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Ammonites Galore!! There are so many unique and crazy shell shapes in the fossil record! Here are a few of my favorites! It’s a real shame they went extinct :(

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Idk just the pure joy of walking into the theatre plaza, seeing so many people wearing all pink/black, taking group photos and still smiling after the flash goes off, yelling “hi, Barbie!!” at complete strangers, hearing the word “Barbie” every second from so many different voices deep in conversation, and feeling the excited buzz from people leaving the theatre talking about the movie, just hits me in a hope-and-love-for-humanity kind of way I haven’t experienced in years.

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We're not appreciating the Weird Barbie enough. It's said in the movie that she helps everyone who need help while they always see her as someone who's not as good as them. She was friends with all dismissed Barbies and Kens, was there to offer support and safe shelter for everyone who needed it in Kendom, without her nothing in the movie would've been alright. When Stereotypical Barbie calls her "ugly and unwanted" she still helps her.

She was representing a woman in women's world who was pushed aside by other women because she didn't fit in but still had more wiseness and kindness than everyone who thought they're better than her.

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He's such a Barbie Girl ☺️

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GOD that bench scene in barbie, where she allows herself to really cry for the first time, and when she opens her eyes it’s like seeing the world anew, and there are children playing, and friends talking, and a man with his head in his hands, and it’s her first ever glimpse of the complexity of the human condition

and beside her is an old woman, whose age means she must be someone who has lived these moments over and over, and barbie, someone who is convinced that her complexity makes her ugly, looks at this woman and sees how her age has etched wrinkles on her face as proof of her beauty

barbie tells her she is beautiful, and she replies that she knows, because she understands that she has allowed herself to be human

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the fact that a bunch of Allan’s escaped Barbieland and became hit boyband group NSYNC is actually so insane and probably the best thing I have ever heard 

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Barbie Spoilers

Obsessed with the way that men are saying that the Barbie movie ‘hates men’ when the worst thing that happens to a man is a girl rejects him. Way to tell on yourself. 

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One of my favorite parts of the Barbie movie was when Allan abruptly started beating the Kens’ asses like he was in Scott Pilgrim vs the World 😭

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Barbie doesn’t need a sequel. I feel like whatever would happen in a sequel would just be going back over material that the first movie already covered and taking away from its message.

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Watching Barbie watch as Ken takes over barbieland, takes her dream house and turn it into his own property, ruins her things whilst she cries in despair and suddenly I’m six years old again pleading my brother to be gentle with my toys as he throws them on the floor and against the walls. The hundreds of dollars in dolls that my parents spent for birthdays and christmas, told me to be careful with and showed me how to play nice destructed and destroyed as my brother grabs at anything and everything, tosses them around, stretches their plastic joints and pulls at their heads while I scream for him to stop seemingly wasted in seconds. He throws one down for another and I’m too small to grab them off of him. Easily toppled over as he pushes me aside and I’m wondering what I ever did to him to deserve it.

On top of it all, he’s still surprised when his torment breaks one of them, the legs snap out and he pauses as though he’s remorseful. I cry at the loss of my doll and despite how it was him who broke it. Him who threw it around. Him who pulled until the elastic snapped..

I am still told I should’ve been more careful with my toys.

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i just love that when barbie is truly observing humanity for the first time, she doesn’t see all these extraordinary ordeals. she’s just sitting on a bench on a random sunny day and she sees children playing and couples fighting and normal people enjoying each other’s company and a sad man having a moment and an old lady waiting for the bus. and it’s all so ordinary. and it’s complicated and sometimes terrible but also bright and beautiful and oh so human. and it’s so worth it. all of it.

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who am i?

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i don’t understand why the movie wasn’t solved by giving ken this horse i had as a kid

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the scene where Barbie’s creator told her she didn’t need her permission to be human just hit me SO HARD and I cannot put into words how much of an impact it had on me and I started crying in the theatre because like

women don’t need anyone’s permission to just exist. but we feel the need to ask for it anyway.

and barbie thinks Ruth is going to be mad because it goes against her “purpose”… but Ruth says her only purpose was just to BE ANYTHING and so she can’t disappoint her

and we shouldn’t stop ourself from becoming the people we want to be just because of what we think our creators (god,parents,teachers) intended for us

but she gave her support anyway

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Before I went to see the Barbie movie, I texted my best friend “everyone dressing up for barbie is so cute wtf i love this. i love humans“

And Barbie was about exactly that, humans being humans and I loved it so much.

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The Barbie movie is incredible, in some ways better than I ever expected. But the part that keeps standing out to me is: throughout the Barbies taking Barbieland back, I understood the metaphor. But I was holding my breath waiting for how they'd acknowledge it.

Because Barbieland still has a fundamental problem: some of its citizens are afterthoughts, they're not acknowledged or given a voice. But their matriarchy also serves a purpose. Barbieland is specifically built on the dreams and fantasies of girls, and is meant to inspire them. So what do you do with that?

And then the Narrator says that one day, Kens in Barbieland will have exactly as much power as women have in the Real World.

The girls playing with Barbies are reflecting the images and ideas of their lives. The power fantasies are based on what they have and don't have. It basically says to people (to men, I'd say, especially): if you care about Ken, if you're worried about Ken, create a world where it's not strange for men and women to be self-realized equals. Create a world where any man, woman, or otherwise can be ordinary or extraordinary, without the barriers that still very much exist.

Hell, create a world where anyone can play with Barbie.

If you really, actually care, then create a world that supports and values everyone enough that our wildest dreams reflect it.