#barbens

[steph-photographie]

Photo originale de Steph-Photo Deux beaux bébés posent pour moi au Parc Animalier de La Barben (Bouches du Rhône, France)

[jimothysomebody]

p i n k

[dandunn]

I saw two movies at the cinema today im absolutely wrecked

[valkblue]

*Planet Zoo theme intensifies*

... + a zebra with a hiccup 🤫

[evil-enby-in-horny-jail]

hi barben

Anywhere else I'd be a 10~

[vbartilucci]

THE WAIT IS OVER.

[pinkhairswagtourney]

I have my own danganronpa

you wanna share ocs?

👉👈

omg sorry i'm just now seeing this . sure !!!! long post below the cut

here's half of my fangan characters . if you've ever followed my editing or art blogs , some of them are probably familiar !!! Yui Utada - Escape Artist 19 - 5'3" - 97lb Likes: Logic puzzles , Collecting squishies || Dislikes: The dark Laina King - Party Planner 21 - 5'0" - 187lb Likes: Kpop , Strawberry soda || Dislikes: Negativity Yukina Morimoto - Drummer 20 - 5'4" - 161lb Likes: Oranges , Fireworks || Dislikes: Authority figures Cecelia Van Der Barben - Reality TV Star 22 - 5'8" - 147lb Likes: Wedged shoes , Lilies || Dislikes: Pepperoni pizza Victoria Piper - Mathlete 21 - 5'9" - 125lb Likes: Succulents , Tuna sashimi || Dislikes: Smoke Naomi Song - Apiarist 18 - 5'7" - 159lb Likes: Flower pressing , Sour candy || Dislikes: Feeling excluded Maeve Rivera - Barista 22 - 5'1" - 161lb Likes: Blueberry tea , Shoujo manga || Dislikes: Bugs Daisy McKinnon - Cowgirl 23 - 5'10" - 213lb Likes: Summertime , Golden retrievers || Dislikes: Snobs

and of course . here are some obligatory oc charts

[theatrekidenergy]

Neurodivergent people going to see Barben-heimer please read!

Today I saw both Oppenheimer and Barbie for my Opa’s birthday (he’s a strange man don’t ask) and I wanted to give a heads up for both movies for having really loud noises and might not be the best for unknowing photosensitive viewers. I highly recommend watching both as they were incredible, however it’s important to know especially if you have sensitivity to sound (Oppenheimer) or bright colors (Barbie). Both are a given considering the subject matter of the amazing films, however I just wanted to give a heads up to everyone, especially Neurodivergent viewers. I also recommend bringing a fidget, mainly a stress ball or squishy, but anything works. It’s 5 hours of movie and if you have a hard time sitting down it’s a huge help.

[thefaultinourchickennuggets]

It's barben time

[haunt4haunt]

barben? heimer

[steph-photographie]

Photo originale par Steph-Photo

Clin d'œil !

Etonnant rapace qui semble me faire un clin d'œil dans le parc animalier de La Barben (13)

[abernant]

livwin due 2 the barbening ppl are asking me more doll questions livloss i have a monkeys paw curse that lets me perfectly visualize every piece of barbie merchandise ever produced but not know its fucking name so i have 2 communicate through a very bad series of pictionary-esque doodles until they get it

[sokkagatekeeper]

So. I had shower thoughts regarding the zukka Barbie v Ken thing

I feel like zuko was an akab (assigned Ken at birth) but grew into a Barben while sokka is Barbie 4 life

thoughts?

hi hello i keep forgetting to answer this. what we must remember here is that this is all deeply unserious and any character with any depth is a barbie, like that's just how it works. but that being said. i think what you're saying about zuko is fair. he did grow up as a mid firebender and generally less competent than his sister, or than he was expected to be. but like. even as a child he still wasn't like, bad at firebending, it's just that he was no azula. and he was very skilled at other things like swordfighting. so like, kinda?

as for sokka. the thing with my post is that i meant that sokka is both a barbie and a ken in that they're really deeply just some guy (in that they're not a demigod unlike everyone else around them and in that they aren't the protagonist or narrator) and that they define their existence exclusively in reference to other people.... but they're also insanely intelligent and talented at so many things. unlike ken and even barbie, sokka is a nuanced, 3-dimensional character!

[ra1nboww0rrier]

If I'm a non-binary Barbie does that make me a Kenbie

Or a Barben

....or a plastic

[dadfathers]

Makes me sad that Japanese users making 9/11 memes to retaliate against the barben heimer hype get met with giggles by US Americans bc anyone left of center in the US views 9/11 as a joke at this point (valid but also it’s a joke that doesn’t entail being anti-war or anti-anything that the incident gave us an excuse to do to non-US people and US brown/black POC, obviously!). It sucks that US Americans will never be able to understand the suffering we levy onto others through empathy because we (and I mean We as in members of the imperial core nation, internal colonies and occupied peoples excluded) simply have never faced an equivalent devastation as what we dole out. What’s left is for ppl to understand through compassion and critical interrogation of what’s at play but we don’t do that here lmao

[denimbex1986]

'When the history of movies in the age of streaming, COVID and the first double strike since 1960 is written, the day of July 21, 2023, will go down as the rare date that’s actually remembered as a box-office landmark. For that was the day that Hollywood dropped two blockbuster weapons — one pink, the other dark — both of which hit their target audiences and went boom.

A downside of our franchise culture is that even when movies become big hits, their appeal often boils down to a basic expression of mass taste engineered by market forces. Look, the “Jurassic Park” concept worked again. Shocking! The “Mission: Impossible” series has a wild card tucked into its gamesmanship (you’re not going to get AI to do what Tom Cruise does on a motorcycle), but once you look past Cruise’s stunt mojo, even the perfectly decent new “M:I” installment has been greeted by critics as “the best action film of the summer.” That made me think: Aren’t the “Mission: Impossible” movies supposed to be more than action films? We’ve got “Fast XXV: Fuel-Injected Diesel” for that.

Which brings me to those pink and dark hit weapons. You could say that “Barbie,” by tapping into the appeal of the most famous doll of the 20th century, takes off from as iron-clad a piece of IP as any movie ever has. You could say, “Okay, great, it made $155 million in three days — but a Barbie movie was always going to have a built-in audience.” Except that imagine if “Barbie” had been made in a standard way, by a standard filmmaker; it could easily have been a “Smurf” movie with better clothes. “Barbie” may be legendary IP, but the idea of a movie about Barbie, Ken and all their friends is not exactly a concept that lends itself to human dimensions (or to entertaining qualities as a movie for anyone over the age of 12).

For that, you need a filmmaker like Greta Gerwig, who summoned the industry power and the pop vision to transform “Barbie” into an exuberant jokey carnival of fourth-wall-breaking doll’s-house-as-rabbit-hole feminist surrealism — a candy-colored Dreamhouse burlesque that adores Barbie and resents her at the same time, that tweaks the patriarchy even as it treats Ken as the film’s most complicated character, and that has the wit to recognize that Barbie isn’t just a plaything, she’s a metaphysical projection of feminine ideals who also has the effect of undermining who women are.

That’s a lot to unpack in a movie about a doll, but here’s the point: Did Greta Gerwig simply sneak all that stuff into a Mattel movie that can still function perfectly well as a piece of product that’s moving even more product off the shelves? Or did her playful subversive sensibility take a movie that was probably destined to be successful and turn it into something twice as successful? The buzz leading up to the release of “Barbie” was off the hook. I haven’t felt that level of anticipation since the era when the thrill wasn’t yet gone from “Star Wars” movies. And I’d argue that even though most of the people eager to see the film may not have known, going in, who Greta Gerwig was (though they will now), they picked up on what the Greta Gerwig-ness of the whole enterprise meant: that this was not going to be a cookie-cutter Barbie movie, that it was going to be a bowl of very spiked punch. It was going to be a movie that surprised you. It’s that essential quality, not just the IP, that could make “Barbie” the biggest movie of 2023.

As an act of counterprogramming, the simultaneous release of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” plays like someone’s idea of a cosmic joke. It’s not just that the two films make a perfect pair in their staggering lack of aesthetic and demographic overlap. It’s that glommed together into the greater-than-the-sum-of-the-parts entity known as “Barbenheimer,” the two movies seem to express the yin and yang of the 21st-century world. As a culture, we’re as serious as the atom bomb and as superficial as Barbie — and we take our superficial playthings deadly seriously. If the box-office triumph of “Barbie” sends a crucial signal that inviting a gifted filmmaker to revel in the power of her idiosyncrasy works as a commercial proposition, the box-office triumph of “Oppenheimer” sends a different signal, reminding us that we still live in a heady and sober culture, one in which a three-hour talkfest meditation on the meaning of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atom bomb, can seize audiences the way the movies of the ’70s or ’90s used to.

Christopher Nolan is certainly a director with a built-in fan base. But it’s worth noting what the Nolan brand represents: filmmaking as an adventure into the unknown, as a movie you go to a theater to watch, as an experience that’s larger than life, that’s vastly bigger than you. The promise of “Oppenheimer,” and what I think is luring people out to see it in even greater numbers than expected, is that the film won’t just be a biopic about the man who spearheaded the creation of nuclear weapons. It will be a movie about all of us, about what the creation of nuclear weapons did to us. That’s one reason you want to see “Oppenheimer” with an audience. IMAX, if you experience the film in that form, means a big screen, but the ultimate big screen is the collective consciousness of everyone in the theater.

These two movies, with nothing in common except the power and passion that got each of them made, have arrived at the perfect moment in our perfect storm of entertainment-industry meltdown. Long after their theatrical runs are over, “Barbenheimer” will stand as a touchstone that can remind everyone why we go to the movies: not just to relive some old IP but to dive into a vision, to live life for two hours (or maybe three) in the grip of an artist. There’s a lesson here, apart from buzzy fireworks of success, that the industry needs to remember and embrace. The lesson is that all of this works only when we give artists the license to follow their muse, to express the excitement of what’s in their soul. Everything else is just algorithms.'