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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 Crocodile
1969 🇷🇺 The Bremen Town Musicians
1971 🇷🇺 Cheburashka
1974 🇷🇺 Shapoklyak
1974 🇸🇪 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 Prostokvashino
1979 🇸🇪 Alfons Åberg
1981 🇸🇪 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 school
1984 🇸🇪 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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