i think more childrens media in the US should talk about aging and adulthood NOT being where fun goes to die, and death honestly

you see it in asian childrens media and a lot of european childrens media but in america its like all childrens media has to scrub away the reality of mortality, that everyone grows up and leaves childhood, that you go on to be an adult with adult responsibilities but that doesn't mean you can't still have fun or love what you love, that your family will die and you will die and thats just the cycle

otherwise we get these people who are so terrified of becoming adults or the ccle of life that they do this clinging desperately to youth to feel better about not being a perfect ideal adult idk