#in case i get called so yeah

[efloarchive]

sorry for the lack of replies i'm just not feeling my writing at the moment but i'm always lurking here and on d.isc so if you wanna plot or just talk hmu

#´ ꕤ ◟ 𝐨𝐮𝐭 . . . cries in broke bitch. #i'm too busy decorating my farm on s/tardew #also i got the preliminar results for that exam i took last month #i placed 39 out of 903 #and im busy going around adn getting the documents #in case i get called so yeah #im stressed over it but its for the best #anYWAYS HI I LOV YALL MWAH MWAH #rant/ #just in case yknow

[chirpsythismorning]

Thinking about the what if El was never interested in Mike romantically, she just assumed she was discourse on the tag today and how it's very possible what could make El fully realize this, is when in s5 she see's Will's love for Mike in real time, for the first time, and she's just like damn! That is not me!

#byler #no but arguably that already happened.. #remember that! you're the heart #el listening: you're the what now?? im sorry but that's corny as hell. could not be me! #i feel like this could be how el confronts will in s5 about lying to mike #i think it's interesting they had that talk with will and el about her lying to him with will calling her out #if to not circle back to it in some way for her to be like hypocrite much? #tho i doubt that's how it would happen #i have a feeling el is going to understand in will's case in contrast to her and mike's argument #like will and el are siblings so yeah they fight #but i just get the feeling she's going to sense something is up with them (already does) #and something big will happen and i feel like she's going to see the truth before they're able to #and i think will is probably going to realize last because he really does not think it could ever happen now #and also because of el i think will would feel like its wrong unless he was confident she would be okay with it #so i could totally see will not allowing himself to be happy in that sense even if he realized mike could return his feelings #but by then mike's already made his peace with el and they're good #UGHHGHHG s5 arrive now! #no but isn't it kind of side eye that they've never shown us el be confronted with mike and wills friendship at all? #like in s1 and s3 at the end Mike mentions will in his plans with el #and that's about where it ends #we have not seen her exposed to their dynamic and like reacting to it before #UNTIL THE END OF S4!!!

[b4kuch1n]

whoever told the writers vietnam uses the US dollar was fully lying btw

#sherlock and co #this case. hurts me. ngl I am just..... not into it #like. idk it feels kinda foolish to have put so much work into figuring things out around it now #theres like a certain point where I just kinda have to step back and acknowledge that no this show's. not what I hoped it'd be #Im gonna be doing the ''it's not at all a bad show it's just white'' routine for a Long time lmao but yeah just. it all comes down in time #well. I have to... get a few calls in. pull out of an event. shouldve caught up before I signed up lmao that's my fault #also for the record you exchange money at the airport when you arrive and no storefront takes foreign currency randomly #source: I am vietnamese and live in vietnam

[this-should-do]

Losing your identity in favor of survival

#gordon freeman #half life #was thinking about my headcanon on why gordon looses his mullet by hl2 in which he gets grabbed by the ponytail too many times and cuts it #of course in a very emotional manner before he hardens as he goes from gordon to freeman in accordance with my chracterization of him from #my fic which u should go read on ao3 #its called could gordon ever be clean #but yeah looove tying chara dev to hair and having it be so significant that gordon cuts his hair cuz i think he has a complex relationship #w his hair becuz hes so trans #i wont get into it cuz its kinda long but trust me its good #fun fact to get the subtle static texture u can barely see i used the sonic . exe static lol #eyestrain tw #<just in case these colors are kinda bright #anyways i love really messy haircuts cuz theyre having a breakdown and using a knife. it feels like in movies their hair always looks good #which is WRONG it would not look good like that u rlying to me #idoindeeddraw #anyways feeling artsy with the caption today lol #but thats like the theme of this comic and i wanted to ensure it was understood lol

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Ooo this Warloc Wally AU makes me anticipate Howdy as the Tavern keeper with the bulletin board with jobs but every time Wally comes in Howdys just on edge cause "this tiny man just *Feels* off..."

All Wally wants is some apple cider

ohhhhh oooooo y'know in the Original Ramble i stated that he stick With the group on their adventures as a traveling salesman but ough. tavern keeper Howdy...

maybe... maybe we can combine the two by the group being Based Out Of a particular town and Howdy owns the local tavern, but sometimes accompanies the group on their adventures both because he needs a "break" and to sell his wares to fresh faces <3 his staff can handle the tavern in his absence

#though i don't think he'd be on edge around wally #everyone likes wally i think thats Important to keep consistent #but yeah ooooogh tavern keeper howdy #him getting occasional bouts of Wanderlust & The Call To Adventure that he needs to work out of his system <3 #im picturing him noticing a Really Good Job posted #and just. subtly taking it down and holding onto it until his ~Favorite Customers~ come back #favoritism? yes #but yeah actually them having a home base makes so much sense and makes it Better #they do a quest and come back to their home and their little houses that they barely use #sally does a celebratory play in honor of their Big Success #i feel like... their 'party' kinda has the vibes of the inevitable from the sea beast #yeah they're not the only group that does jobs and quests #but they're the most known #of course unless they had a rough/bad time in which case they come back very quietly and slink off to lick their wounds #but in the case that they're high of a Big Win yall know barn & sally are bursting in with a fanfare #wh fantasy au #lmao imaging wally Doesn't have like. a house #everyone wonders where he goes off to when they're all doing their own thing #uhhhh he goes into a secret part of the woods to let home out in house form & hang. or sleep #portable house!! #poppy: so where do you go when you disappear? #wally: *flashes back to last night's ritual sacrifice* #wally: ....oh... you know.... around #anyway im having a nice time picturing them all vibing at howdy's Very busy tavern <3 #im picturing they have a regular table #if someone else is sitting there when they arrive howdy manages to swindle the person out of their chair #& howdy must get so excited when he comes along on jobs...

[captainjonnitkessler]

Before you decry someone's post because "nobody is saying that, you're just making up a strawman to get mad at" you should check to be sure there's nobody in the notes saying exactly that, and you should be very, VERY sure that there's not, say, a post with tens of thousands of notes floating around that says exactly that

#many such cases but in particular #I'm getting 'no anarchists are advocating for getting rid of building codes or osha' #on several of my 'stop calling building codes and osha authoritarian' posts #and i just keep thinking about that one post where someone built a really shitty unsafe staircase #after the city refused to. and then everyone complained when the city took it down #like . . . yeah! they were a huge hazard! and plenty of so- called anarchists were spreading that post #complaining that building codes are just an authoritarian way to keep the sheeple dependent on big government

[kaidabakugou]

the new girl at one of my favorite bakeries called me pretty this morning and it literally melted all my stress away 🥺

#kai.rambles #i was feeling sad bc my grandma is in the hospital and when i went to visit her they wouldn’t let me pass bc my license is expired #which okay ik that’s my fault but i took my passport with me just in case and the guy straight up told me that it wasn’t a valid form of id #and im like yeah tf it is ITS A PASSPORT and he said no #and while i was waiting for my mom to come down to the lobby an old lady came in and he turned her away for the same thing #and dudeee okay you turn me away fine fuck off but an old ladyyy??? at that age they don’t pay attention to that just let her pass #and then he argued with another woman bc she brought a flower arrangement and it had water so he couldn’t allow it HELLOOO??!? #so i had to leave and went to go get breakfast for my mom at least bc she stayed the night and i was supposed to stay the day #and when i came back to give her the food she told me that the nurse that was with my grandma asked what happened bc she wasn’t expecting #my mom to return and when my mom told her she immediately got so angry bc that same guy #didn’t allow her and a couple other nurses to bring in a cake for one of the residents #who’s birthday is today and they had a full on argument this morning #so it was all in all awful and now my mom has been there for more than 20 hours until later tonight when my aunt goes over :( #anyway this turned into a whole rant im sorry but im so mad bc i know for a FACT that a passport is a valid form of id #and he was just being a fkn dick #but the girl called me pretty and it took some stress off and she really liked my blush #and i liked hers so we had a little makeup 101 exchange and it was so nice at least 🥺 #and i have a couple cute asks to answer that have made my day as well so i’ll get to those in a few 🥰

[starlooove]

No bc how do u simultaneously ship chaipunk and chaiflower but then turn around and have an issue with punkflower bc of ages YOU MADE UP like

#no bc the whole age discourse is so stupid #like i got called a proshipper for liking punkflower when first of all I read comics #and second hobie literally has no age #like 3 different niggas from the movie said 3 different things #and me personally idc which interpretation u follow if ur a movie only #like for example I don’t like hobie getting sexualized bc I see him as 16 bc I read comics and he’s a teen there #but if u see him as 19 bc u saw the movie #I’ll privately think ur weird and all but I’m not gonna hold it against u bc u ONLY saw the movie #that’s ur frame of reference #and the three niggas diff opinions #were 16 19 or up to interpretation #which is why it gets me so pressed when niggas are like X director said 19 #like yeah but Y director said 16 and Z director said u decide so what now #like i LOVE that ppl are ready to call out shit like that yknow #i just think this circumstance ain’t it bc it is literally based on u and how you’ve interacted with the media #everyone keeps comparing it to genshins traveler but even then everyone has the exact same information to go off of #thats not to be said in this case bc if I start talking about shit from the comics a movie only is gonna look at me crazy #and i don’t say movie only derogatorily btw it’s just a fact #no that pissed me off #AND WHEN I SAID I WASNT PROSHIP THEY SAID MY DEFENSIVENESS MADE IT TRUE LIKE BESOFR #anyways the weirdest part to me was that the movie DID imply something between gwen and hobie #like whether it was happening or not there was very much a basis for miles’ jealousy being set up #and if u rlly think hobie is that much older it’s weird to me idk #and i feel like a lot of y’all aren’t being honest and just wanna sexualize him #despite the whole pub things the common consensus is 19 which is like minimum to not make u look creepy #and if someone tried to ship hobie with an adult yall would KNOW it’s weird despite being in ur late 20s and making i wanna rude edits #and again that’s just private thoughts based on my interpretation which I know isn’t factual bc the creators literally can’t make up their #-minds #and PSA Im perfectly fine with being wrong if hobie is solidly confirmed to be an adult in the movie I just think there’s nothing solidly #for or against it as of now so fighting forreal over it is stupid. can’t wait till y’all ignore him again 😭

[science-lings]

When Trucy moves out to go on tour and be an Adult I think that Phoenix would be so lonely which is his least favorite thing to be, and the best way to fix that is for him to adopt the meanest most fucked up asshole cat who becomes his best friend within a month. We already know it’s a big part of his personality to be like ‘I can fix them’ whenever he sees someone who needs help and gets a little depressed when he has to be alone.

He can’t stand the silence of an empty apartment so what better way to fix it than with a creature who will yell at him for the fun of it while eventually fulfilling his physical affection requirements after a long day of having a Normal job. He’s at his best when he has someone to take care of so what better than a ratty little kibby who needs to learn the power of love.

#he gets a blind cat and names him Justice #‘this is my son Mr. Justice #‘he’s very loud’ #Apollo moves to kura’ain and gets replaced #his back hurts so he lies down a lot and the cat is pretty happy about that #Phoenix lies on the floor and immediately becomes free real estate #Phoenix being a little funny with animals is my favorite trope #yeah he calls a parrot to the stand and defends an orca and proves that a monkey is an accomplice to murder #the cat also bullies Pess and pess is a little afraid of it #like she won’t bolt but she just endures the cat rubbing up against her because they know who is boss #Edgeworth likes the cat because it reminds him of franziska #he needs a cat that will sit on his case files whenever he stays up too late working #one that jumps on his back whenever it’s been too long since attention has been given #he just needs another living thing to take care of or else he gets so sad #pheonix wright #ace attorney #I needed a self indulgent headcanon today lol #cat lady Phoenix is so real to me #he won’t stop at just one

[blinkpen]

Knowing Charlie is triggered by unreality must make the plot where he gets stuck in an alternate reality where everything is different except him suck even MORE than it already does.

it sure does! it's part of why i was like oh shit, a particular one-off entity's shenanigan has given me an excuse to explore exactly one AU in depth within the story itself, like just get IN there, but the trick will only work the once or it DOES become an asspull, so i gotta pick real good, make sure its not just self indulgent nonsense or angst, but something that actually informs the main story and adds to it and its themes, offers insight to characters and just how wild the force of Serendipity can be wrt whose paths crossed and when, yadda yadda, and this one fits that bill, and by george,

it's also one of the few things i can think of that can jumper cable THIS Flat Affect King's nips so good it cracks open his extremely hidden depth just a little a bit for the audience, and he's the character whose Necrin Boosted Nullbeast Immunity to aforementioned entity's Effects would put him in this position. it all falls into place.

this hole torment nexus was made for him

when you gotta learn to reconcile discrepancies in how you perceive reality vs how everyone else seems to even in the insane scenario you're somehow Both correct and now have to trust your own version of your own memories (or what you think of them) when the chips are down or your entire brain is gonna melt right out of your fucking head from the confusion and you won't be able to fix this at all

#ask x #lti timeline au #oc babble #charlie k #jaren #doodles #we don't see LTI char bc regular char has completely displaced him nobody knows where he went #but about the only difference is LTI charlie implied to just be fat instead of fat+muscular combo #also calling back to advice char kept ignoring to develop himself without zoe or he'll regret it in a situation Zoe is Taken Away #or in this case Zoe is here but views you as a doppleganger and haaaates you and is only helping to get the Charlie he DOES know back #[LTI Dem starts doing Actual Dem's I Told You So dance] i'm not sure why i'm doing this. my body seems to be moving involuntarily #Charlie: yeah yeah i get the joke #unreality discussion #i will say he's not triggered by unreality as much it just has the capacity to Affect him it doesnt Trigger until it reaches a certain leve #...safe to say this is that level tho

[pankomako]

i'd say "oh his channel is as old as my brother is" but that's just always gonna be true. but it IS now older than i was when i first started watching

#failboat #yknow i may not draw him the most realistically but i REALLY feel like i capture his energy so well. idk #like the expressions are just real. barely an exaggeration at all #anyway. personally? i wouldnt say he's fat. like yeah he may have a gut but so do i and ive NEVER been called fat so like #either way i like him with a gut. IN CASE YOU COULDNT TELL. just more to hug yk? makes him even more of a soft n friendly guy #yknow- yknow maybe he should ask MY MOM if he's so concerned. i mean she told me back in like 2020 he looked fat LOL #i still cant believe she said that about him. among other things #like 'is he married yet? he's getting old-' i- why do you care?? do you want ME to marry him?? because frankly- *gets hit by an 18-wheeler

[mooifyourecows]

I suddenly realized I haven't said anything on this blog about my stance on The Issues happening right now. (I share more on my Twitter and my sideblog @slappy-mc-handjob so follow those if you'd like)

Basically Free Palestine, Free Congo, Free Sudan, freedom and justice to all, not just the people actively being ethnically cleansed and enslaved, but ESPECIALLY to the people actively being ethnically cleansed and enslaved.

Call and email and fax your reps. Maybe it won't do anything but irritate them but hey, at least you irritated them. That's a win in my book.

Go to CeasefireToday to do that easy peasy lemon squeezy

#in case anybody following me here doesnt follow me in those other places #and was wondering if i had an opinion #uh yeah #i get on twitter every day to keep up on the situation #and its destroying my mental health #but its really important #dont look away or avoid it #i know its hard to see but its harder to experience #so do whatever you can to show your support and compassion for the people suffering right now #call out pro-israel people #join the boycotts #make your politicians lives miserable until they grow a fucking backbone and conscience

[todayisafridaynight]

People really never talk about katase like i genuinely feel bad for her😭 would love to see a katase centered fic abt her thoughts on minedai or smthing like that or just more of her would be so nice. I know you have some fan arts and thank you for that they’re wonderful!!!

everyone got that niche rgg npc they fixate on and katase is my best friend ever i love her so much idc if most of her character lives in my brain she's perfect to me

#snap chats #is it also cause i think shes the prettiest girl in the franchise I Refuse To Comment #NO BUT YEAH id love to see more art about katase too .... #i have a handful of fics that involve katase that i just. never post cause they all feel rough #either that or theyre incredibly niche (i.e. all my fics of her and aoki's secretary vajrljlarekg) #in any case i just think she's neat :) #being one of the only other people somewhat close to mine i just wanna know her perspective on him and Everything #she also seemed to genuinely care about him so to work under a guy like him i wonder what she's like #i dont think she was trying to brush his feelings aside in her last call to him she was just taking his word at face value #and i mean how could she not. thats her boss who's made it a habit not to tell people what's really going on #reasonable that she wouldnt press the issue .... and thats what makes me so curious abot her reaction after the fact #ouugh katase my beloved ..... i wanna know so much more about you i love you s much .. #katase my rgg crush tbh bye she makea me silly #i should draw her more ... when i get the time .....

[maddy-ferguson]

Ngl, I really think that these bylers that are crying 24/7 about "purity culture" or whatever, are playing dumb when they start with their "but Nancy and Steve were 16 and 17 in that scene of s1!!!1" like... We got introduced to these characters at that age and the people playing them were already adults. So yeah, sorry but I think it's easy to see why most viewers would be uncomfortable with a more sexual scene of Mike and Will and it's not automatically homophobia, I think that would be the case with any of the kids since we got introduced to these characters when they were 12 and the actors were babies as well. We literally saw those kids grow. And I'm not saying byler should only get to peck or hold hands, It'd be cool if they have their epic kiss or whatever, but Will hasn't even had his first kiss yet and some of these people are already talking about sex scenes, like... Be for real 😭

funny you should say that...because i've used the nancy was 15-16 in season one argument (last tag) before while also saying that i understand why people find the sex part of their sexualities uncomfortable to discuss. and i wanna reiterate that, again, i totally understand that people feel like they've seen them grow up etc etc and that they still think of the actors themselves as children even thought they're not anymore.

i don't think it's all homophobia because like you said, people would probably feel the same about lucas and max and discussions of sex (i don't know if anyone is discussing that because there's much less discourse to have there and you can't argue that people are homophobic if they disagree with you) but i don't think it would be justified either. the "but we knew the characters when they were little" argument makes me think me of an ancient disney channel/abc show that old people and girl meets world fans who watched it for the first time in the 2010s will know, boy meets world (1993-2000). classic comic of age show, look at these kids. and eric in the back (he's fifteen).

they're eleven at the start of the show and then, what happens in any coming of age story happens, you guessed it...

they grow up. this is them in the later seasons, when the main characters are still in high school i think. they grow up, they talk about sex and about having sex at prom in season five and then they don't have sex right away because they figure it's not the right time yet or something like that, and then they have sex later and get married, the details don't matter. but my point is, who watches a show for five seasons, over years and years and gets upset at the main characters having sex because "this is crazy they used to be children"? isn't that the point of coming of age stories that cover multiple years or that focus on the latter years of adolescence, that they're not children forever and that at one point the characters "come of age" which usually includes their first sexual experiences?

i don't think the having sex part is particularly important in stranger things but also it doesn't have to be for it to be portrayed (see jonathan and nancy), teenagers have sex, it's just the way the world works. i'm not advocating for sex scenes of any kind especially because stranger things isn't a show that features a lot of sex in general, the only "explicit" sex scene being nancy and steve in season one with cuts to barb dying, but i genuinely don't think the duffers would have any qualms about portraying teenage sexuality in general with the party. if they did, they wouldn't have included erica threatening lucas to tell dustin what she found under his bed (it wasn't the communist manifesto) and they wouldn't have had max looking at a shirtless steve for an amount of time that's supposed to make the audience laugh. it's been 7 years. if they do a time jump, the babies will be about 17, played by actors who will all be around 20, the age natalia was when filming season one. the characters are teenagers, babies grow up. it happens to the best of us. i get why people would find it uncomfortable and maybe i would find it uncomfortable too but i wouldn't be scandalized. the duffers had no problem having a child actor portray everything will goes through in seasons one and especially two, i really feel like sex is fine and...not traumatizing or hard to watch compared to every single thing will's gone through lol. and again, i'm not even expecting them to have sex lmao, but i wouldn't cry myself to sleep if they revealed that everyone in the party actually knows what sex is.

last question: do we have any indication that jonathan had talked to more than one other girl (the girl at the halloween party being the one girl i'm counting for him) before he got together with nancy. i'm just asking because of your last sentence, because if we don't he should have slowed down also😭

#yes i'm back to calling people old for no reason. <3 #saying that they will all be around 20 isn't a stretch because noah's turning 19 in 4 months and they haven't begun filming yet. thank you #i'm not mad at you anon sorry for not really agreeing with you and again i get where you're coming from and i don't even expect them to #have sex and if they did i would expect it to be implied like jonathan and nancy but yeah #what i mean when i say it's not particularly important in st is that i don't think they need to have sex for will's arc to be complete or #anything😭 #i would've been happy with jonathan and nancy only kissing in s2 like idc yk it's a detail #i'm not advocating for sex scenes means HERE in this case i'm not anti-sex scenes in general lmao #i didn't watch bmw over years and years i watched it in like. a month and a half maybe i really was not crying when cory started wanting to #have sex and i was 15...an impressionnable kid who knew what sex was...disheartening i know💔 #<- that wasn't me making fun of you anon lmao again i get where you're coming from i just respectfully disagree #i looked up the episode where they have sex and (spoiler alert lol) cory and topanga end up only having sex on their wedding night i think? #and that's not the episode in s5 i'm talking about but they consider having sex and talk about it so still bringing that one up #i found an article about something rider strong (shawn) said about not liking this episode because while they talk about sex at length they #never talk about safe sex and he even talked about his concerns to the showrunner because he thought it was irresponsible since yk young #viewers and all that and he was like maybe you don't get it different generations mine grew up with aids and everything this is really #important and he brushed him off! i thought that was interesting. this has nothing to do with st #ask

[mimsytheborogove]

Had a convo with a somewhat friend recently about Everything Everywhere All at Once (EEAO), aka the best movie, and they told me that “anyone can put philosophy over anything if you try hard enough” when we disagreed about the message of the film.

Please!!! No!!! Also spoilers under the cut.

The movie very deliberately referenced Albert Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus in its themes.

Sisyphus is a Greek king who is cursed with rolling a boulder up a hill for all eternity, only for the boulder to roll back down once it nears the top (also the he tried to live forever by trapping Death and getting Persephone to let him out to do his funeral rites…Sisyphus was a bad guy). The point of his punishment is that trying to escape Death is ultimately futile.

Camus takes this conceit and uses it as a metaphor for life as well — life is also, ultimately, futile. We get up everyday to roll the rock up the hill, but it always rolls back down. There’s no divine purpose to the rock rolling except to emphasize how meaningless it all is. Life, similarly, has no purpose (since Camus came after the existentialists).

Why, then, do we bother? Why don’t we all just lay down and die? Camus offers the following: we must imagine Sisyphus happy. If Sisyphus finds happiness in the act of rolling the rock, it ceases to be a punishment. Similarly, we must find happiness in the act of living. Get a Starbucks once in a while and hug a furry animal, you’ll understand. These small moments of joy which we eke out are things which we must choose to continue living for, every single day despite the pain we endure, because for most people it’s worth it.

EEAO has this exact theme. When Evelyn and Joy are beginning a reconciliation of sorts in the parking lot, they talk about the pointlessness of living, where all there is are these little moments of happiness and the rest is meaningless. And Evelyn makes it clear that yes, there’s a lot of pain in life and her relationship with Joy. They fundamentally do not understand one another, in part because of the generational divide and the immigrant/ABC perpetual foreigner division between them. It causes them pain, it hurts, it’s frustrating and annoying because they can’t seem to quite make the other understand. But Evelyn states that she essentially believes that loving Joy and having her as a daughter is WORTH IT ALL. And, when Jobu Toppacky chooses not to enter the all-consuming bagel of nothingness (which is definitely a metaphor for Joy’s suicidal ideation), this is symbolic of her ALSO choosing the sparks of joy over nothingness. We must imagine Sisyphus happy.

THATS WHAT THE MESSAGE IS. Sometimes, choosing those sparks of joy is worth it. Some people might not think it’s worth it — think of Gong Gong and his decision to basically disown his daughter for not obeying him — and they choose nothingness over any scrap of happiness, because the pain is too much. Sometimes, that’s what’s necessary. But the point of life is the pain and the happiness (like how Jobu Toppacky says, she knows the joy and pain of having Evelyn as her mother), and we choose every day to wake up and try again and again for that scrap of happiness.

And it’s not perfect! Obviously! My somewhat friend was caught up in Evelyn fat shaming her daughter (something I felt so close to my heart because whew, growing up Asian). She said that Evelyn still throwing out a “you look fat” comment at the end made it seem like the movie “tripped and fell at the finish line.” THE FATSHAMING IS BAD BUT ITS NOT THE POINT OF THE MOVIE, OBVIOUSLY.

Of course the fatshaming is bad!! Joy treats it like an act of affection (which it basically is — in my family at least, it’s meant in a “I care about your well-being, and I pay attention to you because indifference is tantamount to disdain”) but it’s still not good. It’s very bad, actually, and it highlights the way that Evelyn has grown up in a very different culture than Joy and still, even at the end of the movie, does not completely understand her daughter.

And that’s GREAT! Because in real life, there is no perfect communication. We are casually cruel to people for no reason because we just don’t understand them, or they don’t understand us, or both. You may not realize it, but you’ve probably hurt someone you care about because you’ve said something in a way that was interpreted poorly. Evelyn hasn’t learned to understand her daughter or even accept her daughter completely; she’s learned to keep trying, to keep “tripping at the finish line” and getting up again, because her daughter is WORTH IT to her. And Joy, similarly, is going to keep trying despite the mutual pain, because her mother is WORTH IT to her. How that trying turns out is ambiguous at the end of the movie — maybe Joy, like Gong Gong before her, doesn’t find it worth it in the end and cuts off her mother entirely. But for now, she finds fulfillment in the small moments, enough to choose to continue on. We must imagine Sisyphus happy.

This is NOT a movie about “family is more important than anything, even when your family is sucky.” It’s about the fact that Evelyn and Joy CHOSE EACH OTHER out of their own volition. Because those little moments mattered enough. That’s why Evelyn is so devastated at Gong Gong for abandoning her, asking him how he could let her go. She can’t imagine not enduring this suffering (she legit gets beat up by like five million guys and hops dimensions for fuck’s sake) for her daughter. She loves Joy, and she will keep choosing her. And Joy, ultimately, shows she loves Evelyn and will keep choosing her as well.

Waymond is the perfect foil for Evelyn because he is the embodiment of the “kindness and love just because it makes it all a bit more bearable” sentiment. He’s played off as an idiot, and he kind of is, but his glowing sense of sheer goodness radiates throughout the film. Why not put googly eyes everywhere? It’s hilarious! Why not give cookies to people? Cookies are good! The mundanity of life sucks ASS, and it keeps going and going (not unlike the cycling of the machines in the laundromat), why not have some enjoyment? Life is fucking meaningless but guess what? These cookies are bomb af.

In the world where Evelyn is a celebrity, Waymond appears to have found success elsewhere, whatever that looks like. Evelyn is undoubtably successful since she’s a superstar. And yet, Waymond says that, in another life, he would have also found fulfillment in just running a failing laundromat with her. Evelyn is heartbroken that Waymond doesn’t love her in the way she remembers from her version of Waymond — but why? She’s a superstar! She’s more successful than she ever dreamed! But she had chosen Waymond in the past, and she found that choice fulfilling enough that, faced with its loss, she is devastated. Waymond said that his love for Evelyn would have made the laundromat worth it, and Evelyn seems to agree here. We must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Anyway, that’s why EEAO is great, don’t @ me.

#everything everywhere all at once #deep dive #movie analysis #albert camus #listen I cried so much I needed to lie down after #seriously as someone who is the daughter of an immigrant from China there is so much resonance there #yeah it fucking hurts sometime but there are enough small moments that make it worth it #because if I gave up my mother it might stop us hurting one another through misunderstanding but then the happiness stops too #and again this isn’t some excuse for abusive relationships #this is just a relationship with misunderstandings that hurt #aka most relationships #shoutout to my mom #whom I love but also wish she would stop getting on my case about calling her

[doriansbutt]

y’all some people really have some balls. or just a…misunderstanding of places that require appointments.

man: when’s ur next opening for 5 people

me: uh what service are you looking for?

man: foot and body massage?

me: *guides him to website with our menu of services, proceeds to spend 5 minutes asking for any more gd clarification which proves mostly useless*

me: okay the next time I have 5 therapists available at the same time is….January 30th—

man: oh no I meant for today!

me: HAHAHA no we’re completely booked today??? I don’t even have 5 therapists working today?????

man: what?? damn *hangs up*

#what on earth were you expecting???? #you want 5 full body massages last minute??? #absolutely not gonna happen?????? #this is worse than last week when a lady demanded I put her down for a 90 min massage in an hour #‘yeah put me down for 90 mins at 11’ #me: ….im sorry? #lady: repeats herself #me: ….like….today? #lady. frustrated: yes! #me: we’re totally booked today and even tomorrow…. #lady: what?? ugh I knew this would happen I’ll just call again 😤 #bitch what u don’t get to talk to me like that #so far 2024 has been full of people DEMANDING I make room for them #very rudely #this has not been the case in the 6 months I’ve been here #old ppl in 2024 really said ‘this year is all about ME’ #sorry I’m just still in awe of this fucking guy today #gotta rant abt it