so you’re telling me i finally get adventuring party WITH fantasy high???? i can listen to emily axford talk about her stupid ass fig faeth decisions in real time?? ally beardsley talk about the way kristen applebees connects to their life?? LOU WILSON’S CHARACTER ARC WITH FABIAN SEACASTER???
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it just sucks because nothing is ever fucking made for you, and if it is made for you like 75% of the time it gets chopped into little pieces by every person alive because this is the one thing you have, so it has to prove itself to you.
like, a thing can't just be for women. men need to assign it to women. women have to experience "must" or "should" before their hobbies and passions - women are allowed to do silly, passive things like tuck our ankles and titter behind a fan, or something. women are allowed to, they are welcomed to. like the world is a house and we are supposed to be in the kitchen and now we are being given the divine right to enter the living room if we bring chips
because when it becomes for you, or about you, that is when the thing is vile. you should/must wear makeup so you can appear beautiful to men. once you wear makeup for yourself, or because you yourself enjoy putting it on, then you are no longer doing the right thing. there is a reason men hate certain fashion trends. there is a reason men hate things like the pumpkin spice latte - because it's not about them. you are buying it because it is good for you. they degrade your passions and interests. there is a reason women-led fields are largely seen as being "not a real" profession. when you are a good cook, that is because you can provide for him. close your eyes. you're not going to be a chef, be honest. that is a man making food for himself.
bras are made so breasts will be appealing to men. they are rarely about comfort or support. you have given up entirely on the idea of pockets. young girls have to worry about a shorter inseam on their shorts. a girl on instagram gets her septum pierced, and men in the comments are rabid about it - i just want to rip it out of her face. she'd be beautiful without it.
and fucking everything is for them. even the media that is "for you" is for them, eventually. remember "my little pony"? remember how hard it is to convince any executive to believe that little girls are worth selling to? in the media that is for you, you see little ways that you still need to make it accessible for them - the man is always powerful, smart, masculine. he is a man's man. the media usually forgives him. it usually says okay, some men are awful, but hey! gotta love 'em. because if you don't hold their hands and say "this is literally just a story about my lived reality", they shit their pants about it. they demand you put them into the media that's for you.
these are people who are so used to glutting themselves on the world. they are used to having every corner and every dollar and every place of leadership. so you say can i please have one slice of cake, just for myself, please, holy shit. and they fucking weep about it. they say you're being unfair, because some of their one-thousand-slices aren't beautiful, and your singular cake slice doesn't have their name on it. and aren't you being rude by not offering to share?
and honestly. fucking - yeah, man. you were kind of surprised, because the cake is a little basic (you bake at home, you're way past this stuff). but holy shit, it was nice just to be offered cake in the first place. you're used to having to starve. you're used to getting nothing, but going to the party anyway, because you're expected (professionally) to show up. you liked that it is a simple cake, and that it is warm, and mostly: you like that there is, for once, a cake-for-you.
in the real world, outside of metaphor, it feels like fucking being slapped. barbie didn't even say anything particularly unusual; it literally just made factually evident points. there are less women in leadership than men. we can look at that fact objectively. that is a real thing that is happening. and the movie is aware that it has to defend itself! that it has to spend like half an hour just turning to the camera and saying: i know this is hard for you to understand, but this is a real thing that women experience.
it's just - this is that one kid on the playground who thinks its allowed to hog all the toys. he builds this hoard that nobody else is allowed to even look at, or he'll get aggressive. everyone's a little scared of him, so they let it slide, because his daddy gave him the golden touch. he hates when people cry and thinks bullying is cool. he writes boys only! on a big sign and makes all his friends take "alpha male" classes.
and then girls pick up barbies, because there was nothing left for them. and in the void they've been given, with their scraps: they make long, spiraling narratives about how barbie is actually descended from snakes and has given her righteous followers magical (if concerning) powers and can speak 32 languages (2 of which are animal related) and has big plans for infrastructure (beginning with the local interstate). and the boy comes over, and he has a huge fit about how the girls aren't "including" him. he wants to know why the girls aren't making the story about ken.
"we didn't like your story." the girls blink at him. they point to his war stories and the gi joes and the millions of male-led narratives and how still in the modern day men get two-thirds of the speaking roles in movies and they point to men making mediocre shows that don't get lambasted and they point to men encouraging toxic masculinity and they point to men everywhere, men and men and men. and they say: "how is this our fault? you had ken."
"no!" he is already back to screaming and stomping his feet and tearing at his hair and intentionally reminding them that men are holding back thinly concealed violence and he says: "if it's not for me, it's actually sexism."
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I just had a dream where Yuurivoice did a collab with Home Depot & there was a animation & a strange storyline.
Alphonse & Charlie worked at Home Depot then, Rook went to Home Depot to grab something from there & they called up Auron & he straight up said & I kid you the fuck not.
"I'm not the Ken to your Barbie, hoe."
This also happened during a zombie apocalypse, too.
What the fuck even happens in my dreams, bro??
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SOFT HRS ARE OPEN ?? oh boy oh boy ... thinking about sunkissed hyuck ... like we always say hyuck = fullsun but u dont get it his skin is radiant in the sun he literally glows and the light filtering through his black hair and glinting off his eyelashes ... what i'd give to be an artist that could see him in this position and paint him all day </3
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i'd die for sunkissed hyuck.
he doesn't believe when you say you get soft for his golden skin bc like???? it's just skin!!! but he will never understand!!!!!! how fucking magical and ethereal he looks when he's standing outside with his huge hoodie (the mornings are cold! what is he supposed to do about it??) basketball shorts and slippers, with a scrunched up face from the sun's rays. He'd think he looks like a mess. You think he looks absolutely beautiful, the way his skin glistens and shines from the sunrise, how his pouty lips look way too cute, and heck his bed head!! who could ever say his messy hair looks bad?
and when he notices your stare on him, he can't help but grow a little shy, sneering playfully and nudging you. "what are you looking at?"
You grin back. He'll never truly know how much you adore him. You can only hope he understands from your words when you tell him,
"oh, what I'd give to be an artist, and to paint a painting of you all day,"
(anjay jago gombal)
!!!!! hyuck gets so shy!!!! and how is it possible that he gets even prettier!!!!! suddenly, he's all you can see, and your breath is taken away at his bright smile, and his soft laughter. you thank god for creating such a pretty pretty boy.
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