Firewatcher’s Daughter

JD, 25 years old, not a fan of this current global catastrophe

[kosmogrl]

[kosmogrl]

[neenarchive]

i feel like a lot of the 'i hate kids' crowd would be more tolerant if they understood that due to a kid's limited experience of the world that 4 hour flight might just be the longest they've ever had to sit still for or that trapped finger might literally be the most pain they've ever felt in their short life or they might not have ever seen a person with pink hair ever so of course they want to touch it or nobody's told them yet that they can't run around the museum and they only just learned cheetahs are the fastest animals so of course they want to put that to the test. how were they supposed to know etc etc.

[neenarchive]

some of you in the notes.. i would say read the room but you didn't even read. the post

[trashyeggroll]

Paper Girls said, what if instead of an adult learning to be kind to their child self, the child self showed up and just cussed you out

[samaritanpoledancing]

If Call the Midwife continues into the 80s they should have Sister Monica Joan kill Margaret Thatcher

[alphacrone]

petition to shorten "classic literature" to "clit"

[flipocrite]

my local bookstore did this with their classic lit section but now no one can find it

[transguyhawkeye]

'the doctor is confirmed queer now!' 9 didnt flirt with harkness in 2005 and 10 didnt flirt with 1920s bad tennessee accent andrew garfield in 2007 for you to say this is the first time they're queer on screen. however i do think its funny if all the previous doctors were bi but 14 is just a flat homosexual. shaun temple really took one look at them and thought fruit! there is absolutely no chance of this person making a move on my wife. and he was right

[gayforcarstairsgirls]

[wordsmithie]

A producer told me that they had seen a report on my script saying ‘don’t fund it’ because you will never find an Indian girl that can play football that can bend a ball like David Beckham. I was like, ‘what the fucking fuck?’ ... I said ‘they’re all bogus. It’s pure racism. Does this person think Harrison Ford jumps out of helicopters? What does he think happens in those situations?’ - Gurinder Chadha

[alicent-florent]

BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

[nico-is-a-corn-plant]

Shout out to the nonbinary icons of the barbie movie

[chocobosdungeon2]

I dont know if anyone else felt this way, but Barbieland had an affect on me in a way I really didnt expect.

Starting the film there, its just fun and silly and camp. Yes of course all the Barbies do every job and they have political power its this crazy pink paradise hahahaha

And then when she goes to the real world, rollerblading down Venice Beach, I found myself accutely feeling the loss. That Barbieland was a world without those gazes to make you self consious. The freedom to exist in 'sexy' outfits without being sexualized. Barbieland had that! I didnt appreciate how comforting that was until Barbie lost it.

And then when the Kens take over, its comedic and Im laughing, but there was something in me that was deeply uncomfortable. I squirmed at every brainwashed Barbie's line. Their subservience made me... sad. Sad in a way I've yet to really put my finger on. But it wasnt until this scene that I realized that I was attached to Barbieland's fantasy as a safe place. I was a little taken aback by how much I wanted this toy land's status quo back.

Im struggling to find the words to express what I mean, but I hope Im not alone in this feeling I got. I think beginning the film in Barbieland before the audience has a chance to compare the real world (as presented in the film) to it was a stroke of genius. It really lets you get into Barbie's head as she experiences these jarring changes. And at least in my case, it lulled me into a false sense of security that set me up for a big emotional smack later on.

[kayray-art]

[shieldmaidenofsherwood]

I don't know how else to explain the experience of seeing Barbie 2023 in theaters, wearing pink, except that it felt the way the summer of Pokémon Go felt. We were UNITED. We were JOYFUL. We were HYPING EACH OTHER UP. We were ALL PLAYING THE SAME GAME.

[linddzz]

Thinking about Weird Barbie and how she's the very obviously queer outsider of the Barbie world, she straddles the lines between Barbie and the Real World. She's the most aware of the performative nature of it all. She supports Barbie while also gently mocking her panic at losing the hyperfeminine perfection. Her weird house is also home to the discontinued reject weird Barbies, the outcasts (including very gay earring Ken) who never fell into either the original matriarchy or the Kentriarchy brainwashing.

The other more classically heteronormative and beautiful Barbies both pity and fear her, and at first the narrative pities her as well. She's the vessel of girls going weird and crazy and feral on their dolls and that's amazing. Weird Barbie is aware of who she is and how the world sees her and she loves it. She's Weird Barbie and She Owns It.

[reputayswift]

Barbie (2023) was made for people that were deeply moved by the When She Loved Me sequence in Toy Story 2

[filestaylor-deactivated20230410]

Taylor in that dress is divinely beautiful. 😍