oh seems very suspicious to see the barbie movie tumblr pop up on my dash after the strike. maybe it was made before, but I’m actually seeing it now
remember:
there’s no boycott on going to see new media
but there is a promotional blackout
don’t do the studio’s marketing work for them
I just checked their archive. They created it Today, July 17th.
prior to the strike they did not have an official tumblr lmaoooo
don’t reblog their shit
“If I were human, I believe my response would be, ‘sashay away.’”
alternate captions from @brookbee:
“Their eyeshadow is unsatisfactory.”
“Not everyone can have your makeup skills, Mr. Spock.”
and @twinkboimler:
RuPaul: "Category is: She's Out of This World"
queen walks out
Ross Matthews: "Wearing that dress, I can practically see Uranus"
Spock: "Captain, I am confused— considering that it is daytime and we are inside a building on a production lot in Los Angeles, I highly doubt that any of us could see Uranus"
[ID: A Discord greeting for user “a corpse in the bathroom” that reads: “It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Nevermind, it’s just a corpse in the bathroom.”]
ALT
I wanna come back to this, because I think its emblematic to something common that I hate to see in fandom interpretations of characters. Seeing a new character with different interest to your own should be an opportunity to expand your world view. literal children will see a character who’s a firefighter or an astronaut and develop an interest in that.
but adults will see a literal punk musician, and rather than decide to explore what music and culture inspired this character, instead re-imagine him engaging with material they find familiar, and ultimately safe.
I don’t like... have any feelings towards this guy personally... but this is a trend I see in fandom, especially around characters of color from cultures the fans are not familiar with. there is a desperate need to decontextualize them.
there is this absolutely DESPERATE need among especially white fans to prove that characters of other races but ESPECIALLY black characters are Just Like Them For Real by just copy pasting their favorite personal characteristics (or often just straight up stereotypes, like that shoplifter miles headcanon that went around) onto these characters. God forbid having to learn about a culture or even a subculture unlike your own, right
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[ID: a photo of 19 birds in silhouette sitting on 4 telephone wires. Two of these birds are leaning into each other and backlit by the moon so that it looks like there’s a circle of light encapsulating them. /end ID]
