Pluie

Et quand suis-je donc plus vrai que lorsque je suis le monde ?

[anxeious]

[foullovehideout]

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[comehomet0myheart]

Past Lives works so well for me because I am so enamoured with pragmatism in fiction.

I read and watch a lot of stories about idealized love stories and I often enjoy them too! I spent my entire childhood believing that the teenagers who got together in the media I consumed would stay together forever. And then as I got older, I was naturally introduced to more stories about romances that didn’t work out. Still, it’s hard for me to think about those as pragmatic, most of them have this desire for sadness in them. They would make me feel as though the devastation was the point, that the narrative was forcefully bent toward the saddest outcome.

Past Lives doesn’t make me feel this way. Nora doesn’t stop talking to Hae Sung because of an unforeseen tragic circumstance. She makes a choice and goes through with it. Hae Sung puts it best during their conversation at the end of the film. She is the kind of person to leave. And he loves her because she is that kind of person. The “what-if” isn’t in wondering about if circumstances were different. No matter what, she would have chosen her plays over anything else. Her husband even notes that so much of how their relationship happened is because he fit so well into the life she wanted. The whole reason this film is called “Past Lives” is because that’s the only way to ponder about whether Nora and Hae Sung could be together.

It’s such a delightfully Asian perspective on it. “In another life” films are so common, but I always feel like Western movies do it in a kind of parallel universe kind of way. I love that in this one, Nora is so steadfast and consistent in her personality and desires, that there is no real contemplation and consideration of making her and Hae Sung’s relationship work. There is only a longing and a love.

[borderlinereminders]

People don’t owe you their downtime! And I don’t mean this in a harsh way, but in a “quit breaking your own heart” way.

It’s so easy to see a friend “active” and reblogging on tumblr, or maybe making a status update on Facebook and feel hurt they haven’t replied to our messages.

Different things take different energy. And someone being “online” but not actively talking to you does not mean they no longer love or care about you.

[werenotreallystrangers]

[kabigon143]

The beautiful thing as you get older is that you realize so many “rules” are made up and you can just do whatever. Posters can go anywhere in the house not just my room. I can sit down while cooking a meal or taking a shower. I can make the same thing for breakfast lunch dinner for a week straight. I can roam around the house shirtless. I can wear a dress with jeans. The world is my oyster key word my and I can live as I please embracing little things such as this

[mancalledhoss]

[j4gm]

Pangaea was wasted on the dinosaurs. Imagine the railway network.

[writhe]

doesn’t this make you feel absolutely wild

[avichyssoise]

Whoever conserved that textile has my respect.

[birdblogwhichisforbirds-deactiv]

@funereal-disease you’ve probably seen this but

[hoppkorv]

some people live their lives without even being obsessed with some guy. if you call that living

[foullovehideout]

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[anotherpapercut]

is anyone else just trying to keep it together and finding that it gets a little harder when it never gets better or is it just me and that guy from fall out boy

[foullovehideout]

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[foullovehideout]

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[ufansius]

Italian specimen agate and quartz box, circa 1800.

[firefox-official]

do you weep

often

[firefox-official]

um but i also rejoice

[penumbralwoods]

honestly learning to be shamelessly cringe and weird is the best thing you can do for yourself. stop caring. you own a tumblr. break the seal