This feels like a thesis summary for philosophy in entertainment and coming of age stories using metaphors of defeating abstract/mythical concepts to send the message of optimism for the future. If I ever find my motivation, get ready for a doozy.
Why does every animated kids adventure show progress from Season 1: Malcolm and Jana help their neighbor who's a talking frog with his taxes but uh-oh, the taxes turned into monsters and they've got to fight them! to Season 3: Jana must kill the reanimated corpse of God meanwhile Malcolm must contend with the embodiment of existential suffering which has burrowed into his mind and is unraveling his sanity. Neither of them will ever be the same.
Things are scary.
Maybe you need a soft and gently purring Fancy making big big mashy paws in the air to help you out!
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that comment about how you should not borrow grief from the future has saved me multiple times from spiraling into an inescapable state of anxiety. like every time i find myself thinking about how something in the future could go wrong i remember that comment and i think to myself: well i never know, it might get better. it might not even happen the way i think it will and if it does happen and it is sad and bad ill be sad about it then, when it happens. and it’s somehow soo freeing
you can start anytime.
you can brush your teeth in the middle of the day. you can wash the dishes at 2am. you can do things outside the normal times assigned by society.
A dating service where matching is based on people’s search history exists. You’re a serial killer. You go on a date with a writer.
hey, don’t cry. one cup heavy whipping cream, two tablespoons granulated sugar, three tablespoons cocoa powder and whisk until stiff peaks form for three ingredient chocolate mousse, okay?
Excuse me, what
I would say you could be somewhere better than here, but I don’t have much room to talk
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