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the thing that gets me about about barbie is that barbie land wasn’t even purposefully a matriarchy, barbie land came about because of the way little girls were playing with their barbies, it wasn’t created by mattel it was created by the people using the toys, so the fact that the barbies ignored the ken’s and had girls night every night wasn’t because they had some bias against him, it was just an accurate depiction of how kids play with barbies. I had some ken dolls as a child and they were essential to the plot in the sense that of course my barbie has a boyfriend because that represented the world i saw around me, but also he didn’t have any purpose in my dream world because i was only interested in what the girls were doing because they represented me and how i wanted to be, I wanted girls night every night I wanted the girls to be president and austronauts and not because of some inherent feminist idea but because I was a girl and I wasn’t thinking about boys, ken was an accessory. this movie wasn’t made to change the world but it showed a different perspective than what we usually see which I thought was fun. Men don’t have to be the centre of all our stories and its not even because we hate them, sometimes we’re just not thinking about them

Listen. I know there are some wonderful theories about how Adolin Kholin is going to be a villain, or how he won’t be able to bond with Maya, but listen, Listen. He would make such a good freaking edge dancer.

“I will remember those who have been forgotten.”

“I will listen to those who have been ignored.”

My theory? This man won’t even need to speak the ideals to form his bond because he is out there living them. Every. Single. Day.

He visits his fathers Ryshadium on the regular, why? Because Dalinar is too busy to go ride him.

He never forces that beautiful, intelligent creature to bear him, he is so gentle and loving and goes just to groom him and be near him. When Gallant does let him ride, he treats him with the respect he deserves, and Gallant repays him at every turn, even allowing Maya to ride frequently.

He speaks to everyone, and listens, and learns about their lives. His troops love him, even Kaladin is forced to admit that Adolin is simply a good man because he listens. Always, his mind churns with questions and concerns, with brilliant dueling strategies, but he never rejects people who need him to hear. The one significant moment that he trips on this, he backtracks and apologizes and supports Dalinar despite not believing him.

He listened to his sword. He listened to what he believed was a dead object and spoke to her with such love and tenderness over years of never knowing that she was a living being that eventually even through the pain of his touch she grew to tolerate and even like him.

No. Maya doesn’t need him to speak the oathes, she has heard such oathes before. Their bond will be one forged in the purest trust, the deepest love, and the kindest hearts. It won’t be a Nahel bond, it will be its own, and it will reshape Roshar.

Not just that but Adolin Is also repeatedly there for the ignored folk. Kaladin's first experience with Adolin was him defending a prostitute

Not only did he believe Kaladin when he told Adolin about Amaram, he was on Kaladin's side for it. He threw him self in jail out of solidarity. He knows the birthdays of his men and when the tavern couple got married or had a kid

im not an elend hater i just think that everyone who likes him needs to reconcile with how swagless he is

elend to me is like the kid who lives down the street and you see him walking to the bus stop every day with a hard cased transformers lunch box and whenever you're like "hi elend how was school" he genuinely tries to tell you but does such a bad job you have no idea what grade he's in. and sometimes you see him trip and fall on the sidewalk but he always gets back up and pretends it never happened. and maybe when he gets a little older he starts telling you about his warrior cats fanfiction and then he gets a little older than that and abruptly stops. but you still ask

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

i need all the help i can get for finals

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

Pyrrha Dve almost winning the locked tomb sexywoman contest and the body pyrrha Dve inhabits getting knocked out in the first round of the locked tomb Sexyman contest is never gonna not be funny to me

To be clear, I’m not saying this is contradictory. Pyrrha is MUCH sexier than G1deon. I just find it funny.

he's the worst man alive he's the love of my life he's covered in blood he's weird about god and he's a lot, he's not perfect, but most importantly he's bisexual

some of you guys have GOT to remember about fun

like it’s ok… just be a little silly… be annoying… be embarrassing… you are alive

not to mention the fact that some nights and we are young were the best radio hits of 2012 

hoid

I finished my reread of The Final Empire last night and can I talk about the parallel?? THE parallel of all time?!?!?! The MOST parallel to ever exist?!?!?!?!?!?!?

MAJOR Spoilers for The Final Empire and The Hero of Ages under the cut:

Genuinely hilarious that one of the first events written in the Stormlight Archives is Gavilar being killed and going "surely Kelsier did this" as he dies

all cosmere characters exist on a sliding scale between Wayne autism and Steris autism

you are so right mr fucker of the double dutch rat

I think Adolin is bi in the sense of he had one crush on a man one time and he doesnt really crush on men anymore but he always remebers it and is always like "what was that?"

That man is Kaladin

this sums it up for me perfectly

yes labeling gideon the ninth as Enemies to Lovers is potentially misleading but Enemies to Mutually Self-Sacrificing Homoerotic Non-Consummated-Wives is not a pre-existing trope category that can be marketed and you should perhaps be warned that they do very much want eachother ground into toothpaste at the beginning of the book

accurate GtN tropes:

I really want Kaladin to survive KOWT because he is like, ideally set up for a protagonist in like book 7 to come to this mental health center and recieve advise from a kind man with tired eyes. And then in the next book an army or whatever chases them down and they are about to die and Kaladin steps up and is a badass for like 3 chapters and saves them before going back to retirement. WOR duel part 2. Its all I want.

i dont think kaladin and adolin are into each other, i dont ship them, like those are friends, but i do believe deep within my soul that for a solid week after the wor duel adolin was just totally in love. he was seeing stars. part of it was definitely the head trauma. part of it was the adrenaline. part of it was that kaladin stormblessed is just Like That. but i figure on around day 10 of his self-imposed prison sentence it wore off and he just went "well okay im doing the right thing here and im not going to stop but also What The Hell Was I On"

adolin is lying flat on his ass in the arena watching kaladin put a knife to jakamavs neck and threaten to kill him and all hes thinking is "we are going to have a summer wedding" because thats the only coherent sequence of words his extremely concussed brain can string together

Do you ever eat popcorn out of the palm of your own hand with such ardent desperation that you feel like both a wild horse and the gentle schoolgirl feeding it treats to gain its affection 

Hey there guys. It’s me, in 2022, commenting on this post from 2016. There’s been a lot of people on this site lately being like “oooh no don’t make viral uwu I’m so pathetic, little, and defenseless and my poor notifications can’t handle 10k reblogs” well first of all ALL of us are pathetic, little, and defenseless and secondly none of our notifications can handle 10k reblogs and thirdly I’m not a coward and I think this should have a million notes. Not because of its own merit as a post, I just think it’d be funny if when I turn 30 this year and I reflect on the greatest accomplishments of my life thus far, I have to at least consider putting “famous tumblr popcorn post” on the list

Hi there guys. It’s me, again. It is December 8, and my birthday is December 16 (and fyi I didn’t even get my birthday off from work which I’m being so brave about, just saying) and I want you all to gather round and listen to my pitch. I could tell you that I really want this, which I do but I also think it’d be really funny to NOT reach my goal and to start my thirties on the note of failure but like a really stupid kind that doesn’t matter and is very funny. I could tell you that getting this post to a million notes will benefit you in some way, but it absolutely won’t, except in the general tumblr sense of getting to participate in committing to the crowdsourced bit, which is actually the truest joy this webbed site can offer. I could even be very earnest and say something how for better or worse tumblr had a hand in defining my twenties, and even when I’ve been infuriated with parts of it, it is genuinely the only social media that doesn’t make me feel like shit and isn’t impossible for me to use, and at very hard times in my life the weird community has been a comfort, but that’s TOO EARNEST. Knock that shit off.

Instead, I offer you this: if you reblog this post with tags, like anything at all in the tags, multiple reblogs won’t be collated together meaning that you can make my notifications truly unusable. Think about that you fuckin jackals. Can you resist the urge to be both helpful and annoying as shit