I Can’t Stop Thinking About How Perfectly Barbie Portrays Girlhood And Growing Up… How You’re Born

if sue sylvester and the cheerios had crashed on that plane they would have been running a bar and grill by the end of the week i'll tell you that much

Paramore is literally the king of live only outros and I wish they would make into into the studio version of the tracks. But at the same time it makes the live versions special. But honestly: the “million miles away” outro for here we go again; the “our father” outro for let the flames me begin; I remember they did a sick live interlude during the brand new eyes 2009 tour; the misguided ghosts extended outro; the 2018 after laughter tour crushcrushcrush outro; the crave outro that truly elevates that song from nostalgic rock lyrics to head banging emotional screaming and guitar riffs. I guess what I’m trying to say is see paramore live

i started this post so short and made it into a full on tour outfit camp/fashion post accidentally

hope everyone knows that gerard’s skirt suit tie is like. literally a vintage “women’s” tie. when middle class women entered the workforce with gusto the fashion of professionalism and suits etc had an existential crisis about what to do with the ties…… like the ties of skirt/women’s suits are specifically bows and ribbons.  i can’t give any sort of statement as to why, aside from the fact of arbitrarily and subtly keeping gendered difference while “copying” men’s standard dress and attempting to move away from 60′s professional dress, which was largely the same as women’s social and public dress. anyway. the fact of choosing this tie 

and the fact that the tie reveals itself to be a scarf only after the jacket is removed is amazing… idk. it reveals the distinction between men’s and women’s dress and how gender is forcefully adapted into all ways of life, even in movements to remove it. the same goes for the kitten heels, 

kitten heels are another perfect camp example of gender adaptation imo. heeled and uncomfortable, explicitly gendered but “professionalized”, largely considered frumpy to a certain degree and unsexual due to their low height. translating the professional uniform of men to women’s attire was a sort of a second wave assimilation approach to gender. 

50s’/ 60′s workplace attire, which emphasized busts, hips, and waist. 

and then the more 70′s / 80′s look of gerard’s tie and heels - boxy, “androgynous”, padded and square shoulders, adopting suit jackets and patterns

the tour (mostly the dresses and skirts, designed outfits) has been largely 70s to me, even with the explicitly  60′s and ww II looks.

 they’re incredibly boxy and have a “boyish” silhouette, a hallmark of women’s fashion of the 70s, considering women’s lib and the gender revolution. it’s so cool to see because part of that was a move TOWARDS androgyny, and now even the pants looks are identifiably “women’s” or androgynous.  even the sunglasses are “women’s”.  

“women’s” sunglasses, “women’s” ties, and “women’s” specially adapted uniforms, be it nurse or office worker. all of these looks are seeded from the historical urge to de-gender and androgenize fashion, yet to our eyes it’s unmistakably “women’s” 

camp by my definition  in its purest form is the re-contextualization of needlessly gendered practices, society, and fashion, and the shifting context is used to satirize the  notion that things are “naturally” gendered and dimorphic. camp, when effective, describes the constructed nature of gender and sexuality. women’s suits DESIGNED to be “more masculine” are  by modern standards (well i mean. by modern feminist standards LOL) still obviously so far from the mark of “genderless”. it highlights the fact that gender is so insidiously woven into EVERYTHING, even  social efforts to be more egalitarian, so to speak. it makes us see the gender we quietly perform as “natural” in modern life. 

i’m not a fashion historian or anything else so if i’m wrong i’m sorry LOL. but i give such a huge fuck about gendered fashion in camp and also gerard way

Frodo and aang are similarly misunderstood as characters in their respective franchises and share similar struggles, lukewarm take but anyways

RIP Laura Lee, you would've loved that there were twelve disciples yellowjackets eating the body of Christ Jackie

mellissa rejecting their past, rejecting the wilderness, rejecting shauna, only shauna won't let her. she cuts her, she fights her, she pins her, she bites her. she forces her into submission with a knife in her hand, just like she did against that tree decades ago. she threatens to kill her again, but this time she's intent on killing this new melissa---the one that's scared of her, the one that doesn't love her, the one that doesn't like the dark parts of her anymore. and she does it by ordering melissa to eat herself, forcing cannibalism back onto her, to collapse the boarder between adult!melissa and teen!melissa just as shauna has with herself. to drag melissa down to her level, to destroy what little comfort and happiness she has built for herself. you don't get to leave---you don't get to leave me, not while I'm still trapped here

Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind (2003), dir. Susan Lacy

“never too late to be who you might have been” by sara yukiko mon | still from i saw the tv glow, “there is still time”