#honestly i really thought at first that chuck was some missing deadbeat and the adventurer thing was an excuse

[000yul]

finally found some time to read so long adele and i was going to write something about the themes of messages getting delivered since there are so many examples.. swire's video (lmao), eyja's parents' research in keller's hands, eyja's dad's photo that sets off eyja's initial turmoil about the events of the past..

hold on. there's something kind of strange about that last example, isn't there. i mean. it wasn't even her dad's photo, it was chuck's! enis's dad! how can that even count?

that's the thing. according to so long adele, it doesn't matter that the medium of the message is wrong, or a mistake, or made up—the feelings sent through the message are the real deal. what eyja feels about her dad from seeing that photo is real. doesn’t matter that it’s not actually his photo.

chuck's misdelivered photo isn't the only lie (or otherwise "wrong" thing) in the story that ultimately leads to good either. we have eyja making up a story about her dad meeting chuck to comfort his lonely kids, dolly's clones carrying the feelings of the departed to those left behind (the story makes a point of saying that they're not actually the spirits of the dead), and dolly baiting eyja into enjoying herself in siesta. oh no, you gotta shout about ice cream and balloons! oops, looks like you're having fun! however did that happen??

hell, we even have swire's business scheming turn out to be a facade. she ends up throwing her weight behind bison's logistics business (which, as one of its first acts, offers free postcards to connect people with distant family and friends..)

it doesn't matter that it's made up, right? who cares that it's an accident? what’s in your heart is still real, and really, wouldn't it be lovely anyway to just believe?

the point so long adele is making is that—(clenches fist) sometimes dreams really do come true