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when u adopt one weird girl from the woods but that means adopting all of her weird-ass nerd friends

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I was rewatching EEAAO just to feel something and I've always been incredibly fascinated by the characters of Jobu Tupaki and Alpha Waymond- because they both are not what they are presented to us, exactly.

Alpha Waymond, and the whole concept of Alphaverse reminded me of the "older" generations- the way he talked about how things aren't exactly how it used to be and how the Alphaverse mission is to make things how they used to be. Alphaverse has Verse Jumping, and real-life "older" generation has......religion.

Like, the way Alpha Waymond was searching for the perfect Evelyn throughout the multiverse, the Evelyn which can be the "greater good against greater evil"- it echoes the tendency of humans to look for a pariah(Jesus, Mohammad, fantasy and dystopian media is filled with these pariahs). Evelyn stands out to be this hero, the good against the evil, almost a God- in the way she is limitless by the power of Verse Jumping.

Jobu, on the other hand, is labeled as the harbinger of "chaos", an "evil" force, and she stands as a metaphor for how the "older" generations see the new generations- rejecting order and their beliefs, and how instead of nurturing ride-or-die beliefs about reality and trying to foster a past that exists no more, the "newer" generations see the present for what it is- with all its sheer pain and how we're all just trying to make sense of a reality that doesn't even make sense ultimately. Jobu's outfits are a perfect motif for this divide between the two ways of thinking- older people would mostly find Jobu's costumes weird and absurd, the newer generations will appreciate how good she actually looks in them.

And that's where the brilliance of the movie comes out- Evelyn is not your local pariah, defeating the evil and save the day! She understands what's the problem that caused it all in the first place- lack of empathy and communication. All Jobu wanted is answers, to make sense of the world thorough her mother's love- and Evelyn understood that. All these stories of a Chosen One dooms the chosen one by giving them traits of empathy and kindness but then never let them exercise those traits with a character that needs them the most. This divide, this lack of communication between the two generations is the evil- and Evelyn understands that. She not only subverts multiverses with this act of kindness, she bends the whole fucking genre of Chosen Ones.

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Harry Shum Jr. rocking James Hong like a baby at the 95th Oscars is a vibe

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Lockwood & Co. "Not the Eternal"

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WHY AM I JUST REALIZING THIS?!

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The fact that Everything Everywhere All at Once has the main character see that if she hadn’t gone to America with the man that would be her husband she would’ve lived a glamorous life of fame and fortune and her husband would’ve gone off and gotten very rich on his own rather than living together in an apartment over a laundromat struggling with finances every day and where so many movies would’ve framed that choice to go off together as a mistake, shown their alternative lives as some sort of “see? It wasn’t worth it” and had them “escape” to that “better” universe in the end, it instead all culminates in the line “Just so you know, in another life, I would’ve been really glad to just do laundry and taxes with you” changed my wholeass life

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yesterday i said i would watch everything everywhere all at once if michelle yeoh won the oscar (an inevitability) and of course she did so i watched it for the first time! i knew it was going to be emotional so i waiting for the right time, but then i think i would have waited forever.

suffice to say it was perfect and i loved and and i was crying in the back of the theatre. every single award it won it deserved. (yes every single one). the editing was stunning. and i never thought i would cry over two rocks but i did.

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‘No matter what, I still want to be here with you. I will always, ALWAYS, want to be here with you.’

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Kipps: so what’s your emergency signal for if things go wrong?

George:

Lockwood:

Lucy: we’re meant to have one of those?

Lockwood: usually we just scream FUCK until someone else shows up to deal with the mess we’ve made

Kipps: that explains a lot

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Lucy: help, someone at the Fittes ball has been killed!

Lockwood: calm down, we don’t need you to Panic! At the Disco

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If I had to explain Lockwood and Co. to somebody, I would say it’s like ghostbusters but if they were teenagers and incompetent. And aesthetic, very aesthetic.

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will byers literally went to hell, redecorated it, came back to life, got possessed, and his biggest problem is some guy named Mike

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Something so interesting about Steve to me is that even during his King Steve reign, when everything is about being at the top of the food chain and being impressive and cool, his true nature still slips out. That big heart of his that's been buried deep keeps rearing its head, begging to be let out once and for all instead of stuffed down beneath layers of Lacoste tennis shirt and Farrah Fawcett spray.

You can see it in the way he always makes a point of making eye contact with Barb whenever he's talking with Nancy so that she isn't left feeling ignored or left out, and never questions or dismisses why Barb shows up with Nancy at his house.

In the way he enjoys the stupid and mean jokes that Tommy H. and Carol make but is quick to put a stop to them whenever someone else, like Nancy or Barb, seems uncomfortable with them.

In the way that he stops during sex to ask Nancy what's wrong, then holds her hand through it and tells her how beautiful she is.

In the way that he tries to reassure her afterward that no one's judging her or knows what happened, that he had a good time with her, and that everything is okay.

In the way that he can be seen giving his lunchmeat to Tommy and his applesauce to Carol and how he doesn't hesitate to step up to bat when he thinks Nancy's been wronged even if it seems a bit out of his comfort zone judging by the look on his face at the end.

In the way he grows concerned for Nancy after she blows him off and goes to check on her later that night because he wants to make sure everything is okay and it isn't just her being busy.

In the way that, even in the midst of high emotion, a possible head injury, and heavy confusion about why Nancy was even at the Byers' house in the first place, his primary concern was about her hand being hurt and whether or not she was okay.

In the way he went back inside the house to try and save them even after seeing the monster that makes no sense, having a gun pointed at him by his girlfriend, and being told to leave by both of them.

In the way that he didn't leave when it was all over or make a fuss and instead went to the hospital with them to sit and wait for what was probably hours for word about Will.

Steve is a bitch. He is a mean girl. He is sassy and shallow sometimes. But he's also the jerk with a heart of gold. An atoner. A protector. He's had his bad moments, sure, and he's going to have some more because he's human, and none of his good moments can truly wipe those away. And while a lot of these are generally the bare minimum a person can do, it is more than one would expect from a guy called the King, who is known for his hair, keg title, house parties, and ever-growing list of companions. Making it a true testament to how it's never been a case of "Steve Turned Good After [meeting Nancy/the fight with Jonathan/being exposed to the Upside Down]."

Good!Steve has always been there; he's just been hiding in plain sight. So it's not a case of an absolute change or a reaction due to trauma. Only case of a boy, good at his core, who never wanted or felt like he could genuinely expose that side of himself in its full glory, who finally learned how to say fuck it, and allowed himself to come forth and show off the parts he kept hidden in the dark for so long.

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Guys!! They leaked a photo from ‘Welcome to Derry’