I like Ken. The Barbie movie got me to write again. This is a side-blog. Aroace | 35 | she/her but in a Weird Barbie way. In a Crowley way. In a little frog in a bog way | I do not give permission to repost my works anywhere (reblogs are welcome)
Yee-howdy, I'm Gender Kenvy. Based on the name, you can safely assume my specialty is the Barbie movie and my main squeeze (blorbo? is that what the youths call it these days?) is Ryan Gosling's Ken.
I'm ace and probably aro, too, so I tend to explore that a lot in my writing. My pronouns are *exaggerated shrugging*
I am 35 and rediscovering my love of storytelling after a long drought in writing. (Sorry! I am an internet elder and very, very not hip with the times. But Margot Robbie and I are the same age and that's kinda cool.)
I mostly publish over on Ao3 but have cross-posted a couple of things here.
Quick links:
Just a Girls' Doll in a Man's World
[the one that got me writing again <3 ]
Ao3 Link
Summary: Ken is called to the Real World through a portal to his very own human, except that the problem they're facing is one he caused, himself. Now he's taking classes, trying to learn how to be better and mend the rift. It just so happens he's taking some of the same courses that Barbie is. They figure out how a doll and a human with a half-century relationship behind them can help each other grow as people.
Summary: Barbara Handler finds an abandoned doll on a park bench - except he's not a doll anymore. Ken is homeless, but doesn't seem to mind. As time passes, it's clear that he's hiding something: he keeps going missing, only to pop up again acting strangely, can't hold down a job, and won't stick around in the same place for very long. Barbie is determined to figure him out so he can finally have the life always denied to him as a doll. But he has to let her help him.
Rating: T
Length: 175k words
Status: In Progress
Duckling
Ao3 Link
Summary: The Ken x El Esposo de Gloria fic you didn't know you needed. Processing a divorce because his best friend is happier with Barbie, Owen is left treading water, lost. He's happy for them, truly. No hate. But who even is he, anymore? Thankfully, ducklings float - and one is heading right for him.
Rating: M
Length: 70k words
Status: In Progress
One-Shots
Barbie:
Ascension | Ao3 | Tumblr | PG-13 | 1.8 k words | Crack fic/Absurdism. Gloria and Aaron are sent to Barbieland after it was cut off from the real world.
"Sometimes they don't come home at all" | Tumblr | PG-13 | 3.5k words | Ken accidentally gets drafted to Nam. Barbie &co. bring him to the correct time, but he's not the same doll anymore.
The Piece Fits Perfectly (It's From the Wrong Puzzle) | Ao3 | Tumblr | PG-13 | 1.7k words | Kensposo. Prompt: if Sasha was 10 years younger.
worn and useless thin | Ao3 | PG-13 | 7.1k words | Zombie AU. Barbie's only hope for her family is a man with no hope left.
defanged | Ao3 | Tumblr | Teen | 2.3k words | QPR Barbie/Ken. [Divergence from I Could Be Honest, I Could be Human] What if Someone Else found out about Ken?
doomed (gently) | Ao3 | Tumblr | G | 546 words | Kensposo (Liam x Ken #1) | Liam's peace was already broken before an unexpected visitor appeared on his doorstep.
hang the moon in the sky | Ao3 | Tumblr | Teen | 800 words | Kensposo (Liam x Ken #2) | Liam's house guest is experiencing a lot of firsts right now -- luckily he's actually the perfect person to walk him through it.
Ex-mas | Ao3 | Tumblr | Teen | 5k words | Kensposo (Liam x Ken #3) | Liam must navigate the holidays as his divided family comes to visit. At least he has Ken...for better or for worse.
Will you be mine? | Ao3 | Tumblr | Teen | 1.4k words | Kensposo (Liam x Ken #4) | It's Valentine's Day for Liam and Ken...but they're still figuring themselves out.
hand in hand | Ao3 | Tumblr | G | 1.7k words | Kensposo (Liam x Ken #5) | Prompt: Weddings (and Funerals) | Liam wasn't living until Ken came into his life.
Wicked:
I hope it brings you bliss | Ao3 | Teen | 6.2k words | Elphaba & Fiyero | Fiyero's "appreciation" of poppies has him in a downward spiral disguised as bliss.
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I come to you from the commentary track on the special edition release of The Nice Guys that came out last year. This was recorded I think in 2025 and it was Shane Black and Anthony Bagarozzi with Priscilla Page moderating. Here are some things I noted because I thought they were particularly interesting.
They hired an actual retired Playboy centrefold photographer to take the Misty centrefold photo
Folding the money into a shirt was Ryan Goslingās idea, in the script he just hands him the money
Putting his cap on the nun who wheels him out of the hospital was also Gosling
He did so many things in the first table read of the script that they liked that they took time after on rewrites just to incorporate the things he added into the script
Russell Crowe added the curl in Healyās hair because of a character background detail he came up with that Healy loved Superman as a kid. I LOVE this so much.
Priscilla Page describes Healy and Marchās first scene together as a āmeet cuteā and Shane Black and Anthony Bagarozzi are just like āYeah.ā ā¤ļø
In the scene where March and Healy talk in the booth at the bowling alley, Ryan Gosling kept accidentally blocking the shot but Russell Crowe was so perpetually aware of where the camera was that he always knew and he would just reach out and move his head back into the right place š honestly such a funny thing for them to remember after so long. They talk a lot about what a pro Russell Crowe is generally
Russell Crowe picked Healyās blue jacket (possibly from Marchās wardrobe! but they werenāt sure about that) last minute before shooting started and it made noise constantly and annoyed the sound people a lot.
Priscilla Page asks a couple of times about colour use in the film and they just have almost nothing at all to say about it, itās so funny. Particularly about blue as a colour for Healy, she points out that his jacket almost matches his car and Shane Black is just like āoh.ā ?? I guess it was a long time ago lol but maybe these were just decisions that other people were more involved in (also since the jacket was just Russell Croweās choice maybe the blue was pumped up later in the process?)
The Earth Wind and Fire situation happened because Joel Silver really wanted to use that song and insisted they get a cover band to portray the actual band at the party, but in the commentary they say it makes absolutely no sense that the actual band in 1978 would be playing at a house party āfor a porn guyā lol
Something they describe as āa catch phrase people donāt noticeā is that Healy always calls people āBuddyā when heās about to kill them/considering killing them š
March immediately falling in love with Tally was another thing Ryan Gosling came up with that they rewrote later scenes to work with
There are no deleted scenes and no outtakes š Shane Black says in the commentary he hasnāt had access to anything since the time of filming, but would like to go back in āthe vaultā at some point to see what there is. But thereās nothing on the disc from last year. Itās so crazy to me that this was already not a thing for a film that came out in 2016 but I guess streaming had largely taken over already
Someone they identify only as āour prop guyā made the suggestion that March would miss and throw the gun through the window so they had to rework the scene from that point because they liked that so much
They talked about how Ryan Gosling did a lot of his own stunts in this including when he gets hit by the car near the end. And this is a secondhand retelling from elsewhere that the moderator brought up but she said that Ryan Gosling said he wanted to do more of his own stunts because his stunt double had also been a stunt double on Fury, and only 2 weeks earlier the stunt double had taken a bayonet to the chest??? ????? But he was there shooting this two weeks later? Jesus????
Ryan Gosling also ad libbed the fake German in the scene with Kim Bassinger at the end
They said they didnāt really have any ideas for a sequel but that Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe wanted it to be set in Mexico and Anthony Bagarozzi wanted to set it in the 80s. So it seems like thatās as far as they got in thinking about it or at least as much as they wanted to say but they were discussing that there was a lot of interest in a sequel ānowā (in 2025ish when this was recorded)
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Thinking about the whole "there is no platonic explanation for this" thing and how it doesn't account for intense platonic situationships and anyways I think we should start saying "there is no casual explanation for this" bc really what we're talking about is the way the characters in question are Obsessed with each other
First beach day in the dome, Rocky not being able to focus on anything Grace is saying because he is witnessing first-hand all the stupid poses humans do when standing still in water
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