#2005-2008

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𝙽𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚐𝚒𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚇 2005-2008 😭 😆

𝚇𝚡𝚇-𝚑𝚎𝚎𝚜𝚢 𝙾𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚜𝚎 🎭

„𝙵𝚘𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚢 𝚙𝚑𝚞𝚌𝙺𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎“

𝚃𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝙼𝚎 𝙰𝚜 𝙸 𝙰𝚖 𝚋𝚢 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝𝚜, 𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚜 𝙻𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚣𝚘

[websuffering]

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[90s-2000s-barbie]

It’s Happy Bunny

Designed by artist & writer Jim Benton in the 1990s. Happy Bunny gained popularity in 2001 after stores like Hot Topic and Spencers began selling its merchandise.

[mainblag]

We are so back.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Now I have to ask- WHY do you hate Pacific Rim?

Okay, fair warning, this is about as bitter and salty and small-minded as day-old caviar. But. My bitter, salty (probably fishy) opinion:

Pacific Rim is only a good movie because it's a well-written story about robots punching monsters.

That's it. That's all there is to the movie.

I started out merely disappointed by Pacific Rim. We went gaga for the preview materials that promised these unique well-rounded character pairs and trios with these idiosyncratic robots from all these different Pacific nations... And then the movie itself is about some bland white American guy who pilots a robot named a racial slur, the second most fleshed-out team is bland white Australian guys, and the Chinese team is there, kind of, in the background, but don't worry they're going to die first. The "character-driven story" turned out to be "various characters take turns punching aliens" but, sure, whatever, I love the MCU so why not.

The day I went from "Pacific Rim is overrated" to "Pacific Rim is the worst thing that has ever happened to human civilization, I'm extremely normal about this" was the day I saw a Tumblr post suggesting we replace the Bechdel test with the Mako Mori test. Because Mako Mori has her own plot and doesn't kiss North Carolina at the end, making her a whole new type of feminist icon.

To which I was like:

We are talking about the same movie here, right? The Pacific Rim that can't even pass the Bechdel test? The Pacific Rim that's all about might-makes-right, the Pacific Rim that has ONE speaking role for ONE female character in its (from IMDB) 50-person cast? The Pacific Rim that repeatedly puts its only female character in danger and has her rescued by first Idris Elba then North Carolina? THAT Pacific Rim?

Is there a different Mako Mori I haven't met? Because the one I've seen a) has a character arc driven by deciding whether to obey her father or follow her heart, which is as inoffensive and stale as an unblessed communion wafer, b) does nothing that Ellen Ripley didn't do 30 years earlier, but with about 5% of the character depth Ripley got, and c) stands there in silence looking sad as two men punch each other over the question of her virtue.

Any post assuming this movie invented the idea of "small Asian woman kicks monster ass" needs to learn its damn history. Especially the ones acting like her being physically small is somehow a feminist bonus. There's something embarrassingly ahistorical about the whole thing.

And look. I get how we got here. I know how easily Tumblr backs you into a rhetorical corner of "calling a story Good can never mean merely 'enjoyable'; calling a story Good must mean 'virtuous'". Until next thing you know you're arguing that actually, shipping Obi-Wan/Darth Vader is a net good for all of society, because gay divorced middle-aged tyrants who use supplemental oxygen and murdered their exes in a custody dispute over the one kid (out of two) they actually care about deserve to see themselves in sci fi too! You only end up in that corner because half the time you're arguing against someone who says that shipping Obi-Wan/Darth Vader is literally the same thing as supporting father-son incest, so your real reasons for shipping them (1. foe yay, 2. old man yaoi) seem wildly insufficient.

Much of what I see about Pacific Rim seems neck-deep in the "it's not allowed to be a Good Movie unless it single-handedly dismantles the patriarchy" fallacy. There's nothing progressive about shipping two dudes best known for chopping off each other's body parts with laser swords. And there's nothing progressive about a movie having its only female character hug the male protagonist at the end instead of kissing him. You're allowed to like a thing just because it's well-made, without acting like a bog-standard normatively-broey action flick somehow invented a new form of feminism. Anyway, "Pacific Rim is a perfectly fine movie" is the hill I will die upon, heretical though it may be.

[3ll18u]

I miss the 2000’s…

i’ll see you in my dreams.

[moonyflesh]

the vibe i want to bring to the function:

he serves cunt every time and he knows it.

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[candyheartedchy]

Bunny Boys

[princesskaulitz]

i love how expressive his face is. his sweet voice is also so attractive.

[websuffering]

. . .

[90s-2000s-barbie]

Animal Ark Book Series (1994 - 2008)

[small-sinclair]

Telling Him You’re Pregnant

Bo Sinclair || Johnny Sawyer || Rusty Nail || Thomas Hewitt || Rz!Michael Myers

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He kisses you sweetly. “Tell me again,” he whispers. “Say it.” He’s nervous. He’s never nervous.

Tears fell as you held his cheeks, whispering again, “We’re pregnant.”

His rough, calloused hands touched your stomach gently. He felt like he was going to drop to his knees but didn’t. He couldn’t. He had to be strong enough for the both of you. He’d be damned if you got hurt because he was too weak.

“I love you,” he says in your hair, kissing you on the forehead then lips. “I love you.”

He held you a bit tighter that night and made sure his knife stayed by his side of the bed.

[swordsofsaturn]

early seasons spn homophobia is actually so crazy because they literally do not look gay. hamfisted gay jokes when the characters look straight as hell. "you look the type" they literally don't. is the thing

[umseb]

all of sebastian vettel's helmets from 2005 to 2022 📷 @.f1hlm / twitter

[moonyflesh]

behind the scenes of Saw - (2004), starring Cary Elwes as “(Doctor) Lawrence Gordon”, Leigh Whanell as “Adam Stanheight”, and Tobin Bell as “John Kramer”.

((HAPPY JAMES WAN SUMMER!))