#muse Barbie

[smallfavorsboutique]

#Barbie #Barbie clothes #kofichallenge #muse Barbie #haydeesews #barbied flowers #barbie wigle dress #dollclothes #smallfavorsboutique #small favors #smallfavorscustom #dolls #handmadedollclothes

[johannestevans]

you know, one thing that i found extremely refreshing about the Barbie movie is how much it doesn't hate men or masculinity, and instead positions compulsory masculinity as similarly limiting and imprisoning as femininity when it's societally enforced

and i've been really surprised by how many people who have been going "this movie is anti-men, and that's GREAT" when like. it's not anti-men. it's opposed to patriarchy and toxic masculinity, but it extends a great deal of compassion to individual men

not just to magic ken and sugar daddy ken and allan and the other rejected kens, but even to stereotypical ken, who like. causes a lot of the problems in barbieland and leads it. it extends a great deal of empathy for his sense of powerlessness and loneliness

and it would have been very easy for the film to basically just call him an incel and punish him for what he's done by disenfranchising him even further, but it doesn't do that? it says, hey. you need more to your identity than your gender, and there's more to you than being str8

and that's exactly the same weight of the message communicated to barbie, that there's more to her identity than her gender, that there's more to her than her perfect appearance and performance

neither of them have to just be dolls

idk, i enjoyed it as a well-crafted film without finding it like, hugely artistically impactful on me, but that aspect of its gender commentary was incredibly refreshing, and far more nuanced than i'm used to expecting of cisgender creators

and i think it's a real shame for people to interpret that very carefully crafted arc for ken and the other kens and allan as "haha, this movie HATES men and thinks they're STINKY" when like. a lot of work was done to go beyond that sort of very easy reflexive hatred

#musings #barbie

[tragedynoir]

— server exclusive: BARBIE LAND + [ link ]

∗ in collaboration with VERNONLINE.

a free, four-page lore google doc template inspired by the new barbie movie, featuring a gorgeous resident icon template based on the posters by @vernonline! everything else in this template is made in google drawings, so it's extremely flexible to edit! this doc features a long history section, locations as well as residents section, and is perfect for conveying your rpg information, but can be easily edited to be a muse template as well.

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#google doc template #google docs template #muse template #rp template #barbie #rph #m #fave #m collab #m se

[turnippencil]

Narinder's house from a passage in chapter 1

'Even as a mortal, he is still in a field of his own creation. He just traded white for red, just like his robes.'

#cult of the lamb #cult of the lamb fanart #cotl au #cotl narinder #narilamb #colt narinder #turnip musings #dont worry #this babygirl is spoilt #cat has his little barbie dream house #my art <3 #the past we shared #tpws au

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

A Woman Painting a Man – Artemisia Gentileschi // Vision – Jacek Malczewski // Barbie (2023) – Directed by Greta Gerwig

#okay so i know this is different from my usual stuff #bc i typically do song lyrics and not quotes #but when i heard this in the theater i was having some Thoughts #like about muses vs. artists and the construction of the female body in western art through a heteronormative male lens #and idk i was just like “damn this really applies to art history” #i promise i have more complete thoughts on this whole subject i just can't articulate them very well lmao #anyway i decided to do some edits based on this quote bc it's just so good #artemisia gentileschi #artemisia gentileschi my beloved #barbie #barbie 2023 #the barbie movie #art #art history #lyrics #lyric art #tw objectification

[citizenerased77]

didn't know i even needed this until i saw it.

#muse band #simulation theory #barbie #drones #oppenheimer #barbenheimer

[cak31ssuperi04]

fun fact: Them

#willos nation I have an important announcement to make #eyagh *disintegrates into powder and scatters into the wind forever* #that's all thank you for coming to my ted talk. #barbie mariposa #barbie mariposa and her butterfly fairy friends #barbie mariposa and the fairy princess #Had to attach a link to the last image because tumblr fucked the quality so bad #barbie #barbie movies #On a different note. They go on chore runs together. In my mind #I should've drawn that but you're going to hear it from me here instead #She invites him out on a laundry run to cut down on the being bored out of her mind and notices he's actually enthusiastic about it #Because like. Having grown up mostly sheltered and relatively(self-imposed or otherwise) isolated he #hadn't really had the experience of just Hanging Out very much #like hell yeah an excuse to leave the palace without having to deal with socializing with strangers. too much. #because she can deal with that. And i mean. he likes hanging out with her. #So she just keeps inviting him over for other menial chores. He's actually kindof competent at it and she really doesnt mind the extra help #cakeart #Also. also. She does poses for him. to draw. paint. whatever #Not in a weird way. in a figure drawing way. understand my vision. look me in the eye. #Artist/muse scenario in general. consider. consider. i'm correct #This post has been in my drafts since november it's not going to show up in the tags if I keep talking

[meowunmeow]

If my ADHD allows it, I might just write Unfade Unluck: the [extremely warped] story as seen through Feng's shoujo filtered eyes where he is in a star crossed romance with Fuuko (she does not care about him outside of giving Shen and his sister a trauma-free life (he is in denial))

#undead unluck #undead unluck spoilers #fuuko izumo #feng kowloon #fengfuu #feng is like my barbie doll i can create drama with #hello from drafts #meow muse

[jenntastic10]

Cici Thick

#it girl #black is beautiful #black tumblr #black luxury #black beauty #luxury black women #coquette #black love #luxury moodboard #spoiled gf #ciara wilson #barbie girl #rich black girls #black girl magic #woman in music #music #muse #influencer #lookbook #red and black

[meimi-haneoka]

Do you guys ever think about how many times CLAMP tiptoe around the word "death", in Clear Card? (you: what kind of question is that???)

Because it's an awful lot.

The actual verb 死ぬ (to die), the classical one, is never mentioned* to indicate "death", and I totally see the reasons why: mainly target and "world view" of the series (lord, if there's something I learned during these 8 years of observing the reactions from the JP fans is that the 世界観, the "world view" is EVERYTHING and if the authors dare doing something that goes against it, they won't forgive them. Especially for a series rooted deep in everybody's childhood).

* (Actually, it is used in chapter 43 in a funny skit with Kero, Suppy and Nakuru, where Kero says "I thought I would die!!!" because he's too embarrassed by the SyaoSaku scene he had to forcefully witness hidden in Sakura's bag 😂but it's a foolish scene)

I think the first time where they actually start to dangle it in our faces is in chapter 28, when they make Momo scream in panic: "If you rewind that far, the repercussions will be immesurable!!" and then Kaito confirming right after "Time magic shortens the caster's lifespan". 命を削る indeed means "to shorten one's lifespan", and what else does that mean, if not that he's killing himself little by little, by using time magic? Sure, magicians have a longer lifespan, but...

Another instance where they make us "sniff" the smell of death but they don't serve the actual meal is in chapter 33, when Kaito goes out in the garden to counter the attack coming from the Association. He condescendingly says 力不足と己の身が滅ぶのを恐れて, mocking them for not including time magic in their collective attack because they're afraid their power won't be enough and they'll literally wreck their bodies in the process. Kaito doesn't straight up say "they're afraid to die", but the verb 滅ぶ means "to perish, to be ruined, to be destroyed" and we all saw what effects time magic had on Kaito's body. He's basically calling them p*ssies, yes.

And excuse me, but the most apparent one....when Kaito (or the Clan) says multiple times "Her soul will break", should Akiho write on herself more power than her body can sustain....isn't that just a very generous way to avoid saying "Akiho WILL DIE" to not scare the young readers away? Because, think about it...if her soul breaks...what is left of her? What is left of Akiho, as we know her? Yes, just a shell, a corpse for use and consumption of the Association/Clan, exactly.

And what to say about the scene of chapter 41 when Nadeshiko is trying to mom-talk Kaito into reason and the guy answers "I guess it's because I'm getting closer to become the same kind of entity as you", meaning, a ghost??? Hence, he's basically saying "I'm about to die"? I always snicker when I read that part because I'm like "OH COME ON, CLAMP, MAKE HIM SAY THE WORD" 😂

Another instance where the characters dance around the concept of death is in chapter 51, when Momo gets to have this very mom-son talk with Kaito (yes, exactly, Kaito set into motion several mother figures throughout the story - Lilie, Momo, Nadeshiko herself - that should tell you SOMETHING). Momo is trying to make him understand that he's literally betted his life away when he made the contract with her, so that should give him an idea of how important this mission is to him, and for whom he's doing this for. She says "When you made the contract with me, you revealed your true name. We could say I hold your heart as magician in the palm of my hand". Here Momo is basically already mentioning the concept I've been saying time and time again when Kaito revealed his true name to Akiho in chapter 80: in CLAMP works, revealing your true name to someone is like placing the most vulnerable part of yourself in their hands. The "imagery" Momo suggests here is actually pretty disturbing: the word 心臓 (heart) is the one commonly used to indicate the actual organ, more than "heart as core of the emotions", and so what she's suggesting is that at any moment, without notice, she might close that hand and crush his heart, basically killing him. Of course Momo would never do that, but she wants to remind him of what damned situation he's put himself in, how far he went for the person he still isn't ready to recognize at this point of the story.

I think the closer they went to say the "forbidden word" was when Lilie in chapter 72 explained to Sakura the extent of her premonitory dreams: "I know things that will happen shortly ahead...things way far ahead in the future...and even things that will happen when I'll be gone".

Another instance where they TOTALLY dance around the real situation (that is, Kaito should've been dead-dead-dead by then) is in chapter 80 when Eriol explains to Akiho what Kaito had been doing: I'm not sure if it's Eriol who sugarcoated it in his speech, or Akiho herself while recounting it to Sakura, but she says "He messed with lots (of dangerous magic), so his condition wasn't supposed to be that good", another polite way to say "he should've been dead by now". In fact, what's keeping him alive is literally the fact that the pocket watch (and therefore, his time) is frozen for now.

And sometimes I wonder if the "unhappiness" or "grief" that Yelan foresaw for Sakura, in the eventuality she couldn't gain control of her own powers, included....death too....NAAAAAAAHHHH

(well, I mean, who didn't think of THAT when they made Kaito say that he could see Nadeshiko because he was close to dying?? Well knowing that Sakura could suddenly see her too?? they did that on purpose jfc)

#card captor sakura #ccsakura #clear card arc #just very randomly musing about stuff #I've been keeping tabs of how many times they've danced around the concept of death in this arc #and it's surprisingly a lot #lmao I feel like Barbie asking THAT question while they're dancing in the movie #but fear not cause even like this the arc never crosses the line #it's like saying well it's time for children to get accustomed with the concept and we'll gradually start to introduce it #gently very gently #but it's useless to keep avoiding it forever #I mean we got someone who was literally throwing his life away as one of the main characters and themes in this arc #sooo...

[johannestevans]

Patriarchy does damage to us all, and Barbie (2023, dir. Greta Gerwig) clearly depicts that.

We went to see Greta Gerwig’s Barbie at the weekend and I was honestly surprised by how much I engaged with it — it’s a fun, entertaining flick, but where it really took me by surprise is in the three-dimensionality and nuance it applied to the male-female divide in the film, and especially the care it extends to its male characters.

As a gay man and especially as a trans one, I’m often left a little cold when it comes to some films’ explorations of gender dynamics — they often end up simplifying gender roles to a simple binary where men and women exist as homogenous blocks of society, assuming all men are masculine, all women are feminine, and assuming that all of them are cis and straight.

Barbie is refreshing for a few reasons — there aren’t many films where the titular female character proudly proclaims she hasn’t got a vagina — but one thing that really stood out to me was the variety in the male characters and the way that the film really criticises patriarchy whilst realising the ways in which patriarchy harms men in similar ways that it does women.

I honestly felt pretty seen and reflected in the character of Allan, who exists very much outside the expectations the cishet Kens project onto one another, and although the film doesn’t deeply explore queer relationships beyond the blatant gay vibes between Barbie and Gloria, it’s really unusual to see so many queer-coded characters in a film like this, particularly so many male ones.

Ken is kissed on the cheeks by his fellow Kens; there are multiple Kens with queer vibes; two of the businessmen hold hands as they run after Barbie. In general, the film doesn’t hold its male characters to the same stringent expectations of cishet masculinity so many films do — and there’s an inherent play with every male character’s gender in this film.

You get the sense watching it that part of the wonder of the world is that it exists in the minds of the kids playing with it, that it’s not yet tainted by the often obsessive focus many cishet adults have with binary gender roles.

Especially as a kid growing up, knowing I was different, knowing that I didn’t conform as certain adults wanted me to with strict gender roles as imposed on girls — or even boys — I was always aware that sometimes I or other kids would be playing with dolls and action figures, and adults would interrupt effectively to panic that we weren’t being strict enough about those toys’ imaginary genders.

The plot as it plays out in Barbie, larger than life as it is, feels similar to that process, funnily enough.

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#musings #barbie #barbie 2023 #stereotypical ken #allan barbie

[xstargirlxxx]

#black aesthetic #black beauty #black girl aesthetic #black girl beauty #black girl magic #black girls are beautiful #black girls of tumblr #black girls rock #black is beautiful #black tumblr #melanin #black woman beauty #beautiful #beauty #black women #black girl moodboard #makeup #black barbie #muse inspo #beauties #brown skin girl #pretty face #perfect face #black girl luxury #black girl fashion #black woman aesthetic #black woman femininity #black woman magic #black woman appreciation #black woman icons

[jacketpotatoo]

Barbie Oscar discourse is making my headache.

it’s disingenuous to say that Greta and Margot and Barbie were Actually Shit and it’s also indicative of how audiences view comedy as a low brow artform that shouldn’t be held alongside Serious Drama

it’s ALSO disingenuous to say that their lack of nominations is because critics missed the point of the movie because they nominated Ryan Gosling and his song. Yknow, his song *criticising* the patriarchy, written by a woman, Greta Gerwig.

it is ESPECIALLY disingenuous when Barbie scored 8 nominations overall, most of which in categories that they were deserving of! The production design, etc. yeah, absolutely deserved. It *is* getting its flowers. So many deserving films aren’t at all.

Not to mention the fact that the Leading Actress and Best Director category is stacked. Not to mention the fact that most people complaining haven’t even seen the other entries and are using that as a Gotcha. Yes I do think the ‘only one woman is nominated for best director’ pattern is stupid and that Celine Song also deserves a nomination. Which brings me to the fact that Past Lives was absolutely robbed in other categories.

It’s annoying that the defeatist ‘awards hate barbie and therefore women, wow feminism is dead’ discourse is so so stark because Lily Gladstone’s nomination is SO deserved and her inevitable win will be too. Supporting Actress is a category for women, the “why did KEN get nominated and not Barbie” discourse is just stupid.

#it’s like all nuance about criticism surrounding this movie and its discourse is just gone #guys let’s be Normal #why is barbie being painted as an underdog when it’s clearly not like we can be honest about this #film stuff #oscars 2024 #jp musings

[superlustersnew52]

open to anybody with a penis plot: your muse (either intentionally or unintentionally) found themselves transported to Barbieland, where human Barbies live, but their culture is so closed-off that introducing new ideas can change them rather quickly...such as them being around a penis for the first time other Barbies may get involved as we go, maybe I'll use actresses from the movie or just other regular FCs that I use, we'll see

There was something...different about this new arrival. They weren't a Ken or a Barbie...they were...a human, perhaps? But the only kinds of humans that were supposed to visit Barbieland were the people that made the Barbies...and this one seemed...different. They'd all but collapsed when they got to Barbieland. It seemed like they'd been worn out by the journey here...so they'd wound up being taken to Barbie's place. Stereotypical Barbie. The other Barbies had jobs to do, after all, whereas her job was...being Barbie.

The thing that had made it abundantly clear that they weren't a Ken or a Barbie was what she'd found when she tried to change them into cleaner clothes. A...penis, she was pretty sure. She'd never seen one. She...wasn't supposed to know what one was, but she'd been staring at it ever since it had been freed, and...something was changing in her. That should worry her. But it didn't. She just wanted to know more about the penis in front of her.

Her hand wrapped around it, and she stroked it, eyes widening a bit as it grew hard. She could feel wetness between her own legs. Wait...what? Her free hand slipped into her pants, and her eyes widened more as her fingers met a pussy that hadn't been there before. This was changing her physically as well as mentally...

As the person started to wake up, Barbie couldn't bring herself to move her hand off of their cock, merely mumbling, "I-I'm sorry, I just...I've never seen a penis before. I...I'm Barbie...welcome to Barbieland. I..." She let out a gasp as her fingers delved into her new pussy, "I think your penis is changing me. But I can't help myself..."

#open rp #Barbie starter #I haven't added her as a muse (yet) but shh

[red-dragon-archfiend]

Hey is it me or have there been like. No new memes recently

#musings #it just now occurred to me #i can't remember the last time a new tumblr meme became popular #i think it was that barbie meme? #but that was more of a fan artist thing than like. a site-wide meme

[super-who-locked-me-in-here]

Discuss

#a captain holt and hannibal lecter interaction came to me in a dream #these are the results of those musings #hannibal lecter #captain holt #barbie preminger #lancelot #hannibal #b99 #barbie princess and the pauper #bbc merlin #deadpool