esther-sinclair: brennan really gets it huh [id: a screenshot of a discord message from Brennan Lee
esther-sinclair: brennan really gets it huh [id: a screenshot of a discord message from Brennan Lee Mulligan that says “Continuing my above point, The themes of waking versus dreaming and how to bridge the paradox of that was always something really important to me as a New Yorker: How is there a city in the world that lays claims to being both a gritty, hyper-cynical, bitingly pragmatic, no-bullshit temple to realism, and ALSO lays claims to being the place where dreams come true, where you can become the ideal version of yourself? It’s a dichotomy I think every New Yorker can feel under their skin, that these two philosophies are so fundamentally at odds, and yet with mindfulness they are so ultimately complementary and simultaneously true. And that ultimately you have to find a way to bridge that divide and unite across that spectrum, so that you can band together to destroy the REAL enemy, which are the forces of late-stage capitalism and gentrification that neither wake nor dream. Also, there’s gnomes in Grand Central!!” /end] -- source link