April 2026 Netflix & Disney+ Update

I'm ready to document what I've been watching on Netflix and Disney+ since December 2025, as a continuing fangirl at heart. I'll mostly list TV shows, and when it comes to films it'll be from Netflix only, to keep things simple. Some of them will be rewatches from my past subscriptions. No specials or shorts will be included.

Also, I have now cancelled my Netflix subscription. I will continue to use Disney+, but only for the time being. I never wish to support unethical, exploitative, abusive and authoritative corporations owned by billionaires. Fuck capitalism and AI.

I'll break up my list based on what I recommend, what is middling to me, and what I don't recommend. In terms of order, the TV series/films will start from which I feel strongest towards (positively for my recommended favourites, negatively for my unrecommended least favourites).

Enjoy!

Netflix

Recommended: Nimona (always), Heartstopper (despite my one misgiving of the first season *cough*Tao*cough*, the rest is absolutely worth hundreds of rewatches, for it is a beautiful miracle of a series), Hilda (again, always), Dead End: Paranormal Park (ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS!), Little Witch Academia (such an adorable, magical anime), K-Pop Demon Hunters, Scaredy Cats (a charming and adorable live action children's fantasy series worth many rewatches).

Middling/Would Not Stop You From Checking Out: Wednesday, Bridgerton (up to season two), Unicorn Store (it is truly a shame that the first movie I ever watched on Netflix, and which actually made me cry, doesn't quite hold up as well as I hoped on a 2026 rewatch, but I can live with it), Magia Record (okay, WTF was that? It's not bad, but wow it is an exhausting watch! It's the plot holes that ultimately undo it), Haunted Hotel, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie.

Skip it/Avoid Like the Plague: Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld, A Whisker Away, World of Winx (I am still mystified by how and why this exists; it is unbelievably desperate and sad, even for Winx Club (in fact, it has nothing to do with Winx!) and Iginio Staffi - unbearable, and almost unwatchable), Kitti Katz (so good it doesn't have a Wikipedia page!), Disenchantment (I watched all five seasons, and it was not worth it), Witch Watch, Suzume, Mermaid Magic (another with no Wikipedia page! Though it is not as bland, mediocre and forgettable as Kitti Katz, it is nothing special, and do not support Iginio Straffi or Rainbow S.p.A, and I say this despite my guilty pleasure love for Winx Club), The Last Kingdom (gave up after the first season), Anne with an E (same, and Hecate and Hades it is a dark, depressing programme! when it is based on such an optimistic and magical book, and it is not for children to see), Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (a lot of disappointing anime on here, sadly, that I find to be baffling, regressive and toxic in their messaging).

Disney+

Recommended: The Owl House (my favourite show ever, so how could I not?), The Ghost and Molly McGee (adorbs!), Gargoyles (first and second seasons only), Sofia the First (I was pleasantly surprised), Amphibia (another rewatch), Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, X-Men '97, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (in fact, I like most of the Winnie the Pooh stuff on Disney+, especially the films - they're so charming and funny!), Bluey.

Middling/Would Not Stop You From Checking Out: Milo Murphy's Law, Tangled: The Series (aka Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure), Darkwing Duck.

Skip it/Avoid Like the Plague: Ironheart (there is no heart to be found here - the worst, most lurid, morally abhorrent and evil-minded thing ever dished out by the increasingly dire and burned-out corporate hell that is the MCU, and that is heartbreaking (pun unintended) coming from a show with an all Black and POC cast), Elena of Avalor (Sofia the First this ain't - what a stupid, stupid show, and again, I hate having to say anything negative about a POC-led show, especially for children), Fancy Nancy (just...don't), Alice's Wonderland Bakery (anything Wonderland-related should never be boring and pedestrian, yet here we are).

Additional recommended films/New DVDs and Blu-rays: 100 Nights of Hero, The Emperor's New Groove, Soul, The Marvels, Mean Girls (2004 and 2024).

Yeah. I've been watching far too much television.

In the future I plan to rewatch longer shows, such as The Simpsons, Steven Universe, and She-Ra: Princess of Power. I currently own DVDs, bought from eBay, of The Owl House, Amphibia, Hilda, Dead End: Paranormal Park, and She Ra and the Princesses of Power.

As if all this wasn't enough, I watched Winx Club (up to season six, to save my remaining braincells) and the movies on YouTube, but that's neither here nor there.

I need to get my act together, and get a life and be an adult already lol.

But fiction and stories can save us all, and remind us of our morals, ethics and humanity in an increasingly effed-up, dystopic world.

Well, that's it for my updates at the moment.

Keep safe, and loving and caring.

Never stop caring.

Artemis Crescent's Pink Moon 2026

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Sources:

April full moon 2026: When, where and how to see the pink moon

When Is April 2026's Full Moon? Here's Why It's Considered 'Pink'

How and when to see April's full Pink Moon - BBC Weather

Your horoscope for the full pink moon in Libra is calling you to release what you've outgrown

Google sources:

The pink moon will reach peak illumination on Wednesday, April 1 at 10:12 p.m., according to The Old Farmer's Almanac. To catch a glimpse, simply look toward the eastern horizon after sunset.

The Pink Moon will light up the sky on April 2, 2026. Despite its name, the Moon will not appear pink — the name comes from the Creeping Phlox, one of the first spring flowers to bloom, spreading soft pink colors across the landscape.

The Pink Moon is the full moon in April, named after the herb moss pink (wild ground phlox), which blooms early in spring. It signifies rebirth, growth, renewal, and the end of winter. While not appearing pink in color, it represents a "waking up" of nature and is a time for setting intentions.

This Full Moon asks us to restore harmony by addressing imbalances, disharmony, and lack of reciprocity in our lives and relationships.

This Pink Full Moon symbolizes rebirth, growth, and beauty — ushering in a time for emotional release, heart-opening, balance, and inner peace. 

100 Nights of Hero (2025) post

I hadn't heard of this film until a couple months ago, and the second I did I thought, "WTF?! There's a film adaptation of my favourite graphic novel of all time?! How did I not hear of this until now?! What cosmic force is trolling me?!" Worse, there was no way for me to see it. It's an indie film with LBGTQ+ themes, so of course it didn't receive a wide mainstream release. Fucking smallminded, cowardly conservatives.

It's criminal how so few people have heard of 100 Nights of Hero, and are not spreading the word, for it is important that it attract as much attention as possible.

But now I've bought a Blu-ray of it from eBay (imported from China), and I have finally seen it.

Yes, it is messy. But I liked it. I understand why they had to change some things, since graphic novels are not the same as the medium of film. It is still a fairy tale/storytelling/feminism/anti-dogma/moon/LBGTQ themed story put on celluloid. All the actors are very good. Nicholas Galitzine is ridiculously excellent at playing arseholes (with a heart of gold...?), yet he is so charming and smoldery that I like him in every role he's done (I refuse to watch Purple Hearts, though, and I need to stop getting him confused with Nick Robinson).

Overall, 100 Nights of Hero is a whimsical and cute little movie. It is definitely unique, and made by an almost-all female team of filmmakers. Anything to support LBGTQ+ films, as well.

I should watch it again. And again.

But you need to read the original graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg. Therein lies so much more substance, and feminist fairy tales told by Hero. I will never forget the day I stumbled across it in my local library in 2017, and going back again and again to read it there, before I bought my own copy. It's a truly magical and enriching experience.

Read my review of One Hundred Nights of Hero here.

I got back from surgery yesterday. I don't want to go into details at the moment, but it was a 100% success, and I feel I'm getting better, and hopefully things will turn out well and okay. 💖💖💖💗💗💗💝💝💝🩷🩷🩷💜💜💜💕💕💕💞💞💞🥰🥰🥰

Scribble #153

Lapis, Lepus, Lupin, Lupine

Lilies, snowdrops, dewdrops

Roses, rabbits, off they hop.

There is snow everywhere, on the ground and in the trees

I know there is so much more to the white than anyone sees

I crouch by the borrow, covered in cold, wet leaves

The air is freezing my lungs, twigs are digging into my knees.

But I kneel, paying my respects to the earth

My lynx's fur by my side as warm as a hearth

Her presence is a flame in my heart

Without her it is snuffed out, we cannot live apart

As with my horse, who stands respectfully behind me

Grazing the snowmelt grass, reminding us we are all free.

To go where we want

When we want

To defy Mother Nature

And her nurture.

Nothing is going to make me lose my focus

I bow my head, and blow hot, white breath on the crocus.

Rub hands, breathe in: sapphire

Open hands, breathe out: saffron

In: sapphire

Out: saffron

I get up, brush the leaves off my knees, and ride

Off through the woods, my lynx running by my side

My lungs are burning with cold, then warmth

Through snapping tree branches, I am not torn.

Is that more rabbits hopping and racing?

My horse goes all clopping, and they pursue in chasing.

We are living and fighting in Mother Nature's domain

Hark! We now fly across the snowy plain.

I and my animals are free as can be

Though I am not above a cup of tea.

A cup of fresh leaves

While sitting under the eaves

Drinking hot water, while surrounded by ice

Mother Nature's daughter, savouring a price.

Graphic Novel Review - 'Luna Express' by Campbell Whyte, Bre Manning (Assistant Colourist)

It's "magical girls" versus late stage capitalism, gentrification, monarchism, and worldwide systematic corruption, classism, cronyism, colonialism, and imperialism.

It's "magical girls" versus fascism.

It's "magical girls" as iconoclasts, fighting the status quo for survival.

All in the style of Mad magazine.

It definitely takes inspiration from anime and manga, as well, and not just 'Sailor Moon': 'Akira' and the like are a much stronger influence. As is 'Watchmen'.

It took me a while to get into it, and not be confused as to who was who and what and where and why, but once I got it, I got it.

'Luna Express' is the modern feminist comic mistresspiece of 2026. To say it is relevant to our current darkest timeline is an understatement. It is fucking vital. A punch-up. A wakeup call.

Plus it has magical girls and a celestial astronomy theme à la 'Sailor Moon' (the crescent moon reoccurs in the art, which is an astral extra for me), and a cute, tasty bakery goods motif.

Set in Australia, Perth, 'Luna Express' stars "magical girls" or "celestials" - young people who end up fighting political corruption everywhere (since everything is political) - capitalists, industrialists, white supremacists, and billionaires who want to take over the world just because they can. These magical, nocturnal blooming activists and rebels are sort-of reluctant heroes, but they have to try, and they want to prove themselves anyway. They are:

Celeste, a Black (or indigenous, her race is deliberately left ambiguous), queer, family bakery delivery girl, who is justifiably hot-tempered and snarky, and who under the starlight possesses super strength, speed and agility, plus she can manipulate gravity; Lucy, a white, queer, fat, bespectacled, heavily tattooed former foster child, who's very sensitive and high energy, has a very bad dating history, and who possesses the ability to transport anywhere via shadows, or "bloop"; Alex, the only male celestial child of the group, who is white, a femme boy, a graffiti artist, a skateboarder, and the mayor's kid, so no wonder he's depressed, and he can bring his art to life; and there's Lorelai, a former friend (and lover to Celeste) turned world famous K-pop star - initially overworked, and heavily coerced, controlled, abused, and brainwashed - who can make any of her wishes come true...as long as they're "some weird alien tech".

Celeste, Lucy and Lorelai tried to be a band at one point, and maybe they will be again...

None of these moonlit millennials will be made small. They will not be silenced. They will refuse to let themselves be threatened, abused and crushed by those on top of the privileged capitalism food chain/hierarchy...

'Luna Express' - how stellar! It's wild, weird, stellar punk and pop! It's like the safest drug trip! With likeable, down-to-earth, yet cosmic and queer heroes, and important, topical themes.

Not since 'A Magical Girl Retires' has a Magical GirlTM story been more subversive (there aren't even any transformation sequences, nor any outer transformations in the traditional sense) and relevant. It is also like 'Flavor Girls' and 'magnifiqueNOIR'.

Magical girls can change the world.



'My idiot friends are still idiots.' [] 'But we're idiots together.' [] 'Which is a whole lot better than being idiots alone.'



CELESTE SAYS:


'So-called Australia was built on the back of colonial violence that was inflicted without mercy to all who lived under it.' [] 'Erasing the truth of this history makes everyday living easier for some.' [] 'But it traps us in a collective land of make-believe, expected to unsee the reality in front of us.'


'The media you consume is ALWAYS political.' [] 'Those in charge of media empires have the ability to shape the political reality of entire populations.' [] 'They actively work to control our sense of what is "normal" and what is "other".' [] 'And then use their media platforms to prop up political actors who are then in debt to them.' [] 'Question everything. Accept nothing.'


'If you cut into the present, the past leaks out.' [] 'Even the slightest scratch reveals what lies under the surface.' [] 'And inside each of us resides the entire history of the cosmos.' [] 'When you lie on the grass at night, looking up at the stars, you can feel it churning inside you.' [] 'All the paperwork and bills and bad news stories and things do a pretty good job of distracting us from it though.'


'It's ok to relax.' [] 'It's important to rest.' [] 'It's necessary to sleep.' [] 'It's essential to dream.'



Recommended.

Final Score: 3.5/5 (three magical, celestial full moons, one halfmoon, and two crescent moons, and all the stars in the night sky)

Forthwrite Women's Festival of Writing 2026 - My Showcase Piece

Learn from Great Women, Real and Fictional

Fear an Independent Woman - a haiku

Whore. Witch.

They call me names,

They sentence me to death.

They wanted to

For a long time before,

As I kept to myself.

I'm different.

Slut. Witch.

Alice Oseman - Rainbow Haikus

Alice Oseman's books

and comics I so relate,

They give love and hope.

Her works are sunshine,

Even through rain and thunder

There is a rainbow.

Always a rainbow

And it shines on everyone,

All flags included.

Representation

Inclusion and love and help,

That's Rainbow Alice.

A couple more haikus

Orchid Ness has phoned

She is never without mates

She is close with none.

Nisa No-nonsense

That is what she calls herself

In her noble voice.

Scoup!

My mother always schooled and scolded me about my use of language, and that I should never swear. So I'll say that I was too irate to scoup across the ballroom that fine afternoon. My dress was stiff and itchy - why did I need to wear the monstrous thing at rehearsals? - and the elderberry in my hair making me smell nice and juicy, barely covering up my sweat, was all that was keeping me from storming off, really swearing my head off.

So I thought to just tell mother that I had a fever - partly true thanks to the dress - and like the most honest party guest in the world, I voiced my ailment - also known as an innuendo for boredom - to my dance instructor, and did a leaver, my head not off but held high, all poised. With my gloved hands I pushed the heavy doors open and swanned out, and then pulled the elderberry out of my hair and ate it.

How's that for ladylike?

And who the fuck decided that should be one word?

I Love Being a Woman, No Matter How Much the World Doesn't Want Me To

Women are magic. Women are strong. Women are resilient. Women can survive anything.

Absolutely anything.

Women can know anything. Women can do whatever they want.

No one can survive anything without women.

We need each other. You need us.

You need us more than we need you. Deal with it.

We all - all genders - need each other - need to respect and love each other, to learn from each other, with no judgement and hate - to survive.

The more we learn from each others' differences, the more we realise that we are all, in fact, the same. The more we love each other, the more we love ourselves in the process.

Difference is good. Difference is a gateway to enlightenment and true, fulfilling happiness. 

Empathy is realising that everybody is different, and it’s one of the keys to happiness. Difference is natural, it is what it is; it opens your mind and heart and makes you consider what it means to be human and alive in the world.

Difference is a path to freedom. Difference is love.

As usual, no one's existence should be up for BS, arbitrary political debate. And no one deserves violence and erasure. No one - and no history - deserves erasure and banning.

Listen to everyone and everything around you.

Listen to your brain and your heart. Do what's right.

Let empathy in. Learn that every woman, every gender, deserves love.