Of all the places I could be, why would I want to be here with you? Yes. You’re right. It doesn’t make sense!
Maybe it’s like you said. Maybe there is something out there, some new discovery that will make us feel like even smaller pieces of shit. Something that explains why you still went looking for me, through all of this noise. And why, no matter what, I still want to be here with you. I will always, alwayswant to be here with you.
Speaking of Everything Everywhere All At Once: I always think of how the Alpha!Wangs were under the impression that Jobu Tupaki had set out to destroy the whole multiverse, when she was really looking for an Evelyn who could understand her
Which is a lot like how some immigrant families catastrophize the moment their children become their own people. Some of us are made to feel that we will ruin EVERYTHING if we aren’t straight/don’t choose a “secure” career/don’t anything that’s supposed to align with our parents ideals. Many of us maintain relationships with our parents founded on unsaid and uncomfortable misunderstandings- and we yearn so badly for a situation where we don’t have to reach out across the gap.
So it means EVERYTHING that it is Evelyn that fights to connect with her daughter, rather than Joy having to clamor for her mother’s approval.
[Image description: A drawing of Jobu Tupaki/Joy from the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once. She is drawn from the chest up and is in three quarters profile view. Her hair is elaborately braided into a donut shape on the top of her head with other braided tendrils crossing her forehead and down her face. She is wearing a light green Elizabethan ruff and a light green beaded dress. She has large pearl hoop earrings and has pearls and googly eyes glued to her face. There are also two googly eyes on the circle of braids on her head. Behind her is a halo resembling an everything bagel which is surrounded by glowing text which reads “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” She is looking off the side of the picture with mild concern. End image description.]
