personal – The Dot and Line

Faye Valentine’s Debts Made Her—As Mine Made Me

The ‘Bebop’ femme fatale’s devil-may-care attitude is the natural conclusion to resignation to a debt-filled future. I can relate.

Has the Pokémon anime at long last figured out that girls of color might want to be the very best too?

As FX’s most dynamic show shifts gears again for its latest season, The Dot and Line dives into the homage it’s paid to its espionage roots.

“The garage, Morty. Come to the garage!” As we close the book on 2017, here’s one more thing we loved.

On “Marge vs. the Monorail” and the enduring timelessness of ‘The Simpsons’

DC Comics and Warner Bros. Animation had every opportunity to make this film better — and they didn’t take any of them.

How Rebecca Sugar and ‘Steven Universe’ set precedents for queer love in cartoons.

Remembering those lost in the attack at Kyoto Animation through their work.

Is this the show’s second most annoying villain? Yes. But the philosophy, the world-building, and the blues are worth it.

And the world is way worse now.