weeeeee

the reveal that mizu is not only the ronin but also the bride is so well executed. the way she walks the line between man and woman, white and japanese, victor and victim... it's good fucking writing.

the thing that gets me about the barbie movie being framed as an "anti-men" movie is that it's fundamentally untrue to the message it's sending out. the movie is an empowering feminist piece as much as it is a cautionary tale about men letting their insecurities and doubts about their place in the world lead them to falling into the alt-right/incel/mra pipeline. it's looking out for men just as much as it's looking out for women, and the only reason you might find this as an "anti-men" message is because you somehow deeply believe that this is the wrong message to send

Oh my god…there are tears in my eyes???

god though it’s really getting to me that like. jaune sees penny and his younger self. ruby is being haunted by summer rose whether she lets herself look or not. but weiss? weiss is carrying the fall of atlas on her shoulders. the complete destruction of an entire kingdom. as she sees it, the sacrifice of thousands of people’s homes for a gamble to save the relics that didn’t even pay off. her friends are weighted down by the ghosts of their personal failures, small individual pains, but weiss blames herself for the agony of an entire kingdom’s worth of people. im distraught