Franco Fan Forever

Yup, still watching

the kind of music asks i always want to see

so i made my own list:

1.    a song from the year you were born 2.    a song that reminds you of school 3.    a song tied to a specific moment in your life 4.     a song that is not sung in your native language 5.     a song over 5 minutes long 6.     a song under 2 minutes long 7.     an instrumental 8.     a classical piece 9.     a song with no percussion 10.   something you’ve heard performed live 11.   something you’d give ANYTHING to hear performed live 12.   a song by an artist who’s from where you’re from (town/city/state/country) 13.   a song made suddenly precious because of a special someone 14.   a song made suddenly awful because of a special someone 15.   something to BELT SHAMELESSLY/do DIVA HANDS to 16.   something to SCREAM ALONG to 17.   a song for raging 18.   a song that demands lipsyncing into a makeshift microphone 19.   the last song you had stuck in your head 20.   a song you’re dying to master all the words to 21.   a song that you could SLAY at karaoke 22.   a song you can’t help but dance to 23.   a song that makes you want to dance on a table 24.   a song that makes you wanna STRIP 25.   a song with a great music video 26.   a song that makes you act out the music video when you hear it 27.   a song with counting 28.   a song with spelling 29.   a song with lots of clapping 30.   a song 40 years older than you 31.   a song you wish your parents didn’t know the words to 32.   a song whose lyrics shocked you once you were old enough to understand them 33.   a song you have ZERO patience for 34.   a song you’d like your favorite artist to cover 35.   a great song you discovered thanks to a movie 36.   a great song you discovered thanks to television 37.   a song you’re ashamed to have in your music library 38.   ok what’s the song you were too ashamed to even post for #37 39.   the most played song in your music library 40.   favorite disney song

Things I am good at:

pushing people away

sleeping

fucking things up

forgetting to text people back

eating food

👁👄👁.

It looks like my family! Too real!

In the past 24 hours, I have seen videos of police doing the following (part 2):

** Driving two SUVs through a street full of people. (X)

** Showing a white power sign. (X)

** Shouting "light 'em up!" and shooting at people standing on their own front porch, on a residential street. (X)

** Pulling down the mask of a man standing quietly with his hands up and pepper spraying him in the face. (X)

** Stopping a car of people (not even attending the protest) who were driving home shortly after the 9pm curfew, breaking their window, pepper spraying them, and tasing them. (X)

** Pepper spraying a child in the face. (X- video is of the immediate aftermath, of protesters trying to clear her eyes with milk and water)

** Walking up to a man who was sitting on the ground and kicking him. (X)

** Shooting multiple rounds of rubber bullets at a group of protesters in response to having water splashed on them (X)

** Shooting at a nurse who was helping a man who was bleeding from being shot with a rubber bullets. (X- video is of the nurse explaining what happened to a news crew, and then she runs off to help someone else across the street)

** Shooting an explosive device at a reporter during a live broadcast, as he was walking away from the police (X)

** Shoving an elderly man (walking with a cane) to the ground (X)

** Pepper spraying a member of the press while he was laying on the ground (X)

(Part 1)

i think the difference between the barbie's treatment of ken's in barbieland vs the ken's treatment of barbie's in kendom can be summed up pretty easily actually:

barbie's ignored ken, realistically they were given an opportunity to have their own lives and do what they wanted and they didn't do it. everything revolved around their barbie's, ken would only have a good day if barbie did or if barbie acknowledged him. they never tried to do anything they genuinely wanted to.

whereas when the ken's took over, they brainwashed the barbie's into liking them and doing things for them. they would bring them beers and act like waitresses, give them foot massages or watch films they otherwise wouldn't be interested in. they became mindless and existed to serve the ken's. they were no longer just friends with the barbie's, they didn't want barbie to love them back, they wanted to own them.

people talking about ken falling down the patriarchy pipeline out of neglect or loneliness but why couldn't the ken's form friendships and communities like the barbie's did? why is it up to barbie to ensure that ken doesn't feel that way? at what point is it acceptable to blame barbie for ken's feelings? barbie let ken come to her party, watched him beach, held him whilst he went to the hospital, agreed to let him go on her journey, says hi to him when she sees him, things friends do and things she's shown doing with all the other barbie's, but if he still feels loneliness after that because she doesn't want to kiss him or doesn't love him back, why is that barbie's fault? meanwhile the entire time ken is ignoring other ken's out of his fixation on barbie and is even trying to "beach" other ken's off and causing problems with other ken's to gain barbie's attention

to me it's the perfect representation of the real world in the sense that women will leave men alone, men will want to own women, and women will be blamed for men's neglect and loneliness but it's a paper cage they create for themselves because they refuse to see women as individuals and arguably they don't actively try to create and nurture communities in the same way women do. ken's story is sad yes, but it's a story of his own design and what makes it worse is that he blames barbie for it. not himself, not mattel, no the real world but barbie, who's friendly disinterest in him means that she should be the one who is blamed and punished