#Modern Gurlz

[furiousfinnstan]

no comment about her other complaints but??that is not a tomboyish look???hello???? straight women pls gain some self awareness???

[the-scooby-gang]

Today I bring you ModernGurlz’s Velma character and fashion analysis and ranking

Tomorrow? Who knows

[rei-is-hiding]

@aerti-week: modern AU

[they-them-that]

I'm talking as someone who was so excited about getting a Barbie Movie and who is loving the revitalization of hyper femininity; y'all have to STOP shutting down constructive criticisms of Barbie when it's coming from feminist women. I can understand that the Barbie Movie has been a huge milestone for womanhood and feminism which makes it worth celebrating and that Barbie as a whole has always been subject to misogynistic backlash, but women and girls are 100% allowed to expect more from a capitalistic brand that exploits the patriarchy to sell us a manufactured feminist mascot.

I've always felt aggravated when people shot down valid and even personal criticisms from women against Barbie as if they're being anti-feminist or taking it as "ruining girls' fun" when clearly, not all girls are satisfied with Barbie and they deserve to be heard about it. I don't see what's feminist about expecting all girls and women to settle for the little Barbie provides us when we should always get to ask for more. Why are you taking the side of a predominantly male-lead corporation who packages feminism in a box and puts a price tag on it over real every day women who don't feel represented by Barbie and are calling out the lack of intersectionality or misuse of "reverse-misogyny" in the movie??

[greenvillainredemption]

Not to be another of those guys complaining about that modern gurlz video but basically yeah that’s what this post is. While I hate that people were complaining about Asha’s personality before the movie even came out, now that I’ve seen it I’m like... yeah there’s not much there. But I DON’T agree that Rapunzel, Anna, and Mirabel are like the same character just because they share similar quirkiness.

Rapunzel was quirky because she spent her entire eighteen year old life in one tiny isolated house with no social interaction aside from her seemingly loving but manipulative and demanding mother. She’s also curious, artistic, and friendly to everyone even if they’re scary. She wants freedom first and foremost, but ends up finding love along the way.

Anna was quirky because she spent most of her childhood alone, without ever seeing her sister or anyone aside from castle staff. She’s also naive, romantic, and snarky. What gets her in trouble is being too trusting of a man she barely knows. The same could maybe be said about Rapunzel, but Eugene is pretty upfront about being a wanted thief, and Rapunzel keeps a good friendly distance with him at first. It’s obviously still a Disney movie but there are no wedding proposals on the first date. Anna on the other hand is straight up, as Hans says, desperate for love.

Mirabel was quirky when she was trying to hide things (the fact that she doesn’t have a gift, the vision from the rest of the family), clumsy because she was trying to keep up with her magical family (lifting heavy things in the kitchen, running after luisa while luisa walks effortlessly, getting thrown around by isabela’s plants after her breakthrough), awkward when other people are awkward (bruno) She’s also pushy, determined, and ambitious. Her flaw is that she’s too self sacrificial. She almost fell off a cliff trying to find information and ran into a collapsing building to save the magic.

They are not the same!!

[hopepaigeturner]

God yes. I hate girlboss Cinderella. People keep complaining about, Hollywood hears and then they wonder where Amazon Prime Cinderella came from.

Also, Cinderelmo and Hey! Cinderella is more mature than it.

You got it! Oh boy oh boy, that Amazon cinderella...

Honestly, beside it getting the classic 'hollywood' spin, the biggest crime of that movie was to have the comedic chops of Romesh Ragnathan, Doc Brown and James frikkin Acaster...and somehow make them unfunny.

How do you make James Acaster funny? His entire comedic persona causes people to cackle.

Oof.

But, yes, you are so right, a classic esample of the 'girlboss' makeover.

I could do a whole post about that film, but instead I really recommend you check out this Youtube Video:

'Quriky' main character that comes off quite cringe.

Shoved in one-liner feminist statements with no thoughtful embedding in the story. No real thoughtful overarching message other than. Yay! Women can do stuff!

Literally no reason why she gets a fairy godmother. No kind act, thoughful act, or even selfless act precedes this. That is not to say that one needs to be good to be helped, but it completely gets rid of all agency that Cinderella has in forging her own escape/happily ever after.

There could be a lot mroe said on this topic but i would really recommend watching Modern Gurlz Youtube Video on this adaptation.

Ugggh, hollywood 'girl bossification' of stuff is just...

[m0tel6mxzzy]

list of youtubers i find interesting & recommend:

fashion related youtubers:

—fashion trend analysis:

mina le

lisa fevral

fashionlover4

alexa sunshine83

muse

dion the taurus

—styling:

chin the kid (amazing hair style inspo)

frugal aesthetic

ellie jean royden (great intro to kibbe theory)

cocoa styling (a little more complex explaining on kibbe theory w more diversity and centering on black women)

c0mm0ndrgg

—pop culture throwbacks:

haute le mode

modern gurlz

josy kass

fashion channel

fashion elitist

makeup artists:

—grwm:

sara k

sarah alyssa

veravalentine

vloggers:

soeun in seoul

misha zaka

halle burns

ariel morgan

video essayists:

yhara zayd

fromrosiewithlove

kidology

khadija mbowe

julia boateng

angela benedict

[nessa007]

Modern gurlz on YT has done a series of “best yellow dress” or whatever color in movies and she mentioned the How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days dress it’s a lovely series! I recommend

oh nice! thank you 💕

[faerieconsort]

modern gurlz video restyling the monster high characters was so cute ugh yes

[graveyard-degeneracy]

it's me graveyard degeneracy

examples of "commentary/vlog" channels which are not video essays. this is not necessarily a bad thing, just a different genre altogether from a "video essay."

madisyn brown

zoeunlimited (kind of both!)

camryn suzanne

Modern Gurlz

christina aaliyah

gabi belle

mina le

[hearty-an0n]

fave non-mc yters?

i would lay my life down for kurtis conner or cj the x or modern gurlz

[trixterdark]

☆Iconic☆

Also you should definitely check out ModernGurlz on YouTube and tiktok if you like movies and fashion

[the-scooby-gang]

So i watched this collaboration between Tessa ( from the channel Modern Gurlz) and Mina Le where they both restyled a bunch of cartoon characters and my favorite girls are there. Sooooooo....

Here is their ideas for Daphne's outfit!

The first two on the left side are Tessa's, while the other two on the right side are Mina's.

Coming Next: Their Velma outfits ideas!!!

My Ko-Fi /Commission Post

[bombseel]

I feel like the reason people are watching 8 hour video essays about shows they haven't watched is because those essays are transformative, like fanfiction or a parody. They don't just critique the thing, they offer a separate experience to that thing that has the thing as a central part of it. Let me explain.

So you don't like Euphoria. You and a small army. So... What now? We can have the discussion about what Euphoria did wrong but why would we? Again? It's already been covered throughly online by everyone. What's the next step? I mean it's easy to critique things, but what do you do with that?

Engage with it critically, but also transformatively. Don't throw out the baby with the bath water. Look at what Euphoria did right, accept that teens love it for a reason, and that that reason is important, and go from there. Move on from hate watching things and making them popular to criticizing something and using that to make something better or even new.

And when I say criticizing something is easy, I'm not saying critics have easy jobs. I'm saying the best critics already do this. Criticisms that have stayed with me are either ones that have inspired real change, like Gail Simone's Women in Refrigerators that changed female representation in comics or the hundreds of video essays that repaired the image of Jennifer Body's. Or they're criticisms that have a point beyond "this is bad", and they have value beyond being reflections of a piece of media. Broey Deschanel's videos on Sex in the City, Gossip Girl, Love Island, and so on. Princess Weekes video on I Kissed A Girl or True Crime. Maggie Mae Fish's Zach Snyder series or her Robocop video. CJ the X's video on Tangled literally gives you a whole new way to view the movie that changes the movie!

And this often leads to new books, new movies, new shows! Heathers is in part a response to John Hughes and 80s teen movies! She Ra is like, in conversation with Utena. Cinderella III: A Teist in Time feels like the missing piece of Disney's Cinderella. Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated is the best Scooby-Doo series, and it's very premise is a critique of the cyclical nature of Scooby-Doo!

I just think that if we engaged with media this way it would be so much more rewarding and positive. I'm begging people to engage with what they're reading or watching or listening to, at the very least so I don't have to read the same conversation about Bridgerton ten times a day on ten separate apps