sneakers

Converse All Stars in Big Plaid & Butterfly Hearts.

I doubt I'll ever get tired of Madras plaids and their charming neon colours, and check out the robin's egg blue lining on that first pair! And hey, you can never have too many butterfly hearts.

meta rec - The Devil Wears Prada as feminist manifesto

thelastgoodname has a brilliant analysis of The Devil Wears Prada as a feminist movie/manifesto here that I'm 100% wordy-mcword behind.

This is why I love this movie even though the actual writing, on surface level (eg dialogue) is pretty bad: the fully-rounded female characters and their excellent acting, the fact that they drive and control the plot in all directions, the fact that Meryl Streep as a ball-busting villain is sympathetic and sexy and ultimately comes out on top. Unlike so many chick flicks, DWP doesn't ultimately subject the female characters to traditional roles and their morals or to male desire. There are hardly even any male characters, and they exist as two-dimensional props only: the movie is 100% about the ways in which women negotiate successful careers in modern society vs. their identities.

Because in this movie lots of women talk to each other about many things other than men, and a woman is in charge of everyone and triumphs over the man who wants to replace her with a younger version of herself because he says she's old and dried up, and said woman is dumped by her male significant other for being successful and competent and advancing in her career and not placating his every whim and a completely different woman is also dumped by her male significant other for wanting to be successful and competent and advance in her career and not placate his every whim and all the women in the movie are complicated characters--the bitches cry and the good girls get bitchy--and there are a tiny handful of named male characters (even the dog is female) and two of them only exist to be romantic foils for the protagonist and her antagonist, and....

get plebefic headers before plebefic headers get you

The theme of today's post is stories that write themselves, but not in a good way. #s4 & 5 are J-pop RPS collected as usual by the diligent aeslis.

1. 
   Warning: It ended up kinda schmoopy and sucky, sorry. But at least I finished it. lol
   
2. 
   A/N: Honestly, I didn't even know what this was going to be about. I just knew I wanted something with Dean and Castiel walking together in the park (I know, sounds cheesy...) and this is what my muse gave me. So don't blame anything on me!
   
3. 
   Summary: Castiel doesn't know the feeling. Does he? [I don't know, does he?]
   
4. 
   Summary: So um… Koyama is POOR. Shige is RICH. Toma is NICE. Pi is a bit JEALOUS. They all go to the same SCHOOL. 90210 called, they want their DRAMA back.
   A/N: I really like this chapter!! I dunno why, maybe the thought of Pi and Toma… Keh! I can’t even tell you! XD Oh yeah, this is an abrupt change from first to third person. This is because I forgot I was writing in first person, so just… LIVE WITH IT I GUESS. Oh caps lock ftw
   
5. 
   AN: I have come to the conclusion that Nino is an idiot.  I'd always sort of known, with this fic, but there's no way denying it now D: