very misc

Ralph Breaks The Internet. A lot of jokes and references in this that I wouldn't expect the kids to get, but they seemed to enjoy it. As a boring, uptight mom person, I did not entirely love the message that cheerful and positive aesthetics have to equal simplistic and boring underpinnings and kids have to "graduate" to ultraviolence if they want something more interesting. It was funny, and I guess it might be true, but that just seems sad. Also did not love the gross animal-harm joke in the mid-credits, like, sorry to be humorless in my old age, but did we need that? Anyways, the princess parts were good.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. This is such a good reboot and I'm really happy to be living in the narrative renaissance when even children's media can have plot arcs and continuity and emotional complexity. I kinda want to wriiiite but I shouldn't even think about that until the Yulebears get fed.

The Talisman Ring, Georgette Heyer. Didn't really mean to read another Heyer so soon but my library ebook pipeline management skills failed to pop a timely alternative. My why-I-want-to-read-this note for this one just said "hijinks", and indeed, it had them, and they were fun, although I sort of thought there might be one more twist than there was. I'm never quite sure what counts as screwball but this probably was.