Lena Frances
@lenafrances.bsky.social
Dork about totally unrelatable crud. Neurodivergent Film/Animation Obsessive. Trans-Lesbian, She/Her.
I will dig this hole till you tell me it’s a hole.
I will dig this hole till you tell me it’s a hole.
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Lena Frances
@lenafrances.bsky.social
· Feb 28
Alright, time has come! Truly a more valuable, accurate & time-resilient measure of last year's value than the other thing this weekend:
My Top 25 Cinema of 2024! Missed a few I wanted to catch; opted out of some for emotional reasons. Truly, tho, this'll do just fine.
My Top 25 Cinema of 2024! Missed a few I wanted to catch; opted out of some for emotional reasons. Truly, tho, this'll do just fine.
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Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of November 7th, 2025:
A refreshingly full week! DIE MY LOVE was an absolutely cracked, meandering delight. LITTLE AMELIE hit a very personal niche of my life - toddlerhood in Japan - and BADLANDS... was fine, but too often just The Predator & Grogu.
A refreshingly full week! DIE MY LOVE was an absolutely cracked, meandering delight. LITTLE AMELIE hit a very personal niche of my life - toddlerhood in Japan - and BADLANDS... was fine, but too often just The Predator & Grogu.
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of November 7th, 2025:
A refreshingly full week! DIE MY LOVE was an absolutely cracked, meandering delight. LITTLE AMELIE hit a very personal niche of my life - toddlerhood in Japan - and BADLANDS... was fine, but too often just The Predator & Grogu.
A refreshingly full week! DIE MY LOVE was an absolutely cracked, meandering delight. LITTLE AMELIE hit a very personal niche of my life - toddlerhood in Japan - and BADLANDS... was fine, but too often just The Predator & Grogu.
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We have updated our call script so you can let your Senators know how you feel about this (TERRIBLE) deal they just advanced...
👉🏽 5calls.org/issue/federa...
👉🏽 5calls.org/issue/federa...
UPDATE: Senate votes to advance a tentative deal to end the government shutdown, clearing a key hurdle.
Senators reach tentative deal to end the government shutdown
The deal, negotiated by a group of Democrats and GOP leaders, funds the government through Jan. 30. If it passes, it will still need to clear the House, which will likely take days.
nbcnews.to
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We have updated our call script so you can let your Senators know how you feel about this (TERRIBLE) deal they just advanced...
👉🏽 5calls.org/issue/federa...
👉🏽 5calls.org/issue/federa...
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The contrast could hardly be sharper. My friends and neighbors, armed only with whistles and voices, spend their weekend fighting off heavily-armed paramilitary goons. Meanwhile, these jagoffs capitulate, but not before securing another $1 billion for their own security.
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The contrast could hardly be sharper. My friends and neighbors, armed only with whistles and voices, spend their weekend fighting off heavily-armed paramilitary goons. Meanwhile, these jagoffs capitulate, but not before securing another $1 billion for their own security.
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Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."
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I grew up in New Hampshire watching this cockroach crawl her way into power and money, and I can definitively state she cares absolutely nothing for our wellbeing or our infrastructure.
Shaheen: So let me be clear. No one in the senate chamber wants to extend the ACA tax credits more than I do.
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I grew up in New Hampshire watching this cockroach crawl her way into power and money, and I can definitively state she cares absolutely nothing for our wellbeing or our infrastructure.
Absolutely giving my worthless senators an earful this morning. Cowards & traitors.
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Absolutely giving my worthless senators an earful this morning. Cowards & traitors.
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just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
BREAKING
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
Well, there goes my hope of getting a decent passport.
SCOTUS has granted a stay in Trump v. Orr, the trans passport case, meaning that the government will be able to once again deny gender marker changes to trans passport applicants.
This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
November 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Well, there goes my hope of getting a decent passport.
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The shade in that last line. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return.”
"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The shade in that last line. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return.”
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Zohran says you’re trans now
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Zohran says you’re trans now
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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Without LGBT New Yorkers, Cuomo might’ve won. Mamdani’s genuine and relentless support of trans rights was not only morally correct, but an electoral necessity.
Centrist dems want buses running over LGBT people. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social wants free and clear bus lanes instead. The difference won him the election.
November 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Without LGBT New Yorkers, Cuomo might’ve won. Mamdani’s genuine and relentless support of trans rights was not only morally correct, but an electoral necessity.
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
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The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?
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Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of October 31st, 2025
Catching up to FRANKENSTEIN in a few hours. Otherwise, this is usually when we start getting a blend of forgettable nonsense & very worthwhile indies popping up. Still leaning nonsense at the moment.
Catching up to FRANKENSTEIN in a few hours. Otherwise, this is usually when we start getting a blend of forgettable nonsense & very worthwhile indies popping up. Still leaning nonsense at the moment.
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of October 31st, 2025
Catching up to FRANKENSTEIN in a few hours. Otherwise, this is usually when we start getting a blend of forgettable nonsense & very worthwhile indies popping up. Still leaning nonsense at the moment.
Catching up to FRANKENSTEIN in a few hours. Otherwise, this is usually when we start getting a blend of forgettable nonsense & very worthwhile indies popping up. Still leaning nonsense at the moment.
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Bloody rebirth, a celebration of life and a fantasy achieved. It’s the Unloved.
“RED SONJA (2025) is smarter and more openhearted than its cinematic inspirations, and it is a film of personal reflection and reinvention. It’s this director’s best work, for all it shows of the joy of becoming oneself,” says @honorszombie.bsky.social for this month’s Unloved installment.
The Unloved, Part 143: Red Sonja | The Unloved | Roger Ebert
The 2025 version of Red Sonja was buried by its producers. Let's resurrect it.
www.rogerebert.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Bloody rebirth, a celebration of life and a fantasy achieved. It’s the Unloved.
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This is a lie: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
October 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is a lie: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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I'm so goddamn tired of saying this but: this is it.
All the worrying that trans folks have had since he took office? This is why. This is the first step on a short road that ends with the criminalization of trans existence in the US. It isn't doomsaying. It isn't panic. It's right in front of us.
All the worrying that trans folks have had since he took office? This is why. This is the first step on a short road that ends with the criminalization of trans existence in the US. It isn't doomsaying. It isn't panic. It's right in front of us.
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm so goddamn tired of saying this but: this is it.
All the worrying that trans folks have had since he took office? This is why. This is the first step on a short road that ends with the criminalization of trans existence in the US. It isn't doomsaying. It isn't panic. It's right in front of us.
All the worrying that trans folks have had since he took office? This is why. This is the first step on a short road that ends with the criminalization of trans existence in the US. It isn't doomsaying. It isn't panic. It's right in front of us.
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Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of October 24th, 2025
BLUE MOON's just painfully good, acerbically funny, quiet tragedy. CHAINSAW MAN balances the lunatic action & bittersweet yearning better than the anime it's continuing. Eager to see FRANKENSTEIN. Can ignore SPRINGSTEEN, SHELBY OAKS & Hoover.
BLUE MOON's just painfully good, acerbically funny, quiet tragedy. CHAINSAW MAN balances the lunatic action & bittersweet yearning better than the anime it's continuing. Eager to see FRANKENSTEIN. Can ignore SPRINGSTEEN, SHELBY OAKS & Hoover.
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Local Seacoast NH Snapshot - Week of October 24th, 2025
BLUE MOON's just painfully good, acerbically funny, quiet tragedy. CHAINSAW MAN balances the lunatic action & bittersweet yearning better than the anime it's continuing. Eager to see FRANKENSTEIN. Can ignore SPRINGSTEEN, SHELBY OAKS & Hoover.
BLUE MOON's just painfully good, acerbically funny, quiet tragedy. CHAINSAW MAN balances the lunatic action & bittersweet yearning better than the anime it's continuing. Eager to see FRANKENSTEIN. Can ignore SPRINGSTEEN, SHELBY OAKS & Hoover.
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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starving over 40 million people right before major holidays + massively upping healthcare costs does strike me as a rather bold move this early in the authoritarian consolidation game for any given fascist regime, but I guess we’ll see what happens
October 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
starving over 40 million people right before major holidays + massively upping healthcare costs does strike me as a rather bold move this early in the authoritarian consolidation game for any given fascist regime, but I guess we’ll see what happens
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Fucking Christ, Ti, just like that? Just fucking Tron: Ares your own ass on the way to becoming fucking Eli Roth? Like, I wouldn’t theoretically be against your take on it, but if *this* is who you’re shacking up with to do it? No, fuck off.
Johnny Depp will reportedly play Ebenezer Scrooge in Ti West’s EBENEZER: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, with Andrea Riseborough (Possessor) also attached to star in the film.
‘Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol’ – Ti West Directing Dickens Tale With Johnny Depp as Scrooge
While Robert Eggers plans his own dark take on A Christmas Carol starring Willem Dafoe, Deadline reports that Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) is taking his own crack at the classic tale. Johnny Depp will...
bloody-disgusting.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Fucking Christ, Ti, just like that? Just fucking Tron: Ares your own ass on the way to becoming fucking Eli Roth? Like, I wouldn’t theoretically be against your take on it, but if *this* is who you’re shacking up with to do it? No, fuck off.
Fucking perfect match of artist to adaptation! Bring it on!
“I Saw the TV Glow” writer-director Jane Schoenbrun is doing a series at Netflix based on Charles Burns’ “Black Hole” comics (which also have a long on-off history with movie adaptations). Details here.
Netflix Lands ‘Black Hole’ Series From ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun
Co-produced by New Regency, the drama is based on a graphic novel by Charles Burns.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Fucking perfect match of artist to adaptation! Bring it on!
Drives me crazy that the 2nd season to the best show of 2023 is dropping tomorrow with minimal fanfare. Such an abrupt rollout considering everything ADVENTURE TIME does lately is absolute gold.
Check out the title sequence for "ADVENTURE TIME: FIONNA AND CAKE" Season 2, premiering this Thursday on HBO Max! #AdventureTime
October 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Drives me crazy that the 2nd season to the best show of 2023 is dropping tomorrow with minimal fanfare. Such an abrupt rollout considering everything ADVENTURE TIME does lately is absolute gold.