#bagelverse

[tinytinaarts]

I went to the market and had a stupid ideia 🥯

[spacedustmantis]

move, you fake shell of a person that once was my reason to live, im killing that bagel myself

good luck puny mortal. have fun getting killed in a truly horrible and painful way. all hail the b*gel

[occupiedtonkin]

21st century schizoid man

[navysealt4t]

amora from the hit indie game bagelverse *explodes and dies and throws up*

[pulchrasilva]

Missing so much bagelverse lore but unfortunately I'm allergic to reading back messages :(

[hazulnxt]

[catrocketship]

The world of Everything Everywhere All at Once is rooted in everyone being mean. There are microagressions all over the place -- from the antisemitism of Jenny Slate's Jewish Princess character, Big Nose, to the fat shaming, homophobia...in fact, Daniel Kwan says it really clearly in this Digital Spy interview:

"It was meant to be a world in which everyone was mean to each other, but not intentionally. There's fat-shaming, there's sexism, there's racism, there's just a lot of just microaggressions that come up from the fact that when you live a busy life and you're so distracted, you just can't see each other – you don't see humans, you're not afforded that time. By the end, when [Evelyn] has the power to see people fully you can really see [her] transformation."

Which makes the "just be kind" direction from Waymond even more powerful. Slow down. Take the time to really see people. This, too, is a way to survive.

I'm also rewatching this film at the same time I listened to Thích Nhất Hạnh's The Art of Mindful Living, in which he says that truly loving someone is the act of looking deeply at them and seeing where they are hurt, and what they need. Those words resonated during the empathy fight, when Evelyn looks at each jumper in their "native" universe and brings them what they need -- whether that's a ball gag and a spanking or a puppy.

[really-awkward-pics-of-roman]

Me giving Roman angst to my discord