Dogs and Fandoms

Currently obsessed with My Hero Academia and Haikyuu, always obsessed with dogs 🐕 My Podcast: simpcitypodcast on Tumblr

[gottalovedogs21]

Although I use this account as almost strictly a reblog blog, I realize I have never posted any pictures of my dogs despite my love for them (hence my username)! Anyways, here’s a picture of one of our rescues, Stevie. He’s super spunky and loves whipped cream. 100% a goofball

[incorrect-bnha-for-your-souls]

Yaoyorozu: What did you get for your birthday?

Todoroki: I got older.

[tomo-bon]

Todomomo week 2021

Day 8: "Free Day"

Cash Daddy Endeavor will save the day! 💵💵💵

[kugisakiss]

top ten worst ways to find out that your friend’s a conspiracy theorist

[furiwokaaan]

[creaturologie]

HUNTR/X DONT MISS!!!!!!!

[sajaboysforever]

Artist : https://x.com/sansa_sue

[nozakura-tanuki]

{{  the OTP’s }} ↳ nozakura, wakaseo, horikashi 

[mangadore]

i like how characters in gsnk look at the other characters like they’re strange or dumbasses as if they don’t all share the same singular braincell

[humbuns]

let’s keep playing even more volleyball.

Haikyuu!! was a series that made me laugh, cry, and smile for many years. These characters mean so much to me and seeing them grow with us will always be something I will hold dear to my heart forever. Thank you, Furudate, for bringing them to life. Thank you for everything.

[egg-noodle]

I haven’t been drawing much lately, but here’s something.

[missing-aches]

pls help him

[polymorphin]

My drunken time-skip third year loves for the Golden Dreams zine! 🍻✨

[lisaminnci]

STUDIO GHIBLI + FOOD

The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) Tales from Earthsea (2006) Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Spirited Away (2001) When Marnie Was There (2014) The Cat Returns (2002)

[ part 1 ] [ part 2 ] [ part 3 ] [ part 4 ]

[insomniac-arrest]

no offense, but what was the point of that cool older lady character in Spirited Away

except, you know, to make me question my sexuality at 12 during midnight rewatches as I looked at her weirdly pretty mouth and had Questions

[insomniac-arrest]

!!! 

me, falling in love with every woman I see whose purpose is to eat and be pretty:

[cannedviennasnausage]

#her and Ursula from Kiki’s Delivery Service#the archetype is ‘lesbian who accidentally adopted this child’

[bramblepatch]

I mean, I’m pretty sure Lin is supposed to represent what Chihiro’s future might be like if she accepted her role in the bath house and didn’t try to maintain her own identity and values. She’s not a bad person, but she’s hedonistic to exactly the extent that the bath house culture allows her to be as an employee and has no ambition beyond the system of favors, bribes, and petty intimidation between low-level workers. She’s traded her individuality and opportunity to better herself for the security of predictable exploitation and she doesn’t seem to regret it.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Lin is the only other major character who looks human throughout the movie - I’m not certain she started out human, but I suspect she may have, and may have fully traded away her humanity. I do think it’s significant that she, unlike Chihiro and Haku, doesn’t reclaim her name at the end of the story.

She doesn’t want her independence or identity back. Her purpose is to eat and look pretty.

[uovoc]

Alternate interpretation: I always thought Lin meant to be a comforting presence.

She’s the first bathhouse worker who is kind to Chihiro, helping her get her clothes and navigate her first work assignment and sneak food. One of the core themes of Spirited Away is finding your footing in a new and terrifying place, and Lin and Haku are key allies in Chihiro’s struggle to gain the skills and self-assurance she needs in order to thrive.

Lin’s human appearance helps us and Chihiro feel more sympathetic towards her . Her familiarity with the system of favors and bribes makes her appealing as a role model who can demystify Chihiro’s new environment for her. Unlike the more inhuman occupants of the bathhouse, Lin looks like someone Chihiro could become in the future, and that’s a good thing! She’s living proof that the bathhouse is not such a monstrous and scary place. Because Lin treats the bathhouse like home, Chihiro begins to see it as a home, too.

And once Chihiro starts to think of the bathhouse as her territory, she realizes that she has agency in this place as well. She uses its rules to her own advantage to free Haku and herself.

And that is the point of Chihiro’s journey in Spirited Away: it’s a metaphor for starting over in a new place and overcoming fear of the unfamiliar. After all, the frame story is Chihiro’s family moving to a new city. At the beginning of the movie, Chihiro is despondent, unhappy to be leaving her old friends behind. By the end, after making it through the spirit world, she’s taking a much more active role in helping her parents settle into their new home.

TLDR: Lin is there to be Chihiro’s friend.

[aethersea]

These theories coexist really well, I think. Lin has accepted her place within this system, and that’s given her the confidence and experience to be a mentor for Chihiro. Because she knows the system, she can make things a little better for Chihiro.

Because Chihiro has a mentor and friend, she learns how to survive and even do well in the Bathhouse. It’s because of Lin that Chihiro is able to not accept her place within this system and instead fight back, and in the end to make things a little better for everyone.

There’s something there about community, and easing the path for those who come after you. Lin doesn’t regret her choices because they were the best choices she could make, and that’s okay. It’s not a tragedy. She got as far as she could get, and because she did, she’s there to help Chihiro get farther. 

And isn’t that what we’re all here for, in the end? To go as far as we can, and then give a hand up to those coming after us? It’s never a tragedy when children can go farther than their mentors ever could. That’s a triumph.

[wanologic]

such good kids

[athanatosora]

punishment for being excessively harsh on urself is an abundance of affection from the ppl who care abt u. if you thought i was over dad might found family you thought wrong

🚫(please don’t repost my art.)🚫