#The Joy Luck Club

[mad-girlslove-song]

[texaschainsawmascara]

Devil In Me - Halsey / Down In a Hole - Alice In Chains / R.I.P. 2 My Youth - The Neighbourhood / Guts Over Fear - Eminem, Sia / The Joy Luck Club / William Chapman / “Mama”, Home Is Not A Country - Sofia Elhillo / Let You Down - NF / Numb - Linkin Park / Now You Know - Will Paquin / Pig Charmer - Jerry Cantrell / To The Bone / Perfect - Simple Plan / Second Chance - Shinedown / Sanctified - Nine Inch Nails / 31/32 - Jerry Cantrell / When You Finish Saving The World / A Cut Rose In Tap Water - Mackenzie Nicole / Flying Dutchman - Tori Amos / please put me in a medically induced coma - carolesdaughter / Euphoria / Maia Baia / Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper / Geloy Conception / Crying For No Reason - Katy B / Grit: Poems, "Twenty" - Silas Denver Melvin / Survival - Adult Mom

[rainagainstthewindowatnight]

relationships between narcissistic mothers and daughters

midnight sun by stephenie meyer / white oleander (2002) / mermaids (1990) / the joy luck club (1993) / sharp objects (2018) / unknown / ladybird (2017) / white oleander by janet fitch / girl in progress (2012)

[colinfirth]

My mother died four months ago. I realized, for the first time, that they wanted me to take my mother's place. So I sat down on the East, where things begin, with my mother's best friends. THE JOY LUCK CLUB (1993) | dir. Wayne Wang

[litandlifequotes]

I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind.

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

[tisalonelydreamer]

if you told child-me that asians were in big, oscar-winning movies, and that they were the main characters, and they weren't ridiculed or sexualized or looked down on, i would be... well, a little confused because it sucks that this has to be a big deal in the first place, but overall really, really excited. my parents had jackie chan and the joy luck club, while i really only had mulan. but now we all have eeaao. aside from the deeper meanings and immigrant story we relate to, it was simply very cool for my parents to go, "is that the little boy from indiana jones? OMG THAT'S THE LITTLE ASIAN BOY FROM INDIANA JONES!"

it's great to have things come full circle :)

[obscurecharactershowdown]

Group A Round 1

[image ID: the first image is of the book cover of The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. the stylized art on it is colorful, with flowers, yellow and red Chinese dragons, clouds, and rainbow colored stripes. the second image is of Seijyu, a young blond boy, with purple eyes, a blue and white outfit, and a yellow scarf with a clip holding it together. he has a thin, sheathed sword. end ID]

Rose Hsu Jordan

The book as a whole is about generational trauma among Chinese immigrants. Rose specifically struggles with indecisiveness and blames herself for her brother's death. this causes her husband to take advantage of her, but her mom helps her stand up for herself. I love her because she has struggled so much but in the end is able to take back her life

Seijyu

A doll given life by his owner and sent to protect said owners best friend. He has no memories and the only purpose in life he was given was doing that job, his story is about self discovery and learning what it means to be human and to love. (he also has a transgender boyfriend). (when you google him the first result is a wiki page all written by me💛)

[wordscanbeenough]

You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her.

Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

[jonnyconsequence]

“My mom always does this.”

The Joy Luck Club (1993) Directed by Wayne Wang Cinematography by Amir Mokri

[rainagainstthewindowatnight]

mother/daughter relationships portrayed in film :

white oleander ( 2002 ) / little women ( 1994 ) / ladybird ( 2017 ) / beyond the lights ( 2014 ) / the joy luck club ( 1993 ) / the parent trap ( 1998 ) / mermaids ( 1990 ) / love & basketball ( 2000 ) / divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood ( 2002 ) / mamma mia! ( 2008 )

[quotes-for-the-soul]

The East is where things begin, my mother once told me, the direction from which the sun rises, where the wind comes from.

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

[nightjar-jack]

"THE JOY LUCK CLUB - I'm listening, Rose" Nov. 2023 mixed media collage

a re-creation of my favourite scene from The Joy Luck Club. Made for a moving images class, it is one half of a pair of collages.

[appleinducedsleep]

27-05-2023: Mini Break

[fiction-quotes]

I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore. And now I must tell her everything about my past. It is the only way to penetrate her skin and pull her to where she can be saved.

  —  The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)