#waymond wang

olderdearness:

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.

morningmightcomebyaccident:

“I am your daughter. Your daughter is me. Every single version of Joy is Jobu Tupaki. You can’t separate us.”

I got to thinking about the heavy implications behind this assertion.

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squonck:

i’m not sure if anyone has pointed this out before, but the laundry and taxes line in eeaao actually translates more accurately to “if there is a next life, i would still choose to do taxes and open a laundromat with you” (instead of just “i would’ve really liked”), and the distinction is so important because it emphasises the gravity of the each minuscule choice we make, and how it is the significance of these choices that makes our seemingly insignificant lives have meaning. choosing to do laundry and taxes with her conveys a sense of certainty and assuredness that he would still actively make that decision in another life, as opposed to “i would’ve liked” which implies that he is merely a product of his circumstances with no agency over them instead of a result of his individual autonomy. it also reinforces waymond’s own philosophies about optimism as a choice we must constantly make and hold steadfast to despite despite despite. the act of choosing begets sacrifice, but choosing love, choosing kindness, choosing to believe that the darkness is transient and surmountable is the most important thing we could do in a world where succumbing to despair and hopelessness is so easy, and i think the way this film navigates this subject of choice is so beautiful

the skyline falls as i try to make sense of it all

i thought i’d uncovered your secrets

but turns out there’s more

you adored me before

oh my good looking boy

cipher-fresh:

[ID: The “do it for him” meme with Waymond Wang from Everything Everywhere All At Once /End ID]

wondersmith-and-sons:

i’m never going to get over the tragedy of alpha!waymond, the devoted husband across all timelines and universes, losing his evelyn but still searching for and trying to save other evelyns. finding and losing the love of his life— actually, no. finding and losing the loves of all his realistically plausible lives, then treating every one of them with endless patience and endless kindness and swallowing down his grief every time because there’s a mission here and he has to complete it.