thingamabob

As an instrumental version of the original film’s “Part of Your World” swells to a dramatic crescendo, Ariel eyes the trinkets, wonders and thingamabobs this one tavern holds.

It is, as always, a relief when the stakes in a Marvel thingamabob aren’t the fate of the universe, but solvable by human ingenuity and just a wee bit of phosphorescent magic.

I’m someone who often needs to plug in way more mice, cameras, drives, headphones, and other thingamabobs than my laptops allow, so my workspace is often covered in a mess of dongles and docks.

It takes a long time for this dim, flimsy thingamabob to accept his own sentience.

And the days of low-stakes thingamabobs with some stars and even a little bit of writing are gone.