#carrot.txt

[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 radically change the way we collectively see Barbie into what Ruth Handler originally intended, I’m so very excited

#I’m sorry for the rant I feel very strongly about this #I have more Barbie History if you want it #I did a full dive into Barbie History for a uni project and it was the best thing it changed the way I see her forever #she’s EVERYTHING he’s just her boyfriend Ken #barbie #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #carrot.txt

[arcaderot]

who’s masq

is this how a haikyuu works

-ableism anon

a curse has been cast upon me

#carrot.txt #ableism anon

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

I know it’s the highlight of episode 23 and I’m not saying anything we all haven’t noticed, but Loid’s way of treating Yor is honest to God the sweetest thing, oh my God.

He comes back from an exhausting mission where he kicked ass and says “You two are the reason I did so well today! ^^” completely unprompted and, though Yor knows it most likely isn’t, as much as it is directed at Anya, it is for her too. When Fiona challenges Yor to a match, he immediately goes “Fiona, don’t”. He doesn’t understand why the heck she’s doing it but it’s uncomfortable for Yor and he doesn’t like that. Then he goes protective and reassuring “You don’t need to do it, Yor”, because she is insecure and anxious and cornered and he doesn’t like that.

And when Yor goes all out and chops the bloody ball into cubes and hits another to the speed of light, he tells Fiona “That’s why I told you ‘don’t’”. Not because he was afraid of Fiona crushing her. Not because he didn’t want to humiliate Yor. But because he knew Yor could and would most likely crush her, it wasn’t even a question for him. Yor shocks him with her athletic skills every week. He just didn’t want her uncomfortable.

And even though he thought it a nonsensical match, when he says “You beat her, Yor!!” he shows her (and himself) that he was intrinsically and inadvertently cheering for Yor.

Love them. Love him.

#I just needed to spell it out #spy family #spy x family #loidyor #twiyor #carrot.txt #loid forger #fiona frost #yor briar

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

I've been sitting of this dumb post for years

#I second-hand-love all of them #tumblr things #tumblr culture #carrot.txt #tumblr #tumblr meta #spn fandom #star trek #owl house #bdg3 #dimension 20

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

Updating a fic after a long time is just like… Sorry, do you guys still like me, sorry, excuse me, apologies, is this okay, do you hate me, sorry

#writing #ao3 #fanfiction #fanfic #carrot.txt

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

Hey so you know how people complain that nowadays the average friendship has been reduced to likes and comments in a post or reactions to instastories? I was just thinking about how before the internet, and a bit before domestic phones, there was the culture of calling cards.

People used to go calling on their social circle, it was a part of the social routine, right. You would go about your acquaintances’ homes paying them a “social visit” — standardly of the brief and socially agreed length of 15 minutes — every so often, as to maintain your acquaintanceship status. But, when you didn’t want to actually go and talk a bunch of nothing or if someone was a bit tiresome or you just didn’t have the time, you could go purposefully at a time you reckoned they weren’t home or available and leave your calling card with the butler and bamf. Your calling card had your name and address and meant “hey, I was here! I thought of you! I’ve made an effort! I’m keeping my side of this relationship up!”

And like… That’s exactly what we do with likes and comments. We’re here just keeping the ties up. And the internet allows us to do it more easily and across any earthly distance. We don’t need to be deeply in contact with all of the people we like. You can still like them a lot and only talk with them briefly between instastory reactions for a while. It doesn’t mean that our relationships are weaker now than they were before! We are actually able to keep up with more of the lives of loved ones from so far away now. Though it might mean that we end up having far too many relationships that we could just let go of, that we don’t really vibe with or care about, and it’s more than okay to drop those!

But in the end, social media, the core of it, before all the troubles of excess and overstimulation, is just what people have done for centuries. Checking in on each other and waving hello… and idk I just think that’s really neat

#people have always been people #we also had letters and daily journals bits transcribed onto letters which is basically twitter #but that’s subject for another post #I love that so much #how much do i need to tag this for a chance of finding it later #history #social media #internet #carrot.braindump #carrot.txt #jane austen #classical literature

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

Hey could you guys rb this if maybe you'd like to read my PJO show rewrite?

#I don't know if I should keep doing it or not #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo series #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson #a carrot's lightning thief #writing #carrot.txt

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

My therapist virtually bitch-slapped me when I told her I felt stupid for feeling the need to write my own Percy Jackson adaptation and essentially ordered me to write the script as an exercise in not stifling myself, so uhm… coming soon……??

#I’m sying it here so that I have a general accountability device #a carrot’s lightning thief #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson #pjo tv show #pjo show #carrot.txt

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

I don’t want to hear anyone else saying “Oh, it must be a mild level, right?” regarding me being autistic. I’ve spent the last four days trying to develop a mathematical equation to easily calculate how much thread I need to cut for a given section of cross-stitching so that I have the least amount of waste

#carrot.txt #autistic #actually autistic #neurodivergent #autism

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

The entretainment industry should have a yearly season, after renewal/cancellation season, in which the shows that have been cancelled in the year are granted Free Agency.

The rights to continue production shouldn't be hoarded by the original studio that cancelled them, because that doesn't make any sense! It's like a "if I won't love you, nobody else can either" sorta situation. You killed the show!! Let go of its corpse!

Anyway, the rights belong to the producers and creators, they could petition for other studios. Plus, other studios could analyse the data and opt in to continue production (which is kinda what we have now, but it could be a more official thing). You could regulate free agency by having a third party guild keep the metrics of the shows, and do it fairly –– how many views x how much marketing spent for it, and critic's and public's responses, for example.

Idk, the streaming service era of television is broken, we need to find a way to fix it

#netflix is my worst enemy #lockwood and co #sag afta strike #wga strike #streaming services #streaming studios #netflix #shadow and bone #lockwood & co #carrot.txt #/braindump

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

Getting vague spoilers of a series you're not done with is like getting visions of the future whose meaning you don't yet have the contextual knowledge to understand, and you can only hope for the necessary wisdom while you dread the actual significance of the ominous foggy images that now plague you

#this is about me still being in book 3 of lockwood & co #I just want to engage in fandom but I CAN'T because shit like this happens #fiction #fandom #lockwood and co #bookblr #carrot.txt

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

I think that to actually analyse the show we need to ask ourselves: if it was twenty-something year olds in Walker, Leah and Aryan’s place again, would we have liked what the writers and director are doing? If we remove the cast of the equation, if we remove the “at least it isn’t the movie”, do we still love it?

#if you do love it that’s great! keep loving it! I just don’t think I do #I love this cast I live these kids — and I wish they were allowed to be the characters #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo show #pjo series #pjo tv show #carrot.txt

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

The thing with writing is that I don’t want to write, I want to have written

#carrot.txt #writing #writeblr

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

Nothing illustrates the Gen X/Gen Z humour divide quite like Finn Wolfhard tweeting that thread that was like

“Hey France why is there a water fountain in your bathrooms and why does it taste weird”— “Just learned the water fountain is called a bidet, stay tuned for more”—“Oh no.”

and websites like Buzzfeed writing news articles about how child actor Finn Wolfhard really drank water from a bidet when he visited Paris, and then asking the cast that worked with him about it.

#a top tier tumblr-style thread btw. chef’s kiss #love vine’s legacy on him #carrot.txt #gen z #finn wolfhard

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

Hey wtf is going on, is anyone else being suddenly absolutely bombarded with bots or have I been specially selected by an evil swarm?

#in the last two days I got around 300 fake followers I am so confused #and any real notifications in the tab are smothered by them #and they have realistic urls now so it’s a nightmare to identify #tumblr things #staff #carrot.txt

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

I decided to write a script and it came out more prose-y than they're supposed to, and now that I came back to writing prose it is drier than it's supposed to and my writing voice is gone, congratulations to me

#carrot.txt