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comforting films & shows to watch?

i recently wrote a few from the top of my mind so i wanna share that comment while also asking for curated media which help staving off doom & gloom.

1955 🇸🇪 Plupp ("official nonbinary protagonist of several dozen books, also a sami character (scandinavian native)"1964 🇸🇪 Vi På Saltkråkan ( Life on Seacrow Island, "feminist feelgood childrenscartoon- like all of Astrid Lindgren's manuscripts and books" )1969 🇺🇸 the Madwoman of Chaillot ("Katherine Hepburn literally takes care of the oligarchs, military officials, corrupt priests.. who all look as pathetic as they actually are in this movie. happy ending.")1969 🇷🇺 Gena the Crocodile1969 🇷🇺 The Bremen Town Musicians1971 🇷🇺 Cheburashka1974 🇷🇺 Shapoklyak1974 🇸🇪 Lilla Anna och Långa farbrorn (little Anna and the Tall Uncle)1977 🇸🇪 Bögjävlar (no name, literally is a reclaimed slur like fags in swedish. lovely auto-biographical documentary by gays giving eachother solidarity and empathy in sweden one year before the juridical acknowledgement of gays here.")1979 🇷🇺 Three from Prostokvashino1979 🇸🇪 Alfons Åberg1981 🇸🇪 Ronja Rövardotter ( Ronia robber's daughter, book. "feminist as all books by Astrid Lindgren" )1982 🇸🇪 Trazan & Banarne ("surrealist socialist childrens show with music, a feminist & environmentalist monthy python")1983 🇷🇺 Cheburashka goes to school1984 🇸🇪 Zwampen ("surrealist socialist childrens show, a feminist & environmentalist monthy python")1984 🇸🇪 Ronja Rövardotter ( Ronia robber's daughter, film. "feminist as all manuscripts by Astrid Lindgren" )1984 🇯🇵 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (ghibli film)1985 🇸🇪 Skrotnisse och hans vänner (ScrapNisse and his friends)1985 🇺🇸 Misfits of Science ("socialist X-Men, anti-militarism, anti-corruption, solidarity between misfits.")1985 🇺🇸 Desert Hearts ("approved by Jane Rule, writer of the '60s lesbian book Desert of the Heart. lesbians & queer people embracing eachother in solidarity. happy ending.")1988 🇯🇵 My Neighbour Totoro (ghibli film)1989 🇯🇵 Kiki's Delivery Service (ghibli film)1990 🇫🇮🇯🇵🇳🇱 Mumin (Tanoshii Mūmin Ikka) ("this is the comfiest cartoon. my childhood TV is here for you <3 also made by lesbian author Tove Jansson, who shows a queer village where social norms are empathy and solidarity.")1997 🇯🇵 Princess Mononoke (ghibli film)1999 🇨🇦 Better Than Chocolate ("drama film, main cast of LGBTQIA+ characters. happy ending after some turmoil.")2002 🇸🇪 Dragkingdom of Sweden ("sympathic portrayal of drag culture, loveliest representation of dragkings i've come across, focusing on six dragkings who tell of their LGBTQIA+ community")2004 🇸🇪🇫🇷🇨🇦 Creepschool ("misfit kids growing up by empathizing with eachother in a gothic school")2004 🇯🇵 Howl's Moving Castle (ghibli film)2007 🇺🇸 Itty Bitty Titty Committee ("lesbian activists having fun")2020 🇺🇸 the Owl House ("not always cheery, can be harsh to watch. protagonists are all LGBTQIA+, main character unapologetically nonbinary.")2022 🇺🇸 Infinity Train ("season 2 protagonist is transgender, 4th season protagonists are a mid-twenties gay couple. a few episodes from 1st season establishes the premise- very alright to skip ahead to later seasons after the first episode or so.")

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