#Everything Everywhere All at Once

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Just remembered this and wanted to post it.

A few months ago I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, after having seen piles of tumblr posts/memes with The Quote from it (“In another life, I would have really liked... just doing laundry... and taxes with you.”).

And when I got to the line, it struck me how little any of the uses I’d seen of it got at what it was really about! It was far more powerful in the movie! Because, here’s the thing, it is NOT saying “I would enjoy a quiet boring life with you.” In the movie, the main character’s laudromat is on the edge of financial failure, she is being audited on her taxes which is going to push the business over the edge at best, her family life is absolutely falling apart, and she’s also, well, a total jerk. In the multiple-universes premise of the show, she is actually told that she is the most unsuccessful version of herself to exist in any universe. In the universe where the quote is said, she and her alt-universe husband are both superstars.

It’s not saying “I wish we could have a quiet life.” It’s not even saying “I would choose a simple, mundane life with you over anything else.” It’s saying “I would choose a life that completely sucks and where I am with you over any other life without you.”

That’s so much more meaningful.

(One of the other things that struck me was that an Oscar-winning movie and a D&D playthrough used basically the exact same joke about an Everything Bagel as a major plot point. Is this just a really common joke that I’d never encountered before?)

[iamonlyhereforthefreefood]

When Everything Everywhere All at Once said "The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on" 

When the Good Place said "Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife... I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.” 

When Jean-Paul Sartre said "'Hell is other people' is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also 'Heaven is each other'. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings."

[lunarriviera]

thank you youtube algorithm maria for literally saving my life tonight

happy pride month 💞💫 I'm gonna keep on dancing at the pink pony club!!!!

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[thecrowthatyellsow]

In another life…

[tvandfilm]

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert 

[dailyflicks]

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) dir. Daniel Scheiner and Daniel Kwan

[bittersweetresilience]

@duckbunny on wanting to live

companion weave

[gigew]

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

[gingernutsenthusiast]

right person, wrong time (variations on heartbreak)

@leemartenspoetry on tumblr

vita sackville-west & fegan’s 1924 café in dublin

everything everywhere all at once (2022)

@heavensghost on tumblr

i had to get out by indigo de souza

‘calling a wolf a wolf' by kaveh akbar

river by joni mitchell

‘english song’ in a little larger than the entire universe: selected poems by fernando pessoa

slumber by ron hicks

fish in exile by vi khi nao

penitent magdalene by antonio ciseri

@ojibwa on tumblr

this is what the drugs are for by gracie abrams & the awakening by angelo morbelli

as good as it gets by fizz

lonely this christmas by mud & picture of the christmas tree at trinity college dublin, taken by me in december of 2022

this is what the drugs are for by gracie abrams & picture by andrew collins via globalnews.ca

@inanotherunivrs on tumblr & a polaroid of me taken by my ex-boyfriend

‘in a dream you saw a way to survive’ by clementine von radics & a picture of my ex-boyfriend's window, taken by me

bluets by maggie nelson & the poolbeg generating station, dublin

‘unrequited’ by sasha m george & inheritance by matthew w. cornell

[unknown]

@ faraway on instagram & lavender sprigs farm cut by linda jacobus

the museum of heartbreak by meg leder

[unknown]

‘seaside improvisation’ by richard siken

@ dracarysgang on twitter

@-love-letters-i-never-sent

@fromdarzaitoleeza on tumblr

explosions by ellie goulding

‘i had a dream about you’ by richard siken

the beatrice letters by lemony snicket

la la land (2016)

‘catalog of unabashed gratitude’ by ross gay

@stuckinapril on tumblr

@deathlywounded on tumblr

some are always hungry by jihyun yun

‘speaking practice’ by franny choi

 a self-portrait in letters by anna sexton & a picture of my ex-boyfriend in a lake in Orfű, Hungary

@sunsbleeding on tumblr

‘there is no absolution for the fallen, only the dying’ by p.d

[raccoon-coded]

Raccacoonie (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

It has become mandatory for all fictional raccoons to have names starting with the letter R, and I am here for it.

Rocket Raccoon (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Rigby (Regular Show)

Randal (Pixie and Brutus / Pet Foolery)

Rambley Raccoon (Indigo Park)

An exception to this rule is Little King Trashmouth (Bobs Burgers) which is also an acceptable name despite not starting with the letter R.

[stopiwanttotalkaboutcheese]

genuinely cannot believe that the two best multiverse movies of the year both had the main villain’s motivation be a BAGEL

[jimjimenezzz]

i love you media that emphasizes mundanity. i love you media that says you still matter as a person even if you don't achieve something great. i love you media that says existing and being alive is enough. i love you "we might not remember your poems, but we'd remember you." i love you "i was no hero" "perhaps. but you are a brave man." i love "in another life i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you." i love you "but who's gonna watch the deer?" i love you the mundane as something to be loved for

[thecosmoswhispers]

i can turn you into poetry but i cannot make you love me.

(creds will be added in a hot sec! my bad y'all ;p)

[kiwiandmint]

Maybe there is a universe out there where we could’ve lived peacefully together.

Everything Everywhere All At Once x ORV

[ayustar]

togachako + EEAAO

[tvandfilm]

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert