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Lena Frances

@lenafrances.bsky.social
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Dork about totally unrelatable crud. Neurodivergent Film/Animation Obsessive. Trans-Lesbian, She/Her. I will dig this hole till you tell me it’s a hole.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/10/2026
If you have ever read a book to a baby, you will realize it's not a linear experience. The baby wants to turn pages backward, wants to ask questions (if they're old enough), wants to examine the pages and get really excited if they can say "bear!" even if the word "bear!" is not on the page.
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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
They're so desperate to make AI happen in everyday life that they're promising 3 days work weeks & think folks forgot that they dragged their workforce kicking & screaming back to the office for 5 day work weeks despite said workforce letting the company know remote work was better & healthier.
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Colette Arrand @colettearrand.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not watching Harry Potter won’t hurt her financially but it will hurt the ghouls who chose to work with her and the fascist-backed companies crowing about acquiring the IP and probably also her feelings. All worthy goals.
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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's crazy that TERFs are so cooked in their own rank juices they don't even talk about actual violence against women, even when it's front page news. It's all the imaginary specter of the Trans Infiltrator.
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of October 2nd, 2026: No new watches. BEWARE BOUINA looks fun, but was playing too late. The rest I haven't seen? Eagerly wanna live without. Inarritu really needs to be done.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of October 2nd, 2026: No new watches. BEWARE BOUINA looks fun, but was playing too late. The rest I haven't seen? Eagerly wanna live without. Inarritu really needs to be done.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I feel like in the 1960s Ishiro Honda could've made a film called DRACULA DOMINATES GODZILLA where Dracula makes Godzilla his bride so Godzilla could destroy Japan for him. And Mothra & her fairies have to save him. And it wouldn't have been an absurd stretch at all. Perfectly feasible possibility.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Earlier this year, I stated that I was working on something comprehensive about CAMP MIASMA. This is a video essay on the history of trans psycho killers and how CAMP MIASMA uses that history for subversion and reclamation. I hope you enjoy it. mubi.com/en/program-n...
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Loving the Monster
Watch truly great cinema. Wherever you are. From iconic, award-winning directors to emerging auteurs. Transformative films from all over the world. Stream Now. Download to watch Offline. Start your fr...
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Have (nearly) finished my Summer 2026 anime lineup! Not gonna watch quite so many this fall, I hope, but we'll see. 1. Sayonara, Lara (A-) 2. Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia (B+) 3. The Ghost in the Shell (B+) 4. Chainsmoker Cat (B+)
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
5. Clevatess: Season 2 (B+) 6. You & I Are Polar Opposites: Season 2 (B+) 7. The World is Dancing (B) 8. Sparks of Tomorrow (B) 9. Re:Zero: Season 4 (B) 10. Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You (B-) 11. Daemons of the Shadow Realm (B-)
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
5. Clevatess: Season 2 (B+) 6. You & I Are Polar Opposites: Season 2 (B+) 7. The World is Dancing (B) 8. Sparks of Tomorrow (B) 9. Re:Zero: Season 4 (B) 10. Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You (B-) 11. Daemons of the Shadow Realm (B-)
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Have (nearly) finished my Summer 2026 anime lineup! Not gonna watch quite so many this fall, I hope, but we'll see. 1. Sayonara, Lara (A-) 2. Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia (B+) 3. The Ghost in the Shell (B+) 4. Chainsmoker Cat (B+)
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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
honestly the most depressing thing to me is that we have to talk about this again and again and again and again and again. how to teach men to have human feelings, how to get people to believe us
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
thank you so much to everyone who has donated and shared we've gotten nearly to 5k already and im so overwhelmed and grateful thanks all of you
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Have no faith in my ability to keep up with a self-imposed daily movie marathon anymore, but I wanna try it: Goji-tober! A foolish attempt to watch (nearly) every worthwhile Japanese Godzilla film. Hiatus imposed to attend a family wedding. Goji-heads, tell me what I'm missing or should skip!
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of September 25th, 2026: There's honestly mostly healthy, interesting stuff out there right now. FORGOTTEN ISLAND's a blast, if a tad overzealous. PRIMETIME's surprisingly entrancing. We just... aggressively need Brad Pitt and Evangars Andgema to go away.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of September 25th, 2026: There's honestly mostly healthy, interesting stuff out there right now. FORGOTTEN ISLAND's a blast, if a tad overzealous. PRIMETIME's surprisingly entrancing. We just... aggressively need Brad Pitt and Evangars Andgema to go away.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
This is a formal request to SCOTUS to forcefully detransition dozens of incarcerated trans people and to subject them to medical experimentation. That's what this is.
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Aimee Steinberger @aimeekitty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We dragged our broken bodies to see Forgotten Island and it was great, you should see it! I always want to push for authentic emotion and relationships, and this movie has it in spades. We need more movies with heart like this. Also I laughed out loud at some of the things that got approved in this.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I bracketed out how this bracket would've gone if I chose the winners of every round. These winners would've definitely spawned early rumors of cheating & rigging the results. The final two were, coincidentally, the only two Disney songs I've personally sung at karaoke.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Best Toonout short by far, but also the only one Dropout's asked people if they want a full series of. Took a bunch of testing, but they finally realized what animation lovers are clamoring for is horny gay shit. Yeah, most of us knew that already, but some people gotta take the long way 'round.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More I think on it, more certain I am that GOODBYE, LARA needs an ADOLESCENCE OF UTENA-style extension. It has left a wound on viewers hearts by how beautiful it was, and how bitter the immediate aftertaste of it felt. And again, I'm one who loved the finale's visual language, but still.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I loved GOODBYE, LARA, and even appreciate its final moments. BUT it did objectively fail its viewers at the end. You can make the story you want to tell, but if you don't deliver enough on what people will find & connect to in it, they will end up feeling bitter.
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goodbye lara
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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
look at this poll isn't it neat you wouldn't let little mermaid get beat wouldn't you think you should vote vote for the best ashman song
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Note: I watched this trailer sans audio & dialogue at work, so purely judging from visuals. But... these human characters feel like their design notes were explicitly outdated body image ideals with no room for specific characterization.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Skydance (and chief animation creep Lasseter) really determined to patent the ugliest CG-animation & character style imaginable. Brad also showing how buyable he is by eagerly following Lasseter down the drain.
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Alex Kittle @alexxkittle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Watched Soy Frankelda and it's beeeeautiful and maybe I'm reaching but I saw some Remedios Varo influence?
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This will be a tough one for "I'll Make a Man Out of You" to beat, but I believe in it. "Friend Like Me" is fun, but it doesn't put the same intense energy into me.
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Mulan's Determined Climb
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of September 18th, 2026: Busy weekend, but still caught new SHAUN THE SHEEP brought me such joy! Love the side of stop-motion that's just "we're gonna spend hours animating silly sight gags!" RESIDENT EVIL... happened. Zach Cregger continues to be just not my guy.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of September 18th, 2026: Busy weekend, but still caught new SHAUN THE SHEEP brought me such joy! Love the side of stop-motion that's just "we're gonna spend hours animating silly sight gags!" RESIDENT EVIL... happened. Zach Cregger continues to be just not my guy.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'll be honest up front: I'm rooting for "I'll Make a Man Out of You" to win the whole sport. I figured what my final two would be if I were deciding the whole bracket, and it made it to the final. Yes, the other was "I'm Still Here" from TREASURE PLANET, which lost the first round. What of it?
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Mulan Kantoi: Guilty Grin
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nah, I'm not gonna do the "White Cat Hall Band" one. If anyone else wants to, feel free. It's late and I'm tired.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I searched four potential "will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran" jokes, and Riverbottom Nightmare Band, Ember McLain, Dragon Sound and Ho-Kago Tea Time have all been done already. Not worth scoping out any othe... wait.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you don't care enough to even speak out, the bare minimum of public advocacy, then you don't care. Not in any way that matters.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of September 11th, 2026: Had a blast with HOPE, and even felt rewarded by its frustrating elements. Criticism of its CG feels... overblown? Like yeah, looks fake, but I've seen far worse & less engaging from bigger blockbusters. Otherwise, very messy options.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of September 11th, 2026: Had a blast with HOPE, and even felt rewarded by its frustrating elements. Criticism of its CG feels... overblown? Like yeah, looks fake, but I've seen far worse & less engaging from bigger blockbusters. Otherwise, very messy options.
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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
Macklemore just fried Ed Sheeran on IG 😬
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a coalition stands together, that's how it generates and wields power in the political arena. on top of being basic human decency, standing up for trans people is politically expedient.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have been reminded of Virginia Woolf in THE HOURS, but that's both with her sister *and* in the film itself is debated by characters from different eras as to the meaning. Not sure that counts. Not sure I want it to count. I think we can get better. In this day and age, it'd be a travesty not to.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 really rubs in the shocking reality that Nicole Kidman has never once been canonically queer onscreen. I backtracked it. I'm pretty sure she hasn't. Which still feels like it must be wrong, and yet I've still found nothing.
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Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So fucking pissed at the modern state of this garbage industry - frankly this garbage world. If we're not gonna get anything stunningly new & fresh anymore, what's the goddamn point? Also read @hannahtempler.com's Cosmoknights. It rules.
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
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Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's a deeply disheartening time to be trans and try to get literally anything made in film or TV. Lilly and I pitched the MANHUNT show all over, heard a lot "wow this is such an important story, sooo exciting, weeeee just don't think we're the right people to tell it" variety.com/2026/tv/feat...
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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
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Kat Lyons @katlyyons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
btw they do this so they don’t have to hire back the same crew on a raise 🤙 (speaking from experience)
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