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Reblog for the last one

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it’s a game show where everyone eats the furniture in a room and tries to see which is made of chocolate

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So basically you’re telling me this is the best fucking game ever created

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0ctoberrustt

I love women with no social skills

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Jeremy Miranda, Greenhouse at Night

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no thoughts head empty

thebelchers

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beginning and end

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THEY WERE MISSING FOR FUCKING YEARS OMG, THIS ALWAYS UPSETS ME SO MUCH

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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.

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