bdsm enjoyers r onto something. i think we should incorporate aftercare into just hanging out. i need a buddy to hold me and say “that was really fun and you seemed normal”
Okay I don’t have the spoons for an in-depth essay about the Barbie movie so here’s my loose thoughts:
The transition from despising Barbie, not for the idea she represents but the ideas that are forced upon her to being a fierce supporter of Barbie is such the quintessential teenage experience.
The beauty of human creativity, how our ideas can change and grow and become even more than we could have imagined.
The themes of motherhood and its beauties and hardships
The depression Barbie came for everyone’s necks?? I just know that’s getting a meme 😭
I love that Ken had a character arc too, going from an accessory to a perpetrator of the patriarchy. Then unlearning misogyny as he realizes, when he places his value in himself, in his being instead of Barbie’s, the fragility of his ego goes away. Great message!
Weird Barbie becoming more butch and the Sugar’s Daddy and Magic Earring Kens living in her weird house, I know what yall are 😏
The mom was so me every time she freaked out about understanding the references of the different Barbies.
I loved the dismantling the Barbieland patriarchy scene, especially the jokes about the Godfather 😭
Will Ferrell’s character was so goofy, I loved that he wasn’t super evil, just a weird guy.
The overall idea of how wonderful it is to be human! The growth, change, joy, sadness, the existentialism! It’s all so wonderful, it’s all new every day all day. It really gave me a renewed sense of being :,)
just saw Barbie so here are some (non-spoilery) highlights:
ken becoming DEEPLY obsessed with horses
MULTIPLE highly choreographed dance numbers that last for several minutes
kens job is beach
a tween calls Barbie a fascist (?????? ok screenwriters)
mojo dojo casa house
kens big mink coat having a HORSE THEMED LINING
i know we were deeply obsessed with the outfits but good god. the OUTFITS.
extensive Barbie lore
Barbie’s heart to heart with a lovely old woman
the kens building a wall
beaching one another off
KENS SONG THAT HE SINGS FOR LIKE 5 MINUTES
like twelve executives on one tandem bike
depression Barbie
ALLEN
i am kenough :)
gynecologist.
beautiful beautiful deeply camp coming of age story with layers and so much life. ive gained twenty new sewing projects from the opening shots of Barbieland alone. made my gf cry. 20/10
anyway normalize women not wanting children as a happy ending
its NOT a happy ending, for a majority of women. Having kids, especially for women, is an intrinsic biological desire. If you are a person who genuinely has no desire for kids or god forbid dislikes kids, that is an anomaly - you might have some trauma or mental/emotional hangups that you have to work out of, or you could be autistic or some other thing. But Its not normal to not want kids. Living childless does and will make women miserable. Dying without kids in, in fact, a bad ending for the vast majority of women.
there is something so deeply wrong with you baby girl
Not crediting the vfx crew is actually fairly common practice in Hollywood, and because vfx artists aren’t unionized, there is no recourse for the worker and no penalty for the studio when credits are omitted or misrepresented.
In a day and age when literally everyone connected to a film production gets a credit, from craft services to on-set teachers of child actors to random “production babies” who didn’t even work on a film, it is utterly incomprehensible that vfx artists, whose work makes possible the final images that appear onscreen, are routinely omitted from screen credits.
Oppenheimer is yet another example of how live-action filmmakers like Nolan denigrate and misrepresent the work of vfx workers to the media, and then add insult to injury by not even acknowledging them in the credits. The fact that over 125 people who contributed to Oppenheimer’s success aren’t listed in the credits is a reminder of how the vfx industry is a corrupt and broken enterprise that undermines and disrespects its workers at every juncture.
Finding out that Elon Musk was forced out as CEO of PayPal in favor of noted vampire Peter Thiel bc Elon Musk was adamant they keep it named “X dot com” instead of Paypal unlocks so much. His space company, his literal child, and now Twitter: it’s the world’s most inane Rosebud. He actually bought back the URL, like a cherished childhood sled (owning the right to name a website the letter “X”)
Some people told him it made more sense to have their banking company have a indicative name instead of generically being called “X” with vague allusions to being The Site For Everything, and he’ll prove those fools WRONG by getting the same things yelled at him over a different website’s name twenty years later
For twenty two years he’s been stewing about people telling him PayPal was a better name for a payment site than X. He was so invested in X dot com at the time they waited to hold the vote until he was on vacation. He has been furious over people saying “it’s better for our site to have a name that tells you what it is instead of a letter” since before 9/11. This is his entire life
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Pictured above: the only moment Elon Musk has ever been happy, before it turned to all-consuming rage and envy over a single letter
Is… is THAT why he called his space company SpaceX???
fr tho, I’m convinced at this point that he got divorced just so he could have another X.
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