Pre-order The Lego Movie Zine: 10th Anniversary Edition now, you can can find more info and 🔗 to pre-order at @tlm-fanzine ! Pre-orders close January 13!
Get yourself a copy and check out some really awesome art, fics, merch, and celebrate 10 years of The Lego Movie with us!
Finally got around to drawing her to go with Emmet! I was debating on having her hair more black like in the first movie but this hair is cuter and the real her ❤ She's available as a keychain on my kofi shop: ko-fi.com/s/e355176ec1 and etsy etsy.com/listing/1155051513/preorder-lego-movie-keychains
I think one of the reasons The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) resonated with me so much more than Barbie (2023) is that TLM2 is more about dismantling the barriers of gender while Barbie is more about finding comfort within gender. Barbie sees all the horrors of human womanhood and everything adjacent to it and still decides to embrace it because it's what she needs to be happy with herself, which feels very transfem, yes, but ultimately I have not yet been able to find that comfort. Gender itself, even when it makes me feel better about myself than it used to, often makes me sad when I think about how differently people treat me and how differently I act because of it. Maybe my social life should've always been like this. idk.
TLM2, meanwhile, laser-focuses more seriously on the harm that trying to act like a boy brings the brother character. The idea that, hey, your sister's toys and styles of play are fun too actually, speaks more immediately to me as someone who frustratedly tends to focus on how much I want things to be less gendered.
The themes of these very similar films both have a lot of value, and both are slightly downgraded by their capitalistic backdrop, but only one of them has become a longstanding favorite of mine. Currently.
Preview for my piece for "The Lego Movie Zine: 10th Anniversary Edition"! Such an honor to get to be a part of this project again, and to be celebrating 10 years of the Lego Movie! Go check it out! @tlm-fanzine