Watch and Write

Brett Goldstein as Roy Kent TED LASSO (2020- ) | 4x02

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

eeaao holds a special place in my heart because as an only child of chinese parents, i felt represented in western media in ways i’ve never been before.

and as someone who speaks mandarin, i always tell people that this scene was mistranslated. the translation, rather than "I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you", is actually "if there were other lives, i would still choose to do laundry and taxes with you".

i think it's a shame that they didn't put the actual translation, although the sentiment is mostly there. the translation connotes that waymond in that world has fame, but would have enjoyed a simple life with evelyn doing laundry and taxes.

to be clear, I believe younger artists and minors can write good fics (not to say “fanfic must always be good” either because it is a hobby and I still believe that as long as it’s done with love and the artist’s joy, it is good) and I believe it’s good when younger artists and minors start making art at young ages.

that said, a lot of fanfics out there that you read and love are done by adults with kids, jobs and responsibilities. adults who have years, decades of practice under their belts. adults who don’t let life and responsibilities take away their joy in creating.

The Odyssey if the suitors were competent…

In particular, three people who have been condemned to hell are trapped eternally in a room together. And at first they think they got off easy without any pitchforks or fiery lakes or anything. But over the course of the play they discover that they have been chosen very specifically to have neuroses and character flaws that interact with and torment each other.

Each one needs the approval of a second in an unstable RPS cycle so that any time one of them might be satisfied by a second, the third swoops in and ruins it.

And when they figure this out, one of the characters expresses his understanding, that hell isn’t physical torture. “Hell is just—other people.”

So the point isn’t that other people, generically, are hellish; it’s rather that you can build a hell out of other people.

But when I hear people quote it, it’s usually sort of an introvert-pride thing. “Other people are hell; you should spend time alone.” And that’s not the point at all. It’s a statement about how bad unhealthy relationships can be, not a statement about how all relationships are unhealthy!

See also Sartre’s own comment here: