Because I watched Asteroid City last night and I cannot stop thinking about this fucking movie and tumblr is the place to be unhinged about media --

From what I've seen online, one way Asteroid City is frequently negatively misinterpreted is as a story about how there is no meaning (in life or in the film itself) but you have to keep going anyway bla bla bla. A lot of that is just people who didn't fully grasp the various layers of the film and how everything was pretty well thematically connected and relevant and not just like "ah Wes put in some random BS so that he could be like what does it mean??? It means nothing!!!"

But the other part of it, imo, is that this movie also fundamentally does not believe that there is no meaning in life. What it believes is that meaning is something you MAKE. It's something you DO. And that one of the ways we make meaning is by loving people and another way we make meaning is by telling stories.

There is no God; there is no authoritative answer-- the author is dead and, anyway, he didn't even know for sure what it was about while he was writing it-- but that doesn't mean there isn't any meaning at all. In fact it means there's an overabundance of meaning. A hundred different ways to see the same thing refracted through our own experiences.

The point of the artifice-- the impossible colours and the precise framing and the actors we recognize is to say: a story does not have to be "Realistic" to be good. A story can only ever meet you halfway. If you can allow yourself to follow it there-- to accept the artifice, to suspend your disbelief-- you can find within it depths of meaning that are only accessible through make-believe. Sometimes you need a fantastical, fictionalized story to allow you see your own life more clearly. You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep.

The characters in this movie don't have muted emotions because they're ironic and pretentious. They have muted emotions because of that old saying about how it's always sadder to see an actor trying not to cry than it is to see an actor crying. The important part isn't the emotion being shown onscreen. The important part is the emotion happening inside of YOU.

you guys better watch out b/c when i get home this weekend i'm gonna start Music Posting actually lemme just get a head start now:

this is my favorite chord of the music we're doing so far in chorale

the little bit of riis-reborn you see in the post campaign beyond light missions makes me so miserable. like the approach from eventide makes it seem (to me) like its primarily one large building and a couple outgrowths but then you see its a whole city. its enormous. they are rebuilding what they remember of their home in the bones of a place that was only ever used for violence. you you can see the pyramid clearly on the horizon whenever you can see past the rest of the city. people’s homes are in there. its the biggest architectural construction we’ve seen from fallen anywhere. there are wires between buildings that kids probably climb around on. man.

this trip to colorado has been so eye opening because it has taught me that i could literally never live here

basement is flooding 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 :(((

yes i know we all hate karen here but heres the thing. i got a crush on cara from her part in person of interest and i refuse to let the duffer brothers shitty storylines and fucked up attempts at romance take her character away from me. anyway EYE get to pick and choose what the characters i like would actually do and u know what? she would not do that shit. thanku

Hi guess who feels like he just experienced 8 consecutive days in a matter of 2?

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oh i am happy to be home

Holy shit, my friends are having a kid

ohhhh my god.

thinking about all the ocs that’ve gotten abandoned because they remind me too much of her. lmao. lmao! lmao

the olympics is next year so i already have to start shifting into annoying mode. sorry

dude

Moms acting like the victim after you tell them that you will not thank them for "tidying up" your room

the universe is mean as hell but at least its fucking funny

(cw for christian end-times conversion bullshit under the readmore)