the fact that being a woman and not wearing makeup is considered subversive in many places... Girl I am literally just alive. This is my face

“i liked it before it was cool” well i liked it AFTER it was cool when everyone abandoned it

i get really into shows that aired like 5+ years ago like “have y’all heard of this”

TOM HIDDLESTON as LOKI LAUFEYSON in THOR: RAGNAROK (2017)

nobody understands this highly popular fictional character at all except for me and my carefully curated panel of mutuals

banish the idea that platonic love is a lesser form of love

if you go through life not investing in your friendships the same way you invest in romantic relationships, you will always be looking for love, feeling lonely, completely blind to the love all around you

friendship is not a lower level relationship. it is not a lesser form of love.

by the way, anyone adding onto this post about romantic love, please. stop. no. and to anyone saying that your partner should also be your friend, also, please, no.

you’re not wrong, but like. you’re distracting from the point. the whole point is that people treat friendship like it’s secondary. it’s not. i don’t care if you’re friends with your partner. it’s not relevant. 

also, i don’t like the idea that people are adding onto a post about friendship and talking about romance. that’s my whole point. friendship matters. end of story. you don’t need to add anything about romance or romantic relationships or how romantic/platonic love are intertwined. and i think before you add anything about romance to a post about friendship, you should re-evaluate. 

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But one is a stranger, a woman she notices while she sits on a bench, gathering herself. It’s a type of woman she has never seen before, because there are no old women in Barbieland. When Barbie looks at her, she finds her beautiful and tells her so. The woman already knows. Suddenly Barbie, the fraught aspirational figure, has beheld someone she might aspire to be, and it is a radiantly content nonagenarian, reading a newspaper on a Los Angeles bench, who knows what she’s worth.

“The idea of a loving God who’s a mother, a grandmother — who looks at you and says, ‘Honey, you’re doing OK’ — is something I feel like I need and I wanted to give to other people,” Gerwig says. When it was suggested that this scene, which Gerwig calls a “transaction of grace,” might be cut for time, she remembers thinking: “If I cut that scene, I don’t know why I’m making this movie. If I don’t have that scene, I don’t know what it is or what I’ve done.”

The older woman is Ann Roth and she's had a hell of a career as a costume designer in Hollywood. The NYT had a nice article about her over the weekend.

putting things into a cart online and then staring at them intensely before deleting them and exiting the website. edging retail therapy