The realest part of the Barbie Movie was when Barbie was like “okay but what if this hurts his feelings? what if this makes him sad? :(” after Ken stole her house, stole her car, and stole her agency, because as a woman you still have to second guess everything you do on the assessment of whether it might hurt a man’s feelings.
And then that apprehension was proven right one million times over by the entire Conservative Internet Manosphere pissing and shitting and screaming themselves hoarse over Barbie daring to hurt a man’s feelings.
I find the fact that the Barbie movie is simultaneously being criticized by the right as “too radical”, and criticized by the left as “too nice to men” and/or “too pandering”, quite funny, given that America’s WHOLE SPEECH was about how, no matter what women (like the director of the Barbie movie) do,it will simultaneously always be too little and too much.
PRAYING that barbie sweeps the oscars not because i have anything against oppenheimer but because one of the few joys in life is seeing film bros melt down when movies primarily made for women are lauded as serious and important works
The Barbie movie: The Ken’s need to find who they are outside of pursuing Barbies, a clear allegory for how real life men should not define themselves by trying to attract a partner and building their personality around that, something that would be healthier and better for them overall
Misogynists: barbie movie is so anti-men :(( how could they do this :((((
The Barbie Movie is the movie of all time for many reasons, but the core message being “Perfoming gender roles hurts everyone, you should be your authentic self no matter what society says” really knocked it out of the park
if nothing else s3 should give us a shot of crowley just standing in the pouring rain, drenched to the skin, refusing to seek shelter until nina and maggie or whoever drag his pathetic ass inside
I am simply not interested in taking sides when it comes to aziraphale and crowley’s little cosmic divorce. this is a jane austen romance, which means that both of our romantic leads need to grow and change before they can have their happily ever after. the problem isn’t that one of them is Right and the other is Wrong, the problem is that they’re each prioritizing a different problem and then approaching the problem they’ve backburnered with a long-standing habit or belief that they need to grow out of before they can succeed.
aziraphale is correct that heaven needs fixing! we can quibble over whether accepting a job as the boss is the right way to do that, but ultimately leaving michael or whoever in charge is going to lead to armageddon 2 armageddon harder. it simply will not work. the problem is that he’s fumbling the relationship with crowley because he still needs to get over the idea of there being an inherently good and bad side and he needs to stop thinking that it’s crowley being a demon that’s keeping them apart. it’s his own black and white logic that’s doing that.
meanwhile, crowley is correct that he and aziraphale need to Name The Relationship and stop fucking around, and also that heaven and hell are the same institution with different labels and it’s insane to think either of them is Good. but his impulse to respond to everything by trying to grab aziraphale and run is not gonna cut it here. “you can’t fix an institution from the inside” is a philosophy of dubious value if your alternative is not attempting to fix it at all. if aziraphale is being held back by his cops and robbers mentality, crowley is being held back by cynicism and fear. they both need to let go of their flawed moral philosophies and emotional bad habits if they want to keep the world safe and be together! that’s the point of the story splitting them up in the first place!
headcanon that Crowley can’t keep away from the bookshop because he likes to be extra miserable, and more often than not he ends up drunk, ranting at Muriel about everything and mostly Aziraphale. (Muriel nods at the rights places while holding a glass of wine).
At some point Crowley just make them get in the Bentley (in the backseat, with the plants) and drives while ranting. Muriel is just happy to be included.
Crowley puts sad loves songs and sings along, Muriel does the back vocals, badly and enthusiastically. They both suck.
Anyway, Crowley not being alone in his sadness, and Muriel just happy to have a (grumpy) friend.
okay but can we talk about how Aziraphale’s offer is, essentially, Mr. Darcy’s first proposal?
Mr. Darcy’s first proposal, if you haven’t read Pride and Prejudice, is a famously-bad train wreck. he spends most of it dunking on Elizabeth’s family and circumstances and saying outright that he’s better than her. then, after all of that, he still asks her to marry him and implies that she would be insane not to accept. understandably, Elizabeth completely rocks his shit when she turns him down.
from Crowley’s perspective, that’s exactly what Aziraphale’s offer is. he points out that Hell is awful and suggests that Crowley’s life would be better if he came back to Heaven—the ‘good guys’— with Aziraphale. he can’t understand why Crowley would ever turn him down!
like Mr. Darcy, Aziraphale is doing what he thinks is best for the person he loves. but just like Mr. Darcy, he completely fumbles the proposal because he doesn’t fully understand what that person wants, or even who that person is!
“their miracle was so big bc crowley used to be an archangel” have u considered that aziraphale and crowley love each other so much that their love alone could move the tides just by staring at the ocean for too long. have u considered that they did the miracle not really to protect gabriel but to protect what they had, what they’d built with each other. and that was them barely even trying
I just realized there’s a very solid chance Nina saw Aziraphale and Crowley talk in front of their Crowley’s car and heard Aziraphale say “The bookshop is my shop but… we both get plenty of use out of it don’t we?” and immediately assumed that they were spending their days having wild sex in the bookshop and something about that is very funny to me
