#but to quote evelyn wang

[andromeda3116]

It’s an older fic of yours but Such Selfish Prayers is a great work that inspired me to be a better person and to have healthy boundaries, could probably say it was definitely at the start of my healing journey

I am so glad to hear that, truly. such selfish prayers is probably the most important fic I've ever written, which came as a bit of a surprise, because, as I've said before, I started it simply out of frustration with how Katara was treated in canon. I never expected to change anyone's life with it, and it's been very humbling to realize that my words have touched thousands of people. I've gotten many comments saying how readers were inspired by it, or given hope in a dark time, or even that it made them realize they wanted to pursue a different career. That it started your healing process kind of brings tears to my eyes, I'm so glad that I was able to help you.

One of the things I put into that fic was my own recent break-up and how I was processing it myself -- how do you deal with someone you love but can't be with? Who -- if you were to stay with them -- would be holding you back? And they loved you and they didn't mean to harm you but they were still wrong for you in ways you don't know how to say? Even more, he had reached out to me in what I thought -- as Katara did -- an attempt to become friends again, but was actually an attempt to get back together. The line, "I thought he was ready to be friends again, I was ready to be friends again," was a direct quote from a text I sent a friend that day, after an incredibly uncomfortable lunch date. I had to tell him that the door was closed, and wouldn't be opening again, and it hurt. That sense of "I wish I could make this be right for us just so I could stop hurting you, but I cannot choose you over me" came from a very personal place.

A lot of that fic is from that kind of personal place, like I said in the author's note of chapter 4. And it's very much idealistic in a way that -- I will freely admit -- isn't entirely realistic. Or, it wouldn't be that simple. (Ultimately, he and I could not be friends again.) But I wrote the world I wanted to see, wanted to make possible. Believing that things can change for the better, that we can stand up for what we believe in and build a better world, even if it's tedious and crawling two steps forward, one step back the whole damn way, even if it takes all our lives and more, we can make a better world and even if we ourselves don't see it, it matters so much because we can build the foundation of that and it will last and grow -- believing that this is all possible is the first step to making it be possible.

That hope and belief may, in the real world, simply be a small candle in the swallowing darkness, but it's a stubborn one and as long as we don't let it go out, it will light the way and someday -- someday -- the light will spread.

I didn't set out to write a story about that candle, but in the end I found I had, and the fact that it's spread to thousands -- and been read (or at least clicked on) by 170,000 people (170,000, it blows my mind) -- has swept me away and, in a way, kept my own candle burning. I may be small and helpless against the tides of everything happening in the world around me, but my words have inspired and helped and strengthened thousands of people. We give each other strength and hope through these awful times, and that hope and togetherness are the things that can change the world.

So, thank you for this. I am so, so happy that I have helped you, and so, so proud of you for going on your healing journey and learning to set your boundaries, it's important and hard and worth it and scary, and I am absolutely rooting for you the whole way.

[quote-n-quote]

🎬Everything Everywhere All at Once

[callme-keys]

Live blogging from my everything everywhere all at once watch

"I've no time la,,, unless you can help me with my taxes" (after being told the fate of the multiverse is on the line)

evelyn is GOING THRU it rn

dont sush her!!

okay so from what I can tell, to get out of the unconcious like "flow"? I guess?? of the universe, you need to do smt bizarre?? set along the lines of set you would never do? my guess is to make it clear that you're aware of your actions and the divide they cause since the steps seems to be "be aware of presence and the affects of said presence" (do smt really bizarre for no reason), "select a jumping point that has no otherwise action involved (visualize yourself somewhere that's not somewhere you'd normally ever go) and "crack the realities with the knowledge that different actions can cause different universes and since *you're* the one making the decisions you can just borrow their power (jump)

"oh no Craig!! ,,, fuck"

"or lie here and deal with the consequences" (no hesitation whatsoever) "I want to lie here."

...is that her daughter? it is, isn't it? oh god

I called it lmao

don't push her >:(

"my evelyn is dead" oof buddy mood

my guess is she's trying to build like the perfect reality but for that she needs to be able to like. manipulate people's decisions sort of? which means she takes like. that sort of power by sucking it up from other realities? maybe??

so I was just right. about the jumping thing. LMAOO

I wanna hug joy. so badly. c'mere bbg lemme get that depression off of you

NOT THE DOG NOOOO

I knew it. it's flare based.

she's lonely, isn't she?

she just wants her mom :(

mr wang

THAT'S WHERE THAT QUOTE IS FROM?! MF!! "in another life I would've really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you" I WILLL LEGIT START SOBBING WHAT THE HELL :sob:

I'm not about to start crying over googly eyed rocks (yes I am)

what a good pegging can do to a man

god this really is hitting *waayyy* too close home. huh.

[kizzyedgelll]

top five quotes? ❤️

HARD ONE!! A LOT OF THINKING!!! let's go <3

Yes, the grief is never-ending, but so is the warmth of breath and so are the strange ways love will find you again, again, again... - @archbudzar on ig, twitter and tumblr

Maybe it's like you said. Maybe there is something out there, some new discovery that will make us feel like even smaller pieces of shit. Something that explains why you still went looking for me through all of this noise. And why, no matter what, I still want to be here with you. I will always, always, want to be here with you. - Evelyn Wang, EEAAO (i literally cry every time i watch this)

I always wanted to die clean and pretty/But I'd be too busy on working days/So I am relieved that the turbulence wasn't forecasted /I couldn't have changed anyways - Mitski, Last Words of a Shooting Star

Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad, because what is fully mature is very close to rotting. - Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

Whatever it is/It feels like it's laughing at me through the glass of a two-sided mirror/Whatever it is/It's just laughing at meAnd I just wanna scream - Rihanna, What Now

these aren't in a particular order, but they're my favorite all time quotes that i could think about rn skfsjaflajf

[darrylmcdonald]

My favorite line in the movie of the year in 2022 is: 'No matter what, I still want to be here with you. I will always, always want to be here with you.' - Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once) https://www.moviequotesandmore.com/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-movie-quotes/ via @MovieQuotesMore #everythingeverywhereallatonce https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp0_nwDr-GL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hangthehierophant]

Somebody with talent: give the whole damned webbed site whiplash and use that strong woman quote that everyone misused in 2012 except it’s just Joy Wang (or Evelyn Wang)

[milflaszlo]

You want to know what would have happened? "What if”? EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022)

[scenephile]

In another life...

[thedarkmongoose]

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

[ellogerbear]

by @ellogerbear

Some of my favorite quotes from Everything Everywhere All At Once 👁 The best film I've seen yet !

[sunshinepoltergeist]

when joy wang sang “sucked.. into… a bagel~” yeah that changed lives fr

[cherryblossomshadow]

There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story.

~Mary Lou Kownacki

someone get on right now and talk to me about the hot dog universe and evelyn loving deidre and how it ties in to her accepting joy and becky and that quote about how you could love anybody if you knew their story

[quote-n-quote]

🎬Everything Everywhere All at Once

[cqlfeels]

10 Characters, 10 Fandoms, 10 Tags

@hysieme tagged me (thank you!)

In no particular order, and I'm making up some categories for fun

From fandoms I have blogs for

Lan Xichen (MDZS/CQL/MXTX in general)

Frodo Baggins (JRR Tolkien, including here all his works - also here's a reminder to follow me on @tolkien-feels to see me scream about blorbos)

From childhood favorites

Jem Blythe (LM Montgomery)

Loki (from Padraic Colum's Children of Odin, which was 90% of my childhood and I can still quote at length)

From my teenage days

Go Eun Chan (1st Shop of Coffee Prince)

Fanny Prince (Jane Austen)

From historical fiction (as in "fiction written long ago" not as in "modern fiction set long ago")

Liu Bei (Romance of the Three Kingdoms - the Luo Guanzhong novel, not one of the adaptations)

Galehaut (Lancelot-Grail cycle)

Most recent blorbos

Evelyn Quan Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Captain Arthur Hastings (from the Poirot series. Agatha Christie books and this show in particular are things I've loved all my life, but I've always been a Poirot person. But I'm currently rewatching the show and I don't know why but suddenly I'm full of blorbo feelings for Hastings)

@natandacat @madeleineengland @madtomedgar @layzeal @over-the-misty-mountains @lhaewiel @autumnslantern @wenyuans @malicemismanager and I'm leaving an open spot for anyone who needs an excuse to do it (just say I tagged you, nobody facts check that)

[windowenjoyer]

Everything Everywhere All At Once 2022, the set of Evelyn Wang's (played by Michelle Yeoh) home is a a portrait of the character. In the quote above, the set designers of the film explain that that wanted to express the overwhelming and confused state that Evelyn was in. However you can still see that the space is organized. Film sets inspire me to build characters through their space, and stuff. This film in particular stands out to me to assist in the understanding of the film's protagonist.

july 25

[newindianexp-blog]

New device could make potable water from air BENGALURU: New research promises a potential new technology for sustainable harvesting of drinking water -- from air.

The atmosphere contains an estimated 13,000 trillion litres of water -- equivalent to nearly 10 per cent of all fresh water present in lakes worldwide -- that has remained untapped. Now, a team of researchers in the US, including two of Indian origin, have developed a device that extracts potable water from ambient air using only sunlight as the energy source. The solar-powered water harvester works even when relative humidity (RH) is as low as 20 per cent, the level common in arid areas and deserts of the world, the researchers report. "This is a major breakthrough in the long-standing challenge of harvesting water from the air at low humidity," Omar Yaghi, chemistry professor at the University of California-Berkeley and one of the corresponding authors, told Nature India. "The key development in our demonstration is that we used only ambient sunlight, with no electricity needed," Yaghi said. "This is a major improvement over most other air-water harvesting devices which require energy input and therefore are economically not viable." "I believe this device will work well in most areas of India," Yaghi said. Largescale use of this device "can change the landscape of water utilisation in India, where sunlight is abundant", added co-author Sameer Rao, a post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The heart of the new device -- constructed at MIT -- is a metal-organic framework (MOF) that belongs to a class of unique materials exhibiting extremely high porosity that Yaghi's team had pioneered in the 1990s at Berkeley. "They have high affinity to water molecules to pull them out of ambient air, but do not hold on to them too tightly so that water can be concentrated and released with a slight temperature change (induced by sunlight)," Yaghi said. The adsorbed (as a thin film) water thus released is then stored by the device in a condenser. The adsorption-desorption experiments performed in a RH-controlled chamber in the laboratory found the device was able to pull 2.8 litres of water from the air over a 12-hour period at RH levels as low as 20 per cent using one kilogram of MOF. Rooftop tests at MIT confirmed that the device works equally well outdoors. The scientists found the experimental data to be in "good agreement" with a theoretical framework they had developed. Yaghi said the daily quantity of harvested water can be scaled up by finding better MOF materials "with enhanced sorption capacity and high intra-crystalline diffusivity" that could absorb more water. The current MOF can absorb only 20 percent of its weight in water. An official statement released about the solar water harvester said that while Yaghi and his team at Berkeley are at work improving their MOFs, Evelyn Wang, the other corresponding author who led the team at MIT, "continues to improve the harvesting system to produce more water". It quoted Wang as saying: "We wanted to demonstrate that if you are cut off somewhere in the desert, you could survive because of this device." Its developers hope their device, when commercialised, could help every household obtain the drinking water it needs out of the air using only the power of the sun. "The social impact of this in India would be far-reaching," said Rao. "It would enable greater success for government's grassroot level programmes seeking to increase literacy and education of women and children in villages" because they would be freed from the everyday job of fetching water for cooking and drinking. How much would the solar water harvester cost? "We have made the significant first step by building the demonstration model combining chemistry and engineering to show how it works," Yaghi said, adding: "The economic aspects as well as the production of these materials and devices are the obvious next step."