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Read in 2023:

Because ghost stories were just love stories about here and then and now and when, about pockets of happiness and moments that resonated in places long after their era. They were stories that taught you that love was never a matter of time, but a matter of timing.

THE DEAD ROMANTICS by Ashley Poston ★★★★★

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An affogato after a secondhand bookstore jaunt. This leg of the trip could probably be subtitled as “trying coffee in all consumable forms” 😅

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The Gorgon sisters by Yang J

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Azriel: Don’t worry, I have a few knives up my sleeve

Gwyn: I think you mean cards

Azriel *pulling knives out of his sleeves*: No, I do not

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THIS 👏🏼

Spoilers for Barbie ahead, I guess. But who in the writer’s room looked at that plot line and thought, “Yes. Feminism.” ??

The citizens of Barbie Land spend the entire movie fighting for privilege, not any sort of freedom (I borrowed that quote from the interview with Alok on the Man Enough Podcast 10/10 recommend). Over half the movie is about how awful it is to be a woman in the real world, and then they literally treat the Kens the way women are treated in the real world. That’s canon. The narrator says it Herself.

We never learn where the Kens live. For all we know, when the precious status quo was restored at the end, they just made half the population of Barbie Land homeless.

Yay, girl power.

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Hottake: I didn’t like the Barbie movie.

Why?

Don’t worry. It’s not some BS. I didn’t like it, because it wasn’t good. Mainly because of the pacing. But the pacing and writing were subpar.

I’m a female, Bi, Hispanic. Played with Barbies profusely. I’m also a feminist. So please spare me the clutched pearls we all THINK we’re “supposed” to do in response to Barbie criticism... Im a woman. Not a manufactured doll with a preprogrammed voice box. I can think and say what I want to 👍🏼💅🏼 I just know some people will try “you’re showing your closeted misogyny”… just don’t.

So— why exactly was it subpar?

It felt gratuitous. Like, a very specific nostalgia trip— brought to life for a specific person— the director.

I felt like I was watching a series of montages of the directors favorite moments and then given small 5 minute reprieves of poorly written side quests.

Gerwig even says it! For the scene with the older woman (the Barbie creator) on the bench? She was like “I wanted this scene and I couldn’t cut it. It felt like why did I make this movie?”… and idk. You’re making a movie to inspire young women and this random staring contest scene could have been written completely differently than what you offered the audience??

Spoilers ahead!

The movie just felt flat. I don’t know how else to say it…

To name a few reasons:

Random music number.

Quick transitions from too-quick scenes.

Random Narrator.

Poorly paced and fleshed out adversaries.

And not enough invested in Ken to truly make me care that he becomes a villain or gets “redeemed”.

It was like I was being told I’m supposed to be upset that Barbieland is taken over purely because it’s Barbieland (not Kenland). And it wasn’t Barbie. It was a social commentary of the caricatured versions of emos and men and women, but dressed up in a lot of pink.

Barbie is an icon. She was the beginnings of young girls finally seeing themselves outside the box.

And this felt derivative, not inspirational. It felt forced and gratuitous, not heartfelt. And it certainly didn’t give me enough time to process the exposition of Ken and Barbie to truly care about the existential crisis for each of them.

For me to even care why Ken was so desperate, I’d like to have seen a little more. Like:

What if Ken walks away and all the Kens live in their original boxes. Not houses- their Ken doll box... Because isn’t Ken supposed to be the parallel of how women are treated in the real world? So it’d be a fitting metaphor that while he’s dreaming of being equal to Barbie, or at least loved/respected/wanted, he has to stay in a BOX. They don’t get the “perfect day” song in the morning or the cars or the real jobs. They get to be accessories to Barbie and get like it. Like women do— in the real world.

Taking the time to invest in something like that, would have made the betrayal seem less out of place.

But what we got instead was a devoted/#1 fan of Barbie, that suddenly sees horses and a couple of smiles— and because he’s a male it’s believable he’d just flip?? Just like that?? 🤔

I too believe that men get away with too much, but that fever dream of a Barbieland montage was all just to lead up to a 3minute transition and 180 flip into a villainy— just to make a point? And then the point falls flat because I don’t know or care enough about Ken?

That’s just lazy writing 🤷🏻‍♀️

But I guess it’s the “Barbie” movie, not the “Ken” movie. So we can’t possibly write anything more than an accessorized Ken, even tho we want him to be the main antagonist later. (???)

I’ve seen better. And I’m deeply disappointed that girls and women are simply banding together against ANY criticism, all because we want this to be better than it actually was.

Im confident enough in my womanhood and my love for Barbie, that I don’t need this movie to be the hill I die on. Just to protect the actual Barbie legacy.

And thems my words.

It wasn’t good. And it’s not because men didn’t like it. It’s because the writing and editing was not good. And any of you females out there who want to admit too— you can. You do not have to like this movie.

So… That’s my review. I said what I said.

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time for a cup of coffee ♥️

ig: valentinagubchak

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A Bundle of Kits https://ift.tt/2WJXYJA via /r/Fox https://ift.tt/3brBGjO

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The same, but different.

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LUSH Series - Gouache by Madeleine Bellwoar

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Rudolf Nureyev by Richard Avedon