#Excel to Tally Import

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Excel to Tally Streamlining Your Data Management

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The Power of Integration

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Benefits of Integration

The benefits of Tally integration are numerous. It reduces your workload by automating the data transfer process, saving you time and minimizing the need for manual intervention. The integration also allows you to import bulk entries to Tally easily, making it a convenient solution for managing large datasets.

How to Integrate Excel and Tally

To integrate Excel and Tally, you can use the Tally integration solution, which offers a range of features to simplify the process. You can create unlimited import templates, import transactions related to sales, purchase, journal, receipt, and more. The integration also supports the transfer of important transactions like vouchers, sales, and purchases within a few seconds.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the integration of Excel and Tally is a powerful tool for streamlining your data management. By automating the data transfer process, you can save time, reduce errors, and increase efficiency. Whether you are managing a small business or a large enterprise, Tally integration is an essential tool for any accounting professional.

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Having A Silly Thought about this post:

I think, at some point, Q-branch becomes very absorbed in the discussion of how Evil Overlord and Evil Consort are clearly two separate genders which bear no relationship to the gender binary of masculinity vs. femininity. A cis man can certainly be an Evil Consort! A nonbinary individual or a person whose gender presentation leans more toward the femme side of things can certainly be an Evil Overlord! These things are complex and variable and must not be restricted based on the artificial confines of the gender binary!

There is much discussion on this topic (a very normal topic of conversation in Q-branch, TBH). People begin analyzing themselves to determine whether they are more on the 'Evil Overlord' side of the spectrum or more on the 'Evil Consort' side.

(Soon, a small group insists that a third gender of 'Evil Henchperson' must be created as well, and this is accordingly done. A few other 'evil' genders pop up, too, as some techs choose a different label for themselves. But most people in the department are trying to decide whether they're more of an Evil Overlord or an Evil Consort.)

Graphs and charts are created to analyze the ratio of responses and to sift for patterns in the collected data. (Again, this is a very normal extracurricular activity in Q-branch.)

Q, everyone agrees, is an Evil Overlord and not at all an Evil Consort! This is understood. (Q does not speak to this himself, because he is busy finishing the annual budget, but his minions feel confident that they have assessed him correctly.)

And at some point, 007 turns up in Q-branch and wants to know what's going on with the white board that says 'Evil Overlord' and 'Evil Consort', with tally marks underneath it.

One of the bolder interns explains the matter to him. (Half the techs are now feeling very awkward and avoiding his eyes. How frivolous they must seem to a man who puts his life on the line for England every day!)

But Bond listens very solemnly and then tells them to put a tally mark under 'Evil Consort' on his behalf, because he is UNDOUBTEDLY that type. He is confident that he would look SPLENDID in a skintight black leather outfit, lounging across his overlord's lap while a traitorous minion is brought in for punishment. He would be EXCEPTIONALLY good at climbing out of the water, gleaming and dripping, in a tiny swimsuit, while his Evil Overlord makes evil phone calls on the deck of an evil yacht. He knows EXACTLY what the duties of Evil Consort would entail, and he could perform them with APLOMB. He would bring tremendous style and panache to the role!

...This is probably the point when Q pops out from his office to see what all the ruckus is about, and why Bond is loitering in Q-branch with a bunch of rapt technicians hanging on his every word.

When Bond explains, very seriously, that he is contributing his personal data for use on this important project (he is 100% an Evil Consort, and yes, Carstairs, he WILL fill out your form and offer supplemental data for additional analysis! glad to help!) Q sputters. He tells Bond to stop being ridiculous.

Bond, very seriously, informs Q that he cannot help being so good at smirking, smoldering, and sashaying around in risque outfits. Don't hate the player, Q. Hate the game.

Q is silent for a long, exasperated moment. Then he heaves a sigh and returns to his paperwork.

Meanwhile, the minions nod at each other solemnly, and silently agree that Bond would be an excellent Consort for their beloved Overlord.

...Just another normal day in Q-branch!

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Are You In Love?

Here’s what people say they hate in romance:  in Chapter One, a character chats with you for a while and then the game asks you if you are in love with this character, or how you feel about this character—are there sparks?  Is it true love?  Are you not feeling it?

We’re used to this structure, and we accept it, possibly grudgingly, because we don’t want to miss getting on the romance train—this is the on-ramp, and we don’t want the game to set a flag like *notinterestedinromance true or something like that.  Because then we’ve lost our chance.

However, I think there’s a real place for it.  I *like* it, used in a particular way—when you are defining a relationship with a character.  So for example, the player is just meeting Rory in Chapter One of Tally Ho.  But the character and Rory have been together for a long time.

So when I ask the player to define whether the relationship is one of restrained desire, the kneejerk reaction on the part of the player may be “I just met Rory!  I don’t know!”  Ditto for Vyv in Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale:  you just met them, and one of the first questions I ask you is whether your relationship with Vyv was, back at school, marked by physical or emotional intimacy.  Even more so for Frankincense in Tally Ho, where I ask the player to make that very important decision even before ever meeting Frankincense (and they won’t for several chapters more!)

I think this is a powerful tool if wielded properly.  This is collaborative storytelling with the reader.  It’s sort of a confident bet I make with the reader—I wager, if you say you feel desire for Rory, that I can write the game that follows such that that is, in fact, true.

If you say, “Yes, I have been pining for Frankincense,” I wager that I can write Frankincense in such a way that you feel that pining, thus making your choice retroactively true.  The problem is when the game’s writing can’t make good on the early choice with solid romance writing.

When it works, it is amazing sleight-of-hand; the writer is promising you—luring you—saying that “if you pick this character to love” you will, in fact, love this character, and the writing will make good on that vow.

I’m not saying that it’s not important to have multiple on-ramps into romances, but rather that I think there’s a place for collaborative romance writing with the player—and this requires a lot of trust in the author.  When the player clicks “yes, I’ve always loved him,” that’s putting tons of faith in the narrative, and the author has to meet that with excellent romance writing. It's the failure of meeting that contract, I suspect, that players hate about the question about whether they love this character they (the player) have just met.

More discussion of interactive game design and a beta of Tea and Scones here:

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i actually love so many titles available through the “choice of games” app and have amassed a small library of them over the last couple of years, so if you are looking for text-based games to play knowing that your dollars will go directly towards supporting the artists who created them, i have some excellent game suggestions for you:

this is probably my number one favourite game available through the app, strictly in terms of the quality of the writing, the creative means of having your character interact with the world, varied and diverse roleplay opportunities, and a satisfying ending. do you like vampires, particularly vampire: the masquerade? are you prepared to care about cars like you never cared about them before? kyle marquis knocks it out of the park.

if you’ve ever found yourself craving a roleplay experience clearly inspired by jeeves and wooster and the absurdity of “the importance of being earnest,” this is the game for you. i truly don’t want to say much more because it is SUCH a delightful journey to experience this game without too many spoilers, but if you want a sweet romance game that will still leave you in stitches from laughter, you have to pick this one up. and, good news—there’s a sequel!

so while i really enjoyed tally ho, i have to say that it’s in jolly good that kreg segall really gets to stretch his writing, character, and game design chops; it is a much larger story in that there are over 1.2 million words spanning so many different narrative paths that i still haven’t found them all. and! you can select your key choices from the previous game, including the name of the valet/maid and who they romanced. you aren’t playing the same character, which is a good thing imho, but a lot of favourites from the first game make a reappearance in this one, always to delightful effect. and fitzie!! oh, where to start with fitzie. anyway it’s quite clear by the time you complete this game that segall has created something truly special for us to enjoy, so i do hope that he returns to writing these games one day.

these are my three favourites!! i do have some others to add but i also lost track of time while throwing this together lol gotta run some errands now.

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Uglies - Movie Thoughts

On a whim, I decided to start re-reading the Uglies series a couple months ago -- so imagine my surprise when I found out it was getting a movie! Said movie is now out, and it was interesting to watch with the book being so fresh in my head.

Overall, it's... eh. It's not a complete train wreck, the way most critics seem to want you to think, but it is fairly bland and uninspired. It's a very watered down version of the book. It also has the misfortune of feeling like yet another a Hunger Games wannabe, despite the original book pre-dating that series by several years.

Spoilers for everything under the cut.

What I Liked

Based on reviews, I seem to be in the minority here, but I thought the cast was pretty good. People seem to hate Joey King as Tally, but I thought she was fine. Brianne Tju is easily the best in the cast, stealing the whole damn movie as Shay. Laverne Cox also gives an excellent performance as Cable, though I do think she should not have been given that role for other reasons (which I'll get into later).

I've also seen complaints that the characters aren't ugly enough. They talk about how ugly they are and point out their specific ugly features, when they don't actually appear that ugly. And I think everyone complaining about that is completely missing the point. The "Uglies" aren't actually ugly -- they're just normal people, who've been conditioned to think their imperfect features are hideous.

I was honestly unsure how the Pretties would be visualized -- in fact, I wondered if the book would just be fundamentally unadaptable because of it -- but they did a fairly good job. I think leaning on CGI and unnatural affectations was the right way to go. All the Pretties have this uncanny quality to them that suits the story perfectly.

The overall production design was solid as well. I like how Uglyville is all gray concrete and muted tones, while New Pretty Town is shimmering golds. Then upon reaching the Smoke, all the colors of nature finally come through. I do think that could have pushed that last one a little bit more, but it still works well.

Apart from that, I don't really have much to shout out. It's competently written, well-performed, well put together. I know it doesn't sound like I have much praise, but it is a competent movie.

What I'm Mixed On

By far the biggest change from the book is Peris becoming a Special. And I'm torn on it. On the one hand, it does make him a bigger part of the story -- he's honestly not much more than an inciting incident in the book. It gives him and Tally a unique arc that's probably the strongest through-line in the story. On the other hand, the Specials as a concept are so under-cooked (more on that later) and the actor is so bland that it still doesn't quite land the way it's supposed to.

What I Didn't Like

The pacing of this movie is by far its worst issue. We are flying through this plot. There is no time for anything to breathe, for characters to develop meaningful connections, for the bigger moments to feel earned. Some things do make sense to condense -- Tally's journey to the Smoke would have been incredibly boring without her internal monologue, so condensing most of that into a montage makes sense. But I do feel we lost too much. That's where a lot of Tally's characterization comes out, where we can see her bravery and ingenuity -- none of that comes across in the movie.

A lot of important beats are rushed. Tally agreeing to help Dr. Cable is over in a flash. It feels like Tally's in the Smoke for all of fifteen minutes. Tally and David barely interact, so their relationship has no real stake. Everyone is kidnapped by Special Circumstances, and then rescued immediately after. I almost think a 5-6 episode mini-series would have worked better -- but that might have introduced the opposite problem, where everything takes too long.

The movie also has frequent montages that don't really work. It seems like they were trying to show the passage of time, but it just makes everything feel even shorter.

The beginning of the movie has an exposition problem, as well. It opens with a montage explaining the entire setting... before leading into several scenes that also explain the setting through dialogue. We get fed the same details about the surgery and the Rusties and the flowers at least three times at the start, and it gets grating.

As already mentioned, Tally is pretty severely underwritten. In the book, she has a distinct personality and a unique presence. In the movie, she's just the main character because she happens to be the main character. Her intelligence and resourcefulness are pretty much gone.

I also think changing her motivation for going to the Smoke did her a disservice. In the book, Tally goes to the Smoke so she can have her surgery, and because she's convinced herself that Shay needs her help. In the movie, Dr. Cable tells her that the Smokies have a weapon, and she will be saving lives by helping to find them. I think giving her a more selfless motivation robs her of her character arc. She always comes across as someone trying to help, who wants to best for other people, rather than someone who had to consciously learn that.

The Specials are barely even a presence. I'm not sure they were even directly called Specials. People who hadn't read the book would never realize that there was an entire separate status of person here. You never see their disturbingly beautiful faces or their terrifying strength. Considering how pivotal the Specials are to the overall story, especially in the later books, it's really odd not to see them properly established here.

Like I said, Laverne Cox gives an excellent performance as Dr. Cable... but I think they should have thought twice before casting a trans woman. It's not necessarily that there's a trans woman in the villainous role, but that there's a trans woman in the villainous role who specifically wants to force people to have surgeries to brainwash them. Like... did the optics of that really not occur to anyone? At all? I think Cox could have played David's mother, instead.

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smartass, kyle . b ୨୧ [2]

pairing:: kyle broflovski x fem!reader

synopsis:: kyle broflovski has been a pain in the ass since day 1. you hate him, probably more than he hates you, but you're gonna have to swallow your pride if you want him to tutor you for the worst subject known to man: calculus.

started 8/9/23 ↫

ongoing ↫

warnings:: excessive cussing, death of a parent, underage substance use, [will add tags w/ updates]

part 1

TICK.

TICK.

TICK.

Your hand ached as your pencil sped across your paper, filling in circles and using big, meaningless words to finish sentences as you took the literature quiz.

This was your best subject. Here was where you shined. Excelled. Transcended!

"Oh, that's a good one." You mumbled to yourself, writing it down. Brilliance couldn't be rushed.

TICK.

That damned clock. It did nothing to calm you as you frantically checked over your test, making sure no word or answer was out of place. There was no room for mistakes. Everything had to be perfectly executed.

TICK.

You inhale through your mouth, doing mini-breathing exercises to calm your anxiety. Only one page left to double check and you were home free.

That's when you heard it.

Scrrrrrrch.

The shifting of a desk.

The movement of a chair.

There was no way was there?

Panic arose, and your head whipped around just in time to catch Kyle frantically climbing out of his seat.

Oh, hell no.

Slamming your pencil down, you rush to gather your papers, praying to whatever the fuck was up there that your checks had been thorough enough.

You could feel the eyes on you as you jumped to your feet, chair slamming to the floor in your haste. He already had a head start, but you weren't gonna let that phase you.

Your shoes thud against the wood floor, (the school was so fucking cheap and never renovated anything) the classroom seeming so much bigger than it did before. Kyle spared a glance back at you, a mix of determination and fear in his eyes as he ran toward Mr. Garrisons desk.

'You're not getting me this time Broflovski.'

You were almost there...

almost...

"THERE!"

"HERE!"

...

"You two are fully aware there's still an hour and a half left, right?"

"Only?!" Kyle cried, his voice doing this whiny whimpery thing that did things to your stomach you'd rather not acknowledge right now.

You decide to ignore him instead, shoving an elbow into his side and slamming your paper on the desk for your teacher to read.

"Done! And I'm 99.9% sure everything's correct, so I just did basically all of your job for you." You smile. "You're welcome."

Your balding teacher looks anything but, sighing and soothing his temples with his fingertips.

"You both never cease to amaze me." He snatches Kyle's paper from his hands before setting both of your tests into a bucket next to his desk with 'hellhole' written on it in sloppy sharpie.

"Now, go sit your asses down. Everyone else probably hasn't even written their names yet."

Kyle glares daggers at you the whole way back to your seats, you happily flicking him the bird in retaliation.

' That's another tally added.' You think, extremely pleased with yourself.

That feeling of triumph quickly goes away though once you spot Wendy, your best friend of 2 years, sending you an icy glare from her seat behind yours.

"We've only been in this classroom for 20 minutes Y/N." She says quietly enough for only you to hear.

"...I know.."

Her eyebrows furrow even further and now you know you're in trouble.

"What did I tell you about beefing with my boyfriends bestie?!"

Grimacing, you slide back into your seat. You don't bother to hide the fact that you're entirely turned towards her desk. Mr. Garrison could give two shits.

"Wendy, please don't say beefing," You plead, already for a verbal beating. "It paints an ugly picture in my head."

"Not important!"

She's frustrated, you can tell. This has been a thing for the last...well, actually, for the entirety you've known Wendy. Her and Stan are attached at the hip (gross, but cute) and every problem between their best friends brings problems to them.

You hate making Wendy pick sides, and she's never even considered it. It's always "talk it out like normal people Y/N!"

That was just it though. Kyle Broflovski wasn't normal. It's like he got off on making your life fucking miserable. How and why did he have so many friends??? Why did people even like him???

Anger (and maybe a little jealousy) burned through you, Wendy's words falling on deaf ears.

You hated that boy.

"Y/N?! Jesus christ, your face is all red!"

Wendy's harsh whisper shouting broke you out of your thoughts, and anger wasn't the only thing your face was burning with now.

"S-Sorry, Wen. You were...you were saying?"

Shame creeped in as you watched your best friend huff, hurt written all over her face. She grips her pen in her hand once more, eyes falling back to her paper.

"I love you Y/N, you know that. But I love Stan too, and you and Ky's kiddy fights make things awkward for everyone."

She sighs, lip quivering slightly.

Now you really felt like an ass.

"I wish you two would just get along. You have so much more in common than you know!"

A scoff leaves you before you can help it. "Yeah? And what exactly could I have in common with that dick?"

Wendy remains silent, obviously done with the conversation.

Frustrated, you decide to address this at another time. Wendy usually needed some time to cool off after big disagreements anyway.

Turning back towards your desk, you reach down and sift through your backpack for your history homework.

Might as well do something productive for the next hour and a half.

──

"Dad, I'm home!"

The lack of an answer is nothing new to you as you step into the foyer of your home, closing and locking the front door behind you.

Soft snoring leads you to the living room. There your dad lays, obviously exhausted. A half eaten microwave dinner sits on the armrest of the sofa while he sleeps, small strings of drool dripping from his lips.

It was a weird kind of adorable. A small pang of sympathy rings through your chest.

"Hey dad." Grabbing a blanket from the opposite chair, you drape it across his sleeping body, making sure to tuck his feet in the way you know he prefers.

"School was exhausting. What's new?" You chuckle to yourself, pressing a soft kiss to his forehead. His hair is soft underneath your fingertips and you're grateful you resemble him so much.

"I did turn in my test before Kyle though. That and him busting his ass in the middle of the cafeteria during lunch was probably the highlight of my day."

He stirs slightly and you make sure to move the dinner onto the coffee table, just in case he hits it.

Taking a seat next to him, you rest your head on his shoulder, enjoying how your breath flows in time with his.

The silence allows your mind to flow freely, thoughts from all throughout today suddenly becoming the forefront of your attention.

"Sometimes.."

Silence.

Wendy's face appears in your mind, your conversation from earlier playing on loop.

Sighing, you run your fingers through your hair, frowning at nothing.

"I don't know. Sometimes it's hard to be your own person and keep the people you love happy."

Your eyes drift back to your sleeping father, smiling at the irony.

"Funny how you and Wen's are the only two on that list, huh pops."

The loneliness resonating off that statement isn't new to you. It's an underlying feeling, one that's always there. Sometimes quiet. Sometimes loud.

Never gone.

"Goodnight pops."

And with that, you head to bed, dreading tomorrow.

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If you had to rank yoir top five sunny episodes what would they be and why?

ok this is a near impossible question for me to answer bc there are so many I love and so many little things scattered across tons of episodes BUT if I absolutely had to pick a top 5 (in no particular order I’m sorry lol):

1. The Gang Beats Boggs

- I just think this one is so fun?? I love when we get to see the gang interact with other people/experience things outside the bar. I love Dennis’ little Sherlock moment, I love the tally marks, I love Dee just thinking they’re talking about a whole other person, I love Mac observing them all. It’s just excellent.

2. The Gang Gets Held Hostage

- I love me a McPoyle moment ok. I love the sheer grossness in this episode. Like the lukewarm milk and the fact that everyone is just drenched in sweat and the way they lean into this pseudo Stockholm syndrome. Every moment is just super charged and the stakes feel high and it’s just so good.

3. Mac Finds His Pride

- Listen. Maybe this is super obvious of me but it just really really deserves a spot on this list for so many reasons. I’ve already talked about it quite a bit but I love the way this episode just punched us all in the gut with sincerity after seasons upon seasons of punchlines. It meant a lot to me as a queer person and just. The dance itself is gorgeous.

4. Charlie Work

- another relatively obvious one but it’s a cinematic masterpiece. Charlie Day is absolutely brilliant and I can’t believe he didn’t win something for his performance in this. The amount of detail (like the way he slams the chair over and over) is just stunning and the payoff is so well executed. I also just really care about the fact that Charlie Kelly is very smart and is in a lot of ways the glue holding the gang together. We got to see him shine and that’s important to me.

5. Hero or Hate Crime?

God I love this one. It’s fucking hilarious but also full of deep and real implications and character development (and regression). It’s just a perfect showcase of all of their characters. Similar to The Gang Gets Analyzed which is also really high on my list.

Honorable mentions to: Dennis and Dee Go On Welfare, Sweet Dee Has a Heart Attack, The Nightman Cometh, CharDee MacDennis: The Game of Games, The Gang Dines Out, Reynolds vs. Reynolds: The Cereal Defense, and finally Mac & Dennis Move to the Suburbs

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i am not allowed to watch the newest ep before posting this

ghouls forgive me for over analyzing- but i LOVED how Frankie's place on the leader board doesn't change! The i m p l i c a t i o n s

so the point of the growing ghoulia ep is both Ghoulia and Draculaura are feeling a lot of pressure to do really well at their school stuff:

Ghoulia because zombies in general have a hard time squeezing all the extra stuff that would earn points, and she wants to be first to top the chart. Draculaura, fresh from the ep where her dad was worried her witchcraft would make her life harder, wants to 100% prove she can be a witch AND do well in her other stuff.

(ohhh the DElicious irony of that urge pushing her to accidentally do the thing she NEVER wanted to do- hurt monsters with her magic- i AdORE every time she draws the line of I Will Not Hurt People With This. i LOVE the look at how she realizes Ghoulia shouldn't have to compete against MAGIC along with everything else- AND AND AND how they both decide to be little less frantic about leader boards. we don't even see what the final redone results are! Because that's the point- they aren't THAT important! without the time spell there's a good chance ghoulia stayed in 1st this time, but the episode doesn't care, and the meta of that is vrvrvrvvrrbrrbrbrbrbr)

where was i. Oh yeah, Frankie!

they are second to last before the new points are tallied up- just above Ghoulia- and they're STILL second to last after the new calculation is done, this time just ahead of Heath!

First tally: 1 Drac, 2 Spec, 3 Heth, 4 Lag, 5 Claw, 6 Man, 7 Frank, 8 Ghoul

Second Tally, before drac jumped ahead suddenly: 1 Ghoul, 2 Man, 3 Claw

Second tally after drac did her thing: 1 Drac, 2 Ghoul, 3 Man, - - - 7 Frank, 8 Heth

(forgive, i cannot take scream caps right now)

WHY IS THAT EXCITING??? BECAUSE>>>>>> everyone else that we see DID move on the board. but not THEM!!!

and the only extra curricular thing we see them part of in the ep? the only thing they do that could get them points? It's something they already do and like.

It's a queer club- Frankie, the only openly non-binary monster we've seen, who introduced themselves with their preferred pronouns- there is no way they're doing a queer club for points. they're there because they want to be, it's fun, it's something they enjoy-

AND THAT S THE THING

so MANY of the kids at monster high are trying to live up to something! or prove something!

Cleo needing to earn a sliver of the respect her big sister gets

Duce trying not to let down the new Gorgon tradition of school excellence

Draculaura desperately wanting to make her dad proud AND be a witch AND earn enough positive interaction so's not to start decaying

Toralei and HER mom who is..... yeah....

heck even Spectra mentions bad grades could get privileges revoked by her family

Clawdeen doesn't have pressure from her dad (or mom, obviously) but she does struggle with wanting to fit in and belong in the monster culture she's still really new to- she's solidly in the middle range for spirit points, showing how active she is in school unlife- and several of her eps are about learning NOT to focus too much on fitting in or going with the monster flow. Instincts. The push to ignore them sometimes for her new home and peers is sTRONG.

but Frankie?

Frankie's got brilliant brain bits. They're smart, perceptive, sometimes VERY intuitive without noticing it-

yeah they have a permanent case of the stumbly clumsies and their brain sparks make them zone out sometimes- and they've literally only been alive for a few months so there's a LOT of normal everyday stuff they don't know about, and...

...... that rarely seems to bother them?

They're made from famous and talented monsters, they know it and are HAPPY to show off all their cool brain bits

and so far they haven't ever worried about living up to those monsters' reputations or legacies. their parents made a teen stuffed FULL with smarts, but getting amazing grades isn't something Frankie frets about?

they are SECOND TO LAST on the LEADER BOARD and they STAY THERE

the implication, the unspoken thing about all that is-

Frankie was made to have fun.

They're here at monster high, also to have Fun. To experience stuff. Make friends. Learn things, sure- but learn things they like, at their own pace

this could change if we ever see their parents but- but for NOW, the way things have been shown-

Frankie at least doesn't seem to be feeling any pressure to be anything more than what they already are. And that's really. Very. Wonderful to see

[darkmaga-returns]

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2024 ELECTION PSYOP: It’s Not What You Think

Posted on November 11, 2024 by State of the Nation

Because the following 2024 POTUS election analysis is the most accurate one you will ever read.

SOTN Editor’s Note: This Alt Media platform has not yet found the time to write “the story behind the story” that we knew was critical to understand since the next four years will unfold accordingly.

We have read Miles Mathis over the years and knew that he was a truth-seeker par excellence.  His perceptive breakdown of various — and very real — conspiracies is frequently second to none.  However, we do vigorously disagree with one premise in his piece below and that is that this particular POTUS election was, in fact, WAY TOO BIG TO RIG.

However, while that ‘little’ data point may appear to weaken the following argument, it is by no means mutually exclusive with the SOTN position, which fully agrees with Mathis that every vote tally and ballot count was controlled with great exactitude.  Of course, the true vote was a landslide for Trump, but they still gave Harris way more than she actually received.

KEY POINTS: It was clear to our stable of political analysts that Kamala Harris did NOT receive anywhere near the 70,357,216 supposedly showing up in her column.  Nor did Harris win the 226 electoral votes or prevail in all of those 20 states.  Clearly she lost Virginia, Maine and quite likely New Hampshire; and Mathis well explains exactly why the final election tallies are being meticulously tweaked by the hidden controllers.

We have read and concur with and posted his 2024 election analysis and commentary in its entirety below.  Not only will you not be disappointed, you will learn some extremely important info that will serve you well going forward.

SOTN owes Mathis a debt of gratitude for saving us the time to write a similar piece; as always, his take includes penetrating insights ours would not have had and vice versa.

[duhragonball]

[FIC] Luffa: The Legendary Super Saiyan (215/?)

Disclaimer: This story features characters and concepts based on Dragon Ball,  which is a trademark of Bird Studio/Shueisha and Toei Animation.   This is an unauthorized work, and no profit is being made  on this work by me. This story is copyright of me. Download if you like, but please don’t archive it without my permission. Don’t be shy.

Continuity Note: This story This story takes place about 66 years after the events of Dragon Ball Z.

[9 May, Age 791. The Tuffle Planet.]

Son Goku was the Legendary Super Saiyan, perhaps the last, depending on how the legend was interpreted. The stories said that one arose every thousand years, but after Son Goku's ascension, there were many other Super Saiyans who arose in the next few decades. Were they any less legendary for it? Or was the timing all that mattered?

None of that was important to Goku now. The legend, his Saiyan heritage, his recent recruitment into the Time Patrol, the lore behind his present location. All of it was secondary to his current problem: He was fighting the previous Legendary Super Saiyan, and she had him on the run.

With incredible speed, he darted through a vast industrial complex, slipping between buildings and computer stations and leaping through gaps among the tangle of cables and pipes. When necessary, he would smash his way through an obstacle, but he tended to any course through the woods that didn't slow him down.

Behind him, a swarm of ghostly creatures chased after him. Their bodies looked like they were sculpted out of mochi, with mitten-like hands and blobby tails instead of legs. But their heads were more defined, and each of their cackling faces bore the likeness of Goku's opponent, the Super Saiyan Luffa.

Goku wasn't sure how many of the ghosts she had made. Counting wasn't something he excelled at, and there were so many of them that he couldn't spare the time to get an accurate tally. Also, the ghosts exploded whenever they touched anything, which was why he led them through the deserted complex. Every so often, a ghost would run into a retaining wall, or a fence, or one of her comrades. Each collision set off an explosion, which potentially caused other ghosts to get knocked into something else and set off additional explosions. And so there was no point in trying to count, since the number kept changing anyway.

Another issue was the yellow fog that continued to spread across the ground. Goku was unfamiliar with the technique, but he had enough combat experience to hazard a guess. It seemed like means to track Goku's location. He could sense Luffa's unique power in the fog, just as he could sense it in the ghosts. But the fog wasn't attacking him. At worst, it accumulated on his boots and pant legs as he ran. So if he concealed his ki , as he was doing now, then she could still track him by sensing her own ki, which was emanated by the fog. Any disturbance would represent her target, and the ghosts could follow Goku's wake.

It was a brilliant application, and Goku couldn't help but imagine how useful this would have been during the conflict with Dr. Gero and his androids. The ghost swarm also might have helped, as the energy constructs were just independent enough to search a large swath of territory. The only downside Goku could find was that both techniques used a great deal of power to implement. He doubted that he or Vegeta could have accomplished something like this back when Gero was causing trouble. As for the ki ghosts, they were a favorite technique of Gotenks, the fusion of Goten and Trunks. In the boys' hands, it was little more than a childish prank, and Goku had never seen either of the boys try to use it separately. Gotenks had the power to spare on such flashy techniques, but Goten and Trunks did not.

All of this meant that Luffa seemed to be operating on a different level. Whether or not she was on a higher level remained to be seen. Goku looked forward to putting that to the test, but he was still taking her measure. For now, though, it seemed she was much more willing to unload costly ki techniques to overwhelm an opponent. As powerful as her ghost swarm was, most of that power was being wasted on stacks and cooling towers and other inanimate objects that couldn't fight back. It suggested that Luffa was either reckless or overconfident, or she really did have the kind of power in store that would justify these tactics. Goku was very interested in seeing which it would be.

As he contemplated all of this, his next leap brought his foot down on a rusty pipe, and his weight caused it to burst apart into pieces. This gave him an idea, and he quickly turned around in the middle of his next jump and held out his hands. With a "Kiai!" shout, he produced a shockwave in the air, one powerful enough to blow the broken fragments along the path he had traveled. Before he spun around to continue on his path, he saw the ghosts were starting to catch up to him.

"Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo- hoooooo !" came the ghosts' mocking laughter.

Then came a fresh round of explosions, followed by shrieks of panic.

"Heh-hee!" Goku chuckled to himself as he ran. The forest was doing most of what he needed without any help, but that didn't mean he couldn't help things along.

His best guess was that Luffa was flustered by the hit-and-run tactics he had used against her earlier. She kept increasing her ki , while he maintained a certain level, and she was impatient to know what he was up to. The fog and the ghost swarm were her attempt to force his hand, but what she didn't realize was that this was Goku's hand. He was used to fighting at a disadvantage, and holding back at the start of a fight was a terrific way to gauge an opponent's strengths and weaknesses.

And… all strategic considerations aside, Goku just enjoyed fighting this way. Battles like these were few and far between, and he had no interest in wearing himself out before things got really good later on. He believed that Luffa could understand that sentiment, since there probably wasn't a great deal of competition in her own era, but she seemed to have a different approach to that.

This fight was clearly important to her, in many ways. Goku didn't think he understood completely, but he understood enough. For her, it was more than just a battle with a worthy adversary. She saw in Goku a kindred spirit, someone who understood what it was like to be what she was. She wanted to make a good impression, and maybe that was affecting her judgment. She was trying too hard to make this moment live up to her expectations.

That troubled him somewhat. Goku felt she deserved to have a worthwhile experience from all of this. At the same time, however, he recognized this as a vulnerability that he could exploit.

As he ran, he snatched something from a catwalk that looked like a toolbox. Wrapping both hands around it, he crushed it, then charged a small amount of ki into his palms. When he threw the pieces over his shoulder, they launched from his fingers like bullets, which spread out in all directions behind him. The explosions that followed were further away than before, suggesting that the ghost herd had thinned out a little more, or perhaps they had learned to keep their distance.

There seemed to be a clearing up ahead, and Goku considered doubling back to stay under the relative cover of the facilty. Then, as he got closer to the edge of the complex, he could see another one that lay just beyond it. He would only be exposed for the short time it would take him to cross the clearing, so it seemed like a risk worth taking. Goku had lived in the woods around Mt. Paozu for most of his life, and he reasoned that if Planet Vegeta's terrain was anything like Earth, then the space in between was probably a creek or a river. With any luck, he could get a drink as he crossed.

But as he reached the edge, he soon realized that he had miscalculated. There was a stream running between the two complexes, but it was at the bottom of a deep ravine. By the time Goku was close enough to see this, he barely had time to grab hold of a guardrail to stop himself from going over a cliff.

"Whoa!" he exclaimed as he took a closer down the ravine. The water at the bottom looked like a thin blue ribbon along the rocks. It would be easy to fly across, but that would risk giving away his position to Luffa.

Whatever he did next, he would have to choose quickly. The ghosts were still on his tail, and they showed no signs of slowing down. As Goku considered it, he noticed the yellow fog was drifting over the edge, and dissipating as it fell down the ravine. That gave him an idea.

"Here goes nothing," he said as he stood on the edge with his back to the ravine. He held out his hands and raised them over his face. "All right," he called out. "Come an' get me!"

The ghosts obliged, and as they raced toward him, Goku shouted "Taiyo-ken!" and dropped over the edge.

The bright light he created could be seen for kilometers in all directions. As he had hoped, many of the ghosts, dazzled by the effect, veered off course and ended up colliding with each other. Others continued on their path, crossing the ravine only to run into the trees on the other side. Then there were some who managed to track Goku's movements. These pursued him down the ravine as he fell, but most of them were unprepared for the uneven surfaces along the sides. There simply wasn't room for all of them, and as the walls of the ravine narrowed on the way down, they found it even harder to avoid one another.

As Goku fell, he saw the ground above beginning to collapse from all of the explosions. Soon, he had an avalanche bearing down on him instead of a swarm of exploding ghosts.

"Yikes!" he cried. "I guess I didn't think this through so well after all!"

Angling his descent, he added just enough power to fall faster than gravity would allow. When he finally splashed into the stream at the bottom, he was mostly clear of the rockslide, and from there he could allow the current to carry him the rest of the way to safety. Satisfied, Goku floated along for a few more minutes before swimming to a bank to regroup.

He could still hear explosions in the distance, but he believed the worst of the ghost swarm was over. As for the fog, he could still sense traces of Luffa's ki on his clothes and in the air, but it was not nearly as concentrated as it had been up above. There seemed to be a limit to her ability's range. If he kept his distance, he could avoid detection.

"She must not be able to sense it when it's this diluted," Goku said as he looked over his boots. "Either that, or she's not looking for anything this far away. The ki from the water and plants is enough to drown it out. Hey, wait a minute…"

He snapped his fingers and a broad genial grin crossed his lips. "Yeah!" he said. "It just might work!"

Above the ruined industrial complex, Luffa surveyed her handiwork. There was no sign of Son Goku, and no indication that he had used his ki to escape the scene either. Frustrated, she turned her head and spat.

"This is really starting to piss me off," she muttered to no one. "Oh, it's impressive, sure, but we didn't go to all this trouble to play hide and seek! If I wanted to match wits in some sort of asymmetrical wargame, I would have set something up with the other Time Patrollers, or…"

The moment suddenly reminded her of training sessions with a band of Saiyans on Nat-Chezz II. Maybe it was the smell of burning buildings, or the lack of an opponent who could just stand and fight. Whatever it was, Luffa found herself thinking about her wife again. If she had been here for this, Zatte would have been rooting for Goku.

"You'd be proud of him, Zattie," Luffa said. "I'm proud too, but if that big orange goof doesn't start taking this seriously, I'm going to beat him within an inch of his life!"

"Looking for me, Luffa? Well, here I am!"

She turned to find Goku floating nearby. To her surprise, he was back in his base form.

"What the hell is this ?" she demanded. "Are you giving up already? We've barely gotten started!"

"Sorry, but you won't win this fight so easily, Luffa," Goku replied. "You did a lot of damage down there, but I didn't get a scratch. If you're not careful, you'll wear yourself out."

"Save your concern, Kakarot," Luffa said. "I've got all the power I need to put you down. Now get back into Super Saiyan and let's continue, unless you'd rather teleport back to your hiding place again."

"You fight your way, Luffa," Goku said, "and I'll fight my way. Just because I can turn into a Super Saiyan doesn't mean that's always the best move. I'll use it when I'm good and ready."

"Fine," Luffa said. "Have it your way. If this is all you've got for me, then I might as well wrap this up!"

With that, she charged Goku, ready to strike, though expecting him to teleport to safety. Instead, he backed away, and when she caught him with a punch, he rolled with it.

"You would have been better off surrendering, Kakarot!" Luffa shouted. "At least there's some dignity in that!"

She caught up to him and hit him again. This time, Goku dodged, but she caught him with a kick, and then punched him again. Every time she hit him, he cried out in pain.

"You're not even trying anymore!" she snarled. "What the hell is wrong with you?!"

Goku recovered and caught his breath. Then he raised his arms in front of his face. "Are you gonna talk, or fight?" he asked.

Luffa screamed as she pummeled him again. To his credit, Goku was able to block or avoid the first few strikes, but Luffa was too skilled and the gap between their powers was too great for him to last long. Soon, she was picking him apart with precision blows on his arms, chest, and abdomen. When she was satisfied with this, she readied a ki blast and fired. The resulting explosion sent Goku sailing through the air until he crashed to the scorched earth where the industrial facility had once been.

He lay there in a heap, not moving until Luffa alighted near him and grabbed him by the collar of the blue shirt he wore under his gi . Then he began to make a giddy chuckle, as though he were too delirious from the beating he was taking.

"What is the meaning of this?" Luffa demanded. " You challenged me , and then you go and make a mockery of our fight?! Now you won't even defend yourself? And you call yourself a Super Saiyan ?!"

"Heh… Heh-heh," Goku gasped. "Well… it seemed like the best way… but I gotta admit, I'm starting to wish I'd come up with a better distraction."

"Distraction?!" Luffa growled. "Distraction from what?!"

She saw it in his eyes. There was a glow reflected in his brown irises, one that Luffa might have mistaken for the sun, except the angle was all wrong. And it was getting bigger and brighter. By the time Luffa turned, it was nearly on top of her, and she barely had time to fly out of its path.

Then it turned and followed her .

She had seen the Spirit Bomb before. On past Time Patrol missions, she had seen Goku deploy it against Vegeta, then Frieza, and finally Majin Buu. Each time, the Spirit Bomb had proven exceptionally difficult to assemble and launch. The Tuffle Planet was abandoned, and yet somehow Goku had made a Spirit Bomb as big as a house, and in a fraction of the time it should have taken.

She had forgotten about the auto-tracking feature of the Spirit Bomb, but this didn't seem to pose much of a problem either. With her power, she could outrun it with little trouble, and its power probably wasn't enough to make it a threat. And yet, Goku had gone to a lot of effort to spring this little trap. What was his plan?

Then she heard the scream. For a man, he had a rather high voice. There was nothing wrong about that, and he sounded quite pleasant in casual conversation, but when he raised his power level, his voice became almost frightening, like a cat howling in pain.

She felt his transformation before she spotted it. The Spirit Bomb was big enough that she had difficulty keeping him in her line of sight, but Luffa was sure now that Goku was back in his Super Saiyan form. It was as though he had never turned it off in the first place. Luffa was impressed. Over the years, she had gotten better at controlling her transformations, but she still found it difficult to switch on and off in rapid succession. Goku had gone from high power to minimal power and back with a horrifying ease. That, along with his unorthodox tactics, made him dangerous.

More dangerous was the fist that suddenly collided with her jaw. She didn't even know if he had teleported or flown to her at super-speed. The Spirit Bomb kept getting in her way, and it still followed her, even as Goku's punch carried her through the air and into the dirt. Luffa scrambled to her feet, ready to confront them both, when suddenly the Spirit Bomb seemed to… open fire on her?

It was a barrage of ki blasts, not unlike any of the countless attacks she had dealt with in the past, but it took her a moment to realize that it was Goku firing at her from behind the Spirit Bomb. She deflected the shots, but this left her wide open to the Bomb itself. And while she believed its power was manageable, she knew that Goku would be ready to capitalize while she took the time to deal with it.

She couldn't help but smile. Goku had turned a one-on-one match and turned it into a double-team. It was only fair after her assault with the ki ghosts. What she still didn't understand was how he had managed to neutralize her fog, the technique she called Golden Duster. It was a mist of tiny globules of her own ki , spread across a large surface area, and yet somehow it was all gone, as though Goku had soaked it all up with a towel--

"Oh no," she said as she realized the truth. "No wonder he got that bomb ready so fast. Curse me for a fool! I practically handed him all that energy!"

Then, suddenly, the Spirit Bomb accelerated, and Luffa found that she couldn't move fast enough to get out of its way. She quickly caught it in her arms, and planted her boots in the dirt to brace herself. Frieza and Buu had done the same, with little success. Her only advantage was that she was reasonably certain this Spirit Bomb didn't have enough power to knock her out if it exploded. She still didn't want to take the chance, which left her pinned down as she tried to understand how to push it back.

There was still Goku to contend with as well. Luffa cast out with her senses, trying to locate him. As it turned out, he was still behind the Spirit Bomb, and wasn't moving. Then it all began to make sense.

"He's pushing it!" Luffa muttered. "Just like he did with Buu! That little twerp was strong enough to overpower Kakarot, and strong enough to throw the bomb back in his face, but when once Kakarot pushed it back, it was too much for him! He's using this damn thing to close the gap between our powers!"

"Ka… me…!"

Luffa heard him, and knew exactly what that meant. He knew the Spirit Bomb alone wouldn't be enough to beat her, so he was going to throw fuel onto the fire. Growing desperate, Luffa charged her own ki and fired an energy blast from her mouth. If she couldn't repel the bomb, then maybe she could destroy it.

But no. The golden beam from her throat was absorbed harmlessly into the Spirit Bomb. Any ki attack would only feed it. And without a trick like Instant Transmission up her sleeve, Luffa couldn't escape.

"Ha… me…!"

"No! There is a way!" Luffa said when the solution finally hit her. "Dammit, I should have figured it out sooner!"

Above, Son Goku had nearly completed his attack. Luffa was trapped, and his Kamehameha would drive the Spirit Bomb to deal her a critical hit. He had worried that she might find a way out, but now it was too late.

"Haaaaa!" he shouted as he released the energy gathered in his hands. A column of blue light spilled forth from his arms and down to the white globe below.

Or it would have, except the Spirit Bomb began to move…

"What?!" Goku cried out. "Where'd she go?"

He spotted her flying away from Goku and the Spirit Bomb. The bomb was giving chase, but Goku's Kamehameha was still firing down at their original location. But as the wave hit the ground, he felt something resisting it down below.

It was like there were two Luffas, one leading the Spirit Bomb away, while the other fought the Kamehameha. And then the Spirit Bomb exploded. Goku was so confused that he failed to notice that something was wrong with the Kamehameha. By the time he realized it, it was too late.

"Hah!" Luffa shouted as she emerged from the beam, just inches from Goku's hands. Before he could react, she slammed her fist into his face, knocking him head over heels through the air.

When he landed, he gathered himself up and found her standing over him.

"Nice try," she said. "I thought you almost had me."

"What went wrong?" Goku asked. "It seemed to be going so well!"

"I coughed up another ki ghost," Luffa said. "It couldn't destroy your Spirit Bomb, but I could put enough Golden Duster mist onto it that the Spirit Bomb would follow it, thinking it was me."

"Wha--?" Goku asked. "I didn't think you could fool a Spirit Bomb like that…"

"I wasn't sure it would work either," Luffa said, "But it probably helped that I let go of the thing and put the ghost in front of me. As for that Kamehameha, well, it was never going to do the job by itself. You kept it weak so it wouldn't damage the planet."

"Ha ha… yeah, I did," Goku said. He rose to his feet and faced off with her. "So, where do we go from here?"

"Seems pretty simple to me," Luffa said. "You've got a lot of sneaky moves and fancy techniques, but so do I, Kakarot. So why don't we just cut the crap and hit each other as hard as we can until one of us drops?"

"Maybe you've got something there," Goku said. He brushed the dust from his clothes and slapped his hands together. "All right, we'll do it your way. Ready?"

"Always," Luffa said.

They each drew back their dominant hands, and then punched each other simultaneously.

The ground trembled from the impact.

NEXT: Go Beyond.

[russellmoreton]

Grisaille on paper. by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: russellmoreton.blogspot.com/ Indexical Patterning/Painting : Affective Relational Intensities (Micropolitics of slowness and repetition) Layered Drawings : Architectural Screens/Modulations of Translucency Space Between People How the virtual changes physical architecture Stephan Doesinger This book shows how the virtual has completely changed the physical world around us. If architecture is the construction of space between people, what happens when that space exists in a virtual world? That question is the starting point for this collection of revolutionary projects by a new generation of designers. The book begins by examining the important issues that have emerged as technology reshapes our idea of place and proceeds to present the four winning projects from the first architecture competition held within the explosively popular Internet community known as Second Life. Chosen for their inventiveness and aesthetic excellence, these structures - a cloud that can be inhabited; a meta-museum; an interactive sound scape; and a snow palace of discarded objects - illustrate the mindbending possibilities of digital design. In the books final section, media artists share their real-time experiences conceptualizing and creating projects for the virtual world. Non Spaces/Digital Still Image : Fire escape Winchester School of Art Meshworks/Norwich, moving analogue source : Midway/Dante Beginning as one always does in the middle, in mediis rebus, one experiences a sense of disorientation, a sort of cartographic anxiety or spatial perplexity that appears to be part of our fundamental being-in-the-world. It is an experience not unlike that of Dante, in the opening lines of his Commedia: Midway along the journey of our life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. ( Dante 1984 : 67) Introduction : Spatiality . Robert T. Tally Jr. the New Critical Idiom, Routledge 2013 Art as Spatial Practice. Space folds : Containing "Spatialities around historicality and sociality" "All that is solid melts into air" Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, (Poetic observation concerning the constant revolutionizing of social conditions) Perceptions now gathering at the end of the millennium. Spatiality, Robert T. Tally Jr. 2013 Sensuality, Drawing and Astronomical Space. Architectural Translucency (Tracing Layers) DSC_8860 Pavilion : Borderlands Andreas Horlitz : Simulacrum. 2006 Brian Clarke : Lamina. 2005

[denimbex1986]

'The biggest cinematic event of the year is finally upon us. The release of Greta Gerwig's highly anticipated Barbie and the release of Christopher Nolan's three-hour epic Oppenheimer on the same day has turned the Internet and social media into a frenzy over the past few months. This spectacularly different double feature has been dubbed "Barbenheimer" by moviegoers, and it has everyone from casual movie fans to self-proclaimed film buffs excited to hit the theaters again. With a combined runtime of just under five hours, Barbenheimer has made this summer one for the cinema history books.

To prepare for and get in the right mindset for each of these drastically different films, many people have been curating a list of movies to watch beforehand. Even Greta Gerwig compiled a list of films that she felt embodied or inspired the essence of Barbie. Everyone is looking for the best ways to gear themselves up for the double feature of the decade. While there has been much debate over the best films to watch to prepare for each film, there has not been much discussion about what to watch afterward. After seeing these highly anticipated movies that many of us have spent months looking forward to, it is likely that people won't be ready to leave these stories behind just yet. Therefore, we have compiled a list of 15 movies to watch after your Barbenheimer double feature to help you hold onto the feelings these films inspire a bit longer.

15. Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Greta Gerwig has said that films from the Golden Age of Hollywood heavily inspired her colorful, almost-musical interpretation of the world's most famous doll. Specifically, Stanley Donen's classic musical Singin' in the Rain greatly influenced Barbie's musical scenes. The movie is set during the transitional phase of Hollywood when studios were moving away from silent pictures to talking pictures, or "talkies."

It stars Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood, a silent picture star struggling to make the transition to talkies with his co-star and publicity stunt girlfriend Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen). He falls for a chorus girl named Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds) as Lina becomes incredibly jealous and determined to be a talkie star. It's a colorful, fun film with fantastic musical numbers and all-around wonderful performances from some of the time period's biggest stars. It has a similar feel to the jealousy Ken (Ryan Gosling) feels about Barbie not reciprocating the same feelings as him and the musical numbers in both share similarities.

14. Atonement (2007)

Joe Wright's Atonement is a romantic war drama that is set over the course of multiple decades, spanning from 1930s England to modern-day England. The film centers around a fateful event where 13-year-old aspiring writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) irrevocably changes the course of two lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. A good portion of the film takes place during the Second World War after the false accusation sends Robbie (James McAvoy) to prison and eventually to Dunkirk. It is a truly devastating romance as Robbie and Cecilia (Keira Knightley) rarely ever cross paths again and the audience is left wondering what their lives could have been like if not for that night. It also depicts some of the tragedies of war and a devastated Europe that make the love story even more tragic.

13. Clueless (1995)

Amy Heckerling's Clueless is an excellent movie to watch after seeing Barbie. Cher (Alicia Silverstone) has many similarities to Margot Robbie's Stereotypical Barbie from their fashion choices to their manner of speaking. Cher is a wealthy Beverly Hills high school student who is dealing with relationships, school, friends, her widowed father, and her ever-important social life. Cher, much like Barbie, at first comes across as a privileged young woman with a superficial personality. However, Cher is actually quite smart and a truly kind person that wants to make a difference in the world. Also like Barbie, Cher doesn't realize the true ways of the world until she experiences a harsh dose of reality herself. Both women take what they learned in the "real world" and use it to better themselves and their surroundings.

12. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

This list couldn't be complete without the inclusion of Stanley Kubrick's political satire, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. This would work as a great follow-up to Nolan's nuclear World War II drama as it is set during the Cold War when tensions were high between the United States and the Soviet Union. Dr. Strangelove follows a maniacal American general named Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) with a desire to press the nuclear war button. After initiating a strike against the Soviets, a room full of politicians, generals, and diplomats frantically try to stop the nuclear attack. One of Kubrick's earliest and best films, it is often regarded as one of the greatest political satires, and should definitely be on your list of movies to watch after seeing Oppenheimer.

11. Legally Blonde (2001)

Perhaps the only other equally iconic blonde, pink-adorned character besides Barbie is none other than Elle Woods. Played perfectly by Reese Witherspoon, Elle Woods has been inspiring and motivating women for over 20 years to achieve their goals even when others think they can't. Legally Blonde sees Elle go through a character transformation similar to Barbie's that enhances her worldview but never alters her personality or her demeanor. The law students around her believe her to be a stereotypical dumb blonde simply because she's "girly" and comes from a fashion merchandising background, but Elle elegantly and intelligently proves them wrong. Without losing her personality or her sense of style, Elle uses her wit and charm to demonstrate to everyone at Harvard that she is more than capable of being an excellent lawyer and that she is more passionate about the law than she initially realized.

10. Hidden Figures (2016)

This biographical drama could actually work as the second movie in a double feature for either Barbie or Oppenheimer. Hidden Figures details the real-life story of three incredibly intelligent mathematicians who played a pivotal role in the early days of NASA's space program. The mathematicians were three African-American women named Mary Johnson (Janelle Monae), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), and none of them had an easy time climbing the NASA ladder in the early 1960s. Despite the professional, racial, and gender barriers these women had to cross to be taken seriously, they managed to ensure that their work achieved what it was meant to. They are responsible for the calculations and science behind America's first crewed orbital spaceflight that occurred in 1962. It fits the biographical and innovation aspect of Oppenheimer while fitting in with the female empowerment aspect of Barbie.

9. The Truman Show (1998)

Peter Weir's introspective dramedy The Truman Show is another film that inspired Greta Gerwig during the making of Barbie. Gerwig was even granted the opportunity to get on the phone with Weir prior to filming, so she could pick his brain about the way he shot his film. He actually advised her not to shoot outside with lights hung above them because it would get too hot.

The film revolves around its titular main character Truman (Jim Carrey) as he goes about his average life as an insurance salesman with little to no changes to his daily routine. He never even leaves his idyllic lakeside town. It isn't until Truman finally starts to notice some of the strange things about his hometown and the residents in it that he suspects there is something off about the life he leads. Truman's entire life has been globally broadcast as a reality show where the only person who doesn't know he's on a show is Truman himself. The journey Truman goes through to discover who he really is without the constraints of the world that was created for him is reminiscent of the journey of self-discovery Barbie embarks on.

8. Schindler's List (1993)

Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson in Schindler's ListUniversal Pictures Oppenheimer is a devastating, breathtaking cinematic achievement that unflinchingly recounts the atrocities of war and human nature. It is not the only film that can be described this way, as Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List fits this bill completely. Set against the backdrop of the worst atrocity to come out of World War II, the film centers around industrialist Oskar Schindler in German-occupied Poland as he grows increasingly concerned for his Jewish colleagues after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

The heartbreaking film is based on the real-life Schindler who went from a greedy German businessman to an unlikely humanitarian who felt compelled to aid the Jewish population by turning his factory into a refuge spot. The biographical drama makes you feel the weight of the barbaric reign of the Nazis and the irrevocable trauma they caused. The use of black and white conveys the depressing environment of the time period and provides a somber tone that sticks with the viewer in the over three-hour runtime.

7. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

The influence of The Wizard of Oz is evident throughout the entirety of Barbie. From the vibrant set pieces to the elaborate costume design, the presence of the classic Golden Age film is constant. Dorothy's journey from Kansas to Oz is essentially Barbie's journey from Barbieland to California in reverse. Dorothy is out of place in Oz and doesn't understand the way this magical land works, just as Barbie is entirely unfamiliar with the way society operates in the real world. The painted skies and painted backdrops of the Emerald City inspired the approach to have Barbieland look like it was designed in the '30s or '40s. The film is even shown to be playing at the movie theater in Barbieland as it's shown on the marquee. Gerwig and the crew even traded the iconic Yellow Brick Road for the Pink Brick Road to fit Barbie's traditional aesthetic.

6. A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Ron Howard's biopic about genius mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe) details his incredible achievements in mathematics while dealing with his ongoing battle with schizophrenia. Similar to Robert Oppenheimer, Nash was extremely smart and the best at what he did. Nash had a very analytical brain and made a significant discovery early on in his career. He is credited with a concept in game theory called Nash Equilibrium.

Essentially, the theory explains that the optimal outcome in a game is when there is no incentive for a player to deviate from his initial strategy, even if they know their opponent's strategy. Despite discovering this, he quickly found himself on a painful self-discovery journey that resulted in personal tragedies after accepting secret work in cryptography. As A Beautiful Mind indicates, It wasn't until much later in his life and career that he finally overcame his struggles and received a Nobel Peace Prize.

5. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)

Mary Elizabeth "Lola" Steppe (Lindsay Lohan) from the Disney movie Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is the ultimate dreamer. It may seem like an obscure choice to feature in this list, but Lola's constant daydreaming and fantasizing about her life would actually make for a great double feature after watching Barbie. Lola is an artsy, music-loving teenage girl from Manhattan that is absolutely crushed when her divorced mother moves her and her younger sisters to the suburbs of New Jersey.

Convinced her cultural lifestyle is done now that she's in the suburbs, she creates elaborate stories about her life in New York once she starts high school in the town of Dellwood, which she refers to as "Deadwood." She continues to make her former New York life seem as spectacular and tragic as she can, even telling her new friend Ella (Alison Pill) that her father died tragically in a motorcycle accident when in reality he was alive in the city. Lola's fantasies are often reminiscent of grand Hollywood musicals from the '50s and often have an almost cartoonish effect similar to those in Barbie. To Lola, leaving Manhattan and moving to Jersey would end her cultural and entertaining lifestyle. It's similar to Barbie leaving Barbieland and immediately feeling out of place, but it ended up being exactly what they needed.

4. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

The French film Hiroshima Mon Amour is a gut-wrenching drama that focuses on the tumultuous romance between a French actress and a married Japanese architect who share their differing opinions on war. Elle (Emanuelle Riva) is in Japan to make a film about peace and the impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. She meets Lui (Eiji Okada), the Japanese architect who lost his family in the bombing.

Over the span of many hours, the lovers turned friends recount their past romances and life experiences through numerous deep conversations. Their stories of love and war intertwine as they ponder the destruction wrought by the atomic bomb. The attraction and desire between the two bring about conversations about the devastation romance can wreak upon a person that parallels their feelings about the war and the bombing. It is an emotional, tragic, beautiful story of two people who experienced one of the most horrific events in history in very different ways, and their pain in remembering and fear of forgetting results in a poignant romance.

3. Little Women (2019)

Watching one of Greta Gerwig's previous directorial efforts after seeing her biggest film to date is ideal for becoming familiar with her style and the stories that drive her to make more films. Her 2019 adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's cherished 1868 novel Little Women encapsulates the themes of the stories Gerwig wants to tell. Gerwig's films always revolve around coming-of-age from the female perspective in some shape or form. Little Women follows the lives of four sisters in the 1800s spanning from childhood to early adulthood. It follows the sisters through shared heartbreak, first loves, societal pressures, and the desire to make more of life than what's expected. It's a celebration of womanhood and demonstrates how well Gerwig writes capable women.

2. Dunkirk (2017)

If you are going to watch one of Gerwig's films after seeing Barbie, then you should probably watch one of Christopher Nolan's films after seeing Oppenheimer. The film that has the closest relation to Oppenheimer is his 2017 World War II war drama Dunkirk. Of course, the film follows one of the most important battles of the war, the Battle of Dunkirk in the spring of 1940. Germany advanced its troops to France, trapping thousands of Allied soldiers on the beaches of Dunkirk and leaving them completely exposed to the Germans. Just as he did with Oppenheimer, Nolan utilized the use of different perspectives to tell the story of this historical battle.

The first perspective follows the actual soldiers on the beach and takes place over the course of a week. The second perspective takes place on a rescue boat and follows one soldier over the course of a day as he tries to rescue soldiers on the beach. The third and final perspective takes place over just one hour in the air during aerial combat between British and German air forces. It covers a completely different side of the war but keeps you in the same mindset.

1. Grave of the Fireflies (1989)

One of the most emotionally difficult Studio Ghibli films to get through, Grave of the Fireflies tells the story of a young boy and his younger sister as they try to survive on their own in Japan during the American bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings separated 14-year-old Seita and four-year-old Setsuko from their parents, forcing them to trek through the war-torn landscape of Japan as fires caused by the bombings continue to spread. The children struggle to find shelter, food, and water in their long journey away from their family, leaving them nearly destitute. It's a powerful, important, utterly heartbreaking film about the tragedies that war causes and proves that animation can be used for more than just telling children's fairytales.'