I love that girl versions of things very often are just boy versions of things with either bows and/or eyelashes.

I appreciate that it is very much a default male root, but I honestly love that these two things are now somehow the universal way of indicating a gender-ambiguous character is female. Not boobs, not genitals - eyelashes and/or bows are the universal cartoon gender indicators.

Nothing. In the book he dies because he actually stabs the picture with a knife. Looking at it presses home just how decrepit he should actually have become, but it isn’t until he stabs it that he himself feels any actual injury.

Mario Kart Tour is a now-defunct mobile game that even at its peak only ever scraped middling reviews.

Mario Kart World is a best-selling Switch 2 game that has won multiple awards.

Mario Kart Tour is the answer.

Nah, I think if anything this is a variation on the “woman thinks man just wants to have sex, but man is actually thinking about stupid stuff” trope.

Which, as tropes go, is a pretty fair-handed one.