i’ll come out and just admit that i actually like leafeon’s shiny (it just being a hue-shift doesn’t really bother me since i like how warm the colors are,) but i would be okay w/ it having a more autumnal color pallette only if you also make glaceon’s shiny raspberry ice colored. then they’d match the lesbian flag whenever they’re together. :)
Azriel, graceful as any courtier, offered her an arm. I couldn’t tell if she was looking at his blue Siphon or at his scarred skin beneath as she breathed, “Beautiful.”
I mean, my mom just talked to me a lot as a small child about Barbie presenting an unrealistic body image.
The OP does make valid points that it’s fucked up that she didn’t have access to dolls who looked like her as a kid, but that’s not really a Barbie-specific thing as much as it’s a “literally all of US society and the toy industry” thing, and Barbie’s more of a reflection of that and benchmark of that than the driving force.
The first Black dolls in the Barbie line were “Colored Francie” in 1967 (who collectors usually refer to a “Black Francie”), and Barbie’s friend Christie in 1968, but there wasn’t an actual black version of Barbie herself until 1980. Also, because it was the 60s, a lot of parents flipped out because Francie was sold as “Barbie’s MODern Cousin”, and came in white and black versions, but Barbie herself was only sold as a white doll, so CLEARLY that meant Mattel had a nefarious agenda and supported interracial marriage.
I BELIEVE - and it’s been about 15 years since I wrote the paper - that the first Latina Barbies were California Dream Teresa in 1988 and Dolls of the World Mexico Barbie in 1989.
There were some not-great, honestly-kind-of-fetishizing Hawaiian Barbies in 1975-ish, as well as *sigh* “Oriental Barbie” in 1981, marking the first Asian Barbie doll.
Barbie and the Rockers also had Black and Asian characters in 1986, and the 90s were a bit better.
At the same time, like. My Little Pony (produced by Hasbro, one of Mattel’s biggest competitors) had two fairly racist ponies in the 80s - “Gypsy” in 1984 and “Wigwam” in 1987. So it’s clearly not just a problem with Barbie or Mattel.
The toy industry has problems because our society has problems - and even moreso 30-40 years ago.
Barbie also released three new body types - Tall, Petite, and Curvy - in 2016:
Nowadays Barbie looks like this:
I mean, like Barbie, don’t like Barbie, see the movie, don’t see the movie, do what you want.
But when you’re talking about a toy line that’s been around for 64 years - Barbie will be a senior citizen next year! There are grandparents alive today who’ve never lived in a world where Barbie didn’t exist - I’m just not really sure how useful it is to be like “Well they were shitty about representation 40 years ago” when the entire toy industry was, too, at that time. And I think it’s a little silly to act like Barbie is the CAUSE of this rather than just being a product of the society we live in.
Look we all want a robo dog but if you kill someone with a sledgehammer to steal theirs, they are going to find you. There’s no way a 75k$ dog doesn’t have gps
we are killing the dog
NO.
ALL DOGS ARE PRECIOUS.
Even robot ones.
its not a dog, its a machine used and designed for police surveillance and the entire reason they made it dog shaped is so idiots like you would go “awwww robot dog how precious” instead of seeing them as the oppressive tools they are.
we’re killing the fucking dog
That’s not a robot dog.
It’s a four-legged robot spider.
It is not a dog, a spider, a chicken, a horse, a fish, a tick, a mosquito, a tapeworm or a baby
It is a weapon
There is nothing morally wrong about breaking weapons that are hurting people for any reason other than to prevent those people from hurting others worse
the dog robots are fully capable of hurting people, and badly. failsafes that would prevent that have not been installed. the police are deploying a thing out in public that can maim anyone who touches it wrong.
look, when i was a kid i was passionately in love with the idea of robots–that humans would one day create another sort of intelligence to share our world with– and believed very firmly that we should respect and protect all our robot friends from the start, so there would be no violent humans-against-robots revolution or anything.
anyway it turns out that the people trying to keep end-stage capitalism running are really banking on us feeling more love for the robots than for the kind of people they’re going to be using the robots to oppress.
so like. maybe lets all agree right now that if a robot is being used to hurt a person, you need to smash the fucking robot. they’re going to make the robots really cute. they’re going to show us so many movies about how much robots need to be loved. and then they are going to use robots to hurt people.
let’s try not to fall for it, okay?
And don’t forget that scary af episode of Black Mirror, Metalhead. Robot dogs can fuck right off.
They created a weapon, told you to call it a friend and watched as your empathy became their trap and tool.
The first sentence says 32 and 13 implying that the speaker is 32 years old and their girlfriend is 13 years old, which is both highly inappropriate and illegal. The next sentence reveals the speaker was talking about their game levels, not their ages, which is perfectly okay.
In their reply to the audience they then say they are picking her up from middle school, again implying that their girlfriend is underage, but quickly state she’s grading papers letting us know she’s a teacher, definitely an adult, and there no reason to be upset.
The rollercoaster gif portrays how switching from upset and worried to relieved in such a short period of time feels emotionally.
The next meme shows the guy panicking from misunderstanding, then feeling relieved and calm realizing the truth, only to panic over the next misunderstanding and then calm again when hearing the end.
the above explanation is followed by a picture of data from star trek with a speech bubble’s tail coming out of him, implying he’s the one saying all of that, which is humerous because the above text is written in a style similar to his speech patterns, and with a subject matter he would enjoy
This is the worst website ever and I love it.
I’d rather see Tumblr die than see it stop being like this.
I just had the most bizarre and satisfying GTS trade ever.
You see this offer right here? At first, I dismissed it as impossible because Voltorb evolves into Electrode at a much later level than 10.
But then, in all my nerdery, I remembered that in-game trades with NPCs from before gen 5 give you Pokemon at the same level as the one you chose to trade, which can lead to underleveled evolved Pokemon. And it JUST SO HAPPENS that Electrode is one of those Pokemon in gen 1. In order to get it you need to trade a Raichu, which can be under level 10 because Pikachu evolves with a stone and is catchable at level 3. And then I discovered the Brock Through Walls glitch, which allows you to go literally anywhere in the game before you even have any badges.
So I did what any rational person would do on a Wednesday evening and spent $9.99 on the 3ds Virtual Console version of Pokemon Blue, glitched myself to Celadon City to buy a Thunderstone, let all my Pokemon faint so that I could warp back to Pewter City since its the last Pokecenter I healed at, caught a Pikachu in the nearby Viridian Forest, evolved it, glitched myself into Cinnabar Island, and claimed my completely legit yet also illegal lvl 7 Electrode named Doris.
Now I was half sure that Pokebank would realise how messed up this Pokemon was and not allow it into gen 7…
…but it went through perfectly.
So, thanks for the Poipole, Mars of war2. 😜
Either this person really really really wanted a specific kind of Electrode from gen 1 that only supernerds would bother to get, or they were being a stupid troll and I just played them like a damn fiddle.
This is a really poignant illustration of the seductive nature of glorifying war but that is a LOOK and she is SERVING it
I’ve seen Death depicted as a card dealer or other sort of gambler, a guy in a suit, a farmer, a robed apparition, and any other number of things, but this? This has to be the best Death I’ve seen yet. An old seductress saying “hey kid, don’t you wanna die in a trench for a government that doesn’t give a fuck about you, just like your dear old dad?” This goes hard as fuck.
If I didn’t remember actually reading this in an actual Calvin and Hobbes book as a child I’d think it was ironically photoshopped like those comics where Mickey Mouse and Goofy talk about how reality is an illusion but this comic strip was actually just……. already………… like that……………
