#barbie the mermaid tale

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

Pt I australia but i've never been there

A lot of my lovely maggots are Australian, it appears, judging by the number of Australian families I was just randomly adopted by. So this one goes out to you all, but very especially to Arthur (@howmanyholesinswisscheese) and to his grandmother's boyfriend Brian, who reminds him occasionally of me. I'm truly honoured.

Disclaimer: I did my research on tumblr, pinterest, and the first result of a couple of Google searches, because I'm thorough like that. I say part I because there is a lot.

I'm not sure what Australia is, because the education system failed me. They said it was a continent. But then a country. I figured it was both.

Unfortunately, then I learned about Oceania. Which I had thought was a made up undersea kingdom in that Barbie a Mermaid's Tale series, where people surf. But the continent is Australia and Oceania. Or not.

They have Prime Ministers. I know this, because one ate a raw onion which became instrumental in his later sacking, and another demanded to know what the odds were of a Prime Minister drowning.

He then drowned. Or maybe vanished into the Barbie kingdom of Oceania and became a merman. We will never know, because his body was never recovered, so my money's on the merman theory. Australians proceeded to name everything to do with water after him, from swimming pools to ships, because Irony.

H2O Just Add Water was set here, I think. I am not sure what that is, aside from a show where contact with liquid dihydrogen monoxide causes bodily transformation into a mermaid. Do the Australian mermaids not drink water? Not knowing any personally, I can't ask.

Aside from the concerning number of merpeople, there are also a concerning number of spiders. I love spiders, but apparently the ones in Australia will eat your flesh. After I watch Good Omens S2, I suspect I will welcome this fate.

For morons like me who see a spider and go AWW, Peppa Pig's episode on teaching kids not to be afraid of spiders was banned in Australia for endangering children and not being appropriate for Australian audiences.

Sydney is a place and it has an opera house. Melbourne is a place and it has a stadium (of what sport, I am unsure). Queensland is a place and it has Arthur's grandmum's boyfriend Brian.

There is a thing called Milo, and it is a brown powder that I assume is edible. Mums say to add a teaspoon (hence why I assumed edibility) and the children add a truckful. I infer it is nice.

There is marmite. I have known this for a while. Tourists spread a lot of it on their bread. This is a mistake. Do not. The original ad involved someone eating marmite happily, and their partner kissing them on the mouth and proceeding to gag violently. It is fermented beer waste. You either hate it or love it.

There is fairy bread. If you have sticks on it you are a monster. If you have balls on it you are smart.

I'm already writing part II. humans bewilder me.

[sarichicken]

surfs up, bow down! 🏄‍♀️✨

[suzieloveships]

I need someone who can make gifs sets to make a parallel gifs set of Percy Jackson learning he can breathe under water and Merliah from Barbie in a Mermaid Tale learning she can breathe under water

Literally the same person

[paystery]

my top ten actors are barbie in her 2001-2015 movies

[cringelordofchaos]

some of you's only experience of engaging with barbie content is the newest movie )instead of the amazing badly written hellholes of 3d animated 2000's barbie movies with a target audience of 6 year old girls) and it SHOWS

[dream-thunder]

Some Barbaras

[avitha]

Sorry, this came to me out of nowhere 🤣

[several-breathing-eyes]

I miss the days when Barbie™ would overthrow totalitarian dictators and uncover royal conspiracies within a county's monarchy. What happened to that?

[delicatemystic]

Barbie movies iceberg

[gaal-dornick]

the old guard in a mermaid tale

[littledemon55]

The only Alastor I respect ✋😔

(His name is actually Alistair, but it sounds exactly like Alastor)

He's from Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2 btw, which is a solid experience ^°^

[sarichicken]

merliah's tails 🌊✨

[kohigh]

I love princess peach showtime

[girly-media-studio]

Barbie is really good at getting girlfriends

[cherrylimepine]

My favorite part of barbie movies is the moment barbie is presented with a clear way out, an option that lets her avoid the plot with little negative impact on her own life and instead she chooses to stay and make whatever difference she can. The most obvious to me as a kid was in Mermaid Tale when she refuses her wish from the dreamfish and accepts responsibility as a princess. She could easily walk away and live her life as a human, but makes the choice to care about the merpeople. In Princess and the Pauper, Erika doesn’t have to help Julian and pretend to be the princess, in fact her life would be much easier if she didn’t. But she accepts that responsibility and risks her life because of the connection she feels to this girl she barely knows. It’s not exclusive to barbie’s roles either. Aidan in Magic of Pegasus has no real stake in Annika’s quest, especially not at the start. But he hears a person talking about how they need a second chance and he chooses not to walk away. And this happens over and over again, in 12 Dancing Princesses, Diamond Castle, Three Musketeers

Often in children’s movies I feel like the plot is their life, like there’s no other option here they must deal with whatever is going on. And as a kid who felt like her life was very quiet, it meant a lot to me to watch characters choose the harder path for the sake of helping others, make a decision to care about someone else’s problems, and live out their own magical adventure because of that act of compassion.

[nightmimedreams]

The signs as Barbie Films

Barbie in a Mermaid Tale: Aries.