#barbie ftw

[the-shotce-newsletter]

This went from a reunion pic post MW3 in the Exclusion Zone to a general reunion pic with comfort tiddies and booty.

[mororuart]

👑🐚 MerMay 10

[joshbruh10x]

Reporting News, teenage kid breaks his animatronic guardians out of the Pizzaplex to watch the Barbie movie

Was supposed to draw Cassie, Roxy and Chica going to Oppenheimer as an opposite to this but realized how young Cassie is to probably be snuck in there with a bunch of robots. But just pretend they did. Wheres Foxy? He's back at the Pizzaplex, he pirated both movies, duh.

[springzero123]

✨ all the barbie themed portrait wallpapers i have because im insane (steal it or use it if you like idc) ✨

(oops this is part 1 - yes, i have more)

[bi-dykes]

Hear me out 💕

[55burgers55fries55tacos55pies]

This is ooc af/would only occur in an AU within an AU, but imagine human!AM finally working on himself and becoming, like, semi-tolerable. Imagine for some ungodly reason you two have a kid, and he’s a sucker for them. He’s still a grump even at home sometimes, and a total asshole outside the house still, but as soon as his baby is involved he’s shockingly soft with them

[thebookofthings]

Only real men feel proud over this

[criminal-sen]

Ooooooooh fuck my zine arts are FINISHED😭🙏 which means now I can start other big-ish arts without feeling unreasonable guilt! Goddamn!

[luminousdryad]

to make things brief cause I suck at organizing what I have to say, the live action was definitely Something™.

Cast: 10/10 kinda biased personally but yall can't take this from me

Gordon as Aang and Dallas as Zuko were the standouts imo. Gordon needs some direction on line delivery and the angstier scenes but overall he's very charming and I'm so proud of him for getting so much exposure!

Ian as Sokka was great, I just wish he was allowed to be more...messy? like Sokka pretends to be chill and all that but he's actually dramatic so I hope that gets improved in the next season if there is one

speaking of improvement, Kiawentiio as Katara brought out a softer side to the character but sadly diminished her spark and passion. I like that Katara now actually feels like a younger sister, it makes sense within the context of the story that Sokka and Gran Gran would shelter her after what happened, but as someone said, her anger is so central to her character and I just wish that got shown more. It's more of a script and direction problem tbh, if you look at Kia's interviews she has the sass and feistiness Katara needs

Lizzy as Azula is great, the writing is a bit clunky though so she did the best she could with it. Can't really comment on Mai and Ty Lee yet because they're kinda just there but it's a nice setup

Maria as Suki? perfection show stopping never the same she is a queen and I love the tidbit of Suki backstory which she never really had in the og show. I love her being such a loser around her crush we love to see girlfailures girlfailing. I wish the writers didn't make them KISS though 😭 slowburn ftw

the adults were great

Writing: 6.5/10

There were genuinely good moments and I love the concept of mixing up certain plot points to condense the story

But they just suffered from too much Telling instead of Showing WRITERS PLEASE LISTEN TO THE CRITICISM YOU HAVE TIME TO IMPROVE PLEASE

Omashu, mechanist, and Jet plot mixing as a concept was fine, but it dragged on and my friends and I got bored of it. I like it in theory but if it was going to take THAT long couldn't they have just separated one of those storylines for a different episode?

I appreciate that they tried to develop the water siblings' relationship by making them the stars of the Secret Tunnels, but I would've changed the way they "conquered" the problem (really? badgermoles respond to love? cute in theory but like why). If anyone's watched Barbie: A Fairy Secret there's a part where Barbie and her frenemy accuse each other of why their friendship failed, and it helps them make up and breaks the curse put on them. So that's what I would've done, force them in a life or death situation in which they have to say the unsaid things, maybe hug it out and boom

The way they handled Koh and the Spirit World was a Mess™ but the effects were decent

Zhao meeting horrible ends in every incarnation is so deserved

Yue having more agency was a welcome change AND I LOVE THAT SHE WATERBENDS. Then waterbends even when the moon is gone. It's such a nice visual nod to the fact that she has the moon spirit within her

That said, the show could definitely use more visual storytelling, less weird dialogue. Like it's so strangely common for shows or adaptations these days to exposition dump. Like they did not have to make Yue say that the ocean spirit was angry, literally just show me the dead moon fish and I'll get the idea. Then Iroh says "That's Wrath" that's just redundant now isn't it

I like that they saved Katara bringing Aang out of the Avatar State until last even if it could've been done better

HOW DARE THEY MAKE ME LIKE HAHN HE WAS A JERK IN THE SHOW BUT THEY MADE HIM A GENUINELY GOOD CHARACTER. Yes to brown men not being portrayed as jerks but also in the original it was a nice contrast to how far Sokka had come because Hahn reflected who he used to be. But live action Hahn </3

I like that they showed the deaths and blood. I wanted a live action that was both lighthearted but more realistic when it came to the injuries and death, and that'd kind of what I got

Other thoughts + overall

You can tell they put so much heart into this show, watching the bts, the bending boot camp with the correct martial arts, the easter eggs, the nods to the comics, the beautiful adaptations of Cabbage Merchant and Secret Tunnel nomads, there's so much passion behind the show it's a shame it suffered in its writing

which is why if they read reviews and criticism from the bigger name fans (TheAvatarist, HelloFutureMe, etc.) it would really help them improve for future seasons! The cast is stunning already and they have great chemistry (hopefully gets improved too!)

The live action is just a different angle to the show. And I'm saying this as an Avatar fan–the original wasn't perfect, either. I had some problems w it but the overall show was genuinely so good and heartfelt, those problems weren't glaring enough to put me off (unlike The Dragon Prince, sorry). The live action definitely wasn't perfect, but it tried to give us a new look into Avatar. Again, no adaptation will ever be a 1:1 remake and none should be. Where's the fun in that? But while the show is so full of heart and with actual fans working behind the scenes, I doubt if they listen to any criticism that they can't pull this off better next season.

[zinnie-zoloft]

I think Jenny from DBDA and Barbie from the Sandman should date

Goth x Pastel girlfriends ftw

[t4tails]

can i ask abt ur thing w the dolls? like what's the beef? also monster high ftw, the designs weren't all great but most of them ate down

lmao okay, so rainbow high has been one of the biggest brands in the doll collecting world for the past few years - theyre made by MGA, same ppl behind bratz, and the 2nd biggest doll company behind mattel (barbie and monster high + others). im putting the rest of this under a cut because im under the assumption you are not plugged into the doll community at all lol

they were particularly popular because unlike a lot of other brands, they deliberately catered towards older audiences beyond one or two releases a year. they would listen to criticism in regards to diversity; the first series was almost all white girls with the same face, but by the 4th series had multiple different face molds and were incorporating things like vitiligo, albinism, and henna into the dolls, and all at the retail price of $20-30 with fantastic quality clothes.

they also introduced shadow high, a companion brand that was much more, i guess avant garde? than literally anyone is used to seeing from playline fashion dolls

however, at the end of 2023, right after a heavily criticized release of dolls with childish names like "pinkly paige" and "blu brooks"

MGA announced a rebrand for 2024! since leaks in december, rainbow high has completely shifted focus to a much, much younger audience. they ditched later, more interesting and diverse designs in favor of exclusively sticking to the original series 1 cast, and the first release post-rebrand having a SLIME GIMMICK where you fill the dolls clothes and their pets (also new?!) with slime. the outfits were blatant worse ripoffs of the original series 1, and all the dolls come with irremovable glitter on their t-zones. they also completely got rid of wrist articulation.

since then, we've gotten more leaks of the later lines in this rebrand, and its all... well, bad. the winter ones that i was complaining about earlier are just the tip of the iceberg, there also "moonbows" a line with no knee articulation in favor of glitter in their legs, and the already released slumber party line that when compared with the previous pajama line pre-rebrand is just laughable

basically, the current state of the rainbow high brand and its status in collectors minds is kind of a trainwreck you cant look away from

[td-rarepairs]

need more yuri. here with some yuri takes

eva x courtney

eva x jo (strongwoman yuri ftw)

anne-maria x dakota

dakota x lindsay (barbie girl yuri!!!!)

-heathmma anon

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[giantratarts]

this was initially part of a big doodle page I started right after watching it on release day

but I only finished this just now after ditching the rest of the page

aspec Barbie and Ken ftw 💚🤍🩶🖤🩶🤍💜

[lamonnaie]

Get to Know Me Tag :)

Thanks for the tag @cornflowershade and @qt-qtoey !! <33

do you make your bed? very rarely lol, i can't be bothered most days 🫡

what's your favourite number? 7

what is your job? i do private tutoring + work at a tutoring place

if you could go back to school, would you? uhh i mean i'm still in uni, med school's rough so idk if i'd wanna ever come back 😭 Although i took a linguistics unit once and it was rlly interesting, maybe i'd like to go back at some point (in the very distant future) to do more of that for fun :))

can you parallel park? nope, still on my learners and i haven't gotten around to learning lol

a job you had that would surprise people? hmm honestly haven't had any particularly surprising jobs? just the regular minimum wage retail stuff <//3

ooh but if we go with something adjacent that people would find surprising, i think irls would be very shocked to know that i write fanfic 😂

do you think aliens are real? Potentially? I feel like there's surely something somewhere out there, idk in what capacity though

can you drive a manual car? nope

what's your guilty pleasure? nothing's a guilty pleasure if you're shameless enough about your interests 😌

tattoos? i like the idea of them but i don't think i'll ever get one :)

favorite color? purple!! hence all the question colours hehehe

favorite type of music? osts of whichever show/movie i'm watching at the moment, that's pretty much the only music i've been listening for the last 2-ish years 😭 i guess most of that will count under pop music!

do you like puzzles? yesss!!! i love any and all types of puzzles <33

any phobias? idk if it's a phobia but i'm definitely NOT a fan of bugs/creepy crawlies, pls stay away from me 🙏🙏

favorite childhood sport? ahahaha i hated sports class with a passion all throughout school 😪 but i liked watching swimming and tennis a lot, i still keep up with tennis sometimes !!

do you talk to yourself? mostly just in my head, i'm surrounded by people most of the time so i wouldn't wanna talk out loud lol

what movies do you adore? i'm not rlly a big movie person, but some movies i've rewatched many times: Tenet, Tell Me How I Die (it's this horror movie with Ryan Higa of nigahiga fame that i was obsessed with when it first came out because i was going through a nigahiga phase 😩), Barbie and the Diamond Castle (the og barbie movies stay superior 💯💯), We Are Champions (only watched this recently, it's a taiwanese movie with my fav fandy fan in it <3 it's a very solid sports movie :))

coffee or tea? Coffee !!! although i like tea too. iced coffee and iced tea ftw

first thing you wanted to be growing up? i don't rlly remember? probably author or teacher :)

tagging @dramalets @xinhua-jun @kess-in-the-perthchimzone @quodekash @buckystilinski @gaiaxygang @moeblobmegane @telomeke @dropthedemiurge + anyone else who sees this, no pressure !! :D

[imreadydollparts]

This actually arrived at my house yesterday and is being bumped to the top of the queue for no reason, really.

I saw this 1971 Barbie Beauty Center relisted on shopgoodwill.com a couple times and it’s rare, but they did drop the price on her after a couple relists.

She was $40 shipped instead of $50... Goodwill uses FedEx which is EXPENSIVE.

Anyway, she looked like she’d be a challenge and I’m a little bored of working on ponies, so I went for it.

Her box is all but destroyed. The whole top is missing. That seems to be pretty common. The front is cute but I didn’t take any pics of it.

She came with all this stuff, most of which isn’t even hers. As far as I can tell only the yellow compact, large curlers, and green brush are hers.

I pulled her out of the box and was grateful she doesn’t smell like cigarettes, moth balls, or storage stank (mold/mildew).

Also grateful that the 1971 Beauty Center is NOT Quick Curl. The 1972 version is.

I despise Quick Curl.

I still thought she MIGHT be a challenge.

It took no time at all to get her face clean. Melamine sponge FTW.

I’m disappointed, honestly. When I splurge on something like this I’m paying for an experience since I have no interest in the product itself. I’m not even buying to resell, I’m buying for entertainment.

Her hair was not fun to fix at all. All it needed was washed, conditioned, combed with the metal dog comb, then combed with the metal flea comb and she was done.

Fixing her compact took more effort.

It was covered in “makeup” and then I went and chunked up the remaining powder, mixed it with rubbing alcohol, and let it set.

It’s chunky because there was a layer of glue on the bottom of the powder and I didn’t get it removed properly. I can go back and try doing it again and straining out the chunks, but honestly...

Don’t care that much.

It looks better, though it’s cracked while it dried, and that’s all I wanted.

So. Yeah. That’s done. (Ignore the mess I have a lot of projects going at once and it’s chaotic.)

I put her hair up in a hair net overnight while it dried.

Of course I also cleaned her accessories. The brush is adorable.

I have no idea what most of this stuff is.

The Libby Lee compact at least has a name on it. That was a brand of cheap toys you could get in a bubble card at gas stations and discount stores.

The pink pin and brush came from Quick Curl Skipper.

The orange thing is a handle for a file.

I think the yellow brush is just a generic baby hair brush. It has the ultra soft nylon bristles my little brother’s brush had when he was a baby.

Pink triangles seem to be broken hair clips though could be some other kind of clip.

Well, now what? On the pile of things to sell when I get back around to selling things.

[willowisapillow]

✨️💖 Wishing You The Best Day Ever! 💖✨️

❤️ Girlboss and Manwhore FTW 💙

A couple of months back, I watched the Barbie movie, and I love, love, loved it! It was just so much fun. I loved the characters (especially Weird Barbie, the best Barbie 💖), the music, the jokes, the outfits, just everything about the movie is what kid me would have absolutely adored during my fashion doll-obsessed phase. Margot Robbie slayed as Barbie, and Ryan Gosling ate it as Ken, left no crumbs whatsoever <3

Got the inspiration to draw Randy and Sharon as Barbie and Ken after stumbling onto some super mcfreaking adorbs Twitter fanart of them dressed up as them. I wanted to try and draw something similar, but I wanted to draw them in different outfits. In the fanart I saw, Sharon was dressed up in Barbie’s pink gingham dress, while Randy was dressed up in Ken’s blue and pink striped beach outfit.

I felt like giving them some different outfits, but I was kinda conflicted about what outfits they should wear. Wasn’t sure if I wanted to go with the western outfits or the rollerblading outfits, but I eventually chose the latter (mainly because the rollerblading outfits are underrated af when it comes to the fanart of the movie imo 😤).

Aside from not liking how Randy’s mouth and visor turned out, I had a blast working on this, especially when it came to coloring in the leotard, jacket, and their visors. I kinda went all out with the psychedelic-esque patterns. These two just look so cute wearing their his and hers Barbie drip 💕

💝 🛼 💝