✨bright forever✨

Julie: Reggie do you know how worried we've been?

Luke: Dude, like, we worry about you a normal amount but this was much more than usual.

Alex: Where've you been Reg?

Reggie: Did you know you could just poof into a Harvard math class? Guys, we could totally become geniuses!

Julie: Reggie, that's not h-

alex: you could write her a poem, that's romantic.

luke: i don't know how to write a poem!

reggie: we just learned how to write haikus in english class. they're pretty easy

alex: princess mononoke, because he loves the scenery backgrounds and could stare at them forever, and also experiences a great deal of anxiety about the environment. also he has a huge crush on prince ashitaka

luke: howl's moving castle, he too is enormously dramatic but also would give a girl a whole field of flowers just to make her happy

reggie: laputa castle in the sky, fun and full of action but also beautiful and wistful, on the cusp of childhood vs adulthood

julie: whisper of the heart, because what's more julie than a girl who finds a passion for songwriting instead of school, falls in love with a boy who makes violins, and then keeps on loving him even when he goes away

flynn: the cat returns, which TERRIFIED all her friends as a kid but she was fascinated by it, to this day she claims it as one of the best movies ever made

willie: spirited away, would absolutely dream of being whisked away by a cute dragon-boy, relates to being controlled by a scary oversized villain who has stolen his full name

bobby: kiki's delivery service, because being out in the big world all on your own and doing the thing you love until it loses its meaning seems resonant

nick: ponyo, because being pre-school best friends is his whole vibe and i bet he knows the technical scientific names of a bunch of prehistoric fish, it just seems Right

carrie: the tale of princess kaguya. she vibes with being so driven insane by the standards for women that you go into a nightmare induced rage that destroys even the line art of your own film

carlos: porco rosso, because he loves the pig and because there's extremely cool planes OR castle of cagliostro because he thinks it's hilarious

ray: the wind rises, because it's a tender and soft story of a man doing his best through a lot of loss and mistakes

caleb: pom poko, because it has his chaotic evil energy

And then somehow we all did a speedrun of ‘fandom steps’ and made it through years worth of fandom shit in months, maybe even weeks

And then Netflix canceled it anyway so we all just emerged from our fandom bubbles 50 years older and exhausted