#but i stand by my statement

[luzsadventures]

coming straight from my three page long notes app essay I wrote at 4am after seeing the barbie movie, some thoughts on why barbie is definitely aroace, and why that means the world to me tbh:

BARBIE IS AROACE. TELL ME IM WRONG.

barbie not wanting to be with ken is so important. she never has to explain herself. she’s just not interested. and that’s okay. she’s never shamed or ostracized because she’s not interested in ken. it's not played for jokes. there’s never even a moment of “well, maybe barbie will have a realization that ken's been there all along and they'll end up together”. nope, there’s never any expectation. and it’s not even in a girlboss feminism, “she doesn’t need a man” kind of way. she just doesn’t want that, and the movie respects that. the movie respects what she wants, which is something we don't see much when it comes to aroace rep (or like most rep when it comes to women tbh).

barbie also turns down ken in a way that makes it clear that she's just not interested. there's no hesitation or sugar coating to it. we see this in the "girls night" scene in front of the dreamhouse, when barbie says simply, she doesn't want ken there. even later on when she turns him down in ways that are a little nicer, she's still very firm in her decision. time and time again we see barbie knowing what she wants and asserting it. we live in a world where when turning down men women always feel the need to be nice about it and "let them down easy" either out of being polite or sometimes as a safety precaution. regardless, to see barbie be able to be firm in her decisions is so empowering.

I love how this subverts expectations, bc we know ken is (supposed to be) barbie’s boyfriend. she’s everything and he’s just ken (although we can get into the nuances of that statement some other time). that is the role ken has always played. so to have that subverted, to make it clear to begin with that barbie is not really all that into ken is such a nice change.

this is also SO important because barbie is a beacon of “stereotypical” femininity, and has also been historically sexualized. so the fact that the movie lets her be feminine and girly but she can still not be interested in ken is amazing. she is still allowed to be herself, and her femininity is neither tied to, nor does it detract from her want to not be with ken. the movie said girls can be feminine without being tied to male attention !! girls can be feminine just bc its fun !!

I can talk about this for hours it’s so genuinely healing for me. I doubt many others picked up on it, hell idk that this all was intentional, but I loved it <3

#some of this might not make sense bc it was 4am and i was delirious #but i stand by my statement #i'm also open to the interpretation that barbie is an ace lesbian #that also sounds about right #she's definitely some flavor of queer #barbie #barbie spoilers #aroace barbie real #aroace #aromantic #asexual #aroace rep #aroace representation #barbie 2023 #the barbie movie #barbie movie #greta gerwig #margot robbie

[sunnyshifts]

team edward girlies are team conrad and team jacob girlies are team jeremiah.

#obv there are exceptions #but i stand by my statement #tsitp #the summer i turned pretty #twilight #twilight saga #twilight renaissance #conrad fisher #jeremiah fisher #edward cullen #jacob black

[simthing-clever]

hot take: no conversions should be early access either  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#yeah that's like soooo many creators #but i stand by my statement #you didn't make it don't treat it as such

[squarecloud73]

*I worship you Tumblr please don’t remove it

Laios helping Chilchuck with his tallman-sized burger

#So I changed the dialogue because I'm an indecisive potato :’) #I stand by my statement that Laios is having major emotional conflicts #do I want him to be my parent or do I want to squish his cheeks or do I want to eat him with ketchup #dungeon meshi #chilchuck #laios touden

[doctorsiren]

I saw an interesting post a while back that said “Capcom made us [Miles and Diego/Godot] only have like two(?) interactions because they knew we would be unstoppable with a brother dynamic” and tbh it stuck with me bc it was intriguing.

So yeah that potential brotherhood, but that Godot/Diego AU I made (that I still need a name for)

Also I bet Gregory Edgeworth would have smelled like a bit like coffee, and so Diego just reminds Miles of that comforting presence 😭 (the von Karma estate was a tea household, so he didn’t smell much coffee after DL-6 and didn’t realize how much he missed it/reminded him of his father)

#doctorsiren #ace attorney #ace attorney au #diego armando #prosecutor godot #miles edgeworth #comic #ace attorney fanart #good guy godot au #art #digital art #my art #fanart #procreate #loving the inconsistent styles for Miles in the panels HAHA #that post also made me think of an AU where after the Fawles case. miles goes to Diego asking for help because he can’t stop thinking about #what happened on the stand and he can’t go to his mentor bc he’s showing weakness and that’s not allowed #and essentially long story short. miles decided to drop prosecuting after one case and be a defense attorney and he asks Diego to protect #him from von karma and also to be his mentor #so it’s like Mia and Phoenix but it’s Diego and Miles and then after Diego gets poisoned. Mia has to mentor Miles and she’s a little #hesitant at first because of how cocky he was in that trial but she sees that he’s genuinely trying to be better #also Diego would ask miles: you’re trying to be what von Karma wants you to be…well..what do YOU want to be? #and miles would answer: I want to be my dad #JUST LIKE IN MY 1985 ANIMATIC #ANYWAYS I’M BRAINROTTING SO HARD RN EXCUSE ME LMAO #ALSO MY FRIEND SAID THAT IN THIS AU (the one in the post) DIEGO AND PHOENIX ARE ENEMIES TO BROTHERS #and that’s the best thing I’ve heard all day it’s such a funny statement AND IT’S TRUE!!!!

[rusomnia]

tim, muttering to himself: i doubt they'll be girlypop with a broken nose

dick: *concerned older brother noises*

#batboys #incorrect quotes #tim drake #dcu #batfam #red robin #batfamily #dick grayson #the batboys as things my friends have said #well #again this one was me #i stand by my statement

[nyxakhlys]

It would be hilarious if i got fired for making a tiktok

#i was annoyed about teachers talking behind my back so i made a tiktok about it sgsvzgvshz #i think one teacher saw it and shared it with her gang #coincidentally the head of primary wanted to have a meeting today #hm?? well...im fucked #but i stand by my statement #i didnt mention names or school and i was merely making a funny meme #either way......id lose my shit if i get fired for this #more content for me tho 🤪 #pov u just got sacked for making a tiktok about ur toxic workplace 🤪 *me sobbing and twerking to some kind of pop song*

[suchawrathfullamb]

I asked my friend "do you think Hannibal would look at Will's hands in random moments and think, how I wanted those hands all over me, wrapped around my neck, do you think he looked at his eyes and thought, how I wish to make them roll from pleasure-" and she looked at me, breathed in all the audacity she had in her body and said

"that's what you think"

I blame Hugh Dancy for this humiliation.

#I have never been so called out #Am I...living vicariously through Hannibal? yes #but also I still stand by my statement: Hannibal thought all of those things #nbc hannibal #hannigram #hannibal #will graham #murder husbands #hannibal lecter #hugh dancy #mads mikkelsen

[mindstriker]

i really wish more people would get into Scarecrow as a character outside of the "hot" iteration of him cillian murphy played in Batman Begins because honestly he's such a nothing character there. he's really just Ra'as' 5-minute-screentime-having lackey, but he's magnetic because come on. it's cillian murphy.

i just want to grab people by the hand and gently guide them over to all the other delightful interpretations of him. look, guys. he's from georgia. he has religious trauma of the evangelical-adjacent variety so heinous it would make catholic guilt look like the greener grass on the other side of the fence. he once drugged batman just to follow him around on patrol while he hallucinated all night to psychoanalyze him and attempt to convince him to retire. he also once made him chamomile tea. he may or may not have changed his own last name to crane in reference to the fact that he was bullied in school by being compared to ichabod crane. because he was built like a skellington. sometimes he just has a gun and uses this in place of his typical fear toxin gimmick. in one iteration he gets fired from being a university professor for firing a gun in the classroom to prove a point. he generally tends to condescend towards everyone, but seems to get along with fucking harley quinn of all people specifically despite the fact that you'd think her positive attitude would give him a hernia. he's an absolutely batshit individual. he's shockingly self-aware and chooses to be terrible despite being aware of how terrible he is. he thinks he's batman's therapist. please i am begg in g y ou i know his glittery blue eyes and submissive attitude in batman begins are appealing but please there's so much to love here i beg of you look at him

#is this me being needlessly bitchy about the fandom tag for jonathan crane being 99% nolanverse? mayhaps. #nonetheless: i stand by my statement. the scrunglier versions of him deserve love #am i going insane over this because i'm currently writing fanfiction? yes #blame it on the 3k words of my batman au #this is me yelling #batman rogues #jonathan crane #scarecrow dc

[jeonwon-wonwoo]

WONWOO X DIOR

#wonwoo #seventeen #svtcreations #17net #forsvt #svtsource #userngocchi #sonafied #homerunj #heymax #alitracks #userbexrex #usermery #usersemily #emification #usernoot #miss dior and miss dior blooming bouquet are some of my fave perfumes #miss dior was actually my first big girl perfume purchase lol #i was hoping there would be more black and white shots of him posing with this perfume but there isn't :( #my statement still stands...he looks and will always look phenomenal #*mine

[khaotunq]

sand: be gay, do crime

#only friends the series #ofts #oftsedit #sandray #raysand #tuserhidden #tusersilence #tuserrowan #userdorksinlove #tostrangers #userbon #userjamiec #someone take photoshop away from me #this is the thing i just thought of in the cryptic last post i made lmao #khaotung thanawat is illegal and i stand by that statement #my gifs #my edits #mine: sandray #mine: only friends #mine: sand #mine: ray

[toskarin]

in a few years, you're going to hear people say "we didn't know!" about the carnage in palestine, and when you hear that, you have to understand it to mean "the created consensus had not yet shifted" and know that they will leave you, too, if the tide of opinion tells them to. these are not your bedfellows

every piece of material evidence was screaming at them and they chose to ignore it in favour of public messaging

at absolute most generous, they were useful idiots lacking principles to guide them and they would let it happen all over again if given the chance. at worst, they're lying

it's horrifying. it's disgusting. I hope they find hearts so that they can break when they realise the abyssal fucking depths of what they've done.

#reblogs disabled because this isn't really meant as a broad statement #this is just a reminder to followers of my blog about where I stand on all this so there's no mistake

[realbeefman]

dr daddy issues famously wanting to fuck his dadboss house. and of course everybody is familiar with allison "i can fix him" cameron. but can we please please talk about little ms "took over my old boss's boss's job (being the one he'll lust and pant after like a slobbering dog)" mr king of repressed homoerotic tension eric foreman's Deal. what was going through that man's mind when he tried to fulfill the same role his former boss's girlfriend played. NONE of the og fellows are beating the "in love with house" allegations unfortunately

#conclusion house has created the most unsafe and sexually charged workplace environment in the history of television #and i love him for that #yeah im tired as shit tho. might retract my statement in the morning but i stand by the opinions of me tonight. #the man i become when outrageously stressed and procrastinating is valid. i have 2 assignments du in 30 minutes im vomiting #house md #house md shitpost #greg house #eric foreman #horeman is my ship name proposal LMFAOOOO #horeman #theres probs alr a name but i dont know it #robert chase #allison cameron

[thyrell]

aaron stated his pronouns were he/him to jounalists and news outlets before his self-immolation. speculating someone else's gender, especially after his death is disrespectful and not your business. even if he went by lilly and used other pronouns, you are essentially trying to out him and disrespecting his wishes. maybe you should do as aaron asked and keep your focus on palestine instead of sending hate to a black trans person on here

im not sending hate to this person, i havent even interacted with him unless those anons were sent by him. i continue to use he/him for aaron bushnell, as per his last public communications, because as per the original post this is about, this is all speculation. i appreciate you coming to me off anon to tell me this, but i want you to think about whether this discussion is genuinely harmful to aaron bushnell's legacy or the palestinian freedom movement as a whole, whether it is just uncomfortable or in poor taste, and most importantly whether it warranted the widespread backlash against trans women on this website that it elicited.

#i guess my point being that #the post people are talking about IS an uncomfortable read - and i would not blame you for saying its in bad taste #but as it stands i dont see it detracting from awareness of the situation in palestine or from the statement aaron made #THAT is what ive been trying to say this whole time - not that i even agree with the original post #but that the backlash against it has been disproportionate #and indicative of a wider pattern of scrutiny towards trans women on this website that is not applied to everyone else

[l-just-want-to-see]

devils that you know / raise worse hell than a stranger (THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT + Jason Peter Todd)

the black dog / Robin / Peter / the smallest man who ever lived / who’s afraid of little old me?

#hi guys I stand by my statements which are some of those songs sound a little dumb.. sorry to swifties #however one of the songs was named Robin and unfortunately for everyone on this planet I have Robin disease. everywhere I look I see Robin #Jason Todd #dick grayson #bruce wayne #<- usually I’m more neutral and here he’s very /neg but yeah #batfam #web weaving #schrodinger's taylor swift opinions #dick and jason #<- they make me ugly cry #also so proud of my comics reference for “I’ll forget you” because that was his most cherished memory and he gave it away… #and I do think forget but don’t forgive is very Jason

[mieczyhale]

#cole i saw ur reply on waiting until the bullshit around the game calms down and it stops being 'trendy' to care and i think that's a good #idea. bc a lot of the notes /were/ just about jkr and the game. there's no guarantee it'd have gotten as much support otherwise #BUT i reblogged that post on how hating nazis and supporting the jewish community are two separate statements and it's not something i had #thought a lot about. to me they should go together but it's clear they don't and so i wanted to make another one of these bitches #just so it's very clear where i stand. i dont just hate nazis - i also support the jewish community. 365 days a year #the game and all that may have made things louder - it feels necessary to be louder right now - but it doesnt make my stance new #if tumblr finds a reason to take this one down im gonna start biting #maison speaks