#we’re almost at the end people

[wifegideonnav]

tbh when mitski said “you’re my best friend/now i’ve no one to tell/how i lost my best friend”

#my freshman year of college my best friend and I were both a wreck #and on opposite sides of the country #during winter break I made the decision to share certain information with their parents bc I was actively concerned for their safety #they were deeply upset about me betraying their trust like that and asked for a break in our friendship #(a few months later (which happened to be early March 2020. lol) they did shrooms and realized they wanted to talk to me again lmao) #(so we talked and cried and now we’re still best friends almost 4 years later) #and my birthday is in january so it fell right in the middle of the period we weren’t talking #and my friends at school actually put together a really lovely party and it remains to this day the best bday party ive had #(most of my bdays have been sad and shitty lol) #but i just remember being drunk in my friends dorm room with my friends all around me #it was the end of the night people were just kinda chatting in little groups or whatever #and i was lying on my friends bed just miserable bc all I could think about was how my best friend was supposed to be there too #bc my parents were going to fly them out for the weekend as a present #and obviously that just got dropped #and id been talking to my friends about it kind of but all I wanted was my actual best friend #I left them a very embarrassing drunk voicemail that THANK GOD they deleted without listening to #but it’s just. the quiet agony of being angry and sad and hurt because your person doesn’t want to be ur person anymore #and still wanting to talk to them about it. still needing them to comfort you and give you their advice and insights #i don’t want to talk to anyone else about it. they’re not you. #sigh. anyway. ive actually lost several close friends for various reasons ranging from reasonable to bullshit #and it always blindsides me how much I want to talk to THEM about it #so thanks mitski for expressing that so artfully #op

[scarrletmoon]

i figure i should say something bc ive learned that this apparently isn’t universal: i dont really care if mutuals unfollow me bc i usually never notice, and if i do then i assume that i either did something you’re not comfortable with confronting me about (fair! i’ve been there) or it’s some temporary thing or you’re just sick of seeing my posts but we’re still friends

i don’t read unfollows as passive aggressive signals bc i just……don’t have the capacity for that and it’s way healthier for me personally if i assume everything’s fine unless you tell me

if you block me i’ll read that as a boundary i shouldn’t cross and assume any relationship we had is over and that’s fine too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#scarrlet rambles #i just can’t deal with keeping track of exactly who’s unfollowed me or who hasn’t liked my posts in a while #i’ve had more than one person assume that me unfollowing them is like. me ending a friendship #which is alarming bc that’s almost never the case #like if we’re close enough to DM regularly i am not ditching you as a friend if i unfollow #i just wish people would like. stop assuming the worst from me 🙃

[sailforvalinor]

…well, turns out changing to a Jo pfp is fitting in more ways than one.

#yeah turns out I’m going to be having a Jo and Laurie on the Hill moment. hopefully not to such a dramatic degree but #I went out with The Boy yesterday and I was dreading it so much #and it was fine but then at the end he asked if we could make it official that we were dating #and I asked him to give me a little bit of time to think (which he was super sweet about he did literally nothing wrong) #but yeah I just came to the conclusion within ten seconds of leaving the restaurant that it wasn’t going to work. like I felt nothing when #he asked me that question. and I wanted this to work so bad! it makes so much sense on paper but I’m just not feeling it #and I talked to my dad about it and he said that because the part of the brain that processes emotions is not connected to the part that #processes language aren’t connected that people who are married struggle to put into words why they married their spouse #so if I can’t put into words why I don’t want to date this guy it’s perfectly valid #and I suppose he’s right I just feel terrible about it. like how often do you find a guy this courteous and genuinely good? and like I #think maybe part of what’s bothering me was that there was almost no romance to this. like never at any point did he tell me that he even #liked me. it was just ‘hey we’ve hung out a few times now should we say we’re dating?’ and I’m not trying to rag on him he’s probably just #shy but it rang a little like a business proposition to me #but ugh. now I have to call (because I’m not going to do it over text) and break this poor boy’s heart #it’s a really good thing I have the play and my novel to distract me otherwise I’d be a mess #anyway prayers would be appreciated

[darkwood-sleddog]

Lmao I hate when people compare dog sledding and horse racing as if they are equivalents in animal abuse.

Horse racing centers on gambling. Dog sledding does not.

Race horses are owned by the wealthy who have trainers, grooms, and jockeys to do the work for them while they cash in on an insane amount of money from gambling/stud fees/breeding. Mushers work a second job, take sponsorships from regular joes, live off the land and get frostbite on the regular just to afford to keep their dogs fed, fit and healthy.

These are not the same.

#dogblr #dog sledding #sled dogs #like lmao in NO WORLD is anybody racing sled dogs for money and money alone #in horses yes #but racing sled dogs has to be your lifestyle your passion your art #for it to be even a bit bearable #race horse owners are the 1% #Iditarod winner Brent sass does almost everything himself on his homestead. #Iditarod winner lance mackey has had financial trouble and mental health struggles for YEARS #every day I see people who feed their dogs before themselves #like. what race horse owner goes hungry for their animals? not a single fucking one #like highly successful mushers are middle class only under certain circumstances #my low end sled an IKEA equivalent was like 500-600 usd #my new sled was 1500+ #this sport ain’t cheap and we’re all pretty poor as fuck

[munamania]

um yall… sam’s roommate pulled up to coffee like. um. dressed like this. btw. and their hair is just like. a better fluffier mullet. is this surprising

#just wanna express what i’m dealing with btw because the hair thing sort of hit me like a truck earlier and then i was like #well girl wait… literally… come on lmao… also we both wore sweatervests hashtag twinem #it’s so chill though coffee was really fun #we ended up hanging for like two hours and then i was like fuckkkkk g2g to class and they walked w me partway there #and then almost dapped me up gave me a hug at the worst possible intersection there were so many people walking fuck the construction fr #but like. yeah it was chill im glad i reached out even tho like idk things r... ok.. w sam but we’re certainly not like 🤞 #and i think they just had a semi recent breakup and drama and im like. um. largely unwell #and need 2 just get through this semester so i rlly forced myself to chill and go in with no expectations and it was just :-) #i was charmed by how passionate he was talking abt the weather and stuff like within minutes of meeting #i was listening to a very excited spiel about el nino and the tornadoes in wisconsin and etc oh and they came up w an ocean fact for me #and also ugh they played piano for so long growing up and can still like. do it. fucckcjkkk. and demonstrated #this rlly odd chord. um. like stretching and flexing their hand. srrryy lol i’m just giggling #lol and i mentioned my hair journey at one point and they were like ‘yeah? tell me about it’ shut UP… oh and also #knew exactly the stairwell i was talking abt when i described my favorite and we managed to chat abt that ugh it was so dorky #like. aw wow this person is just really cool #i also think they’re stupid hot but like idk since we actually um communicated and etc it's taken out a lot of the #tendency i had/have to be like 'sigh what if -' and er mythologize ppl. i suppose could be said. like aw we're just yapping and we're loyal #story likers now and if they ever want to just like make out sometime that’s so chill but regardless like we ball 💪 #yayyyyyayyyyy me when i can be normal about things!!!!! 🫶🙈 #abby talks

[erenscherub]

PSA: seasons is not discontinued.

I just don’t have a set update schedule or a concrete answer of when I will update next or finish the story.

I just looked at some of my first drafts and I just realized it’s been a little past a year since I started posting this story and almost two years since I started brainstorming the plot and everything.

Honestly just in a writer’s block rut plus busy with life in general. But to anyone still reading again you’re more than welcome to send in some headcanons of your own, asks about what you think will happen next or even some feedback on what you would like to see

TLDR: Just wanna assure you all that I don’t plan on deactivating my account and the goal is to finish Seasons. Eventually

#[☆彡] — seasons #[☆彡] — announcements #and to the people who sent some dms #you guys are so sweet #I may not be active all the time #but rest assured I’m not planning on erasing almost two years of this pet project #it’ll just take some time to reach the end #we’re all on this journey together to reach the reader’s happy ending

[pepprs]

the renovation starts tmrrw (LOL) and i woke up from a dream abt it crying. awesome

#today is our last day having a deck and i genuinely feel sick to my stomach over it. ik it’s just a piece of wood and it’s falling apart but #omg like… o ur house is about to not be our house anymore. like the deck is where me and my siblings played w our best friends it’s where i #paced back and forth to get fresh air so many times ater losing my shit during lockdown and it’s literally about to be gone…. forever? ok!!! #and then the kitchen is going to go and im going to lose it genuinely. like this house is shitty and rotting and falling apart and its great #that we are getting a renovation finally but jesus christ i have lived here all my life and yeah i hate the kitchen but it’s home and you’re #just gonna tear it down and make jt 3x bigger like it’s nothing??? ok 😂😂😂😂😂😂 #purrs #literally im getting war flashbacks to losing the van which was never gonna drive again but it was my SPACE for all of lockdown and #it got fucking junked after being my sanctuary (as unpleasant as it was) for like 2 years not to mention OUR CAR that we did everything in a #and now we have my grandparents car and there isn’t a backseat so i don’t get room to breathe when they drive. and also my grandparents #house has officially been demolished to make way for a fucking mansion and the near total renovation of my high school is almost done which #means the classroom where i became a human being is gone and the office is going to get destroyed too when that renovation happens and we’ll #have to go make a home somewhere else. i know this kind of thing happens but it makes me want to start screaming. like yeah these #renovations will make life better for everyone (except the fucking mansion it’s bc my grandparents died and the developers are selfish and #cruel lol!!!!!) but the way so many of the spaces that have been important to me keep ending up getting destroyed after im done w them. it’s #comforting in a way bc it’s like oh no one else gets to have it be important but also no that ISNT comforting i want those spaces to keep #being sacred i want them to mean something to other people and i want to be able to go back and soak in the memories again. and everyone is #mad at me for freaking out the renovation but it’s like ok you come into our living space you destroy core parts of my childhood and also #create a situation where we literally can’t like eat or cook anything in the house for months like idk what we’re gonna do bc we don’t go #anywhere bc of covid except work for me and school for my brother so. idk. this whole thing SUCKS. i can’t believe it’s starting tomorrow #and i can’t believe the deck is about to be gone. pain and suffering and pain and suffering and pain and suffering.

[rememberthelaughtermp3]

my band of 3 years is crumbling in front of my eyes

#we’re almost certainly gonna break up before the end of the year #or multiple people will leave #either or

[raamitsu-personal]

*sigh* wanna confess a pretty upsetting event today. what hurts me the most is my mom’s :(

#she’s too kind for nothing… this is why i’ve always hated tolerance #people tend to take advantage against her kindness and made her almost cried - istg i hate humans #while i’ve used to it… i don’t backtracked. however in my mom’s case… she just can’t stop being nice regardless #she always remember even a small kindness from people and always try harder to repay them #but in the end… not all people care and i hate it so much. #me and my mom might have our unhealed or untreated wounds but we always hang onto each other #nonetheless i care about her wellbeing and am still do. that’s my responsibility as a daughter. #i am so fucking done and i fucking hate people who messes with her #i know she’s about to cry but even i wanted to cry too #gosh i wish i have a heart of stone and a spicy mouth #well i hope kifarah gets to them IDFC anymore #my mom can forgive but I CAN’T. and i don’t think the rest of my siblings would do forgive them too. #i can’t console her cuz we’re not used to hugging and crying on our shoulders that much… i know what u think anyway #mitsu + text #raamitsu-personal

[andromedaa-tonks]

not to be a dudebro but infinity war opening night was such a vibe i miss it

#if you weren’t a marvel fan back then let me describe it to you #APRIL 26? 27? I FORGOT. BUT IT WAS 2018 #everyone’s BUZZING about the new avengers movie. the mcu stans are seeing it tonight. #people are screaming. someone jokes about how steve is gonna die. another person screams ‘don’t say that’ #further discussions about which if your favorite characters are gonna die #we mentally and emotionally prepared ourselves for the death of the characters we’ve known for almost a decade #it’s okay we’ll still have our boy peter parker! he’ll be okay! the guardians are definitely gonna be okay #this is gonna be the end of an era. #here we go. opening night. theater is PACKED. people are in full cosplay. excitement is thROUGH THE ROOF #in the theater. the marvel opening screen doesn’t have the usual marvel music. it’s completely silent. oh. we’re fucked aren’t we #but we’re having fun! haha aliens! tony strange and peter are so fun together. OH THE GUARDIANS!!!!! ILL DO YOU ONE BETTER WHYS GAMORA?? #steve’s with a beard steve with a beard steve with a beard steve with a beard steve with a beard steve with a beard #BRIINNGGG MEEEE THANOOOOOSS #holy shit. we’re gonna win. this is the culmination of the mcu. #‘you should have gone for the head.’ #‘steve?’ dust. dust. dust everywhere. what the fuck. what the fuck is this. what. no. no. wait. i thought steve and tony would die but oh. #this is so much worse. #what the fuck is this. the bad guys aren’t supposed to win. wait. #the screen goes to black. credits roll. the crowd sits in silence.

[renownedlesbianlenaluthor]

good god. this luther and sloane storyline got boring so fucking fast. Who even asked for this? lmao they’re so vanilla, it’s sickening.

#the umbrella academy #tua spoilers #like it just rubs me the wrong way and I don’t really feel like I need to explain why #it’s so fucking easy for the yt cishets to get their boring ass happy ending #meanwhile allison gets the shit end of the story EVERY fucking season so far like???? #give me a fucking break atp like the way they’re framing this couple like we’re supposed to be so endeared to it is annoying. #yes. it’s tiring seeing you people be so happy for so little effort when your people have a history of being the shittiest human beings #and never apologizing for it. like get it the fuck outta my face pls #wouldn’t have been this bitter if they weren’t treating their minorities like absolute shit WHILE having the straight white dude be happy af #luther is not a himbo to me not sorry. he’s just dumb. #call me triggered but that’s how it is when you’re brown and indigenous and surrounded by white media #plus they villainized almost all of their poc. white people need to stop with the micro aggressions challenge. #y’all make me feel a thousand years old with the way I’m tired of your shit. I’ve no patience for it in 2022

[secretmellowblog]

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

#November 5th #november 5 2020 #the fifth of november #just a random ramble #November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me #it really is a holiday #but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing #instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing #but yeah!! #this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday

[dadbots]

Happy holidays / Yule / upcoming traditions. 🖤

#dadbots.txt #its been a rough month so far. not necessarily due to seasonal but overall changes for the better or worst. #While I /did/ managed to recover from my sinuses after 2-3 weeksish. I’m just not doing well still and it’s been a fuck of a rollercoaster. #I’m so tired. again. Just not a great end to this year. But hey - you win some you lose some. And other days to try again #Many adaptations been made but it’s not really repairing anything. Just kinda a bandaid on it and hope the wound heals if that make sense. #& made such a dumb move. But with so many people telling me to wait it out and said thing would change ended up being the exact same. #And I feel stupid for it. I knew better and yet — same thing. Which fuckin blows but okay. Whatever. At least I can’t lie and said I didn’t #- try at all yknow. I mean I did. It’s something. So guess we’re moving on from that experience. And that’s that #My progress is fluctuating like hell and back this year. I expected much and need to figure out what needs to go & needs to stay in my life #- Almost similar to spring cleaning. Whatever goes goes and whatever stays. Well. Stays if it benefits me or improve somehow #Hopefully it’d solve some of the negativity and awful energy going on. Some areas aren’t as easy or possible for personal reasons. #- but sometimes you gotta put your foot down and just do it. Whether that’s one step at a time or one big 360 and hope all goes well. #I need to be more persistent in my life concerning certain things. And others where I just need to learn to let go. Ignore it. Gone. #There’s just so much I need to do. From getting back on track. Working on things I’ve put off for years now. Adapting and improving. #- balance. Control. List could go on and on. But I did what I could this year. A lot of improvement. And while it kinda went down the draib #- after slipping into old habits again - at least I know I could improve in some way. I did it before. It /did/ work b4 longterm episodes #- and that’s worth a lot. Considering it’s something I talked about but couldn’t do at that time. Or just never did. #An accomplishment I had for this year. Now to see what else I can work on.

[danzainosolitude]

Sorry if I referred to you as brother. We’re all monks in my mind.

#idk where the monk thing came from but my thought process for ending up with brother is #nigga -white people need something to replace it> brother is Christ -high key cringe and I’m not religious> monk time #almost misspelled monk as mink #we’re all beautiful furry animals in my mind

[fursasaida]

This article is from 2022, but it came up in the context of Palestine:

Here are some striking passages, relevant to all colonial aftermaths but certainly also to the forms we see Zionist reaction taking at the moment:

Over the decade I lived in South Africa, I became fascinated by this white minority [i.e. the whole white population post-apartheid as a minority in the country], particularly its members who considered themselves progressive. They reminded me of my liberal peers in America, who had an apparently self-assured enthusiasm about the coming of a so-called majority-minority nation. As with white South Africans who had celebrated the end of apartheid, their enthusiasm often belied, just beneath the surface, a striking degree of fear, bewilderment, disillusionment, and dread.

[...]

Yet these progressives’ response to the end of apartheid was ambivalent. Contemplating South Africa after apartheid, an Economist correspondent observed that “the lives of many whites exude sadness.” The phenomenon perplexed him. In so many ways, white life remained more or less untouched, or had even improved. Despite apartheid’s horrors—and the regime’s violence against those who worked to dismantle it—the ANC encouraged an attitude of forgiveness. It left statues of Afrikaner heroes standing and helped institute the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which granted amnesty to some perpetrators of apartheid-era political crimes.

But as time wore on, even wealthy white South Africans began to radiate a degree of fear and frustration that did not match any simple economic analysis of their situation. A startling number of formerly anti-apartheid white people began to voice bitter criticisms of post-apartheid society. An Afrikaner poet who did prison time under apartheid for aiding the Black-liberation cause wrote an essay denouncing the new Black-led country as “a sewer of betrayed expectations and thievery, fear and unbridled greed.”

What accounted for this disillusionment? Many white South Africans told me that Black forgiveness felt like a slap on the face. By not acting toward you as you acted toward us, we’re showing you up, white South Africans seemed to hear. You’ll owe us a debt of gratitude forever.

The article goes on to discuss:

"Mau Mau anxiety," or the fear among whites of violent repercussions, and how this shows up in reported vs confirmed crime stats - possibly to the point of false memories of home invasion

A sense of irrelevance and alienation among this white population, leading to another anxiety: "do we still belong here?"

The sublimation of this anxiety into self-identification as a marginalized minority group, featuring such incredible statements as "I wanted to fight for Afrikaners, but I came to think of myself as a ‘liberal internationalist,’ not a white racist...I found such inspiration from the struggles of the Catalonians and the Basques. Even Tibet" and "[Martin Luther] King [Jr.] also fought for a people without much political representation … That’s why I consider him one of my most important forebears and heroes,” from a self-declared liberal environmentalist who also thinks Afrikaaners should take back government control because they are "naturally good" at governance

Some discussion of the dynamics underlying these reactions, particularly the fact that "admitting past sins seem[ed] to become harder even as they receded into history," and US parallels

And finally, in closing:

The Afrikaner journalist Rian Malan, who opposed apartheid, has written that, by most measures, its aftermath went better than almost any white person could have imagined. But, as with most white progressives, his experience of post-1994 South Africa has been complicated. [...]

He just couldn’t forgive Black people for forgiving him. Paradoxically, being left undisturbed served as an ever-present reminder of his guilt, of how wrongly he had treated his maid and other Black people under apartheid. “The Bible was right about a thing or two,” he wrote. “It is infinitely worse to receive than to give, especially if … the gift is mercy.”

#south africa #apartheid #colonialism #palestine

[bunniepaws]

the longer time gets from when i saw the barbie movie the more upset i get abt it……………….

#personal #like it was the ken movie lol #but you could feel and see the parts that are like !!!!!!! art and for women and and and !!!!!!!!!!! #like the capitalistic men funding the movie saw it and wanted to be in it or something #bc the parts that feel super fuckin bad and cheap are all the parts w like ken and shit !!!!!!!! #there are other parts that feel like the claws of capitalism are still firmly planted but at least the women playing the characters felt #like connected n shit u know #whereas whenever ken(s) we’re on screen for anything other than moving barbie’s personal plot along #felt cheap and boring and fuckin #OVER IT type of vibe #like. the barbie movie to me felt like it tried to do so much more and what people wanted but then greedy men got a hold of it #and so then the barbie movie was more abt ken and ENDED W KEN MERCH. #all we remember are the ken songs all we remember is how funny ken was #like it seriously bugs the FUCK out of me #like wow great we get a movie just for the girlies PSYCH it’s abt men now. it’s abt how everything’s abt men and that’s bad! but it’s still #abt the men anyway. #i ALMOST cried during the movie but every time smthn happened that just made go ‘oh. ok. funny. i guess.’ #like UGH #STUPID CAPITALISM VIBES N JOKES N SHIT #literally the end of the movie ended w fucking ken merch !!!!!! MERCHANDISE FOR KEN IN THE BARBIE MOVIE #SEEING IT AT THE END RLLY PISSED ME OFF #LIKE OK I THOUGHT I WAS WATCHING THE BARBIE MOVIE #i wanna edit the barbie movie so it’s actually abt barbie and not ken lmao #barbie movie but it’s actually the barbie movie