what really got to me about the barbie movie is how the movie is really about how there is still a little girl inside all of us, and when you walk around the movie theater and see all these grown women dressed in pink and visibly excited, it's a reminder of that. but moreso, it's how your mother is a little girl too. and that all comes together in the end when barbie meets her creator. barbie was made so ruth's daughter could be anything she wanted to be, and she named her after her. in the end when ruth helps barbie become human, she is her mother. and when in the end barbie introduces herself as barbara, she is her daugher again. you can be anything, but being human and mortal and imperfect is the greatest gift of all.

Let’s not overlook how it always seems to be black women targeted either.

Ha I wonder how many strokes the most complex Chinese character has like maybe eightee-

Has a Chinese son, names him bèng-dá, and he hates me

My beloved son 䨻龘 just trying to write his name in kindergarten

my therapist : 172 stroke huang isnt real. 172 stroke huang cant hurt you.

also as a 22yr old who has been on tumblr basically daily for the last six years or so

i’m thinking it’s time to start weaning myself off of this goddamn shitstorm of a website

how’s that going bestie

Sometimes time stamps really do add to the joke

What if my body is a piece of meat

Meat is me

Uhh. How many of these terms are just what we call that part of the body?

Most of them?

Yeah. Meat is me.

I have a belly. I have loins. And shoulders. And ribs. And cheeks. And ears. And a head.

Are there words for human body parts that are different from these? I guess in a couple cases, but uh. Mostly this is just. Parts Of A Body.

It's also quite literally speciesist to insist this is unique to ANIMALS as living beings and not... plants and fungi and stuff too.

Like, don't get me wrong, we need to eat, and I support eating both animals and plants, but like... there's this weird western view that animals are unique because, essentially, they're more human-adjacent and so we anthropomorphize them more.

But how many times have we seen that study passed around tumblr that says that plants actually use sound to communicate with each other. How fascinated is this site with mycelial networks?

They may or may not be "feeling" (emotionally or physically) but they are alive, and their lives have intrinsic value. People are so disconnected from our food sources that we forget that.

Just... my thoughts basically boil down to "eat conscientiously and be grateful to the lives given up to nourish you". That's it. You can eat whatever you want, just be aware, make good choices (like maybe don't pick the child-slave-harvested vegan option over the kosher meat option, idk), and acknowledge EVERY life that sustains you, not just the cute ones that you're projecting onto.

Whew, there is nothing like getting a needle biopsy to REALLY drive home just how made of meat you are.

when you find out two girl characters are rivals and you’re like ohh nice i wonder what happened to make them hate each other so much.. and then you find out they’re rivals because of a man 😒 ladies can you hate each other for cooler reasons

i am not calling twitter fucking x

im deadnaming that shit

0/21

i feel like im in 5th grade being graded on a english grammar test all over again this is so fucked up

[pronoun] [verb] [adverb] [verb] [noun] [adverb] [letter]

[contraction ([pronoun] and [verb]) ] [verb] [determiner] [noun]

[number]/[number]

[pronoun] [phrasal verb] [contraction ([pronoun] and [verb]) ] [preposition] [adjective] [noun] [verb] [verb] [adverb] [adjective] [noun] [phrasal adverb] [adverb] [pronoun] [verb] [adverb] [phrasal adjective]

you are doing some cocomelon shit to me

ALT

tags by @peony-pearl on this post that got me thinking about how gene yang writes sokka as if he is the ember island players’ portrayal of sokka (down to literally saying “wack a pow”). of course that episode is as much a parody of how the fans interpret these characters as it is an illustration of in-world colonial propaganda (and im sure the targeted audience being situated in the imperial core has nothing to do with that coincidence…) but surely, you’d think that a writer who was hired to write semi-canon paratext would understand the characters better than the fandombrained masses….

it makes me wonder if because sokka “endorsed” his portrayal in the episode, gene yang thinks that sokka “approved” of this play and it thus ought to lend itself to his characterization?? which doesn’t make sense regardless (a tv character should be interpreted on the basis of more than one singular episode), but it’s especially confusing considering that he doesn’t actually think that eip!sokka is an accurate portrayal, but rather that he finds it amusing. toph doesn’t actually think she’s a big buff man, but she isn’t enjoying the play for its fidelity to their experiences.

sokka and suki literally joking about their trauma during intermission should be an indicator of where they’re at regarding this play. while earnest, sensitive, straightforward aang, katara, and zuko take genuine offense at their portrayals, sokka and suki (the ones who wanted to go see the play in the first place) were always aware that this piece of colonial propaganda would be unflattering, and they approach it with a sense of ironic detachment and laugh (for the most part, sokka’s unprocessed yue trauma notwithstanding) at just how offensive and terrible it is.

while aang, katara, and zuko lament their offensive portrayals, sokka and suki sneak backstage so that sokka can suggest more jokes to the actor responsible for portraying him as shallow comic relief. sokka’s goal is to get laughs, not faithful representation, which he knows the fire nation would never actually grant him. the correct takeaway from that episode regarding sokka’s characterization is not that he acts like his actor counterpart in any way, but that he and suki would go to midnight screenings of the room together and throw spoons at the screen. i do think that faith erin hicks understands this. gene yang clearly does not.

Boring people the second they see something a little creative,silly,experimental,or even just a little confussing: UHMM...⁉️ WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST WATCH 😂 WHAT WERE THEY SMOKING 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂😭🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂😭😭🤣😂😭😂

barbie movie my beloved. incl barbie step-mom, drew a few of these before i saw the movie