THEY WERE MISSING FOR FUCKING YEARS OMG, THIS ALWAYS UPSETS ME SO MUCH
I always see the discussion that many days, months, years have passed during this story.
I present to you a different idea.
There’s several themes behind Spirited Away: Capitalism’s effect on Japan, Environmental issues, and notably, Chihiro’s coming of age story.
From what I know, the idea of time passing differently in spirit worlds, is more based on western stories of the fae.
But something more common in Japanese folklore is spirit trickery/deception. Or more accurately. What you see, isn’t always what’s actually there.
Chihiro starts this story as a young child, before her coming-of-age arc, that more or less forces her to become ‘an adult’. More accurately. The challenges she faces makes her mature as a person.
What’s the most common thing in folklore? Children see what’s actually there.
reblogging for that different idea which makes a lot of sense.
I thought this interpretation was the clear one. I didn’t know that people actually thought the family had been in the Spirit World for years.
This makes way more sense considering that the wall at the beginning and the one peeking out between the leaves at the end don’t look at all similar. Even age can’t turn smooth red brick into large gray-brown cobbles.
calling….NB ppl “femme aligned” or “masc aligned” is so wild bc….… . the entire point is being….not aligned….to the binary………… . ..like if ur NB and you like to use one of those terms to describe yourself that’s your business and ok but I am seeing it used 99% to decide whether or not a NB person can claim certain sexual identities and I’m gonna SCREAM
Again, NB people are obviously within their rights to choose the labels they wish to associate with, but I am seeing people use “masc/femme aligned” to invalidate other people’s sexual identities, and to fit into a certain “alignment,” it seems to be coming down to what pronouns a person uses, which is a difficult thing for NB to subscribe to often, or how a person dresses, and when we’ve reached a point of telling NB to dress a certain way to match and claim an identity, we’ve really come full circle to being just as bad off as we were before.
I always thought it just meant what they appear as? in the sense that you can be NB but present as your sex to avoid conflict. or just be fine with acknowledging you have a traditionally masculine/feminine face/body/style. but I can certainly see how exclusionists and the like would use that to invalidate anyone who they want to label as “cishet scum pretending to be queer” 😦
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