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Ranking the Kens in Barbie based on overall ‘kenergy’
1. Ken
- little cowboy hat
- doctor who
- just misses his best friend barbie 🥹
8.5 out of Ken
2. Ken
- less fun lil cowboy hat
- gets to be douche bro president Ken
- related to Chris evans maybe?
- gives Ryan gosling a lil kiss
5 out of Ken
3. Ken
- back flipping Ken
- excellent dancer
- gives serious steal ur girl energy
- possibly the most sexually aggressive of all the Kens (I am referencing his interactions with Ryan Gosling Ken exclusively, the energy was palpable)
- served some mad cunt
9 out of Ken
4. Ken
- possibly my favourite Ken
- always has Ken’s back
- very goofy dancer 💜
- played drums when all the other Ken’s played guitar
- recipient of the holy pimp coat
- almost certainly in love with his best friend Ken
10 out of Ken
5. Ken
- THE Ken
- he’s kenough 🥲
- lost interest in the patriarchy when he found out it wasn’t about horses
- instigated the greatest out of nowhere dance number in a film I’ve ever seen
- buuuuuuuut also enslaved a bunch of women so…
-10 out of Ken (still love him tho)
Me when someone asked me about my childhood crushes: nah, I didn't have any.
Me rewatching all the Barbie movies realizing I (typically) had a crush on Barbie's character and the male lead: 👁👄👁
Oh my god I hate Mattel so much.
They took the American Girl brand and gave it a lobotomy.
I was going to make a very very very very bad joke about one of the 90s girls getting an eating disorder after watching Britney Spears, BUT DECIDED AGAINST IT because eating disorders are something you don’t joke about, BUT. HERE’S THE THING.
Here’s the thing. Being a tween-to-teen-age girl in the late 90s early 2000s was BULLSHIT. You had 16-year-old Britney Spears singing “Hit me baby one more time” in her Lolita schoolgirl miniskirt and crop top showing off her perfectly flat abs, and then you went to school and had abstinence-only sex ed mandated by the evangelical right wing who gave out purity rings and told you that only sluts had sex before marriage. And then there was the issue of being a fat girl trying to find jeans that met her school’s dress code the days of low-rise jeans and belly button rings.
I ended up adoring Linkin Park because their music gave voice to the rage that I had inside of me because of all that. I wore men’s pants from Hot Topic not only because I thought they were cool, but they actually fucking fit and they covered my ass crack. I wore black because I didn’t fit in to the ultra-skinny, ultra cool kid Abercrombie aesthetic. And THAT is what growing up in the 90s and coming of age in the 2000s was like.
“Nicki Hoffman is a nine going on ten year old girl living in Seattle, Washington just before the year 2000 (the turn of the millennium). She is six minutes older than her fraternal twin sister, Isabel, but one inch shorter. Nicki prefers grunge, ska music, rock, alternative, and skating; she is the “grunge” to Isabel’s glitter. She does not like eating raw fish and sushi; her father teases that they can’s spell “finicky” without Nicki. She likes sour candy–the more sour, the better. She’s known to be shy, to the point Isabel points this out; she initially doesn’t have other friends than Isabel. She’s very anxious about the Y2K problem and the risks and worries that have been circulating, so Isabel and her create a list to take her mind off her worries of things to do before New Year’s.Her favorite color is purple, her favorite animal is a dog (she adopts her puppy, Blossom, as a Hanukkah gift), her favorite band is No Doubt, and her favorite show is The Powerpuff Girls (her favorite character being Blossom). She likes to snack on Wild Berry Pop tarts. She does not like her middle name, Pearl.The family is interfaith and celebrates both Hanukkah and Christmas. “
It’s a sterilized and dumbed-down version of growing up in the 90s, one where they only real problem facing girls is the y2k bug. It’s about the aesthetic but not the experience. Honestly the girls of today deserve to see that their moms had it difficult, too, and that the pressure to grow up incredibly quickly and be beautiful and flawless and instantly become a woman is nothing new, now it’s just on TikTok instead of MTV.
It’s the trap of nostalgia. Just because you were younger and not as aware of the issues going on in the world doesn’t mean the world was better.
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Somebody is very pleased with her Samantha Cristoforetti doll. Now she just needs an @astro_nicole doll. Let’s see if Mattel can make that happen. #stem #womeninspace #iss #internationalspacestation #nasa #spacescience #barbie #barbiedoll #mattel https://www.instagram.com/p/CU3b4dIMZ0z/?utm_medium=tumblr
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I forget i have an account here 🤡 but i'll be posting a few more edits at least my favorites cause i never realize how many i made , anyway hope you enjoy it ❤
Why
Does Aquaman have a similar plot/premise to Barbie in A Mermaid Tale?
Like both main protagonists are half human, half underwater creature.
Both protagonists have to fight against an evil relative. Eris the evil aunt and Orm is the evil brother.
Both protagonists go on a quest to find an item/ items to defeat evil relative. Arthur has to find the trident. Merliah has to find a comb, a dreamfish, and a necklace.
Both protagonists' mothers are "freed" from imprisonment. Atlanna wasn't exactly imprisoned, but she went missing and came back like Calissa did.
Both protagonists can talk to underwater animals. Merliah can talk to that pink dolphin and Arthur can talk to everything.
Both protagonists need to use their half human side to prove themselves. Merliah uses her human legs to climb the cliffs to get the comb and Arthur uses his powers to talk to the Leviathan.
Both evil relatives end up defeated at the end of the movie.
And probably more similarities that I can't think off the top of my head
PS: I don't consider Orm to be evil per say, but for the sake of comparison I described him as evil.
Espelho de bolso lindo da Barbie
Ia berrando chorando rebolando
Eu sou uma Barbie girl living in the Barbie world
[(3,50€ na PRIMARK (do Norte Shopping)]
✭ ✭ ✭
*Eu não sou nem fotógrafa nem modelo de mãos isto é a lavandaria da minha avó*
I JUST BOUGHT FRANKIE!!!!!
My favorite thing about them would have to be the eyebrow ring! Overall I love their outfit!
princesses and knights have my heart, always
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(Based on La Belle Dame Sans Merci (if Frank Dicksee sucked ass at drawing horses))
Ever After High brain rot meets King Arthur brain rot meets Romeo and Juliet (1996) meets 'i needed to practice backgrounds so there is a wall and a field'. Yeah, i do have finals to study for.
good evening to everyone but Mattel for cancelling ever after high before making these two canon
i just watched the barbie film. ugly cried twice and i have an obsession with ryan gosling <3
What do you guys think the next Monster High Mattel creations doll(s) will be?
I’m really hoping for a set of the Addams Family! I think that would be really cool :D
How bout I celebrate Halo’s 20th anniversary with some awesome crossover pics that my girlfriend suggested? Happy 20 years Halo! Can’t wait for Infinite!
I love The Amber Collection, the dinosaurs (and other Mesozoic animals) in particular. Even though the line is plagued with strange design decisions, poor quality control, and general laziness... It’s still highly posable figures of some of my favorite designs from my favorite movie franchise. Also very happy that the super colossal T. rex scales perfectly with them, and that I can turn their palms inward to make them a bit more scientifically accurate.
The most effective thing about Ever After High is that every student has their own personal struggle that adds another element to just how life-ruining the destiny system is.
Apple is so terrified of what will happen to her if she doesn’t follow her destiny, that she is willing to compromise everyone else’s happiness to make sure it happens. This disregard for other people is only encouraged by the influential adults in her life.
Ashlynn has to be a servant to an abusive family and live knowing that the ultimate end to her supposedly happy ending is dying to set the stage for her daughters traumatic backstory, starting the whole cycle over again with no chance for any of them to escape.
Blondie feels so pressured to fit in to a deeply classist/monarchist society and ashamed of her parentage that she constantly presents a fake version of herself to everyone she knows, even her best friends.
Briar has to spend her whole life waiting for the moment her destiny comes and she falls asleep for a century. She knows that when she’s woken up, she will be forced to marry a boy dozens of years younger than her who she’s never met and live knowing that everyone she ever loved is dead and gone, the very things that she watched cause her mother’s emotional breakdown.
Cedar’s father was so afraid of watching her repeat his mistakes that he overcorrected, making it impossible for her to ever learn lessons for herself. She is also forced to share incredibly personal details with anyone who asks her questions, and can’t be trusted by her friends with any of their secrets, and it’s all because of her father’s past trauma.
Cerise has to hide who she truly is and never gets to see her family together and happy despite the fact that her parents have potentially the most healthy and mutually beneficial marriage in the whole franchise.
Daring was groomed from birth for a destiny that ends up not actually being his at all, leaving him aimless, feeling as though he has no purpose and has wasted his entire life.
Darling is forbidden by patriarchy and destiny to become a knight, the only thing she really wants, and at which she would be better than both of her brothers. She has to hide who she is and what she loves from everyone she knows
Dexter lived his whole life never knowing what his destiny would be but also knowing that whatever it was he’d have to commit to it forever the moment he discovered it at Legacy Day.
Duchess has spent her whole life knowing that the story she’s commited to living out ends in tragedy for her, and then had to watch the very people she’s been jealous of for years because of their seemingly happy endings give up those endings, while Duchess, loyal and rule following Duchess, is still stuck with her tragedy.
Faybelle tries so hard to commit to what she sees at her destiny that she’s never had a real friend in her life. Even still, no one recognizes her for all that effort and all she’s given up to be a suitable villain. Everyone is more afraid of Raven, who doesn’t even want to be evil.
Hunter has to constantly go against his moral compass to fulfill his destined role as a Huntsman and to try and make his father proud of him.
Kitty has been taught over and over again to value her Mother’s approval over all else, even at the expense of her friends. Her destiny is to create mischief, but how much more mischief can a dissolving world take before it’s too much?
Lizzie finds it almost impossible to express love or care for anyone else due to her mothers excessive conditioning that’s nearly akin to brainwashing. The saddest thing might be that her mother is actually, in her own way, trying her best to prepare Lizzie for a world that will only ever see her one way—as a villain. Now she lives in Ever After, princess to a kingdom that might not even exist for much longer, having given up everything for a destiny that may soon be impossible.
Maddie is a refugee forced from her home into a world she barely understands at a tender age. But she cannot express any angst or negative feelings about this circumstance, because to do so would go against her character. She lives in a world obsessed with destiny and stories while not even knowing if she’ll ever be able to return home and live out her story.
Raven is judged by almost everyone around her for her mothers crimes, many of which were required of her by destiny in the first place. She is nearly forced to commit to becoming a tyrannical megalomaniac (and almost falls into it herself, several times) who would be sentenced to lifelong punishment and torture for committing acts that weren’t even her idea in the first place, and the one punishing her would have been the very girl who begged so often for her to stop being so difficult and just follow her destiny.
Untitled - Nevada, 2013
Operetta my beloved
I miss my girl 😭
Me praying JJ/HH will come back to Monster High
Finding out the ORIGINAL Monster High live action movie (2013) was supposed to center around Jackson Jekyll and Holt Hyde
Me @ Mattel & Universal:
Where is the Screenplay?! We need the damn Screenplay! 😤
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They took the ideas from the OG script and turned it into the MH 2022 version we have today.
The premise of the OG was about JJ/HH being half normies!
They literally just gave that plot line to Clawdeen, changing the lore and shoving compelling characters out of the way!!!
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Why is the universe so cruel??? 🥲😭
It's them
I'm just like you!🎵
You're just like me! 🎵
They need to respect my babies!
Need I say anything more?
sources: Darlingtonian, Wikipedia, Facebook, Variety
It’s officially Barbie month 💖
Frankie stein
no stress, no cortisol and no mental constraints
