[curlybowlcuts]

wake up lil bro

[partyrockin]

void

[elsaqueenofstress]

DID YOU KNOW I RECENTLY HAD A BROTHER DIE, TOO?

the bear / phoebe waller-bridge / lilly dancyger / david byrne / dan pearce / suzy kassem / toni morrison / joseph fink / rabbi joseph telushkin / emily dickinson / richard siken / lone twin network / aanchal malhotra / frank ocean / gabrielle calvocoressi / maurice sendak

[thiscoldheart]

stuff richie says (1/?)

the bear (2022-)

[halles-comet]

The Bear || Sharp Objects

[meschkinnes]

Armour used by the Kelly Gang, worn by a police officer, 1941

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

I want everybody who’s calling Ken a Trophy Husband to know that he’s actually a Trophy Boyfriend, because when Ruth Handler invented Ken in the 1960s, she was adamant that he would never marry her and instead be her “handsome steady”, so that Barbie remained a figure of independence for the little girls and was never put in the position of housewife.

Her house is hers. She bought it and furnished it with money she made in her own job. In STEM, in politics, in healthcare, in fashion, in academy, in customer service. Her credit card is in her name (women in the US couldn’t have their own regardless of marital status until 1974). And it’s all pink and fashionable because femininity and badassness aren’t mutually exclusive. No matter who you are, you can be anything.

That’s why Barbie’s slogan is “you can be anything”. Teaching these ideals to little girls is why Barbie was created. Empowering women and empowering femininity is the original meaning of the Barbie doll. It’s not that you have to be all this to be a woman, but if you are all or some of this, you too are awesome.

And somehow pop culture deliberately changed that narrative. Sexualised, bimbofied, and villainised her, when she actually isn’t responsible for the impossible beauty standards — people are, she’s just a stylised, not-to-scale toy like most others.

Men are frothing because he’s just Ken and I guess they were expecting her to be just Barbie, but that’s exactly what Ken is. Canonically. A badass woman’s himbo boyfriend.

This movie has the potential to change the way we collectively see Barbie radically into what Ruth Handler’s intended, I’m so very excited

[ourosbros]

TRUE

[jaicherche]

яша и поручик >>>

[notesofacrocodile1994-archive]

reblog to give a menthol cigarette 2 ibuprofen and a shot of chilled vodka to the person you reblogged this from

[eunnieboo]

have some kids falling down your dash (they’re transparent!)

[uzuriartonline]

Bill and Frank 💔

[uservillanelle]

The Last Of Us (HBO) + Guide to Troubled Birds (insp)

[cyancees]

i have neither a good imagination nor aphantasia, but a secret third thing

[mxmollusca]

I think a lot about Taika's outfit here. It's gotten a lot of hate, but I'm not sure why. It's certainly one of the more understated of his outfits from this show. I've heard people call it the Amish fit, or the Mary fit, or that he should have pumped it up with platforms or color or some other accessories, but...

I like that it's understated. It doesn't feel performative. It's not camp. Not that there is anything wrong with camp, obviously. There's something to be said about the power of camp, the power of that sort of theatrical expression. Lil Nas X springs immediately to mind as a trailblazer in that arena.

The thing is, not every deviation from gender norms needs to be like that. Demanding that this look be elevated, or over the top, or flashier, or brighter feels like demanding inauthenticity. I am reminded of something Taika said in an interview about Hunt for the Wilderpeople:

I come from a country whose idea of masculinity is quite extreme and I've grown up around a lot of that energy, I've been part of that a lot. And it's very draining, it's quite tiring trying to be macho.

I see this outfit as another type of subversion. It is plain, but then not. It's conservative, but then not. Why does every foray into the feminine need to be bright and fuzzy and sparkly and pink? Can things not be simultaneously soft and serious? Cold and kind? We don't know to what degree Taika had a say in the choice of this outfit. What I do know is that as an indigenous man growing up in Aotearoa and then later entering into an industry that not just reaffirms but galvanizes traditional gender roles, he most likely sees nuances that others miss.

There's a difference between thinking an outfit is boring versus demanding that it goes further to push what is in actually just another gender norm.

[mxmollusca]

Thank you @gothwizardmagic and others for pointing out the Māori cultural piece. I think my original post was pretty western-centric and didn't go far enough to address this aspect.

[biceratops7]

It’s been said before and I’ll say it again: gender nonconformity CANNOT be normalized until we learn to see it in multiple contexts. This means mundane, serious, and even boring.

[spooniestrong]

A Weird Trick to Get Doctors to Listen to You — Pain News Network

By Crystal Lindell, PNN Columnist There’s a lot of advice out there on how to get a doctor to take you seriously. Most of it is wrong. Lu

This ABSOLUTELY works.

I have used this for many years. Definitely b do it.

[genderqueerpond]

This article was super long-winded so I screenshat the important part

[spacelazarwolf]

the fact we’re responsible for getting doctors to “lower their defenses” in order to literally just do their jobs is ✨INFURIATING✨

[headspace-hotel]

it occurred to me just now that living in horrible turbulent times means that studying your time period is likely to be the boring normie option in the future because that's what everyone studied

[headspace-hotel]

"So, I'm really into history—"

"Do you really like history or are you just one of those guys obsessed with the lunar horse war of 2027"

[omnifariousness]