🔖📺🍿This piece identifies what made LOKI less than ideal for me: Loki himself is constrained, not as grand or mischievous as we’re used to. Great piece overall:

Loki as Other: Why Do Queer and Female Viewers Love the Trickster? tor.com

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🔖🍿📚 It’s nice timing to read this after recently starting my Dorian Gray re-read:

Manic Pixie Dream Portrait: On 500 Days of Summer and Dorian Gray. ‹ Literary Hub lithub.com

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Hulu has both Beetlejuice and Season 7 of Younger, see y’all next week. 📺🍿

🍿📺🗯️ I just watched the two pre-Loki episodes of Marvel Studios LEGENDS and y’all the MCU gets more obtuse all the time. In comics they do periodic resets that make it easy for new people to jump in. The MCU is labyrinthine enough that I think it’s time it had one.

🔖🍿📺 Read

Marvel movies have a weird relationship with kissing and romance - Polygon polygon.com

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My favorite thing about Labyrinth is that the ending suggests that you can grow up while retaining your attachment to fantasy. 🍿

Which Muppet do I most identify with? Well… 📺🍿

Reddit user JaytheChou is photoshopping Paddington into a different movie every day and it is a source of joy. 🍿🔖

I’ve always been resentful of the trope where girls have to pretend to be boys to get stuff done, but Natalie Zutter’s piece about Leia disguising herself as Boushh especially the part about Padme subverting it, is a welcome fresh perspective. 🍿🔖

🔖 I somehow missed Linda Holmes’s beautiful piece about The Muppet Movie soundtrack. She pulls out the very lines that always makes me cry. 🌈🐸🎵