A fun thing all my deer followers and mutals must know about my family is that we are fucking obsessed with Christmas Vacation. Every single christmas we have to watch it, since i was about ten. We have the fucking moose mugs.
This post was made in honor of me haveing to watch it for the millionth gosh darn time instead of playing a game.
why do i feel like aside from like ben shapiro im the only person who really hated the barbie movie
i've seen mainly two different interpretations of the movie, and in any case the movie is bad
the first interpretation being that the movie was fully serious, which is, even from a writing standpoint and not a political standpoint, really bad?? the plot was set up so well for a message about equality, with barbieland's matriarchal system mirroring the real world patriarchy and whatnot, and both of them being the same exact messed up premise, where one group is favored over another. (although the kens have it considerably worse, considering at some point it is brought up that they're all jobless and homeless.) with that in mind, ken's "now you know how it feels" speech, and the fact that ken is a much more memorable and funny character, would it not be reasonable for both him and barbie to realize they were both making the same mistake, and that a world where both groups live equally would benefit their whole society??
an argument i saw made against this is that the kens don't have the education necessary to run the country(?) alongside the barbies, but 1) clearly they had enough to overthrow the matriarchy within like 10 minutes (also for the record why were all the barbies so on board with the patriarchy that it only took 10 minutes for their entire society to be reversed?? i dont think this was the feminist message the writers were aiming for 😭) and 2) they could have just said that instead of going "nah u aint getting a good job until the women in the real world are" petty ass hoes
the second interpretation i've seen is that this whole story is satire, and i kind of doubt that's the case with how serious they made everything sound, but a much better premise for a comedy would be if they highlighted how selfish both barbie *and* ken are instead of, since clearly the end goal of BOTH of these characters was a society that only benefited them, yea "taking back barbieland" after directly experiencing what the other group has been dealing with this whole time is not a noble goal i would say. it would make a great premise if you're not rooting for either of them, and again, in the viewer not rooting for either screwed up system, it kind of promotes the message of equality, that would have been a fun way to do that i think.
there's also the fact that this movie is SO preachy??? all the dialogue is giving The Fat, Black, and Gay Velma Show™ all over again but for some reason it's perfectly acceptable here?? coming from a certified female here, being a woman is not as hard as this movie wants you to believe, i assure you.
this rant was a little too long but like tldr the barbie movie sucked i dont know why we're all collectively ignoring this
Cw//Fake claiming, assholes and just venting our feelings so we can move on..
So this happened a while ago but it still pisses me off, in October we had an alter named Friend (yes the dsmp Friend) and baa is 10 years old, nonverbal, and uses/used to use typing quirks. Now this was their first time fronting and we used to have rules for alters like 1. If you're non verbal use the chat box and DON'T make a sound, 2. Don't use typing quirks, and 3. No little front without a trusted adult/friend with them.
But today we said "Eh, go play! It's not fair to you that you have to hide yourself, go on! Play!" And Friend was super happy! So they fronted for the first time and was having some fun, and they used typing quirks and made fun little sounds (like if they were communicating but used the chat box like subtitles) and when our friends went to explore the world one of our friend's friend pulled us aside and said "Listen...I know what it's like to y'know..not have attention, but lying? Listen I'm not mad if your lying about having DID but I'm saying if your lying right now it's ok to stop, it's not to late...Listen, when you were saying how "You didn't know who your were" I didn't believe it, I mean in my system everyone knows who they are and we all have fast switches, but you? You are too...y'know. Its OK to tell me if your lying but you need to quit it now..."
And poor Friend had to mute sheep's mic because they were crying, and when they said "Am I wrong?" Friend started to shake their head yes they ran off to cry in a corner, they were having the WROST panic attack we've ever seen, baa was barely breathing, snot and tears were trailing down, and they were just repeating the word "Panic" over and over and over again, first word he spoke and it was panic. They left the world and went to a friend to try and say what's wrong, but only the noises came out and they typed with very shaky hands "someone fake cailmed me because i was nonverbal"
Now typing this now my blood boils, getting faked claimed by a singlet is no big deal they're very uneducated, but being fake claimed by another DID system? Thats what made it worst, poor Friend...Baa couldn't even defend themselves, now they HATE fronting without Corpse, they'll do it if Corpse is there (also corpse can help them speak English so their not non verbal)
But yeah, I feel so bad for them that's something I could NEVER forgive myself for...
The urge to delate my already 4000 words on my current wip because it's not good enough but knowing I'd be losing all that hard work and time I spent on it.
Hey so um... What? How are ppl even liking and reblogging my scribbles?? That can happen for me? Im just really suprised- there's better art out there you guys seriously. I can hardly even properly clean up the sketch, not to mention my terrible rendering...