Oh neat! I’m reading Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries rn so brownie is a term I am very familiar with!

Have you watched turning red?

You ever type 500 words trying to express something and then someone comes and says it better with just ten?? bsky.app/profile/thes...

But not in ways that end up being relevant to the plot!

Edit to two tweets back: “watching the Kpop girls go awOOOOOGAH”

The realization full on slapped me in the face as I was watching, realizing that in almost ANY other show that lusting over a boy would have been shown by the girl showing *him* affection, posturing sexily towards *him*, making herself available to *him.*

The ways it allowed the girls to lust after boys in a way that didn’t make the boys the center of the scene really exposed to me how drastically all the other media skewed things. Wasting the Kpop girls go awOOOOOGAH over the pretty boy’s abs, but also happily doing it from a distance.

I remember thinking the same thing about Disney’s Turning Red (not that two movies constitute a trend, although Ms. Marvel did similar things too iirc). It showed those girls to goof off and be silly in a way that felt authentic (even within each of their very trope-y group dynamics)

“Cameo, the New York City of getting D-list celebrities to say words and phrases for you”