encanto knows three of The Secrets: your parts have developed superpowers as compensation for trauma, and, after you heal the trauma you get to keep the superpowers, and, it's not about the superpowers
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the plot and the powers and everything are *barely* metaphors my god i love this so much
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THE HOUSE IS A METAPHOR FOR THE GROUND OF BEING
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there are no villains in encanto and nobody at any point did anything wrong. every single character was trying their best at every point in the plot
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every single character in encanto wants something good and is trying to get it as hard as possible
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"Evil is illusory; In its place is myopic, selfish desperation that would be (safe and) good, instantly, if it knew how."
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@meditationstuff uses the phrase "myopic selfish desperation" to talk about "evil" and i love it, so concisely descriptive; here i'm focusing on the myopia
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[more serious spoiler warning]
towards the end when abuela says "i broke the family" and mirabel responds "we are a family because of you" she is not contradicting her, they are just both right
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today i am waking up after bawling my eyes out about encanto and sleeping for 5 hours and i feel like a new man
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step 2a of the crying-at-movies protocol was very good to me
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step 2a. for added effect, describe to yourself (or a friend!) in simple, childlike, emotional language why what's happening is so sad. eg "he left her and now she's all alone!"
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What’s the point of considering what words used to (but no longer) mean? Serious question. I must be missing some context.
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it's interesting creative inspiration if nothing else but i also like the idea of attempting to undo centuries of semantic drift. i think words generally used to refer to more real things in the past and have become increasingly replaced with bullshit over time
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