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i love the movie spirited away so much because like on the surface it’s about a girl whose parents are turned into pigs and to save them she goes to work in the spirit world at a bath house run by a witch and her best friend is a dragon.

but on a deeper level it’s about a girl who is separated and distanced from everyone she loves, going alone into a new chapter of her life where everything is unfamiliar and unknown, and she works so hard to save those around her to the point where she forgets who she herself is. it’s about how sometimes you can’t grow up without reconnecting with your past self. it’s about feeling lost but still finding joy for life and finding love again. it’s about feeling grief for who you were and are and how hard going through changes can be, and sometimes you do something you think is nice but end up hurting people. and the focus isn’t on romantic love (which i appreciate so much and could write an entire essay on) but platonic love. and in the end the circumstances haven’t changed (her parents are still the same personality -wise, they’re still moving to a new place away from all her friends, etc) but she remembers that she’s loved and doesn’t feel as alone.

ALSO chihiro as a main character is just so ahhhh because she’s not perfect, she’s flawed and makes mistakes and gets sad and frustrated. but she tries which is the important thing. she’s kind and powerful in her gentleness—like No Face is said to represent loneliness and temptation and impressionability, and she treats him with kindness.

and the idea of those who love you remembering you even when you can’t

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thought my pho looked nice

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Cosmopolitan, July 1972.

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‘Foxes Meeting at Oji’ by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

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Art by Loré Pemberton (source)

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A Masque for the Four Seasons - Walter Crane

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Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems; "That You Love Me In Green,"

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Ephemeral rain

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The Fairy of the Moon, circa 1891. Painted by Hermann Kaulbach.

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What if the reason Hestia is so often overlooked, even though she is a daughter of Kronos, a sister of Zeus and Hera and all the rest, is because she is associated with a part of the home that people of status benefit from, but never maintain? Everyone wants heat and light, cooked food and warm nights, but no one wants the boring, repetitive labour of collecting wood and cleaning ashes and soot.

—Natalie Haynes, Divine Might

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August 5, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

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The Bite - Edvard Munch (1914)

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“From my rotten body, Flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”

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have some compassion!!!!!!!! And EAT A MANGO!!!!!!!!! thats it!!!!!!!