been listening to the excellent Steins;Gate 0 op lately and nostalgia for the first anime has been washing over me like a warm wave. it seems pretty obvious in hindsight that time travel stories are another one of those Big Deals for how i see the world
the tl;dr is that i consider time travel to be real in the sense that the past exists in our memories, and continues to change and be recontextualized by the present (its relative future). so it's a kind of retrocausal relationship, if you just tilt your head a bit. there's also a version of this which works backwards, but that would be way too long to get into. basically, the two modes are arrival (2016) and a certain DS game that would be spoilers to mention here, but iykyk. the point is that time works in both directions.
especially for queer people i.e. queer temporality