Playing with words

Okay, so this is actually a reaction post in retrospect but:

My favourite authors (Ilona Andrews) have had one of their books (Clean Sweep) adapted into a webcomic on Tapas, so my sisters and I all downloaded the app a few months ago so we could keep throwing money at them for more awesome content support them in this new way! So I actually have been reading, just not the reading I used to do? ( Tapas recs )

Wishing you all a wonderful New Year! 🥳🙌 This will be another many updates at once post because so much has happened but I've been too busy to sit and compose a post!

First! Thank you to spikedluv for more DW points via holiday_wishes ! So much appreciated!!! 🥰

Second cool thing: I've won a few Discord Nitro giveaways ever since I started entering lots of them? Law of averages, so I've been cruising along with Nitro Classic (which is basically just Extra Emoji Powah - it's the discount version of Nitro) and I have a few months of classic credit stored up now. Then a couple days ago I basically won the jackpot: one year of Nitro Boost! 🙌🥳This is the fully souped up version of Nitro that costs $100! So I can boost the little B2 server again, which is awesome! (It means all members on the server can use more of our custom emoji and stickers and our icon can be a GIF one, plus a few more perks.)

Third: I spotted a new gift on AO3 and went rummaging through the tags at fandomtrees and ooooh! Can't wait!

And finally, the person translating my fics into Vietnamese has finished An Exchange of Kings now and the link is here!


In not so cool things: tumblr is basically totally non-functional for creators right now. 😭 It's probably them trying to fix their banned tags issue, but now any tagged post doesn't show. 🤨 So I'm not making any more GIFsets until they figure out WTF they're doing. Really sad that I might have to redo the tags on all the sets I've posted - that is at least a hundred sets.😭 I have two more weeks of work, so maybe after that?


November/December media

TV shows: So much quality content! I have been very happy with the TV offerings lately. I think I'll be trying Wheel of Time next, since the people in the Gendrya server are talking about it. (I read the books ages ago, so I don't think I'll be offended by the "narrative diversions" that husbands everywhere are complaining about!😂) 

Squid Game- I totally get all the hype over this series - it was sooo good! I started it one night, just to see why everybody was talking about it and flooding my dash with people in tracksuits. Watched two episodes, and then binged the rest the next day! It is very intense though - I can see why people just can't take the strain of it, and the seemingly cynically violent narrative. This show breaks your heart on purpose? I do like what it says about capitalism and human nature in the end though. I have caps for icons, so I will be working on those sometime!

explained S3- There was a chess ep and one on dogs! Awesome season!

The Mind explained- The last ep on brainwashing was uncomfortably relevant. 😖 Radicalization in small groups: it can happen to you! I want to watch the one on personality again - the different traits are really interesting! 

Lost in Space S3- I can't believe it's over! And I liked where the characters ended up, mostly, although I am sad it wasn't a little bit shippier for the pairings I was rooting for. 🥺 

Arcane- OMG this show blew me away! I think I actually like the love triangle on this show because it's such a fresh take on the trope and sooo heartbreaking?! Plus what a corruption arc! And the character designs and artwork and music were all just stunning together! Definitely going to re-watch just to be wowed all over again. 

Hawkeye- I did not expect this show to make me ugly sob because I'm going to be honest: I went into this not giving a damn about Clint. My fave was Natasha and I have been bitter for literally YEARS. This show had everything though - humourous banter, great character arcs/plot, awesome action sequences and emotional catharsis like whoa. 😭😭😭 So well done, and it totally blew away my expectations. Plus the holiday setting was perfect - my kiddo and I watched it all over Christmas and it felt so sublime! 

The Witcher S2- I liked it for the most part although Jaskier should have had more songs! Having Ciri a lot more central at last was great, and I also like the time spent with more of the minor characters like Fringilla, whose choices and struggles I find a lot more relatable than say, Geralt's? Although I don't like what they did with Yennefer since it was so contradictory and also not in the books?! 🤨(Yes, I am the annoyed husband here: what was that?!)


Movies: Only watched a couple. I'm hoping to see No Way Home in theatre soon though! It comes out here on the 7th!

Shang-chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings- This was such a fun romp and I kind of ship Katy/Shang-chi now. I loved how they were so solidly each other's person. 

Don't Look Up- I found this so depressingly realistic that I had to stop watching in the middle for a day. Like maybe it's satire but it felt terribly plausible.  


Books:

   Scythe, Thunderhead and The Toll by Neal Shusterman

In an overpopulated world where an ubiquitous, omnipresent AI has solved all mundane human problems like death and disease, there have to be those who must reduce the population instead. This was such a neat dystopian concept and I think the first book in this series was definitely the strongest, although all of them have several gut punch twists. The weakest part of the series was the romance - I just didn't feel it between the two main (young) protagonists. (Maybe I am over YA romance? IDK.) The third book is strangely structured too, because one of the minor characters from the second book gets a leading role for most of the first third of it - it's a jarring change when you're so used to his chapters being the occasional interlude instead of the main focus! I have a bunch of fic bookmarked for this, but for the mentor scythes, who had the most tragically separated for eternity soulmates story ever. It still makes my heart break a bit to reflect on it. 🥺

 A Psalm of Storms and Silence by Roseanne A. Brown

Ooooh this was such a good finish to this duology! I feel like anything I say will be spoilers for the first book, but the great worldbuilding continues out into the world around the city in the first, with a wonderfully diverse range of characters, and some realistically motivated characters? Like at first it seems like the author is playing to a romantic trope, but noooope, character was motivated by something deeper! 😅
A great YA fantasy read - I'm reccing this series to my kiddo for sure.


Finally, here's my last fic of the year for newyearcntdown 

Title: Cold Hands (Cold Feet) (Joy and Harmonny for the Season Chp 3)
Fandom: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
Characters/Pairing: Beth Harmon/Benny Watts, Jolene DeWitt & Benny Watts, Benny Watts & D.L. Townes
Word Count/Rating: 2424 words, T
Summary: Counterpart to the previous chapter: Whatever did Benny get Beth for Christmas?
Link to AO3 here

This was expanding on the backstory of the last chapter of Exchange too - I wasn't planning to write that in when I first saw the prompt, but the more I thought about that other meaning of Cold Feet, the more I wanted to add it. I was originally going to write eight stories for this community and only finished three, but I am keeping the option open to post a couple more on AO3 even though the community on DW won't be open for cross-posting!

I was still reeling from something that happened in July, so I wasn't able to read much (books or fic), therefore Ted Lasso and Rom-communism were the gist of my media consumption last month. 

S2 thoughts thus far: 

I really trust these writers? They write in a way that's both emotionally honest and funny, with homages aplenty, which is smack dab in the middle of my sweet spot. And there's unexpected twists, but not the Shitty Shock Value variety. That and a series about people being thoughtful, kind and accountable for their actions is really what I need right now. 🥰 There was so much griping on Reddit and twitter about how S2 was too positive until things started taking a darker turn in the last eps, and now it's gone the other way (F- this character! I thought this was a feel-good show!) And um. LOL Ok fandom. Like, no,( Cut for TL S2 spoilers ) It is still absolutely the highlight of my week, and I am already bummed about how our free Apple+ is going to run out just before the last ep drops. 😭 While we all loved and needed Ted's #BELIEVE philosophy during COVID, I think his arc this season is about the limits of "just being positive", which I think is really cool? 

Anyway, since there were a metric tonne of rom-com references, I also re-watched:

You've Got Mail (Did NOT age well - Tom Hanks plays a creepy jerk in this and by the end I was actively rooting for him NOT to get the girl, although I already knew the ending and I love Tom Hanks as an actor. Very weird to have a totally different perspective this time around.)

Sleepless in Seattle (LOVE THE KID IN THIS! Also the depiction of Sam's grief was so poignant.)

When Harry Met Sally (CLASSIC FOR A REASON. Also I forgot Carrie Fisher was in this, which.😍)

Jerry Macguire (A sports agent who wants to do ethically better things for the sake of his clients - really seeing the Ted Lasso inspo in this!)

Notting Hill (Okay, great casting but the story was so ??? Princess Anna insisting IT'S TRUE LOVE *swing a flaming brand* kind of forced? Forgettable.) 

Love, Actually (Hahahaha baby TBS is so baybee I can't wrap my head around how he was actually 12 when he did this role. Like no wonder he still looks like a teenager.)

Book-wise this was the only thing I finished, but it was AWESOME. 

 Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

I love how the author made a minor character from Theseus' myth her main character and that this follows Ariadne's little namedrop mentions in other myths completely from her POV. Canon compliant, so it ends up tragic/bittersweet, but it gets there with such empathy and understanding for her choices. I might buy this one.  

TV:

進撃の巨人 (Attack on Titan) S1&2: First off: that English translation of the title is terrible. I thought for years that the plot would have something to do with giants attacking some sort of base on Titan, one of Saturn's moons. Nope! It's not sci-fi at all, but more action/adventure fantasy. TBH I don't really understand why it was so incredibly popular here? 😅 I'm not really loving the main character because he's of the belligerently reckless young Chosen One variety, and he only seems to keep moving forward in the episodes because of his friends' protection/smarts and his genetic superpower/plot armor. I really wish he were smarter or more charismatic or something other than that guy who is always upset and indecisive while ridiculous numbers of soldiers die every single episode before he actually does anything.

I've heard S3 and 4 are disappointing in the Game of Thrones kind of way, so I'm not in any hurry to finish, either. 

Loki: I am really enjoying this series, and I love Mobius and Sylvie! Kiddo is watching with me and not enjoying the constant cliffhangers. 😅 You can really tell they have been growing up in the era of Netflix binging: "What?! That's it?! But that means we have to wait until next week to find out what happens!" 😱 
I really hope the last ep of the season is satisfying - I heard it was getting a S2, but if this one ends on a cliffhanger, I will actually be annoyed! LOL I am so over the network TV format JUST FINISH YOUR GODDAMN STORIES ALREADY.


Movies:

Molly's Game: I just love Jessica Chastain, and Idris Elba was great in this too! I mostly watched this to get a better idea of poker things for Benny Watts, and all the poker lingo and psychology was fascinating! The tension in it is top notch as you realize more and more that Molly is a gambler herself, only the stakes have been her own life the whole time, and they keep going up. 🥺 I loved that final scene with her dad unpacking what had driven her to do it all in the first place. I actually got the book after, and this was the rare case where the movie was an improvement, though the book is decent, too. 

The Martian, Coyote Ugly (re-watches) Just needed some comfort movies. Uggghhh, I'm so freaking disappointed with people right now. 😥


Books:

 The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

How much did I love this book? How much did the lives of these incredible women break my heart and then put it back together? 😭😭😭 I've already bought the hardcover so I can read it again. The love letters are TO DIE FOR. The friendships you just have to keep rooting for even when they run horribly aground. And all of it wrapped in a mystery (in the after) and the tense backdrop of the war. 

 The Duke who Didn't by Courtney Milan

I really wanted to love this, but didn't? I don't know, the emotional/social cluelessness of both the main couple (even though they are both supposed to be clever) just really started to annoy me? Lots of historical details about Chinese living in England and talk about Chinese food, but without a compelling love story to go with it, it fell a little flat. 

 Three Thousand Stitches by Sudha Murty

I don't even remember why this was on my to-read list, but it was okay? She makes some interesting observations about human nature as she talks about her life and work as a philanthropist, but again, this was not a book that really grabbed me. Maybe it was the preachy tone - I felt like she was judging the addicts in the last chapter more than trying to understand how to help them, for example?

 One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

I really liked Red, White and Royal Blue and this is also an awesome queer romance but the conflict is so utterly different that I would not have suspected it was the same author! This one is time-travel/memory/stuck-on-a-train loophole rather than political/media machinations, but she sells the romance just as well. Swoony stuff - I might buy this one for the shelf too!

 Tithe by Holly Black

Honestly thought I would like this book better because I loved her Folk of the Air series so much but I really didn't like the protagonist. I've been trying to figure out why, since I loved Jude so much, and I think it's because this protagonist doesn't act, supernatural stuff just happens to her. Like, there's no sense of drive or questing curiosity, just a kind of "I'm bored and entitled to act like a brat and have people do stuff for me". Maybe it's more realistically teenaged POV? But I am not dying to read the next one, although the whole series is supposed to fill in some of the background for TFotA. 

 Dear Girls by Ali Wong

I absolutely loved her Netflix comedy specials, and this autobiography is a lot like them: she's funny, incredibly frank to the point of being grotesque in her details and talks a lot about the experience of growing up Asian American. As an Asian Canadian, I found it all incredibly relatable, even (especially?) the parts where she talks about that kind of reverse culture shock of being that "white on the inside" Asian while she was on an exchange program in Vietnam for a year. I don't know that this is a book that I'll buy for the shelf, but it's one I'd rec for sure! 

 A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown

Okay, to be completely honest, I was a little skeptical just because of how the title complies with that Fantasy trend of: _____of _____and _______ (Insert Dramatic Imagery Words) BUT I had heard really good things on the Jurdan server about this one. And it was utterly refreshing and compelling and so freaking good! The worldbuilding and vivid, diverse characters and sense of history/mystery/connection was just A+++. I can't wait for the next one in the series, which is out this November! Probably buying this one and reccing it to the kiddo.

 Molly's Game by Molly Bloom

Just wanted a more in-depth look after being wowed by the movie and was honestly a little disappointed? The romance parts were probably the worst - I am thrilled somebody made the decision to cut those for the film because it was possibly the LEAST COMPELLING depiction of a soulmate I have ever read. 😅 The ending is also much less triumphant - Molly's life was still very much in limbo when she was writing the end of this book, and it actually feels rather sad and almost defeated, though her words claim otherwise? I need to google what actually ended up happening in court. 

Have you guys been reading anything good? Always looking for recs that you think might be up my alley! 🥰

Shadow and Bone! Eeep! It was just so pretty. (Especially Ben Barnes and those keftas!) I loved the Six of Crows character plotlines a lot more than the Alina/Mal/Darkling stuff, TBH, since most of that was fresh, new stuff (and I just like all those characters better, period) but it was all pretty good despite the Typical Chosen One and Best Friend vs Abusive Hottie Love Triangle narrative driving the main plot. 

Also finished The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and I am going to miss having a new Marvel show to watch every Friday with my kiddo. :( Loved Bucky's whole arc in particular although I am super disappointed we didn't get more of the Dora Milaje. I was totally shipping Bucky/Ayo because of that obvious trust and connection there - like the way he just KNEW it was her when she left him her own Kimoyo beads as a signal?! All the way until the Utterly Shocked and Disarmed look on his face and her CURSING him for betraying them. I wanted the backstory implied there and was so sad we didn't get more! (ToT) 

Sam's arc felt really solid too -- I love that the show actually went there and addressed the racism head on. Now sure if there will be a S2 or just a new Cap movie?

Also watched Space Sweepers and Raya and the Last Dragon last month and both of those were awesome too. <3 

Only read 4 books though:

 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

This was basically President Snow's backstory/Corruption Arc tale and I didn't love it? The other Hunger Games books were a lot more compelling and exciting -- some of the stakes just felt non-existent because we already know Snow survives to a ripe old age. Also it was loooong and kind of tedious. But it planted the seeds of Snow's Particular Grudges against mockingjays, a certain song and District 12, I guess? I just don't really understand why this book? I never felt the need to Understand President Snow's Deepest Motivations and I actually don't think we got to a believable Final Mental State for him to end up who he is either. :(  

 The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

Also not a big fan of this one. :( I love fairy tale tropes, and I've had this on my to-read list forever (although I don't even remember where I got the rec from) but I was intrigued by the premise: there's basically a series of Grimm's Fairy Tales the POV character's narrative is wrapped around. So you know these are not lovely, happy things; they're basically Horror with a Moral. But not only do you never get all the tales (Seriously?) the characters were all pretty unlikeable or unrealistically motivated to boot. The book geek who was actually willing to risk his life to enter the horrible fairytale world was the only one I found relatable! XD 

 Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik

So after two disappointments in a row, I decided on a Novik book as a pretty much surefire hit and whew! :D I just love Temeraire! His protectiveness over Laurence is on full display while they go on a trip to China. Love the worldbuilding in this and Temeraire and Laurence discussing moral/ethical dilemmas. Already have the next book in the series ready to go too! :D 

 Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo

So I delayed reading this because I didn't want to get my heart broken with Major Character Death For Realistic Consequences reasons like a certain other Bardugo book. *glares*( SPOILERS ) Written with such verve, vibrant characters/dialogue and thrilling pacing too. *happy sigh*

Next up: Fugitive Telemetry (the newest Murderbot). 

 Had so many assignments due at the same time that I sent so many books back to the library unread over the last few weeks! But I've emerged from that post-writing fugue again so:


 His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik. So I picked this up because I adored both Spinning Silver and Uprooted and then I read the blurb and was like? Ooookay this isn't high fantasy, it's like a historical AU with inserted fantasy elements?! Basically, the premise is: what if the Napoleonic Wars had also had Dragons? So I went in skeptical over the wildly AU concept but I ended up loving it! Temeraire is just such a reasonable, lovely dragon and the way Laurence grows and adapts to having him in his life is really lovely. Wonderfully detailed worldbuilding as always, and such easily readable style. Already have the next book in the series on hold.


 An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir. Really enjoyed this first in a series too! Loved the worldbuilding and the main characters and their central conflicts, although I am slightly cringing at the ship baiting already going on. Ugh Love Triangles in Fantasy books: do we really have to? But prophecies are just one of my favorite plot devices, and this series promises to do a good job of making the central prophecy come true in unexpected ways. Already have the next on hold too!

 The Cruel Prince by Holly Black. I didn't expect to love this as much as I did because the previous book I'd read by this author disappointed. But this was a fantastic take on the fae and living in Faerie and the joys of being a lying liar who lies, with wonderful worldbuilding and a gripping plot with ever rising stakes. This already feels like an enemies to lovers ship based trilogy, but I'm quite enjoying it despite/because the two central characters haaaate being attracted to each other. LOL Can't wait for the next!


 The Silence between us by Alison Gervais. I wanted to like this but didn't- MC is a deaf girl who changes from a deaf school to a hearing one. Not sure if it was deliberate teenage POV or if it was actually the author's HEARING PEOPLE ARE SO OBLIVIOUS TO OUR NEEDS message, but neither makes for sympathetic reading. How DARE there not be a translator when I need one?! How DARE boy ask questions about why I can speak but choose to sign! The way people act in this just isn't emotionally honest either- nobody goes from being treated like a punching bag to bending over backwards to learn sign language so mean new girl can scoff and insult you some more. And then it turns to love! That is... just not how people work. Lost me so much that the message fell flat, although I know logically that it is Important.


 A Kiss for Midwinter by Courtney Milan. Another great feminist historical romance. This one highlights the hypocrisy of slut shaming and the pains of dealing with a mentally ill parent. Just a novella, so short and sweet. She has a new book coming out in September and I can't wait to read it!

 

So I figured this one was coming so I actually made my GIFset before posting this time. LOL

Train to Busan + Yellow

No idea why the director chose to use so much yellow in this film, but it's literally everywhere- warning pylons, the wallpaper in Su-an's room and even the furnishings in Seok-woo's apartment (who has a bright yellow sofa ever). Maybe it's a signal for "safe" or "normal"? 

I'm not usually a big horror fan, but this movie isn't actually gory, just TENSE AF. The social commentary on classism and the fallibility of capitalism when it comes to preserving society is even more strikingly relevant now. Sang-Hwa, the rough, working class hero, leads the iconic charge through train cars full of zombies only protected by his adhoc yellow tape armguards.


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As for songs, I thought of Yellow Submarine by The Beatles and Coldplay, of course. Plus Daylight by Taylor Swift.


ETA: I would be remiss not to link this amazing Uncle Iroh fanart too!

We went on a family bike ride to the river and then had a rice balls and fried chicken picnic today. Anybody else feel like they are cooking some really delightful things to help add interest to the day somehow some way? Last night I made Vietnamese spring rolls and banbanji and they were sooo good! Very time consuming to roll though. And out of sheer desperation I have googled recipes and made homemade ranch dressing. Buffalo wings to go with are our next culinary goal.

Anyway, I've been reading lots again so:

 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. I had this on my list because I've been trying to get through more Newbery Award winners, and this was good historical fiction. About a girl making brave choices to protect her friend and her family in WWII. 

 The Deep by Rivers Solomon. Honestly, I didn't like this. Too confusing, too uprooted in its POV choices, too blase in its explanation of how humans turned into mermaids. I felt oddly unsatisfied by the ending even though I think it was supposed to be triumphant? And just disconnected from all but one of the narrators. Novella length but I had to struggle to get through it.

 Wildfire by Ilona Andrews. Loved this as a conclusion to the Nevada/Rogan trilogy. Same high stakes gripping adventure/ mystery solving and dramatically fantastic confrontations. Also liking the ongoing mystery of the Big Bad in the shadows still and their diabolical grandmother having a role in it. I have a novella called Diamond Fire next on my holds now and I think it's chronologically next although Sapphire Flames was the official next Hidden Legacy novel? 

A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell. This was a fantastic biography of Virginia Hall, one of the unsung heroes of WWII whose intelligence work helped set the standard for spies and guerrilla warfare. And she did it all despite being disabled and worse, constantly thwarted by male egos getting in the way. Such a smart and indomitable badass.

The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemesin. OH MY GOD THIS WAS SUCH A GREAT CONCLUSION. She takes you back to the start, to the genesis of the very first Season and it's such a brilliant echo of the first novel, which starts with the end of the world. Certain things remain unexplained, but I think I will start rifling through Ao3 for fic about that. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. I want to re-read the trilogy again just to see all the pieces fit together again and therefore might buy the series.

 The Duchess War by Courtney Milan. I have discovered a new favourite author, I think. The banter and character details in this are just perfection. And realistic (and hot!) love scenes. Can't wait to read the next in the series, plus there are a couple free novellas in the series, so I downloaded them from iTunes.

Have you read any of these, oh f-list? Next up I have Red, White and Royal Blue, In the Hand of the Goddess, Ninth House, Magic Shifts, and His Majesty's Dragon. Looking forward to the latter three especially because they are by favourite authors, and Red, White and Royal Blue is already quite fun.

So I'm doing well enough in my reading goals for the year that I'm going to have to bump up my goal. (From 75 books to 100.) Also, the rain of holds is slowing down now that I've figured out how to delay them, and I may have time to read fic again. LOL

Since my last book post I've finished 4 books, and they were all good to great!

First up was The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden. Amazon kept telling me to buy it because it was supposed to be like Spinning Silver, and there are loads of similarities- it's also set in a world drawn from historical Russia and has a plucky female protagonist and it's high fantasy, with prophecies and magic. It wasn't as compelling and memorable as SS, IMO, but still very good. Now I really want to know what kvas and mead taste like. 


Next was The Obelisk Gate, the second of N.K Jemesin's The Broken Earth trilogy. This one was much easier to get into than The Fifth Season, and ahhh, I really loved the Nassun and Schaffa POV chapters! Also whatever is going on with Hoa and Alabaster is fascinating! The bits and pieces of obviously Lost and Important History/Backstory we've been given feel like pieces of a puzzle we've been handed all along, and we just need to fit them together properly in the right perspective. Can't wait for the last- I think we can guess what Essun's fate is going to be, and that maybe it's not the death sentence it seems?


After that I read When you Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, which is a Newbery Medal winning YA SF/mystery. Time travel, epistolary and lots of references to A Wrinkle in Time to help anchor/understand the time travel parts for younger readers. (Also it's partly a critique of the book's time travel premise, which is delightful to me, and strikes me almost as fanfic?) I figured out the mystery about halfway through, but I loved seeing it play out. 


Finally, I read Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews and it was absolutely my fave of the series thus far! So many long foreshadowed events finally came to be and ahahahahaha at long last Curran put his money where his mouth was and I'm sure fandom hated it BUT I LOVED IT. YESSSSS I am bemoaning the 14 week wait for the next installment in my holds! 


Next up on my Libby: The Iron Trial, Enchanted, Ella Minnow Pee.

So I put off watching this movie forever because I just... didn't need it? But I watched it with my kids a few months ago, and I have to admit it was a great story. I think it would strike less of a chord with kids than parents though, so I'm betting toy and ticket sales were not amazing? Anyway, I had to make icons for the lines my kids and I keep reciting to each other and Woody's judgey face is the beeest. Plus Duke Kaboom was voiced by Keanu Reeves! 



(GIF icons sized for DW, stills will work on AO3, DW and LJ)