Eva and I saw Coco today
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conulyOh, my, you have to see it.
That is all.
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George Orwell: Boys' weeklies (The next person who tries to tell me that children's literature can be so vapid or so excellent that it doesn't have a political message is getting this in their inbox)
Learning to Write Fluffy, Glittery Violence from My Little Pony
Bees use invisible heat patterns to choose flowers
5 Totally WTF Myths That Pop Up In Every Culture Worldwide
FDA approves first gene therapy for an inherited disease
Rebelling Republican Suburbs Offer Democrats Path to House Control
Things they don’t tell you about being a first time wheelchair user in highschool
Both chimps and children found to be willing to pay to see bad players punished
What Elon Musk Doesn't Get About Urban Transit
Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be
The grim reality of the brothels of Pompeii
For those of you who work in social media, I need to share the story of my friend who died, and I didn't know because algorithms.
Letter from Africa: Nigerian migrant dreams in the lap of the gods
Trump's approval rating just entered a league of its own
New Net Neutrality Bill Has Glaring Loopholes
Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. (I have, of course, read about the report, but I didn't read it until just now.)
Trump Asks ‘How’s Your 401(k)?’ But Most Voters Don’t Have One
Trump celebrates tax bill with very creepy, cult-like cabinet meeting
The Tax Bill Shows the G.O.P.’s Contempt for Democracy
Urban killings rise in clusters, even as cities grow safer
The Growing Movement to Take Polluters to Court Over Climate Change
The White House says climate change isn't a national security threat. The military says it is.
That is all.
George Orwell: Boys' weeklies (The next person who tries to tell me that children's literature can be so vapid or so excellent that it doesn't have a political message is getting this in their inbox)
Learning to Write Fluffy, Glittery Violence from My Little Pony
Bees use invisible heat patterns to choose flowers
5 Totally WTF Myths That Pop Up In Every Culture Worldwide
FDA approves first gene therapy for an inherited disease
Rebelling Republican Suburbs Offer Democrats Path to House Control
Things they don’t tell you about being a first time wheelchair user in highschool
Both chimps and children found to be willing to pay to see bad players punished
What Elon Musk Doesn't Get About Urban Transit
Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be
The grim reality of the brothels of Pompeii
For those of you who work in social media, I need to share the story of my friend who died, and I didn't know because algorithms.
Letter from Africa: Nigerian migrant dreams in the lap of the gods
Trump's approval rating just entered a league of its own
New Net Neutrality Bill Has Glaring Loopholes
Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. (I have, of course, read about the report, but I didn't read it until just now.)
Trump Asks ‘How’s Your 401(k)?’ But Most Voters Don’t Have One
Trump celebrates tax bill with very creepy, cult-like cabinet meeting
The Tax Bill Shows the G.O.P.’s Contempt for Democracy
Urban killings rise in clusters, even as cities grow safer
The Growing Movement to Take Polluters to Court Over Climate Change
The White House says climate change isn't a national security threat. The military says it is.
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Date: 2017-12-21 12:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-21 03:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-21 07:11 pm (UTC)The theme of family-is-important is summed up via relation to the Day of the Dead. If that's not your custom, you may end up temporarily adopting it (possibly problematic appropriation there) OR explaining to her that different dead have different customs they follow and Non-Mexican dead don't need to be on an offrenda to cross over and visit their families, nor as proof that they're remembered. (I wouldn't suggest "this isn't real and the dead don't do that" as a coda to this movie.)
There's some minor times when the main character is danger, but it's all resolved quickly, especially if she's old enough to understand that the protagonist doesn't die.
The protagonist is chased for a while by a very large animal, but as it was summoned by his family and they only want to keep him safe, it's pretty clear that it won't hurt him.
The villain gets a pretty non-violent comeuppance.
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Date: 2017-12-27 08:12 pm (UTC)TBD does understand the difference between things in stories and things that are real, and is via several avenues starting to cope with how to different people different things are and are not stories, and that different, contradictory stories are sometimes told about real things.
There's a big Dia de los Muertos shindig in town, well attended by both Latinos and Anglos. If it comes up, it will not be hard to adopt our customs to include it.
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Date: 2017-12-21 08:03 pm (UTC)This is why I brought my kid up on ElfQuest (https://elfquest.com/). She basically learned to read from it, because I read her those books over and over and over during the long winters when it was too cold to do much but huddle by the woodstove or snuggle in bed. Damn straight, ElfQuest is political, and it helped instill some of her most important values, like loyalty to family, respect for differences, compassion for the weak, love for the natural world, and willingness to fight like hell against exploiters and destroyers.
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Date: 2017-12-21 08:11 pm (UTC)DWJ, who lived in the same village as her during the war, asserts that she hated children.