have been killed fighting resurrection beasts but there’s a huge difference between being caught in the crossfire and starting a firefight. For me, Nona the Ninth only reinforced that what we’ve been told is the “indelible sin” is either John misunderstanding the RBs (doubtful) or lying for his own purposes (more likely).

In chapter 9 of NtN, Nona recounts the story of her disastrous beach trip and towards the end of this recitation Nona says that Pyrrha;

“…crossed to the taped-up window, bottle and glass in hand. To Nona’s awe, she twitched the blackout curtains aside—stood bathed in the hyper-blue light from the sky as Nona held her breath—and she said to the window, “Here’s to Camilla Hect, yet another of devotion’s casualties,” and knocked back the glass. Then she said to the light, quite gently, “No, I don’t blame you, man … He was always looking for things to throw himself on.”

Pyrrha stands in front of Nona, bathed in the light of Varun the Eater, and proceeds to have a conversation with it. We only get one side but based on the context of the last line, “No, I don’t blame you, man … He was always looking for things to throw himself on.” Varun seemingly apologizes to Pyrrha for killing G1deon. It’s proven later on in the book that Varun can speak to Nona, and while it could be argued that since G1deon is dead and his soul is gone the “indelible sin” has been undone this still begs the question; why would the punisher apologize to the sinner?

If Varun and the other RBs are hunting the lyctors to dole out justice for their sins why would they apologize for doing the very thing they sought to do unless that wasn’t their true intent. The “indelible sin” is not the consumption of another soul, it is the consumption of a specific soul. It is John taking Alecto into himself, not being able to house all of her and instead making an exchange. Housing a piece of her in him, and a piece of him in her. Splintering the soul of a great and terrible force into manageable parts. Which explains Varun’s ominous presence hanging over the planet in the first place.

If RBs are hunting Lyctors there are no lyctors on this planet. Palamedes has not consumed Camilla’s soul, G1deon is gone, Harrow is in the River, Gideon is thumbtacked to her dead body, the only soul of any significance to Varun is Nona. Later on in chapter 13 Varun, by way of Judith, says to Nona;

“…what they did to you and what they wrung from you and what shape they made you fill—we see you still—we seek you still—we murdered—we who murder—you inadvertent tool—you misused green thing—come back to us—take vengeance for us—we saw you—we see you—I see you.”

And in chapter 27,

“….what did he do to you, to make you this way.”

What did HE do to you!!! what did HE do to YOU!! To give John credit he doesn’t deserve he may not realize it himself but the RBs have been looking for Alecto this whole time. They don’t want the lyctors, they want what John stole, they want the piece of Alecto inside of him. Want to make her whole again, their misused green thing. She’s almost there. She has her piece back from harrow’s body, united with the piece of her hidden in the locked tomb. She only has 1 piece left to collect. And god knows what will happen when the green and breathing thing is whole once again.

[ruffolive]

hey i am borrowing this post/some wording from the original op (with permission) since they were overwhelmed by comments but PSA!!!

Searching anything related to the Barbie movie on Google, mobile or desktop, activates a flashing hot pink screen effect that has no warning, re-activates when you refresh the page, and has no easy/apparent way to turn it off.

[ID: A screenshot of the effect in action on search results for Margot Robbie. It's a bunch of bright pink bursting star and glitter effects all over the screen, and multiple UI features' colors have been changed pink. End ID.]

I would recommend avoiding searching related terms, or considering using duckduckgo.com/ for searching, even temporarily. This sucks!

[nosensedit]

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[lastflowerofyourhouse]

me if alecto doesn't have any clear memories of being nona but she has a vague recollection of having once been loved:

me if alecto remembers being nona:

me if alecto doesn't remember being nona:

[alphacrone]

me in the club after half a shot:

[lastflowerofyourhouse]

the cool thing about alecto is that she's the angels in heaven above and the demons down under the sea, and she is trapped, also, being annabel lee (almost as if she can never dissever her soul from the soul of the beautiful annabel lee)

[wetchickenbreast]

hey everyone, in honor of the barbie movie i have edited bob and larry from veggietales to be earring magic and sugar daddy ken. hope you like it

[secretsunderskin]

💕slutty sunday: barbie edition💕

[solasgf]

[napalmzombie]

nostalgia | PNGs

[gelu-the-babosa-multiversal]

Who is ready for the Barbie Movie!? These two are going to buy the tickets for the opening night!

[akayna]

It's giving... ✨ barbie ✨