BARBIE! TAKE YOUR LADY FASHIONS WITH YOU!
TAKE YOUR:
CELEBRATE DISCO BELL BOTTOMS
AND YOUR
Ice Capades
PRETTY PRACTICE SUIT (& DAZZLING SHOW SKIRT!)
YOUR PAJAMA JAM IN AMSTERDAM SETS!
AND YOUR
PRETTY PAISLEY PALAZZO PANTS
(NOT THE PALAZZO'S!!)
...AND GET OUT!
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Unlike Jo, Amy embraces her budding womanhood, which she feels empowers rather than diminishes her. At sixteen, she has the air and bearing of a full-grown woman” and has “learned to use the gift of fascination with which she was endowed.” Although not a natural beauty like Meg, the blonde, blue-eyed Amy easily succeeds at making herself into a fashionable work of art, gaining first the attention of Laurie's college friends, then Fred Vaughn, and finally Laurie himself. It is not only with men that she succeeds, however. She wins over her fellow art school students, the mean girls at the fair, and then her aunts, one of whom takes her to Europe. Once abroad, Amy blossoms further. “Always mature for her age,” she now becomes “more of a woman of the world.” She enjoys her power over men (including Laurie) and tears around Nice in her own carriage, taking the reins herself and yelling out to Laurie in the street, her “free manners” scandalizing a French mother who hurries her young daughter in the opposite direction. Amy was the daring American girl abroad ten years before the publication of Henry James's Daisy Miller.
In the end, of course, Amy wins Laurie and decides that she won't be an artist after all (because she possesses talent but not genius, something Laurie also discovers about his music). Readers often forget that Amy wants to become a famous artist because she gives it up so easily. She will become instead, as the wealthy Laurie's wife, “an ornament to society.” To many readers, Amy has seemed to be the clear winner among the four March sisters. In her New York Times essay “Amy Had Golden Curls; Jo Had a Rat. Who Would You Rather Be?” film and book critic Caryn James wrote that favoring Amy over the other girls was a "no-brainer." Pretty Amy went to Europe, had adventures, and married the dashing boy next door, while Jo lived in a dumpy boardinghouse in New York and married a boring professor. - Anne Boyd Rioux, Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
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lmao i literally went "ugh if life was fair to queer people he would kiss him right now"
and in the next second guess what happened
GUYS
GUESS WHAT HAPPENED
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When I found out Ice Adolescence had been cancelled, my mum told me to just write a fanfic to cope with the loss and post it on ao3.
Why does my mother know what ao3 is and why is she telling me to post fan fiction on it??
I mean at least she's supportive?
↑ live footage of my mum telling me to write Yuri On Ice fan fiction.
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If I don't hear at least one 'mmm' coming from Aemond in the first episode, is the rest really worth watching?
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