The Muppets fascinate me, because there's this pathos to them, this weird kind of naturalistic grittiness to their little dirty pelts, and it really shouldn't work at all, but somehow you're completely willing to accept these felt-covered inanimate objects as celebrities acting in all these movies. It's so wild. It's like if Roger Rabbit had an independent film career.
There is an entire subgenre of podcasts which go, minute by minute, through movies. Each episode is a single minute of movie runtime.
The first one in this genre was a podcast for The Phantom Menace, and they spent 50 years on the podrace.
My favorite movie by the minute podcast was for Beetlejuice, but I use the subsubgenre of Muppet movies by the minute to fall asleep.
There are at least two Muppet movie podcasts, and I had to stop listening to one because the hosts were bickering too much.
Abuse, transphobia
Tumblr is and was an excellent platform for vehemently defending trans fictional characters while tearing down actual trans people, sometimes using one as the means for the other.
On nerd victimhood
@bunnyjane @bgcarlisle@scholar.social Yeah, back in the 90s being nerdy was associated with gender nonconformity and queerness, which makes hypermasc, violent, closeminded dudes claiming ownership over it a real trip.
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.